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McCusker, Nicole Catherine. "Performance, Art and the Female Nude at Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7656.
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My thesis examines the event of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, which has branches in over 120 cities worldwide. Dr Sketchy's combines the format of a life drawing class with burlesque performance, creating an event that focuses on both the performance and the creation of art by the attendees. Dr Sketchy's was begun in New York in 2005 by its creator Molly Crabapple, now an internationally recognized artist and popular alternative celebrity. I focus my study on the Christchurch branch of Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, founded in June 2010 by Audrey Baldwin, a performance artist and Fine Arts graduate of the University of Canterbury.
In my thesis I discuss the way Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School combines and compromises between the life drawing format and the burlesque performance, despite the differences and seeming incompatibilities between these two forms. I investigate Dr Sketchy's as a contemporary cultural performance which combines and to some degree inverts established genres of performance. I give a detailed history of burlesque performance and of life drawing within art education to allow a comprehensive comparison of the two traditions, particularly the way each has conceptualized the nude female body. I argue that the combination of the two forms allows Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School to transgress the traditional boundaries of each format and introduce influences that would otherwise endanger the status of life drawing and burlesque performance within their respective contexts. I also argue that the nude within Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School transgresses the traditional conception of the nude within life drawing by using burlesque as an acceptable reference for the transgressive elements of the show.
The arguments put forward in this thesis are the product of extensive participant observation, interviews and literature reviews on the relevant art and performance traditions.
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Missia, Frano G. "Painting the nude by male artists in Western art /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1993. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11396210.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1993.Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Justin Schorr. Dissertation Committee: Rene Arcilla. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-113).
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Smither, Devon. "Identity crisis : the nude in 1930s modern Canadian art." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27693.
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In their unwillingness to fully assimilate or relate the human body to its surroundings, many artists who painted nudes in the 1930s in Canada found their works the subject of censure and moral debate. Rather than becoming the site of praise for a new Canadian sensibility in the visual arts, the nudes painted in this period would not come to be associated with a uniquely Canadian artistic practice, and the genre failed to assume a pivotal place within the canon of Canadian art history. Viewers could not imagine themselves as heroic pioneers in front of a painting like Lilias Torrance Newton’s Nude (1933), or could they see anything distinctly modern and revolutionary in its execution that would allow them to hold up such an image as an example of an inherently Canadian art. The nude in Canada did not incite the admiration of an art-going public who instead came to associate a national art movement with the landscape paintings of the Group of Seven. Censored, debated, praised, and criticized, the nude genre ultimately failed to have the same impact as landscape painting on the visual arts in Canada.
Landscape painting was able to mediate the relationship between the natural world and its human inhabitants in a way not offered by the nude or figurative painting. In 1916, Saturday Night magazine published an article jocularly recounting how the typical Canadian artist was a “husky beggar” who pulled on a pair of Strathcona boots and set off into the woods with a rifle, a paddle, and enough baked beans for three months. Such assertions would lead a critic like Barker Fairley to complain later that, “[N]ot one Canadian in a hundred goes into an art gallery looking for anything but hills and trees and lakes and clouds and flowers and fruit.” Ultimately, the nude was not able to provide a collective viewing position that could embody a national sentiment. It was unable to penetrate the Canadian consciousness in a way that would win it a place alongside the rolling topography and pristine lakes of the Group of Seven.
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Pennings, Mark W. "Charles Wheeler and the nude in Australia." Connect to thesis, 1991. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1432.
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The place for Charles Wheeler’s nudes in Australian art history has not been adequately gauged by art historians. He was one of Australia’s most notable painters of the nude, not perhaps because his vision was particularly inventive or original, but rather because he was an important, conservative conduit of that European tradition. Wheeler was very popular with the buying public over many decades, but success with his nudes was fundamentally a critical one. The positive response to Wheeler’s nudes, paintings which combined elements of the academic tradition and more fashionable conventions, presents an intriguing reflection on the nature of art criticism in Australia. The style of Wheeler’s discourse is indebted not only to late nineteenth century British models, as it was represented in the writings of critics such as R.A.M. Stevenson, who was primarily concerned with technique, but also to current debates about art and morality. One of the determining characteristics of this discourse was an interest in defining the limits between naked and nude. Critics were particularly concerned to protect the nude as a genre against moral attack by refusing to engage in a discussion of its sensual aspects. While the public was keen to debate the moral problems associated with the nude, the critics were anxious to avoid these issues. They felt that questions of morality were not central to artistic merit, and sensed that by engaging in discussion of this kind, the nude was on danger of being brought into disrepute.
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McEwin, Florence Rebecca. "American women artists and the female nude image (1969-1983)." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23638110.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--North Texas State University, 1986.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-404).
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Winthrop, Emily. "Allegories of the Modern: The Female Nude in Art Nouveau." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4203.
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Modernism is a plurality, not a singular concept. This project explores examples of Art Nouveau nudes to describe the particular expressions of the modern through varied and complicated allegorical bodies. The female nude as a nexus for ideals of gender, art, and beauty, is informed by and constructs the understanding of these ideals within society. Art Nouveau thus employed the nude to represent complex manifestations of modernity. Three diverse cases provide the subjects of each chapter. All explore modernism through objects and interiors, in public and private environments, and each connects the decorative arts with accounts of European modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The modernist movement, in these decades, is still predominantly understood through painting.
This project draws its case studies from Paris, Glasgow, and Vienna, each a distinct cultural arena during the 1890s and 1900s: the sculptural furniture of François Rupert Carabin (1862-1932); the metalwork of Margaret Macdonald (1865-1933) and her sister Frances Macdonald (1873-1921); and the graphic motifs of Ver Sacrum, created by the artists of the first Vienna Secession (1897-1905). In conception and expression, these nudes articulated the diverse representational practices of different modernisms. They each embody drastically different histories, aesthetics, and social expressions. Their varied modernisms expose the prominent nationalism of Art Nouveau. Examination of these three very different cases expands and complicates current understandings of the nude, allegory, and the modern.
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Blount, Jennifer Lynn. "The black male nude a study of John Singer Sargent's Thomas McKeller nude within the context of nineteenth-century art and culture /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009m/blount.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009.Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 2, 2009). Degree earned with the cooperation of additional faculty from the University of Alabama. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-91).
