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Comic art has received differing explanations since Aristotle´s "Poetics." Bergson in his essay "Laughter" conceives of comedy as deshumanization of human beings into things or machines. How do...
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When artists try to cultivate art in three dimensions, works like Michelangelos' "David" result, or the great mobiles we find in airports and stations, or the unusually structured airports...
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Does humor belong in music? In the West, the three B´s, Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, dominate classical music and are mostly serious. What is your view? Can you provide examples of humorous...
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What distinguishes professionalism in academics from other involvements? Everyone praises the nobleness of academics, but what makes us "professional" in practice? To be "professional," some of...
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By analogy with philosophy which reflects on philosophizing as part of itself, metafiction is currently conceived as fiction whose remarks about fiction-writing form part of the artwork itself....
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Which is superior, enjoyment of art for its own forms or fruition which produces deep emotions like sadness or gladness? Why? My wife reads, looks at paintings, goes to classical concerts to feel...
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Many of us academicians are multilingual. We want our published ideas given as much worldwide diffusion as possible. Yet some of the highest ranked scholarly journals prohibit publication of...
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I have been examining the relationship between the poet-playwright Garcia Lorca and composer Falla, using motivic analysis recommended by Juan David Garcia Bacca. I would like to know of similar...
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For instance, fauvism and cubism received their names as jokes, and oftentimes artists receiving such classifications reject them: for instance, Debussy and Ravel did not rejoice being classified...
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Since Hesiod spoke of the various mythical ages of man - the gold, the silver, the bronze- historians have been applying golden and silver ages to the histories of particular cultures: Greece,...
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