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Ljung, Tove. "Sex som symbol : Analys om hur sex skildras i musikvideos, det dolda budskapet och vilken betydelse det har." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152175.
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My purpose in this essay is to analyse sexual messages and symbolism in music videos. Sexual contact can be depicted in various ways, like symbols of something hidden, not only how men and women relate to each other through a sexual act. I’ve demarcated the study into two music videos: Rammsteins Pussy, and Tommy Chashs Surf, based on the videos controversial reputation from the public. My question at issue is how sexual messages depicture and how symbolism indicates. The study is based on a semiotic model based on Roland Barthes' theory of character, as he presents in the book, Elements of Semiology. The result of this study is that the depiction of sex in these videos is presented as a symbol of personal message, and as a provocation. It reflects previous views on sexuality through the centuries. The provocation itself reinforces the artists image.
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Gladston, Paul. "Art history after deconstruction : is there any future for a deconstructive attention to art historical discourse?" Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12638/.
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Over the past two decades institutionally dominant art history has been strongly influenced by the theory and practice of deconstruction. While many art historians have embraced deconstruction as a productive means of unsettling and remotivating standard forms of art historical discourse, others have raised concerns over what they see as a widespread departure from the most basic tenets of art historical discourse; that is to say, not only the belief that there is a circumscribed category of aesthetic experience (art), but also that it is possible to arrive at a truthful representation of the relationship between works of art and the circumstances of their production and initial reception (history). Moreover, many of those same commentators have railed against the way in which this departure can be understood to have suspended any sense of a stable, structural connection between a historical is and a present ought; in other words, the notion that a truthful understanding of past events has the potential to inform ethico- political activity in the here and now. Our intention here is to problematize this apparent schism by demonstrating that art historical discourse has drawn the very possibility of its continuing conceptuality since Antiquity from a chronic and, for the most part, unconscious deconstructive interaction between the signifying ‘texts’ of art history and what might be seen as the various material, social and intellectual forces pertaining to the wider historical ‘contexts’ of their production and reception. Thus, we will have attempted to show that deconstruction is indivisible from continuing discursive attempts to arrive at a ‘truthful’ understanding of the past. In addition to this we will also attempt to show - with reference both to the writings of Jacques Derrida and a Duchampian inheritance in the visual arts - that it is possible to develop deconstructive forms of historical narrative through which we might engage critically with questions of ‘ethico- political’ value.
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Li, Yiwen. "Networks of Profit and Faith| Spanning the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, 838-1403." Thesis, Yale University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10633256.
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The lengthy descriptions of tribute embassies in the Chinese dynastic histories have led to the widespread belief that the China-centered tribute system dominated the trade of pre-modern East Asia at all times. The tribute trade, however, was not the main form of trade between China and Japan. In the year 838 CE, the last Japanese embassy for nearly six centuries traveled to Tang-dynasty China (618-907). Until 1403, when the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Ashikaga bakufu dispatched a delegation to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) to resume formal diplomatic relations, the tribute trade was suspended. Even though sources are few and far between, this thesis demonstrates the Sino-Japanese trade flourished throughout these six centuries.
Buddhist trade—the commercial exchange of objects for Buddhist uses, with monks as participants—occupied a prominent position in Sino-Japanese trade between 838 and 1403. People living on the Japanese archipelago desired many continental goods, and meanwhile, Chinese consumers also sought many commodities from Japan. Some of the Japanese embassy members in the 838 delegation were already engaged in non-tribute trade, trying to purchase incense and medicines in the lower Yangzi region of China. Meanwhile, Japanese monks diligently collected Buddhist texts and ritual objects. Archaeological discoveries show that between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, the Japanese repurposed various Chinese daily utensils such as ceramic jars, porcelain boxes, and bronze mirrors for religious uses. At the same time, Chinese commoners acquired Japanese goods. In addition to fine products like pearls, China also imported bulky goods from Japan such as lumber for monastery construction and for coffins.
Religious networks and commercial networks gradually became integrated as monks traveled on merchant ships and transmitted trade information. Prestigious monasteries also actively collaborated with merchants, and the trust embedded in the religious network facilitated long-distance trade. The authorities in both China and Japan realized that the shared belief in Buddhism could act as a common ground to reduce friction. The emperors of the Song dynasty (960-1276) warmly welcomed pilgrim monks from Japan.
Although the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan (r. 1260-1294) launched two invasions of Japan, in 1274 and 1281, the commercial and religious exchanges between China and Japan continued. The Mongol Emperor Chengzong (r. 1294-1307) dispatched a Zen master as his envoy to Japan, who stayed and taught in Kamakura. Ships named for Japanese monasteries brought sulfur and other goods to China and then returned to Japan with incense, medicines, ceramics, copper coins, and books. In the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Kamakura became the center of the growing Zen Buddhist movement as well as a distribution center for continental goods.
The six centuries of commercial and religious exchanges between China and Japan left a clear legacy. When Ashikaga Yoshimitsu resumed sending tribute to the Ming dynasty in 1403, an eminent monk led the Japanese delegation. Unlike the tribute system before 838, the newly established tribute exchanges acknowledged the need for participants to make a profit. And after the resumption of the tribute trade in 1403, monks and monasteries continued to play a significant role.
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Briley, Joshua Paul. "Trauma Responses, Abuse History, and Exposure to Violence as Risk Factors in Adolescent Sex and Non-Sex Offenders." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4369/.
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Several risk factors have been identified for adolescent sex offenders and non-sex offenders. Such risk factors include physical and/or sexual abuse, and exposure to community and/or domestic violence. Additionally, the presence of disinhibitive factors, such as substance use and exposure to violent or pornographic media are also commonly reported in the backgrounds of both sex and non-sex offenders. Similarly, adolescent offenders have reported traumatic reactions to environmental factors such as abuse and violence. Similarities in exposure to the risk and disinhibitive factors described above between adolescent sex and non-sex offenders do not provide an explanation for why some adolescents commit sex offenses, whereas other adolescent offenders do not. This study investigated the discriminative ability of traumatic reactions as a risk factor between male adolescent sex and non-sex offenders. The inclusion of traumatic reactions increased the accuracy of risk factors distinguishing between sex and non-sex offenders. Thus, not only the presence of risk factors, but also the adolescent's reaction to the risk factors, are important predictors of whether he will commit a sexual offense.
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Nurre, Anastasia C. "Contextualizing Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Epitaphs by Lucas Cranach the Younger: The Influence of Luther’s Two Realms on the Composition and Content of a Set of Reformation Funerary Monuments." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429777814.
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Cobb, Morgan B. "Sex, Chastity, and Political Power in Medieval and Early Renaissance Representations of the Ermine." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1458578117.
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Lockette, Philip M. "Sex in the Kitchen: The Re-interpretation of Gendered Space Within the Post-World War II Suburban Home in the West." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/668.
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In the decades following 1945, Americans moved increasingly out of cities into suburbs. The migration illustrated the emergence of a new, broader middle class as a result of growing postwar affluence. In the previous half-century, families living in a suburb could claim middle-class status. The emerging class built its identity on the forms and values adopted from this earlier, more affluent Victorian middle class. These adopted values were played out in a home designed around Progressive era ideals of the family. Through this Progressive filter, the new concept of the home was scaled down, without servants, and ceased existing wholly as the wife's sphere of influence--as in the Victorian version. The Progressive impulse also reduced the size of the house to make it more efficient, and through government subsidies shaped the home into a smaller, economically sized package. The financial framework that determined the shape of the postwar home also influenced the technology placed within its walls. This financially influenced technology particularly affected the shape and content of the kitchen. The new, efficient kitchen did not release women from their duty to provide daily family meals, but it did create a culturally safe space for men to cook as a hobby. In the postwar, suburban kitchen women and men contended with economic pressures and changing social realities which complicated the Victorian values and Progressive ideals. Middle-class women needed to leave the home for work, and--now separated from traditional urban social outlets--middle-class men sought refuge in the suburban home. By examining Sunset magazine's "Chefs of the West" column, traditional women's cookbooks and service magazines, men's magazines, building industry trade journals, and census reports, the kitchen demonstrates that women and men reshaped the home in response to changing middle-class values. While financing regulations at first shaped how the emerging middle class lived within the postwar, suburban home, residents reinterpreted the space as a reaction to the economic changes around them. This cycle continued with each new interpretation of the postwar single-family home.
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Wolf, Erin Irene. "A Thesis is Not a Diary and Other Myths." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1565810728861941.
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com, Christinelamont@hotmail, and Christine Lamont. "Sex Allocation and Reproductive Costs in a Gull with a Long Breeding Season." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20050617.102950.
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The Silver Gull is a small gull (265 - 450g), which exhibits sexual dimorphism, with males larger than females. It has a protracted laying period of about 8 months over the winter on Penguin Island in Western Australia. The Silver Gull was studied on Penguin Island from 2000 to 2002. Completed clutches were removed from breeding pairs to induce repeat laying in order to determine the effect of increased reproductive effort on maternal body condition, egg production ability, offspring sex ratio and chick rearing capacity.
Increased egg production had no significant effect on maternal body condition as measured by condition index, derived from mass divided by a measure of skeletal size. The seasonal period, divided into thirty-day intervals, had a significant impact on female condition index, with a decline in condition toward the end of the breeding season. While male condition also appeared to decline at the end of the season, this pattern was not significant.
The initiation of laying varied between the three years of the study. The earliest occurred in 2000, which also experienced earlier rainfall than the later two years. Egg size and mass decreased throughout the breeding season although the number of eggs in a clutch did not decline. The size and mass of the eggs was significantly affected by the laying history of the parents, although this effect was dependent on the year in which the eggs were produced.
The minimum interval required by Silver Gulls to replace a lost clutch is about 14 days. This interval increased from the start of the breeding season, but then declined toward the end, as summer was approaching. Laying interval increased significantly as the number of clutches produced by the parents also increased, up to 4 clutches in total. As more clutches were produced past this point, the laying interval became shorter.
The probability of a replacement clutch being produced after clutch removal, declined as the clutch number increased and as the season progressed. Individuals that laid clutches with a larger mean mass were more likely to lay a replacement clutch. Increasing reproductive output caused a decline in the proportion of clutches that were replaced after clutch removal. The proportion of clutches that were replaced also varied between the years with the highest rates of replacement seen in 2000 which was also the year that experienced the earliest start in laying. The size of the original clutch in terms of its mean mass and volume was related to the size of the replacement clutch, but this relationship varied according to the timing of laying.
