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Menon, Chitra Lekha. "Holocaust themes in Israeli art." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313818.

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Preira, Jamie. "Indoor Nature-Based Art Activities| The themes students discuss while creating nature-based art." Thesis, Prescott College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10276991.

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<p>When children can understand their surrounding environments (whether it be the natural environment or their built environment) it is said that they can connect more deeply and have a heightened awareness of their surroundings (Kelly, 2013). This connection and heightened awareness can open their eyes to prevalent environmental issues, increasing their sense of social responsibility. The research on this type of learning generally occurs in formal institutions (i.e., a school), non-formal centers (i.e., at an outdoor education center), or informal meeting places (i.e., at a park with a paren

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LEWIS, MELANIE BETH. "ART EDUCATION: A SURVEY OF THE CURRENT TRENDS AND THEMES IN K-8 ART CLASSROOMS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190679.

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Carmel-Arthur, Judith. "Rosenthal ceramics : themes in company and product identity reconfiguration." Thesis, Kingston University, 2007. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20744/.

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This thesis investigates Rosenthal's high-design identity and image construction primarily, although not exclusively, through the post-World War II period and into the era of the post- modern. Empirical study of Rosenthal carried out by Bernd Fritz (1984, and 1989) situates Rosenthal's commitment to high design to 1950. The present thesis isolates and discusses important threads of continuity between Rosenthal's pre- and post- World War II identity construction strategies, looking at how these asserted continuity with ceramics, familial and national pasts. As Lampugnani has observed, in many f

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Tupper, Denise. "My Family of Women: Celebrating Blackness and Exploring Themes of Black Feminism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/182.

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This paper maps themes (e.g. family, beauty, femininity, gender, blackness, representation) and artists from the Black arts and Feminist art movement who have been very influential when planning this senior art project. I specifically look at the works of Black feminist artists such as Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, and Mickalene Thomas who navigate themes from both movements. In my project I have painted a series of interpretive acrylic portraits of close friends and family members, all adapted from photographs.

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Stowell, Steven. "The mystical experience of art : Medieval Christian themes in the literature on art of the Italian Renaissance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517020.

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Nordstrom, Catherine Simke. "Heinrich Zille's Berlin: selected themes from 1900 to 1914 : the triumph of "art from the gutter"." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1985. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc798079/.

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Heinrich Zille (1858-1929), an artist whose creative vision was concentrated on Berlin's working class , portrayed urban life with devastating accuracy and earthy humor. His direct and often crude rendering linked his drawing and prints with other artists who avoided sentimentality and idealization in their works.

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Valleriani, Marco. "Religious themes, storytelling in Christian art and anticlerical strands in Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531313.

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Vülser, Ingrid. "The theme of death in Italian art : the triumph of death." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33944.

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This paper focuses on the evolution of the theme the Triumph of Death, the representation of the personification of death and the dead in the late Middle Ages. The first part of this thesis represents different points of view of art historians and historians concerning the death and the afterlife. There follows a short description and analysis of the cultural environment especially regarding literature which closely relates to the visual art and the representation of death. The last part describes three themes of death and the most important representations in frescoes, panels, bas-reliefs of

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Puls, Jonathan D. "Regenerative themes in selected child bather paintings by Joaquin Sorolla from 1899-1909." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1524150.

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<p> Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923) painted numerous works of children bathing and playing on Spain's Mediterranean shores. This life-affirming subject allowed Sorolla to participate in the broad cultural discourse in Spain concerning cultural regeneration. Sorolla's work with the subject of the child bather intensified in the decade following the Crisis of 1898. <i>Sad Inheritance! </i>, his first monumental work on a child bather subject, directly engages the Theory of Degeneration, and the degeneration of Spain itself. While creating this work, Sorolla also developed paintings of child b

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Holaday, Troy A. "Transcending inaccessibility : reassessing the Action Painters in the light of rhetorical theory." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1237767.

