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Two of the visual elements of the baroque.

What are

  • Classical motifs
  • Playing with reflected light
  • Dramatic presentation
  • Frozen motion
  • Viewer Participation
100

The design of this block printed poster representes the importance of advertisign with the rise of this recuring dynamic related to shifts in the economy of Japan in the late 1700s. 

What is consumersim?

100

The design of these objects were heavily influenced by this export material from this nation/culture.

What is Chinese export porcelain?

100

This object shows the recurring dynamic of group identity through designed goods specifically representing the expansion of this class in China during the Qing dynast. 

What is the middle class?

100

The resilience of the craft of indigenous people from this geographic area is demonstrated by the incorporation of this type of decoration that originated in Europe into their design repertoir.

What is North American (Mi'kmaq) Indians used glass beads from Venice, Italy to replace porcupine quills?

200

Two specific elements of this stoup that are examples of baroque characteristics of classical motifs, playing with reflected light, or frozen motion.

What are classical putti, brass rays reflecting light, flying angels and blowing swags of fabric frozen in motion?
200

Large and dramatic, these ceramic vases were made in this country to display this flower.

What is the Netherlands to display tulips?

200

Ceramics like this platter from China are an example of this European / American value system that fetishized objects from the Far East.

What is orientalism?

200

This adorable object is called a            .  Worn by members of this Japanese gender to express  their taste and interests afforded by expanded choice in the markeptlace as Japan developed a more consumer-oriented society.. 

What are netsuke worn by men?

200

The enslaved potter who made and signed this monumental jar, including an incised poem, during an era when teaching enslaved people to read and write was outlawed.

Who is David Drake (or Dave the Potter)?

300

The vast amounts of Gold on this altarpiece relate to to this international recurring dynamic in design history?

What is colonization - of the Americas by Spain?

300

The designers of this advertisement for Chinese cigarettes communicated modernity through these visual cues.

What is the sexualized presentation of a woman in a tight-fitting dress and Western hair style.?

300

Covered in symbols of power that signified the right to rule, when taken by the British from this continent it epitomized this international political force.

What is taken from AFRICA, it epitomizes COLONIZATION

300

With its Pop art imagery and bright colored textiles, the designer of this dress maintained "cultural continuity" by combiing the traditional religious imagery of this nation/culture with Postmodern sensibilities of mediation and cultural commentary on consumerism.

What is India / Hinduism ?

300

Euro-Americans fetishized the products of Native Americans like this blanked. Enterprising Native American women responded by creating innnovative patterns - an example of a recurring dynamic in many cultures in which women created textiles and needlework for these purposes.

What is cultural and economic capital?

400


What is the palace of Versailles in France?

400

The form of this chair was based on print sources from this nation, but the material and technique was indigenous to this other culture/nation

What are print sources from England using indigenous technques from India. 

400

Primarily made by this gender, highly ornamental baskets were designed for these consumers.

What is made by native-American women to sell to Euro-Americans or exchange with other tribes?

400

Spanish settlers used this indigenous lacquer technique to create the brightly colored animals and flowers on this desk.

What is barniz-de-pasto?

400

Pueblo Indians reverted from purely black and red pottery to this brightly colored glazed pottery in response to oppression by missionaries in an example of how this recurring dynamic in design history contributed to stylistic change.

What is colonization?

500

This massvie chest from the Netherlands exemplifies the recurring dynamic of exoticism through these materials and motifs.

What are ebony and mother-of-pearl from dutch colonies, and tulips from Ottoman trade? 

500

The name of this system of printed symbols from Africa .

What is adinkra?

500


This woven shawls from this country in the late 1700s were highly desirable, a factor that led British Lord Paisley to begin making them using this technology in the 1800s.

What is woven in India and made by Lord Paisley using machine knitting (Jacquard Loom)

500

The mirror case, with its imagery combining Christian and Islamic symbols, exemplifies this recurring dynamic as the people of the Ottoman Empire increasingly came into contact with Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries.

What is the diffusion of style through trade?
500

In Communist North Korea of the twentieth century, politicians spread messages quickly through the design of posters. Two of the design characteristics that made posters especially efffective for mass communication were that posters were                          and                   .

What is that posters were:

  • Inexpensive to produce
  • Easily mounted in public and private spaces
  • Quick to make and convey directives to the mass population
  • able to communicate ideas through pictures to people of little or no literacy.