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Tanchio, Paul Albert. "Transcultural aesthetics and contemporary art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10225.

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‘Transcultural aesthetics’, in Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics (1998), is a generic term used by comparative philosophers and aestheticians to denote a theoretical assessment of distinctive applied aesthetic concepts and experience of cultures. This thesis is concerned with transcultural art and transcultural aesthetics, and it uses the argument put forward by comparative philosopher and aesthetician Eliot Deutsch, in his On Truth: An Ontological Theory (1979), that its practitioners’ distinctive art forms, especially Anselm Kiefer, Imants Tillers, John Y

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Swalwell, Melanie. "Aesthetics and hyper/aesthetics: rethinking the senses in contemporary media contexts." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/386.

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This thesis addresses the escalation of interest in the senses, across a range of media technological contexts, dating from the mid 1990s. Much of this discourse has focussed on the experiential, particularly intense, multisensory experience of the present. As there are numerous discourses on the senses, technology and affect individually, my concern is to examine some of the intersections between these, in order to reconsider the contemporary significance of aesthetics in media contexts. I develop a ‘hyper/aesthetic’ approach to try to think about aesthetic relations with technology in a nuan

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Bell, Richard 1972. "Towards a psychoanalytic aesthetics of contemporary literature." Monash University, German Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8912.

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Rae, Paul Alexander. "Relating Singapore : cosmopolitan aesthetics and contemporary performance." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2005. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/9509/.

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This thesis addresses the place and function of theatrical performance in the highly globalized postcolonial city state of Singapore. In so doing, it combines a detailed study of a number of theatrical events and performative practices, with a broader enquiry into how the localized experience of theatre can be valued without recourse to instrumentalist justifications or appeals to afunctionality. Recognising modern Singapore's distinctive status as a "world city" run as an "illiberal democracy", it proposes the idea of a "cosmopolitan aesthetics", which understands the encounter with theatre i

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Husbands, Lilly Marie. "Animated experientia : aesthetics of contemporary experimental animation." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/animated-experientia(85e342f2-7ec9-4c7c-9024-20e2a8931677).html.

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Since the early 20th century, artists have explored the seemingly endless potential inherent in the complex blend of visual art and cinema that is experimental animation. Contemporary artists make use of both traditional and modern techniques to produce works of animated visual art that subvert conventional viewing practices and the normal perception of moving images. Despite an increased output of scholarly studies of animation and avant-garde media over the last twenty years, contemporary works of experimental animation rarely receive the kind of close, in-depth analysis that their formal an

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Schmid, Erica. "Fail Better: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Criticism." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/274890.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Though literature and literary study have needed defense for most of their respective histories, the current crisis in academic literary study and the humanities more generally has forced scholars into the uncomfortable position of selling their disciplines and simultaneously warning students about the risks involved in earning what the dominant public considers to be "useless" degrees. The paradox, of course, is that dissuading would-be studiers is both ethical and destructive: it is necessary to inform students of the frightful instability of careers in literary study, bu

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Florian, Sara <1981&gt. "Contemporary West Indian poetry: a "Creole" aesthetics?" Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/975.

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La mia tesi verte su un’indagine dei più ricorrenti principi di un’estetica “creola” nella poesia contemporanea dei Caraibi anglofoni, includendo un’analisi dei testi letterari scelti e dei loro contesti. Ho studiato l’opera poetica (che in alcuni casi abbraccia anche arte e musica) di Earl McKenzie e Joan Andrea Hutchinson (Giamaica), di Lasana Sekou (St. Martin), di Shake Keane (St. Vincent), di Kendel Hippolyte (St. Lucia), di Adisa Jelani Andwele (a.k.a. AJA) e del defunto Bruce St. John (Barbados), di Merle Collins (Grenada), di David Rudder e LeRoy Clarke (Trinidad), e di altri due poeti

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Smith, Sandra A. "Uli metamorphosis of a tradition into contemporary aesthetics /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1267478083.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2010.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 28, 2010). Advisor: Fred Smith. Keywords: Uli; Igbo; Nigeria; body painting; wall painting; Nsukka; traditional women painters. Includes bibliographical references (p.101-105).

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Magara, Cindy Evelyn. "Contemporary East African Cinema: Emergent Themes and Aesthetics." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24115.

