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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Art and Culture"”.
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Fiasco - From Religious Sanctuary to Art and Culture Complex
… process of construction than simply demolishing and creating whole new structures. To be able to capitalize on the structure, material, and identifying characteristics of an existing building is the goal of a well performed adaptive re-use project. This project outlines steps and the process in …
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In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
In his work as an art historian, Hans Rookmaaker approaches art and culture from a reformed perspective. The research question asks what theological, philosophical, and aesthetic commitments contributed to Rookmaaker’s distinctive approach to art; the thesis argues that Rookmaaker’s approach to art …
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Everything (Old was New) Already: Theories, Histories, and Politics of Appropriation, Contemporary Art, and Culture
The past decade and a half of technological innovation and explosion of historical multiplicities have reignited the debates on appropriation. This dissertation contributes to the discussion for the purposes of understanding appropriation’s significance to our fluctuating conceptions of …
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Rackwick - A study into its role in the development of contemporary art and culture in Orkney
For a period in the 1960s and 1970s Rackwick,on the island of Hoy, became the focal point for three of Orkney’s most significant artists. The poet George Mackay Brown first visited the valley in 1946 and wrote numerous works inspired by Rackwick including the poem cycle, Fishermen with Ploughs, …
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A Contemporary Discussion about the Influence of African Art and Culture on European Art with an Emphasis on Miquel Barceló
In modern day it is easy to asses where our artistic influences come from. However there are cases when those influences have not been treated with proper respect and have been appropriated with methodologies that have damaging consequences. This is the case when we look at the influence of much of …
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Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. A case-study of institutional curating of contemporary art in an urban context
… case study of the exhibition Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis (Tate Modern, 1 February – 29 April 2001). It examines a variety of issues pertaining to the making of institutional modern and contemporary art exhibitions in a Western urban context today. It is concerned …
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Dance Artists’ and Choreographers’ Financial Sustainability in New York City Under the CreateNYC Cultural Plan
… York City is brimming with a plethora of diverse art, performances, exhibits, and communities, sparking many people to regard it as the Cultural Capital of the World. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) has been a longtime supporter of the arts in New York City. In 2017, the …
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Cultural Diplomacy The Icelandic Way : the current state of Iceland’s cultural diplomacy practices
… that discusses the role of the Government of Iceland and the creative centers in Iceland when publicly funding cultural projects that take place internationally. The objective is to examine the current state of how the Government of Iceland conducts its cultural diplomacy practices. In examining …
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Project Management Plan to Digitize the National Museum of Mexican Art's Collection
… to streamline the National Museum of Mexican Art's (NMMA) digitization process in order to publish the permanent collection online. The goals of digitizing the collection are increased access, audience expansion, education, and preservation. The target audiences are Mexican art and culture …
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Competing "Host" Discourses: Appropriation of Australian Aboriginal Culture in the Tourism Borderzones
… Causey, 2003; Diamond, 2011). Through marketing and globally projected websites, government tourism authorities are often the dominant voice influencing outsiders’ perceptions of the people and cultures of a tourism destination. These are particularly powerful narratives when the government uses …
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Understanding the Value of Art
<p>Artists throughout history have been refining methods of communicating. In doing so, they have improved our perspectives of the world, ourselves, and continue to bring the things that have real value in our lives into focus, giving us an advantageous perspective to breakthrough even our biggest …
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
… sacred objects that housed ancestral spirits and were used for divination, healing and social justice by the Kongo people of Central Africa. When the Kongo were brought as slaves to the New World, they contributed significantly to the development of African American artistic and spiritual …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
<p>Among the treasures of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture is a lovely and elaborate work of art entitled Wars of the Romani, a Flemish tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific …
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Janvier and Morrisseau : transcending a Canadian discourse
The art of Alex Janvier and Norval Morrisseau successfully transcended the aesthetic norms of Canadian culture in the 1960's and 1970's. Their respective works synthesize indigenous North American arts to forge a new definition of painting by artists of Native ancestry, which acknowledges the …
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
… campaign that exported the country’s emerging art and culture, which glorified its indigenous roots. The strategy of expanding its nation-building project abroad helped remake its image and radically improved U.S.-Mexican relations. This project investigates the first standalone exhibitions of …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
<p>Among the treasures of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture is a lovely and elaborate work of art entitled Wars of the Romani, a Flemish tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific …
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Shifting gears : redeveloping the downtown's cultural approach
Downtowns of small cities and towns are often overlooked when thinking of cultural and gathering spaces. Unlike a large city that usually has a vibrant historical and cultural history represented by clustering of museums, theaters, and other gathering spaces, most small cities do not have these …
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A museum of Eastern art
This thesis proposes a museum of Eastern art in Washington, D. C. The purpose is to establish a gallery where not only Americans, but also the peoples of other countries throughout the world will have the opportunity to enjoy or to do research in Eastern art and culture. Eastern concepts are used …
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