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Mok, Kar-wing Maria. "Guangdong decorative arts of the Qing dynasty its characteristics and regional features = Qing dai Guangdong gong yi de te se ji qi di yu xing yin su/." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987734.

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Bird, Jennifer J. "Designs for the decorative arts by Francesco Salviati." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63271.pdf.

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Jordanov, Iliana H. "Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/844.

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In this thesis, I will examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. The central argument focuses on pattern as a decorator and/or a narrator. I will examine the outcomes and changes in narrative pattern according to cultural context and exchange. By introducing Slavic pattern into contemporary (Australian) art practice, I examine how traditional cultural values and f

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Raksadeja, K. "Digital and interactive media analysis of myths and traditions expressed in Thai fairground art." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/8604/.

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The core themes in Thai art have traditionally been didactic Buddhist ethical works and popular folkloric beliefs. Both are permeated with a cosmology and worldview that is supernatural but which is pervaded with ethical implications for people’s daily lives. Buddhist art aims to encourage selfless acts for the good of others, including other individuals, society, the country and the natural world. Such abstract themes have been rendered accessible to ordinary people by means of fantastical creatures and supernatural myths that insinuate moral values and demonstrate a coherent Theravada worldv

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Bostwick, David. "Decorative plasterwork of the Yorkshire region, 1570-1670." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1895/.

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Duckworth, Chloë N. "The created stone : chemical and archaeological perspectives on the colour and material properties of early Egyptian glass, 1500-1200 B.C." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13935/.

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The Late Bronze Age in Western Asia and Egypt witnessed an explosion in the production of so-called 'vitreous materials', in particular the earliest glass. From its outset, this material appeared in an enormous variety of colours and colour combinations, the manufacture of which demanded a high degree of technological know-how. The unique properties of glass also rapidly came to the fore, most notably the potential of glass to be worked while hot. Archaeometric research into early Egyptian glass has tended to focus on chemical and isotopic analysis as a means to assign provenance to its raw in

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Parkerson, Sarah Lawrence. "Variations in gold : the stylistic development of the picture frames used by James McNeill Whistler." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4471/.

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The picture frames used by the American painter James McNeill Whistler developed stylistically throughout his career. This thesis identifies these developments, defines the characteristics indicative of each design, and contextualises their creation within Whistler’s larger body of work. First-hand examinations of over a hundred frames, in both the United Kingdom and the United States, resulted in challenging the generic understanding that a ‘Whistler frame’ is characterised only by reeded ornamentation. These physical examinations are cross-referenced with the significant amount of correspond

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Beats, Kate A. "Size, surface and shape : experiencing the Athenian vase." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50045/.

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This study provides an alternative framework for the interpretation of the painted and plain Athenian vase during the Late Archaic and Classical period. The primary focus is on the way in which the vase came to interact with society. As a commodity with a practical use, the vase was permitted to circulate in social spaces in Athens. As a consequence of this contact, the accumulated meaning became more symbolic than practical. For instance, due to its use within the domestic sphere, the vase became a symbol of domesticity. This development of symbolism involves a transformation in the perceptio

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Clay, E. S. "A material-led investigation into the creative potential of British 'waste' wools for fine craft felt-making." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2013. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/1734/.

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This thesis describes the practical investigation and analysis of traditional materials and processes used in the production of hand made felt. Specifically, the research examines the potential of certain British wool types that are currently undervalued (and often overlooked in the production of fine craft felt). These wools are frequently referred to as ‘waste’ wools. The research further explores aspects of the UK’s wool economy and the problematic issue of waste wool. The aim being to locate and articulate the creative potential of a selection of these wools within the field of fine felt c

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White, Andrew J. "Post medieval pottery in Lincolnshire 1450-1850." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28497/.

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This thesis investigates the manufacture and use of ceramics over four centuries in Lincolnshire, and considers the evidence for date and function of the pottery itself and for the social standing and economy of the potters, late survivors of the medieval peasant craftsman tradition. Documentary and physical evidence are both searched to produce the most comprehensive possible list of sites and potters names, and to highlight the areas of doubt where neither type of source can give sufficient proof. The methods of pottery production are also examined and two specific types of vessels are discu

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Towle, Andrew C. "A scientific and archaeological investigation of prehistoric glasses from Italy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11741/.