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At the turn of the 21st Century, a dynamic and eclectic cinema that had been slowly developing in the East African region gain traction. Yet, the nascent cinematic imaginaries of East Africa have received the least scholarly attention of all the regional cinemas of the African continent. The study explores emergent themes and aesthetics of East African Cinema by locating East African cinema in contemporary African cinema criticism, particularly its indigenous concepts, epistemes and approaches to film analysis. By conceptualising eclectic national cinemas into a complex homogenous entity, I a

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Ferguson, Bruce W. "From sight to site : some considerations regarding contemporary theory in relation to contemporary art." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61972.

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Collins, Lorna Patricia. "Making sense : art and aesthetics in contemporary French thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610086.

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Warton, John Phillips. "The aesthetics of destruction in contemporary science fiction cinema." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25992.

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Mass destruction imagery within the science fiction film genre is not a new cinematic development. However, a swell of destruction-centred films has emerged since the proliferation of digital technologies and computer-generated imagery that reflect concerns that extend beyond notions of spectacle. Through illusionistic realism techniques, the aesthetics of mass destruction imagery within science fiction cinema can be seen as appropriating the implied veracity of other film traditions in order to create a baseline of visual credibility, even to the extent of associating its own fantastical fict

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Heathfield, Adrian. "Representation and identity in contemporary performance." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/3bfedf40-4124-4ca5-b729-355c0601d71a.

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Howard, Lauren. "The Aesthetics of Healing Representations of Sexual Trauma in Gita Hashemi’s Grounding: States of Gender." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41433.

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The following thesis explores the complexities of visual representation in relation to women’s experiences of sexual trauma, focusing on Gita Hashemi’s durational performance, Grounding: States of Gender (2017). Specifically, I look at the prolonged psychic pain that stems from the infinite negotiating of traumatic memory and the simultaneous struggle to have these experiences be seen, heard, and validated. With reference to theorizations of mourning (Butler, 2004; Fitzpatrick, 2013) and feminist approaches to psychotherapy (Herman, 1992; Magnet, 2017) my study of Grounding responds to a conte

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Andersson, Robert. "Spiritually uncontrolled art : exploring aesthetics of evil in contemporary music." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för kultur-, religions- och utbildningsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8368.

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This essay investigates interpretations of evil as expressed in contemporary music, focusing mainly on lyrics in contemporary popular music. The purpose is to analyze whether there is acertain aesthetic embracing of risk and innovation on display when discussing such subject matters, and to relate such aesthetic connotations to cultural and religious aspects. Lyrical interpretations of evil in a musical context appear to be existent in different forms andare in various ways attempts to integrate the existence of evil acts, as leading to suffering and pain, by incorporating such themes into lyr

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Jenkins, Matthew B. "Contemporary percussion performance an overview of aesthetics and performance practices /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1453661.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.<br>Accompanying disc is DVD-ROM and contains sound files of the recording of the recital. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Jun. 25, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references: P. 7.

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Chan, Wing-chun Julia, and 陳永晉. "Towards an aesthetics of cliché: cultural recycling and contemporary fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42182311.

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Satayaban, Natsuda. "The gendering of aesthetics and politics in contemporary Scottish fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25860.

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This thesis studies contemporary Scottish fiction by four writers Agnes Owens, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, and Alan Warner, focusing on the problematic position of women characters and feminocentric texts within the dominant class and national(ist) discourses. It argues that the intimate interconstitution between Scottish masculine subjects and class/national politics alienates women from an active political subjectivisation, that the gender matrix of femininity/masculinity underlies the normative selection of which gendered subjects, and accordingly whose symbolic 'voice', can be perceived as

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Chan, Wing-chun Julia. "Towards an aesthetics of cliché cultural recycling and contemporary fiction /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42182311.

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McConnell, Gail Florence. "For a words sake : Theological aesthetics in contemporary Northern Irish poetry." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534658.

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Hunt, Anna Louise. "Abjection & aesthetics : bodies, space & subjectivity in contemporary women's writing." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.437471.

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Rainbow, Adrian Paul. "The poetics of emancipation : critical pedagogy, radical aesthetics and contemporary fiction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445771.

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Tweed, Hannah Catherine. "Aesthetics of autism? : contemporary representations of autism in literature and film." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5996/.

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This thesis analyses representations of autism in twentieth and twenty-first century Anglo-American literature and film. It posits that, while many cultural portrayals of autism are more concerned with perpetuating the stereotypes surrounding the condition than with representing autistic experiences, there is evidence of a small but significant counter-current that is responding to and challenging more reductive representational modes. Each of my chapters examines prevailing narrative tropes that reinforce existing stereotypes of disability (narratives of overcoming, victimhood, dependency), w

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Hernandez, Maria C. "Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Basque Narrative: Three Portrayals of Terrorism." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1553613721523236.

