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Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

The Time Machine and the Future

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the book The Time Maching by H.G. Wells. This paper includes explanations of how the book p...

Assessment of the book: Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

This 3 page paper gives a discussion of the policy paradoxes in the book and in particular the problems of equality and efficiency...

Bernini's "David" And "Apollo And Daphne" - Baroque

particularly influential to this cultural understanding; the functions this artisan had upon the changing landscape was to demonst...

"Vertumnus And Pomona" By Boucher

a conceptually untapped avenue that became a large part of the artists legacy. Appreciation of nude art grew right along with the...

Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

Contemporary Egyptian Art in a Global Context

been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...

How is "Good" Art Determined?

by art historians and critics. However, it is also true that a works intrinsic economic value, that is, how much it will sell for...

Artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch on Sexuality

seems to have earned a portion of his income by supplying pornography to Viennese collectors (Lucie-Smith). Both Schiele and Mun...

Ancient Civilizations, Art, and Propaganda

that of his fathers and yet, he knew how to take advantage of the elevations and his engineers made the walls steeper, so that ove...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway and the 'Failed Artist'

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

1970s' Art and Urban Change Reflections

been seen were though of as to sophisticated and complex, appeal to the elite and to abstract from every day meaning. Two of the m...

Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell

the diversity and importance of art in the 20th century. In teaching about Norman Rockwell any student would gain, not only an ...

Rintaro's Anime Version of Metropolis

of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...

1960s America and Pop Art

of the bright lights of consumption" (Vincent 96). The art and artists that characterize the 1960s represented not simply a diver...

Record Labels, Major versus Independent

rock, classics, country, jazz, etc. - may be better served in the environment in which the major labels operate. When music types...

Popular Music, Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

way of using sexuality and gender in various ways. Madonna When people think of Madonna their first thought is often related t...

Wassily Kandinsky's Artistic Relevance

a great deal of value in it. Some artists clearly understood abstract art. At the same time, it is important to note that the styl...

'Blue Period' of Painter Pablo Picasso

the self portrait from 1901....showing a pale and emaciated 20-year old Picasso" (Heindorff). It is perhaps within this painting t...

American Artists and Art from 1900 to 1950 Annotated Bibliography

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci and Their Renaissance Art

and is a study of psychological reactions. A serene Christ, who is resigned to his destiny, has just announced to his disciples th...

William Sidney Mount and Samuel F.B. Morse and Their Approaches to American Art

were the most significant paintings for American to know and recognize. Nearly forty paintings and two sculptures can be found in ...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

20th Century Modern Artists

it can be said, changed to reflect this. Edouard Manet painted some of the most widely admired, critically discovered, and rever...

Rothko's Use of Color

known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express bas...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

Franz West and Anish Kapoor's Installation or Environmental Art

the visitor regardless of past educational experiences in the world of art is not only entertained but fascinated by the sheer eno...

Performance Artist Marina Abramovic

Recent solo exhibitions have included: Marina Abramovic: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Marking ...