Study guides
Chapter 23 Study Guide
1) What happened on December 7th, 1941?
2) In what years did World War II started and ended?
3) What is the name of an American initiative that provided economic aid to the European countries after War World II and fostered unprecedented prosperity an affluence in Europe?
4) What is the name of a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies?
5) How were the economic conditions of Western Europe and United States, Eastern Europe and Soviet Union, and Japan after 1950?
6) Define existentialism
7) Name the philosopher whose most important contribution to the intellectual life of the mid twentieth-century was her study of women.
8) Define abstract expressionism
9) Define action painting
10) Who painted Autumn Rhythm: Number 30? Because there is no recognizable subject, what is the style it represents? And what technique (which requires a highly active physical process) did the artist use?
11) Define color field
12) Who painted Red, Brown, and Black? What style of abstract painting (popularized by this painter) does it represent?
13) “Less is more,” the motto of __________ is a sentiment that is typical of the architects of mid twentieth-century International style.
14) Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame-du-Haut abandons the __________ of traditional
religious architecture.
15) Who is the architect for the Guggenheim Museum in New York?
16) What did Absurdist dramatists reject?
17) Define mobile (the sculptural form)
18) Who created the Red Gongs? And what kind of sculpture is this?
19) Who composed a “musical” piece titled 4’3” consisting of four minutes and 33 seconds of actual silence?
20) What are assemblages?
21) What is this sculpture an example of? Who created it?
22) Define pop art
23) What is the style of this composition? Who created it?
24) What is the style of this composition? Who created it?
25) Define minimalism
26) What is the style of this composition? Who created it?
27) Who were the Beats?
28) The glorification of the ordinary in this architectural style (image below) is equivalent to what kind of art?
29) Which light type musical genre became popular in mid- 20th century where not all words our sung, and music is interspersed between spoken dialogue?
30) Who was successful at popularizing not only classical music, but also at classicizing popular music?
31) Who composed West Side Story (1957) ? This is a version of which Play?
Listen to an excerpt below:
West Side Story (4/10) Movie CLIP - America (1961) HD - YouTube
32) Who is one of the most successful of contemporary composers for the musical theater with half of his 16 musicals also being made into films and some of his plays seen by millions of people in various countries?
33) Who is the composer of the Phantom of the Opera? Listen to an excerpt of it:
The Music of the Night - The Phantom of the Opera - YouTube
34) How did the general public feel about the experimentation of avant-garde music as influenced by John cage and others?
35) When did rock music begin to take form ?