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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Decorative arts"”.
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A decorative arts center for Boston
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1959.
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… or Western creations of Chinese-style decorative arts, upon an eighteenth century colonial American audience. Chinese products such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in …
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The material culture of the Polley Mansion, Whitehall : vernacular architecture, decorative arts, and domestic arts.
… the Polley Mansion—its vernacular architecture, decorative arts, and domestic arts— draws upon those archives and others to provide a detailed picture of the Polley Whitehall Mansion. Through letters, maps, receipts, photographs, historic records, and newspaper articles we meet the family, and …
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Forma em fluxo: transformações na concepção estética do objeto no século XIX
The heightened concern with the decorative arts at the close of the 19th century is the prodcut of a cross between optical and tactile values which, in turn, derives from a loss of the primary tactile relationship between man and object, brought on by industrialization. This process is most evident …
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Aristocratic and Imperial Patronage of the Decorative Arts in Rome and Constantinople, a.d. 337-395: The Role of Sculpture, Painting, Mosaics, and The Minor Arts in Fourth-Century Society
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The Green Dining Room: The Experience of an Arts and Crafts Interior
… 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 Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., a collective …
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Redundancy and uniqueness of subject access points in online catalogs
… (Technology (Applied Sciences)), and 700s (the Arts--Fine and Decorative Arts) at the ""concept"" or ""subject idea"" level."
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… beyond painting to include an analysis of decorative arts and visual culture, this study challenges established hierarchies of fine and decorative arts, canonical and non-canonical artists, and attention to Paris over the provinces. My first chapter considers the role of mountains, and …
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The political life of a chair: the Chaise Sandows in interwar France
… relationship between the steel industry and the decorative arts in interwar France. The Chaise Sandows, designed in 1929 by the French decorator René Herbst (1891-1982), featured more than two dozen bungee cords stretched across a rigid, tubular steel frame. Herbst had the chair produced in …
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The Wittelsbach Court in Munich: history and authority in the visual arts (1460-1508)
… self-aggrandizement like jousting, clothes, decorative arts and precious, exotic objects, this thesis discusses ‘innovative’ tendencies like the forward-looking application of retrospective motifs, historicising styles as well as the dukes’ genealogy, the ducal government’s imprint on the …
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A New Narrative of Historical Styles in Nineteenth-Century Britain
… Closely associated with the architecture and decorative arts of the nineteenth century, it has led to an understanding of historicist objects as being about empty retrospection and a lack of invention, evidence of a temporary lapse in artistic progress before the advent of modernism at the end …
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The lives and works of the women artists at the Della Robbia Pottery Birkenhead in late Victorian and Edwardian England
… working and middle-class women, in the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian England. The findings are analysed in the light of interpretative models employed by feminist historians, particularly the view that women's professional involvement and access to training was shaped …
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Secrets of the arts : Enlightenment Spain's contested Islamic craft heritage
… narrative, one that informs the history of the decorative arts and knowledge construction in the eighteenth century.
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Lightweight plywood construction assembly : a lightweight approach to the elegant utilitarian form
… witnessing a Paradigm shift in design and the decorative arts of a magnitude not seen since the Modernist movement in the early 20th century. A design style embraces the combination of sustainability with building production. Today we recognizes that our resources are finite and that careful …
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Out of the Néant into the Everyday: A Rediscovery of Mallarmé's Poetics
… time, such as Impressionism in France and the Decorative Arts in England. These movements were defining new norms for the representation of reality in reaction to the changes of nineteenth century society. But as the genetic study of the Vers de circonstance reveals, along with the contextual …
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Centrepieces: Compositions for the adornment of the European formal table in the long eighteenth century
… spectators. Nowadays, most early modern European decorative arts collections feature at least one artefact classified as a ‘centrepiece’, with many institutions safely keeping impressive examples in their holdings. This research addresses contemporary modes of display and the significant …
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… international exposition of industrial and decorative arts in 1925, a former Russian dressmaker to the Imperial Court received a grand prize for a flapper dress sewn from household table linens. Similarly, while the Soviets had to import Western “capitalist” films to compensate for the …
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Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
… and stone, situated between architecture, the decorative arts, and geology, superseded classical models of Aristotelian emulation, which privileged original visual forms. They evoked newfound tensions between modalities of intuition and empirical observation, providing alternate paradigms of …
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A re-assessment of ornament as a sculptural element
… requirements for the Degree of Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. In my undergraduate study I was interested in the way in which familiar objects changed their meaning in different contexts. In this study, my focus of attention has been on …
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Visual grounded analysis : developing and testing a method for preliminary visual research
Approaching a new design project by performing preliminary visual research is a common practice in educational and studio settings, particularly in Jewellery and Fashion Design. Collecting images around a given subject or theme - for better understanding its visual traits, or for future reference - …
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