Ch.14

Question 1

Art

Answer 1

The creative use of the human imagination to aesthetically interpret, express, and engage life, modifying experienced reality in the process

Question 2

Oldest examples of art?

Answer 2

-caves in France and Spain
-Estimated age:32,000 y.a.
-Crom-magnon culture:
~Attributed to Homo sapiens(underlined)

Question 3

Art in small scale cultures

Answer 3

portable
-performing arts
-body decorating
-decorations on practical artifacts
art is embedded in other aspects of culture

Question 4

Art in large scale cultures

Answer 4

Sedentary 
Labor specialization
-full-time specialists to make art 
-full-time critics to critique 
stratification
-are commissioned by upper class

Question 5

Verbal arts

Answer 5

Creative words use on display that includes stories, myths, legends, tales, poetry, metaphor, rhyme, chants, drama, can’t, proverbs, jokes riddles, and tongue twisters
Fairytales, Folk songs, Folklore, myths, folktales, Urban legend

Question 6

Examples of Verbal arts

Answer 6

Lakota creation myth (kangi the crow)

Iroquois folktale Chipmunk and Bear

Question 7

Music

Answer 7

broadly speaking, an art form whose medium is sound and silence; a form of communication the includes a nonverbal auditory component with elements of tonality, pitch, rhythm, and timbre.

Question 8

Visual art

Answer 8

Art created primarily for visual perception, ranging from etchings and paintings on various surfaces (including the human body) to sculptures and weavings made with an array of materials.

Question 9

ethnomusicology

Answer 9

the study of a society’s music in terms of it’s cultural setting