During 2000 and 2001 male offspring predominated in the first two clutches produced by Silver Gulls. Further clutches that were produced demonstrated a sex ratio skewed toward females, the smaller sex in this species. Offspring sex ratio was close to equality in 2002 with very little effect caused by increased egg production. There was no effect of year, season or the laying history of the parents on hatching success. Growth rate in chicks was influenced by the year in which the chick hatched, the period during the season in which the chicks hatched, its sex and the laying history of the parents. The relationship between chick growth and the laying history, however, was complex with no consistent pattern emerging in terms of the performance of chicks from each treatment group. While the chicks from control groups generally grew faster than the chicks from manipulated parents, those individuals that were laid or raised by manipulated parents that had laid at least three clutches in total also performed well.
Using the two main measures of reproductive success in the current study, egg production and chick rearing, those birds that were induced to lay multiple replacement clutches, were able to maintain a high level of condition and reproductive success. It is proposed that in the Silver Gull, only those individuals with a high level of condition continue to lay replacement clutches. If the female is unable to produce well provisioned eggs with a high chance of success, the breeding attempt is abandoned. Despite no loss of condition detected in female Silver Gulls with increasing clutch number, there was a significant shift in the offspring sex ratio toward females, indicating that strategies were in place to cope with the increased reproductive effort incurred as a consequence of repeat laying. Protracted laying in this species allows replacement of lost clutches only after maternal condition has been regained after laying.
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Garcia, Julie. "Beginning to see the light| posters in social and political revolutions." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1589769.
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Keith, Marlise. "Fugitive pieces : exploring the boundaries of womanhood." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52855.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research question of this thesis was: What is the nature of the social boundaries that define women as a group, how has this been depicted throughout the ages and, more specifically, in the work of South African artists, Vladimir Tretchikoff and Irma Stern, and what comment does my own work seem to make on these boundaries? The study used an analytical approach to pursue these questions, while the works of art were analysed according to the levels of interpretation suggested by Panofsky and Dietrich, The aim of this research was also to analyse my own body of work more theoretically within the context of postmodern feminist thought to determine how it resonates with earlier assumptions regarding women. For this purpose a comparison was made between, on the one hand, what Tretchikoff and Stern's respective depictions of women reveal about traditional conventions that hold women captive and, on the other, how my own work seems to question the boundaries that society imposes on women. Both Tretchikoff and Stern were successful enough to raise public consciousness on issues that concerned female subjugation. Seemingly for very different reasons, however, they remained apathetic to the quest for women's liberation. The study shows that Tretchikoff's work reflects a blatant disregard of the identities and social realities of his models, and romanticises their constraints instead. Stern, on the other hand, could not have been unaware of the societal limitations imposed on women. Yet she chose to remain aloof. While she seemed to be able to move masculine requirements and the demands of society to the background to depict women as natural and almost free of stereotype in some of her works, she cannot be seen to have made a major contribution to the liberation of women. In contrast, I have found many similarities throughout the study between feminist thought of the Second Wave and the thought processes mirrored in my art. In addition to the expected outcome, the study has shown that it is possible to trace developments in feminist thought in art.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsingsvraag behels die volgende: Wat is die aard van die maatskaplike grense wat vroue in 'n ondergeskikte posisie in die gemeenskap gehou het, en hoe is dit naspeurbaar in kuns, en meer spesifiek in die werk van twee Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars, Vladimir Tretchikoff en Irma Stem. Laastens, hoe lewer my eie werk kommentaar op hierdie vorm van onderdrukking. Die studie volg 'n analitiese benadering in die ontleding van die geselekteerde kunswerke, soos voorgestel deur Panofsky en Dietriech. Die doel van die studie was om binne die konteks van 'n postmodernistiese feministiese raamwerk 'n meer teoretiese ontleding van my eie werk te maak om vas te stel hoe dit ooreenkom met vroeer aannames oor die vrou. Vir hierdie doel is daar 'n vergelyking getref tussen, aan die een kant, die kommentaar wat Tretchikoff en Stem se werk oor die onderdrukking van vroue maak en, aan die ander kant, hoe my eie werk hierdie konvensies blootle. Beide Tretchikoff en Stern was in die posisie om die publiek bewus te maak van die ondergeskiktheid van vroue binne hulle gemeenskap. Ten spyte hiervan, toon die studie dat beide apaties gestaan het teenoor die lot van vroue, hoewel om verskillende redes. Terwyl Tretchikoff se werk die toonbeeld van 'n blatante miskenning van die verskillende indentiteite en maatskaplike realiteite van sy modelle is, en eerder kies om hulle toestande te romantiseer, kon Stern, as 'n vrou, nie onbewus gewees het van die lot van die vroue van haar tyd nie. Ten spyte hiervan, het sy apaties teenoor die ondergeskiktheid van vroue gestaan. Terwyl dit wil voorkom as of sy die patriargale eise van die gemeenskap op die agtergrond kon skuif om haar vroue as natuurlik en bykans vry van stereotipes uit te beeld, kan sy nie gesien word as iemand wat daadwerklik tot vroue se strewe na gelykheid bygedra het nie. In teenstelling hiermee, het die studie deurgaans 'n ooreenkoms aangetoon tussen die feministiese denke van die "Tweede Golf' en die denkprosesse wat in my eie kuns weerspieel word. 'n Bykomende bevinding van die studie is dat die ontwikkeling van feministiese denke in die kuns nagespeur kan word.
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Gluckman, Amie. "Minoan Barbotine Ware: Styles, Shapes, and A Characterization of the Clay Fabric." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/337064.
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This paper examines the styles, shapes, and chemical composition, and ceramic fabric of Minoan Barbotine Ware. During the Middle Minoan period, Barbotine Ware exemplifies the creative ingenuity of the Minoan potter. The vessels’ elaborate decorative motifs play an integral part in the development of Minoan pottery. Barbotine Ware remains an ill-defined tradition. This paper will analyze the styles and shapes of Barbotine Ware vessels, as well as provide a chemical and petrographic study of Barbotine Ware from Kommos. The ultimate goal is to provide a thorough study of all aspects of the Ware in the hopes that future scholars may better understand its place within Minoan pottery and appreciate how it exemplifies the spirit of experimentation during the Middle Bronze Age on Crete.
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Gayet, Gwenn. "Le manoir de Kerazan et ses propriétaires : Architecture, décor inérieur et collections." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CLF20004.
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Le domaine de Kerazan, ensemble encore méconnu, fut légué à l’Institut de France par Joseph-Georges Astor en 1929. Situé en plein cœur du Pays Bigouden, sur la route de Pont-l'Abbé à Loctudy, le manoir de Kerazan est aujourd'hui l’un des fleurons de l’art de vivre au XIXe siècle, en sud Finistère. S’étalant du XVIe siècle à 1934, toute une collection d’arts décoratifs imprègne le manoir : toiles de maîtres régionaux, meubles bretons ou encore faïence de Quimper font vivre ce bâtiment comme ils font vivre le passé. Cet ensemble éclectique fut composé par une famille de trois collectionneurs : Joseph Astor II, Maire de Quimper de 1870 à 1886, conseiller général (de 1877 à 1895) et premier Sénateur républicain du Finistère, élu en 1890, et qui le restera jusqu’à son décès, en 1901. Son fils, Joseph-Georges Astor, docteur en droit, compléta la collection familiale tout au long de sa vie, avant de léguer - sous certaines conditions - l’ensemble de la collection à l’Institut de France. Dernier membre de cette famille de collectionneurs, beau-frère de Joseph Astor II et oncle de Joseph-Georges Astor, Georges Arnoult fut élu Député de la seconde circonscription de Quimper de 1876 à 1885. Le manoir et son domaine, connurent de très amples modifications, depuis la fin du XVe siècle à nos jours, et c’est ce que nous allons aborder ici, par le prisme de différentes disciplines, à savoir : histoire politique, histoire sociale et histoire des arts.Ce fut donc sous l’action de plusieurs familles et collectionneurs que le manoir fut modifié : tant dans son architecture, que dans ses décors intérieurs. Enfin, nous analyserons, l’histoire du goût au travers de l’exemple de la constitution de la collection de Kerazan. Peintures, mobiliers et objets quotidiens demeurés en l’état méritent-ils l’appellation de « collection bretonne » ? Quels étaient les objectifs de cette collection, quelles impulsions peuvent en être dégagées, et quels processus avons-nous pu déceler ? Ces derniers peuvent-ils être comparés à d’autres collections ?The domain of Kerazan, still an underestimated set, was bequeathed to the Institute of France by Joseph-Georges Astor in 1929. Placed right in the heart of the Bigouden County, between Pont-l'Abbé and Loctudy, the manor house of Kerazan is today one of the jewels of the lifestyle in the XIXth century, in South Finistère. Spreading out from the XVIth century to 1934, a whole collection of decorative arts fills the manor house: paintings of regional masters, Breton furniture or still earthenware of Quimper make this building live as they make the past live. This eclectic set was made by a family of three collectors: Joseph Astor II, Mayor of Quimper from 1870 to 1886, member of the “General Council” (from 1877 to 1895) and first republican Senator of Finistère, elected in 1890 until he died in 1901. His son, Joseph-Georges Astor, Doctor of Law, continued the family collection throughout his life, before bequeathing - under certain conditions - the whole collection to the Institute of France.Last member of this family of collectors, brother-in-law of Joseph Astor II and uncle of Joseph-Georges Astor, Georges Arnoult was elected Member of Parliament of the second district of Quimper from 1876 to 1885.The manor house and its domain, have known very important modifications, since the end of the XVth century up to nowadays, and that is what we are going to study here, thanks to various subjects, that is to say : political history, social history and art history.Thus, the manor house was changed thanks to several families’ and several collectors’ actions in its architecture and also in its internal decoration. Finally, we will analyze, the history of taste through the example of the constitution of the collection of Kerazan. Do paintings, furniture and daily objects deserve the name of " Breton collection "?What were the goals of this collection, which trends can be observed, and which processes could we identify ? Can the latter be compared with other collections ?
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McDonald, Paul, and Paul McDonald@latrobe edu au. "Reproductive success, dimorphism and sex allocation in the brown falcon Falco berigora." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20041111.100436.
