Packet 3: Bonus 4
Answer the following about “three compelling images created in dangerous moments” that structure Joseph Leo Koerner’s book Art in a State of Siege, for 10 points each.
[10e] The book discusses this painting’s looting by the Duke of Alba and its esoteric Adamite reading by Carl Schmidt while in Nuremberg. This triptych’s hell panel shows a “tree man.”
ANSWER: The Garden of Earthly Delights [or The Garden of Lust or De tuin der lusten; accept El Jardín de las Delicias]
[10m] The book’s second section focuses on a monumental tuxedoed self-portrait that this German artist completed at the height of the Nazi regime. This New Objectivity artist painted The Night and the triptych Departure.
ANSWER: Max Beckmann [or Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann]
[10h] The book’s final section tracks this artist’s response to another regime’s “siege state” via his series of animations of charcoal erasures, like Felix in Exile. This artist made a series of eight prints called Ubu Tells the Truth.
ANSWER: William Kentridge (The other regime was Apartheid South Africa.)
<Editors, Painting and Sculpture> | C. Prelims 3 - Cambridge + UCLA + Stanford B + Virginia
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 17.62 | 95% | 48% | 33% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Columbia A | North Carolina | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Georgetown | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Georgia Tech B | Virginia Tech | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Bruin | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Harvard | Swarthmore | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Indiana | Columbia B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| MIT | Maryland A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| NYU B | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Illinois B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Purdue | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| Toronto B | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | British Columbia | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | EMH |
| UC Berkeley B | Northwestern B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| UCF | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Vanderbilt | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| WashU | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Waterloo | Cornell | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 17.62 | 95% | 48% | 33% |