Pop culture as art, the images and artists of pop art
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Following the Second World War, popular art became dominated by images of popular culture. While it can be said that all art is a reflection of its period and all artists voices of their generation, pop art is so wholly owned by the post-war period it is impossible to...
An essay on art
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The art of Renaissance Italy is remarkable for its near complete break with past tradition, even as such art was still being made in the rest of Europe. The old forms and styles of the Middle Ages, which were primarily symbolic, gave way to a new art that strove for realism...
Technology's influence on art
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Technology allows artists to explore new mediums that were not previously available. Three dimensional modeling on computers and various other programs graphical effects provided on various programs allows artists to do things with their art that were unavailable to previous generations...
Land Art
Thesis - 20 pages - Arts and art history
In the late 1960s, a limited number of artists, especially from New York, United States, left the classical settings of the workshop, gallery and museum, to work directly in nature, or introduce natural elements into museums. According to GillesTiberghien, this new Land Art can be defined...
Art of listening
Thesis - 1 pages - Social, moral & civic education
This piece was very dramatic with the chorus and orchestra working together to put together a beautiful overall piece. The soprano was hitting notes that I've only heard or seen in movies, notes that I truly didn't think were possible in real life. Her timbre was angelic and passionate. Her voice...
On Chrétien de Troyes' The knight of the cart
Thesis - 2 pages - Literature
In The Knight of the Cart, after Lancelot disposes of an opposing knight and saves a fair damsel, she offers a place of refuge so long as Lancelot sleeps with her. However reluctant, Lancelot agrees and to kill the time between dinner and sleep, he roams around outside the house. When he returns,...
Changing the roles of women as seen through art
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was a unique woman in many respects. Her family's wealth allowed her to travel extensively during her childhood and eventually move to France to pursue painting with prominent French painter Edgar Degas. More extraordinary than that however, is that she was just one of...
At the heart of the Lyon Silk market: Stakes and challenges of international prospects
Case study - 29 pages - Economy general
Our initiative cleary describe the historic interweavings between our city of Lyon and the international market of the silk. The story of the silk begins dates back to the Chinese tradition in XVIIth century BC and continues with three millenniums of exclusivity in the course of which China...
Martini: An international drink
Thesis - 20 pages - Services marketing
Martini, Sola & Cia was founded in 1863 in Torino by Alessandro Martini and Teofilo Sola. The company became Martini & Rossi in 1879. In 1922, it again changed its name to Martini. It retained the name of Martini & Rossi in the United States because Martini is the name of an American cocktail....
"The Madonna of Excelsior" by Zakes Mda: The Garden Party
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
"The Garden Party" is the second chapter of Zakes Mda's fourth novel The Madonna of Excelsior which was published in 2001. The author was born in Hershel in 1948 and grew up in Lesotho where his family emigrated for political reasons. He left South Africa in 1963 for the United States where...
Gustave Courbet & revolutionary Art after 1848
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The idea of a revolutionary art could easily be related to famous artists, such as Malevich and his attempt to transform art into a collection of universal forms, Rimbaud and his will to crush down the language in order to crush down the world, Schoenberg and his dodecaphonism or...
The relationship between skill and art
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The author Dave Beech writes in his article “Skill in Art” that skill is being devalued by society through several means. Once explaining the extent to which skill has ideological value, the author explains several reasons for this to take place. In as far as art is...
Identifying a customer: Bharti Broadband Networks Limited
Case study - 38 pages - Services marketing
Technically, it refers to communication that provides multiple channels of data over a single medium, typically using some form of frequency or wave division multiplexing. In other words, information of all kinds is transmitted on a wide band of radio frequencies on a terrestrial or wireless...
Advancements of liberal art's education
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
Education in today's society is the main basis for starting a career. Here at Augustana, students are geared towards a liberal arts education. Students are encouraged to study a broad range of subjects in order to become a well rounded student. In order for students to receive a proper...
"No artist tolerates reality" - Nietzsche. To what extend is this true in the work of Yeats and Eliot?
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
"No artist tolerates reality", as far as this quotation of Nietzsche is concerned, it is true that artists - and therefore writers - cannot tolerate reality, and that is the reason why they often aim at changing this reality through their art, and in the case of writers, through their...
