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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Question 1
Understood in its broadest sense, art history is not:
1) a discipline that examines the history of art and artefacts
2) an academic discipline concerned with artistic periods and styles from only Europe
before the 20th century
3) the academic study concerned with exploring the making and meaning of those objects
and practices judged to have aesthetic value
4) the historical study of those made objects which are presumed to have a visual content

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Question 2
Who founded the Art Institute in Germany that relocated to London when Hitler came to power
during the 1930s?
Question 3
Contemporary approaches to art history focus on a ___________________.
Question 4
Clement Greenberg’s Modernist theory can be seen as a system of __________________.
Question 5
Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) in his key work entitled Lives of the artists, which was published in
1550 and 1568 respectively, chronicled the works of artists from which country?
1) Italy
2) Netherlands
3) Germany
4) France
Question 6
Joachim Winckelmann’s (1717– 1768) work and archaeological excavations and his publications
such as Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks (1755) and his later seminal
work, The history of the art of antiquity (1764), became key texts to the neo-classical movement.
How did Joachim Winckelmann (1717 – 1768) contribute to the history of studying art objects?

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Question 7
Connoisseurship concerns itself with empirical documentation of works of art, such as
authorship, date and provenance. What does one trace with ‘provenance’?
Question 8
In which decade did a wide range of critical theory, such as feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism
and post-colonial theories, infiltrate and radicalise art historical practice?