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201	The artist as a visionary : a consideration of Jackson Pollock, Joseph Beuys and Jackson Hlungwani as visionary artists. Coetzee, Michelle. January 1996 (has links) This study is a consideration of the notion of the artist as a visionary. This perception of the artist is explored in relation to the work and ideas of three twentieth century artists; the American painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1952), the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1983) and the South African artist Jackson Hlungwani (1918 -). The work and ideas of these artists is discussed primarily in terms of the similarities and differences between their art and ideas and those encountered in traditional shamanism and the visionary aspects of Romantic and Gothic art and culture as represented by the work and ideas of eighteenth century English poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827). Each of the twentieth century artists who are considered represents a different strain of the idea of the artist as a visionary. Pollock is discussed in terms of his implicit identification with the artist-shaman. This identification is revealed by the influence Jung's writings and Native American (Indian) art and culture had on his work. Beuys is considered in relation to his explicit adoption of a shaman-like persona. Hlungwani is a practising healer in a traditional community whose art explores an apocalyptic vision of redemption. The comparisons between the artists under investigation and the visionary aspects of traditional shamanism and Gothic and Romantic culture entail an analysis of pictorial elements, subject matter and content in the work of these artists. The intention was to explore those properties in the work and ideas of these artists which correspond to the notion of the artist as a visionary. / Thesis (M.A.F.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1996. Shamanism. Blake, William, 1757-1827--Influence. Sculptors--South Africa. Artists, Black--South Africa. Art, Modern--20Th Century. Theses--Fine art.
202	"Lopota k životu posmrtnému" William Blake prorokem v moderním světě? / "A Drudgery Towards the Other Life" William Blake - a Prophet In Modern World? KOPEČNÁ, Zuzana January 2011 (has links) The thesis deals with life and particularly works of William Blake, one of the most prominent representatives of English poetry and art. His work stems from his dissatisfaction and resistance to religious and secular doctrines. He is known as an original poet, an engraver and a painter, a graphic artist and an illustrator, as well as a mystic and a visionary. In the midst of the birth of the modern world, during the War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, he considered his talent for design and his predispositions of the Old Testament prophets a direct inspiration for him and his prophetic mission. He identified with all types of oppression and enslavement of humanity and tried to gibbet them in his works. He mainly criticised repressed sexuality, which according to him leads to wars, industrialism and perverted science. The apocalyptic character of many of his works is closely related to the time in which he lived and worked. These are mainly so-called prophetic books, which he also printed, and in which he used synthesis of artistic means. Most of his life he spent in poverty and solitude, misunderstood and despised. This reassured him of his real prophetic destiny. Blake?s work became an inspiration for following generations of artists; but only the 20th century fully discovered him and understood the importance of his prophetic vision. Blake sees a redemptive power of the real art, which helps cleanse people?s inner eyes, and gives them the opportunity to be freed from enslaving forces.
203	Le revers de la ligne : déclinaisons de l’altérité dans les images et les marginalia des livres illustrés de William Blake Graham, Émile 08 1900 (has links) L’artiste et poète romantique William Blake (1757-1827) produisit, entre la fin du 18e siècle et le début du 19e siècle, plusieurs livres illustrés unissant texte, images, et décorations marginales. Ce mémoire se penche sur ces illustrations afin d’en analyser les motifs selon l’orientation théorique de l’ « altérité », un concept composite unifiant trois sens : l’infinitude, soit la dimension insaisissable de l’autre ; la distinction, soit l’altérité en tant que différence ; et la déclinaison, soit un mouvement hors du soi. Les chapitres abordent cette « altérité » à travers plusieurs thématiques : la dynamique de la forme visuelle, le lien du sublime et de l’émerveillement à la vision, la représentation du corps et du genre, et le rapport avec la nature. Chaque chapitre exemplifie une manière dont l’« altérité » se lie à des enjeux conceptuels issus de perspectives romantiques et contemporaines. L’analyse considère l’iconographie en tant que reflet et expression de l’imagination blakéenne, guidant la lecture vers une vision et une subjectivité accrues. Le « marginalium », l’élément décoratif marginal du livre illustré, parvient à symboliser cette vision de manière ponctuelle. La « figure flottante », une version humanisée et singularisée de ce marginalium, sous-tend les divers motifs, évoquant l’infinitude