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A Santa with a Butt Plug:Paul McCarthy and the Obliterating Violence of Positivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Kitsch is often seen as the denial of shit. Kitsch excludes from view everything that is unacceptable in human existence. In Paul McCarthy’s oeuvre, there is no such dichotomy.
Lushetich, Natasha
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Teaching Design Model of Bridge Aesthetics Course Facing Ecological Landscape Sustainable Development

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
In recent years, ecological building of bridges has gradually begun to appear in cities, and this trend is conducive to the sustainable development of urban bridges and an ecological environment, promoting the development of emerging industries around ...
Fenghui Dong   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

La "ville décor" : accueil de tournages de films et mise en place d'une nouvelle esthétique urbaine

open access: yesCybergeo, 1999
Since the beginning of the 90s, different French cities and regions have been organised to host film shooting teams. In a way to help them to choose the different film settings, the city is "cut" by the local authorities into "selected pieces", presented
Maria Gravari-Barbas
doaj   +1 more source

Urban design factors involved in the aesthetic assessment of newly built environments and their incorporation into legislation: The case of Istanbul [PDF]

open access: yesUrbani Izziv, 2018
Newly built environments in cities whose features have changed due to neoliberal policies and priorities have often been criticized for their lack of aesthetic qualities.
Azadeh Rezafar, Sevkiye Sence Turk
doaj   +1 more source

Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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Urban greening: environmentalism or marketable aesthetics

open access: yesAIMS Environmental Science, 2015
In recent decades, urban greening has been conceptualized, and subsequently marketed, as a way of making cities more sustainable. Urban greening has been actualized in large global cities, regional centers, and also in many cities in the Global South ...
Dominic Bowd   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enclaving: Spatial detachment as an aesthetics of imagination in an urban sub-Saharan African context

open access: yes, 2020
While detachment and separation continue to be central to urban development across the globe, in several sub-Saharan African cities they have acquired a particular form of acute social and political efficacy.
M. Nielsen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aesthetic gene and prospect of garden city from the perspective of Chinese dream [PDF]

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences
This study aims to delve into the impact of the Chinese Dream ideology on the development and aesthetic characteristics of park cities. Building upon their dialectical and unified relationship, it seeks to predict the evolutionary trajectory of urban ...
Liu Mengxuan, Chen Siquan, An Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetic of Cuteness Dimensions in Malang City Mascot

open access: yesKnE Social Sciences, 2020
Osi and Ji are Malang City mascots made with coherent design procedures. They represent a particular identity to appeal to the target audience. This paper examines the aesthetics of cuteness that synergize between the dimensions of affection, language, and design in the city’s mascot.
Dimas Rifqi Novica   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Glitch epistemologies for computational cities

open access: yesDialogues in Human Geography, 2022
This intervention advances glitches as epistemological vectors for apprehending and engaging the significance of digitally-mediated spatialities that appear nonperformative against normative scripts of urban computational paradigms.
Agnieszka Leszczynski, S. Elwood
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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