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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Os acervos documentais referentes aos Salões de Arte de Pelotas (1977-1981): história e memória / The documental collections referring to Art Salons in Pelotas (1977-1981): history and memory

Oliveira, Aydê Andrade de 22 February 2011 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:20:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ayde_Andrade_de_oliveira_Dissertacao.pdf: 10657433 bytes, checksum: efd8c3a5c27566d670c25878485f1f55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-22 / This work results from a historical research developed from the mapping and location of the recording means in its many forms. Thus, the object of this research are both the public and private documental collections about the Art Salons in Pelotas (1977-1981). The main goal was to systematise these collections as means of ensuring the preservation, retrieval and dissemination of the informational content. Promoted by the Education Office, these salons were conceived and organised by the Cultural Affairs Coordinator, Nelson Abbott de Freitas, who recorded those exhibitions with photos, newspaper clippings and other documents, playing also the role of guardian of the memory, building albums of the events´ history. These salons called attention for their repercussion among the press media, which provided a great amount of articles published in local, regional and national newspapers. The artistic and cultural expressions that derived from these salons were considered as cultural objects which symbolize the local identity and the social memory of culture in Pelotas, represented by the awarded works at the salons, which were exhibited at the Nelson Abbott de Freitas Gallery. The choice of this profile is due to the documentation composed by the audiovisual collection Art in Pelotas - The Art Salons, produced by the South Center for Integrated Teleducation of the Federal University of Pelotas, located at the university´s Social Sciences Library. The work emphasises the importance of records and, from the documental analysis of these collections´ contents, shows the importance of systematic reconstruction of the history and the memory of the Art Salons in Pelotas. / O presente trabalho é o resultado de uma pesquisa histórica, desenvolvida a partir do mapeamento e da localização dos suportes de registro em suas diversas formas. Assim, o objeto desta pesquisa são os acervos documentais públicos e privados sobre os Salões de Arte de Pelotas (1977-1981). O objetivo principal foi a sistematização desses acervos como um meio de garantir a preservação, a recuperação e a disseminação do conteúdo informacional. Numa promoção da 5ª Delegacia de Educação, esses Salões foram idealizados e organizados pelo Coordenador de Assuntos Culturais, Nelson Abott de Freitas, que registrou essas exposições com fotografias, recortes de jornais e outros documentos, desempenhando também o papel de guardião da memória, através da construção de álbuns que contam a história dos eventos. Esses salões destacaram-se pela grande repercussão na mídia impressa e que rendeu um precioso acervo de matérias publicadas nos jornais locais, regionais e nacionais. As expressões artísticas e culturais oriundas desses salões foram consideradas como bens culturais que simbolizam a identidade local e a memória social da cultura pelotense, representadas pelas obras premiadas durante os Salões e expostas na Galeria Nelson Abott de Freitas. A escolha deste recorte deve-se à documentação composta pelo acervo audiovisual A arte em Pelotas Os Salões de Arte, produzido pelo Centro Integrado de Teleducação do Sul, da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, existente na Biblioteca de Ciências Sociais da UFPel. O trabalho ressalta a importância dos registros e, a partir da análise documental do conteúdo desses acervos, mostra a importância da sistematização para a reconstrução da história e da memória dos Salões de Arte de Pelotas.
