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  • Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...
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  • to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin ... in French musical history as examples of how sacred and secular music ...
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  • specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...
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  • An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering ... ==History of the Auction== The generally accepted first auction occurred ...
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  • not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...
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  • outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum is known to the world ... his mother owned, playing by ear by the age of three. Tatum would learn both ...
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  • [[Image:Harpyie.JPG|thumb|right|400px|A medieval depiction of a Harpy ... sometimes referred to as "the hounds of Zeus" for such actions ...
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  • thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... ==Theory of Art== After Tolstoy’s religious conversion, his view ...
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  • is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...
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  • recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...
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  • and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...
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  • (Thomas Robinson). Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given ... The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance ...
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  • also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that ... Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement include ...
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  • employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...
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  • born in Abdera in Ancient Greece. He was one of the best known Sophists. Protagoras is best known for his dictum: "Man is the measure ...
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  • Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the ...
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  • illusion") is an optical illusion of relative size perception. In ... most well known for his work in the field of memory, but he also made contributions ...
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  • The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...
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  • Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...
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  • pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...
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