Study Guide for the Fourth Exam

1. For the following works of art, you must know the name of the work and the name of the artist or architect:
    

Boccioni…..Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Munch….The Scream

Monet…..Water Lilies

Cassatt…The Bath

Gauguin…..Manuo Tupapau: The Spirit of the Dead Watching
Seurat…..A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Van Gogh….The Starry Night
Matisse…..Open Window
Wright…..Willits House

Kahlo…..Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser.

Picasso…..Guernica

Lawrence….Migration Series, # 58
Giacometti…..Hands Holding the Void

O’Keefe….Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses

Dali….The Persistence of Memory

Beckman…..The Departure

Sullivan….Guaranty Building

Wright…Willits House

Le Corbusier…Savoye House
 

You should also be able to identify works as representative of impressionism, expressionism, surrealism, etc.
       

2. In addition to the artists and architects listed above, you should be able to identify the following people:  Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, Kafka, Zola, Ibsen, Chekhov, Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Woolf, Brecht, Mendel, Curie, Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Heidegger, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Wittgenstein, Griffith, Eisenstein, Stravinsky, Schoenburg.   On the exam, you will be asked to match the people with brief descriptions.
    
3. You should know the meaning of important cultural terms such as modernism, psychoanalysis, collective unconscious, naturalism, decadence, expressionism, impressionism, post-impressionism, pointillism, primitivism, cubism, Chicago School, jazz, blues, atonality, modernism, mass culture, surrealism, International Style, existentialism, bad faith.  Again, you will be asked to match the terms with brief descriptions.
    
4. You do not have to know all the historical details described in the text.  However, you should be acquainted with the basic historical facts emphasized during class.  For example, you should know something about the effects of Europeans on the peoples of Africa, the effects of World Wars I and II., and the general effects of continuing industrialization.   You should also know important general facts about the continuing development of science and its philosophical and cultural significance
    
5. Be sure to review all the primary source material.  There will be short answer questions on this material.
    
6. There will be 10 extra credit points on the exam.  All these will be review questions.  See the first study guide to help you prepare for these questions.
   
   
   
   Possible Essay Questions
   
    

1. Is Zarathustra an overman?  Defend your view.
    
2. Are there any inconsistencies in Mill’s defense of the rights of women?  Defend your view.
    
3. Explain some of the ways in which new scientific understandings may have fundamentally changed some of the philosophical understandings that had been predominant in Western culture.
    
4. Explain the concept of freedom that is central for Simone de Beauvoir.  How does she use this to build a new conception of ethics?
    
5. Consider Kahlo’s Self-Portrait and what your humanities text has to say about this painting.  Do you agree or disagree?  Are important themes left out?  Defend your view.