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This interdisciplinary thesis investigates the Action Painting movement using rhetorical theories and models with the intent of producing a higher level of understanding of the paintings and increasing their approachability. A brief history of nonobjective painting, the technique of automatism, and the Action Painting movement is given. Following this, the semiotic character of the visual elements within Action Paintings is discussed and their behavior catalogued through descriptive analysis, using Kenneth Pike's theory of tagmemics. The work culminates in a comparison of painted gestures to c

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Amatokwu, Buashie. "An Afrocentric Analysis of Hip Hop Musical Art Composition and production: Roles, Themes, Techniques, and Contexts." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/16261.

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African American Studies<br>Ph.D.<br>This thesis investigates the roles, themes, techniques and contexts of composition in hip-hop. It seeks to explain how hip-hop artists view and define their work, while also taking into consideration the viewpoints of other participants in the marketing pool of hip-hop production and consumption. The conceptual plan on which the study is based is Afrocentric; coupled with Ethnographic method of data processing and interpretation. This method is comprised of personal interviews, participant observation, sonic analysis and the use of bibliographic entrie

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Hasenkam, Amanda. "A study of recurrent themes in the art of alcohol and drug dependent individuals in art therapy groups at a medical detoxification centre." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1994. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1476.

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This qualitative study uses an existing body of data derived from weekly art therapy groups conducted as part of a treatment programme at a medical detoxification facility. The design for this study relies on phenomenological and heuristic model of research. Previous art therapy researchers have suggested the recurrence of themes in the art work of particular client groups. This study examines themes previously observed in the art of substance abusers which are also present in the current data as well as additional themes that emerged in this study. These additional themes include the sun, the

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Hopkins, David. "Hermeticism, catholicism and gender as structure : a comparative study of themes in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst." Thesis, University of Essex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328353.

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Dawson, Louisa Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Moving house: the renovation of the everyday." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43084.

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This paper describes my research project and body of work, which investigates social inequalities through the different language and functions of everyday objects. The research moves on from my previous Honours research project on the dou ble nature of caravan parks in NSW and looked at the changing demographics of these locations. I noted the increase of semi-permanent, residential 'homes' for low income earners and the unemployed, in these holiday locations. This paper examines broader social issues of homelessness and social inequalities within our society. I look at the complexities in t

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Cliffe, Gregory Laurence, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Can an illusionary object such as a painting express the essence of change in values of the artist and their society?" THESIS_CAESS_CAR_Cliffe_G.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/457.

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The initial intention of this thesis was to amalgamate two distinct tendencies that evolved in the author's art work over the period of twenty-four years. The illusionary and corporeal qualities of his painting and sculpture had become amalgamated with social concerns, which emerged from his installation and performance work between 1975 and 1985. The moment the artist makes a gesture on a painting surface is a culmination of memory, the immaterial and the corporeal. That moment expresses his judgement about himself, and the world in illusionary form. By bringing together of the self and one's

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Alexander, Sandra Kaye. "Form, flesh and art's historicity : the themes of human embodiment and visual art in the work of Merleau-Ponty." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288906.

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Hall, Nancy. "Personal drawings as a political statement." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/724955.

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This creative project entailed the creation and display of ten drawings. These drawings were to be the result of research into the lives and artistic styles of a number of visual artists who explored political and social themes. The goals of the artist of the creative project were to develop and extend her ability to produce a personal visual language, to communicate by way of her drawings certain feminist and social concerns, and to relate her treatment of the drawn figure to the treatment other artists have traditionally given these concerns.Within the context of the ten drawings submitted f

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Du, Plessis Carla (Carla Susan). "Reconsidering the conventions employed in comix and comix strips." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21211.

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Zoeller, Anthony. "“Song of Myself”: Themes of Identity and Context in Selected Early Twentieth-century Settings of Walt Whitman." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276951594.

