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Barr, Mary J. Hobbs Jack A. "Functions of art museums as perceived by art museum educators and directors." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8818707.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1988.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed September 2, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Jack Hobbs (chair), Susan Amster, John McCarthy, William Talone. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-103) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Kelly, Anthony. "Functions of the comic in seventeenth-century Dutch art." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446440/.
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This thesis examines how comic images are used in Dutch Golden Age art. No comprehensive study of this subject exists, in spite of the fact that comic themes and tropes are widely used by Dutch artists, as part of a culture which enjoyed but also valued humour for its rhetorical, instructional and therapeutic utility. Referring to recent scholarly interest in the field of comic culture, and using an interdisciplinary approach combined with iconographic analysis, comic elements in the images are examined in the context of wider comic culture including comedy, farce, rogue literature and joke books, and in relation to the tastes and the ideology of the burgher class, as well as to contemporary notions of wit or geestigheid in art. These investigations are related to major theories of the comic. Particular areas examined are the comic representation of peasants, merry companies, stereotypical characters and situations, and the archetypal relationship of the trickster and the dupe which was the essence of farce. This reveals the strength of traditional tropes and stereotypes involving folly, deception and concealment, modernised to provide a pictorial 'comedy of manners' for the burgher class, who also purchased comic images evoking differentiation and social exclusion. One conclusion is that comic themes in Dutch art should be considered within the long sixteenth century. Another is the value of the application to paintings of a social and anthropological theory of the comic as expression of symbolic social structure, experienced through behaviour codes, which sees it as always significant, being a means of communication within a group or culture, and never value-free even when no didacticism is apparent. This can help to illuminate important art-historical debates such as those involving the relationship between amusement and instruction, meaning and ambiguity, and questions of reception and spectatorship.
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Magruder, Ralph Clark. "Examining the functions of graphics/art work in literary magazines /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487675687172496.
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Agnell, Emma. "Terminology and function hybridity : A functionalist approach to the translation of an art history book." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-56717.
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This essay discusses two aspects of the retention of pragmatic text functions in translation. The functionalist approach that was used focuses on achieving congruence between the author’s intended function and the perception of the reader, i.e., the target text’s actual function. The first aim was to examine whether a focus on text functions can be beneficial when translating terminology. The second aim was to investigate if a functionalist approach can be used to assure that all functions are retained for instances where the source text encompasses more than one pragmatic function. For the purposes of this study, two excerpts from Fritz Eichenberg’s art history book The Art of the Print were translated. Individual terms as well as instances where the source text segment contained one than more pragmatic function were then analyzed with the above mentioned aims in mind. It was found that a functionalist approach, in combination with a conceptual approach to terminology, was beneficial when translating terminology. It was also observed that the surrounding co-text aided in the understanding of the author’s concept. In regard to the second aim, it was found that while a functionalist approach assured that the translator was made aware of the existing functions, the translation procedures suggested were too narrow and static to be applicable to all segments.
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Boram-Hays, Carol S. "A History of Zulu Breadwork 1890-1997: Its Types, Forms and Functions: Volume I." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392892869.
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Matheson, C. Suzanne. "The respective functions of text and design in the art of William Blake." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306730.
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Slater, John Gilmour. "Pictorial images of urban Australia 1919-1945 : attitudes and functions." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364430.
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Geraghty, Ian Craig Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "The reconfigured frame: Various forms & functions of the physical frame in contemporary art." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43571.
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This thesis is a critical analysis and reconfiguration of the physical frame in contemporary art. Drawing on historical, theoretical and technical knowledge bases, the thesis characterises the physical frame as the material manifestation of an act (or set of acts) of framing: a constructed ??surplus?? or necessary appendage created to mediate and protect an artwork, connecting it to physical and conceptual contexts in order to facilitate a better understanding of the framed work. The frame is thus depicted as ??work-sensitive??, being formed in response to, and as a direct result of, the work of art. This distinguishes the frame from notions of ??site?? and ??place??, which both connote pre- existing spaces. The physical frame, rather than describing the setting or site to which an artwork is added or contributes to, describes the material build-up which is added to the work. The thesis documents and examines the various ways that contemporary artists employ physical frames to negotiate physical and conceptual space for artworks. This framing perspective is contrary to the prevalent mindset that contemporary artworks - having broken out beyond the picture frame into real space and time - are now frameless. As a result of this research, the physical frame is reconfigured as an open-ended cellular construct, offering up multiple narrative threads. A distinction is made in the thesis between an ??immediate?? frame (a frame immediately attached to an artwork which the viewer stands on the ??outside?? of, such as a picture frame) and an ??extended?? frame (an immersive kind of frame experienced by the viewer from ??within?? the frame, as with a ??circumtextual?? frame). In addition to clarifying and developing upon existing framing terminology, this thesis presents a new taxonomic scale of frames in order to test the hypothesis that ??immediate?? frames can be discussed and categorised according to their level of involvement with their associated artworks. This framing model offers a new filter through which to approach the contemporary artwork, and provides a method, vocabulary and set of questions to dissect and articulate the presence and relevance of a detected frame.
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Sandvik, Fredrik, and Olle Tingstam. "Design and Prototyping of a Scalable Contactor Platform Adapted to State-of-the-Art Functions." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Datorteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-121775.
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The goal of the thesis is to investigate and propose a new design for a contactor platform, both in terms of hardware and embedded software, which incorporates support to implement new state-of-the-art functions. The platform must support a wide range of contactors from basic ones with only core functions to advanced contactors using modern microcontrollers to provide efficient, quick and reliable operation. Further, a significant focus of the thesis is on the interaction between electrical engineering and computer engineering. The electronics needs to interact seamlessly with a microcontroller running a versatile software to provide industry-leading performance. To achieve this, the software and hardware is evaluated with focus to develop an optimal platform. The proposed embedded software uses development techniques rarely used in embedded applications such as UML code generation, compile-time initiation of objects and an object-oriented design, while maintaining the performance of traditional embedded programming. The thesis also provides suggestions to hardware changes to further improve to the contactor’s operation.
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Efurd, David S. "Early Buddhist Caves of Western India CA. Second Century BCE through the Third Century CE: Core Elements, Functions, and Buddhist Practices." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210983943.
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Butkus, Tomas. "The Expression of Cultural Functions in the City’s Spatial Structure." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090317_105257-40665.
