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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"NX Arts in general"”.
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‘The People’s Glossary’: Using dialogic art to create a common language for User-led Museum practice
… powerful mediator of social hierarchy with great influence to emancipate, educate or exclude. Meanwhile, discourses centred on expertise, representation and authorship have re-emerged as priorities in collections of contemporary art due to pressures for them to be reinstated as dialogical …
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Intimacy and Immensity A Practice-led Explo of People and Place
… is: Can an auto-ethnographic approach to inquiry inform a creative process leading to an addition to knowledge? My five case studies examine my work as an artist, auto-ethnographer and storyteller who, through a range of research processes and creative installations in non-art sites, makes …
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The Development of Live Art in Liverpool from 1979-2013: Toward Pragmatic Recommendations for the Sustainability of Live-Art Practice in Liverpool
Using The Bluecoat Arts Centre as a case study this thesis discusses the emergence and development of live-art practices in Liverpool since 1979 and analyses how these practices have developed in Liverpool in relation to local conditions, the national institutional infrastructure for live art, and …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
This research project focuses on tracking artistic responses to social, ecological, and economic sustainability, as well as social responses to artistic movements that go beyond turning art into a commodity in service of a neoliberal agenda. In this doctoral thesis, I provide a critical analysis of …
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.
I began my degree in Contemporary Art and Design in my early 40s with two young children, who were both still quite small and needed more ‘hands-on’ care than they do now that they are teenagers, which inevitably had an effect on my work. The ‘everyday’ is what I came home to at night; - the …
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The found object and the presentation of everyday life.
Within these writings I explore the ways in which the everyday lives of ordinary people are depicted in art via the use of found objects, and how the findings have helped influence my own art practice. I begin by discussing the concept of the everyday in relation to my own work, and identify the …
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Swimming Upstream: Small Visual Art Organisations (SVAOs) in the Midst of the Ethical Turn, 1990-2016
… of the emergence and development of Small Visual Arts Organisations (SVAOs) in various parts of the world from the 1990s to the present. I define SVAOs as structurally small, non-profit spaces that are dedicated both to the production and to the dissemination of contemporary art. They are …
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The temporary exhibition galleries in the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery: commission, design and outcome
The Sainsbury Wing, the National Gallery’s new extension, opened in July 1991. It had the primary aim of providing new galleries for the Early Renaissance collection. It was also intended to give a new outward-looking face for the Gallery with expanded public facilities, including a larger …
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The evolution of the private art museum in Mexico
… last thirty years there has been a proliferation in the number and diversity of privately- funded exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Mexico. Driving this development is a new generation of art collectors and my research project is concerned with how collector-led models of patronage have …
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The Visual Representation of Self in the Social Media Era
This thesis questions whether the internet and social media in particular are changing the artistic practice of self-portraiture both artistic and ‘folk’. I look first at the history of self-portraiture, particularly fine art self-portraiture. I move on to examine how people portray themselves …
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Creative Industries and the Politics of New Labour
This thesis examines the development of policy towards the creative industries in the UK in the period 1997-2008. It argues that this can be seen in the light of New Labour's understanding of the knowledge economy, an understanding that influenced its development of education and social policy, as …
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Sustainable Development, Cultural Heritage and Community Empowerment: Current Trends and Practices in Moroccan Culture
The thesis combines cultural heritage management and museology as ""western constructs'" in their Moroccan context, which has deeply shaped by French colonialism. and still remains captive of that legacy. The research explores all aspect of the concept of sustainable development and investigates …
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Reading art otherwise
This thesis considers certain critical moments in the writing about art in modemity. I firstly identify key exemplars as responses to a "crisis of representation" within a broadly conceived discipline of art history in Britain. These mark significant turns in the discipline, one towards a newly …
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Workplace bullying in the arts : when creative becomes coercive
The original research carried out in a range of arts organisations in the UK included employees at every level within both commercial and subsidised performing arts organisations in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It demonstrates that bullying in UK performing arts organisations is common …
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News production in Greece : journalists, newspapers and the Internet
In this work, the various factors influencing the production of news analysed in the international news theory writings acted as a base for in-depth examination of the Greek newspaper and news Internet market. Influences on news writings were found to range from politics, economics and news media …
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Opera considered as state ceremony
This thesis attempts to show the ways in which governments treat opera as an institution, endorsing, through ceremony and ritual, the power of the state. Its main contention is that the opera institution (which combines opera companies and opera houses) is useful to the state and supported by it …
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Literary journalism in England and Egypt : A comparative study of the essay and the review
… the modern newspaper with its mass circulation in the 19th century, journalism was regarded as a branch of English letters. Journalism had universalized literature and enormously increased the number of readers. Many writers have succeeded in maintaining a fair balance between literary merit and …
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The interaction of financial practices, critical judgement and professional ethics in London West End theatre management 1843-1899
This study describes in detail the context - physical, social and artistic - in which the London theatre managers concerned with the West End formed their ethical, critical and financial beliefs about the correct way to run a theatre, between 1843 and 1899. It analyses in detail the methods of …
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