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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Primitivism"”.
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Willa Cather: A Study in Primitivism
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Primitivism and The Animal in Shakespeare's Macbeth
… of a green Shakespeare. Macbeth offers a primitivism in which the primitive figure confronts the early modern subject as opposed to being summoned from a retrospective sentimentality. To illuminate this reading, I look primarily at encounters with figures embodying the primitive …
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Primitivism, Regionalism, and the Vernacular in Le Corbusier's middle years, 1929-1945
… rational understanding of the three terms—primitivism, regionalism, and the vernacular; the architect’s study of these three terms through a self-searching experience; and the gradual emergence of the second-phase of his modern architecture. The concrete realization of this process can be …
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Divergence and Disagreement in Contemporary Anarchist Communism: Social Ecology and Anarchist Primitivism
… paper Fifth Estate, later known as "Anarchist Primitivism". It is these two strands that are the subject of this research. Not surprisingly these two perspectives, appearing around a decade apart, and both in the same country, dealt with many of the same issues. What is more surprising is that …
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Anthropology of nostalgia : primitivism and the antimodern vision in the American Southwest, 1880-1930
Introduction: Zoo, garden, arcade--three places emblematic of European society's pleasure in and subjugation of animal and plant nature, of the texture of civilized life in a world created by Industry and Progress. This triad, it seems, would stand in opposition to Lummis' oft-repeated formula of …
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Long Branch Nature Center - modern primitivism and the constructed dialogue of being within nature
The Architect's first drawn line marks a significant moment where alteration to the site is conceived and intervention with nature is beset. Equilibrium of the natural order; vegetative, habitat, hydrology, and geology are all in a vulnerable state. Rarely do these develop into harmonious balances. …
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Buddhist imagery in the work of Paul Gauguin: the impact of primitivism, theology and cultural studies
Scholars attribute aesthetics in Gauguin's work to the 1889 Paris Exposition universelle and Gauguin's quest for the primitive and 'exotic. This study takes a deeper look at Gauguin and examines the personal context in which his works were created. This will show Gauguin's immense suffering and …
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Eighteenth Century Voyagers to the Pacific and the South Seas and the Rise of Cultural Primitivism and the Noble Savage Idea
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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
… Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose primitivism and overt sexuality drew the attention of millions of readers. A fourth novel of the period, "Autumn Hill," was less successful. About Maine rather than Georgia and unpublished until the early 1950s, it reveals some of the flaws that mar …
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Representations of the Black subject in Irma Stern's African periods : Swaziland, Zanzibar and Congo 1922-1955
… subjects as viewed through the discourse of 'primitivism'. My methodology involves drawing from various archives, primary and secondary literature on Stern and Stern's own writings. My visual methodology includes a comparative analysis of Stern's early paintings in relation to her influences …
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Spinsters, cowboys, and cosmopolites: Short story representations of America in late-Victorian periodicals
… by an editorial and critical emphasis on the primitivism of short story features usually considered distinctly American: native humor, local color, and dialect. The resulting construct contributed to England's imperialist self-presentation by implying that the United States, though …
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La crise d'Oka à la télévision : l'éloge du barbare
… a strange fascination with an aesthetic of primitivism.
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Seeing the God of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure and the Optic of Enchantment
… Austin's fiction and the New Mexican modernism/primitivism movement in the visual arts. I explore what I call Austin's "optic of enchantment," a visual experience of divinity that is uniquely tied to the New Mexican landscape. I break down this optic of enchantment into three distinct and …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… landscapes, rural tradition and Celtic primitivism, and advocating or accepting the need for economic modernization that may compromise those national images. Exploring the dialogical nature of the ‘national tale’, a genre whose parameters are extended here to include regional focuses …
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"Art is religion:" Adolf Hoelzel's modernism
… tying his investigations to larger themes of primitivism in European art. Even as his work moved farther away from objective depiction, his recurring evocation of Christian imagery, especially those with small groups of people in reverential poses, reached back to an earlier period of sacred …
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Brazilian Modernism: A Discourse of Unity and Suppression
… and culture, his first experiments with primitivism, his contradictory view of modernity, his definition of nationhood, as well as the support he received from the coffee aristocracy."
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Like a Moth to the Flame: Modernity and Mary Wigman 1886-1973
… innovations of her time, Romantic Symbolism, Primitivism, Expressionism and Dada art, all gathered under the banner of Modernism. As an example of the New Woman of the Twentieth Century, she embraced her own version of modernity, one made complex by the political, economic and social upheavals …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
… the motif of the border and depictions of primitivism. My second chapter considers James Hogg and Edgar Allan Poe as related writers of Gothic short fiction in a transatlantic literary scene dominated by Scott’s legacy and the Scottish periodicals. The third chapter analyses Mark Twain’s …
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