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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Avant-garde (Aesthetics)"”.
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Technology and form : iron construction and transformation of architectural ideals in nineteenth century France, 1830-1889.
… of the twentieth century based on modernist avant garde aesthetics. Behind their apparent reconciliation of modem technology and architecture lay the aestheticization of material and construction, and the subjectivization of architecture. Thus, this dissertation analyzes the displacement of …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… writer and activist most famously known as an avant-garde photographer active in the 1920s but who later formed a powerful anti-Nazi resistance movement on the Channel Island of Jersey in the 1940s with her collaborator Suzanne Malherbe, dubbing themselves “the Nameless Soldiers." They fought …
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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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Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Interwar French Literature
… particularly concerning the evolution of the avant-garde and the ideological novel in the interwar years. The invocation of these groups provided a charged metaphor for defining literary techniques and concerns of audience, genre, and language; and their representation helped shape the form …
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Architecture of the negative: Community center for Ransom Canyon, TX
THESIS STATEMENT: The unexpected changes and diversities of society cause diffîculty for architects to create structures that will be applicable by tomorrow's standards. To achieve an eternal architecture, designers must invert the traditional methods of architectural design and explore the …