CSTU 101 Walker Final Exam Questions
and Answers
1850-1910 - Answer-The Age of Industry
The belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create
human happiness. - Answer-Materialism
- German and philosophical idealist
- responsible for the phrase "The real is rational, the rational is real."
- The "mind engaged in a creative struggle with history's materials and circumstances" what Hegel calls
the "dialectic" - Answer-Georg Hegel
believed that "history was propelled by material forces and the struggle of the classes." - Answer-Karl
Marx
"Das Kapital"
"The Communist Manifesto" - Answer-Karl Marx, key works
,"The philosophic belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the greatest number." -
Answer-Utilitarianism
- utilitarianist
argues that "happiness promised by social reforms could be positively and empirically measured." -
Answer-Jeremy Bentham
- utilitarianist
- key work: "On Liberty"
- advocates for women's rights to vote in his "The Subjection of Women"
- "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the
reverse of happiness." - Answer-John Stuart Mill
"Origin of Species"
- develops this theory of natural selection, in which he argues that "humans had evolved naturally from
lower animals, according to inexorable laws of mutation and adaptation."
- social Darwinism - Answer-Charles Darwin
- England was the most prosperous and powerful of all industrial nations
- Era takes name from the long reign of Queen Victoria
- "stunning technological advances" - Answer-England & Victorian Era
- the crystal palace designed by Joseph Paxton
- covering 26 acres with full size trees and garden
- iron and glass construction marks period - Answer-Great Exhibition in London
, - "first truly modern buildings arose in the North American heartland." - Answer-America: Modern City
- Chicago architect develops first modern "skyscraper"
- "form follows function"
- Chicago-style skyscrapers became known as "commercial palaces" - Answer-Louis Sullivan
- distinct chief new material: iron-and-glass construction
- example: The Eiffel Tower by Gustav Eiffel
- example: National Library by Henri Labrouste
- redevelopment plan by Baron Georges- Eugene Houssmann - Answer-Paris: Modern City
"The truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or imaginative
alternation" - Answer-Realism in Art
"Burial at Ornans"
- declares that "painting can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things." - Answer-
Gustave Courbet
- towering figure post-Courbet in Paris
- known for his updating of traditional paintings
- "Luncheon in the Grass" - Answer-Edouard Manet
- "The Gross Clinic"
- Known for his combination of "realist technique" with an "American matter-of-factness." - Answer-
Thomas Eakins
and Answers
1850-1910 - Answer-The Age of Industry
The belief that science, technology, and industry can know all truth, solve all problems, and create
human happiness. - Answer-Materialism
- German and philosophical idealist
- responsible for the phrase "The real is rational, the rational is real."
- The "mind engaged in a creative struggle with history's materials and circumstances" what Hegel calls
the "dialectic" - Answer-Georg Hegel
believed that "history was propelled by material forces and the struggle of the classes." - Answer-Karl
Marx
"Das Kapital"
"The Communist Manifesto" - Answer-Karl Marx, key works
,"The philosophic belief that moral good lies in the greatest happiness for the greatest number." -
Answer-Utilitarianism
- utilitarianist
argues that "happiness promised by social reforms could be positively and empirically measured." -
Answer-Jeremy Bentham
- utilitarianist
- key work: "On Liberty"
- advocates for women's rights to vote in his "The Subjection of Women"
- "actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the
reverse of happiness." - Answer-John Stuart Mill
"Origin of Species"
- develops this theory of natural selection, in which he argues that "humans had evolved naturally from
lower animals, according to inexorable laws of mutation and adaptation."
- social Darwinism - Answer-Charles Darwin
- England was the most prosperous and powerful of all industrial nations
- Era takes name from the long reign of Queen Victoria
- "stunning technological advances" - Answer-England & Victorian Era
- the crystal palace designed by Joseph Paxton
- covering 26 acres with full size trees and garden
- iron and glass construction marks period - Answer-Great Exhibition in London
, - "first truly modern buildings arose in the North American heartland." - Answer-America: Modern City
- Chicago architect develops first modern "skyscraper"
- "form follows function"
- Chicago-style skyscrapers became known as "commercial palaces" - Answer-Louis Sullivan
- distinct chief new material: iron-and-glass construction
- example: The Eiffel Tower by Gustav Eiffel
- example: National Library by Henri Labrouste
- redevelopment plan by Baron Georges- Eugene Houssmann - Answer-Paris: Modern City
"The truthful and objective representation of the social world, without illusion or imaginative
alternation" - Answer-Realism in Art
"Burial at Ornans"
- declares that "painting can only consist of the presentation of real and existing things." - Answer-
Gustave Courbet
- towering figure post-Courbet in Paris
- known for his updating of traditional paintings
- "Luncheon in the Grass" - Answer-Edouard Manet
- "The Gross Clinic"
- Known for his combination of "realist technique" with an "American matter-of-factness." - Answer-
Thomas Eakins
