A presente dissertação trata das casas projetadas pelo arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer, no período que compreende o início da sua carreira, em 1935, até a revisão autocrítica de 1955 – entre a Emergência e o final da Hegemonia da Arquitetura Moderna Brasileira. As 24 casas do período são apresentadas em ordem cronológica estudadas e analisadas individualmente, em paralelo ao conjunto de sua obra e considerando o contexto arquitetônico local e internacional. Contexto este especificamente representado pelos seus mestres confessos: Lucio Costa e Le Corbusier. As análises específicas de cada casa abordam: a sua motivação, o contexto histórico-cultural, os seus clientes, o lugar onde estão (ou estariam) e os seus aspectos compositivos, formais, funcionais e técnico-construtivos. O conjunto e contexto aparecem como suporte para a comparação, verificação de precedência, de influência, de renovação ou realimentação. Os resultados foram classificados, listados e quantificados afim de permitir futuros estudos sobre o tema. O trabalho procura também contribuir como meio de compilação, preservação e registro iconográfico desta parcela da obra de Niemeyer.

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My twofold aim with this essay is, firstly, to examine the ideas about art expressed in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by the Victorian author Oscar Wilde. Secondly, I analyse how Oscar Wilde has implemented the philosophy of aestheticism throughout his novel. I achieve this by discussing the novel from the perspectives of the arts of painting, acting and literature. I examine the ideas expressed through the three main characters Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton. I give occurrences of alliteration, epigrams and theatrical traits of the novel as examples of how the novel in itself is a beautiful work of art. With this essay I wish to highlight the need for all types of art mentioned in The Picture of Dorian Gray to be included in any discussion about art in the novel. My thesis statement is that the philosophy of aestheticism is promoted throughout the novel. This philosophy states that art should only be seen as something beautiful. Art should not be expected to teach its audience any moral lessons. The over-all conclusion is that it is indeed the philosophy of aestheticism that is promoted in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the ideal of male beauty in particular.

The purpose of this thesis was to contribute to a dialogue that considers the relationship between history, literature, and empathy as a literary affect. Specifically, I explored sites of literature’s transformative potential as it relates to cultural studies and the ethics of deconstruction. Via a deconstructive, post-colonial reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, I considered how subjects in our current socio-political moment can feel history. Emerging from a post-structurally mediated engagement with history, signification, and feeling, I argued that empathy, as it is contentiously presented in the context of deconstruction, is not necessarily a reductive or essentialist approach towards relating or “being-with” an-other. Instead, I proposed that the act of reading historiographical novels that take constructions of the Atlantic Slave Trade to task might generate an affective empathy, which could in turn engender a more empathetic relationality and way of being-in-the-world.

This is a study of what I argue is a neglected side of Aestheticism. A standard definition of Aestheticism is that its practitioners turn away from the general current of modernity to protest its utilitarian and materialistic values, but this generalization ignores the profound influence of contemporary philosophical and scientific thought on such major figures of British Aestheticism as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde. This study focuses on Aesthetes who are not in flight from modernity. I call their type of Aestheticism "Epicurean Aestheticism" and argue that since this temperament is characterized by a willingness to engage with the flux of modern times it must be distinguished from the more familiar, escapist form of Aestheticism I call "Platonic Aestheticism." I propose that Aestheticism be viewed as a spectrum with Epicurean Aestheticism on one side and the Platonic variety on the other. While Platonic Aesthetes like W. B . Yeats and Stephane Mallarme continue the Romantic project of trying to counter modernity with various idealist and absolutist