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Ancient glasses are invariably complex materials, in which the specific chemical composition and microstructure capture aspects of their technologies. The chemical characterisation of glasses in specific archaeological contexts has given useful insight into the peculiarities of diverse glass-making technologies. In addition such studies generate more general information upon an important range of phenomenon, including the pyrotechnological milieu, empirical knowledge of sophisticated chemistry, organisation of production, access to significant raw materials and long-distance trade. This study

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FitzGerald, Claire. "Women, craft, and the object : Birmingham 1880-1930." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81961/.

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This thesis addresses the overlooked contribution of female graduates of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art to the Arts and Crafts movement, during the period of 1880 to 1930. Despite the special status which the Birmingham School enjoyed in its time, Birmingham’s Arts and Crafts movement as a whole has been relatively little studied. The role of women artists within this regional phenomenon has been even further neglected. Employing an object-led approach, this thesis uses artworks as the starting point and main vectors for the exploration of issues tied to materiality, technique, collabo

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Hardiman, Louise Ann. "The firebird's flight : Russian arts and crafts in Britain, 1870-1917." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709085.

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York, Karen S. "American portrait cameo cutting an alternate apprenticeship in relief sculpture, 1830-1870 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162291.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History of Art, 2005.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed April 15, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0007. Chair: Michelle Facos.

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Lasic, B. "The collecting of eighteenth-century French decorative arts in Britain 1789-1914." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508798.

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Smith, Michèle Mariette Hayeur. "A social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1000/.

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Allen, Joanne. "Choir stalls in Venice and northern Italy : furniture, ritual and space in the Renaissance church interior." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3603/.

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This thesis seeks to re-establish the significance of choir stalls in Venice and northern Italy and seeks to place stalls in their artistic, liturgical and spatial context. Although now situated in remote locations in the church, stalls were once highly prized items of furniture and considered to be praiseworthy artistic structures in their own right. As the location for religious ritual, the elevated status of the choir area was reflected in the detailed and sophisticated design of its wooden furniture. Through an analysis of visual and documentary material, stalls will be brought to the fore

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Knittler, Konstanze Amelie. "Motivations and patterns of collecting : George Salting, William G. Gulland and William Lever as collectors of Chinese porcelain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2811/.

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The collecting of Chinese ceramics had become an increasingly popular activity in late 19th-century Britain. Whereas the 18th century was characterised by an interest in porcelain for the purpose of interior design, the political developments between China and Britain enabled a new approach to Chinese cultural identity; different Chinese material became available in the wake of the Second Opium War (1856-1860) and the subsequent sacking of the Imperial Summer Palace of Yuanmingyuan, and this material entered Britain for the first time. Due to the opening of China to foreign merchants, Britons

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Malchow, Lisa A. "Sealife Diptychs." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/770943.

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The purpose of this creative project was for the artist to design a series in clay, construct them, and write a thesis about the series concerning the ideas and imagery. The artist chose sealife imagery as a focal point for the series because the shapes of their fins and curves of their bodies create a feeling of movement. Ten images were chosen for the design of the diptych sets. The negative space between the two diptychs made reference to the varied fish forms and sealife. The surface of these pieces have a highly textured appearance reflecting impressions of intrinsic detail of vegetation,

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Gaunt, Pamela Mary School of Art History/Theory UNSW. "The decorative in twentieth century art: a story of decline and resurgence." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Art History/Theory, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25983.

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This thesis tracks the complex relationship between visual art and the decorative in the Twentieth Century. In doing so, it makes a claim for the ongoing interest and viability of decorative practices within visual art, in the wake of their marginalisation within Modernist art and theory. The study is divided into three main sections. First, it demonstrates and questions the exclusion of the decorative within the central currents of modernism. Second, it examines the resurgence of the decorative in postmodern art and theory. This section is based on case studies of a number of postmodern artis

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Milner, Reed Meaghan. "Junk." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555284.

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<p> My thesis work, which consists of a series of small scaled, mixed media constructions, is inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world in which we live. There is beauty in the harmony and balance found in the intricate arrangements and order of a variety of living systems such as the rising and falling tides, human DNA structures, life cycles of plants, and the orbits and rotations found in our galaxy. Each work is intended to reveal the density and sophistication of these networks through layers of information and intricate detail. Found wooden cases, drawers, wire, reclaim

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Cerutti, Lisa. "Visual grounded analysis : developing and testing a method for preliminary visual research." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2017. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1471/.

