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    Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Chaucer and Shakespeare accentuate the dialogue the women use to gain authority over the male population. Their use of the English language documents an occurrence of social and linguistic changes from Middle English to Early Modern English. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” address the subject of feminine authority through

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    deep religious faith, expressed through a profound reverence for the classical Antiquity. A modern art was nationally acclaimed and recognized. Modern Artists were perceived as an Avant Guarde that challenged the main stream, traditional art. It was focused on the artist brain. Modernism reflecting the industrial revolution; was the era of mass production and consumption. One development evident in the modern era, spurred by technological growth in this century, has augmented the artist role in society;

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    Recognized as two of the greatest, most profound choreographers of the 20th century Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey forever changed the history and future of American Modern Dance. Both choreographers have such inspirational backgrounds that enhance the emotions throughout their pieces. In the peak of their careers, they fulfilled their accomplishments and goals. Being that they were both American choreographers, their work was different for the most part but was similar at some point. Martha Graham

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    the Galerie der Künstler in Munich (1982) and producing his first works for a public space. Since then, Scheithauer with his art has been commenting on the legacy of minimal and conceptual art, greatly represented within collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Hünfeld, Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt, the Forum Konkrete Kunst in Erfurt,

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    She also paved the way for other modern dancers such as Martha Graham, Mary Wigman, and Ruth St. Denis. Some people feel like she doesn’t have a technique because it contained a lot of improvisation. However, Duncan studied each individual movement for hours trying to figure out the best way for her to send her message to the audience. Duncan is also recognized for elevating modern dance to an art form, instead of just for

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    He achieved this by integrating two conflicting worlds, an outer world of rules and systems through science, and an inner world of strange dark forms through poetry. Raised as a christian and trained as a scientist he learned to study the external forms and shapes of things from his mentor Wolfgang von Goethe. His use of microscopes helped him create images of immense precision. The camera lucida further helped

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    - Samuel Beckett. With the onset of 20th century was the beginning of the modern dance. It was born in America due to a reason of an agitation against the two forms of dance which has been prevailing for a long time, vaudeville and ballet. Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were the forerunners of modern dance in America. Each had a different way of being unique and representing the art form of modern dance in his or her own way. Where Loie Fuller began experimenting with effects

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    Journal 3 - Existentialism Existentialism is something that everybody thinks of sometimes in their life. Maybe they thought about it while on the toilet, or when they just achieved something they worked really hard at, or they thought about it while lying in bed at 3 am when they couldn’t sleep. Existentialism is based off of the questions “What is my purpose?” and “Why am I here?”. It basically answers these questions by saying that there is no meaning and that we can only assign meaning to our

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    MODERNISM It is a reasonable fact that the culture of art or the visual art culture changes in direct proportion with the social and political changes in societies and around the world. For example the South African arts, in music, performance, poetry and visual arts of today cannot be equated to that of the 1950s and 60s when apartheid laws were just being newly introduced and imparted into societies and simply as a result the peoples struggle or resistance was very relevant. The struggle or resistance

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    The Socio-Political Conditions of Modernity in Poetry In modern era poetry, poets write about social subjects as opposed to outdated topics. They do not write on the subject of trees, river, cattle, and other natural resources. Their poems are now a reflection of the times, referring to the essence of machines and their effects on the society. Outdated poetry would not be able to exist in today’s busy world if the topics were not updated. Walt Whitman 's "I Hear America Singing” and Langston Hughes

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