People/Group

Question 1

Created the Documerica Project

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EPA

Question 2

Did a 3 year project in Minamata, Japan to photograph the effects of mercury poisoning from a local factory

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W. Eugene Smith

Question 3

Took close-up photographs of the plastic waste found in dead, decaying birds in the series “Midway”

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Chris Jordan

Question 4

Made the series “New Landscapes”

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Yao Lu

Question 5

Creates colorful images of polluted rivers and the waste produced from industrial mining

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Edward Burtynsky

Question 6

Made “Wheatfield-A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown - With Agnes Denes Standing in the Field”

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Agnes Denes

Question 7

Hungarian-born American artist whose practice is based in NYC

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Agnes Denes

Question 8

Studied at the New School & Columbian University, beginning their career as a poet before pursuing visual art full-time

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Agnes Denes

Question 9

One of the first artists in postwar decades to articulate an explicitly ecological direction for art

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Agnes Denes

Question 10

Made “Rice/Tree/Burial”

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Agnes Denes

Question 11

Dumped 21,000 tons in Love Canal in the mid-20th century

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Hooker Chemical Company

Question 12

What is the Hooker Chemical Company called now

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The Occidental Petroleum Company

Question 13

Organized “The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger”

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The Minnesota Museum of Art

Question 14

Made “Tree Mountain”

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Agnes Denes

Question 15

Who funded Denes for “Tree Mountain”

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The government of Finland

Question 16

Made “Offshore Drilling”

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Noah Purifoy

Question 17

Born in Snow Hill, Alabama (1971-2004), having lived and worked in LA and the nearby town of Joshua Tree

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Noah Purifoy

Question 18

Grew up in poverty in a sharecropping family

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Noah Purifoy

Question 19

Received a bachelor’s degree from Alabama State Teachers College and a master’s in social work from Atlantic University, before moving West and studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Chouinard Art Institute

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Noah Purifoy

Question 20

Made independent artwork in the LA neighborhood of Watts

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Simon Rodia

Question 21

Who does the Watts Towers Arts Center provide arts instruction and opportunity for

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members of the Watts community

Question 22

Who did Purifoy worked alongside of to organize an exhibition of assembled sculpture created from the found refuse

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Judson Powell

Question 23

Russian revolutionary

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Vladimir Tatlin

Question 24

Postwar Modernist

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Anthony Caro

Question 25

The distribution of wealth benefits who

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wealthy communities

Question 26

The industrial production and infrastructure furthers pollute and disrupts who

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Poorer communities and their residents

Question 27

Born in Calcutta

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Subhankar Banerjee

Question 28

Studied electrical engineering in India before moving to the US to complete a master's degree in physics and computer science at New Mexico State University

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Subhankar Banerjee

Question 29

Described Banerjee's career transition

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Scholar Finis Dunaway

Question 30

Campaigned on a pro-drilling platform along with advocated attempted to initiate drilling in the ANWR

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President George W. Bush

Question 31

An advocate for President Bush to initiate drilling in the ANWR

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Alaska's Senator Frank Murkowski

Question 32

"Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land" includes tests contributed by

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Environmentalists

Question 33

"Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land" caught the attention of

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Curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Question 34

held up a copy of Banerjee’s book during the debate

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Senator Barbara Boxer

Question 35

Introduced an amendment to block drilling in ANWR

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Senator Barbara Boxer

Question 36

Who would have entirely funded the oil and gas lease for the federal government

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Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority

Question 37

Issued an executive order to place a moratorium on oil and gas extraction in the ANWR

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President Joe Biden

Question 38

Indigenous population that's dependent on caribou within the ANWR

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Indigenous Gwich’in population

Question 39

Opened 1.5 million acres of the ANWR to the oil and gas industry on August 17, 2020

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Department of the Interior

Question 40

Made "Marat (Sebastiao), from Pictures of Garbage"

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Vik Muniz

Question 41

Made "Double Mona Lisa (Peanut Butter and Jelly)"

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Vik Muniz

Question 42

Made the "Mona Lisa"

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Leonardo da Vinci

Question 43

Which Pop artist’s work does Muniz reference with "Double Mona Lisa", and what kind of work did this artist create featuring the "Mona Lisa"

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Pop artist Andy Warhol, who created a silk-screened side-by-side double portrait of the "Mona Lisa"

Question 44

which other contemporary icons did Andy Warhol create portraits of

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Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley

Question 45

Made "Action Photo, after Hans Namuth"

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Vik Muniz

Question 46

depicted in Hans Namuth’s 1950 documentary photograph

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the postwar American artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio

Question 47

Made the series "The Best of Life"

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Vik Muniz

Question 48

the initial photograph of before creating "Marat (Sebastião)"

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Tião Santos

Question 49

man depicted in "Waste Land" as an organizer among the catadores of Jardim Gramacho

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Tião Santos

Question 50

French painter and painting did Muniz reference for the pose of Tião Santos

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Jacques-Louis David’s "Death of Marat" (1793)

Question 51

Made the film "Waste Land"

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Lucy Walker

Question 52

renowned European artists that Muniz imitate in his series of photographs

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Caravaggio, Goya, Millet, and Picasso