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Forrest, David. "Social Realism : a British art cinema." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10351/.
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Since the 1930s, realist cinema has maintained a consistent but ever-diversifying presence within the heart of British film culture. The broad term of social realism has come to represent numerous examples of films that reflect a range of social environments and issues, in a manner that rejects the artifice and escapism of more classically-oriented narrative models. Yet, there has been a tendency to view such films in the context of what they have to tell us about the issues and themes they invoke, rather than what they say about their art. When we think of the New Wave in France, or Neo-Realism in Italy we think of film movements which reflected their subjects with veracity and conviction, but we also see their products as cultural entities which encourage interpretation on the terms of their authorship, and which demand readings on the basis of their form. We are invited to read the films as we would approach a poem or a painting, as artefacts of social and artistic worth. Despite the continued prevalence of social realism in British cinema, there is no comparable compulsion in our own critical culture. This study seeks to address this imbalance. Beginning with the documentary movement of the 1930s and the realist cinema of wartime, I chart the history and progression of social realism in Britain, covering a wide range of directors such as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Alan Clarke and Shane Meadows and a number of film cycles, such as Free Cinema and the British New Wave. The key focus of my analysis lies on the aesthetic and formal constitution of the mode. I seek to highlight hitherto unrealised depths within the textual parameters of British social realism in order to propose its deserved status as a genuine and progressive national art cinema.
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Darley, Andrew David. "The computer and contemporary visual culture : realism, post-realism and postmodernist aesthetics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259729.
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Maines, Lauren Ann. "The nature of realism /." Online version of thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11541.
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Esteba, López Joaquin. "La sindicació de les arts plàstiques a Catalunya durant la Guerra Civil (1936-1939). Institucions d’operacions ideològiques i polarització entre l’art d’avantguarda i el realisme." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667199.
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This thesis is focused on conceptions of the avant-garde and realism during the Spanish Civil War in Catalonia from two main mainstays: the conception of the nationalism implicit into the conflict itself, and the mandatory unionisation artists had to follow, from the summer of the 1936. The need of alphabetizing the current civil society had was met by those two mainstays. How did them allow the artist to create from freedom?
Since the widening of aesthetics in fields such as politics based on the dichotomy: committed art/ commitment of art, the position of the artist in front of realism, neo romanticism, "wided aesthetics", and the Avant-garde is analysed. In which way the political question is related with the anti-fascist Popular Front and the Spanish revolution is synchronized on the theoretical basis of realism and avant-garde?El focus de la present tesi el posem en la concepció del realisme i de l'avantguarda durant la Guerra Civil espanyola a Catalunya des de dos grans pilars: la concepció del nacionalisme implícit en el conflicte i la sindicació obligatòria dels artistes plàstics des de l’estiu de l’any 1936, que van suposar la institucionalització de la cultura en la seva necessitat d’alfabetització de la societat civil del moment. De quina manera aquests pilars van permetre una llibertat estètica per part de l’artista? Des de l’eixamplament de l’estètica en àmbits com la política en base la dicotomia art compromès / compromís de l’art, analitzem la posició dels artistes davant del realisme, el neoromanticisme, l’art d’avançada, les Avantguardes. De quina manera la qüestió política relacionada amb el Front Popular antifeixista i la revolució espanyola es sincronitza en la fonamentació teòrica del realisme i de l'avantguarda?
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Wang, Shu-Chin. "Realist agency in the art field of twentieth-century China : realism in the art and writing of Xu Beihong (1895-1953)." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.547458.
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Reason, Akela M. "Beyond realism history in the art of Thomas Eakins /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2195.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Art History and Archaeology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Zhu-Nowell, Xiaorui. "Capitalist realism : making art for sale in Shanghai, 1999." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111501.
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Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The artist-instigated exhibition Art for Sale (1999), which partially operated as a fully functioning 'art supermarket' inside a large shopping mall, was one of the most important exhibitions that took place during the development of Shanghai's experimental art-scene in the 1990s, a time when the influx of consumer capitalism was becoming a key mechanism of life in the city. Organized by the artist-curators Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong and Alexander Brandt, the exhibition was divided into two sections, a supermarket and an exhibition space, and included 33 artists who were prompted to create a pair of works, one for each section. The supermarket section consisted of works that were at once art objects and commercial goods, many of them bizarre amalgamations of familiar household items, and visitors were able to self-select "merchandise" to purchase; therefore, becoming "art consumers" for the first time in post-revolutionary China. Post-1989 China was a uniquely volatile social and political environment; the failure of the 1989 democracy movement incentivized the rise of state-directed capitalism, and Deng Xiaoping was championing a new official ideology of the Communist Party of China- "Socialism with Chinese characteristics", which doubled as a strategy to thwart the democratic movement of the time. Necessarily, the Shanghai art scene of the 1990s must be seen in the context of these pro-consumerist state policies, as almost overnight, the state attempted to turn a nation of workers into a nation of consumers. This transition was rife with tension. An emerging ideology of consumerism had to be cleverly negotiated with and against a strong residual ideology of Mao-era policies and values. It was a historical moment of incredible flux and ideological hybridity in which the necessary contradiction of "socialist capitalism" could take root. The Art for Sale exhibition was deftly self-reflexive about these permutable conditions of the late 1990s, and this thesis argues that it functioned as a way to worry the question of consumerism in China through making consumption into an aesthetic act; considering, challenging and often subverting the contingent future of capitalism that the state was trying to enact. Through the introduction of Capitalist Realism, an art historical movement begun by East German artists in 1960s West Germany, this thesis links Art for Sale with previous examples of artists using consumerism as an aesthetic strategy, arguing that Capitalist Realism can be used as an interpretive heuristic for understanding how conceptual art practices emerged in 1990s China as a critique of Western consumerism.
by Xiaorui Zhu-Nowell.
S.M. in Architecture Studies
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Qian, Zifan. "Enhanced realism in the development of my painting." PDXScholar, 1989. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3919.
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It is a basic truth that the artist must have independent experience and personality in order to create art from life. Combining a traditional realistic style with some elements of abstract composition fits my personality. My paintings represent a pursuit of this idea that is the enhanced realism in the development of my painting.
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Graham, Jennifer Frances. "Van Eyck's realism and the British art world 1760-1880." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408988.
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Martinac, Krunoslav. "Red flags flying: Elements of socialist realism in Australian art." Thesis, Martinac, Krunoslav (2002) Red flags flying: Elements of socialist realism in Australian art. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2002. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52755/.
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This thesis examines the emergence and development of Socialist Realism in Australia. Among twentieth century cultural narratives a significant position is occupied by the theme of realism in the visual arts as related to the social and particularly to the political or ideological context. The issue of reality transformed into a visual representation of social relations plays an especially important role in Eastern European artistic practices, dominated by the Soviet model of Socialist Realism. Socialist Realism is a worldwide artistic and cultural phenomenon that arose under the influences of the social changes in Russia at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
This already defined aesthetic influenced thereafter the other European communist and non-communist countries, the United States of America and Australia. Historical approaches to the problem of Socialist Realist doctrine have established a number of cliches which should be thoroughly challenged by new interpretations, questioning the fixed definition of historical avant-gardes as supposedly positive and progressive while traditional realistic practices are seen as regressive and totalitarian.
