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Dialectic
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Every condition (Or thesis) confronts it's opposite condition (Or antithesis)
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Prolatariat
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Working class
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Symbolists
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Gave emphasis to the simplification of line, arbitrary color and expressive, flattened form.
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Social Darwinism
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the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
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Realism
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Art meant to portray something realistically.
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Vincent van Gogh
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was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art
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Stephane Mallarme'
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whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of
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Lyric poetry
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typically express personal (often emotional) feelings and are traditionally spoken in the present tense.
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Historicism
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the theory that social and cultural phenomena are determined by history.
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George Willhelm Friedrich Hegel
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was a German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.
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"Ode to western Wind"
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Entrepreneur
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a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
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Gothic Novel
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Vaslav Nijinski
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was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, cited as the greatest male dancer of the early 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations.
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Evolution
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the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
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De'jeuner sur I'herbe
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Prelude to "The afternoon of a Faun"
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Byronic hero
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Karl Marx
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was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.
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Claude debussy
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was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions
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Pantheism
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a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
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Lied
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Postimpressionism
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describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists.
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Eugene Delacroix
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was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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Impression: Sunrise
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Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus.
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Lyrical Ballads
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Communist Manifesto
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originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party, is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
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Gustave Courbet
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was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
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Art Noveau
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"New art"
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The Third of May 1808
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is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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George Sand
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best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist.
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Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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was a German philologist, philosopher, cultural critic, poet and composer.
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Impressionism
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a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, esp. in terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
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Auguste Rodin
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was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.
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Matthew Brady
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was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism.[1]
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Henri Bergson
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as a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century
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Edgar Degas
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born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas; was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers.
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