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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...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

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 ...

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...

"Leadership: The Warrior's Art" - A Review

an interesting text on leadership in that it attempts to achieve a synthesis of classical leadership ideals with modern contempora...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

Art of James Magee

accompanying poem begins, "Juans ax aches/His tracks lead backwards." The alliteration, assonance and consonance of his word choic...

Artists' Books

artists book, that is, with no apostrophe, due to this initial usage of the term. As of 1998, there have been over 300 exhibitions...

Aesthetics and Ethics - The Eternal Disparity

affair rather than the politics. As such, Riefenstahl was chosen for two reasons - the first being that she had no particularly in...

Assyrian Reliefs

Being that it is an article about ancient art it is not necessarily important that the article be incredibly new. The author is an...

Strategy Models for Bank Frey

able to leverage position in terms of the protection it can provide for its clients. This is supported by a commitment to maintain...

Avant-Garde and Readymade

the changes in any given society so with some chaos and change came more chaotic art. In truth, defining and keeping track...

"Lavender Mist" by Jackson Pollock

that art was significant in and of itself, i.e., "art for arts sake," and that abstract expressionism should be viewed as a "movem...

Fountain (1917)/Marcel Duchamp

City. They were Joseph Stella, an American artist; Walter Arensberg, an affluent art collector; and Marcel Duchamp, also an artist...

Why Choose to be a Methodist?

and purpose When Oral Roberts was interviewed by a conference committee prior to his ordination as a Methodist minister, he was a...

Sports Markets and Demand Forecasting

for a number of reasons. For instance, when one takes a superficial look at any given culture, it seems as if there are certain "c...

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 ...

African American Artists: Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

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 -...

Personal Influences from the Field of Fine Art

more, growing progressively smaller in the distance. The shape is welcoming, like he is opening his arms and gathering the philoso...

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...

Comparison/Contrast: Art: Harmensz, Velazquez, and Hals

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...

Nursing Knowledge: Development And Utilization

have otherwise been a lingering existence in private homes or disreputable hospitals. Inasmuch as the nurse is "temporarily the c...

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...

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...

Social Expression in Art

conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...