This thesis provides an insight into the artistic practice of Australian painters Noel Counihan. Yosl Bergner and Victor O’Connor, whose work embodies most of the contradictions and conflicts of the early Australian modernist scene. Modem art in Australia reflected the social and cultural situation in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s which shaped the emergence of Modernism in general in Australia. Australian artists in the Contemporary Art Society (1938) drew on European ideas in their attempts to develop a modem artistic practice that was both international and at the same time recognisably Australian. Important amongst these were a number of Socialist Realist artists whose artistic activity was strongly concerned about contemporary social issues, nationalism, national identity, economic depression and war, and the future of Australian society.
This study grows out of some recent interdisciplinary initiatives in language theory and new directions in the study of visual art. The analytical model of systemic-functional semiotics of art, as developed in the work of Michael Halliday and Michael O’Toole is applied to an interpretation of a selection of key works by Australian Socialist Realists. Through a close semiotic analysis internal visual facts and the historical and social context of their work are integrated into a complex structure of signs and their meanings in an endeavour to interpret the appearance and development of the doctrine as a significant practice in Australia in the period of the 1930s and 1940s.
This thesis is written in the conviction that visual representations are realisations of the social semiotic out of which they have grown, but at the same time they are a contribution to that social semiotic, participating in changing the context. My analysis of the Socialist Realist method which attempts to locate the picture within a rational system of perceptual codes suggests that works of art can be a starting point from which most of the aesthetic and social-political concerns of the period can be deduced.
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Dickerson, Brendhan Bailie. "Magical realism and subjective reality : an investigation of poetic symbolism and the development of related sculptures." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13862.
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Bibliography: leaves 58-62.To meet the requirements for the Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Cape Town my intention was to develop a series of sculptural assemblages which address a sense of subjective or poetic reality, using symbolically resonant found and fabricated objects. The body of work is to be understood as a sculptural parallel to (but not illustrative of) Magical Realist literature, in which arcane phenomena are incorporated into a narrative in order to achieve just such a sense of subjective reality.
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Delong, Marek. "Cluster World." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta výtvarných umění, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-232466.
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In my thesis I focus mainly on omnipresence of the internet and technology. Additionally on colapse of physical environment in online culture and infinite reproduction ability and transformability of digital matter. However, I’m also concerned about their feedback application into exhibition areas. The thesis deals with change of authorship – after an art piece gets documented, it becomes a circulating material. Authorship of an artwork is almost impossible to track down, same as the initial context. Artistic outcome switches from auratic object into a file which is a subject to the network architecture. In the last two decades the relationship between image, text, language, meaning, body, space, subject and object changed radically. The task is no longer to create unique and original art but to observe existing supplies of images and spaces as de-subjectivized.
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Crist, Tessa J. "Vladimir Makovsky| The politics of nineteenth-century Russian realism." Thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1590999.
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This thesis examines the political work produced by a little-known Russian Realist, Vladimir Makovsky (1846-1920), while he was a member of the nineteenth-century art collective Peredvizhniki. Increasingly recognized for subtle yet insistent opposition to the tsarist regime and the depiction of class distinctions, the work of the Peredvizhniki was for decades ignored by modernist art history as the result of an influential article, "Avant-Garde and Kitsch," written by American art critic Clement Greenberg in 1939. In this article, Greenberg suggests the work of Ilya Repin, the most renowned member of the Peredvizhniki, should be regarded not as art, but as "kitsch"--the industrialized mass culture of an urban working class. Even now, scholars who study the Peredvizhniki concern themselves with the social history of the group as a whole, rather than with the merits of specific artworks. Taking a different approach to analyzing the significance of the Peredvizhniki and of Makovsky specifically this thesis harnesses the powerful methodologies devised in the 1970s by art historians T.J. Clark and Michael Fried, two scholars who are largely responsible for reopening the dialogue on the meaning and significance of Realism in the history of modern art.
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Eisenbrey, Peter. "Sculpting Fantasy Realism Creatures of the Desert." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/466.
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Creature design and sculpture is about representing life with three dimensions. To begin designing a creature, the process begins by looking at real life. Studies of existing wildlife and anatomy reference provided the foundation for the creation process. The goal of this project was to study creature design and attempt creating feasible results. The background and location origin of these creatures are based on the environmental location of Arizona. The goal was creating and rendering four creatures with the attempt of achieving fantasy realism.
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Bush, Melissa Ann. "Art from the Macchiaioli to the Futurists: Idealized Masculinity in the Art of Signorini and Balla." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5655.
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Beginning around 1850, Italians found themselves in the midst of an identity crisis. Europeans in France and England had surpassed Italians in terms of political, economic, and social progress. Italians seemed trapped in the past, clinging to their magnificent artistic heritage. However, new cultural and social movements were on the rise in Italy that attempted to throw off the domination of other European entities and forge a promising future for Italy. The Macchiaioli, a group of Italian modern artists who painted from 1853 to 1908, were the first group to address contemporary social issues such as class struggle and national weakness. Their art called for progressive change and arguably influenced how the later Italian Futurist movement would address similar concerns beginning in 1909. One of the Macchiaioli, Telemaco Signorini, advocated the development of new technologies and industries—dominated by men—in realist paintings from 1853 to 1901. Futurist artist Giacomo Balla gained recognition for promoting similar ideas in a more radical fashion. Most art historians believe that the Futurists were influenced by trends originating in Western Europe, specifically the French avant-garde. This thesis argues that the Futurists were significantly influenced by an Italian tradition that originated with the Macchiaioli. The Macchiaioli were animated by a nationalistic fervor and a desire to create a strong and unified Italian state. They used art and literature to advance progressive ideals based on masculine acts. The Futurists responded to similar stimuli in their day. In the absence of a powerful national identity, Signorini and Balla employed modern artistic styles to idealize masculine solutions to social problems. Both ultimately foresaw a world in which technology, mastered by men, would elevate Italian society.
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Bundy, Dallin J. "Magical Realism and the Space Between Spaces." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1309.
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Magical realism comes from Franz Roh, a german art historian and critic, who first used the term to describe the Post-Expressionism movement in visual art. His seminal writings and definitions on Post-Expressionism, then known as magical realism, were translated into Spanish and made available to Latin America in the mid twentieth century. Authors like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez adopted Roh's writings and re-appropriated magical realism into literary art, and from there the new genre proliferated through the Latin American Boom and magical realism in literary fiction reached global recognition, inspiring authors across the world to take it up and continue the tradition into the present.
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Andrus, Timothy G. "Stuart Davis's Early Theoretical Writing, 1918–1923: Realism, Cubism, and Dada." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4589.
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This dissertation provides the first in-depth examination of American artist Stuart Davis’s early theoretical writings made between 1918 and 1923. These writings are seminal documents in his artistic development. They lay the foundation for the creation of some of his most important works, inlcuding his groundbreaking Tobacco paintings of 1921 to his renowned Egg Beater series of 1927–1928, which Davis claimed set the direction for all his subsequent artistic output. One of the key ideas in these early writings is Davis’s concept of realism. This study traces the origin of Davis’s realism to his interaction with a network of ideas arising from cubism, symbolism, New York dada, and anarchist philosophy. In doing so, this study considers how Davis’s notion of realism informed both the development of his style and his iconography in his works of the 1920s.
