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Mitchell, M. K. "The regulative aspect of aesthetic appraisal." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371953.
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Jones, David. "Aesthetic justice and communal theatre : a new conceptual approach to the community play as an aspect of theatre for empowerment." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59535/.
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This study re-conceptualises the community play as an aspect of contemporary British theatre. In the context of the idea of an arts entitlement which has two components, participation and enjoyment, it examines three antecedents to current practice. These are: theatre and empowerment, which looks at the work of Brecht and Boal on conceptions of the audience; outreach work, which examines the de-mystification of art by looking at the relationship between theatre and education and community arts, which focuses on harnessing the creative potential of ordinary people. The lines of development which link these three areas to the community play are investigated. The history and origins of the form are outlined and Ann Jellicoe's work with the Colway Theatre Trust is examined. The study offers a new conceptual vocabulary for the analysis of community playmaking which has three principal terms: aesthetic materialism - a development of Marxist principles as they relate to a consideration of the aesthetic circumstances of the people; aesthetic justice - an application of Beardsley's concept to contemporary society and current theatre practice; and communal theatre - a new term developed as a result of this study which clarifies the differences between participation and collaboration in the making of community theatre. These three concepts are united by their relationship to the rejection of bourgeois control of cultural capital which underpins the investigative stance of the study. Contemporary society is characterised by the study as aesthetically unjust and the main questions it asks relate the search for aesthetic justice to the developing form of the community play. The theoretical investigations of the study are contextualized by fieldwork which consisted of a participant observation case study of the community department of the Belgrade theatre, Coventry. This spanned two years and focused on the 1992 Coventry community play Diamonds in the Dust. The study concludes with a comparison of the main forms of participatory theatre in the 1990s which offers a means of identifying the heuristic value of the various models of community playmaking with respect to their potential for empowerment and contribution to aesthetic justice. The implications of the study are that the participatory element of the arts entitlement needs to be strengthened into true collaboration between the professionals and the non-professionals involved in order to ensure equality of access to, and popular control of, the cultural capital which is symbolised by the community play. Communal theatre projects of this sort are assessed as being able to promote the kind of shared experience which is necessary for the development of a more aesthetically just society.
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Rodrigues, rocha Tiago humberto. "Masculinités et souffrance contemporaine : une lecture psychanalytique des interventions esthétiques chez les hommes." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017REN20071/document.
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Cette recherche vise à mettre en rapport les effets du néolibéralisme sur le corps. En 2012 le Brésil a atteint la première place dans le classement international du pourcentage d'interventions plastiques par habitant. Durant ces dernières années, la proportion d’hommes ayant eu recours à la chirurgie esthétique à finalité non réparatrice a très fortement augmenté et reflète un changement dans les formes d’utilisation du corps masculin dans la contemporanéité. Le néolibéralisme a débordé les limites du monde économique pour envahir les modes d’agir et de désirer et faire du corps un bien de plus à produire et à consommer. Le marché triomphe sur les autres formes de croyance, dans une sorte de religion à laquelle le sujet devient dévot face au risque et marques de la castration. L'impact des discours de la science et de la marchandisation généralisée conduit à la promotion d’un homo economicus dans ses rapports à la jouissance. En prenant appui sur la théorie des discours de Jacques Lacan, la recherche a interrogé des hommes ayant recours à des interventions médicales à finalités esthétiques, (chirurgies plastiques, injections de botox, lifting facial, etc.) et qui font un usage particulier de leur corps. Deux cas cliniques sont distingués : l’un diagnostiqué comme névrotique et l’autre relevant de la psychose ordinaire. L'étude s’achève sur les implications au plan culturel de ces nouveaux modes de subjectivation et du privilège accordé sur un mode érotique à l'identification à l'objetThis research aimed at relating the effects of neoliberal ideology on the body. In 2012 Brazil reached the first place in the international ranking of plastic surgery proportionally per citizen. During the last years there has been a leap in the number of men who undergo plastic surgery with aesthetic and not reparatory purpose, which reflects a change in the forms of use of the masculine body in contemporaneity. Neoliberal ideology has extrapolated the economy limits, has invaded the forms of acting and desiring and has made the body one more asset to be produced and consumed. The market prevails over other forms of belief, serving as a kind of religion to which the subject becomes obedientiary as they face castration. The impact of the discourse of science The impact of science discourse and widespread commoditization leads to the promotion of a homo economicus as to its relation to fruition. Based on to the discourses theory of Jacques Lacan, the research interviewed men who used medical interventions with aesthetic purpose (plastic surgeries, filling with botox, facelift, etc.) and make a peculiar usage of the body. Two cases stood out: one being diagnosed as neurotic and the other as an “ordinary psychotic”. The research ends with the implications on the cultural field of these new ways of subjectivation that priviledge identification to the object rather than its erotical use
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Djoumbé, Thoueïbat. "Un autre aspect de la francophonie, la littérature comorienne : société, histoire, culture et création." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030039.
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Cette thèse interroge les origines, les interférences et la production de la littérature comorienne d’expression française. Au confluent entre critique littéraire, historiographie anthropologique des sources et analyse des thématiques dans la création, elle questionne aussi la notion de réception dans un contexte éditorial minimaliste et où langue d’écriture et langue vernaculaire s’interfèrent. En près de 30 ans, les quelques 160 ouvrages publiés de 1985 à nos jours, laissent percer des débuts lents et difficiles. Une réalité qui sera contredite à la fin des années 90 où des maisons d’éditions, même éphémères, naissent avec pour mot d’ordre, promouvoir la littérature comorienne. Va alors s’amorcer une dynamique nouvelle inscrite par le nombre et la variété des genres édités, la multiplicité des thématiques abordées et par l’orientation des revendications littéraires d’ordre esthétique en écho à des revendications identitaires. Parallèlement, transparaît une forme de tâtonnement textuel qui laisse apparaître une dualité narrative sous-tendue dans l’organisation fictionnelle et narratologique des œuvres et mettant en place un type de personnage-pensée à l’origine d’une hybridité textuelle. Par conséquent, cette thèse procède à une forme de bilan de ces trente années d’écriture suivant deux axes d’analyse. Un axe chronologique qui fait coïncider des éléments liés à l’histoire du peuplement avec l’établissement d’une écriture pour les îles afin d’appréhender le contexte originel de production ; un axe analytique et herméneutique recoupant faits historiques et sociaux en rapport avec les objets ou motifs de production et révélant la source des interrogations des écrivains comoriens francophonesThis thesis questions the origins, interferences and the production of French-speaking Comorian literature. At the junction of literary criticism, anthropologic historiography of the source documents and thematic analysis within the creation, it also investigates the notion of reception in a minimalist editorial context where the written and the vernacular languages interfere with each other. For the past 30 years, the 160 publications that have been published, since 1985 to date, have shown slow and difficult beginnings. A trend that would be reversed from the late 1990s, where many publishing houses have emerged, even if it was quite briefly for some of them, with a shared goal: to promote Comorian literature. A new trend will then begin as proven by the number and variety of genres being published, the diversity of the themes discussed, and the direction of the literary assertions of an aesthetic angle in response to identity assertions. At the same time, a form of textual hesitation transpired, shedding a light on a narrative duality, from a narratologic and fictional organisation of the publications, highlighting a type of character-thought creating a form of literal hybridity. Therefore, As a consequence, this thesis proceeds a kind of statement from thirty years of writing according to two axis of analysis. A chronological axis matches elements which are linked to the peopling History with the establishment of a writing for the islands in order to grasp the original context of production; an analytic and hermeneutic axis matching historical and social facts related to subjects or sources of production and revealing the sources of French-speaking Comorian writers’ questionings
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Chabert, Antonin. "Anthropologie du carnaval de Nice : politiques, professions et esthétiques de la fête." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0291.
