Dissertations / Theses: 'Artistic behavior'

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Wadstein, Erik. "Artistic Techniques to Influence Navigational Behavior in 3D-Games." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2401.

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Todays video games use diff erent aids to help players navigate and proceed in a 3D-environment. It is common that players are assigned an objective to complete and have to navigate from point A to point B, often with the help from navigational aids. This study contains an experiment where test-players had to navigate through a set of 3D-environments to complete an objective, without navigational aids. Instead the author used artistic techniques (geometry, lighting and texture) to see if they could aff ect test-players decisions in how to proceed. Results where compared to predictions in how test-players where believed to proceed. The results from the experiment states that some artistic techniques can aff ect test-players decisions in how to proceed.

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Knight-Mudie, Karen, and n/a. "Attitudes towards art competitions of senior secondary art students and teachers." University of Canberra. Education, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060811.154408.

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Growing concern for the popularity of art competitions that encourage participation of secondary school senior art students is reflected in debate by many Australian art educators. It appears that acceptance of the external goal of winning a prize may demonstrate that many students and teachers have not fully considered the adverse implications of extrinsic rewards on learning strategies relevant to artistic behavior. On the other hand the benefit of exhibitions of student art work appears to be overshadowed by the prevalence of art competitions. This study surveys attitudes and perceptions of art teachers and secondary senior art students towards art competitions supported by the school. Subjects include secondary senior art students and teachers from selected Brisbane Independent Schools. It appears that participation in art competitions is more frequent in these schools. Results may prove beneficial to art educators who are concerned with the issue of extrinsic rewards for artistic behavior.

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Dawson, Evan Christopher. "This Is The Only Way." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339788946.

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Serrano, Manchón Miguel Angel. "The Impact of Artists on consumer's behavior : A study on how artists influences on consumer's purchasing behavior in latin countries." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Redovisning, Marknadsföring, SCM, Informatik och Rättsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54619.

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Background: We currently live in a time when consumers trust more on social media and less on traditional advertising as a source of information for their purchasing decisions. Social media and traditional advertising must be integrated somehow so that marketers can communicate more effectively with their target market. In this investigation, the influence of music influencers on consumer behavior is analyzed, getting to the conclusion that the benefits of influencer and social media marketing increases customer experience and credibility, as it gives a brand the ability to communicate with its customers and develop a long-term relationship. The music resource is combined with the influence of the artist's personality to generate strategies that are effective but not totally rewarded by the consumers. Purpose: The purpose of this study is therefore to explore what influence Latin American artists have on the behaviour of Latin American consumers and how companies can use these motivations to structure their own marketing campaigns. Method: In order to carry out the following research work, the following stages are proposed: Firstly, a theoretical framework will be elaborated using the methodology of literature review, secondly a qualitative research which will consist of an empirical analysis the instrument chosen for this is an interview with a professional in the sector. And finally quantitative research The survey is the instrument chosen to collect the information that will drive the quantitative research proposed for this study. Conclusion: The results suggest that artists have an influence on the purchasing behaviour of Ibero-American consumers. By establishing connections between literature review, empirical data and surveys, a significant relationship was found that affirms the theory. The study reveals evidence that consumers in general can be influenced by music as a formative variable of the environment or atmosphere. The benefits of influencer and social media marketing increases customer experience and credibility, as it gives a brand the ability to communicate with its customers and develop a long-term relationship. The music resource is combined with the influence of the artist's personality to generate strategies that are effective but not totally rewarded by the consumers. From there, marketers should take this research into account when implementing artists in their campaigns in Latin America.

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Lutkus, Lauren Julia. "Holistic Approaches to Art Education: A Case Study of Choice-based Art Education." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1564572381222662.

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Aldrich, Kevin. "Where there is Darkness, Light| An Artistic Exploration of the Home." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1528232.

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This production thesis examines home and homelessness through various psychological lenses including depth psychology, trauma theory, and art therapy. It explores how creating a personal shrine can help an individual process emotional homelessness. It offers an example of how one might experience a psychological transformation using the creation of a shrine as a safe container and transitional object to connect with unconscious aspects of one’s personal story and examine some of the psychological elements therein. The author’s investigation of emotional homelessness and its resolution includes his own experiences of engagement with the imaginal realm and he provides an example of a three-dimensional imaginal visual tool to advance understanding of home.

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Strayer, Jordan L. "Artistic Development in the K-12 Classroom." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1544814998449893.

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Mohoric, Lauren E. "Restructuring to a Substantial Choice-based Art Curriculum." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15877419441678.

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Gascón, Luis Daniel. "Artists and crooks: A correlational examination of creativity and criminal thinking." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3298.

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This study explores some of the possible correlations between creativity and criminal thinking evident in the literature in an attempt to link the two forms of cognition. An understanding of the concept of Malevolent Creativity can serve the purpose of elucidating another component of the criminal personality.

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Krukauskas, Frank. "Using Auditory Feedback to Improve Striking for Mixed Martial Artists." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10241325.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate, auditory feedback as a training procedure to increase the effectiveness of throwing a "right cross.” Auditory feedback was evaluated in multiple baselines across behaviors design with 4 mixed martial arts students, two males and two females, 25-54 years old. The percentage of correct steps of the right crosses” was stable during baseline for all participants improved substantially following the introduction of the auditory feedback, and maintained at 90 percent or more for all participants during follow-up.

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Gallay, Lillian Hemingway. "Understanding and Treating Creative Block in Professional Artists." Thesis, Alliant International University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567547.

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This project provides a broad exploration of factors that can enhance or inhibit creative performance in professional artists, including writers, visual artists, and musicians. Potential causes of the difficulties creative clients contend with are surveyed, as well as a range of interventions to address them. The first section reviews six major factors that can impact artistic creativity (also called Big C or eminent creativity) both positively and negatively, including the relatively stable and enduring factors of artists’ personality traits, cognitive makeup, and psychopathology. This section also reviews more malleable elements of creativity that the therapist may be able to affect directly, namely, motivational orientation, mood, and environmental influences. The second section is an investigation of creative block: its antecedents, phenomenology, and proposed classifications of different types of block. The final section focuses on interventions to facilitate creative performance in artists, both those who are suffering from artist block and those who are seeking to boost their creative achievement more generally. Interventions reviewed include cognitive-behavioral, Gestalt, psychodynamic, meditative, and compassion-focused approaches. In addition, field interviews conducted with psychologists with expertise in the clinical treatment of professional artists are summarized. The project concludes with a discussion of possible reasons for the scarcity of empirical literature on the subject of creative block and potential avenues of exploration for future research.

