|
| |
| | Western world - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture. | | | As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome. | | | Western society is often considered as tracing its cultural origins to both Greek thought and Christian religion, thus following an evolution that began in ancient Greece, continued through the Roman Empire and, with the coming of Christianity (which has its origins in the Middle East), spread throughout Europe. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world
(2243 words)
|
|
| |
| | Images - The Western: An Overview |
| | And in the process, the Western myth engulfed American popular culture--from clothes (denim jackets, jeans, and cowboy boots) to children's toys (cap guns, rubber-tipped arrows, and tom toms). | | | Part of the allure of the Western was its very simplicity. | | | Robert Warshow in his influential essay "Movie Chronicle: The Westerner" described the Western as "an art form for connoisseurs, where the spectator derives his pleasure from the appreciation of minor variations within the working out of a pre-established order" (Warshow, pg. |
|
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/infocus/western.htm
(893 words)
|
|
| |
| | Western: Furniture at Canadian Content |
| | International Calling Code 0 Currency Moroccan Dirham (MAD Language(s) Hassaniya Arabic & Moroccan Arabic Overview Culture Travelling Fact Sheet Overview of Western Sahara Map of Western Sahara click to enlarge Travel Advisories for Western Sahara Facts | | | Western style fresco painted furniture designed by Kathy Donegan. | | | This is the Greatest Threat to Western Capitalist Democracy. |
|
http://www.canadiancontent.net/dir/Top/Shopping/Home_and_Garden/Furniture/Western
(1464 words)
|
|
| |
| | Encyclopedia: Alternative culture |
| | Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. | | | Hip-hop culture allowed poor Afro-Americans to express themselves creatively when they had minimal access to musical instruments and very little chance of having their work displayed in art galleries. | | | From the above article it would appear that the concept of an alternative culture was nothing more than a collection of clichés that were propagated by the media until they became accepted as the truth, similar in many ways to what happened with the counter culture of the 1960s. |
|
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Alternative-culture
(2368 words)
|
|
| |
| | Japanese Art and Western Influence |
| | On this site I like to show objects of Japanese Art and Craft that were made with influence of Western culture. | | | In Art History most attention has been given to the big influence of Japanese Art on the development of Western Art and Craft in the second half of the nineteenth century.The fashion of Japonism and the influence on Impressionism and Art Nouveau is described in many Art History books and shown in many Exhibitions. | | | Less well documented is the Western influence on Japanese Art and Craft in different historical periods, and this site wants to specialize on this perspective. |
|
http://www.euronet.nl/users/artnv/Japart.index.html
(2368 words)
|
|
| |
| | Encyclopedia: Underground culture |
| | Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. | | | Underground Alternative culture is a catch-all phrase used predominately by the media and the marketing industry to refer to a variety of separate sub-cultures – (which are either loosely related or near-totally unrelated) – and are perceived by the general public as being outside or on the edge of so... | | | The French underground culture which inspired Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg in America in the 1940s was steeped in socialist thinking before the cold war began, but this wasn't the monolithic socialism of the totalitarian Soviet state, but rather the free-thinking and expressive socialism of artists and dreamers attempting to re-think society. |
|
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Underground-culture
(2240 words)
|
|
| |
| | 8.2.r_zhang |
| | What Chow tries to show in Part 2 is that Chinese culture, which has been aggrandized by the powerful cinematic apparatus, does not merely appeal to the Western gaze, but more important, it also challenges, questions, and displaces the gaze. | | | In this sense, far from being the art of exotic seduction, contemporary Chinese films are self-staged in the world market as a new form of cultural resistance against the Western hegemonic power in the age of cultural diaspora. | | | Chow's discussion of primitive passions, reinforced by her frequent references to postcolonial theory, provides a new perspective upon twentieth-century Chinese culture which, in Chow's opinion, is "caught between the forces of 'first world' imperialism and 'third world' nationalism" (23), and which demands reconsideration of the paradoxical relation between China and the West. |
