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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"female artists"”.
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The Sociology of Female Artists: A Study of Female Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers in St. Louis
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Representations of Black Female Bodies in Contemporary Caribbean Art: A Model for Responding to Art
… and gender, I examine representations of Black female bodies in contemporary Caribbean art by examining three paintings by Barbadian artist Sheena Rose: (a) Black Beauty, (b) Anxiety, and (c) Mental Illness, Don’t Laugh!!! It Isn’t Funny!! Shouted the Angry Artist. I aim to encourage students …
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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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The mythical speech of Janine Antoni
… societal myths has been a major concern of many female artists since the 1960s. However, confronting the ideological construction of myth is not enough to discredit it. The semiology of myth, according to Roland Barthes (1915-1980), simply absorbs this confrontation by placing the artist in the …
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Interior Decoration as Fine Art: Rachel Feinstein and <i>The Sorbet Room</i>, 2001.
… Such an approach diminishes her identity as a female artist and silences her creative voice. She challenges the notion of contemporary feminine sculpture by creating personal yet relatable three dimensional objects rooted deep within the canon of art history. Through the lens of feminist theory …
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Gender, subjectivity and feminist art: the work of Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing
… from the 1970s onwards and three contemporary female artists, namely Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood. The dissertation demonstrates the influence that feminist art has had on contemporary women's art. It shows how various elements, typically associated with feminist art from a …
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Material murmurings
… visual arts material by discussing how female artists have been using glass within their practice through a paradigm of feminist scholarship of the body. A lack of formalised inquiry into the material depth of glass exists. Through formalising this discussion via a framework of feminist …
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The Sources, Rhetoric, and Gender of Artistic Dress
This study of clothing designed by artists covers Western Europe between 1890 and 1912. The work argues for the consideration of artists' attempts to create beautiful clothing outside the fashion industry as a pan-European movement rather than an individual or regional interest. An examination of …
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Art at Ashland Farm: the collection of Sarah Avery Key Patten
… TN. The study focused on culturally significant artists Helen Hyde, Emma Bell Miles, and Martha Walter. Using the principles of archival theory to inform the study, each piece by these three artists was documented by completing Smithsonian Museum of American Art Inventory of American Painting …
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The Artist as a Dramatic Character in Contemporary British Drama: A Critical Study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker
… show that British playwrights, whether male or female, use their main fictional characters as artists either for self-reflexivity or to comment on the situation of being an artist. In accordance with the above premise, the responsibility of the artist and the function of art is investigated with …
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SHAKE YA ASS, BUT WATCH YOURSELF: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE RECORDING ARTISTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
… Approach to Exploring the Sexualization of Female Recording Artists and the Empowerment of Women in the United States, critically examines the phenomenon of sexualization of women in the music industry and its impact on female empowerment. Through an intersectional and decolonial feminist …
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The Fragmented Body and the Artwork of Berlinde De Bruyckere
… profound influence that feminist scholars and artists had in opening up the opportunities available to artists today. I will particularly focus upon feminism’s impact in shaping the representation and perception of the body, as well as the important, yet often forgotten, contribution of female …
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Lyginamoji feministinių naratyvų muzikoje JAV ir Švedijoje analizė /
… the feminist narratives present in the music of female artists from Sweden and the United States. It employs two feminist theories, neoliberal feminism and postmodern feminism, to analyze and compare the messages conveyed by musicians in these two countries. Through lyrical and visual analyses, …
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The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories
… 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 ‘feminine’ refers to …
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
… lithographs, and sculptures of East German artists Heidrun Hegewald, Angela Hampel, Nuria Quevedo, Annemirl Bauer, Regine Richter, Christine Schlegel, and Gabriele Koerbl, among others. Tracing a longer iconographic history of Penthesilea and Cassandra in Ancient Greek, Neoclassical, and …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… performance and spirituality. I search for the female power of mother by mining the history of Black women within Western cultural and political economy. I find Mother in the Africana female artists who use their cultural work to nurture, sustain and develop their communities and enhance human …
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Sinofemcentrism and its manifestations in art by Yu Hong, Cui Xiuwen, and Xiang Jing
… relative absence of contemporary Chinese women artists and their art in art historical discourses and in the art world, this study investigates the marginalization and symbolic annihilation of contemporary women artists and their art and the research conundrum on this neglected subject. This …
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Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Contemporary Inuit Drawing
The importance of the artists voice in art historical scholarship is essential as we emerge from post-colonial and feminist cultural theory and its impact on curation, art history, and visual culture. Inuit art has moved from its origins as an art representing an imaginary Canadian identity and a …
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Voices from the outside: Homeric exiles in twentieth-century French writing
… a modern and Homeric perspective. The corpus of artists under review each develop a symbiotic relationship with Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an encounter that repositions the outsider, shifting our gaze from the pitiable, shunned ‘étranger’ to the creative, empowered, and …
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Creating a Female History Painter: Vigée-Lebrun, Labille-Guiard, Mongez, and the French Academy
… were three highly successful and influential artists of the latter eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Previously, little attention has been paid, however, to the history paintings created by them and their respective presentation in the Salons of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de …