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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 22: Postmodernism." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/24.
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Yu, Kit-yee Flora, and 余潔儀. "Postmodernism and photography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950152.
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Cheng, Christina Miu Bing. "Postmodernism art and architecture in Hong Kong /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31949861.
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Cheng, Christina Miu Bing, and 鄭妙冰. "Postmodernism: art and architecture in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949861.
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Cheng, Miu-bing Christina. "Postmodernism : art and architecture in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13031351.
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Grace, Claire Robbin. "Group Material and the 1980s: A Materialist Postmodernism." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11662.
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Group Material's seventeen-year collaboration began in New York in 1979 through the artists' shared interests in collective, politicized practices and their immersion in a localized network of countercultural activities. While GM's cadre of participants shifted over time (from the dozen who launched its first year to a smaller core comprising Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Mundy McLaughlin, Félix González-Torres, and Tim Rollins), its practice developed a consistent aesthetic vocabulary in dialogue with major figures of 1980s art and with an eye to 1960s conceptualism and the Soviet avant-garde. GM threw open the class coordinates of art's public and introduced a distinct set of responses to the central problematics of 1980s art: the debates over representation, appropriation, painting, public space, and activism.History of Art and Architecture
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Park, Jeong-Ae. "Modernism and postmodernism in contemporary Korean art : implications for art education reform." Thesis, Roehampton University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362641.
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Combs, Nicole E. "Postmodernism, Globalization and the Connections to Contemporary Chinese Art." Thesis, University of Oregon, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22587.
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149 pagesThe reopening of China's economic and cultural doors in the 1970s provided the fundamental stage for development of a new art. The Chinese government focusing its efforts on economic development created policies that actually encouraged an awareness of global culture, tending to an environment conducive to artistic change. The 1980s supplied artists with an introduction to, or reintroduction to Western art theory and practice. Many artists continued to work in traditional style and technique, but others, under the influence of non-Chinese modern art, began infusing their works with a dramatically different feel inspired by the changing society. As a dialogue between global culture and China, Chinese contemporary artists are creating a discourse on the transformation taking place within their society over the past two decades. It is therefore important to look at their art as a "registering apparatus" and realize that its production stems from a reaction to the postmodern, global culture.
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Andreopoulos, Andreas. "The death of art : the transformation of art from a religious perspective." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4089/.
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The hypothesis put forth in this dissertation is twofold. The first part is based on a view (supported by writers such as Hans Belting) that maintains that art lost its sacred character in the late Middle Ages, when art was emancipated from religion and the artist was recognized as an original Creator. The two first chapters examine this issue: The first chapter (A Religious View of the History of the Arts) discusses theories of religious art from the ancient Jewish drama and the Greek tragedy to the late Middle Ages. Psychological material, mostly drawn from Lacan and Jung, is used to explore the connection between art and religion in the East and the West. The second chapter {Anti-Leonardo) focuses on some important changes in the Renaissance which can be observed mostly in art, that have affected religious and social consciousness to date. The second part of the hypothesis is that contemporary philosophy and art, having witnessed the death of the author as it has been presented by writers such as Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes, are now registering the withdrawal of the work of art as an independent object, and the reversal of the Renaissance art paradigm. The withdrawal or "death" of the work of art and of art as a process are discussed in the third chapter {The Death of Art), which explores these issues in contemporary philosophy, and argues that contemporary art, popular and classical, is withdrawing as a distinct activity, giving its place to a growing religious awareness. The fourth chapter {The Religious Artist) examines the art and the views of some contemporary artists whose art expresses the return of the sacred. Particular emphasis is given to the art of the New Simplicity, an artistic trend that epitomizes the vanguard of art while expressing spiritual and religious contemporary concerns.
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Leung, Suet-wai Emily, and 梁雪慧. "Postmodernism: a study of films by David Lynch." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3194999X.
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Branscome, E. M. "Hans Hollein and postmodernism : art and architecture in Austria 1958-1985." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1433404/.
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This thesis investigates the art and architecture scene in post-war Vienna to ask how this can inform our understanding of architectural Postmodernism. It specifically focuses on the various outputs of the Austrian artist and architect, Hans Hollein, and on his appropriation as a Postmodernist. The study’s background in post-war Austria belongs within a context of re-education initiatives by the Allied forces, especially from the USA. But within an Austrian culture still steeped in Catholicism, American practices like abstract expressionism, action painting and art happenings were transformed unrecognisably. One such outcome, Viennese Aktionism, directly affected thinking about architecture through the ‘performance environments’ that were created. In Vienna, the circles of radical art and architecture were not distinct, and Hollein’s claim that ‘Everything is Architecture’ was symptomatic of this intermixing of practices. Austria's proximity to the Iron Curtain, and its post-war history of four-power occupation gave a heightened sense of menace that emerged strongly in Viennese art. Seen as a collective entity, Hollein’s works across architecture, art, writing, exhibition design and publishing require a more diverse, complex and nuanced account of architectural Postmodernism than that offered by critics at the time. Here Hollein's outputs are viewed not as individual projects for appropriation by architectural critics according to their various agendas, but as a symptomatic of Austria's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and to establish a post-war identity. While Hollein's concerns with the obsolescence of built architecture and its replacement by mass media corresponded in certain respects with those of Postmodernism, in other respects they were rooted in the sometimes violent, abusive and self-destructive practices of the Austrian avant-garde and its attitudes towards politics, religion, technology, infrastructure, advertisements and sex. If these are to be included within the postmodern canon, then the criteria of Postmodernism require substantial revision.
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Cline, Abrahams Cheryl L. "Art knowledge and the social role of the university art department in the aftermath of postmodernism." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28658.
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This study presents a sociology of art knowledge. It explores relationships between art knowledge and institutional structures, making visible how and why certain conceptions of art are hierarchized and generalized so as to be considered essential to the nature of all art. It renders problematic the existing situation in which the art traditionally taught in schools and universities is, for the most part, insular and culturally singular in basis, and examines why this cultural singularity persists in a society which is culturally pluralistic. The thesis is that the university art department has the monopoly on defining, legitimating, and perpetuating this insular and culturally singular art knowledge for transmission through the school' system to all cultural and social groups.
