Question
This work's first volume, which advises artists to “go to nature in all singleness of heart” while “rejoicing always in the truth,” asserts that the greatest art conveys “the greatest number of the greatest ideas.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this lengthy work of criticism by John Ruskin whose first volume is primarily a defense of J. M. W. Turner. Its third volume coins the term “pathetic fallacy.”
ANSWER: Modern Painters
[10e] Ruskin was sued for libel after savaging this painter's Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, comparing it to “flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.”
ANSWER: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
[10h] Kenneth Clark claimed that “the greatest influence on taste since Ruskin” was this later art critic, who coined the term “Post-Impressionism.” This member of the Bloomsbury Group wrote Cézanne, A Study of His Development.
ANSWER: Roger (Eliot) Fry
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 0% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
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| The Passion According to C.H. | Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |