Arts & Humanities Essays and Term Papers

medieval city of Augsburg, part of the Bavarian section of the German Empire. He married in 1897, his father was a Catholic and his mother a Protestant. Brecht was their first child. His father worked as Chief Clerk in a paper factory, clearly fitting…

1898, in the Dutch province of Friesland *http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/Netherlands.jpg*. His parents, George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman Escher, had three sons of which Maurits (called Mauk for short) was the youngest.…

Not just physical blindness, but intellectual blindness as well. The blindness issue is an effective contrasting method for Oedipus at different points in the play. You can’t just simply say "blindness", because, it has a double meaning. It can…

is “safely” concealed behind the invisible ‘fourth wall’ of the proscenium. A play that utilizes this technique is A Doll’s House written by Ibsen. Yet, many later plays do not provide the spectator this same degree of distance and detachment, as…

by Sophocles, the protagonist, Antigone, defies all of the beliefs held by the society she lives in, and breaks the king’s law on account of her own morals. Originally, one of Antigone’s two brothers was supposed to take control of the throne, however,…

was an English painter, she painted abstract shapes that looked like optical illusions when you looked at them, and these were known as "Op Art”. In the Early 1950s she went to Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art. She became famous by doing…

a play that is based on a family who is living in Brooklyn, New York and dealing with the trials of being a family in the 1930’s. Throughout the book we are shown the uncertainties in life that the family is forced to live with everyday. The characters…

as the mas, calypso and steelband have added to the eminence of the festival. However, it is the creation and depiction of the mas that has through time been the hub of the festival displaying multiple artistic sources. Such sources include the ethnical…

the rulers of Troy during the Trojan War according to Homer's Iliad. Cassandra was a beautiful young woman, blessed with the gift of prophecy by Apollo, who was infatuated with her. Unfortunately, she shunned Apollo at the last minute and he added a…

have played an important role in the culture of Africa. Masks have varied in appearance and function. Many masks are associated with religious ceremonies, myth, dance, rituals or are concerned with spirits of the dead, rites, or even curing sickness.…