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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Visual Cultures"”.
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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
… patronage played a variety of roles in shaping visual cultures throughout the empire.</p> <p>The first case study examines a pavilion known as Azraq alShīshān in the Azraq Oasis (in modernday eastern Jordan), which was decorated with relief carvings that included images of hunting. Situating …
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Modeling proteins, making scientists : an ethnography of pedagogy and visual cultures in contemporary structural biology
This ethnography tracks visualization and pedagogy in the burgeoning field of structural biology. Structural biologists are a multidisciplinary group of researchers who produce models and animations of protein molecules using three-dimensional interactive computer graphics. As they ramp up the pace …
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Expanding the Object: Post-conceptual dance and choreographic performance practices
… discourses including performance theory, visual cultures and critical theory, and is therefore both relevant to the field of dance studies and beyond the discipline. Given the practice-led nature of the project, my aim has been to expand choreographic performance practices and to increases …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… this dissertation takes up literary and visual representations of fashion and everyday dress as sites of Chicana identity-formation. By analyzing material objects in written and visual texts, this project uncovers a lengthy history of sartorial, affective practices as Chicanas deploy …
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Pudu Jail's Graffiti: Beyond the Prison Cells
… the ‘Pudu Jail’s Graffiti’, has a distinct visual narrative(s) compared with other prison graffiti research, concluding that its qualities lies in the complexity of visual cultures brought within the space of the prison cells. The prison graffiti retrieved from this portfolio has been …
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The oppositional gaze: contemporary image-making practice and the implications of skin colour ideals
… while using them as a strategic tool within the visual work, questions the implications of skin colour in constructions of femininity within visual representations. Historically as a marker of skin colour, white women and those with a lighter skin complexion have taken the role of the feminine, …
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Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in Genoese portraiture, 1606-1627
… these women agency in a milieu defined by its visual and material literacy, and within a fashion system shaped by the political, cultural, and economic consequences of globalism. As key agents in Spain’s imperial machine, Genoa’s nobles managed the expansion of imperial dominion and the …
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Painting by Mouth: Art, Modernity and Disability. Bartram Hiles (1872-1927)
… representation but also draws on material and visual cultures of both medicine and art for its analysis. The study frames Hiles’ art practice within the modernity of the late nineteenth century as a transforming space to locate him as a modern subject who sought to re-interpret the act of …
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Spectacularizing the homosexual body: the secret rendezvous among global gay media, local straight women, and the media industry in South Korea
… of the homosexual body. The popular visual cultures of homosexuality are eagerly consumed by young women, but the lives of gay people remain largely unknown. In the first chapter of my dissertation, I historicize the consumption of global gay media by young women, predominantly from …
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
<p><italic>American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism<italic> reads American literary regionalism through its visual vocabularies--such as sketches, photographs and portraits. Though critics often deemed this genre inferior or unfinished, using visual …
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Youth and cities : planning with low-income youth and urban youth cultures in New York City and Paris
… Planning with Low- Income Youth and Urban Youth Cultures in New York City and Paris is an investigation into the experience of urban youth by (1) examining the impact of youth policy regimes and neoliberal urbanization processes on the challenges young people face, the opportunities they have and …