Abstract This paper discusses the life of country singer, Tim McGraw. The author gives a summary of McGraw's childhood and his career in the music industry. The paper highlights McGraw's successful albums and also mentions his marriage with fellow countryartist, Faith Hill.
From the Paper "The album was recorded with his touring band in New York, which is very unique for country music. The majority, if not nearly all country albums are recorded in Nashville studios with the best musicians available. Studio musicians are generally viewed as being more technically precise than touring bands and therefore produce better quality music for studio recording purposes. However, McGraw and his touring band are close friends and have been for the duration of his career and he felt that in order to produce something true, pure and honest, his music had to be recorded with the band."
Abstract The fact that so many of these artists were of a military background begs the question: Are the themes and styles of English Canadian art during the decades immediately after 1759 influenced by these artist's military backgrounds? To answer this question, this paper will first discuss British artists in Canada during this time, and their backgrounds, and then proceed to an examination of two particular artists and their works.
Abstract This paper describes some famous artists including Rembrandt, Renoir and Sargent. The author gives particular emphasis to artists who painted on canvas and concentrated on portraits of women.
From the paper:
"Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn was considered to be the greatest artist of the Dutch Baroque Era. Rembrandt lived from 1606 until 1669. He specialized in portraiture and was a master of light and shadows. Woman with a Pink, an oil on canvas, was painted by Rembrandt in the early 1660s. The unidentified woman in this warm but somber portrait offers a pink (or carnation), symbolic of marriage, to her husband in Man with a Magnifying Glass. This painting is dark and slightly haunting, with the woman seeming to be lost in deep meditative thought."
Abstract This paper shows how Hughes and Cullen follow Du Bois? prescription in their creations of black art. The author focuses on Hughes? poem "Ballad of the Landlord" and Cullen's poem ?From the Dark Tower,? and derives his definition of Du Bois? artistic prescription from his essay ?Criteria of Negro Art.?
From the paper:
"Amidst the prevailing racial injustice during the Harlem Renaissance, W.E.B. Du Bois charges black artists to use their art to send a message to society: a message of unity to the blacks, and a message rejecting their so-called inferiority to the whites. Black art, Du Bois insisted, should be used as a weapon against racism, demonstrating blacks? worthiness of American status and their ability to conceive Beauty in their art. Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, whether intentionally or not, followed the artistic specifications set forth by W.E.B. Du Bois in their respective creations "From the Dark Tower" and ?Ballad of the Landlord.?
Abstract This paper is a study on the changing role of the artist in European society, as seen in its case study of Antonio Canova. It asks whether increased demand for art, and increased commercialization, gave the artist greater freedom as it released him from the grip of his patron; or, whether this only subjugated him to new restrictions, those of a competitive market.
From the Paper "Before the nineteenth century artists in Europe relied almost entirely upon their patrons to finance their work. It was extremely difficult, and pretty much unheard of, for an artist to finance his own profession, and there was not a large enough market to create a piece without having a specific buyer in mind. Therefore, patrons could, and often did, exert a large influence on the outcome of the work."
Abstract This paper studies James Joyce's autobiographical tale of Stephen Dedalus. It discusses Stephen's growing self-awareness as a person and as an artist which causes him to dismiss the nationalism and Catholicism and to go to Paris to become a writer. It is a tale of the author's description's of Dedalus's history and what became of him. It includes several excerpts from the book which are analyzed.
From the Paper "If we were to concern ourselves strictly with plot, we might well say of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man that there is none there. Not a great deal actually happens in this essentially autobiographical tale of Stephen Dedalus, and the narrative follows no clear single trajectory of cause and effect. Rather, in one of the first important uses of stream of consciousness, Joyce tells us in this short novel about Stephen's growing self-awareness as a person and as an artist, a growing self-awareness that will cause him by the end of the book to cast off the nationalism, the Catholicism and the sense of clannishness that defines other members of his father and to set off to Paris to become a writer."
