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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"artists and writers"”.
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Thunderbird: Embracing Indigenous Voices of Resistance
… four centuries, Indigenous identities, stories, and lifestyles were silenced due to aggressive actions of settler colonialism. Initially, this was accomplished through maltreatment and exploitation of Indigenous individuals and communities. Results included oppression and attacks on Indigenous …
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Edith Wharton: Vision and Perception in Her Short Stories
In Edith Wharton's short stories, vision and perception play key roles in stories pertaining to marriage and divorce, artists and writers, and social and personal values.
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Ersatz
… to develop the relationship between optical and formal painting traditions in modernism via the literal surface of the painting and the object or objects represented. They are arranged to create an effect of simultaneous emergence and dissolution. They represent the falsely temporal aspects …
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Loss Count
… loss of past experiences, poetics, repetition, and feeling. By remembering facts from past experiences, one can recall how a particular moment felt. My intention when producing a piece of work is to generalize themes of loss, time, and memory by using visual features of pattern, space, and …
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The Sword, The Cross and the Flag: The Theme of Martyrdom in the Greek War of Independence
… War of Independence, the works of many European artists and writers played an important role in alerting the Western world to the plight of the Greeks. The success of their efforts was in large measure due to their portrayals of Greeks as heroic martyrs, dying in defense of their Christian faith. …
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EXPANSIVE MODERNISM: FEMALE EDITORS, LITTLE MAGAZINES, AND NEW BOOK HISTORIES
… resurgence of modern periodical studies has expanded our understanding of “littleqrdquo; magazines and the editors behind them, but many studies continue to be restricted to the 1920s, examine male editors, and focus on well–established literary journals, rather than the subversive …
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Seeds of Change: A History of he Pomegranate as Symbol in Art and Literature
… Beginning with the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone and the literature of the Old Testament, this fruit was employed to symbolize the cosmic cycle of life and death as well as the promise of immortality. The early Christians adopted this powerful image to represent the same themes in …
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Shakespeare and England's Empire, 1780-1800.
This thesis is a study of Shakespeare and imperialism in England between 1780 and 1800. Chapters investigate landscape art and empire in the Boydell gallery, death and imperial subjectivity, gender and form in appropriations of Shakespeare by women artists and writers, caricatures that reference …
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The significance of the introduction of electronic interaction to the history of the art object and the viewer
… the traditional relationship between art objects and art viewers. The first chapter covers some of the twentieth century art movements that contributed to the emergence of different forms of viewer participation with artworks. The second chapter presents a compilation of the ideologies that have …
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Anarchisms and the Short Story in Fin-de-Siècle France, 1871-1901
… the relationship between the short story and anarchism at the end of the nineteenth century. In doing so it interrogates the tendency in existing scholarship on anarchism and literature during this period to rely on analogies between literature and the bomb. This is partly due to a …
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Wet Data: The Ocean and its Negative Archive
<p>This paper and the poetry cycle (<em>Wet Data</em>) it describes are in dialogue with a wide array of social and cultural histories of the sea; the production of the sea as a social, economic, and militarized space; maritime ethnographies; as well as artistic and literary projects stemming out …
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Vinyle zine: The Execution of the Pedagogy of Pro-Blackness
… Black individuals to practice using writing and any art form as their medium of expression –a tool that has been utilized to extol African American truths and increase cultural knowledge. By encouraging expression in art and provoking cultural knowledge, <em>Vinyle</em> zine will continue to …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
In the middle of the twentieth century, Western writers, chemists, anthropologists and ethnobotanists introduced a hitherto oblivious Western culture to the peculiar effects of what is now called “psychedelic drugs.” Although many of these substances had been well known outside the Western world, …
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Co-opting culture : State intervention in and party patronage of literary and popular culture, 1929-1941.
… relationship between a provider of protection and material support, and a cultural practitioner, whose production was oriented toward the needs of the patron. Such patterns form the basis of this study. Although initially examining the federal government's attempt to fund artists and writers, a …
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Representations of the Dreaming Mind in Nineteenth-Century French Art
During the nineteenth century, philosophic and popular interest in dreams and the unconscious increased dramatically. Simultaneously, artists and writers increasingly recognized the immense creative impulses that resided within their dreams and began to explore ways in which dream elements, such as …
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The Canto of Ezra Pound as a Process Model
… scientific method has directed human thinking and learning not only in what are called the hard sciences,, but also, particularly within the last century, in the less predictable areas of human understanding and behavior. For scientific study of such fields, human scientists have evolved a …
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Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
<p>The moral and aesthetic complexity of Cormac McCarthy's fiction demands sophisticated theoretical reading paradigms. Intertextuality informed by poststructuralism is a theoretical approach that enables one to read the moral and aesthetic elements of McCarthy's work in productive ways. McCarthy's …
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The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories
… manipulation of cloth through textile art making and the poetics of female artists and writers. A consideration of western feminism and worn cloth further explores how the politics of wearing affects the feminine sense of wellbeing and how the sartorial can be a type of armour. In this context …
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
… the twentieth century – the Harlem Renaissance and the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach and engaging with literary studies, history, and ethnography, it employs African-based belief systems as a lens through which to interrogate ideas about the …
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Walking Home: The path as transect in an 800km autoethnographic enquiry
… key terms from the fields of ethnography and ecology, the project articulates a new contribution to knowledge by expanding the notion of a transect and using methods appropriated from autoethnography to generate visual arts practice in the wake of a long distance walk. Walking from London, …
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