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Se fondant sur une ethnographie minutieuse, cette thèse propose une anthropologie du carnaval de Nice à partir des dynamiques, politiques, professionnelles et esthétiques. Les données recueillies permettent de comprendre la fabrique politique et institutionnelle de la fête aux regards des mécanismes touristiques qui la conditionnent. Les techniques de marketing festif, les stratégies évènementielles confèrent à ce carnaval une dimension touristique et consumériste. Cela dit, l’analyse ne peut être appréhendée uniquement sous l’angle des institutions ou d’une mécanique verticale et dualiste. Le modèle festif niçois, carnaval-spectacle, suscite aussi des discours d’opposition ainsi que des alternatives avec un contre-modèle permettant d’interroger la définition même du carnaval. Les formes de renouvellement, par exemple à travers le carnaval gay (Queernaval), témoignent d’une réappropriation de la fête par des acteurs locaux. Du point de vue technique, la construction du carnaval se définit comme un métier à part entire, structuré en entreprises spécialisées dirigées par des lignées familiales locales. Le choix de l’artisanat du carnaval peut être animé par une passion mais il peut également représenter une opportunité professionnelle. Enfin, la fabrique de la fête s’appréhende par sa dimension matérielle en sollicitant des techniques, des savoir-faire. La fabrication des objets, essentielle dans un défilé qui met en scène des éléments matériels, constitue un autre niveau d’analyse. Ces objets se définissent comme des créations de l’éphémère mais ils peuvent être aussi donnés, revendus, patrimonialisés changeant ainsi de statuts et de rôles au cours de leur biographieBy basing itself on a meticulous ethnography, this thesis offers an anthropology of the Nice carnival from its political, professional and aesthetical dynamics. The data that were gathered enable to understand the political and institutional building of the show regarding the tourist device that influences it. Indeed the techniques of festivities marketing and the event strategies offer a tourist dimension as well as a consumerist one to this carnival. That being said, the analysis cannot be solely grasped through a view to institutions or to a both vertical and dual mechanism. The festival pattern from Nice, a kind of mixture between a show and a carnival, also has to face opposition as well as alternative schemes building counter-models, which enables to question the sheer definition of a carnival itself. Renewing forms, such as the creation of a gay carnival (Queernaval) for instance, prove the repossession of the show by local protagonists. The building of the carnival is a full-time job, divided into several dedicated companies led by local families.The choice of craftsmanship for the carnival may be a passion but it is a job opportunity either. Eventually, the building of the show has to be understood through its material dimension requiring techniques and expertise that need evolving. Another level of analysis also lies in how those objects are built, so crucial an element in an urban procession that stages equipment. Those subject-object elements are firstly transient creations but they can also be offered, sold again, have a heritage significance thus changing their status or roles along their existence
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Luciaková, Katarína. "Architektúra a nevidiaci." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-233222.
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This thesis explores the relationship between architecture and the blind people. For better clarity and understanding of the topic, The work has been divided into five distinctive parts. In the first, introduction part, I approach space sensation of a blind person from the physiological and psychological angle. This analysis is very important for the understanding of imagination, which the blind person has. Another important fact to understand is the way in which the blind person gets the information about the space and what is his ability to process it. Further, I explain the basic principles of the blind person’s movement through space and describe instructions of how to help blind people in the concrete spatial situations. In the next part, I give a short information about the historical progress of the relation between the society and the blind people. An important fact is that, as late as 200 years ago, the blind people were considered as “sub men” and did not have the full freedom privilege. This relation has been modified over time and nowadays, the blind people have the freedom of movement and all the rights to enjoy their lives. To meet the needs of the blind people, many associations have been created that act on their behalf. The associations have different modes of functioning, but their common goal is to help blind people with their social rehabilitation, looking for employment and removing architectural barriers. The core of my work is divided into two parts. In the first one, I focus on the problematic of the blind people and architecture from the functional aspect. The functional aspect is vital for the blind people. It corresponds to their safety in the environment. In this chapter, I treat in detail basic elements for designing buildings, for specifying barriers and principles of design for blind people. Furthermore, I describe the help tools the blind people need in order to move in the space. I evaluate the future of these tools and indicate the rapid technological progression which makes the life of blind people more comfortable. In the next part, I focus on the problematic of the blind people and architecture from the aesthetic aspect. This question has not been much explored yet, but is, nonetheless, very important. In this part of my work, I use more my personal experience and the knowledge coming from the exploration of space. Aesthetical values are subjective for all the people, with or without a handicap. Therefore, in this final chapter, I try to note the facts that can be used in the process of the aesthetical perception and to reflect on them. In the domain of aesthetical research, there also exist tools and institutions that help blind people in their comprehension of architecture. The division of my work emerged from the compilation of diverse facts in the process of writing. This thesis has an informative and practical character. It is intended for people who want to understand and to be informed about how to design architecture for the blind people. It will be directed towards people who build this kind of architecture and need an overview of how to make it. It is also intended for people interested in learning more about architecture.
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Félix, Pedro. "Trabalho de justificação do argumento-"Viagens na minha terra"." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UCP-Universidade Católica Portuguesa -- -Escola das Artes (C.R. do Porto), 2001. http://dited.bn.pt:80/30489.
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Knoll, Moises S., and Moises S. Knoll. "A study of selected Liszt transcriptions of Schubert Lieder: aesthetic and technical aspects." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624863.
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Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) created the accompanied art song as we know it. His achievement as a composer of Lieder stands at the very core of his labors as a creator. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in addition to being a
composer of genius, was also the greatest virtuoso pianist of the nineteenth century. He had a particular affinity for Schubert's music, which led him to transcribe as many as 54 of the Lieder for piano solo. These transcriptions are faithful recreations of Schubert's musical thought, yet the pianistic layout is completely Lisztian.
Franz Schubert was hardly a public figure during his lifetime, and he gave just one public concert of
his works, on March 26, 1828 in Vienna. According to Hans Gal:
"In 1828 there were the beginnings of an improvement in his circumstances. His songs were becoming more widely known, German publishers were beginning to show an interest in his music, and Schubert was induced by his friends to give a public recital of his works. It was his first and last... Schubert's supporters could easily fill a hall, and the undertaking was both artistically and financially a great success."
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Murphy, Jonathan Paul. "Sight or cite? : Aspects of the visual in Proust." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360762.
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Link, Courtney Anne, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The use of mental imagery by aesthetic athletes prior to competition." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Education, 2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2632.
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This study examined the influence of state-confidence on aesthetic athletes’
precompetitive imagery function use. Important individual differences effecting
functional imagery use require empirical confirmation. Proposed is state-confidence as a
factor influencing the functions of imagery used immediately prior to competition. Also,
sport type may also be a moderator of the relationship and thus, is constrained in this
study. Female aesthetic athletes from Southern Alberta (N = 180, Mage = 14.64, SD =
1.88) completed measures of state-confidence, imagery ability, and frequency of imagery
function use. One-way ANCOVA tests revealed that athletes with high state-confidence
used significantly more cognitive specific, cognitive general, motivation general-arousal,
and motivational general-mastery functions of imagery than low state-confident athletes.
Findings imply that applied sport psychology consultants should be more encouraging of
preparation strategies with low state-confident athletes.xi, 64 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm
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Hearn, Emily K. "Overhearing : Hindu & Christian perspectives on artistry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6500.
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This thesis is concerned with the hypothesis that an intellectual conversation between Christian and Hindu traditions on questions of aesthetic concern may not only prove mutually illuminating as such but also touch obliquely upon matters of religious and theological concern without exciting the defensive response often posed by more familiar strategies of inter-faith ‘dialogue'. It seeks to establish the existence of sufficient conditions for such a conversation within the respective traditions. The Introduction considers the relevant model of ‘conversation' distinguishing it from other forms of encounter between religious traditions. It proceeds by identifying three shared concerns: freedom and constraint, aesthetic experience and religious encounters, and the relationship between the material artwork and its significance. The first three chapters address them by examining various elements in Hindu traditions, including a detailed treatment of the Śilpaśāstras, a comprehensive consideration of the concept of rasa and its relation to religious experience, and an exploration of the role of the senses in scriptural traditions, the importance of Form and the value of the art object as a devotional aid. Finally it outlines the notion darśan, of seeing and being seen by a deity through a material image. The last three chapters address them by examining the work of Christian theologians including Dorothy Sayers on Art as Idea, exploring bequeathed traditions in iconography and the music of John Tavener, and expounding Tolkien's category of ‘sub-creation'. It considers the work of David Brown, Richard Viladesau, John Ruskin, Frank Burch Brown and Abraham Kuyper who span a putative spectrum of equating aesthetic and religious experience at one end and strictly demarcating between them at the other end. It explores the relationship of the physical art object with its spiritual significance in the work of Dorothy Sayers, John Carey, Rowan Williams, David Brown and Trevor Hart.
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Tallon, Philip. "The poetics of evil : a study of the aesthetic theme in theodicy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/744.
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This work proposes to look at the role of aesthetics within Christian theodicy. Though the recent theodicy literature has often displayed suspicion toward the inclusion of aesthetic criteria, I will argue that theological aesthetics can enrich the theodicy discourse and therefore should be used as a resource in responding to the problem of evil. In Part I, I will attempt to lay a foundation for an aesthetically informed theodicy by examining some of the philosophical frameworks that lie behind Christian theodicy, and seeking to illuminate a framework that allows theological aesthetics to helpfully contribute to the task of theodicy. By offering a preliminary account of theological aesthetics, I will aim to further lay a foundation for how the two areas of theology can interact. In Part II, I will look at three distinct aesthetic motifs or “themes” as they are developed by three different theodicists (one ancient and two contemporary): Augustine, Wendy Farley, and Marilyn McCord Adams. Each of the themes developed by these theodicists offers a different example of how aesthetics can reorient and enrich our perspective on theodicy. Though each, in and of itself, is incomplete, I will argue that they complement and critique one another in helpful ways, and therefore that all of them are useful for Christian theodicy.
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郭少英 and Siu-ying Maria Kwok. "The effect of adding opaquing powders on dental porcelain." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007731.
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Bradbury, Elizabeth. "Social and aesthetic theory : a re-examination of aspects of the work of T.W. Adorno." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307067.
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Tai, Lin-Li. "The cultural and aesthetic aspects of applying ecological plantings in urban parks in Taipei, Taiwan." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445130.
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Cossar, John Harper. "Snakes and Funerals: Aesthetics and American Widescreen Films." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/12.
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The study of widescreen cinema historically has been under analyzed with regard to aesthetics. This project examines the visual poetics of the wide frame from the silent films of Griffith and Gance to the CinemaScope grandeur of Preminger and Tashlin. Additionally, the roles of auteur and genre are explored as well as the new media possibilities such as letterboxing online content. If cinema’s history can be compared to painting, then prior to 1953, cinema existed as a portrait-only operation with a premium placed on vertical compositions. This is not to say that landscape shots were not possible or that lateral mise-en-scene did not exist. Cinematic texts, with very few exceptions, were composed in only one shape: the almost square Academy Ratio. Before 1953, cinema’s shape is that of portraiture; after 1953 cinema’s shape is landscape. Widescreen filmmaking is not simply an alternative to previous visual representation in cinema because no equivalent exists. Widescreen is quite simply a break from previous stylistic norms because the shape of the frame itself has been drastically reconfigured. With the proliferation of HDTV and widescreen computer monitors, certain aspect ratios that were once regarded as specifically “cinematic” are now commonplace both in the home and in the workplace. This project outlines a project that traces the innovations and aesthetic developments of widescreen aspect ratios from the silent era of D.W Griffith, Buster Keaton and Abel Gance all the way through to current widescreen digital manifestations of web-based media and digital “blanks” such as those created by Pixar. Other chapters include close textual analyses of “experimental” widescreen films of 1930, the development of “norms” for widescreen filmmaking in the early CinemaScope era of the 1950s and examinations of the experimental multi-screen mosaics of 1968 and beyond.
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Kruger, Lara. "Towards a connective aesthetic : an a/r/tographic journey." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20100.
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Charalambous, Chryso. "Drama/theatre education for democracy : the role of aesthetic communities." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57066/.
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This research project focuses on the body and examines drama/theatre education as a site where politics and aesthetics can be brought together to promote democracy. Specifically, I explore the possibility of forming a way of doing within drama/theatre educational contexts that might influence a way of coming to understand - and potentially in its turn - a way of being. I am especially concerned with democracy as a living practice and I investigate whether students, through an aesthetic communicative nexus that they are encouraged to form within the drama class, and through their artistic actions within that nexus, can explore the possibilities of being ‘political bodies’, meaning the extent to which this allows democratic possibilities to flourish. I see democracy as conditioned by aesthetics and I focus on the power of the aesthetic to distance us from our ordinariness and everydayness and qualify us with a sensibility with which to reflect and think on our ideas and actions. I seek to promote the idea of a democratic culture and the formation of the democratic self that can create and sustain a culture of democracy. In terms of methodology, this project follows action research and an artsinfused methodology. Four groups participated in this research project. The analysis of the data collected from the fieldwork provides information to illustrate the beginnings of a pedagogy that aims to put these ideas into practice.
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Lecointe, Mariane. ""Des soins ...à soi" : Modélisation d'un dispositif d'accompagnement psychologique par la socio-esthétique en oncologie gynécologique et mise en évidence de ses effets psychiques thérapeutiques." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2032/document.