The ways in which the university effects art knowledge are discussed in terms of ' the university's curricular structuring and disciplinary ties; its social role as patron, producer, definer, legitimator, and socializer in the arts; and in terms of its ability to neutralize "avant-garde" attacks, including the postmodernist incursion of popular culture into the realm of "sacred" culture. The theoretical framework of this critical analysis is a sociology of knowledge, and the materials for analysis were obtained by reviewing public documents on art programs, policy on the arts in postsecondary education, and a cross-disciplinary selection of literature in social theory, educational theory, aesthetics, and art history. The institutional structures and norms described throughout the study present significant resistance to the postmodernist commitment to challenge conceptual parameters and hierarchies of art knowledge that hinder a broadening of the cultural base of art. The study makes imperative the need to seriously consider this resistance if educational systems are to embrace the artistic activities of a diverse population and if art is to move into a more vital and relevant role in society. It makes imperative for sociological study of art systems (which in the past has concentrated almost exclusively on the role of museums, galleries, critics, dealers, and artists' "lofts") to take into account the role of the university art department as a primary institutional basis of art knowledge, and as a definer of cultural knowledge about art.Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Leung, Suet-wai Emily. "Postmodernism : a study of films by David Lynch /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13054867.
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Myles, John F. "Postmodernism and cultural intermediaries : a qualitative study of the English art world." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246132.
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Huang, Yue. "BETWEEN POSTMODERNISM AND CHINESE FOLK ART : An Analysis of The Yelang Valley." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-161820.
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Meli, Alisa A. "Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3081/.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an organizing idea for designing a thematic unit with the purpose of introducing elementary students to postmodern art and issues. One hundred and sixty first grade and fourth grade students looked at 20 pairs of art reproductions and picked the artwork they considered the most beautiful. The criteria elementary students use for determining beauty in artworks was found to be color, realism, subject matter and physical appearance of the subject of the work of art.
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Buchanan, D. A. "Aesthetics, art and Utopia : the philosophical significance of the discourse of aesthetics." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296698.
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Coen, Bonnie. "Relics of psychic events /." Online version of thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/12093.
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Laver, Sue 1961. "Poets, philosophers, and priests : T.S. Eliot, postmodernism, and the social authority of art." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37755.
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This comprehensive analysis of T. S. Eliot's literary-critical corpus provides both a long-overdue reassessment of the nature and extent of his commitment to notions of aesthetic autonomy, and an Eliotic critique of the hypostatization of art that characterizes both philosophical postmodernism and its literary-theoretical derivatives.The broader context for these two primary objectives is the "ancient quarrel" between the poets and the philosophers and its various manifestations in the work of a number of prominent post- and anti-Enlightenment thinkers. Accordingly, I begin by highlighting several fundamental but much-neglected (or misunderstood) features of Eliot's critical canon that testify to his life-long preoccupation with this still resonant issue. Specifically, I demonstrate that there is a logical connection between his sustained opposition to those who seek in literature a substitute for religious faith or at least philosophic belief, his critique of various more or less sophisticated forms of generic confusion, and his robust defence of the integrity of different discursive forms, social practices, and disciplinary domains. In anticipation of my Eliotic critique of philosophical and literary-theoretical postmodernism, I then locate Eliot's account of these characteristic features of "the modern mind" within the context of Jurgen Habermas remarkably congenial The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.
In successive chapters, I next provide detailed analyses of Eliot's account of the discursive and functional integrity of art, literature, poetry, and criticism. By way of providing additional support for the concept of "integrity," and indicating its relevance to contemporary debates about the relationship between literature, criticism, and philosophy, I advert to the work of a number of other contemporary philosophers, John Searle, Goran Hermeren, Monroe Beardsley, Peter Lamarque, Paisley Livingston, and Richard Shusterman chief among them. I then demonstrate that Eliot's critique of the hypostatizing and levelling tendencies of many of his predecessors and contemporaries can itself legitimately be brought to bear on the similar practices of contemporary postmoderns such as Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty.
I conclude by suggesting that a return to Eliot's literary critical corpus is both timely and instructive, for it provides a much-needed corrective to some late twentieth-century trends in literary studies, and, in particular, to the influence of philosophical postmodernism upon it.
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Scott, Gabriella Boschi. "Dismantling cultural hierarchies| A prefiguration of Mexican postmodernism in Enrique Guzman's paintings." Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556588.
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This thesis argues that Mexican painter Enrique Guzmán is a central figure in the transition between the Ruptura movement and postmodernism. Construed by many as a surrealist artist, Guzmán employs idiosyncratic imagery not to probe inner realities, but to explore themes such as abjection and the fragmentation of self into commodity images. Inhabiting the chasm between an oppressive ultra-conservative provincial culture and the turbulent revolutionary ideology of Mexico City of the sixties and seventies, Guzmán articulates, by fusing aesthetic categories such as, among others, the grotesque, the campy and the advertising cliché and exploring language, paradox and gaze, a deconstruction of cultural and political codes by satirizing their interlocking systems of signs and simulacra, initiating a critique of national and personal identity that will later be developed by the Neo-Mexicanists (Neomexicanistas) into a bold denouncement of sexual, socioeconomic and national marginalization.
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Grassel, Robert. "Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Examining Epochal Markers." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/758.
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Valderrey, Eduardo. "Disurbia, acupunturas del territorio." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/456239.
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El objetivo de esta investigación es documentar los procesos de transformación de los espacios y los territorios a través de la mirada del arte.
Desde los años sesenta asistimos a entender la figura del artista como un ser prolífico que asume papeles de antropólogo, geógrafo, etnógrafo, sociólogo, etc.,… asumiendo tales roles desde el posicionamiento del arte contemporáneo respecto al discurso de una sociedad que asignaba la caída de unas disciplinas sobre otras durante la posmodernidad.
Disurbia, acupunturas del territorio abarca un catálogo de posibilidades de entender los cambios físicos que se producen en la piel de un mundo cambiante y transformado por múltiples fenómenos causados directa o indirectamente por la acción del ser humano.
El artista actúa así, además de los roles asignados anteriormente, como un notario, mostrando y demostrando con sus obras los profundos cambios en los territorios debido a los desastres naturales (causados indirectamente por el hombre), los conflictos bélicos, los cambios políticos, la especulación urbanística, las migraciones masivas y las incesantes deslocalizaciones de los fenómenos industriales.
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Pyatt, Neil. "Hybrid agency : postmodern contemporary art from Oaxaca, Mexico." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/13818.
