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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Aesthetic norms"”.
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Abstraction in J. S. Bach's "Chaconne": A Model for Reconciling Artist and Audience Today
… by abstraction, or removal from established aesthetic norms. In music and painting, abstraction became an important mark of seriousness, while audiences were alienated by it. J. S. Bach’s “Chaconne” for solo violin offers a model for reconciling artist and audience. Bach used a …
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Janvier and Morrisseau : transcending a Canadian discourse
… Norval Morrisseau successfully transcended the aesthetic norms of Canadian culture in the 1960's and 1970's. Their respective works synthesize indigenous North American arts to forge a new definition of painting by artists of Native ancestry, which acknowledges the artistic traditions of Europe. …
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The impact of Russian music in England 1893-1929
… music presented a challenge to the accepted aesthetic norms of the day and how this, combined with the contextual perceptions of Russia and Russian people, problematized the reception of Russian music, the result of which still informs some of our attitudes towards Russian composers today. …
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Black Analogue: Practices in US and UK Experimental Filmmaking as Methodological Approaches for a New Black Aesthetic
Black Aesthetic filmmaking is best realised through the use of 16mm film. I investigate the veracity of this proposition- that 16mm film is a medium that US and UK Black experimental filmmakers gravitate towards because of the aesthetic qualities and production processes it necessitates. I show …
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Modern American Propaganda: An Institutional History
… fierce adherence to a “strategy of truth,” with aesthetic norms being reserved and largely unemotional as a result of positioning themselves in moral and aesthetic opposition to Nazi and early Cold War Communist propaganda. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision to staff these nascent institutions …
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The Birth of Public Sexual Education in the United States: Women, Rhetoric, and the Progressive Era
… reacted to specific cultural values, ethics, and aesthetic norms. Drawing from a range of primary and secondary sources, this dissertation reveals a narrative in which World War I stood out as a historical moment when straightforward talk about public sexual education was increasingly possible, …
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The Commonweal of Life: Aldo Leopold and Land Health
… have appreciated its ecological, ethical, and aesthetic foundation. This study probes that foundation as it emerged in Leopold's thought and work. It attends particularly to the key words he used when he proclaimed, as right, those actions on the land that preserved ""the integrity, stability, …
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Literatur und Emanzipation von Frauen in der Frühromantik : Bettine von Arnim und Karoline von Günderrode
… Bettine rejects this as an example of male norms. Karoline imitates these norms to emancipate herself. Karoline identifies with the dominant aesthetic norms in her poetry in an attempt at identification. Her letters, on the other hand, reflect a modern experience of discontinuity of self, …
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Un/Contemporary Arts: Norms and Forms in a Greek Art School
… borders of Europe, as remnants of Enlightenment aesthetic ideals in the Athens School of Fine Arts curricula live on in its September entrance exam. I call this form of aesthetic practice ‘un-contemporary,’ because of its outdatedness and to define it by what it isn’t: contemporary art. …