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Ce travail de recherche tend à la fois à développer une modélisation, ainsi qu’à mettre en évidence les effets psychiques thérapeutiques, d’un Dispositif d’accompagnement psychologique de groupe qui propose d’utiliser la médiation des soins socio-esthétiques dans la prise en charge de patientes rencontrées en oncologie gynécologique. C’est ainsi que nous proposons en premier lieu de développer la présentation du fil cosmétologique qui correspond au déroulement du dispositif de recherche, ainsi que celle du cosmétogramme qui est la grille d’observation construite afin de faciliter dans un deuxième temps le repérage des processus psychiques en jeu dans les ateliers. La présentation clinique de nos groupes de patientes nous permet d’illustrer à la fois le parcours des patientes dans le dispositif de recherche et l’utilisation du cosmétogramme.Nous soutenons que les spécificités de ce Dispositif original, dans le paysage des soins hospitaliers tels qu’ils sont proposés aux femmes atteintes d’un cancer féminin, sont source de restauration somato-psychique individuelle visant à une remobilisation psychocorporelle revivifiante. En effet, nous en avons recensé plusieurs (la multimodalité sensorielle, le groupe, les objets médiateurs et le binôme d’animatrice) qui permettraient la mise en œuvre d’un accompagnement psychodynamique de ré/investissement de soi par la mobilisation de processus psychiques particuliers pour des patientes encore sous l’impact d’effractions somatiques comme psychoaffectives générées et/ou réactivées par l’expérience maladive et celle des soins.L’aire d’expériences psycho-socio-esthétique mobiliserait particulièrement le processus de réflexivité psychique et proposerait un étayage intéressant pour la restauration des enveloppes psychiques des patientes bien mises à mal par la maladie et les soins. Nous avons aussi exploré la mise au travail du processus du féminin, en nous concentrant sur la dimension relationnelle du dispositif, plus spécifiquement sur ses enjeux identificatoires et transférentiels. Ainsi, à partir de cette clinique, nous nous sommes intéressée aux processus psychiques qui semblent favoriser une dynamique de réaménagements narcissiques-identitaires et libidinaux chez nos patientes et conduire à une relance du processus de subjectivation féminine et d’appropriation subjectivante de l’expérience du cancerThis study aims both to develop a model, as well as to highlight the therapeutic psychic effects, of a psychological accompaniment set up group that proposes to use the mediation of socio-aesthetic care in the treatment in charge of patients met in gynaecological oncology.Thus, we propose, in the first place, to develop the presentation of the cosmetological thread which corresponds to the progress of the research set up, as well as that of the cosmetogram which is the observation grid constructed in order to facilitate in a second time the identification of the psychic processes running in the workshops. The clinical presentation of our patient groups allows us to illustrate at the same time the path of patients in the research set up and the use of the cosmetogram.We argue that the specificities of this original set up, in the hospital care landscape as it is proposed to women with female cancer, are source of individual somato-psychic restoration aimed at a revivifying psychocorporal remobilization. Indeed, we have identified several ones (sensory multimodality, the group, the mediating objects and the binomial animator) that would allow the implementation of a psychodynamic accompaniment of re / self-investment by the mobilization of particular psychic processes for patients still under the impact of somatic and psychoaffective break-ins generated and / or reactivated by the experience of disease and of medical care.The area of psycho-socio-aesthetic experiences would particularly mobilize the psychic reflexivity process and offer an interesting support for the restoration of the psychic envelopes of patients well harmed by disease and medical care. We also explored how the process of the feminine works, focusing on the relational dimension of the set up, more specifically on its identificatory and transferential issues. Thus, from this clinic, we have been interested in the psychic processes that seem to favor a dynamic of narcissistic-identity and libidinal readjustments in our patients and lead to a recovery of the process of female subjectivation and subjectivizing appropriation of the experience of cancer
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Yang, Julianne Qiuling Ma, and 楊秋凌. "Towards a cinema of contemplation: Roy Andersson's aesthetics and ethics." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50162810.
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Considered one of Northern Europe’s most renowned art film directors to date, Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson has been hailed by critics and art cinemagoers alike for his unconventional visual and narrative style. Marked by his use of long, static shots filmed in wide-angle and deep focus, Andersson’s “tableau aesthetic” is intimately linked to his idea that films, like other art forms, can have an important function in contemporary society: to provoke social and moral awareness in its audience. Aiming to counter what he considers a “fear of seriousness” and a dearth of critical contemplation in modern society and media, Andersson uses his films and his distinct tableau aesthetic to explore the key social, political and philosophical issues of our times: the human condition, the problems of modernity, and the lingering legacy of past historical traumas.
This dissertation presents a study of Andersson’s aesthetic and thematic concerns. The central thesis is that his films continue and innovate key stylistic and ideological tendencies associated with modernist painting and theatre. The introductory chapter serves to justify why Andersson’s work represents a “modernist structure of feeling.” Besides giving an overview of the key ideas, themes and stylistic techniques that mark his films, the introduction explains the humanistic philosophy that is central to not only his aesthetic and thematic concerns, but also his approach to filmmaking itself. The topics that emerge from this introduction – including the function of Andersson’s distinct tableau aesthetic, the thematic richness of his films, and his position within contemporary Nordic cinema and global art cinema – serve as points of departure for the thesis proper.
Chapter 1 focuses on Andersson’s tableau aesthetic, its relationship to his overall tableaux narrative structure, and the influences of pictorial arts and earlier cinematic trends on his style. The chapter discusses the director’s justification for the tableau aesthetic and narrative structure, and what it may tell us about the limits of conventional narrative cinema, and cinema’s relationship to the other arts.
Chapters 2-4 explore three of the central themes in Andersson’s work: the human condition, the critique of modernity, and the lingering legacy of past historical traumas. Chapter 2 focuses on the human condition as a theme in You, the Living (Du Levande, 2007) and compares the film thematically and stylistically to the Theatre of the Absurd. Chapter 3 analyzes Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen, 2000) and its critique of the Swedish welfare state, modern institutions and ideologies. Meanwhile, Chapter 4 looks at the changing ways that Andersson has artistically rendered the topic of historical traumas during the course of his career. In the concluding chapter, Andersson and his films are discussed within the wider contexts of the Swedish film industry and global art cinema.
This dissertation, then, has a two-fold aim: to illuminate the thematic and stylistic richness of Andersson’s much under-researched films, while also critically exploring how his films may move us towards a cinema of contemplation.published_or_final_version
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Sassetti, Correa Lourenco. "The Effects of Widescreen on the Aesthetic of the Film Image." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-364436.
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Newland, Paul. "New approaches to composition drawing on aspects of traditional Japanese music, aesthetics and culture." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428322.
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Freeland, Lisa New. "The medicalization of oral aesthetics: an application of structuration theory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2722/.
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Medicalization has been discussed at length in the sociology of health and illness literature. Typically, dialogue has centered on the effects of medicalization and the process as a phenomenon in professional fields alone. This work is an attempt to study medicalization using a theoretical model, structuration, that allows for inclusion of the larger social system in understanding health system changes and to include consumers of health services in the process as active agents. The example of oral aesthetics provides an opportunity to identify the agents of change, the process of medicalization in the larger social context, and possible indicators of the phenomenon. An attempt to operationalize the complex concept of medicalization marks a move toward creating testable theoretical models for the variety of behaviors and conditions under study as medicalized. Using content analysis of professional dental journals and lay magazines and a review of system rules and resources, shifts in language use and the emergence of medical frameworks were documented to determine if a medicalization of oral aesthetics had occurred. Results show two distinct periods within the last century when oral aesthetics have been medicalized in the United States. Evidence of turn-taking behavior among the agents is noted as well as the relationship of technology and technological language to the process. A model for future testing is suggested that encompass the identified agents, the language and framework, and the elements of social context.
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Williams, Leonard Francis. "The aesthetic basis of cognition : a single case-study investigation of some aspects of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296271.
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Torniainen, Minna. "From austere wabi to golden wabi philosophical and aesthetic aspects of wabi in the Way of Tea /." Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45347289.html.
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Borgonhoni, Annabella. "Análise dos efeitos dos agentes clareadores sobre a estrutura dental." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2010. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1041.
