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Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...
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...
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 ...
come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...
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 ...
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...
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...
Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...
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...
the folding of womens existence and the reaffirming and reinventing of the feminine concept is still prevalent. The Fold: The F...
was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...
yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...
Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...
II would introduce sweeping reforms, the largest and most influential of them being the freeing of the serfs(Service, 1998). This ...
be contended to be one of the most integral components of Indian expression through the ages. From the most primitive aspects of ...
it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...
the Great Exhibition, 2002). The Magdeburg Ivory is considered to be among the most famous of ivory carvings to emerge...
its open access was that of the Tang Dynasty from 618-907 A.D. In addition to the Silk Road land routes, many scholars also includ...
the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...
clayware. While the fundamental basis of Pueblo pottery maintains much the same common denominator, there are enough pueblos that...