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the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
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...
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, ...
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...
opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...
point that there was a strongly ritualistic and shamanic element to funeral rites: pictorial representations of funeral ceremonies...
desire of Gropius to make "modern artists familiar with science and economics," which he felt would "unite creative imagination wi...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
Common Definitions One of the earlier definitions of pornography appeared in an 1864 edition of Websters dictionary: "licentious ...
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...
the nineteenth century, painting was characterized by "flights of imagination" and "academic glorifications of the heroic past" (F...
graphic art, indeed there is a plethora of advertisements form the Victorian era that may be seen as accomplished graphic art, wit...
for which he is most well known. Some of his earlier pieces included Les Alyscamps, Arles 1888; Still Life with Three Puppies 188...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
Holofernes reflects the angst so commonly portrayed in Gentileschis work. With the prospect of danger forever just around the cor...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...
("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...
other problems associated with the incidents she had had before" and this began her true journey into the world of art, contempora...
frontelevation2, one can see the powerful structural design of the building. There are strong high archways that are within a pitc...
areas of the Middle East as well as regions of Africa, Europe, and Asia (Islamic Art). Another author notes that, "The interchange...
conditions of poverty during their particular reconstruction. Clearly such a time would evoke many forms of creative artistic expr...
occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...
leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using the trimodal approach - hear/see/do" (Robinson and Crawf...
could envision the bravery of the white people coming to tame savages and a savage land. Then there is "the Pastoral State" which ...