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Goldwhite, Phil. "Frames ate the art, frames are the art, the camera is the art, the text is the art, the thing is the art, art is the art /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12203.
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Мосіна, Елеонора. "Trends in American Modern Art." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2017. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7340.
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Fokt, Simon. "Defining art culturally : modern theories of art : a synthesis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3675.
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Numerous theories have attempted to overcome the anti-essentialist scepticism about the possibility of defining art. While significant advances have been made in this field, it seems that most modern definitions fail to successfully address the issue of the ever-changing nature of art raised by Morris Weitz, and rarely even attempt to provide an account which would be valid in more than just the modern Western context. This thesis looks at the most successful definitions currently defended, determines their strengths and weaknesses, and offers a new, cultural definition which can preserve the good elements of other theories, solve or avoid their problems, and have a scope wide enough to account for art of different times and cultures. The resulting theory is a synthetic one in that it preserves the essential institutionalism of Dickie's institutional views, is inspired by the historical and functional determination of artistic phenomena present in Levinson's historicism and Beardsley's functionalism, and presents the reasons for something becoming art in a disjunctive form of Gaut's cluster account. Its strengths lie in the ability to account for the changing art-status of objects in various cultures and at various times, providing an explanation of not only what is or was art, but also how and why the concept 'art' changes historically and differs between cultures, and successfully balancing between the over-generalisations of ahistorical and universalist views, and the uninformativeness of relativism. More broadly, the cultural theory stresses the importance of treating art as a historical phenomenon embedded in particular social and cultural settings, and encourages cooperation with other disciplines such as anthropology and history of art.
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Iqbal, Samina. "Modern Art of Pakistan: Lahore Art Circle 1947-1957." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4359.
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This dissertation focuses on the modern art of Pakistan from 1947-57, more specifically, the role of six important artists who founded the Lahore Art Circle (LAC) in 1952. The group played a pivotal role in the formulation of modernism in Pakistan after its establishment as an Islamic Republic. Framed within postcolonial theories and criticism, this study will address the role of modern art in developing new artistic sensibilities in the nation of Pakistan. In order to understand the context of LAC’s framing of “modernism” and “nationalism” in terms of specific historic and hybrid nexus,my research will provide an investigation of works of only the founding members of the Lahore Art Circle including: Shakir Ali (1924-1975), Sheikh Safdar Ali (1924-1983),Moyene Najmi (1926-1997), Ali Imam (1924-2000), Ahmed Parvez (1926-1979) and Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928-1985). In analyzing the works of individual artists and the role of LAC during the first decade of the establishment of Pakistan as a nation-state, this study provides a framework to understand the specific condition of modernism in Pakistan that was dictated by these artists’ careers and works. Thus, this research investigates how the framing of modernism for these artists took on highly personal, international, incipiently national and distinctly local forms in the early years of the Pakistan after the Partition of 1947. Lastly, it will also examine how the individual LAC artists situated themselves in the discourse between constructing a newly established Pakistani identity within the larger paradigms of international modernism.
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Kolisnyk, Oleksandra, Svitlana Pashukova, Iryna Prykhodko, and Polina Chernova. "Modern songbooks: art objects of design." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2021. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/18089.
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This paper classifies songbooks as a separate type of printed matter, an art-object of art and design. The relevance of their development for the design and music industries is determined. The peculiarities of modern songbooks will be revealed, taking into account their creative novelty and successful commercial distribution.У даній роботі класифіковано пісенники, як окремий вид друкованої продукції, арт-об’єкт мистецтва та дизайну. Визначено актуальність їх розробки для дизайнерської та музичної індустрій. Виявлено особливості створення сучасних пісенників з урахуванням їх творчої новизни та успішного комерційного поширення.
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Loayza-Lauffs, Mariana. "The art of Guillermo Kuitca." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21021508.
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Sharp, Neil. "Modernity, art and art education in Britain, 1870-1940." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285129.
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Beasley, R. L. "Ezra Pound and modern art 1906-1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596497.
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My dissertation discusses the early career of the American poet Ezra Pound in relation to visual art at the beginning of the twentieth century. Pound was a leading propagandist of modern art, advertising his friends Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Constantin Brancusi, among others, in his extensive art criticism, and explaining his poetic theories by reference to art movements and practices. The majority of Pound's critics have followed his lead and describe his poetry by using the aesthetic values and terminology Pound conveniently supplied in his prose. I argue that this is an erroneous move, which hides a series of problems in the development of Pound's poetics. Pound's poetry shows surprisingly little evidence of his interest in art; however, unpublished manuscripts show that this evidence existed, but was deliberately excised. My dissertation aims to uncover the sequence of decisions which led to vital changes in Pound's poetic style, by focusing on the periods during which he aligned himself with particular artists or movements. In my first chapter, I look at unpublished essays and poetry written between 1906 and 1908, to explore Pound's interest in the work of James McNeill Whistler, and explain an apparent change in poetic style in 1908. My second chapter deals with Pound's association with the vorticists, which I argue was less a meeting of minds than a method of placing his imagist verse, with its nineteenth-century predilections, in an emphatically modern context. In the third chapter I analyse the earliest drafts of The Cantos in detail, showing how Pound's conception of the poem in 1915 as egalitarian in structure and argument was compatible with the type of visual description he had rejected in 1908. The dada movement, which I discuss in my fourth chapter, contributes to Pound's redefinition of artistic talent. His emphasis on the value of the artist's personality above the artist's works necessitates a reconsideration of the structure of The Cantos in 1922. The fifth chapter examines the role of sculpture in Pound's poetry and prose, in order to determine how it becomes an analogy for Pound's poetic technique.
