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. As an art student, Robert is both _________________.
(a) Blessed and cursed.
(b) Arrogant and cocky.
(c) Confused and worried.
(d) Talented and challenged.

2. Now, with no such material objects in his life, Irwin has to do what?
(a) Give up on his art career.
(b) Learn a new way of thinking.
(c) Create art out of nothing.
(d) Find new materials.

3. Irwin feels that the most important result of his association with Dr. Wortz is what?
(a) The lessons they learned.
(b) The art they made together.
(c) The discoveries they made as a team.
(d) Each man radically changed the life of the other forever.

4. Irwin feels so self-indulgent in his own work that ___________________ as a means in which he can serve society as a whole.
(a) He offers his services cost free.
(b) He only talks about art.
(c) He gives his art away to the poor.
(d) He only teaches.

5. Irwin focuses self-critique on the ______________ of the work.
(a) Form.
(b) Movement.
(c) Balance.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. As science comes to what realization, it will come to rely once again on art?

2. Turrell eventually drops out of the project with no explanation. Perhaps he had fallen under what?

3. By the late '60s he creates rooms devoid of what?

4. In Goldie's latter years, after Irwin becomes a successful artist, she has a difficult time explaining to her friends that her son is an artist, but not a ___________ artist.

5. The time spent during this period causes what to end?

(see the answer key)

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