philosophies, Epicurean Aesthetes adopt materialist and relativistic strategies in their desire to make the most of modern life. I argue that the first unmistakable signs of Epicurean Aestheticism are to be found in Thomas De Quincey, that the sensibility is fully formulated be Pater, continued by Wilde, and finds a current representative in Tom Stoppard. All Aesthetes are dedicated to the pursuit of beauty, but Platonic Aesthetes seek beauty in an eternal and transcendent realm, while Epicurean Aesthetes have given up such absolutist habits of thought. Pater writes: "Modern thought is distinguished from ancient by its cultivation of the "relative" spirit in place of the "absolute." Epicurean Aesthetes want a new aesthetic that will parallel the paradigm shift from absolutism to relativism. While a nostalgic, quasi-religious longing for a purely ideal realm characterizes Platonic Aesthetes, Epicurean Aesthetes accept that the high, idealistic road to eternal beauty is closed. Instead of lamenting this fact, they start looking for beauty among the uncertainties of the phenomenal world: by viewing life as an aesthetic spectacle to be observed and experimented on with playful detachment they become Epicureans of the flux of modernity. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Marco Antonio Alves do Valle / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T15:33:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leal_DanielaViana_M.pdf: 52264022 bytes, checksum: d539c9e8f85203bec28577661d6c01d2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: Com esse trabalho, pretende-se estudar um tema pouco analisado na carreira de Oscar Niemeyer. Trata-se do período, na década de 1950, em que o arquiteto carioca, realizou obras para o mercado imobiliário, em franca expansão, na cidade de São Paulo. Examina-se o sistema de trabalho à distância praticado no escritório satélite paulistano chefiado pelo arquiteto Carlos Lemos e sua influência sobre a produção das obras. A análise se concentra nos cinco edifícios encomendados pelo Banco Nacional Imobiliário: Califórnia, Montreal, Triângulo, Eiffel e Copan. Busca-se, através dela, compreender a forma como a arquitetura de Niemeyer se adaptou às exigências específicas desse tipo de trabalho e qual a influência desse processo na postura profissional do arquiteto a partir de então / Abstract: This study aims at examining one aspect which has not been very well analyzed in the work of Oscar Niemeyer: the period, during the 50's, in which the architect designed buildings focusing on the growing (expanding) real estate market of the city of São Paulo. It explores the long-distance work system of the satellite office from São Paulo, run by the architect Carlos Lemos, and considers the latter' s influence regarding the office' s production. The analysis contemplates the tive buildings assigned to the office by the Banco Nacional Imobiliário (Real Estate National Bank): Califórnia, Montreal, Triângulo, Eiffel and Copan. Through this analysis, the study intends to understand how Niemeyer' s architecture has adapted to the specific demands of this type of work, and also how this process interferes with his professional positioning afterwards / Mestrado / Mestre em História

Architectural ceramics have been a legitimizing resource for the inaugural discourse of the Modern Movement architecture in Brazil. Understood as an element that connects with the tradition of that country, and therefore fully identifiable with it, architectural ceramics have been reinterpreted to assume a prominent, sometimes decisive, role in shaping the most important works of this movement. Oscar Niemeyer, a key architect in the recent history of Brazil, has used ceramic tiles throughout his career with different purposes that are linked both to the artistic context around him and to his own personal interests. The present research aims to rescue and to highlight the role that architectural ceramics play in his work as a compositional resource that provides it with significant values and cultural references. The present study has focused on those among the most emblematic Niemeyer buildings in which the use of tiles is more apparent. Analyses are made under an eminently visual perspective, discussing the chromatic, morphological and symbolic characteristics of the ceramic pieces contained in every building, often in relation to the work of the renowned artists who designed them. Also, the contextualization of these works -both architectural and ceramic- has allowed to check the evolution of the intentions and characteristics