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At the beginning of the 21st century when cities are taking over important geopolitical power leverages from states, new spaces for economic competition are being created. In this way not only new accesses to local cultural resources are opened, but possibilities to use them at a global level are increasing as well. What is the importance of cultural functions here? They determine that transnational companies with a progressive and creative thinking refuse cheaper workforce, significantly lower prices for real estate and choose the environment that is more expensive, however, more tolerant. Cities that are not able to offer an adequate variety of services, entertainments and comfort for this new social class sign their death sentence and the competition is won by locations which attract creative and talented people. Cities that are able to attract progressive, modern-technology oriented industries ensure such quality of institutional environment, without which a modern post-industrial society cannot be imagined. Institutional environment also conditions the quality of social and physical environment, meanwhile its improvement is described as the key objective of the policy of post-industrial urban culture. Hence, at strategic cultural policy planning and management level in the Western Europe as well as North America, Australia and other countries a solution of urban issues is emphasised by employing... [to full text]<br>Problemos aktualumas
XXI a. pradžioje, miestams iš valstybių perimant svarbius geopolitinės galios svertus, kuriasi naujos ekonominės konkurencijos erdvės. Šitaip ne tik atsiveria naujų prieigų prie vietinių kultūros išteklių, bet ir daugėja jų panaudojimo galimybių globaliu mastu. Kokią reikšmę čia turi kultūrinės funkcijos? Jos lemia tai, kad pažangiai ir kūrybiškai mąstančios tarptautinės kompanijos atsisako pigesnės darbo jėgos, gerokai žemesnių nekilnojamojo turto kainų ir renkasi brangesnę, tačiau tolerantiškesnę aplinką. Miestai, šiai naujai socialinei klasei nesugebantys pasiūlyti atitinkamos paslaugų, pramogų ir komforto įvairovės, pasirašo savo mirties nuosprendį, o konkurencinę kovą laimi kūrybingų bei talentingų žmonių traukos vietos. Miestai, gebantys pritraukti progresyvių, į šiuolaikines technologijas orientuotų industrijų, užtikrina ir tokią institucinės aplinkos kokybę, be kokios šiuolaikinė poindustrinė visuomenė nebeįsivaizduojama. Institucinė aplinka lemia ir socialinės, ir fizinės aplinkos kokybę, o jos gerinimas įvardijamas kaip pagrindinis poindustrinių miestų kultūros politikos tikslas. Todėl strateginiame kultūros politikos planavimo bei valdymo lygmenyje Vakarų Europos šalyse, o ir Šiaurės Amerikoje, Australijoje bei kitur akcentuojamas urbanistinių problemų sprendimas, pasitelkiant kultūrines funkcijas, apimančias tris miesto erdvinės struktūros grandis – fizinę, socialinę ir institucinę. Planuoti kultūrines funkcijas – tai ne tik puoselėti... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Verplanck, Anne Ayer. "Facing Philadelphia: The social functions of silhouettes, miniatures, and daguerreotypes, 1760-1860." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623891.
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In 1807, Charles Fraser lauded fellow miniature artist Edward Greene Malbone's ability to produce "such striking resemblances, that they will never fail to perpetuate the tenderness of friendship, to divert the cares of absence, and to aid affection in dwelling on those features and that image which death has forever wrested from it." The explanations traditionally given for the commissioning of portraits--the perpetuation of family or institutional memory--correspond with Fraser's comments. Yet these explanations rarely incorporate the social context: the communities in which images were produced and the individual, familial, or group meanings of portraits.;"Facing Philadelphia: The Social Functions of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860" explores some of the forces that shaped a century of portrait patronage in one of America's most prosperous urban centers. My research reveals that different sectors of Philadelphia's elites had decided preferences for specific types of portraits. These patterns suggest that production and patronage were rooted in the meanings that portraits had for certain groups, meanings that were connected to social, economic, religious, and political conditions in Philadelphia.;Whether stark silhouettes for Quakers or individual artists' miniatures for the established mercantile elite, the appeal of small-scale portraits was partially due to their appearance and to their traditional desirability as gifts. Novelty, price, and availability helped create demand for daguerreotypic likenesses. Yet local scientific interest, Quaker mores regarding material life, and the desire for engravings and miniatures based on photographic images also determined daguerreotype patronage. The connections among the different sectors of the art market also suggest ways in which the distinctions between "high" and "low" art become blurred upon closer examination.;In their portrait choices, Philadelphians extended long-term cultural practices and modified others in ways that embodied local needs as well as incorporated broader national and international trends. They used small-scale portraits in particular ways, adapting widely available forms to specific, socially derived needs. Through their commission and use of portraits, Philadelphians simultaneously crafted their identities and shaped art markets.
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Benjamin, Garfield. "The cyborg subject : parallax realities, functions of consciousness and the void of subjectivity." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/621858.
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This thesis contributes to the fields of digital technology, consciousness studies and cultural theory by reassessing the relation of the contemporary subject to physical and digital worlds. By moving beyond the materiality of these worlds, this investigation will position the subject as a cyborg: a series of relations within consciousness that defines the reality and psychological construction of the subject across and through physical and digital perspectives. The functions of consciousness are set out as Existence, Meaning, Virtual, and Real, and their shifting relations defined in terms of physical and digital modes of consciousness. Using Slavoj Žižek's conception of parallax, applied ontologically to digital technology, and introducing a new framework for analysing consciousness as a series of relations between functions, the void of subjectivity is defined as the gap between physical and digital worlds. Within this framework the work of Gilles Deleuze and the philosophy of quantum physics are employed to negotiate a disruption of conventional reality with the Virtuality of thought and matter respectively, towards the conception of the subject as an engaged spectator. These methodological tools are developed to analyse cultural phenomena that highlight and challenge our consciousness of the relation between physical and digital worlds. Online and gallery-based digital art interventions, avatar-mediated spaces, computer games and representations of digital technology and culture in literature are examined in order to assess specific relations between functions, drawing the discussion towards the antagonism between Virtuality and Reality within the construction of the cyborg subject. Through these analyses, a critical position is established through which the contemporary subject is able to achieve the rupture of a minimal distance towards its own parallax position to confront the void of subjectivity between Virtual and Real functions of consciousness and between physical and digital modes of cyborg reality.
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Rodrigues, Luís Miguel Xarez. "Morfologia do movimento dançado-géneros coreográficos e comportamento motor na dança teatral ocidental." Phd thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, 1999. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29158.
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Pergefors, Johanna. "Konstvägen Sju Älvar : Monumentalitet i Norrlands skogar." Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-569.
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<p>An analysis of Konstvägen Sju Älvar, an exhibition of modern Nordic sculpture along a road trough the wilderness of Northern Sweden. Konstvägen is a project for public art and contemporary art in northern Sweden. The intention is to see what happens when you exhibit art alongside a road and what function it fills. By comparing the qualities of Konstvägen to the qualities of a monument Konstvägen and it’s exhibitional functions are sought to be understood.</p>
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Gerace, Samuel Thomas. "Holding Heaven in their hands : an examination of the functions, materials, and ornament of Insular house-shaped shrines." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28697.
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Since the nineteenth century, the provenances, functions, and defining characteristics of a group of Insular portable containers, commonly called house-, tomb-, or church-shaped shrines, have been of interest to a number of disciplines such as History of Art, Archaeology, and Museology. As nearly all Insular house-shaped shrines were found empty or in fragmentary states, their original contents are a continued point of scholarly debate. In response to these examinations and based in part on the seventh-century riddle on the Chrismal found in the Ænigmata of Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne, this thesis proposes questions such as: what type of container is best categorised as an Insular house-shaped shrine, what were their original contents and functions, and do their forms and materials communicate any specific cultural message(s)? By engaging with the two core concepts of functionality and materiality, which are further informed through direct object handlings of select Insular portable shrines, this thesis examines the forms and materials used in their construction. Taking these questions and the historical conversation into account, this thesis draws on the terminology employed to denote sacral containers in Old Irish and Latin works, which include hagiography and penitentials, discussions on the Temple of Jerusalem within early medieval exegesis, depictions of Insular house-shaped shrines and analogous forms in stonework and other mediums, and antiquarian, archaeological, and anthropological accounts of the discovery of Insular house-shaped shrines to more fully examine the functions of these enigmatic boxes. In doing so, the place of Insular house-shaped shrines within early medieval art, both Continental and Insular, will be more fully outlined. Additionally, a working definition of what can constitute an Insular house-shaped shrine is developed by examining their materiality, form, and prescribed functional terms, such as ‘reliquary’ and ‘chrismal’. Finally, this thesis shows that the functions of Insular house-shaped shrines are best understood in an overlapping and pluralistic sense, namely, that they were containers for a variety of forms of sacral matter and likely were understood as relics themselves only in later periods, which modern antiquarians later used as meaning-making devices in their writings on the spread of the early medieval ‘Celtic’ Church.