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Elhag, Ahmed Hasaballa. "The medium and the message : Edward Bond and the politicization of art." Thesis, University of Essex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253130.
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Hawker, Rosemary. "Blur : Gerhard Richter and the photographic in painting /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe20106.pdf.
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Stevens, S. "Transformative realism : reflections of reality in political avant-garde and contemporary fine art film : Spanish Labyrinth, south from Granada." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2016. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9x0q9/transformative-realism-reflections-of-reality-in-political-avant-garde-and-contemporary-fine-art-film-spanish-labyrinth-south-from-granada.
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A turn towards documentary modes of practice amongst contemporary fine art video and filmmakers towards the end of the 20th Century, led to moving image works that represent current social realities. This drew some comparisons of these forms of art to journalism and industrial documentary. The practical research is embodied in a single screen film that responds to recent political and ecological realities in Spain. These include the mass demonstrations that led to the occupation of Madrid’s Plaza del Sol and Spain’s in 2011 and largest recorded forest fires that spread through Andalusia in August of the following year. The film, titled Spanish Labyrinth, South from Granada, is a response to these events and also relates to political avant-garde film of the 1930’s by re-tracing a journey undertaken by three revolutionary filmmakers, Yves Allegret, René Naville and Eli Lotar, in 1931. The theoretical research for this project establishes an historical root of artists’ film that responds to current social realities, in contrast to news media, in the Soviet and European avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. The main aim of this method is to argue the status of the works that I identify, both avant-garde and contemporary, as a form of art that preceded a Griersonian definition of documentary film.
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McEvansoneya, Philip Daniel. ""Dismal Art" or "strong, realistic pictures"? : Luke Fildes, Frank Holl and 'social realism'." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35697.
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Wang, Xuning. "Realist painting and its relationship to my creative practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/122.
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This thesis examines the realist art movement from its origins in France in the 1840s to its development in China in the 20th century and its impact on the author as an artist. The thesis reviews the development of realism in France, and traces its impact on Chinese conceptions of realism in the 20th century. The contemporary debates surrounding realism in China are examined and contextualised within the recent history of realism in China. Finally the thesis looks at the impact of realism on the author’s creative practice and a case is argued for the development of realist ideas in a globalised culture and its value as a cross- cultural visual language.
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Dernbach, Rafael Karl. "Anticipatory realism : constructions of futures and regimes of prediction in contemporary post-cinematic art." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/289021.
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This thesis examines strategies of anticipation in contemporary post-cinematic art. In the Introduction and the first chapter, I make the case for anticipation as a cultural technique for the construction of and adjustment to future scenarios. This framing allows analysis of constructions of futures as culturally and media-historically specific operations. Via anticipation, constructions of futures become addressable as embedded in specific performative and material economies: as regimes of prediction. The hypothesis is that cultural techniques of anticipation do not only serve to construct particular future scenarios, but also futurity, the very condition for the construction of futures. Drawing upon the philosophical works of, in particular, Vilem Flusser, Jacques Derrida and Elena Esposito, and the theory of cultural techniques, I conceptualize anticipation through the analysis of post-cinematic strategies. I argue that post-cinematic art is particularly apt for the conceptualization of anticipation. The self-reflexive multi-media interventions of post-cinematic art can expose the realisms that govern regimes of prediction. Three cultural techniques of anticipation and their use as artistic strategies in post-cinematic art are theorized: enactment, soft montage and rendering. Each of these techniques is examined in its construction of futures through performative and material operations in art gallery spaces. The second chapter examines strategies of enactment in post-cinematic installations by Neïl Beloufa. My readings of Kempinski (2007), The Analyst, the Researcher, the Screenwriter, the CGI tech and the Lawyer (2011), World Domination (2012) and Data for Desire (2014) propose that enactment allows for an engagement with futures beyond extrapolation. With Karen Barad's theory of agential realism, the construction of futures becomes graspable as a political process in opposition to a mere prolonging of the present into the future. The third chapter focuses on the strategy of soft montage in works by Harun Farocki. I interpret Farocki's application of soft montage in the exhibition Serious Games I-IV (2009-2010) as a critical engagement with anticipatory forms of organizing power and distributing precarity. His work series Parallel I-IV (2012-2014) is then analyzed as a speculation on the future of image production technologies and their role in constructing futures. The final chapter analyses the self-referential use of computer-generated renderings in works by Hito Steyerl. The installations How Not To Be Seen (2013), Liquidity Inc. (2014), The Tower (2015) and ExtraSpaceCraft (2016) are read as interventions in the performative economies of contemporary image production. I argue that these works allow us to grasp the reality-producing and futurity-producing effects of rendering as anticipatory cultural technique. My thesis aims to contribute to the discussions on a 'turn towards the future' in contemporary philosophy and cultural criticism. My research thus focuses on the following set of questions. What can we learn about the operations of future construction through encounters with post-cinematic art? How are futures and future construction framed in such art? What realisms do future constructions rely on? And how can anticipation as a cultural technique be politicized and democratized?
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Archambault, Pauline. "Foregrounding a Contemporary Mode of Realism: The Work of Santiago Sierra." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477607.
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Johnson, Perry Walter. "And This, Our Measure: Figurative Realism and Workaday Culture." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2151.
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Man has created vast and powerful systems. These systems and their associated protocols, dogmas, and conventions tend to limit rather than liberate. Evaluation based on homogeneity threatens the devaluation of our humanity. This paper and the artwork it supports examine contemporary culture and its failings in the stewardship of the humanist ideal.
My paintings referenced herein are satirical narratives. The story told is one of alienation and evisceration. The visual subject matter is the human figure and environments dominated by architectural geometry. The male figures are conspicuously turned from view, a visual cue to their estrangement. Parallel and subordinate thoughts from the fields of psychoanalysis, economics, religion, and political science will be discussed.
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Costa, Maria Chiara <1988>. "Pictorial art in the development of the concept of ‘realism’ in George Eliot’s fiction." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7056.
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The aim of this thesis is to highlight the importance of pictorial art in the development of the concept of ‘realism’ which is crucial in all Eliot’s fiction, with particular reference to her first and last novel.
The argument of the dissertation will be divided into four chapters.
The first chapter is devoted to the discussion of George Eliot’s actual knowledge of painting: both her acquaintance with pictures and artists she encountered in her life and her readings about visual arts. The second chapter is devoted to the many references to the art of Realism, as featured in some of George Eliot’s essays, with particular attention to John Ruskin’s influence on Eliot. The third chapter focuses on Dutch painting and pictorial ‘realism’ and on their importance in Eliot’s first novel Adam Bede, with particular reference to the famous declarations of poetics in chapter 17th of Adam Bede. The last chapter deals with the function of English and Italian portrait painting in George Eliot’s last novel Daniel Deronda.
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Kwok, Yin-ning. "Concepts of realism and the reception of John Constable's landscape paintings." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39707301.
