Marcel Weyland

Virginia Woolf’s “To the lighthouse” has many themes that can be discussed, especially those related to art, life, reality and time. Some critics argue that there is a life-art relationship in the novel, “perceived relations of equivalence between emotional experience and aesthetic (con)figuration, between ‘life’ on the one hand, and shape, trope, structure on the other” (Koppen, 375). However, one must analyze the novel in order to find if it can be true what these critics say. If it is true that

Why a Pile of Bricks is Art: A Philosophical Examination of Equivalent VIII by Carl Andre Modern art has so starkly broken off from the millennia of art before it that it has thoroughly bewildered people. Until the late nineteenth century, most art contained intricate details and required innumerable hours of labor, whether the artist is meticulously chipping at a block of marble, carefully stroking paint onto a canvass, or painstakingly writing words on a page. Furthermore, the results was generally

Salvador Aguirre Ms. Dercher AP English 12 7 November 2014 Depression influenced Virginia Woolf’s Literary Works Virginia Woolf is considered to be one if not the best Modernist writers of her time. Woolf was not only known for her extraordinary literary work, but also as a tough woman who struggled through depression for a long period of time in the course of her life. “The habit of writing for my eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.” As we know, people find different ways to battle

“With greater intelligence came imagination and the ability to create images in both painting and sculpture”, Carol Strickland discussed in her book “The Annotated Mona Lisa” (2). Over time, people break out and discover additional information and ways to create objects. Objects that is created may become an artifact over time. An artifact is an item created by humans, that usually has cultural and/or historical interest attached to the item. Some artifacts have been discovered, were created decades

The Dada movement was an art movement that broke away from the traditional norms of art as well as the traditional mediums. Mediums like photomontage, photograms(rayographs), and readymade art pieces were becoming prevalent during this movement. Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann were both prominent artists of the movement that individually had success with their photomontage artworks. Hannah Hoch's Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany and Raoul

When people think of gifts, they often think of material items such as jewelry, perfume, or a new phone. Gifts do not have to be tangible objects but, instead, may be feelings that are shared. Sharing a feeling with another person is a gift that both individuals benefit from. SC Johnson is a family owned company that has been operating since 1886. The company promotes the importance of family and integrity and believes in respecting each person as an individual (Johnson). Everyone deserves to feel

This essay will demonstrate how two revolutionary artists, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage still play a significant role in contemporary art practice and theory today. During the early 20th century, Marcel Duchamp was influenced by the emerging artistic movements such as Dada and Cubism. He experimented with Cubism briefly and attempted to capture time and motion in a cubist style painting. He endeavoured to “detheorize’ Cubism in order to give it a freer interpretation’. Inspired by his time lapse

Women and Expectations in the 1920s Virginia Woolf expresses a lot of different aspects of characters in Mrs. Dalloway, and one of them is the relation of the characteristics of Clarissa Dalloway and women in the 1920s in general. In this story, Clarissa Dalloway is a character who most likely to be expressed as mellow and miserable. She is miserable and sad because she is most likely stuck in her previous life, regarding her previous relationship and memories with somebody. She has been thinking

      Truman Capote wrote the novel Breakfast at Tiffany's without a rhyme or a reason.      He used real life characters possessing different names. It is stated that the narrator just might have been Truman himself during his early years in New York. It is clear that Mr. Capote does not believe in traditional values. He himself did come from a wealthy unorthodox family life. Capote's ideal woman was created in Holly Golightly, also know as Lulamae

Why study Gifts? The anthropology of gifts has been mostly studied in the context of non-Western cultures. The important roles of gift giving were highlighted by classical anthropologists such as Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss. They stressed the significance of reciprocity and obligation suggested in gift exchange and that gift giving is a one practice of material expression that integrates a society. Gift giving is essential to the studies of many anthropological debates such as sociability