Big gorgeous jazz machine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Nick Francis Potter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Cultural Legitimacy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Specific Strain ◽  
Formal Relationship ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This manuscript considers the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde literature and painting in contemporary art comics, particularly the growing sub-genre of comics poetry. The introduction lays a historical groundwork for this specific strain of comics, including antecedent works and a consideration for how the genre fits into the comics medium's longstanding struggle for cultural legitimacy. Further, the introductory essay examines how the wide range of comics that fit under the umbrella of comics poetry remediate modernist practices in poetry and painting, foregrounding simultaneity and materiality over transparency and narrative. This introduction considers seminal works in the field, including Warren Craghead's How to be Everywhere (2007), which reworks the calligrammes of Apollinaire, and Erin Curry's Songs of the Sea (2016), directly inspired by Cy Twombly's series of paintings by the same name. In addition to analyzing these comics, the paper considers how these works have been utilized by comics critics (Baetens, Gronesteen, Bennett, Badman) in revising and expanding critical frameworks in comics studies and developing an artist-critic relationship that closely mirrors those documented between the modernist avant-garde and the semiotic theory of Saussure early in the twentieth century (Drucker). The subsequent manuscript follow exhibits a collection of comics works that maintain a formal relationship with those discussed in the introduction.

scholarly journals Punk Rock as Popular Theatre

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Double
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Popular Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sex Pistols ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
The University

Punk rock performance consciously draws on popular theatre forms such as music hall and stand-up comedy – as was exemplified on the occasion when Max Wall appeared with Ian Dury at the Hammersmith Odeon. Oliver Double traces the historical and stylistic connections between punk, music hall and stand-up, and argues that punk shows can be considered a form of popular theatre in their own right. He examines a wide range of punk bands and performers – including The Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Devo, Spizz, The Ramones, The Clash, and Dead Kennedys – to consider how they use costume, staging, personae, characterization, and audience–performer relationships, arguing that these are as important and carefully considered as the music they play. Art movements such as Dada and Futurism were important influences on the early punk scene, and Double shows how, as with early twentieth-century cabaret, punk performance manages to include avant-garde elements within popular theatre forms. Oliver Double started his career performing a comedy act alongside anarchist punk bands in Exeter, going on to spend ten years on the alternative comedy circuit. Currently, he lectures in Drama at the University of Kent, and he is the author of Stand-Up! On Being a Comedian (Methuen, 1997) and Getting the Joke: the Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy (Methuen, 2005).

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Ugliness and Beauty: the Politics of Landscape in Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Claire Warden
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
North West ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The North ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Open Fields

The multi-spatial landscape of the North-West of England (Manchester–Salford and the surrounding area) provides the setting for Walter Greenwood's 1934 play Love on the Dole. Both the urban industrialized cityscape and the rural countryside that surrounds it are vital framing devices for the narrative – these spaces not simply acting as backdrops but taking on character roles. In this article Claire Warden reads the play's presentation of the North through the concept of landscape theatre, on the one hand, and Raymond Williams's city–country dialogism on the other, claiming that Love on the Dole is imbued with the revolutionary possibility that defines the very landscape in which it is set. From claustrophobic working-class kitchen to the open fields of Derbyshire, Love on the Dole has a sense of spatial ambition in which Greenwood regards all landscapes as tainted by the industrial world while maintaining their capacity to function independently. Ugliness and beauty, capitalist hegemony and socialistic hopefulness reside simultaneously in this important under-researched example of twentieth-century British theatre, thereby reflecting the ambivalent, shifting landscape of the North and producing a play that cannot be easily defined artistically or politically. Claire Warden is a Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. Her work focuses on peripheral British performances in the early to mid-twentieth century. She is the author of British Avant-Garde Theatre (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) and is currently writing Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance: an Introduction for Edinburgh University Press, to be published in 2014.

scholarly journals Representing the War. Early Twentieth Century Maps and Models in the Fonds of the Italian War History Museum in Rovereto

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Elena Dai Prà ◽  
Valentina De Santi ◽  
Giannantonio Scaglione
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Three Dimensional Models ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

