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School of the Arts Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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Testimony of touch
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Abstract The Testimony of Touch is an MFA thesis of painting displayed in the Art and Design Gallery of University of Kansas. It consists of eight panels that measure eight by thirty–one feet long, hanging horizontally on ... -
A Space to Breathe
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)My Grandfather's experiences inspired a body of work based on ideas of trauma and personal experience. A Space to Breathe focuses on the idea of reacting to the notion of family history within the human body. In the works ... -
Children's Artistic Development and the Influence of Visual Culture
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The purpose of this study was to identify the existing early and contemporary theories of artistic development, compare them, and examine the applicability to current children's drawings. I also investigated subject matter ... -
Microcosmical
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)There comes a point where I feel too comfortable in my surroundings, where I know what's around the corner at my every turn. I become paralyzed in monotony. I feel the need to travel to a foreign place and become lost in ... -
OPTIMISTIC-OPTICALITY
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)ABSTRACT: This work does not start with an idea; it starts with many ideas that serendipitously contextualize as the work evolves. Utilizing time, space, patterning and color, along with geometric and volumetric forms, I ... -
The Science of Sentiment
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The focus and significance of my studio work lies in the state of the human condition, the delicacy and fragility of the human construct in an emotional and physical sense. My work has always spoken of the psychological ... -
whispers of light | workings of splendor
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The following thesis outlines the creation of Catherine Reinhart's Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, displayed in the Art & Design Gallery at the University of Kansas, March 12 –16, 2012. Whispers of light | workings ... -
i have big feelings
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)i have big feelings attempts to bring into conversation several influential modes of thought in contemporary transnational, feminist, queer, and affective critical theory. The exhibition comprises an installation of ... -
Scenography for "Book of Mormon: The Musical"
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)I came from the Islamic republic of Iran where only one of everything has the power of speak (one religion, one political view, one educational system and etc.), I found myself in United States, land of freedom as I heard, ... -
Home Movie as Process: Developing a Reading of the Moving Image in the Home Mode
(University of Kansas, 2010-05-31)The home movie remains an object of study far under-theorized and under-researched in the discipline of film and media studies, in part, because of the very nature of its unique qualities as a moving image produced and ... -
Performing the Passion of Christ in Postmodernity: American Passion/passion Plays as Ritual and Postmodern Theatre
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The dissertation investigates American theatrical performances based on the Passion of Christ as related in the Four Gospels of the New Testament. I compare three Midwestern Passion plays, The New Great Passion Play (Eureka ... -
Performing Place: Race and Gender in Contemporary Southern U.S. Commemoration
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)"Performing Place: Race and Gender in Contemporary Southern U.S. Commemoration" examines three commemorative events held in the southern U.S. for the ways in which participants enact desired racialized and gendered identities ... -
Scenography for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's ASSASSINS: Carnival of Presidential Carnage: What If We Never Left the Midway
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)An unconventional view of staging for Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's -Assassins. -
Hard To Stop: Image and Authorship in the Films of Steven Seagal
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Little serious scholarly work has been done on the career of Steven Seagal which is surprising given his immense popularity in the early 1990s. In addition to suggesting more work be done on less traditional stars, this ... -
Lost in a Transmedia Storytelling Franchise: Rethinking Transmedia Engagement
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)In the age of media convergence, transmedia storytelling - the distribution of story elements across multiple media platforms in the service of crafting an overarching narrative - is increasingly prevalent. This dissertation ... -
Content Control: The Motion Picture Association of America's Patrolling of Internet Piracy in America, 1996-2008
(University of Kansas, 2011-12-31)This historical and political economic investigation aims to illustrate the ways in which the Motion Picture Association of America radically revised their methods of patrolling and fighting film piracy from 1996-2008. ... -
Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)This project is a scenographic exploration and design of Bela Bartok's opera, "Bluebeard's Castle". It includes literary and historical research of the story of Bluebeard and the opera. Multiple sources of Bela Bartok's ... -
The Power of Space: The Acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Century BCE
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-19)This dissertation explores the effects of the shared space of the Theatre of Dionysos and the Acropolis during tragic performances in Athens during the 5th century BCE. The theatre's location on the south slope of the ... -
destroyers
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-26)My current sculptural practice focuses upon the repurposing of vernacular objects and material as well as research into the visual culture of trans-national institutions, particularly those with alarming track records in ... -
Circumventing Control
(University of Kansas, 2011-04-13)My creative process emerges from the struggle between two contrasting impulses: a habitual desire to control my internal and external environments, and an instinctive need to overcome these constraints. The discoveries I ...
