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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...

boundaries of time to impact audiences of today. Take the popular artistic design dubbed "Kokapelli", for example. Kokopelli is ...

represent American copies of European styles from Holland, France, and England. The craftsmanship on these pieces is excellent. Th...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

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...

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...

graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...

life. According to a biography at LatinArt.com (2001), he then moved on to combine "figurative elements with broad abstract forms....

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

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...

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

arrested by photography(Mendieta). Almost no one was defining their art as Mendieta was during this time in history. Certainly ...

universe characteristic to traditional theatre since there is no causal plot" (Happenings and Other Acts). The culmination of Kap...

smarter" brought him fame at the turn of the century, the societys appetite for greater productivity has been insatiable (1999). ...

reviews, and black-and-white reproductions of fine art, to the Pollock family in Orland, providing Jackson with his first exposure...

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...