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CAPESA técnica de clareamento dentário tem sido uma das modalidades estéticas mais utilizadas na atualidade, em prol da busca do "sorriso branco". No entanto, a escolha da técnica, agente clareador e freqüência de utilização do mesmo têm de ser feitas de forma adequada para evitar danos ou alterações na estrutura dental. Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar os efeitos dos clareadores na estrutura dental. Foram selecionados 90 dentes de humanos, para preparo de 6 grupos de 15 dentes cada, que foram transformados em 90 corpos-de-prova para os testes. As amostras foram submetidas a testes de microdureza Vickers e análise de impedância, ante e após cada uma das 3 sessões de clareamento realizadas. Foram utilizados 6 tipos diferentes de clareadores disponíveis comercialmente para serem aplicados em consultório ou administrados pelo paciente (caseiro). Os resultados obtidos mostram que, se for considerado os valores médios das microdurezas ante e após a última sessão de clareamento, nas amostras 1 a 60, que foram submetidas aos clareadores utilizados em consultório, foi observada uma diminuição de aproximadamente 2 % na microdureza. Já nas amostras 61 a 90, que foram submetidas aos clareadores caseiros, a diminuição na microdureza foi de aproximadamente 24%. O dados foram analisado-se o teste One-way ANOVA e os resultados mostraram-se significativos para os testes de microdureza realizados com as amostras nas quais foram aplicados os clareadores do tipo caseiro. Os resultados obtidos no trabalho permitem concluir que o uso indiscriminado de clareadores pode provocar danos à estrutura dental.
Techniques for teeth whitening have been largely used as aesthetic procedures. However, the choice of the bleaching agent, the method and the frequency that it will be applied to the patient has to be done properly in order to avoid damage or changes to the tooth structure. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of bleaching techniques on tooth structure. It was selected 90 samples of human teeth to be evaluated considering the Vickers microhardness and impedance analysis, before and after the use of bleaching techniques. The samples were divided into 6 groups of 15 teeth each and 6 different types of commercially available bleaches to be applied at dental offices or at home were used in the tests. The results have shown a decreasing of approximately 24 % in the microhardness after the use of bleaching agents at home (samples 61-90), and only 2 % for those used at dental offices (samples 1-60). The data were analysed using the One-Way ANOVA and the statistical analysis for the Vickers microhardness after the use of bleaching agents at home have shown significant results. Thus, it was possible to conclude that the indiscriminate use of bleaching agents can damage the tooth structure.
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Stellings, Alan. "Music cognition as musical culture, a philosophical investigation of cognitivist theory of music." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0005/NQ28131.pdf.
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Onishi, Yoko 1963. "Prototype and attractiveness in the built environment." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277213.
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The present study hypothesized that (1) perception of the built environment is organized around a prototype, the notion extensively studied by Rosch and others, and, (2) judgement of attractiveness of the built environment is influenced by that structure. 37 subjects rated prototypicality of 51 slides of houses and an independent sample of 33 subjects rated attractiveness of the same slide set. Results showed that people perceived some residential houses as more prototypical than others. Also a significant correlation between prototype rating and attractiveness rating was found. People found the high level prototypicality most attractive, as opposed to the low prototypicality stimuli. It was also found that the residential prototype could be identified by physical features.
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Knowles, Kristen. "Evolutionary and cognitive approaches to voice perception in humans : acoustic properties, personality and aesthetics." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21784.
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Voices are used as a vehicle for language, and variation in the acoustic properties of voices also contains information about the speaker. Listeners use measurable qualities, such as pitch and formant traits, as cues to a speaker’s physical stature and attractiveness. Emotional states and personality characteristics are also judged from vocal stimuli. The research contained in this thesis examines vocal masculinity, aesthetics and personality, with an emphasis on the perception of prosocial traits including trustworthiness and cooperativeness. I will also explore themes which are more cognitive in nature, testing aspects of vocal stimuli which may affect trait attribution, memory and the ascription of identity. Chapters 2 and 3 explore systematic differences across vocal utterances, both in types of utterance using different classes of stimuli and across the time course of perception of the auditory signal. These chapters examine variation in acoustic measurements in addition to variation in listener attributions of commonly-judged speaker traits. The most important result from this work was that evaluations of attractiveness made using spontaneous speech correlated with those made using scripted speech recordings, but did not correlate with those made of the same persons using vowel stimuli. This calls into question the use of sustained vowel sounds for the attainment of ratings of subjective characteristics. Vowel and single-word stimuli are also quite short – while I found that attributions of masculinity were reliable at very short exposure times, more subjective traits like attractiveness and trustworthiness require a longer exposure time to elicit reliable attributions. I conclude with recommending an exposure time of at least 5 seconds in duration for such traits to be reliably assessed. Chapter 4 examines what vocal traits affect perceptions of pro-social qualities using both natural and manipulated variation in voices. While feminine pitch traits (F0 and F0-SD) were linked to cooperativeness ratings, masculine formant traits (Df and Pf) were also associated with cooperativeness. The relative importance of these traits as social signals is discussed. Chapter 5 questions what makes a voice memorable, and helps to differentiate between memory for individual voice identities and for the content which was spoken by administering recognition tests both within and across sensory modalities. While the data suggest that experimental manipulation of voice pitch did not influence memory for vocalised stimuli, attractive male voices were better remembered than unattractive voices, independent of pitch manipulation. Memory for cross-modal (textual) content was enhanced by raising the voice pitch of both male and female speakers. I link this pattern of results to the perceived dominance of voices which have been raised and lowered in pitch, and how this might impact how memories are formed and retained. Chapter 6 examines masculinity across visual and auditory sensory modalities using a cross-modal matching task. While participants were able to match voices to muted videos of both male and female speakers at rates above chance, and to static face images of men (but not women), differences in masculinity did not influence observers in their judgements, and voice and face masculinity were not correlated. These results are discussed in terms of the generally-accepted theory that masculinity and femininity in faces and voices communicate the same underlying genetic quality. The biological mechanisms by which vocal and facial masculinity could develop independently are speculated.
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Maila, Reetta. "Sustainable Lighting - Designed Considering Emotional Aspects." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Communication and Design, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-459.
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Global warming challenges designers to pay attention to environmental effects of manufacturing when designing new products. This examination project was a personal challenge to uphold ethical responsibility as a designer and consider emotional aspects of design while aiming to create a pleasurable lighting for the home environment.
The underpinning idea for the project was to promote the use of recycled materials and an environmentally friendly light source aiming to create a sustainable everyday commonplace product that it is possible to manufacture. High power LED-technology was chosen because of its energy efficiency, flexibility and a particularly long life-cycle. Recycled plastic and fibre cardboard were chosen to be applied as the shades of the lamps. Both these recycled materials can be broken down and recycled again after use.
Emotional design aspect was the leading theory in the design process. The intention was to consider different levels of emotional aspects when defining the main characteristics of the lamp to create pleasurable lighting: Among usability and aesthetics the concentration was on the semiotics of the product and its usage context. It was designed with the aim of evoking pleasurable feelings in users who desire to lead an active and urban life-style but who are simultaneously worried about global warming.
Both of the lighting designs are for a dining context. They are supposed to create a pleasurable atmosphere around a dining table while separating the party around the table from the rest of the space. Other lights can be dimmed or switched off when it is time to gather around the table to accentuate the illumination and feeling of togetherness.
Inspiration for the project came from sustainability, contemporary thoughts and trends embodied into maps. The products turned out to be silent statements of today’s global world; Antarctica refers to glacial retreat while Town symbolises the importance of people’s own origin in this globalised world.
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Knuf, Boris. "The impact of product visual aspects on development processes and success in the component supply industry." Thesis, Brunel University, 1999. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5198.
