After living in Paris for only a year, Francis moved to South Kensington and set up an art studio. His painting Crucifixion was published in Herbert Read's book Art Now, and was purchased by Michael Sadler. The following year Francis made his own art exhibition which was rejected for not being surrealist enough. ... Many of these took the form of large format triptychs, including "Black triptych" series that expressed Dyer's passing. In 1973 Francis became the first contemporary artist to have a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ...

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Art Spiegelman, an author, born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after the end of the World War II. ... It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. ... When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." ... "Maus" is just an indescribable work of art. ...

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He anticipated the far in advance the dishonesty and shock of World War I as well as the change in art and society brought by the chaos of 1918. ... Indeed, during the 1920s most critics regarded Beckmann's art as anti-Expressionist, as a emotional and stylistic excesses. ... 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. ... She declined the use of color, letting her vigorously clear and smooth line express necessity and social purpose, and her simplification of form and the absence of irrel...

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When he came of the age of career choosing, Adolf wanted to pursue art. ... While living in Vienna, Hitler applied to the school of his dreams; The Vienna Academy of Art. ... Eventually, Adolf is discharged from the army and takes on more responsibility in the German Workers' Party in the form of propaganda. ... A different form of propaganda aimed to serve the same purpose, appeal to the public in a manipulative way. ... The Nazis had infiltrated literature, music, newspapers, art, film, and more. ...

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Realist writers would strive to create a truthful depiction of the society around them, in this way they believed that their work was moral since "truth is the highest form of morality." ... Realism, people decided, would never raise the level of art. It would only drag art down into the muck of the ordinary. ... There they formed an intellectual revolt. The prevailing attitude was to reject logic in all forms. ...

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Hamburg is full of art, social events, political history and much, much more. It thrives on tourism, and imports/exports form its harbors. ... Sadly a lot of the culture and art of this fine city were destroyed during World War II. ...

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After several family problems and his rejection from art school he decided to take a different path in life. ... Hitler had first set off to Vienna to study art; by the time he had left he had learned the ideas of racial hatred, specifically against the Jews, personal neurosis, and saw the flaws in the German government because of the presence of Jews and Slavs. ... Hitler learned to master this art of propaganda from the pamphlets that America and Great Britain used during World War I. ... Soon after the first concentration camps were started to form outside of Berlin. ...

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The atomic bomb would penetrate every fabric of American existence, from our politics to our educational system, our industry and our art. ... The work Hiroshima, by John Hersey, first appeared as a long article in the New Yorker, then shortly after in book form. ...

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So towards the end of 1928, Francis returned to London with one goal set to mind: to disrupt all notices of what art was and what it could express. ... This is what he did with painting known as the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion which put Francis Bacon on the art scene after having painted for fifteen years. After having painted for fifteen years it was the Three Studies for Figures and the Base of a Crucifixion that brought Francis Bacon into the art scene. ... Its one of the greatest paintings of the Crucifixion, with the body studded with thorns like nails, but ...

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Thus it came as no surprise when, in mid-1961, CIA sources gained intelligence of the arrival of Soviet combat and transport aircraft, including the light bomber IL-28 and the state of the art MIG-15s, 17s and 19s. ... On the other hand, the blockade could be perceived as a form of attack, or an "offensive-defense", by the Soviets and Cubans and they could retaliate. ... Alternative 3 The final option for the US would be military action, in the form of air strikes, targeting Cuba (in specific the missiles). ... The Soviets would perceive the move as more defensive and strategic and would b...

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Hitler used it "to control the press as well as all other means of expression-radio, film, art, and literature"(Rhodes 11). ... The Nazi Party filtered their ideals into the people's brains in every form possible. "By the outbreak of the Second World War, Goebbels" Propaganda Ministry had complete control of the press, radio, theater, cinema, the creative arts, music, writing, and art exhibitions"(Rhodes 18). ...

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The SA was the "most powerful forms of propaganda" used by Hitler to gain his power (347). ... As said in Hitler's writing Mein Kampf, "The art of the poster lies in the designer's ability to attract the attention of the crowd by form and color" (344). ...

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The different forms of imagery in Slaughterhouse Five are one of Vonnegut's primary tools for bringing this nonlinear story together. ... Perhaps one of the most hidden, yet most ironic forms of imagery in this book is the emphasis of sight. ... Vonnegut uses this form of personification to illustrate that during a war, there are no individuals. ... From the top of the Frauenkirchen's dome, I saw the sorry tremors planted in the beautiful townly order; there I was as the sacristan was praising the art of the architect, which had constructed the church bombproof for such an uncalled f...

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Here a form of emotional blackmail is used the first being the neglect of his duty as a father to protect his children, and the second being that he is letting others fight for him. ... A second form of propaganda that was evident during the Great War was atrocity propaganda. ... After all the criticism of black propaganda in the first world war Britain was reluctant to be seen using any form of propaganda again, and it waited until 1939, when the outbreak of war was once again upon them. ...

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"The subject of neo-realism film is the world; not the story or narrative. It contains no preconceived thesis, because ideas are born in the film from the subject." This was said by one of the founding fathers of the cinematic Neorealistic movement, Roberto Rossellini. Neorealism was a movemen...

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Dictator Adolf Hitler was born in Bran au am Inn, Australia on April 20th, 1889, He had an interest in fine art and showed an early interest in German nationalism. ... During this time people were struggling to make ends meet, some couldn't find employment and Hitler knew that by forming a strong political stance, that he could gain more power. ...

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Just inside the borders of Switzerland trading of art, jewelry, and other items of value were being unloaded bought by the Swiss people from the Nazis (Bower 55). ... Like with the Swiss, the Nazis paid their debt with looted gold form occupied countries. ...

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In Chicago he would attend concerts, operas and visit art museums with his mother, a musician and an artist. ... Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... "He has prostituted his art-: each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all. ...

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Air Force had not been formed yet) used the M2 almost to the exclusion of all other machine gun. ... Technologically, the artillery in WWII were primarily updated forms of previous cannons. ... Mortar operation became almost an art form. ... Designed primarily for bomber escort, it was later discovered that the Mustang was ideally suited to all forms of combat. ...

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He set many rigid standards upon the people of Germany, especially for art, music, medicine, and poetry. ... He formed the theory that they were attacked by the Devil, a personification of the Jewish people. ... After six marriages, five of the women died at their own hands, all of which a form of suicide. ...

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Hitler formed and organized the SA (Street Army) police, and the SS, a select group of bodyguards dressed in black, that helped to carry out his coercion practices on a national scale. ... Hitler would not have wanted to be the recipient of his own form of "persuasion." ...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing while they smoked cigars inside a restaurant. The men dressed in black, colorless business suites, with fashionable ties, fashionable outfits, and with any accessory that could compliment their fashionable lives. People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to...

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He passed through various stars, encountered with various forms of human vanity in six other asteroids, he felt lonely in his entire journey. ... Symbolism means the use of symbols, especially in literature, film, art, etc in 19th century France. 2 A symbol is anything which signifies anything, in this sense, all words are symbols, but used in criticism, however, 'symbol', is applied only to a word or a phrase signifying an object which itself has significance, that is, the object referred to has a range of meaning beyond itself. ...

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At the same time, Hitler wanted to study art. ... Claiming the communist were trying to overthrow the gov-ernment, he pushed through a state of emergency which suspended civil liberties protected by the Wermar Constitution "Free speech, free press, the right to assemble and form or-ganizations. ...

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