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Showing 1 to 20 of 217 for “"Baroque"”.
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Genoese baroque painting
<p>Genoese Baroque Painting has been neglected and obscured in the general panorama of the history of painting. At a time when artistic leadership vanished from Venice and Florence, the many dissimilar tendencies in Genoa merged and created an artistic culture with its own characteristics of color …
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Queer Baroque: Sarduy, Perlongher, Lemebel
… have been understood through verbal and visual baroque forms of representation in the social and cultural imaginary of Latin America, despite the various structural forces that have attempted to make them invisible and exclude them from the national narrative. My dissertation analyzes the …
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Bassoon in the Baroque Era
… you will enjoy learning about the bassoon in the Baroque era. This lecture focuses on the origins and developments of the Baroque bassoon, elements of Baroque style found in music for bassoon, and the application of those elements through Antonio Vivaldi's composition for bassoon, Concerto in G …
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N. V. Gogol' and the Baroque (Russia)
… between the writings of N. V. Gogol' and Baroque literature. While some scholars labeled elements of Gogol''s writings as "Baroque," a systematic comparison of Gogol''s works and Baroque literature has never been done. In order to make this comparison, the dissertation begins with a …
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Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare as Baroque Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317296.pdf: 6180592 bytes, checksum: ee9c389822ffa2d48a51af01058aa24a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Multivalence of the Image Within Baroque Painting
… the process of experiencing the materiality of Baroque paintings and by exploring the physical reconstitution of the image through practice-based research.<br/>The project investigates the effects of the historic source on contemporary artists and how their experience informs their own practical …
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Historically Informed Performance Practice of the Baroque Era
… that were written and performed during the Baroque era, which extends from 1600 to 1750 CE. The question arises as to how closely we should strive to emulate the performance conditions that would have been present during the Baroque era. Robert Donington, an English musicologist and author …
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Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
… Bulgaria that led to the emergence of Mafia Baroque as a distinct architectural style and an instrument for communicating power. Building on the context of the economic meltdown of the mid-1990s, the urban development out-pacing the changing regulatory environment due to corruption, , and the …
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The baroque bassoon: form, construction, acoustics and playing qualities
… examines approximately 80% of known surviving baroque bassoons. Detailed internal measurements of thirty-six bassoons were made and graphs are constructed to compare bore designs. Based on comparison of stylistic traits, a new typology of the external design of baroque bassoons is proposed. In …
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The baroque in the late works of Alejo Carpentier
… on the notion of instability to approach the baroque. This style in Carpentier's work represents the tension between two modes of signification which produce narrative excess. While it appears that this instability is unconscious in the early works, it is argued that there is a conscious …
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
This thesis is an exploration of liberalism in Romania and in anthropology. Liberalism is frequently represented in contemporary anthropology as a hegemonic technocratic practice, rationalist ideology and hypocritically exclusionary politics. I challenge this representation through an ethnography …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
… of dissonance – an aesthetic which it calls the “Baroque.” More than just a term for the ornate or profuse, its revival of the Baroque designation (and its contentious application to English literature) is a means of describing the period’s fascination with staging artistic figurations in which …
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The (un)Natural Baroque: Giambattista Marino and Monteverdi's Late Madrigals
… bridge the gap between the Renaissance and the Baroque since they introduced instrumental writing and operatic elements into a traditionally vocal genre. There is an unmistakable change in Monteverdi’s approach to madrigal composition at the beginning of his Venetian period (ca. 1613), and his …
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The Essercizii musici: A Study of the Late Baroque Sonata
Telemann's Essercizii musici is a seminal publication of the 1730's representative of the state of the sonata in Germany at that time. Telemann's music has been largely viewed in negative terms, presumably because of its lack of originality, with the result that the collection's content has been …
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The Baroque Effect: Architecture and Art History in Berlin, 1886-1900
… century through the rediscovery of the Baroque. The close connection during these years between the establishment of the Baroque as an independent architectural style within the young field of Kunstwissenschaft, the burgeoning interest in Baroque space and the mechanics of perception in …
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Awakening Perast : interconnecting past and present architecture in a baroque town
Perast, a baroque town on the Montenegrin coast, and a UNESCO protected site, is an amalgam of nearly three hundred buildings that capture the region's unique history. A vibrant regional center in the XVII and XVIII centuries, Perast today is a dormant town in danger of suffocating under the burden …
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Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
… the artistic traditions of seventeenth-century Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in contemporary cinema. The dissertation seeks to critique binary antinomies of narrative vs. spectacle, and …
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Cervantes and the Spanish Baroque aesthetics in the novels of Graham Greene
“Cervantes and the Spanish Baroque Aesthetics in the novels of Graham Greene” sigue una perspectiva multidisciplinar cuyas primeras líneas de investigación son el análisis de la denominada “Novela Católica”, así como la influencia de la imaginación sacramental propia del catolicismo y la estética …
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