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In her 1970 book Meaning and Expression: Toward a Sociology of Art, Hanna Deinhard gives one approach: "The point of departure of the sociology of art is the question: How is it possible that works of art, which always originate as products of human activity within a particular time and society and for a particular time, society, or function -- even though they are not necessarily produced as ...
Ronnick graduated from Sarasota High School in 1972 and earned a BA in Classics and Sociology from the University of South Florida in 1975. She went on to complete an MS in Library Science at Florida State University in 1977, followed by an MA in Latin at the University of Florida in 1986, and a PhD in Classical Studies at Boston University in 1990.
In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers (also referred to as empty signifiers, [1] although these terms have been made distinct [2]) are signifiers without a referent. The term open signifier is sometimes used as a synonym due to the empty signifier's nature to "resist the constitution of any unitary meaning", enabling its ...
Description: Aspects of twentieth century painting : [catalogue of an exhibition] lent by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, shown at the Worcester Art Museum, February 7 through April 7, 1963
William Hogarth FRSA (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑːr θ /; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.
In visual art, horror vacui (Latin for 'fear of empty space'; UK: / ˌ h ɒ r ə ˈ v æ k j u aɪ /; US: /-ˈ v ɑː k-/), or kenophobia (Greek for 'fear of the empty'), [1] is a phenomenon in which the entire surface of a space or an artwork is filled with detail and content, leaving as little perceived emptiness as possible. [2]
Small business owners should not forget about a rule — currently in legal limbo — that would require them to register with an agency called the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN ...
The desk, chair and background of the painting were closely based on The Empty Chair, an engraving made at Gads Hill Place in 1870, shortly after Dickens's death, by Samuel Luke Fildes. [9] The painting was Buss's last attempt to illustrate Dickens's characters, and he modestly reproduced the images of the artists who had succeeded him.