Browsing by Degree Name "Postgraduate Diploma in Arts"
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The black monk and the blue mystic : the writings and monochromatic paintings of Ad Reinhardt and Yves Klein
This dissertation is an examination of the monochromatic paintings and associated writings of Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) and Yves Klein (1928-1962). Since its inception in 1918, the modern monochromatic painting has continued ... -
Farming Out Our Responsibilities for Animal Welfare: Does the New Zealand Animal Welfare Act Meet Our Obligations to Animals?
What, if any, moral obligations we have to animals is a matter of intense debate. Views in moral and political philosophy vary from those that give animals no moral status in themselves, to those that give animals a ... -
Imagining development
Introduction: This dissertation is concerned with investigating how development in the South(*) is being represented by New Zealand Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs). The term 'development' is a complex word with a ... -
Immediate reactions in Otago to the movement for the abolition of the provincial government, 1874-1876
INTRODUCTION: On July 1874, during a discussion in the House of Forests Bill, Sir Julius Vogel, the Premier, said that he hoped soon to abolish the North Island Provinces. In all probability he intended, if unsuccessful ... -
The report of the Chinese Immigration Committee, 1871 : with respect to some aspects of public opinion in Otago Province.
The scope of this essay is limited. It is intended primarily as an analysis of the report of the Select Committee on Chinese Immigration of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 1871. My purpose is not to examine at ... -
Salt-water and bush : the struggle for Port Resolution, 1835-1868
The island of Tanna lies in the Southern New Hebrides, north-west of Aneityum and south-east of Erromanga, and is about thirty miles long by ten or twelve miles broad. The most significant feature of the social organisation ... -
'A silent testimony' : St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Orphanage for Girls, South Dunedin
The purpose of this study is to place the work of the sisters at St Vincent's in Dunedin within the context of the work of their Order. Statistics for the period demonstrate why the Order was in this vanguard of social ... -
Superannuation and ideology : the search for an effective policy for the aged in New Zealand, 1974-1984
The development of a superannuation policy in New Zealand since 1970 has been the result of a search for effectiveness in an area of large Government spending on welfare. The positions developed by the two major political ... -
Without work, nothing': A study of the changing attitudes towards the swagger in the 1890s
The swagger has been preserved for posterity in the writings of John A. Lee in ‘Shining With Shiner’, ‘Shiner Slattery’, and ‘Roughnecks, Rollingstones and Rouseabouts’, as well as Jim Henderson's ‘Swagger Country’. But ...