Impressionism in Western art: An evaluation and discussion of the lives, times and works of Manet, Monet and Renoir
Thesis - 10 pages - Arts and art history
This essay provides comprehensive information on works by three artists known for their influence in the period known as Impressionism. Highlights of the following topics will be discussed: Overview of Impressionism; The Salon; Outdoor; Color; Patrons; Women; Japan; Crisis; Culture, Times and...
The Hunger Artists
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
As many authors have spent novels analyzing, we are not alone in constructing ourselves. In his essay "Postscripts on Societal Control," Deleuze aptly states "control is not a closed system." In this world of ever-growing commodities and technological advances, it is becoming increasingly...
Artistic harmonious balance between the reader's mind and the author's mind
Thesis - 15 pages - Literature
Vladimir Nabokov boasts an impressive resume. As a writer, critic and scholar, he perfected both his own craft, and his ability to analyze the work of others. Similarly, within his texts, he focused a great deal of energy on the manipulation of his readers own reactions, earning him a reputation...
Medieval Renewal: The Pre-Raphaelites' Quest for the Holy Grail and Arthurian Legends
Essay - 6 pages - Philosophy
The Holy Grail is usually considered to be the cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross. This significance was introduced into the Arthurian legends. In earlier sources and in some later ones, the Grail is...
The marketing strategy of Indiamart Intermesh Ltd
Case study - 46 pages - Business strategy
Today's companies need fresh thinking about how to operate and compete in the new economy. Today's economy is made up of old and new elements and is essentially a hybrid. We term marketing as a function by which a marketer plans, promote and deliver a goods and services to the customers or...
A critical study: Spanish artifact influences in the Andes in the mid-20th century
Thesis - 11 pages - Modern history
The Spanish encountered a culture very foreign to their own in the jagged peaks of the Andes. At the time of the conquest the Andean Mountains were spattered with different languages. There was no alphabetic writing. What the pan-Andeans did have was objects, everyday objects such as tunics...
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...
Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics
Essay - 11 pages - Literature
It has judiciously been pointed out that “pictures from Shakespeare account[ed] for about one fifth -some 2 300!- of the total number of literary paintings recorded between 1760 and 1900” (R. Altick). As a matter of fact, the renewed interest in nineteenth century British art in...
Maurice A. Bercof - The Art of Negotiating
Thesis - 6 pages - Journalism
Maurice A. Bercoff is a Bachelor of Law, PhD in Economics and a Statistics graduate; and fluent in four languages. He developed his systematic approach to negotiations in Harvard, Wharton Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. He has more than thirty years of experience (in Europe...
Freud, Jung and Arnheim: Artist as visionary
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Great artists are celebrated for their ability to create work that appeals to others on a grand scale, but what it is exactly that allows for this effect has been the subject of much debate among theoretical psychologists. To fully account for the unifying power of highly lauded art is to...
Brain-exercising creativity coach businesses to open - How to use writing, music, drama & art therapy techniques for healing
Thesis - 13 pages - Journalism
The introduction sets the tone of the book: inspirational and entrepreneurial. It advises how a person could become a creative writing therapist/coach and memory enhancement counselor. The idea is that the examples presented in the book can be self-directed (for personal growth) or business...
Uninhibited writing: The importance of a positive writing environment in the language arts classroom
Thesis - 8 pages - Educational studies
Writing is unique from other subject areas such math, or science because it so greatly relies on the facilitation of ideas rather than the relaying of constant factual information to the students by the teacher. How writing is taught is heavily dependent on teacher values. Whether it is a...
Was the assumption of German musical supremacy merely a constituent part of an emergent German nationalism between 1870 and 1918?
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
What the German nation is and what its boundaries are have always puzzled historians of the early construction of the German nation-state. Indeed the further back into history one searches, the more elusive the very notion of a German national identity becomes. According to Herder, nationalism...
Futurism's musical eccentric: The instruments of Luigi Russolo and sound as art
Thesis - 7 pages - Arts and art history
This paper will discuss the sound art works of Luigi Russolo, who was a member of the Italian Futurist art movement. The Futurists were a group of artists, some of whom like Marinetti, a founding member of the group, is associated with the Fascist movement in Italy. (Antliff, 2000)...
A discussion of two controversial works of art : Edouard Manet's Déjeuner sure l'herbe and Olympia
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
A name associated with controversy in the art world, French-born artist, Edouard Manet, has come to be viewed as one of the founders of modern art. (Cole & Gealt, 1989). Born on January 23, 1832, his mother the goddaughter of Charles Bernadotte, Crown Prince of Sweden and father,...
