dc.contributor.advisor |
Cheng, Joyce |
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dc.contributor.author |
Cleary, Elizabeth |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-01-09T22:41:11Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-01-09T22:41:11Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2024-01-09 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/29138 |
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dc.description.abstract |
The Mexican-Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000) photographed the Spanish Civil War and created photomontages for the anarchist organization, the CNT-FAI (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista Ibérica/National Labor Confederation-Iberian Anarchist Federation) between 1937 and 1938. Scholarship to date has debated whether Horna’s political activism or her association with interwar avant-garde groups played a greater role in her work. In this thesis, I suggest that Horna’s political activism and her associations with Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism are inseparable aspects of her work by tracing Horna’s work from Hungarian Activism in the mid-1910s to what has been described as humanitarian photography in the 1930s. I argue that Horna’s work reveals the proximity of the avant-garde groups on the one hand and, on the other, the ambiguous relationship between art and politics during the European interwar years. |
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dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.rights |
All Rights Reserved. |
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dc.subject |
avant-garde |
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dc.subject |
humanitarian |
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dc.subject |
Kati Horna |
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dc.subject |
photography |
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dc.subject |
photomontage |
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dc.subject |
Spanish Civil War |
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dc.title |
From the Avant-Garde to the Humanitarian: Kati Horna's Photomontages and Photography (1937-1938) |
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dc.type |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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thesis.degree.name |
M.A. |
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thesis.degree.level |
masters |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Department of the History of Art and Architecture |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Oregon |
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