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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Art World"”.
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Walk into a Heavenly Art World
Living in the new and unreal world of technology and computers, we realize how much humans are separated from nature, which means the actual connection between our soul, brain, and body to the real and touchable environment and experiencing in-person connections. Since birth, we have a special …
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British Orientalist Painting in the Victorian Art World
… in relation to the four agents of the Victorian art world: the artist, dealer, press, and patron. With a particular focus on the 1880s, a decade in which there was a notable rise in the production and display of Orientalist subjects at the Royal Academy, I examine the reception and display of the …
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Scribner's Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World
… improvements in reproduction technology and art criticism, Scribner's played a major role in the development of the nation's art world in the Gilded Age, transforming the reception, perception and consumption of images by the American public.
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Digitizing the Aura: A Systems Update for the Contemporary Art World
… metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial market”; then cryptocurrency was invented. Now, blockchain technology has …
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The Right to Produce Culture: Constructing an Institutional Reputation in the Art World
My research suggests that the MFACM was able to participate in the privileged process of cultural production and construct its institutional reputation by leveraging its two strategic assets---Mexican ethnicity and economic resources---and by building key relationships with power players in the art …
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The contribution of émigré art historians to the British art world after 1933
The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis on émigré art historians in Britain is not only to show how alien the concept of art history was to the British before 1933, but also to assess and qualify the subsequent practical and theoretical contribution of art historians who immigrated to Britain. These 93 …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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.art : situating Internet art in the traditional institution for contemporary art
… analysis of the relation between Internet art and the traditional institution for contemporary art in the North American and West-European regions. Thirteen years after its inception as an art form, the Internet art world finds itself in a developmental stage and its relation to the …
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A Lesson in Art: Understanding and Questioning Distraction, Play, and Human Nature
<p>In making artwork using stuffed animals and video performance, I have been able to construct visual means of questioning society and its focus on interaction in nature and adolescence and adulthood. The videos in the body of artwork seek for the viewer to question the repetitive, distracting, …
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The canvas as her stage : Emma Hamilton's use of her attitudes in portraiture
… trends and interests of the eighteenth-century art world. Lady Emma Hamilton was the eighteenth-century equivalent of a modern-day celebrity. Renowned for her good looks, she was the talk of European society for her beauty, her pantomime performance (which she called her Attitudes), and her …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Movement Known as Op Art
… and aesthetically, the recent movement in the art world known as Op art; (2) to investigate the principles of perception which are utilized in such work; and (3) to produce in painting and construction media examples of these optical gymnastics.
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I can explain : the work of art is no longer necessary
The bulk of our knowledge of the international art world, and in many cases within the local South African art scene, is based largely on what we read in magazines, art books and the art press. To most individuals these exhibitions exist mainly in written form and within the viewer's personal …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Charlotte Yonge, and Amy Levy. It analyzes how …
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
This dissertation charts the production of Lebanese cosmopolitanism from the nineteenth century to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order to understand the strategies of a group of artists who have come to …
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Toward a New Kinship Constellation
This thesis attempts to elaborate on my artwork during my graduate studies, while contextualizing it within the framework of the art world and the works of other artists. A main project during this time was to minimize the singular interpretation and framing of a fine art photographic print, while …
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Post-imperial perspectives: British art since 1940 at the Art Gallery of South Australia
This dissertation examines the Art Gallery of South Australia’s patterns of collecting modern and contemporary British art since the outbreak of the Second World War. It analyses the relative influence on these collecting patterns of Australia’s transition from a mono-cultural British dominion to a …
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Charles Roberson, London colourman, and the trade in artists' materials 1820─1939
… his first shop on Long Acre, London, selling artists’ materials. Among his initial customers, comprising mainly amateurs and businesses related to the art trade, the name of Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, stands out. His custom is an early indication of the important …
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Art Across Borders: Japanese Artists in the United States, 1895-1955
From the 1880s to the early 1920s, hundreds of artists left Japan for the United States. The length of their stays varied from several months to several decades. Some had studied art in Tokyo, but others became interested in art after working in California. Some became successful in the American …
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