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The study describes how product visual aspects affect development processes and success in the component supply industry. Past research has demonstrated the importance of the product development function to component supply companies. Previous publications have also shown that visual and aesthetic properties are important for the success of manufactured products. The objective of the study was firstly, to establish on a general level how supply companies control the development process and whether supplier involvement in component development affects their business success. The second stage was to examine more specifically whether visual aspects of products affect development control and business success in the supply industry. The thesis is presented as six chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction. Chapter 2 sets up a model of product development in the supply industry, conducts a series of case studies in industry and develops three hypotheses predicting the impact of product visuals on the development process and success in the component supply industry. In chapter 3 develops a research method for an extensive survey. Chapter 4 plots the data collected in the survey. Chapter 5 discusses the plots examining the three hypotheses. It was shown that supplier control in the development of component visuals decreased with the visual significance of the component in the final product. Furthermore, component profits for supply companies increased with the visual significance of the component in the final product. Finally in chapter 6 conclusions are made.
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Bail, Muriel. "Dance and architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23739.
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Ode, Åsa. "Visual aspects in urban woodland management and planning /." Alnarp : Dept. of Landscape Planning, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2003. http://epsilon.slu.se/a380.pdf.
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Moore, Christopher Lee. "Music in France and the Popular front (1934-1938) : politics, aesthetics and reception." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102813.
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The French Popular Front was a coalition of left-wing political parties (Communists, Socialists, and Radicals) united through a common desire to combat fascism and improve the living conditions of France's workers. Between 1935 and 1938, the ideology of the Popular Front, largely informed by that of the Parti Communiste Francais (PCF), exerted tremendous influence on the cultural life of the French nation. Many cultural and musical organizations heeded the Popular Front's call for broad-based anti-fascist solidarity among intellectuals, artists, and the working class. In the realm of culture, this translated into multiple initiatives designed to bring art to the masses and to encourage the proletariat to become more active in the cultural life of the nation.Sympathetic to the Popular Front's larger political aims, a number of French musicians and composers became affiliated with the Communist-sponsored Maison de 1a Culture and its affiliated musical organizations, the most prominent of which was the Federation Musicale Populaire (FMP). They participated in the administrative, cultural and intellectual life of the FMP; they took part in conferences, wrote articles on the theme of "music for the people," and were advocates for the organization within French musical life at large. Furthermore, these composers wrote works for government-commissioned events, for amateur groups, and for spectacles designed for mass audiences.
Some of the FMP's most prominent proponents (Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, and Arthur Honegger) were former members of Les Six, a group that had been particularly interested in borrowing music derived from "popular" sources like the music hall and the circus following World War I. This study argues that the aesthetic approach of Les Six, which found support in FMP presidents Albert Roussel and Charles Koechlin, was reinvigorated during the Popular Front for a much more clearly defined political purpose. While the general interest in "popular" sources was still maintained, composers at the FMP now sought to integrate folklore and revolutionary music into their works "for the people" in an attempt to create and underline cultural links between workers and intellectuals---a compositional approach for which this dissertation coins the expression "populist modernism."
This study, the first book-length examination of French musical culture in light of Popular Front politics, concentrates on some of the period's most significant populist modernist works and draws upon contemporaneous journalistic coverage and archival documents that in many cases have hitherto never been the object of musicological study. The research shows that in 1936, following an initial infatuation with the genres and styles of socialist realist Soviet works, French left-wing composers developed a more inclusive view of what constituted music "for the people." Composers continued to write music indebted to politically resonant popular sources like folklore and revolutionary songs, but they also drew upon these genres in works (like the collaborative incidental music for Romain Rolland's Le 14 Juillet) that employed modernist compositional techniques. Though this approach was most obviously felt in the numerous works composed for organizations like the FMP, populist modernism also emerged in works performed at the Theatre de l'Opera-Comique and the 1937 Paris Exposition. By cutting across musical genres as well as institutional and social contexts, populist modernism emerges as the dominant aesthetic trend in French music during the years of the Popular Front.
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Clark, Imogen Rose. "Is home where the heart is? : landscape, materiality and aesthetics in Tibetan exile." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:78eb4180-b461-411b-be60-6fbdbdc66f6f.
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In 2000, Tim Ingold argued: 'people do not import their ideas, plans or mental representations into the world, since that very world ... is the homeland of their thoughts. Only because they already dwell therein can they think the thoughts they do' (2000: 186). He thus stressed the importance of place in the construction and reproduction of culture. How does this play out, however, among refugees who by virtue of their displacement must 'import' cultural concepts into alien environments? For those outside a 'homeland' how do they make sense of the world? In this thesis I examine the relationship between Tibetan refugees, the landscapes of their exile and their wider material environment. Drawing on theory in material anthropology and thirteen months' ethnographic fieldwork conducted in two contrasting Tibetan refugee settlements in northwest India, I analyse how Tibetan refugees are affected by, and in turn exert agency over their material world. Through this discussion, I reflect on the multiple and mutable meanings of home for Tibetan refugees, many of whom were born and/or raised in India. Few scholarly discussions of home encompass both its affective and imaginary dimensions; this thesis achieves this by focusing on the material and aesthetic aspects of home. Through this lens, I explore how refugees both work hard to develop a sense of home in exile, yet simultaneously destabilise this by orienting themselves towards an imagined home in a future 'free Tibet'. The discussion unfolds thematically, through chapters focusing on several material categories: landscape, the built environment, dress and objects. I develop my analysis via existing theoretical literature in material anthropology and its sub-disciplines, transnational and migration studies, and area-specialist literature in Tibetology.
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Ferguson, Janet Cynthia. "Experiential learning and the educational significance of the aesthetic dimension : an interpretative account of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the oppressed system of practices." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3060/.
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This study will explore the nature and the scope of the Theatre of the Oppressed practices within the broader educational terrain of experimental learning. The aim of the study is to extend and elaborate on current established understandings of experimental learning by acknowledging and recognizing the facilitative and educational significance of the aesthetic domain. Although there has been a substantial level of theorizing about experiential learning very little attention has been given in defining the educational uses of the aesthetic domain of experience. Some experimental learning theorists have acknowledged the multi-dimensional nature of experience and their work supports the use of drama in the context of experiential learning. Yet there is very little distinctive educational role of the aesthetic domain of experience. It is against this background that this study asks how do we learn from the "experience of drama" and how is this learning different and or similar to our current understandings of experiential learning? In addition to mapping experiential learning as a distinctive terrain the study signposts the conceptual dimensions of the area by delineating the generic features that set experiential learning apart from other models and theories of learning and instructional practice. Against this background, a review of the Theatre of the Oppressed practices will be undertaken and attention will be given to "image theatre" as a mode of communication that works outside the boundaries of everyday language. The specific properties of the "aesthetic space" are explored and related to the educational implications of the carnivalesque motif that defines the distinctive critical sensibilities of Theatre of the Oppressed. Following this the study moves to a conceptual elaboration of experiential learning and the delineation of the educational and facilitative role of "the aesthetic domain". While the study's methodology is grounded to Schon's (1987) understanding of the reflective practitioner, there has been a concerted effort to establish an interpretative framework that corresponds with the refractive qualities of Theatre of the Oppressed. The main purpose is the achievement of an illuminative synthesis of perspectives. Short descriptive accounts of practice provide practical "real life" examples, while the philosophical and theoretical contributions of Dewey and Freire are used to establish the discursive parameters of the study. The overall goal of this largely integrative focus is to contribute to the area of adult and continuing education by illuminating an important but so far largely unrecognized area of practice.
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Marty, Patrick. "L'eau de l'art contemporain : une dynamique d'une esthétique écosophique." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BOR30072.
