Dissertations / Theses: 'Art ; Artists ; Art and society'

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Leung, Mei-yin. "The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society the first women's art society in modern China /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B38628697.

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Reisman, David. "The social imagination : the education of didactic contemporary artists : public expression : didactic contemporary artists as educators /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1991. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11039917.

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Thesis (Ed.D)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1991.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Rene Arcilla. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204).

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Hachmeister, John. "Pluralism and the hard sell historically unique influences on young artists today." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9845.

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Leung, Mei-yin, and 梁美賢. "The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society: the first women's art society in modern China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38628697.

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Delday, Heather. "'Close' as a construct to critically investigate the relationship between the visual artist and the everyday." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2121.

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This research proposes and develops a critical framework - a 'matrix' to make sense of the artistic process from the practitioner's perspective. It draws from the research of de Certeau into everyday culture and the art historical discourse of Bourriaud that positions art within models of social interaction. As a critical concept the everyday has benefits for re-thinking the nature of creative activity and its reception. The term participatory relational practice is used \ 11 this thesis to define an approach that situates the artist within the everyday. The matrix is constructed reflexively through three of my art projects and by analysing two artists engaged by the On the Edge research programme to conduct two projects. Used reflectively in and on practice the matrix sensitizes the artist to judgements, values and qualities within a dynamic process of exchange and transaction. The matrix represents a core from which judgements about practice are considered and negotiated. It comprises three inter-dependent dimensions, which the artist selfconsciously models. The aesthetic may be defined as the intricacies of giving form to experience, the ethical as enabling individuals to share a freedom to think, speak or act differently, and the polemical as forming, expressing and enacting a view or position. The research proposes that a nuanced critique may be defined as the interplay between the aesthetic, the playful and resistance. It responds to the need identified in the discourse to develop a multidimensional understanding of practice. The matrix is a way of considering and representing the aesthetic as part of an interdependent whole - a system of values. The research addresses artists and critical theorists interested in collaboration and multi-disciplinary work. The matrix is both interpretive and generative. It can be used to structure and evaluate projects. It has implications for pedagogy in terms of better equipping younger artists with the skills necessary for operating within the everyday as the multi-layered fields of civic society.

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Kim, Gumsun. "A question of equality : women and women's art under patriarchal society /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030801.151817/index.html.

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Perkins, Morgan. "Reviewing traditions : an anthropological analysis of contemporary Chinese art worlds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365526.

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Estrella, Rachel Joy Tancioco. "Lessons from the wall muralism and the art of empowerment /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1324368911&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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McHale, Katherine Jean. "Ingenious Italians : immigrant artists in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13854.

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Italian artists working in eighteenth-century Britain played a significant role in the country's developing interest in the fine arts. The contributions of artists arriving before mid-century, including Pellegrini, Ricci, and Canaletto, have been noted, but the presence of a larger number of Italians from mid-century is seldom acknowledged. Increasing British wealth and attention to the arts meant more customers for immigrant Italian artists. Bringing with them the skills for which they were renowned throughout Europe, their talents were valued in Britain. Many stayed for prolonged periods, raising families and becoming active members in the artistic community. In a thriving economy, they found opportunities to produce innovative works for a new clientele, devising histories, landscapes, portraits, and prints to entice buyers. The most successful were accomplished networkers, maintaining cordial relationships with British artists and cultivating a variety of patrons. They influenced others through teaching, through formal and informal exchanges with colleagues, and through exhibition of their works that could be studied and emulated.

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Cooper, Craig. "The interrelationship and inscription in the experience of place in Hong Kong: art, bodies and architectures." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/749.

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This thesis acknowledges the current situation of political unrest in Hong Kong and examines the volatile horizons that began to emerge from late 2014, while also understanding those that came before. The thesis unpacks the relationships between art, architecture and society and their significance in relation to Hong Kong. Through highlighting and identifying the potential restrictions and examining and responding to the legacy and logic of Occupy Central, this thesis proposes an expansion of the space of possibilities for art in Hong Kong.The interweaving of diverse subjects are part of an intersectional methodology. The frequent changing of artists, locations and subjects have evolved out of the geopolitical situation that this author was embedded within and the architectural conditions under consideration in the research. By using techniques of close analysis and interviews, unpacking existing relationships, creating new temporary relationships (intersectionality) through exhibitions, reports, site visits and experimental curatorial strategies within the city, this thesis articulates the positions and subjectivities that can form around an artwork and its communities of production. This thesis navigates the haunted spaces concealed by ideological barriers, exposing varying sites of production and tensions through time and place. Research examines and proposes new ideas and approaches to art and art-working in Hong Kong while considering the marginalised, alienated and the xeno. Through highlighting a hitherto absent sense of commonality between the government and its subjects and exploring all corners of the political spectrum, the research critically examines the roots of ideological logic as expressed in the city-form and sets out to expand the space of possibilities.

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Kinsella, Sharon. "Editors, artists and the changing status of manga in Japanese society, 1986-1995." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4c437028-f0e3-4c00-915a-1e151d7e89db.

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The contemporary Japanese manga industry began in 1959 when the first weekly manga magazines were published. Throughout the 1960s publishing companies attracted a large adult readership by incorporating radical political themes and realistic drawing styles in manga magazines. The readership continued to expand throughout the 1970s and 1980s and manga became a mass medium on a similar scale to television or pop-music. This thesis identifies two distinct trends in the cultural status of manga which were developing from the mid-1980s onwards. On the one hand, what had previously been seen as 'commercial' manga became respected as an 'art' form and highbrow communication medium. On the other, manga was vilified as pornography and as the extreme expression of an increasingly fragmented society. In the former trend, prestigious corporations sponsored a new category of 'information' manga, whilst in the latter, 'girls' and 'otaku' manga genres were censured by a quasi-governmental censorship movement. The amateur manga subculture in particular became the focus of a 'moral panic' where those involved were characterised as isolated and socially dysfunctional. This thesis, based on ten months' participant observation and intensive interviews in 'Morning' manga magazine editorial office in 1994, examines how this editorial was influenced by the changing status of manga in Japanese society in the formulation of its editorial policy and production methods. Editors felt that in the 1990s social changes presented the manga industry with serious production problems - in particular, a dearth of 'good' artists who could produce social themes, and a shrinking readership. Morning editorial attempted to overcome these problems by pioneering a new form of artistic, high-quality and respectable adult manga, aimed at older and more socially-elite readers. By creating a new proactive intellectual role for manga editors at the same time as sponsoring experimental graphic styles, Morning editorial produced a distinctive new form of conservative, state-supporting social and political adult manga. The re-definition of specific genres of manga as 'art' by Japanese institutions was paralleled by changes in commercial manga production which privileged the social and intellectual interests of editors over those of readers and artists. This study concludes that editors have become increasingly impo7tant in manga production between 1986 and 1995, and that there is a tight interrelationship between commercial cultural production and broader cultural and social discourses generally.