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The last three decades have seen the Southern Mexican city of Oaxaca evolve to become an autonomous centre for the creation and promotion of contemporary art on state, national and international levels. The present research's original contribution to knowledge is the analytical investigation of an art movement's response to the political and technological effects characteristic of postmodernity and effected through globalisation. The research uses a hybrid theoretical framework that includes the work of: Fredric Jameson to discuss postmodernism; Nelly Richard to characterise a postmodern Latin America; Homi K. Bhabha to analyse the postcolonial context and the creation of agency; and, inherent to this structure and the context, the work of Néstor García Canclini. The theoretical investigation is supported by ethnography that ascertains how hybrid political thought and community altruism characterise the Oaxacan art community and the aesthetic expression practised by a new generation of its members. Oaxacan contemporary art is based on the success of the post-Rupture primitivist magical realism practised originally by important Oaxacan artists living and travelling in other locations. The most recent generation of contemporary artists in Oaxaca integrates with, upholds and promotes the model of cultural production that is now inextricably intertwined with the local and wider communities. Participant observation and the analysis of the behaviour of the artists studied, focused the investigation on the efficient interaction between artists and collective action as an integrated sector of civil society. The research determines how the artists studied and the wider Oaxacan art community applies their knowledge of global communications and information technology to create and market a cultural product and promote a postmodern social and political perspective. Regarded as a solid sector of the local and regional community due to its national and international standing, the Oaxacan art community constructs political power from significant, direct involvement with micro-projects to engaging in partnerships with state and federal stakeholders in large-scale cultural endeavours. The research discusses projects instigated and undertaken by the artists studied, including the call for a pacifistic solution to the Oaxaca Conflict of 2006, a six-month socio-political uprising caused by actual and historic conditions in the national and regional Left-Right political duel. The strength of the art community is founded on necessary and reinforcing collective action in both artistic and altruistic projects; often combined through the direct use of art in the creation of funds and media-empowered support towards achieving a perceived common good that centres on the protection of identity and the political defence of diversity.
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Bradley, Jessica. "Postmodern bodies and feminist art practice." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69635.
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This thesis examines, from a feminist perspective, conceptions of the body proposed by poststructuralist philosophy and postmodernist art practice. Within both feminist and postmodern critiques of the humanist subject, the body has come to be understood as a site of cultural inscriptions. In tracing the relationship between postmodernism and feminism, the thesis addresses specifically the shift from celebratory, affirmative female imagery typical of feminist art in the seventies, to the semiotic analysis of images of women which, in the eighties, problematized the question of sexual difference as one of representation. During the eighties women artists generally eschewed figurative representations of the female body in recognition of its over-determined socio-sexual status. Within this historical framework, the tension between the "de-materialized" body of postmodernity and the insistently present body of gendered experience is explored both in the work of feminist theorists and contemporary women artists. In conclusion, three corporeal sites--the cultural, the epistemological and the psycho-sexual--are analysed in the postmodern practices of Jana Sterbak, Nell Tenhaaf and Kati Campbell.
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D'Errico, Julia. "The Emergence of the Real in Modernist and Postmodernist Art: Torus Versus Rhizome." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108967.
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Thesis advisor: Frances RestucciaWhat qualifies a work as distinctly modernist or postmodernist? Moving beyond the idea that modernism and postmodernism are primarily distinguishable on a temporal basis, D’Errico instead argues that the key difference between these two movements lies on a theoretical level. Grounded in a framework of contemporary theory put forth by Žižek, Lacan, Deleuze, and Badiou, D’Errico proposes that the Real-Symbolic relation manifests differently in modernist and postmodernist works; the structural paradigms of the torus and rhizome are helpful to illuminate this fundamental theoretical difference. Expanding on Žižek’s definitions of modernism and postmodernism (from Looking Awry ), D’Errico posits that a torus-shaped Real-Symbolic relation accords with modernism and that a rhizomatic Real-Symbolic relation accords with postmodernism. This interdisciplinary analysis of twentieth-century art mainly focuses on literature, but also invokes poetry, visual art, theatre, and film. Overall, D’Errico dissects the theoretical structures of The Sun Also Rises, Waiting for Godot, The Trial, White Noise, and Caché to qualify the alignment of each with either the modernist or postmodernist canon
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Regan, Josephine. "Untitled : a dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree at Otago Polytechnic School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand /." Josephine's Websites, 2007. http://www.regan.net.nz/.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Otago Polytechnic, 2007.Supervisors: Bridie Lonie and Clive Humphries. Thesis typescript. First produced for a website at: http://www.regan.net.nz "July 2007." Otago Polytechnic department: School of Art. Includes bibliographical references.
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Vickery, Jonathan Paul. "The dissolution of aesthetic experience : a critical introduction of the minimal art debate 1963-1970." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285868.
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McKeon, J. Michael. "Constructuing [sic] the category Entartete Kunst the Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937 and postmodern historiography." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1142622901.
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Reishus, John William. "Demarcating space : barriers and screens." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864906.
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The problem addressed by the student was the creation of private, separate spaces within a larger area. It was determined that folding screens could be utilized in a variety of settings and situations thereby providing a flexible solution.As the creation of the folding screens progressed, the student was exposed to ideas and motivating concepts within the artworld which influenced him to consider a more sculptural response to the problem. A shift of the emphasis from the purely functional to a viewer oriented. perceptual interaction with the sculptural space was the result; although the sculptures did not have the obvious usefulness of the folding screens, the student found the sculptures to be personally useful in his artistic development.The primary method of constuction utilized was welding. Several of the sculptures were the result of combining wooden elements and assemblages with welded steel. Sevendifferent artworks were created, three being folding screens and four being sculptural barriers.Department of Art
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Debrabant, Camille. "La peinture à l'épreuve du postmodernisme : Etats-Unis - Europe, 1962-1989." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010649.
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En 1981, le sort de la peinture fait l'objet d'annonces les plus contradictoires de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique : un « nouvel esprit en peinture » est célébré au moment même où est promulgué l'acte de décès du medium. Emblème du modernisme greenbergien et repoussoir bourgeois mis à mal par les avant-gardes des années 1960 el 1970, la peinture est prise pour cible privilégiée des théoriciens du postmodernisme, qui réaniment le poncif de la rivalité avec la photographie. Une fois élucidés les enjeux marchands ou idéologiques associés à ces stratégies institutionnelles et théoriques. il s'agira de confronter le discours critique à l'analyse des procédures artistiques élaborées entre le début des années 1960 et la fin des années 1980. Loin d'exclure l'un ou l'autre medium, ces procédures travaillent à de continuelles reconfigurations de combinaisons entre la peinture et la photographieIn 1981, the fate of painting subject to the most contradictory declarations on both sides of the Atlantic : “A New Spirit in Painting” is celebrated as the medium 's death certificate is being promulgated Symbol of the greenbergian 's modernism and repoussoir bourgeois, damaged by the avant-garde from the Sixties and Seventies, painting is the target of choice for post-modernism theoreticians, who revive the cliché of rivalry with photography. Once clarified the economic or ideological stokes associated with institutional and theoretical strategies, it will be necessary to confront the critical discourse to the analysis of artistic procedures elaborated between the early Sixties and late Eighties. Far from excluding either of these two mediums, these procedures act towards continuous reconfigurations of combinations between painting and photography
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Scott, Kabwe Maureen. "Encountering the uncanny in art and experience : possibilities for a critical pedagogy of transformation in a postmodern time." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0006/MQ43945.pdf.
