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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Figuration"”.
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Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach to Metaphor
Two of the major claims of the cognitivist approach to metaphor, the paradigm which has emerged as dominant over the last three decades, are 1) that metaphor is a conceptual, rather than strictly linguistic, phenomenon, and 2) that metaphor exemplifies processes which are at work in cognition more …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… relations between image and text in contemporary figuration. This research contributes to the field of contemporary painting through a body of original creative work alongside a critical account of painting's relationship with doubling and language. My studio research is tested and situated …
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The Painted Double: Figuration, Language, and the Limits of Representation
… relations between image and text in contemporary figuration. This research contributes to the field of contemporary painting through a body of original creative work alongside a critical account of painting's relationship with doubling and language. My studio research is tested and situated …
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Comic Book Collaboration: A Practice-Informed Study of Mutual Artistic Figuration
… By considering artistic identity an act of figuration occurring through establishing boundaries as to what this identity represents, I also find collaboration to entail conditions that destabilise these boundaries. In considering the overlapping subjectivities at play through a perceptual …
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La figuration du corps-homosexuel dans l'écriture francophone subsaharienne: Anti-corps, corps-performatif et confusion identitaire
In Sub-Saharan Africa, homosexuality is an intricate subject, reflecting deep socio-cultural complexities. Following colonization, increased visibility of homosexuality gave rise to controversies that fluctuated between notions deviance and self-assertion.” My thesis approaches this theme through …
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The Leo Castelli Gallery in Metro magazine : American approaches to post-abstract figuration in an Italian context
… each of whom engaged in a form of pictorial figuration, were seen as ending the dominance of the "pure" abstraction of the French informel style. This thesis uses the archive of correspondence between Bruno Alfieri and Leo Castelli to examine Castelli's contribution to Metro during the 1960s. …
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The art of bots: A practice-based study of the multiplicity, entanglements and figuration of sociocomputational assemblages
… the notions of multiplicity, entanglement, and figuration, having understood artbots as heterogenous sociocomputational assemblages comprised of software components and human intraactivity. The research followed a varied methodology that encompassed participant observation and my own …
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Autobiography as a Curiosity: Generic (In)definition, Narrative Time and Figuration in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory, Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood and Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time
… generic indeterminacy, narrative time and figuration through a comparative analysis of three generically ambiguous texts: Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory(1951/1966), Georges Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood (1975) and Javier Marías’s Dark Back of Time(1998). Those issues will be …
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Os anos 60: Antonio Dias, uma poética entre o bem e o mal. A história de uma passagem na arte brasileira
… called by the critique and historiografhy as New Figuration and New Realism, bequeathed to visual arts environment the consolidation of transformation provoked by the procedures performed by the european vanguard of the beginning of the century. In Brazil, this movement was called “New Brazilian …
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The masks of Mnēmosynē: modulations of memory from ancient Greece to modern Paris
This thesis traces some of the modulations in the figuration, role and functioning of memory from the Mycenaean civilisation to the Hellenistic period of ancient Greece before taking up a reading of the modern continental philosophical engagements with this inheritance and the question concerning …
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Mutants: Ceramic Objects
… ornamental motifs and representational figuration from western art history with intuitive, material based abstraction this exhibition explores how ontological certainties of the past mutate as they are appropriated across time, evolving to become increasingly alien.
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"Hermann Suter's oratorio ""Le Laudi di San Francesco d'Assisi"": A reflection of Swiss musical life in the early twentieth century"
… a vigorous triple-fugue with flame-like string figuration, and Sister Moon and the stars by string harmonics, harp, and celeste.
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The discourse of psychoanalytic film theory
… project conceived as a science to an active figuration of the theorist's desire demonstrates not only a conceptual readjustment in film studies but more fundamentally an attempt to dramatize that shift through the practice of writing.
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
… identities. There is not one child, but multiple figurations. The transgressive and liberating energies of Gothic play a part in this rejection of traditional figurations of the child. However, postmillennial children’s fiction also challenges critical commonplaces in Gothic Studies. The nomadic …
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The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
… a critical discussion of Auerbach’s literary figuration, the author questions certain aspects of phonocentrism in relation to opera and texts using the voice for authoritative or rhetorical purposes. Grounded in the prefiguration of opera’s earlier displacement of the singing voice, the …
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Towards a Kaupapa of Ancestral Power and Talk
… looking at ideas about resemblance, figuration, beings of sensation, affect and both 'A Life' and 'The Life'. Aspects of my practice are explained. I introduce elements of the portraits which comprise my final doctoral exhibition and relate these to my reading of Deleuze.
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Mesospheric wind estimation with the Jicamarca MST radar
… This thesis describes the Jicamarca radar con figuration used for mesospheric Doppler wind measurements as well as the data processing procedure used to obtain wind estimates from spectral data. The procedure was initially developed by Sheth et al. [2006] and improved by Smith [2014], but it …
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The Naturalist
… the contemporary elegy, through metaphorical figuration, personal memory, and traditional symbolism, simultaneously employs and denies the traditional elegiac conventions of apotheosis and resurrection by reconceiving them as methods not of achieving transcendence but of embracing desire with …
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From designer through space to spectator : tracking an imaginative exchage between the actants of a scenographic event
… not depend on 'the principles of narration and figuration' (Lehmann, 2006:18). Instead it relies on a 'visual dramaturgy ' in which just as in front of a painting, activates the dynamic capacity of the gaze to produce processes, combinations and rhythms on the basis of the data provided by the …
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Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice
… Nestled in the grey area between abstraction and figuration, and drawing on Barbara Baert's analysis of material tensions between cloth and skin, wound and womb, material and psychological; this body of work delineates a sculptural practice that is associative and intuitive, evoking surfaces that …
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