Essays 1981 - 2010
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...
the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the mode...
life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...
people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...
life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...
predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...
photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...
similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...
Greek mythology were yet another dominant artistic theme (Ancient Greek Art, 2004). This idealization of man and recognit...
In twelve pages this paper presents the argument that nursing should be regarded not as a science but as an art. Ten sources are ...
we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...
be judged according to its truth, but it can only provide a "true opinion" since it must be judged by external standards. It is th...
time of specific change. Morris (1997), for example, observes even subtle changes in the dress of the Pope between the Renaissanc...
In three pages this paper examines how art and philosophy were integrated during the Renaissance. Two sources are cited in the bi...
to the Caribbean. Caribbean art has always been, and still is, a very private thing that truly relates to the region itself. In mo...