In art history‚ the female nude in art is both at the center and the edge of cultural acceptance. According to Art Historian Lynda Nead‚ this acceptability‚ if found‚ has always become under threat‚ for the female nude stands at the edge of the art category. The female nude risks‚ and has always stood to lose‚ its respectability in the art world if it spills out and over into the pornographic--meaning images associated with eroticism and obscenity. The trouble has always been the vagueness and instability
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Chpt 24 guide questions 1. To what extent was industrialization responsible for the deplorable conditions of the cities in the early 19th century? The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. It was causing carelessness in the city and lead to more and dusty pollution from all the work which was required to be put in. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines
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romantic aspects of an unpopular war. His few combat pictures are among the earliest photographs of battle” (encyclopedia.com). Fenton studied painting and then law. Following a trip in 1851 to Paris‚ where he probably visited with the photographer Gustave Le Gray‚ he returned to England and was inspired to pursue photography. He founded the Photographic Society in London and gained notoriety taking pictures of the British monarchy. Roger Fenton is a towering figure in the history of photography‚ the
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Impressionism Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence in the 1870s and 1880s. The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work‚ Impression‚ Sunrise (Impression‚ soleil levant)‚ which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to coin the term in a satiric review published in Le Charivari. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include visible
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AP European History Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought Chapter Overview * The faith in science that dominated thought in the second half of the nineteenth century. * Conflict between church and state over education. * Islam and late nineteenth-century European thought. * The effect of modernism in literature and art‚ psychoanalysis‚ and the revolution of physics on intellectual life. * Racism and anti-Semitism * Feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
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IWT1 Task 1 000251565 Polly A. Welch Impressionism and Post Impressionism In Paris in the late 19th century (1874-1882)‚ several artists who called themselves the Anonymous Society of Painters‚ Sculptors‚ Printmakers‚ etc. organized an exhibit that launched the movement called Impressionism. These artists‚ such as Eduoard Manet‚ Edgar Degas‚ Claude Monet‚ Pierre Auguste Renoir‚ and Mary Cassatt‚ sparked worldwide following and revolutionized Western conceptions of painting. Appearing
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Discussion 1 – Art 207 1. The Eiffel Tower was designed and built for the 1889 International Exhibit of Paris. Gustave Eiffel‚ was confident that his design would prove the French were serious engineers‚ not simply the “cultured” people. The tower was originally meant to stand for 20 years and then be disassembled and removed‚ which is why the pieces were bolted together upon assembly. The primary reason the Tower withstood the public cry to be removed is that it served as a radio tower and its
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In his essay After the Great Divide. Modernism‚ Mass Culture‚ Post Modernism‚ Andreas Huyssen argues that “since the mid 19th century‚ the culture of modernity has been characterised by a volatile relationship between high art and mass culture.” The writer states that Modernist artists strove to distance themselves from the “l’art pour l’art” movements of the turn of the century like Art Nouveau‚ Symbolism and Æstheticism. This type of art pandered to the tastes of the middle classes striving to
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Taim Awad Ms. Mocarski A.P. British Literature 09/07/2014 Art‚ Literature‚ and the Carriers of Civilization. In 1848‚ Thomas de Quincey wrote an essay titled “The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power.” De Quincey was a 19th century British author. He is well known for “Confessions of an English Opium Eater.” In his essay‚ he divides literature – books to be precise‚ into two separate roles: the literature of knowledge which conveys information that has a clear use (such as a cookbook)
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felt the oppression of marriage for centuries‚ and they had had enough of it. They began to rebel against it and to think differently of it. We can analyze this if we read the literature being published at the time. Great novels and authors such as Flaubert‚ Tolstoy‚ Austen and Chopin begin to question its authority and its use. Women are able to go against marriage for the first time‚ and they do so to express all of their misfortunes. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”‚ the author uses irony
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