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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"contemporary American art"”.
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
… subjectivity, and empathy expressed in artworks created and exhibited in New York in the early 1990s and linked with identity politics. I focus on works that represented or evoked bodies and elicited viscerally somatic responses from viewers. As I demonstrate, the multicultural and …
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Invisible Men: The Risks and Pleasures of Self-Portrayal in the Work of Contemporary American Male Artists
… rare phenomenon of self-portrayal in the work of contemporary American male artists. The feminist art movement of the 1970s provided the aegis for many women artists to challenge the gendered dichotomy of artist/subject via the strategic deployment of their own bodies as artistic subjects. Yet …
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Temporal and harmonic concerns in the music of Robert Carl
Robert Carl is a composer-critic based in Hartford, Connecticut. His hyphenated career has involved creating, teaching, and commenting on music for the latter half of the twentieth century up to the present. Initially trained as a historian, Carl has maintained a keen interest in modern musical …
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Lucius R. O'Brien : a Victorian in North America : American influence on his early work, 1873-1880
… nineteenth century. Active in the promotion of art in Ontario, he served as vice-president of the Ontario Society of Artists from 1874 until 1880, at which time, in recognition of his leading role in Canadian art, he was appointed as first president of the Royal Canadian Academy. O'Brien …
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'I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It': Silence in American Art 1947–2008
… silence as a political and aesthetic strategy in American art from 1947 to 2008. It seeks to develop a historical account of three different artists and their investments in silence, with particularized, historically grounded definitions of silence developed in each chapter. It asserts that …
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Bells in tower at evening toll : a performer's guide to the songs of David P. Rossow on the texts of William Shakespeare and A. E. Housman for baritone voice and piano
David P. Rossow (b. 1975) is a contemporary American composer and arranger of choral works, music for jazz ensemble, and most recently, songs for solo voice and piano. This document serves as a performer’s guide to Rossow’s songs for baritone/low male voice and piano, Three Shakespeare Sonnets and …