Art History, Art Museums, And Power: A Critical Art History Curriculum,
2020
Austin Community College
Art History, Art Museums, And Power: A Critical Art History Curriculum, Kristina Elizondo
Art History Pedagogy & Practice
Engaging in the recent tradition of disciplinary and instructional self-critique by art historians teaching at the college level, this teaching practice reflection pursues the question of how an art history survey class can benefit from activities grounded in theoretical texts. In the format of scholarly personal narrative (SPN), a personal background and justification for incorporating critical theory-based lessons into the introductory art history curriculum, including narrative descriptions of four curricular areas and an example museum project, are detailed. The article paints a personal picture as well as extols the general benefits, based on the author’s perspective and experiences, of incorporating …
Digitizing The Aura: A Systems Update For The Contemporary Art World,
2020
University of Denver
Digitizing The Aura: A Systems Update For The Contemporary Art World, Emilie Trice
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
During the digital tide of the last several decades, the material, metaphysical and economic properties of art have evolved in response to the ever-accelerating growth of cybernetics. The contemporary art ecosystem (CAE) has long been considered “the last unregulated financial market”; then cryptocurrency was invented. Now, blockchain technology has entered the cultural zeitgeist and could radically innovate numerous industries, including the art market. The CAE itself is a network, a system that operates within fundamental parameters and, in that sense, it shares much in common with the philosophies underlying computation, such as systems theory, complexity theory and emergent consensus mechanisms. …
On The Fluidity Of Honey And Fugitivity Of Sound In Trauma, Ecstasy, And Black Radical Tradition,
2020
Sotheby's Institute of Art
On The Fluidity Of Honey And Fugitivity Of Sound In Trauma, Ecstasy, And Black Radical Tradition, Evgenia Grant
MA Theses
From Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perspective to Derridean postructuralist view, to an intersectional force traversing somatic, social, political, and cultural, sound, in its non-linear epistemology, breaks barriers between forms and escapes any structured definitions. Like the insidious stickiness of honey, sound’s viscosity invaginates, spreads onto the interior, and, by triggering memories and the somatic, threatens the very totality of our identities. At that rupturing moment, we are not the ones subjecting sound to be known as an object; instead, in its fugitive protest and agency, sound flips the roles of the knower and the known and establishes new possibilities of relating to …
“Whose Utopia?” Kimsooja & Bottari Utopia,
2020
Sotheby's Institute of Art
“Whose Utopia?” Kimsooja & Bottari Utopia, Younghee Kim Wait
MA Theses
This thesis will explore the progressive evolution of utopia and utopianism in order to answer the question: “Whose utopia?" in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate impact on people who were already marginalized, disadvantaged, and discriminated against.
I will first review the writings of Sir Thomas More, Ernst Bloch, Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Owkui Enwezor, and Jose Estaban Muñoz tracing the progressive evolution of utopian ideals. I will then introduce and survey the artist, Kimsooja’s oeuvre in relation to salient features from my review of utopia's progression, and gradually revealing her aesthetics of making as revealing utopian …
How Contemporary Curatorial Practice Co-Opts Participatory Art,
2020
Claremont McKenna College
How Contemporary Curatorial Practice Co-Opts Participatory Art, Caroline S. Eastburn
CMC Senior Theses
Instagram users post photos in art exhibitions all of the time. Contemporary art curators and museums have a role to play in this new phenomenon. Programming and curating participatory art exhibitions allows for the perfect art selfie which draws in visitors from around the world. But, how do curators and museums affect the significance of these artworks by placing them within the Instagram age? This thesis uses the three exhibitions as case studies: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, Take Me (I'm Yours) at the Jewish Museum in New York, and "Hélio Oiticica: To Organize …
Kim Gordon: The Bonfire,
2020
Miami University
Original Bauhaus: The Centenary Exhibition,
2020
Cooper Union
Original Bauhaus: The Centenary Exhibition, Morgan Ridler
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Martian Mother,
2020
Virginia Commonwealth University
Martian Mother, Elizabeth Mcgrady
Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the relationship between humans and land, through the lens of the scientific and religious, bridging the physical realm with the spiritual. It acts as accompanying material to the project titled Martian Mother, supplementary information to the visual work, and an extension of the proposal, the center of the work. The proposal exists to send myself, or a like-minded individual, to Mars with artificial insemination equipment to give birth to the first Martian, becoming the first Martian Mother. This work is rooted firmly in speculative fiction, creating a nonlinear future framework for a new society and space exploration.
S. R. Koehler And The Etching Revival In The United States: Toward An “American” Tradition Of Printmaking,
2020
Baylor University
S. R. Koehler And The Etching Revival In The United States: Toward An “American” Tradition Of Printmaking, Katie Larson
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey From Palmyra To Mosul,
2020
Boston University
Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey From Palmyra To Mosul, Hyunjin Cho
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
The Drop Sinister: Harry Wilson Watrous’ Visualization Of The One-Drop Rule,
2020
La Salle University
The Drop Sinister: Harry Wilson Watrous’ Visualization Of The One-Drop Rule, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Art Inquiries, Xviii:1, Full Issue,
2020
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bertoldo Di Giovanni: The Renaissance Of Sculpture In Medici Florence,
2020
Queens College
Bertoldo Di Giovanni: The Renaissance Of Sculpture In Medici Florence, Roberto G. Peredo
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Thoughts Around The Psychological Attributes Of Fascist Aesthetics,
2020
Sotheby's Institute of Art
Thoughts Around The Psychological Attributes Of Fascist Aesthetics, Carolina Mimi King
MA Theses
This paper aims to outline a series of thoughts around the topic of fascist aesthetics. In 1981, Benjamin Buchloh argued that the revival of representational forms after abstraction signaled a political regression toward authoritarianism. It is the hope of this analysis to expand on Buchloh’s argument in light of the recent claims of fascist revival, particularly in the United States. Looking at aesthetic examples of definitive fascism from the early 20th century as well as the aesthetic culture from the latter part of the 20th century around the time Buchloh was writing, this project can function as a lens through …
Front Matter,
2020
Virginia Commonwealth University
Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme,
2020
William Paterson University
Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme, Matthew Finn
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma In American Art Since 1970,
2020
Rowan University
Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma In American Art Since 1970, Andrew D. Hottle
Art Inquiries
Book review of Against Our Will: Sexual Trauma in American Art Since 1970, by Vivien Green Fryd.
When William T. Wiley And Bruce Nauman Wrote To H.C. Westermann,
2020
Rhodes College
When William T. Wiley And Bruce Nauman Wrote To H.C. Westermann, David Mccarthy
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
An Interview With Adrian Rhodes,
2020
MICA
Pissed On Or Pissed Off: Andy Warhol’S Oxidized Portrait Of Jean-Michel Basquiat,
2020
Austin Peay State University
Pissed On Or Pissed Off: Andy Warhol’S Oxidized Portrait Of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anthony J. Morris
Art Inquiries
No abstract provided.