Abstract Sir Charles Eastlake and Mrs. Merrifield added much, perhaps indirectly, to our knowledge of 19th century English artists' techniques. This paper examines their milieu, and how they gained interest in the painting that they wrote upon, along with their published contributions to fine art scholarship. Both authors are looked at in the light of a particular cultural and intellectual environment.
Abstract This paper looks at the book "Ethiopia: A Country Study" from the point of view of its unique angle in which it examines the history and society of Ethiopia. It shows how the authors adopt a holistic approach to the analysis of Ethiopia, providing a detailed description and interpretation of the country's major historical events, in addition to its social, economic, political, and security systems.
From the Paper "Presented in a chronologically well structured manner, and in language that is acceptable to both academic experts and a general audience, the study conducts an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia's social, political and economic institutions, their development, efficiency and interrelationships. Ethiopia: A Country Study places great emphasis on the effects of cultural factors and, unlike many similar research projects, the authors of this book have closely examined and considered the results of political and economic development upon the different ethnic groups within Ethiopia, in addition to those of the population as a whole."
Tags: africa, society, economy, development, third, world, country, population
Abstract The paper explores the stance of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in regards to its policy of accession with developing countries and specific restrictions on trade for other countries. The paper focuses on Kyrgyzstan and further developments of the WTO with Russia and China. The paper provides a brief synopsis on globalization and capital to shed light on the effects of trade on the global economy.
From the Paper "The World Trade Organization has, since the Doha Ministerial Conference in 2001 had at the center of its policy the enhancement of developing countries with trade. The Committee on Trade and Development deals with economy issues facing less developed countries (that is less developed in the areas of agriculture, or natural resources) and works on trade related issues that may arise from such shortcomings.
"Another area by which the WTO has interacted with developing countries is through technology. The WTO has set forth specific goals for accessible technologies to be traded between countries whether or not they are developing or already developed in technology. Agriculture and technology are key components of the Doha Ministerial Conference because they allow for multilateral trade. The WTO has two-thirds of its members as developing countries so their inclusion in policy and multilateral trade is essential to the role of the World Trade Organization (Ingco 2004)."
Abstract The paper is a brief research in to the issue of the fundamentalist Islamic societies such as, Saudi Arabia and other related countries, where men abuse Islam to oppress women.
This paper discusses the legendary Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, sometimes called a surrealist painter, Communist, and inspiration for one of the greatest painters of the 20th century, Diego Rivera.
Abstract This paper explains that Frida Kahlo's physical suffering definitely stimulated her spiritual side as images came into her mind and then appeared in her paintings, similar to many physically handicapped artists, such as Toulouse-Lautrec. The author claims that the biography of Frida Kahlo, as written by Hayden Herrera, is perhaps one of the most interesting and complete stories about someone's life that has ever been written. The paper contends that Kahlo is a type of traditional artist, called Mexicanism, which she embraced throughout her lifetime as a result of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 that resulted in a wave of nationalism throughout the country and prompted a new pride in traditional Mexican culture.
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Background Information: Biography and Reputation
Synopsis of Hayden Herrera's "Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo"
Objective Critique
From the Paper "Frida Kahlo was born on the 6th of July 1907 in Ciudad de Mexico as the third daughter of William Kahlo and Matilda Calderon. Her complete name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon. Her life was struck by misery ever since the beginning: in 1913, when she was six years old, she contracted poliomyelitis and her right leg was affected, appearing much thinner than the other throughout her life. She entered high school at the National Preparatory School, where she soon turned out to be the leader of a prank-oriented group of rebel teenagers. It was here that she came in contact with her future husband and soul mate, Diego Rivera, perhaps the greatest Mexican muralist who, at that time, was commissioned to paint a mural in the school auditorium."
