...one of the most prestigious schools in Mexico, where Kahlo was a part of the small female student body containing thirty five girls. (Beaver)During her attendance at The Preparatoria Kahlo joined a teenage gang. It was then Kahlo fell for her first love,the head of the gang, Alejandro Gomez Arias. Soon after Kahlo found herself in many dangerous confrontations in and out of the gang, it became a regular occurrence for her to witness acts of violence. On September 17th,1925 Kahlo was involved in an accident when the bus she and Arias were riding home from school collided with a streetcar.(Beaver) Leaving her with a broken spinal column, broken ribs and pelvis as well as many fractures in her leg a crushed foot and dislocated shoulder,Kahlo carried this memory for the rest of her life along with handrail that plowed through her abdomen into her uterus permanently damaging her reproductive system.(Collins) In order to recover, Kahlo was put in a full body cast only allowing movement of her arms. Later on Kahlo began to find herself alone and with nothing to do after her boyfriend informed her of his plans to move to Europe. During her long recovery of three months where she had remained bed ridden, Kahlo began to draw and paint,teaching herself to bring gentle brush strokes to the canvas.(Gowing344)She started small doing drawings on her cast until her mother gifted her with a special lap easel and her father had given her his box of oil paints and brushes. She spent most of her time...
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...It shows us the Dali was not only a great painter, but he also had talent in creating movies, sculpture and experimental stage props. It seems to me that the painting portrays how Dali sees the world. Its white arcane sculpted eye looks up at the sky desperately like it is craving for a new ‘creativeness’. The eye which is placed onto a somehow dull, brick wall can blossom new ideas that is valued highly. However Dali must have had difficulties at his time controlling his artistic consciousness. Dali was obsessed with many things like the fear of insects, cross roads and transportations. He even carried a piece of wood like a talisman to scare away the devil. I think that the pain he had was a price for his ingenious creativity is expressed as the tears trickling out of the eye. Back Ground of the painting-(Art movements, Styles or Techniques used at the time) This painting was done at the time of surrealism, and also is a surrealist painting. Surrealism is a style in which fantastical visual imagery from the subconscious mind is used with no intention of making the work logically comprehensible. It was first founded by Andre Breton in 1924, it was a primarily European movement that attracted many members of the Dada movement. It was deeply influenced by the psychoanalytic work of Freud. Salvador Dali is the single best-known Surrealist artist, broke with the group of the Surrealist, due to his right-wing politics (during this period leftism was the fashion among Surrealists...
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...Surname Instructor Course Date Charlie Chaplin; The Prominent comedian Introduction During the silent era, films had did not have harmonized recorded sound and also spoken dialogue. The dialogue was through use of signals, mime and title cards. There were a lot of technical problems that resulted from trying to coordinate motion pictures with recorded sound and this is why during the silent era (1894–1929) most films remained “silent” until the late 1920s when the first film was released with sound and it became the order of the day until now. The advantage of the silent films is that they provided inexpensive entertainment and also overcame the verbal barriers for immigrants who had had just migrated to America in the early 1920s. One of the most prominent film stars during the silent era was Charlie Chaplin, who was born on 16 April, 1889 in London, England as Charles Spencer Chaplin; he died on the 25th December 1977 as a result of natural reasons. He was born from a very humble family, and his parents were also involved in the entertainment industry and this is why he started of his career at the tender age. During his American tour, he was spotted by Mark Sennet, who was a famous comedy director. He had two half-brothers who were also film actors; Sydney Chaplin and Wheeler Dryden and was the husband to Mildred Harris, who he divorced in 1920 and got married again to an actresses Lita Grey with whom...
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...Urban Modernity in NY (1908) and Ash Can artists General: The thrills of technology, such as coney island, city of wonders, also had the nitty gritty, more poverty and realistic side of the city with the ash can artists • Song Slide: nickelodeon o Diversity, adults children white black o Let the audience feel as a presence w/in performance o Act of watching was also entertainment • Coney Island at Night- film frame o Electricity changing what nighttime meant in urban setting • Before it was to be avoided and now it is not. Led to growth of nightlife • Footlight flirtation o Vaudeville established itself from burlesque/cheap entertainment • Create a form of entertainment that could be viewed by all, no vulgarity • Movies: five cents o Films mixed with live acts, broadened nighttime environment (attended by unescorted women, creating unsupervised encounters b/w men and women) • Started consumer culture- break down Victorian gender • Mixed audience represented experience of urban life (black/white, men/women) Exciting, instability, city new visual experience • Lone Tenement (George Bellows) o Wanted to facec the ugly in city as well as beautiful o Worked against Whistler (avoided aesheticism) • Rawness of city, depicted vaudeville (which is like mixture of acts such as burlesque, comedians, music, etc) o Liked to show economic conditions of urban poor • Ash Can painting style: thick and messy, meant to look like it was applied slap-dash...
