Browsing by Subject "art"
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Bach and the Beauty of Christ: A Study in Theological Aesthetics
(2020)This dissertation attempts to shed explanatory light on the work of Johann Sebastian Bach by situating it within the broader framework of Lutheran theological aesthetics. Although Bach has long been considered one of the ... -
Bach and the Beauty of Christ: A Study in Theological Aesthetics
(2020)This dissertation attempts to shed explanatory light on the work of Johann Sebastian Bach by situating it within the broader framework of Lutheran theological aesthetics. Although Bach has long been considered one of the ... -
Decoding Artifacts for the Museum Viewer: Case Study of a Virtue from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the Nasher Museum of Art
(2015)Decoding Artifacts is a project that explores the ways in which technologies and interactive media enhance the museum visitor’s learning experience with art. The digital components of the project include a website and a ... -
Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship
(2016)I study three contemporary Chilean works of visual culture that appropriate and re-assemble visual material, discourse, and atmosphere from the bureaucracy of the military state. I examine Diamela Eltit’s textual performance ... -
Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing
(2019)Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing follows the oblique tensions in Asian diasporic creative compositions between art and writing, performance and inscription. Identifying ... -
Mount Carmel in the Commune: Promoting the Holy Land in Central Italy in the 13th and 14th Centuries
(2016)The Carmelite friars were the last of the major mendicant orders to be established in Italy. Originally an eremitical order, they arrived from the Holy Land in the 1240s, decades after other mendicant orders, such as the ... -
Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
(2017)This dissertation contends that sound and aurality ought to be more fully integrated into how gender and sexuality are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document ... -
Qualities or Inequalities?: How Gender Shapes Value in the Market for Contemporary Art
(2021)How does gender inequality persist in the art world today? Or, more generally, what role do social characteristics like gender play in markets for cultural goods, such as art? That is the focus of this research. Using 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 Crevice Dwellers: Using Image and Story to Communicate Climate Change
(2013-04-23)Because climate change has become a widely discussed topic, it is important to think about how the scientific knowledge of climate change is received by the general public. Up to this point, science has not always been effective ... -
The Influence Effect of Critics' Reviews on Foreign and Domestic Movies
(2012-04-17)Critics and their reviews provide crucial information for consumers in many “experience goods” markets, and the movie market is one such market. Through their impact on the consumer’s film selection, critics’ reviews influence ... -
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 ...
