25.3 Flashcards
Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What’s an approach which rejects the past and traditional methods to create “original” cultural forms?
Modernist
Who wrote Sherlock Holmes novels?
Dorothy Sayers
Who wrote Journey To the Center of the Earth?
Jules Verne
Who wrote The Time Machine and The Invisible Man?
H. G. Wells
Name the three influential writers that people Call them the Lost Generation because their works reflect the views of unbelieving men?
Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Elliot, and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century?
G. K. Chesterton
Who wrote Animal Farm?
George Orwell
Who wrote the Hiding Place?
Corrie Ten Boom
Who wrote the Clair de Lune?
Claude Debussy
What wrote Second Piano Concerto?
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Who wrote The Tender Land?
Aaron Copland
Who wrote the first opera for television?
Gian Carlo Menotti
Who wrote Faust?
Charles Gounod
Who wrote Madame Butterfly and Tosca?
Giacomo Puccini
Who was in the British team that’s wrote the operas Mikado and H.M.S Pinafore?
Sirs William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Who worked for the Saturday Evening Post for 47 years?
Norman Rockwell
What is most famous for American Gothic?
Wood
What was the first major art movement?
Abstract Expression Movement
Who was the most famous Abstract Artist?
Jackson Pollock
Who was the most celebrated American Artist of the 20th century?
Andrew Wyeth
What was the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Company Building
How many stories does it have to have to be a skyscraper?
Ten
What is one of Chicagos nickname?
Birthplace of Modern Architecture
Who led a movement to preserve classical architecture?
Henry H. Reed
Who was one of the most widely recognized American Architects?
Frank Lloyd Wright