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Povoledo, Elisabetta Angela. "Caravaggio's early works and the tradition of Lombard realism." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=64068.
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Matelli, Federica. "Nuevas perspectivas para lo cotidiano en el arte contemporáneo. Del marco textual al marco especulativo (1980-2014)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670732.
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Esta tesis parte de la hipótesis según la cual el uso de imágenes, objetos u otros elementos derivados de la vida cotidiana es una constante en el arte contemporáneo a partir del arte moderno y ha experimentado distintos cambios desde sus inicios hasta nuestros días. Si bien en los últimos treinta años el papel de los elementos cotidianos en el arte se explica reconduciendo y creando un nexo entre las practicas artísticas y las teorías posestructuralistas, recientemente detectamos un giro en la producción artística y teórica determinado por la confluencia del ámbito artístico y las teorías adscritas al materialismo o realismo especulativo que condiciona la interpretación de la presencia de dichos elementos en las obras de arte y su producción y permite abrir nuevos campos de trabajo que los contemplen (marco textual y marco especulativo).
La tesis se estructura en cuatro partes con sus correspondientes subapartados: 1. Parte I. Genealogía de «lo cotidiano»: contextualización histórica y aproximación sociofilosófica al concepto; 2. Parte II. El concepto de estetización de la vida cotidiana y la crítica por parte del arte contemporáneo; 3. Parte III. Lo cotidiano en el arte contemporáneo hasta el 1980; 4. Parte IV. Lo cotidiano en el arte entre 1980 y 2014. Herramientas epistemológicas y casos de estudio. En ellas se ha preparado una contextualización histórica y una genealogía del concepto de «lo cotidiano» y se han desarrollado los dos marcos teóricos interpretativos (textual y especulativo) con el objetivo de crear instrumentos de interpretación de los casos de estudio.
En resumen, el triple objetivo de la tesis es: proporcionar un estudio teórico exhaustivo del concepto de lo cotidiano en relación con el arte contemporáneo y la sociedad actual; crear herramientas epistemológicas para la interpretación de una parte de la producción artística del periodo cronológico (1980-2014) que trabaja con esa relación, y utilizar los casos de estudio –discursos curatoriales y artísticos– como «máquinas de reflexionar» acerca de tal relación.This thesis is based on the hypothesis that the use of images, objects or other elements derived from everyday life is a constant in contemporary art from modern art and has undergone various changes since its beginnings until today. Although in the last thirty years the role of everyday elements in art has been explained by redirecting and creating a link between artistic practices and post-structuralist theories, we have recently detected a turn in artistic and theoretical production determined by the confluence of the artistic field and the theories ascribed to speculative materialism or realism that condition the interpretation of the presence of these elements in works of art and their production and allow new fields of work to be opened that contemplate them (textual framework and speculative framework). The thesis is structured in four parts with their corresponding subsections: 1. Part I. Genealogy of "the everyday": historical contextualisation and sociophilosophical approach to the concept; 2. Part II. The concept of the aestheticisation of everyday life and criticism by contemporary art; 3. The Everyday in Contemporary Art until 1980; 4. The Everyday in Art from 1980 to 2014. Epistemological tools and case studies. These have prepared a historical contextualisation and a genealogy of the concept of "the everyday" and have developed the two theoretical interpretative frameworks (textual and speculative) with the aim of creating tools for interpreting the case studies. In short, the thesis' triple objective is: to provide an exhaustive theoretical study of the concept of the quotidian in relation to contemporary art and current society; to create epistemological tools for the interpretation of a part of the artistic production of the chronological period (1980-2014) that works with this relationship, and to use the case studies -curatorial and artistic discourses- as "reflection machines" about this relationship.
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Trueblood, Jeffrey Allen. "Polar night." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2649.
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For my thesis I plan on exploring the concepts and reasons that I make my art. I will talk about how I explore the night as my subject and the emotional response I hope to evoke with my work, and my influences and inspirations while exploring this topic. I will talk about how I try to show how in the modern world we try to take that darkness and drive it back with artificial lights intending to duplicate the world of daylight, but instead we create stages of normalcy in between the depths of the night allowing the individual imaginations of the viewer to dream into the darkness bringing their own experiences and emotions to the images and making an interactive viewing experience. By trying to recreate the mental state where our minds revert to the most primal instincts of fight or flight in the face of the unknown, despite our knowledge of what exists in the daylight, I try to reach a more primal work of art that goes beyond my early influences of the western Romantic art and show how these instincts still deeply affect us in our modern world.
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Song, Sheau Ming. "To what extent is realism in painting a relevant and vital force in contemporary art?" Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527148.
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Kwok, Yin-ning, and 郭燕寧. "Concepts of realism and the reception of John Constable's landscape paintings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39707301.
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Maeng, Hyeyoung. "Documentation art and Korean Bunche painting : an investigation of Deleuze's Transcendental Realism through the painting process." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2017. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/125344/.
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This art practice-based research aims to rediscover Gilles Deleuze’s theory of art as an aesthetics of Transcendental Realism through the process of Korean Bunche painting. Bunche painting, which I have been working on for twenty years, refers to a thousand-yearold traditional Korean painting technique which uses powder pigments mixed with water glue (Agyo) on Korean paper (Hanji) in multiple layers. By means of an action research methodology, a series of my Bunche paintings’ processes were documented with digital photography and film, and reinvented as an independent video art piece which I call Documentation Art. This Documentation Art project challenges the conventional understanding of modern Korean Bunche painting in relation to the influence of Japanese Nihonga and Western abstract painting, and produces a new experimental potentiality, by means of interdisciplinary studies of Deleuze’s theory of art and the Korean art movement of Trueview (Jingyeong) realism. Throughout this research project, I explore how Deleuze’s process ontology and ‘virtuality’ give form to Documentation Art through ‘becoming’ and ‘desubjectification’ associated with transcendental time. Deleuze’s concept of the transcendental field of immanence, as a condition of real experience, radically recasts Plato’s Idea and subverts the notion of representation derived from Kantian transcendental aesthetic. This is the basis of the aesthetics of Transcendental Realism which integrates Deleuze’s ‘transcendental aesthetics of sensation’ with the aesthetics of ‘view from Tao’, based on Deleuze’s ontological position of the univocity of being. As a result, the Documentation Art is provisionally defined as Agencement machines, which operate by connecting different fields, and giving the connected assemblages entirely new sensesthrough the experimental process. In Deleuze’s aesthetics of Transcendental Realism, the Documentation Art project searches for the real in the deepest of Deleuze’s ontological layer, where transcendental time is encountered, underneath conceptual representation and interpretation.
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Padoongmatvoragool, Arthitaya. "The Tell of Tragedy." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab/Metallformgivning, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-179.