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Vander, Gucht Daniel. "Le musée et l'art contemporain: contribution à la sociologie de la médiation artistique à l'ère post-moderne." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212669.
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Petkevičius, Tomas. "Postmodernizmo architektūra Lietuvoje ir jos įpaveldinimo galimybės." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130614_151032-89356.
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Šiame darbe bus tyrinėjama Lietuvos postmodernizmo stilistinės krypties architektūra, apžvelgiant skirtingus jos raidos etapus – ištakas, kurios randamos dar sovietmečiu (8 – 9 dešimtmečiais), ankstyvosios nepriklausomybės etapą, bei laikotarpį po 2000 m. Darbe bus pristatoma postmodernizmo architektūros raida pasaulyje, jos estetinis ir idėjinis pagrindas, pagrindinių teoretikų suformuoti svarbiausi šios stilistikos bruožai. Mėginama išanalizuoti, kaip ši architektūros stilistinė kryptis vystėsi pasaulyje ir kaip – Lietuvoje. Darbe nagrinėjama raida nuo pirminių projektų iki užbaigtų pastatų. Dalis objektų atrinkta pagal analizuojamo laikotarpio architektūrinę spaudą, kita dalis analizuota natūrinių tyrimų metu. Nagrinėjant konkrečius objektus, ieškoma būdingų bei vertingųjų savybių, priskiriamų šiai stilistinei krypčiai. Taip pat darbe apžvelgiama šiandieninė situacija naujausių laikų architektūros ir paveldo apsaugos santykyje, nagrinėjami bei lyginami Lietuvoje ir užsienyje keliami su postmodernizmo architektūros įpaveldinimo bei apsaugos galimybėmis susiję aspektai, svarstoma ir apie šios stilistinės krypties, kaip neatskiriamo bendros architektūros istorijos etapo, pastatų galimo įtraukimo į pažintinius - turistinius maršrutus galimybę.In this work author will research postmodernistic architecture in Lithuania, overlooking three different stages of it‘s development – early stage during the Soviet years, early independence stage (1990 – 2000) and period after 2000 years. In this work author presents development of postmodernism architecture in the world, its aesthetical and ideological basis, the main features of this architectural stylistic formulated by leading theoretics. Author trying to analyse how this stylistic evolved in the world and how – at Lithuania, this evolution will be overlooked from the very beginnings, primary projects to the finished buildings. This evolution researching through examples found in architectural press, as well as through ones, which was analysed during nature research. In analysing of each example author is searching typical and valuable characteristics, whose are common in the postmodernism stylistic of architecture. Also in this work author overlooks today‘s situation in the field of new architecture and it‘s preservation, research and compare it‘s aspects in Lithuania and other countries, also considers the possibilities of postmodernistic buildings involvement in educational – touristic routes.
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Volk, Mitchell James. "GRAAPHS: graphic representations of abstract and altruistic phenomenological hymns and stories." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6871.
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Lynn, Marie Elizabeth. "The Place of Story and the Story of Place: How the Convergence of Text and Image Marks the Opening of a New Literary Frontier." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/lynn/LynnM0507.pdf.
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While certain scholars are lamenting that literature has become less relevant in these postmodern times, I have found that this is not at all the case. What is actually happening is that literature is the process of change, due in no small part to our blossoming visual culture. Interweaving Native American and dominant culture literatures, this document explores the ways narrative has historically played a critical role, not only in constructing human identity, but also in defining our relationship with place. More recently, new literary hybrids, with various degrees of intertwining text with image, are proliferating. These literatures of image are propelling us beyond postmodernism into a new era.
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Sasse, Julie Rae. "Blurred Boundaries: A History of Hybrid Beings and the Work of Patricia Piccinini." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311191.
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Hybrid beings have been a part of the artistic imagination since art was first made on cave walls and rock faces. Yet their visual makeup and symbolic meanings have changed over time from deities, demons, and oddities of nature to unconscious states of being and the socially and culturally marginalized. This dissertation will examine a history of hybrid beings and the work of Australian artist Patricia Piccinini. Her silicone sculptures, photographs, installations, and videos are hyperrealistic representations of composite beings that appear to have blended rather than fragmented characteristics of human and animal, which sets them apart from their historic precedents. Piccinini suggests that her hybrids are products of genetic engineering, ostensibly created to serve human beings as comforters, nurturers, protectors, and surrogates for humans and endangered species alike. I argue that Piccinini's hybrids shed light on the hubris and commercialism inherent in bioscientific advances, yet they also reveal a kind of societal ambivalence regarding the posthuman era. Her works suggest utopian aspirations for the future while mourning the loss of humanity as it has been known. Examining Piccinini's art through the lens of liminality and the body, I will contextualize her hybrids within cultural and art historical models from ancient Egypt and Greece through the Victorian eras. In particular, I will establish common ground with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), which served as an early inspiration for Piccinini's images and conceptual aims. I will also highlight hybrid imagery in Dada and Surrealism and feminist art to reveal the similarities and differences in their approaches and intent. Piccinini's works operate within Donna J. Haraway's notion of the cyborg; therefore, I will also analyze her art within that theoretical model. In addition, I will compare and contrast Piccinini's art to early hyprerrealist sculptors and contemporary artists working in this manner. Piccinini's hybrids establish that both humans and animals are social constructs, and that society has a responsibility for the life forms it creates. Ultimately, this project demonstrates that Piccinini's hybrids are not cautionary tales of a dystopian future but representations of the biotechnological sublime.
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Shipe, Rebekah C. "Authenticity, Originality and the Copy: Questions of Truth and Authorship in the Work of Mark Landis, Elizabeth Durack, and Richard Prince." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337265281.
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Fox, Peter Holden. "Textual apparitions: power, language, and site in the work of Jenny Holzer." Pomona College, 2007. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,10.
