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in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...

point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

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

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

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

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

viewer (Holt, 1986). The style of the impressionists was different, the detail was not as important as the feeling of work...

addiction, including salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict and relapse" (Griffiths, 2001, p. 333). Intern...

in his career, Bernini occupied himself with church architecture late in life, designing three churches -- "one a Greek cross, one...

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

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

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

world as well as that within the U.S. In comparison other articles reveal that American art has not been considered as successful ...

ornate. It is believed that this particular sculpture was carved to stand before the burial site of a youth who was the member ...

most fundamental theme or issue in this particular film involves the title. This title refers to an individual who is nothing more...

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...