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Manor, Dalia. "Art in Zion : the genesis of modern national art in Jewish Palestine." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398108.
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Cheng, Christina Miu Bing. "Postmodernism art and architecture in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31949861.
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Cheng, Miu-bing Christina. "Postmodernism : art and architecture in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13031351.
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Furuhashi, Ryutaro. "Deconstruction, existentialism, and art /." Online version of thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12262.
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Withey, Andrew. "Contemporary, emigrant, Middle Eastern art." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/44734/.
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The thesis focuses on those artists who have emigrated from their Middle East homelands since the middle of the Twentieth Century. The first Chapter proposes that the artists form an identifiable group, through the use of common themes deriving from their heritage. The second chapter debates if Post-Colonial theories of alienation, hybridity and ‘third space' are useful concepts and tools for these artists. The last chapter discusses the different approaches to the concept of universalism, which is frequently used in the presentations of the work of these artists. Chapter One identifies the themes of calligraphy, literature, nostalgia/longing and politics which are common to the group of artists. These themes demonstrate a clear cultural memory, with each artist using one or more of these characteristics. Chapter Two questions the usefulness and relevance of Post-Colonial concepts of alienation, hybridity and ‘third spaces' in the analysis of the artists' work. The individuality and complexity of the artists, their lack of clear alienation from either or both of East and West and the absence of predictability in their output makes it difficult yo apply these concepts as analytical tools. The third chapter shows the way in which contemporary Middle Eastern art has taken over from the earlier, Western based, Orientalism. The resulting work has frequently attracted the label of Universalism but this term has different connotations for Western viewers and curators compared to the Middle Eastern artists and their patrons. The former results in differentiation, the latter claims to transcend boundaries and geographies. The Conclusion, thereafter, draws together the discussions and attempts to position Middle Eastern art within the current international art scene, rather than as an ‘other' which is outside a usually Western mainstream. The Middle East expatriates are seen as part of a growing but incomplete globalism, within which localism can co-exist.
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McKnight, Justine. "Redefining The Art Experience : From Static To Temporal Art Forms." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1450.
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This research examines an approach to art making and viewing that questions the acceptance of the autonomous object in favour of a transient experience. It focuses specifically on work and writing from the 1960s by the American artist Robert Morris that attempted to alter the then predominant Formalist understanding of the art object as autonomous and self-referential. This investigation follows the formal and conceptual development of Morris' work (and that of associated artists Richard Serra and Rafael Ferrer) with particular focus on the shift from static objects to time-based and transient an-forms including film/video and installation. I address the influence that the shift from static to temporal forms has had on the experience of art such as opening artwork to deeper levels of metaphysical association and visceral response. This discussion also examines parallel issues that have emerged within my own work's conceptual and formal development. In relation to the investigation of these developments I shall contextualise and locate my recent arts practice.
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Go, Karen Miao. "Artistic expression, domestic desires : Vanessa Bell's vision of modern life & modern art." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252004.
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This PhD examines the life and work of a remarkable woman – a mother, lover, artist, friend, daughter and sister who did not follow the rules of any establishment and liver her life as she saw fit. Vanessa Bell was a woman who broke the rules but remained almost entirely transfixed by a world dominated by domesticity. As this PhD will show, radical choices, innovative art, and intellectual stimulation can co-exist with the domestic world and in a person devoted to domesticity. This PhD questions what it means to be a feminist and an avant-garde artist in the early 20th century. It questions how art history has treated the roles available to women and to the space they occupied. For Bell, art was not a way to live vicariously in other worlds; it was always a reflection of her world and her reality interpreted through her kaleidoscopic vision. For a painter interested in modern artistic movements, limiting one’s scope to the home would have seemed a defeat of one’s ideals since it was not in the home that most avant-garde artists saw modern life taking place. Yet it was the home and domestic life from which Bell drew inspiration and where she saw modern life taking place. This PhD examines Vanessa Bell’s relationship to domesticity in four sections. The first discusses her work in the decorative arts and its influence on her work in the fine arts. The second deals with how marriage both limited and opened up a new world to her, a world in which she would learn to develop human relationships within her own standards. The third concerns the importance she placed on being a mother and the ways that maternity impacted upon her painting. But also important is how her roles as wife, sister, lover and friend also influenced her work. And the final section discusses how she manipulated and depicted domestic space in her art.
