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Beyond the museum as muse: collecting, classifying, and displaying objects in contemporary artistic practice
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Working within the framework of the museum rather than attempting to resist it, Karsten Bott, Portia Munson, Kelly Mark and Jac Leirner represent the current generation of artists who are critically engaged with the museum. In this thesis I will make the case that by using their own collections,...
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Spring 2022
This dissertation examines socially engaged practices by contemporary Korean and Japanese artists who address current transnational issues in East Asia, drawing on discourses across subaltern studies, postcolonial theories, memory studies, and inter-Asia studies. When an artist travels to a...
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Creating Resistance by Engaging Destruction: Three Contemporary Feminist Artists from Ukraine
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Destruction and production are two closely linked phenomenon within contemporary feminist art in Ukraine. Ukraine is currently embroiled in a context marked by destruction in the form of the annexation of Crimea and war in the Eastern Donbas region, along with the physical and emotional trauma...
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Eduard Fuchs and the Dialectical Image of Caricature: Marxist Cultural Theory in an Age of Fake News
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The Marxist cultural historian Eduard Fuchs (1870–1940) made major contributions to our understanding of caricature which are of continuing relevance today. Although he has been criticised for his inconsistent methodology, the question of whether Fuchs treats caricature in a dialectical fashion...
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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...