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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...

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...

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...

Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

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

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

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

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...