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The curiosity of different beliefs to “tragedy” between the two worlds, Eastern where tragedy is unpleasant and Western where tragedy is praised as high art form since Ancient Greek. The reason that they are very different as two ends from one point and how to present them directly to understandable stage in art forms itself are questioned. This essay is a research into philosophical living and belief relates to tragedy in Eastern and Western views toward tragedy in art forms. The way tragedy has been put differently and the way people treat this feeling. There is a border which is deep-seated into each cultures. The relation of time is used to explain tragedy in Ancient Greek. Western tragedy is big enough to play a main role while Eastern tragedy play a part of the whole in one legend or story. The study of Andy Warhol’s method “Traumatic Realism” which is relevant to starting question explains the direction of using repetition as presentation in order to bring viewers get into trauma at its surface. Picasso’s painting “Tragedy”, Edward Gorey’s storytelling illustration “The Hapless Child”, and Marina Abramovic’s performance “Balkan Baroque”, are used to discuss their techniques and statements based on tragedy from different forms. There is a touching point from Warhol’s and Abramovic’s works. Conclusion talks about the method to present tragedy right there in the work. Selections of pictures are used to tell direction of tragedy in the work. Hierarchy of perception and changing of time in works are explained by Ancient Greek tragedy philosophy and Warhol’s repetition. Feeling is gradually changed. Traces can be found. Time is taking it away.
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Hyman, James. "The battle for realism : figurative art and its promotion in Britain during the Cold War 1945-59." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309932.
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Suret-Canale, Alice. "D’un fragment à l’autre : images empreintes de temps réel : exploration des nouvelles découpes de la vue et du temps dans le film d’animation et l’image numérique animée." Thesis, Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080018/document.
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La vision multiple et la perception simultanée d’images et d’informations sont au cœur de notre vie quotidienne ; l’omniprésence des écrans et des fenêtres, de l’espace urbain à Internet, produit une vision sur-cadrée et fragmentée du monde qui transforme notre rapport à l’image. La révolution artistique des 19ème et 20ème siècles accompagna le développement des techniques de production de l'image photographique et cinématographique manifestant une certaine préoccupation pour la décomposition du mouvement et l’échantillonnage du temps. La naissance des technologies numériques, dont le développement est intimement lié à celui des réseaux de télécommunication et notamment d’Internet, a renouvelé cette tendance en faisant de la mobilité, de la téléprésence, de l’ubiquité et de la vision simultanée les caractéristiques fondamentales de la pensée visuelle de notre époque.Les systèmes figuratifs de l’image numérique, qui héritent des techniques d’enregistrements optiques tout en y adjoignant celles de la simulation par ordinateur, inaugurent-ils une attitude différente vis-à-vis du réel ? Leur parenté avec Internet et avec les systèmes temps réels les investit-t-elle d’un autre mode d’expression temporel, qui viendrait se substituer à l’histoire de la peinture classique et tendrait à renouveler la présence performative et le direct de l’art vidéo ? C’est à travers le concept du fragment, considéré comme outil au service de l’expérimentation artistique, que cette thèse de recherche-création examine la manière dont l’image numérique animée reprend et transforme les codes de la pratique figurative en peinture et en cinéma pour organiser une nouvelle découpe de la vue et du tempsMultiple vision and simultaneous perception of images and information are at the heart of our daily lives; The omnipresence of screens and windows, from urban space to the Internet, produces an over-framed and fragmented vision of the world that transforms our relationship to the image. The artistic revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries accompanied the development of photographic and cinematographic image production techniques, expressing a certain concern for movement decomposition and time sampling. The birth of digital technologies, whose development is intimately linked to that of telecommunication networks and especially the Internet, has renewed this trend by making mobility, telepresence, ubiquity and simultaneous vision the fundamental characteristics of the visual thinking of our time.Do the figurative systems of digital image, which inherit the techniques of optical recordings while adding those of computer simulation, inaugurate a different attitude towards reality? Does their kinship with the Internet and real time systems invest them in another mode of temporal expression, which would replace the history of classical painting and would tend to renew the performative and direct presence of video art? It is through the concept of fragment, considered as a tool in the service of artistic experimentation, that this research-creation thesis examines the way in which the animated digital image takes over and transforms the codes of figurative practice into painting and film to organize a new cut of sight and time
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Brito, José Teixeira de. "Glauco Rodrigues e sua obra : trânsitos no tempo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/185261.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a presença de Glauco Rodrigues no sistema da arte no Brasil, os diferentes tempos e espaços em que suas obras se articulam, seus percursos de afirmação e legitimação através das apropriações por colecionadores, curadores e instituições. Partimos de uma recuperação biográfica e histórica da produção do artista para compreender sua atuação no circuito local e repercussão internacional. Em seus deslocamentos temporais e conceituais o artista transitou entre a figuração, o realismo socialista, o abstracionismo, a pop art e o tropicalismo. Na análise desses momentos destacam-se seus conhecimentos e conexões com os artistas de sua época. Propomo-nos identificar as narrativas de sua trajetória e costurar seus acervos, articulando-as aos discursos históricos e pensar as teorias da arte que se revelam a partir da obra do artista.This dissertation aims to investigate the presence of Glauco Rodrigues' work in the Brazilian art system, the different times and spaces in which his works were articulated, the paths of affirmation and legitimation experienced by his oeuvre after appropriations made by collectors, curators and institutions. The analysis brings a biographical and historical review of the artist's production pursuing to place his performance in a local circuit and it's international overcome. Through his temporal and conceptual displacements, the artist moved between figuration, socialist realism, abstractionism, pop art and tropicalism. From the analysis of the different stages of his work stands out the knowledge he gained and connections built with the artists of each time. The proposal of the text is to identify and bring together narratives and collections, articulating historical discourses and theories of art that are revealed from the body of work of Glauco Rodrigues.
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Luciano, Kelli Mesquita. "Referências históricas e o realismo mágico em Il barone rampante, de Italo Calvino /." Araraquara, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91522.
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Resumo: Esta Dissertação objetiva a análise do romance "Il barone rampante", que faz parte da trilogia I Nostri Antenati (1950-1960), em que também estão reunidos os romances "Il visconte dimezzato" e "Il cavaliere inesistente", de Italo Calvino (1923-1985). Buscamos analisar num primeiro momento, alguns fatores que influenciaram a escrita calviniana, como os movimentos de Resistência na Itália, que visavam lutar contra as atrocidades da Primeira e da Segunda Guerra Mundial e do fascismo, como também algumas características da estrutura da fábula, que podem ser identificadas no romance estudado, a partir das atitudes de benfeitor de Cosme que o qualificam como um herói, pois passa por diversas dificuldades e lutas em favor do bem comum de todos. Na segunda parte da Dissertação, evidenciamos algumas referências históricas feitas à Revolução Francesa e ao Iluminismo e seus pontos de intersecção com o contexto histórico, em que Calvino viveu período, que envolveu Guerras e movimentos de grande repercussão e repressão como: o fascismo, o nazismo e o socialismo; menções de espaços reais e de Instituições históricas e de referências a figuras históricas como: Napoleão Bonaparte, Rousseau, Diderot, entre outros. No final da Dissertação, apontamos certas características que aproximam Il barone rampante a variedade do realismo mágico metafísico, como, por exemplo, a decisão do protagonista, Cosme de morar sobre as árvores, entre outros eventos. Além disso, comentamos algumas significações alegóricas em relação ao contexto histórico da narrativa, que remete na realidade ao século XX, época em que Calvino viveu e sobre a alegoria do intelectual Cosme a partir da sua mudança de ponto de vista sobre as árvores, que induzem a reflexão pela necessidade da valorização da educação e pela... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This thesis aims to analyze the novel "Il barone rampante," which is part of the trilogy I nostri Antenati (1950-1960), who are also gathered in the novels "Il visconte dimezzato" and "Il cavaliere inesistente" by Italo Calvino (1923-1985).We analyze at first, some factors that influenced the writing calviniana, as movements of Resistance in Italy, aimed at fighting against the atrocities of the First and Second World War and fascism, but also some characteristics of the structure of the fable, which can be study identified the novel, from the attitudes of benefactor of Cosme which qualify as a hero, which goes through many hardships and struggles in favor of good all in common. In the second part of the dissertation, we noted some historical references made in the novel, about the French Revolution and the Enlightenment and their points of intersection with the historical context in which Calvino lived, involving wars and movements of great impact and repression as fascism, nazism and socialism; terms of actual areas and historical institutions and references to historical figures as Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, and others. At the end of the dissertation, we point out certain features that bring Il barone rampante variety of metaphysical magic realism, for example, the decision of the protagonist, Cosme living on trees, and other events. In addition, we discuss some allegorical meanings in relation to the historical context of the narrative which actually refers to the twentieth century, a period in which Calvin lived and about allegory of the intellectual Cosme from his change of view on the trees, which lead to reflection by need for enhancement of education and the maintenance of hope in human progress and technology to living in a more just and egalitarian society. Finally, we comment on symbolic elements such as tree space ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Godbey, Margaret J. "Vying for Authority: Realism, Myth, and the Painter in British Literature, 1800-1855." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/81444.
