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  2. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Wikipedia

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    In the 1933 screwball comedy Three-Cornered Moon, when a struggling artist dating Claudette Colbert is evicted, his landlord slides a Duchamp-esque painting down the front stairs of the building. In the poem "Journey: The North Coast" by Australian poet Robert Gray , the line "Down these slopes move, as a nude descends a staircase,/ slender ...

  3. Metaphoric architecture - Wikipedia

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    Metaphoric architecture is an architectural movement that developed in Europe during the mid-20th century. [ 1 ] It is considered by some to be merely an aspect of postmodernism whilst others consider it to be a school in its own right and a later development of expressionist architecture .

  4. Missing stair - Wikipedia

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    A staircase with two missing stairs and a warning sign, where the structural problem has not been fixed yet. The missing stair is a metaphor for a person within a social group or organization who many people know is untrustworthy or otherwise has to be "managed," but around whom the group chooses to work by discreetly warning newcomers of their behavior, rather than address the person and ...

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    An architectural term applied to a colonnade, in which the intercolumniation is alternately wide and narrow. Arcade A passage or walkway covered over by a succession of arches or vaults supported by columns. Blind arcade or arcading: the same applied to the wall surface. Arch

  6. Category:Metaphors - Wikipedia

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    In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is described as being a second object. Typically, a first object is described as being a second object.

  7. Artist Descending a Staircase - Wikipedia

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    The other two roommates, Martello and Beauchamp, enter and find him at the bottom of the staircase. Beauchamp, an artist whose focus is on the sounds of daily life, examines a recording of the sounds of Donner's fall. The pair decides that a murderer must have awakened Donner from his sleep and then pushed him down the stairs to his death.

  8. Category:Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings. A wider definition includes all design of the built environment, urban planning, urban design, ...

  9. Category:Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.