The following summarizes what a student should have learned from reading each chapter of A History of Western Art.

It is assumed that students can identify all works by title, artist (if known), culture (or nationality) and time period, medium, and style. It is also assumed that students will look up and be able to define the bolded glossary terms. In addition, further examples of what a student should be familiar with are listed below.

After reading chapter 28, you should be able to:

1. compare and contrast all the styles in this chapter.
2. discuss the significance of the ready-made.
3. discuss the impact of World War I and II on the arts.
4. compare Man Ray's approach to Surrealist photography with the Realist approach.
5. relate Freud's Interpretation of Dreams to Surrealist works.
6. discuss the influence of European abstraction on the Transcendental painters.
7. compare the mobile with traditional sculpture.
8. compare Regionalism with Marxism.
9. discuss Duchamp's use of text in his imagery.
10. discuss the role of chance in Dada.
11. explain the logic of juxtaposing Giacometti with Mondrian as an expression of modernism.
12. discuss the development of abstraction in America.
13. compare the self-taught artists with the Regionalists.