After WWI Dix developed left wing views and his paintings and drawings became increasingly political. ... is a piece with three planes that define a more personal document that reveals a more or less sinister engineer with his mechanical heart in the empty corner of a room. ... But this view, too, constitutes a reductive distortion of Beckmann's artistic achievement. ... Which he feels is the work of art that becomes a symbol and source of power for the partly still silent power in the responsible human being. ... Beckmann used various modern devices, seeing his subjects from multip...

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It is agreed by most historians that the "Final Solution" was decided upon in 1941, though the exact date is one of the dividing factors in holocaust views. ... In 1935 The Nuremberg laws were imposed, these laws banned Germans from marriage with Jews. ... The concern over the use of German patriotic colours and symbols by Jews was relevant to the Nazis in 1936 because the Germans were staging the Olympic games. ... Intentionalists saw the speech given by Hitler at the Reichstag as the most notable piece of evidence to support their view of Hitler having planned the genocide... The school of t...

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Many families were found living in the same room, all waste was thrown out onto the street. ... The romanticists view of the perfect world in harmony was not relevant to the society of the time. ... If realism was the theory of depicting reality as ordinary men and women might see it, symbolism would explore, by means of symbols and metaphors, the inner realities that cannot be directly displayed. ... He used an almost bare stage with the audience standing around it. ... Absurd theatre wants to bring the audience face to face with the human situation as they view it, in its absurdity. ...

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As the 1950's began, Westerns introduced new techniques of filmmaking both on location and in the editing room. ... (Pg. 407) " A Star is Born (1954) took the genre even further with an inner battle between two main characters. ... With also having a director who did not have experience in film musical, much of the final print had to be completely in the production and editing room. ... As a visual artist himself, this heavily influenced Hitchcock to use conventional symbols and colors. ... Red may evoke a positive symbol involving passion, love, and sex, while the negative reaction could...

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The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. ... Among the many events that gave him inspiration, such as the rising power of upper-class America during the 1920s, his draft into The Great War would eventually push him to publish his first work, The Enormous Room. 1 The rest, as they say, is history. ... While Cummings fought in World War I, he experienced first-hand the chaotic destruction during battle, and later carried his personal beliefs of freedom to protest aga...

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However, this tendency has been balanced by other writers who have made use of popular forms in order to communicate with a wider audience. ... Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. ... He brought home to British poets the significance of French experimental symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine, Laforgue, and Mallarme, and observed that with them literature 'becomes itself a kind of religion, with all the duties and responsibilities of the sacred ritual'. ... Such a rich use of language expresses a view of reality which is more fluid. ... Hardy was...

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