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Over the last forty years, nineteenth-century British art has undergone a process of recovery and reevaluation. For nineteenth-century women painters, significant reevaluation dates from the early 1980s. Concurrently, the growing field of interart studies demonstrates that developments in art history have significant repercussions for literary studies. However, interdisciplinary research in nineteenth-century painting and literature often focuses on the rich selection of works from the second half of the century. This study explores how transitions in English painting during the first half of the century influenced the work of British writers. The cultural authority of the writer was unstable during the early decades. The influence of realism and the social mobility of the painter led some authors to resist developments in English art by constructing the painter as a threat to social order or by feminizing the painter. For women writers, this strategy was valuable for it allowed them to displace perceptions about emotional or erotic aspects of artistic identity onto the painter. Connotations of youth, artistic high spirits, and unconventional morality are part of the literature of the nineteenth-century painter, but the history of English painting reveals that this image was a figure of difference upon which ideological issues of national identity, gender, and artistic hierarchy were constructed. Beginning with David Wilkie, and continuing with Margaret Carpenter, Richard Redgrave and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, I trace the emergence of social commitment and social realism in English painting. Considering art and artists from the early decades in relation to depictions of the painter in texts by Maria Edgeworth, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mary Shelley, Joseph Le Fanu, Felicia Hemans, Lady Sydney Morgan, and William Makepeace Thackeray, reveals patterns of representation that marginalized British artists. However, writers such as Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Robert Browning supported contemporary painting and rejected literary myths of the painter. Articulating disparities between the lived experience of painters and their representation calls for modern literary critics to reassess how nineteenth-century writers wrote the painter, and why. Texts that portray the painter as a figure of myth elide gradations of hierarchy in British culture and the important differentiations that exist within the category of artist.
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Konoshima, Nanako. "Dickens and the Visual Arts: Literary Imagination and Painted Image." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/189331.
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Wallis, Karen. "Painting & drawing the nude : a search for a realism for the body through phenomenology & fine art practice." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252566.
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Adams, Jeffrey Nigel Philip. "Graphic novels and social realism : three case studies, Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, Art Spiegelman's Maus and Joe Sacco's Palestine." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400406.
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Bain, Keith Norman. "Hyperartifical cinema and the art of cool." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52880.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, an ontology of contemporary cinema is developed using the position assumed by postmodern thinkers (notably Jean Baudrillard) and contemporary filmmakers. Using Baudrillard's perspective it is argued that the cinematic apparatus is an expression of both human curiosity and a desire to place "reality" at a distance. While the spectator seeks involvement with the viewed subject, he or she remains detached from the images which simulate the various "realities" in which he or she becomes "involved" through the act of viewing. The contemporary Western subject is said to crave "meaning" in a universe which is increasingly secular, materialistic, individualistic and, to a certain extent, "virtual". Life is also said to be more ironic, providing illusory concessions such as communication in lieu of interaction, information instead of knowledge, choice in favour of quality, surfaces rather than depth, and images which ultimately extinguish "the real". Moving images may be said to allude to the artificial nature of a "reality" which is itself a human construction. This suggests that the role of the camera is to place both the world and human subjects "at a distance", thereby objectifying (and potentially dehumanising) the subject-objects of the gaze. Many postmodern films are concerned with the functioning of the cinematic apparatus itself, and these films - implicitly and explicitly - deal with the way in which subjectivity is established through the cinematic gaze. "Realism" in the cinema has to a large extent shifted from the documentation of the world, to techniques which problematise the viewer's experience of "reality". Interactivity, faux-verité and the hyperrealism of computer graphic imaging, have contributed to the confusion of various forms of screen "realism", arguably impacting on the viewer's experience of "reality". In another sense, "reality" has been transformed by the blurring of distinctions between high and low cultural paradigms, increasingly evident in work that privileges the showing of "perverse", "profane", "grotesque", "vulgar" and explicit "realities". Boundaries between private and publiC spaces are eroded as the cinematic apparatus takes spectators into increasingly intimate personal spaces, demystifying and popularising the unknown and previously hidden. Considering the influence of commercial and socio-economic factors on the development of contemporary cinema (emphasizing Hollywood), the thesis looks at the aesthetic, thematic and narrative concerns of both mainstream and niche-market films. Focus is given to the socalled postmodern aesthetic which is closely linked to what some critics call recycling (an inability to say anything "new"), some label "empty" (meaningless) and many see as "schizoid" (able to be read in various, often contradictory, ways). The thesis proposes that contemporary (postmodern) cinema is a "pure" form which increasingly sets "reality" at a distance so that it's illusory nature is emphasised. It also demonstrates how contemporary films serve as reflections of a world which is itself nothing but a reflection (artificial construction). Like dreams, fantasies and other "virtual realities", the cinema represents a form of "remembering" which is detached from any particular time or space. In this sense, cinematic moving images enable viewers to engage with aspects of their own humanity which may be quite independent of the "reality" status of the world.