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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"postmodern art"”.
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Copyright law and postmodern art : reconciling property in mass media with democracy
… of the conflict between copyright law and postmodern appropriational artforms such as audio-visual collage. By looking at the philosophic foundations of copyright, authorship and property, and then surveying the current law of copyright and the reasoning of the judiciaries in both Canada …
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Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.
… and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an organizing idea for designing a thematic unit with the purpose of introducing …
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Reimagining the Liberal Arts in an Age of Technoscientific Progress
… investigate the impact of dismantling liberal arts curriculum during an era of dramatic technoscientific progress. I will explore the development of the posthuman focusing specifically on the areas of virtual reality and biomedicine. As I unravel the implications that virtual reality and …
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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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Inducing Knowledge by Enduring Experience: the Function of a Postmodern Pragmatic Aesthetic in Linda Montano's "Living Art".
… Failed?</em> (1984), Suzi Gablik calls for a postmodern art that has preserved the values that modernism lost over the 20th century, stating that only through "direct knowing" may we be shocked out of <em>art-for-art's-sake</em>. In <em>Art As Experience</em> (1934), John Dewey similarly …
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The works of Cy Twombly : non-linear language and non-linear consciousness
… position in the discourses of Modernism and Postmodernism. As Twombly has been viewed as an 'inimitable' and independent artist, it is necessary to question the extent to which his works adhere to, or transgress, the terminologically restrictive monolithic metalanguages of late Modernism and …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… Within the history of twentieth century art negation has been cited as the defining spirit of the Modernism (TJ Clark: 1986). Jean François Lyotard suggests that it is the sublime that has provoked this destructive, nihilistic tendency and given Modern and postmodern art its ‘impetus and …
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Conceptualizing learning issues throughout the creative process of digital storytelling: case studies of three learners' video making
… of digital video production, and notions about postmodern art pedagogy as they might apply to narrative digital video pedagogy. I also review varying definitional claims regarding narrative and digital video production as posited by media scholars, art educators, and film critics. The primary …
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Re-evaluating Murakami's Superflat: toward a contextualized interpretation of contemporary Japanese art
… Edo period (1603-1868) and contemporary Japanese art. Murakami built his own production studio and branding devices as an attempt to further codify Superflat as a unique movement in Japanese art. As a result of Murakami’s tactics and the popularity of his theory in North America and Europe, many …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to do with the …