It also includes remarkable cultures that represent an advance stage of society which requires no formal governmental structure and yet in which millions of human beings live together in relative peace, with profound theological wisdom These cultures guided and protected millions of Africans for hundreds of years and assimilated most foreign intruders as well as cultural intrusions. It was only in the modern era that these cultures were virtually arrested due to the most aggressive campaign of oppression in history (Carruthers "Afterword: African Deep Thought in the 21st Century and Beyond," p
The slaves were apprenticed for the space of one year and they and their descendants form at the present time, viz the year 1878 the pith of our present labouring population. (Gibbs 1878, p
With a selection of readings and descriptions, they show how this phenomenon reached into every art and still influences them today. The author relates how the project initially grew from an interest in Lawrence's "The Migration Series" relating how during 1940 and 1941, Lawrence created a series of sixty paintings in tempera chronicling the twentieth century exodus of African-Americans from the South to the North (Powell 11)
The muses had been silenced." (Ekstein, Walking Since Daybreak, 1999 in Shark)
This impelling urge toward utter freedom and uninhibited statement frees this style of painting of all symbolic sign language and allows it to reach the most spontaneous manifestation of emotion." (Gasser, 1958)
It was the largest international attempt to establish the prominence of American expressionism on a global basis. Other import and shows included "Modern Art in the United States" (1955) and "Masterpieces of the Twentieth Century" (1952) (Saunders, 1995)
"Psychological warfare" is the struggle for the minds and wills of men." (Shark, Direct Art, Vol 4)
.raising its salty and boiling jet to unexpected heights of passion" (Lubar 12)
Dali's process was the method of envisioning and then painting with superb microscopic precision the delusions of a madman without becoming one himself. By embracing Freud, and then Parisian Surrealism, he integrated these factors into a unique style of Dalinian Super-realism, which combined the most realistic autochthonous glimpses of subjects with vivid hallucinatory images (Morse 9)
.as that of the exterior world of phenomenal reality" (Tansey 1076)
That is, Christians aren't worshipping these images but are merely using them as prayer devices, to aid them in becoming closer to the Lord on a spiritual level. In furthering the claim that Christian artworks if used properly do not equal idolatry, one is reminded that, according to legend, Jesus himself miraculously created the first Christian icon - a self-image (which wasn't made by hand) on a piece of cloth for healing Edessa's King Abgar (Tarasov and Milner-Gulland 2002)
The term 'liturgy' implies the combination of rites through which individual civilizations express their relationship with the Lord, generating art; in fact, it is art. In certain cultures, creativity in liturgical service was regarded as God's gift (Verdon 2007)