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The art and design style characterized by undulating, curvilinear lines and organic forms is ________.

Art Nouveauavant-gardeArt DecoBaroque

________ is characterized by its emphasis on fashionable luxury and its movement toward geometry.

Art DecoRomanesqueArt NouveauClassical

Historically, "crafts" have been produced to provide a specific _________ need.

decorativescientificaestheticutilitarian

Wedgwood’s crowning achievement was his replication of the famous _________.

Portland VasekraturionEiffel TowerScepter of Tutankhamen

An American architect who felt compelled to design furniture to match the interiors of his houses was _________.

Ettore SottsassRobert VenturiFrank GehryFrank Lloyd Wright

Le Corbusier made a very famous declarative statement about modern architecture when he said, "The house _________."

defines the edict that form follows functionshould not be lived inis a machine for livingreveals that less is more

Most artists who worked toward the rebuilding of the postrevolutionary Soviet State were called _________.

ConstructivistsDeconstructioniststhe bourgeoisieExpressionists

Two designers who were a major influence in American "organic design" were _________.

Miës van der Rohe and Le CorbusierRobert Venturi and Frank GehryCharles Eames and Eero SaarinenFrank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

At an exhibition at the Maryland Historical Society, museum curator Fred Wilson exposed the cultural, political, and socioeconomic assumptions that underlie modern museum space by ______________.

placing a set of iron slave shackles in the middle of a display of silver repoussé objects.placing reward notices for runaway slaves behind a "punt gun."juxtaposing materials with elements viewers were used to seeing.All of the answers are correct.

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