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Le Fleur Pleure L'Azure: a meditation on the Ideal, the Absurd, and Artistic engagement

Swartz, Daniel Christopher
http://orcid.org/0009-0004-4213-4231
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714147237994661

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2024, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, Music.
Tracking the development of experimental music from 1920 to 1970, this paper seeks to explore how Artists have dealt with and worked within the Absurdity of Life. From Arnold Schoenberg, to John Cage, to Fluxus, the artistic shifts brought by these artists move toward a gradual acceptance of the Absurd and the break down of the Art/Life divide. Accompanying the research is a portion of an opera I wrote that simultaneously analyzes, comments on, and participates in the conflict between the Absurd and the Ideal in Art. The opera follows the poet Stéphane Mallarmé on his journey to create perfect expression through language despite several Absurd scenarios ranging from the fantastic to the deeply human.
Robert McClure (Advisor)
84 p.
Art History; Music; Performing Arts
Experimental music; Fluxus, John Cage; Arnold Schoenberg; 12-tone; Meta-modernism; Opera; Absurdism; Art; Performance Art; Music Composition; Philosophy of Music

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  • Swartz, D. C. (2024). Le Fleur Pleure L'Azure: a meditation on the Ideal, the Absurd, and Artistic engagement [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714147237994661

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Swartz, Daniel. Le Fleur Pleure L'Azure: a meditation on the Ideal, the Absurd, and Artistic engagement. 2024. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714147237994661.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Swartz, Daniel. "Le Fleur Pleure L'Azure: a meditation on the Ideal, the Absurd, and Artistic engagement." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1714147237994661

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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