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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Courbet"”.
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Beauty in decay
… to the painting Burial at Ornan by Gustav Courbet.
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Specularity in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Art
… The first group included Baudelaire, Flaubert, Courbet, Manet, Degas and Pissarro while the latter listed among its most successful members: Zola, Mallarmé, Huysmans, Morisot, Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. This thesis argues that specularity--a sort of mirror mimesis--was part of the fertile, …
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The Divided Seal
This thesis looks at the function of signatures in visual art using the theory of Jacques Derrida and a series of paradigmatic historical examples. Specifically, it departs from ‘Signature Event Context’ (SEC) to establish signature outside the idiom of visual art as a social process. Having …
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The Divided Seal: Reading a History of Signatures in Visual Art through Derrida’s Signature Event Context
This thesis looks at the function of signatures in visual art using the theory of Jacques Derrida and a series of paradigmatic historical examples. Specifically, it departs from ‘Signature Event Context’ (SEC) to establish signature outside the idiom of visual art as a social process. Having …