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Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Sensitivity and Social Awareness in Modern Video Art, Photography, and Paintings Examples

the 19th century but his work had been censured and placed away for much of that time due to the fact that he focused mainly on li...

Banksy and Picasso's Representations of Postmodern and Modern Art

those who do not understand it - That is to say, those who are artists and those who are not. The new art is an artistic art."2 ...

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...

The Art of War: Reflections on Modern Applications of Classic Strategy

significant military strategists who have written about various dimensions of warfare and speculated about its importance to socie...

Syncretism, History and Art

with religion and the general worldview of that of society, it also became more complex, as it began to reflect the philosophical ...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kob Antelope, Leopards And Buffalo: Meaning In African Art

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

Art: Definition and Interpretation

In many ways these three artists were reacting to the world around them, the changes around them, and the conditions or events tha...

B.T. Washington & W.E.B. Du Bois

from high school early, received an undergraduate degree from Fisk University, accepted a scholarship to attend the University of ...

Appropriation, Simulation and David Carson

new. One artist who does this is Yasumasa Morimura; his work is "often understood as part of that international tendency of the la...

The Humanities

is all very fine, but why bother to study him when we could be learning computers? Because studying the humanities gives us insigh...

Definitions in Art

Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance (roughly from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries) (Artcyclopedia). Generally religious ...

Art, the Human Experience and the Mona Lisa Painting

we are. In this way, we have all evolved from happy and sad experiences, and have hopefully arrived at a place where wisdom and a...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Marisol Escobar and Modern Art

Marisols father moved the entire family to safer climes. These tumultuous times had to have made an impact on the impressionable t...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

Pacific Northwest, African Americans, and Racial Ideology

and, in fact, to some degree is still in place even today. Although the Civil War freed slaves in the U.S., it did...

Civil War Era and Black Emancipation

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

Personal Ethics and Cultural Values Research Study Proposal

culture. Personal ethics will enter the picture and will depend upon the individual. Of course, ethics in the business world are r...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Chinese Americans and Discrimination

that time, Chinese workers were brought in to help with the U.S. war effort (OConnor, 2004). Those that werent hired for plants or...

Hitler's Germany and the Jim Crow South/Similarities in Regards to Racism

some instances, for example, it refers to the social changes which when a lesser developed country (a preindustrial society in som...

Lost Identity and Culture as a Result of the Slave Trade

became something other than a free society. The slaves true story, then, lies in his humane triumph over tyranny" (Huggins lxxi)....

African American Children, AIDS, and HIV

student should, therefore, intermix their own journal findings with the information presented. The first article to be examined...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

The History of African Americans From the Civil War Reconstruction, through the Progressive Age, and the First World War

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...