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Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

Sculpture from Greece and Egypt

body" (Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art). This particular statue is 9 and 5/8 inches high and is made from bronz...

Aristotle's Nature Study, Physics, and Analogy of Art Uses

successful in clarifying his principle of nature. In Aristotles "Physics" Book II first written in 350 B.C.E. he compare...

The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff

needs of all human beings and must be translated into the politics and philosophies of modern life. He emphasizes the need that hu...

Personal Problems in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...

'On the Standard of Taste' by David Hume

would be clearly dependent upon the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the conclusions were not judgments, per se, but were response...

Culinary Arts and Customer Service

of organizational effectiveness (Byrne, 1992; Gagne, 1983; Lowe and Masseo, 1986 cited in Emery, Summers and Surak, 1996). TQM foc...

Ancient Works of Art

far more meaning that representing daily life. According to one particular author, "The Cycladic civilization of the Aegean sea...

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...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

Fine Art Defined

something they feel, or something they are. When the art is finished it has found its end, and it is complete. From another per...

Drama, Aristophanes, and Plato

yet does not lose faith in the just and true" (Plato Jowett Translation Characters). In this we see that Plato appears to be indic...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Fold Theory in the Arts and in the Time and Space of the Female Body

the folding of womens existence and the reaffirming and reinventing of the feminine concept is still prevalent. The Fold: The F...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

A Comparison of Donatello's David and Michelangelo's David

glorification of the nude that sculptors were destined to follow for many years (Burns 411). A local cultural touch is provided b...

Modern Art and the Impact of the Russian Revolution

II would introduce sweeping reforms, the largest and most influential of them being the freeing of the serfs(Service, 1998). This ...

Continuity in Indian Art

be contended to be one of the most integral components of Indian expression through the ages. From the most primitive aspects of ...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

Tang Dynasty Artists and the Silk Road's Cultural Influences

its open access was that of the Tang Dynasty from 618-907 A.D. In addition to the Silk Road land routes, many scholars also includ...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Artist, Scientist, and Engineer Leonardo da Vinci

better than his master and having seen that Verrocchio swore never to pick up a paint brush again (Hellmich, 1997). In 1481, Leon...

Postmodernism Defined

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

Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

Arts and the Views of Plato

of quickness and penetration, piercing easily below the clumsy platitudes of Thrasymachus to the real difficulty; he turns out to ...

Paleolithic Art Purposes and Meanings

the activities that took place there were not everyday activities - probably ritual activities" (Petersen, 2001; paleo.htm). Be...

Chinese Calligraphy Art Form

and is known as the curly script for the form it adopts after each stroke (Calligraphy). Emperor Qin Shi Huang modified ancient z...

Marketing

Of far greater interest to the consumer are the costs, the utility, and the popularity of any given item . . . and not necessarily...

Impressionist Artists and the Influence of Japanese Art

Paris during the nineteenth century for an artist to be accepted and gain success it was necessary for their world to be accepted ...