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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Figure and Ground"”.
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The Revised and Expanded Version: A Series of Etchings
The Revised and Expanded Version is a series of large-scale intaglio prints that explore notions of beauty using line and text. Etched and printed over a series of eight different states, the prints illustrate their own evolution over time and a process of redaction and revision. Through the …
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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
… explores the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of painted monotypes. This project has developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other material forms, such as …
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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
… explores the relationship between painting and vernacular photography through the process of painted monotypes. This project has developed from an ongoing fascination with the visual qualities of photography and what happens when you translate photographs into other material forms, such as …
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Urban envelopes : an architecture of adjacency and difference
… world of rapidly dwindling resources and the sprawling consumption of landscape, it is important to look at the role of boundary, spatial differentiation and the value of spatial diversity while recognizing that the city, like nature, is composed of interdependent parts. Rather than …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… of traditional techniques, such as the gold ground, and witty effects of pictorial illusion, Crivelli’s work makes an effective case study for revisionist methods in art history, demonstrating the fluid boundary between ‘medieval’ and ‘renaissance’ art. However, the findings have been …
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How Graduate Counselor Education Students Articulate Professional Purpose as It Relates To Clinical Population Selection
… definition of purpose, Gestalt principles of figure and ground (Polster & Polster, 1973), van Manen's (1990) four lived existentials, and existing literature regarding the construct of purpose as its theoretical underpinnings. There is no existing literature on how a professional purpose, or …
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Cartographic GIS standards adopted by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry : a case study
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) acquired a Geographic Information System (GIS) in 1987. The purpose of acquiring such a system was to aid the department in implementing their water resource management strategy of that time. On acquiring this system it was well recognised that …
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The 'Who' and 'Where' of Events: Infants' Processing of Figures and Grounds in Events
Learning relational terms such as verbs and prepositions is fundamental to language development. To learn relational words, children must first dissect and process dynamic event components, and then uncover how the particular language they are learning encodes these constructs. Building on a new …
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The Corroded Surface: Portrait of the Sublime
… is nature at its most sublime, engendering fear and power, producing the obscure and reducing form to the darkness ‘beneath all beauty as promise of its ultimate annihilation’ (Beckley, 2001: p. 72). The thesis considers corrosion as subtraction, erasure and negation in relation to the painting …