Dissertations / Theses: 'And Art History'

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Halsall, Francis. "Art, art history and systems-theory." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5392/.

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Williams, Cheryl Lynn. "Mapping the art historical landscape : genres of art history appearing in art history literature and the journal, Art education /." Connect to this title online, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1102365647.

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Masters, Hannah L. "Art Therapy and Art History Theories, an Inquiry." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/515.

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This research uses critical theory inquiry with interviews and arts-based research to explore biases about art making in clinical art therapy practice. The literature review establishes an historical link between theoretical tenets in fields of art therapy and art history. Participants are chosen from experts in the fields of art therapy and art history. Interviews explore what art making means to each participant, utilizing both verbal and arts-based processing. The data is condensed through coding and arts-based reflection, and seven emergent themes are identified. The themes are checked with the participants for accuracy. The findings of the paper integrate the insight from the literature review with the expressed views of the participants to illuminate meaning-making processes of art. The paper concludes with identification of an “art historical lens” for practicing art therapy and discussion of treatment considerations, limitations of the study, and suggestions for further research.

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Lintner, Natalie Elaine. "Living art history in the elementary art room." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407397595.

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Neuenschwander, J. Brody. "The art history of Speyer." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325778.

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MacFarlane, Dana. "Walter Benjamin and art history." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419285.

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Woznica, Mirek. "A counter-history of art." Thesis, Woznica, Mirek (1997) A counter-history of art. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52757/.

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The discipline of art history has constructed a transcendental, universal, and ahistorical conception of Western art which in turn has shaped the view of the history of art as a progressive, continuous, and accumulative evolution. This thesis is critical of the prevailing developmental art history which sees art as a universal category. It is an attempt to deuniversalise the category, and to demonstrate the finitude of art as a social construct of historically specific practices which are thus limited by time and place. It advocates, not a replacement of conventional notions of art history, but a problematisation, a genealogical counter-history. In such a history, the present is seen as a result of the accumulation of disparate factors and events with no inherent interrelatedness rather than as the discerning goaloriented quest for ultimate meaning and perfect coherence. It proposes to displace the originating role of the subject as the organising principle of art analysis, on which the universality of art is based, in favour of Foucault's ideas of the constitutive role of discourse in and through which both the observed and the observer are socially construed. In a proper genealogical way, the thesis provides an alternative: a wholly historicist view of the emergence of a new category of social object - art, and of a new category of social subject - the artist, within European pictorial culture. Art in this approach will be related not to the anthropological theory of an originating subject, nor to the positivist theory of an objective nature, but rather to a theory of discursive practice, since the discourse constructs the subject and reality inasmuch as the subject constructs the discourse and reality. Art, as a social category, I argue, emerged as the result of discursive constraints undertaken by the scrutinising program of the Academic Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in the seventeenth century, who as the generator of a differentiation of values allowed and supported the establishment of divisions and hierarchies, concepts and precepts, that came to be realised in the eighteenth century as the autonomous consciousness of art and artist. This research is informed by Foucauldian archaeological and genealogical tools to displace the metaphysical premises on which the belief in the universality of art depends. It shows the concrete social practices of subjectivisation and objectivisation that lead to the emergence of art as a specific category from the indiscriminate practices of picture-making. It shows how painting became an object of artistic practice, an object of aesthetic concern, an object of the discourse of art experts, and an object of society's interest, how beauty became an object of artistic pursuit and artistic expertise, and how a new category of human being - the artist - emerged.

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Kirkham, Deborah Anne. "Medieval art writing and the study of art history." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529796.

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Marquez, Jessica. "A natural history /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/6249.

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McCurdy, Jessie, Alexandria Richardson, and Kathaleena Thirtle. "A People's History of Art Therapy." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2019. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/800.

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The following research examined a survey on the identity and feelings of inclusion among alumni of Loyola Marymount University’s Marriage and Family Therapy with Specialization Training in Art Therapy graduate program. The survey found that a majority of the responding alumni did not feel their identities were represented in multiple aspects of the program, and there was a clear call to action for more representation of diversity. More research on the subject is needed to expand a variety of art therapy programs to better understand implications of art therapy pedagogy on identity, representation, and inclusivity within the art therapy community.

