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    Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf Modernism is a literary movement in which writers believed new forms of expression were necessary to relay the realities of a modern and fractured world. The modernist movement was concerned with creating works of art relevant to a rapidly changing world in which institutions such as religion‚ capitalism‚ and social order were thrown into question by new and confusing ideas‚ technologies and world events such as World War I. Virginia Woolf‚ one of the most eminent

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    Alvar Aalto The figurehead of modernism and leader of bringing architecture back to the human scale that once was‚ Alvar Aalto is now an architectural inspiration to us all. Aalto did not use his architecture as a learning tool but more as a gesture toward the emotional and physical needs of man. His architecture was meant to enrich the lives of those it served. Aalto focused on context in site in relation to the human body. Forms‚ light and shadow were inspired by the Finnish forests Aalto grew

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    Download songs on Arts and Music and listen to them  d) Read poems in literature/every link  e) Watch The Dark Knight   2) Debate questions/Quiz    Outline  Bold​  means applied to most works in the area    1. Art & Music:  a. Post Structuring of the WorldBonadventure Hotel  1. Post Modernism Art  a. Late 20th Century Work that is characterized by the mix  of previous styles and general distrust theories.  2. Los Angeles  3. Suggests to condemn consumerism/celebrate capitalism? It’s a  famous site for television shootings ever since it finished 

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    Understanding organisations – Case Analysis MMM262 Matthew Acciarito Contents: Introduction - 3 Modernist Analysis – 4 Environment - 4 Social structure - 5 Technology - 5 Culture - 6 Problem Statement - 7 Solutions – 7/8 Symbolic – Interpretive Critique - 9 Post Modern Critique - 10 Conclusion - 11 Reference List - 12 Introduction Qantas is the world’s second oldest airline‚ founded in the Queensland outback in 1920. The organisation has dominated

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    aim being to provoke‚ stimulate and involve the audience (even if that involvement was by talking negatively about the art‚ the fact that people are talking about it‚ meant the Dadaists had achieved their goal.) Oftener dubbed the “Farther of Post-Modernism”‚ Duchamp’s Readymades (a found objects he selected and exhibited as an artwork) broke boundaries in defining what art was in terms of martial practice and looking at the structural framework and looked at the ideas of conceptualism. Duchamp subverted

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    Towards a New Architecture ‘Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome...it is comprised not of units but of dimensions‚ or rather directions in motion’ Giles Deleuze. 1. Introduction We may have to wait for the “end of history”. Francis Fukiyama (1992) originally made claims of political and cultural stability in an essay of the late 1980s‚ perhaps the high noon of the Postmodern era. If his historical predictions seem premature a generation later‚ then by some consensus

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    Art is contemporarily defined as the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses‚ emotions‚ and/or intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities‚ creations‚ and modes of expression. The renaissance is the rebirth of classicism; classicism comes from the ancient Greece and Rome; they portray art to captivate perfection‚ harmony and order. Italian High Renaissance artists achieved ideal of harmony and balance comparable

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    During the rise of Modernism‚ the world began to approach literature and the complexities of life in a new manner. According to The Norton Anthology of World Literature Vol. F‚ within this era of new discovery‚ scientists were also finding that the world does not function the way it appears to: “The most famous of the scientific discoveries of the early twentieth century was Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity” (Puchner 10). Einstein’s theory of relativity has been a topic of discussion since

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    ------------------------------------------------- Unit 7. ------------------------------------------------- Dada Vs. Walter Benjamin: What value does Dada have in context of Walter Benjamins The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction? ------------------------------------------------- Martin Hannon ------------------------------------------------- Martin Newth ------------------------------------------------- B.A. Photography‚ Year 2. ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    THIRTEEN WAYS ANALYSIS

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    The blackbird is the only element in nature which is aesthetically compatible with bleak light and bare limbs: he is‚ we may say‚ a certain kind of language‚ opposed to euphony‚ to those "noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms" which Stevens used so memorably elsewhere in Harmonium. … There are thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird because thirteen is the eccentric number; Stevens is almost medieval in his relish for external form. This poetry will be one of inflection and innuendo; the inflections

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