The Past Has a Version Control Problem Flashcards
In the 1980s, two Soviet artists-in-exile, _______________________, painted the head of Josef Stalin, freed from its body and perched on a woman’s hand.
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
Judith and Holofernes is a tale of what?
a tale of female revenge, power, and solidarity
Who is Holofernes?
He is an Assyrian general
who painted Invasion of Ukraine?
Andre Valencia
Who painted the 1937 Cubist classic Guernica?
Pablo Picasso
Emanuel Leutze’s___________________________captures a moment that even in the tense runup to the Civil War had already become part of America’s founding myth
“Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851)
In July 1793, at the peak of the French Revolution, Charlotte Corday, a minor aristocrat, stabbed the radical _________________ as he took a bath.
John-Paul Marat
