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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Political aesthetics"”.
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Protest Beyond Representation: The Vitalism of Digital Protest Art's Political Aesthetics
… polity, we look for the comfort in knowing that political expression can enact change. Protest art, or acts of creative expression intended to resist dominant powers, forces, and structures, models the potential for political expression to create change that is not immediate, direct, or obvious, …
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The Emergence of the Documentary Real within Relational and Post-Relational Political Aesthetics
… of relational art and its influence upon current aesthetics. ‘Post’ is not used in the indicative sense here: it does not simply denote the passing of the high water mark of relational art’s critical reception. Rather, it seeks to identify what remains symptomatically unresolved in relational art …
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Not all camps have camouflage: gay writing and the great South African dream
… problematic of what an appropriate or productive political aesthetics of "gay writing" might be within our particular historical moment.
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Art in the public realm and the politics of rural leisure: Access and environment
Exploring both political aesthetics and the politics of aesthetics to outline an environmental ruralism for art in public spaces, this practice lead research project postulates a “complemental practice”, outlining its methodology and contexts for operation, the rural, spaces of leisure and the …
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Exhibiting Climate Change: An Examination of the Thresholds of Arts-Sciences Collaborations in the Context of Learning for a Sustainable Future
This dissertation probes the cultural and political thresholds of arts–sciences collaborations in the context of the development of public pedagogy about a sustainable response to climate change. The dissertation is an in-depth case study of a civil society group called Cape Farewell that is …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… social movements and locates U.S. based political structures in a hemispheric and global network. I reveal that the Civil Rights Movement, ethnic nationalism, and second-wave feminism were not separate entities; rather, the cultural work of activists was an intersectional effort that …
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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
… of the senses, notions of truth and language and political aesthetics in Walter Benjamin’s epistemology of images, this thesis takes as its touch-stone Benjamin’s somewhat overlooked meditations on the sensorial faculty of tactility (“das Taktische”). According to the first version of the “Work of …