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ARTH408 Final Exam (Contemporary Art)
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Multiple Choice Questions on contemporary art and visual culture from the 1960 to 2010 in both the western and global context, with particular emphasis on the specific aesthetic and social issues of the contemporary period.

ARTH408 Final Exam (Contemporary Art)
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1. An installation artist strictly opposes the use of which of the following?
2. What was the main outcome of culture wars?
3. What was the main goal of the collective known as Fluxus?
4. What would be the best interpretation of a 'dematerialized art object?'
5. What was the role of appropriation in postmodern rhetoric?
6. Why is Lucy Lippard considered to be one of the most important contemporary art critics?
7. What does Alfredo Jaar's work in big cities comment on?
8. Kara Walker's black&white silhouettes are an allegorical enactment of which of the following?
9. What type of support did Jenny Holzer use for her public art interventions?
10. In what way does the artist Fred Wilson use the museum as the medium for his work?
11. Choose the best answer to fill in the blank.While the artist's body has an important role in happening, action art, and performance, it dominates in the artistic genre of ______________.
12. Where did the Arte Povera movement originate, and what were its main characteristics?
13. What was the name of one of the most famous American art dealers working during the Cold War?
14. What made originality such an important issue in postmodern rhetoric?
15. According to artists involved with it, what is the most important quality of public art?
16. What was the significance and role of the Situationists' détournement?
17. Different objects that Annette Messager uses in her installations are metaphors for which of the following?
18. According to contemporary artists, what was the biggest Modernist fallacy?
19. Why did the painting have such an important role in Greenberg's modernist canon?
20. The Dérive was another successful artistic strategy that the Situationists proposed.What did it consist of?
21. According to Clement Greenberg's well-known text 'Modernist Painting,' what is the most important quality that a modernist work of art has to have?
22. Which of the following is analogous to an installation?
23. What does Joseph Beuys's 'social sculpture' refer to?
24. Which female artist's work addressed and worked through her childhood memories?
25. What type of work did Hans Haacke do in museums?