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Showing 1 to 20 of 2861 for “"aesthetic"”.
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
This study of the “Blues Aesthetic” both supplements and revises the now-dominant socio-aesthetic paradigm by introducing the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed …
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Personal autonomy & its aesthetic preconditions: essays on aesthetic understanding & freedom.
Becoming autonomous is a process of coming to realise oneself in shared, socio-historical practices. There can be no self before these practices, but their existence is no guarantee for selfhood either: one can be heteronomous through one's successful participation in various practices if that …
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
Gifford Pinchot’s aesthetic developed in childhood and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial …
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Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic
Gifford Pinchot’s aesthetic developed in childhood and combined the pictorial considerations of the Hudson River School with the use philosophy of early landscape architecture and the format of early western survey photographers. Pinchot and photography came of age during the American industrial …
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The Aesthetic of Love
… seen a revival with regard to appreciating this aesthetic. The 'green' movement had hoped to open people's eyes to a certain aesthetic of conservation but unfortunately has lost sight of the ideological foundations of its existence. My proposal is to look back to these roots of architecture. Not …
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Visual Calculating Aesthetic Value: Formal Models of Description and Evaluation for Aesthetic Systems
… bridges gaps between seeing as an open-ended aesthetic process and mathematical formality in computing methods in architecture and other areas of design. The work extends across two areas of research. First, by taking as background developments in “mathematics of shapes”, it introduces new …
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An aesthetic cartography of fast
… for political purposes from a specifically aesthetic perspective. In other words, to foreground their dramatic qualities, how they in their expressive repetition, patterning and stylization produced a/effected heightened forms of emotions. To carry out this task, I follow the theater scholar …
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Thematic Manifestations: an Aesthetic Journey.
… March 2-12, 2004, describes in detail three aesthetic themes that are manifested in the work exhibited. The artist discusses his journey in establishing a “criterion of aesthetic values” whereby his work is conceptually developed. The three themes – The Paradox of Simplicity, The Decorative …
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Aesthetic negativity and choreographic practice
… This, in turn, draws on earlier work done within aesthetic semiotics by Viktor Shklovsky, through which it is hoped that insight, clarification, and historical contextualisation will be forthcoming, whilst also casting an eye on the contemporary situation within arts making. The thesis is …
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Aesthetic typicality and sustainable design
Aesthetic longevity in product design has been linked to environmental sustainability through an increased product lifetime-of-use. One approach to creating enduring product aesthetics is visual simplicity—yet ‘simple’ can be a challenge to define, let alone to create. Designers such as Naoto …
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Synthesis of aesthetic product form
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.
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The Aesthetic Attitude in the Everyday
… on what is commonly referred to as ‘everyday aesthetics’. This literature is engaged in the process of chipping away at the intuition that the artwork is the paradigmatic object of aesthetic experience. My aim is to lend support to the everyday project. The everyday aesthetician is concerned …
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Aesthetic attitudes in the college student
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1969 M62
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Motherhood Moments: Creating New Aesthetic Space
Motherhood is mayhem. Since becoming a mother, I carve out space and time for short creation bursts. I observe my children’s lack of inhibitions and carefree use of materials and incorporate their habits into my work. Art routines are a way to create in my messy maternal life. This thesis examines: …
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Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism
Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Restoration Aviva A. Rahmani This dissertation presents a new approach to addressing environmental degradation based on transdisciplinary ecological art. Transdisciplinarity is defined here as merging art and …
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