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L’eau est porteuse d’aspects différents de consciences, tout en étant un espéranto planétaire. Doit-on parler des artistes de l’eau ? ou bien de l’eau des artistes ? Quel que soit le point de vue que l’on considère, il se dégage une synergie de pensées oeuvrant à une réflexion consensuelle et paradigmatique. Cette recherche propose une nouvelle lecture de l’interaction de l’élément naturel avec la place qu’il occupe dans l’art contemporain ; comment l’eau dans l’art contemporain devient, grâce à sa puissance évocatrice, l’Eau de l’Art, une source inépuisable d’adaptabilité transculturelle qui se fait l’écho d’une nécessaire métamorphose. L’eau est devenu un médium parmi tant d’autres. L'eau, matière naturelle par excellence, se retrouve utilisée indifféremment par un peu tous les courants artistiques actuels notamment dans des vidéos, des performances, des sculptures, en architecture ou dans des expériences à la frontière de l’art et des sciences cognitives. On peut examiner trois aspects de la culture de l'eau : en tant que vecteur à la fois d'une culture enracinée, et d'une éthique de l'Universel commun, la force symbolique de l'eau dans l'histoire de l’art, et l'actualité écologique, scientifique et psychologique. L’eau couvre tous les champs du possible, et rend accessible les moindres recoins de la pensée, aussi bien la part d’ombre que la lumière de la psyché humaine. Elle accompagne et interagit sur les non dits des sociétés, car elle contient leurs savoirs ; elle est la matrice de leur philosophie, leur sociabilité, leur géographie (compréhension de l’espace et des milieux de vie), leur communication, leur histoire, leur langage. L’Eau de l’Art dynamise ainsi une esthétique écosophique en puisant dans la poésie du tempsWater is a messenger of various aspects of consciousness, while being a global Esperanto. Should we talk about artists of water? Or the water of artists? Whatever point of view one considers, a synergy of thoughts emerges involving a consensual and paradigmatic vision. This research proposes a new reading of the interaction of the natural element with its role in contemporary art; how water in contemporary art becomes, with its evocative power, Water of Art, an inexhaustible source of crosscultural adaptability that echoes a necessary metamorphosis. Water has become a medium among many others. Water, a natural material par excellence, is used interchangeably by almost all the current artistic trends, including video, performance, sculpture, architecture and experiences on the frontier of art and cognitive science. There are three aspects of the culture of water: as a vector of both an ingrained culture and the Universal ethic; the symbolic force of water in art history; and the ecological, scientific and psychological information. Water covers all possible fields, and allows access to every corner of the mind, the dark side as well as the light of the human psyche. It supports and interacts on the unspoken aspects of society because it contains their knowledge; it is the matrix of their philosophy, their sociability, their geography (understanding of space and living environments), communication, history, language. Therefore, Water of Art adds a dynamic to ecosophical aesthetics in drawing from the poetics of time
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Wong, Ho-hang Anthony, and 黃浩行. "A randomized controlled trial of home tooth-whitening products." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3195439X.
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Eckley, Michael C. "Aesthetic Values of Five Primary Wood Transporting Methods Common to Northern New England." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/EckleyMC2004.pdf.
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Machado, Katia Regina. "Un regard à double égard sur la misère du monde. Analyse des effets de la forme esthétique des images photographiques de Sebastiao Salgado." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030098.
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L’œuvre photographique de Sebastião Salgado, qui focalise la condition de vie des personnes affectées par la souffrance sociale causée soit par la guerre, soit par l’exploitation et la misère, prime par la qualité de la composition esthétique, mais ses images ne sont pas produites dans le contexte de la photographie d’art. Elles s’inscrivent dans la catégorie de la photographie documentaire et leur finalité discursive est la dénonciation sociale. Une part des spécialistes de l’image et des sciences humaines et sociales estiment que ses images ne peuvent pas servir à un tel propos, car leur caractère artistique déforme la vérité de la réalité représentée. L’autre part, en revanche, considère que c’est justement de la forme esthétique qu’elles tirent leur force de communication sociopolitique. Il s’agit du vieux débat sur le rapport entre esthétique et politique réactualisé par la question contemporaine du rôle sociopolitique des représentations médiatiques de la souffrance sociale. Pour constituer notre corpus analytique nous nous sommes servis d’un échantillon d’articles des spécialistes, publiés dans la Presse, dans lesquels on trouve un discours argumenté pour ou contre l’approche photographique de Salgado. La mise en confrontation des argumentations d’opposants et de partisans a permis non seulement de faire une sorte de mise en épreuve de la pertinence des concepts théoriques évoqués en soutien, mais aussi de mettre en évidence les apriori éthiques, sociologiques et politiques qui sont à la base des jugements qui indiquent si l’on doit considérer l’approche énonciative de Salgado comme une bonne ou mauvaise façon de représenter la misère du mondeThe photographic work of Sebastião Salgado focuses on the living conditions of people affected by social distress resulting from civil wars, exploitation, and misery. The pictures are characterised by the quality of their aesthetic composition but they are not primarily works of art. They are rather documentary pictures that represent a social denunciation of intolerable living conditions. Some social scientists specialised in photo interpretation think that his pictures still exhibit too many characteristics of art work and might therefore deform reality. However, others are convinced that just this aesthetic approach constitute its particular strength in sociopolitical communication. The contrasting views reflect the old debate on the relation between politics and aesthetics recently revived by the discussion on the socio-political role of the media in the presentation of social distress. This thesis is based on a representative sample of articles published in print media in which arguments for and against the photographic approach of Salgado are presented. The analytic comparison of the opposed arguments allows an evaluation of the related theoretical concepts. It also reveals an a priori basis of the related ethics, aesthetics, sociology, and politics indicating whether the denouncing character of Salgado pictures is representing an adequate approach to communicate the misery of the world
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Kwan, Lai-shan Clare, and 關麗珊. "Fashioning gender." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29781164.
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Bardauskienė, Dalia. "The role of sociocultural aspects in the city's sustainable development." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080620_091228-97474.
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Topicality of the problem. The history of Lithuanian cities, urban deve-lopment and the values of the inhabitants are closely linked with the West Eu-ropean culture. In the recent socialist past of Lithuania, these links had weakened, while the centralized planning of that period left its footprints not only in the urban structures, but in social consciousness as well. The legacy of the soviet times shows itself even now, though a new law changing the situa-tion in territorial (spatial) planning was adopted in 1995 and the integration to EU urban policy started in 2004. They are responsible for the delay of the imp-lementation of a generally accepted idea of sustainable development.
In the Declaration adopted in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, the main principles of sustainable development and integration of the social, economical, environ-mental issues were outlined and the 21-st century program of activities aimed at achieving sustainable development was presented. In Europe, this aim was con-firmed by the Aalborg Charter. Researchers have demonstrated its advantages by evaluating the results obtained. For this purpose, sets of indicators and citi-zens pools of sustainable development and quality of life were created.
