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Cherokee Art

pottery is, in fact, one of the most simplistic Cherokee art forms but yet it is one of the most utilitarian. Cherokee craftsmans...

Reliquaries: Metropolitan Museum of Art

and is also French. It is made up of "Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlev? enamel: dark, medium, and light bl...

Art: Definition and Interpretation

In many ways these three artists were reacting to the world around them, the changes around them, and the conditions or events tha...

Medieval Sculpture

were a period of tremendous changes in western Europe, particularly in population, demography, economics, politics, and military s...

Wolfflin and Friedlander and Anti-Mannerism

painters of the Italian Renaissance "strove to achieve the image of perfection at rest within itself. Every form developed to self...

2 Questions/Review of a Speech

impact if it was Powerpoint versus a movie clip? No, a Powerpoint presentation would not have had the emotional impact of the m...

The Nude in Art History

also has fertility connotations ("The Nude...History"). However, in Greek art, the nude takes on a different function, as Greek ar...

Maurice Sendak

10). The first section of this exhibition was entitled "The Old Country" and featured the Eastern European familial ties that are ...

Shakespeare’s View of Father/Daughter Relationships

surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Lois Mailou Jones: Les Fetiches

balance. While it is clearly a painting that diverged from her other work at the time, and also many of her works to come, it demo...

Greek and Roman Culture: Understanding Sex Through Art

in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...

Baroque Art

Carracci at their workshop in Bologna," and Nicholas Poussin and Claude Lorrain came from France; in addition, Caravaggio came to ...

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD AND ITS ART

Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer...

Caravaggio/The Entombment

to be moving in numbed silence. As this indicates, this is a highly naturalistic rendition of a gospel event, as seen through th...

Ancient Korean Pottery

began making pottery, there was "an influx of immigration from China, Manchuria, and Siberia" (Korean traditional pottery, 2002). ...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

Homeless Shelter Children's Program Plan

2005). Of these 6,371 are in emergency shelters, 5,471 are in transitional housing and 5,031 are unsheltered (U.S. Department of H...

Viewer Implication in the Work of Marina Abramovic

In many instances involving performance art the performer actually counts on the "willingness of audiences to participate in media...

Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”

examining the work, at least one piece of Andy Warhol. He is, in the opinion of many, the creator of Pop Art. He took images that ...

Operational Art and the Battle of Leyte Gulf

"how should the resources of the joint force be applied to accomplish that sequence of action" (the means) (Overview of operationa...

Admission Essay for a B.F.A. Program in Interior Design

my business opportunities. I hope that my experience in the Interior Design program at the Illinois Institute of Art can...

The Definition of Art

had no concept of art as we understand the term" (Department of Art History Sweet Briar College, 2008). They were likely items tha...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Kant/Speculative Beginning of Human History

A 3 page reaction paper to Immanuel Kant’s 1786 text “Speculative Beginning of Human History,” which draws on the Judeo/Christian ...

Sun Tzu and the War in Iraq

in Iraq is not meeting these objectives. First, a majority of Americans are now solidly against the war, meaning that Bush no lon...

Roman and Spanish Art

head, hands and feet. There does appear to be one figure that is dressed in what appears to be almost Roman or Greek clothing, app...

Critique of Georges Bataille’s 1949 Essay ‘The Cruel Practice of Art’

of cruelty. According to Bataille, who was well known for his atheist views, constantly reproducing Christs crucifixion glorifies...

Review of "Delivering the Goods - The Art of Managing Your Supply Chain" by Damon Schechter and Gordon Sander

this book takes on an interesting perspective, instead of trying to see logistics and supply chain management are separate issues ...

The Lebanese/Israeli Crises: How The Media Handles This Social, Economic, Political And Cultural Issue

as significant as its ability to impart information. The theory of agenda setting asserts that mass media do not tell people outr...