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...> 168159 CD >m Gift of YALE UNIVERSITY With the aid of the ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 1949 OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Call No. Author %&V/S#/ 2-^ & Accession No. - . This bookihould be returned on or before the date last marked below. WHAT IS LITERATURE? JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Translated from the French by BERNARD FRECHTMAN PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY NEW YORK Copyright, 1949, by Philosophical Library, Inc. 15 EAST 40th Street, New York, N.Y. Printed in the United States of America TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword I II What Why is Writing? Write? Whom Does One Write? 7 38 III For IV Situation of the Writer in 1947 161 Index 299 67 FOREWORD want to engage yourself," writes a young imbecile, "what are you waiting for? Join the Communist Party." A great writer who engaged himself often and disengaged himself still more often, but who has forgotten, said to me, "The worst artists are the most engaged. Look "If you at the Soviet painters" "You want tres is to murder An old critic gently complained, literature. spread out insolently all Contempt for belles-let- through your review." A petty mind calls me pigheaded, which for him is evidently the highest insult. An author who barely crawled from name sometimes awakens men accuses me of not being one war to the other and whose languishing memories in old concerned with immortality; he knows, thank God, any number of people whose chief hope it is. In the eyes of an American...
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...a major theft occurred. Unknown broke the door to the museum Aberga (Abergs Museum), stormed inside and stripped from the walls of famous works of masters of the pop art of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) and Roy Lichtenstein (Roy Lichtenstein). Robbers also took a poster to the old film The New Spirit, probably thinking that this is also Warhol. Police are looking for villains in the entire Stockholm, but the search has not yielded results. Stolen masterpieces of pop art experts estimated in 500 thousand dollars. The museum is named after the famous Swedish filmmaker, artist and musician Lasse Aberga (Lasse Aberg). In the 1960's, he was carried away by pop-art aesthetics, and in 1970 started to collect various objects associated with the film studio of Walt Disney. In 2002, Aberg, opened for its «Disney» museum collections, where among other things, you can see the Mickey-Maus and other famous cartoon character, written or drawn by well-known contemporary artists. So the emergence of Warhol and Liechtenstein in the museum was not accidental - animation as one of the most...
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...“For the Watch” It was about two years ago, but I still remember it clearly. The night was late, I was sleepy, and I had work the next morning. Still, I couldn’t stop reading; I had three chapters left in George R. R. Martin’s sprawling fifth book A Dance with Dragons. Plot twists were being revealed, bombshells were being dropped, and Cersei just took an infamous walk. I simply couldn’t hold off reading, so I turn the page to the book’s final Jon chapter. It’s a chapter filled with tension and uncertainty due to the arrival of droves of wildings to the Wall, and on the chapter’s last page “For the Watch” happens. As Jon succumbed to his injuries, I threw my book across the room in a fit of rage and shock; cursing George for smashing his readers’ emotions. Ever since that time, I was looking forward to see that iconic book moment adapted to screen so that TV viewers would go through the same blood-boiling frustration (a reaction that has become a trademark of Game of Thrones). Finally, the moment arrived this week and it was equally brutal as the book counterpart. The show’s fifth season ended in a bang with the shocking and sad death of Jon Snow concluding an eventful finale that was filled with defeat, backstabbing, confrontations, and one particularly memorable atonement. One after the other, the brothers of the Night’s Watch buried their daggers in Jon. What an ugly and despicable betrayal that was! But what was uglier was their petty motivation. Their hatred towards...
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...All about My Travels through the Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and the Early 20th Century Deana Mole January, 24, 2014 Hum/205 Mr. Longstreth If you could learn about any three cultures, what would they be? This question was asked of me at one point in my career as an art historian and author. I have written a new textbook about the three periods I most enjoyed investigating and learning about. In this book, I hope to give you information on them and encourage you to dig even deeper to learn more about them. The three periods I have chosen for this book are; Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and Early 20th Century. These are all very different but as you will see as you read the book that even though they are different they have similarities. All about My Travels through the Egyptian Civilization, Early Japanese Civilization, and the Early 20th Century Chapter 1 Egyptian civilization developed around 5000 B.C.E. During this time, Egypt was divided into two sections, Lower and Upper. Lower Egypt was actually a narrow strip of land located on either side of the Nile River. It ran for 700 miles from the first waterfall in the south to the Nile Delta. (Benton, J. R. & DiYanni, R., 2012, p. 17) Lower Egypt was in the northern part and was on the fertile land of the...
