This dissertation investigates the history of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and its relationship with Berlin’s urban space. Specifically, it explores the way in which the Biennale’s dialogue with the city of Berlin is forged through the use of physical urban spaces as…
Bu çalışma kapsamında Burdur Müzesi’nde bulunan Demir Çağı’na ait 294 adet ok ucu incelenmiştir. Çalışma kapsamında incelenen ok uçlarının, 32 alt tipten oluşan tipolojisi oluşturulmuştur. Hazırlanan yeni tipoloji sayesinde, ok uçlarının tiplere ayrımı oldukça basitleştirilmişti…
Tarih boyunca farklı bölgelerde yaşayan topluluklar birbirleriyle ticari, sosyal, kültürel, dini ve siyasi ilişkiler geliştirmiş, kültürleri arasında aktarmalar gerçekleşmiştir. Ege, Doğu Akdeniz ve Mezopotamya coğrafyası, ilk çağlardan beri dini figürler açısından benzer karakt…
My thesis analyzes the critical and pioneering role that Katherine Dreier, Juliana Force, and other New York-based female cultural promoters played in advancing the education, acceptance, and appreciation of modern art in America. By illuminating the strategies these women used …
Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema laid the groundwork for feminist theory surrounding the objectification of women in media by introducing the concept of the male gaze. Since its publication, theorists and critics have responded by proposing the poss…
This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the key operational patterns of the French cultural cluster and the nature of its appearance so to identify the principles of its modern functioning.
This paper explores the development of art market information and art market analysis since the 1960s. Unlike the stock or bond markets, primary market data is not publicly available in the art market. Due to the lack of primary market information, secondary market data, auction…
During the digital tide of the last several decades, the material, metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial m…
This thesis scrutinizes the rediscovery of the Chinese artist Sanyu (or Chang Yu, 常玉, 1895-1966) by examining major factors that have prompted the radical increase in value of Sanyu's market from the late 1980s to the present. In 2019 and 2020, six paintings by Sanyu fetched ove…
This thesis focuses on the Papunya Tula art movement that emerged from the Western Desert of Australia in 1971 and its lasting effects on the Aboriginal art market. The movement is credited with changing the discourse around Australian art history, introducing Aboriginal art to …
Dance has been seeing a steady decrease in audience sizes paired with a disproportionately small audience size compared to other performing art forms. There is a strong history of dance participation for some people and no dance engagement for most people. The major trends in lo…
My judgement is purely out of excitement or joy I get from a work. I often work on multiple pieces at a time. Time is instrumental to the process as it involves repeat judgement and meditation. Creation of a work can take weeks and sometimes even months. Before any painting sess…
In a time of constant threat to funding, elimination of the National Endowment, and competition over resources, philanthropy in the arts and culture sector is indispensable to the vibrancy and economic development of a city’s core. The arts and culture sector is considered to ta…
As the climate crisis continues to penetrate the news and everyday lives of Earth’s inhabitants, this paper aims to investigate how visual arts organizations can do their part in contributing positively to the contemporary environmental movement. This text will explore the role …
This dissertation explores how artists creatively engaged with digital and networked technologies care for their artworks and related studio or personal archival materials. As digital and new media artworks frequently face preservation concerns and require regular maintenance sh…
This thesis describes the classical music markets in China and the United States and the impact of arts education, arts policy and arts management in both countries as they relate to the lives of Chinese classical musicians, as well as how these elements affect their career deve…
Analyzing the relationship between the arts and business, this book offers an in-depth perspective on the increasingly common art-based strategies adopted by enterprises in various industries. Pursuing an exhaustive, systematic, evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach, it …
Analyzing the relationship between the arts and business, this book offers an in-depth perspective on the increasingly common art-based strategies adopted by enterprises in various industries. Pursuing an exhaustive, systematic, evidence-based and interdisciplinary approach, it …