Essays 601 - 630
within a theory of natural selection as it worked on primates and early hominids. Dissanayake sees a distinct connection between...
world of mankind as much as a concern for the hereafter (which was the sole concern of medieval man). This new way of thinking is ...
to define its own unique identity was by emphasizing its strengths as a highly industrialized capitalist society. An artistic mov...
There were numerous monuments and statues constructed during the reign of...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...
the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...
the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...
their relationship to human development and a greater awareness evolved of the role and the importance of the individual rather th...
only permitted slavery, but found it acceptable, and the economic reasons which perpetrated the condition for so long. To the mode...
graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...
life..." (Tait PG). It is important for the student to emphasis the individuality of artistic endeavor with regard to arguing the...
predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...
life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...
elements in their temples and homes, would also lend credibility to the fact that the codices were a form of written language, rat...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
people of Mexico have a very complex and elegant non-linear writing style. We call their ancient documents codices (hieroglyphic p...
in manipulating that world. It can also be contended, however, that each new technological development directly impacted the econ...
the first tasks undertaken by Weatherford is to define the term "Native American" itself. Indeed, the term Native American is a c...
in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
concept is fairly recent, beginning with the Internet explosion during the mid-1990s and the introduction of the CD-ROM during the...
and Cubism with a radical social philosophy (Giedion-Welcker 342). Malevich had founded the Supramatist artistic movement in 1913...
photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...
similarity in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, ...
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
independent from Arab roots, thus making Spain a Muslim country, but without the interference of Muslim rule from afar (Spain, 199...
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...