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- appear distorted. There are several variants of the Orbison illusion. The illusion ... first published his findings in a 1939 issue of the American Journal of Psychology ...4 KB (510 words) - 01:04, 18 November 2022
- Op art, also known as optical art, is used to describe some paintings ... "Optical Art is a method of painting concerning the interaction ...8 KB (1,285 words) - 00:44, 18 November 2022
- is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see ... by Victor Shklovsky (or Shklovskij), one of the leading figures of the ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2020
- A student of Paul Hindemith, Etler is noted for his highly rhythmic ... from major orchestras and a number of these works were premiered ...5 KB (687 words) - 14:08, 17 May 2021
- [[Image:Grid illusion.svg|thumb|200px|right|An example of the scintillating ... A grid illusion is any kind of grid that deceives a person's ...5 KB (754 words) - 12:27, 24 January 2023
- is widely considered to be one of the great masters of the Japanese ... Sharaku left a large number of masterpieces, but the dates of his ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 13:17, 27 January 2023
- Zeami’s Noh dramas and his theory of art were influenced by Renga ... Zeami’s theory of art is unusual. In Europe a treatise like Fūshi ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 05:44, 13 June 2023
- ===Theory of art=== in two more books, Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953) and Problems of ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 00:28, 27 February 2023
- "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... The concept was adopted by a number of French, British and American ...11 KB (1,602 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- and an influential figure on matters of political and social policy ... Bosanquet’s major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... ==Theory of art== Gu’s theoretical works, which included Painting ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- sculptor and photographer. He was one of the founders of constructivism ... Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist ...8 KB (1,080 words) - 14:39, 18 July 2023
- Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110 B.C.E. – c.35 B.C.E.) was an Epicurean ... Thirty-six of his books were preserved when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- painter who was called the "Father of Impressionism" ... and his contribution to the formation of the genre's style, practices ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 18:56, 25 November 2023
- He was a co-founder of the World Zionist Organization together with ... As a social critic, he wrote a number of controversial books, including ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 00:57, 9 November 2022
- June 14, 1970), a Polish philosopher and one of the most important philosophers ... Structure of Paintings: A Sketch of the Theory of Art), Rozprawy Wydziału ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- philosopher who taught at the University of Graz from 1878 until his death ... to psychology, epistemology, value theory, ethics, probability theory ...14 KB (1,974 words) - 06:46, 20 July 2023
- known as an early promoter and popularizer of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ... As a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, Haeckel ...18 KB (2,494 words) - 21:22, 20 March 2024
- and an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis with children ... and opened a private practice. At the age of 40 he married Libusa Deutsch ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- important contributions are the founding of Moscow State University, the ... Lomonosov was born in the village of Denisovka (the name of which ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter ... near Bern. Klee started young at both art and music. At age seven, he ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- is due to the strength and consistency of the interval between its first ... The frequent use of the octave is a part of most music, though there ...7 KB (1,075 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- 20Challenges.html André Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional ... His works on the theory of art, such as The Voices of Silence, contain ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- gardens and in sculpture as well. He was one of the most dominant artists and ... Le Brun was given leave to create some of the most impressive masterpieces ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 21:28, 4 December 2023
- :This article is concerned with the methodology of iconography, principally ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- artist and critic, and an influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, an English ... Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters ...11 KB (1,711 words) - 02:31, 16 December 2022
- earlier magazine, Revue du Cinéma (Review of the Cinema), involving members ... from about the mid 1950s to about the end of the 60s. In addition to expressing ...12 KB (1,907 words) - 10:18, 25 November 2023
- with the Geneva School. Growing out of Russian Formalism and Phenomenology ... to literary criticism and advanced the theory that criticism requires the ...12 KB (1,794 words) - 01:13, 29 November 2022
- founded a significant society for the study of poetic language. Later he became one of the major figures associated with the development ...20 KB (2,702 words) - 16:08, 31 August 2023
- by authoritarian systems. In this aspect of his thinking he was influenced ... Fromm's chief influence remains in the field of humanistic psychology ...15 KB (2,268 words) - 19:26, 13 February 2024
- by Jean-François Lyotard to mean a theory that tries to give a totalizing ... and phenomena by appealing to some kind of universal knowledge or schema ...13 KB (1,834 words) - 16:21, 9 November 2022
- 1881 – September 18, 1964) was an English Art critic, associated with the ... until his death. He is best known for his art criticism, and involvement ...13 KB (1,975 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- and paleontologist, famous for his studies of prehistoric cave art, such ... went beyond reality, and his interpretation of the artwork was very misleading ...13 KB (1,739 words) - 17:06, 15 December 2023
