public sphere

(noun)

The world outside the home.

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Examples of public sphere in the following topics:

  • Architecture in Mesopotamia

    • Domestic and public architecture in Mesopotamian cultures differed in relative simplicity and complexity.
    • As time passed, public architecture grew to monumental heights.
    • Sumerian culture observed a rigid division between the public sphere and the private sphere, a norm that resulted in a lack of direct view from the street into the home.
    • Ziggurats were not places of worship for the general public.
    • The exteriors of public structures like temples and palaces featured decorative elements such as bright paint, gold, leaf, and enameling.

  • Compositional Balance

    • In classical geometry, a radius of a circle or sphere is any line segment from its center to its perimeter.
    • By extension, the radius of a circle or sphere is the length of any such segment, which is half the diameter.
    • The inradius of a geometric figure is usually the radius of the largest circle or sphere contained in it.

  • The Third Intermediate Period

    • The temple network become a dominant sphere in this period following the decentralization and weakness of the royal authority.

  • Cézanne

    • Cézanne was interested in the simplification of naturally occurring forms to their geometric essentials, wanting to "treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. " For example, a tree trunk may be conceived of as a cylinder and an apple or orange as a sphere.

  • Lagash and the Third Dynasty of Ur

    • During Ur III, Sumerian dominated the cultural sphere and was the language of legal, administrative, and economic documents.
    • Map showing the Ur III state and its sphere of influence.

  • Political Art

    • The notion that personal revelation through art can be a political tool, guided activist art in its study of public dimensions and private experience.
    • Grounded by strategies rooted in the real world, projects in conceptual art demanded viewer participation and were exhibited outside of the traditional and exclusive space of the art gallery, thus making the work accessible to the public.
    • Similarly, collaborative methods of execution and expertise drawn from outside the art world are often employed in activist art so as to attain its goals for community and public participation.
    • In the political sphere, the militancy and identity politics of the period fostered the conditions out of which activist art arose.
    • In 1990 the group designed a billboard featuring Mona Lisa that was placed along the West Side Highway and was supported by the New York City public art fund.

  • Two-Dimensional Space

    • One of the simplest and most efficient means of communicating visual ideas, the medium has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history.
    • Almost any dimensional form can be represented by some combination of the cube, sphere, cylinder, and cone.

  • Neoclassical Sculpture

    • The difference is exemplified in Canova's Hebe (1800-05), whose contrapposto almost mimics lively dance steps as she prepares to pour nectar and ambrosia from a small amphora into a chalice, and Thorvaldsen's Monument to Copernicus (1822-30), whose subject sits upright with the a compass and armillary sphere.

  • Neue Sachlichkeit

    • The New Objectivity (in German: Neue Sachlichkeit) is a term used to characterize the attitude of public life in Weimar Germany, as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it.
    • As these artists rejected the self-involvement and romantic longings of the expressionists, Weimar intellectuals in general made a call to arms for public collaboration, engagement, and rejection of romantic idealism.
    • Expressionism was in particular the dominant form of art in Germany, and it was represented in many different facets of public life—in theater, in painting, in architecture, in poetry, and in literature.
    • The New Objectivity comprised two tendencies, characterized in terms of a left and right wing: on the left were the verists, who "tear the objective form of the world of contemporary facts and represent current experience in its tempo and fevered temperature;" and on the right the classicists, who "search more for the object of timeless ability to embody the external laws of existence in the artistic sphere. "

  • Humans and Their Deities

    • Some deities are thought to be invisible or inaccessible to humans, dwelling mainly in otherworldly, remote or secluded and holy places, such as the concept of Heaven and Hell, or in a supernatural plane or celestial sphere.