O presente relatório descreve o Projeto Educativo realizado no âmbito da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, intitulado: QUADROS-VIVOS: Vi(ver) o Museu na Escola, numa turma do 11º Ano do Curso Científico-Humanístico de Artes Visuais, da Escola Secundária Vergílio Ferreira, escola…
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This thesis document is comprised of two sections. The first section explores the theory of how objects play a role in evoking emotions, empathizing, and connecting visitors with the past by revealing the story of the objects themselves. I then assert that telling a story with v…
The first documentation of the standard playing card deck, or “pip” cards in Italy occurred in the 1370s when Florence and Siena both prohibited “a certain [card] game called naibbe ” (a word that is Arabic in origin) as a form of gambling. By the early fifteenth century the Ita…
Over the last three decades, many women and men who were political prisoners in the Middle East have come to Canada as immigrants and refugees. In their countries of origin, they resisted oppressive social policies, ideologies, and various forms of state violence. Their journeys…
Folklorists and Anthropologists have historically examined the relationship between art and community. The interrelationship of art and community offers a rich field of study for examining cultural expressions of faith, social complexity, and aesthetic preferences. Folklorists h…
For generations, Lebanon has remained in a state of turmoil. Political corruption, transnational influences, and sporadic ruptures dominate the country. Daily life has become a public ritual of disoriented memorialization that somehow remains masked and burrowed within each city…
My thesis exhibition is primarily characterized by research into traditions and taboos related to women and their bodies. While some of the chosen subjects are international matters related to womanhood, others originate from my direct surroundings, specifically, the Iranian cul…
When I was a young boy I played war with my friends. It was fun and exciting. We would pretend that we were out to fight the bad guys and ultimately win. Looking back at those childhood games after serving in the United States Army for three and a half years, including deploymen…
This dissertation explores the ways in which discourses about Africa influenced African American art, analyzing the way in which artists mediate emerging discursive and political movements throughout the middle part of the twentieth century which supplied new ways of giving form…
Objective:This study investigates the occurrence of depressive symptoms among persons living with HIV, and the relationship between depressive symptoms and HIV treatment initiation and adherence. Design: Cross-sectional. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among patie…
This dissertation investigates the relationships between Buddhism and culture as exemplified at Mindroling Monastery. Focusing on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this work argues that Mindroling was a seminal religio-cultural institution that played a key ro…
ABSTRACT During the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted (often uneasily) on the Iberian Peninsula. These three religious groups were in a constant process of defining and preserving their identities, which were often constructed in terms of the relationships with…
This dissertation explores the spiritual, artistic, and activist, lives and works of Chicana artists Cherríe Moraga and Lila Downs. It argues that these artists navigate their mestizaje, or mixed blood experiences, through their artwork to heal their soul wounds and transform th…
This is a descriptive study designed primarily to provide a comprehensive account of elementary classroom teachers' beliefs about three art education paradigms in Lagos State, Nigeria. These paradigms are, child-centered, discipline based art education-centered (DBAE) and the Ni…
The modernist paradigm of education seems to have failed in seeing an adequate rationale to advocate spiritual literacy and spiritual growth in schools because of its subscription to the secular worldview. Likewise, art educators, adhering to the secular sanctioning of spiritual…
This study examines the artistic aspects of relic culture from the Early Christian to late Medieval period, focusing on the imagery from Dalmatia, Venice and the Veneto regions in order to provide an enhanced understanding of the pervasive artistic force of relic cults during th…
This thesis examines the art of Henry Wood Elliott (1846–1930) and its role in Elliott's successful crusade to save the Pribilof Island fur seals from probable extinction, its importance as a visual record of the nineteenth-century Pribilof Aleut people during a time of societal…
This study of academic art of late nineteenth-century Britain attempts to show how it participated in the creation and transformation of the national mythology of the Victorian Empire, specifically regarding military and economic policies in North Africa. Most importantly, it ex…
This dissertation examines the emergence of Nigerian artistic modernism during the decade of political independence, between 1957 and 1967. By focusing on the work of a generation of artists, particularly a group of young artists whose careers began while students at the Nigeria…