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    Australian bush landscape ad sky in the 1900’s. By using the ‘plein air’ style which was taught at his school‚ he was also closely tied to an emerging Australian nationalism which saw the acceptance of Australian scenes and people as suitable subjects for art practice. Artists depicted Australia in a rather English way‚ with muted tone and soft light and captured the bushrangers. Barry Pearce‚ curator‚ says‚ “It’s magic stillness‚ it’s timelessness‚ it’s sense of being an old country but also the sense of

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    decades. It has been claimed by Raymond Williams to be “…one of the two or three most complicated words in English language” (Williams‚ 1976). Different definitions of the term‚ culture may have distinct descriptive ways and criterion to evaluate human activity. It is important to define the broad base of the sophisticated term ‘culture’‚ in the sense used later in the paper‚ to narrow down the discussion on our topic. Culture is a word stemming from a Latin word ‘cultura’ which means to cultivate

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    ................... 7 1.4 FOCUS ON REPRESENTATION AND ACCESSIBILITY ......................................................................................... 8 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ................................................................................................................ 10 2.1 CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS: AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE .......................................................................... 10 2.2 THE DEBATE OVER REPRESENTATION ...................................

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    Art History Survey 2 MODULE THREE READING QUESTIONS 1. How does Ernst Gombrich define style and how might we understand the relationship between an object’s style and the time and place in which it was created? Ernst Gombrich defines style as “any distinctive‚ and therefore recognizable‚ way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made.” He also portrays style as distinguished event or pieces that has “desirable consistency and conspicuousness” and “stands

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    Ancient Greek Art: Archaic‚ Classical‚ and Hellenistic By: Catherine Marten CLA3114 sect. 02D3 Spring 2013 Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination‚ usually through visual forms. Art in ancient Greece went through a variety of changes throughout its history‚ especially from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. These changes are mainly due to the different views in Greek society that developed throughout these periods

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    best complements and at worst obfuscates human memory. Jia Zhangke‚ Lou Ye‚ and Jiang Wen offer a subtle and fascinating account of the cinematic representation of the problem of memory. Since the inception of the camera‚ filmmakers have evolved motion pictures into not simply a reflection but a crucial indicator of human experience‚ especially our experience of fleeting time and of the current moment. It could be argued that all narrative representation is‚ in some way‚ a flashback. The stories

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    In his paper "Cultural Identity & Cinematic Representation‚" Stuart Hall addresses the issue of cultural identity and the cinematic representation. Stuart remarks that there are several definitions of cultural identity. However‚ he uses it in terms of the idea of "oneness" of people. The definition reflects the common historical experiences ignoring the divisions of the actual sub culture. According to Hall media or Caribbean Cinema has to discover this particular cultural identity. This conception

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    Some kind of summary PreHistoric Art Since the earliest humans are considered to have no specific language‚ prehistoric art is then recognized as preliterate form of communication. Literacy is not yet present during that time that’s why they used art to communicate with others and also to interpret their culture and environment. Generally‚ Prehistoric art is dominated by two subjects Survival and Fertility. Survival can be seen in the cave paintings wherein the most drawn things are animals

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    With reference to relevant cultural theories analyse the representation of sexuality in a film/television text of your choice. I have chosen to look at and analyse a television text. It is a TV drama aimed at a teenage audience called Skins. I chose this particular text as it focuses upon many different characters and scenarios in regards to sexuality and this forms a basis for analysis and evaluation. Skins also focuses upon Teenage sexuality‚ specifically‚ which I believe is a broad and interesting

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    authors like Christopher Columbus‚ John Smith and William Bradford‚ who experienced the encounters with the native people of America first hand‚ are now finding a new life in the modern films and animated cartoons. All these works of art create various representations of the Native Americans. Judging from my previous experience with the standard portrayal of America’s native people in the movies‚ which is showing them as rather primitive barbarians‚ the film The New World (2005) presents one of the

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