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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Modern Art and Architecture"”.
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The story we tell our-selves: renegotiating Fascist Heritage in post-dictatorial Italy
… of the past, as well as how they edited sites and narratives to serve as tools for propaganda. The research has also shown how modern art and architecture supported the regime’s primary need for building consensus, and it has documented the shifts in meaning and use, or lack thereof, of Fascist …
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture
… the communicative movement between the natural and social conditions of a site, as revealed in architecture and sculpture, and most clearly in their continuity. In order to deal with the effects upon modern design and architectural thinking of dead metaphors like 'technology, 'form' and 'space', …
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Persephone in Erebus: a modern paradigm
<p>The history of art has always been the history of humanity; therefore when the nineteenth century spilled into the twentieth and vast tidal changes were occur[r]ing in the fields of science, politics, and religion, the arts both reflected and reinforced these alterations. The most significant …
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Situating the Corrido in Diego Rivera’s Murals at the Ministry of Public Education
… cycle at the Ministry of Public Education, the artist painted a matte red banner with the lyrics of revolutionary ballads, known as <em>corridos</em>. Although there is a great amount of scholarship surrounding Rivera and his murals at the Ministry of Public Education, there is a gap in …
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The role of the artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century: An exploration of dialectical processes in art and science with particular reference to biologically based art
This thesis examines the role of the artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the interaction between art and science in an exploration of the dialectical processes that may occur in that interaction. Researchers have recently developed techniques in stem cell technology …
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Between the Cracks: From Squatting to Tactical Media Art in the Netherlands, 1979–1993
… conflicts between squatters, property owners, and the police frequently escalated into full-scale riots. Although the practice of squatting was legally protected in the Netherlands, the formation of a social movement around squatting in the mid- to late ’70s brought about a turbulent period …
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Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Forensic Analysis: Case Studies on the Identification of Illicit Substances and Artist Pigments
… when target compounds are near metal nanoparticles. For the first part of this thesis, the identification of fentanyl and carfentanil, main culprits in the opioid epidemic, was done using normal Raman and the SERS spectroscopy. As an aid in the assignment of the spectral lines, a …
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Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900
… seven–year war waged against the Ottoman Empire and its nearly 400 years of subjugation, the newly–formed nation–state of Greece, “Hellas”, faced the daunting challenge of uniting a population that was as diverse as its multiple dialects. By mid–century, genre painting began to take shape. …
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The Visual Construction of an Educated Woman in Illustrations of Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long Legs
… pen drawings as a tool for character development and political awareness, and how artists tasked with creating other illustrations for the story misrepresent the progressive nature of Webster’s work by emphasizing her protagonist’s romantic interests. </p>
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Public Art Between Authoritarianism and Democracy (The Case of the Maidan Protest in Ukraine)
<p>This thesis explores the spatial organization and public art of Kyiv’s Independence Square to address broader social and political realities after the Maidan protests of 2013-14. Using theories of power and ideology, this study demonstrates how the discourse on public art reflects the political …
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Memorial Craze: How War Memorials have been Changed by War
… designed specifically in a way that privileged and focused on the dead individually. By taking a look at memorials throughout American history, the study of memorialization sets up the stage for the way the lives of ordinary people have been memorialized throughout history. 9/11 is one of the …
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The Gilded Tropics: Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in Florida, 1886-1917
… examines the Floridian works of Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent in the context of tourism, race, and the environment as perceptions of the tropics in an Anglo-American context. Both artists sojourned in Florida and produced a number of watercolors and related oils that not only testify to …
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Satirical Dissent: The Subversive Messaging of Ad Reinhardt’s 1946 and 1961 Art Comics How to Look at Modern Art in America
<p>Through a close analysis of Ad Reinhard's 1946 and 1961 art comics "How to Look at Modern Art in America,” examined in the context of their times, this paper will argue that Reinhardt’s idealist view and involvement with abstraction, as he saw it in its “purest” form, was intrinsically formed …
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Leandro Erlich: Towards A Collaborative Relationship Between Architecture and Art
… Museum Studies capstone project, I presented and developed a proposal and project plan for an exterior interactive exhibition of an Argentinean artist, Leandro Erlich, at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in San Francisco, California. After researching diverse conflicts between architects …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… examines how a 1930s utopian enclave utilized modernist art and architecture to express the radical back-to-the-land agrarian idealism and socialist ideology of its settlers. The flat-roofed, concrete buildings that housed these Jewish garment workers were designed by German architect Alfred …
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Bloomsbury's Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art
<p>“Bloomsbury’s Byzantium and the Writing of Modern Art” examines the role of Byzantine art in Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry’s and Clive Bell’s narratives of aesthetic Modernism. Fry, in his pre-World War I and interwar writings and teachings on art, and Bell, in seminal texts such as …
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation
<p>In the 1960s, Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz built a successful and provocative career in New York. Throughout the decade, Ortiz created sculptures, performances, and events that were part of a sustained investigation into how embodied destructive and uncomfortable …
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