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The Four Stages of Cruelty

is a series of four printed

engravings published by

William Hogarth in 1751. The

prints depict the progression

of the fictional Tom Nero,from a cruel child to his

ultimate fate: the ignominy of dissection after his


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Charles Holden(18751960)

was an English architect better

known for designing many

London Underground stations

during the 1920s and 1930s,

for Bristol Central Library, the UndergroundElectric Railways Company of London's

headquarters at 55 Broadway and for the

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The artsis a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative

endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which, as a

description of a field, usually means only the visual arts. The artsencompass

the visual arts, the literary arts and the performing arts music, theatre,dance and film, among others. This list is by no means comprehensive, but

only meant to introduce the concept of the arts. For all intents and purposes,

the history of the arts begins with the history of art. The arts might have

origins in early human evolutionary prehistory.

Ancient Greek art saw the veneration of the animal form and the

development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions.

Ancient Roman art depicted gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features

(e.g. Jupiter's thunderbolt). In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church

insisted on the expression of biblical and not material truths. Eastern art has generally worked in a style

akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour (meaning theplain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colour brought

about by light, shade and reflection). A characteristic of this style is that the local colour is often defined by

an outline (a contemporary equivalent is the cartoon). This is evident in, for example, the art of India, Tibet

and Japan. Religious Islamic art forbids iconography, and expresses religious ideas through geometry

instead. The physical and rational certainties depicted by the 19th-century Enlightenment were shattered not

only by new discoveries of relativity by Einstein and of unseen psychology by Freud, but also by

unprecedented technological development. Paradoxically the expressions of new technologies were greatly

influenced by the ancient tribal arts of Africa and Oceania, through the works of Paul Gauguin and the

Post-Impressionists, Pablo Picasso and the Cubists, as well as the Futurists and others.

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execution as a murderer. Beginning with the torture

of a dog as a child in the First stage of cruelty, he

progresses to beating his horse as a man in the

Second stage of cruelty, and then to robbery,

seduction, and murder in Cruelty in perfection.

Finally, he receives what Hogarth warns is the

inevitable fate of those who start down the path

Nero has followed: his body is taken from thegallows and mutilated by surgeons in the

anatomical theatre in The reward of cruelty. The

prints were intended as a form of moral instruction:

Hogarth was dismayed by the routine acts of

cruelty he witnessed on the streets of London.

Issued on cheap paper, the prints were destined for

the lower classes. The series shows a roughness of

execution and a brutality that is untempered by the

humorous touches common in Hogarth's other

works, but which he felt was necessary to impress

his message on the intended audience.

Nevertheless, the pictures still carry the wealth of

detail and subtle references that Hogarth had made

his trademark.

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"Join, or Die", a 1754 editorial cartoon by

Benjamin Franklin, a woodcut showing a snakesevered into eight pieces, with each segment

labeled with the initials of a British American

colony or region (not all colonies are represented).

It was originally about the importance of colonial

unity against France during the French and Indian

War, and re-used in the years ahead of the

American Revolution to signify unity against Great

Britain.

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University of London's Senate House. He also

created many war cemeteries in Belgium and

northern France for the Imperial War Graves

Commission. His architecture is widely viewed

and appreciated. He won the Royal Institute of

British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for

architecture in 1936 and was appointed a Royal

Designer for Industry in 1943. His station designsfor London Underground became the

corporation's standard design influencing designs

by all architects working for the organisation in

the 1930s. Many of his buildings have been

granted listed building status, protecting them

from unapproved alteration. Due to his modesty

and belief in the team effort of his fellow

architects, he declined twice the offer of a

knighthood.

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Suite du Premier Ton

Movement V of Suite du Premier Ton (Suite in C

major) from Louis-Nicolas Clrambault's 1710 set

of compositions, Livre d'Orgue, performed by

Ashtar Mora.

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... that Frank Lloyd Wright's

textile block work, Storer

House (pictured), was

restored in the 1980s by

Joel Silver, producer of the

filmsDie Hardand The Matrix?

... that Swiss illustratorAlbert Lindeggerwas responsible for murals at the

headquarters of the cantonal police and the

crematorium in Berne?

... that U.S. Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson

and Harry S. Truman once lived in the

Kennedy-Warren Apartment Building?

In this month

1 January 1818 Mary Shelley's

novel Frankensteinis published

anonymously in London

7 January 1927 The Scottish

Arts and Crafts architect Fred

Rowntree (pictured)dies in

London at the age of 66

13 January 1782 Friedrich Schiller's play

The Robbers, an important work in theGerman Sturm and Drang movement,

premieres in Mannheim and is an overnight

sensation

22 January 1956 Camera Three, a Sunday

morning television program devoted to the

arts is launched by CBS

24 January 1925 Maria Tallchief, the first

Native American to become a prima

ballerina, is born in Fairfax, Oklahoma

More anniversaries...

News

June 13: English actor

Christopher Lee dies aged 93

May 28: B.B. King's daughters allege blues

musician was poisoned

May 22: David Letterman signs off after 33year career on the Late Show

May 15: Blues musician B.B. King dies aged

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