He saw as a young man that there was money to be made from a schoolbook and sought protection for his first spelling book even before it was in print and before any state had yet passed laws protecting intellectual property. Webster has become known as the "father of copyright," and indeed he remained active in promoting copyright protection throughout his life. He might with more justice be termed the "father of royalties," as he was one of the first to exact payment from his publishers according to the number of books they printed or that he licensed to
During the late 1950s to 1960s, the paintings of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin reflected a relationship of inspiration and generation-descending artistic dialogue. Where Martin’s career was just beginning to flourish, Rothko’s late period was already well established by 1960, with his Seagram murals commissioned and in progress. Both artists are of special interest when looking at abstract expressionism’s engagement with spiritual and material concerns. The following essay will compare and contrast each artist’s engagement with spirituality and materiality in two works: Rothko’s Red on Maroon Mural Section 4 of 1959 (Illustration I) and Martin’s Night Sea of 1963 (Illustration II). I will argue that although the personal lives and backgrounds of Rothko and Martin were quite different, both artists sought out ways to depict similar spiritual concepts through similar manipulation of materiality.
Beginning as an abstract painter in the 1970s, then a figurative painter in the 1980s, Howard Arkley reconciled these two tendencies in his distinctive take on the suburban motif. Arkley embraced it, when ‘serious’ designers ignored suburbia. He continued to collect out-of-register colour pages from outdated magazines, or lovingly ponder different ways of rendering woodgrain surfaces or rug designs with his reverberating optical and zinging air-brush. With his spray-gun technique Arkley developed different styles or motifs: iridescent grids of dots that seemed to look like a cross between old computer print-outs and disco lights. Arkley even painted these buzzing dots on a suburban Melbourne tram in 1980.
Milton Glaser has been making waves in graphic design since he started Push Pin Studios in 1954, an his desgining style really represent the ‘60s and ’70. Milton Glaser is to graphic design, as Martin Scorsese is to film directing. His illustrative and Art Neuveau style is still influencing the world of graphic design to this day. As mentioned before he is a born and raised New Yorker. He was first educated at Manhatten’s High School of Music and Art, then later graduated in 1951 from the Cooper Union of Advancement and Art.
Individuality in "Harrison Bergeron In his short story "Harrison Bergeron" Kurt Vonnegut explores what a world of government controlled "equality" might be like. Vonnegut allows us to see the world through the eyes of George and Hazel Bergeron. Hazel represents the standard that everyone must achieve though the equalization process set in place, while George represents a person that is considered to be talented. Ultimately Vonnegut illustrates that it is impossible to create absolute equality. Vonnegut has introduced a world in which people have been taught to not only dislike inequality, but to fear it, "'pretty soon we'd be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else.
Thanks to Ms.Nordstrom he wrote his first kids book titled The lion who shot back . The next year he wrote two book titled a giraffe and a half plus The giving tree. Silverstein’s giving tree was very well -discussed because people thought it was not appropriate for little kids. Because you see he meant for it to be a taste of real life for kids to explain how greedy people really are. Then the 1960’s were over and he went back to songwriting.He wrote songs for everyone like Johnny Cash and Dr. hook.
"The History of Christmas" is the story of the origin of Santa Claus and his impact on the world today. St. Nicholas was a wealthy Christian priest and later bishop, who traveled the country helping people, giving gifts of money and other presents. His gifts were given late at night, so that the gift giver's identity would remain a secret. The Civil War cartoonist Thomas Nast drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862, and his drawing was used in the first Santa ads for the Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising in the 1920s. However, as the years progressed, the Santa advertisement had numerous images by many different artists, including Clement C. Moore's traditional St. Nicholas.
In exploring the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Immanuel Kant, there is a distinct parallelism running through their philosophical theories, the need to break free from immaturity or self-doubt in order to achieve enlightenment or self-reliance. The will to break free is an important function in developing self-trust. Self-consciousness is not simply a special kind of awareness each person possesses. Rather, the authority over the mind must be described as a kind of responsibility taken by the individual. To remain receptive to the intuitive process, an individual must trust in himself.
In this case, the cause would be social conditioning – Baroch Spinoza said that although we may think that we are free, we are not, we are merely aware of our actions. “In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause, which has been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on until infinity.” This emphasizes the fact that we are contingent beings, and that although we feel that we have options in life, the choices that we make are in the end determined my one single factor, which started a chain reaction creating the world we live in today. The surrounding and environment we are brought up into and therefore the upbringing and social conditioning we receive it determined. Our actions are due to how
To use the limited to pursue the unlimited is simply foolish. While Confucius argued that the only way to achieve a successful and meaningful life was to learn as much as possible in order to find the way, namely by studying everything around you. This is the biggest difference between the two philosophies. Confucius believed that above all else; emphasizing personal and governmental morality and correctness of social relationships, justice, and sincerity is the most important aspect of life. Chuang Tzu believed that how we perceive things are directly related to each of our separate pasts, or our “paths”.