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- 3Photography
- 2Art, Modern--20th century
- 2Art, Modern--21st century
- 2Body art
- 2Documentation
- 1Fieldberg, Allison L
- 1Grombacher, Pamela J
- 1Kowalski, Sara
- 1Michael JH Woolley
- 1Natalie Loveless: Supervisor
- 1Talbot, Jacques P
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Fall 2012
This dissertation is about the work of melancholy in the Victorian realist novel, particularly those texts written in the late 1840s. The representation of melancholy affords an examination of a wide scope of issues that relate to the family, generally, and to the role of the middle-class women...
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Fall 2014
This thesis considers three contemporary artworks that open up new possibilities for size acceptance activism, a political movement that arose in the late 1960s to combat fat stigma and weight-based discrimination. Fatness is vilified in many parts of the world as an unhealthy, unattractive, and,...
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Expanded Fields: Revisiting the Notion of a Framework for Installation Art in the 21st Century
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This thesis examines the emergence and proliferation of installation art in the 20th Century and the ways in which its complexities have been contended through the establishment of three frameworks that establish categories belonging to the genre. Frameworks by Nicolas de Oliveira, Mark...
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Imag(in)ing the cancerous body: representations of cancer in medical discourse and contemporary visual art
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This thesis examines representations of cancer in contemporary art, with a particular focus on unruly, un-idealized bodies at risk. In bringing together the discourses of art history and medicine, its aim is to engage conventions of visualizing cancer, and more importantly, to highlight the ways...
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Spring 2018
This thesis examines issues of performance art documentation. An art historical survey contextualizes performance art practice and theory, situating the contradicting nature of performance art as a medium that both requires documentation while also denying its possibility. A detailed case study...
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2017-09-14
This thesis examines issues of performance art documentation. An art historical survey contextualizes performance art practice and theory, situating the contradicting nature of performance art as a medium that both requires documentation while also denying its possibility. A detailed case study...