Chapter 13 – Sculpture
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Maidens and Stewards, a Parthenon fragment of the Panathenaic Procession,
illustrates a _______, or sculptural band, often used by the Greeks to embellish their
architecture.
a) high-relief
b) free-standing
c) frieze
d) statue in-the-round
2. Ancient Egyptian stone funerary figures, such as King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and His
Queen, Khamerenebty II (fig. 370; p. 292), were carved to bear the _______, or
individual spirit of the deceased into the eternity of the afterlife.
a) ka
b) kouros
c) santeros
d) osiris
3. Created entirely from _______, Case of Bottles by the California Funk artist Robert
Arneson illustrates the modeling sculptural process.
a) wax
b) clay
c) plastic
d) cloth
4. Contingent is a typical work by the artist:
a) Alice Aycock.
b) Eva Hesse.
c) Robert Smithson.
d) Walter de Maria.
5. The Tomb of Emperor Shih Huang shows an extraordinary grouping of what type of
work?
a) Stonework
b) Clay Pottery
c) Terra Cotta
d) Ceramics
6. Richard Serra’s The Matter of Time is:
a) a traditional monumental sculpture.
b) a series of steel sculptures that asks us to consider how we move through the space
of the piece and the time we take doing it.
c) a good example of installation art.
d) b & c.
7. Which of these statements is NOT true about the Qing Dynasty masterpiece Yu the
Great Taming the Waters?
a) it is carved into the largest piece of marble ever quarried
b) it is a remarkable example of high-relief sculpture
c) its subject matter is the story of a mythical emperor who tamed a catastrophic flood
in the 2nd millennium BCE
d) its subject matter is the story of the unification of China under Shih Huang-Ti in
the 3rd century BCE
8. Which of these processes best describes the one used by Rodin in sculpting The
Burghers of Calais?
a) it was cast in one piece from a wax model
b) it was cast in several pieces and then welded together
c) it was modeled with clay
d) it was carved out a single block of marble
9. The Yoruba Display Piece (p. 303) produced for an oba, or king, is meant to reflect the
king’s power and _______.
a) his wealth
b) the power of the community’s women and the king’s incompleteness without them
c) the history of the community
d) the events that led to his ascent
10. What do Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Great Serpent Mound have in common?
a) they were done in the same general time period
b) they are both examples of installation art
c) they are both earthworks, purposeful modifications of landscape
d) they were done by the same artist
11. Great Serpent Mound from the Hopewell culture of North America is an example of –
____________, which has a long and far-reaching history.
a) installation art
b) earthworks
c) ritual architecture
d) contemporary art
12. The Egyptian limestone carving, Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re (p. 287), is an
example of ________________sculpture.
a) in-the round
b) high relief
c) low relief
d) installation
13. The Greek Kouros (p. 292) illustrates the idea of shifting or counter positioning
weight around the axis of the spine in figurative sculpture. This pose is called:
a) chiaroscuro.
b) perspective.
c) contrapposto.
d) pose tolerance.
14. Auguste Rodin’s The Burghers of Calais (p. 300) is a remarkable example of which
type of sculpture?
a) in-the-round
b) bas-relief
c) assemblage
d) All of the above.
15. Part of the large-scale outdoor environments that occurred in the 1960s, works such
as Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (p. 312) are generally referred to as:
a) assemblages.
b) earthworks.
c) constructions.
d) new image art.
16. In Sky Cathedral (p. 303) the artist Louise Nevelson has combined found materials to
create a sculpture. What is this process called?
a) eclectic borrowing
b) relief sculpture
c) assemblage
d) trompe l’oeil
17. Wood and stone carvings (p. 287) are examples of:
a) relief sculpture.
b) subtractive sculpture.
c) assemblage.
d) additive sculpture.
18. When a sculpture is created by building up the form (p. 287) with a material such as
clay, the process is called:
a) relief sculpture.
b) additive.
c) cast sculpture.
d) cire-perdue.
19. One of the complex aspects of wood carving (p. 291) that a sculptor must pay
attention to is:
a) the expense of the wood.
b) the wood’s additive qualities.
c) wood grain.
d) All of the above.
20. Allan Kaprow created “assemblages of events performed or perceived in more than
one time and place.” (p. 313) He called these:
a) temporal phenomena.
b) multiplicitous situations.
c) happenings.
d) None of the above.
21. Pliable clay is made to hold its form permanently (p. 296) through the process of:
a) subjecting it to high pressure.
b) casting it in bronze.
c) firing it.
d) soaking it.
22. A sculptural space that you can actually enter (p. 290) is referred to as:
a) an environment.
b) a tableau.
c) an earthwork.
d) None of the above.
23. How does “assemblage” primarily differ from other sculptural processes?
a) it is more dynamic
b) it is an older process
c) it utilizes “found” objects
d) it utilizes the “lost–wax” technique
24. The sculptural material most commonly associated with “modeling” or additive
processes is:
a) metal.
b) clay.
c) wood.
d) found objects.
25. How is performance art different from traditional sculpture?
a) the artist often uses his/her own body in the execution of the piece
b) there is typically no object to be bought or sold
c) it utilizes aspects of theater, dance, and music
d) All of the above.
26. The material most often associated with the process of “casting” is:
a) clay.
b) steel.
c) wood.
d) bronze.
27. Greek figurative sculpture was greatly influenced by Egyptian sculpture (p. 292).
What did the Greeks add?
a) greater skill
b) the representation of garments
c) naturalism
d) authenticity
28. By the late fourteenth century, the African kingdom of Benin had developed
tremendous refinement (p. 298) in the art of:
a) wood carving.
b) iron casting.
c) brass casting.
d) stone carving.
29. Naturalism in Greek sculpture was in part the result of _______ investigations in the
30. Why was Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty different from traditional landscapes?
31. According to the author, what are the three basic ways that we can experience
sculpture?
32. An environment that is set up or situated indoors is often called ________.
33. Casting is an invention of the _______ Age.
34. Because metal replaces wax during the casting process, many people refer to casting
35. Like Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is
experienced by most people only through _______.
Essay Questions
36. Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in the Utah desert was discussed as an earthwork. How
does the work go beyond the simple definition of earthworks to extend our concept of
space?
38. Choose an earthwork from the chapter and explain how it is shows both additive and
subtractive processes.