of the ceramic material in parallel with the professional trajectory of Niemeyer. All this previous inquiry has brought us to formulate a series of conclusions about the (sometimes interwoven) motivations that led the architect to the conscious use of the ceramic material in his creations throughout each stage of his life. Those motivations range from the visual dematerialization of the surfaces to the artistic interests of Niemeyer himself through the allusion to the Brazilian tradition understood as vindication and signification. To sum up, architectural ceramics have played an unquestionable role in some of the most important works of Oscar Niemeyer and have provided constructive, aesthetic and cultural values to them, contributing (sometimes discreetly, other times with unavoidable presence) to the originality of his architecture. / La cerámica arquitectónica ha supuesto un recurso legitimador del discurso inaugural de la arquitectura del Movimiento Moderno en Brasil. Entendida como un elemento que enlaza con la tradición de dicho país, y por tanto, plenamente identificable con éste, ha sido reinterpretada para asumir un papel destacado, en ocasiones determinante, en la configuración de las obras más importantes de este movimiento. Oscar Niemeyer, arquitecto clave en la reciente historia de Brasil, ha empleado la azulejería a lo largo de toda su trayectoria profesional con distintos propósitos que están ligados tanto al contexto artístico en el que se enmarcó como sus propios intereses personales. La presente investigación tiene por objetivo rescatar y poner en valor el papel que la cerámica arquitectónica desempeña en su obra como recurso compositivo que permite aportar valores significativos y referencias culturales a la misma. El estudio se ha centrado en los edificios más emblemáticos de Niemeyer en los cuales está presente de forma evidente la azulejería. De cada uno de ellos se analizan, bajo un prisma eminentemente visual, las características cromáticas, morfológicas y simbólicas de las piezas cerámicas contenidas, en numerosas situaciones vinculadas al trabajo de reconocidos artistas. Asimismo, la contextualización de las obras -tanto las arquitectónicas como las cerámicas existentes en ellas- ha permitido constatar la evolución de las intenciones y características del material cerámico en paralelo a la trayectoria profesional de Niemeyer. Con todo ello se ha podido establecer una serie de conclusiones acerca de las motivaciones, en ocasiones imbricadas, que llevaron al arquitecto al empleo consciente del material cerámico en sus creaciones a lo largo de cada etapa de su vida, motivaciones que van desde la desmaterialización visual de los paramentos a los intereses artísticos del propio Niemeyer pasando por la alusión a la tradición brasileña entendida como reivindicación y significación. En suma, la cerámica arquitectónica ha desempeñado, por su cualidad intrínseca, un papel incuestionable en algunas de las obras más relevantes de Oscar Niemeyer, a las que ha aportado valores constructivos, estéticos y culturales, contribuyendo (unas veces de forma discreta, otras con presencia insoslayable) a la originalidad de su arquitectura. / La ceràmica arquitectònica ha suposat un recurs legitimador del discurs inaugural de l'arquitectura del Moviment Modern al Brasil. Entesa com un element que enllaça amb la tradició d'aquest país, i per tant, plenament identificable, ha sigut reinterpretada per a assumir un paper destacat, en ocasions determinant, en la configuració de les obres més importants d'aquest moviment. Oscar Niemeyer, arquitecte clau en la recent història del Brasil, ha emprat la taulelleria al llarg de tota la seua trajectòria professional amb diferents propòsits que estan lligats tant al context artístic en el qual es va emmarcar com els seus propis interessos personals. La present investigació té per objectiu rescatar i posar en valor el paper que la ceràmica arquitectònica exerceix en la seua obra com a recurs compositiu que permet aportar valors significatius i referències culturals a la mateixa. L'estudi s'ha centrat en els edificis més emblemàtics de Niemeyer en els quals està present de forma evident la taulelleria, de manera que de cada un d'ells s'analitzen, sota un prisma eminentment visual, les característiques cromàtiques, morfològiques i simbòliques de les peces ceràmiques contingudes, en nombroses situacions vinculades al treball de reconeguts artistes. Així mateix, la contextualització de les obres -tant les arquitectòniques com les ceràmiques existents en elles- ha permès constatar