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Horne, Victoria. "History of feminist art history : remaking a discipline and its institutions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/16194.

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Recognising art’s crucial function for reproducing economic and sexual differences, feminist political interventions - alongside a range of ‘new’ critical perspectives including Marxism, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism - have wrought historic changes upon the production, circulation and consumption of art. This is widely acknowledged in art historical scholarship. However, understanding that ‘art history’ (as a historically conditioned discipline) is concurrently reproductive of these ideological and material inequalities, feminist scholars have significantly and continually sought to intervene at the point of production – the writing of art’s history – to expose its social role and remake the fundamental terms of the discipline. This is a truth less widely acknowledged or, at least, less well-understood within contemporary scholarship. This thesis, therefore, seeks to examine the discipline of art history in Anglo- American contexts to assess the impact that feminist models of scholarship have had upon its knowledges and practices. This is attained through extensive literature overviews, archival research and, to a lesser extent, email interviews with key contributors to the discourse. Ultimately, this examination endeavours to address the production and regulation of feminist knowledge across a number of expanded (and interconnected) institutional sites. Case studies track the impact of feminist strategies upon the authoring of art history in the classroom, within scholarly professional organisations, academic publishing, the museum sector, and upon art-making itself. The research evaluates the mutable power structures of the discipline, how feminist interventions have had success in rethinking the limits of institutional knowledge, and how it may be possible to articulate critique under twenty-first-century conditions of institutional complicity and the hegemonic recuperation (or indeed ‘disciplining’) of radical practices. To date – and despite its prominence within much feminist writing - the importance of art historiography for the feminist political project has not been properly examined; the aim of this thesis is therefore to redress this omission and provide a timely and comprehensive critical reading of feminist knowledge production since around 1970.

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Charlesworth, J. J. "Art criticism : the mediation of art in Britain 1968-76." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2016. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1803/.

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This thesis studies the changes in the nature of critical writing on contemporary art, in the context of the British art world across a period from 1968 to around 1976. It examines the major shifts in the relationship between the artistic production of the period and the forms of writing that addressed it, through those publications that sought to articulate a public discourse on art in a period where divergent accounts regarding the criteria of artistic value, and the terms of critical discourse, came increasingly into conflict. This thesis takes as its main subject a number of publication venues for art-critical writing of the time, and their responses to the rapidly changing scene of artistic production. It examines the forms of writing that attended emerging artistic practice and the theoretical and critical assumptions on which that writing depended, highlighting those moments where critical discourse was provoked to reflect self-consciously of the relation between discourse and artistic practice. By tracing the repercussions of the cultural and political revolts of the late 1960s, it examines how the orthodoxies of art criticism came to be challenged, in the first instance, by the growing influence of radical artistic practices which incorporated a discursive function, and by leftist social critiques of art. It explores how, in the first half of the 1970s, radical and political artistic practice was promoted by a number of young critics, and sanctioned by its presentation in public art venues. Examining the history of magazines such as Studio International and a number of smaller specialist and non-specialist magazines such as the feminist Spare Rib and the left-wing independent press, it attends to how debates over the cultural and social agency of art began to draw on continental theoretical influences that put into greater question the role of subjective experience and the nature of the human subject. It examines how this shift in the relation between practice and discourse manifested itself in the editorial and critical attitudes of publications both from within the field of artistic culture, and from a wider context of publications embedded in the radical political and social currents of the early 1970s. It gives particular attention to the careers of a number of prominent critics, while situating the later reaction against alternative artistic practices in the context of the politically conservative turn of the end of the decade.

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Fossen, Pamela, and n/a. "Errol Morris and the art of history." University of Otago. Department of Media, Film and Communication, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20091001.154456.