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Kim, Gumsun, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts. "A question of equality : women and women's art under patriarchal society." THESIS_FVPA_XXX_Kim_G.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/358.

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In the past and present the inter-gender relationship has been based on male domination resulting in the overlooking of the female role and value. Many male-inspired theories helped to establish this hierarchical relationship and to perpetuate the belief that men and women have been created differently and not equally privileged. My research on the status of Korean women verifies these theories by examining how much social and cultural conditions have contributed to the difference between the genders to the disadvantage of women. It also reveals the distortion of patriarchal theories by investigating the principle of Confucianism which led to the depravation of Korean women's opportunities to develop themselves. The present level of achievement for women's equality is the result of these women's struggles. I as a women artist, present my work so that it will help both men and women to raise their awareness and to eliminate the prejudice towards females in society. The early principle of the Yin and Yang, distorted later for political benefits, implied a cooperative relationship of two forces for creation and development. Although these force are different and independent, when used cooperatively, they make a complete picture of stability and harmony. If they remain separate forces there is no resulting completion of creation, but instability and misfortunes. By disclosing this principle of harmony in Shamanism and early Confucianism, I also present the notion that all kinds of misfortunes come out of a broken harmony between creatures, peoples, and genders.
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Bedard, Pascale. "L'Art en pratique: éthos, condition et statut social des artistes en arts visueles au Québec et en Belgique francophone." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209178.

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Cette thèse présente les résultats d’une enquête sociologique sur la condition actuelle des artistes en arts visuels et plastiques, réalisée au Québec et en Belgique francophone. Il s’agit d’une étude comparative concernant les mondes de l’art dans lesquels évoluent ces artistes, mais également d’une recherche sur les représentations qu’ils entretiennent à l’égard de leur propre identité d’artiste, de leur rôle et de leur statut social aujourd’hui. Quels sont les enjeux d’une carrière artistique en 2013? En quoi consistent les épreuves et les balises, les facteurs de persistance ou d’abandon d’un tel parcours? Comment choisit-on de devenir artiste au tournant du XXIe siècle, ou de le demeurer? Quelles motivations orientent un tel choix? De quelles manières cette pratique professionnelle s’inscrit-elle dans l’univers contemporain du travail, de la production de biens ou de la culture mondialisée?

Trois objectifs principaux ont dirigé la recherche. En premier lieu, la thèse expose, au moyen des données disponibles dans chaque pays concerné (statistiques, législations, études diverses), les contextes sociaux, économiques et institutionnels dans lesquels évoluent les artistes en arts visuels. En second lieu, elle explore les différentes dimensions de la création plastique en tant que pratique concrète, à partir d’une trentaine d’entretiens compréhensifs menés auprès d’artistes de toutes disciplines et générations, au Québec et en Belgique francophone entre 2008 et 2012. L’enquête interroge les parcours professionnels et personnels afin de savoir selon quelles modalités s’organise le travail artistique aujourd’hui et quelles sont les spécificités contemporaines de ces métiers séculaires. En troisième lieu, cette enquête met en lumière, par le biais de l’analyse des récits recueillis, les univers de représentations et de valeurs qui guident les artistes dans leurs choix quotidiens. Se trouvent identifiés et analysés les critères justifiant leurs choix et leurs actions, leurs référents éthiques ainsi que le sens qu’ils accordent à leurs pratiques de création et, plus généralement, au phénomène de l’art dans la société.

Ce troisième objectif de la recherche permet d’ouvrir la question de l’ethos. En tant que concept heuristique ayant permis d’approcher, dans le cadre de cette enquête, la dimension des raisons d’agir, la notion d’ethos évoque le moment d’incarnation, dans la pratique concrète des individus, de l’ensemble des valeurs et idéaux qui les habitent. Ainsi, sur le plan conceptuel, cette thèse élabore une définition synthétique de la notion d’ethos à partir des multiples sens qui lui ont été accordés dans l’histoire des idées, depuis la Rhétorique d’Aristote jusqu’aux études actuelles en analyse du discours et en sociologie du travail, en passant par ses usages spécifiques chez Max Weber et Pierre Bourdieu.

Cette recherche se fonde sur une connaissance approfondie des études contemporaines et plus anciennes sur les artistes, leurs pratiques et leur statut, réel ou mythique. Néanmoins, dans la perspective méthodologique de la théorie ancrée, elle cherche à renouveler ces connaissances à partir d’une enquête de terrain, en portant une attention particulière aux catégories endogènes à travers lesquelles les artistes interprètent eux-mêmes leur réalité. La parole vive des personnes interviewées fut la source principale à partir de laquelle s’est accomplie l’étude de l’ethos artiste contemporain. C’est dans une approche d’inspiration pragmatiste, qui « prend au sérieux » les acteurs (selon l’expression de Luc Boltanski), qu’ont été menées les entrevues et les analyses de celles-ci. L’enquête révèle ainsi que les artistes d’aujourd’hui parviennent à négocier un espace de cohérence, dans leur vie professionnelle et personnelle, entre d’une part, leurs idéaux concernant l’art et l’authenticité de la pratique artistique, et d’autre part, les contraintes inhérentes à la réalité des mondes de l’art, de l’emploi et du capitalisme post-industriel. Dans une approche inductive, les différentes composantes de cette négociation se dégagent de l’analyse des entretiens, et permettent d’élaborer une sociologie du travail artistique qui tient compte de la dimension réflexive, épistémique, agissant au cœur des pratiques de création plastique.

