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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Modernisms"”.
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Dancing modernisms : rhythmic bodies articulating cultures of modernisms (1909-1929)
This thesis explores the issues that arise from posing the question: how could the silent dance-body articulate cultural ideas in the early twentieth century, a period which witnessed a dramatic turn of expression in dance, literature and the arts that was retrospectively designated as modernist? …
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Hep: Jazz Modernisms
"The ""jive dictionaries"" of the late 1930s and early 1940s provide a unique perspective on commercial jazz's last gasp. For some time, the language of Harlem and its musicians had been troped in the popular press as a counter-modern force (a move critiqued by Rudolph Fisher, Eudora Welty, and …
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Performing samba: Aesthetics, transnational modernisms, and race
Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro became an important hub of an emerging Black Atlantic entertainment industry. Cariocas—the people who lived in Rio de Janeiro—listened to samba in ways that challenged and produced racial categories, celebrated the creativity of …
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Unnamed modernisms : national ideologies and historical imaginaries in Beirut's urban architecture
Since the commencement of post-war reconstruction in 1991, Beirut has been radically transformed through a series of large development projects that seek to reconcile the war induced fragmentation of both city and national identity whilst reclaiming its "historic" position as one of a global …
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Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature
The period after World War II saw the emergence of a new discourse of human rights, with the signing of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the postwar period and throughout the twentieth century, human rights would often be vieas a set of self-evident, monolithic, and timeless …
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Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942
The second generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who grew up in the Los Angeles area before the Second World War had two primary cultures seemingly competing for their attention: that of their first-generation parents (Issei) and that of the dominant culture surrounding them. However, the …
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Trending in the margins: contemporary art from Nigeria in the global markets
… the aesthetic influences in European and African modernisms, the study strengthens the arguments for global modernisms and the correctives to Eurocentric art historiography.
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Paris and Havana: A Century of Mutual Influence
… within the greater context of twentieth-century modernisms, particularly Surrealism. I apply critical, theoretical and philosophical frameworks articulated by Edouard Glissant, Antonio Benitez Rojo, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to four case studies of inter-genre, inter-national, multilingual …
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Affirmation and "Make It New": Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Great Dictum of Modernism
… in 1999, "what do we do after the new modernisms?", my project follows Jennifer Wicke's suggestion that we learn to practice modernism. By investigating "make it new" as a style of engagement and offering four models of that engagement, my dissertation is the first lengthy work that …
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‘The Most Wonderful Wonderful Parties’ Gossip and anecdote as feminist epistemology in women’s oral histories of the creative community in postwar St Ives
… and reveal hidden feminine modernities and modernisms. The history of the post-war art colony in St Ives has largely been considered through a masculine, modernist lens that focuses on a small number of artists and a mostly formalist reading of St Ives through their work. Little …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… Henri's lasting interest in nineteenth century modernisms. Most relevant to our modern moment, this project takes a second look at his portraits of Chinese Americans, which are conventionally read through the lens of "realism." Not "honest" representations, these portraits are tempered by …
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Yi Sang and Global Modernism
… Yi made to Korean, East Asian, and global modernisms, and to raise awareness of Korean modernism as an international movement that is crucial to contemporary understandings of global modernism.
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham & Margaret Mellis - The Gendered Construction of 'St Ives' Display, Positioning and Displacement
… lags behind the detailed attention lavished on modernisms in Paris, New York and other western capitals. Most publications about St Ives are by English non-academic agents: The Tate, and popularist writers. Both groups are entrenched to varying degrees in monographic writing that privileges and …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… abstraction to Latin American (and global) modernisms. These initiatives reveal the complexity surrounding both artistic creation under the oversight of the Mexican state and the integration of abstraction at home and abroad. The participation of the 1960s generation of artists in …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
… "universal" through its ways of reinterpreting modernisms and universalizes the Cuban by moving its perspective—its way of looking at the world—to the center. The act of positioning a Havana-Cuban, Miami-Cuban, or New York-Cuban expression as the voice of the "universal” human experience is a …
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Playing Modern: Essaying, 1880–1920, Wilde, Chesterton, Woolf
… gave it a unique, constitutive role in literary modernisms; its material connections to new technologies implicated it in new doubts concerning urban modernity, and its massed readership embroiled it in fears over anti– or a–intellectual over-simplification. This thesis tells the stories of the …
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Black Folk /White Bondage: Race, *Class and the Literature of Sharecropping, 1925--1942
… Renaissance and its relation to other American modernisms, rescuing the South from its often self-imposed reputation as modernism's reactionary country cousin or from the role of mere reservoir for the New Negro movement's explorations of folk authenticity. The plight of the sharecropper was a …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
… with implications for our understanding of modernisms around the world and for emerging theories of the tensions between modernist art and the modernization of nation-states. Attending to the specific historical, political and aesthetic realms of this thirty-year period, this dissertation …
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Hominem imitantia. Modernistyczna antropologia podmiotu w polskiej prozie międzywojennej
Praca ma za zadanie prześledzić sposoby objawiania się figur w formie antropomorficznych obiektów, które sygnalizują problematykę ludzkiej podmiotowości. Gdy przyjrzymy się utworom z początku XX wieku, w których pojawiają się człekopodobne konstrukcje, zauważymy, że związane jest to w szczególny …
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James Barke: Politics, Cinema and Writing Scottish Urban Modernity
This thesis examines the early works of the Scottish novelist, playwright, would-be screenwriter, commentator and political agitator, James Barke, to argue that he was a more significant figure on the Scottish literary scene than his place in the canon would suggest. The purpose in so doing is to …