|
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.198/8.2.r_zhang
(2240 words)
|
|
| |
| | Culture of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Twentieth-century Chinese art was heavily influenced by the New Culture Movement, which adopted Western techniques, introduced oil painting and employed socialist realism. | | | Chinese architecture, examples of which can be found over 2,000 years ago, has long been a landmark of Chinese culture. | | | When the Cultural Revolution began, all forms of traditional Chinese culture were suppressed. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture
(2240 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Contemporary Museum - Level Two |
| | This portion of the exhibition includes objects that present a timeline of surfing, from its initial development in Polynesia to the early twentieth century, when it was introduced into Western culture. | | | Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing was organized by the Laguna Art Museum (LAM). | | | Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing explores the history of surfing through art, artifacts, and adjunct objects and ephemera that examine surfings mystique and widespread cultural influence. |
|
http://www.tcmhi.org/ex_mhwinter03.htm
(526 words)
|
|
| |
| | "High" culture |
| | The master premise of my work is that the glorious Western high art tradition has shifted tracks in the 20th century and that popular culture is its true heir. | | | My generation was educated by a rich range of popular culture, from European art films to virtuoso cutting-edge rock albums. | | | Both high culture and low culture are minority cultures. |
|
http://www.jahsonic.com/High.html
(1169 words)
|
|
| |
| | Counterculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As criticism of the established social order became more widespread among the newly emergent youth class, new theories about culture and personal identity began to spread, and traditional non-Western ideas – particularly with regard to religion, social organization and spiritual enlightenment – were also embraced. | | | In casual practice, the term came to prominence in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and early 1970s. | | | During the period in question, new cultural forms that were perceived as opposed to the old emerged, including the pop music of the Beatles, which rapidly evolved to shape and reflect the youth culture's emphasis on change and experimentation. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture
(1760 words)
|
|
| |
| | Culture of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Twentieth-century Chinese art was heavily influenced by the New Culture Movement, which adopted Western techniques, introduced oil painting and employed socialist realism. | | | Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such universally significant contributions as Confucianism. | | | With the rise of Western economic and military power beginning in the mid-19th century, however, non-Chinese systems of social and political organization gained adherents in China. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_culture
(2321 words)
|
|
| |
| | CCH - Western Civilization Art History Index |
| | This page also contains links to the art, culture and history of the United States and the modern world. | | | This page also contains New World art, culture, and history links. | | | This page also contains ancient Aegean art, culture, and history links. |
|
http://www.classicalhomeschooling.org/arthistory.html
(769 words)
|
|
| |
| | Dreamers of Paradise |
| | Some of the passion in Sandall’s writing comes from a local issue: his horror at the betrayal of the Australian Aboriginal people by practitioners of romantic primitivism, the intellectuals who rewrote Aboriginal history, enforced bilingual instruction, encouraged a cultural apartheid of “self-determination” and prioritized the preservation of traditional culture over the skills of modern life. | | | But the author wants to paint on a wider canvas and he uses the glorification of the primitive as a means to attack a whole host of guilt ridden and politically correct left wing ideas, including those prevailing in North America and Western Europe. | | | Sandall focuses on the worst aspects of cultural relativism, in particular its non-relativist use of sentimentalized assessments of primitive cultures as a stick with which to beat civilization. |
|
http://www.culturecult.com/culturecult/tallis.htm
(769 words)
|
|
| |
| | Consulate General of Denmark in New York |
| | In western Denmark, a notable Jutish clergyman, Steen Steensen Blicher (17821848) made his mark with his tragic tales. | | | When, in the eighteenth century, strict Pietism spread from northern Germany to Denmark, it was on the tempestuous western coast of Jutland and on the meagre heathlands that it gained its most lasting allegiance and still lives on there in the Home Mission movement. | | | In those very years Denmark was passing through an unparalleled flowering of science, art, and literature, which continued until mid century. |
