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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"pop art"”.
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The pop art/rock and roll connection: The impact of Andy Warhol on rock and roll style
… and roll style. It first examines the rise of pop art as a form and ethos in America during the 1960s. In so doing it focuses specifically on the art, film, and sculpture projects of Warhol and the subsequent subculture that emerged at his Factory studio. Next, the dissertation describes the …
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Just Don't Know How She Does It: a Feminist's Showroom of Subversive Machinations
… if she behaves otherwise. As a point of departure in the development of this project I have focused on how these stereotypes are perpetuated within popular culture. I have taken cues from Pop art especially concerning the way in which these artists have employed images and objects from …
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Expanded Pop: Politics, Popular Culture and Art in Argentina, Brazil and Peru, 1960s
This thesis investigates how Pop art emerged in Argentina, Brazil and Peru, during the 1960s. Stemming from a growing necessity to expand the art historical canon, the thesis questions the significance of Pop as a cultural label. By de-centring the genealogy of Pop to distinct locales, the …
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Marcel Duchamp precursore della curatela indipendente? Elementi per un'influenza duchampiana nella concezione dello spazio espositivo in Gene R. Swenson e Brian O'Doherty
… (per es. Susan Sontag). Soggetto della prima parte della tesi sono le cinque mostre surrealiste a cui Marcel Duchamp ha collaborato, tra il 1938 e il 1961, in veste di organizzatore e allestitore. Si procede a riepilogare e analizzare i diversi punti di vista in cui questa collaborazione è …
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Chroma Cowboy
… brightly colored narrative scenes. Pulling from Pop Art colors, cubism shapes and a consciousness of materials, I designed this body of work to give the hard-working cowboys, ranchers, and agribusinesses a way to have their stories told to a larger audience. The strain on ranches due to …
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Os anos 60: Antonio Dias, uma poética entre o bem e o mal. A história de uma passagem na arte brasileira
The artistic movement which ocurred with the Pop-art, also called by the critique and historiografhy as New Figuration and New Realism, bequeathed to visual arts environment the consolidation of transformation provoked by the procedures performed by the european vanguard of the beginning of the …
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Percursos de transgressão juvenil no discurso fílmico de Scorpio Rising
… motorizados, nos Estados Unidos da América, a partir do período histórico pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, e da estética de Kenneth Anger em Scorpio Rising, que se tomou como corpus de análise neste trabalho. O filme de Kenneth Anger, de 1964, cujo género cinematográfico se engloba no cinema …
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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 research was instigated due to a dearth of critical literature on the work of the distinctive and influential artist and designer, Gee Vaucher. This thesis maps the importance of her work to contemporary visual culture, while tracing its antecedents in avant-garde art movements, namely …
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Beyond Consumption: the art and merchandise of a superflat generation
… impact of Superflat theory and practice of the artist and curator, Takashi Murakami. The thesis aims to analyse how contemporary transnational artistic activity functions via the work of Murakami and Superflat artists, including Chiho Aoshima and Aya Takano. From the blockbuster group …
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Echoes : painterly repetitions and revisions in an age of digitally mediated images
… repetition from early Modernism through to the Pop Art movement highlight the differences and similarities of my intentions in the practical work. In addition, the thematic component of the project is discussed specifically with regard to the prevalence of affinities with the thematic interests …
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Hang on to yourself: Bowie, Burke, and the rhetoric of stage persona
… influences like Japanese kabuki theater, pop art, and queer culture. By performing as the androgynous Ziggy Stardust both on and off stage, Bowie forced audiences to reassess their assumptions about identity and sexuality and challenged the pervasiveness of the white, heterosexual male …
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Gossip pop: A performative investigation of the role of pop in contemporary art practice
By broadening and redefining “pop,” this thesis intends to demonstrate pop’s potential to be considered in a manner that is productive for and applicable to contemporary art theory and practice. The research will be presented as a final survey or diachronic exhibition that will demonstrate the …
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The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power
<p>Two competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through …
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
… enables a productive tension between avant-garde artist intellectuals and mass media journalism. Writing to Shake the World analyzes this dialectic at three specific moments across a postmodern continuum in twentieth century American cultural life, ranging from: (1) the New York historical …
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Freud : moments of modernism
… modern philosophy, the human sciences, and the arts - from surrealism to pop art, from advertising to social welfare policies - Freud's psychoanalysis permeates the ways in which we live, and is one of the key elements of that experience of modernity we can loosely call "modernism". The …
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British art cinema, 1975-2000 : context and practice
… with examining two general aspects of British art cinema between 1975 and 2000; namely, how the British art cinema operates as an art cinema in the context of its 1960s and 1970s European counterparts54 and how the individual filmmaking practices of these British directors both conform to and …
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The Bonwit Teller Window: homoeroticism and gender play in Andy Warhol's early pop exhibition
… of 1961 Andy Warhol exhibited five of his early Pop paintings in the Bonwit Teller window on East 57th Street in New York City (Fig. 1). Juxtaposing fashionably clothed mannequins with paintings inspired by popular culture, the display represents a transitional moment in Warhol’s career. By 1960 …
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Times New Roman
… as an account of some things that happened in my artwork over the course of graduate school and my earlier development as an artist. Some influences are listed, but certainly not all of them. Likewise, the work that is mentioned in this paper represents a sampling rather than an in-depth survey. I …