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The "Manifesto" was the founding document of ________.
Futurism
The ________ movement, founded in 1917 in Holland, sought to integrate painting, sculpture, architecture, and industrial design, and championed a "pure" abstraction.
De Stijl
Brancusi's Bird in Space (fig. 21.18) evokes ________.
The flight of the bird
Joan Miró is one of the most accomplished practitioners of ________.
automatism
________ was the leading painter of the De Stijl movement.
Piet Mondrian
Parade (fig. 21.13) was used as a curtain for a ________ ballet.
Surrealistic
________ by Henri Matisse perfectly encapsulates the tenets of Fauvism in its "raw contrasts of pure color in flat planes."
Woman With a Hat
Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter were two separate branches of ________.
German Expressionism
Salvador Dalí was a(n) ________.
Surrealist
________ viewed Dada as a kind of "anti-art."
Marcel Duchamp
Igor Stravinsky composed the ballet score to ________.
The Rite of Spring
Cubism was a movement that emphasized creating the illusion of reality by representing an object from a single vantage point. True or false?
False, cubism has many vantage points
Vassily Kandinsky founded the German Expressionist movement Die Brücke. True or false?
False, he founded Der Blaue Reiter
The leader of the Fauves was Henri Matisse. True or false?
True
In FSA photographer Walker Evan's Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burrough's Home, Hale County, Alabama (fig. 21.31), 1936, there are visual echoes of ________.
Mondrian's Pure abstractions
________ is in a number of ways responsible for the invention of fascism.
Benito Mussolini
Nazi's were proponents of the policy of ________, which they claimed justified the geographic expansion of the "superior" German race into territories of other countries.
Lebensraum
________ was a writer who chronicled the American South.
William Faulkner
________ instituted the New Deal in response to the Great Depression.
Franklin D Roosevelt
Edward Hopper is associated with ________.
Regioinalism
Thomas Hart Benton is best known for his ________.
murals
The American artist ________ had a primary interest in natural forms and colors and subject matter such as flowers and animal bones.
Georgia O'Keeffe
The stories of ________ explore ideas from Christianity that transcend the confines of Southern Regionalism.
Flannery O'Connor
Duke Ellington is associated with ________.
swing music
Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist who is famous for his small, precisely rendered sculptures. True or false?
False
James Joyce use a stream of consciousness technique to get readers into the character's minds. True or false?
True
Martha Graham was a pioneer of American Modernist dance. True or false?
True
Two Modernist American poets influential because of the complex, multifaceted, technically innovative and densely allusive works are Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. True or false?
True
The goal of such Russian artists as Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitzky was to bring art to the masses; thus, these artists saw their art as a political tool. True or false?
True
Isabel Allende's novel The House of Spirits (1982) creates a fictional world that reconstructs the history of ________.
Chile
Frida Kahlo's self-portrait, The Two Fridas (fig. 22.8), shows the influence of the ________ artistic style.
Surrealism
Chinua Achebe uses ________ to show the changing economic, political, and cultural situation in Africa.
novels
One of the most characteristic types of African art is the ________.
mask
The Los Tres Grandes referred to the ________.
three painters of the mural movement in Mexico
The role of African music is as ________.
an expression of their belief system
According to Benton and DiYanni, ________ was not one of the three commodities from Africa that came into demand as the desire for slave labor decreased.
coffee

the three commodities are palm oil, latex and gum arabic
The Yoruba have images carved of ere ibeji or ________.
twins
Mexico's president Alvaro Obregón initiate ________ in 1920 to restore Mexico's indigenous cultural identity.
a mural movement
The meeting held from 1884 to 1885, which resulted in the division of the African continent among Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, was called the ________.
Conference of Berlin
The message, for the Mexican people, of Sigueiros' large-scale mural, Cuauhtémoc Against the Myth (fig. 22.7 ) was that ________.
indigenous people could regain power
Jorge Luis Borges often merges the "real" with the imaginary so that his readers become disoriented and are forced to reconsider the relationship between ________.
fiction and reality
In 1800, the transatlantic slave trade was reaching its peak, with nearly ________ enslaved Africans transported to the Americas each year.
100,000
________ is known for his/her "swollen" figures that fill the canvas like balloons and satirize the Latin American ruling elite.
Fernando Botero
________ is best known for his ficciones.
Jorge Luis Borges
Sonny Okosun's blend of African and Western sounds are based on the Ghanaian music known as highlife. True or false?
True
The Sengalese scholar Leopold Senghor founded the movement called negritude which stressed the cultural achievements and unity of all people of African descent. True or false?
True
Solomon Linda, the Zulu musician who wrote Mbube (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), sold the rights in 1952 for $1,000,000.00 dollars.
True or false?
False, only got 1 dollar
John Maxwell Coetzee is a Nigerian painter. True or false?
False
Proxylin is a lacquer developed as an automobile paint that was used by David Alfaro Siqueiros. True or false?
True
Isabel Allende's The House of Spirits reconstructs in fictional form the history of her country: Chile. True or false?
True
The "red rubber scandal" was exposed by Brazilians in the 1950s. True or false?
False