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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Self-portraits"”.
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Way of the Butterfly: A Journey towards Transformation through Self-portraits In-Between
<p>It has not been easy for me to talk about myself or describe my feelings or thoughts. Coming from Japan, a collective society, we typically are not raised to do so. Throughout the MFA program at UCF, I have shared my feelings and thoughts through my work. It is important to discuss and inform …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… Their works—<em>The Dream Songs</em>, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” <em>Nox, </em>and <em>The Ballad of Sexual Dependency </em>(and “The Cookie Portfolio”)—developed new ways of representing human subjectivity and the self that integrated the influences of Romanticism, Modernism …
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Self Portraits: How The Arts May Be the Key to Equitable And Authentic Engagement For Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Student Populations
<p>As the linguistic and cultural diversity across America’s classrooms steadily increases, educators are searching for ways to meet the needs of their students. The linguistic and cultural resources our students bring are a tremendous asset, yet our country has not been able to fully realize the …
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No Longer the Big Bad Wolf: The Expedition to Secure Wolf Self-Portraits and Its Impact On the Bureau of Biological Survey
<p>This thesis provides a detailed study of the technology of and motivations behind the Tensas expedition, which had the singular goal of taking photographs of wolves in the wild. In addition to beginning a conversation about the importance of camera traps in the history of visual media, it also …
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Changing the lens of stigma : an exploration of disclosure in self-portraits by South Africans living with HIV in the Through Positive Eyes Arts Initiative.
… Eyes initiative is unique in its process of self-documentation as the group openly confronts the complexities of living with HIV/AIDS. The thesis shows that challenging stigma through art is not as simple as the claim first appears; in fact, it emerges that even in giving full agency to the …
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
<p>The dissertation contextualizes Paul Gauguin’s self-portraits within the nineteenth-century notion of androgyny. The first chapter explores Gauguin’s textual figurations of self in relation to the contemporary medical and philosophical understanding of androgyny and to the literary …
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE LATE-RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUAL
… identities are constructed through Italian self-portraits and portraits, by considering the importance of the use of space, the placement of the body, clothing, and other items within a painting. I consider portraits or self-portraits as products of a historical moment and location. Each …
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Autoportrét a sebereflexe ženy umělkyně v českém umění 1896-1969
This diploma thesis deals with self-portraits of Czech female artists in the years 1896 to 1969. Based on thorough research of Czech visual art, including art collections, a typology of self- portraits and self-reflection of female artists in Czech modern art has been established, spanning from the …
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Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity
… their identity at school through the creation of self-portraits. By using dual self-portraits, in which girls are able to express their own perspective and imagine the perspective of their teacher, Black adolescent girls are allowed the space to explore the relationship between power, culture and …
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Formative
… contains poetry, creative nonfiction and self portraits (photography) that centralize around the Buddhist text entitled THE HEART SUTRA. The speaker navigates this sutra chant by writing about having it tattooed on his back, and explores breaking cycles of violence, abuse and depression. …
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The lesbian artist as a child
… the 1970's and 80's. My monochromatic, childhood self-portraits reference some of the challenges I faced from western, hetero-centric patriarchy and my paper discusses how my identity as "Other" compelled me to discover, then determine, my place in society as well as in art history.
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The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
… just how they did so by focusing on the artists’ self-portraits, their portraits of the royal family, divergent responses to the revolution, and their subsequent production. My thesis will explore the ways in which those limitations also created opportunities. Most studies on women artists are …
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Whoretography – The Sex Worker As Image-Maker: A critical analysis of sex workers’ self-representation in online public spaces
… enduring cultural fascination and repulsion with portraits of women sex workers. The sex worker’s role as image-sitter is assumed in the public imagination and remains a steadfast part of contemporary popular culture. However, the ways in which sex workers photograph themselves remain largely …
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Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
… first artist to systematically explore double self-portraiture’s potential to convey multiple meanings, by painting, drawing and collaboratively photographing thirteen works in the genre. In this dissertation, I argue that these works reflect Schiele’s interest in establishing a deep engagement …
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Thou Art That.
… from November 3-7, 2008. The exhibit consists of self-portraits in oil on stretched canvas painted between May and October 2008.</p><p>Ideas explored include the creative power of limitation, metaphor, divinity, relationship, human development, life experience, and the bond between mother and …
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Mindfulness-Based Art Therapy and Stress Reduction with Veterans Living in Transitional Housing
… indicates qualitative changes in the veteran’s self portraits including shifts in energy levels such as increased energy and shifts in mental health status. This research shows promising benefits for teaching veterans to manage symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress by using art therapy and …
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Mother/photographers
… , April 3-29, 1981. The statement consists of portraits of my family members and self-portraits. 2) A portfolio of ten black and white prints from the exhibit to be left in the Creative Photography Laboratory Archives. 3) A written documentation of my investigation and study of the particular …
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Transmutation
<p>My artistic practice is about change itself. I am inspired by the doubling and layering effects that came out of Surrealist Photography. Scale, fracture, and doubling are intentional components of my process. I combine those methods to create complex works of art, focusing on the untamable light …
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MirrorMirror
… this exhibition is a series of sculptures titled Self-Portrait as Bunnies. In each of these works I present adult-sized and adult-featured versions of myself in child-like poses. This thesis will primarily be involved in examining this series and will do so in two ways. First by introducing the …
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