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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"flaneur"”.
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Irgendwo muss man doch einmal hingehoeren': Irmgard Keun as Heiress to the Flaneur."
… urban realms, and the condition of society, flaneurs are able to describe the uniqueness of the metropolis and give life to the modern city—creating a photograph of an urban setting. In the early nineteenth century, and even today, flaneur literature has been ultimately dominated by men who …
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Writing the Lagosian Homeland: the ambiguous and precarious African urban in Chris Abani's GraceLand (2004)
… of the main character who presents as a type of flaneur within it. The study ultimately hopes to highlight inherent complexities and ambiguities and contribute towards a modification of global perceptions of the African urban
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The oriental flâneur : Khalil Bey and cosmopolitan experience
… to define anew such Baudelairian categories as flaneur, dandy, artist, and bohemian, but rather allow the possibility of how a cosmopolitan Oriental like Khalil Bey, who seamlessly navigated between the capitals of the West and East, offers a compelling model of self-fashioning, and a means of …
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Walk. Paint.
… walkers within the Western art canon such as the flaneur and the psycho-geographer, along with artist Richard Long, Francis Alys and Shaun Galdwell. Walking literally leads into mark making and how I approach painting. Abstract Expressionism and its constituents such as Ian Fairweather, John …
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A year in the city
… theory of walking the city and Walter Benjamin's flaneur. The issue of race is discussed in relation to the representation of white and non-white characters against the dominant white society.
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Mis-Guided Exploration of Cities: an ambulant investigation of participative politics of place
… cities as spectacle in the footsteps of the Flaneur, the Dadaist, and the Situationist and in recognition of contemporary works by artists who use journey and place as the text, reference points and resources that generate or support their research and practice. I am exploring a sense that …
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Hermine Cloeter, Feuilletons, and Vienna: A Flaneuse and Urban Cultural Archaeologist Wandering Through Opaque Spaces, Bridging Past and Present to Reclaim What Could Be Lost
<p>Despite the authority that time holds in the discipline of studying events of the past, not all historians or writers analyzing the past use time to study history—some use space, including writers who write about and interact with an urban topography. The space used by these writers is built …
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Petr Herel: the Artist's Book as Aberrant Object
The principal innovation of this dissertation is to present the artist’s book as aberrant object. This sustained investigation of the artist’s book draws upon interdisciplinary theories from art history, anthropology, linguistics, economics, socio-cultural studies, and material studies to examine …
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Petr Herel: the Artist's Book as Aberrant Object
The principal innovation of this dissertation is to present the artist’s book as aberrant object. This sustained investigation of the artist’s book draws upon interdisciplinary theories from art history, anthropology, linguistics, economics, socio-cultural studies, and material studies to examine …