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Showing 1 to 20 of 281 for “"History of art"”.
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Arcades, let's plays, and avant-gardes: perspectives for analysing and developing videogame exhibitions for arts audiences
… the contemporary exhibition form is a route into art history, and exhibitions of videogames and their display choices have already drawn videogames into the discursive construction of the history of art. Over the past 30 years, a variety of art institutions have organized exhibitions presenting …
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The Marian Paintings of Jan Van Eyck
This study confronts a curious situation in the History of Art. Jan van Eyck has been long recognized as a great master, and perhaps the key figure in Northern panel painting of the fifteenth century. Of the approximately thirty recognized works that have come down to us from his hand, roughly half …
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A arte civil de Mestre Valentin: um programa de sombra e de água fresca
Relate the Bhazilian artistic process of the colonial period to the practices applied by the absolutist Portuguese se state to enforce its domination on the colonial society's production system. The city of Rio de Janeiro in the XVIII century is emphasized inasmuch as it became the viceroyal …
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The History of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (1938 - 1990)
… proposes to study the historical development of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore as a way of understanding the Academya??s institutional growth from between the periods of the 1930s and the 1980s. The thesis presents an analysis of the Academya??s mission, organizational structure …
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The Exalted Everyday: Pierre Bonnard's Captivating Color
<p>Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is often one of the most overlooked artists of the twentieth century. Fortunately, recent scholarship has reevaluated his place in the history of art. Pierre Bonnard’s association as member of the Nabi group in his early years has overshadowed his maturation as an …
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Persephone in Erebus: a modern paradigm
<p>The history of art has always been the history of humanity; therefore when the nineteenth century spilled into the twentieth and vast tidal changes were occur[r]ing in the fields of science, politics, and religion, the arts both reflected and reinforced these alterations. The most significant …
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Unfoldings
Huizinga's analysis of play, described in his text Homo Ludens, is compared to the creative process in art-making and to the creative response of the viewer. The play process is examined through questionnaire responses and observations made during an evening of experimental play. Huizinga's …
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The Furrowed Face: the depiction of the elderly in painting, England and the United States, 1870-1910
… respected, regarded as benevolent repositories of wisdom and comfort; on the other, they are considered as decrepit vestiges of life, who pointlessly linger on, wasting the world for the vibrant and useful. These views were particularly topical in the last decades of the nineteenth/first decade …
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Rethinking word / image relationships in contemporary art
This thesis explores the interaction of word and image through an intellectual framework which engages with artistic practice. By providing an overviev of interarts debates, it is suggested that notions such as the 'sister arts' have tended historically to privilege word over image. This …
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‘The Most Wonderful Wonderful Parties’ Gossip and anecdote as feminist epistemology in women’s oral histories of the creative community in postwar St Ives
This thesis explores the history of St Ives' creative community using oral history interviews with women from the St Ives Archive. Focusing on gossip and anecdote, I take and develop eavesdropping as a methodology. In doing so, this reveals the importance of feminine sociability and the locus of …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
This research introduces the concept of ‘transmedia’ as a framework through which to observe the ways that media and particularly new media are experienced and discussed as art and social subjects. It follows in depth three specific theoretical trajectories: new and digital media; art and mapping; …
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'Hanging About’: The Teenage Moment of the 1970s/80s and its representation in British Art from the 1990s. With reference to artists: Paul Housley George Shaw Paul Rooney
Britain in the late 1990s witnessed a group of male, same generation artists begin to produce work that focussed on teenage culture as they experienced it in the 1970s and 80s in the West Midlands and North West of England. For a period, into the mid 2000s, this became a significant part of their …
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right mind-minding: the practice and transmission of Zen and Tantric Buddhist method practices in the poemobjects of Dom Sylvester Houédard, 1960-1975
… knowledge. This is the first substantial study of the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard. Although Houédard features in the recent studies on the contexts of the British concrete poetry movement, no previous research has focused exclusively on his work or foregrounded his spiritual vision as method. …
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Curatorship and Post-Duchampian Art in Transnational Contexts
This research examines the role of the artist Marcel Duchamp as a curator, his legacy in the field of curatorship and how the curatorial procedures engendered by him can be transposed to contemporaneity. It presents the dynamics of Post-Duchampian art as those artistic manifestations that make …
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Coming into View: Black British Artists and Exhibition Cultures, 1976-2010
This study unitesthe burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain inthe 1980s and 1990s. It concernsrecent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly funded art museums and …
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Reordering Images and Re-constructing Memories: three artists-archivists in Brazil
Examining concepts of the archival in the work of three Brazilian artists of different generations, Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933), Rosângela Rennó (born 1962) and Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982), this thesis proposes a genealogy of archival art practices in Brazil. This thesis argues that the art …
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Interfaces of location and memory: An exploration of place through context-led arts practice.
Interfaces of location and memory is a conceptual framework that invites an understanding of context-led arts practice that is responsive to the particularities of place, rather than a model of practice that is applied to a place. ‘Socially engaged’ and ‘relational’ practice are examples of …
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Hélio Oiticica: Politics and Ambivalence in 20th Century Brazilian Art
This study investigates the presence of ambivalence as a strategy of cultural politics from modern to contemporary art in Brazil. It focuses on the development of modern art leading to the work of Hélio Oiticica, whose approach to avant-garde practice in Brazil was concurrent with intense …
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