‘What I like so much about contemporary art now is its ambiguity‚ its uncertainty. It is precisely this quality that engages and unsettles us’ – Benjamin Genocchio‚ art critic. How does this view challenge traditional ideas about art? Discuss particular works such as installations‚ happenings and site-specific works. Audiences make pretentious judgements on artworks due to their ambiguity and uncertainty. However‚ traditionally site-specific art was created to exist in a specific place‚ rather
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Martin Luther King’s birthdate was on January 15th‚ 1929 and his demise was on April 4th in Atlanta‚ Georgia. His mission was to achieve undistinguishable rights for everyone no matter the race‚ colour or culture. His leadership was vital to the Civil Rights Movement’s accomplishment in ending the segregation of African Americans (primarily focused in the southern regions) in the united states of America. He became the core leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial discrimination and the
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Hate being made to feel small? Or unable to put up with being humbled‚ or reminded of our own insignificance‚ thus getting affronted and resentful? Edmund Burke1 explored the sublime with regard to physiological related responses to phenomena‚ denoting as an inherent tendency of self-preservation: Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain‚ and danger‚ that is to say‚ whatever is in any sort terrible‚ or is conversant about terrible objects‚ or operates in a manner analogous
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their academic success. On top of the hierarchy is Regina George‚ and the two other “Plastics” are her subordinate. On the contrary‚ the anti-models‚ challenging the status quo and considered as abnormal or undesirable are represented by Janice and Damien. Both of them are belonging to the oppressed group‚ or the group that is considered as “inferior” and “subordinate” to the dominant group. Mean Girls depicts how easy it is for a dominant
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girl who has been homeschooled for most of life and lived in Africa for four years with her parents who was zoologists until her mom get a new job‚ so they had to move. On her first week of school‚ Cady meet Damien and Janis who befriend her‚ and the next day‚ Cady skip class with Janis and Damien. As they sit out on a field Janis points out the plastics‚ Karen‚ Gretchen‚ and Regina and Janis also make Cady a map of the lunch room showing where each cliques sits at during lunch. Later on‚ during lunch
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The language contains a few curse words and slang words too. Example given: ‘’ She seemed so bloody keen on kids ‘’ (Page 11 line 133). The narrator does not have much self confidence; she had a one night stand with a Damien from the bar‚ which resulted in her getting pregnant. Damien told her that he never wanted to have kids with a ‘’trashy whore’’ like her after he had fertilized her‚ which made her feel like a trashy whore too. She has lost the sympathy of her mother too; the narrator is a very
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at stores like theirs to feel pleased and satisfied with how much can be bought with such small amounts of money; when in reality‚ the consumers are spending money on their identity. In “On sale at Old Navy: Cool clothes for identical zombies!”‚ Damien Cave uncovers the fact that retailers all over the world‚ especially in such establishments as Old Navy and Ikea‚ have began to take up the lives of consumers in today’s society and have created a great deal of trickery for making consumers believe
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NAME: JERUSHA NAIDOO STUDENT NUMBER: 51458144 MODULE: ENG2603 ASSIGNMENT NO: 1 DUE DATE: 17 AUGUST 2015 Theme of gender inequality is explored by many authors in African literature portraying the African patriarchal societies during and after independence; but Dangarembga surpassed all her counterparts in her vivid depiction of this inequality that affected the societies in her master-piece novel Nervous Condition. The setting is placed in colonial Rhodesia‚ now Zimbabwe‚ in the
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Women’s liberation movement 1 Women’s liberation movement The Women’s Liberation Movement was a feminist political movement which developed in the 1960s and 1970s‚ and was one important strand in Second-Wave Feminism The term ’women’s liberation’ was coined in the early 1960s‚ when the word liberation was becoming popular‚ but (for example) the first Women’s Liberation Conference in Britain took place in 1970‚ at Ruskin College.[1] Publications such as Spare Rib and off our backs were founded
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audience whether they want to press the button or not. The artist said that “it was a protest against what is going on in the world‚ against this cynicism‚ this brutality that impregnates the world in which we live” (Evaristti). Another artist called Damien Hirst created an art piece called The Physical Impossibility of Death in
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