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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"art and aesthetics"”.
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In between empathy and wonder lies the contamination that makes us human
… for granted, referring to a capacity to share and understand another person's feelings or experiences. This thesis will defamiliarize that understanding, question its limits, and introduce it in the context of art and aesthetics. Contamination is invoked as a signifier that is both …
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
… abled, sane, cisgender, patriarchal norms, and effectively eugenics. By incorporating crip and trans theory, art, and embracing a mad aesthetic, I first highlight the concept of deliberate, productive failure through my inability to be read as transgender, showcasing my ability to pass as a …
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Bringing the visual into focus: Street art and contentious politics in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
Politically committed street art has been mobilised time and again as a crucial strategy and means of expression. Yet, social movement scholars and political analysts have displayed a persistent tendency to overlook the specificities of visual tools and aesthetic experience in contentious politics. …
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Contingent and Collateral Figures in Art Institutions: Laboured Feminist Lineages
… dissertation considers portrayals of overlooked and undervalued figures who have been rendered structurally peripheral within contemporary art practices. I suggest select artists enact institutional critiques that aspire for a radically different art world by first engaging with an expansive …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
… that narrated the nation as White, patriarchal, and capitalist. In this context, scribal and audiovisual records made by the elite were prioritized. The marginalization of Indigenous peoples, Black peoples, and other racialized peoples in society is well documented by the absence of governmental …
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A study of the principle of poetic justice in the tragedies of the age of Elizabeth exclusive of Shakespeare
… drama takes precedence over those other types, and since the first important controversy on the subject arose in England in connection with tragedy, I have considered it best to limit the material undertaken here to that form of dramatic art. Further than that, the study will be limited to some …
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Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
This thesis examines the relations between bodies and objects in early Mycenaean burials, between 1700 and 1400 BCE on mainland Greece. It adopts an artistic approach to these burials, which treats the burial context as an intentional representation, centred around the creative actions of selection …
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Public Art: Context & Process in San Luis Obispo, CA
… of ancient Greece to the modern version of malls and pedestrian plazas, these spaces are where social interactions occur, ideas are spread, and are open for all people to enjoy. Beautifying these spaces with public art and well-thought out design encourage the use of these spaces and work to …
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The problem of experience in Adorno's philosophy and aesthetics
… relationship between his concept of experience and metaphysical thinking. Contrary to the standard picture, I argue that rather than inadvertently or naïvely metaphysical, Adorno purposefully draws from and transforms metaphysical thinking within the context of his own material philosophy. By …