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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"art politics"”.
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Assassination of Michael Collins: A Revival in Gaelic Nationalism
… 1916, during the Easter Rising, that Collins started to play a key role in Ireland’s mission to gain independence. As a result, Collins became a symbol of hope for Ireland’s nationalism. On August 22, 1922, Michael Collins was assassinated and became a martyr for Ireland. For many years to come, …
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Reclaiming the commons : art and activism in the neoliberal city
How can artistic/activist practices respond to urban conditions of exclusion and inequality? Since the 1970s, urban redevelopment in the United States has been dominated by a neoliberal ideology that promotes privatization, deregulation and the withdrawal of the state from the provision of social …
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Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993
… in the fabric of the city, guided by anarchist politics and a desire for autonomy. These cracks, or temporary autonomous zones, in the established order created a model of resistance that artists carried over into other fields of practice, particularly media art. In this dissertation, I …
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How can structural film expand the language of experimental ethnography?
… of these terms with minimal and conceptual art, experimental aesthetic systems and/or artworks that blur fact and fiction. These theoretical parameters are then explored through practice in an installation proposal The Autonomous Object? and a single screen work The Exception and the Rule. …
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Der Kölnische Kunstverein im Nationalsozialismus - Struktur und Entwicklung einer Kunstinstitution in der kulturpolitischen Landschaft des 'Dritten Reichs'
The Kölnische Kunstverein ( Cologne Art Association) was founded in 1839. In its long history, the association developed into one of the most important and nationally recognised cultural institutions of Cologne. In the years from 1933 to 1945 the Kölnische Kunstverein underwent drastic changes. …
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Orient
… a critical apprehension about the juncture of art, politics, and the sacred, <em>ORIENT</em> engages, deconstructs, and re-orchestrates a variety of dissonant energies. Cultural in nature and historical in scope, these energies constitute the political, philosophical and religious contexts …
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Visual art discourses as rhetoric: exploring the colonial creation of the Canadian Northwest Passage
… Jackson, Canada needed “a new, modern landscape art tradition, for a new modern nation.” According to Jonathan Bordo, such colonial myths of origins have served to supplant aboriginal peoples by establishing a precolonial belief of “ terra nullius,” which was later enforced by the removal of …
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Creative Imagination in Joyce Cary's Trilogies
… improvement. He believes that everyone--not just artists and writers--can have creative imagination, and in his novels he shows the results of living with and without it.</p> <p>Joyce Cary was born in 1888, in Ireland. His mother died when he was nine, but his close-knit family gave him the …