CCII Test 21-30

Question 1

What is Nihilism?

Answer 1

the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.

Question 2

What did Sartre believe in his book “Being and Nothingness”? (Name two)

Answer 2

Existence precedes essence, human being by nature are not divine nor rational. We are condemned to be free

Question 3

What is the difference between the Romantic hero and the Modern hero?

Answer 3

Romanticism =  praised the common man despite his failures and shortcomings, believing that raw human characteristics are basically good. 
Modernism = more skeptical of humankind and often question people's motives, integrity and values

Question 4

What does the Abstract Expressionist style in painting represent?

Answer 4

Automatic, random performance, against tradition

Play between choice and chance

Question 5

What is the heroic age of American painting means?

Answer 5

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Question 6

What is Critical Theory?

Answer 6

a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it.

Question 7

Why Stravinsky’s Right of Spring is considered Modern music?

Answer 7

Unorthodox, experimentation with sound (doorbells, roulette wheel, typewriter)

Question 8

Name two attributes of Jazz and name two musician.

Answer 8

The performer over the composer
The soloist performs over the main riff
Duke Ellington & Luis Armstrong

Question 9

Name the three main conditions that make up the postmodern age.

Answer 9

Uncertainty
Lack of absolutes
Progress is unlikely

Question 10

Name four Postmodern sensibilities (against the ideas of Modernism).

Answer 10

Utopianism
Heroic celebration of freedom
The master narrative
Views against the historical past