Artist Edvard Munch vs. Oslo, Norway In Norway, the Norwegian enjoy a growing economy (which has grown .7% in the third quarter); have lots of oil money, and famous art. In the city of Oslo, art is huge. Edvard Munch the famous artist who painted “The Scream” (which is one of the four versions of his most famous works) has a 50 – year old museum that holds thousands of his own work. One of his remarkable works was sold to London, England in May for nearly $120 million which made a public auction…
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about his career in the arts he continually makes poor choices consciously or not and ends up likely damned to hell. Faust, written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a play and a tragedy and is similarly about a scholarly man who wants to know everything about everything and ends up conjuring a demon that would do his…
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Mason Anderson Mrs. Barnes Composition 19, February 2013 1984 vs. Nazi Germany “Power is not a means; it is an end. And power means the capacity to conflict unlimited pain and suffering to another human being”(afterword 288). 1984 by George Orwell is a story of power and control. The government uses a spying organization known as “Big Brother,” Thought Police, and children to gain power over regular society, regardless of the cost. In a similar way Adolf Hitler exerted power over the people…
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Art and Design in the G.I/Greatest Generation. The children growing up through the turbulence of the Lost Generation would come to be known as the Greatest or G.I Generation, G.I standing for General/Government Issue. Entering adulthood between 1929–1946, they would not be the ones to name their generation, rather it was named by Tom Brokaw after reflecting on the generations accomplishments. The Greatest Generation did not live through a very easy time, they suffered, even more, hardships than…
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instead it is full of the worst bourgeois sadism”. Theodor Adorno “Letter to Walter Benjamin” Aesthetics and Politics “Mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses towards art. The reactionary attitude towards a Picasso painting changes into the progressive reaction towards a Chaplin movie”. Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Reconstruct the debate between Adorno and Benjamin around the issue of “mass culture”. Whose arguments do you…
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thinkers: Marx, Gramsci, Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin Seminar questions 1.Has the mechanical reproduction of art opened up possibilities of a more democratic appreciation, or merely reduced it to the status of a commodity? 2.Has ‘the Culture Industry’ killed ‘High Culture’? Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age…
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The Crucible vs. Holocaust Throughout history, there are millions of people have been unjustly persecuted for being falsely accused. In the 1940s, The Holocaust became one of the most famous genocides known to man, as the millions of Jews during the Holocaust had to face: being unfairly blamed for something they did not do. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller shows how people of The Salem of Witch Trials had to face the same false accusation and the consequences where many lives had been taken. Although…
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World History Ms. Clark Schindler’s List VS Maus “Maus A Survivor’s Tale” written by Art Spiegelman, tells the readers a story on his father, Vladek’s, course through the holocaust as a Jewish man. Art is Vladeks son, and a cartoonist. He wants to understand what had happened to his father during the war, the history of the holocaust, and why his father is the way he is today. Vladeck mentions his life before the war, and how quickly things change for him after the Germans had disturbed his…
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CHAPTER 29 The World between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response Thesis: The interwar period, the 1920s and 1930s, was influenced by the political and economic changes brought by World War I where important social and cultural developments occurred along with political uprisings of communism and liberalism in Europe, Russia, and China. A.) Diplomatic Deafness ∙ Relations with the West took various forms in the 1920, such as India with a new nationalist…
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Chapter 1: The Invention of Writing - From the early Paleolithic to the Neolithic period (35,000 BC to 4,000 BC), early Africans and Europeans left paintings in caves, including the Lascaux caves in Southern France. - Early pictures were made for survival and for utilitarian and ritualistic purposes. - Petroglyphs are carved or scratched signs on rock. - These images became symbols for what would be the first spokenlanguage. - Cuneiform – Wedged shaped writing, created in 3000BC. Started…
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