Cultural Embeddedness in the Arts
The Arts and Culture
Ways that artists create knowledge can intrigue all the senses through music, images, and the spoken word. Indeed art is one of the most important means of expression developed by human beings and is manifested in every aspect of life. Artists, through their creation of images or objects, have always shown a deep concern about life around them often recording in paintings, objects or music their observation of people going about their usual everyday tasks. Consider the works of the 17th century painter Johannes Vermeer who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life; or James Joyce’s Ulysses, a modernist novel based on the ordinary encounters of ...
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