Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Lawrence Weschler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Robert's installations were made based on what?
(a) Supplies.
(b) Time.
(c) Funding.
(d) Locale.

2. Irwin wants to make art of what?
(a) The peripheral, the transitory.
(b) The viewer.
(c) The air.
(d) The walls.

3. Blum regrets that some of the gallery's artists fail to move _______________ where they could be successful.
(a) To Chicago.
(b) To New York.
(c) To Paris.
(d) To Los Angeles.

4. Although there was an innate pride in his son's modern art, Overton____________ it less than his wife.
(a) Appreciated.
(b) Understood.
(c) Liked.
(d) Wanted to see.

5. It is then that Robert realizes how unhappy he is with what?
(a) Himself.
(b) His work.
(c) Being an artist.
(d) His life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Another critic, William Wilson of the LA Times, reported that Irwin's "paintings _____________."

2. Southern Californians can have instantaneous and intimate conversations with whom?

3. Maurice Tuchman, curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, enlists the cooperation of some __________________ corporate institutions to place artists in an Art and Technology program.

4. How do critics and viewers find the disc displays?

5. Irwin and his brother attend what church with their mother?

(see the answer key)

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