PCC Art History Quest 5 with Verified Answers
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Terms in this set (44)
1. Modern art (1900-1960)
What are the 3 periods of
2.Post-Modern Art (1960-1990)
20th and 21st century art?
3.Contemporary Art (present)
What does avant-garde Fore guard
mean?
1. The usual English rendering of a French
slogan fromthe early 19th century
What does "art for art's 2."l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the
sake" mean? intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is
divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian
function
Who is the father of Jacques Deridda
deconstructionism?
1. Nature of reality/Objective reality cannot be known
2. The possibility of knowledge
What are the major tenets
3. The nature of man
of Deconstructionism
4.Moral decision-making
5. The nature of language
1. Havoc
What is
2. Acts 8:3
deconstructionism?
3.Arose among some French intellectuals after WWII
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, Objective reality cannot be known. There is no
What is the nature of transcendence. The universe is a closed system.
reality/objective reality Reality is entirely subjective. A group and its language
cannot be known? create its own reality until it is replaced by the power
of another group
1. Deconstructionists are true skeptics
2. What knowledge we have is not direct but indirect.
What is the possibility of
The world comes to us through language and only
knowledge?
through language which is in turn a social construct. A
statement is true if it empowers an individual or group
1. Individual identity is a myth.
2.Man only achieves his identity through his group or
culture. The individual when disaffected has the right
What is the nature of man?
to create his own meaning. Here Ds differ from the
earlier existentialists where the individual is supreme.
Deconstructionists are similar to fascism in this regard
Deconstructionists deeply resent what they call
"totalizing." By this term they are referring to universal
What is moral decision
values that are true for all cultures and all time.
making?
According to Ds, right is what a group decides is right
for the moment.
1. Language is a system constructed on the foundation
of arbitrary symbols. That is, texts are collections of
words and pictures ("signifiers") that have no inherent
What is the nature of meaning or connection to the objective world of
language? things or objects ("signified"). Since language is the
medium for communication, and since language
constructions are unstable, interpretation is also
uncertain.
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Terms in this set (44)
1. Modern art (1900-1960)
What are the 3 periods of
2.Post-Modern Art (1960-1990)
20th and 21st century art?
3.Contemporary Art (present)
What does avant-garde Fore guard
mean?
1. The usual English rendering of a French
slogan fromthe early 19th century
What does "art for art's 2."l'art pour l'art", and expresses a philosophy that the
sake" mean? intrinsic value of art, and the only "true" art, is
divorced from any didactic, moral, or utilitarian
function
Who is the father of Jacques Deridda
deconstructionism?
1. Nature of reality/Objective reality cannot be known
2. The possibility of knowledge
What are the major tenets
3. The nature of man
of Deconstructionism
4.Moral decision-making
5. The nature of language
1. Havoc
What is
2. Acts 8:3
deconstructionism?
3.Arose among some French intellectuals after WWII
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, Objective reality cannot be known. There is no
What is the nature of transcendence. The universe is a closed system.
reality/objective reality Reality is entirely subjective. A group and its language
cannot be known? create its own reality until it is replaced by the power
of another group
1. Deconstructionists are true skeptics
2. What knowledge we have is not direct but indirect.
What is the possibility of
The world comes to us through language and only
knowledge?
through language which is in turn a social construct. A
statement is true if it empowers an individual or group
1. Individual identity is a myth.
2.Man only achieves his identity through his group or
culture. The individual when disaffected has the right
What is the nature of man?
to create his own meaning. Here Ds differ from the
earlier existentialists where the individual is supreme.
Deconstructionists are similar to fascism in this regard
Deconstructionists deeply resent what they call
"totalizing." By this term they are referring to universal
What is moral decision
values that are true for all cultures and all time.
making?
According to Ds, right is what a group decides is right
for the moment.
1. Language is a system constructed on the foundation
of arbitrary symbols. That is, texts are collections of
words and pictures ("signifiers") that have no inherent
What is the nature of meaning or connection to the objective world of
language? things or objects ("signified"). Since language is the
medium for communication, and since language
constructions are unstable, interpretation is also
uncertain.
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