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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...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

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...

Life and Paintings of Paul Gauguin

for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...

Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld and the 'Productive Thinking' of Max Wertheimer

limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately driven to experience things in as good a gestalt as possibl...

Fertility Art of Ancient Times

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...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

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

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Human Experience, Art, and Evolutionary Theory

within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...

Life and Art of Jackson Pollock

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

Science and Art of Management

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

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Artist, Scientist, and Engineer Leonardo da Vinci

better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Aesthetics and Marxism

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

Popular Culture and American Pop Art

to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...

Augustan Period Art

There were numerous monuments and statues constructed during the reign of...

Art and Architecture of the Renaissance and Modern Eras

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 ...

Graphic Arts and its History

But in terms of its more commercial use as understood by modern people, it is a relatively new art form and should be thought of a...

Early Renaissance Literature, Architecture, Art, and Theology Integration

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

Leslie Marmon Silko and W.E. B. Du Bois

only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the mode...

Development of Graphic Arts in the Future

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

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

The Bauhaus and Joost Schmidt's Contributions

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

Visual Arts and Religion

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

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

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

China and Women's Art History

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