l'evolució de les intencions i característiques del material ceràmic en paral¿lel a la trajectòria professional de Niemeyer. Amb tot això s'ha pogut establir una sèrie de conclusions sobre les motivacions, de vegades imbricades, que van portar a l'arquitecte a l'ús conscient del material ceràmic en les seues creacions al llarg de cada etapa de la seua vida, motivacions que van des de la desmaterialització visual dels paraments als interessos artístics i a l'al¿lusió a la tradició brasilera entesa com a reivindicació i significació. En suma, la ceràmica arquitectònica ha exercit, per la seua qualitat intrínseca, un paper inqüestionable en algunes de les obres més rellevants d'Oscar Niemeyer, a les que ha aportat valors constructius, estètics i culturals, contribuint (unes vegades de forma discreta, altres amb presència ineludible) a l'originalitat de la seua arquitectura. / Torre Fornés, IDL. (2017). LA CERÁMICA ARQUITECTÓNICA EN LA OBRA DE OSCAR NIEMEYER: COLOR, MORFOLOGÍA E INTENCIONES [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/90539 / TESIS

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In this thesis I will describe the process of working with a piano trio. The trio consisted of Jonny Ek on piano, Uno Dvärby on bass and, me, Jakob Bylund on drums. This process included choosing musicians, studying influences, rehearsing, and the selecting and arranging songs.  I will also reflect on my role as the drummer and band leader of the trio. The main purpose was to investigate what happens to a trio that does not only rehearse often, but also puts in a lot of work in to studying their role models, such as Oscar Peterson trio and Ahmad Jamal trio, by listening and transcribing arrangements played by them.  By using these methods, the trio hoped to achieve a greater understanding of what these references were actually playing, and using that knowledge to develop its own interplay, dynamics and sound.  The impact of role models is analyzed by comparing the Oscar Peterson trio and Ahmad Jamal trio to each other, and to my own trio, finding the uniqueness of each group as well as the similarities between them.  During this project I have learned a lot as a drummer, arranger and band leader. Because of our many rehearsals and the way we studied our role models, I have gained a deeper understanding of my tendencies when drumming. I’ve also learned that the drummer in a piano trio could determine the direction of the music with very subtle but efficient ways, and therefore has a lot of power and responsibility to take care of the music.  As a result of using these methods the trio managed to get a deeper understanding of why its role models sounded like they did and use that information to develop in their footprints. / <p>Jonny Ek - Piano.</p><p>Uno Dvärby - Kontrabas.</p><p>Jakob Bylund - Trummor.</p><p></p><p>"Where Or When" - Richard Rodgers</p><p>"Long Ago And Far Away" - Jerome Kern</p><p>"Black And Tan Fantasy" - Duke Ellington</p><p>"I Was Doing All Right" - George Gershwin</p><p>"In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning" - David Mann</p><p>"Avalon" - Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva, Vincent Rose</p><p>"Con Alma" - Dizzy Gillespie</p><p>"It's Only A Paper Moon" - Harold Arlen</p><p>"Easy Living" - Ralph Rainger</p>

The thesis is devoted to the following two representatives of literal decadence, Oscar Wilde, British dramatist, prose writer, poet and essayist, and Arthur Breisky, Czech prose writer, literary critic and translator. The thesis opens with providing a basic insight into the life and work of both authors. They were both influenced by decadence, which was not only an artistic trend, but also a specific spirit of the time that was reflected in the psychological and social roots and opinions of both authors. The thesis works with the basic assumption that the Czech decadent Breisky was significantly influenced by Wilde in his opinions and activities. The thesis sets up three areas to explore that mingle and influence each other: criticism, masque and mystification. The main similarities between Wilde and Breisky are analyzed in the thesis. Based on the comparison of individual motives, it is possible to trace how Breisky builds on Wilde's ideas and what, on the other hand, he invents newly or differently. Apart from the comparison of both authors, the thesis also provides a comprehensive overview of Breisky's opinions on literature and art at the theoretical level. Key words: Arthur Breisky, Oscar Wilde, decadence, critique, art, masque, mystification, dandysm