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Boesch, Benjamin. "The Returns on Modern Art as an Investment." St. Gallen, 2009. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02603629003/$FILE/02603629003.pdf.
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Tingley, Edward. "Game of knowledge: The modern interpretation of art." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9820.
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Summation. A specifically modern approach to the interpretation of art is distinguished, rooted in the insight that cognitivity in interpretation must be oriented by sensitivity to the subject-object paradigm. It is shown that specific modern theory of interpretation has become established in twentieth-century theory and practice. That theory is demonstrated to be a set of interpretative rules. The hidden dependence of those rules on specific conceptions of the nature of a work of art (qua hermeneutic entity) is revealed. Three such conceptions of the work of art that are basic to modern art history are articulated and critically examined by careful attention to actual works. Interpretation is shown to exceed the strictures of each model, with the specific consequence that the meaning of the work of art in modern times is systematically narrowed. Motives for that narrowing are discussed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Rutter, Mark. "Visual art and the book in modern poetry." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438695.
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Hussain, Muayad H. "Modern art from Kuwait : Khalifa Qattan and Circulism." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3909/.
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This thesis explores the life and work of the Kuwaiti artist Khalifa Qattan (1934-2003). The first chapter views Qattan in the context of twentieth-century visual culture in Kuwait. It also shows the European influence on his work, as he lived and studied in Britain in the 1950s. A second chapter is dedicated to Qattan's aesthetic theory called Circulism; it shows that it is a philosophy and a style, and situates Circulism between western and Arabic sources. The third chapter deals with the Gulf War of 1991 as a particular topic in Qattan's work, and compares his work about the war with the work of John Keane, the British artist who was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum as an official recorder to cover that war. Considering western and Arabic writings on the war, this chapter argues that different visual interpretations of the war are rooted in an 'insider' and 'outsider' experience. A conclusion discusses the general problems involved when viewing non-western visual cultures with western eyes. An appendix, a bibliography and a list of illustrations followed by 61 illustrations conclude the thesis.
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Smith, Rachel Rose. "Modern art movements and St Ives, 1939-49." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16237/.
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This thesis provides a view of modern art in St Ives between 1939 and 1949 by focusing on two interlinked concerns: the movement of objects, people and ideas through communication and transport networks, and the modern art movements which were developed by artists working in the town during this period. Drawing especially from studies of place, hybridity and mobility, Chapter 1 provides an account of two artists’ migration to St Ives in 1939: Naum Gabo and Barbara Hepworth. It considers the foundational importance of movement to the narrative of modern art in St Ives and examines the factors which contributed to artists’ decisions to relocate. Using this information, it probes presumptions surrounding St Ives as an artists’ ‘colony’ and proposes it as a site of ‘coastal modernism’. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the contribution by artists in St Ives to two developing art movements: Constructivism and Cubism. Both investigations show how artists participated in wide-reaching artistic networks within which ideas and objects were shared. Each chapter also particularly reveals the value of art movements for providing temporal scales through which artists could reflect upon and establish the connections of their work to the past, present and future. Chapter Two focuses on the Constructive project associated with the publication of 'Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art' (1937), revealing how modern art in St Ives inherited ideas and styles from earlier movements and continued to reflect upon the value of the ‘Constructive spirit’ as Europe changed. Chapter Three is an examination of Nicholson’s connections to the Cubist movement and an analysis of the long-standing impact this had on his work and critical reception both before and after the Second World War. To conclude this thesis, two narratives centred on 1964, the year often used to define the end of an artistic period in St Ives, suggest how the internationalism of artists and artist groups in St Ives changed during the period which followed 1949.
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Goodwin, R. "Food, art, and society in Early Modern Spain." Thesis, University of London, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540098.
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Oostrum, Anne Heleen van. "The art of Nāy playing in modern Egypt /." [Leiden] : [A. H. van Oostrum], 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40026536q.
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Petersen, Lauren Hackworth. "Questioning Roman "freedman art" : ancient and modern constructions /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Swann, Elizabeth Louise. "'The apish art' : taste in early modern England." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4359/.
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The recent burgeoning of sensory history has produced much valuable work. The sense of taste, however, remains neglected. Focusing on the early modern period, my thesis remedies this deficit. I propose that the eighteenth-century association of ‘taste’ with aesthetics constitutes a restriction, not an expansion, of its scope. Previously, taste’s epistemological jurisdiction was much wider: the word was frequently used to designate trial and testing, experiential knowledge, and mental judgement. Addressing sources ranging across manuscript commonplace books, drama, anatomical textbooks, devotional poetry, and ecclesiastical polemic, I interrogate the relation between taste as a mode of knowing, and contemporary experiences of the physical sense, arguing that the two are inextricable in this period. I focus in particular on four main areas of enquiry: early uses of ‘taste’ as a term for literary discernment; taste’s utility in the production of natural philosophical data and its rhetorical efficacy in the valorisation of experimental methodologies; taste’s role in the experience and articulation of religious faith; and a pervasive contemporary association between sweetness and erotic experience. Poised between acclaim and infamy, the sacred and the profane, taste in the seventeenth century is, as a contemporary iconographical print representing ‘Gustus’ expresses it, an ‘Apish Art’. My thesis illuminates the pivotal role which this ambivalent sense played in the articulation and negotiation of early modern obsessions including the nature and value of empirical knowledge, the attainment of grace, and the moral status of erotic pleasure, attesting in the process to a very real contiguity between different ways of knowing – experimental, empirical, textual, and rational – in the period.
