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A Great Negative Work Of Destruction: 20th Century Avant Garde And The Reimagination Of Novelty, Alexander V. Hall Jan 2018

A Great Negative Work Of Destruction: 20th Century Avant Garde And The Reimagination Of Novelty, Alexander V. Hall

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This project traces the thread of novelty through three avant garde movements. It discusses their posterity through time, and addresses the various shapes which novelty takes throughout the 20th century.


The Creation Of Power: Leaving The Closed Space Of Voluntary Servitude, Isabel Mae Torgove Jan 2018

The Creation Of Power: Leaving The Closed Space Of Voluntary Servitude, Isabel Mae Torgove

Senior Projects Spring 2018

This project is a collection and absorption of concepts and frameworks drawn from centuries of thought. Indebted to the past, this philosophical and literary journey seeks to elucidate a productive path to follow in the wake of the “moment,” derived from Du Bois’ “double consciousness.” This split second explosion, resulting in the severance of the conception of the self from the world’s perception of the self, places one in the position of either submitting voluntarily to the dominant forces or producing and creating something, anything, to aid in the search for understanding the self. The transitive property of a split …


Breaking The Genius Myth, Chaojun Yang Jan 2018

Breaking The Genius Myth, Chaojun Yang

Senior Projects Spring 2018

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