Search results for "Theory of Art" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- (Thomas Robinson). Defining the beginning of the era is difficult, given ... The increasing reliance on the interval of the third as a consonance ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- also called deconstruction, is a development of postmodern architecture that ... Important events in the history of the deconstructivist movement include ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- employed methods drawn from a wide range of disciplines, from philosophy ... teacher for a year. During the Algerian War of Independence in 1958-1962, ...23 KB (3,373 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...6 KB (889 words) - 08:16, 2 December 2022
- Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the ...20 KB (2,833 words) - 09:12, 28 January 2024
- 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 ...5 KB (652 words) - 17:59, 12 February 2024
- The Frankfurt school is a school of neo-Marxist social theory, social ... Frankfurt school theorists were critical of Marx-Leninism and the ...23 KB (3,258 words) - 05:11, 9 April 2024
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- pioneered important concepts in the fields of cell biology and microbial ... The endosymbiotic theory concerns the origins of mitochondria and ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Russian formalism was an influential school of literary criticism ... members are widely considered the founders of modern literary criticism. ...22 KB (3,136 words) - 18:18, 22 December 2022
- Erewhon, and his posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, a semi-autobiographical ... Nottinghamshire, England, into a long line of clerics. He was seemingly preordained ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 21:06, 26 February 2023
- 17, 1934) was a Spanish histologist (study of tissues) and physician who ... To observe the structure of individual neurons, Ramón y Cajal used ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 03:22, 23 December 2022
- and the role he played in the development of the larger cultural movement ... to philosophy and criticized his lack of understanding about the role ...18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
- The system of five phases was used for describing interactions and ... believed to control the change and movement of the universe, and to provide ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- – January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary ... degree at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He then studied theology ...25 KB (3,694 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931, founded ... De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 08:53, 28 January 2024
- Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully ... The concept of the state of flow is similarly found in the traditions ...13 KB (1,998 words) - 17:43, 28 March 2024
- a German ethnologist and archaeologist, one of the leading experts on prehistoric ... life does, noting three phases in the life of a culture. He also recognized ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
