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Constantin Brancusi's Primitivism
Get PDFabstract: The Romanian avant-garde artist Constantin Brancusi is considered one of the most significant artists of modern sculpture. This is due to his innovative use of materials, such as wood and marble, and his reduction and precision of form. Brancusi developed his abstraction with "primitive" sources of art in mind. This thesis examines how and to what extent primitivism played a central role in Brancusi's sculptures and his construction as a primitive artist.
Romanian folk art and African art were the two main sources of influence on Brancusi's primitivism. Brancusi identified himself with the Romanian peasantry and its folk culture. Romanian folk culture embraces woodcarving and folk literary fables--both of which Brancusi incorporated in his sculptures. In my opinion, Brancusi's wood pedestals, such as the Endless Column, are based on wood funerary, decorative, and architectural motifs from Romanian villages.
Brancusi was exposed to African art through his relationship with the New York avant-garde. The art dealers Alfred Stieglitz, Marius de Zayas, and Joseph Brummer exhibited Brancusi's sculptures in their galleries, in addition to exhibiting African art. Meanwhile, Brancusi's main patron John Quinn also collected African art. His interaction with the New York avant-garde led him to incorporate formal features of African sculpture, such as the oval forms of African masks, into his abstract sculptures. Brancusi also used African art to expose the racial prejudice of his time. African art, along with Romanian folk art, informed Brancusi's primitivism consistently throughout his long career as a modern sculptor.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Art History 201
ABOUT THE STRATEGIC THINKING
No full textThe work of Mr. Constantin Brătianu called “The strategic thinking” is full of texture and spirit. Incidentally, the author warns us early in the book that the history of humanity was consumed and is still consumed by thinking and examples are given to confirm such an assumption. It is a book about thinking, but not just any kind of thinking, it is a book about the Strategic thinkin
RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND TRACK REHABILITATION FOR A COAL MINING MACHINE TYPE M4A T2052-78
Get PDFThe following paper presents data obtained following a technical expertise, extensive technical
inspections followed by the preparation of technical projects, technical documentation for authorization,
technical details on the execution of repairs/remediation for equipment in the surface mining industry, carried
out by the author together with a team of specialists in the field for the Company Complexul Energetic Oltenia
S.A. Thus, between the University "Constantin Brâncuși" of Târgu Jiu and the Company Complexul Energetic
Oltenia S.A. there are data contained in Contract no.2490 /CEOSE/15.11.2016, entitled: Elaboration of
documentation for the "Rehabilitation and modernization of the M4A Coal Mining Machine - including the
track" - Rovinari S.E.
Virgil Gheorghiu on communism, capitalism and national socialism
Get PDFThe focus of this publication is the study of Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916–
1992), an important and controversial writer in contemporary Romanian literature,
best known for his novel The 25th Hour. His writings are characterised
by the condemnation of the horrors inflicted by Nazism and communism and
his critique of capitalism. The book by Iuliu‑Marius
Morariu presents Gheorghiu’s
ideas on these three ideologies which dominated the twentieth century
and highlights his contribution to the literature on the subject. Based on
Gheorghiu’s analytical observations, Morariu attempts to identify similarities
and differences between these political doctrines. The author poses three research
questions: (i) what are Gheorghiu’s reflections on these ideologies, (ii)
how relevant are they nowadays and (iii) how did the context influence him?
Morariu undertakes this task through an inclusive, qualitative approach; given
the interdisciplinary nature of this study, analytical–deductive, narrative and
inductive methods were also employed in developing the arguments.peer-reviewe
ABOUT OTHER KIND OF PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH (HOMO-SAPIENS TO HOMO-OECONOMICUS)
Get PDFPart of a larger research, this paper ranges among the matter of ideas confrontation concerning the causes of the economic crises and those keys to be passed. Paper aims at finding and praising the defining elements of our economy, in the purpose of better understanding the nowadays crisis, and at presenting certain conceptually different approaches. In this purpose, analytical presentations are focussed on the specific realities of the economic life that are in position in the last centuries, which are considered to be favouring the arriving to the critical states in the last years and to be promoting those maintaining, or which allow explaining certain effects and tendencies. The approach is made from the angle of the nature of the productivity that is had in view and highlighted in the market regulating mechanisms, and of the due growth. The paper is grounded on important analysis on the matter (including anterior researches of the author), but their dimensions does not allow their presentation in the abstract. Analysis starts from interpreting the very nowadays crisis, from different sites concerning the core (general) causes, by correlating with certain features of the industrialized consuming society. More recent references are made in the literature on the matter. Modern western economy is defined from the angle of focussing on material-quantitative productivity and growth. Analysis tries to explain certain effects concerning this kind of focus. Interesting effects and tendencies are noticed, that miss to the traditional approaches. Further on an opposed theoretic model is discussed. This is built and developed inside the service economy (on the case of two