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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"readymade"”.
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"Inventories of Limbo": Post-Minimal Aesthetics in Cinema From the Readymade to Institutional Critique
… of post-minimal aesthetic practice: the readymade, institutional critique, and seriality. A central goal of this research is to remap entrenched language and ideas in the spheres of the arts and cinema to point to a profound reciprocity between cinematic technology and post-minimal …
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The Perfect, Singular Moment, When Reality Looks Back at You to Show, Exactly, What She Has Been Hiding All This Time: Nothing
… extending and complexifying the concept of the readymade (as first introduced by Marcel Duchamp). The focus on materiality separates this research from more traditional time-based art practices such as video, sound, or performance, as I seek to investigate the temporal properties of a sculptural …
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Women as industrial labour: an enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh
Over the last quarter century, the readymade garments industry has emerged as the main export-earning manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. The industry is the first to employ women in large numbers in the formal manufacturing sector. Using information collected by the author from readymade …
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The Legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin in Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Light Installations of the 1960s
… of cultural practice employing the Duchampian readymade. In exploring the contingent light-field or what Flavin called ""situations,"" I critically analyze a unique sense of historical consciousness embodied in the phenomenological field of ambient light."
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One Million Paintings 2005-2007: A Thesis
… identities. Every surface of any object is a readymade painting – especially flat ones. By stacking objects and aligning their surfaces on one privileged side into a flat mega-surface, I am composing and collaging – even building – a painting. With my amateur interest in German I latch upon …
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Duchamp Meets Turing: Art, Modernism, Posthuman
… to Marcel Duchamp and his invention of the readymade, and not with postmodernism, the theoretical consistency of which, at least in the artistic field, this research will question. A first aim of this work will be to unify the main concepts and theories of the artistic field with those of …
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Allegories of nature, culture, gender : dialogues with Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés-
… games and disclose how they serve to perpetuate readymade givens and thus to undermine his patatautological position. At the same time this deconstructive dialogue is an intervention which brings to the fore an array of obscured histories of women as agents of culture as well as diverse feminist …
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After the copy : creativity, originality and the labor of appropriation : Dafen Village, Shenzhen, China (1989-2010)
… of universal creativity raised by the Dafen "readymade." Establishing continuities between Dafen production and the making of "high" art while challenging their putative antinomies, this study shows how the ideology of individual creativity undergirds the cultural industry policies of the …
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The Divided Seal
… ‘R. Mutt’ which appears on Marcel Duchamp’s Readymade, Fountain (1917), a work with great conceptual importance for contemporary dematerialised and Relational Art practices. In bringing SEC into close 3 proximity to Fountain, the thesis establishes potential grounds for reading a significant …
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The Divided Seal: Reading a History of Signatures in Visual Art through Derrida’s Signature Event Context
… ‘R. Mutt’ which appears on Marcel Duchamp’s Readymade, Fountain (1917), a work with great conceptual importance for contemporary dematerialised and Relational Art practices. In bringing SEC into close 3 proximity to Fountain, the thesis establishes potential grounds for reading a significant …
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Tailor Made in India: Jaipur's Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing
… labor force. At a time when mass-produced readymade and branded clothing is increasingly available and attractive to an aspiring middle class, I seek to illuminate the unrecognized expanse of tailors’ craft as practiced daily within the creative constraints of satisfying the desires of …
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Trading in exogenous networks: a theoretical application and experimental results
… using the software z-Tree (Zurich Toolbox for ii Readymade Economic Experiments) developed by Fischbacher (2007), and took place in a campus computer lab. Participants in the study made take-it-or-leave-it offers to potential buyers with whom they are linked in a repeated measures study. Across a …
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Re-Assembly
… of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade; and Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation. The output of this research is one where artwork intersects physical reality with simulation (in process and production) marking the reassembly of self and artistic skill. Themes in this …
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Eastern European Time-Based Art During and After Communism
… was appropriated by a number of artists as a readymade. This artistic response to everyday reality shaped an unofficial narrative of the Communist epoch. Operating beyond the official realm these artists were subject to varying degrees of censorship, and their activities led to what became …
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Enhancing the professionality of early years educators: a model of support for professional development
… generative co-producers rather than consumers of readymade professional development packages. Second, the focus of the provision of support should acknowledge the educator and her context as the starting point for professional learning, rather than preconceived content based on specifications of …
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'The reader and I are making faces': W. S. Graham's Management
… NIGHTFISHING. It argues that the notion of the readymade emerges as vital to Graham’s sense of poetic composition, control, and chance. Therefore it re-reads THE NIGHTFISHING and THE DARK DIALOGUES as a collection of found voices via Graham’s interest in tape-recorders and radio, and discusses …
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The madness of the Black man on his own: an analysis of the silences of history, in search of herstory
… it emerged into an international context with a readymade nationalist discourse of the liberation of Black people and the struggle of Black men. That discourse, however, might not have emerged if the usage of the masculine as universal were not already an acceptable practice the English language. …
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The Bible and its modern methods: interpretation between art and text
… outlook and the speaker’s sense of irony. A readymade gambler’s bond by Marcel Duchamp is projected opposite the opening chapter of Qoheleth’s reflections to introduce the wise man as a dandy who entertains his admirers through pleasing words. The comparison thus establishes a context in …