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"With unfailingly strict attention to detail, perspective and scale," ( Rosenthal et al; 1998; 203) Ron Mueck, is perhaps the most academically trained of all the YBA's. Mueck origi...

`Sight is the sovereign of the senses.` Is it? In his Ways of Seeing, John Berger states that `the faculty of touch is like a static, limited form of sight` as if it were a given....

Is life worth living? In a genre that is fundamentally based on human suffering, misery and despair, this query is one that often hangs in the tragic air, implicitly if not explicitly...

On one level, the painting is not particularly noteworthy: it is a sixteenth century, half-length portrait of a woman painted in what is traditionally considered a representational st...

Truth cannot exist. If I pursue a truth on my canvas I can paint a hundred canvases with the same truth, which one, then, is the truth? And what is truth - the thing that acts as my ...

However, when artificiality is forced upon an individual, the reality of multiple personae is far less glamorous. In a letter written to Philip Houghton in February 1894 Wilde admi...

Indeed, the dress and personality of Wilde support Baudelaire`s statement: Wilde`s immaculate, lavish apparel reflects his refined aesthetic tastes and his highly fastidious discrimin...

Decadence in English (and French) Literature. One evening she is Rosalind, and the next evening she is Imogen. I have seen her die in the gloom of an Italian tomb, sucking the poi...

Robert Adam (1728-1792) was a Scottish architect, who created innovative interior and exterior spaces, working in a highly original and lavish Neo-classical style. During the height o...

In reference to the Safavids, the continued usage of the term `state` connoting fixed, internationally recognized borders, a common language and a monopoly at the centre of the use of...