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Dance That “Suggested Nothing but Itself”: Josephine Baker and Abstraction
Arts, 2020 This article reconsiders Josephine Baker’s legacy for the field of dance by emphasizing the principles of abstraction that she developed through performance.
Joanna Dee Das
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Contextes, 2022 This article focuses on the historiography of primitivism, understood as the interest shown in non-Western cultures by the avant-garde. Emerging with the development of anthropology, this movement arouses a debate between anthropological and aesthetic ...
Jehanne Denogent
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Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2005 Febrônio is the name of a serial killer arrested in Rio in 1927. The French writer Blaise Cendrars transfigured this character in a series of reports published in the journal Paris Soir and in a volume called Fébronio, magia sexualis, in 1938.
Anouck Cape
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Music in Natalya Nesterova’s Painting [PDF]
Художественная культураThe article discusses the friendship and creative connections between the famous representatives of Russian culture — painter Natalya Nesterova and composer David Krivitsky.
Krivitskaya Evgeniya
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Juvenis Scientia, 2019 The article addresses the issue of the role and purpose of technology in the modern discourse of eco-anarchism. The author examines the concepts of Murray Bookchin and John Zerzan in order to reactivate the need for understanding the technology regarding
A. K. Saimiddinov
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Primitivisme et surréalisme : une « synthèse » impossible ?
Methodos, 2004 The article puts questions on the complex status of “the Primitive” within Surrealism, and particularly within some works of André Breton. The author at first aims at showing that Surrealism prolongs some cultural and artistic movements based on critics ...
Philippe Sabot
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler +2 more
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Hijacking emergency granulopoiesis: Neutrophil ontogeny and reprogramming in cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Neutrophils are highly plastic innate immune cells; their functions in cancer extend beyond the tumour microenvironment. This Review summarises current understanding of neutrophil maturation and heterogeneity and highlights tumour‐induced granulopoiesis as a systemic programme that expands immature, immunosuppressive neutrophils via tumour‐derived ...
Gabriela Marinescu, Yi Feng
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Tropical Landscapes and Nature-Culture Entanglements: Reading Tropicality via Avatar
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022 Landscape integrates both natural and cultural aspects of a particular geographical area. Environmental elements include geological landforms, waterscapes, seascapes, climate and weather, flora and fauna.
Anita Lundberg +2 more
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Mapping a New Humanism in the 1940s: Thelma Johnson Streat between Dance and Painting
Arts, 2020 Thelma Johnson Streat is perhaps best known as the first African American woman to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. However, in the 1940s−1950s she inhabited multiple coinciding roles: painter, performer, choreographer, cultural ...
Abbe Schriber
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