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Efurd, David. "Early Buddhist caves of western India ca. second century BCE through the third century CE core elements, functions, and Buddhist practices /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1210983943.
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Urbonaitė, Inga. "The expression of recreational functions in spatial structure of Vilnius city." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140324_164747-24070.
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The dissertation explores the peculiarities of interaction between expression of urban recreational functions and urban spatial structure, analyses influencing factors and appearing problems. Urban recreational functions play important role in urban structure as they are some of key factors of a liveable and sustainable city. The investigated problem is revealed and analysed by a complex of research methods, which consists of the empirical, field, experimental, statistic analysis and survey research methods.
The aim of the dissertation is to evaluate existing and identify potential ways of expression of recreational functions in Vilnius spatial structure, identify factors influencing them.
The dissertation consists of introduction, 3 chapters, conclusions, references, list of author’s publications on the subject, annexes. The introduction reveals the investigated problem, importance of the thesis and the object of research and describes the aim and tasks of the work, research methodology, scientific novelty and defended statements.
Chapter 1 is the theoretical part of the dissertation and discusses a broad conception of the urban recreation system. It discusses the forms and structure of urban recreation, historical change of recreational needs according to cultural backgrounds. It also analysis the typology, planning experience and aertistic design techniques of urban recreational functions. It analysis factors which influence the possibilities of daily recreational needs of... [to full text]<br>Disertacijoje nagrinėjama rekreacinių funkcijų raiška ir jų sisteminė sąveika su miesto urbanistiniu audiniu, šiai raiškai turintys įtakos veiksniai ir iš to kylančios problemos. Miesto rekreacinės funkcijos yra svarbūs urbanistinės struktūros elementai, darantys įtaką miesto gyvybingumui. Disertacijoje įvertinami esami ir nustatomi galimi rekreacinių funkcijų raiškos dėsningumai Vilniaus miesto erdvinėje struktūroje, įvardyjami juos lemiantys veiksniai. Disertacijoje taikoma kompleksinė tyrimo metodų sistema, kurią sudaro empiriniai, natūriniai, kartografavimo, lauko, eksperimentiniai, statistinės analizės bei apklausos tyrimų metodai.
Disertaciją sudaro įvadas, trys skyriai, bendrosios išvados, naudotos literatūros sąrašas, priedai. Įvade pristatoma disertacijoje nagrinėjama problema, jos aktualumas, tyrimo objektas, darbo metodai, naujumas, ginamieji teiginiai ir darbo struktūra.
Pirmajame skyriuje aptariamas platus miesto rekreacijos sistemos sampratos laukas. Nagrinėjami rekreacijos raiškos būdai, formos ir struktūros bei rekreacinių poreikių sampratos raida ir kultūrinis pagrindas. Analizuojama rekreacinių funkcijų tipologija, planavimo patirtis ir būdai, meniniai raiškos aspektai. Nagrinėjami veiksniai, lemiantys gyventojų kasdienių rekreacinių poreikių tenkinimo galimybes mieste.
Antrasis skyrius skirtas rekreacinių funkcijų sąveikai su Vilniaus miesto erdvine struktūra tirti. Tiriamas Vilniaus miesto rekreacinio potencialo ir rekreacinės paklausos poreikio santykis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Carvalheiro, Ana Sofia Serra. "Observação em dança-validação de um sistema de observação do comportamento motor." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, 1999. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29065.
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Sbeghen, Jo-Anne Maree. "An analysis of the sculpture of Candi Sukuh in Central Java : its meanings and religious functions 1437-1443 C.E. / Jo-Anne Maree Sbeghen." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18558.pdf.
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Gaspariūnienė, Dalia. "Meno mėgėjų kolektyvo vadovo pedagoginių ir socialinių funkcijų sąveika." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050610_201141-43866.
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The aim of the master paper `Interaction of pedagogical and social functions of the instructor of an art amateur association is to reveal the pedagogical and social factions of the instructor of an art amateurs association.
The object of investigation in qualitative evaluation of the interrelation between an art amateur association and it’s instructor.
The author of the paper analyses qualitative evaluation of the interrelation between the participants of an art amateur association and their instructor reveals the interaction of pedagogical and social functions of the instructor of an art amateur association. She also analyses the motivation of the existence of an art amateurs association – the activities of an art amateur association – means of education and artistic development.
Besides, the author investigates the functions (training, teaching, education) of the instructor of an association, educating the participants.
Social functions – developing skills of full value modern social communication – are also analyzed.
Investigating pedagogical and social functions of the instructor of an art amateur association and their interrelation, the author interrogated 200 participants of art amateur associations and presented the results in tables and diagrams. The conclusion is that the aim of the pedagogical (training, teaching, education) and social (training) functions of the instructor of an art amateur association is one – to help a persona s a personality to realize his... [to full text]
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Rebaï, Elyssa. "Esthétique et poétique des jardins : entre art et science, parcours et discours dans la fiction sandienne." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018CLFAL007.
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Cette thèse intitulée « Esthétique et poétique des jardins : entre art et science, parcours et discours dans la fiction sandienne» vise à étudier la place qu’occupe le jardin essentiellement dans les romans, contes et nouvelles de George Sand. L’enjeu de cette recherche est de démontrer que le jardin chez Sand ne se réduit pas à un simple arrière-plan, à un élément de fioriture, ou à une pure thématique. Il revêt au contraire chez l’auteure une ampleur considérable allant jusqu’à devenir un objet spéculatif capable de repenser tout à la fois les genres et les esthétiques et de susciter de riches réflexions en rapport avec l’art (peinture, architecture, dessins) et la science (botanique, écologie, horticulture, minéralogie) au XIXe siècle. Le jardin occupe aussi une place de choix dans l’œuvre de Sand en vertu de ses diverses fonctions diégétiques, poétiques et symboliques au sein de la diégèse, mais aussi en raison de son aptitude à être un lieu de cheminement au sein duquel le promeneur peut se promettre divers plaisirs et évolutions. Le jardin devient en ce sens un monde complet en soi, un lieu riche et influent, un véritable creuset de signes et de significations dont se sert l’auteure pour véhiculer son idéologie, ses goûts esthétiques, ses pensées intimes, son idéalisme, ainsi que sa philosophie de la vie<br>This thesis entitled "esthetic and poetic of gardens: between art and science, path and speech in Sandian fiction" aims to study the place of garden especially in novels, tales and short stories of George Sand. The challenge of this research is to prouve that the garden for Sand is not just a backdrop, an element of flourish, or a pure topic. In contrast, it takes on a considerable scale in the author's work, even becoming a speculative object able to rethink genres and esthetics at the same time and generating rich reflections related to art (painting, architecture, drawings) and science (botany, ecology, horticulture, mineralogy) in the 19th century. The garden occupies a prominent place in the work of Sand due to its various diegetic, poetic and symbolic functions within the diegesis, but also because of its aptitude to be a pathway within which the walker can promise himself various pleasures and evolutions. The garden becomes in that way, a complete world by itself, a rich and impactful place, a veritable crucible of signs and meanings that the author uses to convey her ideology, her esthetic preferences, her intimate thoughts, her idealism, as well as her life philosophy
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Zwick, Ludmila Menezes. "Iconopoiesis: uma leitura da arte russa com base na convergência poética da mensagem." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-13042017-101527/.
