History 103
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- The term "lost generation" was coined by
- Gertrude Stein
- The writer whose The Decline of the West proposed that European society had entered the final stage of its existence was
- Oswald Spengler
- In Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans he
- attacked the liberal Christian theology that had embraced the idea of progress.
- The author of All Quiet of the Western Front was
- Enrich Maria Remarque
- Who wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else?"
- Niokolai Berdiaev
- In the years after WWI, the idea of progress
- was roundly attacked
- In Jose Otega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses, he points out that
- the masses were destined to destroy the highest achievements of western society.
- The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them first ariculated in
- Einstein's theory of general activity
- The uncertainty principle is accociated with
- Heisenberg
- John Maynard Keynes
- discussed the end of laissez-faire capitialism
- In a purely scientific sense the uncertainty principle proposes that
- it is impossible to specify simultaneously both the position and velocity of a subatomic particle
- Discoveries in physics added to the anxiety of the 1920's and 1930's because
- they called into question the established notions of truth
- The father of psychoanalysis was
- Sigmund Freud
- According to Freud the root of neurotic behavior was
- a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental process
- The spread of photography
- led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality, but to create it
- Which of the following groups was not one of the new artisitic movements of the 20th century?
- impressionist.
- The painter who was influenced by the "primitive" art of Tahiti was
- Paul Gauguin.
- The deliberate violation of perspective by Japanese artist influenced
- Edgar Degas.
- Which of the following is not an accurate match between artist and artistic influence?
- Walter Gropius and Chinese painting.