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Historical Functions of Museums

way in which museums present information historically and this is perhaps the most exciting point of all. That is, museums are abl...

Significance of the Magdeburg Ivory

the Great Exhibition, 2002). The Magdeburg Ivory is considered to be among the most famous of ivory carvings to emerge...

Comparing and Contrasting Two Ancient Greek Vases

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two Greek vases, one from the Archaic period and the other from the Late Geometric period...

Greek and Egyptian Art

In six pages this paper examines Egyptian and Greek pieces of art that are currently displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum Architecture

was inspired "by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian" (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). As would be expecte...

Similarities in the Images of September 11, 2001 and the Civil War as Remembered in the Jimmy Carter Museum

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Hypothetical Children's Discovery Museum

as video games, they are reacting to a preconceived scenario that requires little more than manual dexterity, as these games gener...

Metropolitan Museum of Art and 4 Works

as far as the lips are concerned. In terms of the facial structure and general features, and the sculpture as a whole, it seems to...

Mona Lisa Viewing Experience

world that actually extend beyond a recognition of the genius of the painter. The symmetry, color, rhythm, and other components of...

Comparison of 3 Museums

architecture of the building is reminiscent of standard architecture. The Hirshhorn, it seems to this writer/tutor, is more about ...

Social Discrimination and Prejudice

on this subject will want to point out that prejudice is really a prejudgment or an idea about someone based on certain factors. I...

Cultural Institutions and State Bias

In five pages this paper examines the bias with regards to the favoring of certain cultural institutions such as the Victoria and ...

Reactions to a Museum on the Holocaust

In a paper consisting of five pages emotional responses to a Holocaust museum along with relevant relational versus institutional ...

Time Travel and the Internet's Cyber Telephone Museum

In twelve pages this paper examines the Cyber Telephone Museum in which the Internet uniquely depicts the history of the telephone...

Los Angeles' 'Museum of Tolerance'

and manipulate their emotions. Because it does use theatricality, video and film to display this range of human emotion - positiv...

The Art of Alice Neel

and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of ...

Madonna of the Clouds by Donatello

In nine pages this Donatello piece as featured in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is considered in terms of this marble's relationshi...

Statue of Juan de Onate in Alcade, New Mexico

Onate was accompanied by a garrison of troupes including, at a lesser rank, his own nephew. They arrived at the Acoma pueblo in 1...

Anthropologists' Views on Museums

In five pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding museums from both sides in a contention that they are misrepresent e...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts

white and black color scheme of the bird (white feathers, black accent on the tips of its wings, black legs) stand out in sharp co...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Landmark Buildings of NYC

of the pyramidal spire. As Flagg did, Gilbert has a tower shaft that rises from a supporting block base, but to maximize the expr...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

Cultural Projects and the Importance of Political and Economic Considerations

In seven pages this paper discusses that for a UK museum exhibit to be successful that the gaps that exist between culture, politi...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

Displays Featured in Washington D.C.'s Museum of Natural History

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

Museum Tour and the Social Class Theory of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how Karl Marx's theory of social class can manifest itself in a museum tour. Five sources are c...

Society and American Pop Art

In five pages this paper examines pop art as featured at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art in terms of history and th...