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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"American Visual Culture"”.
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the Revolution affected women, whereas the history of American …
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Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool
… to its philosophical utility, and that its spare visual language conveys more than meets the eye. Drawing on phenomenology, it considers cartooning as a process grounded in the body, and it investigates the bodily encounter between the viewer and the cartoon. Through an analysis of cartooning work …
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The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age
… text, I explore the hidden power of images in American visual culture through painting-based installations. I investigate images of the past and present juxtaposed in a surrealist landscape. Through the use of images in the news, entertainment, advertising, and images within the home, I depict …
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Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
… male artists. When we look at the development of American modernism in fine art, particularly at the period between the Armory Show of 1913 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, artists fervently desired to create a distinctively American visual culture which moved beyond European …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… for Art’s Sake: Creating and Documenting an American Aesthetic, 1810 – 1860, assembles an archive of early American writings on the visual arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors …