Avant-garde

ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement…

According to Ngugi, “literature is a reflection on the aesthetic and imaginative planes, of a community’s wrestling with its total environment to produce the basic means of life… and in the process creating and re-creating itself in history.” This is also the basic premise of the play which sensitively registers the account of the Mau Mau, which had effectively sublimated in the documented history of the Jomo Kenyatta regime. It is noteworthy that the play opens with a song by a crowd of…

CUBISM : REALITY AND ABSTRACTION Alison McGinn Cubism is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative movements of the 20th Century. The artists and paintings continue to be dissected to find more information, meaning and interest. In this essay I will briefly discuss the world at the time, the development of Cubism and the way it questioned reality and abstraction itself. Cubism is retrospectively defined as the time between 1907-1920 and is split into two sections, which…

Ever since I was a little girl, my dad instilled in me the importance of good music. We used to listen to Guns N’ Roses, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Nirvana, and many more. This music impacted my life and influenced me to be open-minded, care-free, and creative. This anecdote sparks some curiosity; am I the only one affected by music and art? A larger question would be whether or not music and art have affected society as a whole throughout history. Many studies have been conducted by…

When I am about to drive home after my shift, I examine my face in the rear-view mirror. If I only knew how to change, to make me a protagonist again. Looking the part would at least be a starting point. I shrug, and start the motor. One day it will be too late, but not like Jan or Tessa think when they urge me to finish school, and apply to university to read a rational subject, because my ‘too late’ takes place far beyond that. Too late means to know what life is about, to have made all…

Louis Comfort Tiffany was the most important and influential American glass artist of the twentieth century. His renowned body of glass works redefined modern glassmaking and has continued to influence glass artists in the present day. His works have become an essential and crucial benchmark for American glassmaking. Tiffany concentrated intensely on creating brilliant, high-quality works, and courageously reformed the glassmaking industry of the United States and the world over. From a young…

During the first half of the twentieth century, the Colorado mountains became home to a handful of women who had fled the trappings of their former societies in hopes of refuge and adventure. One such woman was Virginia Donaghe McClurg, who became the first white woman to visit Mesa Verde and in later years would become immensely involved in the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association, which fought to make the site a national park. Also an active member of this committee was Lucy Peabody, who,…

Woolf’s Battleground Against Sex-Based Discrimination According to Professor Ellen Rosenman, “A Room of One’s Own analyzes the hostile environment in which women write…” (29). Throughout this course, the content in which I was most interested has been the idea that women were considered biologically inferior to men. From previous courses, I know that statements such as: “Women, living in a male world, lack the necessary autonomy to create freely” (Rosenman 29), were true in historical…

filmmaker’s techniques and the various ways in which he structured the story and whether his techniques allowed him to express his viewpoint. Documentaries are thought to be one of three basic creative modes of film. While neither narrative fiction nor avant-garde, documentaries are often the work of individual filmmakers and are based on or re-creating an actual event, era, person or situation, containing no fictional information. In the early decades of documentaries, films focused on things…

One of Yves Tanguy’s most crucial paintings is Plusieurs ont Vécu (Many Have Lived) (see fig. 1). The medium is oil on canvas and it was painted in Paris is 1939, shortly before Tanguy moved to the United States. Today, this painting is located in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. The subject of this painting is isolation and is one of Tanguy’s most famous post apocalyptic landscapes. The subject of isolation relates to the feelings of exile Tanguy felt before moving to the…