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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"impressionism"”.
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Impressionism: a parallel view of the painting and the music of the period
For the purposes of this study, a very brief account has been given of the Impressionist movement in art and music, and an attempt has been made to illustrate the close relationship that existed between the two, and to show how closely the ideals, ideas, aims and desires of the two areas coincided …
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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
… typifying three great 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 …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… to Henri's formative years—when he dabbled in impressionism, symbolism, and aestheticism—we can gain a fuller understanding of the dichotomous, sometimes contradictory nature of his more conservative artistic practice and his progressive philosophy of art. Reexamination also connects Henri to …
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German Literary Travelogues Around the Turn of the Century, 1890-1914
… 1890 to 1892, resulting from the emergence of Impressionism, the younger generation of writers did not practice the genre until after 1900. Why this break in development should have occurred is one of the questions addressed in the present thesis. The discussion focuses on the rapid cultural …
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Expressing Loneliness: The Importance Of Form In Lorrie Moore's Early Experimental Fiction
… works. Drawing on the avant-garde movements of Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, her fiction uses experimental elements to expose the internal workings of her characters, in rich prose. Applying formalist aesthetics to Anagram and Self-Help reveals how structural …
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
… distinct exhibition forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles.
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… and anti-Bildung, her denaturalizing of literary impressionism and the gothic, and the resistance to ""knowability"" in her landscaping of the Caribbean."
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The disciples of light: a way of seeing and the educational transfer of ideas linking spirituality and art among southern painters in the Hensche-Hawthorne tradition
… American plein air painting that is linked with Impressionism. Charles W. Hawthorne, a painter who was a protégé of American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, founded the school in 1899. Each painter provided a life narrative of artistic education and development, discussed personal philosophy …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… links the discourse of sexuality with literary impressionism, suffragism and the Great War with Imagism and Vorticism, Marxist tropes of the 'thirties with the New Realism, and the rise of nationalism with the aesthetics of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. My work examines not only the extent …
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Antický hudební mýtus a jeho responze ve středoškolské hudební výchově
… on instrumental program music, musical impressionism and on the music of 20th century. Historiographic aspect of the topic is also taken into consideration. The interpretation of myths in music is conducted using the theory of archetypes by Carl Gustav Jung and modified semantic …
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The Representation of Natives in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
… The effects of delayed decoding ; The effects of impressionism -- Conrad's attitude towards nature -- Conclusion.
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Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
… ranged in form and style from realism to impressionism and expressionism. By examining the reproduction and translation of these works throughout Mexico, the U.S., and South America, this dissertation also shows how anarchist art production transcended linguistic and cultural divides and …
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Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
… term--that is to say: Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Some of the older reformers found themselves in an awkward, transitional stage contrary to the younger vanguardists who bore no allegiance to the past. The first group included Baudelaire, Flaubert, Courbet, Manet, Degas …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
… I discuss how Fry’s formalism led him to reject Impressionism and champion the Post-Impressionists. I examine the controversy surrounding the 1910 and 1912 Post-Impressionist exhibitions and how they raised the question of the moral value and use of art. I end with a discussion of Ruskin’s …
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Powerful Structures: The Wind Music of Ida Gotkovsky in Theory and Practice
… twentieth century French musical styles such as impressionism, modernism, and the avant-garde. Her music has codified these styles into a cohesive voice throughout her career. This style relies on traditional instrumentations to present distinctive arrangements of color, shape, and form. Despite …
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Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists' Studios, 1845–1910
… Realism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Naturalism, and Impressionism all engaged in plein-air practice to varying degrees. A close engagement not only with physical nature but also with the ideals it represented guided artists working across a variety of artistic genres. In addition to the continued …
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Approaches to Artistic Style Suppression: An Evaluation Framework for Copyright Compliance in Generative Artificial Intelligence
… (contemporary illustration), Claude Monet (Impressionism), Pablo Picasso (Cubism), and Leonardo da Vinci (Renaissance). Artistic style similarity is quantified with contrastive style descriptors, a pretrained metric validated through portfolio discrimination analysis before its application …
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An introduction to the piano music of Manuel M. Ponce
… his affinity for Musical Romanticism with French impressionism, Neoclassic models and Mexican folk songs while still projecting his own compositional voice. Today however, Ponce’s reputation rests solely on his works for the guitar. Indeed, the unfair neglect his piano music has suffered is the …
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The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Debussy's Mélodies: A Contingent Poetics of Thematicity, Temporality, and Agency
… cultural dialogues. Stefan Jarocinski’s Debussy: Impressionism and Symbolism (1976) provides an embryonic sketch of Debussy’s use of “traditional symbols”—that is, what would come to be called musical topics. While Jarocinski notes that the composer’s use of these signifying textures “generally …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
… deserve our attention as works of ‘psychological impressionism’. Combining penetrating observation with painterly execution, Blanche’s methods emphasised the ‘nervous’ disposition of his sitters. Blanche’s practice as a portraitist is one of the reasons for his neglect. His contemporaries were …
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