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Wyatt, Malinda. "William Rimmer's Concept of the Heroic Male Nude." VCU Scholars Compass, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1443.
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Rizzo, Nicolo' <1995>. "NUDE "IS A VERB": Conversazione con Tatiana Brodatch Studio della riscoperta del nudo scultoreo negli ultimi decenni, fino al caso di Tatiana Brodatch." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17008.
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L'intervista con l'artista Tatiana Brodatch permette di aprire uno studio attorno al nudo scultoreo. Lo scopo è quello di capire se il suo caso è isolato, oppure se altri artisti nei decenni precedenti hanno sperimentato con il nudo in scultura.
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Birch, Hannah L. "A study of the figure in intaglio." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1318608.
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This project chronicles my explorations of the human figure in intaglio and relief printmaking and in the medium of artists' books. I had very little experience in the field of printmaking prior to my acceptance into the Masters program at Ball State University. I found intaglio, or etching into a metal plate, stimulating and exciting because there are very few limitations in terms of what I can do with this medium. I received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in drawing from SUNY Fredonia. Creating artwork in the printmaking medium has allowed my drawing skills to continue to grow and provided a variety of new technical possibilities. I choose to work with the figure because it is an important subject for an artist to study in order to learn to draw. Since all humans share the same basic structure, it is something that everyone should relate to. It is also something that translates into every possible medium, from cave drawings to fashion design. Many of the artists I have studied, such as Albrecht Durer, and Francisco Goya, worked with the figure in printmaking. Their work provided inspiration while I pursued my own work in this field.Department of Art
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Bimber, Jayson. "Good is dead /." Online version of thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/5278.
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Radić, Xavier. "Queer reflections on Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden a creative reconsideration of pose, gaze and technique : this exegesis [thesis] is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Art and Design in the year 2004 /." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.
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Arnold, J. David. "Naked portraits : figures in oil." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864927.
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The purpose of this project is to create a group of paintings/portraits of two close friends, using the medium of oil bars on gessoed paper. This medium will be explained in the text of the paper. The paintings were an attempt to describe aspects of personality that I see in my friends, their own personal struggles and victories. I observed these changes first hand. I told the story of these changes, as they evolved, in the paintings.The six paintings explore the naturalistic style which is new for me. It will open other avenues of visual expression. It was necessary for me to spend time in research and study of other contemporary artists who have worked with the figure and portraits. The study of other artists is an artistic discipline that helped me clarify, in my own mind, the purpose and problem-solving that took place in the course of my study.Department of Art
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Suescun, Pozas María del Carmen. "Modern femininity, shattered masculinity : the scandal of the female nude during political crisis in Colombia, 1930-1948." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85958.
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This dissertation examines two controversies involving paintings of the female nude by artists Debora Arango and Carlos Correa during a period of political crisis in Bogota (Colombia) in order to open the political to cultural analysis and thus shed light on scenarios of change in the 1930s and 1940s. Unpacking the controversies lends insight into the unique ways in which modernity, the body, its representations, sexuality, gender and politics came together in Colombia during this period. Such an approach also shows that modernity in Colombia involved shifts in religious and secular frames of sense-making and morality. This dissertation argues that the controversies and the female nudes provide a window into the Liberal regime's creation of culture as an autonomous sphere as part of its cultural program, which bridged high and popular culture, as well as on aspects of private life concerned with sexuality and gender. It shows how such changes registered in the lives of the artists and how the artists translated the changes they experienced into modes of pictorial expression. This dissertation argues that the demands of the aesthetic and the demands of politics during this period pressed on each other, resulting in the wide-spread perception of moral breach that came to a head in the "scandals of the female nudes." This dissertation thus sheds light on dimensions of both the political and the private during this period.Because art and politics were thus entangled, this dissertation shows that, in this particular Colombian modernity, society was not polarized, that the private and the private overlapped, that issues of intimacy surfaced in the public realm, and that Catholicism was the idiom shared by men and women who were grappling with change. It shows that the cultural program of the Liberal regime was the immediate referent for criticism in these events and, through it, of the Liberal regime's reforms of education of 1934 and 1936. Finally, it shows that this modernity and its attendant anxieties were played out through the body in the public and the private realms, within, not against, the Catholic tradition, in unprecedented ways. This thesis demonstrates that politics and issues of sexuality and gender were entangled in the public sphere and converged in the female nudes, turning them into a major threat to morality within both religious and secular frameworks. By unpacking the controversies, this dissertation marks a seminal break with historical accounts that describe Colombia's as a failed modernity, its society as polarized, and debates over sexuality and gender as the product of politics. This dissertation also contradicts art historical writings that account for the production of images and the reception of art in this period solely in political terms.
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Loveridge, Camilla C. "Resisting aggression : Graphic re-presentations for other bodies." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/796.
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These chapters consider how art can provide a space for wider critical debate on established patriarchal power relations, which have operated in Western culture since the Enlightenment period. As a female artist, I want to explore the space in art of both the female body and the community body. This work seeks to position the female body within the "form" of her subjectivity, to destabilize patriarchal strongholds through the displacement of the traditionally aestheticised female "nude”. That is, I examine the (historicized) notion of a “subject” and the representation of an "object”, and understand the female "nude” as a representation of patriarchal dominance to this day. I use my art work: of women to explore recent feminist theory that investigates these historicized notions, hoping to present images that critique rather than wholly participate in the tradition of objectifying women without question. Ultimately, I move to a broader field, to incorporate an idea of a community "body" that is embracing of those bodies culturally precluded from subjective empowerment. My attention is specifically focused on the remediation of the once "derelict" land and "polluted" waterways of East Perth, to the "pristine" condition of what is now an exclusive corporate and residential site. I intend to address my art to the many "marginalized" bodies, traditionally and presently obstructed from subjective representation within our Western culture. In bringing both "bodies" together, my art aims to help disrupt the patriarch from his central subjective stronghold. Chapter 1 explores the (assumed) privileged "gaze" of the Western male artist (and my own naive participation in this practice). which transforms the "deformed" physical "matter” of women into the "iconic", conceptual "form" of the patriarch's "Woman". Chapter 2 examines the space for a female voice that recent psychoanalytic theory evokes in challenging the conventions of patriarchy. At this point in particular, my praxis seeks to reflect this emergence for women, as reconnections to the "matter" of the maternal body are made. Chapter 3 investigates how feminist theory resists the patriarchal icon for female "beauty" (in the classical "nude"), through its representation of new bodily images and identities for women. Subsequently, I journey in my visual practice in responding to this "resistance", and focus specifically on the feminist notion of "ambiguity" for female self-expression, as a means to subversively obstructing patriarchal hegemony. Chapter 4 articulates the significance of "desire" for women in their discovery of themselves at an intimate level, without the intervention of masculine visual penetration. I represent this intimacy (this "divinity" for women), through tactile qualities in my practice, which serve to connect women to themselves, whilst interrupting the penetration of the patriarchal gaze. Finally, Chapter 5 shows how the resistance and corporeality of the female body comes to symbolize the existence of the “community body" that works to reclaim a "presence" (a place of domicile) within the redeveloped site of East Perth.
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Kurosawa, Yukie. "Pages from my diary : a series of paintings and prints." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864930.
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The creative project, which focused in painting and print making was the conclusion of my graduate program in studio art. I executed eleven oil paintings and eleven woodblock prints which demonstrated my development as a twodimensional artist.Although oil painting is the primary medium that I worked in for this project, I expanded my visual vocabulary to include woodblock printing. These paintings and prints were exhibited at the University Theater Gallery on Ball State University's campus in April of 1992.Painting is a vehicle to express my ideas to others. It is also a vehicle for my personal discovery' Being Japanese (Eastern) living in America (Western) has created a cultural duality in my life, which is the main focus of this creative project. The emotional content of each piece is expressed through visual metaphors.This project involves the exploration of the female figure as a self-portrait, rendered in an environment that visually represents my emotional state of mind. It is a visual diary which started out with the creation of small black and white woodblock prints. I created the images of the four seasons with a female figure surrounded by decorative patterns. This idea expanded as I worked on the oil paintings, which are larger in format (human scale). My intention was to provide a stimulus for emotional response while gaining a greater understanding of how colors, shapes, and other elements operate expressively. For example, in most of the images I intentionally positioned the figure so that the face is turned away from the viewer and not portrayed. This allowed the viewers to project their own feelings onto the work.Along with the creation of the paintings and the prints, I researched past and contemporary artists who shared my ideas and concerns. These artists include the post impressionists--Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin; the Nabis--Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard; the Fauves--primarily Matisse; German Expressionists; and a contemporary English artist, Howard Hodgkin.Department of Art
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Schanding, Desireé Rose. "The ephemeral form and objects of inspection /." Online version of thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/10828.
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Jansen, Dina (Dieneke) Susanna. "The body upgrade aesthetics, value judgements and forces of choice : thesis submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree - Masters of Art (Art and Design), 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004.
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Wallis, Karen. "Painting & drawing the nude : a search for a realism for the body through phenomenology & fine art practice." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252566.
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Cronje, Karen. "The female body as spectacle in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western art." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52528.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A spectacle denotes an impressive or deplorable sight, and necessarily involves the power and politics of viewing. The female body exists as a sexualised object of these processes of looking within Western culture, not only in high art, but also in discourses such as medicine and science. In both art and medicine the female body has been treated as a passive object to be studied, analysed and classified. Power relations and patriarchal ideologies have played a great part in the resulting objectifying representations, firmly locating images of the female body within the realm of the spectacle. Bodily perceptions, in terms of the female body, have changed much, particularly through the reinterpretation of sexuality through feminist theory. Modem culture and technology have opened up many new possibilities for the redefinition and understanding of the body. Modem bodies seem to be under as much close surveillance and scrutiny as their nineteenth century counterparts. This study explores these ideas through a wide range of examples from painting, photography and performance art, and non-art objects such as anatomical objects and medical illustrations. Central to the construction of the body as spectacle, are issues of looking and viewing. Chapter 1 examines ideas around the gaze; the politics and processes of vision, objectification and fetishisation are explored in relation to the functioning of the medical and aesthetic gaze. The concept of spectacle is also elaborated upon in terms of ideas around the nineteenth century carnival and freak show, and in terms of societal taboos and transgression. Aspects of aesthetic and medical discourse focus on the display and scrutiny of the female body. Chapter 2 examines the way in which these discourses attempted to reveal the female body by rendering it in highly visual terms. The dominant ideologies informing both discourses played an instrumental role and resulted in representations that defined the female body in normative standards and ideals of beauty and health. Pornography is considered as a modem discourse in which the female body is defined and displayed as an object of scrutiny. Feminist theory challenged exclusively male representations of the female body and the subversion of traditional forms of representation of women is studied by examining the work of Annie Sprinkle and Cindy Sherman. Many representations of the female body by feminist artists are considered highly disturbing and transgressive, precisely because they traverse traditional and acceptable representations of it. The idealised nude forms the epitome of contained ideals of health and beauty, and the work of Orlan and Cindy Sherman is examined within these terms in Chapter 3. These artists' representations of the female body are in direct opposition to such norms, rather settling for an open-ended, unconfined and abject representation. However, such transgressive cultural images produced by women artists are often regarded as pathological acts, and dismissed in terms of deplorable spectacle. The research concludes with a commentary on the candidate's practical work, which in dealing with the representation of the human body explores some issues of visuality, spectacle and fragmentation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: 'n Spektakel kan op 'n indrukwekkende of betreurenswaardige skouspel dui; gevolglik betrek dit die politiese en magseienskappe van besigtiging. Die vroulike liggaam bestaan as 'n seksuele objek van só 'n proses van besigtiging binne die Westerse kultuur - nie net in kuns nie, maar ook in diskoerse soos geneeskunde en die wetenskap. In beide kuns en geneeskunde, is die vroulike liggaam beskou as 'n passiewe objek vir bestudering, analisering en klassifisering. Magsverhoudinge en ideologieë het gevolglik 'n groot rol gespeel in die uiteindelike objektifiserende representasies, en gevolglik is die uitbeelding van die vroulike liggaam in terme van spektakel vasgelê. Liggaamlike persepsies, veral in terme van die vroulike figuur, het noemenswaardige veranderinge ondergaan - veral deur die hervertolking van seksualiteit deur feministiese teorie. Moderne kultuur en tegnologie bied verdere moontlikhede vir die herdefiniëring en begrip van die liggaam. Die moderne liggaam word onder streng bewaking en betragting geplaas - net soos sy negentiende-eeuse ewebeeld. Hierdie studie ondersoek dié idees deur die bestudering van 'n verskeidenheid voorbeelde vanuit skilderkuns, fotografie en 'performance' -kuns, asook objekte soos anatomiese objekte en mediese illustrasies. Kwessies van besigtiging is sentraal tot die konstruksie van die liggaam as spektakel. Hoofstuk londersoek dus idees rondom besigtiging - onder andere die politiese en magseienskappe, en die gevolglike objektifiserende effek daarvan - in verhouding tot die funksionering van die mediese en die estetiese blik. Die konsep van spektakel word verder uitgebrei in terme van die negentiende-eeuse karnaval, asook in terme van taboes en sosiale oortreding. Sekere aspekte van estetiese en mediese diskoerse fokus op die vertoning en besigtiging van die vroulike liggaam. Hoofstuk 2 ondersoek die wyse waarop hierdie diskoerse die vroulike liggaam in hoogs visuele terme uitgebeeld het. Beide diskoerse is gemotiveer deur dominante ideologieë, wat gevolglik 'n instrumentele rol gespeel het in die uitbeelding van die vroulike liggaam. Sulke uitbeeldings is dikwels gemotiveer deur standaarde en ideale van skoonheid. Gevolglik word pornografie in hierdie hoofstuk bespreek as 'n moderne diskoers wat georganiseer is rondom die vertoning en besigtiging van die vroulike liggaam. Feministiese teorie skep 'n positiewe ruimte waarin sulke eksklusiewe, manlike definisies en uitbeeldings van die vroulike liggaam uitgedaag kan word. Die omverwerping van tradisionele metodes van uitbeelding word hier ondersoek deur die werk van Annie Sprinkle en Cindy Sherman te bespreek. Die herdefiniëring van die vroulike liggaam deur feministiese kunstenaars word dikwels beskou as onstellend; waarskynlik omdat dit tradisionele en aanvaarbare uitbeeldings van die liggaam oortree. Die werk van Orlan en Cindy Sherman word in terme van sosiale oortreding in Hoofstuk 3 ondersoek. Die klassieke naakfiguur stel die ideale van skoonheid en stabiliteit voor. Hierdie kunstenaars se uitbeeldings toon egter 'n doelbewuste verontagsaming van sulke ideale, deurdat hulle eerder 'n oop, onstabiele en gefragmenteerde figuur uitbeeld. Oortredings van kulturele norme deur vrouekunstenaars word dikwels beskou as patalogiese aksies; en dit word dus maklik afgekeur as 'n spektakel. Die navorsing word afgesluit met 'n bespreking van die kandidaat se praktiese werk, wat die uitbeelding van die menslike liggaam ondersoek. Gevolglik word kwessies van besigtiging, spektakel en fragmentasie verder ondersoek.
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Forman, Sophia R. "Bringing Back Color, Bringing Back Emotion: Exploring Phenomenological Empathy in the Reclamation of the Female Nude in Painting." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/187.
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At the nexus of the seemingly disparate art-theoretical topics of color and the female nude is a critical consideration of phenomenology in both one of its most basic senses—as the first-person experience of perceived phenomena—and as a larger philosophical position which, through its abstraction of perception to subject-object relationships, implicates the painted figure. Specifically, this paper conflates the phenomenology of color with the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in investigating empathy. Structured as a dialectic, it establishes the most prominent views of both color and the female nude—the nude as a symbolic figure, color as perceptual experience—before delving into their various points of theoretical and art-historical intersection within these categories. This analysis ultimately forms the argument that color can be a powerful tool in reclaiming the female nude figure, stimulating emotive bodies that inspire empathetic viewers and intersubjective rather than objectifying, or abjectifying, dialogues.
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Viljoen, Estella. "From Manet to GQ a critical investigation of "gentleman's pornography" /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03122004-082238.
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Thompson, Thomas S. "The Maturing of Rembrandt (1630-1662): Four Stages of Expressive Development in the Depiction of the Female Nude in Drawings and Etchings." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1400512462.
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Murphy, Alexandra Christina. "An exploration into the photo-transformation of the human form, through a research of its contemporary influential imagery and diversity within our culture." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002212.
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The purpose of this study is to look at how the figure is imaged through the photographic medium today. Through this purpose I aim to explore the individual expression of the photographer in his photographic medium; the expression of the figure within the medium and the diverse practises of this medium in society - to build up an awareness and understanding of the diverse representations of the human form. The general aims of study are: 1 - to study how these three photographers choose to photograph the figure, through their technical, compositional and individual approach. 2 - to show how diverse the usage of the photographic figure is in the visual world. 3 - to expose an awareness of the photographic figure as transformation of an expression of self. 4 - to show the relationship between the photographer and the figure, the camera and the photographer, the camera and the figure, and the photographic figure and the viewer. 5 - to study my own photographic imagery in relation to the other imagery discussed. My research information was collected through: observations, discussions, literature and practical exploration. This study will attempt to draw conclusions, from its explorations, that will highlight the importance of the individual eye: that it is the individual eye that becomes the vehicle of transformation.
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Di, Certo Alice. "The Unconventional Photographic Self-Portraits of John Coplans, Carla Williams, and Laura Aguilar." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/4.
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Laura Aguilar, John Coplans, and Carla Williams explore, through photographic self-portraiture, the representation of unconventional bodies. Even though the images produced by these artists are quite different in style, they all reflect an interest in a representation of the nude human body that challenges the traditional concepts of beauty so prevalent in a Western society obsessed with physical perfection. Even though the three artists produced their photographic self-portraits at roughly the same time, using the traditional gelatin silver process and responding to standards of classical beauty, their divergent life experiences, education, and social backgrounds have led them to question an almost universal vision of the perfect body from a broad spectrum of perspectives.
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Camargo, Lucio Martins de 1968. "O nu e o olhar : uma iconologia do nu feminino na fotografia brasileira." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284320.
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Orientador: Stephane Remy Georges MalysseDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: O objeto da pesquisa é constituído de vinte e quatro fotografias selecionadas dentro da produção fotográfica de nus femininos no Brasil, a partir do estabelecimento de alguns critérios, tais como a nacionalidade de fotógrafos e modelos, o suporte de publicação e o grau de nudez, entre outros, com o objetivo de criar uma gramática dos signos presentes nessas imagens. Num primeiro momento, foi possível identificar alguns modos recorrentes de apresentação dessas imagens: o "nu editorial" e o "nu artístico", que são os principais modelos temáticos dos fotógrafos brasileiros e um terceiro modo, muito menos expressivo em termos numéricos, mas que apresenta imagens mais densas em termos de conteúdo e questionamento de padrões pré-estabelecidos que é o modo do ?nu como expressão?. As fotografias foram separadas em grupos menores, para atender a projetos analíticos diferenciados, conforme cada capítulo, e foi feita a opção metodológica de análise imanente das mesmas. Ao final é proposta uma forma de classificação da produção de fotografias de nus conforme o conteúdo e sua abordagem, como alternativa para a percepção aparentemente exclusiva de conteúdo erótico e abordagem comercial
Abstract: The object of the research is constituted of twenty-four photographs selected among the photographic output of female nudes in Brazil, from the establishment of some criteria, such as the nationality of photographers and models, the support of publication and the rank of bareness, between others, with the objective of creating a grammar of the present signs in those images. In a first moment, was possible to identify some recurring ways of presentation of those images: the "editorial nude" and the "artistic nude", that are the main thematic models of the Brazilian photographers and a third way, a lot less expressive in quantity, but which presents denser images considering content and questioning of pre-established standards which is "nude as expression". The photographs were separated in smaller groups, to attend an analytic differentiated project, according to each chapter, and the methodological option made was of immanent analysis. To sum up, the purpose was to classify photographs of nudes output according to the content and approach, as an alternative to the apparently exclusive perception of erotic content and commercial approach
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Höljö, Nikolina. "Att kliva utanför ramen : Nakenhet, feminism och kritik av tre performanceverk från 1960- och 70-talet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-357940.
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This essay examines the performance artworks Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969), Interior Scroll (1975) and S.O.S Starification Object Series (1974-82) by artists VALIE EXPORT, Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke. The objective is to analyse the expressions of these artworks, from a theoretical viewpoint of feminist art-theoreticians and their critique regarding the female body in representation. Performance- and body-art have been the subject of discussion with respect to the female nude in the history of art, and the patriarchal structures that surround it. These eminent theories about the female body in art differ from one another, leaving this study to investigate given works and the explicit body-language that unites them, with the aim to identify a favourable representation of the female body in 1960sand 70s performance art with the vantage point of these artworks. The present essay has demonstrated that vaginal iconology exists in all works and can be presented in various ways. It becomes clear that the work of VALIE EXPORT provides a framework most suitable as a feminist, critical strategy to counteract the notion of the male gaze, framing, and representation of the body as commodity in capitalist-society. However, the works of Schneemann and Wilke, with more essentialist themes, can through ambiguity contribute to a positive representation of woman in representation. There is no simple answer to which way 2 of using the body is the most beneficial for feminism, however, a critical representation of the female body in performance and body art, in relation to the artists’ own intentions, creates positive ambiguity, thus these artworks do not only reinforce patriarchal conventions regarding the female body.
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Tell, Cornelia. "Vem får vara naken på Instagram? : En jämförande bildanalys av fotografier som tagits ner från, respektive tillåtits finnas kvar på, Instagram." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-406944.
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The aim of this essay is to examine the censorship that the social media platform Instagram exerts over pictures of female nudes, and whether the body type of the women depicted is a factor in how the censorship is carried through. This is executed by making a comparative picture analysis of eight nude photos published on Instagram, four of which are allowed on the platform and four which are not, and have therefore been deleted. The bodies are analysed, and aspects of how they are depicted which are related to the Instagram Community Guidelines, and furthermore if the body depicted conforms to the norms of our contemporary beauty standards and “the Male Gaze”, are reviewed. This fundamental part of the study isbased on the formal analysis and the methods of semiotics. Furthermore, the history of the nude in art, the body norms and ideals of our contemporary society, the Instagram Community rules and Guidelines and the artists are presented briefly. The discussion which has been carried through is based on the analysis and thesis of how female nudes of the Western art cannon have been received, judged, divided into categories and censored to answer the central inquires of the essay. In conclusion, this essay finds how pictures of nude women on Instagram are received, judged, and censored differently depending on whether they fit into the norms of beauty and conform to the male gaze. Hence, the rules of Instagram are found to have been followed through with double standard and bias.
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Gibbs, Judith. "Exploring beyond boundaries : a study of the late-period paintings and writing of D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Reading, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272263.
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Morse, Evan. "Objectified : a sculptural study /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8397.
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Muente, Tamera Lenz. "Repose, Reflections, and “Girls in Sunshine”: Frederick Carl Frieseke’s Paintings of Women, 1905–1920." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147531632.
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Kreilinger, Ulla. "Anständige Nacktheit : Körperpflege, Reinigungsriten und das Phänomen weiblicher Nacktheit im archaisch-klassischen Athen /." Rahden/Westf. : Leidorf, 2007. http://www.vml.de/d/detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89646-982-3.
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Lager, Sarah Alexandra. "Le nu métamorphosé." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010637.