du potentiel humain. / Between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, William Blake (1757-1827), a romantic artist and poet, produced various illuminated works which unite text, images, and decorations set in the margins of the page. This thesis considers the iconography of these works, attempting to understand their visual motifs through the theoretical standpoint of “alterity”, a composite notion uniting three meanings: infinitude, or a quality of limitlessness; distinction, or the difference of what is “other”; and extension, suggesting a motion outside the self. The different chapters exemplify how this notion of “alterity” relates to contemporary and romantic theoretical constructs. Among the subjects considered are: “alterity” in itself, the significance of Blakean visual form, the sublime and the experience of awe, the representation of the body and of gender, and the relationship to the natural world. The thesis considers the Blakean iconography as a reflection of the imagination, guiding the reader towards a heightened capacity for vision and subjectivity. The “marginalium”, the decorative marginal element of the illustrated books, symbolizes such vision by a punctual means. The “floating figure”, a humanized and singular marginalium, underlies the different motifs, evoking the infinitude of human potential. William Blake Altérité Rapport texte-image Sublime Émerveillement Représentation du corps Genre Nature 18e siècle Romantisme Otherness Text/image relationship Awe Representation of the body Gender 18th century Romanticism
204	Mathematical modelling of image processing problems : theoretical studies and applications to joint registration and segmentation / Modélisation mathématique de problèmes relatifs au traitement d'images : étude théorique et applications aux méthodes conjointes de recalage et de segmentation Debroux, Noémie 15 March 2018 (has links) Dans cette thèse, nous nous proposons d'étudier et de traiter conjointement plusieurs problèmes phares en traitement d'images incluant le recalage d'images qui vise à apparier deux images via une transformation, la segmentation d'images dont le but est de délimiter les contours des objets présents au sein d'une image, et la décomposition d'images intimement liée au débruitage, partitionnant une image en une version plus régulière de celle-ci et sa partie complémentaire oscillante appelée texture, par des approches variationnelles locales et non locales. Les relations étroites existant entre ces différents problèmes motivent l'introduction de modèles conjoints dans lesquels chaque tâche aide les autres, surmontant ainsi certaines difficultés inhérentes au problème isolé. Le premier modèle proposé aborde la problématique de recalage d'images guidé par des résultats intermédiaires de segmentation préservant la topologie, dans un cadre variationnel. Un second modèle de segmentation et de recalage conjoint est introduit, étudié théoriquement et numériquement puis mis à l'épreuve à travers plusieurs simulations numériques. Le dernier modèle présenté tente de répondre à un besoin précis du CEREMA (Centre d'Études et d'Expertise sur les Risques, l'Environnement, la Mobilité et l'Aménagement) à savoir la détection automatique de fissures sur des images d'enrobés bitumineux. De part la complexité des images à traiter, une méthode conjointe de décomposition et de segmentation de structures fines est mise en place, puis justifiée théoriquement et numériquement, et enfin validée sur les images fournies. / In this thesis, we study and jointly address several important image processing problems including registration that aims at aligning images through a deformation, image segmentation whose goal consists in finding the edges delineating the objects inside an image, and image decomposition closely related to image denoising, and attempting to partition an image into a smoother version of it named cartoon and its complementary oscillatory part called texture, with both local and nonlocal variational approaches. The first proposed model addresses the topology-preserving segmentation-guided registration problem in a variational framework. A second joint segmentation and registration model is introduced, theoretically and numerically studied, then tested on various numerical simulations. The last model presented in this work tries to answer a more specific need expressed by the CEREMA (Centre of analysis and expertise on risks, environment, mobility and planning), namely automatic crack recovery detection on bituminous surface images. Due to the image complexity, a joint fine structure decomposition and segmentation model is proposed to deal with this problem. It is then theoretically and numerically justified and validated on the provided images. Modèles conjoints Détection de structures fines Méthodes variationnelles Gamma-Convergence Opérateurs non locaux du second ordre Méthode de supergradient Registration Joint models Fine structures detection Variational methods Hyperelasticity Elliptic approximations Gamma-Convergence Nonlocal second order operators Mumford-Shah functionnal Blake-Zisserman functionnal Space of oscillatroy functions Fractional Sobolev spaces Tempered distributions Quasi-Convexity Weak viscosity solutions Augmented Lagrangian Supergradient method
