This study focuses primarily on donor portraits of families found in Cypriot wall paintings and icons created during the Lusignan and Venetian periods. Although donor portraiture is a mode of expression that dates to antiquity, in the medieval period an increasingly prosperous upper middle class used this genre more frequently. My concern is with the addition of children to these portraits and the ways in which this affects the family portrayal on Cyprus. These portraits are intriguing because they provide a rare glimpse into the culture and people of this island as constructed within the medium of portraiture. They provide visual evidence of the donors' ideals of family in these lasting monuments to their memory. There are noticeable changes in these portraits through time that indicate the shifting foreign rulership faced by the population. Part of the Byzantine Empire until captured by Richard the Lionheart in 1191, Cyprus came under Frankish domain when it was transferred in 1192 to Guy de Lusignan, the dispossessed King of Jerusalem. For years Cyprus had been a stopping place for pilgrims and, later, crusaders on their way to the Holy Land. By the time Cyprus came under Venetian rule, it had grown as a stopping place for merchants as part of their trade route to the East. This exposure to cross cultural trade, migrations, and differing reigning powers makes Cyprus a complex study in social history. These layers of mixed social identities across ethnic, religious and political boundaries are documented in the island's donor portraits. Part of this analysis is an attempt to discern in these constructed identities what is indigenous, what is foreign and what is part of the changing times. A close examination of these images uncovers this mingling of identities and certain conventions in the way these donor portraits become expressions of the family. The strategy used to examine these donor portraits is to look at them by employing some of the characteristic functions of portraiture, in this case as outlined by Shearer West in her introduction to portraiture. After an introductory chapter that details some background on donor portraiture and the art of Cyprus, each of the following chapters uses two main images for comparison to explore the ways in which they might reveal aspects of the family. This comparative method is used in the successive chapters with the one constant image of the Zacharia family, painted during the Venetian occupation, as a basis for comparison. Chapter two takes this portrait and compares it to the portrait of Neophytos, a twelfth-century hermit monk who also used the Deësis scene as the setting for his portrait. By looking at these particular scenes as works of art, this chapter introduces ideas to consider throughout the dissertation on the ways these constructions reveal wishes of the donors, such as strategies of hierarchy, of veneration and viewer's access. Chapter three explores how the family group portrait serves as a document for the biography of the family. Chapter four deals with the important social practice of the dowry and my idea that some of the later portraits, which include daughters, may be displaying dowry wealth. Chapter five looks at family commemorative portraiture found particularly in icons, beginning the fourteenth century, where deceased family members are portrayed alongside, seemingly, living family members. Finally, in chapter six, I examine the ways in which these family portraits may indicate political changes on the island, especially as Cyprus moves from a feudal society to a commercial one in the Venetian period. In order to facilitate discoveries that might be made by organizing the material in a systematic manner, I have assembled a catalogue of Cypriot family donor portraits and a chart indicating the numbers of men, women and children included in family groups, in the appendices. It is my hope that this dissertation will create more discussion about family groups and will, hopefully, uncover other portraits that may be added to this list, making it a more complete picture of the surviving record. / Art History

Slender structures in fluid flow exhibit a variety of rich behaviors. Here we study the equilibrium shapes of perfectly flexible strings that are moving with a uniform velocity and axial flow in viscous fluid. The string is acted upon by local, anisotropic, linear drag forces and a uniform body force. Generically, the configurations of the string are planar, and we provide analytical expressions for the equilibrium shapes of the string as a first order five parameter dynamical system for the tangential angle of the body ($theta$). Phase portraits in the angle-curvature ($theta,partial_s theta$) plane are generated, that can be shown to be $pi$ periodic after appropriate scaling and reflection operations. The rich parameter space allows for different kinds of phase portraits that give rise to a variety of curve geometries. Some of these solutions are unstable due to the presence of compressive stresses. Special cases of the problem include sedimenting filaments, dynamic catenaries, and towed strings. We also discuss equilibrium configurations of towed cables and other relevant problems with fixed boundary conditions. Special cases of the boundary value problem involve towing of neutrally buoyant cables and strings with pure axial flow between two fixed points. / Master of Science

