Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, And Playing The Future In An Era Of Algorithms, 2024 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Tarot Fabula: Radical Digital Cards, Shuffled Narrative Structures, And Playing The Future In An Era Of Algorithms, Rachel M.L. Dixon
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Since their earliest recorded use in the 1400s, tarot cards figure as objects for game play, artistic creativity, spiritual divination, and self-discovery. Tarot Fabula (https://tarot-fabula.com) introduces a ludic, interactive website interface that challenges 20th century tarot reading practices as linear narratives. Statistically random reshufflings of tarot decks from archival collections prompt the reader to become a narrative co-creator, drawing them into conversation with traditional reading and interpretive practices as they remix narrative elements portrayed on the cards. Tarot Fabula’s shuffling and reshuffling of cards as historical objects merges contemporary computational methods for generating random results with an interrogation of …
Digital Reproduction: The Degradation Of Art Viewership, 2024 Sotheby's Institute of Art
Digital Reproduction: The Degradation Of Art Viewership, Zoe Wallis Weingarten
MA Theses
This thesis explores the impact of the ease of photographic reproduction on the
experience of contemporary art viewership. This study establishes historical precedent and explains the phenomenon of the serial photographic reproduction of works of art by contemporary audiences. In doing so, the thesis identifies the implications of reproductions on the original work of art they replicate as well as the consequences of such reproduction. The photographic duplication of artworks in the museum allows the viewer to recommodify the artwork, become its quasi-possessor, and alter its meaning and function. This study is centered around the argument that this widespread practice …
Ethical Dilemmas In Art Advisory Services: Navigating Influence In The Art Market, 2024 Sotheby's Institute of Art
Ethical Dilemmas In Art Advisory Services: Navigating Influence In The Art Market, Noah G. Tyler
MA Theses
This scholarly exploration delves into the ethical dimensions inherent in providing art advisory services within the dynamic milieu of the New York art market. The spotlight is aptly directed towards influential entities such as Gagosian Art Advisory, Lisa Schiff, Pace Gallery, Acquavella Galleries, Allan Schwartzman, and The Brant Foundation. This diverse array of players vividly illustrates the complexity of the ethical discourse prevailing in this intricate landscape. The convergence of commerce and creativity leads to profound inquiries regarding conflicts of interest, transparency, and the responsible custodianship of cultural heritage, thereby unveiling the intricate relationships underpinning the art world. The significance …
Troy Thomas, Poussin’S Women: Sex And Gender In The Artist’S Works, 2023 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Troy Thomas, Poussin’S Women: Sex And Gender In The Artist’S Works, James R. Jewitt
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Images Of Maps And Connotative Tendencies In Early Republican America, 2023 Maryland Institute College of Art
Images Of Maps And Connotative Tendencies In Early Republican America, Kerr Houston
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
The Date Of The Allegory Of Mercy At The Misericordia In Florence...Again: Some Clarifications Regarding The Historical Setting, 2023 Centre College, Danville Kentucky
The Date Of The Allegory Of Mercy At The Misericordia In Florence...Again: Some Clarifications Regarding The Historical Setting, William R. Levin
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Art Inquiries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Full Issue, 2023 Virginia Commonwealth University
Art Inquiries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Full Issue, Mysoon Rizk
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
An Interview With Brianna Harlan, 2023 Virginia Commonwealth University
An Interview With Brianna Harlan, Mysoon Rizk, Brianna Harlan
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Art Inquries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Front Matter, 2023 Virginia Commonwealth University
Art Inquries Vol Xviii No 4 2023 Front Matter, Mysoon Rizk
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
An Interview With Jennida Chase, 2023 University of North Carolina at Greensboro
An Interview With Jennida Chase, Sunny Spillane, Jennida Chase
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Jamie Robertson: Make For Higher Ground, 2023 University of South Alabama
Jamie Robertson: Make For Higher Ground, Elizabeth S. Hawley
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Jacqueline Jung, Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, And The Human Figure In Gothic Sculpture, 2023 Maryland Institute College of Art
Jacqueline Jung, Eloquent Bodies: Movement, Expression, And The Human Figure In Gothic Sculpture, Kerr Houston
