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

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

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