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Esforçamo-nos por realizar uma leitura com ferramentas multidisciplinares na busca por transcender o reducionismo e os excessos de formalidades e de subjetivismo na abordagem do objeto arte, aproximando esta da ciência. Como objeto de estudo, selecionamos uma pequena parte da arte russa com o objetivo primordial de lê-la como uma narrativa pictórica. A partir disso, tratamos a pintura artes plásticas como uma narrativa que, por ser uma linguagem, porta as seis funções. A elaboração da narrativa pictórica, ao reunir inspiração, intuição e dedução, observações perceptivas racionais e emocionais, além de promover um predomínio da função poética, se vale da aplicação de leis estéticas comuns às artes plásticas não apenas da Rússia, mas à arte produzida em qualquer país. As seis funções da linguagem de Roman Jakobson e as nove leis da estética de Vilayanur S. Ramachandran são conjuntamente as chaves da nossa leitura. Na medida em que se baseia em leis universais da estética e da arte assim chamadas porque remetem à habilidade presente em todos os cérebros humanos que se desenvolvem normalmente , tal leitura, sem destituir o papel da cultura ou da individualidade do artista, centra-se não na diferença entre os vários estilos artísticos, mas em princípios que transcendem as barreiras culturais. Por essa razão, ao considerar a existência dos universais artísticos da neuroestética, consideramos também a ocorrência da convergência poética como uma afinidade artística entre os agentes expressivos que possuem elementos similares em sua realidade circundante para expressar sua mensagem.<br>We endeavoured to carry out a reading with multidisciplinary tools in the quest to transcend reductionism and the excesses of formalities and subjectivism in the art object approach, bringing art near to science. As object of study we select a small part of Russian art with the primordial objective of reading it as a pictorial narrative. From this, we treat painting plastic arts as a narrative that, because it is a language, bears the six functions. The elaboration of the pictorial narrative by gathering inspiration, intuition and deduction, rational and emotional perceptual observations, besides promoting a predominance of the poetic function, uses the application of aesthetic laws common to the plastic arts, not only of Russia, but to the art produced in any country. Roman Jakobsons six functions of language and Vilayanur S. Ramachandrans nine laws of aesthetics are together the keys of our reading. Insofar as it is based on universal laws of aesthetics and art so called because they refer to the ability present in all human brains that normally develop such a reading, without depriving the role of culture or the individuality of the artist, focuses not on the difference between the various artistic styles but on principles that transcend cultural barriers. For this reason, when considering the existence of the artistic universals of Neuroaesthetics, we also consider the occurrence of poetic convergence as an artistic affinity between expressive agents who possess similar elements in their surrounding reality to express their message.
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Adjedj, Marie. "Déhiérarchiser l'art : usages et fonctions du document au tournant des années 1970." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AIXM0039.
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À la fin des années 1960, dans un contexte de crise de légitimité des institutions, de nombreux artistes s’opposent au contrôle du système marchand-critique et muséal. Certains marchands, critiques et commissaires d’exposition s’associent à cette parole, et tâchent de déhiérarchiser le monde de l’art. Parmi eux : Germano Celant, Lucy Lippard, Carla Lonzi et Seth Siegelaub, ainsi que Kynaston McShine et Harald Szeemann. Les enjeux de leurs démarches ne se situent ni dans la négation des appareils de l’art, ni dans la redéfinition de leurs fonctions, mais dans la construction d’une position de sujet non surplombante. Pour ce faire, ils investissent le document au titre de ses économies qui relèvent du marché de l’art, de l’édition, de méthodes, toutes corrélées, dans le contexte de l’art conceptuel et post-minimal, à des œuvres et écrits d’artistes. Chacun des acteurs étudiés déploie sa pratique à l’aune d’un régime de l’information, qui suppose une collaboration étroite avec les artistes afin de leur restituer le contrôle sur la circulation de leurs œuvres et les discours qui sont produits à leurs sujets. Toutefois, dans son occurrence critique, le régime de l’information ne suppose aucunement le silence des critiques d’art. Dans les démarches de Germano Celant et Lucy Lippard, les discours critiques sont préservés, mais selon des modalités qui entendent déléguer au public l’une de ses opérations, qui est l’interprétation. Conjointement, le régime de l’information est confronté à la difficile conciliation entre la défense d’une autoréférentialité de l’art et des ambitions politiques élargies à la société. Cette situation donne lieu à des devenirs variables des démarches<br>At the end of the 1960’s, in a context of serious crisis of institutional legitimacy, number of artists defy the power and control of art market, criticism and museum. Some dealers, critics and curators join in and intend to de-hierarchize the art world. Among them : Germano Celant, Lucy Lippard, Carla Lonzi and Seth Siegelaub, along with Kynaston McShine and Harald Szeemann. What is at stake in their practices does not have to do with denying the art system, neither defining new functions for the middle-men, but is about occupying a position which would no longer be authoritarian. To do so, they relate their research to the document, considered as an operating mode involving trading, editing and methods. This operating mode is interrelated to art works and artists’ texts in a context of conceptual and post-minimal art. The ones who are part of this study develop their practices as an informational system, which suppose a close cooperation with the artists in order to restore their control on the circulation of their own works, along with their authority on the discourses about them. Nevertheless, the art criticism declination of this informational system does not suppose the absence of discourses from the art critics. In the cases of Germano Celant and Lucy Lippard, criticism is stable, even though they intend to delegate interpretation to the audience. Concomitantly, the informational system has to face the difficulty of articulating the defense of a self-referential art with political ambitions enlarged to society. This difficulty is solved by various ways, between drop out and strengthened practices of document
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Muir, Autumn M. "The Psalter Mappaemundi: Medieval Maps Enabling Ascension of the Soul within Christian Devotional Practices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300733958.
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Gurney, David R. (David Robert). "Bounded, Finitely Additive, but Not Absolutely Continuous Set Functions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332375/.
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In leading up to the proof, methods for constructing fields and finitely additive set functions are introduced with an application involving the Tagaki function given as an example. Also, non-absolutely continuous set functions are constructed using Banach limits and maximal filters.
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Anthony, Janice C. "The challenge of functional art /." Online version of thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8843.
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Urbonaitė, Inga. "Rekreacinių funkcijų raiška Vilniaus miesto erdvinėje struktūroje." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140324_164755-46873.
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Disertacijoje nagrinėjama rekreacinių funkcijų raiška ir jų sisteminė sąveika su miesto urbanistiniu audiniu, šiai raiškai turintys įtakos veiksniai ir iš to kylančios problemos. Miesto rekreacinės funkcijos yra svarbūs urbanistinės struktūros elementai, darantys įtaką miesto gyvybingumui. Disertacijoje įvertinami esami ir nustatomi galimi rekreacinių funkcijų raiškos dėsningumai Vilniaus miesto erdvinėje struktūroje, įvardyjami juos lemiantys veiksniai. Disertacijoje taikoma kompleksinė tyrimo metodų sistema, kurią sudaro empiriniai, natūriniai, kartografavimo, lauko, eksperimentiniai, statistinės analizės bei apklausos tyrimų metodai.
Disertaciją sudaro įvadas, trys skyriai, bendrosios išvados, naudotos literatūros sąrašas, priedai. Įvade pristatoma disertacijoje nagrinėjama problema, jos aktualumas, tyrimo objektas, darbo metodai, naujumas, ginamieji teiginiai ir darbo struktūra.
Pirmajame skyriuje aptariamas platus miesto rekreacijos sistemos sampratos laukas. Nagrinėjami rekreacijos raiškos būdai, formos ir struktūros bei rekreacinių poreikių sampratos raida ir kultūrinis pagrindas. Analizuojama rekreacinių funkcijų tipologija, planavimo patirtis ir būdai, meniniai raiškos aspektai. Nagrinėjami veiksniai, lemiantys gyventojų kasdienių rekreacinių poreikių tenkinimo galimybes mieste.