conceptually similar approaches, came from two different sources of economic thought in the field; original contributions of the author are involved). Adequately to the knowledge society, this last one is considered more favourable for homo sapiens, at least once the visible effects of the last two hundred years model are revealed, which are dominated by homo oeconomicus. This reference model being set up, a short foray is intuitively made in the perspectives of humanity on long run and on very long time, in the supposed maintain of the present economic model. In all those presentations and analyses, connections are made with other papers on the matter, in the purpose of more profound study. The conclusions concern the practical possibility of the model opposed to the industrialist economic crisis. The details highlighted from the analysis of the conceptual comparison between models and prospections bring, in the final, at proposing solutions, grounded on fundamental requirements on the line of humanityâ€(tm)s values, with didactic addressing to the young generation. The elements of contribution of the author are underlined in the presented matter.productivity, modern growth, economic crisis, knowledge society, service economy
THE MATH ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SMARANDACHE TYPE NOTIONS
Get PDFAbout the works of Florentin Smarandache have been written a lot of books (he
himself wrote dozens of books and articles regarding math, physics, literature, philosophy). Being a globally recognized personality in both mathematics (there are countless functions and concepts that bear his name), it is natural that the volume of writings about his research is huge
This paper has been removed from SSRN at the request of the author, SSRN, or the rights holder - Laser Directed Energy Deposition of an Almgsczr-Alloy in High-Speed Process Regimes
No full textAluminum-magnesium-scandium-zirconium (AlMgScZr) alloys require rapid cooling conditions to ensure that high solute supersaturation is obtained to exploit the material's potential of precipitation hardening. While AlMgScZr alloys have been shown to be successfully applied in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) processes for additive manufacturing, there have been little research in laser directed energy deposition (DED). The performance of DED processed parts only reached about 60% of that of LPBF processed parts. In view of breaking through the limitation associated with the process conditions of conventional DED, this work demonstrates the DED of AlMgScZr alloys in high-speed process regimes and elucidates the mechanism of enhancing the hardness and tensile strength of AlMgScZr alloys by increasing the cooling rate by one to two orders of magnitudes during the process as well as reducing the track overlapping and the porosity of the specimens. A max. average hardness of nearly 150 HV0.1 and a max. tensile strength of 407 MPa are obtained by using an energy per unit length of 5400 J/m and a powder feed rate per unit length of 0.25 g/m
Implementation of Web Query Languages Reconsidered
Get PDFVisions of the next generation Web such as the "Semantic Web" or the "Web 2.0" have triggered the emergence of a multitude of data formats. These formats have different characteristics as far as the shape of data is concerned (for example tree- vs. graph-shaped). They are accompanied by a puzzlingly large number of query languages each limited to one data format. Thus, a key feature of the Web, namely to make it possible to access anything published by anyone, is compromised.
This thesis is devoted to versatile query languages capable of accessing data in a variety of Web formats. The issue is addressed from three angles: language design, common, yet uniform semantics, and common, yet uniform evaluation. % Thus it is divided in three parts:
First, we consider the query language Xcerpt as an example of the advocated class of versatile Web query languages. Using this concrete exemplar allows us to clarify and discuss the vision of versatility in detail.
Second, a number of query languages, XPath, XQuery, SPARQL, and Xcerpt, are translated into a common intermediary language, CIQLog. This language has a purely logical semantics, which makes it easily amenable to optimizations. As a side effect, this provides the, to the best of our knowledge, first logical semantics for XQuery and SPARQL. It is a very useful tool for understanding the commonalities and differences of the considered languages.
Third, the intermediate logical language is translated into a query algebra, CIQCAG. The core feature of CIQCAG is that it scales from tree- to graph-shaped data and queries without efficiency losses when tree-data and -queries are considered: it is shown that, in these cases, optimal complexities are achieved. CIQCAG is also shown to evaluate each of the aforementioned query languages with a complexity at least as good as the best known evaluation methods so far. For example, navigational XPath is evaluated with space complexity O(q d) and time complexity O(q n) where q is the query size, n the data size, and d the depth of the (tree-shaped) data.
CIQCAG is further shown to provide linear time and space evaluation of tree-shaped queries for a larger class of graph-shaped data than any method previously proposed. This larger class of graph-shaped data, called continuous-image graphs, short CIGs, is introduced for the first time in this thesis. A (directed) graph is a CIG if its nodes can be totally ordered in such a manner that, for this order, the children of any node form a continuous interval.
CIQCAG achieves these properties by employing a novel data structure, called sequence map, that allows an efficient evaluation of tree-shaped queries, or of tree-shaped cores of graph-shaped queries on any graph-shaped data. While being ideally suited to trees and CIGs, the data structure gracefully degrades to unrestricted graphs. It yields a remarkably efficient evaluation on graph-shaped data that only a few edges prevent from being trees or CIGs
