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I Ching, the Book of Changes - Yi Jing

Mon May 23 17:22:22 +0000 2011

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These eight trigrams were conceived as images of all that happens in heaven and on earth. At the same time, they were held to he in a state of continual transition, one changing into another, just as transition from one phenomenon to another is continually taking place in the physical world. Here we have the fundamental concept of the Book of Changes. The eight trigrams are symbols standing for changing transitional states; they are images that are constantly undergoing change. Attention centers not on things in their state of being – as is chiefly the case in the Occident – but upon their movements in change. The eight trigrams therefore are not representations of things as such but of their tendencies in movement. »

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Genre works - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed May 04 09:13:41 +0000 2011

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it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached

Franz Boas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tue May 03 16:37:03 +0000 2011

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Boas's rejection of Morgan's theories led him, in an 1887 article, to challenge Mason's principles of museum display. At stake, however, were more basic issues of causality and classification. The evolutionary approach to material culture led museum curators to organize objects on display according to function or level of technological development. Curators assumed that changes in the forms of artefacts reflect some natural process of progressive evolution. Boas, however, felt that the form an artefact took reflected the circumstances under which it was produced and used. Arguing that "[t]hough like causes have like effects, like effects have not like causes," Boas realized that even artefacts that were similar in form might have developed in very different contexts, for different reasons. Mason's museum displays, organized along evolutionary lines, mistakenly juxtapose like effects; those organized along contextual lines would reveal like causes.

Amazon.co.uk: Customer Reviews: Summer Infant Bath Time Bubble Maker

Tue May 03 16:09:50 +0000 2011

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Metaphilm ::: The Wicker Man

Tue Apr 26 13:19:17 +0000 2011

"foucault Michel Foucault Foucault: philosopher or film bogeyman? You make the call. Marty Feldman, call your office. Foucault, a noted critic of the social sciences, rejected all positive notions of objectivity and human nature. For Foucault, we exist trapped within a kind of postmodern labyrinth (or “archive”), where truths are relative to the societies and practices that develop them. This is not a facile cultural relativism. Instead, we are invited to understand truths as problematized, colored by the contexts and subjects that produce them. The power structures that (so to speak) restrain us are also what makes our freedom possible, conditioning our thought at a collective, unconscious level. Foucault’s own diagnosis of the present took the form of investigations into (often obscure) historical documents that aimed at exposing the implicit “truths” that underlie social practices and norms, thereby supporting his position as a thinker of social and historical relativity. As his work developed, it became clear that the driving force behind his work was an interest in how senses of identity are formed when the self is essentially a product of certain power/knowledge relationships, discourses, and games of truth. Foucault’s early works—and The Wicker Man—offer this message: identity is best understood as an amorphous, shifting fiction, an “anthropology” that is to be exposed. When the full import of this becomes understood, the effect is rather more unsettling than the fraternity gorefests that typify many later horror films."

THE GOSPEL OF SRI RAMAKRISHNA : www.belurmath.org

Sat Apr 23 18:52:04 +0000 2011

International Association for Metacognition

Thu Mar 24 11:38:28 +0000 2011

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Hero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun Mar 13 14:12:43 +0000 2011

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Star Wars Origins - Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey

Sat Mar 12 00:38:00 +0000 2011

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Joseph Campbell Foundation

Fri Mar 11 22:30:14 +0000 2011

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Experiential learning articles + critiques of David Kolb's theory

Tue Mar 08 16:41:15 +0000 2011

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david a. kolb on experiential learning

Tue Mar 08 16:39:27 +0000 2011

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Pietro Aretino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sat Mar 05 21:11:51 +0000 2011

"Titian"

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Titian’s Art Criticism in the Laocoon Caricature : dumbsaint

Sat Mar 05 21:06:30 +0000 2011

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Aesthetics : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online

Sat Mar 05 18:53:42 +0000 2011

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MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Jack Whitten

Sat Mar 05 18:13:53 +0000 2011

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Titian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri Mar 04 22:23:02 +0000 2011

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Titian had engaged his daughter Lavinia, the beautiful girl whom he loved deeply and painted various times, to Cornelio Sarcinelli of Serravalle. She had succeeded her aunt Orsa, then deceased, as the manager of the household, which, with the lordly income that Titian made by this time, placed her on a corresponding footing. The marriage took place in 1554. She died in childbirth in 1560.
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his son and assistant Orazio died

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Titian: Behind the mask | The Guardian

Fri Mar 04 22:10:42 +0000 2011

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Michelangelo's put-down is the most celebrated expression of the fundamental difference between Florentine and Venetian art: while Tuscan Renaissance artists believed that line came first, Venetian painting defines space by colour, and it is in his colours that Titian's personality will be found, in the texture of his paint. Titian's paintings are not designed, then filled in; they exist in total spontaneity, in the brushing that Titian makes visible. His paintings are not smooth; he paints on rough canvas in which paint catches; and he pursues the same emotive, personal themes across his long career. Titian was a high-class kind of guy; his friend, the poet Aretino, commented on how Titian always knew how to speak to a lady, kissing hands, making courtly jests. And there's a pleasure in civilised restraint - or, perhaps, a need for it - that distinguishes his art. This comes out most profoundly in his love of genre.

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Tietian's Pieta and other information about Titian | Art History Lessons

Fri Mar 04 22:05:58 +0000 2011

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The painting itself is done using faster, more bold brushstrokes, which visually provide the piece with a great of deal of movement.
Titian wanted to capture the essence of the person in Peita, and wasn’t as interested in a completely perfect rendering as long as the idea that he intended was expressed.
each person depicted has dramatic shadows and lighting on their figures.

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Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000-1850)

Fri Mar 04 21:07:04 +0000 2011

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