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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Art objects"”.
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Anchoring the Practice — Contemporary Artists’ Books as Translational Objects
… project aims to reconsider the relevance of art’s objecthood and the sense of practice by exploring the case of contemporary artists’ books. What does it mean in today’s art world and economy for practice given art’s practice turn within the post-medium condition to be presented in tangible …
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With Salivating Tongues We Gaze Lustingly At Sugar, Salt, And Fat
… of a thesis to complete the Master of Fine Arts Degree at East Carolina University. The body of work presented is the result of research and creative activity which addresses a number of food-related issues. I investigate the idea that most Americans are only vaguely knowledgeable of the …
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Plasticity Against Plastic: Synthetics In The Practice, Theory, And Conservation Of Art Since The 1960s
n 1969, U.S. artist and educator Thelma R. Newman observed that plastics have caused “a silent revolution.” Art history and criticism have yet to grapple with the relationship between the plastic arts and plastic, that most prosaic of materials. Upon first glance, it may seem that art and plastic …
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Art and ephemerality: The cultural work of American poetry broadsides since 1960
… of their specific publication, but as printed artifacts that circulate in the culture. Broadsides--single, unbound, and self-contained printed sheets that can range in quality from mimeographs to letterpress prints, from ephemeral handbills to auratic art objects--have been a remarkably common, …
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Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations
… that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they relate to the lived experience of animals, (using Lefebvre and content analysis), a theoretical framework is developed …
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We Collect Answers
… of language, religion, translation, community participation, and ritual and poetry. This written statement is presented alongside an exhibition of paintings and ceramic works structured around a ritual of exchange encouraging social participation. The work argues for a greater understanding of …
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Reframing Duggan-Cronin: examining the recent emergence of Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin's photographs in art exhibitions
This study is about the photographs of Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin. It is particularly concerned with the recent use of Duggan-Cronin's photographs in public exhibitions, especially art exhibitions. It suggests that the majority of these recent exhibitions favour an understanding of the photographs …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide an analysis of the …
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Captured Artifacts
My art examines the possible existence of an unknown civilization through the presentation of sculptural art objects within the conventional practice of displaying artifacts in a public institution. Historically, artifacts have served as visual records of journeying to and returning from a far-away …
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Curation of the Video Art Exhibition in the Museum
… thesis is to illustrate the importance of video art through a spatial and aesthetic phenomenological framework, revealing the critical nature of aesthetic experiences for forming meaning between art-objects and viewers facilitated through acts of curation. Video art, emerging in the 1960s and …
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Irstančios materijos /
… what has become normal for us to see. Art objects are surrounded by everyone. Just be carefully monitored. It may be that the soil or ramshackle wall graphics surface can inspire new painting works. The aim is to adapt my learned painting techniques. Provide into pictorial language …
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Irstančios materijos /
… what has become normal for us to see. Art objects are surrounded by everyone. Just be carefully monitored. It may be that the soil or ramshackle wall graphics surface can inspire new painting works. The aim is to adapt my learned painting techniques. Provide into pictorial language …
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What use is music in an ocean of sound? Towards an object-orientated arts practice
… Sound? is a reflective statement upon a body of artistic work created over approximately five years. This work, which I will refer to as "object- orientated", was specifically carried out to find out how I might fill artistic spaces with art objects that do not rely upon expanded notions of art …
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The significance of the introduction of electronic interaction to the history of the art object and the viewer
Since the late 1960s, a new artistic phenomenon--"electronic interactivity" as it is referred to by practitioners--has emerged which is worthy of art historical assessment. As part of such an endeavour, this text examines how electronic interactivity has altered the traditional relationship between …
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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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Improving mental wellbeing on college campuses through participatory art installation
… in the fields of psychology, biology, and art, and combines it with site-specific observational studies of student life on campus. The culmination is the proposal and implementation of a public art installation that uses properties of soil, nature, and customizable components that users can …
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Shangri La : architecture as collection
… Doris Duke's interest and investment in art was not highly unusual given her social background. However, her method of acquiring these objects was more unconventional than other collectors of her time. When the term "Islamic" is tacked onto these art objects it further complicates her …
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Speculative Friction: Seven Stories from the Geneva Freeport
… Geneva Freeport is unique in allowing “passing” objects to be stored indefinitely in its storage spaces. As a result of this state of stasis, as well as Swiss confidentiality laws, the Freeport has been the storage facility for anything considered to be of value. Grains, gold bars, art objects, …
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Tree-ring analyses of European oak: implementation and relevance in (pre-)historical research in Flanders.
… the Roman era and the Middle Ages, have become part of our cultural heritage. Archaeological remains, historical buildings, panel paintings and religious sculptures are only a few examples of constructions and objects that were created by processing wood. Especially European oak (Quercus robur L. …
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Tree-ring analyses of European oak: implementation and relevance in (pre-)historical research in Flanders
… the Roman era and the Middle Ages, have become part of our cultural heritage. Archaeological remains, historical buildings, panel paintings and religious sculptures are only a few examples of constructions and objects that were created by processing wood. Especially European oak (Quercus robur L. …
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