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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Irwin it is a way of portraying perception as what?
(a) Only from his view.
(b) Secondary to light and shadow.
(c) The essential subject of art.
(d) What one must believe.

2. By the late '60s he creates rooms devoid of what?
(a) Color.
(b) Objects.
(c) Texture.
(d) Light.

3. During the mid and late sixties, Irwin supplements his meager art income with earnings from his stints as a teacher. However, his main source of income during this period is from what?
(a) His parents.
(b) Rebuilding cars.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Playing the horses.

4. The genesis of Irwin's artistry is _____________.
(a) Obvious.
(b) Odd.
(c) Unusual.
(d) Vague.

5. In a 1976 display in Venice, he merely outlines with string a spot of tree-filtered light on the ground. What do some think?
(a) There is no art.
(b) The string is the art.
(c) The light is art.
(d) The trees are art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the philosophy of human experience stemming in large part from the work of Edmund Husserl and his followers, with Jean Paul Sartre?

2. Over the last __________ years, Irwin had connected his thinking process to the art objects he was making.

3. Robert Irwin has maintained a unique approach throughout his career. "He is an artist who got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to _____________" (p. 203).

4. One of the first steps he takes is what?

5. Irwin was not one of the original artists, but is he chosen to be in the new group?

(see the answer key)

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