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Nurtured beauty
Title
Nurtured beauty: cultivating balance between chance, control, extravagance, and restraint.
Creator
Spivey, Kim., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Abstract/Description
Interested in nurturing beauty, I create paintings that reference life processes through layers of struggle, discovery, recovery and generation. Employing a metaphor of the garden, my paintings can be seen as spaces where I determine what grows, stays, is mulched, or weeded out. I seek a balance between coexisting desires of restraint and control and extravagance with a sense of coming unbound. I emphasize the painting field as a whole, while also paying deep attention to the minute, inviting...
Show moreInterested in nurturing beauty, I create paintings that reference life processes through layers of struggle, discovery, recovery and generation. Employing a metaphor of the garden, my paintings can be seen as spaces where I determine what grows, stays, is mulched, or weeded out. I seek a balance between coexisting desires of restraint and control and extravagance with a sense of coming unbound. I emphasize the painting field as a whole, while also paying deep attention to the minute, inviting the viewer to discover complex worlds at different scales within each environment I create. My intimate, domesticated painted environments offer the viewer the possibility to experience the spaces I find beautiful and to add to the conversation of where beauty resides today in contemporary art.
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Date Issued
2011
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3172945
Subject Headings
Symbolism in literature, Painting, Modern, Themes, motives, Self-perception in art, Mimesis in art, Postmodernism
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"Fore-conceit," autonomy, and Sidney's view of mimesis
Title
"Fore-conceit," autonomy, and Sidney's view of mimesis.
Creator
Lewis, Steven Michael., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description
In Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for ...
Show moreIn Sidney's conception of mimesis, a pyramid of autonomy exists with God as the ultimate artificer, and the succeeding levels peopled with human artificers, then fictional artificers. The autonomous character of each descending artificer connects one to the power of the heavenly maker. Sidney's use of mimesis argues for cognizance of our innate capacities, for which we are grateful solely to God. In creating the characters of The Old Arcadia, Sidney first endows them with the capacity for "fore-conceit," a necessary corollary to Free will, the essential aspect of man's condition as Sidney conceived it. By emphasizing the artificer/artifact relationship on successive levels, Sidney implies the focal importance of the creative process. Because Sidney's artifacts are constructed in the image of their maker, despite the limitations of an "infected will," they are also artificers themselves, at least insofar as they approach a true mimesis of the nature of man.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15171
Subject Headings
Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Arcadia, Sidney, Philip,--1554-1586--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism
Format
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La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas
Title
La transformacion de Ia bruja en las obras de Maria de Zayas.
Creator
Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
In my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six...
Show moreIn my thesis, I argue that the 1 ih -century Spanish writer, Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, in a unique form of 'mimesis,' uses elements of magic to transform the popular concept of the Spanish witch. Drawing on theories from Jacques Lacan's mirror phase, Homi Bhabha and Barbara Fuchs's notion of mimesis, and Judith Butler's idea of gender performitivity, I demonstrate how Zayas frees the witch from the subjugated language constructed by the Catholic Church and society of her time. I examine six of the short stories in her two novels to show how the author alters the role of the witch associated with the devil, transforming her to a saint associated with "lo magico de los cielos, " assigning the diabolical role to the man.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000948
Subject Headings
Zayas y Sotomayor, María de,--1590-1650--Criticism and interpretation, Mimesis in literature, Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--Criticism and interpretation, Postmodernism (LIterature), Witches--Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)