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Fozard, Roxanne. "Ghostcards of WA: An exhibition of oil paintings on linen – and – Repositioning the Denkbild: A painting investigation into deaths in custody in 21st century Western Australia: An exegesis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2155.
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Having a personal connection through several family members to the life and work of Ngaanyatjarra Elder Mr Ward, I found his death in custody in outback Western Australia unsettling and incomprehensible. As the circumstances of his death were revealed, I became aware of glaring omissions in the telling of his story and the circumstances that led to his death. Through my engagement with the subsequent media reporting, official documents and personal conversations, I recognised a profound lack of understanding of difference and otherness within a shared history and space in Western Australia. The initial aim of my project was to investigate the incomprehensible through the lens of Ngaanyatjarra Elder Mr Ward’s death; however, ethically, this proved a difficult path to negotiate. Through my research, I came to understand that the continued use of the dominant language of the coloniser, which is embedded in social practices and academic discourse is, in part, continuing to perpetuate white privilege. The ethical problems raised inspired me to develop an approach, which although oblique, would nevertheless enable fresh insight into otherness and difference in a multi-cultural society. The particular concern of this practice-led research project is not to exploit the trauma of others but to raise awareness of this social space through my work, giving rise to new understandings and possible relations.
This research gathered key texts from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to facilitate the transfer of the written form of Denkbild, a literary device manipulating the codes of language to visualise the process of thought, into a painting practice. The Denkbild (thought-image) is a Euro-centric genre of exploratory philosophical writing, crafted in response to a society witnessing tremendous change as a result of the devastating impact of WWI and WWII. Through this creative project, the challenge was to re-activate the Denkbild through painting and accompanying text to investigate deaths in custody and interrogate the connected issues of ethics, politics and inequality, which is written into the shared spaces of Western Australia. The Denkbild is then developed further with the addition of Henri Lefebvre’s threedimensional spatial application of dialectical thinking and the creative practice of selected Australian artists. Through this addition, the binary dialectical framework of the Denkbild is expanded to reflect contemporary thinking on the concept of space as a social product. This perspective emerges to enable fresh insight into Aboriginal understandings of space as representing an ‘eternal now’, such that a mutual understanding of space is manifested. My painting practice reflects and informs this transition, as I moved from the painting studio to selected locations to record information and experiences that developed my research position.
To achieve the project’s aims, I engaged in reflexivity and praxis as the methodological tools to guide my research. Through painting, my research extended across interdisciplinary fields including visual arts practices, philosophical history and literature, to interrogate a spatial dynamic, revealing marginalised insights and connecting interrelationships between sites. For the purpose of this research, the paintings, exhibitions and exegesis function on two levels: as an avenue into mediation of Western Australian culture and as a methodological approach to visual art practice. My research culminated in the exhibition, Ghostcards of WA 2017 at the Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley. This project is significant as it renews the Denkbild to further the unique relationship between conceptual and representational categories that binds together experience, object and practice to form an interrogative tool for critical inquiry. In the application of this method to a Western Australian context, new thinking is encouraged through the inclusive reading of space and the collapsing of misunderstandings perpetuated in historicism through a shared recognition of the inherent value of space/sites which— far from being incomprehensible, reactive, nostalgic and solipsistic—are comprehensible, active, prescient, abundant and social.
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Messemer, Heike, Walpola Layantha Perera, Matthias Heinz, Florian Niebling, and Ferdinand Maiwald. "Supporting Learning in Art History – Artificial Intelligence in Digital Humanities Education." TUDpress, 2020. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A73553.
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In recent years and especially in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, digital distance learning increases. But for academic students, the selection of adequate learning materials for educational purposes is becoming more and more complex. This marks only one starting point where the use of artificial intelligence (AI) offers additional value. AI has a great potential to enhance and support research and education in the field of digital humanities (DH). As international organisations have just expressed their thoughts on the subject, AI is the topic par excellence and will decisively shape the future development of educational processes.
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Flores, Pedro. "Transculturation and Hybridization in New World Baroque Art: A Study of a New World Identity as Defined by History and Art." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/54.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze New World Baroque art as a medium of syncretism allowing the reconciliation and fusion of discrepant cultures. This study will explore the region of New Spain as defined by the Baroque period by analyzing Mexico as a place whose identity was defined by the transcultural and hybrid components of the Baroque and as a place where a New World Baroque aesthetic first started to appear. Transculturation and hybridization will be analyzed historically and aesthetically as factors for the creation of a New World Identity. The term New World Baroque will be used to define art in the Spanish colonies during the Baroque period, the term New Spain will be used to refer to colonial Mexico, transculturation will refer to the exchange of ideas and intermingling of cultures and hybridization will refer to the outcomes of such. This analysis will begin by providing a definition of Baroque with the purpose of establishing an understanding of the main characteristics of the movement aesthetically and chronologically. Spain will be analyzed to provide evidence of the effects of coming into contact with a multicultural society on the Baroque aesthetic; followed by a historical analysis of the events that would result in the creation of the new world. Then transculturation will be analyzed as an answer to the conquest and as guided by the Catholic Church. Then a timeline will list important events leading up to the Baroque period, and finally an exploration of hybrid art will serve to exemplify a well-established hybrid identity culminating with a brief analysis of some of Frida Kahlo’s work as an embodiment of the New World Baroque aesthetic.
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Bretschneider, Miette. "The Bauhaus: Understanding its History and Relevance to Art Education Today." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/53.
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I am interested in how the ideas of the Bauhaus shaped not only today’s world of art education, but also the outlook of the German nation during the early 20th century and today. It appears that art is not as prevalent as it once was, whereas fields like science and engineering have become popular. However, the ingenuity of the Bauhaus has lasted into this century and continues to have an impact on our American education system, as well as our ideas about art. As part of my thesis, I am comparing the classes I have taken at East Tennessee State University with those courses taught at the Bauhaus. Many of my art pieces are exploration of materials and my subjective artistic outlook. For example these subjects included weaving, metalsmithing, printmaking, and ceramics. I am placing most emphasis on the significance of the famous Bauhaus Preliminary Course, the Vorkurs, and how our education was closely linked to that of 1920s Germany.
