Artistic merit

used to denote objects, specifically from cultures that predate western art. Dean uses specific examples such as Ancient American stone carving to get her point across. She goes into detail in how the term “art” often turns an object unintended for artistic purposes, into an object of “art by appropriation.”(p. 26) The term was made by Western cultures to describe works done by Western cultures. Upon discovery of works from cultures thought to be at a more primitive level of civilization, Their…

gross income of over 408 million dollars according to IMDb (“The Hunger Games”), it is clear that the American film industry has profited off of The Hunger Games. Adorno and Horkheimer would look at the movie as an example of how money rather than artistic merit has made a film popular. It is true that The Hunger Games would not have been so popular and widely appreciated if there had not been so much aggressive commercialization, but this does not mean that the movie lacks underlying messages…

1. List the four characteristics of herding/nomadic groups brought up in the Crash Course Video. ­ They aren’t Jack Kerouac, they don’t produce manufactured goods, they live close to nature and harsh conditions, and they are more egalitarian. Complete the following chart: What Why Migration They move around according to the weather. They move in order to feed their animals. Trade They would trade with the near by settlers. They traded in order to…

Chopin cultivation was to experiment with the sonata and renovate the genre, “to make it more spontaneous and less predictable.”73 Although Chopin was familiar with the sonata’s tradition and valued its merits, he “could not stand keeping its models in a same way” 74 His sonatas were composed on the classical model with four-movement structures and traditional division of the first movement (exposition, development, recapitulation), and the functions of…

Expansion of the truth allows us as humans to closely examine the individual truths of a situation and hence better understand the whole. Colson Whitehead’s novel The Underground Railroad utilizes embellishment of the truths of pre-Civil War America to help us as the audience better understand this era in history, through describing the fictional account of Cora, a runaway slave, and her adventures to freedom through an actual underground railroad. However, there is an extent to which fiction…

like a moronic nu metal vocalist from a number of terrible bands like korn disturbed or some other faux metal band made for the small minded morons who pretend to be metalheads but are just weak sauce posers with terrible jobs and who lack any artistic merit much like the main character of this show. But when I first read the description of this show I was somewhat intrigued although the girly imagery did not match but I watched the first season. And this main character is such a pathetic…

feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts as an avenue of expression. I find the works of Egon Schiele/the European Expressionists…

Objection and Reply 2 Another objection that has been presented against the permittance of evil art is that the negatives of morally bad art outweigh any benefits it may have. Because evil art results in negative consequences for society, it is worth censoring and prohibiting, and artwork that is not worth having in society cannot be beautiful and of good quality. In regards to Triumph of the Will, this objection believes the risk the film creates by possibly convincing people that the Nazi…

If I were asked about what literary work every freshman at OSU should be reading, I could suggest that every first-year student should study the Odyssey written by Homer almost three thousand years ago. It is in fact a work of high artistic merit, which rises such important topics for discussion as faithfulness to family and devotion to homeland, and therefore is required for reading. Homer’s Odyssey is everlasting and required for reading not because of its beautifully stated style but because…

Less than two percent of all student athletes in high school who got college scholarship make it to the professional level. The other 98 percent of these athletes who don’t get chosen to play professionally need to obtain have a good education so they can have a successful career after school. Otherwise, they are at a disadvantage. My point is that student athletes should first obtain and maintain passing grades in order to play sports in high school and college. Playing sports should be a…