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La métamorphose envisagée comme principe révélateur du nu laisse apparaître la réalité ambiguë de son existence plastique, la situant dans un entre-deux permanent oscillant entre accès et détournement, monstration et effacement. Corps photographique ou pictural, il devient signe d’une trace, d’une sensation par son incorporation au sein de livres photographiques. Ces recueils intimistes, dévoilant les identités multiples du corps féminin, proposent une intensification du désir par la mise en suspens d’une étreinte métaphorique. Lié à des récits mythologiques, poétiques et artistiques, le nu métamorphosé offre une entrée particulière où la mise en doute de son aspect présente sa suspension dans une immensité le dépassant. Etendu, morcelé, établit dans toute sa fragilité, il compose tout autant de paysages à arpenter qu’à contempler, où le toucher répond à l’excitation visuelle. L’infime apparence du corps sous-tend la peau, transperce le regard en se déployant dans un érotisme éblouissant. Par l’inscription de cette surface-peau, le nu métamorphosé est cette forme en dissolution qui survient dans un éclatement du corps et propose une véritable géographie épidermique, qui s’articule entre révélation de l’intimité de l’être et pluralité des sensationsTransformation considered as a revealing principle of the nude shows the ambiguous reality of its plastic existence, putting it an everlasting in-between place that wavers between access and diversion, showing and fading. Photographic or pictorial body, it becomes the sign of an impression, a feeling by its incorporation into photography books. These intimist collections, revealing the numerous identities of the feminine body, offer an intensification of the desire by having a figurative embrace to await. Being linked to mythological, poetical or artistic tales, the transformed nude presents a peculiar entry where questioning its aspect displays its suspension in a vastness that goes beyond it. Stetched, broken up, fully settled in its frailty, it forms landscapes to be stridden across just as well as gazed upon, where the sense of touch responds to the visual excitement. The minimal appearance of the body underlines the skin, enhances its grain, enshrouds it and gives life to the unspeakable. Burning, biting, the picture and especially one of the skin, pierces through the glance by unfolding in a dazzling eroticism. By the inscription on this skin-surface, the transformed nude is this form in dissolution which occurs thanks to the breaking of the body and which presents a real epidermal geography that is made of a mix between the disclosure of the intimacy of the self and the multitude of feelings
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Brendel, Maria Lydia. "Allegorical truth-telling via the feminine Baroque : Rubens' material reality : reframing Het pelsken." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ55305.pdf.
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Seaman, Leah M. "The depiction of female emotion as seen through the work of Italian Renaissance artists Artemisia Gentileschi and Michelangelo Caravaggios Judith Beheading Holofernes and Artemisia Gentileschi and Cavaliere dArpinos Susanna and the Elders." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors161944857779248.
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Carnvik, Sofia. "Jag tänker på mig själv som en nakenakt : En studie av Marianne Lindberg De Geers skulptur Jag tänker på mig själv i relation till nakenakten som motivkategori." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-377652.
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The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyze the Swedish artist Marianne Lindberg De Geer’s public sculpture Jag tänker på mig själv in relation to the female nude as a traditional motif within the western art and aesthetic. The artwork in question depicts two naked upright standing women, one of whom is represented as emaciated and skinny and the other one as voluminous and fat. By using previous research on the subject of aberrant bodily representations as its main theoretical framework and with a methodological approach based on visual semiotics, this study has found that Jag tänker på mig själv is to be seen as a deviant representation of the female body in several ways. The way in which the female body is represented in Marianne Lindberg De Geer’s sculpture has shown to deviate not only from the traditional female nude but also from the visual norms that usually characterizes aberrant representations of the female-coded body.
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Pizzamiglio, Elisa <1994>. "SFUOCATO E ALTERAZIONE DELL’IMMAGINE FOTOGRAFICA NEL NUDO CONTEMPORANEO." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16876.
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Questa tesi analizza la diffusione di immagini sessualmente esplicite, soprattutto fotografiche, nei contesti accademici, nella cultura di massa e nell’arte dalla fine degli anni Settanta e intende definire diverse tipologie di immagini di nudo distinguendole tra “basse” e “alte” (artistiche). Se da principio la questione riguardava quanto di un corpo fosse accettabile vedere, successivamente non è più stato un problema e i corpi sono diventati veicolo di specifici messaggi e rivendicazioni (in particolare con il femminismo e le lotte omosessuali e poi con la volontà di abbattere le barriere di genere). La scelta di concentrarsi sulla fotografia è dovuta al fatto che, proprio con l’invenzione e la diffusione di questo mezzo, la pornografia è diventata un fenomeno di massa. Gli artisti analizzati come casi studio hanno manipolato le possibilità tecniche della fotografia riflettendo, tra analogico e digitale, sul corpo nudo e sensuale, alterando ed ibridando immagini, spesso preesistenti. Si sono presi in esame, in particolare: Sisyphe di Dirk Braeckman, gli scatti soft porn dell’Atlas di Gerhard Richter, I Don’t Live Here Anymore di Ugo Rondinone e Impossible Love di Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Kaufman, Sarah K. "Moments of Absorption." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1133.
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Moments of Absorption explores the conceptual and visual themes that are presented in my MFA thesis exhibition. The research looks into the absorption of the nude subject, the gestures that communicate this absorption, and the domestic space as a stage for the presentation of these gestures. This work investigates a tension between the theatrical and the natural as represented by images.
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Hallett, Christopher H. "The Roman nude : heroic portrait statuary 200 BC-AD 300 /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40979695t.
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Achard, Madeleine. "« Cette femme était très belle… ». La postérité de Bethsabée dans la littérature et les arts." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL094.
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Nous avons aspiré à mettre à lumière à travers ces travaux la façon dont la figure de Bethsabée fut appréhendée, interprétée et représentée dans la littérature et les arts, de la Bible à nos jours, à travers un choix d’œuvres varié. À la fois diachronique et comparatiste, la perspective que nous avons suivie repose sur la mise en regard du texte et de l’image ; elle est également fondée sur le rapprochement d’œuvres littéraires d’époques et de langues diverses, de façon à dévoiler les chaînes interprétatives qui se sont élaborées et répondues au fil des siècles autour de celle qui fut successivement la femme d’Urie, l’amante de David, la mère de Salomon et l’ancêtre du MessieThis thesis of French and comparative Literature aims at highlighting the way the biblical figure of Bathsheba was perceived, interpreted and depicted in Literature and Arts, from the biblical backgrounds to our days, throughout a selection of various works. Both diachronic and comparatist, our analysis is mainly based on the parallel view of texts and images. It also lies on the simultaneous analysis of literary works belonging to different times and languages, in order to enhance the traditions which progressively emerged and responded to one another throughout the centuries about a woman who, in a single lifetime, was the wife of Uriah, the lover and spouse of king David, the mother of his son Solomon and one of the most subversive ancestors of Jesus Christ
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Demarchez, Michel. "La Régénération de la peau humaine adulte transplantée sur la souris "nude"." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37604379f.
