An Interpretation of Irish Art
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This 8 page paper considers a surreal post war painting by Patrick Hennessy, examining how it may be interpreted both in an exhibition setting and for its own meaning. The writer then examined how the painting may be interpreted in line with the concept of Irish culture. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Ancient Greek Art
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For many years, the aesthetic interpretation of art was the only accepted interpretation. Then Alex Potts wrote a book on Winckelmann that proposed that art was more than aesthetics, that art included psychological, political and other aspirations. The process became on of finding embodied meanings within art that had otherwise been forgotten. The most shocking of these interpretations by Wincklemann showed that Greek art, once considered to be universalistic in nature, responded to several other measures of great art as posited by the ancient Greeks about ancient Greek Art. Therefore, the concept that is new, should not be new that Ancient Greek art offers a development to include the range of techne, or techniques that contributed to the finely chiseled Greek art with which we are familiar. 5 works cited. jvGreekA.rtf
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Andy Kaufman -- A Phenomenon of Sociological Comment
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This 6 page report discusses the comic actor Andy Kaufman (1949-1984). People who are aware of Andy Kaufman appear to have one of two attitudes about him -- they love him, thought him to be a comic genius, and are certain he was greatly under-estimated. The other attitude is that Kaufman was tiresome, a mediocre talent, and are certain he was greatly over-estimated. Regardless of personal likes or dislikes, one can see that Kaufman always presented his commentary on contemporary life. Whether the audience liked or agreed with it was not his concern. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was a bastion of improbability, an actor with the world as his stage and an artist who implemented the common into the guise of the extraordinary. The images that the world associates with Warhol include soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung. This 10 page paper explores the life, work and significance of Andy Warhol to the pop art movement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Armenian Success in America
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Armenians not only contribute to their own culture in the United States, they contribute to the overall U.S. community by offering their history, poetry, literature, art, and business and technical acumen. They provide community service to charitable organizations and make certain that their culture is the most successful of all cultures that have immigrated to the United States. Bibliography lists 9 sources. jvArmeni.rtf
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Art & Beauty's Role in Knowledge
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A 5 page paper examining whether art can provide knowledge, or whether that knowledge instead is resident within the individual but unrealized until the experience of the art reveals it. Whether the individual is able to either recognize or access that knowledge is immaterial. When art can bring forth an understanding, it is not providing knowledge per se, but rather providing a framework in which that knowledge can be contained and translated to the conscious mind of its viewer. It is within this context that the work of Warhol becomes important, and Picasso's Weeping Women series portrays not only the image of pain, but also conveys an understanding of it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Art & Politics
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A 5 page essay on how art has always reflected the political climate of its day. Mentioned are the works of Sir John Everett Millais and several others from various cultures and historic periods. Bibliography lists 7 sources w/ end notes.
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Art & The Internet
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A 5 page essay discussing the benefits of having art created and shown on the Internet in addition to the way it is usually produced. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Art and computer technology
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An overview of the nature of art and artists in relation to cultural substructures, with particular reference to the use of computer technology in art within a postmodernist context.
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Art and Disillusionment Between the World Wars
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A 3 page paper which examines how art was reflective of a sort of disillusionment during the time period between WWI and WWII. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Art and Mass Production
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A 6 page paper which examines the perspectives of Walter Benjamin and John Berger, regarding the mass production of art, as they would relate to the art of Andy Warhol. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Art and Propaganda
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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the use of art to create propaganda in advertising. This paper considers both art and architecture as elements of culture that can support propaganda. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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