Having essentially no tradition to draw upon, the would-be painters, sculptors and graphic artists set out to establish their artistic community mainly through improvisation and style. ... He became a student at the National Academy of Design. ...
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a traditional prose fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel, explore the conflict between personal and public values of their respective main characters and intolerant societies using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ...
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a traditional prose fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel, explore the conflict between personal and public values of their respective main characters and intolerant societies using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. ... Lee and Satrapi's use of first-person perspective is designed to challenge the readers' values and present the intolerance of their public societies through clashing public and personal values. ...
Thus, there was little opportunity for the slave to express his creativity in graphic and plastic art for the church as he had done in Africa where religion and art were inseparable. ... Science America's earliest African-American scientists and inventors are largely unknown -- their contributions to America buried in anonymity...While historians increasingly recognize that blacks had a significant impact on the design and construction of plantations and public buildings in the South and that rice farming in the Carolinas might not have been possible without Blacks, the individu...