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Popa, Emilia Diana. "The specificity of the aesthetics of slowness in contemporary Romanian cinema." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14124.

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Contemporary Romanian cinema, particularly in its internationally successful instances, displays formal characteristics that have often led to its being seen in terms of the so-called Slow Cinema trend in contemporary cinema. This thesis proposes that there is something distinctive about slowness in contemporary Romanian films, similar to and yet different from Slow Cinema. Through a detailed analysis of films made by Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, two of the most representative contemporary Romanian filmmakers, Romanian slow films emerge as a less stringent form of slowness characterised by

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TALLIS, TAYLA. "take one, please leave a comment: an exploration of participatory aesthetics." Thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20113.

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Darley, Andrew David. "The computer and contemporary visual culture : realism, post-realism and postmodernist aesthetics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259729.

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Delgado-Garcia, Cristina. "The aesthetics and politics of character and subjectivity in contemporary British theatre." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/c6578e94-d667-4a82-b953-2137f2cddd86.

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This doctoral project offers a politically-inflected renegotiation of the related notions of character and subjectivity as they are currently used in Anglophone theatre studies. It proposes to strategically rethink character as “any figuration of subjectivity in a theatre text or performance” so as to enable a less prescriptive inquiry into the theatrical forms and subjective figures that veer away from the liberal-humanist ideal. This understanding of character is deployed to re-route and politicise the reception of four contemporary British, script-led works that experiment with speech attri

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Iafelice, Maria E. "Re/Presenting Artful Pedagogy: Relational Aesthetics in Early Childhood Contemporary Art Experiences." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374496542.

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Lundgren, Jodi. "Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects : contemporary fictions of Canada /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9523.

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Kuo, Yen-Ting. "Social Responsibility and Aesthetics: The Function of Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Taiwan." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367473.

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Since the lifting of martial law in 1987, documentary production in contemporary Taiwan has experienced considerable change. Arguably, the most significant of these changes — the development of an independent documentary sector — can be understood as part of wider social, economic, political and cultural developments in the Republic of China. From 1949 until the late 1980s, most documentary production in the Republic had reflected the ideologies and didactic nature of the paternalist Nationalist Party government. During these years, the documentary typically functioned to glorify the governmen

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Lachance, Lindsay. "Cultural Renewal in Aboriginal Theatre Aesthetics." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23425.

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The goal of this research is to shed light on current developments in the field of Aboriginal Theatre Studies. This investigation encourages the reader to look again at the ways in which elements of Aboriginal culture are manifesting in contemporary theatre. Aboriginal theatre is increasingly visible in Canada and its cachet is growing with both artists and audiences. As a result, culturally specific worldviews and traditional practices are being introduced to mainstream Canadian theatre audiences. Through interviews with practicing Aboriginal artists like Floyd Favel, Yvette Nolan and Marie

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Arnold, Kristi. "Unearthing the grotesque: the transformation of the underground to cultural mainstream." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12775.

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'Unearthing the Grotesque: the Transformation of the Underground to Cultural Mainstream' examines the grotesque by way of its history and re-‐emergence over the last few decades. Of particular interest is the grotesque’s historical aesthetic evolution – how it began with beauty and ended in distortion, as well as the grotesque’s ties to myth and low and high forms of art. The theoretical underpinnings in my thesis derive from a range of writers who either examine the grotesque specifically such as Wolfgang Kayser, Mikhail Bakhtin, Geoffrey Harpham, or explore similar concepts in relation to t

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Boetzkes, Amanda. "Beyond perception : the ethics of contemporary earth art." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102788.

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This dissertation considers the aesthetic strategies and ethical implications of contemporary earth art. Drawing from feminist and ecological critiques of phenomenology, it posits that an ethical preoccupation with the earth is identifiable in works that stage the artist's inability to condense natural phenomena into an intelligible art object thereby evidencing the earth's excess beyond the field of perception. Contemporary earth art has the paradoxical goal of evoking the sensorial plenitude of the earth without representing it as such. The first chapter analyzes Robert Smithson's monumental

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Jung, Myung Won. "Iconoclasm and aesthetics from fear to celebration, focusing on contemporary cases in Korea /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p051-0111.

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Jung, Myung Won. "Iconoclasm and aesthetics from fear to celebration, focusing on contemporary cases in Korea /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Vidal, Belén. "Text/figure/fantasy : from period aesthetics to the literary film in contemporary cinema." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414036.

