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

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...

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...

Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

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

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...

and enjoy life-affirming pleasures of making art" (AATA, 2002). The process and development of art therapy is based on the belief ...

face (Higgins 95). This oneness with and reverence for nature is also depicted quite excellently in the so-called "Toreador" fres...

long held beliefs, intellectual theories, and works her way deep into the root causes, in her opinion, of much of the social and r...

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

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...

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...

from the buildings as they collapsed, this rendition had proved controversial. In fact, all art is controversial. Several years ag...

This report contrasts and compares the art from the ancient Minoan culture and Sumer in five pages. Six sources are cited in the ...

did my spirit seal; / I had no human fears: / She seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years."1 Romance expr...

this "a bitter argument" arose "at the Royal Academy, fellow students labeled Millais, Hunt, and anybody else who shared their bel...

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...