Browsing by Subject "Art"
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A Visual Exegesis for Preaching: Layering Stories and Scripture
(2019)This thesis will describe the way a story functions within a sermon as a layer of meaning placed over the biblical text that enhances a particular message from the Gospel. Stories allow the faithful to become active listeners ... -
Alain Locke's New Negro: Of Words and Images
(2019-02-15)These essays encourage a deeper understanding of creative ways of resisting and contributing, which African Americans have shown consistently throughout U.S. history. -
Christ the Mediator and the Idol of Whiteness: Christological Anthropology in T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings
(2016)This dissertation asks how the theological anthropologies of T. F. Torrance, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Willie Jennings help Christians diagnose and subvert the idolatry of our current racial imagination. It concludes that ... -
Exit the Matrix, Enter the System: Capitalizing on Black Culture to Create and Sustain Community Institutions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
(2013)After the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Fall of 2005, millions of dollars of Northern philanthropic aid have poured into the Gulf Coast, as have volunteers, rebuilding professionals, and NGO workers. ... -
Figuring a Queer Aesthetics and Politics of Urban Dissent in Istanbul
(2020)This dissertation is a theoretical and art/archival practice-based exploration of aesthetic-affective resistance to neoliberal recuperation of urban space that not only constitutes a physical manifestation of capitalist ... -
L'art et la terreur dans l'après-attentats, Paris 2015 – Fred Le Chevalier et Renald Luzier
(2017-05-08)This thesis explores the intersection of terrorism and art in response to the two high profile terrorist attacks in Paris: Charlie Hebdo, and the attacks of November 13th, 2015. First, I examine the historical and political ... -
Naked and Unashamed: A Study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene in the Greco-Roman World
(2010)This dissertation presents a study of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type in its cultural and physical contexts. Like many other naked Aphrodites, the Anadyomene was not posed to conceal the body, but with arms raised, naked ... -
Superman in Italy: The power of refugee artists
(2022-10-25)This comparative collection makes the case for the sustained contribution of migrants to European literatures, arts and social cultures, in early modern times and today. -
Visualizing Zones of Occupation: Making Tangible the Violent Infrastructures in the Global Economy of Fear.
(2017)In our capitalist world-economy, fear has become the primary source material for wealth production. Fear underwrites regimes of limited access and various systems of occupation. Occupation as a strategic operational paradigm ...
