| Is Nietzsche the one who first articulated the apollonian v. dionysian split in aesthetics? |
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| My Taste for apotheosis is unfortunately in conflict with an amniotic melancholy, which darkens any solar impulses and throws into disorder any apollonian ambitions. |
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| Yet Warburg did not see history simply as the triumphal procession of Apollonian logic and beauty in the centuries following the Renaissance. |
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| The contrast between the rational and mystical aspects of life is often epitomized as the conflict between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. |
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| He and Doris Humphrey, his mentor, spoke constantly about the contrast between Apollonian and Dionysian qualities. |
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| Andriessen's bellwork, like his clockwork, retains rather more of Dionysian abandon than of Apollonian detachment or serenity. |
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| He thinks so logically that he is more like an Apollonian scholar than a Dionysian artist. |
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| If blind evolution is the Dionysisan, spontaneous self-organization is the Apollonian, the source of restraint and order. |
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| As the last true representative of the Greek philosophical spirit, Plotinus is Apollonian, not Dionysian. |
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| The purity of Apollonian art, in contrast, implies quitting the locus of pain. |
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| The wonderfully rounded performances on his early discs, when peerless technique was wedded to Apollonian refinement, now seem to belong to another age entirely. |
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| An assured and engaging ham, Cunningham is the perfect guide, deftly capturing Provincetown's Dionysian delights and Apollonian beauty with wit, whimsy, and lyricism. |
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| Yet the Dionysian stereotype of the Gael, juxtaposed against the Apollonian Englishmen, masks the new Puritanism that is currently sweeping through the Twenty-Six Counties. |
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| The epiphanic process of these works unquestionably reveals much of the Dionysian and little of the Apollonian of classicistic ideology. |
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| Or the dualistic nature of the will, Dionysian, antipode of Apollonian, which inhabit the music as well as the human spirit? |
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| One was Robert Plant, a tall, skinny, Apollonian figure with tumbling gold curls, unfeasibly tight jeans and a powerful falsetto screech. |
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| Suitable for a public setting, they suggest Apollonian monuments striving to hold their shape against inchoate Dionysian impulses. |
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| Even from the Apollonian reaches of his own scholarship, he saw a possibility that a light in us could be lit. |
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| On the other hand, there are serious studies of his music that seek to emphasise the Apollonian, the dramatic, or other expressive elements. |
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| But in the final analysis, we must surely concede that Stravinsky's serene Apollonian vision of order and harmony was unequal to the moral catastrophe of his century. |
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| There's great beauty, there's great chaos, there's death and rebirth, it goes back to the classical Greek myths, the Apollonian and the Dionysian. |
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| In his essays this perspective is linked to the Greeks' doctrine of moderation and the demand for a balance between the Apollonian and Dionysian forces. |
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| I remember when we were discussing this earlier you were saying that in a way this tends to stack up as an argument between the Apollonian and the Dionysian view. |
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| It's such a detailed map of culture and philosophy and psychology, and a poignant rendering of the struggle between Apollonian and Dionysian tendencies. |
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| These are strong, assertive readings, inspiringly so in the Brahms, which too often is played as if in a state of fear or Apollonian disinvolvement. |
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| It's almost as if he obeyed two impulses, Dionysian and Apollonian. |
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| The Apollonian tendency now appears disguised as logical schematism. |
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| In temperament and style DeLillo is Apollonian, a secret sharer with his technocrats and obsessives, whereas Pynchon is chthonic, in touch with darker gods. |
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| Nietzsche pits intuition, metaphor, and the Dionysian against rationality, conceptual reification, and the Apollonian. |
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| Yet these works, with their calm, almost Apollonian appearance, do not, in fact, lack playfulness or ironic lightness. |
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| In spite of the regime's Procrustean disposition, the country's Apollonian and Dionysian spirits are breaking banks in content and form. |
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| Yvonne Rainer's chilling stoniness, even as she moves with a trained dancer's fluidity, evinces an Apollonian compulsion that peaked in the supposedly Dionysian sixties. |
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| Dionysiac goes hand in hand with Apollonian, the harmonious force. |
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| Cartier-Bresson has the weakness of his strength: an Apollonian elevation that subjugates life to an order of things already known, if never so well seen. |
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| The Apollonian temple in Vasses and the villages of Andritsaina, Karitaina, Stemnitsa and Dimitsana are some of the region's spots which are worth visiting. |
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| The Apollonian beautiful boy dramatizes the special horror of dissolved form to Pheidian Athens, with its passionate vision of the sunlit human figure. |
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