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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Art, Fine art"”.
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Not4Profit
Not4Profit is a thesis pertaining to the art exhibition "Not4Profit" for fulfillment of M.F.A. requirements, which was held at the Kenderdine Art Gallery, Aug 19-30, 2019.
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Cognitive aspects of pictorial address and seriality in art: A practice-led investigtion
… to notions of pictorial address and seriality in art. It is interdisciplinary and practice-led, culminating in a written outcome and a portfolio of creative work. The thesis suggests a model for the exchange of ideas within experimental psychology, art practice and art theory. The research …
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Liminal Affections: Exploring shapes of free association and its potential to inform novel academic practice within the arts and humanities
… reflected in examples from 20th and 21st century artistic practice and can inform novel academic practice within the arts and humanities. Starting from a closer look at the concept of free association through the work of Freud and Warburg, the research continues in an exploration of this concept …
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Artists’ Pages: the Accessibility of Art Through the Printed Page 1966 – 1973
Contemporary interest in artists’ printed ephemera and the restaging of historic exhibitions from the early conceptual era 1966-1973 has drawn attention to the materiality of work that was originally defined as being idea or process-based. This research investigates how artists used pages in group …
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Africana Unmasked: Fugitive signs of Africa in Tate's British Collection
… the relationship between, on the one hand, my fine art practice—with its interest in postcolonial African and diaspora identities (or, ‘Africana’)—and on the other hand, works at The Tate Gallery—with its remit to hold the National Collection of British Art. By interrogating iconological …
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A feminist dialogue with the camera: strategies of visibility in video art practices.
… context. The focus of the thesis is on video art, which, I argue, can be both a radical tool for deconstructing dominant mainstream images of femininity and play a role in developing progressive re–presentations of female subjectivities. This thesis argues that there is a need to revisit …
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The Art of Decolonisation: On the Possibility of Socially Engaged Art in the Postcolonial Context of East Asia
Through a new idea of ‘the art of decolonisation’, this thesis explores the possibility of socially engaged art in the postcolonial context of East Asia. Japan, throughout its national history as an expanding empire from the late 19th century to the Second World War, has left a large number of …
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…of delay, hesitation and detour: Resisting the constitution of knowledge: Walter Benjamin, re-search and contemporary art
The point of departure of this dissertation is a few words extracted from “Agesilaus Santander,” an autobiographical fragment Walter Benjamin wrote in 1933 while in exile on Ibiza. The first version reads: “…I came into the world under the sign of Saturn, the star of hesitation and delay …” He …
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The Sound System of the State: Sonic Strategies for Political Critique at the Borders of Palestine-Israel
… which consists of a written text and a series of artworks produced during the research. The written structure is organised around a set of case studies and artworks by the author and other artists. The combination of art practice, theory and case studies informs and influences the theory involved, …
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The Archaic Makes the Avant-garde. Experimental Practice and Primordial Image. Reading the Brazilian Post-neoconcrete and the Japanese Gutai Artists Through Mircea Eliade and Carl Gustav Jung.
… process of the Brazilian Post-Neoconcrete artists Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, and of the Japanese Gutai group. These artists adopted a concrete ludic relationship between the body and the material; their empirical processes preceded and dispensed theoretical consideration. As a result, …
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Secret Identity: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist
… makes for Yeats as an important comic strip artist are based on extensive archival research, focused on comics such as Comic Cuts, The Big Budget and The Halfpenny Comic published in London by Alfred Harmsworth, Arthur Pearson and George Newnes respectively. He went through a number of …
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The Image of Woman as a National Icon in Modern Japanese Art: 1890s-1930s
… and increased its military power. The Japanese artists who lived during this time were in many ways reacting to this rapid social change that was taking place. This thesis aims to analyse the diverse images of women that were primarily produced by artists working under the government regime and …
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Interconnected In-Between: On the dynamics of abjection, animism, temporality and location in nomadic art practice
… a contribution to the field of contemporary art in the contexts of globalisation, nomadic subjectivity, new materialism and the posthuman/postanthropocentric condition, and to visual language. It argues for a more ethical and material relationship with others, human and non-human. I examine …