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Excavating Artiface
(2014-07-09)
We are all image-makers, whether in paint, pixels or persona, and every image contains a vulnerability and resistance to exposure. Inevitably, the acts of looking at and making images lead to a kind of erotic pathos. Seduced ...
Seeing the Spell: Baroque, Decadence, and a Cinema of Digital-Animated Liberation
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation draws on the artistic traditions of seventeenth-century Baroque and nineteenth-century Decadence in seeking to formulate an analytical vocabulary for the aesthetics of digitally-animated spectacle in ...
Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
(2015-08-28)
This study examines the neglected role of other animals and art in Aristotle’s classic conception of the human being, and argues that the work of T.W. Adorno can be drawn upon to recover this conception’s neglected promise. ...
Landscapes of the Hinged Trunk: With Seams of Glass and Bone
(2016-09-20)
This thesis engages the construction of a particular kind of artwork, namely an artwork that functions as an occult device, capable of affecting the physical body of the viewer as well as the space the artwork occupies. ...
The Sublime in Contemporary Art and Politics: The Post 9/11 Art of Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America
(2016-09-20)
This dissertation takes ethnographic approach to researching art with an emphasis on the artistic practices of Middle Eastern diasporic artists in Canada and the USA. This dissertation moves from an account of aesthetic ...
Schopenhauer's Psychological Worldview: History, Philosophy and Relevance
(2015-08-28)
The complete philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer are explored through a comprehensive psychological reading that intends to highlight the holistic theories of human nature that amount to a pessimistic and metaphysical ...
Contemporary Ruins: Politics and Aesthetics Beyond the Melancholy Imagination
(2014-07-09)
This thesis attempts to elucidate the specificities of contemporary ruins using critical theory and cultural studies applied to various sites of analysis ranging from art and film to abandoned factories and disaster zones. ...
An Aesthetic Education: Conceptualizing Education through Contemporary Artists and their Work
(2015-01-26)
This dissertation inquires into a theory of learning through an examination of the intersection of art and education. With the work of educational theorists who explore how art may call our attention to the conflicts and ...
The Phenomenology of a Simple Song: Expression, Creativity, and the Recovery of Aesthetics
(2014-07-09)
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By placing aesthetics as art back within the phenomena of experience, this work seeks to recover philosophical aesthetics from the marginal position into which it has been relegated. Merleau-Ponty’s thought and ...
Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature
(2018-11-21)
My dissertation is entitled Art and Otherness: Tragic Visions in Modern Literature. The two main subjects of inquiry I take up are the figure of the otherboth as an expression of phenomenological alterity and as a postcolonial ...