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This project describes various aspects of the breeding ecology and behaviour of the brown falcon Falco berigora, a common but poorly study Australian raptor. In particular it examines (a) the main influences on reproductive success; (b) tests predictions of theories proposed to explain the evolution and maintenance of sexual size dimorphism (RSD; females the larger sex) in raptors; and (c) investigates sex allocation patterns in the light of current sex ratio and parental investment theory. The study was conducted between July 1999 and June 2002 approximately 35 km southwest of Melbourne, at the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Werribee (38°0S 144°34E) and surrounds, a total area of approximately 150 km2.¶
· In all plumage and bare part colouration of 160 free-flying falcons was described. The majority of variation in these characters could be attributed to distinct age and/or sex differences as opposed to previously described colour morphs.¶
· Nestling chronology and development is described and formulae based on wing length derived for determining nestling age. An accurate field-based test for determining nestling sex at banding age is also presented.¶
· Strong sex role differentiation was apparent during breeding; typical of falcons females performed most parental duties whilst males predominantly hunted for their brood and partner. Based on observations of marked individuals, both sexes of brown falcons aggressively defended mutual territories throughout the year, with just 10% of each sex changing territories during the entire study period. Males performed territorial displays more frequently than females, the latter rarely displaying alone.¶
· The diet of the population as a whole was very broad, but within pairs both sexes predominantly specialised on either lagomorphs, small ground prey (e.g. house mice Mus musculus), small birds, large birds or reptiles, according to availability.¶
· Reproductive parameters such as clutch size and the duration of parental care were constant across all years, however marked annual differences in brood size and the proportion of pairs breeding were evident.¶
· Age was an important influence upon reproductive success and survival, with immature birds inferior to adults in both areas. However, interannual differences were by far the most influential factor on breeding success and female survival. Heavy rain downpours were implicated as the main determinant of reproductive success and adult female mortality in a population largely devoid of predation or human interference.¶
· Female-female competition for territorial vacancies was intense; larger adult females were more likely to be recruited and once breeding fledged more offspring. In contrast, male recruitment and breeding success was unrelated to either body size or condition indices, although smaller immature males were more likely to survive to the next breeding season. This directional selection is consistent only with the predictions of the intrasexual competition hypothesis.¶
· Despite marked RSD (males c. 75% of female body mass), throughout the nestling phase female nestlings did not require greater quantities of food than their male siblings. However, female parents fed their last-hatched sons but not daughters, resulting in the complete mortality of all last-hatched female offspring in focal nests. Given last-hatched nestlings suffered markedly reduced growth rates and female, but not male, body size is important in determining recruitment patterns, the biased allocation amongst last-hatched offspring is likely to reflect differing benefits associated with investing in small members of each sex, consistent with broad-scale Trivers-Willard effects. Recruitment patterns support this, with surviving last-hatched females, in contrast to males, unable to gain recruitment into the breeding population upon their return to the study site.¶
Thus selection appears to act at the nestling, immature and adult stages to maintain RSD in the focal population. Larger females were favoured in the nestling phase, at recruitment and once breeding had greater reproductive success. In contrast, selection favoured a reduction or maintenance of immature male size as smaller birds had a greater chance of survival in the year following recruitment than their larger counterparts; thereafter male size was unimportant. Together, this directional selection favouring increased female competitive ability is consistent only with the predictions of the intrasexual competition hypothesis, which appears the most probable in explaining the maintenance and perhaps evolution of RSD in raptors.
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Kirsten, Marnell. "Alternative to what? : the rise of Loslyf magazine." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86663.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study I analyse the first year of publication of Loslyf, the first and, at the time of its launch in June 1995, only Afrikaans pornographic magazine. The analysis comprises a historical account of its inception as relayed mainly by Ryk Hattingh, the first editor of Loslyf and primary creative force behind the publication. Such an investigation offers valuable insights into an aspect of South African media history as yet undocumented. As a powerful contributor to an Afrikaans imaginary, emerging at a time of political renewal, Loslyf provides a glimpse into the desires, tensions and tastes of and for an imagined community potentially still shaped by a censorial past. The magazine is worth studying, in part, as an example of an attempt at reinvesting the prescriptive and seemingly generic genre of pornography with cultural specificity and political content, with a view to making it more interesting and relevant. The study argues that whilst Loslyf succeeded in fracturing the “simulacrum” (Baudrillard 1990: 35) of pornographic representation, it also demonstrated that this kind of „alternativity‟ is difficult to sustain. An analysis of the written and visual content of the first 12 issues of the magazine, under Hattingh‟s editorship, investigates the basis of Loslyf‟s status as „alternative‟ publication. I conclude that the first year of Loslyf contributed towards the broader project of democratic expression in an expanding South African visual economy, as a simultaneously well considered and underrated (at the time of its publication at least) cultural product.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie analiseer ek die eerste jaar van publikasie van Loslyf as 'n baanbrekende en, in die tyd van sy ontstaan in Junie 1995, die enigste Afrikaanse pornografiese tydskrif. Hierdie analise behels ʼn historiese oorsig van die ontstaan van Loslyf soos hoofsaaklik verhaal deur Ryk Hattingh, die eerste redakteur van Loslyf en primêre kreatiewe mag agter die publikasie. So ʼn ondersoek bied waardevolle insig tot ʼn ongedokumenteerde aspek van Suid-Afrikaanse mediageskiedenis. As ʼn kultuurproduk wat ʼn kragtige bydrae gelewer het tot die Afrikaanse samelewing in ʼn tyd van politieke hernuwing, bied Loslyf ʼn weerkaatsing van die begeertes, spanninge en smake vir en van hierdie gemeenskap – begeertes en smake wat grootendeels gevorm is deur ʼn geskiedenis van sensuur. Dit is waardevol om die tydskrif te bestudeer as voorbeeld van 'n poging om die voorskriftelike en skynbaar generiese pornografiese genre met kulturele bepaaldheid en politiese inhoud te herbelê, ten einde hierdie genre meer interessant en relevant te maak. Hierdie studie beweer dat, terwyl Loslyf daarin slaag om die “simulakrum” (Baudrillard 1990: 35) van pornografiese voorstelling te breek, die publikasie ook demonstreer dat hierdie tipe „alternatiwiteit‟ moeilik volhoubaar is. ʼn Analise van die geskrewe en visuele inhoud van die eerste 12 uitgawes van die tydskrif, onder redakteurskap van Hattingh, ondersoek die basis van Loslyf se status as „alternatiewe‟ publikasie. Ek beslis dat Loslyf se eerste jaar bygedra het tot die breër inisiatief van demokratiese uitdrukking in ʼn ontwikkelende Suid- Afrikaanse visuele ekonomie, as gelyktydig goed deurdagte én ondergeskatte (veral ten tyde van sy ontstaan) publikasie.
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Furtado, Michael Anthony 1958. "Islands of Castile: Artistic, Literary, and Legal Perception of the Sea in Castile-Leon, 1248-1450." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12098.
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xiii, 322 p. : col. ill.Before Spain encountered the Americas, it first encountered the sea. This dissertation explores the roots of that encounter by examining perceptions of the sea in late medieval Castile-Leon reflected in art, literature, and law. It analyzes the changing attitudes of the Castilians towards the sea through an examination of its perceived place in their world, underscoring the complexity of Castilian attitudes toward the dangers and opportunities presented by the marine environment. Conceptual separation and union serve as the two foundational concepts employed for the analysis of evidence from each of the three genres under examination. Each genre highlights in various ways either the strong contrast drawn between land and sea or their seeming union conceptually. These complexities are manifest in a broad variety of sources, from collections of miracle tales to fifteenth century romances. Analysis of legal distinctions between land and sea reveal significant differences in perception regarding the nature of each environment and the rights and responsibilities of Castilians acting in either. Findings include that artistic sources reveal that a fearful attitude toward the sea accentuated by helplessness before its power dominated thirteenth century imagery, contrasting with the greater unity of land and sea reflected in miniatures from fifteenth century sources. A similar pattern of separation and union emerges in the literary evidence, where fear of the loss of agency when traveling at sea in early sources gives way to fifteenth century examples that praise its value. A comparison of the laws contained in the Siete Partidas with the late medieval records of the Cortes of Castile-Leon reveals that while the Castilian monarchs tended to consider the sea as firmly outside of their realm throughout the majority of the period of this study, strategic necessity led to an inexorable growth in the importance of the sea in the affairs of the kingdom generally. Together, the evidence supports the conclusion that by the mid-fourteenth century the view of the sea as other, typical of all early Castilian sources, gave way to a fifteenth century perspective that welcomed it in many respects, laying the foundation for the development of a great maritime empire.
Committee in charge: Lisa Wolverton, Chairperson; Robert Haskett, Member; David Luebke, Member; David Wacks, Outside Member
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Taylor, Chloë. "The aesthetics of sadism and masochism in Italian renaissance painting /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79810.
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This thesis analyses selected paintings and aspects of life of the Italian Renaissance in terms of the aesthetic properties of sadistic and masochistic symptomatologies and creative production, as these have been explored by philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Marcel Henaff, and Gilles Deleuze. One question which arises from this analysis, and is considered in this thesis, is of the relation between sexual perversion and history, and in particular between experiences of violence, (dis)pleasure and desire, and historically specific forms of discourse and power, such as legislation on rape; myths and practices concerning marriage alliance; the depiction of such myths and practices in art; religion; and family structures. A second question which this thesis explores is the manners in which sadistic and masochistic artistic production function politically, to bolster pre-existing gender ideologies or to subvert them. Finally, this thesis considers the relation between sadism and masochism and visuality, both by bringing literary models of perversion to an interpretation of paintings, and by exploring the amenability of different genres of visual art to sadism and masochism respectively.
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Rosenthal, Dalia. "O elemento material na obra de Joseph Beuys." [s.n.], 2002. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285092.