La littérature et la peinture semblent être les domaines les plus propices au développement de l’intime au XIXe siècle. Pourtant, la notion possède aussi sa place dans le domaine de la sculpture qui, par des procédés qui lui sont propres, parvient à la révéler. Sujet le plus favorable à l’introspection, l’autoportrait, tel que le conçoivent Carriès ou Gauguin, demeure une expérience singulière qui ne se vérifie pas chez tous les sculpteurs. L’expression de l’intime est alors à chercher dans le portrait où l’artiste tend à faire surgir l’intériorité de son modèle à la manière de Carpeaux ou de Rodin. Les fondamentaux du dialogue entre intime et sculpture sont ainsi posés. La notion se définit aussi par sa polyvalence liée au contexte de commande et de réception, aux questions esthétiques de l’époque, au mystère de la création et, enfin, jusque dans ses limites. L’intime est une notion protéiforme qui peut aussi bien prendre sens sous un aspect iconographique que suivant les modalités de création d’une sculpture. Ce concept imprègne toute forme de sculpture s’exprimant aussi bien dans le portrait sculpté, que dans les petits groupes ou statuettes ou encore dans la statuaire monumentale. L’étude des œuvres de Claudel, Dalou ou Rosso nous a permis de comprendre que plus que d’un courant esthétique à part entière, il s’agit davantage d’une caractéristique qui permet de mieux les rassembler. L’intime apparaît donc comme un outil pour étudier la sculpture des années 1865 à 1909 sous un angle nouveau. / Literature and painting seem to be the most favourable fields for the development of intimacy during the nineteenth century. The notion has, nevertheless, its place too in the field of sculpture which by processes of its own, manages to reveal it. Even though self-portraits, such as conceived by Carriès or Gauguin, are particularly suitable for introspection they remain a unique experience that does not apply to every sculptor. The expression of intimacy is then to be found in portraits where artists tend to bring out the interiority of their model, in the manner of Carpeaux and Rodin. The fundamentals of dialogue between intimacy and sculpture are thus laid down. The term is also defined by its versatility, in relation to the context of order and reception, to aesthetic issues of the time, to the mystery of creation and, finally, to its own limits. Intimacy is a protean concept that can take on its full meaning through a single iconographic aspect or modalities of creation of sculpture. This very concept permeates all forms of sculpture and is expressed in sculpted portraits as well as in small groups, statuettes, even monumental sculpture. Our study of works by Claudel, Dalou or Rosso allowed us to understand that more than an aesthetic current in its own right, intimacy is rather a distinctive feature that brings works together. Intimacy therefore appears as a tool to study the sculptural fields ranging from 1865 to 1909 from a new angle.

Cette recherche porte sur les usages de l’audiovisuel éducatif par les enseignants. Elle s’inscrit dans le cadre théorique de la sociologie des usages, pour autant, l’objet de recherche au cœur de cette thèse est au croisement de l’audiovisuel et des enjeux éducatif. Il s’agit donc de développer une approche communicationnelle des outils et médias éducatifs, telle que la définit Pierre Moeglin (2005). La première étape de ce travail consiste à mettre en évidence les éléments qui configurent l’usage, notamment du côté des acteurs : nous proposons une archéologie de l’audiovisuel éducatif, puis nous revenons sur l’offre actuelle en matière d’audiovisuel éducatif et plus particulièrement sur lesite.tv, premier service numérique de vidéo éducative à la demande. La deuxième étape se focalise davantage sur les usages à proprement parler. Après avoir étudié l’utilisation du site.tv au moyen de données quantitatives, nous observons dans quelle mesure les représentations que les concepteurs se font des usagers participent de la configuration des usages. Ces derniers sont analysés à travers le discours d’enseignants usagers et non-usagers, via une série d’entretiens compréhensifs. Les portraits d’usagers, puis l’analyse transversale des entretiens, permettent d’évaluer les «renoncements négociés » qui se manifestent à travers l'usage de l'audiovisuel. Somme toute, cette recherche interroge la tension que l’usage de l’audiovisuel éducatif instaure entre logiques éducatives et médiatiques. Il convoque à ce titre les enjeux relatifs à une certaine industrialisation de l’éducation ; et du côté audiovisuel, les perspectives relatives aux écritures transmédiatiques. / This research focuses on the uses of educational audiovisual by teachers. It falls within the theoretical framework of the sociology of uses, however, the research object at the heart of this work is at the intersection of audiovisual and educational issues. Therefore, it aims to develop a communicationnal approach of educational tools and media, as defined by Pierre Moeglin (2005). The first stage of this work tries to highlight the elements that configure the use, regarding the side of actors. First, we propose an archeology of educational audiovisual, then, we return to the current offer in terms of educational audiovisual and specifically on the content proposed by the first digital educational video on demand for teachers, lesite.tv. The second phase focuses more on the uses itself. After studying the use of lesite.tv, using quantitative data, we see how far the representations of designers are part of the user configuration uses. These are analyzed through the speeches of users and non-users teachers, within a series of comprehensive interviews. The realization of som user’s portraits and cross-sectional analysis of the interviews, allows to evaluate the "negotiated renunciations" that occur within the class, regarding to the professional identity of teachers, refering to public and private spheres and, finally, facing the so called "digital conversion". Overall, this research questions the tension that the use of educational audiovisual established between educational and media logics. It carries as such issues related to the industrialization of education ; and towards audiovisual, transmedia prospects.

