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Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...

Poe's Obsession with Beautiful Young Women Dying and the Influence of His Wife's Premature Death

In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...

James Joyce's Writings, Place and Time

In ten pages this paper discusses the importance of Ireland, community, family, and certain time periods in James Joyce's 'Araby,'...

Life and Achievements of Photographer Bruce Weber

opened doors for the gay community in terms of securing truly complimentary photography of men. Webers experience in homoerotic ...

Artists and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In six pages this report examines the evolution of the artist as revealed in the characterization of Stephen Daedalus in A Portrai...

International Theme in the Works of Henry James

money had been recently made, but that it had been made through work and not inheritance. Similarly, American culture (art, litera...

Charles, Lord Western, and Shirley Western Portrait by John Singleton Copley

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

A Comparison of "Middlemarch" and "Jude the Obscure"

Free will, on the other hand, speaks to the concept of having full authority over ones aspirations and ultimate direction, reflect...

Comparing the Self-Portraits of Female Artists Kathe Kollwitz, Frida Kahlo, and Paula Modersohn-Becker

been wrinkled by the hands of time. Rather than being strictly a portrait of age, however, Kollwitzs 1934 self portrait is also a...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Analyzing Ruth Hubble in the Kate Phillips novel White Rabbit

yourself some wonderful fellow, thats a sure deal, too. Just make sure hes got class, like my man" (p. 30). Adulthood This statem...

African Mask Controversy and Gertrude Stein

(Danto 19). Danto supports his argument with the fact that this is the natural progression out of Picassos Blue Period, which embo...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

Overview of 6 Roman Portraits

antipathy towards the Romans (2004). It has also been suggested that portraits in the Roman Empire at the time were more a reflect...

Max Beckmann's Self Portrait with Horn

This offers a very powerful statement that can be seen as quite emotional and strong. When we think of the color orange we are ...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Orphan Warriors and the Manchu Fall from Power

Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World by Kyle Crossley is a portrait of the Manchu minority in C...

Women and the Film Portrait of Teresa

In seven pages this paper examines the movie Portrait of Teresa in an examination of women's struggles and the control exerted by ...

Visual Images of the Cold War

In five pages the photographs of the Cold War and the images of its effects are considered in terms of Diana Arbus, those appearin...

Disasters of War and Francisco Goya

In thirteen pages this paper examines the Disasters of War print series of acclaimed Spanish portrait artist Francisco Goya. Eigh...

Laboring for the Workers

increasingly difficult task. Tony Mazzocchi has been fighting that battle for years. Mazzocchi served in three different campaign...

Lou Cannon's Reagan

In five pages this paper critically reviews Lou Cannon's unbiased biographical portrait of President Ronald Reagan entitled simply...

Rembrandt's Portrait Iconography

In eleven pages Rembrandt's subjective iconography is examined in an analysis of The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulip and his...

The Many Lives of Victoria Woodhull by Lois B. Underhill

out on their children. Faced with two parents that were obviously emotionally disturbed, young Victoria developed coping mechani...

Self Portrait with a Straw Hat Painting by Vincent Van Gogh

This self portrait by Vincent Van Gogh is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages with what it reveals about the artist being...

Kamakuran Period Art of Japan

In ten pages this paper discusses the style and development of Kamakuran Period art in a consideration of Buddhism, priests, spiri...

Human Potrayal in Art

In five pages the ways in which the human form has been artistically represented is considered in the forms, detail, and themes of...

Self Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton

In a paper consisting of five pages Benton's Self Portrait is analyzed utilizing such criteria as imagery, thematic style, contras...

Sam Smith's Biography of Michael Jordan

In five pages this paper examines the uniquely human portrait sketched Sam Smith in his biography of Michael Jordan which shows hi...