Browsing by Subject "Art criticism"
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A Matter of Decision: Experimental Art in Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1968-1989
(2013)This dissertation analyzes experimental art movements in Hungary and the former Yugoslavia from 1968 to 1989, examining the variety of ways that artists responded to the ideological and practical failures of communism. I ... -
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 ... -
Erasing the Avant-Gardes: Anti-Modernism in French Art History, Criticism, and Education, 1920-1944.
(2019)Art historians have identified a rightward turn in the artistic climate of France in the interwar period, one opposed to an avant-garde accused of being foreign to national culture, and reflective of a broader cultural and ... -
Informatic Opacity: Biometric Facial Recognition and the Aesthetics and Politics of Defacement
(2014)Confronting the rapidly increasing, worldwide reliance on biometric technologies to surveil, manage, and police human beings, my dissertation <italic>Informatic Opacity: Biometric Facial Recognition and the Aesthetics and ... -
Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support.
(2021)Maintenance Works: The Aesthetics and Politics of Collective Support investigates the cultural visibility and value of maintenance labor through a critical examination of American visual and material culture, post-1969. ... -
Materializing Depths: The Potential of Contemporary Art and Media
(2016)This dissertation argues that critical practices in the expanded field of art, technology, and space illustrate the potential of twenty-first century media by materializing depths of our experiential dimensions. Scholarship ... -
Retelling Dmitri Karamazov’s Story in an Interactive Graphic Novel
(2018)This thesis discusses the subject and media of Dmitri Karamazov an interactive graphic novel with Augmented Reality component. Dmitri Karamazov is adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel the Brothers Karamazov. The author uses a ... -
Speculative Biologies: New Directions in Art in the Age of the Anthropocene
(2016)This dissertation is an attempt to explain art in the 21st century by an artist/researcher. It is a theoretical writing on art informed by current discourses that influence art such as science and technology. There are two ... -
The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Computational Media: Media Arts in the Middle East
(2020)Today, humans must rely on technical operations that exceed their perceptual threshold and control. The increasingly complex and abstract, algorithmically mediated operations of global capital have only deepened the gap ... -
Useless: The Aesthetics of Obsolescence in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture
(2017)In the industrial vocabulary of the nineteenth century, “obsolescence” is regularly cast as a loss; it is the profit forfeited when advances in technology render the current means of production unnecessary. But in the twentieth ... -
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 ...
