artworks - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

Arthur Danto coined a term referring to a “world” of these things that has the same relationship to the real world as the “City of God stands to the Earthly City.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these objects whose “aura” is discussed in an essay on them “in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” by Walter Benjamin (“BEN-ya-meen”). These objects are the focus of aesthetics.

ANSWER: artworks [or works of art; accept specific types of artwork like paintings or drawings or photographs or films; accept “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; accept “The Artworld”]

[10h] In that essay’s epilogue, Benjamin quotes a part of this text that claims war is beautiful for establishing “man’s dominion over the subjugated machinery.” This text claims that struggle is necessary for beauty to exist and opens “under mosque lamps” with a group that tramples “opulent Persian carpets.”

ANSWER: Manifesto of Futurism [or Manifesto del Futurismo; or Futurist Manifesto] (by Filippo Marinetti)

[10m] Benjamin was a member of this German philosophical school alongside thinkers like Herbert Marcuse (“mar-KOO-zuh”) and Theodor Adorno.

ANSWER: Frankfurt School

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	16.00	80%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	15.00	83%	58%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	11.67	50%	50%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	17.14	100%	57%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	8	10.00	63%	25%	13%
North	Main	Y	10	15.00	70%	60%	20%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	60%	0%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	25%	25%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	13.00	90%	40%	0%
South Central	Main	Y	5	12.00	60%	60%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	1	0.00	0%	0%	0%
UK	Main	Y	4	22.50	100%	100%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	15.00	88%	63%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	12.50	75%	50%	0%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley D	10	0	10	20
Berkeley C	Stanford A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley E	UCSC	10	0	10	20
Berkeley F	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Stanford C	Berkeley A	10	0	0	10
USC	Claremont Scripps	10	0	10	20
UCLA B	UCLA C	10	0	10	20
UCI	UCSB	0	0	0	0
Claremont Pitzer	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	0	0	0
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	10	0	10	20
McMaster B	McMaster A	10	0	10	20
Ottawa	Guelph A	10	0	10	20
Queen's A	Guelph B	10	0	10	20
McGill A	Toronto A	10	0	0	10
Toronto C	Toronto D	10	0	10	20
Toronto F	Toronto I	0	0	0	0
Toronto H	McGill B	10	0	10	20
Toronto E	Toronto J	10	0	0	10
Toronto K	Western Ontario	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Toronto Metropolitan	10	10	10	30
McMaster C	Waterloo	0	0	0	0
Toronto G	Queen's B	10	0	0	10
ERAU A	UF A	0	0	10	10
USF	Melbourne A	10	0	10	20
UF C	UCF B	10	0	0	10
UCF A	UF B	10	10	10	30
ERAU B	UF E	0	0	0	0
FSU	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
CWRU A	Kenyon A	10	0	0	10
OSU B	CWRU D	10	0	10	20
OSU C	Pitt C	10	0	10	20
OSU D	MSU B	10	0	0	10
CWRU C	Pitt B	10	0	0	10
Pitt A	Kenyon B	10	10	10	30
OSU A	MSU A	10	0	10	20
North Carolina C	Clemson A	10	0	10	20
Clemson B	South Carolina A	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Roanoke	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Tennessee B	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
Liberty B	Tusculum	0	0	0	0
Virginia A	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
Virginia Tech A	Virginia B	0	0	0	0
George Mason B	Johns Hopkins C	10	0	10	20
George Washington B	Maryland B	10	0	0	10
Catholic University	Johns Hopkins B	10	10	10	30
George Mason A	Maryland A	10	0	10	20
Maryland C	Notre Dame E	0	0	0	0
Maryland D	NYU A	0	0	0	0
NYU B	Georgetown B	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	UMBC A	0	0	10	10
Penn B	VCU A	10	0	0	10
Penn A	George Mason C	10	0	10	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Lehigh B	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Princeton A	0	0	10	10
Rutgers C	Columbia C	10	0	10	20
Rowan A	Swarthmore A	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	Truman State	10	10	10	30
SIUE	WashU A	10	0	0	10
WashU D	WashU B	10	0	0	10
William Woods	Missouri B	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Illinois B	10	0	10	20
Illinois A	Notre Dame C	10	0	10	20
Illinois C	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
Chicago C	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Michigan A	10	0	0	10
Notre Dame B	Michigan C	10	0	0	10
Purdue A	Michigan D	10	0	10	20
Purdue B	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Purdue C	UIC	10	0	0	10
Nebraska	Macalester B	0	0	0	0
St. Thomas	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	0	10	10
Macalester A	Minnesota C	10	0	10	20
Carleton	Wisconsin	10	0	0	10
Bowdoin A	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Tulsa	Alberta B	10	0	0	10
Arizona State A	UTD A	10	0	10	20
Arizona State B	McGill D	10	0	0	10
Ohio	Northwestern C	10	0	10	20
UTD B	Rose State	10	0	0	10
Texas A	Iowa	10	0	10	20
Northwestern B	Texas B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern A	UCO	10	0	10	20
Auburn A	Sewanee A	10	0	10	20
Bruin A	Georgia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Mississippi State A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	UAB A	10	0	10	20
Huntsville A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Auburn B	Huntsville B	0	0	0	0
Vanderbilt A	Alabama B	10	0	10	20
Alabama A	Vanderbilt B	10	0	0	10
Alberta	Simon Fraser	10	0	10	20
British Columbia B	British Columbia A	10	10	10	30
British Columbia C	British Columbia D	10	0	10	20
Washington A	Washington B	10	0	10	20
Bristol A	Cambridge A	10	0	10	20
Warwick B	LSE B	10	10	0	20
Manchester B	Edinburgh B	10	0	10	20
RIT A	Cornell-DII	10	0	0	10
RIT B	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Rochester	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
ESF	Syracuse	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Chicago B	10	0	10	20