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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"popular art"”.
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An Investigation into Popular Art
While Popular Art surrounds us, there have been few scholarly investigations of it. One reason for this is that accounts of Popular Art have not facilitated such investigations into Popular Art. I characterize a work as Popular Art based on the relationships that it bears to the influences that …
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Representation of Women In 19Th Century Popular Art and Literature: Forget Me Not and La Revista Moderna
… word (cue) in either the initial or the final part of the sentence was examined. Results indicated that sentences with cues provided significantly greater speechreading accuracy scores than sentences without cues. Furthermore, results revealed a significant difference in speechreadability scores …
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Calendars and the Cosmic Race: Popular Art and the Negotiation of National Identity, Idigeneity, and Gender in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
This study deals with the popular art form of calendar chromos during the post-revolutionary period in Mexico. During this time various political figures sought to fill the power vacuum left by the ousting of Porfirio Díaz. As a result, many of these political figures co-opted the revolution, …
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Da pesca e outras artes: memórias de Antônio de Gastão
This work intends to discuss popular art, by analysing an specific case: Antônio de Gastão, an artist from Cabo Frio It tries to catch what sense does art mean to him, what his art contains and expresses. By devellopment, it broaches another question: popular art as a conscient working-out process, …
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Stephen Crane and the Cinematic Spectacle of the New York Slums
… burgeoning technological revolution of cinema as popular art form. By my estimation, Crane's prose style is clearly influenced by early cinema particularly by its emphasis on spectacle and the episodic nature of the stories.</p>
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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War
… one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the academic world has often ignored the comic book medium as a niche market instead of integrated into the broader discussions on cultural production and conflict …
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Nigerian filmmakers and their construction of a political past (1967-1998)
… and post-structuralist readings of the films as popular art as well as semi-structured interviews of filmmakers and film journalists. The study found that historicizing an ethnically-diverse postcolonial state such as Nigeria through the agency of film is fraught with potential dangers, most of …
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The Persistence of Resistance and the Emancipatory Power of the Aesthetic: On Negt and Kluge’s Critical Theory
… the conditions for a radical social change. I depart from Adorno’s contention that a true historical change requires the construction of what he calls a ‘global’ subject—i.e. a collective of critical and autonomous individuals. Adorno, assuming that capitalism has virtually eliminated autonomous …
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"Trash Music": Valuing Nineteenth-century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwinds
… or serious, as derivative, as merely popular or sentimental. However, many of the perceived flaws were, if not hallmarks, at least accepted realities of Italian opera composing. Like opera itself, the opera fantasia is a popular art form, stylistically predictable yet formally …
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The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, class, and culture, 1870--1940
… lifestyles and elevated them to heroic status. Part of larger nineteenth-century revivalism, the Maritime Revival created an image of seafaring that was a small subset of the entire experience-as-lived. By the 1930s, Americans recognized a heroic, but lost, golden age of sailing ships that did …
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Toward a Female Clown Practice: Transgression, Archetype and Myth
… lack recognizably female exemplars of this popular art form. This practice-as-research thesis analyses my past and present clowning experiences in order to create an understanding of a woman-centered clown practice which allows for the expression of material bodies and lived experiences. It …
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The Representation of Association Football in Fine Art in England From its Origins to the Present Day
… to explore the representation of football in art from its origins in Ancient Greece to the present day, although the main focus of the analysis will be upon representations of football in English art from the late Victorian period up to 2010. In general terms, with minor but notable …
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… developing his sense of the past than were such artefacts of high culture as the great cathedrals and lavishly illustrated manuscripts, since it was through the surviving items of everyday use that Morris could best approach the creative lives of ordinary medieval men and women. For William …
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Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018
… Machine</em> and Walter Benjamin in “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” My dissertation discusses how the ghosts of a celebrity’s personal life haunt their performance and reception in a Broadway musical. Following an examination of three theatrical luminaries, each subsequent …
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A arte e a arquitetura religiosa popular do Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel, o Bom Jesus Conselheiro
… como: crenças e devoções religiosas, festas, artes plásticas, arquitetura, dentre outras. Sobre o Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel construtor e restaurador, nos sertões da Bahia, praticamente nada se pesquisou, o que veio a contribuir para o esquecimento e aniquilamento de formidáveis exemplares …
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The human horse: equine husbandry, anthropomorphic hierarchies, and daily life in Lower Saxony, 1550-1735
… and livestock registers to select pieces of popular and guild art, farrier guides, and farmers’ almanacs. By combining traditional social and economic sources with those that offer insight on daily life, this dissertation is able to show that in early modern Germany, men involved with equine …