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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Folk art"”.
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Fine art, folk art,and web 2.0
… of staff at Writtle School of Design, the artist Michael Szpakowski and the curator and critic Pryle Behrman. In this interview I discuss work I have made over the last five years. I draw links between my early and later work, and discuss themes throughout my work, such as social …
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An Examination of American Sideshow Banners as Folk Art, ca. 1920-1960
… by exploring the extent to which American folk art painting scholarship, methodologies, and objects can be used to articulate the meaning and significance of banner painting. This study expands the disciplinary treatment of banner painting by introducing domesticated art as a means of …
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"Does Your Faith in God and Country Need a Boost?" Reflections of Idealism and Identity and the Art of Bill John Roth
The life and art of Bill John Roth offer a paradox to the study of folklore and folk art. The personal and public nature of Bill's art is exemplified through his mural Geographic Hieroglyphics In God's Own Handwriting. On the surface the art and artist are seemingly detached from the community, but …
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
… to the development of African American artistic and spiritual culture. In the Caribbean, aspects of minkisi have been retained in the creolized spiritual beliefs of Haitian Vodou, Cuban Palo Monte Mayombe and Brazilian Candomble. In North America, evidence of Kongo influence is apparent …
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Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
… of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy and politics of anarchism guided major aesthetic debates about modern art in Mexico. Two key figures anchor …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
… Modernism on the Periphery of American Art,” defines and contextualizes the distinctive regional contributions of Appalachian culture to American art production. To further diversify the range of art historical study, my dissertation proposes that from the mid nineteenth to mid twentieth …
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Drawing questions
In my artwork, the questions I am interested in are those that begin with our experience of the world. Specifically, the connections between an embodied subject, the environment and the different roles the senses play on the temporality of consciousness. Other enigmas that have occupied my mind are …
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“The abnihilization of the etym”: Finnegans Wake ii.3 as oral poetry in the age of mechanical reproduction
… Wake II.3 reveals a role for a dynamic kind of art to contest the dominant narratives in an age of seemingly static new-media technological saturation. By redeploying resources from ancient oral poetic tradition, Finnegans Wake creates a form of resistance to the totalizing effects of …
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Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art
… the middle decades of the nineteenth century the folk-art tradition ‘scrimshaw’, predominantly using the teeth of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), flourished among the crews of industrial whaling ships. Scrimshaw collections represent a unique cultural and biological archive of …
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Seremban Urban Park, Malaysia: a Preference Study
… has only a short public park tradition. Although folk art and stories have chronicled a long history of gardens and other parks, these spaces were only accessible to royal family members and autocrats. In Malaysia, the concept of free public parks is relatively recent, having been introduced by …
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Tales of the tribes: animation as a tool for indigenous representation.
… with regard to content, presentation and art style. Consequently, modes of commercially driven animation are dictating the expectations of the medium in India, and have become widely regarded as the normative standard. The forces of global expansion have accelerated the arrival of …
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"Decían que esto pasaría en Madrid, pero ha pasado en Buenos Aires": García Lorca y el público porteño en 1993
… una experiencia social, política y económica compartida. La nueva identidad de los sectores populares -popular, conformista y reformista-, la construcción de nuevos barrios y el rol de las bibliotecas populares preparan los cimientos para la recepción de un público masivo y explica el éxito del …
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Η ΜΕΤΑΞΟΥΡΓΙΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΕΣ ΛΑΠΗΘΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΡΑΒΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ
THE SUBJECT OF THE THESIS IS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC CHARACTER AND REFERS TO THE TRADITIONAL TECHNOLOGY OF WEAVING SILK PRODUCTION AND METHODS OF PREPARATION AND WEAVING OF THIS RAW MATERIAL. THIS AREA UNDER CONSIDERATION ARE THE COMMUNITIES OF LAPITHOS AND KARAVAS ON THE NORTH COAST OF CYPRUS, WHERE A …