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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Figurative representation"”.
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Exploring the boundaries of making two dimensional figurative artworks within Islamic law for Kuwaiti art, craft and design education
… which govern the lawfulness and unlawfulness of figurative representation in Islam, with specific reference to the Sunni tradition in Kuwait.<br/><br/>While figurative representation (taswir) was and still is a controversial issue in Islamic culture, Kuwaiti art education remains mute on its …
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“If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” : Sondra Perry and technological likeness
… her disenchantment with a politics prioritizing representation and visibility in interviews and talks. Building on a long tradition of artists taking up the politics of figurative representation—specifically, as related to Black identities—Perry looks to new media like 3-D models and avatars to …
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The Early Childhood Development of Inhibitory Control, Motor Control and Drawing Skills
… Fine Motor Control, age and two drawing skills (Figurative Representation and Detail). Mediation analyses however demonstrated that Fine Motor Control fully mediated the relationship between Inhibitory Control and these drawing measures. In contrast, the association of Inhibitory Control with …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… qualities of the inanimate whilst avoiding figurative representation. The work is presented as a series of installation tableaux alluding to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of …
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Exact fantasies : practice-led research into the materialisation of fetish power in contemporary art
… qualities of the inanimate whilst avoiding figurative representation. The work is presented as a series of installation tableaux alluding to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of …
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Sinofemcentrism and its manifestations in art by Yu Hong, Cui Xiuwen, and Xiang Jing
… are keen to depict female subjectivity through figurative representation. As a painter, Yu Hong is interested in the perceived minutiae of women’s lives against the grand narrative of Chinese history. Yu Hong’s female subjectivity centers on Chinese women and renders them individual players of …
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The refusal of the work of art: aesthetics and autonomy in Italy, 1965-1985
… shared a desire for immediacy and a rejection of representation (be it the figurative representation of painting or the political representation of party politics and trade unionism), often leading to conflict with traditional institutions. Each chapter compares increasingly mediated attempts at …