Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction

... breakfast plate of bacon and eggs were examples; others included a Black Magic box containing female body fragments made of chocolate, and a plate of salad with a (papier-mâché) reclining female ... between the fascination with popular commercial culture of that avant-garde a hundred years ago, and our apparently similar fascination at the present time, and we must pay attention to th...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:42

... political past has been paraded in the mid-1990s as an archaeological curiosity, isolated, and bearing with him (undoubtedly against his intentions) a heavy whiff of safe and powerless nostalgia. Sponsorship ... giant B&Q. Many artists similarly strive to achieve brand recognition, and a few succeed: Tracey Emin has become a brand out of which her art is made. Such artists as brands...

Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2014, 21:21

... of, Christian art significantly. Large ecclesiastical commissions for altarpieces all but disappeared in many areas, and in others there was a distinct reduction in the demand for many traditional types of ... ecclesiastical sphere, religious images were seen as having an important role to play in the propaganda campaign waged by Lutheran Reformers against the Catholic church and its contemp...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 17:06

... 100 Miles 200 Kagoshima Nagasaki Sasebo Kitakyushu Yamaguchi Hiroshima Tottori Fukui Kanazawa Toyama Tokyo Fukushima Morioka Aomori Akita Sendai Yamagata Hakodate Sapporo Shikotan Iturup (Etorofu) Kunashir (Kunashiri) Tsugaru Strait Soya Straft Sea of Okhotsk Sea of Japan Nagano Nagoya Yokohama Yokosuka Osaka Kumamoto Fukuoka Amami ... Bator Beijing Nanjing Shanghai Senkaku Okinawa Fukuoka Se...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:27

... golden age of the Zhou and ways of the ancients, and rather than praising innovation and dynamic change in its Modern China: A Very Short Introduction 15 What is modern China? own right, premodern ... decade of this century by an average of around 10% a year. It is seeking a regional and global role, with a new political and economic presence in Africa, Latin America, and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 13:51

... parents can afford to be egalitarian. In contrast, Becky’s household can always afford enough food. Her parents allocate food equally every day – again, allowing for differences in nutritional ... due care has been taken by insurees against bad outcomes (protection against moral hazard). By being able to take advantage of the Law of Large Numbers, markets and the government, taken together, a...

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2014, 18:21