FRICK FINE ARTS LIBRARY ART HISTORY: CONTEMPORARY ART Library Guide Series‚ No. 9 “Qui scit ubi scientis sit‚ ille est proximus habenti.” -- Brunetiere* This bibliography is highly selective and is meant only as a starting place to aid the beginning art history student in his/her search for library material. The list does not include materials on individual artists. The serious student will find other relevant sources by noting citations within the encyclopedias‚ books‚ journal articles‚ and
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The !Kung San of the Kalahari Desert Kinship Organizations Freddy B. Jerez ANT101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Lecia Sims August 14‚ 2011 From the beginning of human history people have lived as foragers. Foragers are a cultural society that depends on the gathering of food. The women are the primary food gathers which will allocate 80% of wild foods and the men will hunt and fish gathering the another 20% in meat; for the diet. Nowak‚ B. & Laird‚ P.‚ 2010. The women keep
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Connor Davis Dr. Hamilton Colonial Latin America Gaspar Antonio Chi There are many interpreters that helped the Spanish assimilate into the Mayan culture. But‚ why did people like Gaspar Antonio Chi help so willingly? Gaspar Antonio Chi was a Mayan nobleman that was born before the Spanish invasion of the Yucatan. Chi played an important role as an interpreter of Mayan language‚ customs‚ and also mediated relations between his people and the Spanish. Chi wrote of his understanding of the Spanish
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COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF PERA MUSEUM‚ TURKISH AND ISLAMIC ARTS (TIA) MUSEUM‚ AND V&A MUSEUM The idea of museum as an educational tool in the service of societal development called new museology. In order to prepare and accompany society’s transformation‚ museum should be one of the most crucial tools in the hand of society. Three museums are analyzed in detail to see whether they obey the new museology idea or not and to make a comparison to see which one overweight to the others. Improving
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The County of San Bernardino is one of the 58 counties of California. With an area of 20‚105 square miles‚ it is considered to be the largest county in the United States. It is even said to be larger than the four smallest states combined. But in spite of its great area‚ San Bernardino is only 5th most-populous county in California‚ and 12th most-populous in the United States. This is because of its numerous wilderness areas that are hardly occupied by citizens. San Bernardino is populated by over
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crack in the ground called the San Andreas Fault. What is the science behind this fault? why should people fear it? and what could be the result of another devastating earthquake? The San Andreas Fault is a place where two massive tectonic plates‚ specifically the North American and Pacific plates. The small split in the ground extends more than 800 miles and is roughly ten miles deep. The SAF is located in Northern California‚ and extends to Cajon Pass in the San Bernardino Mountains. The SAF was
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I feel that art is important‚ but its value is intangible. The more unique the art‚ the higher its value to our intellectual heritage. Art is unique and rare. It is a part of culture and history. There is only one original painting or sculpture. And if it is stolen‚ there won’t be a second one. Art is an important part of our lives… and I’m happy that I enjoy it. Moreover‚ I am glad I appreciate the act of conjuring artistic creations. There is no broad value to any specific piece of artwork in this
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San Diego Chicano Park San Diego has a historic park named Chicano park‚ it is located beneath the well know Coronado bridge in Barrio Logan‚ south of San Diego. Barrio Logan was one of the location were Mexicans had arrived and started settling around the area in the early 1890’s. San Diego was already such a historic place to Chicanos living there. So when the government tried taking the land that was rich in history and their culture‚ the people fought and created what is now called Chicano
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Edgewood Museum By Dayanaira Cornwell‚ Special to The Echoes The Edgewood Museum is becoming a real life example of the Edgewood town saying “where vision meets reality.” The Edgewood museum corporation is a non-profitable organization. There are about eight board members on the museum corporation. The idea for the museum came about from a Facebook page called “Edgewood‚ Iowa history and more”. That Bart Hamlett‚ part of the Edgewood museum corporation made. He also is donating his whole Edgewood
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this piece‚ novelist and journalist Jack London offers an extraordinary first-person account of the fiery aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. London’s report originally appeared in Collier’s Weekly‚ May 5‚ 1906. After you have finished reading London’s narrative (a classic example of creative nonfiction)‚ visit our Reading Quiz on "The San Francisco Earthquake." And then compare London’s account of the disaster with the one offered by William James in his essay "On Some Mental Effects
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