Religious Art: Russia & Franc c15th C
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(7 pp) If some one wants to have you "buy something "- whether it is an idea, a belief or an item, there are ways to go about that, that will make you more susceptible to that new thing. Some of these early marketing principles were put into place in both Russia and France to encourage pagan converts, to view the "new ways of the Church more favorably."
Filename: BBeCHart.doc

Resistance to “Progress”
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An 8 page paper discussing how resistance influences change. Two authors, Kenneth Frampton and Karsten Harries, discuss both change and the lack of change in architecture. Each finds reasons for resistance to change over time; Frampton attributes that resistance to regionalism. Where regionalism is strong (such as in New England), there are many restrictions, both written and unwritten. Where regionalism is not as strong (1920s California, as example), individuals are more willing to take risks with architecture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Rhetorical Analysis: Stephen Gould
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(5 pp) In this paper we will be examining a short piece of text (Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings - 1996) by Stephen Gould which involves both science and technology, yet we will examine this work from a rhetorical perspective, first as a singularity, then in light of a broader context. Bibliography lists 3 sources. The student should note that the text used is included after the bibliography.
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Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc
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A 5 page paper which examines and analyzes Richard Serra’s article “’Tilted Arc’ Destroyed.” No additional sources cited.
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Role of Art in Society
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A 3 page essay/research paper that discusses the role of art in society and contrasts its role in a free society, such as the US, with that of a repressed society, such as North Korea. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khartex.rtf

Romanticism In Twenty-First Century America
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5 pages in length. Amidst the troubling and often fatalistic attitude of the twenty-first century, the concept of Romanticism is still alive and well and living in the most developed country in the world. That there still exist artistic and cultural free spirits who embody the self-centered search for authenticity that J.L. Talmon describes for the nineteenth century speak volumes about the human spirit and its incessant quest for "the triumph of the values of imaginative spontaneity, visionary originality, wonder and emotional self-expression over the classical standards of balance, order, restraint, proportion and objectivity" (Drabble PG). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Romare Bearden, James VanDerZee, and Jean-Michel Basquait – Intersections of Race and Class in Art
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This 7 page report discusses the art of the three artists and how issues of class and race have intersected in the work. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Russes Ballet
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A 14 page paper which discusses how the Russes Ballet influenced the society of the times. During the first decade of the 1900s fashion for women was incredibly conservative, leaving almost nothing on the human body showing. With the Russes Ballet came very risqué costumes that flowed with the body, and costumes that often revealed a great deal of the body, if not complete nudity occasionally. The paper discusses the society of the time, the fashions of the time, and the changes that were soon seen in the fashion industry due to the revealing nature of the costumes seen in the Russes Ballet. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RArusses.wps