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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Ugliness"”.
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
By the early twentieth century, America had become enamored with standards. Desiring industrial, economic, geographic, and social normalcy, Americans advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow …
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The aestheticization of ugliness : the Pulcinella narrative in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Villa Zianigo
What does one make of beautiful depictions of ugliness? In an attempt to answer this question, this paper used Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Pulcinella fresco series in Villa Zianigo from the late eighteenth century as a case study. The frescos foreground Pulcinella, a Commedia dell’arte theatrical …
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Is it Really Skin Deep? An Analysis of "Ugly Betty's" Influence on Females' Understanding of Beauty
… influence nontraditional framing of beauty and ugliness has on college aged females' interpretation of beauty. Focus group sessions were used to assess this influence, during which the women were asked several questions within two open discussions of beauty. The television sitcom Ugly Betty, …
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On Rearing an Ugly Head: Joel-Peter Witkin and the Mysticism of the “Ugly Aesthetic”
… serve to subvert the negation or diminishment of ugliness in art history's depictions of the mystical, and to present the experience of ugliness as alternatively inherently Godly. Through engaging in the problems in philosophical aesthetics, it contrasts the notions “aesthetically ugly” (a quality …
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36 Yellow Fields to One White Rhino
… vulnerability and violence, silence and truth, ugliness and beauty, geography and home, misunderstanding and understanding, autobiography and the political, among others. </p>
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Making Friends
… I explore simultaneity in my own perceptions of ugliness and beauty both in myself and those around me, as well as my relation to the mundane and the humor therein, and the mechanical nature of the body. This body of work places a material emphasis on scrap wood utilized in a haphazard assemblage …
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Dredge
… what it means to recover, and the messiness and ugliness that often accompanies recovery. The two essays do this by looking both at recent events in the narrator’s life—hospitalization, a trip to Rome to reconnect with family—and glimpses into the past, all serving to come to terms with what it …
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Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
… away through their confused organization and ugliness. In order to unlock the potential for suburban strip centers to be places that help us orient ourselves and connect to our world, I have developed a set of prototypes for the infill of existing strip malls in suburban strip commercial …
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Hypodensity/Hyperdensity ; or, Apple skies
… a hefty inertia in a reputation of crime and ugliness. The land itself is virtually useless; most of the earth is reclaimed (unwanted fill from elsewhere), and any hopes of plant life are quashed by road/rail sprawl, ceaseless paving, and a blanketing of low-rise warehouses. In short, this …
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The dark circus : an examination of the work of Mervyn Peake, with reference to selected prose and verse
… and tenderness of the world and its horror and ugliness, often, indeed, revealing beauty in that ugliness. The chapter deals, then, with the poetry, both the joyful and the tormented, with the Nonsense world which informs so much of Peake's vision, and with the need to balance the contrary …
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The Poet's Corpus: Memory and Monumentality in Wilfred Owen's "The Show"
… the sake of public commemoration, so too are the ugliness and near-incomprehensibility of Owen’s manuscripts concealed by the anthologized poem. I propose that the anthologized poem helps us to better understand the manuscripts and vice versa, and they are both crucial to our continued …
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Simple, Ugly Things
… inside simplicity, beauty in the seams of ugliness, peace within horror, and strength inside humility, as a way to have their voices heard.
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Lopsided, Scarred, and Squint-Eyed: Ugly Women in the Work of Southern Women Writers
… of the South in general. By considering ugliness as a category separate from others with which it has heretofore been conflated, my project illuminates the ways in which characters who fail to live up to the rigid expectations of their gender reveal the productive potential of such …
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The illusion theme in nine plays by Eugene O'Neill.
… The dreamer once in love with life in its stark ugliness was ultimately still in love with life, although one of the final illusions represented was a romantic death wish. His last plays show the struggle to continue life in the face of despair.
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Modernism, antisemitism and Jewish identity in the writing and publishing of John Rodker
… of shocking their audience through a poetry of ugliness. Chapter 2 considers a printing error in Rodker's Ovid Press edition of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and reads it as a sign of Pound's failure to carry out his social and poetic project, a failure which he blamed on Jews, but, because this …
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Meaningful relations: the relational basis of aesthetic judgment and its implications for aesthetic concern in environmental deliberation
… and unnatural value; on issues of beauty, ugliness and sacredness and on the culture/nature dualism predominant in environmental thinking and practice. Moreover, and importantly, a relational approach to aesthetic value extends the reach of environmental aesthetics from a focus on the …
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Ir-rappreżentazzjoni tas-sess f’Jutta Heim ta’ Immanuel Mifsud
… Eco, On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea u On Ugliness, u t-teżi tad-dottorat ta’ Immanuel Mifsud li għenu biex inbnew argumenti, affermaw jew elaboraw argumenti li diġà kont stabilixxejt. Apparti t-trattament tal-ġisem sabiħ u l-ġisem ikrah, f’dan ilkapitlu ddedikajt taqsima lill-ġisem li …