Photography’s Orientalism - Comparative Literature - UCLA.
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Abstract photographs were a key site of the re-evaluation of photography’s ontology between the First and Second World Wars, bringing to the forefront questions of objectivity, legibility and the photograph’s essential nature. Bridging avant-garde art practices with literature, philosophy, and new technologies, artists sought to articulate and explore the boundaries of traditional modes of.
The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children’s literature to wartime commemorations. We meet many Stratfords in this collection, real and imaginary, and the interplay between the two generates new visions of the place.
The Met’s Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection.
This thesis is an exploration of the ethnographic collection of Gertrude Emily Benham (1867-1938) who made eight voyages independently around the world from 1904 until 1938, during which time she amassed a collection of approximately eight hundred objects, which she donated to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery in 1935. It considers how and why she formed her collection and how, as a an.
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Aoki’s oil painting in a private collection shows a Native American basket from which bruised and over-ripe persimmons have spilled (fig. 20). The work’s potential symbolic dimension prompts thoughts of the Native Americans’ persecution, which was ongoing during these years. It may also suggest other hardships: here are the necessary bruises, perhaps, of acculturation, of changing the.