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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"arabesque"”.
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Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
… Schlegel’s (1772–1829) literary concept of the arabesque to analyze genre mixture and formal digression in the early Romantic piano concerto. Drawing on both John Daverio’s adaptation of the arabesque for nineteenth-century music (1987;1993) and contemporary theories of musical form (Caplin, …
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The Arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf
… Specifically the research examines the arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf by addressing the graphic application of the arabesque as a cultural, religious and social element in the design of selected food and beverage labels. The aims …
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Doctoral thesis recital (guitar (chamber))
… du blesse ; La fille aux cheveux de lin ; Arabesque no. 1 / Claude Debussy (with Camille Schiess, violin) -- Histoire du tango / Astor Piazzolla (with Chelsea Tanner, flute) -- Suite Bergamasque / Claude Debussy (with Matthew Gillen, guitar)
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Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style
… including Louis XIV, by creating cutting-edge arabesque designs with motifs drawn from popular culture. He became a maître in the Académie de Saint-Luc. He chose not to become a member of the Académie royale de peinture et sculpture, but he subcontracted work to Académie artists and achieved …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… a thoroughgoing analysis of his comic and <em>arabesque</em> fiction. These tales have been generally ignored by previous critics or else they have received insufficient documentation with regard to Poe’s verbal trickery. In every instance, the major area of inquiry will be the language games …
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The shape of the support : painting and politics in Syria's twentieth century
… as he mobilized an aesthetic theory of the arabesque to produce radical paintings meant to inculcate Arab modes of cognition supporting a Arab polity. Chapter Three chronicles the Syrian artists who traveled abroad to the Italian art academy system in the early 1950s, detailing the patronage …
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Low back pain in ballet, modern, and hip-hop dancers
… of three spinal extension movements: the ballet arabesque, the modern dance attitude with body roll, and the hip-hop dolphin dive. The influence of speed on the forces of the spine in dance had not been studied previously. Results suggest that thoracic and lumbar spine joint angles, angular …
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The Stakes of Mimesis: Tracing Narrative Lines in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac
… one another. Chapter Two, ‘Line’, focuses on the arabesque lines of Der goldne Topf and La Peau de chagrin. Chapter Three, under the emblem ‘Trope’, examines the paper identities of characters in Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht and Le Colonel Chabert. Chapter Four, ‘Figure’, considers the …
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Magic Mountain
My installations are propositions for an imaginary world that relies on its own internal logic, a world of believability without recognition. While the work references landscape it also emphasizes its contrivance, as it is automatically estranged in an "unnatural" gallery setting. I subvert or …