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...happenings that make and keep our lives interesting are all threads that get woven together to form this tapestry. The one thing that is common to all these threads is the fact that they evoke feelings in us, we respond to them with our emotions before they can become a part of our internal life. Indeed, life can be thought of as a continuous sequence of emotions that arise in various contexts and circumstances. These emotions, or rasas, are what give life different hues, shades and colors. Thus it is not surprising that most performing art, which tries to present to the viewer a slice of human life focuses precisely on these rasas, or emotions in order to appeal to the audience. That rasas are the mainstay of performing art, or natya, is a fact that has been well-recognised for centuries now. The NatyaShastra is an ancient Indian text dated between 2nd century BC and 2nd century AD which analyses all aspects of performing art. It is often called the fifth veda because of its importance. In it one finds a thorough exposition on the rasas, or emotions that characterise Life as well as Art. The NatyaShastra describes nine rasas or NavaRasas that are the basis of all human emotion. Each is commented upon in detail. It is useful to keep in mind that a rasa encompasses not just the emotion, but also the various things that cause that emotion. These two things go hand in hand and are impossible to treat separately. This duality is part of every rasa to varying degrees. Today we try...
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...http://nyti.ms/1Kv55ax Far Away From Here In travel photography, as in writing, there's no shortcut to finding your own voice. By TEJU COLE SEPT. 23, 2015 Only a few slender strings were attached: two public readings and a commitment to spend the majority of the six months in the country. Beyond that, I would be left to my own devices. An apartment would be provided, and a stipend. I didn’t think about it for very long. I wrote back: Yes. The invitation had come from the Literaturhaus in Zurich, one of those wonderful arts institutions of which Europe seems to have so many. Every six months they selected one writer, from anywhere in the world, to stay in the apartment they ran with a foundation. When I received the invitation, I felt as though I’d won a raffle I didn’t even know I had a ticket for. Switzerland: The place comes with an easy set of mental associations. But I suspected there was more to it than its reputation for calendar-pretty landscapes, secretive bankers and regular trains, and here was a chance to see for myself. Besides, I had a manuscript to work on, a nonfictional narrative of Lagos, Nigeria, the city in which I grew up. Where better to write about chaotic, relentless, overpopulated Lagos than in modest, quietly industrious Zurich? There would be so little else to do in Switzerland anyway (according to my less-than-enthusiastic friends) that I would be mainly absorbed in writing during my time there. Perhaps I might even continue...
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...‘GUNDA’ AND ‘LOHA’ A STUDY OF CULT FILM CULTURES KSHITIJ PIPALESHWAR A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Media and Cultural Studies School of Media and Cultural Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai 2013 i DECLARATION I, Kshitij Pipaleshwar, hereby declare that this dissertation entitled ‘ ‘Gunda’ and ‘Loha’ : A Study of Cult Film Cultures’ is the outcome of my own study undertaken under the guidance of Assistant Professor K.V.Nagesh Babu, Centre for Critical Media Praxis, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. It has not previously formed the basis for the award of any degree, diploma, or certificate of this Institute or of any other institute or university. I have duly acknowledged all the sources used by me in the preparation of this dissertation. 3rd March 2013 Kshitij Pipaleshwar ii CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the dissertation entitled ‘‘Gunda’ and ‘Loha’ : A Study of Cult Film Cultures’ is the record of the original work done by Kshitij Pipaleshwar under my guidance and supervision. The results of the research presented in this dissertation/thesis have not previously formed the basis for the award of any degree, diploma, or certificate of this Institute or any other institute or university. 4th March 2013 K.V.Nagesh Babu Assistant Professor Centre for Critical Media Praxis School of Media...
