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Palimpsestes, Théâtre et Hyperpaysage

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This lecture explores the paradoxical symmetries in architecture, the art of memory, and the invention of Pierrefonds. It delves into the relationship between city, territory, landscape, and architecture, as well as the influence of nature on politics and modern summer. The presentation discusses the rustic house in front of Notre-Dame, olive tree greenhouses, and the representation of necessary elements for well-being. It also touches on anthropology, democracy, totemism, and the four ontologies. The lecture references various artists and movements, such as Kandinsky, Coop Himmelblau, Klee, Pollock, and Gehry, to illustrate the concept that art makes the invisible visible and challenges traditional notions of beauty.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical, religious, and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, and social organization which reflected the newly emerging industrial world, including features such as urbanization, architecture, new technologies, and war. Artists attempted to depart from traditional forms of art, which they considered outdated or obsolete.

Symmetry

Symmetry () in everyday language refers to a sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance. In mathematics, the term has a more precise definition and is usually used to refer to an object that is invariant under some transformations, such as translation, reflection, rotation, or scaling. Although these two meanings of the word can sometimes be told apart, they are intricately related, and hence are discussed together in this article.

Literary modernism

Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Modernism experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new." This literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of the time.

Late modernism

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Rotational symmetry

Rotational symmetry, also known as radial symmetry in geometry, is the property a shape has when it looks the same after some rotation by a partial turn. An object's degree of rotational symmetry is the number of distinct orientations in which it looks exactly the same for each rotation. Certain geometric objects are partially symmetrical when rotated at certain angles such as squares rotated 90°, however the only geometric objects that are fully rotationally symmetric at any angle are spheres, circles and other spheroids.

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