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The Emergence of a Post-Feminist Ideology and Theory
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A feminist trajectory identified after carefully reviewing this semester’s reading relates to the emergence of a post-feminist ideology and theory. Post feminism theorists pos it that Second Wave Feminism has achieved its goals while being critical of Third Wave Feminism goals. Initially, the term post-feminism describes feminist critics of the second-wave feminism movement. However, today…
Contemporary Art in Context: Cloud Gate
Art
About the artist Anish Kapoor, one of the world’s most distinguished and significant contemporary artists, was born in Mumbai to a Punjabi-Hindu father and an Iraqi-Jewish mother. He has studied art at the Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art Design. In the 1980s he surfaced as one of the several British sculptors…
The Dystopian Properties of Panem in Reaping The Hunger Games, a Novel Series
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Culture
Entertainment
Literature
The future of the United States, according to Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games novel. Is filled with bleak, rigid and never-ending misery. In other words Suzanne Collins picked a world in the future. Formally North America but now called Panem that has many dystopian properties. Dystopia can be best defined as a society or world. As…
A Debate in Act 2 Scene 2 on Hamlet’s State of Mind
Art
Entertainment
Fiction
Literature
Was Hamlet insane? Scholars have debated this question ever since Shakespeare presented this play to the public. Although I am not a scholar, I believe that there is enough evidence in the play to suggest Hamlet had been sane. He may have been depressed and angry however this was due to the treachery and betrayal…
Literary Analysis 7 Commandments of the Novel the Animal Farm by George Orwell
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Entertainment
Literature
Politics
George Orwells, The Animal Farm, depicts how power can corrupt society. If one person receives too much power, one will most likely lead up to dictatorship. To exemplify this idea, Orwell uses a farm to represent a society and the animals inside to portray the people. Orwells use of the pigs and animals are also…
Three Stages of Cubism
Art
Pablo Picasso
Painting
The three stages of Cubism with examples It is very clear when you look at these three images, how Cubism developed toward Abstraction. Carefully look at the first image, then follow on to the next and then look at the last one. See how the picture space opens out completely in the last one and…
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons Vs. Starry Night Analysis
Art
Modern Art
Painting
In the eery evening of October 16, 1834, a huge fireball blew up through the roof of The Houses of Parliament. Creating an enormous blaze, to the horror of passerbys, it caught the attention of Joseph Mallord William Turner. Turner rushing to Parliament Square with his sketch pad, sketched the inferno as it blazed through…
The Disciplines in Art
Art
Discipline
The arts refer to various disciplines whereby the artist aims to express himself. Each discipline has its own unique characteristics and means of expression. Painting is the art of applying a medium like paint, coal and other pigments unto a surface such as wood or canvass. Techniques of execution in painting include oil, fresco, goache…
Art Appropriation as Post-Art
Art
Art eludes all possible definitions and characterizations. Postmodern thought has come to characterize the very ways in and through which we view and think about the world, life and reality. Art, that is, the realm of the beautiful, faces the same predicament. It is in this line of thought that we shift our attention from…
Two Periods Of Buddhist Art In India
Art
Buddhism
Essay, Research Paper Two Time periods of Buddhist Art in India Less than 1% of the population of modern India is Buddhist. Therefore, it is sensible to state that India’s importance for Buddhism and its art is chiefly its historical influence. Not merely is India the state where the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, lived and taught,…