Globalization is a topic much discussed today with the explosion of cell phones and instant messaging. This exchange of information causes the art historian to ponder the speed with which ideas spread in past centurie...Globalization is a topic much discussed today with the explosion of cell phones and instant messaging. This exchange of information causes the art historian to ponder the speed with which ideas spread in past centuries. The eighteenth was a century of colonial expansion made possible through the ships that sailed the great oceans Sea travel between Europe and North America drastically increased the spread of populations and their ideas between the old and new world. A good way to trace the exchange of ideas in picture painting in the eighteenth century would be to follow an artist like Benjamin West from his Quaker background in Pennsylvania to the center of the neoclassical style in Rome and a prolific career in London at the Royal Academy. West＇s travels and career offer an example of how an American pursued the artistic style of contemporary Rome to make images of North American history from a base in England. It was globalization eighteenth-century-style made possible by an ambitious artist connecting across the sea-lanes of international travel展开更多
Impressive public architecture has a power to influence and imbue a space with a legend and cultural and social values and accumulate collective memories.A Palace of Culture,or Dvorets Kurtury in Russian,represents a ...Impressive public architecture has a power to influence and imbue a space with a legend and cultural and social values and accumulate collective memories.A Palace of Culture,or Dvorets Kurtury in Russian,represents a socialist belief,commonwealth,and peopled democracy.The monumental Stalinist Palace of Culture is a multifunctional public architecture that was built as a sociocultural epicenter in many Soviet cities.The case of the Palace of Culture in Slantsy,which is a mining town in Leningrad Region in Russia,may be an eloquent projection of this building type and its era.The edifice is currently under reconstruction after its abandonment for a long time,thereby entailing the reincarnation of citizens1 memories and the creation of new hopes and experiences.展开更多
文摘Globalization is a topic much discussed today with the explosion of cell phones and instant messaging. This exchange of information causes the art historian to ponder the speed with which ideas spread in past centuries. The eighteenth was a century of colonial expansion made possible through the ships that sailed the great oceans Sea travel between Europe and North America drastically increased the spread of populations and their ideas between the old and new world. A good way to trace the exchange of ideas in picture painting in the eighteenth century would be to follow an artist like Benjamin West from his Quaker background in Pennsylvania to the center of the neoclassical style in Rome and a prolific career in London at the Royal Academy. West＇s travels and career offer an example of how an American pursued the artistic style of contemporary Rome to make images of North American history from a base in England. It was globalization eighteenth-century-style made possible by an ambitious artist connecting across the sea-lanes of international travel
文摘Impressive public architecture has a power to influence and imbue a space with a legend and cultural and social values and accumulate collective memories.A Palace of Culture,or Dvorets Kurtury in Russian,represents a socialist belief,commonwealth,and peopled democracy.The monumental Stalinist Palace of Culture is a multifunctional public architecture that was built as a sociocultural epicenter in many Soviet cities.The case of the Palace of Culture in Slantsy,which is a mining town in Leningrad Region in Russia,may be an eloquent projection of this building type and its era.The edifice is currently under reconstruction after its abandonment for a long time,thereby entailing the reincarnation of citizens1 memories and the creation of new hopes and experiences.
