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Item Art, Sex, and Jewishness: Peggy Guggenheim as a Modern Object(2018-05) Rotwein, HannahToday, Peggy Guggenheim (born 1898, died 1979) is remembered for her incredible collection of modern art. Beyond her collection, however, she was an interesting character. She ignited issues of art, sex, and Jewishness in her time, and her legacy remains controversial. This thesis seeks to explain why. To do so, it will rely primarily on Guggenheim’s memoir, which she revisited throughout her life and published in 1946, 1960, and 1979. The first chapter will consider how Guggenheim came to promote art and champion the avant-garde. Because Guggenheim is principally remembered as a collector, any thorough investigation of her life and legacy must discuss her art world activities. After establishing this background, the second chapter will explore how Guggenheim’s gender proved both an advantage and a vulnerability throughout her lifetime. It will look at her narration of sex, abuse, friendships, and affairs within the memoir, and how this narration rankled biographers and reviewers alike. Finally, the third chapter will investigate Guggenheim’s complex Jewish identity, and how this identity was further complicated by World War II and subsequent reactions to it.Item Reality is having a hard time(2017-05-05) Creeden, Anthony Blair; Canright, Sarah; Smith, MichaelThis report outlines some of the questions, thoughts, and references I have recorded about the paintings made during my time at the University of Texas at Austin. Generally my work relies on a restricted palette of colors and direct mark making, built up in many layers of translucent egg tempera paint. Linked by personal narrative, the history of painting, and an obsession with science fiction, I strive to create a multivalent surface that opens up painting’s long historic role and connects it with today’s global culture of massive image-consumption.Item Visual music : an ethnography of an experimental art in Los Angeles(2010-05) Cardoso, Leonardo de; Erlmann, Veit; Seeman, SoniaThis report focuses on social networks surrounding visual music, a sub-field of audiovisual experimental art in which hearing and seeing intersect, often through the music-oriented manipulation of abstract imagery and audio-visual synchronization. The discussion evolves from my fieldwork in Los Angeles, where I interacted with artists, archivists, publishers, institutions, software developers, and scholars. Taking into account Howard Becker's notion of art world, Pierre Bourdieu's ideas of cultural and economic capitals, and Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, I try to understand how these groups have been trying to establish visual music-networks. Although elements of visual music have been present in various media and artistic trends (color organs, abstract films, VJing-DJing, etc.), the field's history and premises are still little known, in part because the very term 'visual music' is a contested one. Due to its entertainment/cultural industries, Los Angeles is a place where multiple processes of high tech differentiation coexist; since the 1930s the city's technocultural environment (from film production to academic programs on computer animation) has lured artists interested in visual music. Not surprisingly, the city holds the only two institutions directly related to visual music in the country. I navigate through this field by considering some intersections between science, art, and technology.