Intro to Art History Midterm || with Error-free Solutions.
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Reasons why Kelker suggests that Non-Western is " a less than satisfactory term" correct answers This term tells the reader what isn't instead of what is, offers implied judgement, and functions as a catch-all to designate non-European cultures.
Why do we use non-Western if it is a less than sat...
Intro to Art History Midterm || with Error-free Solutions.
Reasons why Kelker suggests that Non-Western is " a less than satisfactory term" correct
answers This term tells the reader what isn't instead of what is, offers implied judgement, and
functions as a catch-all to designate non-European cultures.
Why do we use non-Western if it is a less than satisfactory why use it correct answers it is better
than the previous terms (tribal or primitive)
What is Kelkers book about correct answers The ancient through modern arts of the indigenous
peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania
Kelker argues that "Western artistic biases," combined with "Colonialist attitudes," have given
rise to an art history that is both correct answers androcentric and Eurocentric.
Kelker aims to place the arts of the non-Western world in their historical, cultural, and religious
contexts, to discuss correct answers production techniques alongside form and style as well as to
discuss the artists and patrons who created and commissioned these works.
28,000 BCE correct answers The date 30,000 BP is approximately equivalent to which of the
following? Choose the best possible answer below
900-801 BCE correct answers The date ninth century BCE is approximately equivalent to which
of the following? Choose the best possible answer below
To what does the term "comparanda" refer? correct answers Objects that are comparable in one
or more ways (e.g., material, form, date, geographical origin, etc.)
When discussing art objects, what is the term "provenance" used to indicate? correct answers
Record or history of an art object's ownership (may include a record of their origins and/or site
where they were excavated)
When writing dates, which abbreviation is commonly used to indicate "approximately" (telling
the reader that the date is an approximate one only)? correct answers c or ca.
Out of the list:
4900 BCE
1 CE
6000 CE
3000 BCE
5000 BP
Which is the earliest correct answers 4900 BCE
The date seventh century CE is approximately equivalent to which of the following? correct
answers 601-700 CE
, While the artist could gain higher social status through a demonstration of skill, s/he was usually
correct answers not one of the elite .
In many parts of the world and through much of history, the artist was not considered a creative
genius but was instead considered a correct answers manual worker
When did the concept of "fine art" develop? correct answers 18th-19th centuries CE
"Fine art" was understood to be... correct answers an end in itself
"Fine art" was meant to function/to be used. True or false? correct answers false
"Fine art"was meant to be looked at and contemplated. It was therefore not complete without the
presence of a viewer or beholder. True or false? correct answers true
In what state of mind was a viewer supposed to approach and look at art? correct answers One of
disinterested contemplation or disinterested interest
Why doesn't ancient and non-Western art fit into the category of "fine art"? correct answers it
was often made to function
Giorgio Vasari is known as the correct answers Father of Art History and Artistic Biography
He lived in the
16th century CE and published a book of correct answers Biographies of artists
Vasari's book helped define: correct answers artist as individual personality.
Ancient and non-Western arts can be (and have been) made into "fine art" by putting them into
museums where they can no longer function but can only be looked at. True or false? correct
answers True
Many of the people who actually made / executed art throughout history are anonymous. t/f
correct answers true
What are aesthetics correct answers a branch of Western philosophy concerned with the arts and
encompasses the principles / criteria guiding the making of art
How does the Tate Galleries Art Terms define the term "Craft"? correct answers a form of
making which generally produces an object that has a function: such as something you can wear,
or eat or drink from
How does the MoMA Glossary define the term "Renaissance"? correct answers A term meaning
rebirth or revival; applied to a period characterized by the humanistic revival of classical art,
architecture, literature, and learning, originating in Italy in the fourteenth century and later
spreading throughout Europe and lasting through the sixteenth century.
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