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- 1. Who was the leading action painter of the twentieth century?
- 3. Which visual artist is famous for appropriating the aristocratic style of famous Old Master portraits, replacing richly attired luminaries with young Black men wearing jeans, t-shirts, and sneakers?
- 6. Vaslav Nijinksy is associated with what art?
- 8. Which artistic movement thrived on nihilism and irrationalism?
- 10. Which composer wrote aleatory pieces such as 4' 33"?
- 11. The effort on the part of contemporary physicists to achieve a "theory of everything" is evident in what theory?
- 13. The feminist Simone de Beauvoir held that women should reject the role of
- 14. The use of cinematic shots in rapid succession is known as
- 16. Fauvist artworks are most notable for their bold use of
- 18. The elements of jazz and street slang in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks show the influence of
- 19. The first totalitarian state of the twentieth century was established in
- 20. What technology has revolutionized modern filmmaking?
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- 2. Which Harlem Renaissance artist painted “The Migration Series,” a visual narrative of the great northward movement of African-Americans after World War I?
- 4. Leopold Bloom is the central figure in James Joyce's landmark work
- 5. Wright's extraordinary house, "Fallingwater," depended on the inventive use of the
- 7. The pioneer figure in American Pop art was
- 9. Some critics contend that Postmodernism originated with the rejection of the International Style in the field of
- 12. Einstein on the Beach, one of the first operas to employ electronically amplified instrumentation, was written by
- 15. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were pioneering figures in which fictional literary genre?
- 17. Picasso's landmark work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a precursor to the style that became known as