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In the contemporary domain of art philosophy, T.S. Eliot, Audre Lorde and Walter Benjamin express many written thoughts that’ve got a lot of relevance to modern art. Three art collectives (“cults”) that produce modern art that reflect their ideas are the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM), Meow Wolf, and Banksy. In their work, for art […]

An existentially philosophical difference between truth-seeking and narrative-creating is that, as one takes formative aspects of their individual identity and ethics acquired through time, they then apply or assert truth values to real-life situations in order to justify their relative cultural identity using internalized philosophical or sophisticated means based off of sensory or external inputs […]

In her story, “Jane Eyre: An Autobiography”, Charlotte Brontë tells a story of a female human Victorian woman passing through a series of internal character struggles that progress as Jane Eyre moves away from a life of being undifferentiated from mere furniture or pasture animal in a man’s home to, instead, becoming an extension of […]

War Is Not A Luxury1 The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it […]

The proposal that poetry’s a substitute for war as a source of artistic inspiration relies on the relative aesthetic value of politics to the populations that these notions are applied to. Both Audre Lorde in her essay, “Poetry Is Not A Luxury”, and Walter Benjamin in his essay, “The Work of Art in the Age […]

There are three theories of personal identity presented in the third chapter of Mary Lich’s, “Philosophy Through Film”, that include The Physical Continuity Theory, The Same-soul Theory and The Psychological Continuity theory1. This essay will cover what these conjured terms mean, and their application toward describing the problems related to personal identity found in Christopher […]

In the French Rococo period, Jean-Honoré Fragonard created one of the more wonderful pieces of art that captured a powerful and enduring representation of the general milieu present in 1767 in his painting, “The Swing”. Gertrude Stein’s since offered a powerful tool of critical analysis in her discussion of, “What Are Master-pieces and Why Are […]

This movie is largely about the various personal accounts of the memories people have of other people. In this story, the various recollections of people are used to reconstruct an image of Mr. Kane who, himself appearing at the center of the story, doesn’t have his own personal account of himself accounted for in this […]

In discussing T.S. Eliots’ notions on conformity, where in his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” he writes, “to conform merely would be for the new work not really to conform at all; it would not be new, and would therefore not be a work of art,” much can be said in discussing its relation […]

The Truman Show serves as a contemporary cinematic version of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” because the allegory had presented many ideological symbols that manifest in the movie. These ideas are also present in the characters and events in the film. Truman’s reaction to the life he was living was more a result of him […]