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| the policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas; broadly: the extension or imposition of power, authority, or influence |
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| an intelligentsia that develops new or experimental concepts especially in the arts |
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| a late nineteenth and twentieth century cultural, artistic, amd literary movement that rejected much of the past and focused on the current, the secular, and the revolutionary in search of new forms of expression; the dominant stye of the twentieth century until 1970 in roman catholic church history, philosophy, and psychology to traditional church teachings; condemned by the vatican in 1907 |
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| a theory or practice in art of seeking to depict the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in the artist |
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: the application of Christian principles to social problems
a movement in American Protestant Christianity especially in the first part of the 20th century to bring the social order into conformity with Christian principles |
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| historically an american protestant movement that broke free of the evangelicals from 1870-1970 stressing biblical inerrancy 'speaking in tongues' and opposition to certain modern scientific trends such as evolution, higher criticism. I.E. condervative religious movements. |
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| in literature, movement inspired by the methods of science and the insights of sociology, concerned with an objective depiction of the ugly side of industrial society. |
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| a literary style concerned with morbid and artificial sunjects and themes. |
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| a type of drama that focuses on a specific social problem |
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| the use of particular details of a certain group, religion, enviornment, etc in order to add authenticity to the narritive. |
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a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America
-a white person descended from early French or Spanish settlers of the United States Gulf states and preserving their speech and culture
-a person of mixed French or Spanish and black descent speaking a dialect of French or Spanish
-a language evolved from pidginized French that is spoken by blacks in southern Louisiana |
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| decendants of french pioneers, chieffly in louisiana, in 1755 they chose to leave to acadia instead of staying under british rule. |
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a painting style that attempts to capture expressions; they play off sunlight, ordinary events, outdoor scenes.
in music, composition that conveys a vague, dreamy mood. |
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| a colorful japanese print |
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| an artistic movement that extended the boundaries of impresionism in new directions to focus on structure, composition, fantasy, and subjective expression. |
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| modern artists fascination with non-western art forms |
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| art form in which bits and pieces of cloth ect are glued to a painted surface |
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| art that presents a sunjective view of the world, the artists emotions or ideas or art that presents color, line or shape for its own sake. |
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| in music, the changes in the volume of a sound. |
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| english court dance of italian origin |
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| in music, the absense of a key note or tonal center and the use of impartial tones |
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| a technically brilliant sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto |
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| a fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas |
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| a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat |
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| American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre |
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| rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment in stride-piano style |
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| jazz or popular music using harmonic and phrase structures of blues |
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absence of mind or preoccupation
abstract art |
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| the theory or practice in art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they blend together |
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| a movement in painting typified by the work of Matisse and characterized by vivid colors, free treatment of form, and a resulting vibrant and decorative effect |
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| style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects |
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| a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition |
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| taste values and interest of the classes that dominate modern industrialized society, especially the consumer-oriented american middle class |
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| a chiefly 20th century philosophical movement embracing diverse doctrines but centering on analysis of individual existence in an unfathomable universe and the plight of the individual who must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of free will without any certain knowledge of what is right or wrong or good or bad |
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| an early 20th century art movement in Russia producing abstract works featuring flat geometric forms |
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| a nonobjective art movement originating in Russia and concerned with formal organization of planes and expression of volume in terms of modern industrial materials (as glass and plastic) |
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| a Marxist aesthetic theory calling for the didactic use of literature, art, and music to develop social consciousness in an evolving socialist state |
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| a school of art founded in Holland in 1917 typically using rectangular forms and the primary colors plus black and white and asymmetric balance |
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| the principles, ideals, or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art, literature, film, or theater by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations |
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| a writing technique used by modern authors in which the narration consists of a characters continuous monologue of thoughts and feelings |
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| invented by brecht in which major social issues are dramatized with outlandish props and jarring dialogue and effects, all designed to alienate middle-class audiences and force them to think seriously about the problems raised in the plays |
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| montage using photographic images; also: a picture made by photomontage |
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| 20th century philosophical movement that holds characteristically that all meaningful statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment and that metaphysical theories are therefore strictly meaningless —called also logical empiricism |
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| a movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values |
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| a style in architecture developed in the 1920s that uses modern materials (as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete), expresses structure directly, and eliminates nonstructural ornament |
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| -the production of a rapid succession of images in a motion picture to illustrate an association of ideas |
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| a type of musical composition based on a twelve-tone scale arranged any way the composer chooses, the absense of a tonal center in serial music leads to atonality. |
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| in music, a fixed scale or series in which there is an arbitrary arrangement of the twelve tones of an octave; devised by arnold scheonberg |
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in art balance, harmony and idealism
-of, relating to, or constituting a revival or adaptation of the classical especially in literature, music, art, or architecture |
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| 15 to 16 member orchestra, which plays ballads and dance tunes; dominated popular music in the united states and in large cities western europe |
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| of, relating to, or influenced by a school of design noted especially for a program that synthesized technology, craftsmanship, and design aesthetics |
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| last stage of modernism movement; characterized by an increaing sense of existential despair, an attractionto no-western cultures, and extreme experimetalism |
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| an artisitc, cultural, and intellectual movement that extended the boundaries of impressionism in new directions to focus on structure, compostion, fantasy, and subjective expression. |
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| an approach to knowledge based on the belief that human behavior and intuitions can be explained by reference to a few underlying structures that themselves are reflections of hidden patterms in the human mind |
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-painting in a meticulously realistic style of imaginary or fantastic scenes or images
-a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction |
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| expressing a quality apart from an object |
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| literary and artistic movement characterized by the expression of highly personal feelings rather than of objective reality. |
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| found art assembled with a painting. |
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| art in which commonplace objects (as road signs, hamburgers, comic strips, or soup cans) are used as subject matter and are often physically incorporated in the work |
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| art made with a video monitor |
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last stage of modernism
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| protestant movement that emphazied the central role played by god. |
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| literary movement of poets, novelists, anf playwrights, who stood apart from the mainstream literary establishment as reflected in intheir use of street language, experimental forms of literary expression, and liberal use of alcohol and drugs. while expressing solidarity with society's downtrodden-the source of the term beat-the beats criticized capitalism, bourgwois society and values, and the nuclear arms race. |
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| theater that reflects the despair and anxiety of the modern life; plot lines do not make sense. |
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| dramatic style in theater; long pauses |
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| literart movement in great britain of playwrights and novelists that were upset about thier countires standing and loss of empire and declining status in the world stage. |
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| abstract expressionism marked especially by the use of spontaneous techniques (as dribbling, splattering, or smearing |
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| a technique used in color paintings, by which the ares of color are precisely delineated from one another |
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| a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme spareness and simplicity |
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| theatrical development combining skits with outrageous events involving painters actors musicians and audience members to give is spontaneity |
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| a rapid sliding up or down the musical scale |
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| a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life |
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french film innovation
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