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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Aesthetic Movement"”.
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Louis H. Sullivan: The Aesthetic Movement, Classical Monumentality and the Skyscraper
… Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) for fusions of Aesthetic Movement surfaces and two-part Classical Monumentality. For architects, the Aesthetic Movement allowed for a greater amount of freedom when it came to sources, massing, and ornament, which resulted in the creation of more highly textured …
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Aesthetic Movement Ideals in Contemporary Architecture: The President Garfield Historic Site Visitors Center
… philosophical ideals of the Victorian reform Aesthetic Movement. Three of those ideals that are present in the visitor center include horizontality, dynamic space and honesty of structure. For the Aesthetes, horizontality was an influence from Japanese design, while the creation of dynamic …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… stage as a prominent symbol in the emerging Aesthetic Movement. Contrary to warnings present in the myth, this movement celebrated the pursuit of beauty and pleasure in art above all else. Oscar Wilde's novel, <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray, </em>claims and reworks the myth to suit a new, …
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… and nations, exactly the conditions that the Aesthetic Movement needed to flourish in America. The third thesis maintains that the Williams family’s decision to transform Sweet Briar House into an Aesthetic Movement retreat was inspired by their reaction to the Centennial, and in particular by …
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Gustav Stickley's Hapke-Geiger House and Noland and Baskervill's Hunton House: Richmond Architecture ca. 1915
… were three major architectural and decorative movements in the United States: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the American Renaissance Movement. This thesis shows how superficial stylistic labels can be by comparing two very different-seeming houses of the early …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… and commercial music. While the aesthetic movement in reaction to serialism and modernism has passed, musical aspects and techniques from minimalism have evolved alongside and within other musical styles. Repetition, focus on timbre, harmonic stasis, and slowly unfolding musical …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
… resistance to categorization as a member of any aesthetic movement includingJeune FranceandZodiaque.</p> <p>Although Dutilleux is primarily known as an orchestral composer, of particular interest in this study is the stylistic development of Dutilleux's works in the solo piano genre. As evidenced …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a program of peace. By approaching the Spanish Civil War as a pivotal site of production and inspiration for an international network of writers and …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
My dissertation interrogates how the movement of artists between Havana, New York, and Miami shaped experimental theatre aesthetics, formed a shared discourse of theatrical thought, and introduced a particular vein of experimental practices into U.S. American avant-garde theatre, especially as it …
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Realismo psíquico en una novela inédita de Gamaliel Churata
… the novel is equivalent, in its narrative, to an aesthetic manifesto, as has happened many times in the history of art, when a philosophical and/or aesthetic movement (surrealism, psychologism, existentialism, etc.) is presented through a specific work. The novel functions as a kind of staging to …