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Which description best identifies an installation in contemporary art?
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18/19 18. Contemporary Art and Global Visual Culture Online Quiz Questions
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20 questions
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True or false
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True or false: Provenance means only the name of the museum that currently owns an object.
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True
- B
False
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Written response
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What term describes a dispersed population connected by histories of migration, displacement, memory, or cultural affiliation?
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Fill in the blank
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Art that examines the power, economics, conventions, and ideological assumptions of museums and other institutions is called .
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A contemporary artwork presents related moving-image sequences on four screens, requiring viewers to move among them rather than follow one fixed viewpoint. Which form is this?
- A
A single photograph displayed in a frame
- B
A painting projected onto one wall without sound
- C
A work using several screens or channels, possibly with simultaneous narratives
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A sculpture that cannot include moving images
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True or false
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True or false: In museums, decolonization simply means adding more artists from formerly colonized regions to an otherwise unchanged canon.
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True
- B
False
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Written response
1 point
Enter the surname of the artist who created Wheatfield—A Confrontation by planting wheat on a landfill in lower Manhattan.
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An artwork organized around shared cooking and conversation exemplifies , while the return of cultural property to a claimant is generally called .
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Which three questions most directly apply an environmental-justice approach to contemporary art? Select all correct choices.
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Which communities are most affected by toxic waste
- B
How resource extraction distributes risks and benefits
- C
Whether an artwork uses only traditional landscape painting techniques
- D
How rising temperatures affect people differently
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A monumental wall work made from bottle caps and metal fragments is analyzed in relation to consumption, global trade, and African histories. Which interpretation is best supported by the material?
- A
The materials have no meaning beyond their color and shine
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The work is primarily a traditional portrait made from precious metals
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Discarded materials can connect consumption and global trade to African histories
- D
The work rejects any relationship between art and economic systems
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Which three actions are consistent with decolonizing museum practice? Select all correct choices.
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Sharing authority with Indigenous peoples and source communities
- B
Reconsidering labels, categories, and geographic divisions
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Keeping all interpretive decisions solely with the museum
- D
Recognizing Indigenous protocols concerning sacred or restricted materials
12
True or false
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True or false: Because globalization connects artists and institutions across borders, it automatically makes the contemporary art world equal.
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True
- B
False
13
Open ended
1 point
Develop a visual-analysis method for a contemporary artwork that may be an installation, video, performance, digital work, or environmental project. Explain what you would record, describe, analyze, contextualize, and interpret, and show how the viewer's position and the work's materials contribute to its meaning.
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A museum acquires a video installation whose software and projector are becoming obsolete. Which conservation decision best reflects the challenges of time-based media?
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Preserve only a still photograph because moving images are not artworks
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Decide among preserving original equipment, emulating the experience, or migrating the work
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Replace every video work with a conventional painting
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Ignore software and hardware because they do not affect the artwork
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Which description best explains what makes an artwork an installation rather than simply a portable object displayed in a room?
- A
An artwork that must be viewed from one fixed frontal position
- B
An artwork arranged in a space for an embodied experience of relationships among materials, architecture, and viewers
- C
A collection of unrelated artworks shown in the same museum room
- D
A painting made only from architectural drawings
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A gallery presents a video work across several screens showing related but unsynchronized images. Which feature of video art does this arrangement most clearly demonstrate?
- A
It must tell a fictional story in chronological order.
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It can use only one screen and no sound.
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It can emphasize spatial installation, duration, repetition, and the viewer's movement.
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It is defined by using film rather than digital files.
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An artist turns a gallery into a place where visitors cook, eat, and converse, with no central permanent object. What aspect most directly makes this an example of relational practice?
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The social relationship or activity generated among participants
- B
The permanent object left behind after the event
- C
The artist's private intention, regardless of what participants do
- D
The market price assigned to the venue
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An environmental artwork compares a polluted industrial site with the communities living nearby. Which question best applies an environmental-justice perspective to the work?
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Whether an artwork uses only natural materials
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Whether a landscape is represented realistically
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Whether viewers find the work visually beautiful
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Who bears the greatest social and political burden of environmental harm
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Written response
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What term describes art that examines the power, economics, conventions, and ideological assumptions of museums and other institutions?
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Written response
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In what year did the Third Havana Biennial take place, an event discussed as an important moment in expanding contemporary exhibition culture beyond a predominantly Euro-American framework?