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Orientador: Ernesto Giovanni BoccaraDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: JosephBeuys(1921-1986), artista plástico do pósguerra alemão,conhecido em todo o mundo,é consagradocomoumdosartistasmaisinfluentese divulgadosdesteséculo.Um nome que está intimamente ligadoaousoincomume bizarroquedeuaosmateriaisqueutilizavaemsuas ações,esculturase trabalhosgráficos.Na entradado novo milênio,Beuyscontinuaa ser intensamente interpretado, discutidoe analisado. Os materiais básicos queBeuysutilizouemsuasobrascomo gordura, cobreoufeltro, os uais constituem a tela de fundo de todooseutrabalho, sãoabordadoscomomateriaisquecontêm energiasacumuladasde formapotenciale comgrandespossibilidades detransformação. Beuys compreendia estes materiais como símbolos e energias presentes no contextodasociedade do trabalho artístico(Tashem, 1992). Este modo inovador com que tratou os materiaisartísticos,explorandotodasas suas possibilidades deassociações, determinou a ua posterior importância à toda uma forma de pensar efazer na arte contemporânea.Oobjetivopropostonestadissertaçãoé o deinvestigara vida,o pensamento e a obrade JosephBeuys,enfocandonautilizaçãoparticular que este artista deu aos materiais artísticos
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Searle, Rebecca K. "Art, propaganda and the experience of aerial warfare in Britain during the Second World War." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6919/.
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This thesis examines how artists working for the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) represented aerial warfare. In contrast to the scholarly attention lavished on wartime films and posters, official war art remains a much neglected aspect of the propaganda war. The few studies that do exist, most notably by Brian Foss, survey the collection as a whole and consider it from an art history perspective. By focusing on the single theme of aviation, a central and defining experience of the Second World War, I embed the WAAC within the economic, social, military and cultural histories of the period and locate it within a longer time frame. Through bringing these usually disparate fields of study into dialogue, I am able to use the art to enrich broader understandings of the period, in particular, the ways in which aerial warfare was represented, how this image evolved during the war and how these cultural products related to economic, military and social factors. This thesis highlights the different roles the WAAC was expected to fulfil. Housed within the Ministry of Information, the WAAC was expected to perform a propagandist function. The committee distanced itself from propaganda and insisted that its primary function was to record for posterity the experience of living through the war. I assess exactly what kind of record the WAAC bequeathed by looking thematically at the key aspects of aerial warfare: aircraft production; the Battle of Britain; the Blitz and the bombing of Germany. I argue that whilst there was broad correlation between war art and propaganda, these images registered aspects of experience that were incongruent with and therefore absent from wartime propaganda, such as the fear of aerial bombardment and the true nature of the bombing of Germany. Moreover, propagandist constructions were not entirely separate to lived experience, rather they both reflected experience and shaped the way that individuals understood and made sense of the world around them. Therefore, in producing images that accorded with propagandist portrayals, the WAAC artists were recording a fundamental part of the experience of living through the war.
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Rio, Gaëlle. "Le musée national de la Marine : histoire d'une institution et de ses collections (1748-1998)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL178.
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Figurant parmi les grands musées nationaux, le musée de la Marine est le plus ancien musée d’histoire maritime en France, dont les origines remontent au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Fondé à partir de la collection de modèles de bateaux donnée au roi Louis XV par l’académicien Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau en 1748, le musée Dauphin ouvre au Louvre en 1827 sous Charles X, à destination avant tout des élèves de l’école d’ingénieurs constructeurs de la Marine dans une finalité d’instruction. L’approche monographique et institutionnelle permet de mettre en évidence trois grands moments de l’histoire de ce musée : la lente genèse du musée naval (1748-1827) dans le contexte des Lumières et d’une culture scientifique et technique ; la longue période du musée naval au palais du Louvre (1827-1939) au cours de laquelle se forge l’identité de l’institution autour de collections techniques et ethnographiques à vocation pédagogique ; le transfert du musée au palais de Chaillot et son expansion au XXe siècle avec la modernisation du site parisien, l’extension de ses collections aux cinq marines et la constitution d’un réseau des musées des ports (1939-1971). Devenu établissement public administratif en 1971, le musée national de la Marine se transforme à la fin du XXe siècle pour devenir le grand musée maritime du XXIe siècle. Cette étude s’attache à cerner les enjeux sociaux, culturels et idéologiques qui ont présidé à la création et au développement de ce musée, à interroger le statut de ses collections, entre technique, art et instrument de propagande ou de communication, et enfin à analyser la question plus large du rôle du musée dans la société française, d’un lieu de représentation du pouvoir à un espace au service du publicOne of the major national museums, The Marine Museum is the oldest museum of maritime history in France, whose origins date back to the mid-eighteenth century. Founded from the collection of boat models given to king Louis XV by the Academician Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau in 1748, the Dauphin Museum (as it was called) opened in the Louvre in 1827 under the reign of Charles X ; primarily intended for teaching purposes to the construction engineers of the Navy. The monographic and institutioal approach highlights three major moments in the history of this museum : the slow genesis of the naval museum (1748-1827) in the context of the Enlightenment and of the development of scientific and technical culture ; the long period of the naval museum at the Louvre Palace (1827-1939), during which the identity of the institution is based on technical and ethnographic collections for educational purposes ; the transfer of the museum to the Palais de Chaillot and its expansion in the 20th century with the modernization of the Paris site, the extension of its collections to the five Navies and the creation of a network of port museums (1939-1971). Having become a public administrative institution in 1971, the National Marine Museum was transformed at the end of the 20th century into the great maritime museum of the 21st century, as it is now. This study seeks to identify the social, cultural and ideological issues that led to the creation and the development of this museum, to question the status of its collections, between technique, art and propaganda or communication instrument, and finally, to analyze the broader question of the museum's role in French society, from a place of representation of power to a space in the service of the public
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Huguet, Charlotte. "Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre de Franz Erhard Walther de ses premiers travaux en 1954 à ce jour." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040089.
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L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une étude exhaustive de l’œuvre de l'artiste allemand contemporain Franz Erhard Walther (1939, Fulda - ), accompagnant l'élaboration du catalogue raisonné de l'ensemble de son travail. En effet, pour cet artiste à l’œuvre colossale, la nécessité de la réalisation d'un catalogue raisonné se pose depuis plusieurs années. Bien que son œuvre ait une place fondamentale dans l'histoire de l'art de la deuxième moitié du XXème siècle, le travail de Walther reste encore très mal connu et souvent sujet à confusion. Cette œuvre, caractérisée en grande partie par l'utilisation de la couture comme technique et du tissu comme matériau, et dont la monumentalité n'a été rendue possible que grâce à la collaboration de l'artiste avec sa première femme, Johanna Frieß, trouve sa spécificité à travers l'évolution du concept de Handlung, propre à l'artiste. Cette étude propose donc le premier véritable catalogue raisonné de Franz Erhard Walther, de ses premières œuvres en 1954 à ce jour, accompagné d'une étude précise de chaque groupe d’œuvres, replaçant ainsi l'ensemble dans le contexte de l'histoire de l'artThe objective of this thesis is to propose an exhaustive study of the work of the german contemporary artist Franz Erhard Walther (1939, Fulda - ), as well as the catalogue raisonné of his work. There is indeed since many years an imperative need for such a comprehensive catalogue, given the colossal production of Walther. Although his work plays a prominent role in the Art History of the second half of the XXth century, it remains little-known and is still subject of some confusion. This body of work, mainly characterized by the use of sewing as technique and tissue as material, and whose enormity wouldn't have been possible without the collaboration of the artist's first wife, Johanna Frieß, finds its specificity in the concept of Handlung that Walther developed. This study includes thus the first actual catalogue raisonné of Franz Erhard Walter, from his first-ever works of 1954 until now, as well as a specific study of every group of works, putting it in the context of Art History
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Hollingsworth, Jerry Don. "An Analysis of the Perception of the Degree of Compliance of Selected Texas Public High Schools with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4960/.
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In recent years, few laws have had greater impact on public education than Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. As a result of this legislation, participation levels of female athletes have risen dramatically. Conducted in the Texas Education Agency's Region XI, this study sought to ascertain the perceptions of high school principals, the lead coaches of male athletes, and the lead coaches of female athletes with regard to their schools' compliance with the components of Title IX. The study centered on the results of a survey instrument that included twenty Likert-scale questions as well as several demographic questions. The research questions sought to determine: (1) respondents' overall perception of compliance; (2) any differences in perceptions of compliance based upon the role of the individual; (3) any differences in perceptions based upon the percentage of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch; (4) any differences based upon the state classification of the schools; (5) any differences based upon the gender of respondents; (6) whether complaints filed via OCR result in a perception of increased compliance; and (7) the program component areas in which respondents view their schools to be most compliant. Descriptive and causal-comparative methods were used to analyze the data. The results revealed that school leaders in north central Texas public high schools perceived a high degree of compliance of their schools with the requirements of Title IX regardless of their role. A descriptive analysis of the responses based upon respondent role yielded slight differences between coaches of males and females. An ANOVA of responses considering the variables of free and reduced lunch as well as state classification did not yield a statistical significance in terms of perceptions of compliance. Although the mean scores of female respondents were slightly lower than males, the research did not yield statistically significant differences based upon gender. The study was inconclusive in terms of whether districts that have experienced formal Title IX complaints are more compliant with Title IX. Finally, the study indicated that school leaders should focus more attention on the areas of coaching assignment and compensation as well as publicity as they seek to comply with Title IX.
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G??lin, Uriel. "Strat??gies de reproduction des femelles du kangourou g??ant (Macropus giganteus)." Thèse, Universit?? de Sherbrooke, 2014. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/87.
