Mary Anne Staniszewski, the author of Believing Is Seeing, says that "[t]o question Art and to see it as something that has a specific history and belongs to a particular era can tell us so much about our culture and ourselves." ... As a result of changing values and the way in which institutions affect how values and meanings are arrived at, contemporary art is viewed today very differently from the visual work of the past. ... Today, contemporary art is anything that is considered aesthetically beautiful, and it must be disconnected from everyday life. ... Differing opinions about the ae...

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Plato's perfect state was by no means a state that reflected our contemporary views of freedom of expression. ... The author of "Art Censorship in Socialist china: A Do It Yourself System" said that the other artists in this association were effectually "agents of the state". ... These paintings were rarely shown to the public, but it was one of those few expositions that artist Li Huasheng, known as "one of the most original and interesting painters on the contemporary Chinese art scene". ... (Silbergeld, 307) The paintings that earned him a fate as a "dead tiger" were like his paintin...

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 MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?... The traditional curator maintains a collection of art by preserving, exhibiting and studying those objects, at the other hand, the contemporary curator need not work with a collection or objects at all, and instead engages with cultural meaning and production, often from a position of development that is shared with the artist, moreover, they have particula...

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Concern about living creatures now and in the future as well as doubts about the efficiency of the contemporary, large-scale application of scientific rationality as the exclusive 'solution' to this crisis are, amongst others the motivations for this study. ... Contemporary technology and liberal programmes confirm the autonomy of the Western human subject, both promise individuals more human welfare, more freedom, more autonomy in relation to other living beings as well as to naturally given conditions. ... Part I exposes the relations between premodern and contemporary techn...

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Humanities are the broad areas of human creativity and the studies essentially involved with values and generally not strictly objective or scientific standards. As I perceive it, humanity deals in all the areas of human creativity. It is the lense through which an individual perceives her or his morals, culture, views and values. Humanities also deals with the emotional side of our consciousness, rather than mathematics and the scientific aspects of life. Humanities, as one would guess by its name, pertains to humans and does not pertain to God, Buddha, Allah or any other higher power or spir...

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