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Approaching a new design project by performing preliminary visual research is a common practice in educational and studio settings, particularly in Jewellery and Fashion Design. Collecting images around a given subject or theme - for better understanding its visual traits, or for future reference - could be seen as the counterpart, in visual terms, of a literature search. However, ‘visual research’ is an expression often used rather vaguely for indicating a spectrum of unstructured methodological approaches, whose procedures and underlying assumptions tend to remain unexplained, undisclosed or

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Lee, Mindy. "A graphic design curriculum development project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569031.

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<p> Examining the design education climate of Los Angeles results in finding a broken art education system and misconceived notions about graphic design. The struggle to implement design education into the lives of high school students leads to some students who have access to art classes with an emphasis on technical digital art and some students who have never taken an art or design class. This project is the work of bringing design education to students in the Los Angeles area. This design curriculum was created to promote creative process, problem solving, play and experimentation, and

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Tkachev, Natalia. "The work of art in the field of cultural production : the principle of legitimization in the digital era /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2767.

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Horner, Elizabeth. "Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) designs for interiors, architecture and the decorative arts." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542373.

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Lu, Zhiyong. "Decorative metallic threads of Famen temple silk : their categorization, application, and technology." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30974/.

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This thesis surveys the ninth-century metallic threads decorating silks discovered at Famen temple in Shaanxi province, China. In this research, metallic threads decorating Famen silks have been studied and documented in detail in order to understand how they were produced and how they were applied. Samples of metallic threads were selected and optical microscope and SEM/EDS were used to determine their morphology and composition. Problems regarding the current terminology used to describe metallic threads are briefly considered, and a systematic renaming of different types of metallic threads

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White, Gillian. "'That whyche ys nedefoulle and nesesary' : the nature and purpose of the original furnishings and decoration of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1200/.

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This study considers the nature and purpose of the original furnishings and decoration of Hardwick Hall. It analyses surviving artefacts, inventories, accounts and other documentation, as well as other comparative contemporary literary and visual sources. It seeks to reveal more about Bess of Hardwick's motives and processes in creating the interior of Hardwick. The Introduction includes a brief biography of Bess and a survey of existing literature on Hardwick. It also indicates the scope for new work. Chapter Two provides a context for the later chapters by considering the organisation of spa

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Hoban, Sally. "The Birmingham Municipal School of Art and opportunities for women's paid work in the Art and Crafts Movement." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5124/.

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This thesis is the first to examine the lives and careers of professional women who were working within the thriving Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It utilises previously unresearched primary and secondary sources in art galleries, the Birmingham School of Art and local studies collections to present a series of case studies of professional women working in the fields of jewellery and metalware, stained glass, painting, book illustration, textiles and illumination. This thesis demonstrates that women made an important, although curr

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Wedge, Tracey Leigh. "Constructing splendour : the wardrobe of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), consumption and networks of production." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377483/.

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This thesis examines the networks involved in the production of the wardrobe of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588). It is clearly demonstrated that Leicester’s dress placed him alongside his contemporaries within the nobility. A successful and well functioning wardrobe network was crucial to achieving the required standard of dress. Establishing the identity of the individual members of the network enables the further examination of each person’s role within the network, and in dressing Leicester. Comprised of English masters embedded in their livery company politics and punctuated

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Baker, Rosemary M. "Nineteenth century synthetic textile dyes : their history and identification on fabric." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/372624/.

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Textile dyes have been the subject of many studies from the varied perspectives of historians, conservators and scientists. Most of these have focused on natural compounds but nineteenth century synthetic dyes form the basis of this thesis. The dual areas of interest have been the social history of those dyes developed between the introduction of Mauveine in 1856 and the end of the century and the investigation of novel spectroscopic methods for their identification in situon textiles. Although the first synthetic dye was manufactured in England, the centre of the industry soon moved to German

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Holroyd, Sophia Jane. "Embroidered rhetoric : the social, religious and political functions of elite women's needlework, c.1560-1630." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2356/.

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This thesis focuses on the Elizabethan and Jacobean aristocracy and upper gentry to yield the first detailed study of the elite needleworking woman as fashioner of her social personage, and of the objects she produced as indices of social persona, religious conscience and political agency. The first chapter explores how needlework mediates between wtiwomeann d their social context. It surveys the way in which needlework, both as practice and as object, functioned as a vehicle for projecting persona and personage into a social context which interpreted needlework according to complex value syst

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Callaghan, Angela. "The ceiling of Skelmorlie Aisle : a narrative articulated in paint." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4891/.

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The intention of this thesis was to demonstrate that, with in-depth analysis, a carefully and deliberately constructed narrative could be revealed within the ceiling paintings of Skelmorlie Aisle, Largs, Scotland (c.1638). The ceiling adorned a burial aisle, which was erected by Sir Robert Montgomerie, seventh of Skelmorlie, in honour of his wife, Dame Margaret Douglas. The paintings, executed by Edinburgh apprentice James Stalker, are the only surviving example of the genre signed and dated by the artist. The ceiling was composed of forty-one individual compartments each one containing differ

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Holt, Alexia. "Reviewing Chanel : a catalogue raisonné and critical survey of the dress designs by Chanel published in British and French Vogue, 1916-1929." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5391/.

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Founded on the premise that the existing literature on Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel does not give a comprehensive, balanced and objective survey of the dress designs produced by the house from 1916-1929, the thesis ‘Reviewing Chanel’ provides a catalogue raisonné of the designs shown in British and French Vogue during this period. This representative sample of Chanel’s work facilitates the very necessary and overdue re-assessment of Chanel’s early career and contribution to twentieth century fashion. Part One of the Introduction includes a review of the existing literature on Chanel and explains th

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Thickpenny, Cynthia Rose. "Making key pattern in Insular art, AD 600-1100." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41009/.

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Key pattern is a type of abstract ornament characterised by spiral shapes which are angular rather than curved. It has been used to decorate objects and architecture around the world from prehistory onward, but flourished in a unique form in Insular art (the art of early medieval Britain and Ireland, c. AD 600-1100). Ornament of many kinds was the dominant mode in Insular art, however, key pattern has remained the least studied and most misunderstood. From the 19th century, specialists mainly have relied on simplified, line-drawn reproductions rather than original artworks. These 'correct' han

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Arnett, Joanne. "Rogue gallery." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555301.

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<p> I seek to capture the ephemeral in a series of large-scale weavings that examine relationships between public and private, real and artificial, the mundane and the extraordinary. </p><p> I use mug shots as a device because they represent a perfect juncture between conflict and resolution. I assume the role of the accused in all the compositions. Rather than present the images as photographs I transform them into weavings. The zeros and ones that make up a digital image file become a code which translates as the over and under of warp and weft and embeds the image in the finished cloth.

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Kim, Heechan. "Meaningful objects through process-oriented form research." Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1565134.

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<p> This work concentrates on the relationships between shapes and the lines those shapes are composed of as well as the process by which they are created. In this thesis, I intend to explore the different characteristics of wood and to visualize the language and meaning of the work which results both from those characteristics and from the artist.</p><p> As a maker, I have always been fascinated by the use of wood in the creation of objects. Man can control a material against its own intrinsic attributes to create something very different from that material's natural shape. My works concen

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DeNicola, Alicia Ory Wadley Susan Snow. "Creating borders, maintaining boundaries traditional work and global markets in Bagru's handblock textile industry (India) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Swanson, Eric. "The contextual-scenario framework for representing subjective experience." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3574933.

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<p>There is growing acceptance in interactive systems design for research approaches built on Phenomenological foundations. These approaches, which include methods such as Ethnomethodology and Participatory Design as well as techniques such as Personas and Cultural Probes, concern themselves with the lived experience of real people. They give insight into subjective experience—what it is like to be a particular person in a particular situation engaged in a particular activity. With greater insight into subjective experience should come greater ability to construct systems which fit into

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WARD, JARVIS. "DEVELOPING A PAINLESS INJECTION DEVICE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1054125853.

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NEWMAN, RYAN P. "THE SECURE ILLUSION: DIPLOMATIC ARCHITECTURE INFORMED BY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SECURITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179424063.

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Rosenzweig, Kristen Tanya. "Speaking Metaphorically in Product Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186673073.

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Boyd, Kelly Elizabeth. "Mme. de Pompadour: Self Promotion and Social Performance through Architecture and the Decorative Arts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/90.

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The structure of this thesis relies on the physical locations of Mme. de Pompadour. Although the chapters are roughly chronological, beginning with her arrival at Versailles in 1745 and ending with her death in 1764, this work makes no attempt to comprehensively chronicle the entirety of her involvement in the decorative arts. Rather, it focuses on several specific aspects of her patronage, with the goal of illuminating her social position and public image, and how she worked to control the two. Chapter One deals with the first rooms Mme. de Pompadour inhabited, from 1745-1750. These upper apa

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Davis, Kiersten Claire. "Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1465.

