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U.S. Culinary Arts and the Literary Influence of M.F.K. Fisher

her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...

Evaluating Ancient Art Works

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Visual Art and Modernism

previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

A Trio of Minimalist Artists Compared

In ten pages the minimalist art of Donald Judd, Ulrich Ruckriem, and Marcel Duchamp are compared. Five sources are cited in the b...

Prevarication or Why People in Western Culture Lie

In eight pages this research paper considers the art of lying as a Western cultural component. Six sources are cited in the bibli...

Haiti and the Impact of the Art of Africa

In ten pages this paper discusses how the art of Africa contributed to the culture of Haiti in a consideration of artists, craft, ...

Apartheid and African American Art

In five pages this paper discusses the influence of apartheid on African American artists and their art and the compassionate corr...

Art, Religion, and Cultural Anthropology

In seven pages this paper considers how cultural anthropology is influenced by religion and art with the argument presented that e...

Fine Arts of China and Japan

the Chinese cultural influence continued to increase. Efforts to compose poetry became quite popular and Tang poets such as Li Po,...

Ancient Art and Biblical Patriarchs' Physical Descriptions

In six pages this paper discusses how Abraham, Isaac and other biblical patriarchs were depicted in ancient art in a consideration...

Middle Ages Art and Demon Iconography

In eleven pages art of the Middle Ages is discussed in terms of the popularity of devil representations that dominated paintings, ...

1937 'Degenerate Art Exhibition' of Adolf Hitler

In six pages this paper examines the modernist art destruction by the Nazis in 1937 and the events that contributed to this artist...

Art, Women, and Elsa Honig Fine's A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

In ten pages this paper discusses this text's perspectives on art and women. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Participation in the Arts and Opposition of a Separatist Proposition

In nine pages this essay presents an argument against the separatist view that time and income levels determine participation in t...

Recreational Art Therapy Benefits

In six pages the uses of recreational art therapies and benefits for those individuals that are either suffering from a traumatic ...

The Netherlands, Its Landscape and Its Art

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Netherlands' landscape has been immortalized in art in the beautiful paintings of Verm...

Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

In six pages this essay analyzes Walter Benjamin's perspectives regarding art being mechanically reproduced. There are 2 sources ...

Art and Feminism

self and history"1. With specific regard to a topic such as that of this essay, I found that the professors writing did not provid...

Sexism, Romanticism, and the Portrayal of Women in Eighteenth Century Art

and females are portrayed during that time period. A highlight of the Fricks holdings is its collection of 18th-century rococ...

Arts and Government Spending

In seven pages the effect of reduced government funding of the National Endowment for the Arts is discussed. Seven sources are ci...

Technique in Brouwer and Ter Borch Paintings Compared

In ten pages the major techniques that characterize Dutch and Flemish schools of art are compared as they are reflected in the pai...

Pros and Cons of a National Museum of Women in the Arts

CONSTITUENCY One can imagine that the primary audience or constituency will likely be female supporters. Indeed, there will also...

Guitar Painting by Pablo Picasso

Iberian bronzes and some indigenous African art pieces. Picasso painted with a consciously primitive and monumental style using a ...

Second World War Attitudes and Style of Pablo Picasso's Art

In five pages this essay discusses how the Second World War introduced a stark realism into art that impacted upon the Cubist styl...

Analysis of Internet Websites Featuring Pablo Picasso

In two pages this paper discusses how Pablo Picasso and his works of art are featured on various Internet websites. There is no b...

Martial Art of Capoeira

In a paper consisting of twenty three pages the culturally complex Capoeira martial art is examined in terms of its Afro-Brazilian...

The Incomparable Andy Warhol

chose to delve into that genre, but he influenced an entire cultural trend that touched the world of fashion design, music and soc...

Pop Art and the Infamous Campbell's Soup Can by Andy Warhol

In eight pages this example of pop art by Andy Warhol is analyzed in terms of style, structure, medium, elements, and silk screeni...