Humanities 1301 Study List for Exam #2
What do the works in each category have in common? What ideas is the artist (writer, etc.) communicating
through his/her work? What methods are used to do this?
Exam will include all material covered after Exam I; all material covered in lectures; all material in books;
glossaries & photos of art works & painters/creators;All material covered during lectures, PowerPoint
presentations, in-class videos & films
GROUP I
Material from Ch. 33
Afternoon of a Faun; Rite of Spring; Igor Stravinsky, Ballet Russe, Vaslav Nijinsky, Sergei Diaghilev
Changes in music and dance
Joyce –stream of consciousness
ee Cummings
Taste
Art, Literature & Music of Protest
Responses to War
Wilfred Owen “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Erich Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Elie Wiesel, Night Holocaust
Randall Jarrell “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
Pablo Picasso “Guernica”
William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”
GROUP II
Responses to Political & Social Conditions
Diego Rivera
Social realism vs. socialist realism
Marxism
Totalitarianism
Works Reflecting the Ideas of Existentialism (Meaning—or lack of meaning—in life)
Existentialism & its causes
Theater of the Absurd
Jean-Paul Sartre
Ernest Hemingway “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
Experimentation: Going Past Tradition
Abstract expressionism (including action painting & color field painting)
Jackson Pollack (action painting) moved into his paintings
Mark Rothko (color field painting)
Aaron Copland “Appalachian Spring”
Martha Graham
Arnold Schoenberg (serial music; 12 tone system)
John Cage –aleatory music – based on chance & accident
Alexander Calder mobiles
Twyla Tharpe