Essays 691 - 720
that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...
What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...
political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...
land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
forms. This Snake Goddess--who shakes two snakes as an animal sits on her head--may have been used as part of this ritual" (Anonym...
limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...
arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...
reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...
smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for greater productivity has been insatiable (1999). ...
In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...
There were numerous monuments and statues constructed during the reign of...
sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...
are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...
within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...
understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...
glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...
Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...
the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...
and is known as the curly script for the form it adopts after each stroke (Calligraphy). Emperor Qin Shi Huang modified ancient z...
of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...
better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...
come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...
of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...