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Couser, Kristie. "Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/484.
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Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical project intersects with exhibitions that give prominence to Morisot’s work. Critical reviews by Morisot scholars argue that more frequent display of the artist’s work has not correlated to nuanced interpretation. Moreover, prominent feminist scholars and museum theorists maintain that curators virtually exclude their contributions. Attending to these recurrent concerns, this thesis charts shifts in emphases and inquiry in writing centered on Morisot to survey the extent to which curators convey new constructions of her artistic, social, and historical identities. This analysis will observe how distinct exhibition forms—the retrospective, the Impressionism blockbuster, and the gendered “women Impressionists” show—may frame Morisot’s work differently according to their organizing principles.
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Caceres, Jara Luis Fernando. "A PICTORIAL ESSAY ABOUT ART AND MIGRATION." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6343.
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The essays opens with a discussion about the terms: Storia and Storie and their English equivalent History’ and ‘Story/Stories’. As a migrant artist I explore, transform and translate Andean – and other ancient – myths, legends and rituals into contemporary pieces of art, for which Storia and Storie are fundamental. Aiming to critically engage with and contextualize my own practice, several historical examples of artists who have used pictorial narrations are presented. On the process of contextualizing my own practise, the essay engages in understanding the multi-layered components of some historic paintings such the Miracle of the cross by Bellini, or The slave ship by Turner to offer more complete and complex reading of its existence. The final part start defining the concept of the word protrusion. Taking from the language of science of conservation, the word on the essay is applied to the discussion of migration and art. On the presumption that art is a reflection of cultural heritage and traditions, art pieces can symbolically recapture past people’s forms of thoughts and re-embody their emotions individual and collective memory.
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Walker, Jan Bridwell. "The evidence of Bias within Art Historical Methodolgy and the Potentiality of Viewer Dialog as a Pedegogical Tool." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/891.
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The evidence of cultural and social partiality within the methodology of art history has influenced the manner in which art is presented to the public. The formally structured and often obsolete methods of the earliest art historians continue to influence the telling of art history today, relying on and emphasizing art historical fact over the viewer's personal interaction and interpretation.
The traditional structure of both the public art museum and art education course rely on the classical methodologies of the past, resulting in the presentation of the object as historically and socially removed from the viewer's own experience.
The role of the art historian should cease to be one of translator, but rather one of facilitator to the artistic exchange. It is through this intentional dialog between artist, viewer and art object that authentic enlightenment occurs.
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Depew, Michael Lee. "The Tension between Art and Science in Historical Writing." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1057.
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A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task.
The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined along side art to discuss not only the similarities but, the differences.
Major similarities—narrative presentation, emplotation, and the selective nature of historical evidence—between history and fiction are critiqued. A word study of the Greek word ίστοριά will show the essential difference between history and literature. The essential nature of the historical task can best be revealed in the differences between history and art.
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Wescoat, Ruby. "The History of the World." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1177.
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This Thesis is my effort to understand what subjects I find interesting and why. In the processes of writing and making sculpture, I discovered that my underlying fascination is in history. I am interested in places and objects for their individual qualities, but I also want to know how they relate to the world. If I am drawn to an ancient place or object, I want to examine how it fits into the contemporary world, and visa versa. The complexity of these relationships is increased by the vast number of histories (or stories) that are intertwined in the world. Over the course of the thesis I write about my various influences, and the development of my work from undergraduate to graduate school. This progression has been from observation of natural world to a more complex questioning of how the world came to be what it is. I conclude by defining the direction in which I want my work to continue: directly along the border between myth and reality.
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Aisha, Al-Sowaidi. "Finding History In The Future." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3140.
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Change and development over an extremely fast period of time in Qatar have shifted the atmospheric sense of the country. The distance created by the skyscrapers and their scale to people has a great impact on the behavior and interaction between the people and the city. In my research, I aim to incorporate the old experiences and behaviors with contemporary design in objects used within the house to maintain the feeling of being home through reliving the fading behaviors and traditions as well as bringing closer the modern city into the home through the use of materials. Through experimentation with human behaviors, materials and senses, I create a series of projects that deal with memory, nostalgia, and traces of time.
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Alvarez, Andrea. "Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2012. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/439.
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In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ stated intention for the exhibition installation was to provide “a fresh chance for new generations of artists to come to terms with a legendary figure” and to enable “the broader public to reassess a quintessentially American artist in light of three decades of new scholarship,” without “ hewing to any particular critical dogma.” Despite this curatorial intention, this thesis examines the ways in which the retrospective inscribed Greenberg’s and Rosenberg’s theories, while disregarding subsequent scholarship that did not explicitly inscribe or align with the mid-century criticism in its account of Jackson Pollock.
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Duffy, Owen. "Anish Kapoor: The Formation of a Global Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/508.
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This study intends to investigate British artist Anish Kapoor’s stylistic formation in relationship to globalization, positing its history as a multiplicity, comprised of several competing localisms, including: minimalism; the traditions of modern painting; and the artist’s own personal diasporic narrative. It will demonstrate how Kapoor is a transgressive global artist, concerned not only with rethinking the longstanding question of artistic form, but also with the enduring process central to the cultural formation of subjects. Overall, this thesis will propose that Kapoor’s art in particular can be comprehended by the special liminal position it occupies between such polarities as modern and postmodern art, painting and sculpture, East and West, national and trans-national, and local and global. By transgressing the borders that demarcate these discourses, Kapoor’s art enters an in-between state; through both formal and thematic strategies, his sculptural forms orchestrate viewers so they are able to move beyond distinct, fixed, and stabile meanings and view the works as eminently open to the different perspectives and radically diverse discourses they engage, making them truly global works of art.
