This study is about how a social consciousness is made visible in the paintings and drawings of two artists who have in common an urge to examine the human condition in the context of traumatic social and political circumstances. Their prime concern is with the eternal complexities between the individual and society. Pessimism, hope, anger, frustration and guilt reside in their images. This thesis explores how their social consciousness is expressed through the unique pictorial devices that each creates. It examines their biographies and the social and political milieu influencing their work; it explores their perceptions through the examination of the particular themes and devices that they developed as visual language. These influences lead to the examination of my own artistic practice, exploring the connection between my social consciousness and my pictorial language. / Master of Arts (Hons.)

The purpose of this study was to consider the development of social consciousness in female nonprofit leaders. The problem undergirding the study is that we do not know enough about social consciousness to know how it is learned, if it can be taught, if it is stable over a lifetime, and what factors and life events shape its unique expression. A further concern is understanding how people come to enact caring about social justice causes and why they enacted caring about certain causes but not others. The research investigated learning related to the social consciousness of female nonprofit leaders who work with organizations focused on social justice issues. The research method utilized, life history collage, employed a combination of art and life history to investigate this phenomenon. Once collages were made, participants were interviewed to further explore emergent themes and these themes were analyzed using the learning theory enactivism to understand how learning influenced each woman’s social consciousness. Findings indicate that organizing structures emerged in childhood that both enabled and shaped the potential of each woman’s social consciousness. This “potential” was inherent in the structure of each woman’s world view, but was enacted in the way this structure coupled with opportunities in her environment. In other words, each woman’s social consciousness coemerged within environments that shaped her social consciousness and that were shaped by her social consciousness. Thus, social consciousness and environment are mutually specifying.

O presente trabalho tem como propósito analisar os murais e os cartazes produzidos no Chile durante a campanha presidencial e o governo da Unidade Popular (UP) liderado por Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Neste período foi formulado o projeto de realizar, no Chile, a transição para o socialismo pela via pacífica. Consideramos que as pinturas murais e os cartazes foram expressões da luta política encabeçada por partidos de esquerda de diferentes tendências que se uniram em torno deste projeto comum. Partimos da hipótese de que estas imagens produzidas para fazer propaganda política do projeto da UP traduzem, enquanto documentos históricos, não apenas os valores políticos e ideológicos da coligação, mas também as suas tensões políticas internas. As imagens de propaganda tinham o objetivo de conscientizar e conquistar o apoio da sociedade para a transformação do Chile num país socialista e, sendo assim, contribuíram para a construção de um imaginário socialista. O estudo da forma pela qual a propaganda visual da UP difundiu este imaginário constitui o eixo central desta análise que se circunscreve, do ponto de vista historiográfico, no campo da história das representações. Entendemos que a análise das imagens expressas nos murais e nos cartazes permitirá apreender o significado do imaginário que orientou as práticas políticas do governo, dos partidos e movimentos de esquerda no período / The objective of this study is to analyse the murals and posters which were produced in Chile during the presidential campaign and the administration of the Popular Unit (PU), which had Salvador Allende as a leader (1970 -1973). During that time, a project was devised which aimed at effecting a transition to socialism by peaceful means. It is our understanding that the painting of murals and posters were the means of expression of the political struggle led by leftist parties of various tendencies, which were brought together in the name of a common project. We have started from the hypothesis that these images, created for PU\'s political propaganda, express, as historical documents, not only the political and ideological values of this coalition, but also its internal tensions. These propaganda images were aimed at creating society\'s awareneness and gaining its support for the transformation of Chile into a socialist country, and thus have contributed to the construction of a socialist consciousness. The study of the ways in which PU\'s visual propaganda has spread this consciousness constitutes the central axis of the present analysis, which is circumscribed, from a historiographic point of view, in the field of the history of representation. It is our understanding that the analysis of images expressed in murals and posters has served as a means to apprehend the significance of a consciousness which directed the political measures of the government, and the leftist political parties and movements of the time

