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1

NEA stands for
A)National Esthetic Association
B)National Endowment of Aesthetics
C)National Endowment for the Arts
D)National Efforts for Artists
E)National Educational Association
2

In what city was a museum indicted for exhibiting Mapplethorpes?
A)Cleveland
B)Cincinnati
C)Chicago
D)Washington D.C.
E)Philadelphia
3

Which is LEAST true of Chuck Close's work?
A)he relies on photography
B)his main subject is portraiture
C)his favorite paint is watercolor
D)his most usual viewpoint is the close-up
E)he uses grid transfers
4

Gilbert and George described themselves as
A)performance artists
B)impresarios
C)video artists
D)living sculptures
E)gilded lilies
5

Which artist is correctly matched with his or her work?
A)The Christos -- Over the River
B)Gilbert and George -- Williamsburg Bridge
C)Frank Gehry -- the Whitney Museum
D)Buckminster Fuller - the Lloyds Building
E)I.M. Pei -- geodesic domes
6

Which structure is incorrectly matched with its location?
A)The Whitney Museum -- New York City
B)Piazza d'Italia -- New Orleans
C)Lloyd's Building -- London
D)Glass Pyramid -- Cairo
E)The Frederick R. Wiseman Museum -- Minneapolis
7

Who was a graduate of the Bauhaus?
A)Fuller
B)Breuer
C)Pei
D)Rothenberg
E)Nauman
8

What is a fullerene?
A)a building by Fuller
B)a unit of a geodesic dome
C)a Dymaxion
D)a molecule
E)an atom
9

The large central space around which the new Lloyds Building is wrapped is the
A)atrium
B)courtyard
C)narthex
D)nave
E)tower
10

Who of the following is NOT an environmental artist?
A)Smithson
B)Holt
C)Christo
D)Smith
E)Jean-Claude Christo
11

Which example of environmental art is correctly matched with its location?
A)Spiral Jetty -- Oregon
B)Blue Umbrellas -- California
C)Long Division -- New York City
D)Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings -- Washington D.C.
E)Wrapped Reichstag -- Bonn
12

Which is LEAST true of the Christos
A)they are Conceptual artists
B)they recycle their materials
C)they accept no financial patronage
D)they raise money by selling drawings, collages and models
E)their projects are temporary
13

Which is NOT a reference in the iconography of The Dinner Party?
A)Hatshepsut
B)Virginia Woolf
C)The Last Supper
D)Stieglitz
E)O'Keeffe
14

Which category best matches the artist?
A)Kiki Smith -- Body Art
B)Basquiat -- landscape
C)Kiefer -- feminism
D)Paik -- environmental art
E)Mapplethorpe -- Post-Modernism
15

Nauman prefers Man Ray to Duchamp because
A)Man Ray is a greater artist
B)Man Ray is more unreasonable
C)Man Ray is more original
D)Man Ray is more Classical
E)Man Ray is a photographer
16

Sherman's self-portrait as the Fornarina differs from the original in being
A)more accurate because it is a photograph
B)more idealized
C)satirical
D)anti women
E)by Raphael
17

The artist who developed a philosophy of cybernetics is
A)Christo
B)Nauman
C)Lin
D)Paik
E)Kiefer
18

Change Question to: Shirin Neshat was born in
A)Egypt
B)France
C)Iran
D)Iraq
E)India
19

Which author is correctly matched with his or her work?
A)Norman Mailer -- The Right Stuff
B)Tom Wolfe -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
C)Toni Morrison -- Beloved
D)Alice Walker -- Glengarry Glen Ross
E)August Wilson -- The Color Purple
20

The artist whose imagery suggests graffiti is
A)Sherman
B)Basquiat
C)Kiefer
D)Rothenberg
E)Jaudon







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