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ARS 100 Exam #4 Kandyse Priggett
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Art History
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12/01/2010

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Hellenistic
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In the context of Ancient Greek art, architecture, and culture.
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Prehistoric
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Divided into three periods: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic. These periods span roughly the years 14,000 to 2000 BC. Art from prehistory ranges from cave paintings, reliefs, and sculptures of stone, ivory, and bone.
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Hanging Scrolls
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a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been written, drawn or painted upon for the purpose of transmitting information or using as a decoration
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Paleolithic
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Paleolithic art is the art of the last Ice Age, during which time glaciers covered large areas of northern Europe and North America. As the climate got colder, people retreated into the protective warmth of caves, and it is here that we find their first attempts at artistic creation.
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Cuneiform
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Wedge-shaped; descriptive of the characters used in ancient Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian alphabets.
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Fertile Crescent
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The Fertile Crescent is a region in Western Asia. It includes the comparatively fertile regions of Mesopotamia and the Levant, delimited by the dry climate of the Syrian Desert to the south and the Anatolian highlands to the north. The region is often considered the cradle of civilization, saw the development of many of the earliest human civilizations, and is the birthplace of writing and the wheel.
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Mesopotamia
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Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. Modern-day Iraq
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Fertile Ribbon
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The arable land lying along the Nile river in Egypt
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Neolithic
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New stone age
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High art
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Associated with classical antiquity and perpetuated through the artistic traditions of the Renaissance. They include art of the Old Masters or compositions by Classical musicians or canonical works of literature, primarily from the West.
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Low Culture
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Includes popular music, tattoo art, and kitsch-overly sentimental work that is viewed as tasteless decoration but that has its own sort of nostalgic charm.
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African art
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African art is as varied as the cultures that have populated that continent. The earliest African art, like the earliest art of Europe and North America, consists of rock paintings and engravings that date to the Neolithic period. In tropical Africa-the central portion of the continent -the lost-wax technique was developed to cast small bronze sculptures as early as the ninth century.
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Oceanic Art
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Consists of art from Australia, and large islands of New Guinea and New Zealand to small islands such as Tahiti. Known for figural sculptures, wooden relief carvings, and cloth masks.
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Mesolithic
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The middle stone age, inside the Paleolithic Age.
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Calligraphy
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Beautiful handwriting, penmanship, ornamental writing with a pen or brush.
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Globalization
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The mutual influence of cultures, economies, marketplaces, and current events that were once distant and separate. In art, more specifically the world-wide invasion of visual images and the art marketplace from various cultures into people's consciousness; multi-culturalism and cross culturalism in contemporary art.
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Postcolonialism
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A specifically post-modern intellectual discourse that consists of reactions to, and analysis of, the cultural legacy of colonialism. Postcolonialism comprises a set of theories found amongst philosophy, film, political science, human geography, sociology, feminism, religious and theological studies, and literature.
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Pop art
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An art style originating in the 1960s that uses commercial and popular images and themes as its subject matter
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hybridity
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In art, the mixing of traditions of different cultures to create new blends and new connections
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