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The work of documentary director Errol Morris can be approached in a variety of ways as it intersects and engages with many of the major themes of film and television scholarship - genre, authorship, and historical representation. But while his films and television episodes expose debates within film and documentary studies, they also call up major elements of postmodern debates within the historical discipline. Morris makes historical documentaries that do not simply render a (hi)story visually; he also attempts to draw viewers' attention to the conventions and construction of both visual media and of history. His work reveals both his keen awareness of postmodern historical debates, and a willingness to play, to confront basic assumptions, question boundaries, and to contribute to those debates. In 'Errol Morris and the Art of History', I argue that Morris is a visual historian; his films and television episodes draw as much from his understanding of historiographical debates as they do from his knowledge and artistic approach to visual media. All of Morris' work challenges the notion of objectivity in both documentary filmmaking and history; he attempts to illuminate the limits and conventions of visual depictions of history; he uses strategies to denaturalise historical and narrative construction, the naturalising tendencies of visual media, and the conventions of documentary practice; and he attempts to promote increased critical reflection. This thesis closely examines Morris' documentary films and television episodes to consider the structure and strategies that characterise his work, and situate it within contemporary film and historical debates. I explore Morris' methods and approach to documentary and history, showing how his work relates to postmodern history debates, to written and visual representations of history, and to documentary history and theory, including more recent factual forms like reality television.

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Maeorg, Michael. "Art, myth and history in the Parthenon /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm185.pdf.

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Bacharach, Sondra Wynne. "Definitions of art : narratives, history and essentialism /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402288259281.

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Qiang, Cao Yi. "Avenues of art history : recent developments in English art history, with special reference to the works of Francis Haskell and their possible application to the study of Chinese art history." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260559.

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Roussouw, Chad. "A history of failure." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10653.

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Includes bibliographical references.
A history of failure implies several things. It can point to a chronology of the concept of failure, like so many contemporary history books that chart a minute aspect of culture. It could refer to a personal record, like a criminal having a history of violence. The implication is also there that history itself has failed to achieve, failed to describe, failed to move forward, failed to be history at all. History in this essay is not just the study of the past, but also its use in culture - to separate us from nature, to validate ideologies or to provide insight into our present. History in these terms is not a sequence of physical events, but the representation of these events. These representations exhibit curious behaviour: no matter their function they appeal to truth. History uses the language of the real to validate itself (Culler 2002: Kindle edition'), and this language is often constituted into narrative (which I will discuss in some detail later).

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Clark, Toby. "Representations of Russian Art in American Art History and Criticism 1917-1939." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522624.

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This dissertation examines the critical reception and historical construction of Russian art in the United States between 1917 and 1939. The study focuses on two main types of Russian art; that of the Russian avant-garde, and that of artists who emigrated to the United States and achieved a high level of critical visibility and commercial success there during the 1920s. The discussion of the Russian emigre artists concentrates on the treatment of their work in the American curatorial system and art market. It examines the critical strategies used to promote these artists, particularly in the writings of Christian Brinton, who formulated a new category termed 'Slavic art' which relied on theories of racial essentialism. The subsequent decline of the careers of the emigre artists can be explained partly by reference to the reorientation in American critical values after the early 1930s. Research on the interpretation of the Russian and Soviet avantgarde in the United States is focussed on two main Modernist institutions; the Societe Anonyme during the 1920s and the Museum of Modern Art in New York after 1929. The Societe Anonyme's management of its large collection of Russian avant-garde art is discussed in relation to the contrasting aesthetic perspectives and political alignments of Katherine Dreier and Louis Lozowick, and compared with alternative interpretations in western Europe. The study of the representation of the Russian avant-garde by the Museum of Modern Art is concentrated on the writings of Alfred Barr and his critical theory of Modernism. Barr's account of the history of Russian Constructivism and Soviet cultural policies in 1936 is seen to have performed an important function for establishing an ideological position for the ascending discourses of American Modernism in opposition to the competing positions of conservative anti-Modernism and left-wing aesthetics.

