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The Devil Figure In Goethe, Boito, And Gounod, Shuang Yang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Faust written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a worldwide famous master piece. It has been not only translated into many other languages, but also used as basis of other works such as opera, music piece, drama, movie and so on. After I read and watched Goethe’s Faust, Arrigo Boito’s opera Mefistofele and Charles Gounod’s opera Faust, I found that the drama’s protagonist is not the Faust what we think normally, instead it is actually another figure…

The Curation Of Worldviews, Jason Toney

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Dog In The Middle Ages, Luisa Barbano

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College.

Reduction Ad Absurdum (Or About Freedom), David Leonard Mamukelashvili

Senior Projects Fall 2016

If I asked you what was your favorite book? Who was your favorite actor? Or which candy did you like the most? You would answer; furthermore support your response with reason. That reason would be the philosophical aspect of your response. However, even if I, also with reason, refuted your argument, there’d still be this spark of ‘just because’ in you, and that is what I want to dedicate my project to – that little sparkle of ‘just because’ – little inner faith, belief, and ambiguous attraction that we have towards things.

Philosophy asks for practice. It is something that …

Hannah Wilke And Reading Narcissism In Images, Kaitlyn S. Kester

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Observations On The Nature Of Translation: El Murmullo De Las Abejas, Gerardo Fuentes

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

“Realists Of A Larger Reality” Conceptualizing Creative Possibilities That Couldwork In Expanding Contemporary Human Rights, Amanda J. Beckley

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Goethe’S Faust And Nineteenth-Century Music: Liszt’S Faust Symphony, Mengying Wei

Senior Projects Fall 2016

This project talks about Liszt’s Faust Symphony based on Goethe’s Faust. It traces carefully through the score. After reading this project, the reader will get to know more about the Faust Symphony. As a composer, how does Liszt understand the Faust legend and how would he put a literary work into a musical composition.

Writing Unwritten: Reference, Opposition And Morality In Poe, Baudelaire, And Mallarmé, Matthew Abraham Woodard

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Dismantling The Novelty And Mystery In Implicit Bias: A New Perspective, Ying Huang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Spaces Of Reality: Tsai Ming Liang And Re-Thinking Identity, Kyra G. Middeleer

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Growth, Aria Elizabeth Smith

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

My senior project installation, Growth, is an exploration in pushing the boundaries between domestic space and the natural world. It exists in a state of surreality; when the human desire to control, contrive, and conquer nature is met with the inevitable power of nature to overcome.

I have always been fascinated by nature and the creatures that inhabit it, and over time this passion has grown to become a large part of who I am. About four years ago, I began to keep aquarium fish and was immediately …

Titleless Home, Rigzin Wangyal

Senior Projects Fall 2016

My sculptures are representations of characters of home. The dimension between interdependence of form and formless, physical and nonphysical home, led me to look deeper into the nature of the act of defining and the unknown. Home will cease to exist if either physical or nonphysical home is omitted. There are no physical aspect of home without individuals forming ideas of a home. Likewise, there is no way of forming a home without the physical home for the individuals in which to be. We are creatures of form living in a physical world, while our mind and consciousness, which are …

Dismantling The Illusion Of Otherness: An Authorial Study Of Lou Ye’S Spring Fever And Blind Massage, Ying Huang

Senior Projects Fall 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Love Poems For Photographs And Other Writings, Erin Francis O'Leary

Senior Projects Fall 2016

This project is a collection of writings about photography that vary stylistically from traditional academic essays to more formally imaginative pieces. It is structured around the understanding of art criticism as not solely a passive response to the artworks on which it is focused, but as a productive and valuable artistic gesture that exists independently of its source materials. Art criticism, though concerned primarily with the external, can be understood (also) as an autobiographical effort.