AP Art History Installation Art

The repetition of form and color in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installation The Gates is most strongly intended to call attention to which of the following?

• Isolated forms against the landscape

• The materials and impermanence of the work

• The lines of the walking paths in the park

• The static nature of the rigid vinyl gates

In Electronic Superhighway, Nam June Paik combines closed-circuit television and video screens with a neon-outlined map of the United States to address the country’s

• history of religious diversity

• traditional uses of mass media in art

• entry into the Information Age

• growth as more roads were built

The most significant difference in the way writing is used to convey meaning in Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky and Shirin Neshat’s Rebellious Silence from the Women of Allah series is that

• Xu repeats a message many times while Neshat includes a single text

• Xu’s work is made with block-printed characters while Neshat’s text is written in ink

• Xu’s work employs invented characters while Neshat’s work quotes from a poem

• Xu does not use text for social commentary while Neshat does

In his installation A Book from the Sky, Xu Bing referenced which of the following traditional Chinese art forms in order to comment on the political and cultural context of twentieth-century Chinese society?

• Silk screens painted with watercolor and ink

• Propagandist posters depicting historical Chinese leaders

• Hand-bound books and scrolls printed with woodblock

• Wall hangings showing monumental calligraphic characters

In addition to outlining the contour of each state, the neon tubing in Paik’s installation evokes

• a sense of nostalgia for analog technology

• neon signs associated with traveling on the interstate

• once-thriving factories in the industrial Midwest

• the sharp political divisions in the United States