- present in objects, such as nature, art work, and a human person, ... Aristotle developed a theory of art and presented it as part in his ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- who developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into ... with the school environment as an extension of the family. Thus, his techniques ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 21:05, 21 December 2022
- possibly the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. Minoan ... excavations which brought to light part of the magazines in the west wing ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- 19, 1433 – October 1, 1499) was one of the most influential humanist ... Platonic theology, Ficino included his theory of art and the significance ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- (c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- poet, critic and scholar, and a founder of German Romanticism. His study ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions ... Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- on numerous topics, including philosophy of history and aesthetics, and ... but dense, work, Croce set forth his theory of art, claiming that art was ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychologist, one of Sigmund Freud's closest ... His theory, although considered limited in ascribing all such development ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 05:54, 18 November 2022
- lofty, elevated, exalted), is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude ... *Dessoir, Max. Aesthetics and Theory of Art. Ästhetik und allgemeine ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 21:10, 26 February 2023
- [[Image:Lascaux 04.jpg|thumb|250px|Lascaux cave painting of aurochs]] Discovered in 1940, Lascaux is a series of caves in southwestern France ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- Value is not equivalent to moral value. Works of art have value, but ... ==The meaning of value judgments== What are we doing when we ascribe ...15 KB (2,236 words) - 14:15, 3 May 2023
- Category:Art [[Image:Laas Geel cow herd.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Detail of the Laas ...15 KB (2,271 words) - 16:21, 3 December 2023
- ) is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist ... Apsaras are supernatural beings who appear as young women of great ...10 KB (1,598 words) - 15:57, 11 August 2023
- Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was one of the ... Starting with the observation of apparent movement, the phi phenomenon ...13 KB (1,949 words) - 01:04, 9 November 2022
- Movement Analysis, and other developments in the art of dance. One of the founders of European Modern Dance, Laban raised the status ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 17:40, 22 December 2022
- to distinguish him from the other members of the musically talented Couperin ... in French musical history as examples of how sacred and secular music ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 04:57, 9 April 2024
- specialist curators research the background of the collection, interpret the ... contexts. Curators have the unique role of building a culture of peace ...10 KB (1,517 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering ... ==History of the Auction== The generally accepted first auction occurred ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws ... In philosophy and theology, eclecticism is the practice of selecting ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- [[Image:Harpyie.JPG|thumb|right|400px|A medieval depiction of a Harpy ... sometimes referred to as "the hounds of Zeus" for such actions ...9 KB (1,453 words) - 22:03, 14 December 2022
- is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... ==Theory of Art== After Tolstoy’s religious conversion, his view ...19 KB (2,888 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- 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
- recognized it as an important component of art and aesthetics. However ... the highest value, which exist independently of and transcend the phenomenal ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron ... Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 17:03, 7 September 2023
- involved visual arts, literature (poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...18 KB (2,739 words) - 07:39, 12 January 2024
- famous for his contribution to theories of cultural evolution. His approach ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- ) is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which ... The "spirit" of fin de siècle often refers to the cultural ...28 KB (4,018 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2024
- When William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and himself ... purposes or to emphasize the rich heritage of their creators' home country ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 11:51, 22 January 2024
- 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ... In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- 250px|Cornsweet illusion. The left part of the picture seems to be darker ... section creates the impression that one side of the image is in fact darker ...5 KB (767 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. One of the most ... Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract style did not come about ...25 KB (3,985 words) - 23:13, 3 May 2023
- realistic acting has remained at the heart of mainstream Western performance ... Building on the directorially-unified aesthetic and ensemble playing ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- interactions or interplay. The rites of play are evident throughout ... Johan Huizinga gave an extensive analysis of play in his Homo Ludens ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- Constructivist architecture was a form of modern architecture that ... A central aim of Constructivist architects was to instill the avant ...17 KB (2,374 words) - 02:43, 8 January 2024
- in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, "art for art ... The symbol was apt, for Whistler's art was characterized by a ...14 KB (2,184 words) - 08:36, 1 April 2024
- 1891) was a French painter and the founder of Neo-Impressionism. His large ... Influenced by the scientist-writers of the nineteenth century, Seurat ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Expressionism generally refers to a twentieth century art movement ... an aesthetically pleasing impression of the artistic subject matter; ...15 KB (2,114 words) - 23:58, 24 March 2024
- detailed and lengthy research into the use of various materials. He created ... Wedgwood is credited with the industrialization of the manufacture ...13 KB (1,954 words) - 19:59, 7 September 2022