O presente trabalho tem como propósito analisar os murais e os cartazes produzidos no Chile durante a campanha presidencial e o governo da Unidade Popular (UP) liderado por Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Neste período foi formulado o projeto de realizar, no Chile, a transição para o socialismo pela via pacífica. Consideramos que as pinturas murais e os cartazes foram expressões da luta política encabeçada por partidos de esquerda de diferentes tendências que se uniram em torno deste projeto comum. Partimos da hipótese de que estas imagens produzidas para fazer propaganda política do projeto da UP traduzem, enquanto documentos históricos, não apenas os valores políticos e ideológicos da coligação, mas também as suas tensões políticas internas. As imagens de propaganda tinham o objetivo de conscientizar e conquistar o apoio da sociedade para a transformação do Chile num país socialista e, sendo assim, contribuíram para a construção de um imaginário socialista. O estudo da forma pela qual a propaganda visual da UP difundiu este imaginário constitui o eixo central desta análise que se circunscreve, do ponto de vista historiográfico, no campo da história das representações. Entendemos que a análise das imagens expressas nos murais e nos cartazes permitirá apreender o significado do imaginário que orientou as práticas políticas do governo, dos partidos e movimentos de esquerda no período / The objective of this study is to analyse the murals and posters which were produced in Chile during the presidential campaign and the administration of the Popular Unit (PU), which had Salvador Allende as a leader (1970 -1973). During that time, a project was devised which aimed at effecting a transition to socialism by peaceful means. It is our understanding that the painting of murals and posters were the means of expression of the political struggle led by leftist parties of various tendencies, which were brought together in the name of a common project. We have started from the hypothesis that these images, created for PU\'s political propaganda, express, as historical documents, not only the political and ideological values of this coalition, but also its internal tensions. These propaganda images were aimed at creating society\'s awareneness and gaining its support for the transformation of Chile into a socialist country, and thus have contributed to the construction of a socialist consciousness. The study of the ways in which PU\'s visual propaganda has spread this consciousness constitutes the central axis of the present analysis, which is circumscribed, from a historiographic point of view, in the field of the history of representation. It is our understanding that the analysis of images expressed in murals and posters has served as a means to apprehend the significance of a consciousness which directed the political measures of the government, and the leftist political parties and movements of the time

¡@¡@The literature of Yang Kui clearly reflects his perception and expectation towards the social-reality life at the time. Yang Kui casts his ideas into literature as a manifestation of social consciousness and literature. Nonetheless, what is the major discussion of social consciousness for the literature of Yang Kui? Which social issues are presented from his literature? Has he proposed any kind of mindset for social reform among his works? Most importantly, what is the origin of his social thought? What shall be the outlook when we conduct research on these issues through social science other than from literature fields? ¡@¡@The paper applies ¡§Culture Research Method¡¨ as the research approach in attempt to analyze the formation of social thought by Yang Kui through literature, history and sociology dimensions, as well as incorporating social thoughts into literature. With regards to analysis on literature and history, the novels published by Yang Kui before his death is used as the scope of the paper analysis with historical review on the content of novels and life course. With regards to the sociology with basis from the ¡§National System: Social Theory¡¨ proposed by Lorenz von Stein and interpreted by Daw-Yih Jang, the social issues portrayed from Yang Kui¡¦s novels and the methods of social reform proposed are hence communicated. ¡@¡@With regards to the origin of the Yan Kui¡¦s social thoughts, all books regarding to political or thinking were subject to tight control due to the Japanese colonization over Taiwan. The enlightenment of the social thoughts by Yang Kui originated from his study in Japan, during the Taisho period (1912-1926) when coincided with the surge of democracy. Yang Kui was able to absorb new knowledge and thereby solidified his ideas of socialism. To trace the origin, the paper discussed the social democratic atmosphere shaped from the Taisho Period after Meiji Restoration, from the dimension of how Japanese Constitutional System turned to Prussia German and the profound impact of the development of contemporary Japanese Constitutional System on German Scholar, Lorenz von Stein. ¡@¡@Yang Kui underwent twice regime changes in his life and in terms of novels, Yang Kui implemented anti-monarchy and anti-colonial oppression as the manifestation of social consciousness and literature during the Japanese Colonial Period. During the National Government Period, Yang Kui announced the ¡§Peace Declaration¡¨ to ease ethnic conflict however he ended up in prison for 12 years. His literature style also changed; who no longer confronted authorities but continued to care for the society through inspirational articles. The paper divides the social issues discussed in the novels by Yang Kui and organized his ideas towards social reform, then supplemented by the social issues concerned by Yang in order to observe the legislative trends on social issues from Taiwanese Government.

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