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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Futurist"”.
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Futurist Aeropainting: Extended Women and the Kingdom of the Machine
<p>A major theme in works by later Italian Futurists of the 1930s was what was called aero-aesthetics in which the artists drew their inspiration from the act and fantasy of aviation. Focusing on the perception of aeropainting, or a eropittura, within both Futurism and Fascism, I am concerned in …
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A Transnational Bohemia: Dandyism and the Dance in the Futurist Art of Gino Severini, 1909-1914
… While this project will focus on the Italian Futurist Gino Severini (1883-1966), it is not conceived of as a monograph. Instead I will use Severini as a case study to help make sense of a complicated world in which the boundaries between bohemia and the bourgeoisie, masculinity and femininity, …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… comparing the sculptural work of the Italian Futurists (1900–1916) with contemporary social robot morphologies illuminates remarkable similarities and a prevailing ‘futuristic’ aesthetic developed by the Futurists that is still largely present in contemporary social robots. By consciously …
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Queering the family as an act of resistance, transformation, and hope in Indigenous futurist, Afrofuturist, and New Wave feminist science fiction
… representations of the family in feminist, Afrofuturist, and Indigenous futurist science fiction (sf), focusing on how authors kept to the margins of the genre—women, Black, and Indigenous authors—use sf to challenge heteronormative family ideology. Although science fiction scholars have been …
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Synthesis of Communications: A Spiritual Voice Amidst Belligerent Noise
… Office, as a vital contribution to the Italian Futurist Movement (1909–1944). Benedetta (1897– 1977), who went by her first name only as a way of rejecting patriarchal ideals, defied modern demands placed upon Italian women and artists in the first half of the twentieth century. This study …
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Revisiting the future
… the future re-examines some ideas of the Italian Futurist painters Boccioni, Balla, Carra, Russolo and Severini. These ideas included multiplied sensations and states of mind, interpenetration and superimposition, lines of force, and placing the spectator at the center of the painting. These ideas …
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An evaluation of scenario planning for supply chain design
… of the future and should be incorporated into futurist studies. One such study is the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics' Future of Supply Chain 2020 (SC2020). This paper reviews the future-studies method of Scenario Planning and evaluates its applicability to the SC2020 project.
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Wartime Art and Temporality in the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes, 1914–1928
… and temporality of canonical works from cubo-futurist illustrated books and collage painting to agitprop theatre and groundbreaking silent film produced in an era of industrialized warfare, revolutionary upheaval, and civil unrest. I reveal the ways in which manifest notions of time were …
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The Vision of Daniel 8 : Interpretations from 1700 to 1900
… of the historical-critical school and the futurist school proposed new methods and applied them to Dan 8. Nevertheless, the historicist school remained dominant, at least in England and the United States. It was in this period that historical-critical scholars began to revive a less well …
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Exploring new work: a personal reflection art critique in the world of prints
… of the past including: comparisons to certain Futurist artists and elements of pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan artwork. I will discuss briefly technical processes and emphasize visual concepts. In viewing several examples of my own prints and exploring the makeup of these pieces, one can better …
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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
… my delineation of her engagement with the Futurist and Surrealist aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her treatment of the “vividly visual” dream-state to the distinct ocularcentricity of her writing. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to advance our knowledge …
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Picture-making through performance - experiments in visual dramaturgy
… from art to performance as exemplified by the Futurist and Bauhaus schools who devised a poetics of abstraction for the theatrical stage. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks and modes of practice developed by artists associated with these historical movements, I identify attributes of my own …
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An Investigation of the Chronology of Daniel 9:24-27
… Historical-Critical Interpretation, Futurist-Dispensational Interpretation, Historical-Critical Interpretation, Futurist-Dispensational Interpretation, and Symbolic-Amillennialist Interpretation) under the main categories of continuous and noncontinuous interpretations. Major …
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The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice
… including the avant-garde collaboration Parade, Futurist noise experiments, and Pierre Schaeffer's early work with musique concrète. These early works are used to create two analytical spectra with which to analyze contemporary pieces that incorporate founds sounds with instrumental music: one …
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FTM Redux: Studio sull'ultimo Marinetti
… better-known aspiration to mechanize the "new futurist man." I then use the Freudian notion of fetish, as understood through Giorgio Agamben's Stanze, to re-conceptualize the relationship between the Italian avant-garde and the tradition of the past. From a broader perspective, my most …
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CHANGING FILM IMAGES ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF FUTURE-BASED AMERICAN FILM
… thematic variations in forty-four American futurist films from 1953 to 2012. Quantitative results on protagonist race and gender revealed high levels of homogeneity, depicting heroic white males in most films. Three qualitative areas focusing on the films’ social world were analyzed for …
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Design criteria for purposefully ambiguous expression : proposal for a theater / performing arts school in Kenmore Square
… examples are borrowed from ecology, Futurist painting , and humor. A new theater / performing arts school complex is designed for Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, to interpret and communicate ideas. Creating forms which have the character of overlap, lack of fit, and …
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Improvisation and Healing: Wayfinding as a praxis of knowledge
… knowledge in a histor- ical, contemporary and futurist setting. Taking the form of sonic sculptures, instruments, visuals, videos and performance pieces, I consider the artworks as philosophical larynxes2. I used the project to explore how art can be a tool to seek and represent information …
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Musings from the Margins of a Polychrome Future
… my initial desire was to hold a convening of futurists, artist, planners, and architects to discuss how we meld our fields to imagine futures that are inclusive not just in physicality but in the values, interests, and needs that hold primacy with which we imagine them. Th en the conference …
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More Alive than Ever? Futurism in the 1940s
… crude, rhetorical and one-dimensional nature of Futurist painting (and poetry) during this period are not necessarily borne out by the works themselves. The text also examines the movement’s status within the cultural establishment at this time. It challenges the notion that the reverberations …
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