The English historian famous for writing 1776's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was which of the following?
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Edward Gibbon
C. Antoine Lavoisier
D. Georges Louis Leclerc
Answer: B
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A. conspicuous consumption and Marquis’s elevated status and wealth B. the usefulness of artistic production and music to immediate human survival C. the lack of connection between music and the supernatural or otherworldly D. the ancient Chinese only used drums in their rituals
Vsevolod Meyerhold encouraged actors to use motivations completely unrelated to those in the production to produce powerful emotions
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In art, the tactile qualities of surfaces and the visual representation of those qualities are known as __________.
a. shape b. mass c. texture d. perspective
What formal technique was used to create a very lifelike quality in Bison from Le Tuc d'Audoubert in southern France?
a. human figures surrounding the herds b. small footprints in the clay floor c. engraved short parallel lines below their necks d. low-relief carvings of thin, active animals