Dans le cadre d'une création-recherche, la question initiale qui présidait cette réflexion épistémologique était de savoir comment penser la couleur et la coloration dans l'architecture traditionnelle et contemporaine dans les villes du sud tunisien. Ma thèse est fondée sur l'interprétation empruntée d'une propre expérience sur le terrain. J'ai élaboré une analyse chromatique rétrospective du site, de la ville et de l'architecture dans leurs dimensions économiques, sociales et culturelles. Ce travail d'invention de la couleur est, dans le fonds de ses parties, formé pour comprendre l'identité chromatique du lieu culturel. Ma recherche consiste à l'application de la méthode de planification scientifique à partir de laquelle les enjeux objectifs de la classification des couleurs ont été dégagés sur la base des facteurs sensoriels et des notions rationnelles. Elle regroupe toutes les activités qui consistent à structurer, fonder et évaluer un savoir chromatique en s'ouvrant sur des expériences de coloristes professionnels. Une pensée du développement a été établie au niveau de la couleur qui s'intègre dans une progression dynamique du secteur particulier du design environnement et développe ses propres concepts, usages et finalités au sein d'un milieu culturel spécifique. À travers cette recherche, j'ai développé le concept de la couleur locale comme étant un souci individuel, une pratique socioculturelle, un savoir scientifique et enfin comme un matériau et un processus de développement durable. Comment la couleur locale représente-t-elle un équilibre savant et permanent entre dimensions culturelles et axes d'acculturation ? / As part of a research-creation, the original question who chaired the epistemological thinking was how to think the color in the traditional and contemporary architecture in the cities of southern Tunisia. My thesis is based on the interpretation borrowed from its own field experience. I developed a color retrospective analysis of the site, the city and architecture in their economic, social and cultural dimensions. Inventive work of the color in the background of its parts, formed due to understand the cultural identity of color instead. My research involves the application of the scientific method of planning, from which the objectives of the color classification issues were identified on the basis of sensory factors and rational notions. It includes ail activities which include structure, build and evaluate a chromatic know, opening on the experiences of professional colorists. Development thinking has been established at the color that fits into a dynamic growth sector of particular environmental design and develops its own concepts, uses and purposes within a specific cultural environment. Through this research, I developed the concept of local color as an individual concern, a socio-cultural practice, scientific knowledge and finally as a material and a process of sustainable development. How local color represents a scholar and permanent balance between cultural dimensions and areas of acculturation?

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 442-455).

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: James J. Bloom, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, Dept. of Art History. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 26, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 79 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Cette recherche s'articule autour de trois pôles : Autoportrait, Photographie et Mélancolie et questionne les enjeux de la mélancolie dans les dispositifs de création des images de soi et de son expression au sein de l'autoreprésentation photographique. La mélancolie est ici pensée comme rapport singulier à l'image de soi, une définition qui prend appui sur des théories de la psychanalyse – bien que notre réflexion demeure esthétique – mais qui s'inscrit aussi dans l'histoire de la mélancolie, une histoire médicale, artistique et philosophique. Le corpus est constitué d'artistes dont le parcours est jalonné d'autoportraits ou bien, dont l'œuvre photographique se compose essentiellement ou exclusivement d'autoportraits. Trois artistes principaux sont ainsi convoqués : Kimiko Yoshida, Marie L. et David Nebreda. / This research articulates three axes : Selfportrait, Photography and Melancholia. It questions Melancholia's issues under the devices of pictures of the self creation and their expressions within photographic selfrepresentation. Melancholia is here thought as a singular relation to the picture of the self, a definition that is supported on psychanalysis theories – although our reflexion remains aesthetic – but which also fits within history of melancholia, history of medicine, art and philosophy. The corpus is made with artists who deal with selfportraits or else, whose photographic work consists essentially or exclusively of selfportraits. Three mains artists will be summoned : Kimiko Yoshida, Marie L. and David Nebreda.