Compte tenu des conditions économiques souvent difficiles de la pratique artistique, révélées par toutes les enquêtes sur le sujet, l’investissement personnel des artistes, en ressources de diverses natures, semble la condition essentielle à l’existence d’une production artistique, quelle qu’elle soit. Dans cette perspective, il demeure pertinent d’interroger la spécificité du statut et de la condition de l’artiste, particulièrement sous l’éclairage de l’ethos.
Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales
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Cliffe, Gregory Laurence, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Can an illusionary object such as a painting express the essence of change in values of the artist and their society?" THESIS_CAESS_CAR_Cliffe_G.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/457.

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The initial intention of this thesis was to amalgamate two distinct tendencies that evolved in the author's art work over the period of twenty-four years. The illusionary and corporeal qualities of his painting and sculpture had become amalgamated with social concerns, which emerged from his installation and performance work between 1975 and 1985. The moment the artist makes a gesture on a painting surface is a culmination of memory, the immaterial and the corporeal. That moment expresses his judgement about himself, and the world in illusionary form. By bringing together of the self and one's worldview, the corporeal and the immaterial, the past and present, the artist is provided with the authority to make judgements and to change themselves and their surrounding community, as well as gaining insights into changes in values in his community and family. The emphasis of the everyday in the artist's work has become an expression of universal social issues.
Master of Arts (Hons) Contemporary Arts

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Tanner, Jeremy James. "The invention of art history : religion, society and artistic differentiation in ancient Greece." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296707.

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Borders, Elizabeth Furlong. "Working in an Artist Collective in Portland Oregon: The artistic benefits of cooperation and place in an underground art world." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/188.

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This ethnography explores the underground art world in Portland, Oregon by showing how a Portland area artist collective, Oregon Painting Society, navigates their art world. Participant observation, in-depth interviews, and a short latent content analysis triangulate data to show the features and values of the underground art world. Using Becker's concept of art worlds, I show how artists working outside of a traditional art career in a commercial gallery system do their work by exploring how Portland's art world is structured and sustained. I find that group work, cooperation, and resource sharing in a vibrant neighborhood based social network enables artists to substitute resources usually provided by gallery representation and sustain their ability to make artwork without financial support. This is a network that rejects the competitive structure of the commercial system and runs more smoothly the more artists participate in it. I also explore the reasons for Portland's particular ability to support this kind of environment, citing geographic proximity to other art cities, DIY cultural roots, neighborhood structure, affordable city amenities, and a creative class population.

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Earles, Bruce, University of Western Sydney, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Inquiry into the appeal of anonymity to the artist." THESIS_XXX_CAR_Earles_B.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/499.

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This paper, in conjunction with a series of paintings and drawings, attempts to outline the theme of anonymity. The work contains images portraying the feeling of remaining anonymous within a city. The inquiry not so much records the necessity of remaining anonymous for the purpose of urban experience but examines whether the subject matter of the artwork could be communicated to a group of spectators. During an exhibition of the artworks, 20 subjects were surveyed for their opinions. Questions relating to subject matter and aspects of anonymity were posed to the spectators in a questionnaire and structured interview format. In a large majority of cases, spectators of the artworks isolated the multiple-choice answer that most described the subject matter of the artworks. This study gave a strong indication to the artist that the group of spectators could comprehend the subject matter of the paintings exhibited
Master of Arts (Hons) Visual Arts

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Earles, Bruce. "Inquiry into the appeal of anonymity to the artist." View thesis, 1998. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030923.131203/index.html.

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Thesis (M. A.) (Hons.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 1998.
This exegesis is submitted as partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Honours) Visual Arts, School of Contemporary Art [sic.], University of Western Sydney, Nepean, August 1998. Bibliography : p. 56-60.

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Travis, Sarah Teresa. "Portraits of Young Artists: Artworlds, In/Equity, and Dis/Identification in Post-Katrina New Orleans." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157583/.

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Using portraiture methodology and social practice theory, this study examined the identity work of young people engaged in a teen arts internship program at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans. This research asked four interrelated questions. Through the lens of a teen arts internship at a contemporary arts center in post-Katrina New Orleans, 1) How do contextual figured worlds influence artist identity work? 2) How does artist identity work manifest through personal narratives? 3) How does artist identity work manifest in activities? 4) What are the consequences of artist identity work? The findings of the study highlight how sociocultural factors influence dis/identification with the visual arts in young people and provoke considerations of in/equity in the arts.

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Guerra, Aredal Maria Elena. "Art and Transformation under State Repression : The CADA group; art activism as social movement for political resistance during the Pinochet years." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-143298.

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Artist communities are often the first in revolting within a repressive society in the outer marginal borders of state control. This silent revolt takes place in the time period before larger oppositional movements gain momentum. However, the research has been scarce, especially when looking at the specific circumstance of the 17 years long Chilean dictatorship and the social influence that the artists had during this period. This Bachelor thesis will treat the subject and time period from a specific cultural angle, namely the effect the artistic production made by a specific art group, Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (henceforth named CADA) had on the social, and in effect, political discourse in society. CADA, a group of four Chilean artists, sociologists and writers, started collaborating in 1979, applying their artistic endeavors within a social practice that intended to interrupt and challenge the normalized routines of daily life during the Pinochet dictatorship – by utilizing semiotics and signs to reorganize and transform urban behaviors and social discourse. To illustrate the conversation CADAs production held, I will analyze two art works from their total oeuvre, as I am interested in researching the forbidden discourse that the artist movement conducted in Chile at this particular time. During the dictatorship, the official politics regressed to favor cultural symbols and expressions with a patriotic, nationalist and conservative message. This thesis wants to investigate the clash between the rules imposed by the ruling military regime and the actual art scene in Chile.

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Damon, François. "Les artistes vietnamiens contemporains. Traditions et singularités de 1980 à nos jours." Thesis, Pau, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PAUU1002.