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Jenny Holzer's text-based projects have attracted the attention of critics, historians, and curators from Des Moines to Dresden. An understanding of the complex interplay between language, gender, power, and site within Holzer's work demonstrates how a singular interpretive approach is insufficient for discussing the multitude of meanings her projects produce. Perhaps most significantly, a fresh analysis of Holzer's work and critical reactions to it challenges the story of modernism and postmodernism and the relationship between these two terms.
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Kimvall, Jacob. "Bortom Klichéerna : om graffiti och den samtida konstens gränser." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of the History of Art, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7304.
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Uppsatsen undersöker den samtida konstens gränser genom att studera hur graffiti beskrivs och behandlas inom dagens konstdiskurs. Den innehåller även en kritisk granskning och genomgång av graffitins historieskrivning.
Utgångspunkten är påståenden om att den samtida konsten präglas av en öppenhet och en mångfald där vad som helst kan vara konst. Frågan som ställs är om dessa påståenden verkligen stämmer. Undersökningens resultat pekar entydigt på att så inte är fallet. Den samtida konsten framstår tvärtom som ett både socialt och diskursivt snävt avgränsat sammanhang där uteslutning är en central aspekt. Idén om det nyskapande framstår som viktig i bedömningen av vad som betraktas som konst. Deskriptiva och normativa utsagor vävs samman enligt likartade mönster i olika sammanhang, vilket tyder på att det finns väletablerade tolkningsstrukturer. Resultaten pekar även på att dessa strukturer är stabila samt att de har kopplingar till klass.
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Wojton, Margaret Anne. "LOVE AND LOSS: THE WORKS OF FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES, THE AIDS EPIDEMIC AND POSTMODERN ART." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1277860830.
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Coca, García José. "Relaciones paradigmáticas en la historia del arte." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/455139.
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Existe una creencia generalizada y cada vez más extendida, especialmente dentro de los círculos teóricos de las ciencias humanas, de que vivimos una época de crisis artística. A pesar de que las obras ensayísticas a este respecto se han multiplicado exponencialmente en los últimos cincuenta años, este concepto de muerte u ocaso del arte no es nuevo. Esta “profecía del presente”, que Arthur Danto cita en sus escritos, lleva trayendo de cabeza a toda la rama de la estética desde que Hegel la formulara a mediados del siglo XIX. A decir verdad, parece tratarse, no sólo de una profecía del presente, sino también de un caso clásico de profecía autocumplida, a saber, uno de esos eventos que acaecen por el mero hecho de ser mencionados.
Pero, ¿qué motivos tiene esta “crónica de una muerte anunciada” hegeliana para seguir vigente? ¿Podemos hablar realmente de un arte en pretérito perfecto? La hipótesis que se baraja es la de un arte moribundo, es decir, la de un arte que ha llegado a un callejón sin salida del que no puede salir, una suerte de arte zombie digno de los clásicos de serie B de George A. Romero, que avanza lento y sin rumbo con la única pretensión de chupar toda la sangre que pueda, tiburón en formol mediante si es necesario. Pero, ¿hasta qué punto está fundamentada esta hipótesis?, ¿existe una crisis de independencia en el arte?, y, siendo así ¿se trata realmente un problema exclusivamente actual?
En el interesante tomo “Understanding Art Markets and Management” Iain Robertson cita las palabras de Trimarchi, según el cual la motivación del arte “se encuentra en algún punto entre el altruismo y la máximización de beneficios.” Pero, ¿en qué punto se encuentra dentro de esa larga y sinuosa línea? ¿Cuál es el paradigma por el que se rige el arte de nuestros días? ¿Existen o han existido otros modelos posibles? A estas y otras preguntas se tratará de dar respuesta en las siguientes páginas.
A raíz de estas preguntas, se plantean los objetivos de este estudio:
– Suponiendo que el arte de nuestros días se rija por un modelo, ¿existen otros modelos de arte?
– ¿Se ha regido siempre el arte por este mismo modelo?, ¿qué otros paradigmas artísticos han podido tenido lugar a lo largo la historia?, ¿pueden estos paradigmas ser contemporáneos en sus diferentes épocas?
– ¿Cómo encaja el patronazgo artístico en estos modelos? ¿Y la historiografía del arte?
– ¿Cómo podemos explicar la relación de las vanguardias artísticas con estos modelos de arte? ¿son las vanguardias en sí mismas paradigmas artísticos? ¿es el posmodernismo una vanguardia?
– ¿Es realmente comercial el paradigma artístico actual? Si es así, ¿cuáles son los defensores y detractores de este modelo? ¿Qué papel juegan los artistas?
– ¿Existen alternativas al modelo actual?
Para hallar respuesta a las preguntas planteadas en los apartados anteriores se propone una tesis de carácter estético-filosófico. Es decir, este texto no se compone de un trabajo de campo, ni de una recopilación de datos puramente empírica. El fin último es el de elaborar una teoría que responda a las preguntas planteadas, a través la lectura y recopilación de diferentes fuentes bibliográficas, así como de las propias ideas del autor.
Por supuesto, el trabajo tomará en consideración otros estudios, algunos de ellos puramente sociológicos o estadísticos, pero esta no es la naturaleza de esta tesis. Desde una perspectiva práctica, podría alegarse que la mayoría de los estudios que han pretendido “cuantificar” el mundo del arte sólo ofrecen resultados parciales porque se trata de un mundo con numerosos estratos –a cada cual más opaco- e intereses mezclados.
