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U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Poetically Examining Nature Through Figures of Speech

now that she is gone that they will have some rest, that no one will bother them anymore, least of all their mother. And yet, they...

Asian Culture in Art and Film

way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...

Deborah Stone's Policy Paradox Analyzed

back to rationality and politics (and the fact Stone believes the two cant be combined), she notes that the theoretical rational d...

Gunter Grass' Tin Drum an the Artist's Role

is a great reference made to the works of Shakespeare, especially that of Hamlet in which a young prince is considered insane. How...

Visual Art and Modernism

previous times and styles. Nor does it need to be seen as an opposition to the past, and as such it is the concept of originality ...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Ancient Egypt's Sarcophagus Art

rule of the emperors" that "Roman sarcophagi became elaborate, with mythological scenes carved on the sides and statues of the dec...

Evaluating Ancient Art Works

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

U.S. Culinary Arts and the Literary Influence of M.F.K. Fisher

her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...

Politics and the Arts

weighing over 2.5 tons, this structure covers over 13 acres and so carefully surveyed so accurately that it aligns perfectly with...

Van Der Weyden/Art

connection between the three central figures. St. Luke, while he is painting the Virgin and child, does not appear to be looking ...

Business Plan Development

of the year is always the Christmas pantomime. These are big budget productions and require forward planning. Pantomimes may also ...

Comparative Analysis of the Art of James McNeill Whistler, Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet

to merge as one giving no definite beginning or end. We see the impressionistic images of the boats which offer the real only geom...

Artemisia Gentileschi and Kathe Kollwitz's Lives in Art

her family members to both World Wars, her view of life is necessarily influenced by the horrors that she experienced first hand. ...

An Overview of the History and Future Trends of Advertising

in advertising. History Early History The greatest influence of the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in the 15th c...

Life Fulfillment Ensured by the Arts

silent, and incredibly depressing. Even if we are not heavily involved in listening to a particular form of music, it is such a pa...

Experience, Knowledge, and the Individual

ordinary. For example, the treadmarks that a car makes in the mud he translated into a tires treads rolled through paint and appli...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

Art and Architecture of the Gothic and Romanesque Periods

is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...

Artist Euan Uglow

Painting established in October 1937 by William Coldstream, Claude Rogers (b 1907) and Victor Pasmore, in a review of the exhibiti...

Art of Greece and Rome

own artistic style (The Art of Rome, 2003). Greek art went through several different periods as well, the first being the ...

American Scene Painting Art Movement

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

Live Art Performance and Documentation

resemble mediatized ones (25)" (Chansky, 2003). At this point Auslander begins to focus on "media epistemology" as it influenc...

Modern Media Arts and the Effects of New Digital Technology and Software

impact of digital technology and software on the media arts. The use of new technology in arts is not new, this has occurred ove...

Henri Matisse's Art

is all there in his first pictures" (Phillips, 1993, p. 20). Although his early works are regarded as nothing particularly extrao...

American Generalship by Edgar Puryears Reviewed

and the author. Puryears attempts to reveal the characteristics of greatness in military leadership. Here, Puryears has uncovere...

Ansel Adams' Life and Photography

son. Ansel was quite the musician and for many years believed that the music would be his professional career choice. However, h...

Psychoanalysis Spoofed by Jay Haley

to be an essential element in the overall aspect of human life. Without its influential element, myriad individuals would not be ...