This thesis employs the bodily wound as a metaphor for exploring HIV/AIDS in visual culture. In particular it connects issues of bodily penetration, sexuality and mortality with pre-existing anxieties around the integrity of the male body and identity. The thesis is structured a…
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This thesis analyses the role played by clothes within the socio-cultural context of middle-class women's lives in mid-Victorian England, c. 1851-75. By drawing on a broad range of sources, including a survey of prescriptive literature and women's magazines, novels, letters, dia…
This practice-based research addresses the challenges that face the animation practitioner in the Arab region. In engaging with this topic it highlights the contrast with international animation producers, and also seeks to analyse how Arab animation cinema is represented and un…
Debussy’s writings make frequent reference to his artistic leanings and his penchant for visual inspirations, particularly those in the natural world. He enjoyed the company of both writers and artists, and his contemporaries, particularly his friend and early biographer Louis L…
This dissertation concerns the ways in which the ritualized materials and ritualized practice of the Neo-Assyrian temple, through their culturally valued and prioritized visual and experiential characteristics, created and marked the special status and divine aspect of the house…
This dissertation focuses on the visual representation of generational politics as it changed during Imperial, Soviet and Post Soviet periods. It argues that the most important shift in visual representation of power relations between generations in Central Asia took place in th…
This qualitative multi-site case study explores critical aesthetic experiences in teacher education classrooms, and advocates for the inclusion of theoretical and practical knowledge of "difficult knowledge," visual culture, and critical aesthetics in the classroom. Social reali…
This dissertation explores a robust history of verbal, visual, and material images of tigers that has circulated in literary and popular culture from the pre-colonial through the postcolonial periods, particularly in texts from or about the South Asian subcontinent. I read repre…
The questions of whether the Calabar peoples produce art and whether Anglo-Calabarian hybrid visual culture constitutes a definable modern style in which imagery from everyday "nonartistic" sources may be understood as a component of global art resource are investigated. Calabar…
The second half of the twentieth century was a period of rapid urbanization in Istanbul. During this time, the city witnessed the development of a consumer society, the expansion and cultural ascendancy of the middle class, and the development of modern techniques of image mass …
This dissertation proposes a new interdisciplinary conceptualization of Mexican modernity during the two decades following the Revolution. Through an analysis of the visual and literary production of various, coexisting avant-garde movements, I achieve a clearer vision of the so…
This dissertation begins with the premise that disciplinary conservatism in Egyptology would benefit by engaging in interdisciplinary dialogues and that interdisciplinary theories and methods can be usefully applied to Egyptological research. To this end, I appropriate theories …
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…
The visualization of space has been central to the history of Beirut, which is also a vitally important node in the landscape of Arab media. This study critically examines the historical relationship between media technology and urban space in Beirut to critically reflect on vis…
Becoming Stranger: Identity and Estrangement in Contemporary Turkish Visual Culture is an analysis of the visuality of cultural politics concerning Turkey since the 1990s to present and the emergent effect of estrangement as a social and political critique. The period marks the …
Since taking root in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century, cabaret has flourished by enabling artists to communicate socio-political critiques in overt and covert ways to their audiences. Moreover, Mexican cabaret is a unique example of the nation's tolerance of diss…
This paper is an in-depth study of the visual culture of the court of King Edgar (959–975) and the construction of kingship and queenship during this period in relationship to the tenth-century Anglo-Saxon reform movement and the emergence of England as a unified nation. I begin…