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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Art work"”.
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Group Art Work with Chronic Schizophrenic Patients
<p>This paper presents twenty Art Therapy sessions with a chronic schizophrenic outpatient. The sessions describe the psychodynamic process that occurs during art therapy group, symbolized in the patient's drawings and verbal comments. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that the themes, …
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Making Art Work: A Pragmaticistic Interpretation of Art
Works of art can be interpreted a variety of ways. A work might be judged as moving while it may also be interpreted as worthless. I argue that a pragmaticistic interpretation of art – that is a theory based on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce – can encompass the variety of interpretations …
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Axial; a Sound Art Work of an Oceanographic Expedition
… <italic>Enlighten10</italic>, during which the artist recorded the sounds of the hydrothermal vents located in the area at depth of over 4,500 feet. This thesis describes in detail the entire compositional process as well as the concepts, procedures, and context of the artwork. Chapter one …
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Clouds of discontent: art, work, solidarity and digital platform labour
This thesis charts the course of a practice-based project that has employed a range of artistic research methods to explore modes of critical engagement with digital platform labour (commonly referred to as the ‘gig economy’). Digital labour platforms act as intermediaries between buyers and …
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A Study of Grading Art Work Concerning Secondary Art Instructors in the State of Washington
… manner the extent of concurrence among secondary art instructors in the State of Washington with respect to the grading of certain art work produced by juniors in a secondary school.
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Art and Literacy : A Study of Young Children's Art in the Development of Their Literacy
… study was designed to examine young children's art in the development of their literacy. Twenty children, involved in a literature-based art program, were observed and interviewed after the completion of various literacy episodes involving their art work. The children's art work was classified …
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The influence of verbal cues on young children's categorization of works of art
… of verbal cues on children's categorization of art work. The children, four, five, and six year olds, performed a matching task showing the influence of the verbal cues. These verbal cues represent the type of classification used by experts in the art field: style, type of media used, the …
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Art and body image : A journey through anorexia nervosa and the implications for art therapy rituals
… and symbols are explored and interpreted in art work that was produced in six session of individual art therapy. The sessions were designed to deal with issues and problems that had been discussed previously, or that became relevant during each session. The study is conducted from an …
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Recombinant Poetics: Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored Within a Specific Generative Virtual Environment
… literature and my practice as a professional artist using electronic information delivery systems. The research has informed the creation of an interactive art work, authored so that emergent meaning can be examined and explored within a specific generative virtual environment by a variety of …
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Scenes of provincial life: an online video sequence and commentary
… Life, forming a unified, ongoing online work. In my written commentary I discuss the work‘s context, genesis and facture and presentation and thereby demonstrate its claim to originality as art work. I go on to suggest one possible interpretive framework for it. I then discuss the nature …
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Delving into shadow : a study of reflective photographic image-making.
This study unravels specific elements that, in part, comprise the reflective process that has allowed me to initiate and sustain the production of photographic work. These are: the Self as an exploratory vehicle and producer of art work; the veil of memory utilized in producing such work; and …
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Ahimsa: Indian women's experience of a narrative intervention using art and writing
… in general and marriage and family therapy in particular are underutilized by many ethnic minority and international populations. Models of marriage and family therapy practice have been developed in the west and reflect western values and norms that are inappropriate in cross-cultural contexts. …
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Inscrições contemporâneas: a palavra-imagem no projeto da visualidade pós-moderna
… which give them form, studied in the dialog with works from contemporary visual arts. This research, taken under a trans-historical view, based on Hubert Damisch' theory, by which every work of art must be seen as an act and thought of the artist which reveals itself to the viewer in his dialog …
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Creative Matrix
My personal life experiences are reflected in my art. I use symbolic and expressive marks in developing my abstract imagery, which acts as a visual language. The combining of my past and current art work, fused together, has become what I call a creative matrix. I see my images as choreographed …
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… that in many Western and Soviet texts the work of so called formalist leftists and figurative artists are viewed as diametrically opposed to one another. I argue against the perpetuation of this polemic and the assumptions that inform this view. These assumptions are that the leftists …
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Creating non-representational art by students who are severely intellectually disabled through a pictorial and musical program
… of a recently developed Pictorial and Musical art program for severely intellectually disabled students, and to compare the non-representational art work produced by lower primary students in a special education school to similar art work being produced by lower primary students in a regular …
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The self as "other" : accessing issues of difference in Trinh T. Minh-Ha's Reassemblage
… and feminist theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha, is a work which makes demands on the perception of the North American "self" in relation to the Asian and African "other". As such it has aided in my personal quest to understand art work which challenges Euro-centrism. This thesis is an exploration of …
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Effects of a museum-school collaborative on seventh-grade students of an urban public elementary school
… whether general vitalizing effects of art as well as more specific effects of integration and enlivening of school taught knowledge could be seen in the reactions, products, and subsequent behavior of some of the students that participated in the Museum Classroom program. Specifically, …
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Apple girl : ingesting and transforming Apple girl from fairy tale into sculpture and performance
The submission for my Master of Fine Art degree, which is devoted to the interpretation and transformation of the Italian fairy tale, Apple Girl, into performed sculpture, consists of this document as well as a photographic story-book which illustrates the sculpture component. The sculptured …
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Art Therapy in West Germany: A Study of Theories and Methods
… project is a source of information on the art therapy profession as it is practiced in West Germany today. The focus of this paper will be on the two major approaches to art therapy in West Germany, anthroposophical art therapy and psychotherapeutic art therapy, which have developed apart …
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