Modernism entwined around the issues of gender, class, status, and absurdity of the time. The movement was a response to not only a national crisis, but also an overall international sensation of depression; some described it as the incapability to feel that anything at the time was reliable. Gender issues have always been a prominent topic of discussion throughout society, as well as literature, so naturally became a headlining focus of the modernist movement. Women, their capabilities, and their
Photography is the art of observation. It is the only language understood in any country around the world. Photography is essential to the understanding of social, political, and economical issues. The key is in the eye of the beholder as Tom Pion claims, it is not what you see in the photo it is what you think, what you know. To understand and acknowledge a photo, a photo that expands our knowledge to global, or national issues rising rapidly. To the misrepresentation and underlying set up of a
Consider the content of the Classical art-work, say the free-standing statue of a naked man, here every essential and important element of Being, its whole rhythm, is exhaustively rendered by surfaces, dimensions and the sensuous relations of the parts. The Pythagorean notion of the harmony
Lucia Piva/ September 13, 2015/ Film History 1/ Luis Buñuel and Surrealism Surrealism in movies never became a dominant medium, unlike in poetry, fiction, painting or photography; however, Luis Buñuel´s surrealistic films did, and are even today, some of the greatest films of all time. We consider Luis Buñuel the founder of surrealist cinema, but what events influenced him to be the famous director he is known to be? How did his films influence the industry? Buñuel was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in
intrigued by how sexual and morbid the painting was. Fuseli’s painting stood out amongst the artwork, because many of the other artworks were of portraits, landscape paintings, or scenes illustrating literature and history. This painting is Fuseli’s most famous works, and it is because of this art piece that Fuseli’s was able to make a name as an artist, and established his reputation as a painter of the weird, the supernatural, and the shocking. When the painting was first put on display it was considered
their context in interpreting events in history. Concerns such as unreliable narrators, subjectivity in perception, media reality, and limitations of memory have been brought up and will be further discussed. In all the 3 films mentioned above, unreliable narrator
By using an omniscient narrator, TV series could enable audience to know more than characters, which creates Thriller-Suspense. Like in the case when Joyce is about to be killed, the audience can see the white shadow emerging from his back yet the character could not. “Secret”-Suspense and Detective-Suspense can also be created in the narration adopted omniscient Narrator strategy, yet omniscient Narrator is not the main reason to create these suspense. 5.1.2 Deviating from Chronological Order
Just as last weeks reading centered around the narrative and the counter narrative around a particular event, namely 9/11, this week's reading deals with the issue of narrative as it is applied to the history of an entire country and the formation of national identities around these narratives. In places where political governance is stable and has a degree of legitimacy due to continuity and popular support, a national identity is more widely accepted. In a case like Hungary's in the novel, where
In A History of the World in 6 Glasses, author Tom Standage attempts to give a general overview of world history from by examining it through six eras each defined by a specific drink. Standage argues that beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola, influenced the course of history. Following these beverages provides a convenient vehicle through which to explore history in a fresh way – a way that is much less intimidating but just as informative as a textbook. Throughout the six sections of
Since the beginning of time people have been keeping accounts of events that occur to themselves or to others. There are many ways to go about describing stories including firsthand, using information from a number of various sources, using criticism to tell the story, and more. Perhaps the most popular methods are firsthand and using information from various sources. Thucydides and Arrian both give accurate accounts of a historic set of events of their respective time but in very different ways