Deck 20: Alternative Media and Processes

Question 1

An artwork that consists of a re-created bedroom with videos projected onto the walls would best be described as ________.

A) performance art
B) conceptual art
C) an installation
D) a readymade
E) none of the other answers

Answer 1

C

Question 2

An artwork that consists exclusively of drawings,designs,and plans would best be described as ________.

A) performance art
B) conceptual art
C) an installation
D) a happening
E) none of the other answers

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Barbara Kruger's Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face):

A) employs her background as a graphic designer in its use of text and image
B) references her early career as a baker in the reproduced pastries and confections
C) ignores the rules of good design in order to make an anti-feminist statement
D) agrees with the idea that women artists are not as good as male artists
E) all of the other answers

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Artworks made using alternative media are best accessed by ________ but often exist only in the form of ________.

A) direct experience . . . visual documentation or personal accounts
B) the Internet . . . still pictures
C) rooftop . . . postcards
D) videos . . . handwritten letters
E) artworks made using alternative media can never be accessed after they are completed

Question 5

John Cage's concert for the opening of the National Arts Foundation can be seen as a happening because:

A) he used lights and props
B) it was a theatrical performance
C) the artist did not fall asleep
D) it expanded the scope of art to include the lived moment
E) this concert was not a happening

Question 6

Jackson Pollock is known for:

A) delivering an important speech to Congress on behalf of the art world
B) hanging upside-down from the Brooklyn Bridge for two days
C) splashing, pouring, and dripping paint onto a canvas as he walked around it on the floor
D) his miniature paintings
E) all of the other answers

Question 7

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition:
a.artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
b.artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
c.an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
d.a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
e.impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
performance art

Question 8

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition:
a.artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
b.artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
c.an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
d.a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
e.impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
action paintings

Question 9

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition:
a.artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
b.artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
c.an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
d.a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
e.impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
conceptual art

Question 10

An artwork can fit into only one of the following categories: performance art,conceptual art,installation art.

Question 11

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition:
a.artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
b.artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
c.an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
d.a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
e.impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
installation

Question 12

Composer John Cage hoped that his innovative performances would:

A) cause a fire in the tenement building in which he lived
B) make all people hate art
C) inspire people to pay attention to the life (and art) happening all around them
D) separate music and art
E) none of the other answers

Question 13

Yoko Ono often utilizes ________ to complete her artworks,such as Wish Tree.

A) mattresses from her favorite hotels
B) instructions for viewers to perform or imagine
C) manifestos of historical art groups
D) the garden tools she inherited from her grandmother
E) none of the other answers

Question 14

Composer John Cage's Theater Piece No.1 is influential because of:

A) the documentary photos and videos made of the piece
B) the performance itself and discussions of it
C) the objects he used, which are now displayed like relics
D) the movie it was turned into
E) all of the other answers

Question 15

The work of ________ was a direct influence on the conceptual art movement.

A) Albert Einstein
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Marcel Duchamp
D) Michelangelo
E) the ancient Egyptians

Question 16

What unconventional material does Jean Tinguely use in Homage to New York?

A) firewood
B) mechanized junk
C) railroad ties
D) neon tubing
E) toothpaste

Question 17

Artworks made using alternative media and processes ________.

A) break down categories of traditional artworks
B) break down the traditional boundaries between art and life
C) focus our attention on objects, actions, and events we might otherwise overlook
D) all of the other answers
E) none of the other answers

Question 18

An artwork that consists of cutting off someone's tie and pouring shampoo on his head would best be described as ________.

A) performance art
B) conceptual art
C) an installation
D) a readymade
E) none of the other answers

Question 19

Mel Chin's Fundred Dollar Bill Project is designed to:

A) make the artist rich
B) make the viewer rich
C) raise awareness about and campaign for the treatment of lead-toxic soil
D) clean up the corruption in the political system by eliminating the need for taxes
E) none of the other answers

Question 20

Match the alternative medium or process with its definition:
a.artworks that track the movements and gestures the artist makes during their production
b.artworks that transform the surrounding space in order to become environmental artworks
c.an art action or event that incorporates elements of music, dance, poetry, video, and multimedia technology
d.a general tendency, as well as an art movement originating in the 1960s, that emphasizes the ideas behind an artwork over any material production to represent those ideas
e.impromptu art actions, initiated and planned by an artist, the outcome of which is not known in advance
happenings

Question 21

In Joseph Beuys's Coyote,I Like America and America Likes Me,the artist:

A) became a shaman and made a curative sand painting of a mythical coyote
B) recorded himself sleeping for three days in the wilderness of the American southwest
C) wrapped himself in felt and lived for five days alone in an art gallery with a coyote
D) projected a video of a coyote on the outside of an art gallery
E) none of the other answers

Question 22

In Mining the Museum Fred Wilson reorganized objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society,essentially taking on the role of a ________ in addition to that of an artist.

A) director
B) curator
C) conductor
D) registrar
E) shopkeeper

Question 23

Kara Walker's installation Insurrection! (Our Tools were Rudimentary,Yet We Pressed On)combines:

A) silhouette drawings and projections
B) Civil War weapons and television sets
C) vintage photographs and shadows of famous trees
D) theater props and umbrellas
E) none of the other answers

Question 24

Marina Abramovic's The Artist Is Present took ________ to complete.

A) nine hours
B) twelve days
C) three months
D) forty years
E) it remains unfinished

Question 25

As an artist,Marina Abramovic is known for her ________.

A) extroverted personality
B) extensive note-taking ability
C) extreme performance pieces
D) extremely long hair
E) traditional approach

Question 26

Compare two of the interactive works in this Chapter,for example Vito Acconci's Following Piece and Yoko Ono's Wish Tree.Describe the roles of the artist,the viewer,and the environment in each piece.What did each artist do? What did the viewers do in each case? What does each artwork look like? What is the point of each artwork? What does this comparison reveal to you about these artworks that you had not considered before making it?

Question 27

Ed Kienholz's The Beanery includes sculptural replicas of ________.

A) past presidents
B) nauseating food
C) collectible cars
D) famous artworks
E) bar inhabitants

Question 28

Over time it becomes clear how an artist's experiments and discoveries impact later artworks.Choose either Jackson Pollock,John Cage,or Marcel Duchamp and discuss their influence on the development of performance and conceptual art.Include specific artworks in your answer.

Question 29

Vito Acconci is the artist who created ________.

A) Following Piece
B) Wish Tree for Washington, D.C.
C) O Superman
D) Coyote, I Like America and America Likes Me
E) all of the other answers