Abstract. The representation of the areas in which some of the most significant events of the First World War took place has produced a wide range of materials, such as cartography, aerial and terrestrial photos, textual descriptions and field surveys. In addition, war events were also represented through three-dimensional models. Topographic maps and models constitute composite figurations, which are rich in informative data useful for the preservation of the memory of places and for increasing the knowledge of cultural heritage. Hence, these sources need to be studied, described, interpreted and used for future enhancement. The focus of this paper are archival materials from the collections kept at the Italian War History Museum of Rovereto (Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra), in the Trentino-Alto Adige region. Firstly, we will investigate the cartographic fond in order to assess the composition and origin of its materials. Secondly, we will present the Museum’s collection of Early-Twentieth Century models. Such precious heritage is not yet part of an exhibition, and is kept in the Museum’s warehouses. The paper constitutes the occasion to present the initial results of a still ongoing project by the Geo-Cartographic Centre for Study and Documentation (GeCo) of the University of Trento on the study and analysis of two archival complexes preserved in the abovementioned Museum. In particular, the paper focuses on the heuristic value of such representational devices, which enable an analysis of the different methods and languages through which space is planned and designed, emphasizing the complementarity between different types of visualization.

scholarly journals Beyond Post-Tonal: A Broader Approach to the Fourth Semester Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
World Music ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Musical Interests ◽  
Broad Overview

In this article, I argue for organizing the undergraduate curriculum around topics that are applicable to a wide variety of repertoires. Doing so allows students to continue to learn the central concepts and skills that theorists seek to impart via the core curriculum but through a wider variety of musical styles and traditions. Pairing this approach to the curriculum with a wide range of musical activities and projects that extend beyond analysis to include improvisation, arranging, performance, composition, and research helps students connect the content to their own instruments, degree programs, and musical interests. I describe my application of this philosophy towards curricular reform within the context of a fourth semester course on twentieth-century music, where twentieth-century music was treated as a broad category encompassing post-tonal and avant garde music alongside jazz, popular, and world music. This article presents a broad overview of the course, discusses the successes and failures of this approach, and offers some suggestions for how it may be implemented and adapted for various teaching contexts.

The reciprocity between art and architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Hakan Saglam
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Art And Architecture

The concept of ‘Art’ in the modern meaning, evaluates within the Enlightenment’s seminal World of philosophy. Before the Enlightenment architecture and craft were instinctively united fields of creating, almost impossible to detach one from the other. From the beginning of twentieth century the avant-garde of modern architecture were aware of the growing schism between art and architecture and vice versa. The pioneers were writing manifestos, stating that art and architecture should form a new unity, a holistic entity, which would include all types of creativity and put an end to the severance between “arts and crafts”, “art and architecture”.  Approaching the end, of the first decade of the twenty first century, as communicative interests in all fields are becoming very important, we should once more discuss the relation/ interaction / cross over of art and architecture; where the boundaries of the two fields become blurred since both sides, art and architecture, are intervening the gap between. The aim of this paper is to discuss the examples of both contemporary art and architecture, which challenge this “in between gap.” Key words: Architecture, art, interaction, in between.

scholarly journals 2. The Openness of the Visual Art Curriculum towards a New Visual Art Language

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Aprotosoaie-Iftimi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Art Curriculum ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
Hybrid Language

Abstract Visual art curriculum should allow a wide range of activities to develop children's imagination and creativity, to provide a balanced framework for the harmonious development of people who can cope with the massive ammount of images that invade our daily lives. Contemporary art develops a new language - a hybrid language - which for now remains unknown to the majority of the public and it is not integrated into the Arts curriculum. General frame analysis reveals that Fine Arts are studied only up to the 10th grade, except for the humanity profile and for the vocational arts profile. School curricula stipulate fine arts study up to mid twentieth century. Openness towards contemporary art and the language of art starting with the second half of the twentieth century is quite limited even if the curriculum allows a certain flexibility in the approach.

