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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"art and politics"”.
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The Art and Politics of George Meredith
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Discourse, dogma, and domination : knowledge work as art and politics
… management literatures as discourses of ambition and evaluates them against the realities that constitute praxis. The work provides a different insight into organisational and management theory that encourages critical thinking about the normalising effects of discourse, and points to the …
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Ludics for a Ludic Society. The Art and Politics of Play
This dissertation provides an analysis of, and critical commentary on, the practice of playfulness as persistent phenomenon in the arts, technology and theory. Its aim is to introduce political reflections on agency through the study of playful technological artefacts, which were largely ignored in …
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Art and politics in Fascist Italy : the Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution (1932)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Portable borders/mythical sites : performance art and politics on the US Frontera, 1968-present
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
… the Second Empire (1852-1870), the world of art changed rapidly from one that had preserved many aspects of centuries old tradition, to one that developed most of the attitudes and institutions of our modern era. Universal Expositions, combining art and politics, acted as catalysts for many …
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The Sublime in Contemporary Art and Politics: The Post 9/11 Art of Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America
… takes ethnographic approach to researching art with an emphasis on the artistic practices of Middle Eastern diasporic artists in Canada and the USA. This dissertation moves from an account of aesthetic theory to the revival of public interest in art related to the Middle East and the …
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Being “Other”: Ana Mendieta’s Artistic Practice and Feminist Politics within Arts Institutions
This thesis examines the art and politics of Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta through her engagement with three arts institutions: 1) the University of Iowa; 2) Heresies: A Journal of Feminist Art and Politics; and 3) Artist in Residence Gallery (A.I.R.). I explore these three institutions …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
… a hugely popular subject in academic scholarship and pop culture alike. Her role as a fashion icon in eighteenth-century France has resulted in monumental influence on contemporary fashion and pop culture aimed at young women. However, the effects of anti-fashion, anti-Rococo, and anti-woman …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
… of subjectivity, hypnotic narrative tone, and global political scope, the novel<em> </em>has been praised by readers and critics alike. Julius, the text’s first-person narrator, guides us along seemingly innocent wanderings throughout New York City, ruminating on history, art, and politics …
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Elia Kazan controversy: past, present and future
<p>The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences awarded Elia Kazan a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the film industry at the 1999 Academy Awards ceremony. He received the award but amongst much controversy. Whether or not he deserved the Oscar has been debated, but the answer to …
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Blues e emancipação em Angela Davis
… is an important source for the uses of freedom and the comprehension of the limits. Even today, the freedom issue faces great precedents in philosophy. The main purpose of this dissertation is to explore the relationship between the blues and emancipation through Angela Davis, in an attempt to …
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A slap in the face of public taste: the Russian Futurists' aesthetics of revolution
… movement’s motivations, ideologies, aesthetics, and effects on subsequent literature, art, and politics, particularly those of Russia. It identifies the primary problems of the late Russian Empire and how various groups sought to provide solutions to these troubles to help Russia become modern. …
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Representations of writers as public ntellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre, Nadine Gordimer, Gao Xingjian and Pablo Neruda
… takes as its subject the various public roles and representations of writers, using Said's 1993 Reith lectures on the subject of the intellectual as a starting point. The main questions raised are how writers, in various political and historical contexts, have functioned as public …
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Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
… the autonomous capacities of both cinema as an art and politics as the thought of collective self-determination. Is it, in other words, possible to elaborate a relationship between cinema and politics that would at the same time establish a separation between the two and thus refuse to reduce …
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Reading art otherwise
… certain critical moments in the writing about art in modemity. I firstly identify key exemplars as responses to a "crisis of representation" within a broadly conceived discipline of art history in Britain. These mark significant turns in the discipline, one towards a newly invigorated Marxist …
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El encuentro entre el teatro militante y la política de izquierda en Colombia durante el Siglo XX
… con la militancia política de izquierda mostrando como el posicionamiento político condicionó la actividad artística. Un proceso que se inserta en el marco de la historia de Colombia.
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
This dissertation, The Politics of Display: Identity and State at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981, is the first comprehensive study of the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano (BSJ, 1970-2001) of Puerto Rico, and its reincarnation as the Poly/Graphic Triennial (2004 - Present). As …
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Public aesthetics and collaborative “post-studio” practices in South America 1960s-1970s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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