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Parker, Angela. "The History and Educational Legacy of the Manchester Art Museum, 1886-1898." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/623.
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This thesis examines the history of the Manchester Art Museum (Manchester, England), which was founded by Thomas Coglan Horsfall (1841-1932) in 1886. It considers the museum’s permanent collections and its programming from 1886 to 1898 with brief notes on the later years of the institution. While, like previous work on the Manchester Art Museum, the thesis contextualizes the museum within Victorian arts and community institutions, it breaks new ground by highlighting the ways in which it diverged from these institutions. The analysis of the museum’s collections and programming emphasizes the contributions that Horsfall and the Art Museum Committee made to museum education through the museum’s circulating loan collections and school tours.
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Cavazos, Nina. "The Art of Devotion: Style, Culture, and Practice in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4878.
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This thesis critically examined gutkas – illuminated, pocket-sized anthologies of texts, hymns, and prayers that a Hindu would recite in a sacred place in the home, usually near an altar – produced in the Kashmir Valley during the mid-nineteenth century. Previously relegated to the periphery of scholarly discourse due to academic discriminations against “folk” culture, the goal here was to consider these objects and their paintings through the combined lenses of art history, cultural history, and religious studies in order to speak about gutkas in a deeper and more meaningful way. Here, gutkas from Utah State University, the Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Galleries, and the British Library were used as a tool to situate their makers within intricate familial webs of artistic practice, identify patterns of consumption and attitudes of ownership among a South Asian middle class, and reconstruct the objects’ function within Hindu devotional practice.
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Moran, Kelly Drum. "Why Not Kinkade? An Evaluation of the Conditions Effecting an Artists Exclusion from Academic Criticism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1390.
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Though prevalent in non-academic debate, the subject of Thomas Kinkade and his artwork is discernibly absent from the realm of academic discourse. This paper is an investigation into that condition and the circumstances for its perpetuation. Central to the issue is Kinkade's art theory and practice, which establishes his coexistence in both the art and business domains, creating inherent contradictions. Further explication is revealed through an evaluation of the contemporary criticism of four posthumously canonized artists: William Blake, Phillip Otto Runge, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Rousseau. Consistencies among them correlate to the treatment of Thomas Kinkade, suggesting a common art historical methodology in operation. An evaluation of these findings generates alternative perspectives for considering his artwork and presents the possibility for relevant, engaging research into concerns well beyond its aesthetic merit.
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Sheehan, Molly Elaine. "GLORIOUS CONSTRUCTIONS: The Struggle to Preserve Salvation-Themed Visionary Art Environments." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2010. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/447.
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Salvation-themed art environments are a roadside rarity, built out of a strong visionary dedication to God, but the sites are disappearing simply because the work is misunderstood. The historiography on the subject is sparse, trending more toward coffee table books with big glossy pictures than real scholarly endeavors, but the consensus among all has been clear. The sites are a valuable part of the recent American cultural landscape, crossing several scholarly fields - art, architecture, and history - and uniting them into a cohesive preservation movement. On a series of trips to visit, see, and experience five of these sites, I began to understand the massive scale that each site required to assemble and exactly what it would take to restore and preserve each site. The preservation goal is not small, but it is not unattainable. There are federal grants, nonprofit groups and localized support committees from which to gather support so that the site may continue to be a piece of history.
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Brooke, Magdalene A. "Mauerkunst, lebenskunst: an anlysis of the art on the Berlin Wall." Scripps College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,8.
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The art on the Berlin Wall has been looked at often for its social and political meaning. Instead, I intend to look at the artwork and text which appeared on the Berlin Wall as art. In this paper I will discuss the formal aspects of the art on the Berlin Wall as well as its import as an example of public art and as a forum created through visual representation.
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Fox, Peter Holden. "Textual apparitions: power, language, and site in the work of Jenny Holzer." Pomona College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,10.
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Jenny Holzer's text-based projects have attracted the attention of critics, historians, and curators from Des Moines to Dresden. An understanding of the complex interplay between language, gender, power, and site within Holzer's work demonstrates how a singular interpretive approach is insufficient for discussing the multitude of meanings her projects produce. Perhaps most significantly, a fresh analysis of Holzer's work and critical reactions to it challenges the story of modernism and postmodernism and the relationship between these two terms.
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Ahmanson, Kathryn. "Images of the Part Sharing Stories for the Future: The Social, Political, and Aesthetic Influence of Chicana Revisionist Muralism in Los Angeles." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2272.
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Through the analysis of Judy Baca's mural, The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Baca's reevaluates muralism to create her revisionist take on the Mexican tradition of muralism. The piece combines different cultural and historical perspectives that convey the diversity of California, and bring people together through shared experiences. In addition to portraying the histories of minority races, ethnicities, religions and sexuality, the piece was created by a diverse team of community members who each contributed their own viewpoints to the piece. Unlike the traditional practice of muralism, Baca works with community members to create a mural that includes a varied sense of identity so as to facilitate social change and foster community.
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Molina, Martinez Miguel-Angel. "Photographier la peinture : de la photographie document de l'oeuvre à la photographie de notation." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00779308.
