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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Definition of art"”.
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A Study of the Adequacy of Post Functional Definitions of Art
In this thesis, I investigate the adequacy of post-functional definitions of art, including institutional, historical, disjunctive and buck-passing definitions. I evaluate these definitions with respect to their extensional adequacy, intentional adequacy, and informativeness. Philosophers of art …
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Contending art education paradigms and professionalization.
In 1982, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts, an operating entity of a private foundation, began to promote discipline-based art education (DBAE), a newly-articulated paradigm that had evolved within the art education field over the previous twenty years. The new paradigm, which advocated …
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Antonio Machado, the Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and Spanish Krausism
… both a modern education unique in the Spain of that time and exposure to the ideological influences of Krausism and institucionismo. After examining the biographical aspects of his contact with the school (chapter 1), I investigate the nature and extent of its influence in certain areas of …
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Floristry and fine art — a practical and conceptual investigation
This dissertation investigates the concepts of both floristry and art and how they are interrelated, drawing on the author’s 15 years’ experience in the floristry industry. The research is based on both theory and personal practice. The most common theoretical concepts of both art and floristry …
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After aura : authorship, automation, authenticity
… 1935 essay, "that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art"--an essay that narrowly defines art and the craft of art up until that moment as something that is rooted in site specificity, ritual, uniqueness and non-reproducibility. This conception of …
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Precisifying art pluralism
This dissertation explores the legitimacy of art pluralism-the thesis that there are multiple, valid accounts of art. In 2011 Mag Uidhir and Magnus introduced the idea of art pluralism to revive the debate over the definition of art. This discussion has been pushed aside over the past half a …
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Moving Experiences: Traveling Museum Exhibitions and the Infrastructures of Cultural Globalization
In the wake of two world wars, traveling museum exhibitions were touted as a model for advancing peace, broadening the views of diverse publics by compelling museums across borders to share their treasures. In this dissertation, I examine how the establishment of a global infrastructure for museum …
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The Importance of Place: A practice-led investigation into the liminal space between artist-doctor and patient-artist, in the process of making art and recovery in the House of Artists and the Gugging Atelier, at Maria Gugging in Austria
This thesis focuses on art, mental illness and recovery within the innovative model of therapeutic healthcare in the Gugging House of Artists, a small-scale psychiatric facility in Austria. Gugging’s 12 Residents live together as self-taught artists in a system of holistic processes, transformative …