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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

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

and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...

photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...

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

the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

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

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

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

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