Thesis (M.V.A.)--University of Sydney, 2009. / Title from title screen (viewed November 26, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Visual Arts to the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references.

Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

Este estudo visa verificar o intervalo formativo entre o comparecimento e a ausência das estratégias de narração nos livros de artista de edição e se e como a narrativa visual é capaz de determinar sua bibliogênese. / This research, As existências da narrativa no livro de artista (“The existences of narrative in the artist’s book”), aims to verify the formative spectrum from attendance to nonappearance of narration strategies into the published artist’s books and if and how the visual narrative is able to determine its bibliogony.

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Thesis (MA (VA)(Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Thesis received without illustrations at the time of submission to this repository. / This research follows the assumption that the notion of performativity can be applied to the visual construction of identity within art-making discourse in order to explore the contingent and mutable nature of identity in representation. My interest in performativity, defined as the active, repetitive and ritualistic processes responsible for the construction of subjectivities, lies within the process of production. I indicate how this notion, within the context of self-representation, can provide the possibility for performing identity as a process. I investigate the extent to which gender, the gaze, memory and narrative contribute to the performative construction of self-representations and reveal, through the exploration of my practical research, that these concepts are themselves performative. Although agency to construct the self can be regarded as problematic, considering the role of language and discourse in determining subjectivities, this research suggests that it is possible to perform interventions from within language. I suggest that the notion of inscription provides a means through which identity constructions can be performed differently; and that my art-making process of repetitive inscription, erasure and re-inscription of image and text and the layering of paint not only reflect the notion of performativity, but also enable me to expose the multiple and fragmented nature of identities.

Thesis (M. Tech.) - Dept. of Visual Arts and Design, Faculty of Human Sciences - Vaal University of Technology / The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between visual and verbal codes of visual rhetoric in a sequential art setting. The literature investigation component of the study covered: (1) the notion of visual literacy; (2) the principles of visual rhetoric, and (3) trends in sequential art. The empirical component of the study involved the production of sequential art test material with an accompanying questionnaire in order to measure the comprehension of visual rhetoric in a sample of 197 undergraduate students at the Vaal University of Technology. The working hypotheses that guided the study were, firstly, that the comprehension of the visual code of the visual rhetoric used in a sequential art setting differs between (a) study participants that received visual training prior to the data collection and (b) study participants that received no visual training prior to the data collection, and secondly, that the comprehension of the visual code of the visual rhetoric used in a sequential art setting differs between (a) study participants that received test material in their home language and (b) study participants that did not receive the test material in their home language. Following a one-way ANOVA analysis of the questionnaire data, the first hypothesis indicated a significant statistical difference (p=O.OO) and was not rejected. The second hypothesis indicated no significant statistical difference (p=0.138) and was rejected. Based on the result obtained, possibilities for further research were motivated. / Vaal University of Technology

This dissertation explores the importance of narrative in Ardmore ceramic ware and determines how and to what effect ceramic narrative is used by Ardmore Ceramic Studio. It gives a historical overview of narrative in ceramic wares of English potteries from the eighteenth century to date, as a means of contextualising and locating the influences of Ardmore narrative ceramics. This paper examines selected narrative works, by artists such as Andrew Sokhela and Wonderboy Nxumalo, with reference to Noverino N. Canonici’s writings regarding Zulu oral literature. One of the intentions of this paper is to illustrate how the fundamental elements of Zulu storytelling play an influential role in Ardmore ceramic narratives. Narrative as a means of communication, education and entertainment is assessed with reference to Ardmore examples. This dissertation investigates the potential to use ceramic narratives as anthropological research tools. The focus of this paper is to investigate the use of ceramic narrative in disseminating information and creating social awareness. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

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