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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Contemporary Art History"”.
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Practicing Contemporary Documentation: An Analysis of Historic Influences and Personal Inspirations
… I proposed and created a solo exhibition of my artwork, researching the inspiration behind this work to determine its place within in the context of contemporary art history. My work as an artist centers on stylized, psychologically charged portraits of birds. Looking at art history, birds as …
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series
… Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series Throughout this thesis project I examine the geopolitical context(s) of the photographs featured in Martha Rosler's 'In the Place of the Public Airport Series' (1983) and Allan Sekula's …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… exposition of some of the most urgent debates in contemporary art history. Focussing on deconstruction, formalism, and cultural theory as critical methodologies within the theory of art, it examines a range of cultural expressions and contemporary currents of thought relative to the problem of …
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The Significance of Seeking Truth in Art
<p>One of my main objectives in creating art is to emphasize the importance of inner human development and expression of higher being as opposed to reactionary processes that culminate into an art form.</p> <p>My art, my research and my life have blended into a unified assemblage of experiential …
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“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home
… that Shirin Neshat created twenty years apart. It argues that the photographs of both series became the terrain through which Neshat narrates the relationship between her past, present, and future. She constructs her longing for home in “Women of Allah'' and she visualizes her homecoming in …
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Haunting visions: The refusal of settler-colonial containment in C. Ree’s Dark Water and annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings
… concepts of haunting that figure in contemporary Indigenous or anti- colonial thought. By focusing on acts of settler-colonial violence embedded in surroundings that have been rendered neutral, Ree and ross utilize a hauntology. They alter their audiences’ perception of the spaces …