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Knapp, Danielle Marie 1984. "Rethinking Ambrose Patterson and Modern Art in Seattle." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10666.
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vii, 80 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.In 1918, Ambrose Patterson (Australian, 1877-1966) arrived in Seattle, Washington after training in Paris and working in Europe, Australia, Hawaii, and California. Patterson founded the University of Washington's School of Painting and Design and instructed in the European academic method for nearly thirty years. Traditionally considered an Impressionist and historically remembered as the first modern painter to arrive in Seattle, Patterson continued to produce work based on European conventions of modernism long after his departure from the Parisian avantgarde. Patterson's experience is demonstrative of the artistic diversity and opportunities for European-trained artists in Seattle during the early to mid-twentieth century, which have often been overshadowed by the idea of a dominant Northwest School and the emerging construction of American modernism.
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Feman, Seth. "District and Capital: The Art of Modern Washington." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1499449863.
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This dissertation is about modernism in Washington, D.C., specifically about a series of encounters between the visual program that helped realize the city’s modernization and works of art that put this way of seeing to the test. The modernization of Washington took hold of the city in the twentieth century in large part because of the advent of a new way of representing Washington. In short, Washington’s modernization would rely on a grammar of representation that constructed an easily legible image of the city as well as spectators capable of reading it as such. Numerous artists working in Washington exposed the workings of this rhetoric of modernity by creating art that, due to its inherent and sometimes-deliberate wordlessness, ceased to convey the modern city’s ideological messages and allegorical narratives. Instead, these artworks, by resisting or negating language, offered material expressions of knowledge and embodied structures of feeling—that is, they conveyed modern experiences that fell beyond the pale of language. This project employs six episodes from Washington’s modernization in order to assess the tension between legible imagery and lived experience. The first chapter examines the creation of Washington’s modern urban structure through the figure of andrew Mellon whose corporate bodies launched a massive urban renewal campaign that culminated in the establishment of the National Gallery. The second chapter is concerned with three artists who leveraged their own silence to create their work: the photographer Robert Scurlock, whose silent observation of the famous Marian anderson concert at the Lincoln Memorial evoked the singer’s own silence in the face of a progressivist narrative of civil rights; the poet Sterling Brown, whose redacted history of black Washington, originally written under the auspices of the Federal Writers Project, conjures parts of the city that were being systematically erased; and the painter Jacob Kainen, whose dissolution of the city’s visible forms in his abstract works went hand in hand with a theory of negation that called up the wonder and mystery often unavailable though literal representations. The next chapter examines how written efforts to contextualize Alma Thomas’s paintings have inadvertently removed her work from her own embodied artistic practice—a practice, I argue, that maps out the city as it underwent a series of urban renewal projects. The conclusion examines the failure of the rhetoric of modernity on its own terms during the public display of the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery. as the painting appeared in various commercial and media outlets, people claimed to hear it “speak,” yet the incident reveals how modern experience took shape precisely when an artwork refused to say anything whatsoever.
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Choi, Jean Kyung. "Outside art : Baggat and the history of modern and contemporary art in Korea." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54723.
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The Baggat Art Group formed in South Korea in 1981 and continued until today. It is a loosely formed collective dedicated to participatory practices in the outdoors and site-specific works, depending on the years in question. This thesis aims to rethink the significance of the Baggat Art Group through the lens of "ritual," as theorized by the anthropologist Victor W. Turner. The project is structured around a long historical introduction and two case studies: Exhibition of History and Environment in 1997 and Abandoned Island, Mountain of Healing in 2002. These two exhibitions demonstrate instances when Baggat Art, positioned at the margins of the art field and society, functioned as a site of negotiation for sociopolitical issues. I propose that an observation of how the Baggat Art Group has continued to rewrite itself into dominant narratives of art allows for a more comprehensive understanding of modern and contemporary art in South Korea. This project therefore adopts and attempts to support the group's objective of incorporating what is outside into the inside, transcending the limitations of existing boundaries, and to expanding the category of art by realizing what resides at its borders.Arts, Faculty of
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Purnomo, Setianingsih, University of Western Sydney, Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts, and Department of Art History and Criticism. "The voice of muted people in modern Indonesian art." THESIS_FVPA_XXX_Purnomo_S.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/661.
