Salvador Dali: The Struggle Between Religion and Science
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A 5 page discussion of the influence of God and religion on the surrealistic art of Salvador Dali. Contends that Dali struggled to integrate his spiritual beliefs with his ever-growing interests in sciences. Contrasts his efforts with those of Sigmund Freud and artist like Fyodor Dostoevsky who seemed intent of proving that God did not exist. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Science Versus Art:
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This 3 page paper examines the assumption that science deals with truth and art deals with beauty. This paper seeks to determine how, in fact, these endeavors might actually be quite similar. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Sculptures of David
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A 3 page analysis regarding different sculptures of David. The paper examines Bernini’s, Donatello’s, and Michelangelo’s sculptures of David. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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See Ya in the Funnies!
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(6 pp) Newsflash! Holy high heels Batman! We have new neighbors in Gotham City. DC Comics to Include Homosexual Couple! The comic book company that gave us Superman will now give us the first super heroes that will fight crime as a couple--not as in Batman and Robin ? but as a cohabiting homosexual couple? Have we progressed that much, or has this couple, somehow eluded the comic police? Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Sesostris III
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A paper which looks at the British Museum statue of Sesostris III, in the context of ancient Egyptian social culture in general and Sesostris' reign in particular. The focus of the paper is on the development of art in ancient Egypt, the relationship between identity and representation, and the ways in which the statue can be interpreted in view of these cultural factors. Bibliography lists 35 sources.
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Strategic Planning for the National Endowment for the Arts
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12 pages in length. The National Endowment for the Arts is a non-profit organization established to further the promotion of art and artists for the general public. Their strategic planning for funding could use some improvement, and two texts which are extremely helpful in this area are Strategic Management for Non-Profit Organizations: Theory and Cases, by Sharon M. Oster and Strategic Planning for Public and Non-Profit Organizations by John M. Bryson. These are two of the best books for insight to the strategic planning and funding for non-profit organizations and this paper discusses these methods. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Structuralism in the Study of Media and Culture
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This is a 6 page paper discussing structuralism in the study of media and culture. Structuralism is based on the premise that “societies and sociological or cultural practices can be analyzed, along the lines of language, as signifying systems [and within] structuralism the subject is decentered, in other words the central focus on the individual in much social analysis is replaced by the focus on the structures, of which the individual is just another element”. Structuralist methods apply to various divisions within the social sciences such as the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, the cultural critical of Roland Barthes, the anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Structuralism plays a large part in the presentation and perception of the media as some critics believe that viewers can look beyond media reports by perceiving the signs throughout the text while other researchers, such as Barthes in his post-structural phase, believed that language was not transparent by in fact most communication was distorted and could not be presented otherwise. Structuralism overall, tends to assume that there is a structure or a “depth model” in which researchers can find the “truth” and in so doing are able to “stand outside language using the meta-languages of linguistic, sociological or philosophical analysis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Studying The Arts: The Relationship To Understanding Europe and North America
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5 pages in length. The social, political and economical impact of the arts has been vast and encompassing to understanding Europe and North America. Throughout the Baroque, Enlightenment and Romantic Periods, the world was changing in leaps and bounds; indeed, those within artistic circles were not to be left behind. Particularly influential to this cultural understanding were Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, French artists Francois Boucher and Jacques-Louis David, as well as author Walt Whitman. The functions these artisans had upon the European and North American landscape was to demonstrate society's progressive nature as it related to each region's individual growth, which included – but was not limited to – feminism, politics and environment. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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