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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"visual artists"”.
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Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study
… dissertation explores the creative process of visual artists to better understand how creativity can be cultivated. Visual artists' perspectives and sense-and-meaning-making processes offer a unique view of innovation and creativity. However, there is limited research on the creative processes …
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Towards a Definition of Visual Artists’ Archives: Vera Frenkel’s Archives as a Case Study
… a foundation for understanding the nature of visual artists’ archives.
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The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: a socially orientated reconceptualisation – fomenting social inclusion and remunerative parity
Due to the nature of their work visual artists enjoy a unique place within copyright law. Not only do these creators benefit in the main from the right of reproduction but also from the value attached to the original artefact embodying the protected work. Framed accordingly it might seem that …
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Drawn from artists’ lives: An empirical study of the situation and realisation of professional visual art practices in the Western Australian Field of cultural production
… of empirical research on the working lives of visual artists living and working in Western Australia. No detailed studies of this kind have previously been undertaken in a Western Australian context, though a series of national, economically framed studies have surveyed Australian artists …
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Socio-political and cultural identity in the visual arts in Namibia: A study of transitional and post-independent Namibian visual arts, focusing on John Muafangejo, Joseph Madisia and Ndasuunye Shikongeni
… and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art. It aims to investigate how transitional and post-independent indigenous Namibian visual art is different from visual art developed during the colonial period, by focusing on issues of cultural identity and socio-political statements. For …
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Search for the self: redefining the jazz language : a personal perspective.
… and aesthetic ideas practiced by three visual artists and one musician. In response to these ideas, the author devised exercises and strategies that served to enhance his own creative and personal expression. This expanded creativity and expressivity became the basis for two recitals, …
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Art Fronts: Visual Culture and Race Politics in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States
ART FRONTS: VISUAL CULTURE AND RACE POLITICS IN THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY UNITED STATES Erin Park Cohn Supervisor: Kathy Peiss Art Fronts argues that visual culture played a central and understudied role in the African American freedom struggle in the middle part of the twentieth century. In …
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Poiesis
… and concluding with three contemporary visual artists whose marks have influenced my work: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, and Susan Rothenberg. Finally, my artistic process is explained through references to the materials and rituals used to create a body of art. This thesis …
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The Visualisation and Expression of Virtual 3D Surfaces Explored through Custom Developed Interactive Software, Optically Mixed Coloured Surface Contouring and Fine Art Printmaking
… burgeoning electronic digital technologies. Many visual artists, excited by these technologies, have embraced and integrated these new artistic mediums with those of tradition, while few have recognised the arrival of a new and unique visual language. A growing minority of these visual artists …
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In Place: Visualising Migrant and Diasporic Home-making in Contemporary London
My project investigates how the visual depiction of domestic spaces and intimate cityscapes can represent the home-making experience of migrants and diaspora members in London and the contemporary urban environments in general. When looking at existing representations of migration and diaspora, it …
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
… in motley of mediums. While the leading portrait artists of the day, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, were painting dazzling portraits of Mrs. Robinson, she found herself lampooned in the satirical cartoons of James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson. The multifarious …
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Playing with/in history
… investigation into the work and writings of visual artists, historians, critics, writers and playwrights who all recognize the area of fragmentation in their specific field. The other was through writing and directing a play with UCT drama students called Lekker Faith (2003). This particular …
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The development of strategies for interdisciplinary collaboration from within the visual arts.
… are evident across a range of contemporary visual art practices and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration are becoming more available for artists, particularly those working beyond the gallery context. However, there is currently a lack of literature critically addressing …
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HAPTIC HAPPENINGS: AN EXPLORATION OF SOUND, QUIET AND BLACKNESS
… research analyzes the lives and works of Black visual artists and filmmakers as visual representations of haptic events. This thesis examines how the lives of the artists and specific works of art are entangled with sound and quiet and directly reflect and shape the complexities black …
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They didn't win the war : aesthetics and infrastructure in post-counterinsurgency Guatemala.
… studying, producing, and executing ethnographic visual-arts projects, my dissertation analyzes the sociocultural infrastructures intrinsic to sensorial forms of counterinsurgency that spread to the aesthetic regime in contemporary Guatemala. I focus on the historical moment in which …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
… similitude, and proximity between species, visual artists represented animals either in humanized guises or in contexts of encounter with humans. Animal imagery was especially malleable during this period when science and pseudo-science both confronted the possibility that species were …
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The Portmanteau Papers
… of William Hogarth, which it investigates as a visual analogue to the narrative patterns employed by period authors. By rereading and recreating selected elements of narrative implicit in Hogarth’s prints, the text of The Portmanteau Papers animates the tensions between modern and period prose …
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Down the rabbit hole: An Exhibition – and – Alice in Wonderland engaging with the reflexive project of the self: An exegesis
… This exegesis investigates the making of visual artwork that responds to this significant story, exploring the symbology and metaphorical nature of the text and seeing the story as a “reflexive project of the self” (Giddens, 1991, p. 5). I began this research having already created two …
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Inequality in digital personas - e-portfolio curricula, cultural repertoires and social media
… admission to tertiary study and employment by visual creatives. Despite the growing importance of digital portfolios, we know very little about how professionals or students use theirs. This thesis contributes to knowledge by describing how South African high school students curated varied …
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The pedagogical significance of the life and work of artist Helen Grey-Smith
Visual arts educational practice has been built upon a tradition which has neglected the work of women artists. The reasons for this are explored in the introduction to this research and in the literature review. The research will examine aspects of the lived experience and work of a Western …
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