Essays on Politics Page 359

Who were the Poor Classes? Why is it somewhat surprising that they were accomplished musicians? They were nuns in the Catholic Church. Its was a surprise because they were nuns and wasn’t expected to be great musicians. What is a chanson? A song in French, or a French song. What is the song “Fine Knacks…

It is still an unusual endeavour to read Dante’s Commedia in a systematically vertical manner, linking three single canti from Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso on the basis of numerical positioning, rather than following the extraordinarily well-determined linear pathway that Dante delineates for his narrative journey from Hell to Heaven. On first encounter with the Commedia,…

Surrealism started as a revolt against the intellect of Cubism, Formalist art, Art for Arts sake (Dada) and abstraction. It is an attitude to life and society rather than a style of art. It was a painting style that trapped the dream into physical existence. Individualism and isolation was a core value of the movement….

Introduction Renaissance, literally, meaner rebirth; it is an era that began in sass’s and ended in 1600 and its school of thought dramatically shifted from religious and mystical ideals to a focus to human interactions. It is worthy and important to understand the changes from the transition of musical period, because they mark and shape…

Today I’m going to be doing my speech on the fads, fashion, and music of the ass’s. First I’m going to tell you’ll about women’s fashion in the ass’s. Women in the ass’s wore dresses with pinched in waists to show off their hourglass figures. They wore full skirts, also known as poodle skirts because…

Minimalism originated in the sass, as a movement that sought to stray from the previous decade of self-expressionism as well as the contemporary trends of intellectual complexities found in serial music. Marked by repetitive mitotic and rhythmic patterns, it sought to emphasize simplicity in both melodic lines and harmonic progressions. In contrast to serial music’s…

Introduction: The 19th. Century was an era of invention and discovery. The horrors of the First World War led to widespread social trauma. People found consolation in art and literature, and used it as a way to express their outrage caused by the war. People demented a form of expression that was honest, realistic, and…

Last year coming north from Italy, I passed a day at Munich. Looking over a published list of museums, I found one that I had never visited: it was of a new type to me. Upon its walls were copies only, copies of the great master- pieces of painting, mostly after the world famous works…

The annual meeting of the San Francisco Art-Association was held March 3ist. Reports from the various officers were read, showilig that the Society is in a flourishing condition. The School of Design, conducted under the auspices of the Society, is growing rapidly, and the proficiency shown by the pupils is very satisfactory to the officers….

It is worth reminding ourselves that in light of Raymond Williams’ understanding of “a culture in common,” central to the concept of “shared humanity” is the idea that people’s well-being is related to “the [mutual] tending of [their] natural growth. ” Williams insists (as quoted above) that “it is on growth, as metaphor and as…