Thesis (M.A.) --University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, Discipline of English, 2008. / "December 2007" Bibliography: leaves 75-92. Also available in print form.

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Gwen Harwood is one of Australia’s most celebrated poets. Her longstanding collaboration with composer Larry Sitsky produced six substantial operas between 1963 and 1982; Fall of the House of Usher (1965); Lenz (1970); Fiery Tales (1975, based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and excerpts from Boccaccio’s Decameron); Voices in Limbo (1977); The Golem (1980, first performed in 1993); and De Profundis (1982, a setting of Oscar Wilde’s letters). Both Harwood and her critics acknowledge the libretti as some of her best writing (Harwood cites her libretto for Lenz as her ‘selected poem’); to date, there has been no major study of these works. This thesis engages with Harwood’s opera texts, arguing for readings that are neither atomist nor reductive but jointly focused on both the effect of the text and the mechanics of its production. It begins by outlining the theoretical terrain of words and music studies and establishes an approach to Harwood and Sitsky’s operas based on the idea that opera’s textual exaggeration is a function of its multiple critical components; that is, the intersection of words and music, collaborative authorship, and dramatic language. The thesis then offers focused studies of each of these aspects in Harwood and Sitsky’s works, constructing a literary picture of the opera texts. Primary sources include the scores of the operas (usually copies of the composer’s autograph), selected correspondence between Sitsky and Harwood, drafts and typescripts of the libretti (held in the National Library, Canberra, and the Fryer Library, University of Queensland), and selected essays by Harwood on her words for music. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1331575 / Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2008

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University, Dept. of Art. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-115).

Cette thèse a été menée à bien grâce au soutien financier du Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC), de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales de l’Université de Montréal (FESP) et du Département d’histoire de l’art de l’Université de Montréal. / À la fin des années 1990 et au début des années 2000, les musées cherchent à renouveler leur image de marque afin d’attirer des publics plus diversifiés. Dans la foulée d’un utopisme généralisé qui caractérise Internet comme une force démocratisante pour les sociétés occidentales, les musées voient une occasion de fidéliser de nouvelles clientèles sur la base d’une participation supposée dialogique et émancipatrice. Les institutions muséales font alors l’acquisition d’œuvres d’art internet et certaines, pionnières, en font même la commande. Pour quelles raisons ? Les cas analysés dans cette recherche permettent d’élucider cette question par l’analyse culturelle des œuvres inaugurales de cette pratique artistique et muséale : Ding an sich (The Canon Series) de Piotr Szyhalski, commandée par le Walker Art Center ; Uncomfortable Proximity de Graham Harwood acquise par la Tate ; IdeaLine de Martin Wattenberg présentée par le Whitney Museum of American Art. Nous constatons que, arrimées à des infrastructures en ligne développées en étroite collaboration avec et par l’industrie technologique, ces œuvres se situent à la rencontre d’intérêts convergents des mondes institutionnel et entrepreneurial. L’industrie technologique trouve dans l’espace muséal internet une opportunité de déployer son offre de service à des clientèles favorables – les œuvres sont un attrait ; l’institution discerne dans l’entreprise un partenaire d’affaires expert à même de raffiner son image en ligne auprès de spectateurs à conquérir – les œuvres sont un atout. Les productions qui en découlent s’immiscent dans des espaces hybrides : entre espace expositionnel et page informationnelle ; entre fonction artistique et discours démocratisant autour de l’œuvre ; entre objet de collection et distinction philanthropique. Au carrefour des relations entre institution et industrie, ces œuvres portent un regard acéré sur leurs conditions d’émergence et mettent au jour les dynamiques muséo-entrepreneuriales qui sous-tendent leur arrivée. Face à des ensembles discursifs connotés, elles sont à même de conceptualiser l’industrie technologique non pas comme une autorité commerciale hégémonique, mais comme un appareillage théorique riche de stratégies thématiques et de modes opératoires à même d’être démantelés, détournés, renversés, critiqués. / At the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, museums sought to revitalise their image with the aim to attract increasingly diversified audiences. The general view of the Internet as a democratic force in western societies lead institutions to consider it as an opportunity to acquire new audiences through participation which was thought to foster emancipation and dialogue. Enthused, museums thus acquire internet artworks and some even commission them in order to inaugurate newly developed media arts programs. For what reasons? Our case studies provide an answer to this question, along with a cultural analysis of artworks, annual reports, press releases and other pertinent documents: Ding an sich (The Canon Series) by Piotr Szyhalski acquired by the Walker Art Center; Uncomfortable Proximity by Graham Harwood commissioned by the Tate; IdeaLine by Martin Wattenberg presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art. We found that these artworks are at the intersection of converging interests on the part of the institutional and business worlds as they are presented in online infrastructure developed in close collaboration with the technological industry. To this industry artworks are enticing as they offer an opportunity to expose a favourable clientele to its products; to the institution artworks are an asset to attract expert business partners able to enhance the online museum brand in the eyes of audiences. As such, artworks are located in hybrid spaces: between exhibition and information spaces, between artistic purpose and democratising discourse, between collection and philanthropy. At these crossroads, artworks take a sharp look at the conditions and dynamics that underlie their arrival. In the face of connoted discourses, they conceptualise the technological industry not as hegemonic commercial authority but as theoretical apparatus, rich with thematic strategies and operating modes ripe for dismantling, diverting, reversing, and criticising.

The purpose of this thesis was to study the efforts of ten Utah artists who played significant roles in formulating early Utah art history.