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Les taches de couleur au sol ont toujours existé dans l'atelier. Je ne sais comment, subitement, un jour, je lesai vues, non pas comme une saleté "pittoresque", mais comme de la peinture, une peinture sur le sol, desprolongations du tableau en dehors de ses limites. J'ai photographié ces taches de peinture comme d'autresphénomènes périphériques au tableau. La pratique photographique à l'atelier a généré des documents quiincarnaient un regard sur la peinture en train de se faire. Je pense aujourd'hui que cette activité photographiquea largement contribué à une prise de conscience de mon travail en peinture et de ce qu'il est devenu par lasuite. L'enregistrement photographique des oeuvres fait partie de ce que l'on pourrait appeler la production dedocuments pour l'archive. Ces images sont destinées à la préservation d'une mémoire, à la création de dossiersou bien à l'illustration de sites Internet ou de publications.J'ai constaté chez d'autres peintres de ma génération, que le passage au numérique a non seulement développéle travailde postproduction directement lié à l'enregistrement des oeuvres -le plus souvent assumé par l'artistelui-même-, mais qu'il a aussi facilité une activité photographique parallèle que certains artistes assimilent à dela notation ou du croquis. Photographier son propre travail implique de donner à voir, en même temps queles oeuvres, le regard que nous portons sur elles. Mais la plupart du temps, ces images sont des documents.Le devenir-oeuvre de l'archive tient à une opération par laquelle, d'après Olivier Corpet, l'archive évite à l'oeuvrede se renfermer sur elle-même, de se dégrader, voire de se perdre: l'archive peut alors lui sauver la mise, laremettre en mouvement
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Coffey, Roland M. "Expressionism and Ethnography: Max Pechstein in Nidden and Palau." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4004.
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This thesis offers a new way to conceptualize Hermann Max Pechstein’s “primitivism” as a kind of ethnographic “primitivism.” By creating a constellation that connects Pechstein’s Nidden and Palau-based projects, Paul Gauguin’s “primitivist” aesthetic, and the research produced by German ethnographers, I argue that the “documentary” nature of Pechstein’s work paradoxically merges the “scientific” aspects of ethnography with his, and more generally, other Expressionists’ interest in the “primitive.” In addition, the following work demonstrates that the purportedly “scientific” representations and visual accounts of South Seas natives that ethnographers like Otto Finsch produced in the late 1800s and early 1900s heavily and problematically relied on an aestheticization of these foreign people that renders them as decorative, “exotic” objects, which are in many ways subjugated to the gaze of and “on display” for the Westerners examining them. This thesis ultimately focuses on how Pechstein’s representations of people from Palau effectively combine the style typical of most Expressionists and an impulse towards ethnographic depiction not seen in the work of his Brücke colleagues.
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Radway, Robyn Dora. "In the name of Saint George : ivory saddles from the fifteenth century." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1311.
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Bruno, Elsa L. "Exemplary Equines: Gazes and Gesture of Bovine Animals in Trecento Fresco." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/383.
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Horses were high status animals in the middle ages. Strong, costly, and used in war, they symbolized power and wealth. Yet in some Trecento Italian frescos, horses take on another role. Particularly through their eyes, ears, and body positioning they seem to communicate with each other regarding the religious scenes at hand. Additionally, horses are often the only beings paying attention to Jesus or God, or are the sole beings who break the fourth wall of an image to engage with the viewer. While the revolutionary use of gesture and eye movement has been examined in humans in these frescoes, horses (and other bovine animals) have been left out of the conversation. Why are these animals seemingly the most aware and mentally active beings? Particularly remarkable frescos incorporate horses in this way in Florence, Padua, and Assisi, and San Gimignano. Giotto di Bondone, Pietro Lorenzetti, Taddeo Gaddi, Andrea di Bonaiuto, Altichiero da Zevio, Lippo Memmi (and their schools and assistants), completed large scale fresco cycles in churches in these cities that retain their importance and magnificence today. Eight panels from these cycles will be examined for their treatment of horses as a vehicle for emotional communication, in chronological order.
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Ren, Josephine. "Islamic Ceramics, Indelible Creations: Assessing and Preserving the Scripps Collection." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1353.
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This research project examines and documents the collection of Islamic ceramics at Scripps College from an art conservation standpoint. The main objectives were to establish provenance for these objects, assess their current conditions, propose recommendations for future preservation, and discuss the importance of preventive conservation and general collections care methods. Based on my survey and research, I demonstrated which objects in particular should be prioritized due to their states of conservation and significant educational value. Such objects raise further points of departure regarding authenticity and conservation ethics.
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Zacovic, Kelly. "Mapping the Mediterranean: Bartolommeo da li Sonetti and the Isolario Tradition." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3016.
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This thesis provides a detailed analysis of an Isolario, or a printed book of maps of the Aegean Islands, created in 1485 by an anonymous author called Bartolommeo da li Sonetti. Through a thorough analysis of the material properties and content of the book, this thesis seeks to revise previous scholarly interpretations of this long under-studied work of cartography. Examination of five extant copies of the 1485 Isolario and the alterations made to the pages by their owners reveals much about how the volume was consumed, read and utilized in fifteenth and sixteenth century. In opposition to previous conceptions of this work as a functional travel guide used by mariners to navigate the Aegean, this thesis argues that instead, the information contained in the book only provides superficial resemblances to functionally useful content and was instead consumed by an elite audience of ‘arm chair travellers.’
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Timney, Todd F. "Design History Matters: Visualizing Graphic Design History Through New Media." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/38.
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New media's emerging influence on society and the design profession is profound. Currently unrealized, the intersection of graphic design history and digital media is an area worthy of further examination. For graphic designers trained in the design of fixed content for traditional media, new media's challengeto develop open-ended systems that adapt to dynamic content, customization, and multiple authorshipcan be unsettling. But the potential benefits of this exploration are many. The ability to synthesize video, sound, static imagery, and textual information to present interactive content that adapts to the contemporary history of graphic design student's multi-modal and mobile lifestyle will provide a significant advantage.
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Hansson, Amanda. "Jon Rafman at Zabludowicz Collection : A study in Reception aesthetics." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-274993.
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In this study, I will be applying Art historian Wolfgang Kemp’s theory of the aesthetics of reception as described in the article The Work of Art and Its Beholder: The Methodology of the Aesthetic of Reception (1998) to the Jon Rafman solo exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection in London (2015). A close study has been carried out on a selection of exhibition objects, as well as the exhibition space, to investigate how they address and interact with the beholder. An examination of Rafman’s art practice will also be disclosed. Throughout the study I will answer the following questions; How are the influences that inspired the exhibition, presented in the exhibition?, How do Jon Rafman’s installations at Zabludowicz Collection engage the beholder? And, how can the composition of the exhibition space be described?
