Ch.9 Camera And Computer Arts Verified Test Bank 12e

Living with Art, 12e (Getlein)

Chapter 9 Camera and Computer Arts

1) ________ is the suppression of words or pictures that a group or individuals find offensive, indecent or dangerous.

A) Dada

B) Pictorialism

C) Censorship

D) Auteur 

2) What subject was the study of Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments? 

A) Motion

B) The Great Depression

C) World War I

D) Light

3) During what time period did experiments with the camera obscura first begin?

A) Classical Greece

B) Early twentieth century

C) Italian Renaissance

D) Industrial Revolution

4) What feature of video appeals to many artists?

A) Recorded footage can be instantaneously displayed on a monitor.

B) A short exposure time of around thirty seconds. 

C) The warm quality of celluloid film.

D) Pixelation that allows for animating objects.

5) What 16th-century development allowed the camera obscura to focus the image it projected?

A) Lenses

B) Daguerreotypes 

C) Celluloid film

D) Dark rooms

6) The creation of a photographic body of work around an event, place, or culture is known as ________.

A) Pictorialism 

B) photojournalism

C) censorship

D) continuous-motion photography

7) Identify the basic parts of a still camera.

A) Lens

B) Diaphragm 

C) Film

D) Monitor

E) Machinima

8) What description best summarizes Andy Warhol's film Empire?

A) Epic battle scenes

B) The daily life of the artist

C) Passage of time

D) Early space travel

9) What characteristic helps to define the style of "pure" or "straight" photography?

A) A photograph is not cropped or manipulated in any way.

B) A photograph's subject should reference photography itself.

C) A photograph's meaning should refuse to make sense in traditional ways.

D) A photograph should explore poetic effects.

10) In a daguerreotype, what type of surface is used to record light?

A) Copper plate covered with silver iodine

B) Rayogram

C) Plate of glass

D) Gelatin silver print

11) Early examples of art photography often imitated what genre?

A) Renaissance mosaics

B) Screenprinting

C) Rococo sculpture

D) Painting

12) The work of Hannah Höch is considered to be a part of what artistic style?

A) Photojournalism

B) Pure photography

C) Pictorialism

D) Dada

13) Photojournalists were hired by the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to record what historical event? 

A) World War I

B) Animal motion

C) The Great Depression

D) Produce merchants

14) ________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with Pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting.

A) Gertrude Käsebier

B) Alfred Steiglitz

C) Julia Margaret Cameron

D) Thomas Ruff

15) The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to what historical happening?

A) The emergence of television

B) The racial aftermath of the American Civil War

C) The horrors of World War I

D) The dominance of machines in twentieth-century life

16) What are the Lumière brothers known for?

A) Originating the concept of the auteur in filmmaking

B) Inventing the first workable film projector

C) Producing the first science fiction film

D) Spearheading the New Wave film movement

17) For what purpose was color photography first widely used?

A) Photojournalism

B) Portraiture

C) Advertising

D) Dada art

18) What drawback hindered the success of the daguerreotype?

A) A strict international patent

B) The inability to make multiple copies from the captured image

C) The invention of the motion picture

D) The cost of silver

19) Julia Margaret Cameron is renowned for her ________.

A) collages

B) pop-art films

C) portraits

D) video art

20) What quality of the Kodak camera helped change the history of photography?

A) Portability

B) Colorization

C) 3-D film

D) Immediate development of the film

21) What is the source material for Thomas Ruff's work, Substratum 12 III?

A) Japanese manga

B) Digital photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

C) Muybridge's series of animal movements

D) Abstract patterns in textile weavings

22) Man Ray created mysterious images, called ________, that looked like ordinary photographs but did not require a camera to record them.

A) substrata

B) daguerreotypes

C) Kodaks

D) Rayograms

23) A(n) ________ is a director whose films are marked by a consistent, individual style and is closely involved in conceiving the idea for the film's story and writing the script.

A) auteur

B) photojournalist

C) videographer

D) Dadaist

24) What filmmaker and film is an example of the New Wave movement?

A) Andy Warhol's Empire

B) Bruce Nauman's Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square (Square Dance)

C) Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless

D) Beryl Korot's Text and Commentary

25) Compare and contrast the ways in which still photography, film, television, video, and computer technologies have transformed mass communications. Make specific reference to several recent examples of mass communication in which these technologies were used to convey messages through various types of images.

26) Consider the meaning of "truth" in terms of the photographer's art. Discuss the concepts of "truth" presented in this chapter and make personal observations about these ideas as they relate to photography, film, and video.

27) Trace the history of debate over whether photography is a fine art. Analyze three photographs in relation to this debate, discussing the photographers' intentions and their relationship to this debate.

28) Discuss the idea that a computer is a place. How does the artist Wafaa Bilal use the computer in this way, exhibiting his work in a digital space? Consider the role of the Internet in this concept.

29) Summarize the history of the development of the camera from the early camera obscura to the advent of color film. Emphasize the major differences that marked each new development in photography. 

30) Consider Daguerre's Le Boulevard du Temple. Discuss the reason that this image is important to the history of photography and the difficulties inherent in the production of this image.

31) Consider Lange's Migrant Mother. Identify the decade in which this photograph was made. Define and discuss the purposes of photojournalism, using the work of this photographer as an example of the process by which a photojournalist works to document not just a single image but a historical epoch.

32) Consider Warhol's Empire; an image from the film is included in the text. This avant-garde film challenged the conventions of studio-made films. How did it do so? Consider the history of cinema and this film's relationship to traditional narrative and editing. How does this film relate to other aspects of this artist's work?

33) Discuss how editing emerged as fundamental to filmmaking. Give an example of a film, and director, demonstrating the development and technique of film editing. 

34) Discuss the "auteur" in filmmaking and cite an example of a New Wave filmmaker. How do New Wave films depart from mainstream filmmaking?

35) What are some characteristics of post-Internet art? How does this style challenge traditional notions of art? Be sure to discuss an artist who is considered to be working in the post-Internet style in your response.