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel; And Modigliani Up Close, 2023 Virginia Commonwealth University
Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel; And Modigliani Up Close, K. A. Mcfadden
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Laurie Anderson: The Weather, 2023 Virginia Commonwealth University
Diana S. Greenwald, Painting By Numbers: Data-Driven Histories Of Nineteenth-Century Art, 2023 William & Mary
Diana S. Greenwald, Painting By Numbers: Data-Driven Histories Of Nineteenth-Century Art, Sara Woodbury
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
El Vínculo Entre El Arte, La Política Y El Espacio Público: Una Investigación De Colectivo El Muro Cusco Y Su Resistencia Contra Poder Estatal Y La Censura Del Espacio, 2023 SIT Study Abroad
El Vínculo Entre El Arte, La Política Y El Espacio Público: Una Investigación De Colectivo El Muro Cusco Y Su Resistencia Contra Poder Estatal Y La Censura Del Espacio, Stella Gould
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
El Colectivo El Muro Cusco es un colectivo libertario y autogestionado dedicado al apoyo a las luchas sociales y al intercambio de información alternativa. Activo durante los últimos 20 años, El Muro,1 como se le conoce coloquialmente, ha sido un proveedor de la verdad en Cusco, utilizando el arte y la protesta para expresar descontento con las injusticias perpetuadas por el gobierno peruano. Utilizando el muro del Paraninfo Universitario de la UNSAAC ubicado en la Plaza de Armas de Cusco como su centro focal, el Colectivo utiliza el espacio como galería de arte y lugar de exposición, pero también como …
The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, 2023 American University in Cairo
The Death And Rebirth Of The Feminine Muse: Edgar Allan Poe And Sylvia Plath, Noha Ibrahim
Theses and Dissertations
While drawing on mythology and a literary history that associated women with death as well as creativity, Edgar Allan Poe and Sylvia Plath experimented with binary oppositions such as masculine/feminine, composition/decomposition, and death/(re)birth. They gained inspiration from the same source, the dead muse, but how do they transform traditions that derive from classical and medieval literary precedent, perhaps in ways that are inherently critical of patriarchal modes of gender dynamics? Why is Poe fixated on a feminine dead muse while Plath is inspired by what she calls her “father-sea-god muse”? How do both authors represent the female body, and how …
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, 2023 The American University in Cairo AUC
Historical Trauma: Literary And Testimonial Responses To Hiroshima, Mariam Ghonim
Theses and Dissertations
The concept of trauma is controversial in literature. While one may be able to come up with ways to describe trauma in fiction, representing historical trauma is a hard task for writers. Some argue that trauma can not be described through those who did not experience it, while others claim that, provided some elements are added, one can represent trauma to the reader. This thesis focuses on twentieth-century historical traumas related to a nuclear catastrophe and explores the different literary and testimonial responses to the catastrophic man-made event of Hiroshima (1945). In this thesis, Kathleen Burkinshaw’s historical fiction The Last …
On The Black Book As Durational: Noah Purifoy’S Desert Library, 2023 Skidmore College
On The Black Book As Durational: Noah Purifoy’S Desert Library, Paul Benzon
Criticism
What happens to a library in the desert? How does it transform as a material object under these pressures, and what might these transformations tell us about its capacity for bearing and registering history? This article considers these questions in relation to the artist Noah Purifoy’s found-object installation Library of Congress, one of approximately thirty works that make up the ten-acre space of the Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum of Assemblage Art in Joshua Tree, California. The museum consists of a wide range of found-object sculptures, all deeply enmeshed within the space of the desert. The museum, and indeed Purifoy’s …
Margins (I Nvr Needed Acceptance From All U Outsiders), 2023 Rhode Island School of Design
Margins (I Nvr Needed Acceptance From All U Outsiders), Jahi Lendor
Masters Theses
A comedian said, “American pie isn’t made out of apples, it’s made out of whatever you can get your fucking hands on.”1 With that, my work seeks to provide an honest representation of the infinite value of the everydayness and behavior of blackness ranging from trauma to beauty. Various mediums explore culture, class, collective memory, identity, and erasure. While resisting institutional and systemic boundaries between disciplines my practice actively seeks fluidity between media. The work often translates to (social) poetic-bricolage visualizations that combine gestures of assemblage, sculpture, installation, and painting. The work focuses on reflecting on how I see life …