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Oberlander, Erin Marissa. "Reaching Arcadia: Rural and Agricultural Themes in Vocal Art Music including Plans to Introduce this Music to a Rural Audience." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2011. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29768.

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Throughout the history of Western Music, composers have written works on rural and agricultural subjects. The first half of this dissertation examines a number of important works from the Baroque era through the present day and the composers who have chosen this specialized subject matter. Rural communities are underserved where the arts are concerned. Yet, rural audiences have perhaps the best chance at identifying with the subjects of this particular subset of vocal art music. The second half of this dissertation examines reasons why it is important to reach rural communities with vocal art

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Bakhoum, Soheir. "Les themes isiaques a alexandrie sous les antonins : recherches numismatiques et historiques." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040067.

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Le temoignage apporte par les monnaies imperiales emises dans l'atelier d'alexandrie est primordial pour l'etude de l'histoire et la vie religieuse de la ville. Cette recherche a pour cadre chronologique le regne des antonins (96-192) c'est a dire l'age d'or de l'empire romain, caracterise par la paix, la prosperite, l'extension territoriale et l'integration des provinces dans l'empire. A cette epoque, la vie religieuse a alexandrie est marquee par un syncretisme particulier entre cultes egyptiens, grecs et romains. Tels qu'ils apparaissent a travers les revers monetaires a themes isiaques, le

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Munson, William Donald. "Rites of passage." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1124882.

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Portrait painting is an art form that has been used by artists for years. I am using the portrait to convey a story. The story follows a boy's process of becoming a man. The discovery of old family photographs initially inspired the project. The rite of passage theme stems from this inquiry into the process of growing up. Several artists inspired my work in the formal and conceptual aspects of my portraits. Those artists include Paula Rego, Chuck Close, and Robert Henri. "Rites of passage" is a phrase that carries with it many meanings and issues. This creative project is both a consideration

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Bailey, Trenton. "Kemetic Consciousness: A Study of Ancient Egyptian Themes in the Lyrics and Visual Art of Earth, Wind & Fire, 1973-1983." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/106.

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By the mid-1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) became one of the most commercially successful pop music bands in the world. Their dynamic sound thrilled listeners and their elaborate concerts captivated audiences. EWF stood out from other artists with their philosophical messages and their use of ancient Egyptian symbols and imagery in their visual art. The ancient Egyptian themes intrigued fans but drew criticism from others. This study examines the ancient Egyptian themes incorporated into the lyrics of the songs recorded by the band. This study also examines the ancient Egyptian symbols used in

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Earles, Bruce, University of Western Sydney, and School of Contemporary Arts. "Inquiry into the appeal of anonymity to the artist." THESIS_XXX_CAR_Earles_B.xml, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/499.

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This paper, in conjunction with a series of paintings and drawings, attempts to outline the theme of anonymity. The work contains images portraying the feeling of remaining anonymous within a city. The inquiry not so much records the necessity of remaining anonymous for the purpose of urban experience but examines whether the subject matter of the artwork could be communicated to a group of spectators. During an exhibition of the artworks, 20 subjects were surveyed for their opinions. Questions relating to subject matter and aspects of anonymity were posed to the spectators in a questionnaire

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Theunissen, Justin Robin. "Film music : the synthesis of two art forms - a case study of themes and characters in Alfred Hitchcock's and Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86555.

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Thesis (MMus)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the impact that a musical score can have on the visual component as well as the final product of a film. This is achieved by the use of a systematic analytical approach that covers the most important aspects of the visual and musical elements within Vertigo. The film is regarded as one of cinema’s greatest examples of excellence. The many levels of meaning, inspired use of cinematographic techniques, meticulously crafted narrative and dynamic score combine to create a film unlike any other. The analysis

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Reed, Kesayne. ""I've always known this place, familiar as a room in our house" : engaging with memory, loss and nostalgia through sculpture." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020022.

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My exhibition draws on Andreas Huyssen's notion of memory sculpture to articulate my own sense of loss and trauma, due to the divorce of my parents. Within my work I explore the effects that divorce had on me and how it has disturbed my normative understanding of home and family. I have created scenarios alluding to the family home that I have manipulated in order to convey a sense of nostalgia and loss. By growing salt crystals over found objects and/or cladding them in salt, I attempt to suggest the dual motifs of preservation (a nostalgic clinging to the past) and destruction (due to the sa

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Shai, Meital <1981&gt. "Villa Grimani Molin Avezzù at Fratta Polesine : cosmological themes in decorative programs of sixteenth-century Venetian villas." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3008.

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Il progetto di ricerca fornisce la prima analisi iconologica d’insieme per le decorazioni di Villa Grimani Molin. Una approfondita ricerca documentaria ha permesso di fissare un quadro cronologico sul quale innestare coerentemente gli interventi edilizi e decorativi, attribuibili rispettivamente a Vincenzo Grimani e alla sua figlia Betta Grimani Molin (anni ’70-’80 del ‘500). Sulla base di prove tecniche e stilistiche, e sulla base di indizi documentari che attendono una verifica definitiva, lo studio vuole proporre come autori l'architetto Vincenzo Scamozzi, e uno o più pittori della famiglia

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Stiebeling, Detlef. "Traditional iconographic themes in a Victorian context : paintings by Sir John Everett Millais between 1848 and 1860." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=73982.

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Ballas, Guila. "Themes et composition chez paul cezanne : les series thematiques des baigneuses et des baigneurs." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040251.

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Vers 1875, cezanne invente deux schemas de base symbolisant, par leur forme, l'idee qu'il se fait de la feminite et de la virilite, schemas qu'il developpera tout au long de sa vie en deux series thematiques concomitantes de baigneuses et de baigneurs. Cette etude consacree a la composition chez cezanne vue sous l'angle de l'apparition et de l'evolution dans son oeuvre de ces deux series, comprend trois parties. La premiere examine la genese de la separation des sexes dans l'oeuvre de cezanne, ainsi que les sources d'inspiration - litterai- res et visuelles - du sujet meme des baigneuses et de

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Fletcher, Lauren Jean. "Adaptive realities : effects of merging physical and virtual entities." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018557.

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In the worlds of virtual reality, whole objects and bodies are created in an immaterial manner from lines, ratios and light pixels. When objects are created in this form they can easily be manipulated, edited, multiplied and deleted. In addition, technological advances in virtual reality development result in an increased merging of physical and virtual elements, creating spaces of mixed reality. This leads to interesting consequences where the physical environment and body, in a similar vein to the virtual, also becomes increasingly easier to manipulate, distort and change. Mixed realities th

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Robins, Amanda School of Arts UNSW. "Slow art : meditative process in painting and drawing." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Arts, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31214.

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This exegesis is an exploration of meditative process in painting and drawing and accompanies an exhibition of paintings and large drawings called What Lies Beneath. The text contains several passages, called &quotmeditations,&quot which accompany the themes approached in the chapters and give insight into the thoughts and practices of the artist. The methodology involves the examination of the evidence of the work produced by selected artists, looking at the words of artists in notebooks, diaries and interviews and surveying a small number of local contemporary artists. The text opens up the

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Hartigan, Patrick Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Within words, without words." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43083.

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This paper centres in and around words. I have incorporated words into my recent work in a variety of ways including drawing, Letraset, sound and fiction writing. The philosophical questions which arise through any use of language and the various ways of adopting these questions and words within a 'visual art' context is considered in a number of ways. These include The Voyager Interstellar Space Mission which was humankind's first attempt to communicate with other hypothesized populations, conceptual word-incorporating artists, writers of fiction and philosophers within whose work can readily

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Bolgun, Oya. "A study of technology and human relations developed in a series of paintings." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1230600.

