Religion and the Discourse of Modernism

The author wants to make a claim that modern art may______________the religious and theological impulse in the art and art making.

• drop

• overlook

• dominate

• forget

A common narrative of modern art in academic literature is that religion plays a constructive role in the development of modern art.

• True

• False

The author suggests that we should rethink about modern art narrative to understand how Christian influences and impulses shape modern art

• True

• False

Three reasons of secularity given by Charles Taylor include rejection of religion, fragile religion, and _________________of religion

• publicity

• destatization

• privatization

• nationalization

_________________ refers to the sociocultural conditions of modernization-especially the complex transformations associated with industrialization, urbanization and democratization-which profoundly reshapes the attitudes, presuppositions and patterns of life fitted to those conditions.

• Modernity

• Modernism

• Secularity

• Secularism

Central to modernism was an ambition to be more fully and freely "alive" in the face of and in resistance to all that was deadening and dehumanizing about modern life

• True

• False

It is not that modern art rejects God; it is that it contests the belief of God

• True

• False

Artists respond to the context of suffering and cruelty of modern life such as sweatshops, world wars, death camps, nuclear warfare, genocides, environmental catastrophes...This does not necessitate the rejection of religion, but does imply a __________________relation to its traditions

• worn

• tenuous

• unbreakable

• fragile

__________________concern means seeking to understand life in relation to the presence and absence of God

• Theological

• Religious

• Secular

• Modern

Theological thinking about modern art means ________________of religious question into the conversation

• reinvention

• reinstatement

• restoration

• reintroduction