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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"chorography"”.
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The Chorography of the Modern City
Until the nineteenth century, space was represented and produced through mathematically constructed drawings: plans and sections captured buildings and the scientific map recorded the territory. The development of technologies of transport brought crisis into this static and balanced world as speed …
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Artistic Landscapes: Dancing Beyond the Stage; An Investigation of 1960s Site-Specific Dance Through the Chorography f Anna Halprin, Trisha Brown and Twyla Tharp
<p>Site-specific choreography is dance intended to exist outside the traditional stage of the theatre. This type of choreography became popular among the post-modern dance artists of the 1960s. These artists raised questions about the basic principles of dance such as: who could dance, why and for …
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Writing Geography: Traversing Early Modern English Chorographies
… of style and subject matter that typify the chorography genre, this dissertation argues that chorographies are informed by their sustained and foundational engagements with travel. Chorographers travelled to conduct their surveys, they represented the perspectives of travellers, and they …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
Biblical concepts were a key element in early modern Dutch representations of Asia, and played an essential role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch …