Browsing by Subject "Art"

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    Advertising to the elite : the role of innovation of fine art in advertising in the development of the advertising industry
    (2015-12) Brown, Margaret E.; Wokeck, Marianne S.; Monroe, Elizabeth Brand; Robertson, Nancy M.
    This study explores the intersection of the developments in the growing advertising, railroad, and automotive sectors of the U.S. economy. It examines the latter two sectors’ advertising to the elite by focusing on how industries that targeted the luxury market used fine art to emphasize and underscore the exceptionalism of that high-end market compared with the mass market. It does so by looking at the transition from using art as a decorative component unrelated to the product to using art specifically designed to advertise a product or experience. In the literature, advertising history has been delineated rather narrowly as the history of advertising to the mass consumer or as the history of advertising a specific type of product. This work broadens the focus in advertising history to show that luxury advertisers, as a sub-category of advertisers, developed particular advertising strategies, which recognized and exploited the relationship between their respective service or product, and a consciously selected audience for their respective advertisements. It shows that high art became a differentiating characteristic of advertising strategies aimed at the social elite market. This work also proposes the need for adding a specific timeline for the development of luxury advertising to the broad, more generally known outline of advertising history.
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    Borderline
    (2013-05) Cortez, Susana; Hull, Greg
    My work is a manifestation of emotions concerning personal, social, and political issues that influence the way I perceive life. I manifest my emotions towards these issues in a spontaneous way, through the exploration and interaction with different mediums. I often use temporary materials such as dirt, paper, plaster, and clay slip. These materials assist me in imprinting the work of my hands, the struggle, and the trace of my creative process.
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    Fighting Powers
    (2021) Dobouni, Leena; Winship, Andrew
    Fighting Powers analyzes Leena Dobouni’s body of installation artwork as it relates to concepts of socio-political imbalance between the Middle East and Western powers. The West’s systemic degradation of the Middle East is examined through the theories of the post-colonial / imperial gaze, psychological myopia and social dominance theory. The thesis poses that historical events during the early 20th century set the stage for the current rapport that the West has with the Middle East. T. E. Lawrence, Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot are three main players in the instigation of the inequitable relations between the West and the Middle East. Investigation of these ideas and events support the presented viewpoint that socio-structural marginalization of the “other” in Western communities is irrefutable and that the idea of the “lesser” is born out of “othering." Dobouni’s unique experiences as a Muslim of mixed Iraqi-American heritage in the Western and imperial gaze has allowed her to observe distinct narratives of political tension between the two sides of her upbringing.
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    Form of Play
    (2014) Tommer, Nathan; Tennant, Phil
    I describe the work that I have made for my MFA thesis show as sculptural, Modernist inspired furniture, with forms based on or derived from those of classic mass manufactured children’s toys. It is a body of work which was initially conceived as a reaction to what I felt were the latent formal associations between certain types of children’s toys and prototypical Modernist furniture designs. The idea that there may be a relationship between toys and Modernism first occurred to me in the early part of 2010, while obtaining my bachelor of science in industrial design. Later that year I solidified my intention to create a body of artwork which would explore both the validity of that perceived connection and its aesthetic potential. This paper and the thesis exhibition which it is written to document and accompany are the tangible results of that intention.
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    Herron School of Art + Design Open Access Policy 5-Year Report
    (IUPUI University Library, 2019-10-22) Center for Digital Scholarship
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    Hybrid Discourse: Exploring Art, Race, and Space in Indianapolis
    (Public: A Journal of Imagining America, 2013) Labode, Modupe; Holzman, Laura M.; Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth
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    Listening Closer
    (2016) Qian, Jennifer; Nordgulen, Eric
    To hear is a simple act but to listen is to react. Our bodies register sensory experiences before the mind becomes aware of it. When our body listens with its ears, eyes, heart and the rest of its limbs, it functions as a lyrical instrument. This lyrical instrument receives and translates sound into the body language. Our bodies can register sounds outside the human hearing range, detect vibrations, and even sense another person's emotions. As translators, our bodies have the tools to receive sounds and interpret them. We use this all the time, voluntarily and involuntarily, to face someone when speaking, to step forward to offer help, to flinch when a loud noise startles us, to tap our feet to the beat of music and so on. Noticing how our bodies respond demands attention and practice. The first step is to listen.
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    Media Review: Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years
    (American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2021-12-01) Johal, Arminder; Stahl, Stephanie M.; Medicine, School of Medicine
    Dr. Meir Kryger’s Sleep in Art: How Artists Portrayed Sleep and Dreams in the Last 7000 Years, published in 2019, is a book likely to captivate the interests of those in sleep medicine. This book features hundreds of paintings, sculptures, and drawings by various artists. Artwork by Raphael, Henri Rousseau, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and Norman Rockwell are among the many found in this book. The intersection between the worlds of science, religion, and art are all explored as each artist expertly depicts the human enthrallment with sleep throughout time.