Moustapha Dimé (1952-1998) is one of Senegal's most well known sculptors of the late 20th century. Despite his local and international clout, Dimé remains an enigmatic figure in art historical discourse. Documentation of his early years (prior to 1990) and the sculptures he achi…
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This dissertation pursues a study of independent film, from 1980 to 1999, as an emergent system of representation. Independent American and non- American films distributed in the United States have evolved into a distinct cultural site, formulated as points of intersection betwe…
Danish film director Lars von Trier is known for controversial work, both on-screen and off. His difficult subject matters, public statements and claims about his mistreatment of actors often overshadow his main stylistic trait and contribution to cinema. Throughout von Trier’s …
Entre 1966 y 1969, J.E Eielson lleva a cabo el que quizá sea el proyecto más enigmático de toda su trayectoria. Lo llama indistintamente Esculturas subterráneas o Esculturas para leer. El proyecto consiste en una serie de piezas de imposible realización programadas para ser ente…
The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to understand the meanings placed on the storied experiences of postsecondary arts administrators and other senior leaders who have applied organizational change management, knowingly or intuitively, to reform a theatre/fine arts curricu…
This thesis looks at three case studies between 1910-2021 by exploring the role that clothing plays in identity. First by looking at the Italian futurist movement between 1910-1933, futurist fashion is used to create a new Italian identity for the future Italian Empire. Secondly…
This dissertation explores the literary and intellectual history of “spontaneity” in twentieth-century art and social theory. It argues that there is an underappreciated formal “kinship” between the ideal of freedom embodied by avant-garde artistic experiments in spontaneous sel…
A careful reading of the negrista verses of Guillén’s West Indies, Ltd. and the négritude poetic rhythms of Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal highlights a profound feeling relatively to the way the Guillenian voices and the poetic descriptions of Cahier unfold in an env…
As the most recent brass instrument to be added to the standard orchestra, the tuba’s solo repertoire is relatively new compared to other orchestral instruments. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the first major concerto for tuba in 1954, over 100 years after the tuba’s creation i…
Tiyatro sahnelemelerinde düşünce ve biçim odaklı birçok reji uygulama yöntemi, içinde bulunduğu dönemin gerekliliğiyle tesadüfi veya planlı şekilde gün yüzüne çıkmıştır. Çağdaş tiyatroda bazen rejisör, eserinin ulaşmasını istediği seyirciyi kapalı bir bilince hapsederek, seyirci…
The term avant-garde in architecture has most often been associated with the conceptual architecture in western Europe of the sixties and seventies, many times overshadowing the predecessors of the early European modernists. Even looking back before this moment, the term is most…
This dissertation explores the ways in which the emergence of portable small-gauge film technologies and the subsequent spread of amateur film culture challenged the practices and meaning of cinema in interwar and wartime Japan. It argues that amateur cinema served as a place wh…
The purpose of this study was to begin placing Rudolf Forst’s solo harp works into the broader context of twentieth-century harp literature. A secondary purpose was to shed light on the body of lesser-known works written by American composers between 1900 and 1980. Through a sty…
This thesis closely examines the utilisation of dramatic characters’ comments on matters of literary and theatrical criticism. This phenomenon shaped a trend in European theatre during the first half of the twentieth century, and Egyptian theatre in the second half of the centur…
The aim of this thesis is to explore an heuristic analogy as proposed in its very title: how does a concept of the “uncanny in mimesis” and of the “theatre of death” give content to each other – historically and theoretically – as distinct from the one providing either a descrip…
Although he was active during the height of the avant-garde in Paris and was responsible for germinating the ides of modern art in the United States, Jan Matulka is unknown to many and left out of the narrative of American art history. Art history is self-perpetuating, and many …
This dissertation examines the use of performance in the work of German artist Martin Kippenberger. All his activities, from noodle-eating, dancing, singing, and giving interviews to making paintings, sculptures, and installations, were shaped by theater and acting. This approac…
Scholars of early-twentieth-century Buenos Aires—an international theatre hub— disproportionately emphasize Spanish-language performances. This tendency erases the histories of immigrant performing artists, such as Yiddish-speaking Jews who fled en masse to Argentina in order to…
This dissertation offers a critical and historical study of the ways in which popular music, avant-garde performance, and political life intersected within the context of burgeoning Thatcherism, the New Right, and neoliberalism in 1970–80s Britain. Drawing on archival research a…