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Rust, Zahn. "Op soek na nuwe roetes : persoonlike versamelings as kartering van 'n self." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20085.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a personal, poststructuralist study of the researcher’s mapping of the self. The researcher refers to her art practice as an action of research and at the same time, a process of reality production. The images that are created through the art making processes, feeds back into reality. The argument for the production of reality images, relies specifically on the non-representational ‘model’ of Deleuze and Guattari. The foundation of this study is based on a theoretical and practical study of the role of personal space and objects in this complex network of production. This thesis argues for the consideration of self as an ‘open’ map and to expand the fiction and idea of representation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is persoonlike, poststrukturalistiese ondersoek na die navorser se kartering van die self. Die navorser verwys veral na haar kunspraktyk as aksie van ondersoek en tergelykertyd ’n proses van werklikheidsproduksie. Die beelde wat deur die kunsmaakpraktyk/-proses geskep word, voer terug na die werklikheid. Die argument vir die produksie van werklikheidsbeelde steun veral op Deleuze en Guattari se nie-representasionele ‘model’. Teoretiese en praktiese studie van die rol van persoonlike ruimtes en objekte in hierdie komplekse produksienetwerk vorm die grondslag waaruit die studie voortspruit. In hierdie tesis word uiteindelik geargumenteer vir die beskouing van die self as ‘oop’ kaart ten einde die fiksie en idee van representasie oop te maak en uit te brei. kartering, objekte, roetes, versamelings, werklikheidsbeelde, poststrukturalisme, beelde, tekening
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Pernac, Natacha. "Luca Signorelli (vers 1445-1523) en son temps, " ingegno e spirito pelegrino“, la peinture de chevalet." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040244.
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Répondant au caractère « pelegrino » attribué à Luca Signorelli par son contemporain Giovanni Santi, notreréflexion s’articule autour de la triple itinérance du peintre cortonais. La première, fondée sur une géographieartistique, met en jeu commanditaires et collaborateurs entre centres et périphéries et réévalue son imaged’artiste provincial. Il s’agit consécutivement d’établir l’incidence des dévotions locales sur le langage picturalsignorellien, notamment par le biais de la sacra rappresentazione (I). La seconde itinérance, de typeinterdisciplinaire, s’attache à son traitement de la figure humaine et du nu. L’élaboration de sa vision du corpsest confrontée à l’essor contemporain d’une anatomie scientifique et d’une approche expérimentale ou théorique,ainsi qu’à la question des convenances. La sensibilité tactile particulière de Signorelli, sa position dans le débatnaissant du Paragone et les modalités des transferts entre peinture et sculpture sont examinées, tout commel’éventualité d’un passage à l’acte sculptural (II). L’esprit vagabond de Luca, qui s’affirme enfin par uneitinérance temporelle, oscille entre intérêt pour le passé, goût archaïsant et aspiration au renouveau. Sont ainsiétudiés son rapport à l’art antique et sa place entre « seconda e terza età », en spécifiant ses liens avec l’ars novaet les ferments inédits semés. Au-delà des étiquettes de retardataire local ou de précurseur écrasé par un Michel-Ange, cette étude vise à restituer la curiosité, la sociabilité et les échanges d’un artiste de transition (III)Giovanni Santi has depicted his contemporary Luca Signorelli as a « pelegrino » painter. From this startingpoint, our study deals with the cortonese master’s triple itinerary. The first one, relative to artistic geography,concerns patrons and collaborators between centers and peripheries and we intend to reappreciate his image of aprovincial artist. We investigate consequently the impact of local devotions and sacra rappresentazione on hispictorial language (I). The second itinerary, a interdisciplinary one, focuses on the treatment of the human figureand on the nude. His vision of the body is compared with the contemporary development of a scientific anatomyand with practical and theoretical approaches. Indeed it raises the question of the proprieties. The tactile qualitiesof signorellian art, his position in the emerging Paragone debate and the modalities of his volumetric translationare also studied ; we consider the possibility of a sculptural activity (II). Finally, Luca’s roaming imaginationarises from a temporal oscillation between interest for the past, archaic taste and an aspiration for renewal. Wethus examine his relationship with antique art and his position between « seconda e terza età », analyzing hisconnections with ars nova and the original seeds he sow. Beyond the reputation of a local latecomer or of aforerunner in the shade of Michelangelo, we aim to emphasize this way the curiosity, the sociability and theexchanges of a transitionary artist (III)
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Lecaplain, Manon. "« Des corps qu’on offre en spectacle à la foule » ? : Les revues du nu en France, 1902-1914." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UPSLN003.
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Tombant « des hauteurs de l’art dans la boue de l’obscénité » : ainsi sont qualifiées par un membre d’une ligue de vertu en 1912 les revues du nu, premières revues françaises de modèles photographiques de nu (1902-1914). Catalogues de poses à destination des artistes, ces revues sont à l’origine d’un discours académique qui légitime la publication de nus photographiques. Cette justification pourtant leur est âprement contestée et, dans une Europe en quête de moralisation, les revues du nu enchaînent les accusations d’obscénité. Placées au coeur d’un débat entre art et immoralité, elles pâtissent d’une illégitimité culturelle qui leur restera fermement associée. Elles sont pourtant de véritables réflecteurs de mentalités. Recueils de nus majoritairement féminins, le discours qu’elles livrent par l’image comme par le texte relaie les constructions idéologiques qui dominent leur société tout en contribuant peut-être à les former : le langage y est celui d’une domination à la fois masculine, blanche et virile. Les corps sont posés, imposés et exposés par les revues du nu qui en font un produit de consommation charnel, le pilier d’une prostitution visuelle. Ce faisant, les revues du nu sont les actrices d’un érotisme de masse dont la tradition académique, sur laquelle elles appuyaient leur argument, se fait vernis légitimant. Objets d’art et de société, elles sont au coeur d’une histoire des corps et de la sexualité, d’une histoire des représentations et des mentalitésFalling “from the heights of art in the mud of obscenity”: this is how the revues du nu, the first French magazines of nude photographic models (1902-1914), are qualified in 1912 by a member of a morality league. Sold as catalogues of poses for artists, the revues du nu are at the origin of an academic discourse that legitimizes the publication of nude photography. However, this justification is bitterly contested in the era of a Europe in search of moralization, and these publications are therefore subject to accusations of obscenity. Placed at the heart of a debate between art and immorality, the subject suffers from a cultural illegitimacy that will remain, throughout time, associated to them. They are, however, true reflectors of the mentalities of the time. Being collections of predominantly female nudes, the discourse they deliver through both the images and text relays the ideological constructions that dominate their society, while, perhaps, contributing to the latter in shaping them: the language used is one of a masculine, white and virile man. Bodies are posed, imposed and exposed by the revues du nu, turning them into a carnal consumer product, the pillar of a visual prostitution. In doing so, the nude magazines are the actors of a mass eroticism whose academic tradition, on which they based their argument, reaffirms their legitimacy. Objects of art and of society, they are at the heart of a history of bodies and of sexuality, a history of representations and of mentalities
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Zenerola, Giorgia <1995>. "Arte, Libertà ed Oscenità. Storia del Nudo Artistico e della Censura dalle Origini ai Social Network." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18384.