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The ambition of this creative project was to portray the communication between individuals of our time, which is being made shabby by the effect of technological life. As an artist, I am dealing with the issue of our sense of respect for each other and how much we are aware of each other.This study includes the art works of artists Robert Motherwell and Joan Mitchell by whom I have been inspired. I have learned a lot from their art works and from their philosophies. I will describe my art works one by one in terms of the techniques that I have used, and the feelings behind them.<br>Department

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Munro, Samantha Fawn. "Being for others : critical reflections on the stranger, the estranged and the self in participatory art." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017771.

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By referring to established concepts and theories which contemplate our experiences in relation to others and space, this thesis examines the interactions and responses of an audience during various participatory artworks. I draw upon Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Elizabeth Grosz’ Architecture From The Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space in order to understand our interactions with other people, our interactions inside an environment, and the objects and ceremonies we use during these interactions. I align these experiences with the methods which are employed to anticipate

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Wise, Heather M. "A studio project in woodcarving : the symbolism of the buffalo in art yesterday, today, and tomorrow." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217379.

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This creative project interpreted and applied the buffalo in Native American culture - its symbolism, significance and virtues - to woodcarvings for the lives of people today. The carvings explored a range of styles, media and symbols but all use buffalo imagery and each piece represents how I have applied the buffalo to my life. Some pieces are based on historical events while others explore personal emotions. Wood surfaces differ from natural or bleached to painted. No style unifies the body of work. In each piece realism and abstraction, positive and negative space is handled differently. B

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Lindley, Anne Hollinger. "Relating to relational aesthetics." Pomona College, 2009. http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/stc,74.

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This thesis will examine the practice of relational aesthetics as it involves the viewer, as well as the way in which it plays out within and outside of the institutional setting of the museum. I will focus primarily on two unique projects: that of The Machine Project Field Guide at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 15, 2008, produced by Machine Project, a social project operated out of a storefront gallery in Echo Park; and David Michalek's Slow Dancing at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City, July 12-29 2007.

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Egan, Rachel K. "New perspectives on the quatrefoil in classic Maya iconography the center and the portal." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4759.

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The quatrefoil is a pan-Mesoamerican symbol with considerable time-depth. For the Maya, use of the symbol peaked during the Classic Period, reaching its highest frequency and largest geographical spread. Consequently, understanding its meaning has the potential to illuminate information about Precolumbian Maya worldview. While there have been several studies that focus on Preclassic Period quatrefoils, a similar study is lacking for Classic Period. Furthermore, the evaluations of the quatrefoil that do exist for the Classic Period are limited, often focusing on a select few examples. This thes

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Behrens, Monika Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Silent bang." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/42557.

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The research project uses still life as a means of exploring current events of violence and oppression. These events are represented through juxtaposing plastic toys with organic objects. The toys include a range of popular generic toys such as army men, cowboys and Indians and toy soldiers. The organic objects were selected for their relationship to the specific event being represented. The toys and organic objects were positioned to create interesting and logical compositions. Themes of the series include opposing objects and ideas pitched against each other such as plastic/organic, perpetr

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Woolston, Rachelle M. "The Voice of Children in Art Song: A Study of Six Cycles Involving a Child's Perspective." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1353088912.

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Regan, Clarissa. "Transforming tales : fairy stories in a contemporary world." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21678.

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Dissertation The research undertaken examines the functions and role of narrative in society, looks at examples of narrative in ceramic art and describes the use of narrative in a series of ceramic sculptures created by the author during 2007, 2008 and 2009. Changes in ceramic form historically are also described, with reference to Greek, Chinese and contemporary ceramic artists including Grayson Perry, Betty Woodman, Rudy Autio and Antje Scharfe. Critic Garth Clark’s concept of the ‘pot as drawing’ is also discussed. Two traditional fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel and Bluebeard are discussed a

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Taylor, Damian. "Busy working with materials : transposing form, re-exposing Medardo Rosso." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:29b3640a-a68e-45d1-8f42-130702bc9819.