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R??sum?? : La reproduction entra??ne des d??penses ??nerg??tiques importantes chez les femelles mammif??res. Ces d??penses sont suppos??es diminuer l'??nergie disponible pour d'autres traits positivement corr??l??s ?? l'aptitude ph??notypique et augmenter les besoins d'alimentation. Toutefois, des diff??rences individuelles dans la capacit?? d'acquisition et d'allocation peuvent masquer l'impact n??gatif de l'effort reproducteur. La manipulation exp??rimentale de l'effort reproducteur et le contr??le statistique des effets individuels sont deux approches puissantes et compl??mentaires mises en ??uvre dans le cadre de mon ??tude afin de contr??ler pour l'h??t??rog??n??it?? individuelle. Elles ont permis de montrer clairement un co??t de la reproduction chez le kangourou gris de l'Est (Macropus giganteus). Dans un premier temps, nous avons trouv?? que le co??t de la reproduction affectait le montant d'??nergie allou?? ?? certaines fonctions somatiques (CHAPITRE I). L'effort reproducteur diminuait le gain de masse et la croissance des jambes pour des intervalles de capture sup??rieurs ?? deux ans. Chez les femelles non manipul??es, un effet n??gatif sur le gain de masse ??tait aussi observable pour un intervalle inf??rieur ?? 3 ans. ?? l'??chelle de deux ??v??nements successifs de reproduction, le gain de masse et dans une moindre mesure la croissance des bras, mais non des jambes diminuaient avec un effort reproducteur plus important ?? la pr??c??dente reproduction. Ensuite, nous avons d??montr?? qu'il y avait un co??t de la reproduction en terme de futur succ??s reproducteur (CHAPITRE II). Les individus dont l'effort reproducteur avait ??t?? diminu?? exp??rimentalement produisaient davantage de jeunes qui survivaient au stade 'LPY', ??g??s approximativement de 7 mois, que les femelles contr??les. Ils diminuaient ??galement davantage leur taux de reproduction en allongeant l'intervalle entre les naissances, mais la survie au sevrage n'??tait pas affect??e. Le CHAPITRE III montre que les femelles adaptaient leur comportement alimentaire en fonction de leur statut reproducteur. En comparaison avec les individus manipul??s ou ayant perdu leur jeune, les femelles allaitantes augmentaient leur temps pass?? ?? s'alimenter durant la journ??e, l'intensit?? de leurs bouch??es et de leur mastication sans impliquer de compromis avec la vigilance. Nous avons aussi d??couvert que la survie au sevrage du jeune pr??c??dent menait ?? une augmentation du taux de bouch??es pour l'ann??e en cours.
Les CHAPITRES I et II ont mis en ??vidence l'effet non n??gligeable des diff??rences individuelles sur la d??tection des co??ts de la reproduction. En effet, en l'absence de manipulation exp??rimentale ou de contr??le statistique, aucun compromis n'??tait d??tect?? autant en terme de croissance que de prochaine reproduction. Au contraire, des corr??lations positives entre l'effort reproducteur et les autres traits ont ??t?? trouv??es. Le CHAPITRE I sugg??rait notamment que cette variabilit?? du succ??s reproducteur ??tait li??e ?? l'h??t??rog??n??it?? individuelle dans le gain de masse maternelle qui augmentait la survie du jeune. Dans le CHAPITRE II, une corr??lation positive entre les probabilit??s d'avoir un 'LPY' lors de deux ??v??nements successifs de reproduction sugg??rait que certaines femelles ??taient capables de mener ?? bien ou non leur reproduction, mais cela ind??pendamment de l'effort reproducteur pr??c??dent. Enfin dans le dernier CHAPITRE (III), l'effet al??atoire ??tait significatif dans l'analyse de diff??rents comportements d'alimentation, ce qui pourrait ??tre li?? aux diff??rences de gain de masse des femelles pr??sent??es dans le CHAPITRE I.
Certaines contraintes individuelles affectant le co??t de la reproduction ont ??t?? identifi??es. La masse et la condition corporelle augmentaient le succ??s reproducteur et diminuaient l'intervalle entre deux naissances successives (CHAPITRES I et II), mais contrairement ?? de pr??c??dentes ??tudes le comportement d'alimentation des femelles n'??tait pas affect?? par leur masse (CHAPITRE III). L'??ge des individus avait ??galement une influence. Les jeunes femelles croissaient davantage, avaient aussi une prise alimentaire plus importante et subissaient un co??t de reproduction sup??rieur. Ce dernier se traduisait par un taux d'??chec plus ??lev?? ?? la reproduction suivante si les jeunes femelles avaient eu un jeune l'ann??e pr??c??dente (CHAPITRES I, II et III).
Des contraintes environnementales fortes influen??aient la reproduction des femelles. La croissance, le succ??s reproducteur, l'intervalle entre les naissances et les comportements d'alimentation variaient suivant le site et l'ann??e d'??tude. Le site du Promontory et l'ann??e 2011 apparaissaient particuli??rement limitants. En effet en 2011, le gain de masse et le succ??s reproducteur ont diminu?? et l'intervalle de naissance et la prise de nourriture pour les femelles allaitantes ont augment?? (CHAPITRE I,II et III).
Nous cherchions ??galement ?? mettre au jour une allocation diff??rentielle des m??res suivant le sexe de leur jeune. Si le co??t sup??rieur d'avoir un m??le par rapport ?? une femelle ??tait ??vident quant aux taux de bouch??es (CHAPITRE III), il s'est av??r?? plus difficile ?? d??tecter sur d'autres traits. ?? Anglesea, les jeunes m??res avaient moins de probabilit?? d'avoir un jeune qui atteigne le stade 'LPY' apr??s avoir eu un fils qu'une fille (CHAPITRE II). Toutefois, des r??sultats contraires ?? nos attentes ont ??t?? trouv??s, du moins au premier abord, sur la croissance et le succ??s reproducteur subs??quent. Ainsi, les femelles qui avaient eu une fille perdaient davantage de masse (CHAPITRE I) et avaient g??n??ralement une probabilit?? moindre de produire un jeune qui atteigne le stade 'LPY' ou qui soit sevr?? par la suite (CHAPITRE II). En revanche, l'intervalle de naissance n'??tait pas diff??rent suivant le sexe du jeune alors qu'il ??tait fortement affect?? par le co??t de la reproduction d??montr?? gr??ce ?? la manipulation, invoquant une autre explication qu'un co??t sup??rieur des filles par rapport aux fils. En effet, les femelles qui ??taient en mauvaise condition corporelle gagnaient de la masse quand elles produisaient une fille, mais pas un fils (CHAPITRE I). De surcro??t, les jeunes m??res avaient moins de chances de sevrer un jeune ?? l'??v??nement de reproduction suivant si elles avaient eu un fils plut??t qu'une fille, et le succ??s reproducteur des m??res des fils n'??tait plus diff??rent de celui des m??res des filles dans les ann??es plus difficiles (CHAPITRE II). Enfin, les m??res des fils augmentaient la quantit?? de nourriture ing??r??e si elles avaient sevr?? un jeune l'ann??e pr??c??dente, mais les m??res des filles la diminuaient. Ces diff??rents r??sultats sugg??raient fortement qu'un ajustement du sexe-ratio ??tait utilis?? quand les ressources individuelles ou environnementales contraignaient davantage la reproduction.
En conclusion, pour limiter le d??calage entre les besoins ??nerg??tiques et la disponibilit?? en nourriture, les femelles chez le kangourou gris de l'Est pourraient modifier l'allocation de leurs ressources ?? la reproduction en reportant la prochaine mise bas et en produisant un jeune du sexe le moins co??teux en accord avec les contraintes individuelles et environnementales. Ces r??sultats soulignent l'importance d'??tudes avec un suivi individuel sur plusieurs ann??es afin de pouvoir comprendre la variabilit?? des strat??gies de reproduction et leurs cons??quences sur la dynamique des populations. // Abstract : Reproduction in living beings, particularly in female mammals that produce milk, is costly, potentially involving trade-offs with life-history traits if resources are limited and an increase in foraging effort. Individual differences may, however, hide the negative effects of this cost on life-history traits. I used two powerful and complementary approaches, to deal with individual heterogeneity: experimental manipulation of reproductive effort and statistical control of individual effect. Using both approaches, I investigated the effect of presence, size and sex of young on growth, subsequent reproduction and individual foraging behaviours of females. I used data of tagged free-ranging eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) collected over six years at five study sites in Victoria, Australia. There was a clear cost of reproduction. Reproductive effort decreased mass gain and limb growth for inter-capture intervals greater than two years. Over two successive reproductive events, mass gain and arm growth were reduced but leg growth was independent of reproductive effort (CHAPTER II).In addition, survival to Large Pouch Young ('LPY') stage, about 7 months of age, was higher and birth rate lower in manipulated compared to control females but survival to weaning was not affected (CHAPTER III). CHAPTER IV shows that lactating females cope with current reproductive costs by increasing ivtime spent foraging as well as bite and chewing rates without decreasing vigilance comparedto non lactating ones. Bite rate was also greater for females that weaned a young at the previous reproductive event. My study supports reproductive cost hypothesis while showing substantial individual differences. To limit mismatch between energetic needs and resource availability, females of eastern grey kangaroo could modify resource allocation to reproduction by delaying birth date of subsequent young and producing the less costly sex according to individual and environmental constrains. My thesis shows the importance of experimental approach and individual monitoring over multiple years to understand the diversity of reproductive strategies and their consequences in evolutionary ecology and population dynamic.
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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.
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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.
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Lawrence, Clinton Martin Norman. "Charles I and Anthony van Dyck portraiture : images of authority and masculinity." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History, c2013, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3370.
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This thesis is an examination of Charles I of England’s projection of kingship
through Sir Anthony van Dyck portraits during his personal rule. These portraits provide
important insight into Charles’ vision of kingship because they were commissioned by
the king and displayed at court, revealing that his kingship rested on complementary
ideals of traditional kingship in addition to divine right. In this thesis, Charles’ van Dyck
portraits are studied in the context of seventeenth-century ideals of paterfamilias, knight,
and gentleman. These ideals provide important cultural narratives which were seen to be
reflective of legitimacy, power, and masculinity, which in turn gave legitimacy to
Charles’ kingship. The system of values and ideals represented in Charles’ portraits
reveal that his vision of kingship was complex and nuanced, demonstrating that divine
right was just one aspect of many, upon which his kingship was premised.viii, 164 leaves : [18] leaves of color plates ; 29 cm
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Koehler, Nicole. "The effects of retrospectively examined early psychosocial stress on mate choice and sexual behaviour : a life history theory perspective." University of Western Australia. School of Anatomy and Human Biology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0217.