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Bouchon, François. "GRILLE ET COMPLEXITE. : Analyse de l'entrecroisement régulier de lignes dans l'histoire de l'art." Phd thesis, Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00690877.
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La grille tient une place problématique dans l'histoire de l'art. Le critique y voit une structure abstraite, un signe pictural, une originalité recouvrant la rupture posée début xxème entre peinture et histoire. Or, le cubisme, sensément initial, se montre pluriel et perclus de résonances classiques. D'où, ressortent l'idée de charnière et la nécessité de définir d'abord la grille comme forme, possibilité de structure et qui peut faire sens. Mondrian retourne le tableau brunelleschien puis, fort de Braque, tente de mettre en phase représentation plane et plan de représentation. Par son œil, l'objet devient ainsi << division du mur" et, poussée l'outrance, la grille se réduit à un modèle architectural. Ceci dit, son ultime période suggère que la forme sait autrement répondre d'un modèle textile (le tressage). Matisse, lui, emprunte au tapis qui privilégiele nœud, le module, non la ligne. La grille textile revêt trois variantes, étrangères en termes d'extension et de processus. Le modèle architectural reconnaît ces versions. Un cas unique favorisant le nœud fait ressurgir un troisième modèle: cartographique. Sa variante nodale (le marteloire) se retrouve chez Mondrian (en écho à l'histoire de la peinture hollandaise) et chez Braque (sans plus de raison que formelle). La relation à l'œuvre d'art, propice au<< fictionnement ", et son anachronisme expliquent la qualité anhistorique de la forme. Psychologie et anthropologie aidant, une stratégie émerge, permettant (selon certains critères dont le marteloire pour schème) de l'étudier à l'œuvre scientifiquement (non seulement pour document), tel un complexe production-réception duquel la rencontre se rejoue indéfiniment.
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Guyonneau, Sébastien. "L'art de la biodiversité : étude des liens entre la notion de diversité biologique et le champ des arts plastiques." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00757277.
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Les pratiques artistiques, notamment depuis l'époque des Grandes Découvertes, ont été en liaison étroite avec les avancées scientifiques et technologiques. Les richesses naturelles qui s'offraient aux explorateurs furent l'origine d'une tradition des représentations naturalistes, sans cesse renouvelée par la description de nouvelles espèces animales et végétales. Or, au XXIe siècle, l'humanité est contemporaine d'une baisse sans précédent de la diversité biologique mondiale, dont elle est l'observatrice mais aussi la responsable. La biodiversité est une notion qui prend actuellement toute son importance dans un contexte d'inquiétude face aux problèmes environnementaux en éveillant des volontés écologiques, notamment dans les milieux artistiques. Cette recherche propose deux visions complémentaires : celle qui suppose que la diversité biologique porte en elle une manifestation artistique, et celle qui évoque une forme d'art dont la source est la biodiversité. L'ensemble de ces investigations est soutenu et alimenté par une pratique de plasticien naturaliste développée depuis une dizaine d'années. Des illustrations botaniques aux représentations multimédia, des descriptions zoologiques aux démarches conceptuelles de l'art écologique, des cabinets de curiosité aux créations biotechnologiques, les liens entre les pratiques passées et contemporaine sont la source d'une étude hybride, entre arts plastiques et sciences du vivant.
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Goodkin, Carly. "La Desnuda Rebelde y el Bodegón Subversivo: Una Reinterpretación del Arte de Olga Costa y María Izquierdo." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/759.
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This paper explores the art of Olga Costa and María Izquierdo. The history of the Mexican revolution is outlined and then presented again with a focus on women’s issues and involvement. Next is a discussion of national identity construction after the revolution, with attention paid to the role of the “Big Three,” muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros. While scholars often credit male artists for their involvement in this process, the contributions of female artists tend to be overlooked. Although the work of female artists is often portrayed as limited to their personal experiences, this thesis argues that women’s work subverted hegemonic narratives and images that homogenized Mexican national identity building, and thus reveal valuable perspectives on post-revolutionary Mexican society. Specific topics explored include subversions of representations of female beauty, challenging of the role of women in Mexican society and patriarchies in general, and the creative use of symbols in order to avoid objectifying women while representing themes pertaining to Mexico. This thesis engages with scholarly works that perpetuate traditional readings of Costa and Izquierdo’s work as primarily autobiographical and limited in scope as well as more progressive critiques that recognize the social significance of these artists. A variety of paintings are analyzed in detail, including Costa and Izquierdo’s portraits of nude and clothed women, Izquierdo’s series of allegorical pieces and still lifes, and Costa’s masterpiece “La Vendedora.” This thesis is written in Spanish.
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Karam, Samantha. "Art and Becoming-Animal: Reconceptualizing the Animal Imagery in Dorothea Tanning's Post-1955 Paintings." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/470.
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In 1955, American artist Dorothea Tanning abandoned her figurative Surrealist renderings of dream-like scenarios in favor of a complexly abstract and fragmented style of painting. With few exceptions, the ways in which Tanning’s later works function independently of her earlier paintings tends to be downplayed in the scholarship on her oeuvre. Equally sparse is the scholarship on Tanning’s dog imagery, which pervades her oeuvre but becomes most apparent in her later phase. This thesis seeks to shift attention toward Tanning’s later abstract paintings; it also seeks to fill the gap in scholarship on Tanning’s dogs. Specifically, through the study of five Tanning paintings from the late 1950s and 1960s, with the theoretical aid of Deleuze and Guattari’s conception of the becoming-animal, this thesis will investigate how Tanning’s post-1955 paintings create and promote new ways for viewers to think about the relations between humans and animals in the human-dominated modern world.
