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art
art The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting ; sculpture ; drawing ; photography , and architecture .
Bibliography: See also articles on specific artists, periods, styles, regions, genres, and graphic media.
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Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago (Judy Gerowitz Chicago) , 1939-, American artist, b. Chicago as Judy Cohen. A feminist and founder of the Women's Art Education collective, she works in a variety of media, including such historically female crafts as needlework and china painting. Her best-known work, The Dinner Par...
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Media
Media , ancient country of W Asia whose actual boundaries cannot be defined, occupying generally what is now W Iran and S Azerbaijan. It extended from the Caspian Sea to the Zagros Mts. The Medes were an Indo-European people who spoke an Iranian language closely akin to old Persian. Some scholars cl...
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bulimia nervosa
bulimia nervosa Eating disorder that takes the form of compulsive eating, then purging by induced vomiting or the use of a laxative or diuretic. Confined mainly to girls and women, the disorder most often results from an underlying psychological problem. An obsession with body image may be reinforc...
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Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes , town (1991 pop. 36,886) and borough, S central England. Milton Keynes was designated one of the new towns in 1967 to alleviate overpopulation in London. It is the seat of the Open Univ.; students there receive instruction by correspondence and through the media.
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Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha (Edward Ruscha), 1937-, American artist, b. Omaha, Neb. He is closely associated with Los Angeles, where he moved to attend (1956-60) the Chouinard Art Institute. Cooly inventive and extremely influential, Ruscha uses imagery and language familiar from popular media and typically mingles ...
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journalism
journalism the collection and periodic publication or transmission of news through media such as newspaper , periodical , television , and radio .
Schools
The importance of journalism in modern society has been testified to by the establishment of schools of journalism at most of the ...
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contemporary art
contemporary art the art of the late 20th cent. and early 21st cent., both an outgrowth and a rejection of modern art . As the force and vigor of abstract expressionism diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose during the 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting, s...
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aggression
aggression a form of behavior characterized by physical or verbal attack. It may appear either appropriate and self-protective, even constructive, as in healthy self-assertiveness, or inappropriate and destructive. Aggression may be directed outward, against others, or inward, against the self, lea...
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Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson 1958-, American performer, b. Gary, Ind. Jackson is known as a superb dancer and pop singer, often conveying an androgynous image and an ambiguous sexuality, but offstage he has become known for various alleged eccentricities, for his sharp business acumen, and for a physical...
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