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Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

Philosophy, Art and Literature During the Time of the Civil War

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

Visual Arts and Religion

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

Judith and Her Maidservant with The Head Of Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi

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

Typography and the Avant Garde Art Movement

spread across Europe, and as the technology spread, so did ideas, revolutions and feelings (Phinney, 2002). During the 19t...

High Modernism and Postmodern Art in the Works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf

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

Censorship and Pornography

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

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

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...

Fertility Art of Ancient Times

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...

Visual Design Within Theatre Arts

takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Science and Art According to Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Jacques Rousseau

Academy, and reconcile contempt for study with respect for the truly learned?" (NA). In many ways we can see a certain amount of h...

Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

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...

Nonprofit Organizations and Grant Money

political in terms of tradeoffs made, take too long to develop, take too many organizational resources and fail to measure the cri...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Baroque Artistic Period and Meaning

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

Post 1500 Culture and Character of Western Europe

which European art is typically divide provide handy "signposts" for delineating the course of development for European character ...

Renaissance and Humanistic Art

intellectualism" of the medieval universities began to give way before the warmth of "Franciscan emotionalism" (Fleming 162). This...

The Thematic Element in Art

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Roman and Greek Art Eroticism

with a quote from Stewart who states the following: "They saw the custom as a concrete manifestation of such desirable manly attri...

Dymaxion House by Buckminster Fuller

II. DETAILS Organization of the Dymaxion House interior spaces lends itself to Fullers desire to maintain an apparent relat...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Nature of Art and the Perceptions of Michel Foucault

viewpoint dictated, both in terms of the structure of the work - angle, perspective, distance and so on - and the content. From a ...

A Comparison of Two Culinary Schools

Two culinary schools, Johnson and Wales Culinary Arts and Culinary Institute of America, are compared and contrasted in this paper...

Drama and a Century of English Education

a deep concern regarding the purpose and objectives of the high school. There were two separate philosophies regarding the purpose...

Comparative Artistic Analysis of Gimaud and Bernini

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