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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR"”.
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A veiling of identity : anamorphosis as double vision in contemporary art practice
The thesis examines the trope of anamorphosis as a formal dimension of art practice and as a critical tool for exploring subjective vision. Anamorphosis is a technique of perspective that produces a distorted image that may only be corrected and made coherent when viewed from a specific angle. In …
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Composing visual music: human traces, from an animator’s perspective
… research sought to create one possible framework for a relationship between phenomenological experiences and visual music. Composers of visual music have long sought to create a new artform in which the visible and audible are utterly synthesised. Our different perceptions of the visual and the …
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Lee Miller. Beyond the muse. A very modern woman: a woman of her time
… and war correspondent. This discourse of simple transition from model to war correspondent, influenced by Antony Penrose and the Miller estate, has dominated the reading of Miller‟s life and work, as exemplified by the Imperial War Museum‟s exhibition (15 October 2015 – 24 April 2016). This …
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Surrealism since the Second World War with particular reference to surrealism in Czechoslovakia
… of Surrealism is grossly misrepresented and therefore misunderstood in terms of its nature, its manifestations and its duration. Widely seen as an art movement of the inter-war period that tried to combine Marxism and Psychoanalysis to produce irrational images, Surrealism saw itself as nothing of …
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[Un]disciplined gestures and [un]common sense: the sensual, acoustic logic(s) of paradox and art
… surfaces/timings/spatialities: diffuse, interpenetrative, and unclassifiable: a 'sensual' logic, not a logic based on identity, or metaphysics. Traditional philosophies of language tend to flatten out and simplify the space/time /material relations of language, in favour of a stable, timeless, …
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Scottish television comedy audiences
… television comedy. The thesis is in two related parts, articulating an exploration of genre, comedy and Scottish television texts with the theory, methodology and analysis of empirical audience research. The thesis begins by exploring how current television comedy is poorly served by critical …
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How can the solo female performer be rendered present through absence?
… possible to be both present and a presence in performance time and space through absence. Within it, I offer a discussion of the concepts of presence and absence, and what they mean in a theatre/performance context, before questioning how present the female physical body can be to an audience, …
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Therapy, awareness, community and laughter - a case study in art, design and chronic illness.
… other sufferers, and how this provides a context for my research, both practical and theoretical. I identify education and building sensitivity as key areas for non sufferers, and breaking down isolation as key for those with the condition. I set out to devise ways, rooted in my art and design …
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#I'm With Her: An Artistic Exploration of Online Communication and Relationships
… their work in many different ways. Artists like Tracey Emin and Sophie Calle let their pain from relationships they had experienced out through their work, while artists such as Jessica Todd Harper and Edward Hopper used the human form as a medium to communicate emotions such as sorrow and …
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Shifting Curatorial Strategies for Art from Latin America and Latino Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1956 - 2004
This thesis explores changing curatorial strategies at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This is preceded by an assessment of the Museum of Modern Art’s earlier role in systematizing and defining this field throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Three exhibitions of art from Latin America and Latino art …
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“I'm No Cactus Expert, But I Know A Prick When I See One” -Image, Text, Therapy and Vengeance in Art by Women
This dissertation examines the roles of text and image, therapy and vengeance in art made by women since the 20th century. It discusses the uses of text and image to create political artworks that can play important roles in feminism in regards to the artistic world and how often vengeance is used …
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Fine art, folk art,and web 2.0
The following text is an interview between me and two members 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 …
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Marriage safe and sound: subjectivity, embodiment and movement in the production space of television in Turkey
… the most popular of the televised matchmaking formats in Turkey since it premiered in 2007. The marriage show is part of the daytime flow of television broadcasting in Turkey that, as an entertainment format, sets the everyday rhythms of life and provides content for debates/judgements on – as …
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Dance interpretation and the cultural institution: exploring the condition(s) of british and french contemporary dance in the 1990s
… factor. It investigates the extent to which the structures and practices of public arts funding influence the production and reception of contemporary dance, focusing on British and French dance in the 1990s. By focusing on specific works in critically reflexive terms, it seeks to offer a basis …
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Creativity within late primary age dance education: unlocking expert specialist dance teachers' conceptions and approaches
… past or present, of creating and/or performing as dance artists. The study was carried out in order to increase understanding of expert specialist dance teachers' conceptions of and approaches to creativity, and how these relate to theories of creativity and teacher knowledge from within …
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An Inquiry into the Creative Process of Butoh: With Reference to the Implications of Eastern and Western Significances
… used in this thesis to explore the implications for choreographers of the choreographic options employed in Butoh creative processes. Phenomenology corresponds to the Japanese philosophical context which gave birth to Butoh, elucidating the worldview merging with the universe which underpins …
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Dance, Culture and Nationalism: the Socio-cultural Significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre in Taiwanese Society
… significance of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (est. 1973) in Taiwan is manifested in the interconnection of political nationalism and the representation of a diasporic postcolonialist cultural nationalism in its dance creations. The hybrid nature of Taiwanese society and its struggle …
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Cognitive Structures of Kinesthetic Space Reevaluating Rudolf Laban's Choreutics In the Context of Spatial Cognition and Motor Control
… reevaluated according to cognitive and motor control research. "Kinesthetic spatial cognition" (analogous to visual spatial cognition) was identified as the psychological realm of choreutic knowledge. Kinesthesia was identified as arising from sensory receptors throughout the body. Kinesthetic …
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