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...Chapter III ERMITA’S CULTURAL MERIT Philippines has different wonderful sites that every Filipino can be truly proud of. These places may be aesthetically pleasant but more importantly, they tell the history of the Filipino people which is translated to properties and built heritage. Some of these are recognized, designated and properly credited by the government while some are left by the development in the country. These properties and locations are also conserved and preserved as they are deemed important to the cultural heritage of the community. Ermita, Manila holds value of a heritage site. Considered today as a major commercial and business district, Ermita is a community that delivers to everyday life of not only the residents of Ermita, but also to people who live in the metropolis. Despite the prominent buildings and famous institutions that are located in the area, Ermita is also a home to significant and historic beginnings of Manila. The history and the developments are turned into concrete reminders in the fields of academe, research and medicine, religion, art, trade and industry, government and even private institutions which collectively contribute to the cultural merit of Ermita. ACADEME AND RESEARCH The history of the Philippines according to written records started in 1521 upon the arrival of Magellan. As early as that, the natives already have their own system of writing. It was in 1768 when Jesuit priests arrived in the Philippines and they...
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...4 Anonymous Hacktivism and Contemporary Politics Christian Fuchs 1. INTRODUCTION It is Friday, August 6, 2012, on the Internet. Sixty-seven years earlier, on August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima. One hears a song by Trey Parker: "America. Fuck yeah. [. . .] So lick my butt and suck on my balls, America, fuck yeah! Whatcha' gonna do when we come for you now? (. . .) McDonalds, fuck yeah! Wal-Mart, fuck yeah!" Pictures of cats that look human are accompanied by the request, "I want to start a collection of my fetish catboys so post moar!" There is a link to a live cam on Times Square. One also finds an image showing a burning American flag that is accompanied by the logos of McDonald's and images of a can of Mountain Dew, the Statue of Liberty, a guitar player and a screaming bear. "You should kill yourself, fucking AMERRRICCAAA, you little fag- got." A rapper writes a new song and says that the first few minutes of the discussion in his thread will become part of the song. There is a story about a brother who tries to seduce his sister, but it turns out that his sister is a large arthropod. There is a thread with images of female but- tocks, accompanied by an announcement that one of the portrayed girls receives prank phone calls. One sees a picture of a couple having oral sex accompanied by the text "PORNO FUCK YEAH!" as well as a picture of a drunk sleeping man accompanied by the text "buddy passed out after 11 Coors...
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...MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION This module provides an overview on the subject of art appreciation for those entirely new to the subject. This is a complex topic to deal with and it is impossible to have a truly comprehensive discussion on the topic in such a brief essay. The student is advised to consult more advanced texts to gain further understanding of how to appreciate art more fully. HUMANITIES: What is it? • The term Humanities comes from the Latin word, “humanitas” • It generally refers to art, literature, music, architecture, dance and the theatre—in which human subjectivity is emphasized and individual expressiveness is dramatized. HOW IMPORTANT IS HUMANITIES • The fields of knowledge and study falling under humanities are dedicated to the pursuit of discovering and understanding the nature of man. • The humanities deal with man as a being of purpose, of values, loves, hates, ideas and sometimes as seer or prophet with divine inspiration. • The humanities aim at educating. THE ARTS: What is it? • The word “art” usually refers to the so-called “fine arts” (e.g. pictorial, plastic, and building)– and to the so-called “minor arts” (everyday, useful, applied, and decorative arts) • The word “art” is derived from arti, which denotes craftsmanship, skill, mastery of form, inventiveness. • Art serves as a technical and creative record of human needs and achievements. The word 'art' is often used in our daily lives. However, when...
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...Complex Systems in Education CSE ESSAYS COURSE Complex Course on Writing English and American Essays for Advanced Students English Language Programs Division Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Writing 2 United States Information Agency, Washington, D. C. 1999 2 3 How to Use this Complex Course Частные уроки Английского Языка 387-1231 MIND Speaks to MIND – Selected American Essays 4 Preface Some years ago, a visitor to our office, a professor of English at a large foreign university, asked if the English Language Programs Division had published a book of American essays for foreign students – especially students at the advanced level. Having to respond in the negative, I was, nonetheless, “intrigued” by the idea of a collection of essays that would form a source of stimulating ideas or thoughts that could be thoroughly examined in the EFL classroom, discussed and debated in free conversation, and perhaps, ultimately, lead to a significant growth in the exchange of information between cultures – via the printed page. From this rationale, then, there issues an explanation for the title, Mind Speaks to Mind, which itself is an “exchange of information” between the editor and Edward Hoagland in his essay, “On Essays”! And, readers are encouraged to study this essay first as a type of guideline concerning the nature/purpose of the essay. It is found on page 26. For ease of reference, the essays are presented in alphabetical order according...
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