Abstract This paper examines the various gendered messages currently being sent by country music artists. It reviews and analyzes top country music songs and notes that the review illustrates the fact that men continue to dominate the country music business. The paper further notes that the analysis provided in the paper supports the claim that country music is becoming more progressive in its portrayals of women even though the clothing and body movements still emphasize women's sexuality as central. The paper then relates that the primary, homogeneous all-prevailing theme in country music is that of love and provides an analysis of 12 songs that deal with various types of relational love and how men and women represented in these songs do or do not conform to stereotypical (dating) scripts. The lyrics to the 12 songs reviewed as well as list of the top 30 country music songs are appended to the paper.
From the Paper "A review of the current top 30 songs (See Appendix 13) illustrates well the fact that men continue to dominate the country music business (in this case 6 of the 30 top songs are by women = 5:1). Many of the specific songs reviewed in this analysis support the comments above about the progressive portrayals of women. Campbell (2006) suggests that "gender operates throughout the whole constellation of images, attitudes, and operations attendant to country music" (p. 217). Contemporary artists like Shania Twin, Faith Hill and Gretchen Wilson prove that the feminist movement has not passed country music by, but is rather making inroads within the "confines of this conservative industry and fan base" (p. 218). "Country music videos offer a space for contemporary female artists to more visually and openly challenge that which their predecessors challenged in their time - the traditional, confining gender roles that dominant American culture espouses" (Wilson, 2000, p. 290). But as the music videos will support, the clothing and body movements still emphasize women's sexuality as central."
Abstract This paper defines Pop art, of which Red Grooms was one of the founders, and its causative factors, such as a reaction to the increase in capitalist consumerism, particularly in countries like the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists, the author relates, questioned the formal aspects of art creation and presentation and refused to be confined by any conventional restrictions. While Red Grooms' art is unusually associated with large environmental sculptural works and happenings, the author points out that his oeuvre covered a very wide range of forms and mediums of expression, some of which are described in this paper.
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Introduction: The Context of Pop Art
Red Grooms and Pop Art
From the Paper "Red Grooms was born Charles Rogers Grooms in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee. Grooms began his art career at the early age and while he was still a high school student, he had an exhibition of his work at a Nashville gallery. After school, Grooms studied art at Peabody College in Nashville. He was to move to New York in 1956, where he continued his art studies at the New School for Social Research. He remained in New York at it became both a source of inspiration for his work and his permanent home."
Abstract Country music in the 1960s and 1970s is characterized as "outlaw" country music and represents a break from the traditional Nashville sound, as well as position taken by recording artists who wanted more control of their music. Their songs emphasized grieving lives of prison, drug and alcohol abuse and their rejection of tradition made them popular in an era marked by dramatic social and cultural upheaval.
Abstract In this article, the writer notes that James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" portrays the struggle of a unique and artistic soul to find his own distinct voice and identity within the repressive and severe environment of early 20th century Catholic Ireland. The writer points out that the strict ideologies and rules of the Catholic Church perpetuated a society which valued a submission to strict conformity that thrived on fear. The writer discusses that in "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", one sees the effects that a strict and rigid society has upon the development of an artist. The writer further asserts that, this fear, dispensed by the Catholic Church and welcomed by the Irish people, extended beyond the fear of individuality and change, but encompassed nearly every aspect of the human condition. The writer further notes that, in "A Portrai of the Artist as a Young Man", the Ireland encountered not only demands conformity, but passivity and a "fear of freedom, fear of the body, (and) fear of the complexity of experience.
From the Paper "From this perspective we can understand the roots of Stephen's conformity, as from a young age he is conditioned to believe that deviating from expectations and embracing change and originality results in eternal damnation. Consequently, Stephen comes to see his own individuality as sinful, and in ignoring his unique thoughts and ambitions he is unconsciously repressing his inner voice and artistic soul."
"Much of the curiosity that Stephen yearns to be satiated throughout the book comes from the rigidity of Irish society. In Catholic Ireland, that which was considered taboo or profane was simply ignored and not addressed. As Stephen matures and is forced to confront his sexuality, he is left without an understanding of this part of human nature except to be told that it is sinful."