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Kolbas, Eugene Dean. "Politics and aesthetics of the literary canon : critical theory and the contemporary debate." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268878.

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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.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Rene Arcilla. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204).

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Polkinghorne, Jane Patricia. "Foam Rainbow: where humour, disgust and failure mingle in contemporary art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14909.

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This thesis explores the potent interconnections of humour, disgust and failure to understand their function in contemporary creative practices. Operating in shifty and nebulous terrains, the three experiences are under-researched, and rarely considered in combination. Fused together in certain creative practices, they operate on the threshold of pleasure, revulsion and fiasco. Such an intersection has the potential to produce surprisingly profound aesthetic experiences that fuse cognitive and emotional responses, momentarily disrupting the artifice in art and representation. Humour, disgust

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Yau, Ka-fai. "Of graphology : notions of space & time in contemporary cultures /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21790929.

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Giannini, Claudia Teresa. "Cultivating hallowed ground the use of garden imagery as a contemporary symbol of the sacred /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=567.

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Thesis (M.F.A.)--West Virginia University, 1999.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 22 p. : ill. (some col.) Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 15).

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COOPER, PAUL. "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bird." Thesis, Sydney College of the Arts, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20108.

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Skowronska, Elwira Monika. "datascapes: Redefining the Sublime in Contemporary Art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20357.

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Despite the recent resurgence of the sublime as a key theme in contemporary art and its profound art historical lineage, the concept largely remains defined in terms of its 18th century formulation by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He conceived of the sublime as an aesthetic space where the human observer is overwhelmed by the massive scale of a pictorial object, triggering the perception of awe and dread. However, recent developments in art, philosophy and technology provide the foundation for reformulating the sublime: firstly, as emerging from minute rather than massive scale objects, an

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Benazon, Ophra. "Beyond aesthetics, a contemporary approach to teaching visual language at a post-secondary level." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0016/NQ43569.pdf.

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O'Brien, Marianne. "Aesthetics and ethics at the intersection: Contemporary reflections on the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494273.

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In the last hundred years of commentarial literature on Schopenhauer, the breadth and profundity of the relationships that exist between aesthetics and ethics in his philosophy have been overlooked and overshadowed by studies of Schopenhauer as a metaphysician. This exploration of the status of the metaphysical connection between aesthetics and ethics in his philosophy. In order to establish the significance of this connection for contemporary debates on aesthetics and ethics, I elucidate Schopenhauer's philosophy in a manner that addresses its inconsistencies and inadequacies whilst being con

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Wright, Neelam Sidhar. "Bollywood eclipsed : the postmodern aesthetics, scholarly appeal, and remaking of contemporary popular Indian cinema." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2360/.

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This thesis uses postmodern theory to explore aesthetic shifts in post-millennial Bollywood cinema, with a particular focus on films produced by the Bombay film industry over the past nine years (2000-2009) and the recent boom of Hindi cross-cultural and self-remakes. My research investigates reasons behind the lack of appeal of Bollywood films in the West (particularly in their contemporary form), revealing how our understanding and appreciation of them is restricted or misinformed by a long history of censure from critics, scholars, educators and ambassadors of the Indian cinema. Through my

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Weightman, Elise. "The mirror has many faces : an exploration of women's aesthetics in contemporary mainstream Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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This thesis investigates the concept of "women's aesthetics", as distinct from "feminine" or "feminist" aesthetics, asserting that an original and liberated women's film practice and spectatorship may be realised, in the late 1990s, by reinterpreting women's aesthetics as diverse social and artistic processes. Aesthetic concepts such as pleasure, value, art and sensory experience are also tested in this study to establish their relevance to feminist discourses on film, the wider culture and society. The study also argues that the aesthetics of Australian women filmmakers working in mainstream

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Nyberg, Forshage Andria. "On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30337.

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This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). The excessive object refers to a concept coined in this thesis to describe sublimity from another perspective than that of the tradition following from Immanuel Kant's A Critique of Judgment, building on feminist scholarshi

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Smith, Alexandra Bailey. "Writing Against the Image: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, and Aesthetics of Failure." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14483.

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Given the striking contemporary turn towards literary mediations of aesthetic experience, this project suggests the need for a concerted critical realignment in understanding literary form’s potential for artistic expansiveness. Focussing on writers Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, and in particular their debut novels Open City and Leaving the Atocha Station, this thesis seeks to explore their interrogations of this kind of experience as blueprints for direct aesthetic experience, experimenting with perceptual responses to art. It not only draws on concepts of the ‘virtual’ as that which opposes the

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