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie proefskrif word die uitgangpunte van postmoderne denkers (by uitstek Jean Beaudrillard) en kontemporêre filmmakers benut om 'n ontologie van die kontemporêre film te ontwikkel. Vanuit Beaudrillard se perspektief word geargumenteer dat die filmiese apparatuur 'n uitrukking is van die mens se Inherente nuuskierigheid en die behoefte om "realiteit" op 'n afstand te hou. Alhoewel die kyker streef na betrokkenheid by die subjek wat bekyk word, bly hy of sy altyd afsydig (detached) van die beelde wat die verskeie "werklikhede" simuleer waarby hy of sy in die proses van kyk "betrokke" raak. Daar word beweer dat die hedendaagse Westerse subjek verlang na "betekenis" in 'n heelal wat al meer sekulêr, materialisties, individualisties en, tot 'n sekere mate, "virtueel" word. Die lewe is deurspek met ironie en maak allerlei illusionêre toegewings aan die "werklikheid", byvoorbeeld deur voorkeur te gee aan kommunikasie in plaas van interaksie, inligting in plaas van kennis, keuse in plaas van kwaliteit, oppervlakkighede in plaas van diepgang en beelde wat uiteindelike "die werklikeid" uitwis. Daar kan gesê word dat filmiese beelde (moving images) verwys na die kunsmatige aard van "realiteit", wat op sigself 'n menslike konstruksie is. Hiermee word dus gesuggereer dat dit die funksie van die kamera is om beide die wêreld en menslike subjekte "op 'n afstand" te plaas, en daarmee te objektiviseer (en moontlik te dehumaniseer). Baie postmoderne films hou hulle besig met die manier wat die filmiese apparatuur self funksioneer, en hierdie films ondersoek die wyse waarop subjektiwiteit deur middel van die kamera verkry word. "Realisme" in die film het tot 'n groot mate verskuif van die dokumentasie van die wêreld na tegnieke om die kyker se ervaring van die "werklikheid" te problematiseer. Interaktiwiteit, faux-verité en die hiper-realiteit van rekenaar gegenereerde beelde het bygedra tot die verwarring oor die verskeie vorme van filmiese "realisme", wat mens sou kon argumenteer 'n impak op die kyker se siening van "die werklikheid" het. In 'n ander sin, is "die werklikheid" getransformeer deur paradigma verskuiwings waardeur die onderskeide tussen "hoë" en "lae" kulture vervaag, iets wat al meer gedemonstreer word deur werke wat verkies om die "perverse", "profane", "groteske", "vulgêre", en eksplisiete "realiteite" te wys. Die grense tussen private en publieke ruimtes vervalook waar die filiese apparatuur kykers in al hoe intiemer persoonlike ruimtes inneem, om daardeur dit wat voorheen onbekende en versteek was te demistifiseer en populariseer. Met inagname van die invloed wat die kommersiële en sosio-ekonomiese faktore op die ontwikkelling van die hedendaagse film (veral van Hollywood) het, kyk die proefskrif na die estetiese, tematiese en narratiewe kwessies wat beide hoofstroom en niche-mark films kenmerk. Daar word veral gefokus op die sogenaamde post-moderne estetiek wat gekoppel word aan wat sommige kritici recycling noem (dws die onvermoë om iets nuuts te sê), ander as "leeg" (dws betekenisloos) beskou, en baie ander weer "shizoid" brandmerk (dws dit kan in verskeie, menige kere kontradiktoriese wyses, gelees of verstaan word). Die proefskrif bevind uiteindelik dan dat die kontemporêre (postmoderne) film 'n "suiwer" vorm is wat dit geleidelik regkry om "realiteit" op 'n afstand te hou, om sodoende sy eie illusionêre wese te benadruk. Dit illustreer ook hoe kontemporêre films funksioneer as refleksies van 'n wêreld wat self niks meer is as refleksie (kunsmatige konstruksie) is nie. Nes drome, fantasieë, en ander "virtuele realiteite", verteenwoordig die film 'n tipe "onthou" (remembering) wat onafhanklik is van 'n spesifteke tyd of plek. In hierdie sin help filmiese beelde kykers om hulself te kontfronteer met aspekte van hulle eie menslikheid wat onafhanklik is van hul werklikheidsstatus in die wêreld.
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Connor, Laura. "Frameworks: The Limits of Perception and Representation in Spanish Narrative and Painting, 1880-1920." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11486.
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Realism is a mode of representation that purports to depict contemporary society objectively and in its entirety. By contrast, modernist artists are often regarded as having turned away from external reality to represent subjective states and to emphasize the artistic (versus mimetic) qualities of art. Building on recent scholarship that has demonstrated that Spanish realist authors were mindful of the limitations of the realist project, this study examines frames as devices through which both realist and modernist authors and artists working in fin-de-siècle Spain signal the limits of perception and representation.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Ehrlich, Nea E. "Animated realities : from animated documentaries to documentary animation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25699.
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My thesis on contemporary animated documentaries links new media aesthetics with the documentary turn in contemporary visual culture. Drawing from the fields of Contemporary Art, Animation, Film Studies and Gaming Theory, my aim has been to explore the development of animated documentaries in the context of animation's intersection with other visual fields in a very specific technological moment of the past two decades in order to broaden the scope within which animation is analysed and understood. The starting point of my research was the widely accepted divide assumed to exist between animation and documentary. I, however, claim that the supposedly contradictory nature of animated documentaries can no longer be considered a given. Despite the potentially challenging reception of animated documentaries, it is important to identify what it is that the animated image contributes to documentary, which is the visualisation of what is otherwise un-representable. My thesis investigates a new area of the intangible, focusing on the virtualisation of culture rather than on subjective or imaginary aspects of documentary works and visual interpretations. This cultural shift consequently requires new aesthetics of documentation that exceed the capacities of the photographic. My main argument is that due to contemporary technological changes, animation has permeated real contexts of daily life to the extent that it has become disassociated from the realm of fiction. Rather, in altering the way viewers are becoming accustomed to observing, learning about and connecting with reality, animation has brought about a constitutive change in ways of seeing one's world. This change can be described as animation’s impact on the relation between visual signification and believability. It is this which necessitates a reconsideration of what shapes a sense of realism in documentaries today. My research therefore culminates with new conceptualisations concerning the cultural role of animation, introducing what I argue is the formation of the "animated document" and "documentary animation". In these contexts, animation is no longer an interpretive visualisation substituting for photography but a direct capturing of animated realities. Animation thus expands what is considered to constitute reality and, as a result, also destabilises assumptions about the perceived conflict between animation and documentary, widening the sphere of documentary aesthetics.
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Boivie, Joakim. "Digital Wanderlust : Med digital materia som följeslagare i skapandet." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-14703.