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[Truncated abstract] Early psychosocial stress is conjectured to place individuals on a developmental trajectory leading to earlier pubertal maturation, earlier initiation of sexual activity and earlier reproduction than those with less early psychosocial stress. This may have an adaptive function to minimise the chances of lineage extinction, which is more likely in environments of high risk and uncertainty. Previous studies have examined the relationship between early psychosocial stress and life history stages (e.g., age at puberty, age at first sex and age at first birth). However, these studies are limited in that they either examined only a few early psychosocial stressors, examined psychosocial stress relatively late in individuals' lives and/or were restricted to women. Thus, the first aim of the present thesis was to examine these findings in both genders using a measure of early psychosocial stress comprised of 24 categories of retrospectively assessed stressors (e.g., sexual abuse, physical abuse, parental divorce, rated quality of family life) during the first 7 years of life. It was hypothesised that individuals with high, as opposed to low, levels of early psychosocial stress would pass through life history stages earlier. The second aim was to examine how early psychosocial stress affects characteristics associated with life history traits, such as individuals? length, number and type of heterosexual relationships, number of sex partners, adult attachment styles, number of pregnancy terminations, and attitudes and behaviours towards contraceptive use. High levels of early psychosocial stress were predicted to be associated with characteristics reflecting a quantitative, as opposed to a qualitative, reproductive approach (e.g., more sex partners, more short-term relationships, insecure attachment styles). The third aim was to examine how early psychosocial stress is related to mate choice because numerous studies have identified what traits individuals' desire in a mate but not whether early psychosocial stress affects these choices. ... Early psychosocial stress generally had no effects on age at first sex, age at first birth, the number of pregnancy terminations, and mate choices. On the other hand, individuals with high, as opposed to low, levels of early psychosocial stress were more likely to be insecurely attached, had more short-term sexual relationships (men only), had more extra-pair copulations, were more likely to be divorced/separated, had a greater lifetime number of sex partners (men only), and had lower self-rated frequencies of contraception use. Overall, some of these findings are consistent with life history theory, which suggests that individuals with high levels of early psychosocial stress (i.e., those living in environments of high risk and uncertainty) should reach biological maturation earlier, engage in behaviours that facilitate earlier and more frequent reproduction to minimise the chances of lineage extinction. Implications for public health, limitations of the present study and future directions are also discussed.
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Alsina, Francisco. "L'ouverture chez Lacan et ses conséquences cliniques." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2020. https://theses.md.univ-paris-diderot.fr/ALSINA_Francisco_va.pdf.
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L’ouverture chez Lacan n’est pas un concept de la psychanalyse. Par ce terme, nous voulons rassembler plusieurs expressions et usages de Lacan qui peuvent s’approximer à un trou, à un écart ou bien à une distance indépassable. Au début des années cinquante, Lacan utilise le mot « béance » dans le cadre de la première hypothèse de l’absence symbolique. C’est ainsi que la « béance » est le premier mot qui participe de l’ouverture chez Lacan. Dans les séminaires suivants, d’autres formes d’ouverture apparaissent. D’abord, l’espace de la tombe, concept abordé dans la lecture que fait Lacan de la mort d’OEdipe, ainsi que dans son analyse d’Antigone et dans sa lecture d’Hamlet. Dans ces deux tragédies de Sophocle et dans l’oeuvre de Shakespeare, Lacan trouve une ouverture qui lui permet d’envisager certaines modifications à la théorie du sujet et de l’objet en psychanalyse. Mais c’est par la suite de l’analyse sur le tombeau que l’espace vide prend une place centrale dans les considérations de Lacan. Notamment dans son analyse d’Antigone, lorsque Lacan aborde la « Chose », qu’il emprunte à Freud, et à propos des premières considérations de l’objet « a », la question de l’ouverture est traitée à partir de l’histoire de l’art. Dans cette recherche nous suivons les rapports entre la psychanalyse et l’histoire de l’art afin d’étudier l’espace qui se trouve entre le corps du sujet et l’objet de son désir. Nous poursuivons ainsi l’analyse entamée par Lacan à la fin des années cinquante, notamment sur la naissance de la peinture en perspective et celle des Vanités. Dans cette dernière partie, il s’agit donc de montrer les approximations de Lacan sur la thématique de l’ouverture en psychanalyse avant qu’il ne la travaille avec la topologie. Cette recherche peut se comprendre comme un regroupement des antécédents sur l’ouverture chez Lacan, avant leur formalisation mathématiqueFor Lacan, the notion of “the opening” is not a psychoanalytic concept. This term encompasses several different expressions and ideas, which, in Lacan’s thought, relate to holes, gaps, and unsurpassable distances. In the early nineteen-fifties, Lacan uses the word béance—a gaping hole—when he articulates his first hypothesis regarding symbolic absence. Thus, béance is the first word that contributes to Lacan’s lexicon concerning openings. In following seminars, other forms of openings appear. First, the space of the tomb, a concept Lacan addresses in his reading of the death of Oedipus, in his analysis of Antigone, and in his treatment of Hamlet. In these two tragedies by Sophocles, and in Shakespeare’s play, Lacan discoversan opening that allows him to envision modifications to the theories of subject and object in psychoanalysis. After this analysis of the grave, empty space occupies a central place in Lacan’s thought. In his discussion of Antigone, where Lacan broaches the subject of Freud’s “Thing”, and in his first treatment of the objet petit a, the question of openings is approached through art history. This project explores the intersections of psychoanalysis, literature, and art history and examines the space between the subject and the object of its desire. In doing so, the study furthers the work Lacan began in the late nineteen-fifties on the birth of linear perspective and the vanitas in painting. These preliminary explorations of the theme of the opening in psychoanalysis led Lacan, in his later work, to approach the idea of the opening through topology. The present study can be understood as a regrouping of the preliminary instances where openings and their mathematical formalizations appear in Lacan’s work
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Niñá, Jové Meritxell. "L'escultura del segle XIII de la Seu Vella de Lleida." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/275936.
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La present tesi doctoral és un estudi sobre l’escultura monumental del segle XIII de la Seu Vella de Lleida (l’antiga catedral romànica que presideix aquesta ciutat), que constitueix un dels conjunts escultòrics més rics del panorama artístic del segle XIII català. La principal finalitat de la investigació és contextualitzar i comprendre les raons de la seva presència en relació amb el moment en què fou creat. L’aportació que es realitza rau en proposar una mirada inèdita, global i completa sobre aquest conjunt d’imatges fonamentada en materials de diferent caràcter: documentació, bibliografia, dades arqueològiques i les pròpies escultures com a fonts materials. Davant la insistència en determinats temes bíblics es planteja, com a punt de partida, la hipòtesi que una de les línies que va marcar el disseny general del conjunt de temes fos un ideari eclesiàstic de lluita contra de les heretgies, principalment l’Islam i el catarisme, que es va traduir en una notable presència de representacions relacionades amb l’Encarnació de Crist, que era negada per aquestes doctrines.La presente tesis doctoral es un estudio sobre la escultura monumental del siglo XIII de la Seu Vella de Lleida (la antigua catedral románica que preside esta ciudad), que constituye uno de los conjuntos escultóricos más ricos del panorama artístico del siglo XIII catalán. La principal finalidad de la investigación es contextualizar y comprender las razones de su presencia en relación con el momento en que fue creado. La aportación que se realiza radica en proponer una mirada inédita, global y completa sobre este conjunto de imágenes fundamentada en materiales de diferente carácter: documentación, bibliografía, datos arqueológicos y las propias esculturas como fuentes materiales. Ante la insistencia en determinados temas bíblicos se plantea, como punto de partida, la hipótesis que una de las líneas que marcó el diseño general del conjunto de temas fue un ideario eclesiástico de lucha contra de las herejías, principalmente el Islam y el catarismo, que se tradujo en una notable presencia de representaciones relacionadas con la Encarnación de Cristo, que era negada por estas doctrinas.
This doctoral thesis is a study of the 13th Century monumental sculpture in the Seu Vella in Lleida (the old romanesque cathedral that presides over this town), which constitutes one of the richest sculptural bodies in the 13th Century Catalan artistic panorama. The main goal of the investigation is to contextualise and understand the reasons behind its presence in relation to the moment in which it was created. The contribution being made lies in offering an unprecedented, global vision of this body of images, based on various types of materials: documents, bibliography, archaeological data and the sculptures themselves as source material. Faced with the persistence of biblical themes, the starting point chosen will be the hypothesis that one of the approaches that influenced the general design themes was an ecclesiastic ideology of the fight against heresy, mainly Islam and Catharism, which resulted in the presence of representations of the incarnation of Christ, which was denied by those doctrines.
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Waters, Leah E. "The Persuasive Power of Ridicule: A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of Gender and Humor in U.S. Sitcoms." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984248/.
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The serious investigation of humor's function in society is an emerging area of research in critical humor studies, a "negative" subsect of the extensive and "positive" research that assumes humor's goodness. Using Michael Billig's theory of ridicule as a framework, this study explored how humor operated to discipline characters who broke social norms or allowed characters to rebel against those norms. Layering this with gender performative theory, the study also investigated how different male and female characters used ridicule and were subject to it themselves. After examining ridicule in The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, and The Odd Couple using a critical rhetorical analysis, the findings revealed that disciplinary ridicule was used more overtly throughout all three programs, while potentially rebellious ridicule emerged in only a few scenes. In addition, men were overwhelmingly the subjects of disciplinary ridicule, although women found themselves as subjects throughout all three programs as well. The discursive ridiculing of non-normative bodies constructed and maintained social norms about gender and sexuality, thereby uninviting these bodies from participating in society.
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Pliley, Jessica Rae. "Any Other Immoral Purpose: The Mann Act, Policing Women, and the American State, 1900 – 1941." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281537489.
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Blayo, Nicolas. "La fictionnalisation de l'histoire par la direction artistique dans le cinéma espagnol." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30071.