Antrasis skyrius skirtas rekreacinių funkcijų sąveikai su Vilniaus miesto erdvine struktūra tirti. Tiriamas Vilniaus miesto rekreacinio potencialo ir rekreacinės paklausos poreikio santykis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]<br>The dissertation explores the peculiarities of interaction between expression of urban recreational functions and urban spatial structure, analyses influencing factors and appearing problems. Urban recreational functions play important role in urban structure as they are some of key factors of a liveable and sustainable city. The investigated problem is revealed and analysed by a complex of research methods, which consists of the empirical, field, experimental, statistic analysis and survey research methods.
The aim of the dissertation is to evaluate existing and identify potential ways of expression of recreational functions in Vilnius spatial structure, identify factors influencing them.
The dissertation consists of introduction, 3 chapters, conclusions, references, list of author’s publications on the subject, annexes. The introduction reveals the investigated problem, importance of the thesis and the object of research and describes the aim and tasks of the work, research methodology, scientific novelty and defended statements.
Chapter 1 is the theoretical part of the dissertation and discusses a broad conception of the urban recreation system. It discusses the forms and structure of urban recreation, historical change of recreational needs according to cultural backgrounds. It also analysis the typology, planning experience and aertistic design techniques of urban recreational functions. It analysis factors which influence the possibilities of daily recreational needs of... [to full text]
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Hignell-Tully, Daniel Alexander. "Scoring other : the social function of art-making." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68361/.
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To what degree is it possible to score an artistic event for which the impetus is a social, rather than aesthetic, effect - and indeed, to what degree are these effects separable? How, in short, can the composer or artist create a blueprint for a relational practice that is fundamentally concerned more with actions within the community than it is with any outcomes or objects presented to the community? This thesis seeks to explore the role of the Other through the composition of a set of participatory scores for social activity. Devised from the perspective of a composer and sound-artist, this practice-led research investigates three strands of social engagement: collaboration, interpretation, and intervention. These strands each revolve around the problems inherent to performing and scoring socially-engaged, site-specific sound works, as well as the reality of their dissemination in the public domain. Each of the methods employed not only feeds back into the score-making process, but also serves to critique existing methods and hierarchies within artistic participation, ultimately arguing for an open-ended and non-linear relationship between the act of sensing, and the (community-influenced) construction of the sensible. Exploring post-structural, ethical, and ontological notions of what it means to share and construct community with Other, this research examines the role of art as a creative movement between self-constructs that are at once individual and indivisible from the community. This work argues that such creativity extends not only to the realisation of artworks, but across the whole gamut of activity within the social event. By undertaking practice-based research into the role of Other within the event of an artwork, this thesis interrogates the socio-political hierarchies inherent to both the specific art-event, and the pre-existing community in which such events unfold. As such, the art-event points not only to the specific creative act of its making, but equally the latent creativity within the community in which the art is disseminated. The spectator, no less than the artist, defines the terms of the community by which such acts are made available to perception as an ontological reading that is not only sensed, but sensible.
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Taylor, John (John Allen). "Aspects of Universality in Function Iteration." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278799/.
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Fulmer, Mike Grinols Earl L. "The Arc Models." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5003.
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Zhang, Xu. "Art Center on the Lake." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96806.
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The water's shore, used for defense, trade, transportation and industry, always plays an important role in a city's development. Buildings were built there to fulfill related practical functions, such as barns, factories or piers. However, at the present time, the functions mentioned above are not the only purpose of the shore, now more entertainment activies happen along the water's edge. Therefore, architecture's roles are changing.
The site is in a small town called Riva San Vitale, which is located at the south end of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. For this small town, lake's shore is usually used by local people as a place for relaxation. Based on my four-month long living experiences there, I decided to design an art center on the lake to enrich residents' daily life.<br>Master of Architecture<br>A folding method was used in form processing to reflect the mountains' shapes surrounding the town. Through this whole process, my thesis explores how the architecture is used as an instrument to bring art into people's daily life and, at the same time, extend people's life into nature. As a result, the Art Center will become a new plaza of Riva San Vitale.
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Bagchi, Rammyani. "Functional Characterization of Mtnip/latd’s Biochemical and Biological Function." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407822/.
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Symbiotic nitrogen fixation occurs in plants harboring nitrogen-fixing bacteria within the plant tissue. The most widely studied association is between the legumes and rhizobia. In this relationship the plant (legumes) provides the bacteria (rhizobia) with reduced carbon derived from photosynthesis in exchange for reduced atmospheric nitrogen. This allows the plant to survive in soil, which is low in available of nitrogen. Rhizobia infect and enter plant root and reside in organs known as nodules. In the nodules the bacteria fix atmospheric nitrogen. The association between the legume, Medicago truncatula and the bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti, has been studied in detail. Medicago mutants that have defects in nodulation help us understand the process of nitrogen fixation better. One such mutant is the Mtnip-1. Mtnip-1 plants respond to S. meliloti by producing abnormal nodules in which numerous aberrant infection threads are produced, with very rare rhizobial release into host plant cells. The mutant plant Mtnip-1 has an abnormal defense-like response in root nodules as well as defects in lateral root development. Three alleles of the Mtnip/latd mutants, Mtnip-1, Mtlatd and Mtnip-3 show different degrees of severity in their phenotype. Phylogenetic analysis showed that MtNIP/LATD encodes a protein belonging to the NRT1(PTR) family of nitrate, peptide, dicarboxylate and phytohprmone transporters. Experiments with Mtnip/latd mutants demonstrats a defective nitrate response associated with low (250 μM) external nitrate concentration rather than high (5 mM) nitrate concentration. This suggests that the mutants have defective nitrate transport. To test if MtNIP/LATD was a nitrate transporter, Xenopus laevis oocytes and Arabidopsis thaliana mutant plants Atchl1-5, defective in a major nitrate transporter AtNRT1.1(CHL1), were used as surrogate expression systems. Heterologous expression of MtNIP/LATD in X. laevis oocytes and Atchl1-5 mutant plants conferred on them the ability to take up nitrate from external media with high affinity, thus demonstrating that MtNIP/LATD was a high affinity nitrate transporter. Km for MtNIP/LATD was determined to be approximately160 μM in the X. laevis system and 113 μM in the Arabidopsis Atchl1-5 mutant lines thus supporting the previous observation of MtNIP/LATD being a high affinity nitrate transporter. X. laevis expressing the mutant Mtnip-1 and Mtlatd, were unable to transport nitrate. However X. laevis oocytes, expressing the less severe mutant allele Mtnip-3 were able to transport nitrate suggesting another role of the Mtnip/latd besides high affinity nitrate transport. Experimental evidence suggested that MtNIP/LATD might transport another substrate beside nitrate. MtNIP/LATD levels are regulated by phytohormones. Experiments performed with ABA (abscisic acid), IAA (indole acetic acid) and histidine as substrates in X. laevis system show that the MtNIP/LATD mRNA injected oocytes efflux IAA but do not transport histidine or ABA. When wild type A17 and mutant Mtnip-1 and Mtnip-3 plants, grown in the presence of different sources of nitrogen were screened in herbicide chlorate, a structural analog of nitrate, the A17 and Mtnip-3 mutant showed levels of susceptibility that was different from mutant Mtnip-1 lines. Evidence suggested that the amount of chlorate transported into the plants were regulated by the C:N status of the A17 and Mtnip-3 plants. This regulation was missing in the Mtnip-1 lines thus suggesting a sensor function of MtNIP/LATD gene.
