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The Macdonald Sisters: How They Visually Created Equality Between Men and Women
September 13, 2011 - 3848 words | Art » Women's Studies
The prevailing issue of fin-de-siècle France was the increasing autonomy of women. Independence for women threatened traditional social and gender roles, and consequently men’s civil power. Margaret and Frances Macdonald embodied this “new woman&... Read Article »

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Women's Studies Macdonald Sisters France Equality
Posthuman: Exploring the Obsolescence of the Corporeal Body in Contemporary Art
August 25, 2011 - 1839 words | Art » Posthumanism
As technology progresses, the rift between organic and mechanic is increasingly made more obscure. This leads one to then ask whether the corporeal body is perhaps out-dated. Is the human corporeal body “obsolete”? An artistic framework provides a site... Read Article »

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Posthumanism Posthuman Cyborg Stelarc Contemporary Art
Political and Social Change and its Depictions in 19th Century French and English Caricature: Decapitation, Dismemberment, and Defecation
August 15, 2011 - 2724 words | History » European History
Within eighteenth and nineteenth century society, particularly Revolution-era (1789-1799, beginning with the destruction of the Bastille, continuing to 18 brumaire and the Consulate of Napoleon)[2] France, caricature’s primary purpose stood to attack and transgress... Read Article »

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Caricature France England Scatalogical Discourse Decapitation Social Change
Taweret: An Untraditional Egyptian Goddess
August 1, 2011 - 1630 words | Art » Ancient Egypt
The Ancient Egyptian goddess Taweret, ‘the Great One’, is depicted by scholars and in ancient Egypt as being the protective goddess of mother and child during pregnancy and childbirth. As with many ancient Egyptian deities, she goes by many names throughout... Read Article »

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Ancient Egypt Taweret Ipet Hapi Egypt
Bonne de Luxembourg's Three Living and Three Dead: Abnormal Decomposition
July 26, 2011 - 3279 words | Art » Medieval Art
In fourteenth century Medieval Europe the theme of the macabre was commonplace as seen by an overwhelming obsession of cadaverous legends and images created prior to the Black Plague. Illustrations and tales of corpses cavorting with the living were prevalent; however... Read Article »

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Bonne De Luxembourg Three Living And Three Dead Medieval Art
Appropriation in Contemporary Art
June 22, 2011 - 2658 words | Art » Contemporary Art
Appropriation refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work. Post-modern appropriation artists, including Barbara Kruger, are keen to deny the notion of ‘originality’.[2] They believe that in borrowing existing imagery or... Read Article »

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Contemporary Art Picasso Appropriation Duchamp Roland Barthes Sherri Irvin Photography
Byzantine and Russian Influences in Andrei Rublev's Art
February 1, 2011 - 3042 words | History » Russia
Andrei Rublev (c. 1360-1430) is a mysterious figure, whose biography is not well known, although he is historically considered the best-known painter of Russian icons and frescoes. Early in his life he joined the Trinity-Sergei Lavra Monastery, becoming the pupil of... Read Article »

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Byzantine Art Andrei Rublev Andrey Rublyov Frescoe Painters Icon Painters Russian History Art History
"Every Place in the World on the Same Level!": Examining the Display of Non-Western Art at the Musee du Quai Branly
March 22, 2010 - 7714 words | Art » Non-western Art
The Musée du Quai Branly opened under the long shadow of the Eiffel Tower in 2006 to spectacular criticism. Initiated primarily at the behest of then-President Jacques Chirac (b. 1932, held office from 1995-2007), the museum possesses an eclectic family tree... Read Article »

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Musee Du Quai Braly Louvre Art History Museums France Non-Western Art The Other
An Oasis in the Desert? Issues and Intricacies Concerning the Louvre-Abu Dhabi Museum Expansion
February 22, 2010 - 6963 words | Art » Louvre
“You have created a Museum; carefully assemble here every masterpiece which the Republic [of France] already possesses…and the entire world will be eager to deposit its treasures, its singularities, its accomplishments; and the documents of its history... Read Article »

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Art Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum HIstory Theory Louvre Expansion Art History
Art and Biology: How Discoveries in Biology influenced the Development of Art Nouveau
December 15, 2009 - 1671 words | Opinion » Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is the so-called “modern style” developed at the turn of the 19th century. Although it is dated roughly between 1890 and 1910, its first true recognition as an important new movement in art and design occurred at the Universal Exposition in... Read Article »

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Art Nouveau Biology Microscope Scientific Discoveries Art History Evolution Tiffany Louis Pasteur Robert Hooke Charles Darwin
An Analysis of Film Critic Andre Bazin's Views on Expressionism and Realism in Film
December 11, 2009 - 1692 words | Film and Cinema » Andre Bazin
Film critic Andre Bazin had very strong feelings on the subject of montage and realism. In his article “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”, he explains his theory that montage, although necessary in many cases to make a film work, can be heavily overused... Read Article »

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Expressionism Film Film History Neorealism Andre Bazin Sergei Eisenstein German Expressionism Montage Battleship Potemkin Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Faust F.W.Murnau Orson Welles Citizen Kan
Making Contact: The Photographer's Interface with the World
November 18, 2009 - 6738 words | Art » Photography
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a key twentieth-century cultural theorist, has been influential in various fields, including art and literary criticism. He wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in 1935 to examine revolutionary changes... Read Article »

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Digital Vs Film Digital Photography New Photography Photography Walter Benjamin Technology Digital Age Making Contact How Digital Photography Changed Photography
 
 

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