205	Cowboys, Clowns, and Perambulations Cadenhead, Patrick 01 January 2009 (has links) This thesis is an attempt to de-construct the linear way in which I describe my work. I am attempting to deal with my family’s background in the theater and identity as a Texan. In addition I am attempting to address my interest in phenomenological concerns. This document was created in Microsoft Word 2000. The video portions of the video were edited on Imovie HD and Final Cut Pro, while the audio text was recorded from TextEdit’s text to speech program. patrick cadenhead phenomenology senses absurd western cowboy texas clown romanticism pancho villa hank williams lonely are the brave john cadenhead dave's pawn shop automobiles dead man william blake caspar david friedrich hardware andy kaufman bruce nauman samuel beckett walking shoes neil diamond Art and Design Arts and Humanities
206	"Enough! or too much" : forms of textual excess in Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey Kellett, Lucy January 2016 (has links) My thesis explores the potential and the peril of Romantic literature's increasingly complex forms through a close comparative study of the works of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincey. These writers exemplify the Romantic predicament of how to make vision manifest – how to communicate one's imaginative and intellectual expansiveness without diminishing it. They sought different strategies for increasing the capacity of literary form, ostensibly in the hope of communicating more: clarifying meaning, increasing accessibility and intensifying original experience. But textual expansion – materially, stylistically and intellectually – often threatens more opportunities for confused and partial meanings to proliferate, overwhelming the reader by dividing texts and undermining attempts at coherent thought. Expansion thus becomes excess, with all its worrying associations of superfluity. To further complicate matters, Burke's influential tenet of the Sublime makes a virtue out of excess and obscurity, raising the problematic spectre of deliberately confused/confusing texts that embody an aesthetic of incomprehension. I explore these paradoxes through four types of 'textual excess' demonstrated by the writers under discussion: firstly, the tension between poetry and prose adjuncts, such as prefaces and notes, in Wordsworth and Coleridge; secondly, De Quincey's indulgent verbosity and struggle to control the freeing shapelessness of prose; thirdly, Wordsworth's and De Quincey's parallel experiences of revision as both uncontrollably diffusive and statically concentrated; and lastly, Blake's more deliberate, systematic attempt to enact a literary Sublime in which the reader is forced out of passivity by the competing demands of verbal and visual media. All are motivated and thwarted in varying degrees by their anxious preoccupation with saying "Enough", and the difficulty of determining when this becomes “Too much”. These authorial dilemmas also incorporate larger concerns with man's (over)ambition at a time of rapid and unprecedented economic, social and intellectual acceleration from the Enlightenment to industrialism. The fear that the concept and process of 'progress', or 'improvement', marks deficiency rather than fulfilment haunts Romantic writers.
207	Canada, inc. the relevance of ideology to the emergence of a capitalist social formation in Rupert's Land and the Indian territories of British North America, 1852 TO 1885 Sanders, Storm Lee 22 December 2010 This thesis looks at the relevance of ideology to the emergence of capitalist social formation in Ruperts Land and the North West between 1852 and 1885 in two contexts: 1) as a mechanism of transforming the mercantilist social formation - the economy, state, and society - that arose to oversee the fur trade in Ruperts Land and the Indian Territory between 1670 and 1870; and 2) its role in establishing capitalist social formation in the North West up to 1885. I focus on the social processes by which ideology is transmitted and its significance to the emerging formation. I attempt to explain how a diverse group of politicians, bankers, investors, merchants, and industrialists took control of vast, resource-rich, and occupied territories like Ruperts Land and the North West and completely transformed the existing social arrangements according to their worldview. This thesis engages Marxist theory to examine the ideas of John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, and Edward Blake as heads of the eastern polity, state, central government, and official opposition, and the representatives of commercial, financial, and industrial factions of the bourgeoisie. Over six hundred primary samples of their discourses in the form of political speeches, historical debates, and personal correspondence were reviewed in this research. The major themes emerging from the analysis pertain to the ideological underpinnings of a capitalist worldview in terms of the relevance of law and Christianity to the colonization and civilization of emigrant and indigenous peoples in the North West. It was also found that while politicians disseminate the worldview of their class and faction, they rely significantly on the support of capital and the producing classes to implement their ideas and