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Age Of Innocence Edith Wharton
1,526 wordsEdith Wharton: A brief personal history and overview of literary achievements The cultural advancement of the 1920 's has many important literary figures associated with it. Names such as T. S. Elliot, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald are some of the better-known names. Edith Wharton is one of the less known of the period, but is still a formidable writer. This paper will explore Ms. Wharton's life and history and give a brief background surrounding some of her more popular novels. Ms. W...
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5 Th Century Bc 4 Th Century
1,459 wordsGreek Pottery The pottery of the ancient Greeks are important for the styles of decoration and for the information it gives about Greek art (Sparkes 4). Because fired clay pottery is highly durable, few or no Greek art works that were made in wood, textile, or wall painting have survived (Sparkes 7). The painted decoration of pottery has become the main source of information about how the Greeks used pottery to solve many problems because in that time period other materials where either unknown ...
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Red Figure Ancient Greek
2,325 wordsIn the absence of significant examples of the major art of Greek painting, pottery has assumed an importance even beyond its own great intrinsic value. During certain periods and in certain localities the vase-painter was not content to decorate his pots with simple lines and plant motifs. He took his themes from mythology and the life around him, as did the panel and mural painters. Moreover, occasionally these vase-paintings are of the highest quality, and this is especially the case in the At...
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Ancient Maya Ft Tall
2,022 words... architecture wr commission by Mayan kings to memorialize thmslvs and near the plac in history. Th prevailing subject of the art is not anonymous prices and unnamed gods but rather mn and women of power that srv to grat th history of th popl. Th works ar a relation of th society and its interaction with surrounding popl. On of th grant shows of Mayan artistic ability and culture is th hieroglyphic stairway located at Copan. Th stairway is an iconographic al complex composed of status, figure,...
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Nxt Stacking Chair Charles Rennie Mackintosh Back
1,289 wordsFor my Investigation into chair designs I choose to investigate how simplistic and basic the chairs have become. From Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who was renowned for his style and applied decoration to Philippe Stark who has taken simplistic to another level. I have investigated how the designers have used applied decoration to enhance the look of their chair, to how functional the pieces are (or in some cases un-functional! ). HIGH BACKED CHAIR CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH 1902 Mackintosh produced...
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Vertical Lines Business Transactions
805 wordsThe object in question is marked as a Syrian, Bronze Age, stone label seal (c. 3 rd- 2 nd millennium). Most of the seals I have viewed have much more representational forms on them than this object has. I have not been able to find any books which have pictures of items with this name, which leads me to believe that it has been marked wrong. The object resembles a small, oval shaped bead with indentations in the centers of the longer sides, making it look like the number 8. Both sides have the s...
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