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The Artisan Profession Up To 1850 England: Was Its Demise Inevitable?
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10 pages in length. The basis upon which the artisan profession existed subsequent to 1850 England was due to a metamorphosis of social and cultural change called the Enlightenment that ultimately provided for a foundation of renewed creativity that an otherwise industrial society had all but buried. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TLCartis.wps

The Artist as Ethnographer
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A 7 page paper which examines this topic and the issues it addresses within the cultural context of the works of artists Susan Hiller and Coco Fusco. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TGarteth.rtf

The Artistic “Desert" of the Avant-Garde Movement
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An 8 page paper which considers the late nineteenth and early twentieth century artistic genre from the perspective of Russian Abstractionist Kasimir Malevich, who once observed, “No more likenesses of reality, no more idealistic images, nothing but a desert.” Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TGdesart.rtf

The Artistic Process: Four Views
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A 5 page paper that summarizes four books, which each deal with art, either writing or visual, in some manner. The books covered are 'Rereading America' by Colombo, et al; 'The Hidden Order of Art' by A. Ehrenzweig; 'Icon and Idea' by H. Read; and 'Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers' by L.Q. Troyka. No additional sources cited.
Filename: 99art4.rtf

The Arts & Political Power
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A 4 page research paper that discusses the relationship between the arts (focusing principally on architecture) and political power. The writer argues that from the dawn of history, art has been the handmaiden of those who possessed political power. For an artist to function, he had to have a benefactor, that is, someone who had sufficient wealth to subsidize an artistic enterprise. Throughout early history, wealth of this magnitude was possessed only by the state. The writer draws examples from Egyptian, Roman and Christian history. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khartpol.rtf

The Avant-garde Movement of the 1960s
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This 6 page paper looks at the avant-garde movement that reemerged in the 1960s. Jackson Pollock's influence on the movement is highlighted and Joe Brainard's works are discussed . Other artists are mentioned and the importance of the movement to popular culture is emphasized. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA217pnt.rtf

The Barbizon School of Art
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( 8 pp) The Barbizon School was a group of naturalist landscape painters who worked in the vicinity of Barbizon, a village on the outskirts of the Forest of Fontainebleu, southeast of Paris, in the 1840s and 1850s. These artists rejected the Academic tradition, abandoning theory in an attempt to achieve a truer representation of the countryside, and are considered to be part of the French Realist movement. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BBbarbzn.doc

The Bauhaus Movement in Architecture: The Weimar and Dessau Phases
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A 5 page overview of the architectural movement known as the Bauhaus movement, a movement in which founder Walter Gropius attempted to congeal all the arts (even arts as diverse as the visual arts, industrial art, and architecture) into one socially oriented program in which social responsibility of the artist served as an emphasis. The author points out that the movement emphasized a balance between aesthetics, technical merit, and practicality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PParcBau.rtf

The Beauty of Art in the Romantic Period
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A 5 page paper which examines the beauty of art during the Romantic period as seen in the theories of G.W.F. Hegel in “Introduction to the Philosophy of Art” and Percy Bysshe Shelley in “Defence of Poetry.” No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAhegart.rtf

The Bias of the State Towards Cultural Institutions
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This 5 page paper consider the way in which traditional cultural institutions, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum are given more support, both general and financial in preference to the modern icons of popular culture and entertainment. The paper argues that there are many reasons for this including the governments role of protecting the heritage of the nation and its paternal attitude. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEculgov.wps