Cultural Self Portrait

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    Flannery O’connor, the South and Religion

    Gothic style uses traits such as grotesquery and ironic events to judge the morals of the American South. Unlike its similar and older genre, Gothic tools are used not only for the sense of anticipation, but also to discover social issues and show the cultural aspect of the American South. One thing that holds dear to the south is religion. Many southerners claim Christianity, which to them makes their morals right. Southern culture has been and remains commonly and publically more conventional the rest

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    Art and Story Proceedings 2004

    Updike……………………………………. Thomas P. Adler With a Pen of Light …………………………………………………………………… Michael Fink Media and the Message: Does Media Shape or Serve the Story: Visual Storytelling and New Media ……………………………………………………. June Bisantz Evans Visual Literacy: The Language of Cultural Signifiers…………………………………. Tammy Knipp SECTION THREE: Narrative and Fine Art Beyond Illustration: Visual Narrative Strategies in Picasso’s Celestina Prints………… Susan J. Baker and William Novak Narrative, Allegory, and Commentary in Emil Nolde’s Legend:

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    Sociology

    especially visible and legally defined minority populations in the United States, racial and ethnic identity are manifested in very conscious ways. This manifestation is triggered most often by two conflicting social and cultural influences. First, deep conscious immersion into cultural traditions and values through religious, familial, neighborhood, and educational communities instills a positive sense of ethnic identity and confidence. Second, and in contrast, individuals often must filter ethnic

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    Vincent Van Gogh

    Vincent Van Gogh 1853 – 1890 "And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'" Vincent van Gogh Letter 338 19 November 1883 Early Years – Vincent Van Gogh makes one of the most tragic lives in the history of painting, which began on March 30, 1853 at Groot-Zundert, in Dutch Brabant, near the

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    Velazques and the Golden Age

    invaluable developments that followed this esthetic movement triggered a relevant prestige in many Spanish people's lives that felt absorbed and totally part the new movement that was leading the 16th and the 17th centuries in Europe, by combining cultural and economic advances. On the other hand and from a historic and social point of view, it should be mentioned that this period was also marked by the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church, along with many religious movements aimed at reaffirming

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    Jan Steen: the Marriage of Tobias and Sarah

    The marriage of Tobias and Sarah was a painting done by Jan Steen in 1673. The piece of art was done using oil, painted on a canvas material. Jan Steen, who lived between 1626 and 1679, also named the work The Marriage Contract. According to Nash, Orr and Stewart (84), the theme of the picture is drawn from the book of Tobit 3:7-17 in the Old Testament. It was done based on the status of marriage during that time. The picture shows a priest instituting a wedding. The two lovers are sitting by either

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    Peter The Great: Peter The Great

    Peter ’s characteristic can be finished with his portrait done by the Danish envoy: "The king is very tall and has his own short brown curly hair and quite big mustache, his outlook and behavior are very simple, but he is pretty attentive and clever.».») This shows that Peter was very different, being so

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    Nine Rasas

    Navarasas Human life is a rich fabric that is given colour and texture by the many happenings that shape it. The mundane actions that characterize every day as well as the extraordinary 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

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    Canada

    Without that knowledge we will not survive.” Margaret Atwood, Survival As Atwood’s statement demonstrates, Canadian literature is concerned with place and displacement, and with the development of an effective identifying relationship between self and environs. Canada’s literature whether written in English or French reflects three main parts of Canadian experience. First, Canadian writers often emphasize the effects of climate and geography on the life and work of their people. Second

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    Shards of Memories, Fragments of Sorrows: Mothertongue Transforming Spaces Occupied by Women in South Africa Through Theatre

    rituals and ultimately on the processes of remapping personal narratives. I focus specifically on Mothertongue’s 2004 production, Uhambo: pieces of a dream. The production was an integration of theatre and visual art in the form of performances, portraits and installations that probed the concept of democracy through the eyes of women living in Cape Town. The production took audience members on a journey that wove together women’s personal responses to life in South Africa post-1994. PAPER

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