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This research into Indonesian socialist-realism art, examines how art has shaped the political and social environments of the new order government. This text examines contemporary artists’ attitudes toward social commitment and social commentary during the period 1980-1995. Conflicting views of contemporary Indonesian artists were obtained from research undertaken in Indonesia in 1995. In this thesis, the problem is raised that Indonesian socialist-realism art is not only a style of art for contemporary Indonesian artists, but also as a union of artists’ attitudes towards Indonesian society. This argument is used to further understand modern Indonesian art from the ‘inner’ point of viewMaster of Arts (Hons)
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Fortin, Claire. "L'initiation à l'art contemporain : soutien à l'enseignement des arts plastiques? /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1994. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Ghazzaoui, Fouad. "Vermillion years /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11642.
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Dibble, Sarah. "George Dibble and the Struggle for Modern Art in Utah." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3421.
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In this thesis I explore the spread of modern art to conservative regions of the country, in particular Utah. By using George Dibble as a case study this thesis will also address the struggle that Utah artists had to endure to have their progressive ideas in art be accepted in such a conservative area. It will address the criticism that Dibble had to endure by discussing specific incidents involved with certain works of art. Although there were plenty of people who did not like modern art, there were some institutions and people who were advocates of this progressive form of art. Through determination and persevering through challenges, artists like Dibble made it easier for the next generation of modern artists to gain acceptance. Dibble and his generation of artists opened the door to the acceptance of truly abstract and modern works of the Abstract Expressionist. This thesis also will deal with the origins of modernism in America and how it spread throughout the country starting with the Amory Show in New York in 1913 and going through the Great Depression with the WPA. It will examine the artistic climate of Utah during the first three decades of the twentieth century and artists who came before Dibble who came in contact with the European modernists. Although there has been some scholarship on the history of Utah art, there has been little written on the spread of Modern art through the state. Utah art historian Bob Olpin has done the most scholarship on Dibble and his contemporaries.
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Bailey, Colin B. "Patriotic taste : collecting modern art in pre-revolutionary Paris /." New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38945501s.
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Alamsjah, Winnie 1974. "Rethinking the modern : imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62954.
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Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105).
The thesis seeks to explore the implications of the emergence of the digital media as a new art form on the museum space. The museum as an institution has faced some ideological and philosophical contradictions in recent times. Economically, heightened competition for dwindling funds has begun to shape programming decisions. Philosophically, the museum's perceived authoritarian role clashes with the critiques of cultural hegemony that are so much a part of the contemporary art world. Contemporary art forms that intentionally subvert the equation of art and object are often less compatible with traditional conceptions of museum space. And socially, museum expansion is often used as a tool for the gentrification of museum neighborhoods, a stratagem that cheers civic boosters and troubles social critics. All these point to a social, philosophical, political critique of the museum as an institution. The thesis does not attempt to resolve all the issues rooted in the current museum culture/structure. Rather, it seeks to study the various museums built historically and propose a new way of understanding the role of the museum in relation to the issues brought up by artists, social critics, historians alike. The exploration involves both spatial and material articulation. What could a museum be?
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Rasmussen, Briley. "Pedagogy for the modern : Victor D'Amico and the Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1969." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/42851.
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This thesis explores the history of the educational mission and programs of the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) from 1929 to 1969, interrogating how education programs were critical to the museum’s presentation, definition, and dissemination of modern art in this period. It centers on the work of Victor D’Amico, the first director of education at MoMA, and follows the course of his tenure at MoMA from 1937 to his retirement in 1969. The first two chapters of this thesis address the philosophical roots of the museum and its education program. It begins with an examination of the progressive aspirations of the museum’s founders, as well as the pedagogical experiments of MoMA’s first director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. It then introduces Victor D’Amico, exploring the progressive grounding of his work and the shifting notions of children and childhood that become the heart of his work at MoMA. Through the lens of specific programs the next three chapters investigate three different decades at the museum. Chapter Three focuses on the multiple exhibition Elements of Design and considers how the museum developed pedagogical tools to reach larger audiences for modern design. Chapter Four addresses the changing climate for MoMA and modern art following the Second World War and how the museum harnessed television as a critical medium to develop audiences for modern art and promote its place in a democracy. Finally, Chapter Five discusses how D’Amico’s Children’s Art Carnival was leveraged as a tool for cultural diplomacy in Europe and India during the Cold War. Through a focus on the educational philosophy and practices of the museum this thesis investigates the larger ambitions of MoMA to impact daily life. They believed an engagement with modern art and its ideas and practices could foster agency in people in the United States and abroad. Ultimately, this thesis charts a more expansive understanding of modernism and the role of museum education in the histories of art and museums.
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Whiles, Virginia N. "Miniature manoeuvres tradition and subversion in Pakistani contemporary art /." Online version, 2006. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/31478.
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Purnomo, Setianingsih. "The voice of muted people in modern Indonesian art." Thesis, View thesis, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/661.