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Halse, Joanne. "Framing the text : an investigation of collage in postmodern narrative illustration." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50609.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2006.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Collage, as a verbal and visual medium, epitomises the heterogeneity, indeterminacy and fragmentation of the postmodern moment. In this thesis I argue that visual collage - in the context of book illustration - presents an ideal form with which to illustrate the state of contemporary (postmodern) narrative. Postmodernism, as a term or concept, evades any form of absolute or definitive account. Hence, in my discussion of the postmodern condition I move towards an understanding of this complex theoretical and cultural phenomenon. Postmodern cultural artifacts reflect the state of a modernised, Western-orientated, globalised consciousness, which resists arborescent structures in past and contemporary texts. In both postmodern narratives and in literary fictional narratives the condition of artifice is amplified. Thus, this thesis explores various characteristics evident in postmodern fiction in order to understand and demonstrate the changes manifest in contemporary narratives in general. Many of the stylistic and figurative devices employed in the postmodern novel foreground the excessive appropriation and self-reflexive textualism of contemporary texts - these literary devices often reflect particular collage-like tendencies or characteristics. Contemporary literary theory, in addition, provides many useful terms and concepts with which to describe visual texts and, for the purposes of this discussion, narrative illustration. This thesis is centred primarily on an analysis of the practical component completed as part of the Master of Arts degree in Fine Arts. The discussion of the practical work is embedded in the wider fields of book art - particularly the postmodern artist's book (livre detourne) - and in contentious debates around the role of visual narrative illustration. In both the thesis and the illustrated book objects, I challenge the secondary and supplementary position traditionally held by illustration in the context of the book. I argue for a form of visual narrative that is not required to function as a mere translation of the primary verbal text. Instead - working within the context of the artist's book and through the utilisation of collage as a visual (and verbal) medium - I demonstrate that illustration may complement, supplement or subvert the written text. Furthermore, I show that illustration may assume the role of the primary text in the context of the codex. Finally, this study creates a space for a creative and participatory reader who, through the intertextual processes made evident in the book objects, becomes an active 'reader-writer' of the visual and verbal narratives under discussion.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Collage, as beide 'n verbale en visuele medium, verpersoonlik die onbesliste, gefragmenteerde, heterogene moment van postmodemisme. In hierdie tesis voer ek aan dat visuele collage, binne die konteks van boekillustrasie, 'n ideale vorm van uitbeelding hied om die toestand van kontemporere (postmodeme) narratief te illustreer. Postmodemisme, as 'n term of konsep, ontwyk enige volslae of beslissende betekenis. Gevolglik poog ek in my bespreking van die postmodeme toestand om nader aan 'n begrip van hierdie komplekse teoretiese en kulturele , fenoneem te beweeg. Postmodeme kulturele artefakte reflekteer die toestand van 'n gemodemiseerde, Westers-georienteerde, geglobaliseerde bewustheid wat liniere strukture in tekste uit die verlede en die hede weerstaan. In beide postmodeme narratiewe en fiktiewe literere narratiewe word die gesteldheid van kunsskepping toegelig. Dus ondersoek hierdie tesis verskeie opvallende eienskappe van postmodeme fiksie ten einde die veranderinge wat in die algemeen in kontemporere narratiewe manifesteer te verstaan en te demonstreer. Vele van die stilistiese en figuratiewe tegnieke van die postmodemistiese roman plaas die oormatige toe-eining en selfrefleksiewe tekstualisme van konteporere tekste op die voorgrond; die literere gebruikswyses reflekteer dikwels bepaalde collage-agtige tendense of eienskappe. Hierbenewens, bied kontemporere literereteorie vele nuttige terme en konsepte waarmee visuele tekste sowel as, vir die doe] van hierdie ondersoek, visuele narratiewe, beskryf kan word. Hierdie tesis is hoofsaaklik gevestig op 'n analise van die praktiese werk wat dee) van die Magister Artuim-graad in Beeldende Kunste uitmaak. Die bespreking van die praktiese werk is veranker in die wyer terreine van boekkuns - spesifiek die postmodeme kunstenaarsboek (livre detourne) - en in kontensieuse debatte oor die rol van visuelenarratief-illustrasie. In beide die tesis en die gelllustreerde boekobjekte bevraagteken ek die tradisionele siening dat illustrasie binne boekkontekse 'n sekondere of aanvullende posisie inneem. Ek argumenteer ten gunste van 'n vorm van visuele narratief waarvan daar nie bloot verwagword om as 'n beskrywing van die primere verbale teks te funksioneer nie. In plaas daarvan, deur binne die konteks van die kunstenaarsboek te werk en deur collage as 'n visuele (en verbale) medium te benut, demonstreer ek dat illustrasie die geskrewe teks kan aanvul, daartoe kan toevoeg of dit kan ondergrawe. Verder toon ek dat illustrasie die rol van die primere teks in die konteks van die kodeks kan inneem. Laastens skep hierdie studie die geleentheid vir 'n kreatiewe en bydraende leser - vanwee 'n intertekstuele proses wat in die boekobjekte aan die Jig kom - om as 'n aktiewe 'leser-skrywer' van die visuele en verbale tekste onder bespreking op te tree.
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Potvin, Allison Leigh. "Bodies in Transition:Physical Transformation in Postmodern Russian Fiction and Visual Culture." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316111770.
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Lundgren, Bo. "Estetik, som uttryck för en världsbild." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-305432.
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Farrell, Lindsay Thomas. "Visual metaphors of creation and redemption in the Assisi frescoes the art of Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh : their implications for a post-modern aesthetic /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Sadeghinia, Sara. "Défis de quelques pratiques artistiques contemporaines de la jeune scène iranienne." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON30024.
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La culture en général et l’art, en particulier, occupent une position unique dans la structuration d’une société. En dépit des conflits, des convulsions politiques et idéologiques qu’a connu depuis un siècle, l’Iran d’aujourd’hui n’est plus un pays sous le joug politique d’une théocratie obscurantiste. Contrairement aux discours bruyants et actions hostiles de dirigeants islamiques qui provoquent si facilement l’attention du grand public en Occident, l’expression artistique iranienne reste très peu connue du public du monde entier. C’est à partir d’une réalisation plastique personnelle qu’ont été évalués que les véritables représentants et porte-parole d’une société iranienne progressiste ne sont plus ses politiques, mais bien ses artistes. Les artistes iraniens essaient de montrer la voix d’un autre Iran, celle d’un pays à l’histoire plurimillénaire, mais toujours aussi épris de culture et avide de liberté.Très attachées à leur histoire et leur culture, les oeuvres des artistes iraniens s’élaborent entre héritage et innovation. Lesquelles font état d’univers où un langage symbolique, ostensiblement hybride, se construit entre traditions ancestrales et modernité postrévolutionnaire. Par le biais de différents types médiums contemporains, comme la photographie, la performance, l’installation, la vidéo, ces oeuvres témoignent de la recherche d'un geste et d'un langage susceptibles de reconstruire la mosaïque du réel. Le regard des artistes, construit par leurs codes culturels, ne les empêche cependant pas de prendre en considération les actuels problèmes sociaux et politiques. Par contre, les artistes iraniens détournent intelligemment la réalité de façon métaphorique et symbolique pour transmettre le contenu de leur message au monde entier. De cette manière, l’art contemporain iranien, a pu s’épanouir sur la scène internationale et a pu attirer l’attention de quelques collectionneurs du marché de l’art et de commissaires d’exposition internationaux, durant ces dernières décenniesCulture in general and art in particular, occupy a unique position in the structure of society. Despite the conflicts, political and ideological convulsions has been known for a century, Iran today is no longer a country under the political yoke of theocracy obscurantist. Unlike the noisy speech and actions hostile Islamic leaders who so easily cause the attention of the general public in the West, Iranian artistic expression is very little known to the public worldwide. This is from a personal realization plastic what evaluated as true representatives and spokespersons of Iranian society progressive are no longer policies, but its artists. Iranian artists trying to show the voice of another Iran, a country with a history thousands of years, but still as loving culture and eager for freedom. Very attached to their history and culture, the works of Iranian artists to develop between heritage and innovation which indicate universe where a symbolic language, ostensibly hybrid builds between traditions and modernity post-revolutionary. Through different mediums contemporaries, such as photography, performance, installation, video, these works reflect the research gesture and language may reconstruct the mosaic of reality. The regard of artists, built by their cultural codes, however, does not prevent to consider the current social and political problems. By against, Iranian artists intelligently divert the reality of metaphorical and symbolic way to transmit the content of their message to the world. In this way, Iranian contemporary art, has been able to flourish on the international scene and has attracted the attention of some collector’s art market and international exhibition curators, in recent decades
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Andersson, Inger. "Folk på tapeten : Om konstruktionen av folkkonstnären i framställnngar om Bernhard Jönsson i Färgaryd." Thesis, Linnaeus University, School of Cultural Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6942.
