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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"aesthetics and politics"”.
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Composing Care: The Aesthetics and Politics of Music Therapy in the Clinic
… months of fieldwork conducted between 2019 and 2020 in Canada and the United States, this ethnography investigates the clinical aesthetics of music therapy, or how music therapy is sensed and made sense of in the clinic. I show how, through its foundation in Western art music traditions, the …
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Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics
… on his writings about the character of religion and aesthetics. The dissertation as a whole makes the case that a certain moral vision-one informed by religious and aesthetic considerations-lies at the center of Oakeshott's thought and informs his political philosophy. The dissertation begins as …
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Mercury River Blues
… River Blues is a collection of poems, both lyric and narrative, which explores contemporary Appalachian history, social issues, aesthetics, and politics.
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Between Culture and Barbarism: Aesthetics, Politics and the Redemptive Origins of Critical Theory, 1918-1969
Focusing on a series of debates on aesthetics and politics, this dissertation represents the intellectual history of one unique mode of exchange between intellectuals from across the political spectrum in twentieth century German thought. Although commonly associated with liberal bourgeois and …
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Tessituras Abertas : pessimistic, yet persistent in other possible imaginaries
The present thesis addresses the compound of aesthetics and politics, motivated by the philosophical inquiry on the political potency of art. By doing so, this thesis also offers an investigation on the enrooted practice of authoritarianism in Brasil, by focusing on the recent institutionalized …
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Estetika a politika: pojetí Jacquese Rancièra
… is put on a manner, in which the spheres of aesthetics and politics appear and intervine in Rancière's works. The consequence of forementioned delimitation of the subject of my interest is that the thesis doesn't fully embody Rancière's thought. Mainly because of the restricted space, i …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… project analyzes the concepts of social defense and enmity by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of monstrosity. Three main historical figures of monstrosity, the Monster of Ravenna, Marie Antoinette, and Henriette Cornier, are analyzed through the Foucauldian framework of power and …
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Flickering lights on the eve of destruction: Technology and being in the nuclear war film
This work is a phenomenological and interpretive study of the presentation of self, society and technology in select films which touch on nuclear war. Although nuclear war has been treated in films since at least 1951, few authors have attempted to explore the meaning, technique, aesthetic and …
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Umthonyama
Umthonyama explores the politics of black queer visibility and contested belonging within the evolving culture of amaXhosa people. Black queer performance practitioners, are practically and theoretically foregrounded in this thesis to demonstrate the sophisticated ways in which we become visible, …
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Reading art otherwise
… Marxist social history of art in the 1980's and one towards an increasingly philosophical mode of investigating aesthetic works. Whilst the latter can be said to have most impact after the 1980's, key aspects of the actual object of study pre-date this. The exemplars in the first two parts of …
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From Aesthetics to Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
… writers in the Dreyfus Affair between 1897 and 1900. I argue that aesthetics has been undervalued by past scholarship on this question, and analyze the engagement of four very different writers - Emile Zola, Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier - demonstrating …
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Reclaimed territory : the plays of John McGrath and the 7:84 theatre company considered as a continuum of twentieth-century theories concerning theatrical form
… proposes to examine the work of John McGrath and the 7:84 Theatre Company as part of a continuum of theatrical experimentation culminating in postmodernism. To clarify the relationship between aesthetic form and social praxis the inquiry proceeds in two salient lines of direction: the first …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
Scholars often view political texts as mere propaganda, characterized by rigid ideologies rather than the nuance of literature. This text argues the opposite through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery …
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Reclaiming the image. Béla Tarr's world of 'inhuman' becoming: an artistic and philosophical inquiry
… entitled 'Reclaiming the Image' is an artistic and philosophical enquiry. It aims at a radical re-thinking of the concept of the image outside the accepted notions of realism and representation by opening up the photographic real in the process of bringing together photography and cinema, …
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Scandinavian Women Artists in and beyond Paris, c. 1900-1930
This thesis examines the experiences of Scandinavian women artists who travelled to Paris in the early twentieth century and encountered new freedoms, opportunities, and inspirations away from their home countries. A rich international field of study already positions women artists in histories of …
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Arresting beauty, framing evidence: An inquiry into photography and the teaching of writing
<p>This dissertation examines the uses and conceptualizations of photography in college Composition. Composition has long been conflicted over the relation between form and content---and since the 1970s, between aesthetics and politics. Today, this disciplinary tension manifests in how the visual …
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The Politics of the Grotesque: Goya's 'Caprichos' and French Literature and Graphic Art in the Nineteenth Century (c.1799-1868).
… towards Spanish culture, peaking in the 1830s and again in the 1860s, highlighting the creation of Louis-Philippe’s Galerie espagnole (1838-1848). This diffusion, which occurred mainly through his prints and drawings, was encouraged by some key artists and collectors. At this respect, this …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
The Refusal of the Work of Art: Aesthetics and Autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985, explores the nature of doing things together through a cultural history of aesthetics and politics in post-1968 Italy, organized around a theoretical investigation of the concept of work. During this period the political …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
The transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile have been critiqued by numerous artists and analysts alike, both because of the social and economic continuity from dictatorship to democracy, and because of the democratic states’ occlusion of the violence of the preceding dictatorships. Yet …
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