L'étude intitulée Salvador Dali et la photographie: portraits du surréalisme (1927-/942) montre comment l'image photographique se situe chez l'artiste au carrefour entre théorie et pratique, entre création et vie quotidienne. Elle propose de réévaluer la place du médium dans l'élaboration et la pratique de la théorie surréaliste en décrivant comment ce projet de libération de l'homme est utilisé pour exacerber l'individualisme. Dans un premier temps, Dali utilise l'image photographique comme une instance médiatrice qui lui permet de contrôler ses pulsions et de définir précisément les objets. Elle alimente ensuite son activité paranoïaque-critique et favorise son exploitation du concept de comestibilité. Elle assure enfin la réification de l'artiste et la diffusion de son image théâtralisée dans la presse. Les photographies, au service de la construction de l'identité comme de l'art de Dali, acquièrent ainsi une valeur, concrète ou métaphorique, de portraits. / The entitled study Salvador Dali and the photography : portraits of surrealism (1927-1942) show how, for this artist, the photographic image is placed at the crossroads of theory and practice, of creation and everyday life. It offers a reassessment of the role of the medium in the elaboration and in the practice of the surrealist theory by describing how the project of man’s liberation is used to intensify individualism. Dali starts by using the photographic image as a mediatory authority which allows him to control its drives and to define objects with accuracy. Then, it feeds his paranoiac-critical activity and serves his use of the edibility concept. Finally, it ensures the artists reification and his theatrical images spread in the press. The photographs, put to work for the construction of Dali’s identity and art, thus acquire a portrait value, concrete or metaphoric.

Cette thèse, une édition traduite et commentée de deux livres de l'Histoire romaine (livres 57 et 58), s'inscrit dans un programme d'édition critique complète et moderne de cette œuvre. Dans ce diptyque faisant suite au cycle augustéen des livres 51 à 56, Dion Cassius retrace, avec le recul d'un sénateur romain de l'époque sévérienne, le principat de Tibère et ses soubresauts, des mutineries des légions en Pannonie et en Germanie à la disparition subreptice de l'empereur, en passant par les morts tragiques des héritiers présomptifs Germanicus et Drusus et la trahison de Séjan. Particulièrement attentif aux questions institutionnelles, l'historien grec s'attache à montrer comment le successeur d'Auguste poursuit l'œuvre de fondation du Principat entreprise par ce dernier en même temps qu'il la pervertit et s'éloigne progressivement de l'idéal politique défini par Mécène au livre 52, en particulier dans les relations qu'il instaure avec les sénateurs. Combinant structure biographique et trame annalistique, approche chronologique et distorsions temporelles, le récit de Dion vient tantôt corroborer tantôt nuancer les témoignages antérieurs des écrivains latins Suétone et Tacite sur la personnalité de Tibère et les événements marquants de son principat. Bien que longtemps considérés par les historiens modernes comme une source d'appoint pour la connaissance de cette période, les livres 57 et 58 de l'Histoire romaine, malgré leur état partiellement lacunaire, apportent de surcroît un éclairage essentiel sur les circonstances entourant la chute de Séjan, pour lesquelles nous ne disposons pas du témoignage des Annales de Tacite. À côté de notre travail d'établissement du texte et de traduction, nous proposons donc un commentaire qui s'efforce de dégager, en trois temps consacrés successivement à la structure narrative des deux livres, à la construction d'une figure d'empereur à la fois singulière et archétypale, et, enfin, à la tonalité distanciée du récit, l'originalité stylistique et l'intérêt historique du point de vue développé par Dion Cassius sur la vie politique et les institutions romaines du Haut-Empire. / This thesis is a translated edition of Books 57 & 58 of Cassius Dio's Roman History, with a philological and historical commentary. The latter edition of Cassius Dio's work is now outdated, and so are the French translations based upon it. Our work constitutes a part of a larger programme that aims to provide an up-to-date edition with a translation of the complete works of Cassius Dio. In books 57 & 58, the Greek historian, living under the Severans, follows thoroughly the evolution of the Tiberian Principate, with a particular focus on the political crisis from military rebellions in Pannonia and Germania to Sejanus' conspiracy. His analyses are founded both on his literature searches and on his own political experience as a Roman senator, and reveal an accurate knowledge of the institutional realities of the Early Principate. The main goal of the two books is to show how Tiberius, as the successor of Augustus, completes the founding work of his great predecessor while debasing the political ideals defined by Maecenas in book 52. In this train of thought, Dio pays special attention to the relationships between the Emperor and the Senators and how they evolve. Combining biographical patterns with an annalistic framework, the narration provides an original point of view on the figure of Tiberius, beside the earlier testimonies of Suetonius and Tacitus which remain incomplete with regard to the fall of Sejanus. Accordingly, the present work focusses on three main areas, including first the narrative structure, then the profiling of Tiberius as a political leader in relation to other rulers, and finally the distanced and ironic view on the political and human comedy.