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- Page 3 and 4: ABSTRACT This dissertation investig
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- Page 9 and 10: TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS Fig. 1 Filmk
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- Page 13 and 14: I. Introduction Filmkämpfer Mies?
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Moreover, he denounced the continue
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The architect’s eye is hence scho
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Cinema and the city The first incur
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This reasoning has direct consequen
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Fuhrmann, 1928), Die Stadt von morg
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ests confined to the act of percept
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[verstädtete Leben], […] the mos
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Grand Wheel, objects that have been
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It is the thinking of his teacher H
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photographs from the journal: an oc
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idlers.” 98 Still images prevente
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architecture which the film camera
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Architecture and Kinoreform: Adolf
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Interestingly, amongst the particip
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In the same issue of Das Werk the c
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identified cinema as a model for a
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1907 had begun the first sustained
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the spectator into the world of fil
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which expressionist artists were in
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in exchange of a reduced perceptive
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only stimulate but never transgress
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feeling for images, sharpened throu
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In his earlier articles “Populär
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He is not interested in the figurat
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While in Behne’s previous critica
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clear that the book has been “wri
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objects whose contours flow weightl
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appear like a spontaneous, off-hand
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abstractions of the “new vision
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apparatus (pater noster system, ste
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“almost objective concentration o
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concerning “the reconciliation of
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of an ideal space were pervasive, e
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explore the phenomenon of the filmi
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l’Effort Moderne in Paris. In add
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Gestaltung. That was the word we wa
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negative modernist “endgame,” t
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cinema is more than simply a sophis
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from its founder Richter and his
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social change without hesitation as
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present at Caden’s place, probabl
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attested to the attempts in the soc
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Wertheimer, put it: “There are si
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Film in G Film belonged to the repe
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sequence of three views. [Fig. 24]
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Later, Richter would repeat the bas
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solid materiality, or historical co
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through space. The novelty of G con
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a new art of the “visual idea,”
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strip of film and like a child in a
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technological environment. The opti
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We, however, want the light! Away w
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[…] after the successful experime
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“a substitution for the sadism of
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of “a new visibility, a spiritual
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a Russian Dance and Mies’s Brick
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By watching a commercial spectacle
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immaterial, previously invisible ph
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time, a solution which responds to
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It is a mistake to think that the f
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“Filmpartitur I/22” (1923) woul
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At first sight, this event space fo
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fourth dimension, “the duration,
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and deformations” seen in avant-g
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van Doesburg includes a drawing of
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implement film projections into the
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however, the critic notes the audie
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With the Raumbühne [space-stage],
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and the use of ingenious spot-light
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[Gründer] and randy imitators […
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Complete difference Wolf Tegethoff
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appears like a flat and opaque addi
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one hand, rational organization and
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Richter gives a didactic “demonst
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The letter “G” is hence not mer
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[Nachschrift] and derivations [Absc
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photomontages Mies chose to include
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Glashochhaus pasted inside Berlin
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object world that appears in mechan
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evidence in the historical process,
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as things the interval between thin
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early 1910s in Dresden-Hellerau. Wi
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We are hence faced with two opposin
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otherwise reduced to a “trite, in
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Panorama in the image Mies’s, pos
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world” 319 where the distinction
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epresentation of reality in motion
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new erasure what existed before. We
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these new life forms were not yet p
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y formal analysis nor by analogy. A
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to an alternative modernity that ex
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to Hellerau from Berlin where, at t
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Bruno Paul in 1907, at a time when
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political, religious and artistic l
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Rhythm was not only the key to unlo
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of living knowledge” edited by Pr
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order to see, is forced to move int
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Wigman/Laban: dance and “living a
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movements in space based on the exi
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oundless space but is girded by a s
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Monte Verità 72 and in Zürich whe
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produce superior effects that we ex
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the rectangular box was indeed empt
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theatre space designed by Tessenow,
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Licht-Gebäude]. 102 Instead of ill
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more than spectators,” von Salzma
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Richter and the Lesson of Abstract
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interlocking rectangles Mies alread
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MA. 125 It is in this moment, when
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paintings produced in “a sort of
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It was also rhythm that connected R
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Yet the decisive influence on Richt
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interplay of contrasts and analogie
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Richter knew too well that simply b
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passive, inanimate world. Instead,
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whole of a time-based process. The
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[Baumomente].” 179 His architectu
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potential for events to happen. 192
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[The Brick Country House plan] rese
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Country House plan and the abstract
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object but as an animate entity whi
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animate entities that “act on”
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compromises owned to the structural
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Barr, Westheim, and Hilberseimer al
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“abstraction and ‘space-time’
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of Hans Richter, Arthur Segal, and
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What we nonetheless learn from the
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quest to find a new “universal la
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and the aesthetic answer offered by
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were prolonged indefinitely so that
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Moholy-Nagy imagined in 1923 a scro
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emergence a new artist he calls the
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humanity” that holds the “princ
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are the proper media. 291 Eventuall
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Eggeling referred to his film exper
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Eggeling, by contrast, enthusiastic
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montage, the avant-garde of the twe
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Mies had been familiar with. In a s
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shares Bergson’s suspicion of the
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para-scientific concepts concerning
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incessant movement, created a dynam
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in order to explore the endless var
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instances.” Space remains only a
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Through the figure of the playing c
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in the writings of numerous archite
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which appropriation and training ta
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for an ambitious twenty-six year ol
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argument which is surprising since
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The question as to whether modern a
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as a “gigantic canvas that shines
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ulbs and was to serve as the space
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light wall’s steady white glow, r
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Die Abenteuer des Prinz Achmet [The
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Tugendhat House, the de-subjectifyi
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ecomes only resolved outside by bec
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spatial vacuity. Here the visitor i
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of the multitude of sensations. The
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It is from this perspective that on
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Richter or Eggeling reemerges in it
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projector called by the “Lokomoti
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