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À partir d'une libéralisation de l'économie instaurée en 1986 par le Doi Moi, ce qui signifie «changer pour faire du neuf », les artistes vietnamiens ont entrepris de rénover, sous l'angle de la contemporanéité, l'expression artistique traditionnelle selon des techniques nouvelles, empruntées à l'art occidental. Profondément attachés à la culture vietnamienne et à l'artisanat traditionnel, ils ont cependant créé des œuvres témoignant à la fois de leurs héritages et de leur ouverture à l’art contemporain international, pour les présenter au Vietnam et en divers lieux du monde. Ils ont alors instauré une relation dialectique entre l’histoire et le présent, pour aborder, en affirmant leur singularité, des thématiques concernant la société, la tradition et la politique. Ainsi, à travers leur questionnement «ouvert », dans le sens qu'Umberto Eco a donné à ce terme, les artistes vietnamiens s’inscrivent aujourd’hui pleinement dans l’art actuel, ses multiples pratiques (y compris la vidéo et les installations) et ses diverses théorisations
From a large opening of economy introduced in 1986 by the Doi Moi, which mans « change to the new », Vietnamese artists made a reform of the traditional artistic expression in term contemporary, with new technicals borrowed from Western Art. Deeply attached to the Vietnamese culture and to traditional crafts, they created works recalling their heritage and the opening to international contemporary art, to show in Vietnam and in various places of the world. They introduced a dialectical relationship between history and the present, to discuss, stating their singular nature, themes on society, tradition and politics.Through their question “open” in the meaning that Umberto Eco has given to this term, Vietnamese artists are now fully part of contemporary art, with the multiple practices (including video and installations) and the various theories

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De, Andrade Pissarra Mario. "Locating Malangatana: decolonisation, aesthetics and the roles of an artist in a changing society." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31161.

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This thesis responds to the dearth of detailed studies of pioneering African modernists; and the need for fresh theoretical frameworks for the interpretation of their art. Building on recent scholarship that applies decolonisation as an epistemic framework, it argues that a productive decolonial discourse needs to consider concurrent forms of nationalism and cultural agency in both the anti/colonial and postcolonial periods. Central to this approach is an analysis of the aesthetic responses of artists to the experiences and legacies of colonialism. This thesis is grounded in a study of Malangatana Valente Ngwenya (1936-2011), Mozambique’s most celebrated artist. It draws substantially on archival material and rare publications, mostly in Portuguese. The artist’s career is located within changing social and political contexts, specifically the anti/colonial period, and the promise and collapse of the postcolonial revolutionary project, with the pervasive influence of the Cold War highlighted. Following the advent of globalisation, the artist’s role in normalising postcolonial relations with Portugal is foregrounded. Parallel to his contribution to Mozambican art and society, Malangatana features prominently in surveys of modern African art. The notion of the artist fulfilling divergent social roles at different points in time for evolving publics is linked to an analysis of his emergence as a composite cultural sign: autodidact; revolutionary; cultural ‘ambassador’; and global citizen. The artist’s decolonial aesthetics are positioned in relation to those of his pan-African peers, with four 6 themes elaborated: colonial assimilation; anti-colonial resistance; postcolonial dystopia; and the articulation of a new Mozambican identity. Key to this analysis is an elaboration of the concept of the polemic sign, initially proposed by Jean Duvignaud (1967), adapted here to interpret the artist’s predilection for composite visual signs that, in their ambivalence and often provocative significations, resist processes of definitive translation. It is argued that through a juxtaposition of disparate forms of signs, and the simultaneous deployment of semi-realist and narrative pictorial strategies, the artist develops a complex, eclectic and evocative aesthetic that requires critical and open-ended engagement. The thesis concludes with provocative questions regarding the extent to which the artist’s aesthetics reflect hegemonic national narratives, or act to unsettle these. of a new Mozambican identity. Key to this analysis is an elaboration of the concept of the polemic sign, initially proposed by Jean Duvignaud (1967), adapted here to interpret the artist’s predilection for composite visual signs that, in their ambivalence and often provocative significations, resist processes of definitive translation. It is argued that through a juxtaposition of disparate forms of signs, and the simultaneous deployment of semi-realist and narrative pictorial strategies, the artist develops a complex, eclectic and evocative aesthetic that requires critical and open-ended engagement. The thesis concludes with provocative questions regarding the extent to which the artist’s aesthetics reflect hegemonic national narratives, or act to unsettle these.

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Price, Jonathan Francis Richard. "The discourse of cultural leadership." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1450.

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Cultural leadership has been a key concept in cultural policy and training since 2002. Most closely associated with the UK’s Clore Leadership Programme, it has been developed through various courses and initiatives domestically and internationally, initially as a response to crises of financial management and governance within major cultural institutions. This emergence of cultural leadership coincided with growing political interest in the social benefits of the arts and the economic potential of the creative industries. However, the concept is rarely clearly defined or critically analysed, while the political and economic environment in which the cultural sector operates has been transformed since the term was coined. This research investigates the evolution of cultural leadership as a discursive formation in these contexts. It traces the short history of the term itself and situates it within longer trajectories of cultural policy. Through critical discourse analysis the research questions the relationship between ‘cultural leadership’ and ‘cultural leaders’, asking who creates the circumstances in which art is produced and culture shaped. Leadership itself is reconsidered theoretically as an aspect of political action. Detailed interviews with influential cultural sector professionals are analysed as an empirical complement to literature around cultural history, policy and artistic leadership. The analysis reconfigures cultural leadership as a dynamic process arising from relationships between creative practice and social, political and organisational development. Outlining the respective roles of government, the public and the sector, it proposes a framework for understanding leadership through the interplay of action and influence within and beyond the cultural workforce. Indicating that cultural leadership has a vital critical role to play in democratic society, the research argues for more effective engagement between sectoral leaders, including artists, and questions of policy and cultural value. Its findings are significant for the future study and development of cultural leadership nationally and internationally.

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Ross, Julie Jane. "The role of the artist in environmental change : an investigation into collaborative, interactive and participative art practice in organisational contexts." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366253.

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Barbour, Kim Jaime. "Constructing Artistic Integrity: An Exploratory Study." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2474.

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This thesis explores the concept of artistic integrity. A historical foundation for artistic integrity is laid to provide a context within which eight artists' constructions of the concept can be placed. To date, little research has been conducted to discover how artists feel about artistic integrity, despite the fact that the concept is used frequently both in the popular media, and in arts and creative industries policy and research. Secondary research into European Romanticism and the growth of the creative industries traces the complex development of artistic integrity through to contemporary New Zealand. Grounded by an internal-idealist ontology, a subjectivist epistemology, and an interpretive paradigmatic framework, qualitative, semi-structured interviews with eight artists were conducted to investigate how artistic integrity is perceived by those working within the New Zealand arts environment. The multifaceted nature of the history of artistic integrity is mirrored in the complexity of the responses from the artists involved in this research. Key themes to emerge from the analysis of the interview data were the personally constructed and contextual character of artistic integrity, its importance to the artists involved, and its social contestation. However, the opinions offered on these themes were often very different, and occasionally even contradictory. The artists' responses illuminate how differently artistic integrity could be interpreted throughout the creative community, and question the validity of current uses and definitions of the concept. Most importantly, this research provides an opportunity for artists to offer their understandings of artistic integrity, as surely it is artists who should be determining the validity and meaning of their integrity.

