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The Grid: As a Starting Point and an End Point of Ornament
2017
Ornament was one of the key concepts in the nineteenth century discussions on architecture and decorative arts. In the beginning of the twentieth century, modernism abandoned ornament from its vocabulary. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the heritage of Modernism and its rejection of ornament were critically analyzed and ornament became a topical subject once more. Geometry played an important role in the search for rational and intellectual basis for the architecture and decorative arts in the beginning of industrial age. Arabic ornamental practice with its geometrical foundation served as one precept in searching and formulating appropriate design principles for architecture …
"Biologia della letteratura" di Alberto Casadei, Il Saggiatore 2017
2018
Review of the Essay that thinks about how to insert artistic creation, and especially literary creation, in the continuum of biological processes. Throught an unusual methodological approach, the Author reveals complex and coherent vision, while the most frequent misunderstandings and questions are highlighted.
David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism : Methodology and Ideology in Enlightenment Inquiry [book review]
2017
“Autographic wood-engraving: Modernist DIY“
2017
International audience; This paper focuses on the description of modernist wood engraving as a humble form of art in the manuals published by John Farleigh, Clare Leighton and Iain Macnab between 1932 and 1940. As a specific form of artistic encounter with a medium, autographic wood engraving relied on the heritage of the Arts and Crafts’ ethics of making as well as on the modernist aesthetics of carving. This paper aims to show that the efficacy of humbleness as an artistic stance allowed wood engraving to straddle the provinces of art, craft and design at a time when the function of artistic skill and handmaking was being displaced.
La cultura del postmodernismo giuridico: considerazioni a margine di un volume recente
2013
'Another Art Altogether': Heart of Darkness come romanzo breve
2002
By referring to a number of studies on Joseph Conrad as well as to critical works on the novella as a modern narrative form (from Henry James to Leibowitz, Nemerov and Kundera), this article explores how a reading of Heart of Darkness as a short novel can add new nuances to a better appreciation of Conrad's masterpiece.
Paradigmas de investigación en Educación Especial
2000
Se describen los principales paradigmas y metodologías de investigación en las ciencias sociales y sus repercusiones en el ámbito de la educación especial.
Ankkalinna - portti kahden maailman välillä : Don Rosan Disney-sarjakuvat postmodernina fantasiana
2014
Teoría de la educación : educación y cultura en la sociedad de la información
2015
Se presenta en este texto un problema específico dentro de una investigación más amplia sobre la pedagogía líquida considerada como un elemento característico de la postmodernidad. Se expone el significado de la metáfora líquida aplicada a la pedagogía y se discuten dos posibilidades de uso del significante «pedagogía líquida»: a) como imaginario pedagógico y b) como teoría de la educación. Se discute entender la pedagogía líquida como una teoría que nos sirva para articular una cierta idea de qué es y qué debe ser la educación. Se describen dos variantes posibles de la pedagogía líquida: a) con métodos sólidos para transmitir la tradición b) con métodos líquidos para dar lugar a posibilida…
The Political Economy of Internationalization and Privatization of Higher Education in the Sultanate of Oman
2013
This chapter outlines Oman’s higher education policy under the guidance of Sultan Qaboos by addressing the following main objectives: describing the origins of Oman’s government-funded higher education system since the late 1970s, assessing the rationales of Oman’s fundamental redesign of its higher education policy since the early 1990s, and, finally, describing the process and the effects of the economic liberalization of higher education, by analysing the emerging models of cooperation providing cross-border educational services. Oman is adopting primarily Western educational concepts in accordance with a liberal economic development strategy. However, Oman’s recent higher education poli…