Many types of literary criticism abound, formalism plays on the theory that the pieces form is what composes its persona. To the formalist literature must have specified defining qualities to attain status as a literary work. 1Some of the defining qualities might be functionality, figurative language, universality, appropriate subject matter, excellence in technique, authorial intention to create an art work, aesthetic value, originality, verisimilitude, narrative structure, et al. ... Formalisms utmost priority is how certain aspects of literary works construct differing things by their nat...

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Post modernism is an artistic and literary movement that quite obviously rejected the previous, modernism, movement in an attempt to analyse and reorganize the existing modes of art practice. ... Essentially, postmodernism uses art history imagery as its resource in a cannibalistic fashion, in a "way" that challenged art's audience, perception, themes, techniques and art in general. ... Pop art appropriating both the subject matter of mass culture and the techniques of mass production. ... In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol used this idea in adopting the mass-production technique of silk-scr...

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Except for these literary endeavors, Morris devoted most of his time to architecture and painting. ... The choice of using numerous glaze techniques or concentrating or hand painted decoration offered different visual treats. ... The techniques were based upon medieval times and inspired from the work of William Morris. ... The Roycroft shops were known for their masterful binding techniques. In the United States as well as in Great Britain, reformers loved the qualities of handcrafted object: simple, straight forward design; solid materials of good quality; and sound, enduring construction...

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Constable is known as a Romantic artist, Kathryn Calley Galitz of the Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes about Romanticism Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. ...

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