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Med detta kandidatarbete vill jag synliggöra datorns roll i digitalt skapande. Detta genom att se till den kod som utgör digitala objekt som ett materia, och utifrån Karen Barads teorier om agentiell realism samt forskning i digital materialitet bjuda in denna digitala materia som en aktör i skapandeprocessen. Jag har strävat efter en inblick i hur digital materia framträder när den tillåts verka som en aktör, hur den tar ett uttryck och yttrar sig. Jag har engagerat mig i digital materia med diffraktion och remix som metod, vilket tillåtit mig en djupare inblick i det samt en inkluderande process där jag och materiat verkar tillsammans; i intra-aktion. I slutändan ser jag hur digital materia inte framträder ensamt, både jag och dator finns sammantrasslade i dess framträdande som ett resultat av den intra-aktion vi mötts i. Mitt ingripande i digital materia blir synligt i form av glitches, spår av digitalt förfall som ger det annars flyktiga digitala materiat mer materiella och konkreta egenskaper. Det blir även tydligt hur digital materia innebär en svårförstådd komplexitet, som framträder visuellt när det tillåts påverka denna skapandeprocess. Men jag även erhållit en medvetenhet om hur digital materia inte har ett absolut framträdande, och mitt arbete kan ses som en undersökning i hur digital materia kan framträda.With this bachelor thesis I aim to bring to light the role of the computer in digital creative work. This is accomplished by treating the code that make up digital objects as a form of matter, and with Karen Barad’s agential realism and other research into digital materiality as a point of reference this matter is invited to the creative process as an actor. I’ve been striving for a glimpse of how digital matter comes to life when it’s allowed an active part in the creative process, to see how it expresses itself. By engaging with the digital matter through diffraction and remix as methods I’ve been given an insight into the core of it, and through the process I’ve been working alongside digital matter in intra action. Ultimately I can see how digital matter won’t appear alone, I myself and the computer are both entangled together with the digital matter as a result of the intra actions we’ve been engaging in. My intervention in digital matter becomes visible as glitches, traces of decay that give the digital matter, which can be so fleeting, more concrete and material characteristics. The unintelligible complexity of digital matter also comes to light when it’s allowed influence, as it appears visually. With this knowledge I’ve gained the awareness that digital matter does not have an absolute appearance, and this thesis can be seen as an investigation into how digital matter can appear.
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Botchkareva, Anastassiia Alexandra. "Representational Realism in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Changing Visual Cultures in Mughal India and Safavid Iran, 1580-1750." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13070051.
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The concept of realism in visual representation has been defined and deployed largely within the domain of the Western artistic canon. In the field of art history, the term is often used in ways that depend on implicit, culturally coded assumptions about its connection with the formal markers of optical-naturalism. The Persianate tradition of pictorial representation by contrast, has been traditionally characterized in modern scholarship as stylized and decorative, with little acknowledgment of an interest in realism in its own visual language. Furthermore, normative Euro-centric attitudes have perpetuated the assumption that an engagement with realism entered Persianate artistic practices with the advent of Europeanizing modes of depiction in Safavid and Mughal spheres of production around the late sixteenth-century. This dissertation explores the topic of realism from the perspective of Persianate visual culture. In so doing, it proposes to refine our understanding of the concept in terms that accommodate the varied artistic production of cultures that laid claims to cultivating representational realism in their own primary sources.
The first chapter draws on multi-disciplinary discussions to challenge art historical treatments of pictorial realism as a style, in favor of a functional definition of the concept as an emergent quality rooted in formal strategies that activate particular patterns of mirror-response in their audiences.
The second and third chapters reject the principle of evaluating the realism of Persianate representations according to their degree of proximity to European models. The second chapter discusses the structural conditions of change in visual habitus in cases of inter-cultural encounter between foreign modes of representation and the resulting works of aesthetic hybridity. The third chapter presents material evidence of early modern Safavid and Mughal albums as discourses of aesthetic heterogeneity.
The fourth chapter explores the local Persianate roots of realism, including the changes these realism strategies underwent in the early modern period. The fifth and final chapter develops case studies of two seventeenth-century Mughal and Safavid drawings, which cultivate representational enlivenment in depicting harrowing moments of death. The discussion delves in greater detail into the particular patterns of realism developed in the seventeenth-century Persianate visual culture.History of Art and Architecture
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Duran, Adrian R. "Il Fronte Nuovo delle Arti realism and abstraction in Italian painting at the dawn of the Cold War, 1944--1950 /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.87 Mb., p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3220804.
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Macias-Gutierrez, Elizabeth. "Traumagical realism and the re-creation process : subversive commun(e)ication of the traumatic in theatre and performance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9974.
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This thesis approaches 'trauma' in theatre and performance from the perspective of communication studies. Since 'trauma' is an unspeakable and unrepresentable inner state, I thus conceptualize the term 'the traumatic/spectrum' to refer to layers of reality, meaning and experience that can be expressed, represented and/or spoken about in relation to a traumatizing encounter. Through practice-led research, I propose a multi-sensorial devising tool for theatre & performance makers primarily, and artists of all disciplines, to facilitate a performance process for individuals who have walked through a traumatic or post-traumatic journey ('journeyers'), and have a desire, need or purpose to communicate to an audience. Based on a syncretism in journalism, ethnography, psychology, and art therapy techniques, this methodology draws out the form and the content through which individuals desire to communicate about their experiences. Conceptualized here as the re-creation process, this methodology tackles different types of communication predicaments or 'distance' between audiences and 'journeyers' when addressing the traumatic, including: disbelief, voyeurism or sensationalism, and the tendency to habituate, fatigue, de-sensitize, avoid, avert and/or alienate from the traumatic and those who journey with this reality. In response, I endorse the interrelation of two aesthetic manifestations that can 'bridge' different types of psychological, emotional, sociocultural and physical 'distance': one is a realm of theatre & performance which renders semantic and somatic forms of expression indivisible, and the other is Magical Realism. These aesthetics are applied as channels and strategies to engage participants in a meaningful, empowering, and pleasurable 'shared' experience beyond the therapeutic. Finally, I propose the term traumagical realism to further identify and explore the parallels between Magical Realism and the traumatic. Traumagical Realism is a liminal territory that can offer a deeper understanding of the traumatic, and catalyze a social, aesthetic and affective force of engagement or 'commun(e)ication' between 'journeyers' and all participants involved in the devising process and culmination of a performance.
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MAGNANI, NICOLA. "La letteratura per tornare alla realtà. L'arte narrativa nella proposta culturale di alcune riviste giovanili: «Il Saggiatore», «Orpheus», «Oggi»." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/90.
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Il presente studio è finalizzato ad indagare le complesse vicende culturali di tre riviste - «Il Saggiatore», «Orpheus» e «Oggi» -, nate in Italia per iniziativa di alcuni giovani intellettuali nella prima metà degli anni Trenta, in un periodo in cui, a seguito del definitivo consolidamento politico-istituzionale del fascismo, ha inizio una vasta discussione per determinare con più precisione il ruolo delle nuove generazioni all'interno del regime. In questo «clima», l'azione di tali riviste mira soprattutto a definire il proprio «contributo» per la nascita di una «nuova cultura»: procedendo, così, ad un riassestamento della cultura che superi definitivamente l'impianto epistemologico del sistema idealista con le sue difettose derivazioni espressive, le varie testate giungono ad occuparsi di letteratura, indicando l'inevitabile «necessità», non solo etica e spirituale, ma anche estetica e artistica, di tornare al romanzo per poter riconquistare un'idea di arte che sappia di nuovo «aderire alla vita».The objective of this thesis is to analyse the cultural development of three literary reviews «Il Saggiatore», «Orpheus» and «Oggi» created by a group of young intellectuals in the mid 30's. Following a period of political and institutional consolidation of Fascism, wide discussion was raised about the role of the new generation within the fascist regime. The aim, above all, of these reviews was to bring about a «new culture». There was a reorganization of the culture, which went beyond the epistemological plan of the idealistic system, which was thought to be lacking in effective language. As a consequence newspapers and reviews began to deal with literature, pointing out the inevitable need for a return to the novel as a more realistic art form from an ethical, spiritual, aesthetic and artistic point of view.