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I uppsatsen studeras hur konstruktionen av en folkkonstnär sker i två porträtterande texter mot en bakgrund som ifrågasätter logiken i konstruktionen.
I uppsatsen tecknas en levnadsberättelse över Bernhard Jönsson, Färgaryd. Exempel ges på hans oljemåleri vilket sätts i sammanhang med den modernistiska epoken. Postmodernistiskt idégods jämförs med sydsvenskt bonadsmåleri för att finna likheter. Därnäst granskas två texter som presenterar Bernhard Jönsson som folkkonstnär.
Författaren belyser genom sina exempel hur konstruktionen av folkkonstnären bygger på ignorerande av vissa fakta. Analyserna av presentationerna visar hur folkkonstnären blir utsatt för generaliseringar, mytifiering och avintellektualisering. Författaren jämför i diskussionen de skilda konsekvenserna av att kategorisera Bernhard Jönssons sentida bonadsmåleri till folkkonsten eller postmodernismen.
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Collett, Rachel Joan. "Turning back : continuity and difference in modernist and postmodernist reflexivity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4256.
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Thesis (MA VA (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary function of paintings and novels in Western culture has historically been considered the depiction or description of reality. Over the course of the last century, however, the inherent reflexivity of both art and literature has become progressively more insistent and programmatic, in such a way as challenges the relationship between form and the world. A re-thinking of the role of representation is thus central to both modernism and postmodernism. This thesis is an investigation into the relationship between modern and postmodern reflexivity. Through the close examination of four artists who serve as case studies, I argue that literary and artistic modernism‟s emphasis on form and subjectivity, as well as the tendency of postmodern art and writing to flaunt its own status as rhetoric/fiction, are different facets of a continuous response to a rapidly changing world. Using the insights of post-structuralist theory, I suggest that whereas modernism‟s reflexive drive is directed towards truth and self-knowledge, postmodern reflexivity is centrally concerned with the elusive, continually shifting nature of meaning. What emerges in the light of the practice of individual artist and authors, however, is that the modern and postmodern reflexive modes are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but can co-exist, producing a vital and necessary tension.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Beskrywing en uitbeelding van die werklikheid word geskiedkundig as die kernfunksies van skilderye en die roman in die Westerse kultuur beskou. Gedurende die laaste eeu het die inherente refleksiwiteit van beide kuns en letterkunde toenemend meer programmaties en sistematies geword. Dit het geskied op „n wyse wat die verhouding tussen vorm en die wêreld uitdaag. „n Herbesinning van die rol van uitbeelding of representasie is gevolglik van sentrale belang vir beide modernisme en postmodernisme. Hierdie tesis is „n ondersoek na die verwantskap tussen moderne en postmoderne refleksiwiteit. Deur „n noukerige ondersoek van vier kunstenaars se werk, stel ek voor dat die letterkundige en artistieke klem van modernisme op vorm en subjektiwiteit, sowel as die gebruiklike kenmerk van retoriek/fiksie, verskillende aspekte is van „n voortdurende weerkaatsing op „n vinnig veranderende wêreld is. Deur die teoretiese perspektiewe van post-stukturalisme toe te pas, stel ek voor dat modernistiese refleksiwiteit neig na die waarheid en selfkennis, terwyl postmoderne refleksiwiteit fokus op die onbepaalde en veranderlike aard van betekenis. Nietemin, uit my kritiese beskouing van die kreatiewe praktyk van afsonderlike kunstenaars en skrywers blyk dit dat die modernistiese en postmodernistiese refleksiewe benaderinge nie noodwendig mekaar uitsluit nie, maar saam kan bestaan en „n dinamiese en noodsaaklike spanning skep.
