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    quite indifferent” to the characters being portrayed on stage. Consequently, this makes it harder to connect with these figures, as the audience has no way of judging the characters for themselves. (Lessing 5) The focus of action is evident in his tragedy Emilia Galotti from the very first few scenes. The Prince is seen by the audience to be very expressive and impulsive, with stage directions such as “and throws it down again” (77),

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    Discuss how phenomenology has become a fundamental concern in the works of Peter Zumthor through both the formal and spatial characteristics of his design for the Steilneset Witches Memorial, Vardø, Norway Phenomenology in architectural terms can be expressed as: The philosophical study if the built space as it appears in experience. It however gets its root meaning from the Greek words_ phainómenon which means: “that which appears”, and logos which means: “study”. We can further bring this to more

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    made art history. Each one of the six artists had lived an artistic life. The Artist, Bourgeois, was a French American who was born In Paris on Christmas day of 1911 and was named after her father (Louis Bourgeois). Most of her childhood she spent with her mother to help attend to her health. By the age of ten, she began to draw missing parts of tapestries, and also became an expert in drawing feet and legs. Bourgeois decided to paint a portrait of a penis in 1968. She called it the “Fillette” which

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    all had different ways of creating their works of art. The artist Louise Bourgeois was a French American who was born in Paris on December 25th, 1911, and was named after her father (Louis Bourgeois). Most of Bourgeois’ childhood was spent with her mother helping to sustain her health. By the age of ten, Bourgeois had begun to draw missing parts of tapestries and also became an expert in drawing feet and legs. In 1968 Bourgeois decided to paint a portrait of a penis. It was called “Fillette”, which

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    Cell XXV (The View of the World of the Jealous Wife) By Louise Bourgeois. An example of a work of art that I believe exemplifies the best of contemporary practice is Cell XXV (The View of the World of the Jealous wife), a sculpture by artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). The sculpture was made in 2001 by the artist as part of her Cell series. The sculpture itself features three figures, each of them headless, armless and legless and each of them female. The three figures are encased in a prison

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    Greek Tragedy Chapter 1

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    Action with an argument that modern tragedy reflects a crisis in the political economy, a “crisis of action” rather than a “crisis in action,” one that threatens the definition of tragedy itself, so that it becomes “less meaningful and consequential” (3). Greek tragedy typically depicts the fall of the monarch and hence the state, while modern tragedy replaces the monarchial figure with middle-class protagonists and the domestic realm of the “bourgeois or petit bourgeois household” (15). This modern reconfiguration

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    FORMS Tragedy. The protagonist (hero or heroine) is overcome in the conflict and meets a tragic end. The tone is serious and build in the audience a fatalistic sense of the inevitability of the outcome and, as a result, is sometimes frightening. Yet the inescapable aspects of the catastrophe serve as a catharsis that somehow inexplicably purges the viewer of pity and fear. The significance, then, is not that the protagonist meets with an inevitable catastrophe, but rather the degree to which he

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    Italian Renaissance Introduction The Italian Renaissance is the “rebirth” of new ideas based on classical teachings. The Italian Renaissance gave birth to many innovations in theater architecture and scene design, including the proscenium arch stage, painted-flat wings and shutters, and Torelli’s mechanized pole-and-chariot system. In addition, the Italian Renaissance saw the development of the neoclassical rules of dramatic structure, and of opera and Commedia dell’arte. Between the 14th and 16th

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    This term is used to describe the emotional and ornate art and architecture of the 1600s. [pic] a. Romanesque [pic] b. Gothic [pic] c. Classical [pic] d. Baroque status: correct (1.0) correct: d your answer: d feedback: Correct. [pic] 2 The colonnaded piazza added to St. Peter's is the achievement of this architect. [pic] a. Borromini [pic] b. Michelangelo [pic] c. Bramante [pic] d. Bernini status: correct (1.0) correct: d your answer: d feedback:

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    appearances more than value. Molière re-entered Paris under the protection of the Monsieur, the King’s brother, to perform before King Louis XIV, who allotted the troupe a share of the Petit-Bourbon Theatre. Finding more success in comedy than in tragedy after the flop of Dom Garcie de Navarre, Molière continued to push social boundaries with his controversial plays, all the while protected by Louis XIV, who performed in Molière’s ballets and even became the godfather of Molière’s son. Combining his

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