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Morozova, Ekaterina. "American art criticism and the crisis of art history writing : 1962-1967." Thesis, Open University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413811.

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Forster, Patrick A. ""Art Feeling Grows" in Oregon : The Portland Art Association, 1892-1932." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/220.

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Founded in 1892, the Portland Art Association (PAA) served as Oregon's and the Pacific Northwest's leading visual arts institution for almost a century. While the Association formally dissolved in 1984, its legacy is felt strongly today in the work of its successor organizations, the Portland Art Museum and Pacific Northwest College of Art. Emerging during a period of considerable innovation in and fervent advocacy for the arts across America, the Association provided the organizational network and resources around which an energetic and diverse group of city leaders, civic reformers and philanthropists, as well as artists and art educators, coalesced. This thesis describes the collaboration among arts and civic advocates under the banner of aesthetic education during the Association's first four decades. Though art education continued to be critically important to the organization after 1932, the year the Association opened its new Museum, art was no longer conceived of as an instrument for improving general community life and programs focused on more specialized, fine arts-related activities.

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Willis-Fisher, Linda Salome Richard A. "A survey of the inclusion of aesthetics, art criticism, art history, and art production in art teacher preparation programs." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1991. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9203045.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1991.
Title from title page screen, viewed December 21, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Richard A. Salome (chair), Jack Hobbs, Noreen Michael, Marilyn P. Newby, Fred A. Taylor. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Kundu, Rina. "The Discursive Formation of An Art History Survey Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211958271.

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Williams, Stephanie Danielle. "ART AT THE AIRPORT AND THE INTERSECTION OF PUBLIC ART AND PUBLIC HISTORY." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/448628.

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History
M.A.
This thesis is a study of the intersection of public art and public history in Philadelphia. This project looks at Philadelphia based case studies to see how the intersection of public art and public history can bring in new audiences, act as a form of advertisement, and shape interactive experiences for visitors. Connecting to a body of literature that deals with the power of place, I ask in this study how public history in unexpected places has the power to bring in new audiences that may not have the chance or even want to visit a traditional history museum or historic site. How do these projects and programs serve a community? The study features the history of Art at the Airport, an international series of art exhibits and programs at major airports. Among these, the Philadelphia International Airport’s Art at the Airport program exhibits traditional and innovative art and regularly features historic content. Any airport today is a place of high stress, but surveys of airport visitors indicate that for some art has the ability to relieve anxieties. So what happens when public art and public history collide in this space? While studying Art at the Airport as an intern, I witnessed people who stopped, learned, and gained knowledge of history in a public setting without a book, a teacher, or tour guide. This study allows me to show the power of public history and public art.
Temple University--Theses

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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 07: The History of Blue." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/8.

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Rosenberger, Nathan C. "Art in the ashes| Class, race, urban geography, and Los Angeles's postwar Black art centers." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10032310.

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“Art in the Ashes” uncovers the implications of race, place, and class in Los Angeles through an in depth exploration of urban black art centers. By examining a cross-section of creative spaces in the city, including the Watts Towers Arts Center, Compton Communicative Arts Academy, the Inner City Cultural Center, and Brockman Gallery in Leimert Park, this thesis probes the real and imagined meanings associated with these centers’ social, economic, and cultural geography. In doing so, the work redefines and refines current understandings of the black community in the postwar era, exposing the complicated racial and ethnic partnerships and pressures that grew out of art and activism in the 1960s. Through extensive archival research, secondary source analysis, and personal interviews, “Art in the Ashes” finds a vibrant and highly diversified black experience and identity in Los Angeles that closely follows issues of economics, geography, racial understanding, politics, and culture.

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Choi, Jean Kyung. "Outside art : Baggat and the history of modern and contemporary art in Korea." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54723.