- = "science") means "study of value." Although questions ... sought to characterize the notion of value in general, of which ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books on a wide ... at the Sorbonne led him to the position of scientific materialism. Later ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- 8, 1746) was an Irish philosopher and one of the founding fathers of the ... Hutcheson is thought to have been born at Drumalig, in the parish ...14 KB (2,173 words) - 04:50, 9 April 2024
- "folding paper") is the Japanese art of paper folding. The goal ... Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- quot;) among many other names, is one of the most beloved and widely ... among the bhakti (devotional) movements of India. Today, his teachings ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- into parts in such a manner that the shape of each part resembles the shape ... Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software ...19 KB (2,648 words) - 06:39, 1 April 2024
- influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology ... Although controversial in its comparison of Christianity to other ...15 KB (2,162 words) - 21:27, 29 May 2023
- faith for strength through the many trials of his somewhat eccentric life. ... Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- graphic artist, and poet, considered one of the chief representatives of ... Like Surrealism and many other modern art movements, Dadaism reflected ...13 KB (1,774 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- lifetime, his contributions to economic theory later came to be studied ... born in 1834, in Évreux, France, the son of the French proto-marginalist ...17 KB (2,726 words) - 04:42, 5 November 2022
- His "refrigerator mother" theory of autism, now largely disfavored ... Bruno Bettelheim was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a wood merchant ...16 KB (2,237 words) - 04:43, 22 November 2023
- that the term refers to a particular kind of sacrifice carried out by the ... While no particular form of Moloch is known due to the ambiguity of ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- Ethics (from the Greek ethos – custom) in the sense of systems of ... ethics begins with the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C.E., who ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- Posidonius (or Poseidonus; Greek: Ποσειδώνιος) "of ... to admit that passions were an inherent part of human nature, rather than errors ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 - August 15, 1935) was a leading figure ... Signac wrote several important works on the theory of art, among them ...18 KB (2,656 words) - 01:33, 23 November 2022
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... the natures, conditions, and justifications of human knowledge particularly ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- Italian painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters ... in Rome, on July 8, 1593, the first child of the painter Orazio Gentileschi ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 10:58, 16 August 2023
- or Prague school was an influential group of literary critics and linguists ... from the classical structural position of Ferdinand de Saussure. They ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- Collingwood is best known for his The Idea of History, a work collated soon ... Collingwood published several editions of The Archaeology of Roman Britain ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature ... Mandelbrot was one of the first to use computer graphics to create ...24 KB (3,447 words) - 10:15, 28 September 2023
- Unification Thought is the philosophy of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon ... Theory of Education, Unification Theory of Art. **Expositions on intermediary ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 01:38, 3 May 2023
- One of the first American writers to use the stream of consciousness ... Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy lawyer ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... semioticians focus on the logical dimensions of the science. They examine areas ...23 KB (3,229 words) - 09:44, 26 January 2023
- reawakening an interest in ancient Buddhist art and sculpture among Japanese ... Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician named Mizutaro ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and ... quot; aspect, or improve the popular image of librarians. ...14 KB (1,842 words) - 22:32, 25 October 2022
- The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or Mirror of Human Salvation was ... It is one of the most common books found as an illuminated manuscript ...10 KB (1,439 words) - 19:13, 7 February 2023
- novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- and artistic movement predominant at the end of the nineteenth and beginning ... and mystical poetry and philosophy of Fyodor Tyutchev and Vladimir ...12 KB (1,846 words) - 15:49, 1 June 2023
- was an important contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which ... that he called compositions, consisting of rectangular forms of red, yellow ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 22:49, 28 March 2023
- Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of complex ... then behaves, with all this in service of a goal or goals. This "circular ...22 KB (3,161 words) - 06:51, 12 January 2024
- designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Nordic ... States following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- documents, files, publications, or a group of publications. It is often listed ... The traditional back-of-the-book index is a list of words that point ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- the classical, popular and religious music of the Indian subcontinent and ... The history of this instrument is at times the subject of heated debate ...11 KB (1,728 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- confused with Canton enamel, a similar type of enamel work that is painted ... The earliest securely dated Chinese cloisonné is from the reign of ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- | WHS = Lines and Geoglyphs of Nazca and Pampas de Jumana photograph was taken by Maria Reiche, one of the first archaeologists to ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:59, 11 November 2022
- "The Hedgehog and the Fox" is the title of an essay by Isaiah ... Berlin's essay analyzes Tolstoy's refutation of the view ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 15:38, 30 April 2023
