The Einstein Tower: An Expressionist Landmark Introduction Erich Mendelsohn began his creative architectural sketches while standing guard in World War I‚ along with many other famous architects such as Mies van der Rohe‚ Gropius‚ and Le Corbusier. What was it about standing guard between life and death that enticed a certain creative architectural vision? Maybe it simply provided an ability to envision a world unlike the one being occupied or maybe it reminded these young men of the preciousness
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[Abstract: The pivotal figures of paleo-modernism in English poetry have consistently expressed a profound fervor for the classical mythic world- a world that is deeply real and vivid to them. The appeal of mythic world to these poets is profound and they have sought poetic inspiration from here. Naturally‚ the subject of myths is predominantly present in the poetry of the modernists. The aim of this research is to show W. H. Auden’s treatment of classical myths in “The Shield of Achilles”
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had about renovating the concept of modern architecture that to him required the ‘monumental and spiritual’ essences of prehistoric buildings. From the ideas discussed above‚ about his works and in relation to his Medical Labs in Philadelphia to modernism as a whole‚ it is evident that Kahn was successful in his hopes of reinventing
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The term modernism refers to the radical shift in aesthetic and cultural sensibilities evident in the art and literature of the post-World War One period. The ordered‚ stable and inherently meaningful world view of the nineteenth century could not‚ wrote T.S. Eliot‚ accord with "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism thus marks a distinctive break with Victorian bourgeois morality; rejecting nineteenth-century optimism‚ they presented a profoundly pessimistic
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technological industry – whose profits the fiscal 2012 third quarter ended June 30‚ 201 in The Company posted quarterly revenue of $35.0 billion and quarterly net profit of $8.8 billion‚ or $9.32 per diluted share Apple Theories of the Modernist Modernism is a method of organization study - The ontology of the modernist assumes that there is scientific prove for everything and their epistemology of and belief of truth is based on testing and research. (Hatch and Cunliffe‚ 2006) Weber (2009) presents
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relationship between the city‚ modernism‚ film and architecture. Throughout this essay‚ I will relate her ideas of modernity particularly in the mobilized gaze ’ and commodity-experience ’ to Jacques Tati ’s film Mon Oncle (1958). Anne Friedberg ’s ideas of modernity in the mobilized gaze ’ and commodity experience ’ as well as the reversal of public and private spaces can be inexorably applied to Mon Oncle (1958). Their interconnectibility‚ and Friedberg ’s ideas on modernism can be observed during
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Impact of Industrial Revolution on Modern Art at the turn of the 20th Century. To understand most period and movements in modern art‚ one must first understand the context in which they occurred. When one looks at the various artistic styles‚ one will realize how artists react to historical and cultural changes and how artists perceive their relation to society. The transition between the 19th and 20th century has brought further development of modernistic ideas‚ concepts and techniques in
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government classified Emil Nolde’s Modernist style as “degenerate‚” and forbade him to paint. Nazi oppression influenced the work of Emil Nolde‚ making the watercolors and oil paints he produced during his time in isolation emblematic of Degenerate Art‚ modernism‚ and German Expressionism. Nolde’s Sunflowers in the Windstorm (1943) is one of the few oil paintings he made during his time in isolation in Seebüll‚ Germany. Nolde painted more than 1‚300 watercolors during his time there‚ only rarely using oil
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In 1928‚ Tarsila do Amaral painted Abaporu. The 33 × 29 in. oil painting immediately became the icons of the Latin American Modernism. In an auction sixty seven years later‚ it was acquired by the Argentine collector Eduardo Costantini for U$1.4 million‚ and it is currently displayed at the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires). “Abaporu” in Tupi-Guarani‚ one of the most significant indigenous proto-language in Brazil‚ signifies “the man that eats
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A Comparative Study: Considering El Paso Modernism The Palace Theater in El Paso/Administration building Rice University Nuvia J. Marquez ARCH 3313 History of World Architecture lll Robert Alexander Gonzalez‚ Ph. D.‚ AIA Texas Tech University October 20‚ 2015 The two buildings I decided research‚ compare and learn more about are The Palace Theater‚ built in 1914 by Henry C Trost. This building is located at 125 Pioneer Plz El Paso TX‚ 79901. My other choice
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