Articles related to "Postmodernism"

This is not to attempt to define the term postmodernism, but rather to consider what postmodern performance is, how it opposes traditional theatrical aesthetics and why.

Brink Road exhibits themes familiar to postmoderism and responds to alienation from a higher power through a complex relationship to nature.

Willa Cather said in "O Pioneers" there are two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as if they never happened. Who knew she wrote for film and tv?

As it approaches its first 500 years, there currently exists within contemporary Protestantism the need for continuing reformation.

Three shows at the V&A. One looks at Shadow Catchers - camera-free ways to capture images. Two explore art movements - Postmodernism and the British Aesthetic Movement.

The differences between qualitative and quantitative research are abundant, but where caused them to emerge and why are they used?

The history of mental illness reveals that there are a few ways we tend to intervene, ways that, over time, come and go. Who is served by these interventions?

This article looks at the impact of postmodernism on 2nd wave feminism.

Many people today question whether religious or philosophical truth is possible to know. The Founding Fathers didn't.....and thankfully so.

Will global warming, rampant development, and decades of resource extraction and exploitation make a tabla rasa of the landscapes BC artists paint & draw? (Part 3 of 3)

Alf Crossley's paintings & drawings traverse 4 decades in the Kootenays of British Columbia. His style transmutes landscapes into iconic archetypes (a 3-Part Series.)

Brief biography of French philosopher Michel Foucault, known for his philosophy that society is maintained through relations of power.

A lyric and challenging collection of essays by Adrienne Rich, one of America's most influential contemporary poets.

Two types of poets emerge in every era, traditionalists and faddists. The Modernist fad produced four major poets who straddled the line between tradition and Modernism.

Jacques Derrida has written a number of essays regarding the theatre defining semiotic (sign) deconstruction - of interest to the development of Postmodern Theatre.

Like Brecht and Artaud before him, Wilson reacted against the contemporary Western theatre, calling this style of acting and directing 'fascist'.[iii]

Is the Bible true? Is the Bible historically reliable? Is there evidence that the people and stories of the Bible are true or authentic?

Postmodern performance has been shaped by theories that oppose the conventional. Artaud's contribution was to defy conventional theatre practices.

Brief biography of Allen Ginsberg, a poet and leading figure of America's Beat era of new American poets. Famous for poems Howl and Kaddish.

All social levels of the United States participate in the consumption of the surplus production of capitalism Marx predicted would destroy Western culture.

Hunky Dory was released in December 1971, to critical acclaim and subdued sales. In the forty years since, however, it has become one of Bowie's biggest successes.

Oxford Art Online is the gateway to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Learn something new from comments made about these two abstract and surrealist artists who created unique landscapes.

How you see life depends on your worldview. Thanks to The Truth Project, Christians are returning to the truths of a biblical worldview.

Every field of study has its scholars, critics, and commentarians, who employ terminological tools appropriate to their unique purposes. So it is with poetry commentary.

Robert Kroetsch is one of Canada's foremost poets and writers. A Likely Story: The Writing Life is his story of his writing life.

Did the early church suppress alternative forms of Christianity? Were the Gnostic Gospels part of early Christianity? What do the Gnostic Gospels reveal about Jesus?

Photographer Martin Parr and photo historian and critic Gerry Badger compiled this huge historical survey of the photobook, a genre inextricably tied to photography.

Gore joked to his publisher that W. B. Yeats had penned the poem in Gore's latest book; sadly, the publisher seemed to fall for it, before Gore admitted to scribbling it.

Yeats' "The Second Coming" does not depict the universe as only or totally chaotic, yet it does complain that things seem to be heading in that direction.

The Bible says that the "heavens declare [God's] handiwork." Does the complexity and order of the universe bring us closer to accepting the reality of God?