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Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists including Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner and Dorothea Rockburne turned to site-specific, drawing-based installations in order to disengage aesthetic experience from the autonomous object, foregrounding the institution as its constitutive framework. Curiously, it appears to have escaped definition in reductive, purely material terms by even the most vociferous advocates of medium-specificity.4 Rather than positing an adherence to the ‘medium’ of drawing…

Also, Pompeian homes were originally created out of masonry construction, making concrete an easy substitute. The house was essentially a long rectangle with extruding rooms on the north and south sides. The simple design was complimented, by elaborate sgrafitto designs found on the back and sides of the house. The interior is also simple, but elegant. There is also a clear horizontal flow to the…

Often containing didactic messages intended to persuade audiences into a certain set of behaviors or impress upon them a certain set of ideals, propaganda has been used by human culture and society for thousands of years. With the advent of the printing press in 1436 by a German goldsmith named Johaness Gutenberg, propaganda prints became more and more widespread and delivered with greater ease to the masses. The printing press became widely used throughout the modern world by the beginning of…

Elizabeth Bishop proposed that “[i]f you’re in the right frame of mind, everything strikes you as poetry” (Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 13). Bishop’s first collection, North & South, already demonstrates the finesse and themes of her later work. “Paris, 7a.m.” exemplifies Bishop’s mode of poetic process in that the poem very much reflects Bishop’s thought progression. Bishop gives the poem a specific geographic location in order to further contextualize her reflections. In her poem,…

Ford Model T Lizzie: The Vehicle Game Changer World-famous Henry Ford introduced the assembly line in the car making process which changed the future of the automobile industry. His implementation revolutionized the automobile industry with his low-priced Model T produced in assembly lines, which eventually made the automobile America 's transportation of choice. Henry Ford is the founder of Ford Motor Company and the man behind the legendary Model T. Born on July 30, 1863, on a small farm in…

MAJOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGIES The 1980s and 90s saw the different industry come of age, and complex computer systems were developed and implemented by corporations and government organisations worldwide. Different project management methodologies were developed. In this section some of the more widespread project management methodologies standards will be briefly critiqued, as to their suitability for managing projects in an SME environment. The methodologies standards that will be…

This concept map tool was revised from a research outcome by Chang, Sung & Chen (2001) and was used for evaluating the empirical student-created concept maps by Chang and colleague in 2005. The tool assigned weights to the relationship links between the nodes and integrated weighted concept maps into the assessment criteria, so as to help provide a quantitative analysis to display the various learning states of students. The scholars proposed that the learning states contained: 1) a proposition…

build upon, as well as provide students with strategies for figuring out words. 2. What steps would you direct students to take to apply clues to get the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? ʺMaria knew how to find the area of a rectangle and a square, but she wasn’t sure…

The Kensington Rune Stone: Real or fake? The story of the Kensington Rune stone began in 1898 after Olof Ohman, a Swedish farmer, discovered a rectangle stone when he was working on his farm near Kensington, Minnesota with his son. According to Barclay, Shelly. "The Kensington Runestone." N.p.,n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2010, Olof Ohman reported that the stone, which weighs 202 pounds and has thirty-one inches tall, sixteen inches wide, six inches thick, and it was unearthed under the roof of the tree.…

horizontal, curved, bold, parallel or perpendicular. Shape - Shape A two-dimensional (2D), flat enclosed area. When a line crosses over itself it creates a shape. Examples of shapes could be geometric, organic/natural, irregular, circle, square, rectangle, diamond, oval, crescent, heart, triangle, octagon. Colour - The element of art derived from reflected or absorbed light. Color adds interest and mood to a work of art. It is also referred to as "Hue". The primary colors are red, yellow and…