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    A Review on Mother Night

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    In the novel Mother Night written by Kurt Vonnegut there are many dramatic and powerful scenes that Vonnegut describes throughout the novel to show the importance they had on Howard W. Campbell Jr.’s life. When Campbell finds out his wife is still alive and is reunited with her‚ beaten on his door step‚ and when he turns himself in. When Campbell talked about his past wife whom he suspected was dead for the past fifteen years it was very apparent that he indeed had a deep love

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    Brancusi

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    1 CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI: His spiritual roots by Aidan Hart It wasn’t easy to find Brancusi’s studio gallery at the Pompidou Centre in Paris‚ at least in 1985. No flashy signs. No banners. In fact I walked straight past it a few times thinking that it was a builders’ shed. But this shed it turned out to be. The door was locked‚ but after a ring on the bell the lone attendant opened up. Within was a paradise‚ a garden of Brancusi’s sculptures. And thanks to the studio’s obscurity I was alone

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    Joseph Kosuth

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    Art After Philosophy (1969) Joseph Kosuth The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympathetic toward religion . . . marks the physicists’ own lack of confidence in the validity of their hypotheses‚ which is a reaction on their part from the antireligious dogmatism of nineteenth-century scientists‚ and a natural outcome of the crisis through which physics has just passed. –A. J. Ayer. . . . once one has understood the Tractatus there will be no temptation

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    Do you ever hear a song‚ are certain of its title and artist‚ only to quickly discover that it is another entirely? It leaves you wondering‚ ‘how could I mistake this song for one so vastly different? Are the notes the same? Is there some commonality that I have previously ignored?’ Sometimes this creates a new understanding of the song‚ adding a layer of meaning that seems unrelated‚ but manages to add depth and dimension. A similar pattern can be found in literature where two essays of diverging

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    In the anti-war novels‚ Slaughterhouse - five by Kurt Vonnegut and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller there are many motifs and symbols that at first do not appear to be related but if we scratch under the surface‚ we are able to find striking similarities. Both novels are dealing with the man’s experience through World War II with one being a soldier and the other one being a fighter pilot. They are both known as the anti-war heroes as they disagree with the idea of war and do not possess both the will and

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    The Australian Landscape

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    Essay The Australian landscape stills exerts a power over contemporary art due to the fact the Australian land is so different to other landscapes in the world. Some of the different distinctive qualities of the Australian landscape that motivate artists are its harsh light‚ baren‚ dry lands and then the beautiful coastlines. Many artists have been drawn to the Australian landscape due to its intreging landscape. Artists such as John Olsen and Elisabeth Cummings are both drawn to painting the

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    “The physicality of an artwork is a product of its time and place.” Discuss this statement in relation to one example from this assessment task‚ 2 artworks from modernism and two contemporary examples you have studied. Throughout time‚ the representation of a particular subject matter in art has changed to encompass the values of the time and place or challenge them through art. An artist is influenced by society’s ideologies’ and thus either represent these ideologies’ or challenge them within

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    Digital Divide – by Claire Bishop Response by Lucas Olscamp Claire Bishop sets out to examine the idea the largely the genre of “digital art” has been ignored and somewhat consciously forgotten by the world of contemporary art. Bishop also suggests that much of the ideology and history behind the “digital revolution” is also reduced‚ removed‚ and ignored; that digital art poses the necessary questions to our society today on the “troubling oscillation between intimacy and distance” (1) and that

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    As I stood there looking into the painting as if it were a portal back in time. I could think of nothing but what it must have felt like to be abandoned from your ship by no choice of your own‚ as illustrated in “A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast” by Claude-Joseph Vernet. Art can do that to people‚ you can feel emotions that are unable to be put into words‚ and see things that are indescribable. Although art is conceptually viewed differently by each person. Art is better in person as opposed to digitally

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    Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton was first publish in 2004. Charlotte Cotton discusses the transformation of photography‚ as it moves into the category of contemporary art. As they were gaining momentum throughout history‚ but today they have people more vocal than they ever been. She is more concerned about the motivations of the photographer; rather than the themes‚ or subject matter. Because that’s the main focus when “regular” people are viewing photographs. She is focusing

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