During the Hellenistic period and under growing influence of art painting, polychromy Greek terracotta figurines focused not only on an elaborate rendering color, but also interplay light shadow. Some best-preserved examples clearly show subtlety such pictorial effects. Among them is a statuette standing Maenad, held in collections National Archaeological Museum Athens (inv. 5000). Dating back ...

In this document I point out numerous fundamental errors in David Stork’s four recent papers in which he disputes evidence David Hockney and I have presented about use of optical devices by Renaissance painters. Stork’s papers are filled with technical-sounding language that provides them with a veneer of scholarly credibility (lichtkroon, trefoils, sfumato, chiaroscuro, Purkinje shift, Poggend...

Anima, by Lebanese-born Canadian-raised author Wajdi Mouawad, is a road novel that takes the reader through different locations on North American continent in order to explore darkest side of humankind. This approach will focus provocative narrative technique used filtered eyes significant number animals and insects, consider representations vulnerability articulate text. In novel, insects are ...

The musical use of low and ultra-low frequencies is closely related to the twentieth-century development of electronic and digital media. In historical respect, this development continues the steady exploration of the lower ranges of musically significant sound which started with the rise of polyphony. This paper focuses on the consequences this sonic expansion has for the aesthetics of music. ...

During the late nineteenth century, scientists around the world disagreed as to the types of instruments and methods that should be used for determining the most important constant of celestial mechanics: the solar parallax. Venus’s 1874 transit across the sun was seen as the best opportunity for ending decades of debate. However, a mysterious “black drop” that appeared between Venus and the su...

The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses contemporary culture immersed in a “culture of death” that has produced a vast amount of cultural texts under the rubric of “Gothicism.” By consider...

The central core of this article aims to theorise about the process theatrical transitions, specifically based on part dedicated “transitions” Polish theatre in Latin America. development theory begins with a fundamental question: how did and does influence American theatre, at same time, what were its points departure, routes, journeys? In work, category “transition” raises several problems. I...

Abstract Wole Soyinka and Samuel Beckett apparently occupy distinct places in the literary space, all ramifications. Specifically, while former’s dramaturgy is definable within context of traditional convention playwriting, otherwise known as well-made plays, latter inherently non-conformist this regard. Hence, effort paper was to locate a nexus their writings, using two Death King’s Horseman E...