The influence of mRNA secondary structures on ribosome conformational dynamics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Bassem Shebl
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Conformational Dynamics ◽  
Bacterial Cells ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Novel Drugs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
One Step ◽  
The University ◽  
Control Protein

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Synthesizing proteins in the cell is a critical aspect of life. Protein synthesis is a complicated process and involve highly functional machines at a molecular level. The ribosome is the molecular machine that translate coded sequences of nucleic acids into functional proteins. Understanding how ribosomes function is key to understanding protein synthesis / translation. We focus our work on ribosomes from bacterial cells. This allows us to study much simpler systems and extrapolate our knowledge to higher levels. One key challenge in the field is to be able to isolate a high quantity of good and active ribosomes out of the cell to study it in a controlled environment. Classically known methods involve extensive resources, high technical expertise, and a week of preparation. We developed a one-step protocol to purify ribosomes that are more active than the ones purified from classical methods. This developed technique saves time and money and results in much higher amounts of product. This approach also makes the technique approachable to a wider community of scientists and researchers. The same methodology could be applied towards purifying other molecular machines in the cells. Using these ribosomes, we wanted to investigate how the ribosomes function in cells when faced with specific signals. These signals are utilized by the cells to control protein synthesis. However, in dome diseased cells and for some viruses, normal protein synthesis is overridden by the invaders to produce faulty proteins that could result in a wide range of diseases such as Alzheimer and others. In this study, we investigated how the ribosome functions in the presence of such signals and how close do they need to be to the ribosome to affect protein synthesis. This allows us to design drugs to mimic or inhibit such changes thus fixing faulty protein production or sometimes induce it to inhibit protein synthesis in bacterial cells and as such designing and producing novel drugs.

The Reinvention of Shakespeare in Traditional Asian Theatrical Forms

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (55) ◽  
pp. 274-284
Author(s):  
Min Tian
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

Especially during the later decades of the twentieth century, Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for production in many of the major Asian traditional theatrical forms – prompting some western critics to suggest that such forms, with their long but largely non-logocentric traditions, can come closer to the recovery or recreation of the theatrical conditions and performance styles of Shakespeare's times than can academically derived experiments based on scantily documented research. Whether in full conformity with traditional Asian styles, or by stirring ingredients into a synthetic mix, Min Tian denies that a ‘true’ recreation is possible – but suggests that such productions can, paradoxically, help us to ‘reinvent’ Shakespeare in fuller accord with our own times, notably by exploiting the potential of stylized gesture and movement, and the integration of music and dance, called for by proponents of a modernistic ‘total’ theatre after Artaud. In considering a wide range of Shakespearean productions and adaptations from varying Asian traditions, Min Tian suggests that the fashionably derided ‘universality’ of Shakespeare may still tell an intercultural truth that transcends stylistic and chronological distinctions. Min Tian holds a doctorate from the China Central Academy of Drama, where he has been an associate professor since 1992. The author of many articles on Shakespeare, modern drama, and intercultural theatre, he is now a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Synthesis of exo-affinity labeling agents of protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 1

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Roman Hillebrand
Keyword(s):  
Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase ◽  
Tyrosine Phosphatase ◽  
Allyl Isothiocyanate ◽  
Negative Regulator ◽  
Cancer Drug ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Protein Tyrosine ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University ◽  
Derivatives Of

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is a negative regulator in the insulin signaling cascade. A lot of research has focused on inhibiting PTP1B but with no success. Only one drug is currently in phase II clinical trials. We have developed a synthetic protocol to create a library of molecules that target residues outside the active site and covalently bind to the enzyme via close proximity alkylation. These molecules will be analyzed towards inactivation/inhibition capabilities. Tirapazamine is a hypoxia selective anti-cancer drug. New derivatives of Tirapazamine are sought after. We have analyzed and optimized Suzuki-Miyaura and Buchwald-Hartwig couplings reactions towards new derivatives of Tirapazamine. Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) is a phytochemical that can be found in cruciferous vegetables and has received interest due to beneficial health effects. During our analyses of AITC towards inactivation of PTP1B we noticed the surprising absence of the isothiocyanate carbon in 13C NMR spectra. Calculations show that the absence is due to the facile change of the N-hybridization in the wide range of 120 less than 180 bond angles in AITC.

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