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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Artistic Identity"”.
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Rex Whistler (1905-1944) Patronage and Artistic Identity
… upon an artist’s creative vision, voice and identity.
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Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
… this dissertation, I examine the development of artistic identity in Golden Age Spain by elucidating the cultural, social, and economic contexts which framed notions of the artist during this period. More particularly, I focus on the notion of artistic nobility as it relates to contemporary …
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Comic Book Collaboration: A Practice-Informed Study of Mutual Artistic Figuration
… whether collaboration effects renegotiation of artistic identity, the sanctity and integrity of which are central to auteurist thought. The study explores how creators are presented and received as authorial presences by themselves and culture, using studies on artistic persona and social …
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Defining Recomposition Through the Works of Gregson, Richter, and Peck: Creating a Dialogue with Vivaldi and Bach to Compose New Music.
… of Gregson and Richter while maintaining my artistic identity. This project bridges the existing research gap in the field of recomposition and motivates other composers to further explore and produce recompositions.<strong></strong></p>
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Janvier and Morrisseau : transcending a Canadian discourse
… of Native ancestry, which acknowledges the artistic traditions of Europe. Morrisseau and Janvier reacted to the political and social climate of this nation through their respective expressions. However, each artist's contributions to Canada's artistic identity have been excluded from the our …
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Marionettes and metaphor : political satire in the photographs of Tina Modotti
… as expressions of class, gender, national and artistic identity. The focus of the study is Modotti's series of marionette photographs produced in 1929. The thesis examines her strategic use of marionettes as symbols of Mexican folklore and also as a traditional device of political commentary. …
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To Conceal or Reveal: left-hand pianism with particular reference to Ravel's Concerto pour la main gauche and Britten's Diversions
… and expressive impact on the works. As the artistic identity of the solo performer is so strikingly defined in these works, such a study invites us not only to consider issues related to left-hand pianism but also the contrasting claims of performer and composer, the possible manipulation of …
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Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque : a study of the late-romantic Ghent horn playing tradition
‘Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque’ is an artistic case study that unravels the paradigm of a flourishing legacy of horn playing in Ghent at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. In around 1870 Belgian horn playing undertook a drastic stylistic volte-face. The …
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Unsettling the City: Canadian Animators and Their Interpretations of the Urbanscape
… insight into contemporary Canadian animators' artistic identity, material animation processes, and representations of urban environments. The body of this thesis is organized into three chapters: the Art, the Artist, and the City. In Chapter 1, “The Art,” the artists’ experiences and …
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Teaching Shante Curtelia Dominique Ophelia Brown Johnson : an Autoethnography of a Black Male, Seventh-day Adventist, Jazz Avant-Garde Artist
… a personal perspective as being bound up with identity. As I examine myself as a person and as a leader, I realize that several identities are prominent: Black male identity, Christian identity, jazz avant-garde artistic identity. Each of those identities have features that contribute to …
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The Heraldic Imagination in German-speaking Lands, c.1480-c.1560
This thesis brings to light the extraordinary artistic transformation of heraldic imagery in German-speaking lands from circa 1480 to circa 1560, tracing how artists and designers engaged with heraldry as a category of image capable of inciting visual and intellectual pleasure. Coats of arms are …
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The effects of theatrical storytelling and scenography on children: The case of children's theatre in the ghetto of Terezín (1941-45)
… Little Fireflies. The researcher's own artistic identity as a scenographer has been a key element defining the point of view of this study, which also explores how a theatrical/visual metaphor can express the ineffable. Furthermore, the interaction between reality and fantasy through …
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Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice
… a multilayered reading of Bernardino Licinio’s artistic identity through frameworks that stem from what I consider unique aspects of his practice, while others arise from problems posed by his historiographical reception. The artist’s position between Venice and Bergamo provides the line of …
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Renewal
… unit on illustration, and two, to renew my artistic identity by producing and exhibiting artworks after a twenty-seven year hiatus. The third part of the paper lays a philosophical foundation for the rest. The Illustration Unit was successfully researched, developed, taught and revised, and …
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Renewal
… unit on illustration, and two, to renew my artistic identity by producing and exhibiting artworks after a twenty-seven year hiatus. The third part of the paper lays a philosophical foundation for the rest. The Illustration Unit was successfully researched, developed, taught and revised, and …
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The contribution of artist management processes to success/failure in the music industry - a case study
… to the artist success: the creation of an artistic identity, the exposure of this identity to the audience and the occurrence of an initial visibility. Then the author observed how, as soon as an artist manager at Spaceship recognizes that both the elements of creation of the identity and …
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On Colonial Textuality and Difference: Musical Encounters with French Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Algeria
… explorers traveled to Algeria in order to gain artistic inspiration and greater understanding of the culture, geography and inhabitants of the new colony. This dissertation places music within the context of French colonial culture, identifying the interconnections between government policies …
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Picturing reform: Ashcan women and the visual culture of the progressive era in New York City
… who embraced questions of individuality and artistic identity when depicting the working class. This dissertation takes as its secondary objective the rehabilitation of work by women artists. At the turn of the century, the gendering of realism as masculine by critics and male artists …
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The Art School PhD: What is the problem of knowledge?
… would only serve to delimit the potential of artistic practice. The sample employed by this thesis consists of all thirty-two PhD theses produced by artists at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1998-2013/14 and was supplemented by six ‘narrative research’ interviews. A basis for …
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Musica e Arti Visive nell'Educazione: qualità dell'apprendimento in una esperienza realizzata secondo un approccio interdisciplinare = Música y Artes Visuales en la Educación:calidad del aprendizaje en una experiencia realizada desde un enfoque interdisciplinario
… dei processi di costruzione di una identità artistica, profilo necessario a definire i tratti di una completa personalità in uscita dalla scuola dell'obbligo. [ENG: Starting from the arrangement of a teaching activity especially arranged, the research investigates the production of musical …
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