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Os salões de arte contemporanea de Campinas / The Campinas contemporary art salons

Zago, Renata Cristina de Oliveira Maia, 1981- 29 August 2007 (has links)
Orientador: Maria de Fatima Morethy Couto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T21:25:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Zago_RenataCristinadeOliveiraMaia_M.pdf: 48022679 bytes, checksum: 638b1ca5a6beaceab85f0963934c9c4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Os Salões de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas aconteceram no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Campinas de 1965 a 1977, sendo posteriormente retomados, em duas edições, nos anos 1980. Inicialmente realizados nos mesmos moldes de um salão tradicional foram, ao longo de suas edições, modificando seu caráter e sua estrutura. O certame pretendia, além de mostrar a produção de arte emergente naquela época, discutir como deveria ser organizado um Salão de Arte. Tais eventos, que no início obtiveram pequeno destaque, aos poucos se transformaram em acontecimentos de grande relevância, procurados por artistas do Brasil todo. Podemos dividir as exposições em dois momentos: no primeiro, de 1965 a 1969, as obras eram inscritas nas categorias estéticas tradicionais. No segundo, houve uma grande preocupação dos organizadores da mostra em atualizá-la, assim como acontecia em exposições de mesmo caráter em outros locais do Brasil, como em São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. O estudo faz um levantamento da trajetória destas exposições, realizadas nos anos 1960 e 70, procurando dar ênfase às diretrizes que as nortearam e ao tipo de arte que abrigaram / Abstract: The Campinas Contemporary Art Salons took place in the Campinas Contemporary Art Museum from 1965 to 1977, being afterwards resumed in two editions in the 1980s. Initially realized in the same moulds of a traditional salon, they gradually modified their character and structure in the course of its editions. Besides showing the emergent art production of that time, the initiative aimed at discussing how an Art Salon should be organized. Such events, which initially obtained little prominence, gradually became highly relevant happenings, attracting artists from all parts of Brazil. We can divide the exhibitions into two moments: in the first, from 1965 to 1969, the artworks were inscribed in the traditional aesthetic categories. In the second, there was a great concern from the show¿s organizers in updating it, as it was happening in exhibitions of the same kind in other venues in Brazil, such as São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. The study surveys these exhibitions¿ trajectories, realized in the 1960s and 70s, highlighting the rules which guided them and the kind of art they sheltered. / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes
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Os salões municipais de belas artes e emergencia da arte contemporanea em Belo Horizonte : 1960-1969 / The fine arts municipal salons and the emergency of contemporary art of Belo Horizonte : 1960-1969

Andrade, Rodrigo Vivas 12 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Nelson Alfredo Aguilar / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T04:59:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrade_RodrigoVivas_D.pdf: 2437271 bytes, checksum: 53789e24f5454b5d4e957822c5307ee5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Encontra-se, nessa tese, o estudo das obras premiadas nos Salões Municipais de Belas Artes (SMBAs) de Belo Horizonte na década de 1960 e a transformação do SMBA em Salão Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (SNAC) em 1969. Para tanto, tornou-se necessário o entendimento das modificações do cenário artístico de Belo Horizonte iniciadas pelos confrontos entre acadêmicos, representados por Aníbal Matos, e os modernos reunidos nas exposições: Zina Aita em 1920, Salão Bar Brasil 1936, Exposição Moderna em 1944. Entende-se como a consolidação da arte moderna a vinda de Alberto da Veiga Guignard para fundar uma Escola de Artes, assim com as medidas modernizadoras de Juscelino Kubstchek, enquanto prefeito da capital mineira. Esse cenário e pinturas desses artistas são estudados na primeira parte da tese. Na década de 1960, os SMBAs abandonam o viés regional e passam a contar com a participação de artistas e críticos fundamentalmente do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. Para a compreensão desses acontecimentos, são analisadas as pinturas premiadas, nos Salões Municipais de Belas Artes, responsáveis por constituir o acervo do Museu de Arte da Pampulha. Para finalizar a tese, buscou-se compreender a emergência da arte contemporânea, na capital mineira, através do estudo das manifestações: Vanguarda Brasileira (1966), Objeto e Participação e Do Corpo à Terra (1970) que propunham a destruição do suporte do objeto artístico, da desmaterialização da obra de arte, assim como o questionamento dos SMBAs. / Abstract: This thesis is about the study of masterpieces