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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"global art"”.
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Anish Kapoor: The Formation of a Global Art
This study intends to investigate British artist Anish Kapoor’s stylistic formation in relationship to globalization, positing its history as a multiplicity, comprised of several competing localisms, including: minimalism; the traditions of modern painting; and the artist’s own personal diasporic …
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Women Directors in ‘Global’ Art Cinema: Negotiating Feminism and Representation
The thesis explores the cultural field of global art cinema as a potential space for the inscription of female authorship and feminist issues. Despite their active involvement in filmmaking, traditionally women directors have not been centralised in scholarship on art cinema. Filmmakers such as …
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Financial Implications of Investing in the Global Art Market: Risk, Return and Diversification
The global art market is a 60+ billion-dollar industry (Deloitte 2019); art indices measure market sentiment. Yet, art’s influence on economic and financial markets is often overlooked in academic research. This study considers the financial implications of investing in the global art market …
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Remotely Mexican: Recent Work by Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, and Pedro Reyes
… contributes to an understanding of contemporary art practices from Mexico City, as they are received in Mexico and abroad, by interpreting the meaning of local and global sources in recent work shown in Mexico, the U.S., and Europe by three internationally established, contemporary artists from …
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Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali & the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010
<p>In an age of globalization, when as a result of enhanced telecommunication and global media, the world's population is more interconnected than ever, the public at large still tends to associate Africa with poverty, disease and political instability. Yet keen observers of the social landscape …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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30° from the Northern Tropic: Art, region and collective practices from urban Latin American and Arab worlds
… imagined representation of two areas of the global South, through the lens of contemporary art. It traces the historicisation of urban Latin America and the Arab world along a timeline of critical lenses, questioning their construction as imagined sites. Re-occurring tropes from exhibition …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… a folio of drawings from the Anglo-Australian artist Sophia Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could …
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Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami and the crisis of Japanese identity
In the mid-1990s, Japanese artists Mariko Mori (b. 1962) and Takashi Murakami (b. 1967) began creating works that referenced Japanese popular culture tropes such as sexuality, technology and the idea of kawaii, or cute. These tropes were associated with emerging youth cultures instigating a “soft …
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Trending in the margins: contemporary art from Nigeria in the global markets
… studies have established that the value of art is socially constructed in the global markets. Drawing on the artistic field, feminist and post-colonial theories; this research explored the circumstances regarding the relative international obscurity and under-representation of contemporary …
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Following the stone: Zimbabwean sculptors carving a place in 21st century art worlds
… to examine the interplay between international art markets and the agency of the artists themselves. Although this 1960s arts movement gained recognition within global art circuits during the colonial era – and greater acclaim following independence – by the turn of the 21st century only a few …
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
… examines South Korean performance and conceptual art from 1961 to 1993 during the Cold War military dictatorship, and focuses on the dynamics of socio-political tension between the military dictatorship and the opposition of political dissidents comprised mostly of artists, students, and …
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The Global Rules of Art
… witnessed the extraordinary emergence of several global cultural realms for the crossborder flow and consecration of cultural goods (e.g., in the visual arts, music, or literature). Scholars have debated whether such accelerated dynamics of the globalization of culture are leading to the worldwide …
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Offerings for a ghost film: From fragmented work to cosmic assemblages
This thesis takes as its starting point an unfinished film. The short history of cinema has been dominated by notions of what constitutes a film and what does not. While the establishment of technical standards enabled cinema to become one of the most pervasive global art forms, this curtailed many …
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
… (2004 - Present). As the Caribbean’s first art biennial, the creation of the BSJ was not only innovative, but also a strategic, bold project on the part of its organizers in their attempt to insert Puerto Rican graphic media production more forcefully into Latin American art history and in a …
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Systematic review: Availability, effectiveness and safety of assisted reproductive techniques in Sub-Saharan Africa
… and safety of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa? SUMMARY ANSWER: According to overall limited and heterogeneous evidence, availability and utilization of ART are very low, clinical pregnancy rates largely compare to other regions but are accompanied by high multiple …
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Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
This dissertation examines the artistic practices of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroué, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, Lebanese artists of the so-called jil al-harb, or the war generation, whose work is characterised by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, …
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The Importance of Place: A practice-led investigation into the liminal space between artist-doctor and patient-artist, in the process of making art and recovery in the House of Artists and the Gugging Atelier, at Maria Gugging in Austria
This thesis focuses on art, mental illness and recovery within the innovative model of therapeutic healthcare in the Gugging House of Artists, a small-scale psychiatric facility in Austria. Gugging’s 12 Residents live together as self-taught artists in a system of holistic processes, transformative …
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Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: The Role of North Korea’s Overseas Art Studios in Egyptian Memorial Culture
<p>The dissertation explores the artistic and cultural histories behind Egyptian national monuments and museums that were built and renovated by North Korean artists and architects. Archival materials from the American University in Cairo, Seoul National University, and the North Korean Research …