Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1998. / Title from document title page. "December 10, 1998." Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 10 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 9).

Diane Victor has been a prominent figure in the South African artworld since she won the Atelier Award in the 1980s. Since then she has self-inflicted violence into her work; stretched it and stripped it whilst she wrestles with the beast within others and how she portrays that in her work. This research report is concerned with answering the question Who is the ‘Beast’ in the work of Diane Victor? It begins by defining the term ‘Beast’ and situating Victor’s artistic practice in an identified trajectory in Western art history. The report traces the presence of the Beasts in Victor’s work, and follows the metamorphosis of the human form as its internal corruption is explored and revealed through the use of non-human animal parts. Furthermore it investigates the artist’s use of her practice to position herself in relation to the values and conventions inherited from the culture in which she lives. Finally, it provides invaluable insight into who the Beast may have been all along and moreover what it means to be human.

Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH. / Bibliography: leaf 59. / This thesis consists of four parts. Part one is a written dialogue in which I respond to the words and the thoughts of the photographer, Diane Arbus. Through responding to Arbus' thoughts, I had hoped to make clear my own thoughts and feelings about photography and the reasons why I photograph. Part two is a description with drawn sketches. It describes my original plan for the public presentations of my project. Part Three consists of photographic collages with brief written descriptions. It describes the actual public presentations that took place. Part four is a written description of the public presentation project including: l. My original concept and motivation for doing the project. 2. A description of how the concept evolved into its final physical form. 3. What participation in the project meant to the participants and myself. / by Hideji Nagura. / M.S.V.S.

The Beat rejection of conventional values meant a rejection of marriage, family, and a nine-to-five job, and few women were prepared to make that kind of radical shift in a society that condemned women for behaving the way the Beats behaved. Though she has faced difficulty in getting published, Beat writer Diane Di Prima has been publishing steadily for the past forty years. Di Prima has also lived the life of a Beat, wandering the country, avoiding nine-to-five work and supporting herself with grants, teaching and poetry readings. In spite of her success and adherence to the Beat lifestyle, Di Prima has given birth to five children, all of whom she took with her in her travels. Diane Di Prima has always faced the particular challenge of gaining the acceptance of her male peers amid indifference and hatred toward her sex while not allowing these men to go unanswered.

The Château d'Anet, France was a hunting lodge and familial residence commissioned and built in the years 1547 to 1555 at the behest of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henri II. The architecture of the château incorporates a set of devices cultivated by Diane to establish an association between herself and Diana, the Roman goddess of the Hunt; these were the crescent moon, the bow and arrow, and Diane's own initials. Devices, which were personal marks chosen to distinguish an individual through the expression of some idealized element of character or aspirations, had primarily appeared at the French Renaissance court in jewelry, clothing, or art. Beginning in the late 15th century, the Valois kings Louis XII and François I took the practice a step further by weaving devices into the architectural fabric of their residences, where they appeared in entrances, walls, balustrades, and dormers; while drawing on this precedent, the Château d'Anet is the first example of a château commissioned by a woman that featured a program of personalized architectural decoration specific to her character, interests, and position. In this thesis, I will catalogue and analyze the emblematic architectural decorations that permeate both the exterior and interior of the structure, focusing on those examples embedded in the exterior stonework. This catalogue will, in turn, lead to an examination of the impact of this imagery on the overall experience of the château in the 16th century, and the influence the château may have had on the perception of Diane de Poitiers at court. By layering the qualities of the goddess over her own attributes, she was able to create a persona that meshed Diane with Diana; the skillful utilization of the aspects of the deity's otherworldly nature, such as her beauty, chastity, and mystique, was very useful in a court enamored with novelty and chivalric romance, where Diane's power and social position depended on her ability to retain the king's interest. / text

