“Art Nouveau artists and designers created a completely new style of decoration, rejecting the widespread nineteenth-century practice of copying historical, and especially Classical and Medieval, forms. ” (Cramer and Grant)… Read More
“Expression in art history is generally associated with non-rational states of mind. It is not used to describe works that convey objective facts or for ideas arrived at through rational thought processes.” (Cramer and Grant)… Read More
Books for Teens Dread Nation Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends … Read More
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Eighty years ago on December 7, shortly before 8 a.m., hundreds of Japanese aircraft dove from the sky in a surprise bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, a United States naval base in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans (including civilians) … Read More