awarded at the Fine Arts Municipal Salons of Belo Horizonte (SMBAs) in the 1960s and the transformation of the SMBA into The Contemporay Art National Salon (SNAC) of Belo Horizonte in 1969. To make it possible, it was necessary to understand the modifications of the artistic scene of Belo Horizonte considering the relations among the academic experts, represented by Aníbal Matos and the modern ones present in exhibitions such as: Zita Aita 1920, Salão Bar Brasil, 1936, Exposição Moderna 1944. The starting points of the modern art consolidation can be considered when Alberto da Veiga Guignard inaugurated a School of arts and the fact that that Juscelino Kubstchek, the major of Belo Horizonte (the capital of the State of Minas Gerais) had modern politics. That scene and the paintings of the artists are studied in the first part of this thesis. In the 1960s, the SMBAs spread their influence beyond the region and receive participations of artists and critics especially from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. To understand these events better, some awarded paintings are analyzed in the SMBA, responsible for keeping the Pampulha Art Musem objects. To conclude the thesis, there was an attempt to understand the emergency of the contemporary arts in the capital of Minas Gerais through the study of some art events such as: Vanguarda Brasileira 1966, Objeto e Participação and Do Corpo à Terra 1970. These events had the aims of destroying the support of the artistic object, the dematerialization of masterpiece and the questioning of the SMBAs. / Doutorado / Historia da Arte / Doutor em História da Arte
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L'Europe des arts : la participation des peintres étrangers au Salon, Paris 1852-1900 / Arts of Europe : foreign painters' participation at the Paris Salon, 1852-1900

Cazes, Laurent 28 November 2015 (has links)
Depuis l'apparition des expositions universelles jusqu'à la création des sécessions européennes, le Salon parisien a joué un rôle plus ou moins déterminant dans la carrière de centaines de peintres étrangers. Sans partis-pris esthétique, le corpus d'œuvres, d'artistes et de textes étudiés retrace la présence et la réception de la peinture étrangère au Salon de 1852 à 1900. L'histoire politique et administrative de l'institution révèle un statut de l'exposant étranger presque inexistant au début du Second Empire, qui devint une question majeure à la fin du siècle, liée à la création de la Société nationale des beaux-arts. Hasardeuse et compétitive, l'expérience du Salon constituait pour l'ensemble des artistes un enjeu considérable, tant symbolique que commercial. Les carrières parisiennes des peintres étrangers, depuis le séjour de formation jusqu'à l'impact de l'exposition au Salon, se prêtent moins que celles de leurs homologues français à une opposition entre sphère officielle et sphère indépendante; elles décrivent un système des beaux-arts largement ouvert sur le monde et sur l'ensemble du champ artistique. La réalité internationale des expositions parisiennes eut un profond impact sur l'évolution et la définition d'un art français qui en fit rapidement un motif d'hégémonie. Contrairement au cloisonnement nationaliste des expositions universelles, le brassage du Salon décrit l'unité et la diversité des forces créatrices européennes. L'expression nationale participe d'une communauté de démarches et de formes, et l'Europe des arts ne peut se réduire ni aux catégories d'écoles nationales, ni aux catégories de style de la tradition moderniste. / From the origin of World Fairs until the creation of the European secessions, the Paris Salon played a fairly significant role in the careers of hundreds of foreign painters. Avoiding aesthetic biases, the corpus of works, artists and texts studied traces the presence and the reception of foreign painting in the Paris Salon, from 1852 to 1900. The political and administrative history of the institution reveals the evolution of foreign painter status: from almost nonexistent at the beginning of the Second Empire, to a major issue at the end of the century, linked to the creation of the Société Nationale des beaux-arts. Risky and competitive, the Salon experience was a considerable challenge for all artists, both symbolic and commercial. Parisian careers of foreign painters, from their training studio to their exposition in the Salon, are less interpretable than for their French counterparts as an opposition between official and independent sphere; Fine Art system appears as wide open to the world and to the whole artistic field. The international dimension of Paris exhibitions had a profound impact on the evolution and the definition of French art who quickly built a hegemonic pattern on it. Unlike the nationalist partitioning of world fairs, the melting of the Salon is an image of the unity and diversity of European creative forces. The national expression is part of a community of approaches and expressions, and Arts of Europe cannot be categorized into national schools nor the style categories of the modernist tradition.
