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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"classicism"”.
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Cosmographic Origins for a New Classicism
The spirit of the Latin 'classicus' as a broad ideology has in one sense existed through every age of modern human history. It could begin to be described as an attitude that is resistant to sudden change and is not interested in dramatic breaks with tradition or the avant garde. It embraces the …
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The walking Buddha: the premier image of Sukhothai classicism
<p>Conceived by the Sukhothai school of art, the Walking Buddha is a highly successful interpretation of a spiritual theme. It depicts a fully three dimensional, free standing sculptural figure in an anatomically realistic walking stance. This study is an investigation of the origins, …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
This dissertation investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India—Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam dance—share complex and deeply intertwined histories. It addresses the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the 1950s, which were decades …
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
… of architecture in New York that I call "civic classicism" developed three distinctive design modalities to reform the city's public space: the ensemble of buildings in a garden-like terrace, the continuous street wall around a historic square, and the free-standing monument juxtaposed to the …
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Don Carlos : an interpretation of Schiller's transition from storm and stress to classicism
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Germanic Languages, 1930.
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Inigo Jones's library and the language of architectural classicism in England, 1580-1640
… distribution- formed a central tenet of English classicism, in Jones's terms the creation of an architecture "masculine and unaffected." The library of Inigo Jones represented one of the architect's essential professional tools, a repository of ideas and models which could serve as an ever …
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STRAVINSKY’S NEO-CLASSICISM AND HIS WRITING FOR THE VIOLIN IN SUITE ITALIENNE AND DUO CONCERTANT
… In these works, Stravinsky’s use of neoclassicism is revealed in two opposite ways. In Suite Italienne, Stravinsky based the composition upon actual music from the eighteenth century. In Duo Concertant, Stravinsky followed the stylistic features of the eighteenth century without …
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Reframing Chinese animation: from classicism to postmodernism in post-1949 non-commercial Chinese animated films
This thesis focuses on Chinese non-commercial animated films produced from 1949 to date, with the aim of remapping and reframing Chinese animation in the light of existing theories, critiques, and frameworks drawn from studies in animation, film, and screen media. I suggest that Chinese animation …
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Classicism on the threshold of modernity: expanding the physical parameters of Odissi Dance for contemporary audiences
This thesis examines the present practice of Odissi, the classical dance form of Orissa in Eastern India, with the view to identifying its strengths as a performing art and building on them. The objectives were to share this dance tradition both on stage and in the studio, not just as a stylised …
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The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson
… and public address in the related fields of classicism and biblical criticism in a transnational context. In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, writers on both sides of the Atlantic rendered these practices foundational to the goals of self-formation, cultural and spiritual …
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WORKS FOR VIOLIN FROM DISTINCT EUROPEAN COMPOSITIONAL TRADITIONS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: NATIONALISM, IMPRESSIONISM, AND NEO-CLASSICISM
… trends--Nationalism, Impressionism, and Neo-Classicism--I strove to approach each piece both from the perspective of the overarching style and also in a way that would convey the personal expression of each composer. Musical Nationalism first appeared in the 19th century as composers strove …
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Classicism as Foundation in Architecture: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Richard King Mellon Hall of Science and Michael Graves's Erickson Alumni Center
… every revolution, discreetly hidden, resides a classicism which is a form of constant." Twentieth-century Modern and Postmodern architecture are no exceptions to this rule. Basic to both movements is the use of classical reference as a foundation for communication with the viewer. This study …
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Romanticism in Print: Periodicals and The Politics of Aesthetics in Restoration Paris, 1814-1830
… debates between liberals and royalists, and both classicism and romanticism could be mobilized for various political aims. Such disputes were publicized and crystalized in literary journals, which were both intellectual and commercial products. Through their robust debates about literature, these …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… described by critics as a rejection of Augustan classicism in favour of a modern, proto-Romantic focus on individual emotion and mutual sympathy. My thesis argues, by contrast, that the classicism of the early eighteenth century was inextricably intertwined with the development of sensibility, …
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Sibelius's Seventh Symphony: Genesis, Design, Structure, and Meaning
… and hopeful yearning, between innovation and classicism, and between a host of other seeming oppositions, all define the Seventh Symphony and illuminate various facets of the composer's life and thought.
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Escapist ideations
… film, and visually influenced by traditions of classicism. Escapist Ideations reflects a contemporary take on both fiction and process.
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Other: Poems
… within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that is emotionally based but relies on formal techniques and controlled elements in order to maintain distance. My primary goal in the critical introduction is to link my poems to the Personal Classicist lineage, which includes …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… architect whose style evolved from Jeffersonian Classicism to a revival of English Tudor-Stuart or Jacobethan architecture. This dissertation discusses the Cocke family's Elizabethan roots and advances four theses. The first of these theses is that John Hartwell Cocke implemented Thomas …
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Classical stoicism and romantic passion : the golden mean in Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult".
… his denunciation. Born between the two worlds of Classicism and Romanticism, Matthew Arnold, the son of the Classicist Dr. Thomas Arnold and the friend and admirer of the Romantic William Wordsworth, sought this balance throughout much of his life, and a close examination of much of his other …
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Selected Pieces by Six Taiwanese and Chinese Composers of the Twentieth Century: Ty-Zen Hsiao, Shui- Long Ma, Fan-Ling Su, Kwang-I Yin, Chen Yi and Tan Dun
… period, ranging from post-romanticism and neo-classicism to serialism and minimalism. This dissertation not only presents detailed biographical information on the six composers, but also enhances students’ understanding of the historical time period in each of these composers’ various home …
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