issues in contemporary art final exam

In The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han argues that modern individuals suffer primarily from:

Overabundance of freedom and self-exploitation

When Susan Sontag writes that “images transfix, then anesthetize,” she is warning that:

The repetition of images dulls our capacity to respond ethically

Gaston Bachelard’s “Dialectics of Outside and Inside” emphasizes:

. The architectural symbolism of containment and exposure

Gotthold Lessing’s Laocoon argues that painting and poetry differ because:

Painting freezes time while poetry unfolds it

According to Jean Baudrillard, “simulation” is best defined as:

The production of signs that replace reality itself

Jane Bennett’s concept of vibrant matter proposes that:

Nonhuman things exert force and participate in events

Which statement best describes Han’s “achievement subject”?

A self-driven individual who becomes both exploiter and exploited

Sontag’s critique of war photography centers on:

The eroticization of violence and passive spectatorship

In Bachelard’s theory, the “house” functions as:

A map of memory and imagination

Baudrillard’s concept of the “hyperreal” means that:

The real and the imaginary collapse into simulation