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2009

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Schema., David B. Mazure May 2009

Schema., David B. Mazure

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition at the Slocumb Galleries in Ball Hall at East Tennessee State University, from February 23rd through February 27th 2009. The exhibition is comprised of eight graphite drawings, one ink drawing, eight vinyl prints, two hundred sixty lenticular prints, over fifty digital inkjet prints, and one video installation. The exhibition presents the artist's exploration into using drawings and prints as installation as they relate to quantum physics and universal scale. Subjects discussed, on a project-by-project basis, include thought, ideas, methods, influences, and process by which the work in the exhibition …

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Performing Violence: The (Un)Reality Of War - Chris Burden, Edward Kienholz, Wafaa Bilal, Jordan Gadd Apr 2009

Performing Violence: The (Un)Reality Of War - Chris Burden, Edward Kienholz, Wafaa Bilal, Jordan Gadd

Pomona Senior Theses

I. Introduction II. Chris Burden III. Edward Kienholz IV. Wafaa Bilal V. Conclusion Appendix A: Images Appendix B: Bibliography

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A Dream Of Love, Kevin Middleton Apr 2009

A Dream Of Love, Kevin Middleton

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Eleven landscape photos and an artist's statement comprise this work, through which the artist documents his search "for life within a single space ravaged by time and reclaimed by nature." (from Artist's Statement) The graduate exhibition of these photographs took place from April 27 through May 1, 2009 in the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College.

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Sentient Beings, Betsey Macdonald Apr 2009

Sentient Beings, Betsey Macdonald

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

Twenty-two oil paintings focusing on the beauty and energy of animals and their suffering and death through slaughter. Includes artist's statement and bibliography.

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Signing Off On The State, Amanda J. Allerding Mar 2009

Signing Off On The State, Amanda J. Allerding

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis provides a contextual analysis of my creative practice as a visual artist. An overview of the social and historical relationships of the individual in societal organisations, and in relation to what Stuart Hall refers to as tendential lines of force, the dominant structures of religion and the state (Hall, 1996), set the context for a selfreflexive analysis of my practice. In carrying out a contextual analysis of my practice, it is the intention of this thesis to map a context by which Australian national identity is manufactured. This context is the hegemonic processes that seek to maintain a …

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From Paper, Ink And Dust: Thank You (Two Words From An Archive Of Elizabeth Jolley's Writing For Students), Andrea Wood Jan 2009

From Paper, Ink And Dust: Thank You (Two Words From An Archive Of Elizabeth Jolley's Writing For Students), Andrea Wood

Theses : Honours

The installation Thank You (two words), will be an outcome of my research into the creative process through practice-led research. It will aim to communicate to the viewer something of the search and experimentation I have carried out in the studio through a material engagement with a small personal archive of writing by Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007). Through an engagement with particular materials-paper, ink, and dust the installation will also aim to participate in a conversation of broad relevance in the visual arts, and one in which many artists, writers and thinkers have been interested since the eighteenth century: a conversation …

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