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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"women artists"”.
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Charlotte Yonge, and Amy Levy. It analyzes how …
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Scandinavian Women Artists in and beyond Paris, c. 1900-1930
… thesis examines the experiences of Scandinavian women artists who travelled to Paris in the early twentieth century and encountered new freedoms, opportunities, and inspirations away from their home countries. A rich international field of study already positions women artists in histories of …
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Issues in the construction of identity of some contemporary women artists
… an empirical study of forty-three contemporary women artists. The aim of this research was to explore how a number of factors impact on these women’s construction of their identity as artists. The women were selected through the East Midlands Arts register of artists, and therefore targeted …
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Performing radical black womanhood: Black women artists as critical public pedagogues
… to explore the pedagogical experiences of Black women artists and performers from Detroit, Michigan, using qualitative methodological components from autoethnography, ethnography, phenomenology, and art-based inquiry. The researcher used criterion sampling in order to select six of the women who …
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Strategic spaces : towards a genealogy of women artists' groups in Canada
… history, this thesis looks at the histories of women artists' spaces in Canada Overlooked by predominant texts addressing Canadian art history, these spaces have provided a physical place where many Canadian women artists have gathered to train, exhibit, and support each other as professional …
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WOMEN ARTISTS’ TELEVISION Artists’ television from the 1970s to 2000s: Broadcast experiments and interventions into television by and about British-based women artists’, producers and commissioners. Doctoral research project
… thirty years of television art practice by women artists and producers in the UK. The research aims to question and challenge women’s TV art in the mainstream broadcast sector and trace its development to the present date as moving image and its future manifestations including streaming and …
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WoCA projects, building communities through exhibitioning: Curating and spaces for women artists of color
… curating exhibitions that feature the works of women of color (WoC) artists. In this study the researcher explores the ways in which viewers interpret exhibitions by the non-profit arts organization, WoCA Projects, an alternative curatorial initiative in Fort Worth, Texas, that highlights the …
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The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
… Labille-Guiard were two of the most prominent women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this thesis that in their responses to a range of societal limitations, Vigée-Lebrun and Labille- Guiard forged remarkable careers. I will examine just how they did …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… framework for understanding individual Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about the …
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Making the transparent apparent: Studies of key women artists in the history of ecumenical stained glass
… imbalance, acknowledging that the work of women stained glass artists warrants more attention than it has thus far received. It argues that a feminist history needs to be established so that aspiring female stained glass artists can see their own achievable potential in the accomplishments …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… text, 'Australian Painting 1788-1960', 'But women, perhaps because of their status in Victorian and Edwardian society and other reasons that need not be discussed here, did not figure prominently in Australian art prior to the First World War.' Were there so few 'great' women artists in …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… text, 'Australian Painting 1788-1960', 'But women, perhaps because of their status in Victorian and Edwardian society and other reasons that need not be discussed here, did not figure prominently in Australian art prior to the First World War.' Were there so few 'great' women artists in …
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The lives and works of the women artists at the Della Robbia Pottery Birkenhead in late Victorian and Edwardian England
… the larger issues concerning the employment of women, particularly working and middle-class women, in the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian England. The findings are analysed in the light of interpretative models employed by feminist historians, particularly the view that women's …
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Locations and dis-locations of personal, public and imaginary space in the visual production of ten women artists working in South Africa
… public and imaginary space in the work often women artists in South Africa. It does this toward understanding the relationship between the manifestation o f the artists' processes o f imagining and the shaping o f their identities. The term 'locations' is used to refer to areas, or sites, in …
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Frida's moustache : making faces in women's self-portraiture, an exegesis
… 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 as a site that is …
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Bernece Berkman and the monograph: A feminist perspective
<p>Bernece Berkman is one of many renowned women artists who has not been historically acclaimed. As women artists have been rediscovered, issues have arisen as to how they should be written about in relation to art history, because the language and canon of art history has revolved around and …
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(In)visible Ink: gender and Chineseness in contemporary Chinese art
… and calligraphy (shufa) in the work of four women artists in the People’s Republic of China – Bingyi, Ma Yanling, Tao Aimin and Xiao Lu. The thesis highlights the gendered histories and nationalist legacies of ink painting and calligraphy associated with the literati tradition and with its …
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Another Emerging: Locating the Islamo-Orientalised Female Other Navigating Anotherness in Contemporary Western Visual Culture
Few women artists from the Muslim world(s) who live and work in the diaspora can talk about the way they represent themselves and their artistic self-image without confronting the pre-existing ideas of their predominantly Western audiences. Neither are these women able to escape the historical and …
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Sidonia Hedwig Zaeunemann: The Satirist and Her Struggle for Recognition
… standard in education, the prejudice against women artists who challenge traditional gender roles, and her call for some economic self-sufficiency for women are important in evaluating her contribution to the emancipation of women.
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