HUM 146 Introduction to Humanities
Fourth Quarter Review
The Age of Anxiety
Visual Artists (be familiar with works of the following artists and/or styles as presented in class/in the text):
Max Ernst
Kathe Kollwitz
Marcel Duchamp
Piet Mondrian
Joan Miro
Salvador Dali
Constantin Brancusi
Henry Moore
Alexander Calder
Georgia O'Keeffe
Pablo PicassoArt movements and styles:
Dada
Surrealism
American Regionalism
MobileLiterature:
Andre Breton
Langston Hughes
e. e. cummings
Flannery O'ConnorMusic:
Ragtime- Scott Joplin
New Orleans- Jelly Roll Morton
Swing- Benny Goodman
Jazz guitar- Charlie Christian
Atonal music- Arnold Schoenberg, John Cage
The Age of Affluence
Visual Artists (be familiar with works of the following artists and/or styles as presented in class/in the text):
Jackson Pollock
Willem deKooning
Mark Rothko
Helen Frankenthaler
Robert Rauschenberg
Louise Nevelson
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Claes Oldenberg
Christo and Jeanne-ClaudeArt movements and styles:
Abstract expressionism
Pop art
Minimalism
The "Happening"Architecture:
Walter Gropius- Bauhaus
Mies van der Rohe- International Style
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright- the "prairie home"Literature/Drama:
Existentialism
The "Beats"
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Samuel Beckett
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
The Diversity of Contemporary Life
"Niche" marketing
Structuralism/deconstruction
Essay Question Pool
1. Explain how World War One (1914-1918) radically altered the general worldview. What effects did the war have on the visual arts and literature? What movements were a direct result of the war experience? Support your answer with some specific examples of artists and/or art works that reflected the postwar experience.
2. What is "surrealism?" How, according to the Surrealist Manifesto (written by whom?) were artists indebted to the work of Sigmund Freud? What are the two basic "schools," if you will, of surrealist painting, and who, according to our text, were their respective representatives? Explain how they differ from one another.
3. Define "existentialism." In terms of world events, to what was the existentialist movement of the mid-20th century responding? what is the difference between atheistic and theistic existentialism? How do the feminist writings of Simone de Beauvoir reflect the existentialist perspective?
4. Define "pop art." From what is its content and subject matter derived? What was taking place in mid-20th century culture that led to the pop art movement? What was pop art attempting to say about its time/[place and why? Support your answer with examples of pop artists and their works from the text or that we discussed in class.
5. At a mere twenty years of age, Yale architectural student Maya Lin was commissioned to design the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D. C. What was the rationale and/or vision behind her design? Why did it generate so much controversy, particularly among certain factions of the Vietnam veteran population?