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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"political art"”.
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The role of the myth in Plato's Statesman.
… Statesman attempts to find the eidos of the political art "separated and removed…from everything else" (Plato 1984: 258c). Perhaps unsurprisingly, this proves to be a rather difficult task. The conversation is led by an Eleatic Stranger with a young man named Socrates. The Stranger begins …
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Locating a Black Planning Tradition and Spatializing Black Nationalism
… the Black planning tradition and how Muslims, particularly those in Black nationalist organizations, utilize newspapers and land to critique urban planning practice and offer alternative models of planned organization and development. The first essay in this three-essay series explores the use …
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Essays in the History of the Masque: Essence and Echoes
… the resiliency and the creative range of one particular genre, the English masque, in its development during the seventeenth century as a viable literary and political form (what I have called "essence") into its present appearance as mode--that is, as a more fragmentary collection of elements …
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The Evolution of Birth Art: A Brief Selection of Thematically and Chronologically Organized Images of Childbirth in Vairious Cltures
<p>This thesis, which serves as part of my requirements for my Master’s of Art degree in Humanities, examines the subject of childbirth in art from antiquity to the late twentieth century. Beginning with the ancient goddess statue the Venus of Willendorf, this thesis provides a brief thematic and …
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"Real" lives and "ordinary" objects: Partisan strategies of art making with garment makers of the Western Cape
… in the Western Cape, I converge with local artists, Gerard Sekoto and Siona O'Connell, as well as international artists such as Ai Weiwei in China, Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba in Vietnam and Doris Salcedo in Colombia. We all deploy ordinary objects to work against a range of hegemonic paradigms, …
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Reframing Aesthetic Experience: the Influence of Racial Bias, Openness, and Cognition on Painting Perception
… 18-29) evaluated paintings by Black and White artists and responded to items on like, comfort, valence, and value. Additionally, they completed a 44-item Big Factor Inventory, the Stroop task, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and the Symbolic Racism Scale. The results yielded statistically …
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Diplomatic : letter from the architectural enclave
Seeing Architecture as a political art, this thesis concerns itself with boundaries: those of regimes, of culture, of law, and of social strata. In a silent crisis where sustained inscription of physical and social boundaries evacuate urban space into archipelagos of enclaves, Architecture with …
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The edges of the Unsaid: Transgressive practices in the Fiction of Kathy Acker
… of Acker's fiction by focusing on the political dimension of her aesthetic strategies. It explores the politics of plagiarism and appropriation; the subversive representation of gender and sexual politics; and the anarchistic impulse of Acker's work. The main theoretical and political …
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Land Matters: Stories of Survival, Peasant Roots & Peasant Futurisms
… farming and self-sustainability; local gift, barter and exchange economies; the čaršija (farmers’ market) as a mechanism for local economies (Lockwood 120); komšiluk (neighbourhood life), halal exchange, and collaborative labour as practices of mutual aid (Henig 3); the zadruga …
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Chilean Arpilleras, Social Reproduction and the Struggle Against Coloniality
… dissertation explores the relationship between art, social reproduction, and resistance in Geography by interrogating the power of political art to challenge colonial/capitalist spatial dynamics through collective and public practice. To do this, I look at the tradition of Chilean arpilleras, a …
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Subjectivity And Politics In Pasolini's Bourgeois Tragic Theater
… politics is “self-destructive otherness” and martyrdom, the latter of which will be a falsity and no politics at all. However, Orgia and Porcile in its drafts formulate a more critical radical subjectivity and politics: the transformation of self-destructive otherness into the “Logic of …
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The Dialectical Object: John Heartfield 1915 - 1933
… of the National Socialists in Germany, John Heartfield fled Berlin for Prague, leaving behind the significant intervention in contemporary cultural and social discourses that his photomontages for the Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung comprised. While this body of work, produced from 1930, has been …
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Displacing War Experience: Military Technology and the More-than-Human Politics of Empire
… of war? How do they shape strategic and political discussions on the role of martial violence? How are they connected to particular visions of international order and global structures of power? Bringing together historical analysis with theoretical insights from Science and Technology …
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The Black Body in Political Photography, 1990-2020
Black political art has been an important element of Black liberation efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Black artist-activists of the past and present have demonstrated a concern with systems of oppression that perpetuate multiple forms of racial trauma in the lives of Black people. This …
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21st Century Zen Garden
This paper is a discussion of certain philosophical issues that have informed the progression of my work to date.
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High School Visual Arts and Student Civic Engagement
… relationship between civic engagement and fine art education has not been included. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between art education and civic engagement in a select sample of eight AP visual art students from a high school art program in Northern California, as …
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Interferencias entre el arte y lo político: reflexiones sobre lo común desde las prácticas de creación y de resistencia
… reflexiona respecto a cómo un espacio artístico, que se construye desde el activismo feminista, puede convertirse en un lugar desde donde pensar y habitar otro sentido de lo político. Desde la experiencia situada de la investigadora, la cual da cuenta de un posicionamiento político …
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'Face Value' in the Moving Image Practices of Harun Farocki, William Kentridge, and Hito Steyerl
… as a central topos in contemporary moving image art. Specifically, it investigates how the face simultaneously figures as a locus of capture and resistance in the essay films and installations of Harun Farocki, the performance and video art of Hito Steyerl, and William Kentridge’s intermedial …