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uploaded : Dec 08, 2008

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TEXT Self-Titled 1. "Requiem for Ernst-Hugo (1928-1998)" (1:09) - Recording Info: Vocals: David Sandström, Martin Eirell and Fredrik Bäckström Recorded on September 7 1998 and mixed in June 1999 at Second Home by Fredrik Bäckström, Henrik Oja, David S...

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uploaded : Nov 12, 2008

by : Arty

The ideology of the Italian Futurists, whose manifesto was published on the front page of Le Figaro in 1909, celebrated technological progress and the machine age. The artists associated with the group sought material expressions of kinesis and dynamis, movement and ...

Futurism and Photography

Artist : Filippo Marinetti

uploaded : Nov 12, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

MOVEMENTS in art tend to be intensive or extensive. The Pointillistes, for example, generally stuck to painting in dots, while the Italian Futurists got into everything. There was Futurist painting, of course, Futurist sculpture, Futurist poetry and Futurist cookery ...

How The Futurists Got ...

uploaded : Nov 12, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism, which focuses on literary technique, naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalis...

Essay on Naturalism in...

uploaded : Nov 11, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Origins In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Congolese musicians fused Congolese and other African traditional music with Caribbean (especially Afro-Cuban) and South American sounds – rhythms that were not entirely foreign to the region, having been based - to varyi...

Detail on Soukous

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

THE UNKNOWN ART OF JORDAN BELSON (An Article for Animation Journal, Spring 99) Ying Tan Jordan Belson is known as one of America's most celebrated non-objective-film artists. Since his first film, Transmutation, in 1947, Belson has made 33 short films; one 22-mi...

The Unknown Art of Jor...

Artist : Jordan Belson

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha From the mid-1970s until her death at age 31 in 1982, Korean-born artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha created a rich body of conceptual art that explored displacement and loss. Her works included artists' books, mail art, performance, audio, video...

Biography

Artist : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

When Jeanette Winterson was asked (so the story goes) by a British newspaper questionnaire distributed among the nation's writers, whom she considered to be the greatest living prose stylist in English, her answer was unequivocal: Jeanette Winterson. Such boldness, s...

Tim Conley on Jeanette...

Artist : Jeanette Winterson

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

The Strokes formed at a young age, with each of the members connected in some way to lead singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas. Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti started playing together while attending Manhattan's Dwight School. Bassi...

Overview

Artist : The Strokes

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically beautiful lighting and deliberately stylized gesture are among the tools with which he has created a repertory ...

Robert Wilson's "...

Artist : Robert Wilson

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

A great debate has been making the rounds in artistic arenas for at least a decade now in relation to the question, "Whatever happened to beauty?" According to the critic Arthur C. Danto in his 2003 book, The Abuse of Beauty, beauty rarely came up in art...

Sacred Wild at Apex Art

Artist : Suzi Gablik

uploaded : Nov 10, 2008

by : Chris Vroom