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This research into Indonesian socialist-realism art, examines how art has shaped the political and social environments of the new order government. This text examines contemporary artists’ attitudes toward social commitment and social commentary during the period 1980-1995. Conflicting views of contemporary Indonesian artists were obtained from research undertaken in Indonesia in 1995. In this thesis, the problem is raised that Indonesian socialist-realism art is not only a style of art for contemporary Indonesian artists, but also as a union of artists’ attitudes towards Indonesian society. This argument is used to further understand modern Indonesian art from the ‘inner’ point of view
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Miller, Elizabeth M. "Nationalism and the birth of modern art in Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:84002959-dc3e-40ad-90b3-f9efcc8846f6.
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This dissertation covers the emergence of a tradition of the fine arts in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century and its relationship to discourses of nationalism. Taking as a starting point the canon of the ‘pioneer’ generation as it is defined in the historiography, I follow the careers of the sculptor Mahmud Mukhtar and the painters Ragheb ‘Ayyad, Muhammad Nagi, and Mahmud Sa‘id, each of whom is treated in a full chapter. Narratives surrounding the life and work of these artists have tended to emphasize the ways in which the images they created participated in the definition of a single cohesive nation – through the use of Pharaonic imagery, which anchors the nation in a distant past, through rural symbolism, which ties the nation to the land and the Nile, and through a female iconography that links the nation to ideas of virtue and purity – what I term here, following Timothy Mitchell and Homi Bhabha, a pedagogical narrative of the nation. However, I suggest that the process of imagining the nation as a unified whole necessarily involves a negotiation of difference, sometimes that of the peasant or the woman who pose a challenge to the assumption of an unproblematic national collectivity, sometimes that of the artists themselves, who, for reasons of foreign education, religion, or social identity, are unable to fully identify with definitions of the nation that were themselves constantly contested. This negotiation of difference – what Mitchell has termed the performative - and how it appears within works of visual art, constitutes the main subject of this dissertation.
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Turner, Sarah Elizabeth. "Constructing landscapes : art in Neolithic and modern southern Brittany." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446864/.
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The aim of this thesis is to study the concept 'Neolithic art' in one area of southern Brittany, between the Etel and Auray rivers, with some attention to the best known sites in the Gulf of Morbihan. The thesis is divided into three main sections each of which 'translates' 'Neolithic art' from a particular perspective, or, in terms of the title of the thesis 'constructs landscapes' through 'art'. The thesis is therefore a study of 'art' and how it is part of, and is understood in, the surrounding world. Each section of the thesis is considered as a 'frame', which discusses 'Neolithic art' from a different perspective. Each frame develops one idea of a landscape, which is explored through, and which creates 'art'. The first 'frame' is considered in Chapter 2 of the thesis, and is an enquiry into how the genre 'Neolithic art' was created and developed in Brittany as an archaeological study. The second 'frame', Chapters 3 to 5, is a subjective account of how 'Neolithic art' might have been constructed or used in the Neolithic period itself. The third frame, considered in Chapter 6, is an examination of how tourists might understand and create 'Neolithic art' in Brittany. As each frame is developed it is shown that one must go beyond the motifs to understand the concept 'art'. It is through 'art' features such as the colour, texture and shape of monuments, in essence the monuments themselves, and through different sensory experiences of the monuments and the surrounding world, which are beyond the carved motifs, that we see, within the context of the thesis, how complex and wide reaching the sense of 'art' really is and how it must be considered as part of our experience of the environment in which we live. Together the three frames offer three different but inter-dependent experiences of Neolithic 'art' in the landscape, and result in the creation of three recognisably different constructions of 'art' in the lived-through-world. Taken together, the three frames show how 'art' can be constructed, but also how it constructs meaning, in the lived-through-world - constructing landscapes through 'art' - in different, contrasting and changing ways. By considering the same objects within different frames of experience the intention is to show, from the micro-scale (motif) to the macro-sale (monuments and landscape), how 'Neolithic art' can be created, how it can mean, and how it is constantly changing, multivalent and broad reaching.
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Linekin, Kim. "The modern popular song as a literary art form." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37216.pdf.
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Orfila, Jorgelina. "Paul Cézanne and the making of modern art history." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6842.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Art History and Archaeology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Smither, Devon. "Identity crisis : the nude in 1930s modern Canadian art." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27693.
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In their unwillingness to fully assimilate or relate the human body to its surroundings, many artists who painted nudes in the 1930s in Canada found their works the subject of censure and moral debate. Rather than becoming the site of praise for a new Canadian sensibility in the visual arts, the nudes painted in this period would not come to be associated with a uniquely Canadian artistic practice, and the genre failed to assume a pivotal place within the canon of Canadian art history. Viewers could not imagine themselves as heroic pioneers in front of a painting like Lilias Torrance Newton’s Nude (1933), or could they see anything distinctly modern and revolutionary in its execution that would allow them to hold up such an image as an example of an inherently Canadian art. The nude in Canada did not incite the admiration of an art-going public who instead came to associate a national art movement with the landscape paintings of the Group of Seven. Censored, debated, praised, and criticized, the nude genre ultimately failed to have the same impact as landscape painting on the visual arts in Canada.
