Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol was a bastion of improbability, an actor with the world as his stage and an artist who implemented the common into the guise of the extraordinary. The images that the world associates with Warhol include soup cans, brillo boxes, Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Mao Tse-tung. This 10 page paper explores the life, work and significance of Andy Warhol to the pop art movement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KTwarhol.rtf

Armenian Success in America
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Armenians not only contribute to their own culture in the United States, they contribute to the overall U.S. community by offering their history, poetry, literature, art, and business and technical acumen. They provide community service to charitable organizations and make certain that their culture is the most successful of all cultures that have immigrated to the United States. Bibliography lists 9 sources. jvArmeni.rtf
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Art & Beauty's Role in Knowledge
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A 5 page paper examining whether art can provide knowledge, or whether that knowledge instead is resident within the individual but unrealized until the experience of the art reveals it. Whether the individual is able to either recognize or access that knowledge is immaterial. When art can bring forth an understanding, it is not providing knowledge per se, but rather providing a framework in which that knowledge can be contained and translated to the conscious mind of its viewer. It is within this context that the work of Warhol becomes important, and Picasso's Weeping Women series portrays not only the image of pain, but also conveys an understanding of it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Knowrole.wps

Art & Politics
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A 5 page essay on how art has always reflected the political climate of its day. Mentioned are the works of Sir John Everett Millais and several others from various cultures and historic periods. Bibliography lists 7 sources w/ end notes.
Filename: Artpolit.wps

Art & The Internet
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A 5 page essay discussing the benefits of having art created and shown on the Internet in addition to the way it is usually produced. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Artnet.wps