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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Arts and crafts"”.
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A center for arts and crafts: Georgetown
… which are in essence the desire to absorb and then desire to emit, the desire to know and the desire to test, the desire to hear and the desire to utter, and the basis not only of a true and effective education, not only are they the wholesome body and the enchanting voice of art, but they …
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Mexican arts and crafts since the conquest of Cortes
… Mexico should familiarize himself with its arts and crafts, for it has been truly said that "art is the expression of life,"<sup>1</sup> and the whole Mexican civilization is inextricably interwoven with its arts.</p>It is the purpose of this thesis, not to exhaust the subject treated, but …
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The meaning and use of arts and crafts activities
… ailing mental health is basic to the theory and practice of occupational therapy. This study was constructed to measure how psychiatric patients value and internalize the use of purposeful activity (specifically, arts and crafts) in their treatment. Sixty psychiatric patients from Belle Park …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… South Wales during the depressions of the 1920s and 1930s. The work, which took place during the years 1928 to 1940, has become known as the Brynmawr Experiment. The initial provision of practical and financial relief for a town suffering severely from the effects of unemployment, was developed …
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… in Victorian Britain, when idealistic artists and architects elevated the status of the decorative arts in fine art circles, promoted the ideal of joy in labour, and sought beauty in the everyday. The Green Dining Room is considered a quintessential example of an early decorative scheme by …
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ARTS and CRAFTS: Predictive Scaling for Request-Based Services in the Cloud
… see well over a billion requests per day. Data and services at such scale require advanced software and large amounts of computational resources to process requests in reasonable time. Advancements in cloud computing now allow us to acquire additional resources faster than in traditional …
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
This thesis discusses exchanges between Britain and Greece as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement which took shape in England in the 1880s. It had an impact throughout Europe; its influence was especially significant on newly emergent nation states. Two important elements were the use of the past …
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Understanding information activities of hobbyists in the making of arts and crafts across space
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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A Study of the Revival of the Arts and Crafts of the Yakima Indian Nation
… the steps which have been taken to revive the arts and crafts of the Yakima Indian Nation. It is a study to discuss the recognized and accepted values of art education, namely: (a) The aesthetic value (b) The cultural value (c) The therapeutic value (d) The vocational and avocational value to …
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Von Downtown zum Arts and Crafts District. Entwicklung des Einzelhandels in den Stadtzentren von Kleinstädten im ländlichen Raum der USA am Beispiel von Ohio
… ursprünglich zentrale Funktion, primäre Einzelhandelsstandorte einer Stadt und ihres Umlands zu sein. Ursachen dafür sind vor allem in der Entstehung attraktiver Einzelhandelsstandorte am Stadtrand zu suchen. Ein genereller ökonomischer Aufschwung der Stadtzentren konnte trotz vielfältiger …
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The Works of Josef Hoffmann Koloman Moser and The Wiener Werkstatte
I examine the Viennese Arts and Crafts Movement as a case study for modern design theory during the first thirty years of the 20th century. I establish that through the implementation of innovative design concepts, manufacturing collaborations and retail experiments that the Wiener Werkstätte …
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"Live in the country with faith": Jane and Ralph Whitehead, The Simple Life Movement, and Arts and Crafts in The United States, England, and on The Continent, 1870-1930
… artist Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead (1858-1955) and her English husband Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854-1929) are best known for co-founding the Byrdcliffe Art and Crafts school and colony in Woodstock, New York, which was active from 1903 into the present. Long before Byrdcliffe, however, the …
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Handcrafting a national industry : the production and patronage of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets
This thesis offers a social history of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets--their production and patronage. These nineteenth-century carpets were promoted as artistic products and appealed to upper- and middle-class consumers in Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and …
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Promoting creative economies in Nigeria and South Africa through communal and collaborative intellectual property rights strategies
The contention against and for extending intellectual property rights (IPRs) to traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) is strong on both sides: on one hand IPRs remain largely incompatible with TCEs and inadequate for safeguarding them. On the other hand, TCEs need protection in the interest of …
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Gustav Stickley's Hapke-Geiger House and Noland and Baskervill's Hunton House: Richmond Architecture ca. 1915
… architecture as conveniently divided into styles and periods, but in reality styles overlap. At the turn-of-the-twentieth century there were three major architectural and decorative movements in the United States: the Aesthetic Movement, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the American Renaissance …
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Decolonizing Nunavut's Art Market
… methodological framework of decolonization and Indigenization must support an Inuit-led revitalization of the declining arts and crafts sector in Nunavut. Arts and crafts express oral tradition, personal narratives, and Inuit worldviews and transfer those values intergenerationally. As Inuit …
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Renaissance to Regent Street: Harold Rathbone and the Della Robbia Pottery of Birkenhead
… Robbia Pottery within the wider histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement, the thesis makes an original contribution in three ways. Using new sources of primary documentation, I discuss the artistic response to Italianate style by Rathbone and his mentors Ford Madox Brown and William Holman Hunt, …
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Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, dos pressupostos aos reflexos de sua criação: de 1856 a 1900
… de Artes e Oficios do Rio de Janeiro" (School of Arts and Crafts of Rio de Janeiro) on 23 November 1856 and studies it’s trajectory untill the end of the XIXth Century. A detailed research of the primary sources and the analysis of the speeches of the conceiver of the "Liceu", Béthencourt da …
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The Rankin Inlet Ceramics Project : a study in development and influence
… community was established by the mining company and attracted a large Inuit population with its promise of wage employment. When this employment ceased, the Canadian government initiated an arts and crafts program to assist the Inuit. Included in this program was an experiment in pottery-making, …
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