Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Fall 2022 » Chapter Five Quiz

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Question #1
Photography
A.   has a meaning that is permanently fixed
B.   is an image that is selected, edited and composed by the artist
C.   all of these answers
D.   none of these answers
E.   is an un-mediated look at a subject
Question #2
What important process was patented in the 1850s by Andre Disderi?
A.   The ability to impress an object directly onto a photographic plate.
B.   The ability to produce small 2 1/2” x 4” photographs
C.   The ability to produce repeated images which resulted in an appearance of motion.
D.   none of these answers
Question #3
The concept of photographic truth hinges on the camera as
A.   an objective device
B.   a subjective device
C.   a cultural device
Question #4
What significant controversy about “The Battle of Solferino” was decided in the courtroom?
A.   The battle over the authenticity of a painting using a photograph as source material.
B.   The battle over the rights to the photograph of Napoleon III on horseback.
C.   none of these answers
D.   The battle over the use of “photographic” detail.
Question #5
Which French critic said, after seeing a salon exhibition that included photographs, "Each day Art further diminishes its self-respect by bowing down before external reality"?
A.   Hippolyte Bayard
B.   Jabez Hughes
C.   Charles Baudelaire
Question #6
Academic painting had this (these) over photography
A.   composition
B.   all of these answers
C.   size
D.   color
Question #7
Perhaps the most important impact of photography was that it
A.   made the unseeable visible
B.   created the “celebrity”
C.   gave everyone a potential of equally important presence
Question #8
Jean Auguste Ingres
A.   was a Director of the French Academy
B.   all of these answers
C.   as a painter who "classicized" the bourgeoisie
D.   re-enforced gender roles in his painting
Question #9
We often equate photographs with
A.   documentation
B.   all of these answers
C.   reality
D.   evidence
Question #10
Diane Arbus focused her photography on
A.   creating tableaux vivants
B.   joining photographic image and text
C.   photographing the "other"

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