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La fictionnalisation de l’histoire récente dans le cinéma espagnol de la démocratie est abordée sous l’angle de sa représentation par les directeurs artistiques à qui, au cinéma, incombe la responsabilité de tout l’aspect visuel du film. L’étude de ce métier, peu traitée dans la production scientifique de la recherche cinématographique, nous intéresse dans son évolution depuis les années 30 jusqu’à nos jours. Elle permet de mettre en lumière les mécanismes qui sont à l’œuvre pour représenter l’histoire au cinéma, du franquisme à la démocratie.L’objectif de la thèse est de démontrer l’importance fondamentale de la direction artistique dans le film historique, de dégager les implications idéologiques qu’elle sous-tend et de déceler les caractéristiques esthétiques qui varient selon les époques, les intentionnalités et les styles des concepteurs des décorsThe fictionalization of recent history in the Spanish cinema of democracy is approached in terms of its representation by the art directors who, in cinema, are responsible for all the visual aspects of the film. The study of this issue, little discussed in the scientific production of film studies, interests us in its development since the 30s until the current time. It makes possible to highlight the mechanisms that are at work to represent history in cinema, from Francoism to democracy.The aim of the thesis is to demonstrate the fundamental importance of art direction in the historical film, to identify the ideological implications that underlies and detect the aesthetic characteristics that vary according to eras, styles and intentions of production designers
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McEwan, Joanne. "Negotiating support : crime and women's networks in London and Middlesex, c. 1730-1820." University of Western Australia. History Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0121.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis examines the social and legal dynamics of support as it operated around women charged before the criminal courts in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century metropolis. It considers the nature and implications of the support made available to, or withheld from, female defendants by individuals to whom they were in some way connected. To this end, it explores the nuances of testimony offered by witnesses and defendants in an attempt to better understand the extent and effect of the support that could be negotiated by and from a range of groups, including family members, fellow household residents, neighbours and wider community members. How narratives were framed in either sympathetic or condemnatory terms was indicative of broader social attitudes and expectations regarding women and crime as well as of women's own relationships to households and neighbourhood. To the extent that this thesis aims to interrogate negotiations of support, it adopts legal narratives as a window through which to gain an insight into the social interactions and mediation of interpersonal relationships by eighteenth-century London women. The printed accounts of trials conducted at the Old Bailey and legal documents from the London and Middlesex Sessions records form the basis of the source material that contributed towards this study. These records provide contemporary narratives in which participants described their involvement in the legal system and articulated their relationships to events and to each other. As a result, they are invaluable for the wealth of qualitative detail they contain. These legal documents have also been complemented by other contemporary sources including newspaper reports and printed pamphlet literature. ... This thesis concludes first that neighbours and fellow household residents were usually in the strongest position to affect the outcome of criminal cases, either by offering assistance or disclosing incriminating information. The importance of household and neighbours rather than kin was closely tied to the domestic context in which many female crimes took place, and the 'insider knowledge' that was gained by living in close proximity to one another. However, if and when women retained links to family and kin who lived within travelling distance, they remained an important source of support. Secondly, the thesis identifies the detection and prosecution of crime as a gendered experience; contemporary social expectations about gender influenced both legal processes and the shaping of witness accounts. Thirdly, in its examination of local responses to female crime, the thesis supports the theory that a notable shift in sentiment towards female nature and legal culpability occurred during this period, which in turn affected the support offered to female defendants. Overall, the thesis demonstrates the paramount importance of witness testimony in articulating the circumstances surrounding female crimes, and the complex negotiations of interpersonal relationships which influenced how this evidence would be contextualised as supportive or not when it was delivered.
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Schunk, Rafael [UNESP]. "Frei Agostinho de Jesus e as tradições da imaginária colonial brasileira: séculos XVI-XVII." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/86903.
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Na história da colonização brasileira, a produção de imagens sagradas representou um importante papel didático no processo de ensino e conversão religiosa do território conquistado, sobretudo incentivado nas oficinas conventuais jesuíticas, beneditinas, franciscanas e carmelitas. No planalto de Piratininga, as pioneiras relações sociais estabelecidas por meio de laços matrimoniais entre tupis e portugueses foram de encontro à secular sociedade paraguaia formada por espanhóis e guaranis, gerando uma mescla de culturas que resultaram na idéia de sertão: local onde a miscigenação e liberdade fugiram de tratados ibéricos e controles metropolitanos. Pelos velhos caminhos indígenas Peabirus, os bandeirantes paulistas avançaram no interior do continente em busca de riquezas, levando consigo suas experiências e retornando com a prata de Potosí e mão de obra missioneira. No meio deste caminho estava Santana de Parnaíba e a arte do primeiro grande artista brasileiro: Frei Agostinho de Jesus. Residindo no Mosteiro dos Beneditinos desta localidade a partir de 1643 transforma o panorama cultural do Brasil, um significativo momento das artes plásticas nacionais. Em Parnaíba, o mestre encontrou uma sociedade original, miscigenada, criando obras-primas, testemunhos da arte sacra paulista, berço da identidade nacional. A série de imagens em terracota desenvolvidas nesta região integra umas das primeiras tradições brasileiras de escultura religiosa somando contribuições de artistas como Frei Agostinho da Piedade, Mestre de Angra dos Reis e entalhadores missioneiros. A partir desse evento forma-se um conjunto de santeiros que seguirão estéticas eruditas e populares formando a Escola Cultural do Vale do Rio Tietê e Paraíba do Sul. Toda essa agitação social irá acompanhar os pioneiros no processo de expansão do país rumo a Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso e Goiás...
The production of sacred images played important role for the teaching process and religious conversion for the history of the Brazilian colonization. Jesuits, Benedictines, Franciscans and Carmelites, had encouraged the production of sacred images in their handcrafts spaces. At the Piratininga plateau, the first social relationships have been born through marriages between Tupis and Portugueses. The opposite of the secular Paraguayan society, made up of Spanish and Guaranis. These relationships, turned into a mix of cultures resulting in an idea of backwoods: miscegenation and freedom, ran away from Iberic control. The pioneers from São Paulo “paulistas” used the old indigenas ways, looking for wealth. They returned to the silver of Potosi, bringing their experience and missionary labor. Through the middle of the way, in Santana de Parnaíba, was Frar Agostinho de Jesus, the first, and most important Brazilian artist. From 1643, Frar Agostinho living with the Benedictines transformed the culture of Brazil, into a significant moment of national art. In Parnaíba, the master found an original and mixed society, creating masterpieces, standarts of sacred art in São Paulo, birth of national identity. The series of images in terracotta developed in this region includes one of the first Brazilian traditions of religious sculpture by adding contributions from artists such as Frar Agostinho da Piedade, Master of Angra dos Reis and carvers missionaries. This event result in the foundation of the important “The School Culture of the Tietê and Paraíba do Sul River Valley”. All this unrest will follow the pioneers in the expansion of the country towards Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Goiás... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Gross, Bernard O. "Sex, death, and the landscape /." Online version of thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11898.
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Kahn, Jillien Anne. "Visual Sexuality: Integrating Art and Sex Therapies." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/29.
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The goal of this research was to understand the potential challenges and benefits of an integration between art and sex therapies. Three interviews were performed: two with certified art therapists, one with a certified sex therapist, in order to understand how each of these professionals has chosen to approach issues of sexuality and creative expression within his or her practice. The data from the interviews was critically compared within and between each interviewee, producing three overarching themes that provide a framework for understanding the potential benefits and challenges of this integration. These three themes are defined as: 1) The importance of theoretical training and scope of practice in unlocking sexuality; 2) Opening the door to sex and sexuality in clinical work using creative expression; and 3) Concerns and challenges for the clinician using artistic expression with sexuality. Through discussion of these themes, it was found that there is great potential for an integration of the two therapies, provided clinicians have access to appropriate training, as well as a deeper understanding of individual attitudes toward sexuality as provided by cultural experience.
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Halsall, Francis. "Art, art history and systems-theory." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5392/.
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Dias, Katia Helena Rodrigues. "Fotografias para memória: a Escola de Belas Artes de Pelotas através do seu acervo documental (1949-1973)." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2012. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br/handle/ri/1042.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-30The Pelotas School of Fine Arts (EBA) ran between the years 1949 to 1973, having been a pioneer in the formal teaching of fine arts in the city of Pelotas/RS. Throughout that period, the school generated a set of documents consisting of text documents and photos that compose the collection of Leopoldo Gotuzzo Museum of Art (MALG), an institution linked to the Arts Center (CA) of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) that currently holds the custody and protection of those documents. This research has as main goal to systematize that collection, since it was not cataloged yet. The systematization of this set of documents, here called EBA Collection, takes in account conservation steps, processing information and accessibility. For the technical development of this research, studies of Belloto, Burgi, Cândido, Paes and Pavão are used. The photographic documents record classes, indoor venues and several happenings, such as social gatherings, exhibitions, graduation events and portraits. The text documents are made up mostly by administrative papers: meeting minutes, letters, statutes, memos, official letters, regulations and news. Therefore, according to the nature of the assembly, the methodology used was the documental analysis of case study of EBA Collection, which is regarded as an evocative of memories object, because while referring our thoughts to the past, the photography itself communicates and contributes to rethink and recreate past experiences, re-signifying them in the present. This work aims to systematize the collection, saving, organizing and keeping items to ensure better conditions of preservation. Then, information is processed towards its methodical organization. For this purpose, tables of photographic and textual elements are created, in which information is arranged according to the information content of each document. All of it with the main goal of preserving and communicating the history and memory of EBA, making the contents thus treated available to several other surveys
A Escola de Belas Artes de Pelotas (EBA) funcionou entre os anos de 1949 a 1973, tendo sido pioneira no ensino formal de artes plásticas na cidade de Pelotas/RS. Ao longo desse período, a escola gerou um conjunto documental composto por fotografias e documentos textuais que constituem o acervo do Museu de Arte Leopoldo Gotuzzo (MALG), instituição vinculada ao Centro de Artes (CA) da Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel) que atualmente detém a guarda e proteção desses documentos. A presente pesquisa tem como principal meta sistematizar esse acervo, uma vez que o mesmo não se encontrava catalogado. A sistematização desse conjunto documental, aqui denominado Coleção EBA, abrange etapas de conservação, tratamento da informação e acessibilidade. Para o desenvolvimento técnico da pesquisa utilizam-se publicações de Belloto, Burgi, Cândido, Paes e Pavão. Os documentos fotográficos registram aulas, ambientes internos e diversos eventos, tais como confraternizações, exposições, formaturas e retratos. Os documentos textuais são constituídos em sua maioria por papéis de cunho administrativo: atas, correspondências, estatutos, memorandos, ofícios, regimentos internos e notícias de jornal. Portanto, de acordo com a natureza do conjunto, foi utilizada como metodologia a análise documental a partir do estudo de caso da Coleção EBA, a qual é considerada como um objeto evocador de memórias, pois ao mesmo tempo em que remete nosso pensamento ao passado, ela, a fotografia, comunica e contribui para repensar e recriar experiências passadas, ressignificando-as no presente. Este trabalho objetiva sistematizar o acervo, conservando, organizando e acondicionando os itens de modo a garantir melhores condições de preservação. Em seguida, a informação é tratada com vistas à sua organização metódica. Para isso, criam-se tabelas de elementos fotográficos e textuais em que as informações são dispostas de acordo com os conteúdos informativos de cada documento. Tudo isto com o objetivo principal de preservar e comunicar a história e a memória da EBA, disponibilizando os conteúdos assim tratados às mais diversas pesquisas
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Jagell, Elisabet. "Förebilder i slöjd : en undersökning om vem som kan ses som förebild i nutida pedagogisk slöjd." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352379.
