This article explores the role a human skeleton played in queering and shaping of dance modernism. In early decades twentieth century, an important intervention propelling toward modernist aesthetic while disrupting regulatory norms gender construction, began women's college gymnasium via skeleton. Two impulses generate this archival-based inquiry: one that traces history symbolic formulations ...

Following dissolution of empires, nation-states appeared on the stage history in 19th century when they were established as a result nationalism that came into prominence based unity common language and history. it would not be wrong to say nationalist movements started transition period nation-state structure took place simultaneously. Nationalism has an important role process losing legitimac...

This paper maps definitions of modernism extracting some of the features of aesthetic modernism as it discusses Descartes, the Enlightenment, Cartesian rationalism and the notion of ‘aesthetics’. Within modernism, I consider its major assumptions, values, (or its aesthetic), the theoretical sources of formalism and the ideas and outstanding figures associated with modernism, such as Immanuel Ka...

Louis Sass has turned schizophrenia on its head. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought brings together more than a hundred years of cumulative writings, observations and theories about schizophrenia, lays bare the traditional framework of assumptions which underpins this considerable body of knowledge, then proposes in its place an alternative way o...

The purpose of this article is to cast some light on the question as why and how nationalism appeared rather suddenly on the political stage in Turkey at the beginning of the 20 th century. This article asserts that Turkish nationalism was an answer to the particular historical conditions that characterised the final phases of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of the modern Turkey. This article ...

During the late 1960s, music educators introduced the idioms of post-war modernism (otherwise known as the avant-garde) into British classrooms. As a result, creative music making, composing and improvisation, became an established part of the curriculum. However the actual idioms of musical modernism have largely vanished from schools. The writer explores the reasons for this decline, while ac...

The article examines the symbolism of vegetal forms used in Catalan modernism at turn 20th century. was one artistic movements that widely nature as a source inspiration. Vegetal elements decoration were not just aesthetic ornaments, they filled with historical and cultural acquiring ideological value. Guided by national ideals formed during 19th century wake Renaixença, artists created symboli...