Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin first appeared in architecture in 1996. It’s a bit of hybrid – part treatise, and part manifesto. The main goal is to question the “ocular-centrism” of architecture both in Classicism and in modernism. Instead, it proposes a more “phenomeonological” approach.” Explain the significance of each of the five […]
For this assignment, you are required to listen to Dr. Budd’s presentation on the American Avant Garde focusing on the Ashcan School, the scene around Alfred Stieglitz’s Gallery 291, and Precisionism. Write an essay that describes photography&#x Write an essay that describes photography’s impact on Modernism, and on painting in particular. For this choice, you […]
To The Light House Essay · Write an essay in which you identify and explore the painterly images associated with Mrs. Ramsay. Use them to elaborate the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay and Lily Briscoe as well as Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Ramsay. · What is the symbolic significance of the lighthouse? Discuss it in relation […]
Description Part 1 of essay: Produce a bibliography by selecting a critical resource on the set texts with an eye to how they shed light on the question, i.e. on whether modernism sought to destroy and then remake the world. The set texts are J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World; Ford Madox […]
El Alacran de Fray Gomez: Read this poem and do a commentary on it as well and tell how did this poem have an effect on Modernism in Latin America?, what contribution did this poem have on Modernism in Latin America? and give examples to specific lines directly from the poem as well.
Description Postmodernism is often portrayed as a radical break with the modes of thought, politics and concerns of its intellectual-cultural predecessor: modernism. How do you understand this intellectual-historical duality? You must write about at least three of the following thinkers in your assessment of the modern era: Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, […]
Reading are attached for individual questions. Please write 200 words for each questions. Q1. [Building] Why is the NMA a postmodern building? What are its key attributes? Q2. [Building] The Hiroshima Park ends a controversial history of Japan’s involvement in the Pacific War. Yet it also turns the tables on war and peace and of […]
