In the late nineteenth century, art critics regarded seventeenth-century Dutch paintings as direct reflections of reality. The paintings were discussed as an index of the democracy of a society that chose to represent its class, action, and occupations exactly as they were, wide-ranging realism wa...
Here, in the late eighteenth century. Abraham Darby III cast on the banks of the Severn River the large ribs .jut formed the world’s first iron bridge, a dramatic departure from the classic stone and timber bridges ...
句子 Founded in the late nineteenth century by British social critics John Ruskin and William Morris, the movement revered craft as a form of art. 问题 句子分析(俗称“长难句分析”)是训练提高基础阅读能力的有效手段。我们通过对托福(TOEFL)、雅思(IELTS)、GRE、考研以及四六级等考试中真实出现过的句子...
With the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, artists had a new tool at their disposal for representing the natural world. While often thought of as nature's mirror, even photography is shaped by the hand and eye of the artist. The photographer chooses where to stand, the angl...
A somewhat controversial figure in his own day, Henry David Thoreau rose to his greatest prominence posthumously, in the late nineteenth century, with the publication of his expansive journals. In our day, he remains ranked among the nation’s most interesting and idiosyncratic writers. This list...
it. The surrounding area at the same time radiates out from the bridge and pales behind it. EIn the nineteenth century, the railroads captured the imagination of artists, and the steam engine in the distance of a landscape became as much a part of it as the herd of cows in the ...
Focuses on the story behind the development of American fiction in the nineteenth century and the polarization of critics over the virtues of realism versus romanticism or idealism and the novel versus the romance. Significance of the term `idealism' in the understanding of the development of ...
The Biennale began in the late nineteenth century as the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia to promote Venice by showcasing the work of local artists (English, 2008: 253). Throughout the twentieth century the Biennale's growing international appeal led to increases in ...
When the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced the reform and opening up policy in December 1978, the long-term strategy was to introduce more free market measures that would spur China to grow more prosperous while marching in step with industrial development and modernization. Cartoons Commen...
According to Chu (2015, p.169), “[N]umerical assessments were not introduced in China until the late nineteenth century and were never adopted in the Kējǔ”. Instead, the examiner was expected to mark the text with a series of symbols that represented the level of quality (e.g. O...