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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"contemporary visual culture"”.
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Art to empower: designing and implementing a contemporary visual culture art education for urban elementary institutions with implications for classroom practice
… and approaches for the teaching of elementary visual arts within the discourse of Art Education. The exploration begins with an overview of the modernist, Discipline Based Art Education curriculum, including its origins and implementation within the U.S., public K-8 school system. In this …
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Webs, Windows, and Reflections: Experiences in a Secondary Art Classroom
… during their participation in a year-long visual culture art curriculum taught in a secondary public school. As the students studied and decoded the visual language of contemporary imagery found in popular culture, their responses and actions concerning attitudes toward learning and toward …
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Visualized gender and gendered visuality: Love, marriage, and labor in contemporary Chinese women’s visual culture
… the same time faced unprecedented challenges in contemporary Chinese society where social welfare for women is increasingly marketized. How do Chinese women empower themselves when transitioning first to a planned economy and then to a market economy? My dissertation project studies women’s …
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The middle of nowhere: the photographic search for an unknown landscape
… conventions of landscape photography and contemporary visual culture, the “middle of nowhere” reveals itself as a visual metaphor for escape and environmental utopia. “Nowhere” is a journey for the unknown, and the recognition of presence felt in absence when faced with the unfamiliar …
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
… and affective spaces that emerge in the work of contemporary black women and queer artists. A poetics of bafflement is foregrounded by racial slavery and diaspora formations that inform contemporary racial antagonisms. The visual work of Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, and Mickalene Thomas, if read …
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The Arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf
… the arabesque as a cultural interface for contemporary packaging design in the Arabian Gulf by addressing the graphic application of the arabesque as a cultural, religious and social element in the design of selected food and beverage labels. The aims of this research include a brief …
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There is no Authority but Yourself: Political Autonomy, Collective Art Practice, Crass and Anarcho-Punk Visual Conventions in the work of Gee Vaucher
… This thesis maps the importance of her work to contemporary visual culture, while tracing its antecedents in avant-garde art movements, namely Surrealism, Dadaist photomontage and British Pop Art. It also maps the significance of her work to radical art production during the 1970s and its …
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The view: a historicised and contemporary socio‐political mediation
… of the ‘view’ as a historicised and contemporary socio‐political mediation. What is posited as a view, and its signification, as a view, is how we experience, understand and relate to others and the world around us. The thesis offers a re‐interpretation of accepted modes of viewing, …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other material forms, such as painting. The aim of this project is to develop images that interrogate how painted monotypes provide a distinctive interpretation of …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other material forms, such as painting. The aim of this project is to develop images that interrogate how painted monotypes provide a distinctive interpretation of …