Landscape painting was able to mediate the relationship between the natural world and its human inhabitants in a way not offered by the nude or figurative painting. In 1916, Saturday Night magazine published an article jocularly recounting how the typical Canadian artist was a “husky beggar” who pulled on a pair of Strathcona boots and set off into the woods with a rifle, a paddle, and enough baked beans for three months. Such assertions would lead a critic like Barker Fairley to complain later that, “[N]ot one Canadian in a hundred goes into an art gallery looking for anything but hills and trees and lakes and clouds and flowers and fruit.” Ultimately, the nude was not able to provide a collective viewing position that could embody a national sentiment. It was unable to penetrate the Canadian consciousness in a way that would win it a place alongside the rolling topography and pristine lakes of the Group of Seven.
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Hilary, Kathryn Arnell. "Modern romanticism : four English art writers between the wars." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559368.
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This thesis assesses the work of four art writers who were active in Britain between the wars, Laurence Binyon, Paul Nash, Herbert Read and Geoffrey Grigson. In a period that has generally been viewed as dominated by a formalist criticism, their art writing exhibited a persistent romanticism that was fundamental to their engagement with modernism and was also integral to their interpretation of the role of the artist in the modem world. The main contention of this thesis is that this sensibility, far from being regressive, was a vital "- factor in their understanding and active promotion of modernist movements such as abstraction and surrealism. The main period under consideration is the inter-war years, leading up to the year 1936 as a significant moment, with the International Surrealist Exhibition in London and the publication in Axis of Geoffrey Grigson and John Piper's important article 'England's Climate'. Chapter One focuses on Laurence Binyon, a key figure bridging late nineteenth-century romanticism and the new romanticism of the mid twentieth century who, in his writing on Asian art and in his studies of eighteenth and nineteenth-century English artists, found relevant exemplars for modem artists. Chapter Two examines the art writings of Paul Nash, whose explorations into abstraction and surrealism in the 1920s and 1930s were driven by a need to find an appropriate vehicle for his own artistic expression. A study of Herbert Read's art writing between the wars in Chapter Three demonstrates the extent to which his romantic sensibility and a desire for cultural continuity with the past informed his interpretation of modem movements, most notably surrealism. The fourth chapter reassesses the role of Geoffrey Grigson, a controversial but, I would maintain, crucial figure in the 1930s, and demonstrates the importance of his contribution to the promulgation of modernism in Britain.
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Freeman, Julian David. "Breaking Cover : Exhibiting Early Modern British Art 1979-1995." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507202.
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'Early Modern British Art' was executed between c1880 and c1920, but from 1940 until the later 1970s it was a neglected generic area in the study of Art in the British Isles, directly at odds with many of the prevalent trends in American - European art. Though its constituent works ranged from the inherently representational to the (at least) semi-abstract, such diversity in so short a time-span attracted little research in Britain, and with certain important exceptions the era was generally undervalued by the British art market. This thesis considers the evolution, research, philosophical positioning, and contribution to the history of British art of four exhibitions, Made at the Slade, The Art of Frank Brangwyn, Jewish Artists in an English Context and Life at Arm's Length: Sir Edward Poynter, devised and exhibited by the writer during the period 1979-1995. The critical positioning of the exhibitions and their accompanying catalogues were based on a long-standing familiarity with works of the era, and upon extensive, rolling research using a combination of pre-existing and entirely novel sources. Before 1960, most catalogue essays had been brief and of a narrative / documentary nature. Even when over-arching evaluations of the early Modern British era were presented in exhibition and catalogue format, they were usually repetitious, lacking in analysis, and so broke little new perceptual or historical ground. The four exhibitions confronted this tendency, and in their different ways, their investigations of ideas and practice uncovered and redirected British art histories that demanded greater general awareness and appreciation within the setting of Modernism. The thesis notes the increasing importance and value of exhibition catalogues, during the 1970s and afterwards, as vehicles for the dissemination of new ideas and information in the absence of commentary in book format, whilst setting in context the publication of new books during the 1980s which treated early Modern British art to a level of analytical commentary formerly absent. The thesis introduces the catalogue texts in chronological order, setting out the conceptual background to each exhibition, and evaluating its contemporary impact, and its current value. Made at the Slade was the first commentary to use archival material to begin to unpick the Slade's activities and achievements over so long a period, and to attempt a revaluation of the school's importance from c1880-1925, the period of its greatest fame, until 1960. The exhibition and its catalogue challenged all previous exhibited surveys of early Modern British art, by successfully presenting familiar, unknown and forgotten artists of quality to a new audience. The Art of Frank Brangwyn evolved from an interest in Brangwyn's drawing. It was first intended to be a reassessment, only to become an extensive, objective revaluation of a 'difficult' and marginalised figure, the first since 1924, and the last until 2006. The essay to Jewish Artists in an English Context accompanied an invited exhibition for a conference setting, and seized the opportunity to challenge the inadequacies of sociological and art historical analyses of an era in Britain in which the social integration and assimilation of immigrant Jews was of real importance for Modern art. The final essay, Life at Arm's Length on Sir Edward Poynter, remains the artist's sole career overview since Poynter's obituary. It developed what until then had been a very incomplete understanding of Poynter's varied career, to consider issues that were as pertinent in 1995 as they had been in 1895, including public and establishment reactions to Poynter's treatment of the nude figure, especially that of the female nude, in drawing and painting during the second part of his career; the development of art training, and the place of the Royal Academy in Victorian and Edwardian society.
