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On forms and fictions: a critical biography of Steven Campbell (1953-2007)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The thesis is a definitive critical biography of Scottish artist Steven Campbell (1953-2007) underpinned by extensive archival research, semi-structured interviews, and relevant critical and historical secondary sources. ... -
Urbanism, environment and the building of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile valley, 1880s-1920s
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines the ways in which imperial officials and others transformed the built environment in Egypt and Sudan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This history is used as a way to read the ... -
Staging queer feelings: the affective economy of fashion photography at the turn of the twenty-first century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)“Staging Queer Feelings: The Affective Economy of Fashion Photography at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century” tracks the circulation of queer feelings, moods and atmospheres in alternative fashion magazines in the ... -
Navigating Heterotopias and Things: Dashilar as co-extensive urban paradigms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Dashilar is a neighbourhood in Beijing, currently sitting immediately opposite Tiananmen Square on its south. It first came into being on the eastern margins of the Jin capital from the thirteenth century and remained to ... -
Re-shaping innovations in the contemporary fashion show: emerging Chinese designers in the global fashion ecosystem
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-31)In the contemporary fashion system the number of Chinese designers has increased dramatically: they have formed a ‘new wave’ of design power that is changing China’s global fashion status. Some Chinese designers ... -
Self-representation in the three-dimensional arts: a study of Italia and Germania, CA 800 - CA 1200
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)This thesis is a study of self-representation in sculpture in the Middle Ages. The research offers a new interpretation of the uses of self-representation by practitioners working in various three-dimensional media active ... -
Edward Hopper beyond the commonplace: a review of his work under the light of Walter Benjamin's concept of poverty of experience
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)The title of this dissertation —Edward Hopper beyond the commonplace— alludes to the fact that, although the work of Edward Hopper is widely acknowledged in the history of the twentieth century art, critical literature ... -
Workshops: investigating and developing participatory environments for artistic learning
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)Workshops: Investigating and Developing Participatory Environments for Artistic Learning is a practice-led (Haseman, 2006; Bolt, 2007; Smith & Dean, 2009) transdisciplinary (Klein, 2018) PhD investigation conducted by ... -
Study of Chinese family musical involvement (FMI) and musical identities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)Individuals’ musical identities are closely related to and manifested in their musical behaviours. How people conceive of their music and themselves, and how they make use of music can reflect their own distinctive values, ... -
‘Oh, England! My Lionheart’: Englishness and the Countryside in Art Between the Wars
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation explores the interwar work of Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), Cecil Beaton (1904-80), and Eric Ravilious (1903-42) in relation to their representations of the English countryside and what they meant to notions ... -
Reflecting on the Mirror in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)The mirror invites a multitude of possible interpretations when used in artworks during the Renaissance. It can be represented as a symbolic attribute for both vice and virtue, depicted as a torture implement ... -
Franki Raffles’s Lot’s Wife: A ‘Reinvented Documentary’ for a Feminist Art of Knowledge Production
(The University of Edinburgh, 2015)This dissertation examines Lot’s Wife,a black and white photographic project that was almost completed in 1994. The project, partly funded by the Wingate Trust Scholarship, is comprisedof texts and photographs ... -
Watch Me Watching: Surveillance Art and the Politics of Observation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In the recent decades, with the rapid proliferation of surveillance systems for both political and commercial uses, there is a surge of artistic endeavour –which is often termed as ‘surveillance art’ –that address critical ... -
Anachrony and the Archive: On the Production of Feminist and Queer Temporalities in Contemporary Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This paper will argue that the ‘archival turn’, and specifically the feminist and queer archival turn, that has emerged within contemporary art, forms a vital and radical gesture of critiquing and re-examining exclusionary ... -
The Utopian Has Arrived: VR and AR in the Art World
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)It is 1929. The walls around me are covered with various black and white photographs. I am alone in an enormous, grandiose exhibition hall. All of a sudden, I am standing right in front of one of the walls and do not know ... -
Art in Production - The Use of Technicians in Contemporary Art Making
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)In July 2018, art technicians Simon Harlow and Simon Richardson were interviewed by Lindsay Johnstone for an article in The Independent newspaper that discussed the role of technicians in the contemporary art world. The ... -
The Aesthetics of Reversibility in Modern Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This study researches a unique form of aesthetic expression in modern art reversibility. The term ‘reversibility’ refers to the property of being able to return to a former state. 1 It is used widely in relation to ... -
Anselm Kiefer’s concrete towers: fragile architectures, haunted memorials
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019)This dissertation focuses on a widely known but surprisingly little-analysed phenomenon in Anselm Kiefer’s oeuvre, namely his stacked concrete towers. The towers go by different names, and are each made unique by the ... -
Fabric of a nation: weaving visual representations of Norwegian women's work with textiles around the year 1905
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-08-02)This thesis explores the visual representation of Norwegian women’s textile skills before and after the turn of the twentieth century. It focuses on four forms of visual culture made between the 1880s, and around 1905: ... -
Complex musical behaviours via time-variant audio feedback networks and distributed adaptation: a study of autopoietic infrastructures for real-time performance systems
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020)The research project presented here is a study of the application of complex adaptive systems (CASes) for live music performance and composition by fully autonomous or semi-autonomous machines. The fundamental artistic ...
