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Ma (negative space)

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Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation. [1]

23 relations: Alan Fletcher (graphic designer), Alberto Giacometti, Bernhard Karlgren, Columbia University, Derrick de Kerckhove, Isaac Stern, Kanji, Ken (unit), Liminality, List of English words of Japanese origin, London Underground, Maai, Mind the gap, Mu (negative), Negative space, Paul Cézanne, Ralph Richardson, Stéphane Mallarmé, The Crying of Lot 49, The Void (philosophy), Thomas Pynchon, Variant Chinese character, Wu wei.

Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)

Alan Gerard Fletcher (27 September 1931 – 21 September 2006) was a British graphic designer.

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Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker.

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Bernhard Karlgren

Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren (15 October 1889 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish Sinologist and linguist who pioneered the study of Chinese historical phonology using modern comparative methods.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Derrick de Kerckhove

Derrick de Kerckhove (born 1944) is the author of The Skin of Culture and Connected Intelligence and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Isaac Stern

Isaac Stern (Исаа́к Соломо́нович Штерн; Isaak Solomonovich Shtern; 21 July 1920 – 22 September 2001) was an American violinist.

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Kanji

Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.

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Ken (unit)

The is a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku).

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Liminality

In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rites, when participants no longer hold their preritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.

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List of English words of Japanese origin

Words of Japanese origin have entered many languages.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Maai

, translating simply "interval", is a Japanese martial arts term referring to the space between two opponents in combat; formally, the "engagement distance".

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Mind the gap

"Mind the gap" is an audible or visual warning phrase issued to rail passengers to take caution while crossing the horizontal, and in some cases vertical, spatial gap between the train door and the station platform.

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Mu (negative)

The Japanese and Korean term mu or Chinese wú, meaning "not have; without", is a key word in Buddhism, especially Zen traditions.

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Negative space

Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Ralph Richardson

Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor who, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé (18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic.

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The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966.

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The Void (philosophy)

The Void is the philosophical concept of nothingness manifested.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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Variant Chinese character

Variant Chinese characters (Kanji: 異体字; Hepburn: itaiji; Hanja: 異體字; Hangul: 이체자; Revised Romanization: icheja) are Chinese characters that are homophones and synonyms.

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Wu wei

Wu wei is a concept literally meaning non-action or non-doing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_(negative_space)

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