abstract: This project is a critical look at Chicano artist Vincent Valdez's 2002-2004 series Stations. The theoretical framework for this work is the concept of cultural citizenship, which refers to a variety of ways in which marginalized groups of people create, fight for, and retain space, identity, and rights within American society through acts of daily life. This research considers how the ten large-scale charcoal drawings that comprise Stations contribute to the construction and representation of distinct and unique Latino spaces and identities. Valdez establishes space in the sense of belonging and community engagement that his work allows. Within this context, thoughtful attention is paid to the cultural meaning of the artist's subject choices of boxing and religion. This research considers the significance of these subject choices and how the connections between the two create unique spaces of shared experience and consciousness for a viewer of the work. However, the parallels that Valdez draws between the Christ figure and his boxer also allow for a careful examination of the representations and contradictions of contemporary constructions of masculinity that are present in the series. Within this project, the work of Gloria Anzaldúa is critical in understanding and discussing the fluid nature of Chicano identity. This study also considers how in the tradition of Chicana writers, Valdez expresses and affirms identity through autobiographical methods. Further, the artist's use of charcoal to create these large scale drawings is considered for its narrative qualities. This study concludes that Valdez's series Stations is an act of cultural citizenship. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. Art History 2010

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / The problem of this dissertation is to survey interpretively Taylor's writings concerning the New Testament in order to assess his major contributions to New Testament studies. The method of survey and appraisal precludes hazarding a premature conclusion as to what may eventually be his most enduring contribution. This study is a pioneering effort. Nothing of a similar nature covering Taylor's work is known to exist. It has been undertaken with the permission of Dr. Taylor. The method is that of library research. It involves three major stages. First, following a sketch of Taylor's professional career (Chapter II), Chapter III ("Taylor's Biblical Methodology") investigates three of his basic presuppositions -- the relationship of God and history, the nature of the Scriptures, and the goal of N.T. study -- and ten of his highly characteristic formative conclusions (i.e., "interpretation need not imply distortion"). Secondly, Chapter IV surveys Taylor's writings in order to establish the areas of his most evident contribution. Thirdly, in Chapter V five areas of emphasis--Synoptic criticism, form-criticism, Soteriology, life of Jesus research, and Christology--are examined over against a selectively determined background of contemporary N.T. scholarship. Chapter VI summarizes the conclusions of this study. The degree of contribution is assessed according to a finding of either a "possible" (lower probability resulting from more apparent vulnerabilities and less scholarly acceptance) or a "probable" contribution [TRUNCATED]

Millay and Dickinson, born more than sixty years apart, were subject to vastly different influences and environments, although their homes were in the same geographic area. Their poetry reflects the difference of their times and their own temperament, but both wrote from a great depth and understanding of feeling and experience about subjects common to all mankind - death, love, anguish, the significance of nature.

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Este trabalho tem por objetivo verificar que tipo de impacto as crises de melancolia do pintor Vincent van Gogh podem ter exercido sobre sua produção artística. Os questionamentos tomados como ponto de partida são os seguintes: se o estado de melancolia impulsiona seu trabalho como artista, se a melancolia imprime características específicas em sua obra e se a arte proporciona a Van Gogh um alívio ou um agravamento de sua natureza melancólica. A pesquisa foca um período específico na vida do artista: os primeiros 10 meses em que viveu na cidade de Arles, no sul da França, entre fevereiro e dezembro de 1888. A leitura das 139 cartas escritas por Van Gogh neste período possibilitou identificar os momentos em que ele descrevia seu próprio estado de espírito como melancólico. A partir desta identificação, o trabalho parte para a análise de obras produzidas no período, das quais foram selecionadas oito telas de pôr do sol. A observação das telas sob o contexto do sentimento experimentado por Van Gogh enquanto as produzia levou, por fim, a uma reflexão sobre a relação entre melancolia e a arte no pintor. / The aim of this research is to verify what kind of impact the melancholy crises of the painter Vincent van Gogh may have had in his artistic production. The questions that represent the starting point are: whether the state of melancholy impels his work as an artist, whether melancholy results in specific features in his work and whether art provides a relief or an aggravation of Van Gogh\'s melancholy nature. The research focuses on a specific period in the artist\'s life: the first 10 months in which he lived in the city of Arles, in the south of France, between February and December of 1888. The reading of the 139 letters written by Van Gogh during this period enabled the identification of the moments in which he described his own state of mind as melancholic. Based on this identification, the study starts the analysis of the paintings produced in this period, from which eight canvas of setting suns were selected. The observation of these works under the context of the emotions experimented by Van Gogh while he painted them led, ultimately, to a reflection about the relationship between melancholy and art in the painter.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire contemporaine--Paris 4, 2006. Titre de soutenance : La société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul à Paris au XIXe siècle, 1833-1871 : prosopographie d'une élite catholique fervente. / Bibliogr. p. 631-686. Index.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo verificar que tipo de impacto as crises de melancolia do pintor Vincent van Gogh podem ter exercido sobre sua produção artística. Os questionamentos tomados como ponto de partida são os seguintes: se o estado de melancolia impulsiona seu trabalho como artista, se a melancolia imprime características específicas em sua obra e se a arte proporciona a Van Gogh um alívio ou um agravamento de sua natureza melancólica. A pesquisa foca um período específico na vida do artista: os primeiros 10 meses em que viveu na cidade de Arles, no sul da França, entre fevereiro e dezembro de 1888. A leitura das 139 cartas escritas por Van Gogh neste período possibilitou identificar os momentos em que ele descrevia seu próprio estado de espírito como melancólico. A partir desta identificação, o trabalho parte para a análise de obras produzidas no período, das quais foram selecionadas oito telas de pôr do sol. A observação das telas sob o contexto do sentimento experimentado por Van Gogh enquanto as produzia levou, por fim, a uma reflexão sobre a relação entre melancolia e a arte no pintor. / The aim of this research is to verify what kind of impact the melancholy crises of the painter Vincent van Gogh may have had in his artistic production. The questions that represent the starting point are: whether the state of melancholy impels his work as an artist, whether melancholy results in specific features in his work and whether art provides a relief or an aggravation of Van Gogh\'s melancholy nature. The research focuses on a specific period in the artist\'s life: the first 10 months in which he lived in the city of Arles, in the south of France, between February and December of 1888. The reading of the 139 letters written by Van Gogh during this period enabled the identification of the moments in which he described his own state of mind as melancholic. Based on this identification, the study starts the analysis of the paintings produced in this period, from which eight canvas of setting suns were selected. The observation of these works under the context of the emotions experimented by Van Gogh while he painted them led, ultimately, to a reflection about the relationship between melancholy and art in the painter.

