Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Art Paul Mattick Jr Theory‚ Culture & Society (SAGE‚ London‚ Newbury Park and New Delhi)‚ Vol.10 (1993)‚ 127-147 The enormous impact of Waller Benjamin ’s famous essay on ’The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproduction ’ is largely due to his claim that photography has ’transformed the entire nature of art‚ destroying its semblance of autonomy in relation to social and political processes‚ and liquidating ’the traditional value of thc cultural
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Högskolan Dalarna Literature D-Level Essay Supervisor: Mats Tegmark The Construction of Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones Mohammad Wahidul Islam 830301-T236 Armegatan 32/0116 Solna 17171 h05mwisl@du.se Table of contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….1 How Danticat Communicates Her Views on Post-Colonial Identity to Her Readers…………………………………………………………………………3 Identity is Constructed Through Conflicts………………………………… 9 External Conflicts between Two Nations……………………………………
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This edition first published 2012 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & So n s in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific‚ Technical‚ and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd‚ The Atriwn‚ Southern Gate‚ Chichester‚ West Sussex‚ P019 8SQ‚ UK Editorial Offices Art Is Not What You Think It Is 350 Main Street‚ Maiden‚ MA 02148-5020‚ USA 9600 Garsin gton Road
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Nanette Salomon‚ a very well known feminist writer‚ wrote the article‚ “Judging Artemisia: A Baroque Woman in Modern Art History.” The article opens up with a discussion about the 2001-2 exhibition of Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters in Baroque Italy. The author explains that three things are unusual here: the fact that two famous artists were presented at the same time‚ that they were related as father and daughter‚ and the fact that the woman was better known than
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Thierry Lenain’s Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession is‚ to my knowledge‚ the first book-length investigation into philosophical issues of art forgery since Denis Dutton’s 1983 edited volume‚ The Forger’s Art. And Lenain’s text‚ it must be said‚ presents in fascinating detail‚ not only historical accounts of forgery and its cousins—from ancient Rome up to the dubiously celebrated twentieth-century forgers—but also the history of religious relic veneration‚ which he argues forms the historical
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Wyatt MacGaffey writes about the relationship between word and image through exploring art‚ Afrian art‚ and minkisi‚ with great emphasis towards the minkisi class and their concept of power objects. (217) In the English language‚ there is not an equivelnt word to describe Nkisi‚ however‚ fetish inadequately is often implied. Minkisi is another name for chiefs of the Congo. Grasping their origins‚ composition‚ and ritual context is complex. In Christianity‚ the crucifix is comparable in that it is
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LA 121 Compare and Contrast Research Paper Proposal The essay proposal is an opportunity to outline the questions that will guide your research. It will help you to focus your ideas as you collect and study your research materials. Once complete‚ the proposal can be a useful resource to return to when you are drafting your essay. This assignment is meant to help you develop statements about how the two art works you have selected are similar (compare) and different (contrast). However‚ your
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Russian formalism. A school of literary theory and analysis that emerged in Russia around 1915‚ devoting itself to the study of literariness‚ i.e. the sum of ’devices’ that distinguish literary language from ordinary language. In reaction against the vagueness of previous literary theories‚ it attempted a scientific description of literature (especially poetry) as a special use of language with observable features. This meant deliberately disregarding the contents of literary works‚ and thus inviting
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Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism in Russia from the 1910s to the 1930s. It includes the work of a number of highly influential Russian and Soviet scholars such as Viktor Shklovsky‚ Yuri Tynianov‚ Vladimir Propp‚ Boris Eichenbaum‚ Roman Jakobson‚ Boris Tomashevsky‚ Grigory Gukovsky who revolutionised literary criticism between 1914 and the 1930s by establishing the specificity and autonomy of poetic language and literature. Russian formalism exerted a major influence
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Christian Smith Mrs. Schoudt English IV Honors 8 November 2010 Formalism Essay Juno’s pregnancy started her process of coming of age and showed how certain incidents start the process earlier then others. How the movie was constructed together by the leading each stage of Juno’s problems through the mood or tone of one of the four seasons‚ starting in fall‚ is parallel to how Juno blooms into the rebirth of new‚ mature person. Beginning in fall‚ Juno finds out that she is pregnant. The mood
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