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Fieldwork/Fieldwalking: Art, Sauntering And Science In The "Walking Country", Perdita Phillips
Fieldwork/Fieldwalking: Art, Sauntering And Science In The "Walking Country", Perdita Phillips
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
fieldwork/fieldwalking is a contemporary art project exploring practices of walking and science in the field. 11 explores the themes of walking and-fieldwork in art, and as art. Whilst the. sociology of science in the laboratory has been well theorised, less has been said about the field in the natural sciences. And, equally, the most recent and provocative walking art is found in urban areas, in a fabric dominated by the patterns of human settlement. How could new walking art be made in non-urban places? The project set out to investigate how these two, fieldwork and walking, could be combined in …
From Cannibal To Consumer: The Shifting Poetic Metaphor Of The Vampire, Emma Margetts
From Cannibal To Consumer: The Shifting Poetic Metaphor Of The Vampire, Emma Margetts
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The Vampire is a parasitic demon who has ·haunted humanity for thousands of years. Feeding off the living, this bloodsucking, animated corpse could generally be said to embody human fears surrounding death and sexuality. Appearing in a variety of mythologies around the world, the vampire has been connected with excessive and/or repressed desire, the subconscious and dark side of human nature. The vampire and associated metaphors' reflect social boundaries and express forbidden desires, in particular, when the figure appeared in late-Gothic literature of the 18th-century novel. The transitions occurring within the vampire's iconography over the last 200 years of Western …