Keywords: Arts, artists, musicians, writers, creativity, psychotherapy, self-compassion, perfectionism, self criticism.

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Kramer-Kuszyk, Cheryl A. "The effect of parental influence and support upon the artistic and response behaviors of the young child to the visual arts." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1995. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Melville, Ruth. "The logic of evaluation in the arts : exploring artists' responses to measurement within a publicly funded arts organisation." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22408/.

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Measurement and evaluation in the publicly funded arts sector is a contested area. On the one hand measurement is constantly demanded by funders to justify the value of art projects, on the other hand, there is a lack of consensus on how it should be done and whether effective evaluation is even possible in the arts. In this context, there is widespread resistance to practices of evaluation within the sector. Previous Cultural Policy research has focussed on what cultural value is, and whether it is desirable, or even possible, to measure value at all in the arts. In contrast, there is relatively little research into the experience of those at the heart of the measurement: the arts practitioners working in settings where evaluation is required and how evaluation regimes affect their practices. There is a similar lack of research into the role of the organisation as an intermediary within the interpretation of value and measurement. Using a longitudinal, ethnographic case study research, the thesis examines how artists and other workers in a cultural organization, respond to expectations of evaluation and shape their practices as a result of those expectations. The thesis adapts the institutional logics perspective frame, creating a sector specific frame to explore how logics of the family, state, corporation, community, religion, profession and market all operate within evaluation. Seen through this lens, the artists’ responses to evaluation are shown to be a response to intersecting and clashing logics. This approach gives a richer understanding of artists’ responses, and also offers a new frame for considering other challenges within the sector. Using this understanding, I develop an alternative approach to arts evaluation, based on evaluation as a practice, not an output, and taking into account the multiple logics in action and arising from artists’ own valuation practices.

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Krukauskas, Frank Krukauskas. "Using Auditory Feedback to Improve Striking for Mixed Martial Artists." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6529.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate, auditory feedback as a training procedure to increase the effectiveness of throwing a "right cross.” Auditory feedback was evaluated in multiple baselines across behaviors design with 4 mixed martial arts students, two males and two females, 25-54 years old. The percentage of correct steps of the right crosses.” was stable .during baseline for all participants improved substantially following the introduction of the auditory feedback, and maintained at 90 percent or more for all participants during follow-up.

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FitzPatrick, Susan A. "The Muse in the Classroom: Some Effects on American Nonprofit Arts Organization of Partnering with Schools." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1141.

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Nonprofits, including cultural organizations, are increasingly relying upon fees for service as part of their operating budgets. Arts organizations have taken an increasingly prominent role in arts education starting with federal budget cuts in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a lack of data on the effects of partnering with schools on nonprofit arts organizations as well as the effects of government contracting on nonprofits.This study consists of an email/internet survey to determine how contracting with schools to provide arts activities affects nonprofit arts agency independence, vendorism, bureaucratization, costs, and artistic quality. The survey was pilot tested with 22 leaders of arts organizations. The survey was emailed to a random sample of 680 leaders of American nonprofit arts organizations identified as art museums; ballet; dance; music; music groups, bands and ensembles; opera; singing choral; symphony orchestras; theaters; and visual arts organizations. Responses were gathered from 280 respondents for a 41% response rate. The researcher analyzed the data using frequencies, cross tabulations, logistic regression, and linear regression.This study reveals limited negative effects on arts organizations of partnering with schools. The major findings of this study support Lester Salamon's (1995) theory that bureaucratization is among the most likely effects of government contracting on nonprofits, and a study of nonprofits by Patricia Hughes and William Luksetich (2004) indicating that greater reliance on private funding does not divert funding fiom program service delivery. Organizations that partner with schools have greater odds of being affected by rules and regulations compared to those that do not partner with schools, but these rules seem to fall within acceptable limits for arts organizations of the types studied.Earning higher levels of income from school partnerships does not make arts organizations less likely to advocate for arts education, change artistic direction or offer significantly different programs, or impose unreimbursed costs.This study does not support Bruno Frey's (2003) Crowding Theory of the effect of external rewards on creativity. More collaborative types of school activity had no effect on organizational creativity in this study. However, enhanced artistic growth appears to be an important positive effect of school partnerships.

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Hunt, Janey. "Conversations : the socially engaged artist as environmental change agent." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/817.

