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19 Cards in this Set
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The term "lost generation" was coined by
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Gertrude Stein
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The writer whose The Decline of the West proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was
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Oswald Spengler
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In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans he
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attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress.
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The author of All Quiet of the Western Front was
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Enrich Maria Remarque
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Who wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else?"
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Niokolai Berdiaev
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In the years after WWI, the idea of progress
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was roundly attacked
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In Jose Otega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses, he points out that
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the masses were destined to destroy the highest achievements of western society.
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The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them first ariculated in
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Einstein's theory of general activity
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The uncertainty principle is accociated with
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Heisenberg
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John Maynard Keynes
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discussed the end of laissez-faire capitialism
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In a purely scientific sense the uncertainty principle proposes that
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it is impossible to specify simultaneously both the position and velocity of a subatomic particle
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Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920's and 1930's because
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they called into question the established notions of truth
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The father of psychoanalysis was
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Sigmund Freud
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According to Freud the root of neurotic behavior was
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a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental process
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The spread of photography
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led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality, but to create it
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Which of the following groups was not one of the new artisitic movements of the 20th century?
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impressionist.
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The painter who was influenced by the "primitive" art of Tahiti was
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Paul Gauguin.
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The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artist influenced
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Edgar Degas.
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Which of the following is not an accurate match between artist and artistic influence?
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Walter Gropius and Chinese painting.
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