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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Goldsmiths"”.
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Banking before the bank: London's unregulated goldsmith-bankers, 1660-1694
… Street and in the West End, a few of London's goldsmiths specialized in offering banking services during the second half of the seventeenth century. In addition to traditional goldsmith activities such as selling silverware and exchanging coins, goldsmith-bankers supplied sophisticated …
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Johann Heinrich, Hubert Martin Joseph und Franz Vogeno : eine Aachener Goldschmiedefamilie des 19. Jahrhunderts
… a great number of mostly unknown works of the goldsmiths Johann Heinrich, Hubert Martin Joseph und Franz Vogeno, which include sacral silver in particular, are examined systematically. 160 objects produced between 1828 and 1933 and mainly kept in German, Dutch and Belgian churches are …
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Craft and Culture: the design, production and consumption of silver in Ireland in the seventeenth century.
… The producers of silver in Ireland – the goldsmiths – were a diverse group of native and immigrant skilled craftsmen whose numbers in Dublin and in other urban centres grew exponentially over the course of the century. The increasing numbers of these craftsmen and the corresponding rise in …
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Goldsmithing technologies, metallurgical traditions and funerary rituals in the Saka societies of the Eurasian Steppe during the Iron Age (c. 900 - 500 BCE)
… joining technique employing tin was used by Saka goldsmiths for the production of gold microbeads. Tin-gold intermetallic compounds (tin-gold IMC) were detected in approximately 80% of all the researched gold objects, indicating probable local alluvial/placer gold sources in East Kazakhstan. A …
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Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
… networks created new opportunities for jewelers, goldsmiths, and gem merchants to survey, map, sample, and compare mineral deposits across the globe. I show how participants in the gem trade across Eurasia became crucial sources for European scholars because of their knowledge of precious stones …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… Crivelli’s paintings pose with local examples of goldsmiths’ and textile art, festive customs, and the spectatorship of his Dominican patrons. A technical study of Crivelli’s polyptychs for the Order of Preachers explores the rigour of his methods and their visual results. This introduces the …
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The Emergent City (2007- 2017): Artistic explorations of the control and the ethics of data
… from the author's AHRC research fellowship at Goldsmiths College, University of London from 2006 to 2009. The research became an investigation into the ubiquity of real-time data within the city to create new media artworks. The practice resulted from technical investigations via sensor-based …
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AFTERIMAGES: Photographs as an External Autobiographical Memory System and a Contemporary Art Practice
My proposition developed in this thesis is that photographs have changed the way the past is conceived and therefore the way the past is remembered. Just as the inventions of the telescope and microscope radically changed our understanding of distance and space on a macro and micro level, the …
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The Processes of Creation and Recreation in Persian Classical Music
This thesis presents a critical examination of the processes of creativity in the performance of Persian classical music. Using current literature, information from musicians, and detailed musical analyses, the thesis endeavours to reach an understanding of what creativity means in the Persian …
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The iconography of ancient Greek and Roman jewellery
… shapes and forms; at the same time, Etruscan goldsmiths placed much more emphasis on the decoration of (gold) surfaces, resulting in often globular or convex forms with intricate goldwork such as granulation. However, the Etruscans were of course in contact (and influenced) by the Greeks, so …
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Typographical Portabilities: The Designer and User inCommunication Technologies
This thesis investigates how the gradual shift from print to portable screen based technology has impacted typographic communication. The transition from print to portable screen based devices, from material to virtual space, and from the textual to the visual has inevitably altered our …
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Drug use and drug dealing in the rave club culture
This thesis is a ‘descriptive analysis’ of drug use and drug selling as it occurred in different leisure venues and settings and among different audiences participating in the London rave dance culture. It is an ethnographic study informed through a ‘participant observer’ approach. The main methods …
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Antroponimia złotników poznańskich od XVI do XVIII wieku. Studium socjoonomastyczne
Praca opisuje antroponimię złotników poznańskich od XVI do XVIII wieku zgodnie z założeniami onomastyki kulturowej. Materiał antroponimiczny, będący podstawą rozprawy, pochodzi z ksiąg cechu złotników poznańskich z Archiwum Państwowego w Poznaniu. Praca dzieli się na część opisową i słownik nazwisk …
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The address of spirituality in contemporary art
The thesis explores the use of religious themes and the notion of self-design in contemporary art practice. It argues that art today that addresses religion does so primarily for its rhetorical function: for a recognizable pattern of persuasiveness, which is ultimately defined by its established …
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Working Performatively with Interactive 3D Printing: An artistic practice utilising interactive programming for computational manufacturing and livecoding
This thesis explores the liminal space where personal computational art and design practices and mass-manufacturing technologies intersect. It focuses on what it could look and feel like to be a computationally-augmented, creative practitioner working with 3D printing in a more programmatic, …
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Visceral Creativity: Digestion, Earthly Melancholy, and Materiality in the Graphic Arts of Early Modern France and the German-Speaking Lands (c. 1530-1675)
Building on recent scholarship in the history of art which has started to reappraise the meaning of grotesque and scatological motifs, this thesis examines how digestion was conceived of as a model of creation, and how this was translated visually. Renaissance creativity was increasingly modelled …
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A Hesitation Of Things
This dissertation, A Hesitation of Things was initially motivated by a temporal, Deleuzian, and Bergsonian enquiry, which appears to trouble notions of ontology and knowledge. It takes up the concept of Hesitation and, tracing a path through meditations on ‘Method’, ‘Writing’, ‘Hesitation’, …
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