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This thesis examines how making extends artists' thoughts beyond their conceptions. Central to this is consideration of how an artist's statements and their work relate: this thesis argues that the relationship is neither of identity nor contradiction, but of a productive tension from which emerges a richer understanding of thought. A similar approach underscores this doctorate's relationship of studio and written components, both of which desire self-sufficiency. The studio work consists of discrete yet mutually informing series, all engaged with the specificity of a moment of exposure, wheth

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Williams, Court. "Sensitive skin." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28932.

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The work being considered for examination will be my gallery installation Affliction. Consisting of approximately six hundred digitally printed and hand constructed three dimensional models, it will be installed on the gallery floor as a part of the Postgraduate Degree show at Sydney College of the Arts (Tuesday December 9th through to Wednesday December 17th). My masters project explores the isolation and dislocation experienced in the urban environment and situates un-commissioned street art as a construct that potentially generates modes of plurality through immediate encounter, co

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Lecomte, Isabelle. "Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) et ses muses: étude monographique à partir des sources iconographiques et littéraires." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210115.

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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) est un artiste américain très connu dans son pays mais peu étudié en Europe. Le catalogue raisonné de son œuvre n'est toujours pas établi à ce jour. <p><p>Tout au long de sa vie, ses sources d'inspiration sont intimement liées à la femme. Cette thèse souhaite aller plus loin que les études existantes: d'une part en envisageant la femme dans tous ses rôles (danseuse, diva, écrivaine, amie, starlette,) et d'autre part, en étudiant la série qui lui est consacrée. Ce regard minutieux sur les variations au sein d'une série est l'un des points forts et totalement inédits d

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Garisch, Margaret Isabel. "Consuming pasts : imaging food as Identity and (post)memory in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018556.

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This mini-thesis interprets the convergence of food and memory and explores dialectical processes associating food, identity and (post)memory, particularly in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Considering works by prominent South African Artists Berni Searle and Churchill Madikida as well as my own artistic practise and usage of food as conceptual medium, this study considers the converging effects of food, identity and memory, together with the materiality of food, from a fine arts perspective, as particularly rich and developing arena for memory work

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Lake, G. Thomas. "The five paintings of the Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61261.

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The thematic unit formed by the five versions of The Adoration of the Magi painted by Sandro Botticelli provide a special opportunity for studying his artistic development. An investigation of these five paintings shows that Botticelli aimed toward a goal of perfecting compositional techniques. He systematically made alterations to these works in order to create special point of view effects.<br>This thesis outlines the general trends in art with respect to the Adoration theme and then concentrates on a demonstration of Botticelli's attempts at correlating compositional devices and the unique

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Hoffman, Jeanne. "Drawing near : inscribing urban spaces." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4078.

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Van, Velden Christina Maryke. "'n Weg na betekenis : 'n gevallestudie van letterlike en figuurlike ikonografie van Bybelse eksegese." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20191.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis comprises a critical analysis of the relationship between form and function in contemporary iconography that contains religious themes. From the theoretical stance of Visual Culture iconography can be defined as ‘context-specific visual language’. I suggest that meaning is created not only through material usage but also through the hermeneutic content of images. By means of a comparison between an example of what I deem literal iconography and another of figurative iconography, I explore two divergent method

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White, Claire. "Work and leisure in late nineteenth-century French literature and visual culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610774.

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Earles, Bruce. "Inquiry into the appeal of anonymity to the artist." Thesis, View thesis, 1998. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/499.

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This paper, in conjunction with a series of paintings and drawings, attempts to outline the theme of anonymity. The work contains images portraying the feeling of remaining anonymous within a city. The inquiry not so much records the necessity of remaining anonymous for the purpose of urban experience but examines whether the subject matter of the artwork could be communicated to a group of spectators. During an exhibition of the artworks, 20 subjects were surveyed for their opinions. Questions relating to subject matter and aspects of anonymity were posed to the spectators in a questionnaire

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