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Showing 1 to 20 of 340 for “"Avant-garde"”.
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… issues in critical discussions of Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Postmodernism. Drawing on Andreas Huyssen's work on the relationship between Modernism, mass culture and Postmodernism, I begin by defining ""political postmodernism"" as a critical term that enables a productive tension between …
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Korean art and the avant-garde dilemma
The thesis covers Korean avant-garde art history and the dilemma that faced Korean artists at the end of the Japanese Colonial Period (1910-1945). Current literature adequately details avant-garde as progressive fine arts; however, there is limited literature on Korean art in this period. This …
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Yiddish and the Avant-Garde in American Jewish Poetry
This dissertation traces the evolution of a formalist literary strategy through the twentieth century in both Yiddish and English, through literary and historical analyses of poets and poetic groups from the turn of the century until the 1980s. It begins by exploring the ways in which the Yiddish …
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The logics of deflation: autonomy, negation and the avant-garde
… Logics of Deflation: Autonomy, Negation and the Avant-Garde, collects essays recently published in various journals (Radical Philosophy, Historical Materialism, Oxford Art Journal, Third Text) and in museum publications. The publications address a number of key issues affecting the production and …
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1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
… into abstract displays that above all served the avant-garde architectural and design program of the Exposition Coloniale. The Exposition Coloniale developed out of the economic and political agendas of the sovereign, the forward-leaning aesthetic interests of his Secretary of State, and an …
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Applications of CAD/CAM technology to avant-garde structural engineering
Over the last decade improvements in design technology has taken grand steps in changing the way we build the structures of tomorrow. Conventional drafting software like AutoCAD and Microstation are being challenged by tools that go beyond the two dimensional representational abilities of paper …
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New vernaculars and feminine ecriture; twenty-first century avant-garde film
… feminine écriture within a twenty first century avant-garde practice. My two films, Radio and The New World, together with my contextualising thesis, ask how new vernaculars might construct subjectivity in the contemporary moment. Both films draw on classical and independent cinema to revisit the …
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REALISM IS THE AVANT-GARDE: PLAY SCRIPTS, COSTUMES, AND STAGE DESIGNS
This dissertation examines the practices of modern Chinese theater during the first three decades of the twentieth century, focusing on the portrayal of different realities. It challenges the notion that huaju (spoken drama) was the sole orthodox approach to realism. While huaju closely followed …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
… of experimental practices into U.S. American avant-garde theatre, especially as it intersects with U.S. Latina/o theatre and LGBTQ theatre. I interrogate the theatre history of these three cities as horizontal and contiguous, challenging historical narratives of U.S. American neocolonial …
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
… and intellectuals, who defined themselves as “avant-garde artists.” Censored and suppressed by both the authoritarian government and the complacent art establishment, these art movements were omitted from conventional South Korean art history, and oftentimes dismissed as derivatives of Western …
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Poetics Of The Sacred: Divinations Of Identity In The French Avant-Garde
… wrought in the wake of WWI, many French avant-garde writers integrated the findings of sociological studies of religion into their art. The authors considered here, including Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, and Collette Peignot, believed that literature could effect a renewed religious …
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The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant-Garde: Abstraction Beyond Art
This thesis reconsiders the art of the Russian avant-garde by exploring its engagement with, influence from and contribution towards an unconventional area of culture: censorship. Although extensive research has already considered the way artists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova blurred …
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Intermediated securities holding infrastructure an avant - garde system jeopardised by the usual suspects
This study deals with two important and contemporary phenomena at the heart of the financial markets and the policymaking process i.e. (i) the policymaker’s role on the critical features of the intermediated holding infrastructure that exacerbate securities shortfall; and (ii) the purposeless …
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Problems of the 'Political' in British Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics, 2003-2012
This investigation addresses formal and conceptual problems in poetry, identified through critical investigations of my own and my poetic peers’ work, and through theoretical and philosophical texts (Butler, 2000; Hegel, 1807; Owens, 1980; Rose, 1996; Kappeler, 1986). The notion of a ‘political’ …
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The Second Wave of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Thaw Generation and Beyond
… who must be considered the single most important avant-garde author of the 1940's. In Chapter II, I discuss various avant-garde groups, as well as independent authors who sprang up at the beginning of the Thaw. I closely investigate the poetic paths of the most prominent representatives of …
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Theorizing the anti-avant-garde : invocations of phenomenology in architectural discourse, 1945-1989
… emergence of a new type of architectural avant-garde practice, that of the historian, which to this day has received little scholarly attention. I argue that they are important transitional figures, whose work is enframed by both the closing stages of a postwar modernist understanding of …
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Architecture and Counter-revolution: The Ideology of the Historiography of the Soviet "Avant-garde"
… Marxist critique of ideology. While the Soviet “avant-garde” has seen growing popularity since the 1960s in the West, it has been systematically presented as precedent to politically charged present practices and discourses. This thesis frames this link to the present as a “historiographical …
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Avant-Garde and Socialist Dreamworlds in Latin America: Global and Local Designs, 1919-1939
This dissertation examines the avant-garde as one of the last significant cultural manifestations in Latin America that attempted to offer an alternative to capitalism in the twentieth century. My study redefines the avant-garde as a global critique of modernity whose emergence can only be …
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"The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form
… closely tied to the historical and contemporary avant-garde theatre. The dissertation begins by examining the works of the Viennese satirist and performer Karl Kraus and the German stage director Erwin Piscator in the 1920s. The second half moves on to contemporary artists Handspring Puppet …
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