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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Diorama"”.
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Digital diorama
Digital Diorama may be briefly presented as: a historical exploration of the vision devices, performances, and installations of the nineteenth century, and their influences on the project. These histories of the magic lantern, the panorama, and the diorama are investigated in relation to forming a …
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Ocean of Objects
… mundane objects in a different context within a diorama. The United States is in an age of consumerism where our relationship to the objects we buy defines the way we conceptualize our relationship to the physical environment we are in. As a theater artist, I studied scenic design and installing …
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Fabricated Perceptions
… Themes of visual metaphor, trompe l’oeil, diorama, and contrasting spatial relationships of objects are explored. Each piece carries its own interpretation that is kept open ended for the viewer. My goal for this art series is to amuse, provoke imagination, and encourage individual …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… the botanical glasshouse and the habitat diorama. Through my research I explore how these sites function in optically and conceptually similar ways to the world of images, through shared notions of virtuality and indexicality. This research is informed by the work of Édouard Vuillard, …
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Virtual Nature: A practice-led enquiry into the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of the painted monotype
… the botanical glasshouse and the habitat diorama. Through my research I explore how these sites function in optically and conceptually similar ways to the world of images, through shared notions of virtuality and indexicality. This research is informed by the work of Édouard Vuillard, …
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The Persistent Shock of the Old: Making the case for the responsive development of artwork deploying historical museological display techniques.
… the collection of small things, and the habitat diorama—examining how these museological forms, though historically outmoded, retain communicative potential. Through close dialogue with scholarship on museum theory, memory, and material culture, the research reappraises these models as productive …
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Re-Presenting Taxidermy: Contemporary Art Interventions in Natural History Museums
… in their natural habitat took the form of the diorama. While it was popular at the time, it is perceived as problematic today in its reference to the heroic hunter who collected 'big game' in the colonies. Moreover, today it also raises environmental and sustainability concerns as well as …
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Wonderboom
… to the taxidermist in order to extend his diorama. Further to this, she has virtually no friends or relatives left in the coastal village where she lives, and she is thus compelled to migrate north, back to the Magaliesberg and the last members of her clan. Vos raids her past in a desperate …
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Wonderboom
… to the taxidermist in order to extend his diorama. Further to this, she has virtually no friends or relatives left in the coastal village where she lives, and she is thus compelled to migrate north, back to the Magaliesberg and the last members of her clan. Vos raids her past in a desperate …
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Critical habitat: Picturing extinction, conservation, and the American animal in the long twentieth century
… my dissertation analyzes the photography series Diorama by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto’s images, uncanny photographs of the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, destabilize the viewer, and perhaps hold more meaning for present day viewers than they did at the time of the …
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Museums and the construction of race ideologies: the case of natural history and ethnographic museums in South Africa
… of the South African Museum's "Bushman" diorama. Further to the discussion about dioramas, human zoos and other forms of racializing spectacles, I make reference to the haunting narratives of the African Diasporas to provide context and perspective. These African individuals are: Sarah …