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Rhodes, James W. Jr. "An Analysis of Visual and Verbal Appropriates in Mark Tansey's Philosophers Paintings." VCU Scholars Compass, 1997. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/37.
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Critics have considered the work of Mark Tansey either simplistic or accessible only to viewers with extensive art historical backgrounds. His paintings hang in the best museums of the world, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. However, an inherent conflict arises. For critics, Tansey must be either accessible or inaccessible, and not both. Yet, Tansey's paintings operate precisely on this edge between the extraordinarily simple and the overwhelmingly complex. To understand the complexities of this dilemma it would be helpful to analyze Tansey's paintings that deal with philosophers and literary critics, which are the most complicated works in his oeuvre. The philosophers included within these paintings are: Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Harold Bloom, Paul DeMan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Geoffrey Hartman, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. All are postmodernists working in opposition to the reductionist rhetoric of mid-twentieth century modernism. This thesis will consider his images of philosophers that include Mont Sainte-Victorie (1987), The Bathers (1987), Derrida Queries DeMan (1990), and Constructing the Grand Canyon (1990) as the confluence and conflict of ideas that deal with words and images.
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Chauvin, Marilyn. "Relecture des multiples facettes du féminin sacré et profane." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00742988.
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L'Art a toujours consacré une grande part à l'image du féminin. Que cela soit dans l'iconographie gréco-romaine ou judéo-chrétienne, ses multiples représentations sont synonymes de confusion et d'ambivalence. La femme et l'image ont en commun de susciter méfiance et fascination. C'est au travers de l'étude approfondie de quelques figures clefs de l'histoire de l'art, que nous vous proposons une relecture post-féministe des diverses facettes du féminin, prises dans la dyade sacré/profane. Mythes et croyances donnèrent naissance à un métissage pagano-chrétien qui fit émerger un Eternel Féminin inébranlable encore très prégnant dans l'art actuel. Tantôt dans la foi de l'image, tantôt dans sa condamnation, ainsi se résume l'insoluble combat entre l'humain et le divin. La Femme restera à jamais l'élément trouble associé au paraître et à la beauté. Dans nos recherches nous avons constaté que la femme et la peinture sont en parfaite adéquation. Elles sont indissociables car iconoclasme et misogynie vont souvent de pair. Peu à peu, le corps remplacera la toile et le fard, la peinture pour les artistes transgenres. Dans d'étranges (queer) parodies entre exhibition et chamanisme, ils réinventeront leur devenir-féminin. La surface de l'œuvre devient alors le miroir où se reflète cet Autre, alter ego tant recherché. La pensée féministe se met en marche au travers des révolutions des genres et des sexes. Ainsi, c'est entre Pygmalion et Narcisse que les artistes des XXéme et XXIéme siècles, nous offrent, entre mascarade et mélancolie, la vision d'un idéal sans original. Enfin, nous revenons sur l'art des femmes. Leurs pratiques sont souvent borderline, partagées entre violence, humour et Charis dans leur quête d'un sacré hors religion. Elles offrent un devenir-pandorien de l'art pour briser à jamais le désormais trop célèbre : " Sois belle et tais toi! "
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Spears, Jessica, and Deyse Bravo. "Art in the Library: Using the Digital Commons Platform to Preserve Library Exhibits." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/dcseug/2018/schedule/4.
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McKee Library has cultivated relationships with local artists as well as partnered with several departments on campus to exhibit a variety of art works in different mediums throughout the year. We have used our digital commons platform to digitally preserve these exhibits, promote the artists, and encourage future partnerships. In our presentation, we will discuss the following: developing partnerships around campus and the community, artist agreements, creation of digital exhibits, and gallery promotion.
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Birchler, Susan. "Ecological Art: Ruth Wallen and Cultural Activism." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001969.
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Banacki, Amanda C. "Spiritual seascapes : finding God in the waters of John Frederick Kensett." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1237.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Dupeyrat, Jérôme. "Les livres d'artistes entre pratiques alternatives à l'exposition et pratiques d'exposition alternatives." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00772314.
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Cette thèse envisage le phénomène du livre d'artiste tel qu'il se développe dans sa relation à la notion et à la pratique d'exposition depuis les années 1960. L'exposition est ici considérée selon un double point de vue : d'une part comme le dispositif institutionnel le plus courant de manifestation de l'art ; d'autre part comme une fonction se rapportant à la visibilité des oeuvres. Il apparaît alors que les livres et les éditions d'artistes peuvent s'appréhender entre pratiques alternatives à l'exposition et pratiques d'exposition alternatives. Pratiques d'exposition alternatives dans la mesure où le livre et l'imprimé sont potentiellement des modes de visibilité de l'art ; pratiques alternatives à l'exposition parce que ce moyen de visibilité est très différent de ce que l'on nomme usuellement une exposition. À travers l'étude de cette tension dialectique entre l'édition et l'exposition, il s'agit de préciser quelle est l'économie artistique et quelles sont les conditions de réception esthétique que proposent les livres et les éditions d'artistes, et ainsi de comprendre en quel sens et à l'égard de quelles normes ou de quelles instances ils ont une valeur dite " alternative ". De la sorte, il est également question de la place qu'occupentles livres d'artistes dans le système de l'art contemporain et des effets qu'ils exercent sur celui-ci
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Strömgren, Teresia. "What is concealed from the eye of the beholder : A technical analysis of Amor and Psyche." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182625.
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The oil on canvas painting Amor and Psyche attributed to Flemish artist Denys Calvaert in 1568 has subdued UV, IR and X-ray analysis. The result of these multispectral analysis provided a point of departure from the concept of materiality for further reasoning regarding: attribution, provenience, art period, display and panting technique. The painting is dated though not signed, and the dating is not consistent with Calvert’s signatures. The art period is coherent with the date. Marks, seals and conservation status might support its considerable age. The paintings mythological subject and painting technique might imply that it was destined for a private broad art market in Bologna. The painting technique in IR and X-ray show a relined canvas with an Italian 16th Century traditional built up painting layers, little underdrawing, little tracing and compositional changes. In comparison to a similar version of the subject attributed to Lorenzo Sabatini, it is plausible one version made by pupil Calvaert sprung from one composition in his master Sabatini’s workshop.
