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Hace 3 días · Art Nouveau, ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.
- Jugendstil
Jugendstil, artistic style that arose in Germany about the...
- Arts and Crafts Movement
By the 1880s Morris’s efforts had widened the appeal of the...
- Psychedelic
psychedelic rock, style of rock music popular in the late...
- Op Art
Op art, branch of mid-20th-century geometric abstract art...
- Jugendstil
Hace 3 días · AMST 0108 Childhood in America (Spring 2025) In this course we will explore “childhood” as an evolving social and cultural construct. Beginning by acknowledging great diversity in the lived experience of childhood (shaped by race, gender, geography, religion, ability/disability), we will examine representations of childhood and experiences of children from the early nineteenth century to ...
Hace 5 días · Nineteenth Century Spain: A New History. London, Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9780815351061; 212pp.; Price: £96.00. At a time when the study of 19th-century history in general is becoming an increasingly marginal pursuit, writing a synthetic volume about Spain—which has never enjoyed much scholarly attention—may seem optimistic.
Hace 8 horas · What has impressed me personally very much is a story told by C.S. Lewis. In his book The Silver Chair of the series “The Chronicles of Narnia,” he describes a poignant moment toward the end of the story when one of the main characters makes a courageous stand for love, goodness, faith, and hope, regardless of a witch’s manipulative illusion.
Hace 4 días · As Islamization progressed across the region, more variations developed in mosque architecture, including the adoption of traditional local forms not previously associated with Islamic architecture. Under Songhai influence, minarets took on a more pyramidal appearance and became stepped or tiered on three levels, as exemplified by the tower of the mosque–tomb of Askia al-Hajj Muhammad in Gao ...
Hace 3 días · As the author of a monograph on Spain between 1914 and 1918, Dr Romero is an expert in the crisis of liberal Spain and it is here where he begins his story. The book's starting point is the deep and abiding trauma of 1898, of military defeat by the United States and the consequent loss of the remnants of Spain's colonial empire.
Hace 1 día · Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
