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Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Poet), and Percy Bysshe Shelley saw inspiration in terms similar to the Greeks: it was a matter of madness and irrationality. Inspiration came because the poet tuned himself to the (divine or mystical) "winds" and because he was made in such a way as to receive such visions.
Human muses are woven throughout history. In modern times, specific people are called muses; as a rule, these are close friends and sometimes lovers or spouses, who inspire or affect the works of an artist due to their disposition, charisma, wisdom, sophistication, eroticism, intimate friendship, or other traits.
List of works by Guido Cagnacci; List of Alexander Calder public works; List of paintings in the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte; Caricatures by John Henry Chinner; Caricatures by Low 1915; List of works by Auguste Carli; List of works by Carolus-Duran; Catalogue of the Pinacoteca of the Accademia Carrara; List of works by Mary Cassatt
Author and Book Info.com offering a list of works and their description; Kenneth Burke Papers at the Pennsylvania State University; KB Journal, KB Journal's mission is to explore what it means to be "Burkean" The Kenneth Burke Society; A short introduction to Burkean rhetoric Archived 2009-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, with all relative ...
The Western canon is the embodiment of high-culture literature, music, philosophy, and works of art that are highly cherished across the Western hemisphere, such works having achieved the status of classics. Recent discussions upon the matter emphasise cultural diversity within the canon.
The philosopher primarily associated with the historical definition of art is Jerrold Levinson (1979). For Levinson, "a work of art is a thing intended for regard-as-a-work-of-art: regard in any of the ways works of art existing prior to it have been correctly regarded" (1979, p. 234).
The works of English playwright William Shakespeare are considered by many to be among the highest achievements in Western art. Artistic merit is the artistic quality or value of any given work of art , music, film, literature , sculpture or painting.
Socialist realism is a subset of realist art which focuses on communist values and realist depiction. [44] It developed in the Soviet Union and was imposed as state policy by Joseph Stalin in 1934, [45] [46] though authors in other socialist countries and members of the communist party in non-socialist countries also partook in the movement