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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Art critics"”.
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Curating the object: Art collection and aesthetics in nineteenth-century Britain
This dissertation explores influential art critics, poets and novelists who—contra Oscar Wilde’s famous claim that “all art is quite useless”—affirmed the “use” of art to human care and cultivation. By turning art and other artifacts into things to be acquired and arranged, mid-Victorian collectors …
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Camille Claudel
This bachelor thesis focuses on the life and artwork of Camille Claudel, French sculptress that lived in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. This thesis summarizes her life and focuses on the relationships with the members of her family, her friends and her …
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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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Utilité publique : architecture, urbanism, and aesthetic reform in turn of the century France
… It examines the work of a network of architects, artists, political representatives, art critics, poets, archaeologists, pedagogues, and other intellectual elites, who argued, through journals, pamphlets and books, and various legislative debates, that architecture's aesthetic capacity could both …
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Beauty and Ethics: Three Relations
… interest in beauty developed among many Western art critics, art practitioners and theorists of aesthetics in the 1990s. Beauty had fallen from favour in part because it was deemed politically and morally suspect, both as complicit with the sociopolitical structures that yielded WWI and as a tool …
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Die Erfindung der Moderne: Das Manifest Refus global und die identitätsstiftende Rezeption von Surrealismus und Automatismus in Québec
The manifesto of the Quebecer art movement Automatism, the Refus global (Montreal, 1948), is today one of the best known socio-political writings of Quebec. It is considered to have been the beginning of Quebec's cultural modernity and an early sign of its political modernity. In the early 1940's …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically assessed by their rejection of social realism, this project highlights their evolving …
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The Athletic Turn in Contemporary Art
<p>For too long, the worlds of art and sport have occupied opposing ends of the cultural spectrum, contributing to a widely held belief that the audiences in either arena are mutually exclusive, drawn to separate and competing visual spectacles. The physicality of the athletic contest, we imagine, …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
… Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as <em>Art</em> …
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Controversy in aesthetics : implications for metacriticism in art education.
Aesthetic controversy over the link between art and criticism is investigated with a view to exploring implications for metacriticism in art education. Artistic intention is defined as a principal controversy on the assumption that it is representative of disputes in aesthetics as a whole …
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Word and image : Patrick Cullinan and Judith Mason's Selected Poems 1961-1994 : a case for the special edition artist's book
… of the special edition book. Focusing in particular on one instance of books/artworks of this sort, the writer, Jane Elizabeth Commin, presents several arguments in order to underline her thesis. tn the ï¬ rst place she looks at the history of the institution of the artist’s book and …
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Den romantiska postmodernismen. Konstkritiken och det romantiska i 1980- och 1990-talets svenska konst
Through a study of the reception that art critique gave the exhibition project Ibid. ( Stockholm 1982 1983 ) and the oeuvres of the artists Ola Billgren, Dick Bengtsson and Max Book, this thesis examines the way art critics dealt with the romantic in Swedish art during the 1980s and 1990s, the time …
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The construction of national identity in the historiography of Czech art
… others. The Czech people, who until 1918 were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, gave birth to a national revival movement in the nineteenth century and eventually emancipated themselves to create an independent Czechoslovakia. The idea of „national identity“ was, therefore, crucial and this …
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Selbstbildnis und Selbstverständnis in der Malerei der SBZ, DDR von 1945 bis in die achtziger Jahre
… conspicuously with the social role of the artist anchored in the cultural policies of the GDR, in which the artist was supposed to perceive himself as a cultural worker whose creative working process was conferred the same value as any other working process. In real socialism, the …
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Stendhal and Europe: The Portrayal of National Character and Cross-Cultural Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth Century
… role of inter-European dialogue in his realism. Part One hypothesizes the importance of national identities as integral to Stendhal's anthropological approach. It outlines how Stendhal's European consciousness is expressed through the depiction of national character and subtle, sustained …