Question
These structures were “discovered” by European modernists after Alma Mahler took photos of some on a tour of the US that were later published by Walter Gropius. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these structures. Charles Demuth painted a concrete and steel example of one of these structures in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in his painting My Egypt.
ANSWER: grain silos [or grain elevators]
[10m] This architect included some of Mahler’s photos of grain silos in his book Towards a New Architecture. This modernist advocated for the Radiant City.
ANSWER: Le Corbusier [or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret or Corbu]
[10e] Grain silos were a common subject in Constructivism, an art movement that flourished in this country. The poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge supported this country’s Bolshevik party.
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or USSR; or CCCP; accept Russia]
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Miscellaneous> ~20509~ <Editor: Young Lee>
Summary
2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 28 | 17.86 | 100% | 79% | 0% |
Data
Midtown | Barrington B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Cincinnati Hills Christian | Belvidere | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Canyon Crest | Mira Loma | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Thomas Jefferson C | Choate Rosemary Hall | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Hoover B | Detroit Catholic Central C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Barrington A | Detroit Country Day | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
William Fremd | Dunbar | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Heights | Mexico | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Hinsdale Central | Stevenson A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Winston Churchill A | Hunter A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Innovation Academy A | Carbondale | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Irvington A | Parkway West | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Maggie Walker A | Johns Creek A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Maggie Walker C | Lincoln-Way East | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Mercer County | Detroit Catholic Central B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
New Brighton | Winston Churchill B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Chattahoochee A | Northmont A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Plymouth | Detroit Catholic Central A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Richard Montgomery | Dallas County | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Thomas Jefferson A | Rockford Auburn A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Kinkaid | Solon | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
St. Mark's | Belmont | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Thomas Jefferson D | Winnebago | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Troy | University Lab | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Johns Creek B | Walter Payton | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Washington | Lake Highland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
West Point | Maggie Walker B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Thomas Jefferson B | Woodland | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |