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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Art historian"”.
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The Fall and Rise of Artemisia Gentileschi: Changing Perceptions fo a Female Artist
… thesis focuses on the Italian Baroque female artist, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- 1652/1653) and the various interpretations of her work demonstrated by art historians over the centuries. An examination of the various writings show how art historical viewpoints have shifted over the centuries …
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In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
In his work as an art historian, Hans Rookmaaker approaches art and culture from a reformed perspective. The research question asks what theological, philosophical, and aesthetic commitments contributed to Rookmaaker’s distinctive approach to art; the thesis argues that Rookmaaker’s approach to art …
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The evidence of Bias within Art Historical Methodolgy and the Potentiality of Viewer Dialog as a Pedegogical Tool.
<p>The evidence of cultural and social partiality within the methodology of art history has influenced the manner in which art is presented to the public. The formally structured and often obsolete methods of the earliest art historians continue to influence the telling of art history today, …
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Lee Bontecou's Early Reliefs (1959-1965): A Critical and Contextual Analysis
American artist Lee Bontecou’s oeuvre is often described as difficult to categorize or “mysterious.” Her early work—a series of metal and canvas reliefs made between 1959 and 1965—is linked to a range of stylistic associations including such radically divergent movements as assemblage, minimalism …
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Eulogy.
<p>The artist discusses the search for identity which underlies her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, <em>Eulogy</em>, hosted by the Carroll Reece Museum on the campus of East Tennessee Sate University, Johnson City, Tennessee, from March 8 to May 6, 2011. This exhibit contains works which explore …
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
… discourse through drawing upon theories about artistic revivals developed by French art historian Henri Focillon as well as the pedagogical techniques of the nineteenth century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In doing so, McEwen presented the works created during his tenure (1957-1973) as the …
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Arquétipos e memória: A gravura de Marcelo Grassmann
Analysis of the brazilian artist Marcelo Grassmann engraving (1925 - ), as study of the relations of the Art with the areas of Analytical Psychology and Cultural History. The concepts of the Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung allow to identify in the Grassmann engraving, the structure of …
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NAVIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: READING BERENICE ABBOTT’S CHANGING NEW YORK
… noted that Abbott was a member of many artistic circles in New York City in the early 1930s, but little has been written analyzing how these relationships affected her artistic eye. Building on the scholarship of art historian Terri Weissman, my thesis contextualizes Abbott’s working …
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Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes?
This study applies Renaissance art historian Erwin Panofsky’s three phase methodology of iconographic analysis to the painting on the Classic period Maya vase (K1485), referred to here as ‘The Vase of the Count of Days’, to investigate and identify potential cosmological or celestial content and, …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
… explores the zombie’s status and function as an artistic traumatic grotesque within the 2000s. Coined as a grotesque “stream” by art historian Frances S. Connelly, the traumatic grotesque interrupts established visual norms by presenting contemporary social anxieties in monstrous form. Though a …
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The philosopher, the preacher, and the poet : sadness and suffering in late medieval English literature
… emotions. If our aim is to better appreciate why artists and authors of late medieval England depicted sadness and suffering in the way that they did, it is important to understand the intellectual, as well as the social, contexts in which they were producing these texts. Section one aims to …
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'n Ondersoek na die taal- en literêr-historiese arbeid van J. Du P. Scholtz
… contributions. His work as a cultural and art historian will be mentioned only briefly. Chapter 1 contains the results and analysis of an empirical investigation which was directed into an evaluation of Scholtz's work. In doing so an attempt is made to indicate that the above mentioned …
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Notions of a Radical Moving Image Archive as a Problematic
… of a filmmaker and the recognition of artists’ use of archival materials in moving image practice as an intervention in making visible aspects of experience that are implicit and often left out of linear accounts of a history of technologies. The implications of the thesis are that in …
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Facets of the Crystalline: Study of a Motif 1900-2020
In 1908, the German art historian, Wilhelm Worringer (1881-1965) published Abstraktion und Einfühlung (Abstraction and Empathy), a book that would have far reaching consequences. He claimed that the history of art alternates between inorganic and organic forms; from ‘abstraction’ or ‘primitive’ art …
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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 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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The Bengal School of Art and Nihonga (19021928): Art Toward a Modern Asian Identity
… in the philosophies of two corresponding art movements, the Bengal School of Art and nihonga which are both considered to be pivotal to the development of modern Indian and Japanese art respectively. India had been ruled and colonized by Great Britain for almost a century and a half with …
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No-How Generator: an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation
… of the choreographic work No-How Generator, an artistic investigation of the event of choreographic performance as a site of embodied knowledge-generation. Drawing on the cognitive science perspective of Guy Claxton and others, this thesis emphasises the embodied basis of knowing and argues that …
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Heinrich Schutz and Rembrandt van Rijn: biblical illustrators
<p>The history of the musical arts is filled with the names of composers, like Mozart and Haydn, who shared a common artistic style and temperament. Such musical colleagues derived a certain amount of mutual influence and inspiration through their friendship. In the same spirit, several art …
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