How was Chinese architecture transformed in the early 20th century? What's the impact of Chinese architecture in the world? And, How does the Chinese architecture tradition influence buildings of our time? Led by Professor Nancy...
Back in France, the leading art critic of the early 20th century was the poet Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918). A brilliant propagandist of Picasso, Cubism, Orphism, Marc Chagall, Giorgio de Chirico, Andre Derain, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau and Marcel Duchamp, his art evaluation was impecca...
As an example, look at what happened in the United States early in the 20th century, around the time of the Great Depression, the art movement known as the Regionalism had begun in the United States even before the Depression occurred. But it really flourished in the 1930s, during the ...
The early 20th century saw a lot of push against formal structure and style. The modernist movement of the early 1900s was in a way fighting back against the idea that poetry should be elegant and beautiful. Poems became shorter and more concise -- a much simpler, less ornate style was ...
The history of the loss of modern and contemporary Chinese cultural relics can be broadly divided into three phases: The first phase spanned from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. War was the primary cause of cultural relic loss during this period, leading to significant damage ...
In the early 20th century, clocks were introduced to impose time limits on the length of games. Around this time, chess theory became more common, with players analyzing and memorizing different moves. In 1924, the World Chess Federation or International Chess Federation (also known by its Frenc...
The different views on the early warnings for Hurricane Georges show some of the complexities related to predicting disasters. Disaster prediction is a process of providing scientific information to the government officials and other decision makers who must respond to those predictions.1. What is the...
Lady Gaga created music under the pen name — a reference toQueen's hit "Radio Ga Ga" — years before she finally caught the eyes of Interscope executive Vincent Herbert, who she now credits for discovering her. Eventually, Lady Gaga was introduced to award-winning songwriter and prod...
The radical on the left of the character is 人 (rén) — person. The term for she (她) — which has the radical 女(nǚ) for female — was created for the women’s movement in the early 20th century. There also isn’t a natural equivalent for the singular “they” — 他們/ (...
The First Industrial Revolution (1760-1840) and the Second Industrial Revolution (late 19th century and early 20th century) resulted in greater prosperity, as a result of which people amassed savings that could be invested, fostering the development of an advanced banking system. Most of the estab...