CMN 2152 Final Exam
In talking about why we want to hold onto the past, and need images to do so,
__________ said, "I am surrounded by extinction and I want to keep it at bay." correct
answers C) Andre Aciman
This author was highlighted as finding a moment of lasting beauty—a flash of paradise
—when his brother showed him a toy garden formed in a cookie tin. correct answers B)
CS Lewis
Douglas Coupland was noted as being ironic but not correct answers C) Cynical
Fill in the blanks: "The ___________________ has emerged with different cultural and
religious shadings in the current era of the quantified self, during which self-monitoring
and self-improving products have become popular..." correct answers B) Therapeutic
ethos
For Roland Barthes ______ allows the connotative meaning of a particular thing or
image to appear as denotative (that is, literal or natural). (Surken 30) correct answers
C) Myth
Who was it that said once you've seen the
world through pop, you'll never see it the same correct answers D) Andy Warhol
He was a Romantic visual artist and poet correct answers D) Blake
Two key terms coined by ___________ were 'Prolific and Devourer.' correct answers
B) Blake
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was referenced in the final class as using correct answers
D) Meta-lepsis
The Scream (1893), by Munch was highlighted to illustrate correct answers B)
Existential angst
The merging of man and machine" could said to be a key component of correct
answers C) high modernism
This photographer created the 1962 "The Refrigerator". correct answers C) Roy
Lichtenstein
The newspaper ad published in 1769, requesting the return of his runaway slave was
written by ___________. correct answers E) Jefferson
, his painting was shown in class as an example of an emphasis on process rather than
product. correct answers A) Yellow, Grey, Black
Narcissus was painted by correct answers B) Caravaggio
Clarence Gagnon was used an an example of correct answers C) Canadiana
According to Winner and _________, design itself holds meaning. We can ascertain a
society's values just by analyzing a given design. correct answers A) Ellul
What philosopher suggested that "technique" is a core value in every action we do?
correct answers C) Jacques Ellul
Boticelli's _______________ was used as a piece to emphasize perspective correct
answers A) Cestello Anunciation
A popular existential play about two men—Vladimir and Estragon—was written by
correct answers A) Beckett
Main Street USA at Walt Disney World is used by Beaudrillard to signify correct
answers A) simulacrum
"visuality defines not only the social conditions of the visible but also the workings of
________ in modern society." correct answers B) Power
At any given moment the _____________ of an event is of greater importance than the
event, for what we think about and act upon is the symbolic report and not the concrete
event itself." (William Ivins) correct answers C) Accepted Report
Chippendales ornamentation in architecture was used to
illustrate___________________. correct answers B) post-modernism
Sturken suggests that "There is no direct knowledge of the world without
_____________. We 'see' the material world only through ___________, whether they
be abstract or mimetic." correct answers C) Representations
construction correct answers Sturken highlights two types of representation:
representation as a mimetic (imitative) reflection, and representation as a __________
of the material world:
sign correct answers Two of the key theorists on semiotics were Barthes and
Saussure. The three components they highlight are signifier, signified, and _______.
The Positivists believed that correct answers a) verifiable—observable—scientific
knowledge reveals the truth about the world.
In talking about why we want to hold onto the past, and need images to do so,
__________ said, "I am surrounded by extinction and I want to keep it at bay." correct
answers C) Andre Aciman
This author was highlighted as finding a moment of lasting beauty—a flash of paradise
—when his brother showed him a toy garden formed in a cookie tin. correct answers B)
CS Lewis
Douglas Coupland was noted as being ironic but not correct answers C) Cynical
Fill in the blanks: "The ___________________ has emerged with different cultural and
religious shadings in the current era of the quantified self, during which self-monitoring
and self-improving products have become popular..." correct answers B) Therapeutic
ethos
For Roland Barthes ______ allows the connotative meaning of a particular thing or
image to appear as denotative (that is, literal or natural). (Surken 30) correct answers
C) Myth
Who was it that said once you've seen the
world through pop, you'll never see it the same correct answers D) Andy Warhol
He was a Romantic visual artist and poet correct answers D) Blake
Two key terms coined by ___________ were 'Prolific and Devourer.' correct answers
B) Blake
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was referenced in the final class as using correct answers
D) Meta-lepsis
The Scream (1893), by Munch was highlighted to illustrate correct answers B)
Existential angst
The merging of man and machine" could said to be a key component of correct
answers C) high modernism
This photographer created the 1962 "The Refrigerator". correct answers C) Roy
Lichtenstein
The newspaper ad published in 1769, requesting the return of his runaway slave was
written by ___________. correct answers E) Jefferson
, his painting was shown in class as an example of an emphasis on process rather than
product. correct answers A) Yellow, Grey, Black
Narcissus was painted by correct answers B) Caravaggio
Clarence Gagnon was used an an example of correct answers C) Canadiana
According to Winner and _________, design itself holds meaning. We can ascertain a
society's values just by analyzing a given design. correct answers A) Ellul
What philosopher suggested that "technique" is a core value in every action we do?
correct answers C) Jacques Ellul
Boticelli's _______________ was used as a piece to emphasize perspective correct
answers A) Cestello Anunciation
A popular existential play about two men—Vladimir and Estragon—was written by
correct answers A) Beckett
Main Street USA at Walt Disney World is used by Beaudrillard to signify correct
answers A) simulacrum
"visuality defines not only the social conditions of the visible but also the workings of
________ in modern society." correct answers B) Power
At any given moment the _____________ of an event is of greater importance than the
event, for what we think about and act upon is the symbolic report and not the concrete
event itself." (William Ivins) correct answers C) Accepted Report
Chippendales ornamentation in architecture was used to
illustrate___________________. correct answers B) post-modernism
Sturken suggests that "There is no direct knowledge of the world without
_____________. We 'see' the material world only through ___________, whether they
be abstract or mimetic." correct answers C) Representations
construction correct answers Sturken highlights two types of representation:
representation as a mimetic (imitative) reflection, and representation as a __________
of the material world:
sign correct answers Two of the key theorists on semiotics were Barthes and
Saussure. The three components they highlight are signifier, signified, and _______.
The Positivists believed that correct answers a) verifiable—observable—scientific
knowledge reveals the truth about the world.