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Uppsatsens frågeställning är vilka formgivare, konsthantverkare, hantverkare, slöjdare eller andra personer skulle kunna ses som förebilder i pedagogisk slöjd i en nutida kontext. Metoden för att undersöka frågan var en webbenkät riktad till ett urval av grupper som berörs av slöjd på olika sätt. Den vanligaste förebilden bland mina respondenter visade sig vara en svensk man som är släkting. På andra och tredje plats kom två etablerade och, i slöjdkretsar, kända professionella slöjdare; Jögge Surolle Sundqvist och Beth Moen. Respondenterna beskriver sina slöjdförebilder som kreativa, nyfikna och generösa. Bristen på kända förebilder inom slöjd kan i hög grad påverka den pedagogiska slöjdens status och ställning. Ett större fokus på att lyfta fram en bredd av förbilder för slöjd i undervisningen skulle kunna öppna upp för förbättrade möjligheter att arbeta mot det grundskolans kursplan i slöjd tar upp.The essay's question is what designers, artisans, craftsmen, people working with sloyd or other people could be seen as role models in educational sloyd in a contemporary context. The method of investigating the issue was a web survey targeted at a selection of groups related to sloyd. The most common model among my respondents turned out to be a Swedish man who is a relative. Second and third place came two well-known professional craftsmen; Jögge Surolle Sundqvist and Beth Moen. Respondents describe their role models as creative, curious and generous. The lack of known models in sloyd can greatly affect the status and position of the educational sloyd. More focus on highlighting a width of rolemodels in sloyd teaching could open up for improved opportunities to work according to the elementary school's curriculum in sloyd.
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Nycander, Olga. "Deconstructing Thought Forms : Ett bokformgivningsprojekt om ett färg- och formsystem över hur tankar och känslor ser ut." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7992.
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Ett bokformgivningsprojekt som visar färg- och formteorierna i boken Thought Forms (1905) som ett tidigt konst- och designteoretiskt verk. Boken Thought Forms (1905) av Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater är en teosofisk bok som presenterar ”tankeformer” som visar hur tankar och känslor ser ut för den klärvoajanta. Boken tros ha inspirerat abstrakta konstnärer som till exempel Vasilij Kandinski och Hilma af Klint som båda var medlemmar i det teosofiska samfundet. Genom en serie på tre böcker presenterar jag färg- och formsystemen i Thought Forms som ett tidigt konst- och designteoretisk verk. Projektet är lika delar en undersökning av känslor och andliga idéers påverkan på formgivning som ett ut utforskande av bokformens påverkan på läsningen av ett innehåll. Projektet består av tre handgjorda böcker som presenterar bilderna, förgläran och formerna ur Thought Forms: Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Figures Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Colours Deconstructing Thought Forms: The ShapesA book design project that shows the theories of color and form in the book Thought Forms from 1905 as an early of art- and design theoretical work. The book Thought Forms by Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater is a theosophical book that shows "thought forms". Colourful shapes formed by thoughts and feelings, only visible for the clairvoyant. The book is believed to have inspired abstract artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint, who were both members of the Theosophical Society. Through a series of three books, I present the color and shape systems from Thought Forms as an early art and design theoretical work. This project is both an investigation of the influence of emotions and spiritual ideas on design as an exploration of the book designs effect on how we receive a content. The result is a series of three books: Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Figures Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Colors Deconstructing Thought Forms: The Shapes
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Duprat, Marie. "Modèle d'artiste : histoire d'un métier et de ses représentations dans la société française de 1800 à 1950 /." Paris : Université de Paris I, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37067074t.
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Follensbee, Billie J. A. "Sex and gender in Olmec art and archaeology /." Ann Arbor (Mich.) : UMI dissertation services, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37711865s.
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Williams, Cheryl Lynn. "Mapping the art historical landscape : genres of art history appearing in art history literature and the journal, Art education /." Connect to this title online, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1102365647.
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Masters, Hannah L. "Art Therapy and Art History Theories, an Inquiry." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2018. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/515.
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This research uses critical theory inquiry with interviews and arts-based research to explore biases about art making in clinical art therapy practice. The literature review establishes an historical link between theoretical tenets in fields of art therapy and art history. Participants are chosen from experts in the fields of art therapy and art history. Interviews explore what art making means to each participant, utilizing both verbal and arts-based processing. The data is condensed through coding and arts-based reflection, and seven emergent themes are identified. The themes are checked with the participants for accuracy. The findings of the paper integrate the insight from the literature review with the expressed views of the participants to illuminate meaning-making processes of art. The paper concludes with identification of an “art historical lens” for practicing art therapy and discussion of treatment considerations, limitations of the study, and suggestions for further research.
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Lintner, Natalie Elaine. "Living art history in the elementary art room." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407397595.
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Pereira, André Luiz Tavares 1972. "A constituição do programa iconografico das irmandades de clerigos seculares no Brasil e em Portugal no seculo XVIII : estudos de caso." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280540.
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Orientador: Luciano MigliaccioTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: A presente tese analisa o papel das irmandades de clérigos seculares, na América portuguesa e em Portugal, como encomendadoras de obras artísticas ao longo do século XVIII. Procura-se demonstrar de que maneira organiza-se seu programa iconográfico até 1731 e como esse conjunto de imagens devocionais e pintura decorativa atende às necessidades político-ideológicas do clero português na seqüência imediata da criação do Patriarcado de Lisboa em 1716. Ainda, ressaltamos a ligação de membros dos altos setores da administração religiosa portuguesa com as referidas irmandades, lembrando o exemplo do primeiro patriarca de Lisboa, D. Tomás de Almeida, ligado intimamente aos quadros da Irmandade de clérigos do Porto. Apresentamos variado registro de imagens e análises cuidadosas do patrimônio artístico das irmandades portuguesas ¿ Porto, Amarante e Viana do Castelo ¿ e daquelas instaladas na América portuguesa ¿ Salvador, Recife e Mariana ¿ sublinhando a importância do programa de imagens patrocinado por estas agremiações, que interpretamos como manipulação político-teológica da iconografia da Autoridade Religiosa, opção oportuna durante os anos do reinado de D. João V e da organização da administrção eclesiástica na América Portuguesa ao longo do século XVIII
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Boyd, Louise Anne. "Art, sex, and institutions : defining, collecting, and displaying shunga." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7546/.
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In Edo-Japan (c.1603 – 1868) shunga, sexually explicit prints, paintings and illustrated books, were widely produced and disseminated. However, from the 1850s onwards, shunga was suppressed by the government and it has largely been omitted from art history, excluded from exhibitions and censored in publications. Although changes have taken place, cultural institutions continue to be cautious about what they collect and exhibit, with shunga largely remaining a prohibited subject in Japan. Since the 1970s there has been a gradual increase in the acceptance of shunga outside Japan, as evidenced in the growing number of exhibitions and publications. The initial impetus behind this thesis was: Why and how did shunga become increasingly acceptable in Europe and North America in the twentieth century, whilst conversely becoming unacceptable in post-Edo Japan? I discuss how and why attitudes to shunga in the UK and Japan have changed from the Edo period to the present day, and consider how definitions can affect this. My research examines how shunga has been dealt with in relation to private and institutional collecting and exhibitions. In order to gauge modern responses, the 2013 Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art exhibition at the British Museum is used as an in-depth study – utilising mixed methods and an interdisciplinary approach to analyse curatorial and legal decisions, as well as visitor feedback. To-date there are no official or standardised guidelines for the acquisition, cataloguing, or display of sexually explicit artefacts. It is intended that institutions will benefit from my analysis of the changing perceptions of shunga and of previous shunga collections and exhibitions when dealing with shunga or other sexually explicit items in the future.
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Chan, Nicole E. "Xing: Sex, Gender and Revolution in Contemporary Chinese Art." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/315.
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This paper will explore the intersections of gender, sexuality and revolution in contemporary Chinese art through the lens of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As an integral part in the process of narrative reconstruction, the propaganda imagery from the Cultural Revolution provides important insights into societal expectations for the masses. This paper will also analyze how contemporary artists seek to appropriate and respond to the events of the Cultural Revolution through their artwork, and describe the processes by which the I interpreted this information in order to create my own artwork.
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Quinlan, Joshua Mortimer. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Research: Sustainable Scene Design for a Production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461084681.
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Radesky, Caroline. "Feeling historical: same-sex desire and historical imaginaries, 1880-1920." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/7016.
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“Feeling Historical,” examines why history has played such a central role in the construction of queer identities by analyzing how same-sex desiring individuals, particularly elite white individuals, in the U.S. looked to history to construct and navigate their own sexual identities. My project begins in the late nineteenth-century U.S., when history took on new cultural significance in the United States. Americans, previously more preoccupied with the future than the past, became engrossed in finding truth in history and origins. Parallel to this preoccupation with the past was the emergence of modern notions of sexual identity and the rise of the new sexual science of “sexology.” For sexologists, same-sex desire was new, a product of modernity and degeneration in which the sexually deviant fell behind on the evolutionary ladder. “Feeling Historical” analyzes the cultural and racialized work of white queer individuals who pushed back against such pathologizing discourse, arguing that their sexual affinities were not something aberrant, connected to degenerate desires of the racial other. Instead, they positioned themselves as rooted in a complex whitewashed transnational and transhistorical past. Mobilizing the past to construct their present, these individuals often drew on orientalist histories of great ancient civilizations in which they believed same-sex desire was accepted and even celebrated. They did so to not only counter the homophobic violence they experienced in their own time but to also reclaim their privileged racial identities. Much cultural work went into the construction of such a queer history. Using an interdisciplinary framework linking history, memory studies, queer theory, performance studies, visual culture studies, and critical race studies, I examine how these individuals appropriated examples of same-sex desire in the history, literature, and art of Ancient Greece, Italy, and the Middle East with imperialist understandings of such cultures. I ask which histories they found useful, and how gender, race, class, and ethnicity informed their historical reclamations. Through acts of history writing, auto-biography, performance, sexual tourism, and the creation of queer archives, I argue that such same-sex desiring individuals used history to not only navigate their identities and carve out spaces in a hostile world where they could survive and even thrive, but also reclaim their racial privilege by fashioning a queer identity based on a past that positioned queerness as inherently white.
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Kirkham, Deborah Anne. "Medieval art writing and the study of art history." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529796.
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