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Watts, Chelsea Anne. "Painting Parisian Identity: Place and Subjectivity in Fin-de-siecle art." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3403.
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In this thesis I provide analysis of several nineteenth-century artworks in order to elucidate the connections between place and identity as expressed in visual representations of Paris. I utilize Bakhtin's idea of the dialogical as a means of identifying multiple subject positions that might be accessed by particular individuals who live in socially constructed spaces specific to fin-de-siècle Paris. I discuss the construction of three performed identities unique to nineteenth-century Paris: the Flâneur, the bohemian, and the primitivist. In each chapter I will parse out the social construction of the spaces where these identities existed and were performed, and link those identities to their discursive functions as particular models of Parisian life. I will discuss the relationship of each representation of identity to Henri Lefebvre's concept of socially-produced space through analysis of the stylistic and compositional choices made by the artist. The visual artworks I discuss include Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Vincent van Gogh's The Outskirts of Paris, Night Café, and Café Terrace at Night, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's Jane Avril and Divan Japonais.
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Hill, Whitney LeeAnn. "FROM PRACTICE TO PERFORMANCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BALLET IN DEGAS’S DANCER PAINTING PROCESS." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/art_etds/16.
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The context in which any artist creates an artwork is integral to understanding its significance, and one crucial aspect of context is how a work was created. When first looking at how Edgar Degas created his dancer paintings, his process seems simple- he watched the dancers and then painted what he saw. However, that is only a surface examination of a much more complicated system of observation, practice, repetition, mastery, and reproduction. This thesis investigates how Degas bridged the gap between observation and understanding of balletic technique; how deep his knowledge of balletic technique was; and if Degas did have a deep understanding of balletic technique, what process he utilized to gain that knowledge. It reconstructs the process Degas utilized to learn and then reproduce the repertoire of the Paris Opéra ballet by pairing visual analysis of specific works with my own knowledge of ballet technique as a dancer of twenty years. Ultimately, this study reveals that Degas learned how to dance classical ballet by mimicking the process ballerinas used to learn how to dance: first watching, then doing, and finally performing.
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Fassie, Vanessa Laure. "reunion: A Journey Through History, Symbolism, and Fear." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/794.
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The contents here in examine the artistic process undertaken by Vanessa Fassie to create the mixed media work, reunion. The subjects of fear, archetypal symbolism, personal and collective histories were examined through research, archival evidence, video, sound, movement, and installation. reunion, examines not only the powers of personal and collective histories through the symbolic language of archetypes, but also how fear manifests and evolves through time. The culmination of this work was the creation of an installation within the Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University. This Thesis was created through the use of Microsoft Word 2004.
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Berthou, Benoit. "Règles et jeux dans les pratiques artistiques contemporaines." Phd thesis, Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00974271.
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Certaines pratiques artistiques du XXe siècle semblent faire un choix en matière de créativité : élaborer une œuvre à partir d'un ensemble de règles et la définir comme un espace de jeu où il s'agit d'associer et de combiner un certain nombre d'éléments. Le premier moment constitutif de l'œuvre est ainsi une " concertation ", une réflexion sur les prescriptions susceptibles d'être utilisées et adoptées. Notre hypothèse est la suivante : choisir la règle et le jeu comme vecteur de création permet de s'inscrire dans le possible. Devoir utiliser, en musique, un ensemble déterminé de sons oblige le compositeur à concevoir d'inédits rapprochements et à ne pas tenir compte, ainsi que le montre Arnold Schoenberg, des règles de l'harmonie classique. Se placer, en littérature, sous l'égide de prescriptions qu'il a lui-même élaboré permet à l'écrivain d'établir ce que Michel Leiris nomme un " dire différent ". Composition et écriture relèvent en ce sens d'une même volonté : se demander, à l'instar du peintre Gérard Gasiorowski, " Que faire ? " avec les éléments que l'on a à sa disposition.
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Williams, Emily. "Threads of Identity: Marisol's Exploration of Self." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1566.
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Marisol Escobar, known in the 1960s as the "Latin Garbo," is a sculptor famous for showing with the Pop art greats. However, Marisol holds a curious position in art history, stranded between the formalism of the fifties' and sixties' male-dominated Pop movement and the conceptual experimentation and radicalism that followed. Trained as a draftsman and painter early in her career, Marisol's main body of work mostly consists of large-scale wooden and mixed-medium sculpture. Lesser known, her lithographs, drawings, collages and small figurines further prove her technical and artistic validity. Preferring to go by surname only, Marisol’s quiet yet intense observation pinpoints the overriding human elements present in the objects of her scrutiny. Most notable for turning her gaze inwards, her self-portraiture defies easy categorization. Meshing American art and non-Western art styles while bridging the gap between intellectual understanding and empathetic approachability, Marisol represents a unique perspective that remains relevant today. Marisol's approach to self-portraiture is, first and foremost, in service to the exploration of her own identity. Furthermore, her choice of subject matter, artistic methodology and style appear closely aligned with Postmodern discourse. Each period of her work from the 1950s to the present day includes different guises and methods that subtly critique societal roles and norms, all presented through the lens of the artist's acute wit. Internationalism, gender roles, and explorations of identity are inherent in each of her works, proving that Marisol deserves further examination to explore her relation to Postmodern thought.B.A.
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Barbosa, De Almeida Lecourt Iracema. "Poétiques de la répétition." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00778640.