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The Baggat Art Group formed in South Korea in 1981 and continued until today. It is a loosely formed collective dedicated to participatory practices in the outdoors and site-specific works, depending on the years in question. This thesis aims to rethink the significance of the Baggat Art Group through the lens of "ritual," as theorized by the anthropologist Victor W. Turner. The project is structured around a long historical introduction and two case studies: Exhibition of History and Environment in 1997 and Abandoned Island, Mountain of Healing in 2002. These two exhibitions demonstrate instances when Baggat Art, positioned at the margins of the art field and society, functioned as a site of negotiation for sociopolitical issues. I propose that an observation of how the Baggat Art Group has continued to rewrite itself into dominant narratives of art allows for a more comprehensive understanding of modern and contemporary art in South Korea. This project therefore adopts and attempts to support the group's objective of incorporating what is outside into the inside, transcending the limitations of existing boundaries, and to expanding the category of art by realizing what resides at its borders.
Arts, Faculty of
Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of
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Kendall, Lee Ronald. "Titanic : art into myth : the art-history of an unnatural disaster - 1862-1912." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.436558.

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King, Abigail Graham. "Community Art as an Interdisciplinary Challenge to Fine Art." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1123084206.

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Edwards, Barbara C. "Toronto art, a history of connectedness, 1970-1998." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39819.pdf.

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Riding, Christopher John Livsey. "The art criticism and history of Michael Fried." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272737.

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Maclean, Ewan. "False images : a social history of art forgery." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19082.

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This thesis considers the history of art forgery in the Western world and the social conditions which produce the practice. The main concentration is on paintings and sculpture, but other areas, including 'antiques', are included where appropriate. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the history of art forgery from its origins during the Roman Empire to the present day. The primary concern is with uncovering the development, extent and location of art forgery, rather than a detailed consideration of particular cases. It is shown that art forgery is not a universal practice, but is historically and culturally limited to the hellenistic and Roman world and, until recently, Europe since the Renaissance. The second part of the thesis explains the immediate conditions and circumstances which are necessary before art forgery will occur. These are shown to be the valuing of works of art as coming from a particular historical moment, culture or artist; positive distinction being made in favour of 'original' works over copies; and an adequate system of appropriation (found in collecting). The developments of these conditions are considered in turn. The third and last part takes the analysis a stage further, and looks at the economic and social structures on which the immediate conditions set out in the second part arc based. Here individualisalion and commodificalion, central to ihc structure of capitalism, arc shown to have been influential in changing the position of the artist and nature of art in society. Also of importance, it is argued, was the "crisis of status" which followed the dismantling of feudal hierarchy. This is related, utilising Bourdicu's work on 'distinction', to the need for groups in the more fluid social relations of modern society to distinguish and distance themselves from others, and to define and protect their status. It is shown that art has a central role to play here, and that forgery partly occurs as a consequence of this.

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Edwards, Leah. "History, identity, art: visually expressing Nicodemus, Kansas' identity." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17545.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page
History is embedded in a landscape. History of a community is embedded in the landscape where land was inhabited, cultivated, and where people have and continue to thrive. Rural communities have this embedded history and culture to look back. However, these communities are suffering from loss of population, jobs, economic stability, and accessibility (Woods 2008). This phenomenon can destroy not only communities and peoples’ lives, but also the history and culture that is embedded in a landscape. Nicodemus, Kansas a rural communities with an important history. This history begins after the Civil War during times of new found freedom and the reality of independence for many former African-American slaves. The residents and descendants of Nicodemus are passionate and proud of their history and see their community identity as embedded in the history and culture. Nicodemus has experienced loss of population and economic vitality throughout its history. However, Nicodemans’ strong connection to the history remains intact. The study argues that art can provide a way of expressing Nicodemus, Kansas’s identity. This study is primarily an art-based investigation into what materials, mediums, and forms of art can best express the identity and history of Nicodemus, Kansas. Art-based research is less concerned with the discovery of truth than with the creation of meaning (Eisner 1981). “...[V]isual art is a significant source of information about the social world, including cultural aspects of social life” (Leavy 2009, 218). Research methods include historiography, literature review, oral history, reflexive critique and site visits, culminating in the creation of a series of mixed media artworks. Through the research and creation of artworks, the identity of Nicodemus, Kansas is expressed visually.

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Ralphs, SCT. "On Distance: From art history to Ernest Mancoba." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8203.

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In this thesis the central narratives of Western art history, specifically those related to modernism and African art, are considered in light of a climate of criticism concentrated over the past thirty years in Western and South African an historiography. In considering complexities of interpretation of the life and work of the African modernist painter, Ernest Mancoba, I address a perceived need for a critical discourse pertaining to early black South African modernist art. As a way of organising both my critique and contribution, I establish and use the thematic of distance. This work argues for greater consideration of individual motivation and circumstance in our understanding of early African modernist art production.

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Taylor, Grant D. "The machine that made science art : the troubled history of computer art 1963-1989." University of Western Australia. Visual Arts Discipline Group, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0114.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis represents an historical account of the reception and criticism of computer art from its emergence in 1963 to its crisis in 1989, when aesthetic and ideological differences polarise and eventually fragment the art form. Throughout its history, static-pictorial computer art has been extensively maligned. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and often hostile response. In locating the destabilising forces that affect and shape computer art, this thesis identifies a complex interplay of ideological and discursive forces that influence the way computer art has been and is received by the mainstream artworld and the cultural community at large. One of the central factors that contributed to computer art’s marginality was its emergence in that precarious zone between science and art, at a time when the perceived division between the humanistic and scientific cultures was reaching its apogee. The polarising force inherent in the “two cultures” debate framed much of the prejudice towards early computer art. For many of its critics, computer art was the product of the same discursive assumptions, methodologies and vocabulary as science. Moreover, it invested heavily in the metaphors and mythologies of science, especially logic and mathematics. This close relationship with science continued as computer art looked to scientific disciplines and emergent techno-science paradigms for inspiration and insight. While recourse to science was a major impediment to computer art’s acceptance by the artworld orthodoxy, it was the sustained hostility towards the computer that persistently wore away at the computer art enterprise. The anticomputer response came from several sources, both humanist and anti-humanist. The first originated with mainstream critics whose strong humanist tendencies led them to reproach computerised art for its mechanical sterility. A comparison with aesthetically and theoretically similar art forms of the era reveals that the criticism of computer art is motivated by the romantic fear that a computerised surrogate had replaced the artist. Such usurpation undermined some of the keystones of modern Western art, such as notions of artistic “genius” and “creativity”. Any attempt to rationalise the human creative faculty, as many of the scientists and technologists were claiming to do, would for the humanist critics have transgressed what they considered the primordial mystique of art. Criticism of computer art also came from other quarters. Dystopianism gained popularity in the 1970s within the reactive counter-culture and avant-garde movements. Influenced by the pessimistic and cynical sentiment of anti-humanist writings, many within the arts viewed the computer as an emblem of rationalisation, a powerful instrument in the overall subordination of the individual to the emerging technocracy

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Kukard, Julia. "The critical history of the New Group." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32421.

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This research had two aims; to clarify the history of the New Group, and to examine the way in which this history has been constructed and distorted. The first section of the dissertation presented a history of the New Group. Chapter One discussed general aspects of the Group's history such as their activities and administration, and Chapter Two focused on the reasons for the New Group's formation and its dissolution. It was indicated in these chapters that the Group formed in order to provide production and retail structures which would enable artists to earn a living from their work, and that once these had been established the Group disintegrated. Chapter Three considered the issue of nationalism and proposed that most art writers during the New Group's existence were primarily concerned with the development of a national South African art. Furthermore, that many of these writers considered modern European art movements after Post-Impressionism and African art, undesirable influences in the development of a South African art. chapter described the way in which these writers' concern for the development of a national art caused the history of the New Group to be linked to the history and institution of Post-Impressionist art movements in South Africa. Later writers, using earlier writings on the Group as source material, were led to believe that the New Group formed in order to promote art influenced by modern European movements such as Expressionism. The Group's existence was explained by these authors as resulting from a desire to institute art influenced by European, modern, Post-Impressionist art styles as an accepted art form. Part of this understanding of the Group included the belief that the New Group was as a whole a group of modern artists who had to battle for recognition and acceptance from the critics. Chapter One indicated this not to be true. Chapter Six found that the use of early writings as source material caused a further distortion in the history of the New Group. The first chapter indicated that African art was an important influence on the work of the New Group artists but, because this was not recognised in the earlier writings on the Group, this influence was not acknowledged in the later writings. The researcher concluded by indicating that a new approach to the history of the New Group was necessary. That is, that the New Group be seen in relation to the construction and extension of accessible production and retail structures in art, rather than in relation to the institution of European modern art in South Africa.

