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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Art philosophy"”.
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Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics.
… paint and design. This is an issue of art philosophy and design methodology. To link theory with practice, the relationship between landscape - both painted and designed - and aesthetic thinking is the most important topic discussed throughout the writing. To achieve a relatively …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore many of the same theories being developed in the field of psychoanalysis, but that the literary representation of …
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The crystal world: executing a new media materialism
… research to establish new forms of social and artistic production through examinations of the materiality of the technical media, namely the computer, that underpins new media art. Contemporary new media art practice has tended to focus attention on software or hardware interfaces, …
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Shelley's sublime
The sublime is a topic with a rich context in art, philosophy, religion and rhetoric. Critical discussion of Percy Shelley’s use of the sublime has frequently included connections to romantic aesthetics and the philosophy of the period. This thesis argues that Shelley utilized the sublime for …
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The affective sustainability of objects; a search for causal connections: Studies of theory, processes and practice related to timelessness as a phenomenon
… the subject areas of history of design and art, philosophy, cultural studies, cognitive science and sustainable development. The research question is: what makes some objects retain their significance over time and in a changing human context? Although the analyses of literature presented in …
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Surrealism since the Second World War with particular reference to surrealism in Czechoslovakia
… and its duration. Widely seen as an art movement of the inter-war period that tried to combine Marxism and Psychoanalysis to produce irrational images, Surrealism saw itself as nothing of the sort. In fact Surrealism was, and is, an attempt at an entirely new and revolutionary …
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Illuminating Art: A Philosophical Perspective on Students’ and Teachers’ Work in Art Education
… dissertation inquires about the situation of the arts in education by suggesting an alternative perspective on the way we see art. It does so through the illumination of three distinct yet complementary ways. First, this study explores what a primordial sense of art would look like. I argue that …
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Visual Arts Assessment in the Age of Educational Accountability
<p>Art teachers have, in some manner, always assessed student learning and progress. However, many art teachers do not have the training in assessment to be able to describe and defend their process, nor has there been research to support the effectiveness of how art teachers assess student …
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The Look of Math
… by a given observer. “The look of math” is a part of ethnomathematics, or the culture of mathematics, which necessarily and anti-Platonically (i.e., taking math to be purely a human endeavor) contains mathematics per se. Formal elements in math-as-art can be categorized as algebraic, geometric, …
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
… to withhold power from the people, we find that participating in the arts grants a great deal of power to the people. Thus, accessibility to participating in artistic acts or the creative process become fundamental to activism for social justice. This work lays out five fundamental aspects of the …
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Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy
… of the Faculty of Media Design & New Media Art at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano as a research apparatus. This Faculty was established between 2003 and 2012, in Milano, Italy. The starting point of the research was established in the hypothesis that technics have tertiarised …
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Itakuchi: Echoes from the Twilight House
… Sunbae, the Winds of Experience Terrícola, the Earth Tunal, the Sun and Breath You may never know Itakuchi. Pero donde sea que te encuentres, when your hueco opens, it’ll find you.
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Projeto PhilosArtis : estudo exploratório de uma investigação-ação em filosofia e arte no Jardim de Infância Popular
… centra-se no contributo da Filosofia e da Arte para o desenvolvimento cognitivo, afetivo e social nas crianças em idade pré-escolar, nomeadamente nas idades compreendidas entre os quatro e cinco anos. O projeto de intervenção PhilosArtis ocorre no Jardim de Infância Popular (J.I.P.) e …
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An Ontology of Images and Painterly Subjectivity: Towards a Bergsonian Philosophy of Art
… the identity of the contemporary Bergsonian philosophy of immanence by reflection on key conceptualisations from the work of Henri Bergson. From the view that thinking Bergsonian is an attitude of philosophy that anticipates the metaphysics of a philosophy of process, the demands of the …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the state. In Agamben violence is ubiquitous, realised in a …
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Common minds, uncommon thoughts: a philosophical anthropological investigation of uniquely human creative behavior, with an emphasis on artistic ability, religious reflection, and scientific study
… that are specific to our species, focusing on artistic ability, religious reflection, and scientific study. By integrating data from diverse domains (evolutionary and developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology and archeology, neuroscience) within a philosophical anthropological framework, …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
The subject of this thesis is ephemeral art; a phenomenon which has surfaced repeatedly in Western art history since the middle of the last century. The research begins from the premise that in order to understand ephemeral art it must be approached as a philosophical proposition concerning the …
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Thinking art post-aesthetically : beyond expression, experience and consciousness
… asks: in what way can the practice of art, and the encounter with the work of art, constitute the site for a form of philosophical thinking? The work draws on ‘post-aesthetic’ theory, and, in particular, the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida to ask: to what extent would …
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