What is the purpose of word play in examples of contemporary visual art?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The title of "Race"ing Sideways plays with the identity and orientation of runners aligned in the piece but also suggests the problem of "side stepping" racial issues.
2. Adrian Piper's calling cards reverse traditional social transactions through printed messages, which are form and function in the artist's process of "calling out" offenders.
3. Rashid Johnson plays with sources of visual culture by lifting the title for his installation, The Souls of Black Folk, from W. E. B. Du Bois's classic book, turning over the history that work represents.
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In which of the following ways did Jo Jones modernize swing band drumming?
a. Playing the beat on the ride cymbal and hi-hat rather than the bass drum b. Playing the snare drum on all four beats c. Playing the bass drum on beats two and four d. Playing the hi-hat on beats one and three
History, including theatre history, is written and taught by people in power, the "winners."
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
This term means to prudishly remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material before publication
A) Balkanization B) Kulturkampf C) Bourgeoisie D) Bowdlerize
Girl groups in the early sixties were different from previous girl groups in that
A. they were family. B. they sang rock-era songs. C. they wrote their own songs. D. race was a factor in the message of the words or the music of their songs.