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... concerns that continue to be major parts of the traditions today. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Pedagogy, literally translated, is the art or science of teaching ... on teachers being able to embrace both the art and science of pedagogy, acting ...26 KB (3,614 words) - 17:11, 26 March 2023
- Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of ... The philosophical problematics of uncertainty are often tied to a ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical ... a foster-nurse for four years. At the age of nine, he was sent to study ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 07:36, 15 April 2024
- to music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies which characterized ... this manner was the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets ... – issued the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The 1912 movement ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 16:42, 28 July 2023
- main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... notable_ideas = The “will to believe” doctrine, the pragmatic ...19 KB (2,743 words) - 00:33, 21 May 2023
- Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) was one ... Born at Penshurst, Kent, Sidney was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- became available to assist our understanding of the past. The term was introduced ... Religious accounts of creation, such as the biblical account in Genesis ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- Critical theory is a term applied to a wide variety of critical approaches ... Modern critical theory has additionally been influenced by György ...43 KB (6,032 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- ), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of ... the preferred term by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and that the word ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some of ... Bateson is most closely associated with the concept of the double ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... Religious Test Acts from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. After ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- how the collective unconscious, that part of the unconscious that is cross ... choanalytic school"). The goal of analytical or Jungian psychology ...23 KB (3,347 words) - 18:57, 26 July 2023
- In painting, he gained renown for his style of painting misty landscapes, ... Su Shih, the great poet, calligrapher, and art theorist, and together they ...19 KB (3,202 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- In mathematics and computing, an algorithm is a finite sequence of ... as an algorithm that has nested sets of smaller algorithms within it ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 18:19, 21 July 2023
- and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À ... the nature of art. Proust sets forth a theory of art, democratic in appearance ...21 KB (3,300 words) - 03:06, 6 November 2022
- the Enlightenment, and the editor-in-chief of the famous, Encyclopédie, ... The Encyclopédie, conceived as a compendium of all available knowledge ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- anthropologist and writer. A founder of American anthropology, he is ... While Morgan's unilinear model, particularly of the development ...14 KB (2,033 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- present-day Iraq). His work resulted in some of dramatic discoveries, including ... Woolley's work also included findings of sediment that he believed ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 21:47, 25 October 2022
- city in the Americas in the first half of the first millennium C.E.. ... The city is also notable for its lack of fortifications. ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:47, 30 April 2023
- (Greek: Κένταυροι) are a race of mythical creatures that are ... his baser instincts and rise to the level of enlightened humanity, symbolizing ...9 KB (1,330 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- discoveries, including the rings of the planet Saturn and Saturn ... Born in The Hague, Christiaan Huygens was the second son of Constantijn ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 17:57, 10 December 2023
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was ... functional harmony and the principles of acoustics (as discovered by ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- in England. He is most famous as a student of Peter Paul Rubens and for his ... By the age of 15 he was already a highly accomplished artist, as his ...25 KB (3,984 words) - 16:23, 17 January 2024
- ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. ... ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an important aspect ...17 KB (2,502 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing ... Romanticism arose as a reaction against the excessive rationalism ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- and the Holy Land, he observed the methods of physicians, chemists, and spiritual ... Paracelsus’ aggressive manner of teaching and his outspoken criticism ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 07:39, 18 November 2022
- Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera. As a master ... musical family, not unusual for the child of an organist and both his father ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- without a writing system; one set of criteria specifies material ... tradition" refers to the transmission of cultural material through vocal ...37 KB (5,219 words) - 00:59, 18 November 2022
- As the way in which war is prosecuted, and the nature of war itself ... :In the royal service, Major General and Inspector of the Artillery ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- c. 1532 - 1625) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. After her ... Anguissola established a new style of portraiture, with subjects set ...16 KB (2,469 words) - 22:03, 30 January 2023
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... inscriptions and hand lettering to fine art pieces where the artistic ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- to as Madame Mao, was the third wife of Chairman Mao Zedong of the ... On November 22, 1966, Jiang Qing was named first vice-chairwoman of ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich ... He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 13:41, 8 February 2022
