Ways of Seeing Quizzes

Ways of Seeing Quiz #1

1 Ways of Seeing was originally a
concept album

manuscript

play

TV series
2 Berger created Ways of Seeing in response to
an unsatisfying visit to the Louvre

a book on Leonardo da Vinci

losing his job at Columbia University

Kenneth Clark's "Civilization"
3 How many Chapters in Ways of Seeing are composed only of images?
5

3

2

6
4 Berger believed that an artwork's meaning
can only be understood by the artist

is constructed by the viewer's relation to it

is intrinsic to the work of art

doesn't matter
5 Berger's philosophy is informed by
Adam Smith

Slavoj Zizek

Marxism

Leninism
6 How does Berger define images?
Paintings only

Any kind of photograph

Man-made representations of the world

Everything that we see in the world
7 Images are all encoded with
QR codes

Secret conspiratorial messages

A fixed monetary value

The creator's way of seeing
8 Why does Berger claim that words are insufficient for representing what we see?
The language barrier gets in the way

Most people don't have big enough vocabularies

Some sights can only be described in French

Seeing comes before speaking/naming
9 Every image is a
Secret code

Document of how its creator saw the world

Painting

Photograph
10 Who first wrote about images and mechanical reproduction?
Karl Marx

Kenneth Clark

Walter Benjamin

John Berger
11 According to Benjamin, mechanical reproduction destroys an image's
surface

exchange value

aura

use value
12 When an artwork is mechanically reproduced, it
remains the same

loses all of its worth

stays available only to the elite

circulates more widely and therefore more democratically
13 Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that Berger suggests works' meanings change when they are reproduced?
They become lower quality, making it harder to see the details

They are sometimes accompanied by text, which overdetermines their meaning

They might be arranged in a certain order to form an argument

They can be cropped to focus on a specific part
14 Which class has the strongest ability to control how images are understood?
The elite

The priests and priestesses

The proletariat

The petite bourgeoisie
15 Which value does Berger believe is the most important for evaluating an artwork?
Its democratic appeal

Its beauty

Its claim to truth

Its form
16 Frans Hals was
The star of Kenneth Clark's "Civilization"

A Marxist philosopher

A French clergyman

A Dutch painter
17 What did Hals paint?
The Mona Lisa

The Venus d'Urbino

The Dutch royals whose charity saved his life

Everyday scenes of impoverished Dutch life
18 Why did Berger deride the book about Hals?
It was written by Kenneth Clark

It discourages readers from interpreting his paintings for themselves

It crops all of his paintings in an unflattering way

It only contained mechanically reproduced images
19 Which value does Berger suggest was upheld too strongly by the book on Hals?
Capitalism

Gender equality

Conservatism

Marxism
20 The Renaissance idea of perspective
Was unpopular from the outset

Was developed to uphold private property

Centers the entire world on the eye of the beholder

Opposes Descartes' proposition that "I think, therefore I am"
21 Which invention challenged the conventions of perspective?
The bronze cast

Eyeglasses

The printing press

The camera
22 How does Berger feel about the quasi-religious status afforded to famous original paintings that have been widely reproduced?
He agrees with it

He thinks it's entirely bogus

He wants it to be afforded to more paintings

He dislikes anything that has to do with religion
23 Which artwork does Berger discuss as a case study on mass reproduction?
Leonardo's Mona Lisa

Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks

Gericault's Raft of the Medusa

David's Death of Socrates
24 What happened when The Virgin and Child sold for $2.5 million pounds?
The museum where it hangs put it behind bulletproof glass and suddenly attracted more visitors

It lost all its use value

It was stolen from the museum because they didn't do enough to protect it

It was no longer allowed to be reproduced
25 According to Berger, the majority of the population sees art museums as most akin to
Churches

Shopping malls

Lecture halls

Playgrounds