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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...

Critical Thinking & Art Education

and his analysis of the stages of artistic development (Olson 33). Following Lowenfelds ideas leads to teachers directing their fo...

Art Interpretation: Guernica by Picasso

abstracts pain and fear from history" (Berger 169). He also discusses what Picasso was doing, and not doing and in that respect th...

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...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers

where she needs to go. Klara is taught from an early age that art is a very powerful thing. Her grandfather, a master carver, t...

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....

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

Relationship Between Society and Art

In this paper, well present sources that prove that Mr. Greenbergs philosophies are little more than elitist snobbery and that art...

A History of Performance Art

it still has a "middle," or whether we can contemplate that it will have an" end." According to Jack Bowman (1993), "1. A perform...

Evolution of Modern Art and the Influence of Impressionism

(1899, oil on canvas, 211" x 33", Art Institute of Chicago). The objects in the painting, the bridge, flowers, water and trees hav...

Art History and Orientalism

Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...

Manifestos in Arts, Crafts, and Marxism

and artistic consequences of what they felt was ill-considered machine use (Crouch, 1999). Hand skills were esteemed due to the fa...

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...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

The “Sensation” Art Show, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999

stuff "winning rather than off-putting," noting that he is an "equal-opportunity elephant-dung employer," using it to make support...

Understanding the World Through Art:

a media fixation after she assists her boyfriend accused of robbery to escape the police. Her family and friends face a similar b...

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...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Approach to Human Interaction

is indebted to both of these predecessors. Kenny (2008) observes that "Anyone familiar with Goffmans dramaturgical approach will n...

A Short History of Franco-Flemish and Venetian Schools of Art and Music

of Flemish techniques with established French style became the Franco-French school, with the earliest known innovators being the ...

Analysis of Art

it was carved. (African masks were often made of wood).2 The color is a very dark brown and there are different textures that woul...

Anarchist Ed Kienholz

In five pages this essay considers the anarchist art of Ed Kienholz in terms of the artist's attitudes and style of composition wi...

Scholastic Achievement and Visual Arts

In fifteen pages this research proposal considers whether or not there is a connection between visual arts and achievement academi...

The Tropical Art Deco Style

This 6 page paper discusses what the writer calls the art of living, and explores the characteristics of the tropical art deco sty...

Interior Design and Minimalism

In fifteen pages this paper examines minimalist art's interior design extension and considers its Eastern philosophical relevance....

Team Building, Evaluating a Website

This essay is an analysis of a website, "All About Team Building," which provides readers with an exemplary guide to the art of t...

Overview of Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus

This essay focuses on the "Singer of Amun Nany's Funerary Papyrus," which is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A comprehensive ov...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...