My dissertation provides the first full-length study of representations of domestic material culture in contemporary Canadian women's fiction. The first chapter presents two metaphors, the elephant in the living room, and the open secret, and indicates their usefulness in explaining the cultural and critical tendency to overlook the meanings communicated by contemporary domestic material objects and spaces. Drawing on cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken's research into the role of consumption in the preservation of hopes and ideals, the second chapter examines gendered patterns of consumption in Joan Barfoot's first two novels. I suggest that Barfoot's female protagonists reject their suburban homes out of an awareness of the ways these spaces function as repositories of values with which they can no longer live. In the third chapter, I situate my discussion of the Hardoy, or "butterfly chair," in Marion Quednau's novel of the same name, against the backdrop of twentieth-century design debates between modernists and traditionalists. The chair is the object in which the novel's main tensions, which relate to notions of comfort, history, and authority, are embedded. In the fourth chapter I maintain that the central concerns of Diane Schoemperlen's fiction are couched in her representations of domestic material culture. Interpersonal relationships are consistently represented in her fiction as mediated through domestic objects and spaces. Her characters' struggles over issues of control, and the ambivalence characteristically associated with these struggles, often materialize in their manipulations of their domestic environments. Such manipulations make explicit the process of self-fashioning via material culture which every individual engages in on a daily basis, albeit at the level of the tacit.

Submitted by JÚLIO HEBER SILVA (julioheber@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-05-09T17:23:43Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Mariah Neves Guerra - 2017.pdf: 3506242 bytes, checksum: 273619c0bcab799551f6beb7f0b8bb40 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-05-10T13:40:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Mariah Neves Guerra - 2017.pdf: 3506242 bytes, checksum: 273619c0bcab799551f6beb7f0b8bb40 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-10T13:40:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Mariah Neves Guerra - 2017.pdf: 3506242 bytes, checksum: 273619c0bcab799551f6beb7f0b8bb40 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation came from the questions what looks at us when we see art? and how is it possible to study it? Starting from the hypothesis of a methodological framework that brought together, in a tensioned way, knowledges of art and psychoanalysis, I chose the work of Diane Arbus, the photographer of the freaks, and the Freudian notion of “uncanny” to write this research work. This methodology was conceived from the relation between methodologies in the art field and the Freudian methodology in the text “The Uncanny” (Freud, 1919). The general objective of this research is to understand how, when I stand before a work of art, it can affect me it in what I did not even know inhabited me. In order to do so, the writing is built on the possibility and the impossibility of the relation between the Freudian “uncanny” and the photographic work of Diane Arbus. Therefore, the specific objectives are: (1) to develop what is the enigmatic “uncanny” to psychoanalysis; (2) to present the main aspects of the photographic works of Diane Arbus that affect their spectator; (3) to bring together what was developed about the “uncanny” and the photograph of Diane Arbus, to formulate how the process of affecting occurs in the subject of the unconscious when he/she stands before this art. From this research, we can see that the “uncanny” effect takes place when I look at the photos and they become “uncanny” objects and discover in me my own uncanniness. I see the freaks in the photos and they look at me in my splitting, in what I am lacking; I see the photos and they capture me. The openness induced by art occurs between what we see in it and what it looks in us, and this splitting is the lack that inhabits us. / Essa dissertação nasceu das questões o que nos olha quando vemos a arte? e como é possível pesquisar sobre isso? Partindo da hipótese de uma construção metodológica que aproximasse de forma tensionada os conhecimentos da arte e da psicanálise, escolhi a obra de Diane Arbus, a fotógrafa do freaks, e a noção freudiana de “estranho” para compor a escrita dessa pesquisa. A construção dessa metodologia se deu a partir da relação estabelecida entre metodologias do campo da arte e a metodologia freudiana existente no texto “O ‘Estranho’” (Freud, 1919). Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender como, ao estar diante de uma arte, ela pode me afetar no que eu nem sabia me habitar. Para tanto, o recorte feito está na escrita sobre a possibilidade e a impossibilidade de relação entre o “estranho” freudiano e a obra fotográfica de Diane Arbus. Assim sendo, os objetivos específicos são: (1) desenvolver o que é o enigmático “estranho” para a psicanálise; (2) apresentar os principais aspectos das fotografias de Diane Arbus que fazem afetar seu espectador; (3) aproximar o que foi desenvolvido sobre o “estranho” e as fotografias de Arbus para elaborar como se dá o processo de afetação do sujeito do inconsciente diante dessa arte. A partir dessa pesquisa, é possível perceber que o efeito “estanho” se dá quando, ao ver as fotos, elas se tornam objetos “estranhos” e encontram em mim a minha própria estranheza. Vejo os freaks nas fotografias e eles me olham na minha cisão, no que sou falta; vejo as fotos e elas me capturam. A abertura que a arte provoca se dá em o que vemos e o que nos olha; vejo freaks, o “estranho” me olha, e ele me olha na falta que me habita.

