Search results for "Modern art" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • with catgut leaders. From the 1850s, modern industrial machinery was ... Modern fishing lines intended for spinning, spin cast, or bait casting ...
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  • about 21 percent of the population of modern day Nigeria, and they are ... in the area rests with metalwork and fine art techniques on baked clay that ...
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  • Known for art and architecture, it is considered the birthplace of ... Titian as well as a large collection of modern art, costumes, cattiages, and ...
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  • Morte D'Arthur, published in 1485. Modern interest in Arthur was revived ... a derivation from Welsh arth (earlier art), meaning "bear," ...
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  • the more efficient manufacture of bricks. Modern kilns make use of various ... earthen pit or trench to sophisticated modern kilns occurred in several ...
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  • found in their newly emerging style of art. ==Early life== ... to ultimately become a favorite resort of modern artists. ...
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  • media as an extreme sport—can be a form of art, a hobby, or a method of transportation ... Skateboarding is a relatively modern sport—it originated as "sidewalk ...
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  • to read, write, listen, and speak. In modern contexts, the word refers ... in a diverse range of technologies. Modern technology requires mastery ...
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  • contemporaries, Frost was a staunchly un-modern poet. He relied on the same ... by composing verse that combined a clearly modern sensibility with traditional ...
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  • Tzu around 500 B.C.E. in his famous work The Art of War. Two hundred years ... The art of espionage was transformed as technology and information ...
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  • . In 1875, when Egypt adopted a modern legal system, it would base ... industry, science and mathematics, health, art, and literature. ...
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  • of literature, music, theater, and visual art gained extensive recognition. ... d'Avignon (1907), Museum of Modern Art, New York]] ...
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  • , "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice ... of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City ...
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  • preaching, book burning, and destruction of art. He vehemently preached against ... the leader of the city. He set up a rather modern democratic republic in Florence ...
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  • The founder of modern studies of perception, Hermann von Helmholtz ... * Seckle, Al. The Art of Optical Illusions. Carlton Books. 2000. ISBN ...
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  • Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu ... with work represented in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City ...
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  • the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. However, the use of term renaissance is modern, not coming into currency ...
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  • in 1938. His dissertation, on the history of art, was entitled The Problem ... citizen in 1944. He earned money by teaching art history, German literature ...
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  • Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed ... (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London, 1996 ...
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  • was seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) and remodeled in accordance ... * Viault, Birdsall. Modern European History. McGraw-Hill, 1990. ISBN ...
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