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Peng, Lei. "L’éducation artistique dans les politiques éducatives de la Chine contemporaine : Quelles raisons, quels rôles et quelles fonctions ?" Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE2041/document.
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Dans une situation d’important développement économique porté par les efforts de plusieurs générations au cours des années qui ont suivi la politique de la réforme et de l’ouverture en Chine, l’éducation esthétique s’inscrit à nouveau dans la politique éducative chinoise, après avoir été supprimée par Mao en 1958. De ce fait, l’éducation artistique, que la conception chinoise distingue de l’éducation artistique proprement dite, a connu également un développement d’ampleur. De nos jours, l’éducation artistique retient de plus en plus l’attention du gouvernement chinois, en raison de ses effets dans le processus de l’édificationet de la modernisation socialiste, ainsi que dans le renforcement de l’influence de la Chine dans le monde. A travers les analyses des politiques éducatives et des textes officiels, notre recherche consiste à dégager les rôles et les fonctions de l’éducation artistique dans la Chine contemporaine et à chercher à comprendre les raisons pour lesquelles le gouvernementchinois met l’accent sur ce type d’éducation. Ce travail nous conduit à dégager et à analyser les principaux facteurs qui influencent et expliquent son développement en Chine<br>In a situation of important economic development carried by the efforts of several generations during the years which followed the reform policy and the opening in China, the esthetic education joins again in the Chinese education policy, having been eliminated by Mao in 1958. Therefore, the arts education, which the Chinese conception distinguishes from the esthetic education itself, also knew a development of scale. Nowadays, the arts education holds more and more the attention of the Chinese government, because of its effects in the process of the construction and the socialist modernization, as well as in the strengthening of the influence of China in the world. Through the analyses of education policies and official texts, our search consists in clearing the roles and the functions of the arts education in contemporary China and in trying to understand reasons why the Chinese government puts the accent on this educational type. This work leads us to clear and to analyze the main factors which influence and explain its development in China
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Christin-Veyrenche, Sonia. "Percezione e visione del paesaggio nel cinema italiano da Sole a Deserto rosso (1929-1964) : le concordanze e le autonomie del rapporto con la letteratura." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100017.
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Le paysage représente un point de rencontre entre un modèle culturel et une perception. Ils existent deux types de paysages : celui que l’on peut concevoir comme objet d’observation et qui renvoie à un paysage pictural et artistique ; et le paysage vu en tant « qu’espace vécu » et qui appartient au domaine du paysage géographique. La littérature tout comme le cinéma, se sont depuis toujours intéressés à l’importance du paysage. Le regard que le cinéma porte sur le paysage fait référence à de nombreux modèles culturels, artistiques, littéraires et sociaux qui connaissent une évolution constante. Notre travail porte sur la perception et sur les visions du paysage qu’offrent les œuvres littéraires et cinématographiques italiennes entre 1929 et 1964. La thèse se fonde sur les théoriciens du paysage et des critiques cinématographiques et littéraires et tente de mettre en évidence les diverses fonctions (identitaires culturelles, symboliques et esthétiques) du paysage<br>The landscape represents a meeting point between a cultural model and people’s perception of the world. There are two types of landscape: one, conceived as object of observation which refers to a pictorial and artistic landscape, and other, seen as a lived space, part of the field of geographical landscape. Literature, as well as cinema, is mindful of the importance of the landscape. The regard cinema addresses to the landscape refers to several cultural, artistic, literary and social patterns, all of which are in constant evolution. Our study will focus on the perception and vision of the landscape displayed in Italian literary and cinematographic works between 1929 and 1964. Based on landscape theoreticians and critics of film and literature, we attempted to outline the various functions (cultural identity, symbolic, aesthetic) assumed by the landscape itself
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Zaho, Margaret Ann. "Imago triumphalis : the function and significance of triumphal imagery for Italian Renaissance rulers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6242.
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Tan, Ceyda Basak. "Educational Function Of Art Museums: Two Case Studies From Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12608742/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyzes the educational function of art museums, how education in art museums evolved and how an art museum can conduct an educational mission. The concept of the material collections as the educative origin of art museums will be discussed alongside the history of collections in Europe. In addition to the concept of collection, the importance of educational programmes of art museums will be highlighted. Having derived a general notion of the educational function of art museums, the thesis will seek to answer questions such as how museology evolved in Turkey and whether the turkish museology has an educational concern. In accordance with these questions two turkish contemporary art museums will be investigated as case studies.
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Sutherland, Helen Margaret. "The function of fantasy in Victorian literature, art and architecture." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5183/.
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In this thesis I examine the ways in which the Victorians used fantasy in literature, art, and architecture to explore the main areas of debate and key issues which were giving rise to anxiety in their society, in some cases upholding the status quo, but in others questioning accepted social mores. In particular, I consider the ways in which fantasy was used to examine what happens in a society when its traditional religious beliefs are challenged, either by commercialism as an economic creed, or by the acquisition of new knowledge, be this in the realm of science (theories of evolution) or the humanities (the new biblical criticism from Germany). Following on from this, I look at the possible alternatives to traditional religious belief which fantasy seemed able to offer to an age which appeared to need spirituality without dogma. I argue that one of the strategies most commonly adopted by the Victorians in the creation of fantasy is the disruption of time, and I consider the part played in literature and art by medievalism, and in architecture by the Gothic style and the Gothic Revival movement. This is followed by an examination of the role of Classicism in architecture, and ancient mythologies, such as Greek, Hebraic, or Babylonian, in literature and art. Finally, I consider the use of geological time as a point of departure in creating scientific fantasies. Given the very close links between the arts until the advent of aesthetic criticism at the end of the nineteenth century, I have drawn freely upon the visual and the literary arts. The main emphasis is, however, on literature and painting, with architecture playing a lesser, though still important, part in this thesis.
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Caram, Adriana Maria. "Arte na educação infantil e o desenvolvimento das funções psíquicas superiores." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/7440.
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Previous issue date: 2015-06-22<br>Não recebi financiamento<br>This research aims to analyze and discuss mediating activities that use Art in Childhood
Education as a way to promote the development of the Higher Psychical Functions. The
research was led by the following question: What role Art plays in children formation
during Childhood Education? Both theoretical and methodological references were
based on the Historical-Cultural Theory because it makes possible a conception of the
human cultural development that sets Art as a human production; a space for social
reflection and social internalization. Interviews with seven teachers from the municipal
childhood education system and some pedagogical practices observations were used as
methodological instruments. Led by this methodology, the analysis shows that both
students and teachers have a very limited access to Art; it also shows that the teachers’
formation does not make Art a priority and, even though it occupies a very important
place in class planning, it is still not considered an instrument for the catharsis. By
going deeper in the analysis about the relations performed by teachers using Art in
Childhood Education and the development of Higher Psychical Functions on children
the study faced some ambiguous and sometimes contradictory situations. The activities
suggested to the children, although undeniable creative, sometimes came to be
fragmented and very poor to the goals of children’s development. However we were
able to show in the research some actions that can be considered positive in the
development of Higher Psychical Functions on children, contributing for a necessary
reflection about the work with Art in Childhood Education, always led by the
Historical-Cultural Theory, and promoting some interventions to improve the Higher
Psychical Functions on children.<br>Esta pesquisa pretende analisar e discutir atividades mediadoras com Arte na Educação
Infantil que promovam o desenvolvimento das Funções Psíquicas Superiores. A questão
de pesquisa que direcionou a coleta e análise dos dados foi: Qual o papel da Arte na
formação da criança na Educação Infantil? O referencial teórico e metodológico
adotado foi o da Teoria Histórico-Cultural, por possibilitar uma concepção de
desenvolvimento cultural humano que parta de uma apropriação da Arte como produção
humana, como espaço de reflexão social e de internalização social. Como instrumentos
metodológicos utilizamos entrevistas semiestruturadas com sete docentes da rede
municipal de Educação Infantil, além das observações da prática pedagógica de uma
dessas docentes. As análises dos dados demonstraram que o acesso à Arte pelas crianças
e professoras é muito limitado; que a formação docente prioriza outras áreas de ensino
em detrimento da área de Arte e, ainda, que em relação ao espaço que a Arte ocupa no
planejamento em sala de aula a mesma nem sempre é concebida como promotora de
catarse. Ao aprofundar a análise sobre as especificidades das relações entre as ações
docente no trabalho com Arte na Educação Infantil e a promoção do desenvolvimento
das Funções Psíquicas Superiores das crianças deparamo-nos com situações ambíguas,
às vezes contraditórias. As atividades propostas às crianças, embora muito criativas, em
alguns momentos apresentaram-se fragmentadas e em nível baixo de intencionalidade
sobre o objetivo final dela para o desenvolvimento infantil. Apresentamos na pesquisa
algumas ações docentes que consideramos promotoras de avanços no desenvolvimento
das Funções Psíquicas Superiores das crianças, na direção de contribuir para a reflexão
necessária sobre o trabalho com Arte na Educação Infantil, à luz da Teoria Histórico-
Cultural, bem como propor mediações de intervenções docentes com vistas a
desenvolver as Funções Psíquicas Superiores das crianças.
