adorno
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adorno (plural adornos)
A clay ornament attached to a piece of pottery, usually at the rim.
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As Adorno wrote of Anna Freud's book, it evinces "the reduction of psychoanalysis to a conformist interpretation of the reality principle.”.
Adorno, p. 33 The Piano Sonata is an example—the whole composition is derived from the work's opening quartal gesture and its opening phrase.
Adorno translated into English While even German readers can find Adorno's work difficult to understand, an additional problem for English readers is that his German idiom is particularly difficult to translate into English.
Adorno began writing an introduction to a collection of poetry by Rudolf Borchardt, which was connected with a talk entitled "Charmed Language," delivered in Zurich, followed by a talk on aesthetics in Paris where he met Beckett again.
Adorno saw the culture industry as an arena in which critical tendencies or potentialities were eliminated.
Adorno arrived with a draft of his Philosophy of New Music, a dialectical critique of twelve-tone music, which Adorno himself felt, while writing, was already a departure from the theory of art he had spent the previous decades elaborating.