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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"American Society and Culture studies"”.
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Collecting Contemporary Art: a visual analysis of a qualitative investigation into patterns of collecting and production
… cultural analysis of contemporary art collecting and art production with an illustration of patterns that overlap in collecting and art production practices in contemporary art. The illustrated visual network shows how institutions, local context, social strategies and prestige overlap in their …
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Resituating the Cultural Meanings of Lucha Libre Mexicana: A Practice-Based Exploration of Diasporic Mexicanness
… has evolved as a manifestation of popular culture combining spectacle, sport, theatre and ritual. Lucha Libre Mexicana, an event based performance using the mask, connects and reconnects to myth, stories, and ritual that societies, in this case the Mexican, need in order to find meaning …
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Acts of Endurance — A Creative Transformation in Times of Struggle in Contemporary Colombian Memory
… retaining a trace of the context that surrounds and affects what is rendered too painful to be articulated and exists silently beyond description in the work. In Colombia, trauma has clearly become culturally transitive; it affects society as a whole through the recurring accumulation of events …
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Civilizing the Prehispanic: Neo-Prehispanic Imagery and Constructions of Nationhood in Porfirian Mexico (1876-1910)
… attention to the representation of prehispanic cultures and their incorporation into an official historiography. Whilst highlighting the growing popularity of prehispanic and conquest themes, during the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the research centres on the study of what may be …
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Expanded Pop: Politics, Popular Culture and Art in Argentina, Brazil and Peru, 1960s
… how Pop art emerged in Argentina, Brazil and Peru, during the 1960s. Stemming from a growing necessity to expand the art historical canon, the thesis questions the significance of Pop as a cultural label. By de-centring the genealogy of Pop to distinct locales, the investigation allows …