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Cette recherche a pour point de départ l'expérience pratique de l'atelier et propose une étude de la notion de répétition telle qu'elle émerge de différentes poétiques artistiques contemporaines.Des notions distinctes associées à la répétition sont évoquées par les travaux et la démarche spécifique des artistes, dans une recherche qui se construit de manière réflexive, au cours d'un va-et-vient entre l'oeuvre, la façon dont elle est élaborée, la perception qu'elle suscite et les textes consacrés à la poétique de chaque artiste.L'identification d'un univers particulièrement vaste, révélé par la répétition et retrouvé dans différentes démarches, dans différents moments, a orienté cette recherche vers la construction d'une structure bien articulée, et a concentré l'étude sur la poétique de quatre artistes : Mira Schendel, Richard Long, Eva Hesse et Nelson Félix
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Mccall, Jennifer Danielle. "Renegotiating Identities, Cultures and Histories: Oppositional Looking in Shelley Niro's "This Land is Mime Land"." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4149.
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My master's thesis explores the photographic series "This Land is Mime Land," which Shelley Niro made in 1992. Despite this work's complex form and structure, there are currently no sustained studies of this series alone, or books solely dedicated to Niro's art. Instead, "Mime Land" is often discussed in compilations that address a number of Native artists, Western feminist practices, or multiple works in Niro's oeuvre. My thesis fills this gap, as I closely investigate how "Mime Land" asks the viewer to look at visual culture, histories and Niro herself. Bell hooks's definition of the "oppositional gaze" - meaning a way of looking that challenges the conventions of visual culture by implementing the media's tools (film and photography) to construct new images of self - provides the framework for my analysis. Specifically, I contend that the subject, form and structure of "Mime Land" critically intervene in mainstream visual culture by asking the viewer to look at Native American women's identities, cultures and histories in new ways; ways that disavow the conventions of dominant visual representations and return the power over one's image to Niro, her family and community. My study demonstrates this thesis through a close consideration of the context contemporary to the work's production; a detailed examination of the photographs in the series; and an analysis of the work's overall structure.
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Weiss, Katherine. "“Samuel Beckett and History,” “Samuel Beckett and the Art of Failure,” and “Modern American Drama and the Greeks”." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5596.
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Bush, Lawrence Ray. "More than Words: Rhetorical Devices in American Political Cartoons." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3924.
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This thesis argues that literary theory applied to political cartoons shows that cartoons are reasoned arguments. The rhetorical devices used in the cartoons mimic verbal devices used by essayists. These devices, in turn, make cartoons influential in that they have the power to persuade readers while making them laugh or smile. It also gives examples of literary theorists whose works can be applied to political cartooning, including Frederick Saussure, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Wolfgang Iser. Not only do those theorists' arguments apply to text, they also apply to pictorial representations.
This thesis also discusses changes in the cartoon art form over the 250 years that American political cartoons have existed. Changes have occurred in both the way text and pictorial depictions have been presented by artists. This thesis makes some attempt to explain why the changes occurred and whether they have been for the better.
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Mihok, Lorena Diane. "Cognitive dissonance in early Colonial pictorial manuscripts from Central Mexico." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001352.
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Woodward, Deena. "Paleo-Indian to Spanish Occupation around Choctawhatchee Bay, Northwest Florida, as Documented in a Private Artifact Collection." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4259.
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This project documents and analyzes a substantial private collection of artifacts from archaeological sites around Choctawhatchee Bay, northwest Florida. The goals are to determine what the materials can contribute to the archaeological record, how they enhance our knowledge of the people who lived there over the past 2000 years, and how this information can be used to expand or contradict models of prehistoric lifeways in this region. This is done by comparing artifact assemblages, looking at site distribution patterns, and using pXRF trace-element analysis to compare Late Archaic clay objects with those from elsewhere along the Gulf.
Examination of the assemblage and the results of the pXRF trace-element analysis show that both materials and finished products were imported into this region from as far away as Poverty Point, Louisiana, especially during Late Archaic times. In addition to the movement of artifacts, site distribution patterns around Choctawhatchee Bay show that people also moved into and away from the area during periods of low and high sea levels.
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Souladie, Catherine. "La performance dans les arts plastiques aujourd'hui : tatouages et piercings." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00757198.
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Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur la pertinence d'un " art -action " actuel, à partir d'une analyse d'actes pour l'art, caractérisés comme " hors limites ", à travers une utilisation de la présence physique comme essence et support de l'art plastique, entreprise dès les années 1920 par Marcel Duchamp, et déclinée durant tout le vingtième siècle avec des mouvements artistiques tels Dada, le Happening, l'Actionnisme Viennois, ou l'Art Corporel.Nous étudions ici, aidés d'artistes performers choisis autour de quelques pratiques singulières de Albrecht Becker, Ron Athey et Lukas Zpira, les possibles limites d'actes artistiques, mettant en scène de façon extrême, à travers des performances jugées choquantes, agressives, incluant piercings, tatouages, osant parfois un art du malaise, se jouant des conventions, des tabous et des codes sociaux et culturels en place. Ainsi nous voyons s'il y a lieu, aujourd'hui, de parler encore d'actes artistiques politiques, militants, après l'âge d'or des années soixante-dix, parmi des nouvelles esthétiques du corps humain, celui-ci successivement " héros, sujet, matériau, objet, victime, écran " de cet art-action transgressif. Notre volonté est de saisir l'ambiguïté contenue dans la représentation, et toute la symbolique donnée à voir, par rapport à une première intention qui est une certaine déstructuration à la fois thématique et formelle dans les arts plastiques. La discussion est donc engagée sur l'authenticité et la pérennité de ces pratiques artistiques extrémistes, transgressives, manipulant le concept d'identité ou même la génétique, discussion aussi sur leur statut avant-gardiste dans l'histoire de " l'art pour l'art ", concept porté par la modernité.Ce " hacking " du corps nous amène-t-il-alors vers un devenir post-humain virtuel, une seule existence dans les univers numériques ? Le corps est-il en perdition ou, paradoxalement l'ultime recours, sauvé par ces modifications douloureuses et radicales ?