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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau

"Gismonda" led to long-term association between the Mucha and Sarah Bernhardt, as he produced not only posters for the actress, bu...

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...

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 ...

Maus I and II and Gemma Bovery

his father and mother. While so simple in its black and white presentation there is a very real and complicated feel to the settin...

Ethnographic Research

Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Commercial Law Questions

expected that it was Gary. Contract law doe not make assumptions regarding the level of consideration, only that it exits, the lev...

A Comparison of Data Requirements for Different Organizations

applicable data ("Developing Custom Database Software," 2008). Innovative organizations do however sometimes find that a commercia...

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 ...

Barrett/Interpreting Art/Chapters 2, 7 & 8

7 : In this chapter, the author broadens the topic of discussion, i.e., artistic interpretation, so that the reader is exposed to ...

Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

Marcel Duchamp: Readymades

cherished assumptions that art is a special kind of activity, properly set apart from the rest of life, and that artworks are expr...

Minimalist Architecture

styles as well (Salingaros, 2001). It is important to note that what divides the two types is the fact that whether or not there i...

Barrett/Interpreting Art

assessment of some viewers as being "resistant to abstraction" because see "no skill in it" (Barrett 87). In breaking down this ob...

Poetry, Art, and Music Creativity

conceptions of himself, his fellowmen and his universe" (Fleming, 1974, p. 1). The visages that art can take are many and varied, ...

China and Islamic Art

areas of the Middle East as well as regions of Africa, Europe, and Asia (Islamic Art). Another author notes that, "The interchange...

Literary Portrayals of Blacks in Works by Eldridge Cleaver, Amiri Baraka, and Zora Neale Hurston

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Pop Art in a Social Context

Artists thought the Abstract Expressionists pretentious and over-intense" (Pop art, 2006). The art of the Impressionists a...