Browsing by Subject "Aesthetics"
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A Poetics of Globalism: Fernando Vallejo, the Colombian Urban Novel, and the Generation of `72
(2011)This thesis explores the confluence and clashes between local and global cultural flows in Latin America through the multiple literary movements and tendencies for which the Colombian author, Fernando Vallejo, acts as a ... -
An Aesthetic Disposition: Art, Social Reproduction, and Feminist Critique
(2020)This project focuses on the question: how might we understand the politics of contemporary art? Grounding my research in feminist political theory, I argue that art’s most critical function—in the US-based context ... -
Architectures of Aliveness: Building Beyond Gravity
(2015)In the context of today's global mobility, information, bodies and goods are circulating across the globe, and even further into outer space. However, we face a paradox: the more we move, the more we become sedentary. The ... -
Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present
(2021)Art in the Interregnum: The Aesthetics of Transition, 1973-Present adopts the interregnum, a concept imported into critical usage by Antonio Gramsci, as a periodizing framework for understanding cultural production today. ... -
Arte Abstracto E Ideologías EstéTicas En Cuba
(2009)<bold>This dissertation deals with Cuban art criticism and other written texts related to Abstract Art. From a critical perspective that relates art to society and political and institutional practices, all of the above ... -
Beholding the Image: Vision in John Calvin's Theology
(2018)The aim of this dissertation is to expound the role of vision in John Calvin’s theology. Given the many-sided and often confusing—sometimes even apparently contradictory—nature of Calvin’s account and use of the category ... -
Defining Properties: Literary Cultivation and National Character in Early American Literature
(2013)In the decades following the English Civil War, as the Anglophone world began transitioning to a social order structured by market and finance capitalism, the word cultivation, which earlier had referred exclusively ... -
Feeding and Forming: John Calvin, Materiality, and the Flourishing of the Liturgical Arts
(2014)ABSTRACTIn this dissertation I examine Calvin's trinitarian theology as it intersects his theology of materiality in order to argue for a positive theological account of the liturgical arts. I do so believing that Calvin's ... -
Feeling America Otherwise: Ground as an Earth That Quakes
(2015)The artists and writers of my dissertation -- Robert Smithson, Ed Roberson, Rodolfo Kusch, Alejandra Pizarnik, Nancy Holt, Lygia Clark, and Clarice Lispector -- teach us to feel the ground on which we stand as an earth that ... -
Impure Cinema: Political Pedagogies in Film and Theory
(2009)Impure Cinema: Political Pedagogies in Film and Theory asks what are the ways that the politics of film theory have been conceptualized since the era now known as "70s film theory." In particular, it analyzes the writings ... -
Inheriting the Yugoslav Century: Art, History, and Generation
(2018)The dissertation examines the work contemporary artists, curators, and scholars who have, in the last two decades, addressed urgent political and economic questions by revisiting the legacies of the Yugoslav twentieth century: ... -
Modernism after Nietzsche: Art, Ethics, and the Forms of the Everyday
(2012)This dissertation uses Nietzsche's writings on truth and metaphor as a lens through which to reconsider the contribution that modernist art sought to make to both the understanding and, ultimately, the reconstruction of ... -
Music and the Modes of Production: Three Moments in American Jazz
(2018)What ideological dreams does music express? And how does it do so? In listening to three paradigmatic moments in American Jazz, this dissertation attempts to answer these two problems by illustrating how the modes of our ... -
Network Aesthetics: American Fictions in the Culture of Interconnection
(2010)<p>Following World War II, the network emerged as both a major material structure and one of the most ubiquitous metaphors of the globalizing world. Over subsequent decades, scientists and social scientists increasingly ... -
"No More Shall Be a Dull Book": The Aesthetics of History in Antebellum America
(2014)In the first half of the nineteenth century, historians in the United States described their work as an aesthetic practice. The romantic nationalist George Bancroft claimed that historical writing ought to provide readers ... -
Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
(2016)Few symbols of 1950s-1960s America remain as central to our contemporary conception of Cold War culture as the iconic ranch-style suburban home. While the house took center stage in the Nixon/Khrushchev kitchen debates as ... -
Plastic Recognition: The Politics and Aesthetics of Facial Representation from Silent Cinema to Cognitive Neuroscience
(2013)Plastic Recognition traces a critical genealogy of the human face in cinema and its afterlives. By rethinking the history of film theory through its various investments in the face, it seeks to intervene not only in the ... -
Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter
(2010)The basic question of "Political Cinema: The Historicity of an Encounter" is whether or not it is possible to think a concept of political cinema while affirming the autonomous capacities of both cinema as an art and politics ... -
Resonant Wandering Forms: Tracing the Trajectories of the Cinemas of Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette
(2021)My dissertation contends that Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette – three filmmakers associated with the Nouvelle Vague – conceived and staged wandering in order to change cinema, to probe deeper into its potential ... -
Senses of Beauty
(2011)Against the dominant contemporary options of usefulness and disinterestedness, this dissertation attempts to display that beauty is better--more fully, richly, generatively--described with the categories of fittingness and ...
