Art Section Three 2024-2025

Which United States government entity sponsored the Doucumenta project?

• National Parks System

• Department of the Interior

• Department of Agriculture

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• National Endowment for the Arts

Chris Jordan's MOST notable environmental photographs were taken on the island of

• Kwajalein

• Pohnpei

• Chuuk

• Midway

• Guam

How does the toxic sublime twist traditional definitions of the sublime?

• It shows the hidden life of seeming wastelands.

• It dwells on the negative aspects of humanity.

• It dismisses natural beauty as a worthy subject of art.

• It makes pollution seem awe-inspiring.

• It restores garbage to usefulness.

Which of the following types of heavy metal poisoning is MOST closely linked to Minamata, Japan?

• cadmium

• mercury

• radium

• thallium

• bismuth

Whose "New Landscapes" renders pollution in the guise of Chinese scroll paintings?

• Tang Yin

• Qiu Ying

• Wen Zhengming

• Yao Lu

• Shen Zhou

Edward Burtynsky is MOST notable for his

• sculpture

• photography

• printmaking

• drawing

• painting

Agnes Denes was born in the European nation of

• Hungary

• Romania

• Czechoslovakia

• Austria

• Yugoslavia

In the Burial portion of Rice/Tree/Burial, Agnes Denes buried a

• fingernail

• matchbox

• poem

• chain

• seed

Why did the rice Agnes Denes planted at Artpark grow strangely?

• toxic runoff from the Niagara River

• nearby atomic testing

• pollution from nearby Love Canal

• an algae bloom on Lake Ontario

• asbestos from a nearby demolition site

When Agnes Denes recreated Rice/Tree/Burial, she added a fourth element filmed at

• Hiawatha Lake

• the Statue of Liberty

• Niagara Falls

• Lake Tappan

• the original World Trade Center