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ARTH301 FInal Exam - Art Historical Methodologies
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MCQs on the outlines of the major methodologies used by art historians and traces the major methodological developments within the discipline from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century.
 

ARTH301 FInal Exam - Art Historical Methodologies
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1. Fill in the blank. As society developed under the influence of trade and prosperity during the _________________, courts and the bourgeoisie started collecting art and works of art began to be appreciated for themselves rather than for their symbolic value.
2. In his analysis of sculpture from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, Meyer Schapiro saw evidence for how capitalism was emerging and feudalism was declining. Based on this claim, what type of methodology do you think he was using?
3. Who wrote Orientalism, which laid the foundation for the development of Post-colonial studies?
4. What type of art historians have argued that women are frequently shown as passive or negative figures objectified by the male gaze?
5. Which of the following art historians are associated with Formalism?
6. Fill in the blank. In contrast to _______________, Wölfflin was uninterested in the biographies of artists and proposed the creation of an 'art history without names.'
7. Which of the following originally developed in the field of linguistics and has been used by art historians to question the very system whereby meaning and interpretation is created?
8. Which of the following elements of Psychoanalytic theory expounded by Sigmund Freud have been used by art historians to analyze works of art?
9. Fill in the blank. Based on Semiotic theory, analyzing a work of art depends upon the identification of what ________________ called denoted and connoted meaning.
10. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. Since the 1970's, the size and frequency of _______________ have grown with museums dedicating space specifically for them.
11. 'color:black;'>Fill in the blank. Meyer Schapiro, one of most famous art historians of the twentieth century, adopted and adapted theories found in the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and __________________.'color:black;'/>
12. Which of the following would be of interest to a Psychoanalytic interpretation of an artwork?
13. Who interpreted Jan van Eyck's 'Arnolfini Portrait' as not only a depiction of a wedding ceremony but also as a visual contract testifying to the act of marriage?
14. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank. Connoisseurs collect and organize their findings into a(n) _______________ of the work of a single artist or school.
15. Which of the following is sometimes employed in technical analysis?
16. In Europe, during what period did a taste for art and for collecting art first develop when temples, or mouseions, were dedicated to the various muses of the arts and sciences?
17. According to Erwin Panofsky, which of the following would relate to the tertiary or intrinsic meaning/content of a painting of the Last Supper?
18. In 'In the Name of Picasso,' Rosalind Krauss rejected the idea of the artist's monopoly on meaning. Based on this claim, which of the following methodologies do you think she used in this essay?
19. Which art historian used the terms 'linear' and 'painterly' to describe the fundamental change in the way European art from the 15th and 16th centuries looks compared to that from the 17th century?
20. Fill in the blank. Based on empirical evidence and perceptions of technique and form, ______________ attempts to attribute authorship and establish the authenticity of artworks.
21. Fill in the blank. According to _______________, art is part of the superstructure and is determined by the mode of production or the economic system in which it is created.
22. In 'Abstract Expressionism and Third World Art: A Post-Colonial Approach to 'American' Art,' David Craven argues which of the following points?
23. The second floor of the which building in Florence, constructed in 1561, was the first art museum/gallery in which the public could view art in Europe?
24. Which of the following is a kind of visual description whose goal is to make the reader envision the thing described as if it were physically present?
25. Who was the foremost proponent of iconographic analysis in the twentieth century?

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