After the Turn of the Twentieth Century,some Artists "Sought an Antidote

question 52

Multiple Choice

After the turn of the twentieth century,some artists "sought an antidote to fin-de-siècle malaise" by looking:

• A) toward the future with new techniques and mediums.
• B) inward, making art reflective and personal.
• C) to the Western classical age, creating a new neoclassical style.
• D) "backward," to so-called primitive cultures.
• E) outward, to demonstrate that "art" was dead.

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Definitions:

Domestic Help

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True Womanhood

A 19th-century ideology in the United States that idealized women's domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness.

Child Labor

The employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially, or morally harmful.

Economic Exploitation

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