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Park, Sungman. "AKT function and human oncogenesis." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001885.
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Weber, Deborah. "How does collective practice function as an artistic strategy." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/11427/31776.
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This research interrogates the different strategies and methodologies employed by collectives (with a focus on South African collectives in the past two decades) to raise fundamental questions about art; the nature of artistic work, forms of production, authorship, autonomy and collaboration as an artistic strategy. The research sets out to explore collaboration as a field of art practice. The criteria for selection of the collectives in the research was each collective needed to comprise of three or more artists who have produced and authored work together under an umbrella name, they also needed to use multi-disciplinary practices. The selection included: Galerie Puta (2003), Avant Car Guard (2004), Doing it for Daddy (2006), Gugulective (2006), Centre for Historical Enactments (2010), Burning Museum (2013) and iQhiya (2015), Guerilla Girls (1985), Laboratoire Agit’Art (1975), Raqs Media Collective (1992), Ubulungiswa/Justice and Karoo Disclosure (2014). The idea of shared authorship is the central tenet around which all collective practice revolves. This thesis looks at the collective authorial voice as a strategic artistic practice in contemporary art that enables reappraisals of artistic production. Furthermore it interrogates the decentralization of authorship, as an artistic strategy to shift paradigms of thinking in relation to power structures, be it institutional, political or ideological.
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Harrison, Katherine. "Byzantine Carved Gemstones: Their Typology, Dating, Materiality, and Function." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463138.
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This dissertation examines gemstones carved in relief from the middle and late Byzantine periods. Byzantine gems share a similar aesthetic with relief carvings in ivory and steatite, but they have not been as thoroughly studied. This dissertation seeks to address the lacuna in scholarship by assembling, dating, and analyzing two hundred Byzantine gems. Carved gemstones average less than four centimeters in height. Bloodstone, a variety of jasper, was carved the most frequently. Almost all are enkolpia, or pectoral pendants. The earliest pieces can be dated to the tenth through the early eleventh centuries. They are skillfully carved, and some display imperial themes such as the standing Christ and a symbol that is reminiscent of the globus cruciger. Some display iconographic and stylistic similarities with icons in ivory, which are also associated with emperors. The greatest number of pieces date to the twelfth century, and their quality varies considerably. This seems to suggest that initially gemstone enkolpia were owned by emperors and other elites, but that by the twelfth century they had become more accessible and their use increased. This finding is consistent with our knowledge of the cultural climate and religious practices of the twelfth century, which is characterized by a taste for luxury objects and a form of piety that was focused upon attaining individual salvation.
The function of gemstone enkolpia was explored through iconographic and textual analysis, as well as a through the study of their materiality. It was found that all of the gems are carved with religious subject matter and that most display portrait images of holy figures who were known as intercessors and protectors. This suggests that gemstone enkolpia were primarily used to mediate a devotional relationship with a patron saint. Textual sources indicate that wearing an enkolpion “over the heart” was an act of devotion that ensured that the saint’s presence was carried at all times. An examination of the materiality of gems revealed that their meanings and associations were brought to bear upon the devotional function of gemstone enkolpia in a variety of complex ways. It was also found that gemstone enkolpia had an amuletic nature and could be used for healing, protection, and divination.<br>History of Art and Architecture
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Dinte, Bradley Paul, and n/a. "Novel Constraints in the Search for a Van Der Waals Energy Functional." Griffith University. School of Science, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050825.154126.
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In modelling the energetics of molecules and solids, the need for practical electron density functionals that seamlessly include the van der Waals interaction is growing. Such functionals are still in their infancy, and there is yet much experimentation to be performed in the formulation and numerical testing of the requisite approximations. A ground-state density functional approach that uses the exact relations of the adiabatic connection formula and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem to obtain the xc energy from the density-density response function seems promising, though a direct local density approximation for the interacting susceptibility will fail to yield the vdW interaction. Significant nonlocality can be built into the interacting susceptibility by screening a 'bare' susceptibility, for which a carefully chosen constraint-obeying local approximation is sufficient to yield a non-trivial van der Waals energy [6]. The constraints of charge conservation, and no response to a constant potential, are guaranteed by expressing the bare susceptibility in terms of the double gradients of a nonlocal bare polarisability. for which it should be easier to make an approximation based on physical principles than it would be for the susceptibility. The 'no-flow' condition is also deemed important. In this work, a simple delta-function approximation for the nonlocal polarisability is fully constrained by a new version of a recently-discovered force theorem (sum rule), requiring the additional input of the independent-electron Kohn-Sham potential. This constrained polarisability cannot be used as input for the seamless vdW scheme, which requires a non-delta-function bare polarisability, and is instead applied to systems containing spherical fragments in a perturbative/asymptotic fashion for calculation of the widely-separated van der Waals interaction. The main thrust of this work is an investigation of the efficacy of the force theorem to constrain simple approximations for response quantities. Many recent perturbative vdW density functionals are based on response functions that are electron-hydrodynamical approximations to the response of the uniform electron gas. These schemes require their response functions to be 'cut off' at low density and high density-gradient, where the approximation overestimates the true response. The imposition of the cut-off is crucial to the success of such schemes. Here, we replace the cut-off with an exact theorem (the force theorem) which naturally 'ties down' the response, based on the potential- and density-functions of the system. This is the first time that the force theorem has been directly applied as a constraint upon a model response function (its original use, by Vignale and Kohn (7), was as an exact identity in time-dependent DFT). Also new in this work is the orbital-by-orbital Kohn-Sham version of the force theorem, and its proof (differing significantly from Vignale's original derivation (8) of the interacting theorem) by directly appealing to the Kohn-Sham orbitals makes its first appearance here. For quantum dots, our constrained response-approximation exactly recovers the net linear dipole response, due mainly to the force theorem's ideal applicability to harmonically confined systems. For angularly-averaged atoms, reasonable static dipole polarisabilities are obtained for the independent-electron Kohn-Sham (bare) case. The results are poor for the fully-interacting case, attributable to the local nature of the approximation. This lends weight to the assertion that it is better to approximate a bare quantity, then screen it, than it is to directly approximate a fully-interacting quantity. Dynamic net polarisabilities constrained by the force theorem are guaranteed to have the correct high-frequency asymptotic convergence to the free electron response. It is seen that the calculated dynamic polarisabilities for atoms are too small at intermediate frequencies, since the calculated vdW C6 coefficients (Hamaker constants) of atomic dimers are up to an order of magnitude too small, even without the use of a low-density cutoff. It is seen that our constrained local model response is non-analytic along the imaginary-frequency axis, and this is very detrimental to the C6 calculations, even though the integrated net polarisability is analytic. Improvement of the polarisability ansatz is indicated, perhaps to a non-deltafunction uniform-gas-based approximation. The use of pseudopotentials may improve the force theorem results, by softening the extreme nature of the bare Coulomb potential.
