When he brought his camera to Oxford's campus to document the university's architecture, he was working to insure that he could capture detail beyond the formal scenes he had been arranging at his estate, and was also enchanted by the idea of imbuing his images with a historical quality that might help them transcend his era.
Dadi, too, has looked beyond the formal art scene.
But recently, a new generation has started to challenge that old order, updating the Austrian capital's traditionally formal dining scene with casual restaurants in unexpected settings, from inside museums to cheese shops and even bookstores.
The Henry VI plays are wall-to-wall battles, and even when it's not a formal battle scene there can be a lot of conflict between rival factions – they're full of brawling blokes with lots of strutting and pushing about.
Back then the formal food scene centred on white-table-clothed restaurants – preferably with water or harbour views – that served multi-course meals to the wealthy, and the city's cheap and cheerful eateries were found mostly in Chinatown.
It is in formal ballroom scenes that plotlines often ravel in story ballets, from "Swan Lake" and most versions of "Romeo and Juliet" to George Balanchine's "Sonnambula".
The subjects are very diverse: historical, mythological, and mystic scenes, formal and naturalistic designs of flowers and foliage, graceful studies of animals and birds.
They do so through photojournalism, formal portraits, staged scenes, stills from videos of performance art and varying degrees of digital manipulation, with wide-ranging subject matter that touches on issues including rampant consumerism and industrialization, the use of Chinglish, the shifting role of women, the plight of the underclass and the search for a redefined identity.
Study 3 obtained ratings of selected formal features of each scene.
