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    Outline and Evaluate postmodern views on the diversity of family (33marks) The idea of family diversity suggests that there is no dominate type of family‚ therefore none can be considered as the norm. However there are studies to suggest that in historical periods of Britain like when it was industrializing there is dominating types‚ in this period it was considered to be the nuclear family. Rapoport and Rapoport agreed that there are five types of diversity in a contemporary family‚ these are:

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    Many modern artists use high technology equipment in their works. Whereas traditionally artists used a pencil or brush to make beautiful works of art‚ artists in the early twenty-first century are now using sound‚ video or computer generated images. Digital art developed from simple patterns and shapes made using computer programs to finished works of art which can look as realistic as a watercolour or oil painting. Modern art exhibitions often include more videos and installations than traditional

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    Analysis of Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman Maus‚ by Art Spiegelman‚ shows the trials and tribulations that the main character‚ Vladek‚ and his companions suffered during the Holocaust. No matter the situation‚ Vladek rises up to the challenge‚ and does the only thing he can do: live. For the Jewish people during that time surviving was a challenge and for those that actually survived was pure luck. Throughout Maus we find this survival in the portrayal of Vladek Spiegelman; father of the author

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    For Europe‚ the nineteenth century was an age of radical change. As science and technology challenged old views‚ political revolution challenged the old dominations of church and monarchy with the upheaval of the French Revolution of 1789‚ a sequence of revolution‚ counter-revolutions‚ and civil wars in Europe and America continued the assault upon established power. In a world that was experiencing a population explosion of extreme magnitude‚ revolution followed revolution‚ including the industrial

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    As I have studied at the Art Institute I have researched and discovered several different types of art and what they consists of. Installation art consists of 3D modeling or in other words sculptures of live images. Such as a statue‚ a building‚ a good example is a model of our solar system. Performance art is another type this consists of Theatrical plays and the. Painting was my favorite one to discover and research‚ because I did not realize there are as many ways to paint as there are. Like‚

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    One distinct characteristic of traditional arts of the Filipino is that it is communal. Traditional arts represented different views of the member of community and their cultural and social beliefs. Some examples were the rice god bulol of the Ifugaos and the t’nalak of the T’bolis. Contemporary realities have affected our traditional arts through time. When American colonizers brought secular art‚ commercialism became the central focus of art. Traditional arts were still preserved in some areas

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    ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ART Woodbury University Professor Kathleen Onofrio FN 205 Spring 2004 Office Hours: by appointment Required Text: Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings‚ eds. Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz‚ University of California Press‚ 1996. General Information Attendance and participation is mandatory. Our lectures and discussions ARE the course. Assigned readings are not optional either‚ as they are the substance behind the

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    Abjection By Julia Kristeva

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    How Julia Kristeva ’s theory of ’Abjection ’ works in relation to the film ’Alien ’ (1979). The ’abject ’ is a complex psychological concept developed by Julia Kristeva in her book "Powers of Horror: an Essay in Abjection" (1980). "Abject" is that which "…disturbs identity‚ system‚ order." Essentially anything that threatens to destabilise the "symbolic order" with the reminder of the "semiotic order". Throughout this essay I am going to talk about Kristeva ’s theory of abjection and relate it

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    Contemporary art is bound by the pre-eminent waves of modernity. This is to say that most all contemporary artists are to some degree in debt to their modern predecessors. Helen Marten’s sculptural installation Peanuts (2012) relies heavily upon the appropriation of past art movements; particularly the re-interpretation of the still life and Cezanne’s renowned The Basket of Apples (1895). Throughout Helen Marten’s installation there exists a return to materiality and form. Peanuts (2012) aims to

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    Helen Nguon Cyber 5 1/18/12 Modernism Definition Essay The word modern is a term that is used to describe current trends in today’s world ranging from attire to a city’s architecture. John C. Ransom‚ an abstract artist who still lives today‚ explains modernism: “And yet what is modernism? It is undefined” (John C. Ransom Quotes). What we may define as modern today may not be what was modern ten years ago or what will be modern ten years from now; modern has a definition that is always changing

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