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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Feminist Art"”.
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Beside Oneself: Towards a Participatory Feminist Art Practice
… my dissertation in studio-based visual art is part of a larger discussion about the role of art and the viewer-participant within social and political systems. Working with queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of beside and what she calls its useful resistance to narratives, as …
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Exhibiting Berthe Morisot after the Advent of Feminist Art History
Feminist art historians reassessed French Impressionist Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a period in which her work coincidentally received steady exposure in major museum exhibitions. This thesis examines how the feminist art historical …
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Towards a transdisciplinary model for social change: feminist art research, practice and activism
While some traditionally underrepresented artists may have recently gained access to recognition and visibility, this has not generally led to broad, diverse representation and participation. Numerous ‘feminist art’ researchers, practitioners and activists working in an interdisciplinary tradition …
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Undoings: A Feminist Art Practice Investigating Female Sexed Corporeality and Othered Phenomenological Bodies
This fine art practice-led research investigates how the female sexed body might elicit sexual difference as an integral subjective perspective through modes of representation, modalities of experience and materiality. This research project seeks to explore, through a visual arts practice, how a …
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Becoming beauty : the implications of the writings of Luce Irigaray for feminist art practices
… Irigaray's work which are of significance for feminist discourses of art, including art practices and critical analyses of art works by women. Her writings have been analyzed and employed in academic fields, such as Literature, Philosophy, and Theology, but rarely to date from within art …
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Challenges and reconstructions: femininity in contemporary Chinese feminist art from the 1990s to the present
In the 1990s, feminism became a distinct artistic phenomenon in contemporary Chinese art. Women artists, feminist artworks and women’s art exhibitions have increased substantially since then. Contemporary Chinese feminist art has increasingly revealed its own characteristics regarding gender and …
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Gender, subjectivity and feminist art: the work of Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing
… provides a missing link between the British feminist art movement from the 1970s onwards and three contemporary female artists, namely Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood. The dissertation demonstrates the influence that feminist art has had on contemporary women's art. It shows …
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Identifying Contemporary Feminist Awareness Through Art: The History and Role of Empowerment in a Proposed Feminist Art Therapy Working Model
… of feminism in America, proposing a pragmatic feminist art therapy model to raise awareness regarding the contemporary oppression of women. Illustrating the history of the feminist waves contributes to the position of American women today and the continual need for action (Bennett, 2007; …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… structurally peripheral within contemporary art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive understanding of existing conditions. To do so, I take up queer feminist art theory that …
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Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick
… in relation to the larger discourse of American art history, including feminist art history and representations of the female nude, the metaphysics of modernism and abstract art, and late twentieth century practices of landscape painting, and in a dialectic with artists, not restricted to those …
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Invisible Men: The Risks and Pleasures of Self-Portrayal in the Work of Contemporary American Male Artists
… in the work of contemporary American male artists. The feminist art movement of the 1970s provided the aegis for many women artists to challenge the gendered dichotomy of artist/subject via the strategic deployment of their own bodies as artistic subjects. Yet remarkably little study has …
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The Fall and Rise of Artemisia Gentileschi: Changing Perceptions fo a Female Artist
… thesis focuses on the Italian Baroque female artist, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- 1652/1653) and the various interpretations of her work demonstrated by art historians over the centuries. An examination of the various writings show how art historical viewpoints have shifted over the centuries …
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Built environment education : a feminist critique and reconstruction
… in Britain, the United States and Canada, from a feminist art teacher's perspective, showing, with one minor exception, that the spatial and structural needs of women are not taken into account; it presents an overview of the literature concerning women in the built environment; and finally, it …
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The Domestic Soundscape and beyond… presenting everyday sounds to audiences
… difficult encounter with the realm of sound art, this section explores some of the problems involved with presenting everyday sounds to audiences and proposes that these problems might in part be solved by forming new presentational strategies. Problems discussed include the difficulty of …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
This thesis examines the art and politics of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta through her engagement with three arts institutions: 1) the University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions …
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Reengaging with the Art-Historical Female-Nude Subject through Feminist Deconstruction in Contemporary Painting
How can painting be used to reengage with the art-historical female-nude subject through its feminist deconstruction – and what does this mean in relation to contemporary art? There is still a tendency among scholars to privilege formal analysis of an artwork at the expense of discussing (gendered) …
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Excavating discursivity : Post-Partum Document in the conceptualist, feminist and psychoanalytic fields
Post-Partum Document, a multi - media artwork made by American artist Mary Kelly from 1973- 1978 , was informed by and contributed to contemporaneous debates in the fields of Conceptualism, feminism, and psychoanalysis throughout the seventies. This dissertation addresses the project's "debate - …
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Frida's moustache : making faces in women's self-portraiture, an exegesis
This exegesis combines theory and art practice to interrogate the idea that self-portraiture by women artists can be positioned, and interpreted, as a practice that strategically intervenes in the politics of representation, gender and identity. The focus of this study is the face. The represented …
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Raras al mando/queer women command: Alternative Spanish-speaking Caribbean femininities on the global stage
This project documents current artistic projects led by queer Caribbean women performers who disrupt and reframe traditional Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican femininities through performance and media. Through words, images and sounds I narrate the multimedia tales and epiphanic moments that …
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The mythical speech of Janine Antoni
… myths has been a major concern of many female artists since the 1960s. However, confronting the ideological construction of myth is not enough to discredit it. The semiology of myth, according to Roland Barthes (1915-1980), simply absorbs this confrontation by placing the artist in the position …
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