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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 ...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Commercial Contemporary Art Market

their own websites, pay to be put in many different cooperative galleries, and perhaps hope that they become well known. But, this...

Van Gogh/Irises

to the left. Directly below these flowers, the iris bed begins and builds in height so that the flowers on the right are the talle...

Graffiti as Art

an expressive message to the reader, whether it is a political, social or personal view" (South). Whether it is vandalism or not m...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

Mondrian and Martin

Mondrians. "Red Bird" is part of the collection at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, and it is on display on their website. Accordin...

The Meaning of Tattoos and Body Piercing

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

Premier Modern Painter Edouard Manet

the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...

Early Renaissance Literature, Architecture, Art, and Theology Integration

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

Leslie Marmon Silko and W.E. B. Du Bois

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

Development of Graphic Arts in the Future

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

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 ...

Life and Paintings of Paul Gauguin

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

Are the Aztec Codices Art or Language?

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

America's Civil War, Literature, and Art

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

Consideration of Aztec Codices

people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...

Working Relationship Between Arts and Business

life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...

China and Women's Art History

what is present. It can be said that this theme of absence, of something not completely right, which is featured in most of their ...

Overview of Language Arts

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

Filmmaker Woody Allen

its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...

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...

Business Application of Sun tzu's Art of War

In seven pages this research paper discusses how today's highly competitive business market can benefit from the principles contai...

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...