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This set of Western Aesthetics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Western Aesthetics Set 5

Q1 | Marx identifies the alienation of modern man in his aesthetic life is the result of:
  • social system
  • capitalist system
  • religious system
  • intellectual system
Q2 | Who identifies man as a creative animal?
  • karl max
  • plato
  • aristotle
  • sigmund freud
Q3 | According to Marx -------------- enrich the creativity of man.
  • sensation
  • god
  • soul
  • nature
Q4 | Marx says art is mutual contribution of man and-----------------.
  • society
  • nature
  • reason
  • power
Q5 | Marx argues that in the creative process nature is humanized and man is:
  • divinized
  • reformed
  • socialized
  • naturalized
Q6 | Proper development of five senses of human, which are the tools for humancreativity, is impossible in a ------------- society according to Marx.
  • classless
  • class
  • flexible
  • liberal
Q7 | Marx applied his ---------------------- method to the sphere of aesthetics.
  • dialectical materialism
  • dialectical spiritualism
  • phenomenological
Q8 | Marx insisted art should be:
  • politically beneficial
  • individually beneficial
  • socially beneficial
Q9 | Max believes ----------------- affect the very nature of artistic activity of a society.
  • intellectualcapacities
  • social conditions
  • class relations
  • both ‘b’ and ‘c’
Q10 | Marx argues that along with representing the social conditions, -------------shouldhelp to improve the social conditions.
  • politics
  • art
  • education
  • religion
Q11 | Marxian theory of aesthetics has strongly embedded with his ideology of:9
  • transcendentalism
  • socialism
  • social realism
  • formalism
Q12 | According to Marx --------------- representation of social conditions is theresponsibility of art and artist.
  • realistic
  • imaginary
  • vague
  • subjective
Q13 | According to Marx art is the part of -------------------- , and was thereforeinfluenced by the economy.
  • logical structure
  • imaginative structure
  • superstructure
  • religious
Q14 | In his writings Marx mentioned the --------------- took away the aesthetic sense.
  • capitalism
  • socialism
  • egoism
  • liberalism
Q15 | Marx explains ------------------ makes impossibility of disinterested appreciation ofbeauty.
  • socialism
  • egoism
  • liberalism
  • capitalism
Q16 | Marx considered capitalism brought -------------------- value to art.
  • aesthetic
  • monitory
  • transcendental
  • ethical
Q17 | Marx believed art should serve the ------------------- of awakening society to theirpain.
  • spiritual function
  • ethical function
  • social function
  • both ‘a’ and
Q18 | Marx said art cannot be beautiful until ------------------- has been established.
  • communism
  • socialism
  • materialism
  • both ‘a’ and ‘b’
Q19 | In Marx’s opinion ------------- brought monitory value to art.
  • proletarian revaluation
  • capitalism
  • industrialism
  • scientific revaluation
Q20 | Artist as the ----------------------- of the society according to Marx.
  • teacher
  • torch bearer
  • intellectual head
  • spiritual leader
Q21 | Marxism observed work of art is a consumer object in a:
  • socialist society
  • capitalist society
  • spiritualist society
  • hedonist society
Q22 | Which ideology stated that Artist is always a part of the culture?
  • idealism
  • formalism
  • phenomenalism
  • marxism
Q23 | Identify the work of A. G. Baumgarten.
  • poetics
  • timaeus
  • beauty and art
  • reflections on poetry
Q24 | Hegel’s aesthetic position deeply rooted in his metaphysical view of:10
  • subjective idealism
  • objective idealism
  • absolute idealism
  • universal
Q25 | According to Hegel ---------------- give full expression of Geist.
  • romantic art
  • classical art
  • symbolic art
  • modern art