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- Bauhaus is the common term for the Staaatliches Bauhaus, an art and ... The Bauhaus art school had a profound influence upon subsequent developments ...21 KB (3,071 words) - 03:07, 26 September 2023
- Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...22 KB (3,437 words) - 05:07, 9 April 2024
- to Wudangquan or the “internal” styles of Chinese martial arts, which ... Neijia styles teach awareness of the spirit, mind, chi (breath), and ...24 KB (3,729 words) - 16:11, 11 November 2022
- ranged from the universal systems theory to the possibility of human ... figure, especially in the development of the Communist Party's ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 05:13, 17 June 2023
- 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...29 KB (4,524 words) - 07:44, 3 August 2022
- regarded as the most influential filmmaker of the post-war Soviet era in ... Tarkovsky, son of the prominent poet Arseny Tarkovsky, was a product ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- so forth. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light ... Typically, only features of the composition of light that are detectable ...32 KB (4,860 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- painter and printmaker. Rothko was one of the most highly-regarded painters ... Between the mid-1920s and the end of the 1940s, Rothko's paintings ...20 KB (3,031 words) - 08:33, 10 March 2023
- this last term himself. Bataille was one of the founding members of the ... The members of the College were united in their dissatisfaction with ...19 KB (2,778 words) - 02:07, 25 November 2022
- " plural templa) is a feature of Byzantine architecture that ... The templon most likely has an independent origin from that of Latin ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- painter and author. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art ... was cited by El Lissitzky as one of the major forerunners of the ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...18 KB (2,662 words) - 09:14, 19 December 2022
- civilization is the Harappan Civilization of the Indus Valley, in reference ... and technological development, and no sign of slavery or exploitation of ...32 KB (5,016 words) - 21:11, 22 March 2024
- and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean-Christophe ... "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental ... agreement providing such a high degree of individual protection. State ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove ( c=竹林七賢 ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- inkblot test. The test is based on the theory that responding to ambiguous ... other personality measure with the exception of the MMPI. However, it has not ...14 KB (2,112 words) - 10:23, 22 January 2024
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- Naturalism was a late nineteenth century movement in theater, film ... was an attempt to create a perfect illusion of reality through detailed sets ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 04:21, 11 March 2023
- Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and similarities ... discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- considered to be an extinct species of the genus Homo, which lived ... H. ergaster is the early phase or subspecies of H. erectus. Problematic specimens ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 12:10, 2 February 2024
- philosopher and the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college (Dictionary ... Space, Time and Deity was one of the last attempts by a British philosopher ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 02:18, 23 December 2022
- Humanism is an attitude of thought which gives primary importance ... There was another round of revival of humanism in the Age of Enlightenment ...16 KB (2,260 words) - 19:10, 19 August 2023
- who was the first to obtain an equation of state that describes the condition ... Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born in the Dutch city of Leiden ...10 KB (1,620 words) - 23:19, 22 June 2023
- philosopher, and, for ten years, minister of state for the republic of Weimar. principle literary figure through a series of movements and upheavals in ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- and critic, who has been called the master of Vernacular Chinese (standard ... Confucius avoided being named the author of the Spring and Autumn Annals ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- a German chemist who ushered in a new age of organic chemistry when he demonstrated ... Eschersheim, near Frankfurt am Main, the son of August Anton Wöhler, who was ...14 KB (2,077 words) - 10:37, 17 October 2022
- to be a great but underexposed writer of his age. During his lifetime ... field, his writing was limited by his lack of time. Nonetheless, he earned ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 18:02, 3 May 2023
- a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and ... Andrade was the central figure in the avant-garde movement of São ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- he was regarded as a rival and contemporary of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst ... Vikhvatinets (now in Transnistria, Republic of Moldova). He learned the piano ...7 KB (986 words) - 06:51, 31 July 2023
- research ranges from the analysis of short contacts between anonymous ... social status and the social structures of society, social change, social ...28 KB (3,873 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- and was famous for developing the concept of "liminality," first ... or spiritual components in the referents of the symbolism involved. He ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...7 KB (1,036 words) - 17:20, 5 October 2022
- thumb|300px|right|The Louvre in Paris, one of the largest and most famous ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- young, Vygotsky is known as the "Mozart of psychology." Vygotsky ... In the latter part of the twentieth century, his theories became widely ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911 – April 1, 1966) is a pseudonym ... O'Brien's works are considered classics of the modernist ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety ... == Usage of sonata == The Baroque era applied the term sonata to a ...27 KB (4,193 words) - 16:32, 14 October 2022
- an important role in developing the use of statistical data as a tool ... Believing that ideology, the science of the origin and development ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 04:19, 9 November 2022
