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CLEP Humanities All In One

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1. Georges Pierre Seurat






2. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






3. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during






4. Leucippus and Democritus






5. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






6. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies






7. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






8. Composed 'Rite of Spring'






9. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors






10. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






11. French impressionist painter






12. God of Wine and Theatre






13. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






14. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






15. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract






16. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






17. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






18. Death of a Salesman






19. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






20. Using two or more types of media together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting






21. Artist of 'Clock Explosion' - 'Persistence of Memory' - 'The Elephants' - and 'The Meditative Rose' - painted very precise - and nightmarish scenes






22. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366






23. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






24. Painted 'The Bathers'






25. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






26. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






27. British abstract sculptor






28. God of the Underworld and Death






29. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely






30. A contradiction of a story as it appears to its characters - and what the audience knows as true.






31. Plato's teacher - declared that the gods had named him the wisest of all humanity - because he was the only one who knew how little he knew - he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism.






32. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd






33. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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34. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






35. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






36. 1900 to the Present






37. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






38. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)






39. Architect who like a statue at every corner






40. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






41. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






42. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






43. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings






44. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






45. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






46. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed






47. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






48. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery






49. DNA of the song






50. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage







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