The artwork of Robert Rauschenberg was constantly changing and fresh, and he was well ahead of his time. His work inspired Pop Art, Minimalism, and much of the work that many people today do with computers. Rauschenberg challenged the ideas of pre-conceived artwork as well as ideas about authorship ...

The Natural, written by Bernard Malamud starts out with Roy, an aspiring baseball player on a train with his scout, Sam. Roy is still in his younger years, while Sam is an old scout who has slowed down over the years. On the train Sam notices that a well-known sportswriter, Max Mercy, is aboard, ...

Art was one of the earliest manifestations of culture; this is because it fulfills humankind's need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. Paleolithic art can be found to date back over thirty thousand years. The first discovery of this type of art ...

Society today has rapidly changed to an unknown world with all the technology that has recently been blossoming. After reading "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", by Walter Benjamin, I realized how aura of the artwork truly is lost when surfing the Internet. When previ...

What made the shift from the modern machine culture of Corbusier to the new brutalism order of Team 10? Every phase of architecture has to have an anti-phase, where its ideals are opposed. The young architects who grew up with the old master's ideals soon became disenchanted with his visions. It ca...