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IF THIS SHOP COULD TALK: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LIBERATORY FUNCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BEAUTY SALONS AND CULTURE

Weaver, Shané January 2021 (has links)
“If This Shop Could Talk: A Discursive Analysis of The Liberatory Function and Development of African American Beauty Salons and Culture” explores the intersection of political consciousness, aesthetics, and community development engendered in quintessential and atypical locales of African American beauty culture with an emphasis on the African American beauty salon as a discursive space. As it seeks to expand limited understandings of African American beauty culture, this analysis employs Afrocentric, Black Feminist, and Womanist theoretical perspectives as it traverses temporal and geographic boundaries. As proclamations of Black pride and beauty are juxtaposed in present day society against a multitude of headlines that detail stories of discrimination based upon hair, this work addresses matters of how and why Africana women assert such prideful proclamations amidst injustice. How do African American women know that there is power in beauty? Why do African American women believe such a thing? Why do African American women engage in beauty culture and beauty salons? This work focuses on 20th through 21st century America, by exploring Black beauty culture concepts and byproducts including trends, styles, community activism, and consciousness as connected to African history in Kemet, African history in West Africa prior to the Transatlantic slave trade, and African history in America between the 16th and 21st centuries. This work employs discourse analysis and Afronography to reveal and assert the existence of a unique epistemology within Africana women’s beauty culture that has been employed in the subversion of oppression and the assertion of Black female identity in America. An Afronographic research study accompanies this analysis and represents qualitative findings from interviews conducted with women who identify as persons of African descent and members of intergenerational family beauty practice, where women in their families preceded them in beauty service provision. The researcher’s perspective is also included throughout the work as she is a licensed cosmetologist and member of an intergenerational family of beauty practice. Ultimately, this work suggests that there is a unique, significant, and sacred agency that exists in the phenomena, traditions, history, and locations of African American beauty culture which has generated aesthetic creations in hair, skin and nails that rhetorically shift paradigms, in addition to words, actions, and feelings that foster an epistemology that can aid in the liberation of Africans in the United States and abroad. / African American Studies
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La mise en question du langage dans les Salons de Diderot / Questionning language in Diderot's art criticism

Pavy-Guilbert, Élise 12 December 2011 (has links)
Notre hypothèse est que la réflexion de Diderot dans les Salons ne porte pas tant sur l’image que sur le langage : la confrontation avec les œuvres d’art l’oblige à questionner la langue. Traduire l’image permet d’expérimenter les limites expressives de la langue, de saisir ses conditions d’apparition, son origine. La présente étude se donne trois objectifs principaux. Remettre les Salons au cœur des pratiques d’écriture des salonniers. La critique d’art est à envisager non seulement au regard des idées nouvelles défendues par les salonniers, mais aussi de leurs expérimentations formelles. En examinant les textes antérieurs et postérieurs aux Salons se dessine la genèse de la critique d’art comme genre littéraire. À l’autre extrémité des influences, cette étude explore les Salons en les plaçant au cœur de l’ensemble de l’œuvre de Diderot. Diderot y approfondit ses intuitions théâtrales et esthétiques, développe ses thèses sensualistes et matérialistes, sa philosophie morale, ses idées politiques et physiologiques, affine sa conception de la langue. Les Salons l’accompagnent dans son cheminement intellectuel et dépassent le commentaire des œuvres exposées. La critique d’art est laboratoire d’écriture et de pensée. Plus encore, sa critique d’art pose avec une acuité toute particulière l’un des grands problèmes du tournant des Lumières : le conflit naissant entre nature et culture, dont le langage devient l’un des lieux d’interrogation privilégié. C’est à la question du langage que nous avons choisi de nous intéresser, parce que ses fonctions sont emblématiques des tensions du texte. Le langage peut servir à communiquer avec les autres, à échanger. Mais il a également la capacité de figurer, de créer une image dans l’esprit. Il permet enfin de s’interroger sur lui-même. Une involution semble poindre dans les Salons : c’est à partir des discours sur l’art comme lieux de sociabilité que Diderot réfléchit à la langue originelle. / My thesis is entitled “La mise en question du langage dans les Salons de Diderot”. It aims at showing that Diderot’s art critic does not focus so much on image than on language, or more precisely on the fact that, when looking at a painting, Diderot is compelled to question language. In the Salons, he tries to make pictures arise from words and to give speech and voice to images. Three aspects of the relationships between image and language arise, and make up the three parts of my thesis. First of all, Diderot talks about the paintings of the Louvre’s exhibitions. The Salons are part of Grimm’s Correspondance littéraire, whose subscribers are all members of European monarchies. While he depicts paintings, Diderot always keeps in mind that these very urbane readers expect to be entertained. Speech about art need to remain close to playful conversation in order to entertain the elite. I studied Diderot’s borrowings from other art critics, thanks to the “Collection Deloynes” in which are gathered all texts from the eighteenth century about the Louvre’s exhibitions. Working on this collection enable me to prove Diderot’s influence on evolution of art criticism considered as a literary genre. The second part of my thesis focuses on the language of image. Diderot also tries to invent a language that imitates image, whose structure and phrasal progression match the dynamic of the painting. He adapts his writing to pictures until he reaches sometimes the limits of syntactic structure. Finally, Diderot questions the ability of words to convey images, which lead him to a metalinguistic reflection. Paintings are perceived as a gestural form of language which gives clues to understand the origins of language. My research consists in proving that there is a kind of “involution” of language in Diderot’s art critic. Whereas evolution led language from nature to urbanity, in the Salons, being confronted to images, Diderot seems to go the way back, from urbanity to nature.
