Susan Sontag’s essay on the subject of beauty‚ particularly in relation to women‚ is a strong and moving piece that also greases the old gearbox and gets the brain going. It takes a strong hard look at how the concept of beauty has been shaped through the ages‚ from the time of the great Greek civilization to the modern era. The analysis that is put forth that women can never preen just for pleasure is exemplified in so many innumerable ways in modern culture that it is indeed something to despair
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1.2 The major literary works of Susan Sontag In Sontag’s life‚ she totally wrote four novels‚ they are "The Benefactor” (1963)‚ “Death Tool"(1967)‚"The Volcano Lover"(1992) and "In the United States" (2000);besides‚ there is one short stories “I ‚ etcetera" and a few scripts. Then she also published eight other works‚ among these works ‚ the famous works are "Against Interpretation" (1966)‚ "The Radical Form of Will" (1969)‚ "On Photography" (1977)‚ "The Disease Metaphor" (1988)‚ "The point" (2001)
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The Life and Works of Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz is one of the best portrait photographers in this modern age. Her works focus on varied subjects but hover more among celebrity portraits. Apart from these‚ her photographs depict visual stories that affect audience’s emotions. The diversity and life of her photographs create visual artistic realms that touch the soul. Biography: In 1949‚ Annie Leibovitz was born in Westbury‚ Connecticut. Based on Peter Marshall’s article posted in About
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themes that are present in Philadelphia that not only happened in the past but that are still happening in today’s society Before connecting Susan’s Sontag interview to our class material‚ I will quickly summarize the plot. “AIDS and it Metaphor” is told through an interview from YouTube‚
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experience. The lover’s photograph hidden in a married man’s wallet‚ the poster photograph of a pop star pinned up over an teenager’s bed‚ the coin in your pocket with the imprint of Lincoln’s face‚ the snapshots of a hairdresser’s child taped to their beauty mirror- all such talismanic uses of photographs express a feeling both sentimental and implicitly magical: they are attempts to contact‚ transcend or lay claim to another reality. Portrait photography adheres to long existing functions‚ however new
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1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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Of all the elusive‚ seductive concepts shared by the disciplines of literary studies‚ art‚ and psychology‚ genius is among the most scoffed at‚ the least understood. To hear‚ as I have heard‚ a literature professor say that he "doesn’t believe in genius‚" as if millions of people haven’t attained I.Q. scores in excess of 140‚ or as if anyone‚ if he or she only worked vigorously enough‚ could pen a single work comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost or The Rape of the Lock‚ is to know
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students to “dig deeper” into the text that they are reading. In fact‚ every high school English course that I took part in involved interpreting the texts the way that I saw it. After reading Poetics by Aristotle and Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag‚ I now realize that it is not always important to find the hidden meaning of texts. As a student‚ it is necessary to look closely at the texts‚ however it is not always necessary to find incantations while interpreting them. Analyzing texts
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Triumph of the Will‚ has been perceived as one of the most remarkable works of art in film history. It is a documentary produced by Leni Riefenstahl‚ a renowned film maker‚ who “has remained the focus of critical attention since the 1930’s” (Sontag‚ 1976p. 31). Triumph of the Will‚ is a documentary created to follow Hitler and his supporters through the Nazi Nuremberg Rally of the 1930’s. In the study of Holocaust and films‚ it is crucial to uncover hidden messages portrayed through films by analyzing
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From 1979 to present there have been many famous photographers‚ but there are three who really stick out: Jerry Uelsmann‚ Freeman Patterson‚ and Annie Slivovitz. These three photographers had very distinct photography and viewed photography as more than pictures but as pigments of emotions and feelings. These photographers are very famous for their pictures and one photographer is known for her help in third world countries. The first photographer that I would like to mention in my research paper
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