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exclusively Great in retrospect. Nostalgia has a dirty habit of making us lust for an unobtainable past; of clinging onto the romance of a tragedy that, at the time, would have destroyed us. Stephen Fry has launched his attack on modern verse for abandoning the wearisome…

specifically to the torso around the axis of the spine. In 1926 Graham established the Martha Graham Dance Company and in 1930 she previewed her most notable work lamentation. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Lamentation as: ‘the passionate expression of grief or sorrow, noun. (Oxford Dictionaries | English, n.d.) With knowledge of this definition a reader is able to already hazard a guess as to what the intention of the piece is. Graham created the piece with the intention to not dance…

twentieth century’s art and design. This paper focuses on the Pop Art movement and the establishment of the commercial photography in the second half of the twentieth century. History The U.S. artists of the twentieth century appealed to the various modern art experiments that appeared during the early part of the…

“nationalism…has to do with human nature and applies to everyone…The root of nationalism…simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power” (Strayer, 964). The India’s modern leader Gandhi said that India was in a sad condition and “India is being ground down, not under the English heel, but under that of modern civilization…So understanding and so believing, it behooves every lover of India to cling to the Indian civilization even as a child clings to the mother’s breast”…

century; now being promptly recognisable and generally understood, it is much a part of popular culture as art history. Pop Art had a great number of artists who explored their work through this movement. One artist being David Hockney, who is an English Pop/Modernist Artist, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer born in 1937 Bradford, UK. During the Pop Art movement, Hockney painted his most recognisable and significant paintings, his swimming pool artworks that he is widely…

called ‘The faces of Power’, and the Shock of the New was made into a television series that Hughes produced. In his text, Hughes claimed that Guernica was the last great history painting and essentially the last modern painting of major importance - stating that “It was also the last modern painting of major importance that took its subject from politics with the intention of changing the way large numbers of people…

Baotien T. Nguyen English 112 Professor Lin Nulman October 25, 2017 Surrealism Art Thesis statement: Surrealism is not only a form of art but also a cultural movement that was expressed through art, literature, and even politics. Brodskai︠a︡, N V. Surrealism: genesis of a revolution. New York: Parkstone International, 2012. Page 6-9. One thing cannot be doubted: Giorgio De Chirico’s paintings produced such an unforgettable impression that it became one of the most important sources in Surrealism…

of a man whose passion and job is dance. The movie has many interesting aspects which make it memorable as it is based on dance of tradition and culture like bharatnatyam. This story of this movie is written by Mahesh dattani who is a very famous English story maker as well as director. He direct many successful movie one of these is dance like a man and other like morning raga. Under his supervision the movie got a grace which attract people to it. CHARACTERS OF THE MOVIE Before…

mother would take him to different art museums in New York and enrolled him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was a gifted child who could read and write at the tender age of four and by age eleven was fluent in French Spanish and English. On September 1968 at the age of seven Basquiat was hit by a car his injuries resulted in a broken arm and a splenectomy (a surgical removal of the spleen). According to Basquiat this accident is his first prominent memory . His mother gave…

Kathleen Kerner Dance History Mr. Garfinkel 12/1/14 “Pina” Bausch Philippine, or “Pina”, Bausch created some of the most interesting and radical modern dance works of her time because they are based on human relations and how we interact with each other. Born in 1940, in Solingen, Germany, she was born into a family of business owners with her parents owning a connecting restaurant and hotel. She and her siblings worked for her parents at a very young age. In doing so, Pina would observe…