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L'iconographie amérindienne aux Salons parisiens et aux Expositions universelles françaises (1781-1914) / Representations of Native Americans at the Paris Salons and French Great Exhibitions from 1781 to 1914

Cabau, Agathe 13 December 2014 (has links)
Cette thèse porte sur les représentations de l’Indien présentées dans les Salons parisiens et dans les sections des Beaux-Arts des Expositions universelles françaises. Elle débute avec la première apparition du thème au Salon, en 1781, et s’achève à sa disparition progressive, au commencement de la Première Guerre Mondiale. Le corpus rassemble des œuvres hétérogènes dont l’étude s’articule autour de trois grandes campagnes de représentation marquées par l’histoire des relations entre les Blancs et les Amérindiens. L’iconographie amérindienne dévoile une figure à la fois attractive et répulsive ; à l’esthétique de la disparition du «bon sauvage» répondent des mises en scène dégradantes. Notre étude rend ainsi compte des sources des imaginaires collectifs et des stéréotypes raciaux assignés à la représentation de l’Indien. Mais l’iconographie amérindienne survient également des impressions d’artistes ayant été à la rencontre de leur sujet. Pour ce groupe de quelques Français et Américains, la question de la représentation de l’«Autre» ne se joue pas exclusivement à travers les schèmes esthétiques abordés auparavant. Les déplacements répétés sur le continent nord-américain et l’attention portée à l’art amérindien favorisent un élargissement des horizons artistiques. Cette thèse est enfin l’occasion d’étudier l’image de l’«Autre» dans le cadre compétitif des Expositions universelles, où la figure de l’Indien tergiverse entre recherche de vraisemblance et sujet d’art. Il en ressort la constitution d’un discours visant à encourager la construction d’une identité esthétique nationale américaine au contact de l’art français. / This Ph. D. dissertation investigates images of Native Americans displayed at the Paris Salons and in the Fine Art sections of the Great Exhibitions of 1855, 1868, 1878, 1889 and 1900. My analysis starts with the first outbreak of the theme at the 1781 Salon and ends following its gradual dismissal at the beginning of the First World War. The body of artworks I analyze documents three main campaigns of representation marked by the history of Native Americans and Whites relations. These representations reveal an artistic figure both attractive and repulsive at the same time. The rhetoric of the disappearance of the “Noble Indian” alternates with degrading images of the “Savage Indians”. Our study reveals the origins of collective imagination and racial stereotypes that originate representations of “Indians”. But this iconography is also based on artists’ itinerancies and their migration to the West in order to meet their models. The artistic production of this small group of French and American artists can not be reduced exclusively to the two aesthetic patterns previously discussed. Their travels on the North American territory and their attention to Native American Art encourage new artistic horizons at the Paris venues. This thesis is also an opportunity to study the image of the Native American “Others” displayed in the competitive Fine Art sections of the Great Exhibitions. It brings out a discourse promoting the figure of the “Indian” to build an American art with its own aesthetic in response to French artistic influences.
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Neznámý pramen v archivu Pražské konzervatoře. Komorní hudba v domě Františka Švestky (1842-1864) / An Unknown Source in the Archive of the Prague Conservatory. Chamber Music in František Švestka's House (1842-1864)

Esterlová, Tereza January 2015 (has links)
This diploma thesis interprets the anonymous Inventory of Chamber Compositions, which is held in the Archives and Library of Prague Conservatory. It informs about the conditions of performing the repertory from this source between 1843 and 1864. In comparison with other sources the author of this manuscript was identified. His biography is contained in the second chapter. The content of the manuscript is analyzed and compared with the repertory performed in other bourgeios houses and Prague public concerts. Apart from the relevant literature the period critical concert reviews and further archive sources are taken into consideration. The discovered Inventory of the compositions performed in JUDr. František Švestka's house is one of the few sources which prove reception of similarly demanding repertory among non-professional instrumentalists in the 19th century. Key words: 19th century, Prague, chamber music, music societies, non-professional musicians, František Švestka, Moritz Mildner, music in salons, concert programmes, the Bohemia journal
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Des rencontres dans la mondialisation : réseaux et apprentissages dans un salon de distribution de programmes de télévision en Afrique sub-saharienne / Face to face meetings and globalization : Networks and collective learning in a trade fair for TV programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Favre, Guillaume 01 December 2014 (has links)
