Question

The magazine Die Dame (“dee DAH-muh”) commissioned Tamara de Lempicka (“lem-PEE-kah”) to paint herself as a fashionable woman with a green one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these objects that Filippo Marinetti claimed were “more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace” in The Futurist Manifesto.
ANSWER: motor cars [or an automobile; accept a racing motor car or a roaring motor car; accept Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)]
[10e] Lempicka mostly painted in this style, which was also used for automobile designs like the Phantom Corsair. The Chrysler Building is in this characteristic style of the 1920s and ‘30s.
ANSWER: Art Deco [accept Arts décoratifs; accept Streamline Moderne]
[10h] A figure’s hair is blown straight back in Victoire, this designer’s Art Deco hood ornament for Citroën. The Streamline Moderne style took cues from this glassmaker’s interiors for the SS Normandie.
ANSWER: René Lalique (“luh-LEEK”) [or René Jules Lalique]
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Oxford BBristol B010010
ManchesterCambridge B1010020
Southampton BDurham A1010020
Imperial ACambridge C1010020
LSE AWarwick B1010020
BirminghamLSE B010010
Cambridge DOxford A1010020
Cambridge ASouthampton A010010
Durham ASouthampton A010010
VanderbiltBristol A1010020
Warwick ADurham B1010020