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I use my art practice in conjunction with environmental behaviour research and Michel de Certeau’s practice of the everyday, to enable a re-examination of socially engaged art and through art to activate environmental behaviour change. Questions Clarify contemporary debate about demonstrable and desirable aspects and issues of socially engaged art practice and through my own practice identify its key characteristics. Examine the claim for change offered by many socially engaged practitioners. Context The socially engaged artist operates outside of the gallery, in everyday lives and real situations, often engaging in issues of meaning to society at large, where participation and facilitation of dialogue are the common characteristics. I identify participation, the ambition of social change, aesthetic representation and a failure to communicate beyond the participative event as key considerations. (Bishop 2004; Bourriaud 2002; Kester 2004; Kwon 2004) I propose an aesthetic of presence, to recognise community as a creative vernacular and as pooled knowledge. Drawn from Michel de Certeau’s research into everyday life (Michel de Certeau 1985; Michel de Certeau et al. 1998a) this also provides a refocusing on participation through conversation and describes rupture events, which signify change occurring. Method This thesis compares research in an alternative field, environmental behaviour, which investigates the impediments to change (the value-action gap), how change happens and identifies the change agent, as essential to encourage change at a personal level. (Ballard and Associates 2005b; Darnton et al. 2006) I use the value-action gap, the tension point between knowing about climate change and failing to make changes in our own behaviour, (Blake 1999; Darnton 2004b; Kollmus and Agyeman 2002) as a direct impetus to make participative artwork that examines the idea of a sustainable lifestyle. My art practice recognises a three-stage process: an admission of my own environmental behaviour; encouraging reciprocal participation and conversation and enabling personal reflection; representing conversation offering shared vernacular knowledge and enabling others’ engagement with the artwork and behaviour change. Equating the socially engaged artist with the environmental change agent, I synthesised the Model for Change Agents (S. Ballard and Ballard 2005a; Ballard and Associates 2005b) with research on participation in the arts (Matarasso 1997), as a basis for understanding how participation occurs and how change could happen in socially engaged artworks. An analysis of pilot artworks extends this model to identify the conditions for change, which also equate to the aesthetic aspects of the artwork, in a new model for Practice, Participation and Progression. Outcomes I propose key characteristics for socially engaged practice based on analysis of contemporary commentators and the model for practice, participation and progression. The role of the socially engaged artist is identified as comparable to the change agent. Representing conversation, addresses an issue of socially engaged practice to communicate beyond documentation of the event’s provocation and participation. I develop discussion of the discursive site beyond participation itself to a community of common sensibility and pooled knowledge as a demonstration of personal agency that is able to redefine the public ideal and challenge dominant culture. Re-presenting conversation is a means of sharing knowledge, stimulating change and expanding community. Contributing to environmental behaviour research my art practice reveals our ability to abstract behaviour, identifies our main areas of concern within lifestyle, our motivations for making change and the importance of the preservation of personal agency. I also comment on de Certeau, identifying the problems with individual resistance through the everyday, exploring mini-rupture events signaling change and proposing a reversal of the aesthetic of absence to an aesthetic of presence creating a new narrative that utilises personal agency.

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Cannon, David Roy. "Making sense of failure : learning or defence?; a study of how individuals interpret their personal failures based on the recollected experiences of business people, professionals, artists and athletes." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302111.

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Bramante, Albert C. "Correlation between Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Personality, Fear of Success, and Self-Defeating Behaviors of Performing Artists." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/879.

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There is substantial evidence that self-defeating behaviors appear regularly among populations considered psychologically stable. While there has been abundant research on self-esteem, self-efficacy, personality traits, and fear of success as independent constructs, little is known regarding the combined effect of these constructs on the self-defeating behaviors of performing artists. Examining self-defeating behaviors among performing artists is significant because this population is susceptible to self-sabotaging behaviors, underscoring the need to understand their behaviors. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine whether self-esteem, self-efficacy, personality, and fear of success predicted self-defeating behaviors among performing artists. Bandura's self-efficacy theory and the Baumeister self-esteem theory were used as the theoretical foundations for the study. A cross-sectional self-administered survey was used to collect data about how self-esteem, self-efficacy, personality, and fear of success affected the self-defeating behavior of performing artists from a convenience sample of 100 performing artists in New York City. The following assessment tools were used: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, General Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale, Big Five Inventory, Fear of Success Scale, and the Lay Procrastination Scale. Results indicated a significant relationship between the self-efficacy, self-esteem, personality, and fear of success on self-defeating behavior in performance artists. The implications for positive social change include the potential to help current and future performing artists recognize and manage their self-defeating behaviors, thus preventing disengagement at work, depression, and frustration.

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Taft, Ann. "At the Spiritual Grassroots: An Analysis of Visionary Art & Artists." TopSCHOLAR®, 1986. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2896.

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In this thesis I focus on an art form alternately described as "naive," "visionary," "environmental," "singular," "individual," or "grassroots." Not easily placed within established academic or popular art categories, such art usually lands by default in the folk art pile and is quickly cast to the peripheries of that genre. In this thesis, I am not concerned with inventing another label for these artists and their work. Instead, I explore the possibility that visionary art may be a separate genre, but one to which folklore analysis may usefully be brought to bear. Chapter One is a historical and bibliographical analysis of visionary art. Beginning with an overview of the literature on the subject, I review the development of the definitional debate in the United States as well as in Europe and trace the gradual evolution of this art form into a loosely separate category. Chapter Two consists of an analysis of visionary art. I construct a "behaviorist" model which draws not only upon the usual criteria of building styles or materials used but also examines such subjects as the artist's motivations, personal visions, life history and community role. In Chapter Three I test this model using the work of Valenty Zaharek, an Arizona woodcarver and ceramicist. Zaharek's previously undocumented work, "Pecos West," is a three-dimensional carved depiction of Western scenes. It is aesthetically magnificent and falls along the borders of a variety of art forms --folk, visionary, popular.

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Poole, Tanya Katherine. "An exploration of female physicality and psyche and how these inform art-making." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002215.

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This thesis proposes that female physicality informs the psyche and thus in turn, art-making. My argument will be shown to be apposite and informative to the discussion of the work of Paula Rego, Jenny Saville and Cindy Sherman. Furthermore such an understanding is helpful to a reading of my practice. In examining issues of identity, which contribute to the formulation of a distinctly female psyche, I will base my critique on the philosophical positions of Sartre, de Beauvoir and Paglia.

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Almusaly, Kumail M. "Painting our conflicts: A Thematic Analysis Study on The role of artists in peacemaking and conflict resolution." NSUWorks, 2017. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/60.

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Artists have involved with their different styles and approaches to help resolving conflicts all over the world. They help in raising awareness of different conflicts through their activities that engage people with art. The creative elements of the art also help in exploring various means of conflict resolution and problem solving (Lumsden, 1997). This study examines the role of artist in society in the framework of conflict resolution and peacemaking. A qualitative research method is used in this research, which in result provides a better understanding of the work of Middle Eastern artists. The research includes in-depth interviews with two artists from the Gulf countries: Abbas Almosawi; a Bahraini artist, and Abdulnasser Gharem; a Saudi artist. The focus of this research is to identify the roles that artists play in society with respect to conflict resolution and peacemaking. Through utilizing a thematic analysis method to analyze the data, the finding identified six roles the artist plays in the society: 1) Observation. 2) Identifying problems. 3) reflection. 4) Partnering with NGO’s. 5) Leadership. 6) Influence. The research is also an attempt to shed the light on aspects that can help conflict resolution practitioners to apply the arts for their benefits and increase the effectiveness of their work. The research includes examples of art activities as well as artworks from various artists from the Middle East that show the level of involvement of art in conflict resolution and peacemaking.

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Salmela, Markus, and Sakari Ylönen. "The New Music Industry : - Understanding the Dynamics of the New Consumer of Music." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-11902.

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The music industry today is undergoing a revolution with digital distribution of music taking over the traditional sales of physical CDs (Mewton, 2008). The peer-to-peer networking and illegal music piracy is a problem that lately has been widely discussed in forums of ethics, legal issues and economical aspects, followed by a music industry trying to solve the situation with new business models enhancing digital sales, e.g. the tip jar model (Hiatt & Serpick, 2007). The tip jar model embodies the problem the industry is facing since it allows the consumer to choose whether to pay or not. Therefore the question of what leads the consumer to pay instead of download or pirate music has been researched in many aspects. However it has been made to a lesser extent in theory of loyalty and liking and their implications on the new business models’ success and the new consumer of music.

Previous research within music piracy has mainly explored demographics, macro- and micro economical perspectives such as artist and record company loss of welfare and consumer surplus (Coyle et al., 2008). We find it of interest to instead further explore the impacts of theories about consumer liking, loyalty and attitudes (Wells & Prensky, 1996; Shiffman & Kanuk, 1987; Solomon et al., 2002) as an addition to this existing knowledge to enhance the understanding about the new consumer of music. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze artist liking, artist loyalty and attitudinal factors’ impact on consumers’ music piracy intentions. The study is an explanatory study based on quantitative data collected in the region of Jönköping where the collection of data has been conducted by using two questionnaires; one among students at the School of Education and Communication (Jönköping University) and one at the A6 shopping-center. This data has been summarized to create independent variables used in a multiple regression analysis to calculate their impacts on piracy to confirm or reject the from theory deduced hypotheses.

The results from the multiple regression analysis show that the attitudinal factors do not have a direct impact on piracy intentions; however the other two independent variables, measuring the artist loyalty and artist liking have a larger impact. Surprisingly, a higher level of loyalty increases the intentions to pirate music while, as anticipated from theory (Solomon et al., 2002; Shiffman & Kanuk, 1987), higher liking decreases intentions. The conclusion is that the artist liking variable and artist loyalty variable are resulting in a bridge over piracy where the pillars are built of liking and the bridge itself is built of loyalty, stressing the importance of maintaining high levels of liking to maintain purchasing behavior online.

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McConnon, Linda. "Communicating possibilities : a study of English nursery children's emergent creativity : exploring the three to four-year-old child as an artistic communicator and possibility thinker." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14860.

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This research builds on previous studies that have documented evidence of Professor Anna Craft’s concept of ‘Possibility Thinking’ (PT) as at the heart of creativity which involves children transitioning from ‘what is this?’ to ‘what can I or we do with this?’ as well as imagining ‘as if’ they were in a different role. My thesis titled “Communicating Possibilities” examines English nursery children's emergent creativity, exploring the three to four-year-old child as an artistic communicator and possibility thinker through a case study approach situated in one primary school in South West England. Three main research questions were posed concerning the ‘what, how, and why’ of creativity when children communicated through art; as well as exploring the nurturing role of others, and identity manifest through voice and learning experience. This doctoral study is essentially interpretivist in nature seeking to explain how people make sense of their social worlds, and is an exploration framed by culturally negotiated, shared meanings, and complex social relations. Data was collected over one school year, in three nine-week research phases by the following ethnographic methods: naturalistic observations; researcher diary; children’s creative journals; and practitioner interviews. These methods were repeated for each phase. Inductive and deductive data analysis was conducted. Undertaken over time as the project unfolded, a grounded theory approach was applied in total to 27 episodes. Micro event analysis of creative behaviours in action and narrative discourses of two kinds: peer-to-peer, and child-to-adult (teacher, early years practitioner, and my researcher dialogue) revealed four broad critical themes: Observing and documenting children’s creativity; What children can do together- recognising differences; Pedagogy of possibilities- developing a role; and The value of artistic communication in the nursery classroom. Each is discussed in terms of the key implications these themes hold for theory, policy, and early years practice.

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Hester, ElizaBeth. "Vadie Williams, Folk Artist: Drawnwork as a Reflection of Personal Identity in Rural Kentucky." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2491.

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This study focuses on Vadie Conner Williams, an individual folk artist, and the drawnwork she has created throughout her lifetime. Included is a description of her rural farm background, her needlework skills and her creative process. The study also examines the significance of drawnwork to Williams and determines how she has adapted her work to satisfy her personal needs as well as the needs of her customers. Based on tape recorded interviews and a close examination of her work, the study concludes that drawnwork is an integral part of Williams's everyday life; it is an indicator of her beliefs and a source of identity within her community.

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Oxelväg, Karolina. "Skeva Speglar/Crooked Mirrors : An Interactive Master Essay by Karolina Oxelväg." Thesis, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kkh:diva-328.

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"It's not a mask, it's an appendix". Reflections through text and moving image around the Beauty Community as a representative expression of individuality on the internet. The Essay also contains thoughts around the authors artistical practice.
Documentation Photos of the Master Exam Exhibition "The Compliment Machine". The first edition of the essay was used as an appendix, complementary to the artworks. Photographer: Jean Baptiste Béranger
Documentation Photo from the Essay Release organised 12 of april 2018 by fellow master students. The photo illustrates the presentation of the second and final edition of the essay. Photographer: Karolina Oxelväg

The master work includes both a written and a performing part.

Masterarbetet består av en skriftlig och en gestaltande del.

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Widmark, Elisabeth. "Information som inspiration : En studie av yrkesverksamma konstnärers behov och användning av information." Thesis, Umeå University, Department of Sociology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1937.

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The main purpose of this essay is to investigate professional artists experience of the need and use of information in their creative work. I have collected the material through qualitative interviews with four professional artist working with different materials and techniques. One of the results of the study is that the artists first of all used information as a source of inspiration in their creative work. They gathered their information from various scources, for example; pictures, exhibitions, visual arts, books and novells, depending on what project they are working with. Other important information scources were colleges, especially for the technical information need. The artists also searched for information in a wide range of subjects and showed interest in areas that are not considerable art-related.

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Garcia, Catala Laurence. "Parcours artistiques et culturels de jeunes habitants dans les perspectives et les enjeux des dynamiques rurales en pays Midi Quercy." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU20003/document.

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A travers les pratiques, les initiatives, et les évènements artistiques et culturels, cette thèse questionne la contribution des jeunes habitants de 15 – 25 ans aux dynamiques culturelles et au devenir des espaces ruraux. Cette recherche est attentive à la forte attractivité des territoires ruraux, dont témoignent les mouvements de population et la recomposition sociale de l’ensemble des habitants. Elle tient compte d’un contexte où les politiques culturelles s’élaborent à un échelon local, sont reliées au développement rural et s’appuient sur la capacité d’agir des populations. Ce travail s’appuie sur une méthodologie qualitative basée sur des entretiens semi-directifs, des échanges informels, et sur l’observation participante. L’objectif est tout d’abord de comprendre comment les jeunes habitants font vivre leurs espaces de vie et d’appartenance par leurs pratiques artistiques et culturelles. Puis le questionnement cherche à établir des liens entre leurs manières d’habiter et leurs parcours de vie, et à comprendre la nécessité des aller-retour entre la ville et la campagne, entre l’ici et l’ailleurs. Cette approche nous permet alors de saisir la capacité des jeunes habitants à construire les collectifs dans lesquels ils vivent, et nous donne des clés de lecture des dynamiques collectives des années à venir
This thesis is about contribution of young inhabitants ( between 15 and 25 years old) in cultural dynamism and futur of rural areas, through artistic and cultural behaviours, initiatives and events. This research takes into account the strong appeal of rural territories wich is shown by population’s movements and new social composition. The thesis deals with a context where cultural politics are built on a local level, are related with local development and are based on empowerment of the population. This work leans on a qualitative methodology semi-directive, interwiews, free discussions and on participating observations. The first goal is to understand how young inhabitants make their local life environment active by their artistic and cultural behaviours. The next goal is to research the link between their way of living and their background, and try to understand the need of regular back and forth trips between town and country, between here and elsewere. This approach allows us to grasp the capacity they have to build the collective places in wich they’re living, and gives a way of understanding collective dynamics of coming years

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ALIBERTI, DANIELA. "Le dinamiche di social evaluation di individui ed organizzazioni nei field istituzionali culturali e creativi." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/96133.

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Questa tesi di dottorato ha l’obiettivo di analizzare i processi attraverso cui individui ed organizzazioni costruiscono la loro posizione e la loro valutazione nel contesto di field istituzionali culturali e creativi. La tesi contiene tre capitoli che rappresentano tre distinti lavori di ricerca. Le analisi empiriche svolte sono incentrate sui settori del cinema (primo capitolo), della quality television (televisione ‘di qualità’, serie televisive) e della musica indipendente negli Stati Uniti. In tutti i lavori di ricerca sono stati utilizzati database longitudinali e metodi quantitativi e qualitativi. Nel primo capitolo, si analizza come gli scandali personali (di natura sessuale e non sessuale) influenzino la costruzione della peer recognition. Si prendono anche in considerazione gli effetti degli stereotipi legati al genere e dei comportamenti orientati alla valorizzazione delle diversità (solidarietà femminile), per comprendere come questi influiscano sulla peer recognition, insieme agli scandali, nell’ambito della valutazione degli attori di Hollywood (candidatura all’Oscar), nel lasso temporale 2003-2018. Nel secondo capitolo, viene teorizzato il processo di nascita e di consolidamento di un field interstiziale (interstitial issue field), attraverso l’analisi del caso del field nato tra la musica indipendente e la quality television negli Stati Uniti, dal 2003 al 2018. Si delineano le caratteristiche della infrastruttura istituzionale del field emerso, si definisce il ruolo lavoro degli attori istituzionali (institutional work) e degli spazi interstiziali (interstitial spaces). Nel terzo capitolo, i field istituzionali della musica indipendente e della quality television sono ulteriormente esaminati, tra il 2013 e il 2018, attraverso una indagine della collaborazione tra i due field, nell’ utilizzo di un album indipendente nella soundtrack di episodi di una serie televisiva. La ricerca mira a comprendere gli effetti della collaborazione sulla valutazione di un prodotto del field della musica indipendente (album indipendenti) che collabora con un field più ‘commerciale’ (quality television).
This doctoral thesis aims at shedding light on the processes by which individuals and organizations negotiate their structure, position, and evaluation, within the context of creative and cultural fields. It contains three chapters that represent three research studies. The empirical analyses undertaken throughout the research pieces are focused on the fields of cinema (first chapter), quality television, and independent music (second and third chapter) in the United States. For all of them, longitudinal databases are employed, and both quantitative and qualitative methodologies are utilized. In the first chapter, the role of personal (sexual and non-sexual) scandals for peer recognition is investigated. The research focuses on how scandals, gender stereotypes, and engagement in diversity-valuing behaviors (female solidarity) affect peer recognition for Hollywood actors (nomination of actors for an Oscar), in the time frame 2003-2018. In the second chapter, the process of emergence and consolidation of an interstitial issue field is theorized, by exploring the case of the field that emerged between indie music and the quality television in the United States from 2003 to 2018. In the analysis, the features of the institutional infrastructure of the emerged field, with the role of institutional actors and of interstitial spaces, are taken into consideration. In the third chapter, the fields of independent music and quality television in the US are further examined, between 2013 and 2018, by focusing on the patterns of evaluation of one field’s products (independent music, independent albums) when this field interacts with the other (quality television) – that is, when independent albums are featured in quality television episodes.

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Way, Pamela Jo. "Redefining the muse self-regulatory aspects of creative behavior /." Thesis, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3086732.

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LIAO, YA-HUI, and 廖雅慧. "A Study of Consumer Behavior for Artistic Photography." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20131323371898122862.

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HU, HSIANG-TANG, and 胡湘堂. "A Research of Cultural Consumption Behavior in Taiwan- Artistic Cultural Activity as an Example." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10650621080794686619.

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國立臺北大學
社會學系
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Based on personal background(sex, age, birth location), individual social and economic position(education, occupation, income), family economic structure(the lowest expense/ per month), family education with cultural resource, social internet, self-class identification and conscience, individual living style and consumption behavior and individual artistic taste, this research tries to integrate different status definitions and then studies cultural consumption behavior in Taiwan. We would like to know, due to internal and outer objective conditions, what causes Taiwanese to have participation differences on cultural and artistic activities with various class mode. In addition, self-identification of his own class will also affect people to accept cultural and artistic activities positively or passively. My research attempts to realize through both internal and outer sides and we would like to clarify if establishment of social stratification and cultural capital will affect individual cultural consumption, participation of cultural and artistic activities. The other purpose of this research is to understand individual capital through potential transmition of family educational cultural capital and cause effect witty situation for people to attend cultural and artistic activities. I deeply hope that we can realize what the mainly problem is through this research. As a contrast analysis, this research adopted data from the 4th period and the 3rd time (2002) of Academia Sinica Social Diversification Basic Investigation. It is an empirical research for participating cultural and artistic activities of people aged between 18+ and 65- in Taiwan. Through this research, we found that people with the older, the higher education level, higher occupation level, self-class identification and conscience(above medium and medium class), the ability of delivery of family cultural capital, the habit of reading various novel and books, and liking formalized cultural musical drama activity and high artistic taste, will have higher possibility to contact with artistic activity and cultural artistic knowledge. Above affective factors basically will emphasize more participation of artistic activity and also internal structure and factors. Those are related with individual cultural capital, individual habit and social class.

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Yang, Chi-Cheng, and 楊啟正. "A Research on Consumer Behavior of Children In Artistic Talent – WeiQi Professional Class in Taipei City as an Example." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94171218929455566793.

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中原大學
企業管理研究所
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Abstract This research from population statistic variable, analysis life style factor and consumer decision-making factor, understood the consumer studies motive of the WeiQi, discusses in the children artistic talent consumer behavior pattern, and discusses the consumer when chooses the WeiQi professional classroom, factor of the consideration. Moreover also aims at Taipei each male, the privately established elementary school's characteristic, the area separates the school in the environment localization, finally unifies the school area to separate the localization and analysis the WeiQi professional classroom student characteristic, takes reference the professional classroom strategy. This study designed to receive information and asked the Questionnaire, as a major research data, Questionnaire was asked by the customers for the chain WeiQi professional classroom study. Secondary data from the Taipei City Bureau of Education and the school site-based information. Data analysis software used by the SPSS, it methods including statistics of descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, cluster analysis, factor analysis, chi-square analysis, variance analysis, and other methods. Discovered from the research, when the children studies WeiQi the initial study place mostly take the home nearby as the most important consideration, after studying period of time, will study the quarter to have the change. Various families in the WeiQi professional classroom expense disbursement, had allowed that the children simultaneously studies two above talent and skill. Has in the initial study age toward the drop phenomenon, the study result, because also various person of study time length does not have the difference. In the Elementary school, has the competitive advantage take the state as the medium school, in the talent and skill curriculum arranges on, the Private school is more initiative than the Public school.

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Lu, Jungi, and 盧蓉誼. "A Systematic Observation of An Elementary School Men’s Artistic Gymnastic Coaching Behavior: a case study in Yi-lan County, Taiwan." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74849107820709927123.

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經國管理暨健康學院
健康產業管理研究所
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A Systematic Observation of An Elementary School Men’s Artistic Gymnastic Coaching Behavior: a case study in Yi-lan County, Taiwan Student : Jung- I Lu Advisor : Yi-shin Liou Institute of Health Industry Management Ching Kuo Institute of Management and Health, Keelung, Taiwan ABSTRACT This research studies the coaching behaviors of men’s artistic gymnastic. It records the observed behaviors, checks the consistency between the athletes’ and the coach’s perception, and discusses the coaching behaviors in different stages of different gymnastic events. A men’s artistic gymnastic coach and seven athletes in Yi-Lan were observed using the Arizona State University Observation Instrument (ASUOI). The data were collected were by way of observation, questionnaire surveys, and interviews. The results show that: The most frequently employed coaching method was instructional coaching behavior (74.40%), non-instructional behaviors only occupied 25.60%. The behaviors frequency per minute was 7.01. The most frequent employed instructional behavior is physical assistance, the least is praise. The amount of instructions, from high to low, is high bar, vault, rings, and parallel bars. Physical assistance is the most employed coaching behavior in rings, vault, parallel bars and high bar. The athletes’ and coach’s perceptions of the training purpose are consistent with each other, which can promote the effectiveness of the training. Key words: Artistic gymnastic, coaching behavior, case study, ASUOI

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Regent, Barbara. "Reflective Qualities of the Artistic Creative Process and Chaos Theory: A Study of the Relationship and the Implications for Art Education and Teaching." Diss., 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24848.

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ABSTRACT What is visual art making, the artistic creative process, and how does it work? These questions fuelled an investigation at first theoretical, then incorporating an empirical study centered on attaining understanding relating to the elements and dynamics involved in making visual art. The resultant study aims to offer an approach to gaining comprehensive understanding of the artistic creative process, an understanding that may inform art teaching practice, so that art teachers may better understand the related dynamics of their pedagogical processes. Historically the artistic creative process has been accepted as one consisting of different sequential stages of development. This view however, is evolving due to the growing understanding of interrelated dynamics of life processes offered by, for example, neurological studies of the brain. New thinking links earlier philosophical and psychological ideas presented by such thinkers as James (1894) and Dewey (1934), to the work of Baars (1999), Brown (2000), Ellis (1999), Zeki (2000), in offering a deeper understanding of the natural human creative process. The reflective aspect of the artistic creative process is thus related to the way that we process information every minute of our lives; essentially it is the way we progress through life, minute by minute, learning and evolving, affirming self through finding meaning. Study of current theory relating to the processes of the brain inevitably incorporates modern thinking that revolves around dynamic processes. Originating in thermodynamics, Chaos Theory has travelled far from physics to become incorporated into a broad spectrum of disciplines. It offers a common language that relates to the dynamics of human nature, and as such is totally applicable to areas of learning and human interaction. Here used metaphorically, Chaos Theory serves to elucidate interactive aspects of the discipline of art making, with much to offer an understanding of the artistic creative process as it describes exactly the same process of change and growth through experience. A metaphorical use of the language of Chaos Theory provides visual art making with a means of sharing ideas with other academic disciplines that also constantly deal with the dynamics of the human condition, found for example in the close connections between the methods of exploration of both artists and scientists. In studying the phenomenon of ‘scale’ the physicist Feigenbaum commented on the connections between perceptions of artists and those of scientists, pointing to the way in which their perceptions and analysis of things coincide (Gleick, 1987). The visual analysis evident in the work of Turner or Ruskin reflects the same process of detailed conceptual exploration of material collected by the senses as that of a student of any field of scientific exploration. Chaos Theory is important also in that it provides a language accessible by varying levels of expertise, whether at a simple metaphorical or a more sophisticated level. This work charts these dimensions because “The challenge is to reverse the disconnectedness of the present world and to develop a curriculum that is not based on separateness of knowledge from life and being, but upon their inherent unity and integration” (Lovat and Smith, 1995, p.248).
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Bae, Yeon Joo. "Teaching Strategies For Implementing Choice-Based Art Curriculum." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/170.

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This thesis is an autoethnography of an elementary art teacher who has transitioned from a traditional, teacher-led curriculum to a choice-based model where more freedom and responsibilities are given to the students. It is an account of the challenges and obstacles faced during the implementation of a choice-based curriculum and offers possible solutions, teaching strategies, and tips utilized to navigate the transition.

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"Priming Creativity Using Multiple Artistic Objects." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20845.

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abstract: As the desire for innovation increases, individuals and companies seek reliable ways to encourage their creative side. There are many office superstitions about how creativity works, but few are based on psychological science and even fewer have been tested empirically. One of the most prevalent superstitions is the use of objects to inspire creativity or even make a creative room. It is important to test this kind of notion so workplaces can find reliable ways to be innovative, but also because psychology lacks a breadth of literature on how environmental cues interact with people to shape their mental state. This experiment seeks to examine those gaps and fill in the next steps needed for examining at how multiple objects prime creativity. Participants completed two creativity tasks: one for idea generation and one that relies on insight problem solving, the Remote Association Task. There were four priming conditions that relied on objects: a zero object condition, a four neutral (office) objects condition, a single artistic object condition, and finally a four artistic objects condition. There were no differences found between groups for either type of task or in mood or artistic experience. The number of years a participant spent in the United States, however, did correlate with mood, idea generation scores, and insight problem scores. This potentially demonstrates that performance on idea generation and insight tasks rely on the tasks created and culture.
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HSU, SHU-HONG, and 許淑紅. "A Study of Behavior Intention for Lukang Artist Village Visitors." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55598469203483648022.

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南華大學
文化創意事業管理學系文創行銷碩士班
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Tourism industry is one of the booming industries around the world. “Cultural tourism” is the global trend in the last two decades. Following this trend, artist communities, museums, art galleries and the like become the essential resources of cultural tourism development. The topic of making these facilities attractive becomes more and more important to the corresponding management departments. 　　This study employed the theory of planned behavior to investigate the factors that affected people’s intention to visit Lukang Artist Village, and we attempted to promote such intention eventually. Participants of this study were primary school teachers in Changhua County of Taiwan. We used the survey research method and retrieved 374 valid survey questionnaires. The results were analyzed and hypotheses were examined with the assistance of SPSS and LISREL. The results showed that: 1. Most of the participants received the information about Lukang Artist Village from their relatives, friends, the internet and TV broadcast. Most of the participants visited there with their relatives and friends. Participants of different age groups had different frequency of visiting Lukang Artist Village: Participants of 21-30 years old mostly visited it for 1-2 times; whereas participants of 50 or above mostly visited it for more than five times. 2. The results consisted with the hypotheses that attitude and perceived behavioral control would positively predict the intention to visit Lukang Artist Village. However, the results did not support the hypothesis that subjective norm would positively predict such intention. 3. According to the “Importance – Performance Analysis”, street artist performance, Lukang historic building guided tour, cultural and creative market and Lukang old photo guide were the four activities with most competitive advantages. Other activities had less priority to improve.

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Cordray, Kelly Dawn. "A prospective study of body image and eating behaviors in female prepubertal artistic gymnasts and BMI-matched nongymnasts controls." 2001. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/cordray%5Fkelly%5Fd%5F200108%5Fms.

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Cameron, Samuel, and Michael Reynolds. "The value of collecting a particular musical artist: the case of MiniDiscs." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9075.

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This paper adds to the limited economic literature on collecting behaviour by studying the price of musical works in the minidisc format. Over 1,000 MiniDisc prices are analysed using various estimating equations. The use of MiniDiscs allows the estimate of 'pure' collecting effects as there is no gain, in terms of listening content, from the purchase over other formats. What we observe in pricing can therefore be seen as premium for the fan of collecting a scarce item of product. Solo artists who had a tragic death commanded an estimated premium of around 86% using the power function with Greatest Hits having a premium of around 45% price. Both these were statistically significant at high levels.

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Nunes, Sílvia Isabel Simões. ""Who's got the Blues?" The Artistic Expression of African-Americans and Its Impact on Contemporary Popular Music." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/93368.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos de Cultura, Literatura e Línguas Modernas apresentada à Faculdade de Letras
The Blues are a musical genre that is first and foremost the product of the African-American experience in a context of violence, racism, and segregation. They also express a set of feelings permeated by culture. The name of the genre seems to be tied with emotions such as loss and heartbreak.Since the 1960s, when the Blues began to be considered a sophisticated musical genre, many scholars and artists have dedicated their lives to studying them, performing them and recreating them. The Blues are now considered the bedrock of modern popular American music and, bearing in mind the global impact of popular American music, it is legitimate to claim that the Blues are the bedrock of most modern popular music worldwide. This dissertation aims to show that the Blues, aside from being a pioneering form of African-American artistic expression which changed American culture, are also a way to express the diversity and complexity of all human emotions. I argue against the idea that the Blues are solely the expression of negative emotions, since they have always been feel-good music that people danced to. In this dissertation, I seek to expose the social construction of the emotions that led this group of people to come up with this musical genre. For that reason, the present work looks at blues lyrics from a literary perspective and analyses several examples, focusing on their cultural references and the emotions they express, and using Skinner’s Framework of Verbal Behaviour, bearing in mind how those emotions are the product of a particular historical and cultural experience.
Os Blues são um género musical nascido da experiência afro-americana num contexto de racismo, segregação e violência. São também a expressão de emoções permeadas de cultura. A designação que ganharam parece prender-se com estados emocionais como a perda e o desgosto amoroso. Desde a década de 60 do século XX, década em que os Blues começaram a ser considerados um género musical sofisticado, vários académicos dedicaram a sua carreira a estudá-los e muitos artistas a praticá-los e a recriá-los. Os Blues são considerados hoje a raiz da música popular moderna e contemporânea nos Estados Unidos e, tendo em conta o impacto global da mesma, é legítimo afirmar que os Blues são a raiz de grande parte da música popular moderna internacional. O objetivo desta dissertação é mostrar que os Blues, além de constituírem um contributo musical original e pioneiro afro-americano, capaz não só de marcar a cultura americana, mas também a música popular moderna internacional, são uma forma de expressar emoções humanas em toda a sua diversidade e complexidade. Contradizendo a ideia de que os Blues expressam apenas sentimentos negativos, pois eles também sempre caracterizaram pela sua capacidade de animar e fazer dançar, neste trabalho procuro evidenciar a construção cultural das emoções que levaram este grupo a exercitar estratégias de sobrevivência e resistência. Por isso também, esta dissertação valoriza as letras de Blues na sua qualidade literária e procura analisar como exemplo várias das letras, atentando às suas referências culturais e à carga emocional que expressam, seguindo para isso o modelo teórico de análise do comportamento verbal de Skinner, e tendo em conta como essas emoções são construídas por uma experiência histórico-cultural específica.

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Van, Zijl Carol Wendy. "A model for service rendering to meet the information needs of South African artists." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17785.

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This dissertation analysed the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of visual artists. An empirical survey was conducted on a sample of the more informationliterate visual artists in South Africa. A model of the information environment of South African visual artists was developed. This model provides a basis for another model which represents the optimal service that should be rendered to meet the needs of this user group. It was found that the general information needs of South African artists are fairly adequately met, but that there are several shortfalls, especially in serving their more complex information needs. The most important problems are the lack of training in the use of information sources and services, inadequate marketing of services and inadequate coverage of South African art. It was also found that greater coordination between service providers is urgently required, especially in the provision of information about South African art.
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Van, Wyk Vicki Alexandra Ross. "Performativity in art as reconstructions of the self in addressing conditions of depression." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1433.

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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Technology : Fine Arts, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2014.
The motivation for this research results from the notion that art-making is a regenerative enriching process that can counteract the sense of dislocation that one suffers as a consequence of depression. The study has two objectives: to open a discourse around the transformative function of art for a person suffering depression; and challenge notions of dominant constructed ideals of normality by presenting alternative realities of the performative mind. From the earliest memories of my life, I knew I did not fit in, I was not part of the crowd. Depression has been my companion ever since I can remember. The intention for this self-study is to interrogate the ways in which art can become a self-actualising process in coping with depression. The content for this research deals with narratives of the mind, that is, my understanding of who I am. I have therefore, positioned myself as the pivot for this research, drawing on authentic personal experiential knowledge. This autobiographical phenomenological study is thus a self-reflexive exploration addressing concepts of difference and belonging in relation to social constructs of acceptability. The study looks at contemporary concepts of multiple selves, relationality and the application of therapeutic methodologies within art practice. Art-making becomes games of truth, mind games that offer alternative realities and possibilities for the construction of complex, multi-faceted narratives as dialogues between the self and the inner critic. Of importance is the concept that self is not a fixed conclusive notion but one that continues to unfold, shift and become a multi-layered construct. These new narratives examine how creativity enables or creates a sense of belonging or re-positioning of one’s states of mind. The overall intention of the art-making process is its potential for transformative self-recovery processes – the re-construction of who we are, rather than how we are perceived. This research thus examines the notion of belonging in this world through body/land enactments of ritualised behaviour. The body as metaphor investigates rites of passage as the re-tellings of one’s story within specific body/site/space relationships. The ideal of connection to site is central as a means of renewal and recovery – these performative relationships become the creative meaning-making processes of locating or positionality. In support of these ideas and concepts, the work of Ana Mendieta, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Suzanne Lacy are considered in relation to ideals of positionality and as reflecting each artist’s ethics or paradigms of equality. Artworks are examined against the notion of locating oneself within social contexts. The aim is to question the intention and outcomes of art-making as social function in dealing with issues of marginalisation and stigma. Performativity, personal writings/reflections and memory drawings are the quintessential tools of my art-making. The written psychological renderings and unravellings of my mind, questionings that are both reflexive and critical, are intentionally presented in dialogical, conversational and direct modes. This personal tone aims to allow a scope into my mind – it is my perspective from the inside, my voice, my personal understanding of the potential of art as a metaphorical process of transformation. Lacy asserts that the artist becomes a witness, reporter and analyst for socio-culturally biased concerns; a performance gives public articulation and permission to speak out loud, gives voice to internal dialogues, reveal information that requires questioning and that personal individual experience has profound social implications. Lacy believes that it is an innate human need to reflect on the meaning of one’s life and one’s work (2010:176-177). Central to the findings of this study, are both the transgressive and transformative functions of art.
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