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Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

mock romance, a post-modernist parody of a familiar genre" (Oates carter-wise.html). Interestingly enough, even with little, or no...

Great Britain's Politics and the Media During the First 45 Years of the Twentieth Century

In six pages this paper examines the codependent relationship between Great Britain's media and its politics from 1900 to 1945. T...

Paintings Crucifixion and The Last Judgment by Jan van Eyck

In eight pages these fifteenth century paintings by Jan van Eyck are analyzed in terms of their iconographic, historical, and reli...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

19th Century America Racial Issues and the Chinese Exclusion Act

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fashions for Women

up slightly in the back in order to show a little bit of ankle or even the calf of her leg when flirting with a gentleman. Swim...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Irish Tensions

and four children slept in one comer, a widow woman in a second, the donkey in a third, and a pig in a fourth, of a cabin about 14...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

China's Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Qing Dynasty

ordered men and to where the Manchu clothing rather than the clothing style, during the Ming Dynasty (Minnesota State University)....

The Advent of Aids at the End of the Twentieth Century

for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. First, it should be said that IDS or Immune Deficiency Syndrome is something that is caus...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

Pygmalion's Liza Doolittle in the Context of Early Twentieth Century Britain

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

NY Fiscal Crisis of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty First Centuries

to declining tax revenues (Guardian Unlimited, 2003). But it wasnt just tax revenues that brought Manhattan to the brink of bankru...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

Twentieth Century Changes in the Relationship Between the U.S. Economy and American Law

When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...

Twentieth Century Leaders

1994). Hitler proved an able and courageous soldier in World War I, winning the coveted Iron Cross twice. He was blinded temporar...

Analysis of 19th Century European Painting by Lorenz Eitner

to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...

Henry James's 19th Century Critique of John S. Sargent's 'Lady with the Rose' Painting

lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...

An Analysis of the Series of Paintings Voyage of Life by Thomas Cole

Life is "an allegory of the four stages of man: childhood, youth, manhood and old age" (Bertman, 2002). Each of the paintings sho...

Impression Sunrise of Claude Monet

moment which will soon disappear with either a breeze, or a blink (Wood 245.) Monets art addressed the previously unacknowledged...

Frans Hals and Rembrandt

(His own work 96). This produces a velvety-look to the players tunic, yet the instrument distinctly has the high gloss of polished...