|
http://www.denmark.org/culture/in_dk_literature_kierk.html
(6307 words)
|
|
| |
| | World Cultures Lesson 2 |
| | As the students learn more about African design, they will continue to understand how artmakers all over the world, across time and culture, use the same alphabet of art elements and principles to express ideas visually. | | | Understand and appreciate the use of art elements and principles used by artmakers across time and cultures (AH, AC, Std. | | | This is the second lesson in our series on African culture as part of the larger unit on exploring world cultures. |
|
http://www.artpartnersprogram.com/current/World_Cultures/Lesson_2_Crowns.htm
(3296 words)
|
|
| |
| | THE CULTURE OF BRITISH PSYCHOANALYSIS |
| | Western medicine is equally amenable to being thought of in this way; so is psychoanalysis. | | | Moreover, ideas, including scientific ideas, have histories, and these exist inside the histories of cultures. | | | 'A large component of culture is below the level of conscious awareness; and that 'Cultural patterns structure both thought and perception' ( ibid. |
|
http://www.human-nature.com/culture/paper5h.html
(3296 words)
|
|
| |
| | Barbelith Underground > Temple > Welcome to the counter culture |
| | The decision to not spend your saturday evening as a passive spectator of celebrity big brother, or whatever, and engage with some form of empowering magical practice instead could well be considered "counter cultural", in that it's behaviour that runs counter to a lot of the lifestyle messages we receive within mainstream western culture. | | | By and large, we're not really encouraged to do this sort of thing by the consumerist culture we belong to. | | | Does popular occultism, and the "counter culture" associated with it, really do that? |
|
http://www.barbelith.com/topic/20170
(4529 words)
|
|
| |
| | ArtWorld CHINA TEMPORAL: PREHISTORIC |
| | In fact, the culture was wide-spread in the eastern coastal region of China from Shandong to Zhejiang, and later spread to the central and western areas that had been bases for the Yangshao culture. | | | For this reason, it was sometimes referred to as the Painted Pottery Culture,distinguishing it from the Black Pottery Culture of Longshan. | | | Chinese authorities believe such cultures were matriarchal: that women held the higher status and that lineage passed down the female line, not the male line as in most later societies. |
|
http://artworld.uea.ac.uk/teaching_modules/china/temporal/prehistoric/welcome.html
(4529 words)
|
|
| |
| | Icons of the Matrix |
| | Breasts and necklaces are a distinctive theme in megalithic art of northern Africa and western Europe. | | | This sign appears on female urns of the Calchaquí culture in Argentina, at Cunaní in northern Brazil, and as far north as Chihuahua (where three vertical lines were painted below the eyes on the woman-pot described above). | | | For these a cultural connection is conceivable, but not for the similarities between the Hassuna urn and those of the Diaguitas culture that flourished in the southern Andes some six and a half millennia later. |
|
http://www.suppressedhistories.net/articles/icons.html
(9291 words)
|
|
| |
| | Postmodern links, articles, resources, and ideas :: jordoncooper.com |
| | PoMoXian - website of David Blakeslee - A place to explore and reflect on the phenomenon of Christianity in a postmodern culture. | | | Emerging Church/Emerging Culture Resources - Approximately 1500 resources compiled by Earl Creps to help leaders enhance their relevance in a rapidly emerging culture. | | | Epiccentre - The epicentre network is a group based in the Battersea/Clapham area of London which seeks to explore Christian spirituality in the context of the modern western world. |
|
http://www.jordoncooper.com/postmodern/resources.html
(571 words)
|
|
| |
| | Chinese Prehistory -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China |
| | Tian Changwu stated that around 4000 BC, Yangshao Culture began to exhibit the sign of clan communes which would progress to 'patria potestas' clan from 'matria potestas' clan by 3500 BC approx. | | | With the settlement came the domestication of animals, farming of millet, pottery and art, ceremonies, and cultures. | | | Tian Changwu stated that Longshan Culture was validated to have built on top of both Da-wen-kou Culture of Shandong Prov and Yangshao Culture (around 3000 BC approx) and that Longshan Culture could be sub-classified into: east Henan Prov, west Henan Prov, south Shanxi Prov, and south of Wei-shui River in Shenxi Prov. |
|
http://www.uglychinese.org/prehistory.htm
(571 words)
|
|
| |
| | Reflexivity, social transformation, and counter culture |
