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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Art School"”.
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Edinburgh Art School
An Art School in Old Town Edinburgh that has historically preserved facades along the Royal Mile, bridging old and new in a new city center.
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Music and art school for Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… academic buildings. How to connect the two parts - music and art schools. How to use walls as more than just "structural parts” How to create space rather than “divide space” How to receive light rather than "control light”"The right thing badly done is always greater than the wrong thing …
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The art school ethos across cultures: UK and China
… investigated the culture and identity of art and design institutions through making comparisons between British and Chinese independent art schools and art schools in multidisciplinary universities, and the cultural contexts behind these art schools in the two countries. The study employed …
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The Art School PhD: What is the problem of knowledge?
… study of research undertaken by practitioners in art and design as part of a research degree (PhD, Doctor of Philosophy) in the UK, and was driven by the lack of clarity in regard to how artists make contributions to knowledge. The Coldstream Report (1960) is taken as a starting point because it …
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Un/Contemporary Arts: Norms and Forms in a Greek Art School
This dissertation addresses the fine arts education system in Athens, as I follow my interlocutors, students, educators and working artists over nineteen months of fieldwork. Greece is one of a few countries in the world in which aspirants need to compete in a live drawing exam in nineteenth- …
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Constructing a Reflective Site: Practice between art and pedagogy in the art school
Constructing a Reflective Site is a fine art practice-based research project, which considers the relationship between art practice and teaching. It does this through a critical examination of reflection in art, in pedagogy and in philosophy. Contemporary art forms, like relational practice, …
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Understanding pedagogy through the material world: lessons from a pre-service Saturday art school
This study explores ways in which Saturday art school teachers use the material world in teaching art. Specifically, this research investigates how pedagogy can be enacted through the presentation of the materiality of the classroom. Drawing on Bresler's (1994) three orientations within visual arts …
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The making of place and occasion: art school and museum in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.
… life has created a challenge to the role Fine Arts plays in today’s society. The struggle of the Fine Arts to retain and strengthen its role in the culture of a technologically-driven society presented a unique opportunity to explore the reuniting of two major Fine Arts realms the Art School …
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The Value of Counter-Storytelling in Decolonising the Curriculum: Insights from an Art School Educational Developer
With this web-based thesis and portfolio, I articulate the value of counter-storytelling for decolonising Higher Education curricula and exemplify this with outputs from three projects I led at the University of the Arts London between 2018-2022. I critically frame and reflect on these project …
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Object-based learning, art and design collections and the art school: mobilising material culture to support art and design teaching practice in tertiary education
… activities using archives and collections in art and design pedagogic contexts enhance learning and well-being? The discipline of object-based learning as suggested by Paris (2002) is rooted in museums and has been enthusiastically embraced by academics exploring the potential of objects to …
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Vertical School of Art
… the senses. Cubists challenged the conception of art, and consequently shaped and influenced many social movements of their time. Like any human expression, art and architecture are in a continuous evolution. Both share the pursuit of perfection, the exploration of spatial, sensorial, and …
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One tongue singing
… her small daughter during the closing years of apartheid. The family settles amongst a small wine-growing community in the Western Cape where they become involved in the lives of victims of the System. In the second frame, the daughter, now about nineteen years old, is a talented artist who enrols …
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The Interaction of Walls and Spaces: Architecture of an Art Studio
… of Virginia is currently constructing an Arts Studio building in the parking lot of their Architecture School. The University's original Jeffersonian foundation and its repeated imitation throughout history has told its citizens that this is what the architecture of the University must be, …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
… dissertation traces the roots of an experimental art school for social change called the School for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated many …
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Sea creatures of the Southern deep : a novel
… in childhood, the story finds Joanna at high school. Her ambivalent friendship with a classmate, Leah, and infatuation with a teenage boy, Robbie, are described. This section culminates in Robbie's drowning and Leah's disappearance. Subsequently, Joanna / Anna attends art school, where she …
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An analysis of the critical factors affecting the continued development of fiber as an art form
… examine the status of contemporary fiber as an art form and to identify critical factors affecting its continued development.An extensive search of available literature was conducted. From this search, coupled with the researcher's extensive personal involvement with fiber, populations were …
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The impact of educational reform on the Wolverhampton School of Art and Design
… impact of education reform on the Wolverhampton School of Art. Investigations cover the school from the early 1850's to the mid 1950's in four stages of its development: the Government School of Practical Art for Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire, the Municipal School of Art, the Municipal …
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The syntax of buildings: three systems; three scales
… to provide for the unique requirements of a particular building. These are not really systems buildings, or warehouses to handle any function needed; but instead a set of basic statements arising from the general activities of performing constructing and living. These general categories were …
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Within the carnal: re-reading Merleau-Ponty through the language of drawing
In order to present visual art as a paradigm for philosophy, Merleau-Ponty investigated the creative processes of artists whose work corresponded closely with his philosophical ideas. His essays on art are widely valued for emphasising process over product, and for challenging the primacy of the …
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