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pro vyhledávání: '"UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Communication and the Arts::Art"'
Autor:
Smith, Trudi Lynn
In this dissertation I investigate photographs not only as images of something, or as objects we can hold, but I also investigate how they are acts grounded in place. That is, I consider the photograph as event. The backbone of my research is a hybri
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3215
Autor:
Gamache, Genevieve
This dissertation is about the tension and continuum between localism and nationalism in contemporary Thai Buddhist art and architecture. It deals with two contemporary Buddhist temples as works of art and architecture set into particular spatial rel
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3184
Autor:
Whitty, Chantelle
This study investigates the healing experience that current practicing art therapists’ have had with art prior to their training, and how that experience influenced their decision to peruse a career in art therapy. Narrative inquiry was the primary
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3174
Autor:
Prior, Jonathan David
This thesis examines the marking of Roman glass and ceramic vessels with stamps in the period from the first century B.C. through the second century A.D. The thesis establishes the context for the study of such makers' marks by first examining the ea
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3099
Autor:
Murphy, Rosemary Marilla
David Milne's extensive writings about visual art - focused largely on his subjects and practice - present. when translated into philosophical language, a coherent epistemology. The major themes in Milne's thought include the character of, and relati
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2863
In this thesis, I assert that photographs of Jordanian Bedouin produced by cultural insiders disrupt and challenge pan-Bedouin and romantic photographic constructions of Bedouin made by cultural outsiders. These outsiders, Western ethno-photographers
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2012
Autor:
Coughlin, Michael Trevor
By studying several paintings by Venetian artist Tiziano Vicelio, better known as Titian, this thesis explores how the Venetian painter’s works resisted the encroaching arrival of a masculine identity and reflected on the ramifications inherent in
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1528
Autor:
Quraishi, Fatima
In 1847, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) published an Urdu text, listing and describing all notable monuments of Delhi entitled Asar-ul-Sanadid. His work so impressed British scholars in Delhi that he was invited to join the Asiatic Society and wri
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1419
This study explores how heavily tattooed women with a history of childhood sexual abuse give meaning to their tattooing practices in view of the recent appropriation of tattooing by the mainstream. Embodied feminist poststructuralist theory revealed
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1403
Autor:
Bligh, Sandra Elaine
This thesis provides critical analysis and interpretation of meaning and context for a set of graphic satirical prints created in early eighteenth-century London by Egbert van Heemskerck Ill (c.I670s-1744). Public discourse occurring in the early eig
Externí odkaz:
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2524