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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"aesthetic discourse"”.
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Entheogen: Envisioning Sustainable Futures through Biomimicry and Parametric Design
… Biomimicry is a design process that derives aesthetic and functional inspiration from evolved forms found in nature. Biomimicry is geared towards sustainability because it mimics evolution's imperatives of ecological fit, material efficiency, and minimal waste. By mimicking evolutionary …
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The Spiritual Turn: Modern Sufism and the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture
… constructs a genealogy of modern Sufi discourse on art and architecture. It draws the history of a chain of writers and artists, connected through a spiritual and intellectual line of transmission, who developed a particular reading of their world- its values, its cultures and arts. …
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Empathy abstracted : George Fuchs and the Munich Artists' Theater
… abstraction, foundational concepts in modernist aesthetic discourse and artistic production. The relief stage embodied the modernist discourse of flatness; the performances it presented may be allied to the contemporaneous birth of abstraction in Munich. Evoking the newly popular film screen, it …
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Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958
… works that politicized Western art music as an aesthetic discourse in China. Through the Chinese sociality, comprised of mechanisms such as quanzi (circle) and guanxi (relation/connection/tie), this dissertation takes departure from the orthodox music historiography based on (de)coloniality and …
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Tactility and architecture : Peter Zumthor's Thermal baths in Vals and the hybridization of the two motifs of tactility-materiality and movement
… holds a unique position in modem architectural discourse. Oftentimes, it has been evoked "as an alternative to two-dimensional vision. However, the notion of tactility sometimes denotes ambiguous and often conflicting meanings. Since the 1970s, tactility has been mainly associated with a series …
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LA CIRCOLAZIONE DELL¿EDITORIA SPERIMENTALE RELATIVA ALLE RICERCHE ARTISTICHE VERBOVISUALI DEL NOVECENTO
… platform promoting a complex theoretical and aesthetic discourse that brought together language theory, poetry, and the visual arts. This discourse is reconstructed through an analysis of the issues to underline the intellectual development of Martino Oberto, its principal theorist. The study …
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Establishing the significance of intangible heritage in the management of South Korean Historic Gardens
… 1972 UNESCO Convention. There is a centuries-old aesthetic discourse in Western culture that treats natural landscapes as objects of beauty, and this has influenced designations of natural heritage beyond human occupants, with the result that they are often considered desirable to conserve with …