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Anonyuo, Emeka G. "Nigerian Skokian art : a microanalysis of the realistic visual expression in contemporary Nigerian art /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488187763846333.

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Warmus, Sarah E. "The lost generation: truth and art." Thesis, Boston University, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27792.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Isager, Jacob Pliny. "Pliny on art and society : the Elder Plinyʼs chapters on the history of art /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1991. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0648/92194763-d.html.

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Klein, Alysia Anne. "History Says." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556277825492802.

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Black, Christen Anne. "(Re)presenting Art Therapy: A Critical Conversation With Art Education." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306962321.

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Gittinger, Anne Meredith. "Class Act: Negotiating Art and Market in the Career of Isadora Duncan." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626615.

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Conner, Sheri L. "The history of the world is written in art." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1313072.

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This creative project resulted in five metal handbags, each based on a specific period from art history: Egyptian, Classical, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Memphis. These styles range from early human history to contemporary times and possess very explicit and identifiable motifs. They maintain links to each other and impact design to this day.The project culminates in an exhibit. A brief description of the relevant era is printed on attached tags to generate mini art history lessons. People who see or use the handbags will gain exposure to art history they may not otherwise seek out, potentially piquing their curiosity. The aim is to sell all five handbags so they may demonstrate that art history is a vital part of human history because it continues to inform and inspire a spectrum of endeavors from advertising and fashion to engineering and design.
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Carr-Trebelhorn, Julia A. "FROM GEOLOGY TO ART HISTORY: CERAMIST ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART’S OVERLOOKED CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPING SCIENCE OF ART HISTORY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/art_etds/4.

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Alexandre Brongniart was known for his work as an important geologist and as an administrator at the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, but his roles as art historian and museologist are overlooked. Brongniart created a holistic methodology taken directly from science and applied it to ceramic art of all cultures and eras. He had a uniquely modern perspective on time, world culture, and archeology. Brongniart wrote about the art of Asia and the Americas on an equal status with that of the Classical West at least fifty years before it became a mainstream idea. Brongniart integrated scientific principle and practice into the structure of the Sèvres Museum and a comprehensive set of books which includes Traité de Mineralogie avec des Applications aux Arts, Traité des Arts Ceramiques, and Description Methodique du Musée Ceramique de la Manufacture Royale de Porcelain de Sèvres. Numerous historians were influenced by Brongniart’s work, including Samuel Birch and Albert Jacquemart. Notably, the art historian Gottfried Semper refocused his ideas for Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts after seeing the completed works of Brongniart. Although contemporary historians credit Semper with the development of a scientific approach to art history, Semper himself frequently acknowledged the importance of Brongniart’s work.

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Reason, Akela M. "Beyond realism history in the art of Thomas Eakins /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2195.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: Art History and Archaeology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Orfila, Jorgelina. "Paul Cézanne and the making of modern art history." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6842.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
Thesis research directed by: Art History and Archaeology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Silva, Milton Machado da. "After 'History of the future' : (art and its exteriority)." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312090.

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Feng, Huanian, and 馮華年. "The reception of western art history in Republican China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227326.

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Rosen, Aaron Matthew. "Brushes with the past : art history and Jewish imagination." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612180.

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Reekie, Duncan. "Not art : an action history of British underground cinema." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2329.

