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Essays 181 - 210

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Madina Islamic Art Collection

Greater Iran. This cup is "Silver, gilded, chased and punched" and measures "3 7/8 x 4 5/8 in. (9.84 x 11.75 cm)" (Los Angeles Cou...

Graphic Arts and the Industrial Revolution

to come from the time period, the many things we take for granted in graphic arts would not be available. Of course, there is anot...

Society and Art

(Herbert). As a consequence of North Korean policies, the works were all complied with state-authorized styles and lacked the auth...

Lorna Simpson's Impact on Postmodern Feminist Art

depictions of Black women that hide their face, their central visual identity. This is the basis through which Simpson creates a ...

Scripture Windows by Peter Pitzele

(Pitzele 24). This process can be encouraged by reading by Bible commentary or even by viewing how filmmakers have interpreted scr...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Gunter Grass' Tin Drum an the Artist's Role

is a great reference made to the works of Shakespeare, especially that of Hamlet in which a young prince is considered insane. How...

Cultural Understanding of Chinese Women Through Literature and Art

woman who traveled to a foreign land, worked hard and then returned to her family would never be perceived in such a way. In fact...

Live Art Performance and Documentation

resemble mediatized ones (25)" (Chansky, 2003). At this point Auslander begins to focus on "media epistemology" as it influenc...

Development of Graphic Arts in the Future

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

Hegel, Jung, and Freud on the Arts

against them, struggle for supremacy." Freud once stated: "The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all." Although it is oft...

Islamic History in Spain

independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...

Jazz Musician Ann Patterson

In five pages the jazz influences of Ann Patterson and her female band Maiden Voyage are examined particularly in terms of develop...

Patrons and Renaissance Art

In five pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of the patron's role as an artistic benefactor and influence...

Comparing and Contrasting Arts and Crafts

In six pages these fields are considered in a comparative analysis of arts and crafts as well as the roles of craftsperson as oppo...

Modern Architecture, Art Nouveau, and Otto Wagner

In eight pages this paper examines Otto Wagner's role in the art nouveau movement of modern architecture. There are 5 sources cit...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

Graphic Arts in the Future

expect in the coming years. He says now that current standings have been established, it is time to create goals for the year 2001...

Mussolini, Sarfatti and the Role of the State in the Arts

with the State ...Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual" (DiLorenzo, 1994). M...

Geography / Art Lesson Plan

relation to the United Kingdom and Europe. The teacher shows a picture of a satellite Atlas map (this can be found with a search ...

Art and Visual Culture

or are from cultures different from that of the viewer, nuances in meaning may not be readily apparent. For example, consider the ...

St. Bernard And Abbot Suger And Art

adorned with art, sculpture and other adornments. He even included the Pope in his negative comments (Encyclopedia of World Biogra...

Nursing Education & A Humanities Fieldtrip

chosen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art indicates two events that would be appropriate for a humanities-oriented fieldtrip geared...

Manet, Overview of A Bar at the Folies-Bergere

This research paper/essay describes the career of Edouard Manet and the role he played in ushering in Impressionism as a major art...

Contemporary Egyptian Art in a Global Context

been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Van Gogh's Self Portrait (1889)

to replace the superstitious and less credible beliefs of the day. New thinking would also come about in terms of liberty and free...