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Temelini, Mark A. "The function of Pompey's building complex in the Campus Martius." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6696.
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On September 29, 55 BC, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, master of Italy, and conqueror of Spain, Africa, and the East, celebrated the grand opening of his magnificent building complex in the Campus Martius. This extraordinary monument was an architectural achievement hitherto never attempted at Rome. The building complex was designed with Rome's first permanent stone theatre, a temple of Venus Victa quadriporticus, a curia, and housed numerous works of art. Pompey was a triumphant imperator, who used his manubiae to build a monumentum that would best represent his desire for supreme and everlasting glory, in an age of political turmoil, social upheaval, and religious strife. The attempt to discover what influenced Pompey to build such a structure and the purposes it served will show that the building complex functions as an architectural metaphor toward Pompey's quest for popularity at Rome.
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Evans, DeAnna Dare 1958. "Labyrinths in medieval churches: An investigation of form and function." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291937.
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This thesis analyzed the designs of a select group of labyrinths set into the pavements of Gothic churches in northern France. The designs of these labyrinths and their possible meanings and functions were examined. Existing information on the labyrinths, including oral traditions associated with them were considered. A study of earlier medieval church labyrinths and illustrations of labyrinths in medieval manuscripts was made. In addition, medieval philosophy and history were considered. The various meanings and functions scholars have proposed for the labyrinths were critically reviewed. It was possible to draw some conclusions as to the labyrinths' original meanings and their functions and to trace the evolution of these meanings and functions during the Middle Ages.
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Stumpf, Jonathan Lee. "Pottery In Everyday Life." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1272910473.
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Nicholls, James Ronald. "Investigating protein complexes that are involved in the function and regulation of the human INK4a/ARF locus." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2006. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444889/.
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A common mechanism used by cancer cells to over-ride normal restraints on cellular proliferation is abrogation of the tumour suppressive functions of the INK4a/ARF locus. This can be achieved either through genetic changes to the locus or by dysregulation of the molecular pathways that operate to mediate its function or transcriptional regulation. The INK4a/ARF locus encodes two structurally unrelated proteins which have a common exon translated in alternative reading frames. These proteins are named p16INK4a and p14ARF and they both have antiproliferative effects mediated by the Rb and p53 pathways respectively. In this thesis, proteomic approaches have been used to map out some of the protein-protein interaction networks that are involved in function or regulation of INK4a/ARF. Multiprotein complexes are involved both in function (D cyclin-Cdk) and regulation (Cbx7) of the locus and a major focus of this work has been the determination of their molecular composition. The main findings of this thesis relate to the protein-protein interactions of Cbx7, a known transcriptional repressor of INK4A/ARF, which has been implicated as an oncogene. In an analogous manner to other members of the Polycomb group (PcG) of proteins, it was found to participate in a large multiprotein complex. Constituents of a Cbx7 complex isolated from human cells were identified by mass spectrometry. Analysis revealed that it was made up of a subset of the known human PcG proteins and some novel interacting proteins, including an RNA helicase, which had not previously been reported in PcG complexes. The specificity of these interactions was then validated by other biochemical methods. The impact of some of these interactions on the repressive function of Cbx7 has been evaluated in primary human fibroblasts, with a view to understanding how the complex silences transcription.
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Jordan, Mel. "Art, its function and its publics : public sphere theory in the work of the Free art collective 2004-2010." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17466.
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This thesis and subsequent artworks present a critical examination into the degree to which public sphere theory can contribute to an expanded understanding of art and its publics. This research proposes that the notion of 'public' in the idiom 'public art' should be understood as a discursive construct as opposed to a physical, spatial understanding as in the term public realm. This revision considers the act of being public as a process, a series of inter-subjective temporal experiences, rather than a spatial condition. This helps expand art's role from an autonomous field of exhibition making into a position of publishing, thereby recognising art as a contributor to collective opinion formation. The thesis comes to a number of key conclusions. First, if we take into account that artworks are published as a consequence of being exhibited then we can understand art as part of the process of opinion (re)formation, thus contributing to a wider reflection upon art's social function. Second, by clarifying the distinctions between the terms public space, public good, and public sphere it is revealed that the use of the term 'public' in public art is heavily reliant upon the inherent physical, spatial differences between a primary and secondary audience. Third, by examining the traditionally accepted polarity between the street (public realm, open access) and the gallery (private, exclusive) it is determined that these spatial conditions are obsolete when establishing whether an artwork is considered public or not, as in the term public art. Finally, public sphere theory enables us to reconsider what constitute publics; members of the public are hereby declared as agents of opinion formation. In drawing these conclusions, this thesis (including artworks) argues for the validity and usefulness of Habermas' theory of the public sphere (and subsequent extensions of public sphere theory) both in an analysis of the function of art and its publics and in the production of artworks. I conclude that what public sphere theory ultimately provides us with is an alternative version of art and politics. As part of this analysis, the thesis develops a theoretical approach based on the work of Jurgen Habermas in order to contribute to and move beyond the existing understanding of the relation ship between art and its publics. The artworks function to demonstrate the distinctions between a physical, spatial use of the term public and a discursive use of the term public. The concepts and approaches embraced in the production of the artworks echo key ideas adopted from public sphere theory and operate as instances of publishing in themselves.
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Vass, Catherine D. "Recovery of arm function after stroke." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342501.
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Taylor, Damon. "Design art furniture and the boundaries of function : communicative objects, performative things." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2011. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5658/.
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Over the last two decades a category of artefact has appeared that has come to be termed 'design art': highly expressive furniture and domestic products that are created as self-initiated, often limited edition designs, sold through galleries, exhibited in museums and collected in the manner traditionally ascribed to art. To date no in-depth theoretical analysis of the growth of such design has been conducted and key protagonists such as Droog Design have received little critical attention, as those involved have been largely left to write their own history. Consequently, the aim of this thesis is to account for the development of these objects as the products of particular cultural and historical conditions and ask what the implications of the rise of these particular practices of making, distribution and use may be. This thesis proposes that close analysis of the objects, their form and functional potential, reveals their dialectical qualities, in that in their materiality the tensions and conflicts of the period of their development can be discerned. Through an account of the development of the market for such goods it examines the way in which these things can be studied as commodities, in that they can clearly be understood as status symbols or a form of cultural capital. It is also asserted that by regarding such design as having the potential to impact upon everyday life, and not just as existing as something to be consumed by an elite, such practices illuminate broader problems of the ethics of design in a wider sense. In this way it is argued that these communicative objects, in their ambiguous form and problematic relationship to function, can give an insight into the way we live with performative things: the ideological products of modernity that act upon us as we use them and which contain in their being the protocols and disciplinary forces of their time. The intention therefore is to ask whether design art can be seen as a politically radical practice that suggests ways in which both makers and users can assert a new relationship to the things with which we live.