Edinburgh College of Art: Recent submissions
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Saundaryalaharī
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)The Soundarya Lahari or Saundaryalaharī (Sanskrit: सौन्दर्यलहरी) meaning "Waves Of Beauty" is a famous literary work in Sanskrit believed to be written by sage Pushpadanta and Adi Shankara. It was written in the 8th Century ... -
I Am Narrating Lost Memories Through Pinecone Structures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-17)In the island of Corfu in Greece, there are four sculptures of pinecones hanging in the streets around Saint Spyridon’s church in the old town; these pinecones can also be found around the icons of the Saint inside the ... -
‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’: an exploration of the role of hand-embroidered artworks as an active communication tool to raise awareness of the high levels of violence against women in Chile
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-17)The aim of this practice-based doctoral research is to explore the role that my hand- embroidered artworks might play in actively communicating with non-specialist audiences about the high levels of violence against women ... -
Local Colourism in Korean and Taiwanese art under Japanese colonial rule: the native artists' national identity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-13)This thesis aims to present a new perspective to interpret Local Colourism in Korean and Taiwanese art by investigating its origin and the link between these nations, within the context of the artistic milieu during ... -
Lived residencies, experiential learning and thick geographies: how artists produce knowledge(s) in the social studio
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)This practice-based research articulates how contemporary artists learn from their peers and others within social studio, or group, artists’ residency (SSAR), and ways in which the disruption of one’s habitus contributes ... -
Lives of the interview: the development of the artist interview in twentieth-century Britain and the United States
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-21)This thesis examines interviews with artists in Britain and the United States, mapping changes in their form, function and status over the twentieth century, and highlighting Transatlantic connections. The modern meaning ... -
“How can you have music therapy without humour?!”: a phenomenologically informed arts-based reflexive study exploring humour in music therapy with persons living with dementia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-22)In music therapy practice, humour is closely linked to playfulness and play and is largely taken for granted by music therapists. Despite music therapists’ anecdotal interest, to date there has been little in-depth focus ... -
Collecting practice and institutional legacy of Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)The aim of this thesis is to advance the study of the history of collecting through the reassessment of an underestimated exemplar in the fields of culture and philanthropy. The examination of Bliss's motivation, methods, ... -
Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and writing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)This practice-based PhD explores musical imagination by examining the relationships of embodied musical performance and writing. The submission comprises audio recordings of original musical material and accompanying ... -
Becoming a composer: a portfolio of musical compositions documenting the development of a fluent composition practice incorporating formalist and intuitive methodologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-18)This portfolio consists of nine compositions accompanied by live and reference recordings of the works. The compositions span a wide variety of instrumentations ranging from solo piano, string quartet, ensemble, choir and ... -
Make belief: the art of inventing religions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-16)Attention has recently turned, within the study of New Religious Movements, to the phenomenon of invented religions. Invented religions import transmedial works of speculative fiction from art and popular culture and ... -
Women’s still life in London, Paris and the spaces between, 1900-1939
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-16)This thesis is a feminist and queer study of the ways in which gender, subjectivity, domesticity and the cultures of interior space were articulated, interrogated and renegotiated by early twentieth century women artists. ... -
Re-contextualization of culturally fused musical signifiers within a contemporary creative practice via means of transcription and mimicry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-15)LIST OF WORKS: Title #1: Shoggoth. Duration: 11’. Instrumentation: Clarinet, Piano, Violin. Date Completed: 2017 (Rev. 2020). Date of 1st Performance: 04/09/2020. Title #2: Assimilation/Dissimulation. Duration: 13’. ... -
Reassembling Antonio Rodríguez's Colección general de los trages de España (1801-1804): Spanish costume books and sartorial knowledge networks in the early nineteenth century
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-14)In the six decades between 1777 and 1836, five costume books – collections of prints depicting modes of dress worn by one or multiple groups in society – were published in Madrid. These works were a turning point for ... -
Joseph Beuys's non-objective works on paper, in the Artist Rooms collection
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-08)This thesis is a study of non-objective works on paper by the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) selected from the one hundred and six original works on paper in the ARTIST ROOMS collection, owned and managed jointly ... -
Investigating digital campaigns on new developments in Edinburgh's Historic Centre: online discourses and sense of place
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-07)This thesis explores the attitudes and relations created by digital communications and social media interactions, this is done using qualitative methods, in opposition to the quantitative ones most used to research data ... -
Association in Creative Idea Generation: a black box dissertation staged in lyric inquiry and glass concepts
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-28)The central argument of this thesis is two-fold: that association, in various modes, is one key to creative ideation; and that using a lyric inquiry with modes of association can aid in generating ideas for creative practice. ... -
Bring the world together one note at a time': a qualitative study of intercultural practice and identity development of musicians
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-22)Musicians face particular communication and identity challenges when working with music and people from other cultural groups. Those challenges impede efforts to promote intergroup projects and rapport. Intercultural ... -
Artes': mythologising reality in interwar Lwów (1929-1935)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-22)This thesis is the first extensive, English-language account of ‘artes’, a group of artists, architects, and graphic designers living and working in the borderland city of Lwów, Poland between the First and Second World ... -
Towards a theory of Chopin's large-scale forms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)Chopin’s large-scale compositions occupy a peculiar, uneasy position in nineteenth-century repertoire. On one hand, works such as the Second Piano Sonata (Op. 35), with its famous ‘Funeral March’ movement, have become ...
