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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Art criticism"”.
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Pre-Raphaelitism and the professional ideal : art, criticism, and sexuality
… by Harold Perkin to the distinctive art practice of the Pre-Raphaelites. In chapter two, the discussion focuses on how the professional ideal was shaped by the development of a frequently hostile periodical press that insisted on seeing the Pre-Raphaelites as a distinctive group. The …
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Collaborative Painting Between Minds and Hands: Art Criticism, Connoisseurship, and Artistic Sodality in Early Modern Italy
… looked at multiple authorial hands working on an artistic project. It will be argued in the course of this dissertation that critics of the seventeenth century were particularly attentive to the practical conditions of collaboration as the embodiment of theory. At the heart of this broad discourse …
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An Examination of Factors Contributing to Critical Thinking and Student Interest in an On-line College-level Art Criticism Course
… higher level thinking, increased interest in art, and affected attitude toward on-line courses in an undergraduate philosophical aesthetics and interpretation of art criticism course. The research conducted for this study suggests that constructivist problem-based learning does facilitate …
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Educational programming in American art museums : the balance of studio art and art criticism in programs designed for school children.
Art museums are dynamic institutions committed to educating the visitor about the works of art and about the museums themselves. The methods for achieving these goals with respect to the student visitor have changed significantly over time due to the philosophies and teaching methods of art …
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Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ …
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KUNSTKRITIK ALS KONVERSATION: DAS JOURNALISTISCHE AUSSTELLUNGSGESPRÄCH, 1804-1826
… paintings on display at the Dresden and Berlin art academy exhibits, occurred in early nineteenth-century German periodicals. Drawing on research by Albert Dresdner, Jürgen Habermas, Margrit Vogt and others, I argue that such journalistic gallery conversations imitate the contemporary …
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The effects of structured criticism upon the perceptual differentiation and studio compositional skills displayed by college students in an elementary art education course
… designed instructional strategies utilizing an art criticism model upon the perceptual differentiation and compositional drawing skills of college students. The an elementary art education course.All subjects received instruction in the studio activities of drawing and painting during the ten …
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Peter Fuller, Modern Painters and the Sensation exhibition
This thesis investigates the decline of a particular form of art criticism, embodied by the English art critic and editor, Peter Fuller. Fuller’s criticism developed out of a Kantian tradition, presenting judgements of objective worth arrived at through the exercise of taste, and championed what he …
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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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A abstração e a reflexão - Mário Pedrosa, o crítico como revolucionário
… of his ideas in relation to his concept about art criticism, the role of a critic and his defense of the abstract art in Brazil. This dissertation, based above all in Pedrosa’s texts, is restricted to the fifties and shows the influence and importance of this critic in the course of the arts in …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
This thesis argues that Roger Fry should, in part at least, be placed within a tradition of British, Protestant, art criticism. To this end I compare his work with that of the leading nineteenth-century British art critic John Ruskin. I discuss the problems both men had in engaging with a …
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Would You Believe Me If I Said I Didn't Need You
… upon the ideas that permeate the practice of art making that has developed over the past two years. Art criticism, theory, history, and practice are used to give definition to the boundaries of my ever-shifting body of work. Focusing on the elusive nature of communication in both public and …
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The Uses of Reason in Critical Judgement: Commentaries on the Turner Prize
… question the rational basis for evaluation in art criticism: the lack of any agreed criteria for the evaluation of artworks. This problem has been most often addressed within philosophical aesthetics through two contrasting approaches: the attempt to formulate evaluative criteria, and the …
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An art history curriculum guide for seventh and eighth grades
This study provided a curriculum for teaching art history to seventh and eighth grade students based on the principles of discipline-based art education (DBAE). The student included historical facts, descriptions and the application of DBAE. The curriculum included a series of lesson plans which …
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Matter, metaphor and meaning : the precariousness of the reality value of the representational status of Zwelethu Mthethwa's photography
… principles of Mthethwa's photographs within art criticism. The third chapter considers Mthethwa's betrayal of the viewer's strong attachment to the objective recognition of the depicted in portraiture. The fourth chapter nudges the viewer to consider disembodiment as an alternative discourse …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
… a poetic poioumenon. When read in terms of art criticism, Lehman’s “The Breeders’ Cup” models creative processes from the past and calls for a rehabilitative ethic in postmodern poetics. Lehman follows the ekphrastic form, which associates a poem with a work of visual art, from his New York …
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A Narrative in Relief - The Historiography of English Modern Painting (1910-1915), from the 1910s to the 1950s
… Bloomsbury post-Impressionism and the modern art of painters associated with Sickert, (principally the Camden Town Group), have been critically examined over a forty year period in order to trace the narrative of their place in contemporary art criticism and their entry into histories of what …
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Modernist cultural critique: The visual arts and anthropology
… surrounding three twentieth century modern art movements, Surrealism, American Abstract Expressionism and the performance art of Joseph Beuys, with that of cultural anthropology with regard to the role of each as cultural critique. This juxtaposition also examines the multiple layering …
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The Leo Castelli Gallery in Metro magazine : American approaches to post-abstract figuration in an Italian context
… international review of contemporary art. By placing his artists in Metro, Castelli inserted them into the world of Italian art criticism and theory. This recontextualization familiarized the American artists of Castelli's gallery to a European audience and positioned them at the end …
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