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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"female artist"”.
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Gender and Creativity: Female Artist Subplots From Hawthorne to Fowles
… briefly summarizes the characteristics of the artist plot. Chapter One examines the disruptive textual interplay between female artist subplots and the centripetal finalizing force of a dominant romance plot. In the novels examined, plot, setting, and character double to tell two "warring" …
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The Fall and Rise of Artemisia Gentileschi: Changing Perceptions fo a Female Artist
<p>This thesis focuses on the Italian Baroque female artist, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593- 1652/1653) and the various interpretations of her work demonstrated by art historians over the centuries. An examination of the various writings show how art historical viewpoints have shifted over the …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… for understanding individual Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about the increase of …
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Autoportrét a sebereflexe ženy umělkyně v českém umění 1896-1969
… thesis deals with self-portraits of Czech female artists in the years 1896 to 1969. Based on thorough research of Czech visual art, including art collections, a typology of self- portraits and self-reflection of female artists in Czech modern art has been established, spanning from the …
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Searching for the Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard
This thesis focuses on an African-American female artist, Valerie Maynard, examining how she synthesizes African and American elements in her works. It provides detailed formal and iconographical analyses, revealing concealed meanings and paying special attention to those works with which the …
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Seeing it Straight
… versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established …
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Camille Claudel
… bachelor thesis explains the struggle of being a female artist at that time and how Camille Claudel had to endure her difficult position in the world of art. The thesis is based on...
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Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban-American female artist, whose work was a continuing search for identity throughout her life. She often searched for her roots in the earth itself, using it directly in her art and with her own body. This "return to the earth" was a metaphor for her life on many levels. …
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Interior Decoration as Fine Art: Rachel Feinstein and <i>The Sorbet Room</i>, 2001.
… Currin and mother of three also works as a fine artist. Primarily a sculptor and installation artist, Feinstein combines fairytales with reality. Often her contributions to the art world are overlooked due to her active social life and vast network of friends. Feinstein’s connection to Currin and …
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Breaking as making: In what ways can making sculpture contribute to understanding experiences and perceptions of breaking?
… the creative potential of this position for the female artist. I propose that physical breaking can shift the self towards the uncertainty of the ‘void’ by introducing the new subject positions of breaker and broken. The void is articulated as the break between established structures. Its …
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Beyond the Dutiful Daughter: An Examination of the Role and Representation of Daughters in the Renaissance
… be false on every level, this categorization of females as lesser creatures than males is a stigma borne by women throughout history. This thesis has a narrow focus on the role and representation of aristocratic Early Modern daughters before they become wives and mothers, and on Sofonisba …
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Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction
… Kunstlerromans. Brontë's heroines anticipate the female artist as the protagonist of the New Woman Kunstlerromans. Agnes and Helen both invade the masculine domain of economic motive and are feminists who profess gender definitions that conflict with dominant Victorian ideology. Agnes questions …
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Questions for Amma: Tracing the manifestations of violence on the South African Indian Female body
… a woman is both Eve and Eva. As a pure, fragile female she must be specially protected; as a seductive object, from whom men must be protected. In both cases women are the victims” (Navi Pillay in Gqola, 2015: 36). This research investigates performance as a medium through which the South African …
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In her Prime or Past it?: Reconsidering the Male Gaze and Exploring Feminine Monstrosity and Excess in Feminist Performance Art and Film
… alternative feminist possibilities of utilising female film archetypes, such as the young, apparently naïve and exploitable Hollywood ‘starlet’ and the ageing ‘diva’ actress, whilst simultaneously building on the agentive work of female performance artists when making my own intermedial …
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The artist biopic: a historical analysis of narrative cinema, 1934-2010
The thesis provides an historical overview of the artist biopic that has emerged as a distinct sub-genre of the biopic as a whole, totalling some ninety films from Europe and America alone since the first talking artist biopic in 1934. Their making usually reflects a determination on the part of …
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Islamic Tradition and Innovation in a Contemporary Kuwaiti Woman’s Painting Practice
The thesis maps the ‘awakening’ of the author’s artistic practice and her identity as a female Arab Muslim painter through her studio-based research into Rumi’s writings, in conjunction with study of the Qur’an and Islamic teachings, informed by feminist ideas and enhanced by knowledge of the …
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Dames of Distress: Female Violence and Revised Socio-Cultural Discourses in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood
… chapter offers an overview of representations of female violence in Canadian fiction, and of the various responses to this figure as she appears in Atwood’s fiction, that point to the need for a critical vocabulary that addresses women’s capacity to enact harm. The second chapter examines the …
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Resisting aggression : Graphic re-presentations for other bodies
… culture since the Enlightenment period. As a female artist, I want to explore the space in art of both the female body and the community body. This work seeks to position the female body within the "form" of her subjectivity, to destabilize patriarchal strongholds through the displacement of …
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The Lost Artist: Biographical Fiction and the Identity of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
… American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. As a female icon whose life was filled with salacious incidences and mental struggles, the image of Zelda continues to be reinterpreted in various movies, television series, and novels. However, very few center on her artistic pursuits of writing, …