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... The cultivation of rice allowed the development of a sedentary agricultural ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est ... Proudhon’s concept of revolution did not entail violent upheaval ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 19:38, 31 March 2023
- quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer ... Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator ...30 KB (4,433 words) - 00:38, 10 February 2023
- Manyoshu (万葉集 Man'yōshū, "Collection of Ten Thousand ... Through Tanka poetry, ladies of the court had an opportunity to display ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- the social behavior or the social relations of a society, community of people ... many other social sciences. Among many forms of creating social change are ...31 KB (4,566 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth ... One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century English literary ...19 KB (2,790 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- dancer and choreographer, is known as one of the foremost pioneers of modern ... modernists she broke with the formalism of nineteenth century Romanticism ...12 KB (1,810 words) - 16:26, 6 November 2022
- who conclusively demonstrated the stability of the Solar System and vindicated ... Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, the son ...24 KB (3,889 words) - 05:17, 24 November 2022
- be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... same-sex encounters were non-existent and of no interest to women. With ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Christian theology and has been the subject of numerous works of art, most ... revelation. In the gospels' description of the Last Supper, Jesus is depicted ...14 KB (2,247 words) - 15:39, 30 April 2023
- writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was ... Norris was particularly influenced by the optimistic thread of Darwinist ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 05:06, 9 April 2024
- main_interests = Political philosophy, Politics, Literary theory ... Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of Western Marxism ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- perception, and suggested that all knowledge of objects outside the self comes ... work “La citta del sole” (The City of the Sun). == Life == ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- , "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice ... Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of ...27 KB (3,956 words) - 16:58, 3 May 2023
- a scientist; Khayyám contributed a number of insights to the development ... and particularly for the volume The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, famously translated ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- potential applications. It includes study of subjects such as theories of ... Ultimately, the goal of those working in the field of educational ...35 KB (4,855 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- Classical Greek had no independent word of "existence." The ... but reversed the Medieval priority of essence over existence. The ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... a more pluralistic approach to the question of the literary canon. There has ...23 KB (3,215 words) - 21:58, 21 October 2022
- His unorthodox ideas on the birth and death of ethnoses (ethnic groups) have ... Neo-Eurasianism is a Russian school of thought, popularized in Russia ...10 KB (1,514 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 21:28, 9 February 2024
- musicologist, author, and producer, and one of the most important field collectors ... the civil rights and cultural recognition of African Americans, organizing ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- 21, 1788), also known by the epithet Magus of the North, was a philosopher ... a religious conversion. His distrust of reason and the Enlightenment ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 14:40, 1 August 2022
- in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... passages and short pieces), The Chinese Theory of Art (1967), and the novels ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- in the early twentieth-century philosophies of William James and John Dewey ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy; it ... Baumgarten in 1735 to mean "the science of how things are known via the ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of government involvement in solving ... in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry ...18 KB (2,525 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- to black tea: it lacks the rosy, sweet aroma of black tea but it likewise does ... benefits. While the actual effectiveness of oolong tea's medicinal ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- great interest in exposing the workings of the subconscious mind through ... on January 28, 1912. He was the youngest of five boys. A year after Pollock ...37 KB (5,789 words) - 09:21, 13 March 2024
- specifically in Western culture to a form of drama defined by Aristotle ... According to Aristotle, "The structure of the best tragedy should ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023
- A fairy (fey or fae; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace ... While many of these depictions are considered purely fictional, creatures ...19 KB (2,984 words) - 00:29, 25 March 2024
- American psychologist. He was a pioneer of applied psychology, extending ... He is considered by many "the father of industrial psychology ...13 KB (1,901 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- He considered mathematics the ideal form of knowledge, and the laws of ... D'Alembert was an important figure of the French Enlightenment ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ... the modernizing, industrializing society of his own time — was a negative ...25 KB (3,929 words) - 01:04, 9 February 2023
- during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of British history, from the mid ... and there are extant works in a wide variety of genres including epic poetry ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- nanometers (nm) (15.7-27.6 millionths of an inch)). In a scientific ... The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- ) was a Pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty (ruled 1333 B.C.E.–1324 ... In historical terms, Tutankhamun is of only moderate significance ...27 KB (4,279 words) - 02:21, 18 April 2023
