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Stateless Society
Stateless SocietyBIBLIOGRAPHYThere is probably considerable common-sense agreement among those interested in what is meant by a stateless society. Brief definition of the concept does little that is positive to increase understanding, but it may focus disagreement and so lead to clarification. To... Read more |
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dialectic
dialectic [Gr.,= art of conversation], in philosophy, term originally applied to the method of philosophizing by means of question and answer employed by certain ancient philosophers, notably Socrates. For Plato the term came to apply more strictly to logical method and meant the reduction of what... Read more |
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commonwealth
commonwealth form of administration signifying government by the common consent of the people. To Locke and Hobbes and other 17th-century writers the term meant an organized political community similar to what is meant in the 20th cent. by the word state. Certain states of the United States are... Read more |
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John Bowlby
John Bowlby 1907-1990 British psychiatrist who discovered insights into the mother-child bond. John Bowlby's pioneering work on the relationship between mothers and children was instrumental in shaping child psychology in the twentieth century. His research focusing on the mother-child... Read more |
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John Barbour
John Barbour , c.1316?-1395, Scottish poet. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen from 1355 until his death. His romance, The Bruce (1375), celebrating Scotland's emancipation from England, recounts the heroic deeds of Robert I and Sir James Douglas. The poem was meant to be read as history and shows... Read more |
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Gleaning
GLEANING Harvesting for free distribution to the needy, or for donation to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to the needy, an agricultural crop that has been donated by the owner. Gleaning raises legal liability issues, especially with respect to the quality of the food donated... Read more |
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Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
Endoscopic sinus surgery Definition Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that opens up sinus air cells and sinus ostia (openings) with an endoscope. The use of FESS as a sinus surgical method has now become widely accepted;... Read more |
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pantheism
pantheism [Gr. pan =all, theos =God], name used to denote any system of belief or speculation that includes the teaching "God is all, and all is God." Pantheism, in other words, identifies the universe with God or God with the universe. The term is thought to have been employed first by John ... Read more |
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Persecution
PERSECUTION PERSECUTION. Life was difficult for almost everyone in early modern Europe. Malnutrition, grinding poverty, pervasive disease, and frequent warfare over much of the continent were commonplace challenges for early modern Europeans. Furthermore, most political systems oppressed at least... Read more |
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Feminist theology
Feminist Theology Feminist theology emerged from the notion that Christian theology and the institutional embodiment of Christianity not only excluded women's voices and experiences, but also developed practices that are sexist, patriarchal, and androcentric. Contemporary feminist theology finds... Read more |
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WHAT YOU SAY IS WHAT YOU SEE.(Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the...
LANE RELYEA ON MINIMALISM James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001...historians rather than critics. Conceptual art, Pop, Minimalism, Color Field, ... |
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Why art critics don't matter anymore: aesthetic terms are everywhere because...
...straightforward biography, Art Czar: The Rise and Fall...Meyer's marvelous recent Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (2001) tells a story of...which Michael Fried's polemic against minimalism was ... |
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The feminine mystique.(Judy Chicago and the Feminist Art Movement/National...
...act, for some years. Though art historians can say that one of the founders of the Feminist Art Movement was included in "Primary...important book by James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. The work ... |
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Tuesday book: The critical tendency of the love decade
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties by James Meyer (Yale University...the 1960s has been a footnote to Minimalism, but few subsequent sculptors...Minimalism: art and polemics in the ... |
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The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
...implications for contemporary art as potentially disturbing as...seductions of so much digital art. What historical lessons might...Imagination. Alongside James Meyer's Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (2001) and ... |
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By rail to glories of nostalgia
...lure with a collection of 38 Art Deco posters used to draw riders...admirers of vintage poster art and train lovers would find this a welcome gift. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, by James Meyer (Yale ... |
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Back from the brink: MoMA relives painting's postwar near-death...
...Museum of Modern Art is that when...it defines a polemic about a single...painting through the sixties and seventies, when Minimalism and Conceptualism...Rauschenberg to Pop and Minimalism. In 1964, Celmins...crossing Pop with ... |