Cette thèse propose d’étudier la construction sociale d’un marché des programmes de télévision en Afrique subsaharienne. A travers l’étude d’un salon où se rencontrent acheteurs (chaînes de télévision et intermédiaires de distributions) et vendeurs de programmes de télévision (studios, entreprises de distribution et producteurs indépendants), nous cherchons à comprendre comment ce salon entraîne la formation d’un milieu social et participe à l’intégration du marché africain des programmes au marché mondial. En effet, jusque dans les années 2000, une grande partie des chaînes de télévision africaines obtenaient des programmes gratuitement via plusieurs canaux. De lentes évolutions des règlementations et des infrastructures ont conduit ce secteur à adopter peu à peu un fonctionnement marchand. Le salon que nous étudions participe à ce processus puisqu’il est le premier à regrouper des distributeurs internationaux et des chaînes africaines. A travers une enquête ethnographique et trois analyses de réseaux d’échanges d’informations entre les participants menées durant trois ans au cours de différentes éditions du salon, cette thèse étudie comment plusieurs normes marchandes coexistent dans ce salon. Nous étudions le processus d’apprentissage collectif entre les participants du salon et montrons comment cet apprentissage favorise la sélection de normes marchandes communes. / In this dissertation, we analyze the social construction of a market of TV programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the study of a trade fair where buyers (TV channels, distribution intermediaries) and sellers of TV programs (studios, distributors and independent producers) can meet, negotiate, discuss, and close deals, we try to understand how this event participates in the transformation of the ways in which TV programs were “exchanged” in Africa and in the integration of the African TV programs market into the global one. TV programs distribution at the global level has long been considered to be a market. But until recently in Sub-Saharan Africa, TV channels used to acquire programs “for free” through diverse ways. Political, economic and technical evolutions have slowly transformed this sector into a market. The trade fair under examination in this research plays a central role in this evolution because it is the first to bring together the microcosm of this industry. We studied this event for three years and ran three surveys in order to collect social network data and analyze informal information exchange networks between attendees of the events. We study how trade fairs attendees learn from each other and define, select and share market values, norms and rules.
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Crossroads of Enlightenment 1685-1850 : exploring education, science, and industry across the Delessert network

2015 March 1900 (has links)
The Enlightenment did not end with the French Revolution but extended into the nineteenth century, effecting a transformation to modernity. By 1850, science became increasingly institutionalized and technology hastened transmission of cultural exchange. Restricting Enlightenment to solitary movements, philosophic text, or national contexts ultimately creates insular interpretations. The Enlightenment was instead a transnational phenomenon, of interconnected communities, from diverse geographical and cultural spaces. A revealing example is the Delessert family. Their British-Franco-Swiss network demonstrates the uniqueness, extent, and duration of the Enlightenment. This network’s origins lie in the 1680s. French and British desires for stability resulted in contrasting policies. Toleration, through partial rights, let British Dissenters become leading educators, manufacturers, and natural philosophers by 1760. Conversely, Huguenots were stripped of rights. Thousands fled persecution, and France’s rivals profited by welcoming waves of industrious Huguenots. French refugee communities became vital printing centres, specializing in Enlightenment attacks on the Ancien régime, and facilitated the expansion of the Delessert network. The Delessert banking family made a generational progression from Geneva to Lyon to Paris, linking them to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His friendship fostered passions for botany and education. The Delesserts parlayed this into participation in Enlightenment science and industry, connecting them to the Lunar Society, Genevan radicals, and British reformers. By 1780, a transition toward modernity began. Grand Tours shifted from places of erudition to practical sites of production. Lunar men sent sons to the Continent for practical education, as Franco-Swiss visited English manufactories and Scottish universities to expand knowledge. Moderates greeted the French Revolution with enthusiasm. In the early 1790s this changed significantly. Royalist mobs threatened Lunar men, destroying property, in Birmingham. In France, moderates tried to defend the monarchy from republican mobs. Even so, the network, fragmented both by revolution and war, continued espousing reform and assisting members who were jailed, endangered, or escaping to America. The Delessert network reconnected in 1801. Franco-Swiss toured Britain as Britons visited Paris, gathering at the hôtel Delessert, a crossroads of the Enlightenment. New societies encouraged science, industry, and philanthropy. Enlightenment exchange continued, despite warfare, into the nineteenth century. Industrial partnerships and scientific collaborations, formed during the peace, circumvented trade barriers. Over three generations (1760-1850) cosmopolitanism helped usher in a transition to modernity. Ultimately, the Delessert network’s endurance challenges traditional interpretations of the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution.

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