Mário de Andrade n\'A Gazeta (1918-1919): um \"plumitivo incipiente\"?

A presente dissertação apresenta uma leitura dos textos de Mário de Andrade publicados no jornal A Gazeta em 1918 e 1919. Partindo do episódio do \'mal-entendido de crítica\', em que o autor e o jornal entram em conflito, empreende-se uma análise que busca esclarecer o contexto de produção dos artigos - que têm como temas a música executada nos teatros e a guerra - em relação à organização dos \'mundos da arte\' no período e à trajetória de Mário de Andrade, ingressante nos círculos intelectuais e artísticos. Trata-se de entender o conflito não somente como acontecimento particular na trajetória das duas partes, mas como representativo sob um ponto de vista social em um momento histórico da formação do campo artístico na cidade, especialmente em relação à música. Conclui-se do conflito que o posicionamento crítico de Mário de Andrade, que formula propostas de mudanças e induz os leitores e ouvintes a refletir sobre o que viam nos palcos, não estava de acordo com o que era esperado para a crítica musical no jornal.

Pollock is…Crouching in My Pants” : Claes Oldenburg’s Ray Gun as Feminist Critique of the Abstract Expressionist Ego

The “seminal” piece of Claes Oldenburg’s Ray Gun art is Empire (Papa) Ray Gun (1959), a paper maché sculpted gun resembling an erect phallus and swollen testicles. After Empire (Papa) Ray Gun, Oldenburg defined Ray Gun art as anything with a right angle—a form representing the angle at which a handgun’s barrel and handle meet and/or where the erect penis and hanging testicles meet. The forms and tenants of Ray Gun continued into Oldenburg’s later installations, performances, and soft and monumental sculptures.

Art influences on Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Los Angeles's influence on Johnny Truant

"...is a novel that combines literature and art to create a unique postmodern object. It was published just over a decade ago, and in that time numerous scholars and students have written papers and articles on it. Within these articles, the themes are usually about deconstruction, the house as a digital object, the house's lack of homeliness, or characters who claim authorial presence. Danielewski distance himself from that role. The house and its impossible labyrinth are the central feature of the book. A house should provide stability, but this house shifts its rooms and walls at random. A house should protect its occupants, but this one kills people. This house links itself into an infinite amount of information through its use of the internet as an influence and a stylistic device, but it has nothing but an absence in its very foundation, an empty labyrinth with an unseen monster."

Corn Liberalization in Mexico: The Effects of Neoliberal Policies on Campesino Food Security

Mexico has a long history of structuralized violence against its most vulnerable socioeconomic strata, the peasantry, also referred to as Campesinos. From the Spanish invasion, to the contemporary neoliberal development project, corn production has been intimately associated with disparate power relations both within Mexican society, and without, particularly in relations with the United States. This study sheds light on the incongruities of modernism implicit within neoliberal policy instruments such as Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) and free trade agreements. It will demonstrate that while such policies benefit some, they principally exacerbate existing power disparities via disarticulated trade economics, subordinating rather than liberating Mexico's most vulnerable citizenry.

Adiestrando a la juventud obrera: la política de formación técnica-industrial de la dictadura primorriverista

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo la dictadura de Primo de Rivera llevó a cabo la reforma de la enseñanza industrial del joven obrero a través del Estatuto de Enseñanza Industrial de 1924 y del Estatuto de Formación Profesional de 1928, dentro de la órbita ideológica del “modernismo reaccionario”. La dictadura primorriverista se encontraba en una época influida por las consecuencias de la Gran Guerra y empezaba a percibir la formación profesional técnica-industrial como un mecanismo de adoctrinamiento de la juventud obrera, a partir del cual se podía construir una identidad nacional y profesional, a la vez que modernizar la industria nacional. Por ello, la dictadura de Primo de Rivera decidió centralizar todos los canales de formación industrial del joven obrero a través de un nuevo plan de estudios técnico e industrial dentro de las escuelas industriales y de trabajo. Así intentaba controlar al movimiento obrero, formar una clase media de técnicos industriales, satisfacer las necesidades económicas del país, al mismo tiempo que mantener la jerarquización socio-política tradicional. Pero la aplicación de este proyecto educativo durante la Segunda República no cumplió con las expectativas ideológicas y políticas de la dictadura de Primo de Rivera.

El Plan Bonet, 1961-64. La condición del paisaje en la ordenación del desarrollo turístico de La Manga del Mar Menor

En el contexto rural de Murcia, la recepción de la modernidad fue un fenómeno episódico y tardío. Hacia 1960 se produjo, sin embargo, un breve e ilusionante periodo cuando algunos maestros de la arquitectura española llegaron para trabajar en el desarrollo turístico de un litoral virgen y lleno de oportunidades. Entre ellos, Antoni Bonet recibió el encargo de urbanizar La Manga, una estrecha franja de tierra de 24km que separa el Mediterráneo del Mar Menor. El Plan retomaba los planteamientos urbanos de Le Corbusier para reelaborar algunas ideas preparatorias: autonomía y jerarquía de los núcleos habitados, eje vertebrador, centro cívico al borde del mar, tratamiento del frente marítimo con islas artificiales. Minimizando su impacto en el ecosistema dunar con una carretera elevada puntualmente para favorecer el aporte de arena, el Plan concentraba la edificación alrededor de torres de 16 plantas, generando unidades compactas de viviendas y equipamientos repetidas cada 2km. Inspirándose en la lectura del territorio de Le Corbusier en Buenos Aires (1929), Bonet respondía a la horizontalidad del plano del mar por contraste topológico, subrayando la presencia vertical de las torres como hitos paisajísticos que, desde la orilla opuesta, marcaban la posición de cada núcleo.

A expressão arquitétónica na escultura moderna

This dissertation seeks to map out a route in sculptural production and artistic modernism, through the questioning of some of the different ways of approaching the concept of sculpture and architecture that were explored during the twentieth century. Based on the concepts of sculpture, architecture and space — which are proposed as a complementary perspectives to the analysis of our study object — a reflection is develop, in which explores the tension between a sculptural model and an architectural model. This research aims to identify and understand some presences of architectural expression in Modern sculpture. In this context, we will see that this has influenced other movements to the present day, but also a result of a historical situation. The relationship between sculpture and architecture has taken different forms and functions over time and the means of technological and industrial production were seen as a way of transformation of twentieth-century art. The first part of this dissertation focuses on several Modernism definition proposals. The second part presents the first vanguards proposals, and the transformations in the way of understanding sculpture. In the third part, the most current trends, which provide a reference for resolving the tension between the listed models, are addressed. Going against the linear evolution of reading, this paper proposes an interpretation that is based on the identification from a processing of the sculpture conception

Winds of doctrine : studies in contemporary opinion /

Title page in red and black.

The way beyond 'art'; the work of Herbert Bayer,

Mode of access: Internet.

Revista moderna de México.

Illustrator: Julio Ruelas.

Der Katholische Modernismus /

Mode of access: Internet.

Studies in Spanish-American literature.

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