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L’obiettivo di questa tesi è analizzare il controverso e delicato fenomeno della censura applicata al nudo artistico, spesso accostato alla pornografia e per questo criticato e respinto.
In particolare, dopo un breve excursus storico circa le prime decisioni di censurare alcune opere d’arte ed i diversi atteggiamenti del pubblico nei confronti del corpo umano nudo – anche da un punto di vista socioculturale – sono stati analizzati alcuni episodi esemplari di censura avvenuti recentemente sia all’interno di Musei e Gallerie sia nei Social Network; questi ultimi infatti sono realtà innovative ed ormai imprescindibili per gli artisti contemporanei, soprattutto se emergenti, ma che paradossalmente limitano spesso la libertà d’espressione artistica, attraverso restrizioni, rispetto alla nudità, retrograde e frutto di retaggi culturali difficili da superare.
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Warren, Lindsay Elizabeth. "In the air." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/621.
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Verzat-Hersart, de La Villemarque Chantal. "Etablissement et caractérisation de deux lignées de tumeurs gliales humaines, (HOA-I, HGS-I) étude de leur hormono-dépendance chez la souris "Nude /." Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37610575v.
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Bezuidenhout, Pierre Theodorus Johannes. "A review of business rescue in South Africa since implementation of the Companies Act (71/2008) / P.T.J. Bezuidenhout." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8822.
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This study examined the new Companies Act (71/2008) with a specific focus on Chapter 6, business rescue. This rather controversial legislation was implemented in South African company law on the 1st of May 2011 and redefines how legislation can possibly save financially distressed companies from distress and ultimately liquidation proceedings.
The literature review has focused on the purpose of business rescue as set out by the new Companies Act. It has gone into much detail on the set processes, revealed the key stakeholders involved and their respective responsibilities set out by the new Act. The study touched on current international trends in saving distressed businesses. A published financial distress model was discussed and a link made about where best to initiate business rescue actions within this four-stage model.
In this study the empirical research adopts content analysis as a research method. An investigation was conducted on all business rescue applications received by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC). Additional analysis of a large creditor’s portfolio of business rescue applications showed some initial success rates of this new legislation.
The mini-dissertation concludes with limitations and challenges faced during the study, followed by recommendations about how to excel in business rescue practice in years to come.Thesis (MBA)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Warncke, Nicole. "Eggplant Emoji." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011844/.
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Eggplant Emoji is a documentary film that reveals a range of feminist perspectives on dick pics, sexting and online sexual harassment. Through intimate and hilarious interviews with women between the ages of 22 and 35, the film harnesses a collective voice that speaks back to the large and small ways patriarchy wields power in modern spaces, especially through sending unsolicited dick pics. By intertwining the testimonies of a dynamic group of female storytellers sitting amongst their close friends, the film provides candid and diverse commentary on this unique moment we are in, where the lines between private and public, online and offline are increasingly blurred. Until there are greater consequences, whether legal, social or otherwise, for men disrespecting women's choices and personal space, the domain of sexting is in a self-policing state and women are left to expend emotional labor to let men know why what they sent is unwanted or violating. Ultimately, the subjects' testimonials coalesce to provide suggestions for respectful, consensual sexting practices and fill in the gaps where sex education often neglects the importance of consent and communication altogether.
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Chen, Chao-Hsu. "Atomistic Computer Simulations of Diffusion Mechanisms in Lithium Lanthanum Titanate Solid State Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700110/.
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Solid state lithium ion electrolytes are important to the development of next generation safer and high power density lithium ion batteries. Perovskite-structured LLT is a promising solid electrolyte with high lithium ion conductivity. LLT also serves as a good model system to understand lithium ion diffusion behaviors in solids. In this thesis, molecular dynamics and related atomistic computer simulations were used to study the diffusion behavior and diffusion mechanism in bulk crystal and grain boundary in lithium lanthanum titanate (LLT) solid state electrolytes. The effects of defect concentration on the structure and lithium ion diffusion behaviors in LLT were systematically studied and the lithium ion self-diffusion and diffusion energy barrier were investigated by both dynamic simulations and static calculations using the nudged elastic band (NEB) method. The simulation results show that there exist an optimal vacancy concentration at around x=0.067 at which lithium ions have the highest diffusion coefficient and the lowest diffusion energy barrier. The lowest energy barrier from dynamics simulations was found to be around 0.22 eV, which compared favorably with 0.19 eV from static NEB calculations. It was also found that lithium ions diffuse through bottleneck structures made of oxygen ions, which expand in dimension by 8-10% when lithium ions pass through. By designing perovskite structures with large bottleneck sizes can lead to materials with higher lithium ion conductivities. The structure and diffusion behavior of lithium silicate glasses and their interfaces, due to their importance as a grain boundary phase, with LLT crystals were also investigated by using molecular dynamics simulations. The short and medium range structures of the lithium silicate glasses were characterized and the ceramic/glass interface models were obtained using MD simulations. Lithium ion diffusion behaviors in the glass and across the glass/ceramic interfaces were investigated. It was found that there existed a minor segregation of lithium ions at the glass/crystal interface. Lithium ion diffusion energy barrier at the interface was found to be dominated by the glass phase.