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Rose, Kathleen A. "Environment "atmosphere" /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11084.

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Loir, Christophe. "Les transformations artistiques en Belgique entre 1773 et 1835: institutions, hommes et oeuvres." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211521.

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Gunderson, Maryann S. "Dismissed yet Disarming: The Portrait Miniature Revival, 1890-1930." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1080666457.

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McCusker, Sharon. "In the name of God." restricted, 2009. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212009-104900/.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Georgia State University, 2009.
Title from file title page. Mark Burleson, committee chair; Susan Richmond, Constance Thalken, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 12, 2009. Includes bibliographical references.

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Sandes, Luis Fernando Silva. "Geração concretista em São Paulo: uma biografia coletiva." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21384.

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This master’s dissertation examines the action of a group of fifteen artists and poets linked to the concrete art movement in Sao Paulo starting on the 1950s. The research problem refers to the constitution of the concrete art group and to its role on the modernization of the Brazilian artistic field. The research’s general objective is to understand how the affirmation of the concrete art generation in the city of Sao Paulo during the 1950s took place. There are three important theoretical and methodological tools: collective biography’s method and the concepts of generation from Mannheim and field from Bourdieu. These tools, the situation of the artistic field from that time, and the relation of the Brazilian concrete art movement to the constructive movement are discussed in the introduction. In the second chapter, the dissertation limits itself to the period from 1947 to 1959. During such time span, cultural institutions relevant to the appearance of concrete art movement have arisen. The concrete art movement emerged officially in 1952. Active as a group until 1959, it held debates with other artistic streams and took over relevant positions in the artistic field. Focusing this period of twelve years, the collective biography’s method is used. Such method prescribes extracting relevant social information from defined populations. The resulting collective biography shows a variety of topics, artistic or not strongholds, and exhibits, all in common to the fifteen selected people. In the following two chapters, concrete art movement in Sao Paulo is studied in its unfoldings. In the third chapter factors that have collaborated for the recovery of concrete art after its peak during the 1950s are raised. Among those factors are art collections, art galleries, libraries and book anthologies. In the fourth chapter the echoes of concrete art movement in the contemporaneity are investigated. It is studied how concrete art movement is still nowadays present in the artistic field, considering its artistic proposals and beyond. As a conclusion a group portrait is shown, in which commonalities of the studied population are specified and a interpretative viewpoint is done. The examined material is composed of biographies, manifestoes, autobiographical pieces of writing, exhibition catalogues, monographic studies on artists, articles and critiques published in newspapers, interviews to the author, among others
Esta dissertação examina a atuação de um grupo de quinze artistas e poetas ligados ao concretismo paulista a partir dos anos 1950. O problema da pesquisa se refere à constituição do grupo concretista e à sua atuação na modernização do campo artístico brasileiro. O objetivo geral da pesquisa é compreender como se deu a afirmação da geração concretista na cidade de São Paulo desde a década de 1950. São importantes três ferramentas teóricometodológicas: o método da biografia coletiva e os conceitos de geração de Mannheim e de campo de Bourdieu. Essas ferramentas, a situação do campo artístico de então e a relação do concretismo brasileiro com o construtivismo são discutidos na introdução. No segundo capítulo, a dissertação se restringe ao período de 1947 até 1959. Nesse intervalo, surgiram instituições culturais importantes para que o concretismo se desenrolasse. O movimento concreto surgiu oficialmente em 1952. Ativo como grupo até 1959, entrou em debates com outras correntes artísticas e assumiu postos de relevo no meio artístico. Com foco nesse período de doze anos, é utilizado o método da biografia coletiva. Esse método prevê extrair informações sociais relevantes de populações definidas. A biografia coletiva resultante indica uma variedade de tópicos, redutos artísticos ou não e exposições em comum entre os quinze selecionados. Nos dois capítulos seguintes, o concretismo paulista é estudado em seus desdobramentos posteriores. No terceiro capítulo, são levantados fatores que colaboraram para a retomada do concretismo após seu auge na década de 1950. Entre eles, encontram-se exposições, coleções de arte, galerias, bibliotecas e antologias. No quarto capítulo, são investigados os ecos do movimento concreto na contemporaneidade. Ou seja, é pesquisado como o concretismo ainda se encontra presente atualmente no meio artístico, em suas propostas artísticas e além. Como conclusão, é apresentado um retrato de grupo, no qual explicitam-se aspectos em comum da população e realiza-se uma visada interpretativa. O material examinado é composto por biografias, manifestos, escritos autobiográficos, catálogos de exposições, estudos monográficos sobre artistas, matérias e críticas de arte publicadas em jornais, entrevistas ao autor, entre outros

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Triisberg, Airi. "The Workers of Society – the Artist, the Housewife and the Nun : A Feminist Marxist Analysis on the Intersections of Art, Care Work and Social Struggles." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-113403.

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What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. Furthermore, affinities and entanglements between feminist politics and the struggles of precarious workers are configured and imagined, in order to interlink and converge spatially and temporally isolated resistive practices that are constructed from the experience of unwaged and precarious workers.

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Helguero, Lorenzo. "Transgresion y modernidad la prosa de Rubén Darío /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/453505739/viewonline.

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Pajgrt, Adam. "Art and democracy: The impact and the role of the right to freedom of artistic expression in various political regimes." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-194654.

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The access to technology, the effects of instant information and the emergence of an increasingly empowered global citizen have contributed to the fundamental shift of the global political and economic landscape over the last twenty years. In consequence, the soft-power resources are becoming more and more important components of nation's foreign policy. Foreign policy instruments of public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy can effectively utilize such soft-power resources in order to assert foreign policy goals by purposefully supporting wide range of cultural and artistic activities. It is the aim of the thesis to examine both the direct and indirect impacts of artistic production on societies with various degrees of democratic culture and in connection to elaborate on the relevance of the right to freedom of artistic expression and creativity. The essential aim of this thesis is to look at the role that art production plays in the development of a democratic society.

