notion of fashion – “An architect for design‚ a sculpture for shape‚ a painter for colour‚ a musician for harmony and a philosopher for temperance.” This essay is going to investigate the works of the key minimalist artists‚ simultaneously analyzing the similarities and differences between the minimalist sculptors from 1965 to 1975 and the recent collections of Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquiere. Carl Andre‚ Dan Flavin‚ Donald Judd‚ Sol Le Witt and Robert Morris were considered as the main artists that
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Egoism vs. Virtue Egoism is a habit of valuing everything only in reference to one’s personal interest or gain. Basically selfishness‚ almost an arrogance and conceit of one’s self and only things that will boomerang Back for self gain. In Ethical egoism we will focus on two psychological egoism and ethical egoism. I will also compare egoism to virtue. Egoism is a totally self-centered‚ self-gaining‚ and self-gratifying belief system and theory. In some strange ways I did began to understand
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Cameron McDonald Mr. Ray Critical Reading‚ Analytical Writing 27 April 2012 Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan Aram Saroyan‚ a leading minimalist poet in the 1960s‚ shows many aspects of the specific use of language of poetry in his complete collection. Poetry is exactly the right words put in exactly the right order‚ and Saroyan proves that he has mastered this concept. Aram Saroyan exhibits an exemplary use of the language to express thoughts in few‚ sometimes single‚ words‚ but
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Minimalism By Minimalist music mainly started somewhere around the late 1960’s. The composers who worked with this type of music‚ were called ‘’Minimalists’’‚ and were normally American. The origins of Minimalist music can be traced to the music of Anton Webern whose music was based on the mathematical arrangement of musical elements. One main composer of minimalism was called Philip Glass. After researching music in North Africa‚ India and the Himalayas‚ he decided
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readers‚ and that’s what makes each of them so distinctive. A famous late 20th century American short story writer and poet‚ Raymond Carver‚ has often been described by critics as a minimalist. According to an Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary a minimalist is a person who uses very simple ideas in their work (“Minimalist”‚ 881). Raymond Carver wrote a lot of great short stories and poems. Most of his poems very edited by his Gordon Lish‚ and the originals where never published. Comparing Raymond Carver’s
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explicit line of critique: e.g Paley’s teleological argument and the problem of evil as presented either by Hume or Dostoevsky) Or you can make the major point of emphasis a critique of one of the arguments. (E.g. Rachels critique of Rand’s ethical egoism…as noted‚ that would require an elaboration of Rand’s view as well.) A distinct option would be that you could present your own thinking on the subject (after presenting a view- do you think it withstands rational scrutiny? Why/why not? Obviously
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would be happy” p153 - Browne uses a concept that he calls the “Merry-go-round” that has no ultimate purpose or end p154 - Instead of using the term selfish we should give “prudential generosity” p154 - Browne grounds his views on psychological egoism‚ believes that we follow everything by a single motive “self-love” p154 - Unselfishness trap : the belief that you must be the happiness of others before your own - Everyone motive is doing what he believes will assure his happiness
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of twelve tone music and atonalism‚ Schoenberg had created “the agony of modern music”. The minimalists had rebelled against the systematic‚ “aurally ugly” music of Schoenberg and the avant-garde beliefs of atonality being the “Promised Land”‚ choosing instead to return to traditional tonality. Adams partially agreed with the rebellion against Schoenbergian music‚ his works containing distinctly minimalist elements. Thus when he spoke about “freeing [him]self from the model Schoenberg represented”
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‘Phrygian Gates’ 1977 First published piece: quite late in life at 30. Key features * Adopts constant quaver pulse. * Use of technology: tape recorders/mixers. Experiments with looped phrases * No ‘Basic Unit’- a more instinctual use of evolving modes * Emulation of electronic music through exploitation of various ‘bandwidths’ on piano-ie: introducing material in a restricted register. * Performance model: The Toccata * No use of melody or harmony * Evolution
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his sacrifice saved many and he is a hero because of it. This example is just one way to show how ethical egoism is not the best possible moral philosophy to follow. One argument against ethical egoism is that the theory does not provide a way to solve conflicts of interest. For example‚ if Harris and Klebold ’s interest to kill opposes another ’s interst to live‚ then ethical egoism--by telling everyone to maximally pursue his or her own interest--does not identify some solution that people
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