establish, legitimize, and reproduce the conditions and relations of capitalism. When Macdonald and Mackenzie failed to rally consent for capitalism among local peoples in the North West, ideological coercion became the means of transforming the necessary social, economic, and political structures. I suggest that the use of force (rather than cooperation) to organize agricultural society in Saskatchewan has had long-term consequences for emigrant and indigenous peoples alike. The North West Ideology Karl Marx Marxist Critique Mercantilism Capitalism Antonio Gramsci Economy Social Transformation Society Law Indian Act State Colonization Civilization Infant Estates Act Metis Enfranchisement Act Aboriginal Plains Cree Western Expansion Emigrants Annexation Indigenous 1870 Hudson's Bay Company 1869 1885 Religion Alexander Mackenzie Government Politics John A . Macdonald Discourse Analysis Christianity Rupert's Land Edward Blake Louis Riel
208	Canada, inc. the relevance of ideology to the emergence of a capitalist social formation in Rupert's Land and the Indian territories of British North America, 1852 TO 1885 Sanders, Storm Lee 22 December 2010 (has links) This thesis looks at the relevance of ideology to the emergence of capitalist social formation in Ruperts Land and the North West between 1852 and 1885 in two contexts: 1) as a mechanism of transforming the mercantilist social formation - the economy, state, and society - that arose to oversee the fur trade in Ruperts Land and the Indian Territory between 1670 and 1870; and 2) its role in establishing capitalist social formation in the North West up to 1885. I focus on the social processes by which ideology is transmitted and its significance to the emerging formation. I attempt to explain how a diverse group of politicians, bankers, investors, merchants, and industrialists took control of vast, resource-rich, and occupied territories like Ruperts Land and the North West and completely transformed the existing social arrangements according to their worldview. This thesis engages Marxist theory to examine the ideas of John A. Macdonald, Alexander Mackenzie, and Edward Blake as heads of the eastern polity, state, central government, and official opposition, and the representatives of commercial, financial, and industrial factions of the bourgeoisie. Over six hundred primary samples of their discourses in the form of political speeches, historical debates, and personal correspondence were reviewed in this research. The major themes emerging from the analysis pertain to the ideological underpinnings of a capitalist worldview in terms of the relevance of law and Christianity to the colonization and civilization of emigrant and indigenous peoples in the North West. It was also found that while politicians disseminate the worldview of their class and faction, they rely significantly on the support of capital and the producing classes to implement their ideas and establish, legitimize, and reproduce the conditions and relations of capitalism. When Macdonald and Mackenzie failed to rally consent for capitalism among local peoples in the North West, ideological coercion became the means of transforming the necessary social, economic, and political structures. I suggest that the use of force (rather than cooperation) to organize agricultural society in Saskatchewan has had long-term consequences for emigrant and indigenous peoples alike. The North West Ideology Karl Marx Marxist Critique Mercantilism Capitalism Antonio Gramsci Economy Social Transformation Society Law Indian Act State Colonization Civilization Infant Estates Act Metis Enfranchisement Act Aboriginal Plains Cree Western Expansion Emigrants Annexation Indigenous 1870 Hudson's Bay Company 1869 1885 Religion Alexander Mackenzie Government Politics John A . Macdonald Discourse Analysis Christianity Rupert's Land Edward Blake Louis Riel
209	Literary Laboratories: A Cautious Celebration of the Child-Cyborg from Romanticism to Modernism Lupold, Eva Marie 16 July 2012 (has links) No description available. American History American Literature Animals Art History British and Irish Literature Early Childhood Education Ethics European History Evolution and Development Families and Family Life Film Studies Gender Studies History Individual and Family Studies In children cyborgs donna haraway romanticism william blake songs of innocence and experience victorians henry james the turn of the screw carlo collodi the adventures of pinocchio aldous huxley brave new world orson scott card ender's game
210	Winging It: Human Flight in the Long Eighteenth Century Jones, Jared January 2019 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature Folklore European Studies European History Experiments History Literature Museums Philosophy of Science Physics Science History Technology Theater History Theater World History Aerospace Engineering Aeronomy American Literature Astronomy Comparative Literature Engineering Foreign Language Germanic Literature Language Mechanical Engineering eighteenth century flight literature science aeronautics Restoration early modern Romanticism Wilkins Cavendish Shadwell Behn Blake Shelley Royal Society sylph folklore Swift Montgolfier Katterfelto pantomime Dibdin balloon wing

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