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The Performance Of Art: Picasso, Léger, And Modern Dance, 1917-1925, Amanda Holly Beresford
The Performance Of Art: Picasso, Léger, And Modern Dance, 1917-1925, Amanda Holly Beresford
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This thesis examines the phenomenon of easel painters designing for ballet companies in Paris in the 1910s and 1920s. It focuses on the work of Picasso for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Léger for De Maré's Ballets Suédois between 1917 and 1925, and considers the consequences for these artists' studio practice of their involvement in dance theatre. Their work is situated in the historical context of Wagner’s influential notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk—total theatre synthesizing all the arts, including painting—and its reinterpretation by avant-garde theatre practitioners from the mid-nineteenth into the early twentieth century. Picasso’s and Léger’s stage designs reveal the dynamic …
The Spiritual Reformist Thought Of The Amīr ʿAbd Al-Qādir Al-JazāʾIrī In The Eyes Of His Western Interpreters: A Critical Historiographical Review, Daanish Faruqi
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Vilém Flusser's Media Philosophy: Tracing The Digital In Nature Through Art, Anne Popiel
Vilém Flusser's Media Philosophy: Tracing The Digital In Nature Through Art, Anne Popiel
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Philosopher Vilém Flusser's theories and metaphorical writing style are considered together in order to explain the connection between digital technology, nature and artistic creativity in his work.
La Littérature Des Enfants De Harkis : Mémoire Et Réconciliation, Vincent Jouane
La Littérature Des Enfants De Harkis : Mémoire Et Réconciliation, Vincent Jouane
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This dissertation focuses on a corpus of autobiographies and novels produced since 2002 by children, mainly daughters, of harkis: Algerian civilians who fought on the French side during the war of independence of Algeria between 1954 and 1962), including Dalila Kerchouche, Fatima Besnaci-Lancou and Zahia Rahmani. In this study, I have argued that this emerging literature differs from other "minor literatures," as defined by theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, by the fact that these young authors withold the traditional discourse of victimization to emphasize dialogue and reconciliation. In the first chapter, I examine how the notion of historicity can …
Hans Castorp Und 'Der Große Krieg'. Männlichkeitsbilder In Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg', Simon Wester
Hans Castorp Und 'Der Große Krieg'. Männlichkeitsbilder In Thomas Manns Roman 'Der Zauberberg', Simon Wester
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