TEETH AND OTHER TALES is a novella and a collection of short stories that explore the blurry lines between illusion and reality. Teeth, the novella, is narrated backward in time, chronicling the life of Lucy from the age of sixty-five back to seventeen. After years of surviving an oppressive marriage, Lucy escapes her husband, but in doing so abandons her three children. In order to rationalize her decisions, Lucy uses selective memory to create her own reality to the extent that she comes to believe her own delusions. The four short stories in the collection feature protagonists who create their own personal myths and struggle to protect their distorted truths, with mixed results. These struggles between the “real,” as conventionally defined, and personal fictions are complicated by elements of magical realism and surrealism. The stories were influenced by the short fiction of Nikolai Gogol, Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami.

No description available.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study postulates that drawing functions as a valuable vehicle that facilitates reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world. This relationship of exchange can bring about transformation of the self. The study is a qualitative study that aims to establish an understanding of how drawing functions as a vehicle facilitating reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world. In order to effectively research the transformative potential of reciprocity between artist, drawing, and life-world, theoretically and practically, the study is divided into two main parts. Firstly, it constitutes a theoretical section, which forms the foundation for further exploration in the second part of the study. Secondly, the study focuses on the practical manifestation of the theories as manifest in my drawings and in selected drawings of Diane Victor, whose work primarily functions as ‘a third person perspective’ in relation to my own work. The study is rooted in a psycho-analytical framework, focusing on Self psychology and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis of personality psychologists such as Jung, Miller, Goldberg and McAdams, amongst others, as well as the writings of philosophers, art historians and drawing theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Catherine de Zegher, and Suzi Gablik. Valuable links are forged between the transformative potential of drawing, the psychological and the spiritual. Parallels are drawn between notions derived from self-psychology and theology, based on the premise that human beings constitute body (physical aspect), soul (mind and emotion) and spirit, three components that are hardly divisible and that work together in drawing, effecting the transformation of the self. I argue that a failure to acknowledge the significance of the interactivity between these facets limits and inhibits the transformative potential of the drawing process. Through interactivity between the self and her life-world through drawing, moments of ‘recognition’ and ‘knowing’ occur - concerning hidden ‘truths’ of the self, which could affect personal transformation. In this study, life-world comprises inner and outer world, a visible and invisible world. The visible world focuses on the interaction of the self with nature and culture, and the invisible world focuses on the interaction of the self with a psychic world, which includes the workings of the conscious and unconscious mind in drawing and their connection with a spiritual dimension. The spiritual aspect in drawing is researched through the notions of transformative “presence” and the “transcendent function” of drawing. The study explores the psychological and spiritual value of drawings as transformative selfobjects to address the general neglect of the spiritual. I affirm that there exists a mutually conducive potential and influence that the interplay between the spiritual and the psychological in the drawing process bring about. As a “selfobject”, a drawing attains its own ‘silent visual language’ replacing or assisting the role of the therapist, becoming pivotal in a transformative ‘interpersonal dialogue’. Lastly, Jung (Miller, 2004:4) claims that the unification of the conscious and unconscious eventually results in “a living birth that leads to a new level of being, a new situation” (Miller, 2004:4). / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie veronderstel dat teken funksioneer as 'n waardevolle voertuig wat wisselwerking fasiliteer tussen die tekenaar en haar omwêreld, ‘n wisselwerking wat kan lei tot transformasie van die self. Die studie is 'n kwalitatiewe studie wat daarop gemik is om 'n begrip te kweek van hoe teken funksioneer as voertuig wat wisselwerking fasiliteer tussen die self en haar omwêreld. Ten einde die transformatiewe potensiaal van sodanige wisselwerking deur middel van teken effektief te bestudeer op ʼn teoretiese asook ʼn praktiese vlak, word die studie verdeel in twee hoofdele. Eerstens bied die studie 'n teoretiese gedeelte wat die grondslag vorm vir verdere ondersoek in die tweede deel. Tweedens fokus die studie op die praktiese manifestasie en toeligting van die teorieë in my tekeninge en in geselekteerde tekeninge van Diane Victor, wie se werk hoofsaaklik funksioneer as ‘ʼn derde persoon perspektief’ in verhouding tot my eie werk. Die studie is gewortel in 'n psigo-analitiese raamwerk, met die fokus op Selfsielkunde en Intersubjektiewe Psigo-analise van persoonlikheidsielkundiges soos Jung, Miller, Goldberg en McAdams, onder andere, sowel as die geskrifte van filosowe, kunsgeskiedkundiges en tekenteoretici soos Jacques Derrida, Catherine de Zegher en Suzi Gablik. Die studie het dus ten doel om betekenisvolle bande te smee tussen die transformerende potensiaal van teken, die sielkundige asook geestelike werking wat dit teweegbring. Parallelle word getrek tussen begrippe in selfsielkunde en teologie, gebaseer op die veronderstelling dat die mens bestaan uit liggaam (fisiese aspek), siel (verstand en emosies) en gees. Hierdie onderskeie aspekte (liggaam, siel en gees), is moeilik deelbaar en werk onlosmaaklik saam in die tekenproses ten einde die transformasie van die self te bevorder en te bewerkstellig. Ek argumenteer dat indien ‘n mens versuim om die betekenis en waarde van die interaktiwiteit tussen hierdie fasette te herken, word die transformatiewe potensiaal van die tekenproses misken. Teken kan derhalwe beskou word as ʼn effektiewe voertuig wat wisselwerkende prosesse tussen die self en haar leefwêreld fasiliteer, waartydens daar oomblike van ‘erkenning’ en ‘weet’ voorkom met betrekking tot verborge ‘waarhede’ van die self wat persoonlike transformasie kan beïnvloed. In hierdie studie word daar na omwêreld verwys as 'n interne asook ʼn eksterne wêreld, 'n sigbare en onsigbare wêreld. Wisselwerking dui op die interaksie van die self met die natuur asook kultuur as die sigbare. Wisselwerking dui ook op interaksie van die self met 'n psigiese, onsigbare wêreld. Hierdie psigiese wêreld van die self omvat die bewuste en onderbewussyn deur middel van teken, asook die verband met' n geestelike dimensie. Die geestelike aspek in teken word bestudeer deur die konsepte van transformatiewe "teenwoordigheid" en die "transedentale funksie" van teken. Die studie ondersoek die sielkundige en geestelike waarde van tekeninge wat as transformatiewe ‘selfobjekte’ die potensiaal besit om die algemene verwaarlosing van die geestelike aan te spreek. Ek bevestig dat daar 'n wedersydse bevorderlike wisselwerking en invloed bestaan tussen die geestelike en die psigologiese wat deur wederkerige prosesse binne die tekenproses gefasiliteer word. As 'n ‘selfobjek’ kommunikeer tekeninge deur hul eie ‘stille visuele taal’ en toon die potentiaal om die rol van ʼn terapeut te vervang, of alternatiewelik, te ondersteun, deur middel van visuele ‘interpersoonlike dialoog’. Laastens, beweer Jung dat die eenwording van die bewuste en onbewuste eventueel kulmineer in "ʼn lewende geboorte wat lei tot 'n nuwe vlak van bestaan, 'n nuwe situasie" (Miller, 2004:4).