Throughout history art has been regarded as an avenue for expression, healing, and a creative outlet for humanity. From simple cave drawings to detailed and expressive paintings no matter the artistic ability, the intention is to allow an escape from reality and an opening of th…
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The purpose of this study is to examine whether art gallerists are replaceable in the current climate in which the plea for removing the middlemen has been growing. The speed and ease of art transactions through digital platforms provide an alternative to the relationship-based …
This doctoral thesis consisted of a cultural-rhetorical-cognitive approach to the work of the English street artist Banksy and in particular of his graffiti. By examining the aesthetics and function of Banksy’s graffiti in both street and contemporary art, this study has shown t…
This project investigates a filmic technique—the production of moments of absorption and estrangement—and its translation and provocation to architecture with attention to private life and residence. The design research explored a set of formal, material, tectonic, programmatic,…
Este estudo tem como principal objectivo explorar o modo como a viagem e a paisagem se apresentam no slow cinema. Inicialmente será efectuada uma caracterização do slow cinema tendo como base alguns momentos importantes da história do cinema. Posteriormente, tentar se á compreen…
Europeans invented the concept of race to support their idea of racial superiority overall inhabitants of this continent. With this, there was also an invention of systems to police aesthetics, separating white from other. This system was expanded in the lead-up to the United St…
This dissertation examines the prospects of laïcité (secularism) in France today by exploring transformations in perceptions of symbols and practices associated with the Roman Catholic faith. My research works counter to many social scientific studies of religion and secularism …
This dissertation examines the shift in contemporary African art in the 1990s. By focusing on the Dak’Art Biennial as an important context of analysis, it argues that the genesis of this shift was the economic and political failures of the postcolonial states in the 1980s, which…
The globalization of the contemporary art market is a driving force behind the production and consumption of art from emerging markets, particularly in previously underrepresented regions, known as the Global South. Globally, artists from post-colonial nations have surfaced and …
In recent decades, attention to textile art has flourished. The growth of contemporary studies committed to revising fiber’s hierarchical categorization represents a discursive turn heavily weighted within feminist inquiry. The interrelation between textile techniques and constr…
Through her mystically infused, minimalistic sculptures, Iranian-born, London-based artist Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 ) has continued the trend of abstract spiritually in contemporary art. However, the theology that she represents is a mixture of her own creation, taking inspirat…
Hayv Kahraman is most widely known for her large-scale paintings of pale women with skin like silk and soft clouds of dark black hair. She often draws on her experiences as an émigré from Iraq to represent the challenges that surface as a result of one's identity. Having observe…
This project analizes the use of the Arabic script in Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance (1988) and Kutlugˇ Ataman's Animated Words (2003) to understand the variety of interpretations made possible to audiences familiar and unfamiliar to Arabic. These artists' roles as Middle Ea…
This dissertation identifies a kind of feminist architecture that constructs physical as well as conceptual space within the constraints of the status quo. I focus on three contemporary artists who challenge supposedly universal or neutral spatial constructions, engaging the arc…
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 …
Today, a growing number of Pakistani artists have embraced the nation's perceived visual languages and political, social, and cultural history to interrogate and unpack Pakistan's contemporary society and identity. The fruits of this shifting and mixing are works of art that tur…
This is a project exploring camouflage and multifocality as a practice and theory based research, reflecting the mental state of disappearance that develops into multifocal existence, in the cultural context. The practice element consists of an installation, composed of four con…
The veil is a historically constructed site, a fixed sign used in Euro-America to conveniently and clearly dress the borders between east and west. Recent disciplines like visual and cultural studies, Third World feminism, and postcolonialism have challenged this assumption posi…
Over the last several decades numerous scholarly articles and books have been published on Moroccan art forms. Yet, these studies have consistently examined Morocco's traditional works or its older forms of artistic practices. Specifically, Morocco's ceramics objects and textile…