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Showing 1 to 20 of 289 for “"visual culture"”.
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Katherine Mansfield and Visual Culture
The relationship between modernist fiction and visual culture has received substantial critical attention in recent years. However, many of the studies on this intermediality focus primarily on the drama, poetry, and novels of male authors, with Virginia Woolf being the only significant exception …
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The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
… the representation of the female body in Roman visual culture, exploring a range of images from mainland Italy that date between the late 1st century BC and the 2nd century AD, from three specific contexts of display: the public, domestic, and funerary. It seeks to understand how the two parts …
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Children's Artistic Development and the Influence of Visual Culture
… subject matter to find out the frequency of visual culture in the drawings. I collected first and fifth grade drawings at a suburban, public elementary school analyzed them by use of two different checklists containing many characteristics described in Viktor Lowenfeld's theory of artistic …
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Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
<p>This dissertation explores the influence of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy and politics of anarchism guided major aesthetic debates about modern …
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Mediating Modernity: Visual Culture and Class in Madrid, 1926-1936
… the differing responses to modernity in the visual culture of Madrid from 1926-1936. I trace the debates generated by the anticipation, apprehension, or expectations to the ongoing processes of modernization. My work is guided by the understanding that the metropolis is both a physical and …
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INTIMATE ENEMIES: VISUAL CULTURE AND U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS, 1945-2000
This dissertation examines the visual discourse between Cuba and the United States that has helped shape the foreign relations between the two countries over the last fifty years. Images celebrating proximity and metaphorical connections, produced before the 1959 Cuban revolution, assisted in …
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The Dragon's Eye: A Quest for Tabletop Role-Playing's Visual Culture
… in furthering our understanding of them. The visual aspects of these products are well-documented and celebrated, but in this essay I attempt to define the overall landscape of TRPG visual culture across its illustrations, graphic design, marketing, and other supplementary multi-media.</p> …
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Dogs and Domesticity Reading the Dog in Victorian British Visual Culture
… with dogs in Victorian British art and visual culture. It studies the redefining and restructuring of the domestic dog as it was conceptualized in visual culture and the art market. It proposes that the dog was strongly associated with social values and moral debates which often occurred …
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Cantering Amidst Art, Science, And Aesthetics: Early Modern Equestrian Visual Culture
… and the equine subject’s extended influence on visual culture produced in Europe during the early modern period. In equestrian portraits of the European nobility, the apparent grace and control of the rider (and horse) have occluded the culture that inspired the poses and postures of the …
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Double agents : queer citizenship(s) in contemporary South African visual culture
… myself with representations of queer subjects in visual culture and the multiple audiences these representations invite.
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Nuclear nightmares: representations of nuclear anxiety in American Cold War visual culture
… nuclear anxiety in nuclear apocalyptic popular culture and civil defence initiatives, respectively. Focusing on particular peaks in nuclear anxiety during the 1950s, early 1960s and 1980s, this thesis analyses the ways in which visual nuclear apocalyptic popular culture, in film and video games, …
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TikTok as Art: Visual Culture Art Education in an Afterschool Art Program
… investigate the firsthand experience of</p> <p>visual culture art education in an after-school art program. The after-school</p> <p>program was focused mainly on an underserved population. We focused our</p> <p>concentration on the social media app TikTok. The author investigated visual</p> …
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Goede Nacht: Images of the Night in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture
… Images of the Night in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Visual Culture provides a comprehensive study of depictions of the night in Dutch art from seventeenth century, and of a number of different ways in which contemporary understandings of the nighttime informed artistic practice throughout the …
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Approaching Africa: The Reception of African Visual Culture in Germany 1894-1915
This thesis focuses on the approaches to African visual culture in German publications between 1894 and 1915. Considering the development from a purely ethnographic analysis towards an art historical and art scientific discourse, it brings together formerly unconnected fields of research. By …
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Carnival Is Woman!: Gender, Performance, and Visual Culture in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
<p>While great strides have been made in the study of Trinidad Carnival, there has yet to be a robust inquiry into how women have contributed to its evolution. One major reason for this shortcoming is that the dominant cultural discourse relies on a reductive</p><p>dichotomy that recognizes the …
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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity
"Chapter four, ""Performing Indigeneity,"" considers how indigeneity itself serves as a powerful topos in the constitution of Ecuadorian national publics. The chapter pays particular attention to an increasing emphasis on indigeneity as a corporeal matter over the course of the twentieth century. …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
… to systematically list and classify Santal visual culture as comprehensively as possible, and secondly, to understand this culture through more complex, collective subjectivities. These subjectivities were shaped primarily by the cultural memory of the tribe, their migratory past and their …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed …
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