Photography
Cinema
Television,video and performance art
What is art and what is not art?
Relationship of Humanities and the Arts
100

The French Artist credited with inventing the camera.

Who is Louis Jacques-Mande Daguerre? 

100

The optical illusion where the human eye perceives the continued presence of an image after it has disappeared from view. 

What is the 'persistence of vision.'

100

14-year old farm boy who invented the first television. 

Who is Philo Farnsworth?

100

The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination. 

What is Art?

100

When an artist combines their basic medium with another art but keeps their basic medium clearly dominant, for example, opera. 

What is "Appropriation?"

200

A darkened room with a small hole or aperture through which an image is projected. 

What is a Camera Obscura.

200



Device that creates the illusion of motion, using sequential drawings or photographs in progression. 

What is a Zoetrope

200

Television programs that have a beginning, middle and an end. 

What is a self-contained episode.

200

Art, objects, or designs considered to be garish, in poor taste or sentimental.  

What is "kitsch."

200

When a work of art takes another work of art as its subject matter.  For example, the film "Lord of the Rings."

What is "intrepretation.?"

300

The Documentary photographer who is best know for the "Migrant Mother."

Who is Dorothea Lange?

300


The photographer who pioneered photographic studies of motion. 

Who is Eadweard Muybridge?

300

Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" is an example of this artform.

What is Performance Art?

300

Anselmo Ballester's poster "To Us," used during Mussolini's dictatorship to influence the opinions.  

What is propaganda.

300

Values that involve feelings, such as pleasure and pain.  

What are "Intrinsic Values."
400

Steve McCurry series called "Exposed," consisted of photographs made using this iconic film from Kodak.

What is Kodachrome.

400

The film, by D.W. Griffin, considered Hollywood's first blockbuster.

What is Birth of a Nation

400

The application of computer graphics to create still or moving images.

What is CGI or compter-gererated imagery?

400

A decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process.

What is illustration?

400

Values centered on external approval or rewards.  The means to achieve intrinsic values.

What are 'Extrinsic' values?

500

The 19th century photography who elevated photography to a fine art and is known for the iconic photograph, "The Steerage."

Who is Alfred Stieglitz?

500

Early motion-picture theaters.  Admission cost a nickel. 

What is a Nickelodeon

500

1902 Short film by French director, Georges Melies, pioneering innovative special effects and emphasis on storytelling


What is "A Trip to the Moon."

500

The skill to create decorative wallpaper, tapestries and carpets. 

What is Crafts?

500

The value proposition that claims value emerges from the relation between interest and an object.

What is the relational theory of value?