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Showing 1 to 20 of 594 for “"Art history"”.
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On Distance: From art history to Ernest Mancoba
In this thesis the central narratives of Western art history, specifically those related to modernism and African art, are considered in light of a climate of criticism concentrated over the past thirty years in Western and South African an historiography. In considering complexities of …
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Reanimating the Renaissance: Aesthetes and Art History, 1873-1914
… and media by negotiating the boundaries between art and life. Moving away from a discourse-centred approach, the thesis concentrates on the experience of historical work, often as it took place outside of textual accounts. In doing so, it proposes a new story of renaissance reception centred …
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical …
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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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A Model for Art History Within Discipline -Based Art Education
Art history is defined and subsequently described in terms of authentic practices. Characteristics of practice are investigated using a range of contemporary commentary. Case studies of five selected historians, Giorgio Vasari, Alois Riegl, Erwin Panofsky, Michael Baxandall and Svetlana Alpers, …
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South African art history: the possibility of decolonising a discourse
… decolonisation might specifically imply for particular academic disciplines. Art history in South Africa has long struggled to move away from its settler colonial origins towards a more Afrocentric focus and its art world has frequently been criticised for being elitist and dominated by white …
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The Baroque Effect: Architecture and Art History in Berlin, 1886-1900
… the rich interplay between architecture and art historical research that emerged in Germany in the final decades of the nineteenth century through the rediscovery of the Baroque. The close connection during these years between the establishment of the Baroque as an independent architectural …
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A One-Semester Art History Course Outline for High School Students
… meaningful and applicable one-semester course in Art History for West Valley High School students. The suggested course of study presents concepts basic to the understanding of philosophical and aesthetic values which serve as the foundation of art expression.
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Closed systems : Alexandra Luke, Hortense Gordon and the Canadian art history canon
The marginalization of women's art within the Canadian art history canon articulates the dichotomy which exists between the practice of making art in a Canadian context and the selective recording of that practice within written history. Canadian painters Alexandra Luke and Hortense Gordon made …
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Art history with a click of a mouse or a flip of a page?
… method is for helping students to learn art history content, whether it is in the virtual environment of the Internet, the confines of various textbooks, or a combination of both technology-based and text-based research. The subjects of the study were fifth grade students who attended …
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Advanced Placement Art History: Effective Teaching Strategies in the Art Beyond the European Content Area
… research on effective teaching strategies in art beyond the European tradition content area of the Advanced Placement Art History (APAH) examination administered by the College Board. Three Advanced Placement Art History teachers participated in this study. Each teacher demonstrated successful …
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Investigating formations of gender and sexuality in the avant-gardes: interventionist art history and scholarly curation
The works presented as part of this PhD have taken place in my activities working with artists estates, preserving their studios, working on scholarly inventories of archives, curating and publishing, with a focus on women artists who started their practice in the 1960s and 1970s. I subsequently …
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Abstraction, experience, reduction : time and periodicity in the work of Myron Stout and postwar American art history
… of lived experience. Stout confounds typical art historical narratives in other ways. He was introduced to modernism in the 20s, but did not begin his life as a painter until the late 1940s. In an era of high production he made very few paintings—about fifteen over twenty-five years. His work …
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Abstraction, Experience, Reduction: Time and Periodicity in the Work of Myron Stout and Postwar American Art History
… of lived experience. Stout confounds typical art historical narratives in other ways. He was introduced to modernism in the 20s, but did not begin his life as a painter until the late 1940s. In an era of high production he made very few paintings—about fifteen over twenty-five years. His work …
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The Modern Formulation of Chinese Art History and the Building of a Nation in Early Twentieth-Century China
… twentieth century, the Chinese formulation of art history underwent dramatic changes. It moved away from the traditional narratives that did not follow a strict chronology to adopt the Western linear model which emphasizes progress and national identity. Based on the premodern tradition, the …
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Understanding How Perceptions of Identity and Power Influence Student Engagement and Teaching in Undergraduate Art History Survey Courses
… student engagement and pedagogy in undergraduate art history survey courses. Student engagement in undergraduate art history survey courses has been a concern of art historians for decades (Gioffre, 2012; Phelan et al., 2005; Rubin, 2011) and remains so. However, few art historians have explored …
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