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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"self-portraiture"”.
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Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
… first artist to systematically explore double self-portraiture’s potential to convey multiple meanings, by painting, drawing and collaboratively photographing thirteen works in the genre. In this dissertation, I argue that these works reflect Schiele’s interest in establishing a deep engagement …
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Exploring the Coming Out Experience Through Animal Self-portraiture
… this study is to explore the use of the animal self-portrait with individuals navigating the coming out process. For lesbian, gay. bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, coming out may not only be a significant event, but a life long process affecting many aspects of their lives. …
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Youlogy : self/portraiture, Canada, and Taras Polataiko's YOU series
… to face the question of identity in terms of self/portraiture. Centring my discussion around YOU , a series of self-portraits by Ukrainian-born Canadian artist Taras Polataiko, I will face the question of identity first with regard to portraiture, by defining the aspects of the self a portrait …
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portraiture and the Concept of Androgyny
<p>The dissertation contextualizes Paul Gauguin’s self-portraits within the nineteenth-century notion of androgyny. The first chapter explores Gauguin’s textual figurations of self in relation to the contemporary medical and philosophical understanding of androgyny and to the literary …
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Frida's moustache : making faces in women's self-portraiture, an exegesis
… and art practice to interrogate the idea that self-portraiture by women artists can be positioned, and interpreted, as a practice that strategically intervenes in the politics of representation, gender and identity. The focus of this study is the face. The represented female face is identified …
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Representing the Subject: An Interdisciplinary Study of Women's Autobiography, Self -Portraiture, and Autoethography in the Twentieth Century
… these artists do not aim to represent ""the self"" or the ego. Instead, they attempt to represent subjectivity and thereby initiate a more penetrating analysis of the human condition and a more profound inquiry into the foundations of human suffering. Their examination of the origins and …
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The Visual Representation of Self in the Social Media Era
… particular are changing the artistic practice of self-portraiture both artistic and ‘folk’. I look first at the history of self-portraiture, particularly fine art self-portraiture. I move on to examine how people portray themselves online today and how this would be different from their behaviour …
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Unspoken Incantation: Kawaii Culture as Empowerment
Unspoken Incantation explores the use of self-portraiture as a form of expression that represents female empowerment in kawaii culture. This paper specifically addresses how kawaii culture has evolved to include a form of self-expression primarily constructed by young females. Proponents of kawaii …
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
… Using prophetic imagination through photographic self-portraiture and text (my own and found texts using the Bible), I seek to make plain the effects of white, Christian patriarchy on people’s lives.</p> <p>The journey of divesting oneself of Christian patriarchy is one full of rage, grief, and …
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Yasumasa Morimura: Appropriator of Images, Cultures, and Identities
… artist Frida Kahlo, exploring the realm of self-portraiture, gender theory, and the identity crisis that both faced. Through this approach to the artist’s work, it is seen that all of these theories are deeply connected to Morimura’s work due to his identity as an Asian male artist living in …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… ethnography. Some of these include, the use of self-portraiture, time lapse photography, installation, the use of improvisational movement and the use of elements of magical realism in storytelling. Many, many of my moves here are rooted in the works of postcolonial writers, thinkers and, in …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… Chapter Three details Shima Seien’s use of self-portraiture to protest the dehumanizing elements of the “female artist” archetype and assert an alternative vision of herself as an artist and individual. Chapter Four considers Yoshida Fujio’s embrace of the “female artist” as part of a …
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The artist's performative practice within the anti-ocularcentric discourse
… within two areas of investigation: the self and strategies for its engagement with the external world. The research was conducted by adopting an evolutionary approach, which allowed me to test hypotheses through artistic experimentation. The structure of the thesis encompasses these two …
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Experiences of self and belonging among young people identified as having learning difficulties in English schools
… terms. Embracing the potential of video voice, self-portraiture and life-mapping as ethical, participatory and inclusive research methods, this study has captured multi-sensory narrative data. Offering a detailed description of how the methods operated inclusively contributes to the field and, …
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Gazing at the family: archives, performance and Portuguese photography (1940-1975)
… The key questions of the research thus deal with self-representation, performance and the use of family photographic archives as a method of investigating the processes of identity formation. The thesis draws on cultural theory, including the sociology of family photography, archive fever, …
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METHODOLOGICAL EMBODIMENTS:: PSYCHICAL CORPOREAL PERFORMANCES OF SUBJECTIVE SPECIFIC AUTO[EROTIC)-REPRESENTATIONS
… last twenty years at least to the relation of 'self and 'Other'. But what happens when the external 'other' is displaced to the periphery of the concerns of textual production? In order to explore this question Methodological Embodiments employs an interdisciplinary praxis that is not limited to …
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The Revised and Expanded Version: A Series of Etchings
… making. The images began as a “life-sized” self-portrait filled with philosophical texts on beauty, then followed by a layer of more personal, diaristic writing. The plates were reworked and printed many times, culminating in their final states as they filled in more densely with text and …
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Visualising 'The Waste Land': Discovering a Praxis of Adaptation
… visual processes that arise in the production of self-representations derived from literary texts. The construction of a series of photographic and video installations drawing upon T. S Eliot’s poem 'The Waste Land' (1922) allowed for the exploration and analysis of how literature functions as a …