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Branco, Neyde Figueira. "Representações da arte e do trabalho em Verdades e Mentiras de Orson Welles." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-22102018-131417/.

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Verdades e mentiras (Verités et mensonges / F for fake, 1973), de Orson Welles, parte da história de Elmyr de Hory, um grande falsificador de obras de arte, para propor uma reflexão sobre o mercado de arte e sobre o trabalho do artista no contexto da Indústria Cultural. O filme organiza-se como uma argumentação, que disserta sobre seu contexto sócio-histórico e capta a estrutura de sentimento do período em que é produzido, podendo ser considerado um precursor do filme ensaio. Entretanto, os argumentos nem sempre confirmam as teses propostas inicialmente. Há constantes contradições entre os diferentes elementos que compõem uma mesma cena, ou entre diferentes cenas e sequências do filme, tornando necessário ao espectador realizar uma leitura a contrapelo da obra. Orson Welles incorpora aspectos da tradição cinematográfica e de sua obra e combina-os com a experimentação, que é característica de seu trabalho artístico, para investigar as relações de produção no contexto da indústria cultural e de que forma o trabalho se constitui enquanto horizonte para superação das determinantes históricas da sociedade. Ao mesmo tempo em que faz isso, o filme evidencia a si mesmo como representação, constituída a partir de um ponto de vista determinado, e assim permite que analisemos e interpretemos a verdade desse trabalho artístico, para a compreensão dos temas e aspectos da realidade que ele configura.
F for fake (Verités et mensonges, 1973), by Orson Welles, introduces the story of Elmyr de Hory, a great Art forger, in order to discuss the determinations associated to the Art Market and the work of the artist submitted to the Cultural Industry. The movie is structured as an argumentative essay, which discusses its background and captures the structure of feeling of the period. Because of the way it is organized, F for fake is sometimes referred as a predecessor of what is called nowadays essay film. However, the arguments included do not necessarily confirm the initial thesis of the film. There are numerous contradictions between different elements of a scene, and also between different scenes and sequences. It keeps the audience alert and suggests the need to interpret the story against the grain, as Walter Benjamin advocates. Orson Welles incorporates some aspects of film tradition and of his oeuvre, and associates them with the experimentation of new aesthetics, as it is characteristic of his artistic work, in order to examine the relations of production in the context of the Cultural Industry. He also analyses how labor can represent some perspective of overcoming the social and historical determinations of the society. Whilst structuring these debates, the film exposes itself as a representation of a certain point of view, and allows the audience to analyse and interpret the truth of this work of art, as well as to try to understand the association of themes and aspects of reality that it constitutes.

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Cliffe, Gregory Laurence. "Can an illusionary object such as a painting express the essence of change in values of the artist and their society?" View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030411.102403/index.html.

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Thesis (M.A.) (Hons.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2001.
Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts (Honours) Contemporary Arts, University of Western Sydney (Nepean) 2001. Spine title : Expressing change in values with illusionary objects. Bibliography : leaves 58-60.

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Goldwhite, Phil. "Frames ate the art, frames are the art, the camera is the art, the text is the art, the thing is the art, art is the art /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12203.

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Gervilla, Lucas Rossi 1984. "Abandonamento : intervenções audiovisuais em lugares abandonados /." São Paulo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/183211.

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Orientador(a): Rosangella Leote
Banca: Giselle Beiguelman
Banca: Patrícia Moran
Resumo: A presente pesquisa surgiu do meu trabalho em processo chamado "Abandonamento", realizado por meio de projeções audiovisuais temporárias em lugares abandonados. Em sua parte teórica, a pesquisa aborda diferentes relações entre o artista e o seu local de trabalho, resultando em obras direcionadas para um lugar específico (predeterminado), prática conhecida como site-specific. Discussões sobre aproximações entre arte e lugares abandonados ou em ruínas, partem do pensamento de autores como Andreas Huyssen, Marion Segaud, Miwon Kwon e Nick Kaye, entre outros. Durante a parte prática, foi produzida uma nova versão do projeto intitulada "Abandonamento: Brasil/Rússia", apresentada publicamente em fevereiro de 2019. Ambas as etapas aconteceram em paralelo, encaixando o projeto na linha de pesquisa Processos e Procedimentos Artísticos, do Instituto de Artes da UNESP
Abstract: This research resulted from my work in progress called "Abandonamento", which has been developed through temporary audiovisual projections at abandoned places. The theoretical basis of this research approaches different relations between the artist and his workplace, thus rising works aimed at a specific (predetermined) place, a practice commonly known as site-specific. Debates on the relationship between art and abandoned places - or, rather, ruins - refer to authors like Andreas Huyssen, Marion Segaud, Miwon Kwon, Nick Kaye and others. As for a practical approach to that I have devised a new stage for this work, named "Abandonamento: Brasil/Rússia",presented in an open exhibition in February, 2019. Both stages happened at the same time, which makes this project suitable to the Artistic Processes and Procedures requirements at the UNESP Arts Institute
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Adsit, Melanie Hope. "Caught between worlds: urban aboriginal artists." Thesis, Boston University, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27694.

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Krueger, Pamela. "Counterfeit cultures, cultural appropriation, art by Native artists and Canadian art galleries." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ31446.pdf.

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Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa. "Art and the artists in Lawrence Durrell." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106010.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1976.
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Kokosenski, Rachel Elizabeth. "Art as business: Creating marketing strategies for artists." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2982.

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The project takes marketing strategies learned in business and applies them to the work of visual artists. The project consists of two parts. The first part includes marketing materials and brand identity for a marketing/career counseling business (coach4artists). Materials for the counseling business consist of a corporate identity package, a brochure, a website, a business plan, and a marketing plan for the company. The second part includes marketing materials for a student artist (the "client") from California State University, San Bernardino. Materials for the client consist of a corporate identity package, a brochure, a postcard, a website, a business plan and a marketing plan.

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Kuizon, Jaclyn. "Fine Art and Clandestine Identity: American Indian Artists in the Contemporary Art Market." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626648.

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Raley, Gabrielle. "Between art and advertising the production, organization, and culture of commercial art /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2023816031&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Delannoy, Leïla. "L'expérience artistique en prison : d'une triple inertie à l'expérimentation de transformations sociales." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100028/document.

