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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"minimalism"”.
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Minimalism in syntatic derivation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1993.
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A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism
… criticizes and ultimately defends judicial minimalism, a contemporary theory of judging that has come to the forefront of American jurisprudence in the early part of the 21st Century. In this dissertation I offer the first formal definition of judicial minimalism, apply that definition to …
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Ecological minimalism: an approach for designing urban parks
As defined by the author, “Ecological Minimalism” means an intervention in the design of already developed spaces, which improves ecological function while increasing flexibility and amount of use. As a method for design, Ecological Minimalism prioritizes the subtraction of existing materials over …
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Gestural minimalism : developing a pictorial model in light of Deleuzoguattarian and enactive theories
… and dynamic approaches – that I call gestural minimalism. I first discuss antecedents of non-representation in painting by introducing the use of Euclidean geometry in abstract painting during early 20th century. This leads to a discussion about different conceptions of pictorial representation …
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Vocal Minimalism: An analysis and pedagogical approach to minimalist vocal techniques in new works for choir
… characteristics born out of the creation of Minimalism in the mid-1900s have been and continue to be important to the progression of contemporary-classical and commercial music. While the aesthetic movement in reaction to serialism and modernism has passed, musical aspects and techniques from …
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Minimalist and Traditional Training Methods for Older Adults: A Comparative Study in a Software Environment
… method is generalizable to older adults. Minimalism is a training method that could potentially alleviate some of the problems older adults experience when training. Yet, up to the time of this study, no empirical evidence had been gathered to compare minimalism to traditional training …
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Dan Graham's Video-Installations of the 1970s
… It investigates the artist's relationship to Minimalism by analyzing themes Graham highlights in his own writings and in interviews. In particular, I explore how the artist's understanding of Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and R.D. Laing informed his post-Minimalist work and how concepts …
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The style of meditation: a conductor's analysis of selected motets by Rihards Dubra
… be used in chapter three; these terms include minimalism, holy minimalism, drone, ostinati, etc. Chapter Two is entitled, "Rihards Dubra: The Man and His Music," and will contain biographical, repertoire, and stylistic information. The final chapter, "The Style of Meditation: A Conductor's …
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… 1960s, the movement which set the stage for Minimalism. However, Stout’s work predates hard-edge painting in an important way, namely that he developed it as an extension of Abstract Expressionism. Stout intended the reduced palette, simplified shapes, and absence of gestural marks in his …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… 1960s, the movement which set the stage for Minimalism. However, Stout’s work predates hard-edge painting in an important way, namely that he developed it as an extension of Abstract Expressionism. Stout intended the reduced palette, simplified shapes, and absence of gestural marks in his …
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'Does it Spark Joy?': KonMari Decluttering in the UK
… analysis of a similar rising trend in the West: minimalism. The anthropological theoretical frameworks of material culture, object biographies, and the economics of emotions will be used to contextualise human relationships with the material, and how Kondo’s method may be changing these …
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Designing the ClockSketch user experience
… for the interface: glanceability, familiarity, minimalism, and trustworthiness. Following a spiral-based design process, we systematically built and iterated over interface prototypes with these goals in mind.
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Remembering
… II America. The stories are influenced by the minimalism of Raymond Carver in particular; by the emphasis that such writers as Wendell Berry and George Mackay Brown place upon geography; by the exploration of human and, in particular, family drama of Leo Tolstoy and William Trevor; and by …
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The Rhetoric of Literalism: Readings in American Minimal Art 1959-1966
… Michael Fried's negative characterization of Minimalism as anti-modernist. I interrogate the idea of literalness, arguing that it was complexly instituted in relation to other kinds of artistic meaning. I suggest that, far from being self-evident, Minimal Art7s literalness was of a 'pretended' …
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Philip Glass's Tirol Concerto for piano and orchestra (2000): a compositional analysis of the Second Movement
… with all of Glass's stylistic periods, including minimalism, as well as new compositional devices that have not been identified previously. It recommends further study of the composer's more recent output , especially through transformational perspectives, and a reconsideration of the ontology and …
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Portfolio of Compositions
… strands of musical influence; spectralism and minimalism. The portfolio explores the multiple manners in which these two can be merged together in order to promote the confluence of the two compositional approaches. It is important to note that whilst this is the main focus, other salient …
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The Interaction of Linear and Vertical Time in Minimalist and Postminimalist Piano Music
… but fails to accommodate the variety found in minimalism. Instead, it is best to see in this genre that an interaction between the musical elements that create vertical time and those that create linear time establishes the musical time of each piece. This dissertation explores minimalist …
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Playing the Record Lathe: Vinyl Record Cutter as Musical Instrument
… Through analysis of the portfolio piece Vinyl Minimalism I demonstrate how vinyl cutting can be used within the wider context of vinyl performance. 4. Vinyl Minimalism: focuses on two areas of vinyl minimalism found in the locked groove and ‘silent’ records. Through analysis of records by NON, …
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Triptych 1
… realism, Christian existentialism, and American minimalism, these stories attempt to craft credible accounts of Christian belief and doubt. The stories follow a woman estranged from her family who begins caring for her ailing pastor; a young couple as they try to get back to the basics of their …
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