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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Black Art"”.
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Black Art Planning: Exhibition Manifesto
Black Art Planning: Exhibition Manifesto, honors the many modes and forms of knowledge that inform Black artists acting as informal planners, designers and urbanists working to harmonize spatial urban realities for marginalized communities. This is a focused introspection of Black liminal realities …
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Educating Black Youth Moral Principles through Black Art
This study examined the connection between Black youth moral behavior and the aesthetic value of Black art. Today's Black youth are impressed with elements in the media, their schools, and other social surroundings that have been a little less than upstanding. This exploration of moral relevance of …
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A black art: Ontology, data, and the Tower of Babel problem
… data by individuating reality into computable parts, attributes, and relations. This dissertation provides a theory of computational ontologies as technologies of individuation (Simondon, 2005) that translate disparate data to produce informational cohesion. By technologies of individuation I …
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Aspects of twentieth century black South African art, up to 1980. Volume II
… with 1) Westernization and change in African art, 2) Rural black South African art: figurative woodcarving and mural painting, 3) Early twentieth century urban black art in South Africa and 4) Urban black South African art 1960-1980. Sources of photographs of art works are given where the …
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Locating me in order to see you
… cast figures in the medium of cowhide as part of my Masters degree. This document, titled Locating Me in Order to See You, serves as an explication of the practical component. Initially I examine the broad context in which my sculpture has been produced, and that in which it will be …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… a lens through which to explore how contemporary black artists address negative, inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and …
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Aspects of twentieth century black South African art, up to 1980. Volume I
… of Westernization on the development of black South African art, culminating in a form of art referred to as urban black art. While the essential aim of this dissertation is to document selected twentieth century artists and their works prior to 1980, it is felt that a broader art …
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Canvas politics: Norman Lewis and the art of Abstract Resistance
… work he produced, and his involvement in both black art and the Abstract Expressionist movement. ^ I begin by presenting a comprehensive overview of Lewis' biography and oeuvre. Painting from the 1930s to the late 1970s, his aesthetic sensibilities can be categorized into three distinct phases: …
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Cost estimation of functional and physical changes made to complex systems
… results. It is often considered to be a "black art" with the recurring question: "Where did that number come from?" This thesis systematically links design and cost information together, and demonstrates the utility of that link by estimating the impact of functional and physical design …
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A Comparison and Analysis of Theory and Practice in Regard to Inner-City Art Programs
The problem. A. Numerous articles and theoretical essays have been written since 1965 regarding art programs for inner-city populations. B. Funds from various agencies have been alloted for art programs in large cities. In public school settings and outside of the public school domain art programs …
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Development and applications of electrically-driven separation methods.
… and method development was somewhat of a "black art". Further studies were therefore undertaken in order to gain an understanding of the mechanisms that influence separations in non-aqueous media. Under certain conditions the mode of separation appeared to be based on some form of …
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Controlling molecular interactions to define interfacial phenomena and structure
… is more of an engineered approach than a “black” art. In this thesis, the interactions between polymers and small molecules were probed in various states: solution, gel and foam. The main techniques used were tensiometry, diffusion NMR and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). The …
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Power, Performance and Energy Models and Systems for Emergent Architectures
… trial and error process for domain experts and a black art for practitioners. To improve upon past approaches to high-performance power management, we need to quantitatively understand the effects of power and performance at scale. In this work, I have developed theories and techniques to …
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Design of a Portable Tire Test Rig and Vehicle Roll-Over Stability Control
… data since the tire industry is still as much "black art" as it is science. For tire data one must begin with a testing apparatus. The test rig must be accurate and must have been validated before results can be used. This thesis presents the process of the design and construction of a portable …
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… institutions—love hiphop and yet harbor antiblack views about the Black communities and Black students who make hiphop possible. However, the findings also suggest that identifying this tension offers writing instructors an opportunity to be more explicit about working towards anti-racist …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… Wagner intervened in evolutionary debating about art; and how his music dramas urged discussion about racism in poetry and music. Alain Badiou, David Trippett and Alex Ross have lately renewed interest in historical Wagnerism. But much anglophone writing about Wagner has been dismissed simply …
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Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature
… in horror and science fiction in contemporary Black cultural and theoretical projects. This work reads into the expressed conditions of Blackness that yearns for and that builds other material or immaterial realities. Worldbuilding is a way for collective Black imaginations to experience …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
<p>“Building Black Manhattan” is the first study to examine the architectural contributions of Black women reformers to the urban development of New York City between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Through the construction of charitable and reform institutions throughout Manhattan, they …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
… within the elite skateboarding culture across particular historical contexts of skateboarding and within US society. With the aim of understanding the complex and nuanced experiences of race within the skateboarding culture, sport, and industry, I conducted semi-structured interviews with forty …