Democracy, the market economy and global trends are changing the spa-tial patterns and socio - cultural values of citizens of Lithuania. Nevertheless, how much those urban changes are in line with sustainable development princi-ples, have not been paid much... [to full text]Tiriamoji problema. Lietuvos miestų istorija, urbanistikos raida ir gyven-tojų puoselėjamos vertybės glaudžiai susijusios su Vakarų Europos kultūra. Netolimos praeities socialistinėje santvarkoje šie Lietuvos ryšiai susilpnėjo, o to meto centralizuoto planavimo pėdsakų palikta ne tik miestų urbanistinėse struktūrose, bet ir visuomenės sąmonėje. Nors 1995 m. buvo priimtas pakeitęs padėtį naujas teritorijų planavimo įstatymas, o nuo 2004 m. Lietuva yra visa-vertė ES narė, sovietmečio palikimas jaučiamas iki dabar ir riboja visuotinai pripažintos darniosios plėtros įgyvendinimo procesus. Rio de Žaneiro deklaracijoje, priimtoje 1992 m., buvo įvardyti pagrindiniai darnaus vystymosi principai, XXI amžiaus darbotvarkėje pateikta darnaus vys-tymosi veiksmų programa, apimanti socialinių, ekonominių ir aplinkosauginių uždavinių integraciją. Europa šį siekį pripažino Aalborgo chartijos dokumente. Darniosios plėtros idėja susilaukia pritarimo, mokslininkai jos privalumus įrodo vertindami jos rezultatus. Tam skirtos darniosios plėtros, gyvenimo kokybės indikatorių sistemos, gyventojų nuomonių apklausos. Demokratija, laisvoji rinka ir globalizacijos tendencijos keičia Lietuvos miestų erdvinį modelį ir gyventojų sociokultūrines vertybes. Tačiau kol kas šie aspektai darniosios plėtros problematikoje nagrinėjami mažai. Valstybės lyg-menyje kompleksiniai miestų darniosios plėtros klausimai, priskirti skirtingoms ministerijoms, prarado savitą problematiką ir integruotą, strateginį valdymą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Funnell, P. D. "Richard Payne Knight 1751-1824 : Aspects of aesthetics and art criticism in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371644.
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Steuer, Carl P. "An architectural investigation into some aspects of ancient Japanese metaphysics and their application in the design of a crematorium in an allegedly haunted building in Savannah, Georgia." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23017.
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Bardauskienė, Dalia. "Sociokultūrinių aspektų vaidmuo miesto darnioje plėtroje." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080620_091544-60698.
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Tiriamoji problema. Lietuvos miestų istorija, urbanistikos raida ir gyven-tojų puoselėjamos vertybės glaudžiai susijusios su Vakarų Europos kultūra. Netolimos praeities socialistinėje santvarkoje šie Lietuvos ryšiai susilpnėjo, o to meto centralizuoto planavimo p��dsakų palikta ne tik miestų urbanistinėse struktūrose, bet ir visuomenės sąmonėje. Nors 1995 m. buvo priimtas pakeitęs padėtį naujas teritorijų planavimo įstatymas, o nuo 2004 m. Lietuva yra visa-vertė ES narė, sovietmečio palikimas jaučiamas iki dabar ir riboja visuotinai pripažintos darniosios plėtros įgyvendinimo procesus.
Rio de Žaneiro deklaracijoje, priimtoje 1992 m., buvo įvardyti pagrindiniai darnaus vystymosi principai, XXI amžiaus darbotvarkėje pateikta darnaus vys-tymosi veiksmų programa, apimanti socialinių, ekonominių ir aplinkosauginių uždavinių integraciją. Europa šį siekį pripažino Aalborgo chartijos dokumente. Darniosios plėtros idėja susilaukia pritarimo, mokslininkai jos privalumus įrodo vertindami jos rezultatus. Tam skirtos darniosios plėtros, gyvenimo kokybės indikatorių sistemos, gyventojų nuomonių apklausos.
Demokratija, laisvoji rinka ir globalizacijos tendencijos keičia Lietuvos miestų erdvinį modelį ir gyventojų sociokultūrines vertybes. Tačiau kol kas šie aspektai darniosios plėtros problematikoje nagrinėjami mažai. Valstybės lyg-menyje kompleksiniai miestų darniosios plėtros klausimai, priskirti skirtingoms ministerijoms, prarado savitą problematiką ir integruotą, strateginį valdymą... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Topicality of the problem. The history of Lithuanian cities, urban deve-lopment and the values of the inhabitants are closely linked with the West Eu-ropean culture. In the recent socialist past of Lithuania, these links had weakened, while the centralized planning of that period left its footprints not only in the urban structures, but in social consciousness as well. The legacy of the soviet times shows itself even now, though a new law changing the situa-tion in territorial (spatial) planning was adopted in 1995 and the integration to EU urban policy started in 2004. They are responsible for the delay of the imp-lementation of a generally accepted idea of sustainable development. In the Declaration adopted in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, the main principles of sustainable development and integration of the social, economical, environ-mental issues were outlined and the 21-st century program of activities aimed at achieving sustainable development was presented. In Europe, this aim was con-firmed by the Aalborg Charter. Researchers have demonstrated its advantages by evaluating the results obtained. For this purpose, sets of indicators and citi-zens pools of sustainable development and quality of life were created. Democracy, the market economy and global trends are changing the spa-tial patterns and socio - cultural values of citizens of Lithuania. Nevertheless, how much those urban changes are in line with sustainable development princi-ples, have not been paid much... [to full text]
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Jones, Doyle Michael. "Masonry ornament : applications of masonry construction in post-modern architecture." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24139.
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Greene, Saara. "Breast cancer : the social construction of beauty and grieving." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23980.
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Coming to terms with breast loss and its effect on body image, femininity and self-esteem are major issues confronting women who have lost a breast to cancer. Furthermore, messages from the media, cosmetic industry and health care profession perpetuate the 'beauty myth' affecting the self-esteem of breast cancer patients. This emphasis on the aesthetic often takes precedence the grief associated with losing a body part that for many women is strongly linked to their self-concept. Based on interviews with nine breast cancer survivors in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Montreal, Quebec, three issues will be addressed: first how the cultural influences that support and perpetuate the 'beauty myth' affect breast cancer survivors; how, as a result of this issue, the grieving process is hindered and third, the experiences of women treated for breast cancer within the medical system. Implications for social work will also be discussed.
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Wittenberg, Hermann. "The sublime, imperialism and the African landscape." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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In this dissertation the author argued for a postcolonial reading of the sublime that takes into account the racial and gendered underpinnings of Immanuel Kant's and Edmund Burke's classic theories. The thesis used the understanding of the sublime as a lens for an analysis of the cultural politics of landscape in a range of late imperial and early modern texts about Africa. A re-reading of Henry Morton Stanley's central African exploration narratives, John Buchan's African fiction and political writing, and later texts such as Alan Paton's fiction, autobiographies and travel writing, together with an analysis of colonial mountaineering discourse, suggest that non-metropolitan discourses of the sublime, far from being an outmoded rhetoric, could manage and contain the contradictions inherent in the aesthetic appreciation and appropriation of contested colonial landscapes.
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Masaki, Tomoko. "A history of the toy book : the aesthetic, creative and technological aspects of Victorian popular picture books through the firm of Routledge 1852-1893." Thesis, Roehampton University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364821.
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Mohammed, Naitullah, and Mohammed Mahamood Ur Rahman Syed. "The relationship between perceived usability of a beautiful interface and of an ugly interface." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-84819.
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The relationship between the perceived usability of a beautiful interface and of an ugly interface is analyzed in this study. This study correlates the visual aesthetics of the website with perceived usability. This research is performed to know the significance of visual aesthetics on perceived usability. A website is designed with two interfaces. One interface is designed by following design guidelines with respect to usability and the other interface is designed without following guidelines. To measure the aesthetic value of these website interfaces, visual aspect questionnaire is used in classical aesthetic sense. After drawing a conclusion on aesthetic values i.e. beautiful interface and of an ugly interface, a survey performed using System Usability Scale (SUS scale) to measure the perceived usability of the beautiful interface and an ugly interface of the website. From the results we found that perceived usability of the beautiful interface is significantly higher than the ugly interface. System Usability Scale turns out sensitive to measure the beauty of the website. Results also show that the design principles have some overlapping with the visual aesthetic of the website.