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Cette recherche, menée dans le cadre d'un doctorat de sociologie sous la direction de Philippe Combessie, repose principalement sur une enquête de 24 mois dans des ateliers de création artistique installés dans la maison d’arrêt pour hommes du centre pénitentiaire de Marseille, que nous avons conjuguée à une enquête de 13 mois dans le centre éducatif fermé de Montfavet. Le travail engagé a surtout reposé sur la volonté d'examiner le maillage entre art, prison et société, considérant finalement que l'enfermement le plus visible pouvait, quand il devenait le point central d'une expérience artistique de collaboration entre le dedans et le dehors, permettre de mener une réflexion sur d'autres types de cloisonnements à l’oeuvre dans la société. Prenant appui sur un dispositif de création collaborative, développé avec des groupes de participants incarcérés et de la société civile, nous nous sommes questionnée sur son sens, ses fonctions, ses effets, à trois niveaux : individuel, institutionnel et sociétal. Nous avons envisagé cette action artistique comme un terrain d’expérimentation de transformations multiples et avons élaboré comme point d’appui conceptuel la notion de triple inertie. Il nous fallait alors tenter une analyse qui ne compartimente pas les impacts en fonction des différents champs de répercussion, s'appuyant sur une perspective d'analyse des agencements préexistants et des réagencements produits. C'est ainsi qu'a émergé une problématique centrale, constituant une armature pour structurer l'ensemble des questions que nous souhaitions abordées dans ce travail, et qui peut ainsi se formuler : en quoi l'expérience artistique collaborative en prison, dans une dynamique transformative, constitue une mise en mouvement et un dépassement des inerties et frontières carcérales à trois niveaux indissociables, individuel, institutionnel et sociétal?
This research, led for the purpose of a PhD in sociology under the supervision of Philippe Combessie, is based on a 24 months long study in the artistic experience workshops set up inside the Marseille correctional institution, combined with a 13 months study in Montfavet’s closed educative center. The work that has been undertaken rested upon the ability to examine the links between, art, prison and society, arguing that the most visible imprisonment can, when it becomes the central point of an artistic experience of collaboration between the inside and the outside, give the possibility to think of new forms of confinement at work in society. This project was developed according to an apparatus of collaborative creation established with various groups of participants that were either in custody or coming from civil society. Its meaning, its functions, and its effects, were questioned on three levels: individual, institutional, and societal. This artistic action came about as a space of experimentation for various transformations and gave the possibility to coin the notion of triple inertia, hereby used as conceptual tool. It was important to bring about an analysis that did not divide the impacts in terms of the various fields of repercussion, and instead, relied on an analysis of both pre-existing layouts, and the new forms of layouts produced. That is how the central issue emerged, becoming the framework that would structure the totality of the questions that were to be discussed in this work, and that can be stipulated as such: How does the collaborative artistic experience in prison, through a transformative dynamic, constitute a movement as well as an overcoming of inertias and prison frontiers on three inseparable levels, individual, institutional and societal

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Morton, Luise H. "Theories of three conceptual artists : a critique and comparison." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/425069.

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Conceptual Art emerged as an international, avant-garde art movement in the mid-60s. Attacking the prevailing aesthetics of modern art, Conceptual artists claim that art lies not in the object itself but in the artist's idea or intention. Their asserted goals have been to combine theory with art and to eliminate the need for form in artworks. The purpose of this study was to examine and critique the key theoretical writings of three artists whose works have been recognized by the critics as significant and seminal for the Conceptual Art Movement: Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, and Terry Atkinson.Historical aspects relevant to this study included the following: (i) early twentieth-century antecedents of Conceptual Art; (ii) recent avant-garde movements of the 60s and 70s; (iii) the history and nature of the concept theories of Kosuth, LeWitt, and Atkinson; (ii) a critiqueof t ese theories in terms of their consistency and viabi ity for generating art; (iii) a comparison of Conceptual Art theories with both commonly accepted theories of art and more radical aesthetic theories of contemporary philosophers.Upon completion of this study, it was concluded that despite many ideological differences, Kosuth, LeWitt, and Atkinson agree on two key notions: (i) the locus of the "work of art" is not a physical object; and (ii) it is the artist's idea which alone accounts for the significance of an artwork. Their arguments in support of these notions are unsatisfactory. Longstanding issues in aesthetics, viz., the problems of defining art and evaluating its significance, are not resolved. The critics' acclaim of the writings critiqued in this study must therefore rest on extrinsic features such as the prestige of the artists, the relevance of the content of the writings to dominant trends in contemporary art, and the potential historical significance of their challenges to established views about art and aesthetics.

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Fenton, Rebecca C. "Contributions/Souvenirs: Contemporary Art and Artists in Mali, West Africa." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1209573114.

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Schmitt, Mary Donatelli. "Ohio Quilt Artists as Teachers." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1124400161.

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Kawachi, Akiko. "Les artistes japonais à Paris durant les années 1920 : à travers le Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, le Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, le Salon d’Automne, le Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants et le Salon des Tuileries." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040188.

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A la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, les artistes japonais s’installant à Paris sont peu nombreux. Cependant, après la Première Guerre mondiale, à partir de 1920, un grand nombre d’artistes japonais arrivent en France. Au total deux cent huit artistes japonais ont figuré dans les Salons parisiens durant la décennie entre 1920 et 1929. La plupart de ces artistes choisissent comme lieu de résidence le quartier de Montparnasse. A cette époque à Paris, dans le milieu des artistes travaillant la peinture à l’huile, dite « yô-ga », nous pouvons distinguer trois courants : Le premier circule autour de Foujita Tsugouharu, artiste de renom associant la peinture occidentale et l’art traditionnel du Japon. Le second regroupe un certain nombre de jeunes artistes, dont Saeki Uzo, attirés par la peinture occidentale et la peinture moderne de Montparnasse. Le troisième courant est de nature académique : dans la lignée de Kuroda Seiki, les artistes suivent l’enseignement des Académies parisiennes. D’autres artistes choisissent la voie d’un art plus indépendant, à l’instar de Tanaka Yasushi, Hasegawa Kiyoshi ou bien Oka Shikanosuke, mais leur nombre reste limité, comme par ailleurs ceux exerçant la technique de la peinture japonaise, dite « nihon-ga », et également ceux pratiquant la sculpture, la gravure, la laque et la tenture. Le résultat suite au dépouillement mené dans les centres de documentation et les fonds photographiques au Japon et en France prouve l’importance de la présence des artistes japonais sur la scène artistique à Paris durant les années 1920 et permet de comprendre les motivations et créations de ces artistes
During the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, not many Japanese artists settled in Paris. However, after the First World War, starting from 1920, a large number of Japanese artists arrived in France. In total two hundred and eight Japanese artists appeared in Parisian Salons during the decade between 1920 and 1929. Most of these artists choose Montparnasse district as their residence. In Paris those days, amongst artists who worked on oil painting called « yô-ga » we can distinguish three movements. The first circulated around Fujita Tsuguharu, a renowned artist who associated the Western painting and the traditional Japanese art. The second gathered a certain number of young artists, such as Saeki Yuzo, who were attracted by the Western painting and the modern painting of Montparnasse. The third movement was of an academic nature: as Kuroda Seiki did, artists were following the teaching of Paris Academies. Other artists choose the route of a more independent art, following the examples of Tanaka Yasushi, Hasegawa Kiyoshi or Oka Shikanosuke, but the number of these artists remains limited, same as those who practiced the technique of Japanese painting, i.e. « Nihon-ga », and also those who practiced sculpture, engraving, lacquer painting, and hangings. The result of going through the data of the documentation centres and photography funds in Japan and in France proves the importance of the presence of Japanese artists on the artistic scenes in Paris during the 1920’s and allows us to comprehend the motives and creations of these artists

