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Critic Vocabulary: distinguish positions, authorship, and roles.

Identify critics and discussion roles while keeping competing historical definitions separate.

Learning objective

Check the record, then inspect the evidence.

Distinguish critics, texts, terminology, authorship, and contributor roles without collapsing competing historical positions into one movement definition.

Method: Questions use bibliographic metadata and original AEU summaries of seven rights-controlled critical/discussion records; no long criticism corpus is bundled.

Boundary: Critical attention and terminology are historical evidence, not quality rankings or a single authoritative definition of Abstract Expressionism.

Accessibility: Every question uses native radio inputs, visible text choices, per-question feedback, and a no-JavaScript evidence/answer disclosure. No conclusion depends on color, drag-and-drop, timing, or pointer-only input.

Question set

5 evidence checks

Immediate feedback is per-question only. This page does not compute or persist an overall score.

Question 1
Which critic authored the 1952 essay stored as The American Action Painters?

The American Action Painters — December 1952.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg authored the essay. AEU stores Action Painting as one historical critical lens rather than a synonym for all Abstract Expressionism.

Direct source trail

Referenced records

Question 2
Which critic's 1946 review is used in AEU's terminology history for an early application of “Abstract Expressionism” to American painting?

The Art Galleries — March 30, 1946.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Robert Coates

Robert Coates's March 30, 1946 review of Hans Hofmann is the terminology-history record. AEU does not treat that label as an uncontested artist self-definition.

Direct source trail

Referenced records

Question 3
Who authored American-Type Painting (stored as Spring 1955)?

American-Type Painting — Spring 1955.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg authored the text. Its formalist argument remains his historical critical position rather than an AEU quality standard.

Direct source trail

Referenced records

Question 4
Who is encoded as moderator/contributor—not author—of The Content of Abstract Art discussion record?

The Content of Abstract Art — circa 1965.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Irving Sandler

Irving Sandler is encoded as moderator/contributor. The role-aware model prevents a panel moderator from being flattened into authorship.

Direct source trail

Referenced records

Question 5
Which critic is attached to the January 1956 Pollock-at-Janis review record?

Review of Pollock show at Janis Gallery — January 1956.

Choose an answer, then check it against the stored evidence.

Reveal answer + evidence

Stored answer: Dore Ashton

Dore Ashton is the critic attached to the bibliographic review record. AEU stores source metadata and an original summary, not the copyrighted review text.

Direct source trail

Referenced records

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