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My thesis is both an oppositional history and a (re)definition of British Underground Cinema culture (1959 - 2(02). The historical significance of Underground Cinema has long been ideologically entangled in a mesh of academic typologies and ultra leftist rhetoric, abducting it from those directly involved. The intention of my work is to return definition to the 'object' of study, to write from within. This process involves viewing the history of modem British culture not as a vague monolithic and hierarchic spectrum but rather as a distinct historical conflict between the repressive legitimate Art culture of the bourgeoisie and the radical illegitimate popular culture of the working class. In this context, Underground Cinema can be {re)defined as a radical hybrid culture which fused elements of popular culture, Counterculture and Anti-Art. However, the first wave of Underground Cinema was effectively suppressed by the irrational ideology of its key activists and the hegemonic power of the Art tradition. They disowned the radical popular and initiated an Avant-Garde/Independent cinema project which developed an official State administrated bourgeois alternative to popular cinema. My conclusion is that Underground Cinema still has the potential to become a radical and commercial popular culture but that this is now frustrated by an institutionalised State Art culture which has colonised the State funding agencies, higher education and the academic study of cinema. If the Underground is to flourish it must refuse and subvert this Art culture and renew its alliance with radical, experimental and commercial pop culture. My methodology is an holistic interactive praxis which combines research, writing, film/video making, digital design, performance and political activism. My final submission will be an open and heterodox mesh of polemic, history and entertainment. Its key components will be a written thesis which will locate this praxis within its intellectual context and a web site which will integrate my research and practice 1997-2003.

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Bracker, Alison Lee. "A critical history of the international art journal Artforum." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3870/.

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The American-based international art journal Artforum has proved one of the most prominent and influential of art history's discursive agencies, playing a critical role in framing, probing, and re-working particular beliefs of art practice, art history, and art criticism broadly conceived of as 'Modernist' and 'post-Modernist.' This thesis investigates the development of Artforum's critical and historical writing on 'Modernist,' 'post-Modernist,' and feminist issues. It takes Artforum, from 1962 to 1993, as its 'archive' and undertakes a critical history of the journal's personnel, policies, and textual discourse, as well as its look and design. The first chapter, "The Language of Another Generation," focuses upon the 'old' Artforum, a concept of the magazine which attempts to articulate a retrospective perception of its critical power from the mid -1960s to the mid' 70s. Specifically, it challenges a conception of the magazine which portrays it as a mouthpiece for Clement Greenberg's theories of Modernist artistic and critical practices. In attempting to elucidate this misconception of the journal, the chapter makes use of some of Michel Foucault's suggestions for a historical analysis that focuses on the ruptures, rather than the continuities of Lhe object of study. To this end, the chapter identifies factors which contributed to the construction of the idea of Artforum as a Greenberg-influenced journal and then locates a discourse working against that idea, a discourse that disrupts Greenbergian Modernism. Chapter 2, "Shameless Hussies," centres on Artforum's November 1974 and November 1980 issues and questions the journal's gendered biases toward the human figure in art. It considers the magazine's attempt to wrest from body and performance artists Lynda Bengiis, Lisa Lyon, and Carolee Schneemarln their artistic authority, and documents its struggle to maintain the producer/product, subject/object distinctions that these artists had blurred through their practices. Indeed, the chapter propounds that Artforum's resistance to images of the female figure waxed when the body represented belonged to the artist herself and, in view of the evidence presented by the November 1980 issue, waned when artist and body were either distinct identies or male. The chapter concludes with an analysis of whether or not the journal succeded in nullifying the artists' political power by preventing their bodies' final collapse into ambiguous representation. Chapter 3, "Autocritique," looks at Artforum's relationship to certain concepts of post-Modernism through its notable recourses to a self-referential criticality. It discusses examples of the journal's self-reflexivity under the editorships of John Coplans, Ingrid Sischy, and current editor Jack Bankowsky and proposes that the magazine oscillates between working with and exhibiting a Greenbergian notion of Modernist self-criticism on the one hand, and an idea of a post-Modernist deconstructive impulse on the other.

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