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Bain, Keith Norman. "Hyperartifical cinema and the art of cool." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52880.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, an ontology of contemporary cinema is developed using the position assumed by postmodern thinkers (notably Jean Baudrillard) and contemporary filmmakers. Using Baudrillard's perspective it is argued that the cinematic apparatus is an expression of both human curiosity and a desire to place "reality" at a distance. While the spectator seeks involvement with the viewed subject, he or she remains detached from the images which simulate the various "realities" in which he or she becomes "involved" through the act of viewing. The contemporary Western subject is said to crave "meaning" in a universe which is increasingly secular, materialistic, individualistic and, to a certain extent, "virtual". Life is also said to be more ironic, providing illusory concessions such as communication in lieu of interaction, information instead of knowledge, choice in favour of quality, surfaces rather than depth, and images which ultimately extinguish "the real". Moving images may be said to allude to the artificial nature of a "reality" which is itself a human construction. This suggests that the role of the camera is to place both the world and human subjects "at a distance", thereby objectifying (and potentially dehumanising) the subject-objects of the gaze. Many postmodern films are concerned with the functioning of the cinematic apparatus itself, and these films - implicitly and explicitly - deal with the way in which subjectivity is established through the cinematic gaze. "Realism" in the cinema has to a large extent shifted from the documentation of the world, to techniques which problematise the viewer's experience of "reality". Interactivity, faux-verité and the hyperrealism of computer graphic imaging, have contributed to the confusion of various forms of screen "realism", arguably impacting on the viewer's experience of "reality". In another sense, "reality" has been transformed by the blurring of distinctions between high and low cultural paradigms, increasingly evident in work that privileges the showing of "perverse", "profane", "grotesque", "vulgar" and explicit "realities". Boundaries between private and publiC spaces are eroded as the cinematic apparatus takes spectators into increasingly intimate personal spaces, demystifying and popularising the unknown and previously hidden. Considering the influence of commercial and socio-economic factors on the development of contemporary cinema (emphasizing Hollywood), the thesis looks at the aesthetic, thematic and narrative concerns of both mainstream and niche-market films. Focus is given to the socalled postmodern aesthetic which is closely linked to what some critics call recycling (an inability to say anything "new"), some label "empty" (meaningless) and many see as "schizoid" (able to be read in various, often contradictory, ways). The thesis proposes that contemporary (postmodern) cinema is a "pure" form which increasingly sets "reality" at a distance so that it's illusory nature is emphasised. It also demonstrates how contemporary films serve as reflections of a world which is itself nothing but a reflection (artificial construction). Like dreams, fantasies and other "virtual realities", the cinema represents a form of "remembering" which is detached from any particular time or space. In this sense, cinematic moving images enable viewers to engage with aspects of their own humanity which may be quite independent of the "reality" status of the world.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie proefskrif word die uitgangpunte van postmoderne denkers (by uitstek Jean Beaudrillard) en kontemporêre filmmakers benut om 'n ontologie van die kontemporêre film te ontwikkel. Vanuit Beaudrillard se perspektief word geargumenteer dat die filmiese apparatuur 'n uitrukking is van die mens se Inherente nuuskierigheid en die behoefte om "realiteit" op 'n afstand te hou. Alhoewel die kyker streef na betrokkenheid by die subjek wat bekyk word, bly hy of sy altyd afsydig (detached) van die beelde wat die verskeie "werklikhede" simuleer waarby hy of sy in die proses van kyk "betrokke" raak. Daar word beweer dat die hedendaagse Westerse subjek verlang na "betekenis" in 'n heelal wat al meer sekulêr, materialisties, individualisties en, tot 'n sekere mate, "virtueel" word. Die lewe is deurspek met ironie en maak allerlei illusionêre toegewings aan die "werklikheid", byvoorbeeld deur voorkeur te gee aan kommunikasie in plaas van interaksie, inligting in plaas van kennis, keuse in plaas van kwaliteit, oppervlakkighede in plaas van diepgang en beelde wat uiteindelike "die werklikeid" uitwis. Daar kan gesê word dat filmiese beelde (moving images) verwys na die kunsmatige aard van "realiteit", wat op sigself 'n menslike konstruksie is. Hiermee word dus gesuggereer dat dit die funksie van die kamera is om beide die wêreld en menslike subjekte "op 'n afstand" te plaas, en daarmee te objektiviseer (en moontlik te dehumaniseer). Baie postmoderne films hou hulle besig met die manier wat die filmiese apparatuur self funksioneer, en hierdie films ondersoek die wyse waarop subjektiwiteit deur middel van die kamera verkry word. "Realisme" in die film het tot 'n groot mate verskuif van die dokumentasie van die wêreld na tegnieke om die kyker se ervaring van die "werklikheid" te problematiseer. Interaktiwiteit, faux-verité en die hiper-realiteit van rekenaar gegenereerde beelde het bygedra tot die verwarring oor die verskeie vorme van filmiese "realisme", wat mens sou kon argumenteer 'n impak op die kyker se siening van "die werklikheid" het. In 'n ander sin, is "die werklikheid" getransformeer deur paradigma verskuiwings waardeur die onderskeide tussen "hoë" en "lae" kulture vervaag, iets wat al meer gedemonstreer word deur werke wat verkies om die "perverse", "profane", "groteske", "vulgêre", en eksplisiete "realiteite" te wys. Die grense tussen private en publieke ruimtes vervalook waar die filiese apparatuur kykers in al hoe intiemer persoonlike ruimtes inneem, om daardeur dit wat voorheen onbekende en versteek was te demistifiseer en populariseer. Met inagname van die invloed wat die kommersiële en sosio-ekonomiese faktore op die ontwikkelling van die hedendaagse film (veral van Hollywood) het, kyk die proefskrif na die estetiese, tematiese en narratiewe kwessies wat beide hoofstroom en niche-mark films kenmerk. Daar word veral gefokus op die sogenaamde post-moderne estetiek wat gekoppel word aan wat sommige kritici recycling noem (dws die onvermoë om iets nuuts te sê), ander as "leeg" (dws betekenisloos) beskou, en baie ander weer "shizoid" brandmerk (dws dit kan in verskeie, menige kere kontradiktoriese wyses, gelees of verstaan word). Die proefskrif bevind uiteindelik dan dat die kontemporêre (postmoderne) film 'n "suiwer" vorm is wat dit geleidelik regkry om "realiteit" op 'n afstand te hou, om sodoende sy eie illusionêre wese te benadruk. Dit illustreer ook hoe kontemporêre films funksioneer as refleksies van 'n wêreld wat self niks meer is as refleksie (kunsmatige konstruksie) is nie. Nes drome, fantasieë, en ander "virtuele realiteite", verteenwoordig die film 'n tipe "onthou" (remembering) wat onafhanklik is van 'n spesifteke tyd of plek. In hierdie sin help filmiese beelde kykers om hulself te kontfronteer met aspekte van hulle eie menslikheid wat onafhanklik is van hul werklikheidsstatus in die wêreld.
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Augustsson, Britt-Mari. "Cecilia Edefalk genom postmodernismens raster." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-159960.
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Denna uppsats analyserar Cecilia Edefalks konstverk genom ett postmodernistiskt raster. Tre verk - En annan rörelse, In the Painting the Painting, Självporträtt - från 1990-talet undersöks avseende konstens utformning och påverkan av postmodernistiska konstuttryck. Genom diskursanalysens metod undersöks dessutom konstdebatten vid denna tidpunkt då postmodernismen vann terräng i Sverige samt hur konstkritiken yttrade sig avseende Edefalks konst.This essay analyzes artworks by Cecilia Edefalk through a postmodernist lens. Three artworks - Another Movement, In the Painting the Painting, Selfportrait - from 1990s are examined regarding design and influence of postmodernist expressions. Through the method of discourse analysis the debate of art is investigated, as well as art critics regarding Edefalks artwork, at the time postmodernism developed in Sweden.