This dissertation examines different films, literary, and performance art pieces created by contemporary afro-descendant women from Peru, Cuba, and Brazil after the sixties with emphasis on the most relevant works of Conceição Evaristo, Sara Gómez, Victoria Santa Cruz, and Lucía…
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This dissertation investigates the variety of clothing options available to the ancient Western Anatolians from the seventh through the fourth centuries BCE as evidenced by archaeological remains, visual representations, and rare written sources. The body of the dissertation inc…
This dissertation is about Uzbek national culture during the Soviet period through the mid-1990s. Based on 12 months of fieldwork, I conclude that Soviet understandings of culture remain hegemonic among Tashkent's cultural elites. This conclusion is puzzling, given that many Uzb…
This thesis is a survey of contemporary artists and influences on art production in the province of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It explores the reasons artists have been drawn to produce their art and how they perceive the role of their art today. Since the existing literature on the…
Over the past twenty years the arts and culture have become a popular vehicle through which local economic development can be pursued. Whilst this relatively new local economic development tool has generated much interest amongst academics, many have been content to simply provi…
Thisthesis arose from a concern with the construction and manifestation of identity inperformance art, particularly the articulation ofconcepts of identity within the realm ofdiscourses, e.g. scripts, verbal and writtendiscourses by artists as wellas actual performances.Identity…
How might the arts help to unveil and integrate realities so as to facilitate shared meanings and understandings between peoples and thus generate the conditions for the participatory, creative cultural diversity which may contribute to the construction of more democratic societ…
This thesis reconsiders the late pictorial production of Giovanni Segantini(1858-1899) in the wider philosophical and cultural context of fin-de-siecleItaly. Its primary aims are: first, to re-evaluate the artist's involvement withthe philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900…
The American-based international art journal Artforum has proved one of the most prominent and influential of art history's discursive agencies, playing a critical role in framing, probing, and re-working particular beliefs of art practice, art history, and art criticism broadly…
This thesis examines a diverse group of artists living in Britain from 1880 to 1910, with aparticular emphasis on how they responded to the theory and practice of J. M. Whistler.For this purpose it is necessary to first outline Whistler's own approach to his work andhow he combi…
Mural art has become a familiar feature of urban-public places. This is reflected within abroader debate on 'public' and 'community arts' by the number of books and articlespublished, conferences held, attention within art institutions, agencies for funding. andpublic reactions.…
This is an art historical study informed by post-colonial perspectives which critically examines the discourse concerning the role and the work of the artist Walter Spies in relation to Bali, Balinese art and the Balinese in the inter-war Dutch Colonial period. Drawing from a wi…
This thesis is a study of the paintings of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) and is designed to challenge received accounts of his work. Its theoretical perspective is that of 'cultural materialism' and its purpose is to place Spencer and his pictures within the social, cultural and p…
The purpose of this thesis is to explore how taste is constructed at the micro-social level of a community of practice and to investigate the dynamics that underlie the process of taste-making. An ethnographic research was conducted in the context of an arts cooperative focusing…
The emerging dialogue between the arts and humanities and professional health care education is explored by considering ethical practice in nursing via several narratives of student nurses and nurse educators in one Scottish university. Adopting a narrative methodology based upo…
Multidiscipline has definitely marked the journey of Assia Djebar. The Algerian French writer has devoted interest in literature as well as the arts. Her infatuation with the arts hasn’t been without influence towards her writing. The fact is above all remarkable in the level of…
The contribution of artistic texts to the personal and professional growth of educators is explored relative to basic curriculum questions (e.g., what is worthwhile?). Beginning with examples from my experiences in Cyprus, Saudi Arabia, and America, I relate artistic texts (film…