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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Modern Aesthetics"”.
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
… to have been the beginning of Quebec's cultural modernity and an early sign of its political modernity. In the early 1940's the manifesto's author Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) had already been praised for his art later named "Automatism". It was seen by the automatists as the …
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In the shadow of segregation : women's identity in the modern Iraqi house
… perspective on the culture and politics of the modern house in Iraq. It advances the discussion from the authoritative religious environment of women's segregation in the Islamic era associated with the courtyard house, to the seemingly liberated status of women in modern times, as manifested in …
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Weaving histories: cultural memory, similarity, and curatorial approach in the interpretation of Achaemenid and Safavid Persian carpets
… established by Reza Shah, prioritised both modernisation and the promotion of Persian culture. Reza Shah and his son Mohammad Reza Shah saw Persian art and language as central to national identity. A pivotal moment in this cultural vision was the 1931 International Exhibition of Persian Art …
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Aesthetics of Diagrammatic Contemplation: Abhinavagupta's and Martin Heidegger's Views on Being as Such and How It Can Be Disclosed Through Aesthetic Contemplation
… of the subject/object dichotomy that underpins modern aesthetics. He argues that the indeterminateness or “no-thingness” of the painting’s background can resist the attempts of the reflective subject to conceptually master it. This sort of encounter, he says, with the painting's background can …
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The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape
… landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together …
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"We Are the Thing Itself": Embodiment in the Künstlerromane of Bennett, Joyce, and Woolf
… is a study of the relationship between the modern Künstlerromane of Arnold Bennett, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and issues of embodiment. Born of the field of aesthetics, the literary genre of Künstlerroman inherits its conflicts. The chief dilemma of the form is how an isolated artistic …
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… of the twentieth century, William Faulkner wrote modernist novels the numerous complexities and ambiguities of which require continued decipherment. Critics have attempted to interpret If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem; Absalom, Absalom!; As I Lay Dying; The Sound and the Fury; and Light in August …