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Description:: This critical/theoretical history of performance art investigates the relationship between the body of the artist and the infrastructure of the city in Los Angeles and New York City between 1970 and 1985, with specific attention to how performance art resists, renegotiates, and responds to architectural functionalism. Using performance studies as...
Keyword:: Los Angeles, Movement, New York City, Built environment, Performance Art, and Kinesthetic
Subject:: Performing arts, Art history, and Architecture
Creator:: Morelli, Didier
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15698 and etdadmin_upload_841523

Description:: This dissertation argues that royal nomadism, the custom whereby medieval rulers moved between many castles in a predetermined cycle, fundamentally affected the floorplan, use, and adornment of courtly built environments. This argument is a new departure for the study of castles. Scholars of medieval castles acknowledge that rulers passed through...
Keyword:: royal court, castles, itinerancy, portability, and mobility
Subject:: Architecture, Archaeology, and Medieval history
Creator:: Miller, Scott David
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756900 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15199

Description:: This project centers set design as the primary aesthetic, economic, and sociopolitical driver of the sitcom genre’s emergence and development during the first half of the twentieth century. My work treats sitcom set design as a category of historical architecture that can be (and has been) mapped, toured, built, and...
Keyword:: radio, television, house, sitcom, domestic, and design
Subject:: American history, Mass communication, and Architecture
Creator:: LaPlaca, Laura N
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_742942 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15104

Description:: In a political climate where it is assumed that there are no alternatives to capitalism, architectural design and design-based activism are often heralded as providing solutions to capitalism’s negative effects. This dissertation is concerned with how contemporary architectural design naturalizes the organization of racial capitalist labor as it purports to...
Keyword:: Tiny Houses, Racial Capitalism, Labor, Architecture, Performance Studies, and Airbnb
Subject:: Labor relations, Architecture, and American studies
Creator:: Sandoval, Ashlie Andrea
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14730 and etdadmin_upload_672474

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