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This thesis explores the implications of chinoiserie, or Western creations of Chinese-style decorative arts, upon an eighteenth century colonial American audience. Chinese products such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in Europe by the eighteenth century. The American colonists, who were primarily culturally British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares via their European heritage. While most European countries had direct access to the China trade, coloni

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Measell, James Scott. "A provincial school of art and local industry : the Stourbridge School of Art and its relations with the glass industry of the Stourbridge district, 1850-1905." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7008/.

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Founded in 1851, the Stourbridge School of Art offered instruction in drawing, art and design to students engaged in industries, especially glass. Using social history methodology and primary sources such as Government reports, local newspapers and school records, this thesis explores the school’s development from 1850 to 1905 and explicates its relationships with the local glass industry. Within the context of political, economic, social and cultural forces, the school contributed to the town’s civic culture and was supported by gentry, clergy and industrialists. The governing Council held pu

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Lillywhite, Marie-Louise. "The counter reformation and the decoration of Venetian churches 1563-1610 : San Giacomo dall'Orio, Santa Maria dell'Umiltà, the Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58313/.

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This thesis examines the effects that the religious changes heralded by the Counter Reformation and the decrees regarding religious imagery and the Eucharist promulgated at the Council of Trent had on the decoration of Venetian churches from the close of the Council in 1563 until the first years of the seventeenth century. Although politically Venice shielded her independence from the power of the Papacy, she nonetheless responded in conformity to the Tridentine decrees and played an important role throughout the Cinquecento as a centre for religious renewal. In turn this had an important impa

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Economides, Aliki. "Modern Savoir-Faire: Ernest Cormier, “Architect and Engineer-Constructor,” and Architecture’s Representational Constructions." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467511.

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This dissertation is a historical study of the life and work of French-Canadian architect and engineer, Ernest Cormier (1885-1980), who is considered to be among the most important Canadian architects of his generation, yet about whom relatively few scholarly studies exist. In light of the range of issues raised by Cormier’s work and their degree of importance to an understanding of Canadian culture at large during the first half of the twentieth century, this dissertation argues that no other architect operating in Canada during the interwar period made a contribution that touched on so many

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Petersen, Tamar. "The Beat's Interior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78846.

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The Beat's Interior seeks to answer the simple question: What does the inside of a beat look like? This thesis provides a solution as an audiovisual projection-mapping project inspired by the song, "Pyramids" by Frank Ocean. It explores the relationship between music and architecture. Influenced by scientific theories of cosmic space and the philosophical ideas of space and rhythm, this installation becomes an immersive experience within a constructed form. Original video is mapped onto the skin of the dome using four projectors that are orchestrated through Madmapper. Eight individual part

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Andrade, Marques Inês Maria. "Arte e habitação em Lisboa 1945-1965. Cruzamentos entre desenho urbano, arquitetura e arte pública." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145901.

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Esta tese tem como objeto a produção de arte pública na cidade de Lisboa, nas grandes unidades habitacionais de promoção pública que se planearam e edificaram no período definido entre 1945 e 1965: Alvalade, Olivais Norte e Olivais Sul. A obra de arte pública é assumida como um facto urbano, integrado num percurso de conformação do espaço. Cada uma das áreas é estudada desde a sua génese até ao seu estádio consolidado sob três aspetos: o plano de urbanização, o processo de edificação e a participação de artistas na produção de obras de arte pública, de modo a entender como se cruzam no espa

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Alazemi, Einas. "The role of fashion design in the construct of national identity of Kuwaiti women in the 21st century." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/359887/.

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The main objective of this research is to investigate the relationship between national identity and fashion among Kuwaiti women. The research findings propose that Kuwaiti women are able to use fashion to contribute to the construct of their national identity in the twenty-first century. A multi-method approach to the investigation was adopted. Firstly, critical analysis was used to grasp the concepts of national identity and fashion, and conclusions were drawn. Secondly, a case study method was used to collect data from a prominent, iconic Kuwaiti woman, Fatima Husain. Data was collected b

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Kettley, Sarah. "Crafting the wearable computer : design process and user experience." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2007. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2418.

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The purpose of the research described in this thesis was to develop a design methodology for Wearable Computing concepts that could potentially embody authenticity. The Wearables community, still firmly rooted in the disciplines of engineering and ergonomics, had made clear its aspirations to the mainstream market (DeVaul et al 2001). However, at this point, there was a distinct lack of qualitative studies on user perceptions of Wearable products. A review of the market research literature revealed significant consumer demand for authenticity in goods and services, and it was this need that dr

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