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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"new aesthetic"”.
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Motherhood Moments: Creating New Aesthetic Space
Motherhood is mayhem. Since becoming a mother, I carve out space and time for short creation bursts. I observe my children’s lack of inhibitions and carefree use of materials and incorporate their habits into my work. Art routines are a way to create in my messy maternal life. This thesis examines: …
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In search of a new aesthetic
… their behavior. This shift is now affecting aesthetics in landscape architecture. The validity of the dominant landscape aesthetic in the profession of landscape architecture is being questioned on the grounds of its ecologic impacts. As a result, a new landscape aesthetic is being called …
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"""Der Rosenkavalier"": Genesis, Modelling, and New Aesthetic Paths"
Chapter one presents a broad overview of Strauss's creative process. Discussion of relevant scholarship viewed through the lens of Der Rosenkavalier serves as a springboard for chapter two, which documents the extant compositional manuscripts for the opera. Appendix A supplements this chapter by …
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Transparency, Cognition and Interactivity: Toward a New Aesthetic for Media Art
… thesis undertakes research into the contemporary aesthetic of interactive media art, in order to propose a useful practical model of interactivity founded on a critical approach to both existing theory and practice. It proceeds from the identification of a primary lack in contemporary aesthetics …
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
… biographical similarities and reveal an emerging aesthetic with definite textual and thematic traits that I identify as Trans-Caribbean, a poetics with four main constitutive aspects. First, it addresses the tensions between individualism and collectivism in Caribbean discourse. Second it …
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Islamic ceramic ornamentation and process: proposals for a new aesthetic vocabulary in contemporary architectural embellishment within kuwait
… One of the defining aspects of the unique, aesthetic richness of traditional Islamic architecture has been the application of ceramic ornamentation or embellishment. There is a growing concern, however, that this legacy is being eroded. The diminishing identity of Islamic visual culture is …
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Travails in limbo - an ethical and aesthetic investigation into new approaches in the presentation of Theatre for Young Audiences
This research sought to investigate new aesthetic approaches in the creation of feminist Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), specifically for early adolescent girls, through two collaborative workshop processes designed to be ethical and respectful of the participants' contribution. The parallels …
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In the shadow of segregation : women's identity in the modern Iraqi house
… the emergence of the secular state and modern aesthetics in Post-Colonial Iraq. Marking the pre-modern period from the Abbasid to the Ottoman rule, the traditional courtyard house reflected the apparent agreement between the world view of a traditional society and the accepted status of women …
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… interpret them in different media in pursuit of aesthetic originality. This stylistic revolution, later termed beixue, or the “stele tradition,” advocates the engraved calligraphy on early stelae as the ideal model.My dissertation examines how Yi Bingshou (1754–1815), a key figure in the stele …
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1897 Exposition Congolaise, Tervuren: Colonialism and the Belgian Avant-Garde
… of the day to break with the past to create a new aesthetic mode for display in a highly visible public arena. The 1897 Exposition Coloniale established a national variant of Art Nouveau, known as le Style Congo. It was rooted in raw materials of the Congo, and incorporated cultural material …
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An evaluation of the national cinema of Wales and whether this cinema constructs or represents a national identity
… film industry, was followed by an assignment of new aesthetic and industrial categories, including Welsh Coming-of-age genre films, Welsh Magical Realism, Welsh Grotesque cinema, the Welsh Chapel 'Gothic' in cinema, 'Outsider' filmmakers in Wales, and Welsh filmmakers in exile; the use of Welsh …
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,,Lässt sich aus diesem bilde wohl der charakter der person schliessen?” Ekphrastische strukturen und das frauenbild in Wilhem Meisters Lehrjahre, Die Leiden des Jungen Werther und Emilia Galotti
… century through the lens of contemporary aesthetics, as well as twentieth- century reception theory. Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s art historical text Gedancken über die Nachahmung der Griechischen Wercke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755) fundamentally changed the reception of art …
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Affording landscape
In line with a new way to look at materials, waste streams, and opportunities to utilize existing processes within our environment, this project examines the potential for developing interspecies relationships, in this case involving the caching behavior of blue jays, to help form landscape. In …
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Technology, Time, and the State: The Aesthetics of Hydropower in Postcolonial Egypt
… envisioned and employed concepts of time in new ways in their work. Additionally, artists in Egypt, existing outside of the binary of American abstract expressionism and Soviet socialist realism, employed and synthesized new aesthetic ideas in order to achieve their social and political …
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Specious Materials
… blend digital media into physical reality, and new design areas for architects to intervene with agencies. Then what we like to explore becomes: what would we make of a material that embodied multiple different materialities? Can fake material stand its own ground against its “real” …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… 1950s, which were decades marked by distinctly new intermedial modes of cultural production in cosmopolitan Madras. This project unsettles received histories of modern Bharatanāṭyam by arguing that cinema—in all its technological, moral, and visual complexities—bears heavily and irrevocably upon …
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Body as Landscape: A Visual Aesthetic Model for Sensual Awareness of Challenges on our Environment
… collaborations have resulted in the creation of new visual expressions, in the form of three- dimensional computer-generated landscapes, that address wider concerns regarding the connections between human and environmental health. Central to this body of practice is the consideration of aspects …
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The photographic other: Paradox in the cathexis of longing
… and animations of photographs, that collide aesthetic constructions of the body as an objective, external, object of an other’s vision with a more sensory, and personal, experience of the body as the site of inner subjectivity. As such, the camera lens functions as a metaphor for each of …
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An Examination of the Place of Fresco in Contemporary Art Practice
… twentieth-century art. It also aims to propose new aesthetic values in contemporary art. Chapters I-IV reappraise modern fresco by weighing historical precedent and influence from other artistic mediums. Throughout these chapters it is argued that fresco can establish itself as a current in …
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Theater and community : an architectural language for social integration
… Rico during the second half of the 1960's. This new form of theater, known as Experimental Theater, searched for a new aesthetic language rooted in the use of the human body as an instrument of expression. At the same time, the companies and groups - composed mostly of college students - working …
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