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Foot, Michelle Elizabeth. "Modern spiritualism and Scottish art between 1860 and 1940." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230582.
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This thesis is formed from original research into the cultural impact of Modern Spiritualism in Scotland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Until the twenty first century academic scholarship has failed to recognise the historic importance of the Spiritualist movement's widespread popularity and the influence it had on art during this period. The findings of this research provide a new understanding and greater appreciation of art from this time. As academic investigation into Spiritualism's historic significance is largely absent, this study focuses on primary sources from an extensive range of Spiritualist literature, including Spiritualist magazines and newspapers. The number of cited artworks, which were discovered and analysed during this research, support the notion that investigation into Spiritualism's influence during this period is necessary. This thesis is divided into two parts: Part One focuses on artworks by Spiritualists intended for Spiritualist audiences. Chapter 1 outlines a history of the Spiritualist movement in Scotland for the first time in order to establish a context for discussion in the following chapters. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 highlight unknown artworks by Spiritualists, such as Jane Stewart Smith and David Duguid, and analyse how those artists responded to private and public Spiritualism in Scotland. Part Two reveals new interpretations of mainstream Scottish art but which art historians have not previously acknowledged as having Spiritualist associations. In Chapter 5, case studies of members of the Royal Scottish Academy demonstrate that Spiritualism did influence mainstream Scottish artists, such as Alfred Edward Borthwick and George Henry Paulin. Chapter 6 reconsiders the Celtic Revival in Scotland, specifically by re-evaluating current interpretations of John Duncan's work with reference to Duncan's Spiritualism. The final chapter examines war memorials in Scotland as a response to mass social bereavement and Spiritualism's increased popularity during and after the First World War.
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Purnomo, Setianingsih. "The voice of muted people in modern Indonesian art /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030917.111403/index.html.
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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 19: The Unraveling - Abstraction in the Modern Era." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/21.
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This lesson covers cubism, abstract expressionism, and minimalism. Cubism is discussed with artworks by Pablo Picasso, abstract expressionism by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, and minimalism by Donald Judd.
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Maiden, Shelby. "The Commodity Club: Commodity Fetishism in Modern Art and Tattoos." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/467.
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The current culture of commodity fetishism that surrounds both modern art and tattoos are disproportionately a part of the perpetuation of an artificial sense of society and community. It promotes the notion that by simply by inking the deeper layers of their skin or by spending millions on a painting that somehow one becomes elevated and enters an elite space, or club, of people like them.
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Galastro, Anne Bernadette. "Institutional history of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art : tensions, paradoxes and compromises." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7899.
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This study provides the first comprehensive account of the institutional history of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) from the earliest calls for its foundation at the start of the twentieth century to the recent series of exhibitions marking its fiftieth anniversary in 2010. The SNGMA is both a unique case‐study and a useful illustrative example of the specific category of modern art museum: the account of its history sets the institution within its wider cultural context and explores the inevitable complexities facing a public gallery devoted to modern art. The study examines how the institution has balanced the need to represent a full historical survey of modern art with the desire to engage with the contemporary, and how it has addressed the question of collecting and displaying the work of Scottish artists alongside international art. By providing a close documentary analysis of the evolution of the institution, drawn from within the Gallery’s own archives, combined with extended reflections on the central dilemmas it has had to face, the study constitutes an original contribution to museum scholarship. Various methodologies are employed to assess the diverse factors that have affected the institution’s development. The narrative confirms the close correlation between the architectural frame and the public perception of the institution. It traces the evolution of the acquisitions policy and notes how this shaped the permanent collection, allowing a shift from an aspiration to universal coverage of the international trends of 20th century art to a more targeted specialisation in certain areas, primarily Dada and Surrealism. It charts the attitudes towards temporary exhibitions and the display of the permanent collection, and examines these in the light of current exhibition theory and practice. The analysis concludes that the SNGMA has been largely successful at achieving the aims and ambitions it originally defined for itself, although its role is constantly evolving in response to changes in the broader context of art museums.
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Carr, Hamish Vaughan. "Romanticism : re-occurring sentiments /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6833.
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Thesis (MFineArt)--University of Melbourne, Victorian College of the Arts, [2003]., VCA Art, Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, 2009.Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-36)
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Noltze, Katja. "Dialog Kunst - Raum : situative Innenrauminstallation als Wahrnehmungsangebot und Lernort /." Oberhausen : Athena, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013346201&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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