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La majorité d'entre nous tend à désigner vaguement les croisements référentiels entre les différents médiums artistiques: hommage, renvoi, clin d'oeil, etc. Au cinéma, les relations textuelles (que le critique ou le cinéphile aiment bien essayer de retracer) ont le statut de citation, de remake, de réminiscence. L'étude que nous proposons ici porte plus spécifiquement sur le rôle que joue l'utilisation de la pratique de la citation comme opération constitutive de sens, comme bricolage, sur la perception du film. Notre réflexion sémio-théorique, s'appuyant sur les théories littéraires de la citation, cherche à identifier au sein du film les principales relations entretenues avec la peinture et la photographie. Le premier chapitre, intitulé « La citation: une pratique littéraire et visuelle », est consacré à l'état de la question de la citation (définition des différents types de citation) et à sa théorisation (la citation comme acte et comme signe puis les fonctions de la citation). Nous prendrons comme fondements théoriques les textes d'Antoine Compagnon puis de René Payant. En fait, cette partie du mémoire consiste à développer l'idée centrale et plus globale de la citation en général dans les différents domaines artistiques puis au cinéma. Le deuxième chapitre, « La citation au cinéma », est dédié à l'image cinématographique qui peut s'approprier les spécificités de la peinture et de la photographie par la citation. Or, nous analyserons différents types de citations qui peuvent se présenter dans le film, la citation visuelle au cinéma se faisant par reproduction ou évocation d'autres oeuvres. En fait, nous verrons à l'aide de différents exemples comment les marqueurs textuels de la citation se transposent au cinéma. L'interprétation des « plans-tableaux » dans les oeuvres cinématographiques de réalisateurs tels que Stanley Kubrick, Erich Rohmer ou Wim Wenders, est donc contraint à une phraséologie exacte, une spécificité constitutive de la citation. Ainsi, la présentation de types de « plans-tableaux» comme la citation-reconstitutions ou la découverte, est tirée des fondements de Pascal Bonitzer. La tendance à la citation peut également s'affirmer dans la photographie de mode dont la prévalence de la narrativité fait aussi l'objet de notre étude puisqu'elle génère notre propos sur la citation de la photographie de mode, influencée par l'instantané, entre autres, dans l'oeuvre cinématographique de Vincent Gallo. Le dernier chapitre, « La citation picturale et photographique dans le film Buffalo 66 de Vincent Gallo », est consacré à Vincent Gallo et à l'interprétation de son long-métrage Buffalo 66 ainsi qu'aux oeuvres qu'il rappelle, c'est-à-dire le style de ses propres tableaux ainsi que la forme d'une certaine photographies de mode évoquant l'instantané. Les oeuvres cinématographiques de Gallo revendiquent donc des retours permanents à sa peinture et la photographie de mode. Bien qu'il ne soit pas facile de retrouver toujours la source de leur inspiration, toutes ces oeuvres, picturales, photographiques ou cinématographiques, dont celles qui sont produites et citées par Vincent Gallo, suggèrent un motif source découlant d'une stratégie d'emprunt et d'une méthode individuelle de transposition. Dans le cas de Buffalo 66, la citation formelle et stylistique pastiche la peinture de Gallo et la photographie de mode. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Cinéma, Peinture, Photographie, Mode, Citation, Pastiche, Vincent Gallo.