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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Playing the horses.
(b) Dancing.
(c) His parents.
(d) Rebuilding cars.

2. Are the challenges he poses often too large and too ambitious to reasonably expect resolution?
(a) No.
(b) Rarely.
(c) Not usually.
(d) Yes.

3. In 1970, the young curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invites the controversial Robert Irwin to do what?
(a) Join their board of directors.
(b) Display his work in the main gallery.
(c) Perform a transformation of a small, abandoned room in the Museum.
(d) Become a member of their teaching staff.

4. From where is this fabric hung?
(a) The doorway.
(b) The ceiling.
(c) The window.
(d) The art work.

5. When Irwin is told that Sartre dropped everything to learn about this philosophy, what did Irwin do?
(a) He did the opposite.
(b) He laughed, finding this ridiculous.
(c) He returned to painting.
(d) He followed suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Irwin is badgered by the seeming arbitrariness of the __________ created in the dots painting in their confinement to the canvas.

2. The three men discover they all have an interest in what?

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

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

5. He uses vast lighting to feature a project in Berkeley and is disappointed when?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Irwin see this display?

2. Describe Irwin's installation in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975.

3. What leads Irwin to write his own view on this philosophy? Describe this work.

4. What happens when enthusiasm for Irwin grows?

5. From where do non-art invitations come?

6. Compare Irwin's work from before 1970 to his work after 1970.

7. Describe Irwin's scrim projects.

8. What do viewers think of this display?

9. Where does Irwin submit proposals?

10. Describe Irwin's display at the Whitney Retrospective.

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