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leitmotif, leitmotiv 1. Music a recurring short melodic phrase or theme used, esp in Wagnerian music dramas, to suggest a character, thing, etc. 2. an often repeated word, phrase, image, or theme in a literary work How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Orchids abound like a leitmotif, gracefully twining around the base of indoor trees planted in blue and white Chinese porcelain urns, perching on shelves framed by a dramatic wall of water. And cruelty, astonishing in scale, bewildering in scope, visited on hundreds of helpless patients before and during the 1920s at New Jersey's Trenton State Hospital, all in the name of scientific treatment for mental disease, is the leitmotif in Andrew Scull's superbly horrifying study of Henry Cotton, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine. Polly Apfelbaum surfs this never-breaking wave with consummate skill, making "bi-formalism" a leitmotif of her floor-bound fabric installations, which have sometimes been referred to as "fallen paintings. |
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