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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"American Scene"”.
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Painting a theoretical world : Stuart Davis and the politics of common experience in the 1930s
(cont.) relationship with American Scene painting. His engagement with these themes suggests that the pictorial reorganization of spatial experience that anchored his practice as a socially engaged artist is inextricably bound to the politics of place.
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An Examination of the Need for Laws Regulating Strikes in the Transportation Industry: Past, Present and Future
… of labor relations and labor disputes on the American scene" today. This law, as amended on several occasions, is the result of political and social factors which date back to the 1880's. It is the thesis of this paper that there has been sufficient change during the past 45 years to warrant a …
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Computer Evaluation, Selection and Procurement
One of the most significant developments on the American scene today is the electronic computer. The full impact of the computer on business and society will not be known until far into the future. A striking example of the increasing influence of the computer in business today is provided in a …
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Cane: the American Adam rekindled
… address its similarities to nineteenth-century American literature, and specifically how it continues a celebrated tradition dedicated to penetrating considerations of American identity. This study attempts to re-focus the critical perspective to illustrate that <i>Cane</i> deserves recognition …
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“Painting Section” or Painting Texas?: Negotiating Modernity and Identity in the Texas New Deal Post Office Murals
… regionalist art centers located throughout the American Southwest and had followed or pioneered American Scene principles later adopted by the Section of Fine Arts. Second, this study foregrounds the murals as containers of meaning related to their local contexts. This approach also contrasts …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
The study of American modernism tends to move through a series of major phases, with World War II as a historical divider between movements such as Regionalism and American Scene and later developments in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… of Romantic-aesthetic ideology. I read The American Scene, the New York Edition Prefaces, and other late writings as a single text in which we see James refashion an identity by transforming the divisions or splits in the modern subject into the enabling condition for renewed creativity. In …
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A History of Nondenominational Churches in Denver and Beyond, 1945–2000
… movement. And many think they burst onto the American scene around the 1990s, though statistics suggest otherwise. Two questions, therefore, need to be addressed: What is the historical genealogy of nondenominational churches in modern America? And, is there a recognizable nondenominational …
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The Materialism Of The Encounter: Queer Sociality And Capital In Modern Literature
… James's nonfiction travel narrative <i>The American Scene</i>, Djuna Barnes's canonical <i>Nightwood</i>, and two neglected novels, Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler's <i>The Young and Evil</i> and Claude McKay's unpublished <i>Romance in Marseilles</i>--that exhibit a mode of sociality …
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Editorial reaction of selected major Indiana daily newspapers to a national controversy : the Truman, MacArthur conflict
… a consistently rational outlook toward the American scene during the Truman-MacArthur conflict. It took the position early that the Korean War should not be expanded, that the chance of an expanding war with China was to be avoided. The Courier expressed its dissatisfaction with the Truman …
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The Evolution of American Expository Prose Style as Exemplified by the Easy Chair Columnists of HARPER'S MAGAZINE
<p>This thesis aims to describe the way American expository prose style evolved during the period 1851 to 1981 as exemplified by the Easy Chair columnists of <em>Harper's Magazine.</em> Major premises of the study are that style and meaning are the same, but that a writer chooses among various …