| | Last year I made a fairly simple case for the appearance of a logic of autonomy in this counter culture as explicitly prioritised against the sorts of instrumental rationality (in terms of political organisation and economic interests) that the "social movement" literature tends to ascribe to these settings. | | | (6) This was Berger, Berger and Kellner's interpretation of the counter culture: "The implicit anthropology in all of this is quite clear: Underneath the constraining structures of individuality and rationality lies the healing reality of our 'natural' being, an ens realissimum, which is the object of a quasi-soteriological quest." (1974: 182). | | | Such counter cultures have their own local rationalities, and are not exhausted by the instrumental rationalities of organisation or commodification that may develop within them (Cox 1996). |
|
http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/afpp/afpp3.html
(7629 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Culture, Traditions, Holidays, Family and Daily Life |
| | I'm writing to express my admiration with the information on Russian culture you posted on your website www.womenrussia.com. | | | and school in his area and the person responsible for "culture sector" would organize collective visit to the theatre. | | | Russian culture has a long history and tradition and Russians are very proud of it. |
|
http://www.womenrussia.com/russians.htm
(7429 words)
|
|
| |
| | SFCC Library Guide: Social Problems |
| | Art and Culture is also linked from the SFCC Internet Sources page. | | | The section on Tribal and Indigenous Art is under construction. | | | This site is also linked to our home page under ART on the SFCC Library Internet Sources page. |
|
http://www.library.sfcc.spokane.cc.wa.us/guides/nwart.stm
(7429 words)
|
|
| |
| | Local Cultures Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| | Underlying the art and the very culture of the Pueblo Indians is a deeply personal and religious connection to the earth. | | | They sense they're losing their land, their voice and ultimately their culture to the highest bidder. | | | Their abandoned cities of cliff dwellings, pit houses, underground ceremonial kivas and petroglyphs etched in rocks are silent testament to the richness and resourcefulness of their culture. |
|
http://www.insiders.com/santafe/main-cultures2.htm
(2010 words)
|
|
| |
| | Aboriginal Studies - Art & Culture |
| | The Association aims to promote and preserve the indigenous art and culture of Western Arnhem Land. | | | Arrernte Aboriginal Art and Culture Centre (aboriginalart.com.au, Australia) | | | [The Trust was established in 1985 to preserve, maintain and promote the living culture of the indigenous people of south-east Australia, a living culture spanning more than 40,000 years. |
|
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/Art.html
(2010 words)
|
|
| |
| | Encyclopedia: Culture of Poland |
| | Poland's eastern frontiers marked the boundary of the influences of Western architecture on the continent. | | | The Culture of Poland is closely connected to its intricate 1000 years of history. | | | The national culture developed at the crossroads of the Latinate and Byzantine worlds, in continual dialogue with the many ethnic groups in Poland. |
|
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Culture-of-Poland
(5402 words)
|
|
| |
| | Unit3-web.htm |
| | Some of the bands have developed tribal schools to teach the culture and history of the Ojibwa. | | | It is important that students learn more about the cultural conflicts between the first people of Wisconsin and European Americans in order to develop greater sensitivity to people from different cultures as well as an awareness of national policies designed to extinguish certain cultures. | | | Other routes include: traveling along the Fox and Rock Rivers from Illinois to Wisconsin and beyond watching for the landmarks of Lake Geneva and Winnebago; traveling along the Mississippi River along the western boundary of the state; and traveling on Lake Michigan and ports on the eastern border of Wisconsin. |
|
http://www.socialstudies.esmartweb.com/HTMLwihistoryunits/Unit3-web.htm
(10485 words)
|
|
| |
| | Celtic Impressions - The Celts |
| | The La Tene culture evolved during the fifth century BC in part of the Hallstatt area, when Rome was an infant republic and Athens was beating off the Persians and making her own bid for empire. | | | La Tene is the culture of the Celts who featured so prominently in the history of the ancient world. | | | Many groups of Irish raided and settled the western seaboard of Roman Britain (where Christianity had been established by the fourth century); some of these returned to their native country resulting in the evangelisation of the Irish kingdoms. |
|
http://www.celticimpressions.com/celts.asp
(2060 words)
|
|
|
Topic: Western culture