Contemporary history

in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The lyre was created between c. 2600 BCE and c. 2500 BCE during the Sumerian Period. It was discovered in a royal tomb from an ancient Mesopotamian city named Ur and its contemporary location is Muqaiyir, Iraq. The lyre looks like an ancient harp and was used to perform music. Before excavated by Woolly, it was placed beside a woman who was buried with a royal figure. Thus, the archeologist presumed that this instrument…

easily. Many things have changed all throughout history. African Americans are now given rights and are treated equal to everyone else around them. This change happened nearly 50 year ago. Lots of individuals look at the world differently because of the effects of history and our environment. A current controversy that has been brewing lately is whether or not we should allow Syrians into the United States for food and shelter. Many also argue that history and the environment has no relevance…

The article I chose to critique is Bring out your dead: people, pots, and politics by Don Brothwell (2004). I think this is a fairly well written article with a few minor parts. One problem I have is how he mentions other cultures and their time scale. Some cultures that we don’t know much about would be hard to tell if this was the case. In other culture their time scale is stranger, if a person in the group gets older it is said they are 100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date…

Scholar R.J. Raack is for “film as history” by arguing that the traditional written history is too narrow to focus on the complexity of it. Raack states that film is the most appropriate medium for because, “Only film can provide an adequate "empathetic reconstruction to convey how historical people witnessed, understood, and lived their lives." Only film can "recover all the past 's liveliness” (1176). Furthermore, he believes this because of film’s ability to juxtapose images and sound and the…

To the McNeills, what drives history are the intricate overlapping webs of interaction, which have drawn humans together since the birth of history. As these small webs are nourished, they thicken and intertwine, moulding hunter-gatherers into agricultural societies and forging towering empires into the world of today. The McNeills’ overview of history ultimately retells the story of the past through a dynamic medium with the growth of the world web as its motor. Their greatest strengths, and…

Art seems to be broad and confusing due to the countless styles of it. Looking back at art’s history, people were exposed to unique styles of individuals, landscapes or mythical beauty in artwork. There were many different types of impressions on life events or even emotions of the artists. Expression through art has gone on for many centuries. The question is, when did art begin to develop more in abstract? Who decides what art is? In most art museums and art textbooks, there is a transition on…

In the essay, Worlds Pictured in Contemporary Art: Planes and Connectivities, author Terry Smith describes what makes contemporary art unique. According to Smith, “placemaking, world picturing and connectivity are the most common concerns of artists these days because they are the substance of contemporary being”. He argues that today’s society is more connected than ever before, and asserts that contemporary art is “ art for the world––for the world as it is now, and as it might be”, unlike any…

Francisco Larios Larios practices painting, open-concept drawing, and the use of software to create two and three-dimensional visual environments. In his imaginary, the postmodern condition is fulfilled, in which contemporary culture is the starting point for the elaboration of scenes that show a return to sacred references, phil-osophical themes and immemorial fabulations. In Larios' work, the landscape is conceptually treated as the space in which sometimes studies of the dream, the link…

exceptionalism. Foot (2010, 129) points to claims of exceptionalist tendencies based on a long history of civilisation, specifically the concept of honour permeating through ideas of the tribute system, and the strong Han cultural identity. The case for an exceptional Chinese foreign policy lies with this use and potential misuse of history, as Callahan (2012, 35) acknowledges “the use and abuse of history is more than just an academic issue: it informs how elites in China and the West are…

Mexican life, society and the history of Mexican People. No matter what, Rivera did not shift his art and that shaped him to be somewhat controversial artist. Rivera was a communist who fought for communist ideal. He is an ideal of socially dedicated artist. His art describes such issues as Mexican labor, and American worker and Revolutionary figures. Rivera experienced the work of great masters such as Cézanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and Matisse. Rivera was looking for a contemporary format of…