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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Iconology"”.
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A igreja de S. Pedro dos Cléricos do Rio de Janeiro e suas congêneres: um estudo iconográfico do desenvolvimento do plano
… architectonic space. In other words, an "iconology manual" in which iconic fig' ures are substituted for architectonic forms. These will be arranged with the purpose to show the existence of a symbolic content common to all those that bear plastic and formal similarities. In i ts first …
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The Beautiful Struggle: an Analysis of Hip Hop Icons, Archetypes, and Aesthetics
… view of pre-hip hop era and hip hop era icons, iconology, archetypes and aesthetics and teases out their influence on hip hop aesthetics. I identify specific figures, movements and events within the context of African American and American folk and popular culture traditions and link them to …
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An electronic laager: a sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order
… to be in the public interest, and substitutes an iconology dedicated to the values of sunny skies, beer and braaivleis. (Dubow 1986: 60) As an artist living in South Africa, I am part of the generation that has had to cope with the 'intellectual laundering' Dubow speaks of. I have experienced the …
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Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes?
… opening new avenues of study in Maya skyscape iconology. It is the assessment of this thesis that all the young females in the image represent phases of the Moon goddess, and as such, her movement across time and space, her path as she traverses realms and her interactions with the Sun and …
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From Tempera to Ink to Code: The Other Media of Orthodox Iconography
… offer valuable contributions to the fields of iconology and iconography.
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An approach to the sublime of death
… to explore as the basis for an architectural iconology with the hope that the iconography and the design will create an acute aesthetic response in an intelligent viewer. My aim has not been so much to design a cemetery, and much less a crematorium. I wanted to go beyond the banality of …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… narrative"" that is encoded into nuclear iconology during this period The alchemical narrative suggests that nuclear icons expressed more than just the concept of death traditionally associated with them, becoming powerful symbols of rebirth in popular culture. The alchemical narrative is …
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Dutch Artists in England: Examining the Cultural Interchange between England and the Netherlands in ‘Low’ Art in the Seventeenth Century.
… interpretations - in particular iconography and iconology, descriptive versus narrative art and national identity - have been explored and considered in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the literature that already exists for this art in an effort to consider something new but to …
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Contingencies : visualizing tensions between contemporary critical theory and Canadian art practice
… rejection or retreat from authority, a symbol or iconology, visibility as alterity. Thus from the perspective of new enquiries visualism emerges as a key category of postmodern analysis. As a discourse, it shapes the contingencies that, in this assessment would productively reformulate the …
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Irving Gill and rediscovery of concrete in California the Marie and Chauncey Clark, 1919-22
… thesis adopts a method which could be called an "iconology of materials." A focus on the material context does not imply any obvious mechanistic relation between the properties of reinforced concrete and Gill's architectural forms - indeed, it will be shown that there is no obvious correlation. …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
… associated concepts of iconography and iconology, is employed to analyze the layered meanings embedded in Curry’s illustrations and to investigate how these images convey narrative meaning alongside the written word. Primary source materials—including correspondence between Curry and …
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The Wittelsbach Court in Munich: history and authority in the visual arts (1460-1508)
… the methodologies of the stylistic analysis, iconology and social history emphasises the conceptual relations between the ducal court’s various cultural products, which were conceived as ensembles and complemented each other. The elucidation of their meanings to contemporaries and the patrons’ …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… attitudes of the era. It explores the cultural iconology of the ornamental pleasure dairy in England and its appropriation into the landscape parks of the elite. Ornamental dairies held significant ideological associations that were heightened and nuanced by their placement within the larger …
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Die Wildnis: visuelle Neugier in der Landschaftsmalerei : eine ikonologische Untersuchung der niederländischen Berg- und Waldlandschaften und ihres Naturbegriffes um 1600
In der Zeit zwischen Pieter Bruegel d.Ä. und Peter Paul Rubens kam es zu entscheidenden Veränderungen in der flämischen Landschaftsmalerei. Der Typus der Weltlandschaft bzw. der Übersichtslandschaft verlor an Bedeutung, während gleichzeitig neue Landschaftstypen entwickelt wurden, die sich auf …
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A vida e a obra do historiador Flávio Gonçalves (1929-1987) : estudos breves
Flávio Gonçalves (1929-1987) é uma personalidade multidisciplinar. Historiador da Arte, iconógrafo, iconólogo, investigador, professor, conferencista, constitui-se como objeto de estudo proposto para a dissertação final do mestrado em Estudos do Património. Homem de ciência, Flávio Gonçalves é …