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Kim, Joo-Hwan. "Ethos, art gallery, studio, and housing for artists." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63531.pdf.

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Emslie, Anne. "Art and book : a commentary on artists' books." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50684.

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The thesis spans two volumes ... Volume two is an artist's book and although it is part of the project I have set myself, it is not being submitted with the theoretical component of the MA dissertation, but as part of the practical component.' -- Abstract.
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2007.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis investigates the contemporary practice of book art, examining in particular the manner in which it fits both into the tradition of the book and the tradition of art making. The thesis spans two volumes. Volume One discusses the phenomenon of the artist's book from three vantage points: the attempts to define it, the attempts to catalogue it and the attempts to interpret it. Volume Two is an artist's book and although it is part of the project I have set myself, it is not being submitted with the theoretical component of the MA dissertation, but as part of the practical component. (Briefly, one of the tasks it embarks upon is an examination of the phenomenon of thesis writing, as understood and endeavoured by myself in the production of the first volume - in this sense it is self-reflective. Another is an examination of some aspects of my attempts to make examples of artist's books, which includes an investigation of some of the recurrent themes and preoccupations of my work) Volume One is set out in three chapters. The first chapter pursues a definition of book art and the artist's book in order to draw some perimeters around the subject, and to build a picture of its nature. In the course of doing this, the ideas of some book artists and book art commentators are considered in an attempt to create a richer tapestry of understanding. In the next chapter some of the ways in which book art has been categorised are discussed. This is in order to more finely delineate the nature and scope of book art. It is also to bring some clarity to bear upon the different components and manifestations of a vast and sometimes confusing oeuvre. I then suggest a system of classification of my own which offers an adjacent model for investigating artists' books and the endeavour of book art. With the above model in place, I undertake a foray into the arena of interpretation. Here I suggest the suitability of adopting certain methodologies of interpretation that come from the field of contemporary literary studies in general, and the interpretation of poetry in particular. I draw comparisons between the book artist and the poet, and suggest that they occupy a similar territory of meaning making. In the course of laying out my arguments in the three chapters, I refer extensively to examples of artists' books in order to make particular points. Where I consider it apt, I draw upon my book art as a source of example. In this way, I am able to weave into the text some information and reflection about my own practice and concerns as a book artist.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar word in die tesis ondersoek ingestel na die hedendaagse praktyk van die boekkuns en in die besonder die wyse waarop dit aansluit by die tradisie van die boek en die tradisie van die kuns. Die tesis beslaan twee volumes. Volume Een bespreek die fenomeen van die kunstenaarsboek vanuit drie invalshoeke: pogings om dit te definieer, pogings om dit te katalogisieer en pogings om dit te interpreteer. Volume Twee is 'n kunstenaarsboek en, hoewel dit deel uitmaak van die projek wat ek ondemeem het, word dit nie voorgele saam met die teoretiese komponent van die MA- dissertasie nie maar as deel van die praktiese komponent. (Een van die take wat dit ondemeem is, kortliks, 'n ondersoek van die fenomeen tesis-skryf soos ek dit met die produksie van die eerste volume self verstaan en benader het - in die sin is dit selfreflektief. 'n Ander taak is 'n ondersoek van sekere aspekte van my pogings om kunstenaarsboeke te maak, insluitende 'n ondersoek na van die deurlopende temas en preokupasies van my werk.) Volume Een bestaan uit drie hoofstukke. Die eerste hoofstuk streef na 'n definisie van die boekkuns en die kunstenaarsboek met die doel om die onderwerp nader te ornlyn en 'n beeld daarvan op te bou. In die proses word die idees van 'n aantal boekkunstenaars en boekkuns-kommentatore oorweeg in die poging om n ryker begripstapisserie te weef. In die daaropvolgende hoofstuk word van die wyses waarop die boekkuns gekategoriseer is, bespreek, om die aard en rykwydte van die boekkuns nog nader te omlyn. Dit work ook gedoen om lig te werp op die verskillende onderdele en manifestasies van 'n omvangryke en soms verwarrende oeuvre. Ek stel vervolgens my eie klassifiseringsisteem voor, wat 'n verdere model hied vir die ondersoek van kunstenaarsboeke en die boekkunsbedryf. Aan die hand van hierdie model betree ek dan die arena van interpretasie. Ek stel voor dat sekere interpretasiemetodes ontleen aan die tydgenootlike literatuurwetenskap, en spesifiek die interpreteer van poesie, oorweeg word. Ek vergelyk die boekkunstenaar met die digter en stel voor dat hulle op soortgelyke wyses met die skep van betekenis omgaan. In die loop van die uiteensetting van my argument in drie hoofstukke, verwys ek ekstensief na voorbeelde van kunstenaarsboeke om spesifieke punte te maak. Waar ek dit as gepas beskou, verwys ek, by wyse van illustrasie, na my eie boekkuns. Op hierdie manier is dit vir my moontlik om inligting en besinning oor my eie praktyk en pre-okkupasies as boekkunstenaar met die teks te verweef.

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