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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Art Exhibitions"”.
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Interpretation and visitors in two Islamic art exhibitions
… years there has been an increase is Islamic art exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Islamic art exhibition includes both reinstallations of permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. Often Islamic art exhibitions are equated with broader social and political contexts and …
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
… campaign that exported the country’s emerging art and culture, which glorified its indigenous roots. The strategy of expanding its nation-building project abroad helped remake its image and radically improved U.S.-Mexican relations. This project investigates the first standalone exhibitions of …
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Modernity, nationalism and global marginalisation: representing the nation in contemporary Taiwanese art exhibitions
… development of the most prestigious large- scale exhibitions of the Taipei Fine Arts Museums from its opening in 1983 until 2009, concentrating on the Trends of Modern Art in the R.O.C. series of the 1980s , the introduction of the Taipei Biennial in 1992, and the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice from …
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Reframing Duggan-Cronin: examining the recent emergence of Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin's photographs in art exhibitions
This study is about the photographs of Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin. It is particularly concerned with the recent use of Duggan-Cronin's photographs in public exhibitions, especially art exhibitions. It suggests that the majority of these recent exhibitions favour an understanding of the photographs …
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PARIGI A TORINO. STORIA DELLE MOSTRE ¿PITTORI D¿OGGI. FRANCIA-ITALIA¿
This project reconstructs the development of art exhibitions promoted by the committee “Francia-Italia” in Turin from 1951 to 1964. This committee organized the art exhibitions “Peintres d’aujourd’hui. France-Italie” (or “Pittori d’Oggi. Francia-Italia”), earlier in the halls of the “Promotrice” …
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Scripting Inclusion
Efforts to bring underrepresented modernist women artists of Arabic speaking countries into the scope of Western art exhibitions has been on the rise, particularly since the early 2000s. Who decides what artists get shown and how their stories are told? What are the power structures guiding their …
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American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876
In the mid to late nineteenth century, exhibitions in the United States presented histories of art by laying out sequences of objects. Paintings, sculptures, and prints were aligned or juxtaposed with so-called artifacts and specimens as well as plaster casts of classical sculpture in order to …
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Gestures and Acclamations: some assembly required Contextualising curating and exhibtion practices in Southeast Asia for Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong
… rise and increasing prominence of large scale art fairs as well as 'biennale' style exhibitions. Taking Southeast Asia as the context for studying curatorial practice based in but not exclusive to the region, my doctoral research has worked with the notion of the museum as a colonial remnant; …
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Culture's “In-Betweens”: Diaspora and artistic practice of Gavin Jantjes, Marlene Dumas and Moshekwa Langa.
… in any form of engagement with contemporary art and artists from Africa. Whether we scroll through the titles of the latest contemporary art exhibitions on the continent and outside, learn about the buzzy new additions to the annual art fair calendar, leaf through the pages of art …
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Challenges and reconstructions: femininity in contemporary Chinese feminist art from the 1990s to the present
In the 1990s, feminism became a distinct artistic phenomenon in contemporary Chinese art. Women artists, feminist artworks and women’s art exhibitions have increased substantially since then. Contemporary Chinese feminist art has increasingly revealed its own characteristics regarding gender and …
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Art Used as a Therapeutic Intervention Between Isralie Arabs and Jews
… employed by these organizations is the use of art. This qualitative study, conducted in Israel at the three organizations cited above, describes how art is used as a therapeutic intervention between Israeli Arabs and Jews. It consists of interviews with facilitators and teachers on the one …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… the construction of numerous mausoleums--particularly those belonging to Ferdawsi, Hafez, Ibn Sina, Omar Khayyam, and Arthur Pope, the supervision of over sixty preservation projects, and the creation of an archeological museum as well as a national library, the dissertation demonstrates …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… the implications of and strategies for curating exhibitions that feature the works of women of color (WoC) artists. In this study the researcher explores the ways in which viewers interpret exhibitions by the non-profit arts organization, WoCA Projects, an alternative curatorial initiative in …
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Imitation realism and Australian art
… Realists has rightly been seen as marking the start of the widespread use of assemblage and popular culture by Australian artists during the 1960s. Viewed within the context of their training and the debates of the Australian art world in the 1950s, it can be seen that the impetus for their work …
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… case study of the exhibition Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (Tate Modern, 1 February – 29 April 2001). It examines a variety of issues pertaining to the making of institutional modern and contemporary art exhibitions in a Western urban context today. It is concerned …
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Imitation realism and Australian art
… Realists has rightly been seen as marking the start of the widespread use of assemblage and popular culture by Australian artists during the 1960s. Viewed within the context of their training and the debates of the Australian art world in the 1950s, it can be seen that the impetus for their work …
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Art and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1917-1933
This thesis tells the story of how German art was transformed into a tool of cultural propaganda and then ‘mobilised’ as a form of foreign cultural policy in Weimar Germany from 1917 until 1933. It questions how, why and with what intentions the German Federal Foreign Office pursued an official …
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Spectacles Plastiques : reconstruction and the debates on the "Synthesis of the Arts" in France, 1944-1962
… - which advocated a "synthesis of the arts" in the time period that corresponds to the Liberation until the beginning of the Fifth Republic. I consider a wide range of archival sources and projects, from the collective decoration of permanent buildings to temporary installations in …
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Policy-Oriented Art: Developing Disaster Displacement Norms in Diplomatic Venues
… research seeks to increase understanding about artists’ and art’s potential influence on international policymaking addressing disaster displacement. Its overall aim is to identify and characterize strategies for artists, curators, and others seeking to bring art within collective efforts to …
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MaBareBare, a rumour of a dream
This multi-part PhD submission builds on Premesh Lalu’s (2009) assertion that an understanding of the subjectivity of the colonised is irrecoverable from the colonial archive. It does this through my quest for, and my encounter with, fragments associated with an episode of travel to Berlin by some …
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