Final Flashcards
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What is art?
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Subjective - was influenced by feeling or emotion and has meaning to viewer that is personal
2
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What did Aristotle say about art?
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Art is imitation = naturally occurring since childhood as its how children learn
*reason to create the art
3
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If Aristotle believed art came from imitation what did his pupil Plato think?
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The opposite that art shaped a person
*art can create the idea
4
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What was invented that changed the perspective of art?
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Cameras
5
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When was David Hume around?
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1700
6
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What did David Hume believe defined what art is?
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If you find it beautiful/pleasing to your senses then it can be considered art
7
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What did David Hume believe about taste?
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Taste is informed by culture therefore a limited culture limits a person’s taste
8
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What does David Hume think about the “simple” person?
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Everyone at their current state = no work is received
9
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Who is Andy Warhol?
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Invented “pop” art in the 1960’s
10
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Who was Arthur Danto?
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An art critic
11
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What did Danto say about Warhol’s work?
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Warhol placed his “pop” art in an art exhibit - Danto said art was dead after seeing it
12
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Why did Danto believe art was dead after seeing Warhol’s work?
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Art needs the “art world” = an environment that defines what art is
13
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What does Danto believe what art is?
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If a person cares about it enough to write about it or put it in a museum (etc) then it is art
14
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What are the 2 categories that art falls into?
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1- aesthetics
2- philosophy
15
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Explain aesthetics as a category that art falls under
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Beauty of music - consideration of the way in which things appear to the sense
16
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Explain philosophy as a category that art falls under
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What can be counted as art - is an inquiry into what distinguishes art objects from other things in the world
17
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What did Plato call inspiration?
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Mimesis
18
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Who said “sentimentality determines whether a particular object is beautiful and therefore is considered art”? What do they mean?
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David Hume - the fact that you are affected by the something emotionally causes you to find it beautiful and therefore you call it art
19
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Expand on what is Arthur Danto’s “art world”
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An organized arena where art is created = school, museum, studio etc
20
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What does Danto’s “art world” allow?
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Allowed the inclusion on Warhol’s “pop” art = art that cannot be defined
21
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Who had the imitation theory? 2
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Aristotle and Plato
22
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Who had the reality theory? 2
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Hume and Danto
23
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Who is Scott McLeod?
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A current art thinker
24
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What does chapter 7 of McLeod’s comic state?
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“Everything that isn’t a part of reproduction of survival is art”
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What does McLeod believe art is?
An expression of our identity
26
What are McLeod's 6 steps of art?
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1- idea/purpose
2- form
3- idiom
4- structure
5- craft
6- surface
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Expand on McLeod's 6 steps (aka what they mean)
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1- idea = works "content"
2- form = what form will it take
3- idiom = genre it fits in
4- structure = how to compose the work
5- craft = apply skills to get job done
6- surface = superficial exposure to world
```
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Who was the face of the civil rights movement?
Martin Luther King
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What did MLK believe in?
Non-violence protest at all costs
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What was the bus boycott?
black people refused to ride the bus - lasted over a year and ended in nonsegregated buses
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What was the sit-in protest?
Blacks sat at the counter which was for whites only and waited to be served
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Who was George Wallace?
Governor of Alabama - once said "segregation today, tomorrow and always"
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Who was Bull Conner?
Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham Alabama during the civil rights movement
34
What became the theme song of the civil rights movement?
we shall overcome
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What happened so towards the end of the civil rights movement?
Some people (mainly university students) turned into roots of the black panther party = turned towards violence
36
What song started the social change for lynching?
Strange fruit by Billy Holiday
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Who wrote strange fruit?
Abel Meoropol - but it was a poem called bitter fruit
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How did Billy Holiday perform Strange Fruit?
Performed last, no lights but a single spot light on her (in the 1936/37)
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When was strange fruit recorded?
1939 and became #1 hit
40
Labor movement - explain the difference between generalized and industrialized unionism
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General = represented all workers in same industry (no matter job or skill in that industry)
Industrial = sorted workers into individual crafts
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Labor union - name a government official act and explain how it affected labor unions (name, year and 2 rules) #1
Wagner act (1935)
- allowed legal right of most workers to organize or join unions
- allowed to bargain collectively with their employers
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Labor union - name a government official act and explain how it affected labor unions (name, year and 2 rules) #2
Traft-Hartley act (1947) amendment to Wagner act
- permitted union shops but only where state law allowed
- give 60 days notice of a strike
- 80 day federal injection if threatened national health/safety
- union officers deny under oath any communist affiliations
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What where union shops?
Place of work for nonunion but then had to join Union after getting work
44
What is a federal injunction?
Court order that compels party to do or refrain from specific acts
45
Labor movement - what affects did the labor movement have on today's society? Name 3
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1- 40 hr work weeks
2- 8 hr days
3- safe working conditions
4- minimum wage
5- health insurance
6- retirement plans
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Anti-government black lives matter - Who created black lives matter movement?
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi
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Anti-government black lives matter - what song was the anthem for black lives matter?
Alright by Kendrick Lamar
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Anti-government black lives matter - what event sparked the need of creating the black lives matter movement?
George Zimmerman who shot Trayvon Martin
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Black power movement - Was born out of frustration with what?
Lack of progress with the civil rights movement due to its non-violent approach
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Black power movement - who was considered the leader of the black power movement?
Stokely Carmicheal
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Black power movement - what was the name of the militant arm of the black power movement?
The black panther party
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LGBTQ rights - What does the rainbow flag symbolize today?
Pride, hope and diversity
53
LGBTQ rights - in 1978 what important LGBTQ organization was created?
The international lesbian and gay association
54
LGBTQ rights - name 3 of the 5 characters that the Village people represented in the song YMCA?
- Indian
- cop
- biker
- soldiers
- construction worker
55
The civil rights movement - Who did the famous "I have a dream" speech and what event was it associated with?
Martin Luther King - at the march on Washington
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The civil rights movement - what is the "black national anthem" called and who wrote it?
"Lift every voice and sing" by James Weldon Johnson
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The civil rights movement - why did Gil Scott-Heron criticize the student for a democratic society (SDS)?
He felt they were unable to understand what it was truly like to be a minority in America
58
The sexual revolution - What was the result of the creation of the pill for young and single women?
Took their sexuality into their own hands
59
The sexual revolution - the sexual revolution brought light to which sexual attitudes?
Both genders, homosexuality, premarital sexuality and feminism
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The sexual revolution - what was the significance of the song "I was born this way"?
It was the first gay liberation dance club hit
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The feminist movement - Who was the original artist of RESPECT?
Otis Redding
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The feminist movement - what was deemed to be ther first feminist song?
Rights of women by anonymous
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The feminist movement - what were the dates of the 3 waves of feminism?
1- 1830-1900
2- 1960-1980
3- 1990-present
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Anti-Vietnam - what amendment to the US constitution came after the war and related to the age of soldiers who were drifters to serve in Vietnam?
in 1971 voting age was changed from 21 to 18
| Some soldiers drafted to serve in Vietnam were younger than the voting age prior to this change
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Anti-Vietnam - what deadly chemical was found in agent orange?
TCDD - dioxin compound that caused many deformities in people and births after it was spread
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Anti-Vietnam - name a song that relates to the Vietnam war and it's link to the history of the anti-Vietnam war movement
Orange Crush by REM
| Highlights the chemical agent orange which was the chemical defoliant used in the Vietnam war
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Music's Social Powers: explain what the author means by "link between music and "awakening" is not metaphorical" (3 - fiduciary, emotions)
- It is not symbolic but real
- In a way that involves trust between the giving and receiving party
- Calculated with emotions when it is developed so is studied as if alive
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Music's Social Powers: what is an agent?
A person who has it in them to make a change and has the feelings needed to want to make a change
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Music's Social Powers: what doesn't an agent do?
They don't force their actions of their free-will or force their state of wanting to learn more
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Music's Social Powers: what is the change an agent wants?
Changes in beauty and aesthetics or producing these to change other's lives
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Music's Social Powers: what is social agency?
The collective community of artists that strive to create change by having the capacity and attitude to want the change
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Music's Social Powers: what is a traditional society?
Musical use is both secular (non-sacred) and customary in a community/collective practice = it is for everyone
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Music's Social Powers: what is modern societies?
Music for what is tasteful and valued in life and had a special liking because it goes with what society likes = private
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Music's Social Powers: how did the erosion of human subjectivity and activity happen?
By logical processes due to reasonable minds
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Music's Social Powers: did erosion to of human subjectivity and activity actually happen?
No, the reasonable minds are new generation of people who now value different things than people in the past
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Music's Social Powers: what is an example of erosion to human subjectivity and activity?
Music in movies are still masterpieces though they maybe more "pop" than classic as generation has changed
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Music's Social Powers: first way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society
Retail outlets = conventional notion of musical energy levels at different times of the day/week/month
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Music's Social Powers: second way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society
Transportation use Vivaldi, Mozart and Delius to smooth irritated travelers
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Music's Social Powers: third way on which music is employed as an ordering device in social life within modern society
Person using selective music at a particular time of day or for a particular task
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Music's Social Powers: What was the author's idea to Beethoven's reaction to people talking through his music?
Western music has lost it's essence = it is restricted with the necessities to make it good music
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Music's Social Powers: why is western music created today?
now it's created with the idea to fascinate its listeners instead of the listeners waning to hear it
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Music's Social Powers: do I agree the author's idea of what western music has turned into?
Yes - today is all about what sounds good to sell the most instead of it being about the artist's feeling and people can "like it or lump it"
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Music's Social Powers: music is a way of happening is about what?
Music isn't about a practical thing but a collective idea and communicated this through word choice, sounds, pitch, tempo Etc = creates environments and feelings
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Music's Social Powers: what is embodied awareness?
Physical form of doing something with the music to get a person animated/enlisted in the music = stays with you - emotional and physical
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Music's Social Powers: what is an example of embodied awareness?
Musical therapy
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Music's Social Powers: what is latching?
The same as embodied awareness but happens in the here and now = just physically moved into dancing
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Music's Social Powers: what are 2 examples of latching?
Toe tapping and finger snapping
