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  2. Era of Manifestations - Wikipedia

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    Some of these "drawings" are now part of the American Folk Art Museum collection. [12] Key artists from the Shaker community were Hannah Cohoon, Polly Collins and Joseph Wicker; others include Sarah Bates and Polly Anne Reed. The Era of Manifestations ended when Shaker community members became embarrassed by the "emotional excesses and mystical ...

  3. Hagakure - Wikipedia

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    Prohibited book of Nabeshima, Hagakure The Analects (abridged). 1939 edition. Cover of The Book of the Samurai. Hagakure (Kyūjitai: 葉隱; Shinjitai: 葉隠; meaning Hidden by the Leaves or Hidden Leaves), [1] or Hagakure Kikigaki (葉隠聞書), is a practical and spiritual guide for a warrior, drawn from a collection of commentaries by the clerk Yamamoto Tsunetomo, former retainer to ...

  4. Art as Experience - Wikipedia

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    Dewey's theory is an attempt to shift the understandings of what is essential and characteristic about the art process from its physical manifestations in the ‘expressive object’ to the process in its entirety, a process whose fundamental element is no longer the material ‘work of art’ but rather the development of an ‘experience’.

  5. Arthur Schopenhauer - Wikipedia

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    Art is the practical consequence of this brief aesthetic contemplation, since it attempts to depict the essence/pure Ideas of the world. Music, for Schopenhauer, is the purest form of art because it is the one that depicts the will itself without it appearing as subject to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, therefore as an individual object.

  6. What Is Art? - Wikipedia

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    Art schools teach people how to imitate the method of the masters, but they cannot teach the sincerity of emotion that is the propellant of great works. [55] In Tolstoy's words, "[n]o school can call up feelings in a man, and still less can it teach a man what is the essence of art: the manifestation of feeling in his own particular fashion". [55]

  7. Manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions - Wikipedia

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    Manifest functions are the consequences that people see, observe or even expect. It is explicitly stated and understood by the participants in the relevant action. The manifest function of a rain dance, according to Merton in his 1957 Social Theory and Social Structure, is to produce rain, and this outcome is intended and desired by people participating in the ritual.

  8. The Story of Art - Wikipedia

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    The Story of Art, by E. H. Gombrich, is a survey of the history of art from ancient times to the modern era. [ 1 ] First published in 1950 by Phaidon , the book is widely regarded both as a seminal work of criticism and as one of the most accessible introductions to the visual arts .

  9. Law of attraction (New Thought) - Wikipedia

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    The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life. [1] [2] The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are made from "pure energy" and that like energy can attract like energy, thereby allowing people to improve their health, wealth, or personal relationships.