SEARCH RESULTS

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

This essay presents a scenario in which the writer is presumed to be the major of a city who is confronted with a problematic situ...

This research paper offers an overview of the life and art of Andy Warhol. The writer presents the question of how Warhol's career...

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

291). While still a slave of John Dumonts, Isabella married fellow slave Thomas and subsequently gave birth to five children. A ...

so than my other friends my age. Perhaps part of the reason that I was able to get along so well with my extended family instead...

derive from your religion could be grouped around this central influence. For example, people holding hands in love and fellowship...

their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...

In four pages this paper examines what influenced Whistler's life and art and also considers how society was influenced by Whistle...

people and their farming and small area within a larger place within a town. My neighborhood in Brooklyns community is a five-bloc...

is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...

Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...

those years, Thomas drew upon all her sensory, childhood memories of rich vegetation, her own garden, the formal plantings of the ...

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

the nobility and at court, but also arts was appreciated in everyday life (China-Tang Dynasty). Art objects were found in the home...

of his arm, and it also affected his ability to paint. In 1920, Pippin would marry Ora Giles of South Carolina and they settled i...

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

statue conveys a sense of well being to the viewer. In this statue, the Avalolkitesvara is pictured in interesting pose that sugge...

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

a rather poor situation. One can pick out the bride when one looks carefully enough, but she is nothing like one would expect a br...

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

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

sense of comfort and knowingness when one is met with something that they can understand. Yet, when faced with the unfamiliar work...

her family members to both World Wars, her view of life is necessarily influenced by the horrors that she experienced first hand. ...

silent, and incredibly depressing. Even if we are not heavily involved in listening to a particular form of music, it is such a pa...

of Milenko Prvacki, an artist who works with a range of mediums. We will also examine the work of Zarre, whose use of color in he...

son. Ansel was quite the musician and for many years believed that the music would be his professional career choice. However, h...

the media of the time (i.e. television and movies), as well as the impact of various frames of "official" reference such as census...

balance. While it is clearly a painting that diverged from her other work at the time, and also many of her works to come, it demo...

dependent on their jobs for everything, including their sense of personal worth" (Gurchiek, 2007). Another ethical perspective is...