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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Modern art"”.
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Understanding Modern Art.
… as to the everyday functional values of modern art and its purpose in relation to the betterment of individual and group living. The inability to present reasonable and concrete factors in a saleable capacity instigated a desire to conduct research in the interest of self enlightenment …
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Pioneers of modern art in Malta
… attempts to outline the beginnings of Modem Art in Malta in the fields of painting and sculpture. In the process, the main pioneers who brought about this cultural change are identified and their output is analysed in terms of their individual and group efforts. Modem Art in Malta cannot be …
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Gallery of modern art --- a museum
Thesis (M.Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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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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Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
As the art historical canon makes a turn toward decolonization in the 21st century, art historians have an opportunity to rediscover and recognize long marginalized artists whose contributions expand, complicate, and enhance the conventional narrative that has most often privileged the work of …
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Stitches on Display: Embroidery Exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art
… the materiality and visuality of the embroidered artworks by Marguerite Zorach and Elaine Reichek, this thesis analyzes the material acknowledgement, or lack thereof, of the embroidery medium in both the artists' own motivations and how the Museum of Modern Art represents and displays modern …
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Modern art for middle America : American abstraction in mass magazines, 1946-1960
… examines how mass magazines framed abstract art for a broad public during the years following the Second World War. While art historians have devoted much attention to Abstract Expressionism’s place within the New York art establishment and its international promotion, the presentation of …
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Gothic Views, Romantic Visions: The Spatial Dynamics of Modern Art and Literature
… Romantic movement in literature and the visual arts. The purpose of this study is not only to examine the aesthetic concepts of the Gothic Revival--in architecture, literature, and landscape gardening--but to explore how these concepts were further nurtured by several Romantic authors, …
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An investigation of the impact of NFTs on the Modern Art Market
… Tokens (NFTs) and blockchain technology by the art industry, creates a digital art market. NFTs also change the way artists earn a living from their creations and enable digital asset ownership which impacts any potential digital art owners. This thesis reviews the available academic literature …
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A correlative study of the anti-literal in modern art, music, and literature
… as a way to enjoyment of the anti-literal in modern art.<sup>1</sup> The work of art is regarded as the locus of various cultural factors--a live product of the vital energies of its age and itself a source as well as a reflection. The analysis of these cultural factors lays no claim to …
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The Aesthetics of the Modern: Art, Education, and Taste in Egypt 1903-1952
… production, and consumption of the category of modern art in Egypt during the first half of the twentieth century. It is structured as a series of four case studies, each offering a rereading of a moment that has been repeatedly highlighted in the literature as a turning point in the development …
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The effect of the principles of dynamic symmetry on modern art and science
… basis for the motivation and design of geometric art forms. Through a comparison of both contemporary concepts of dimensional space and ancient structural forms, new relationships are inferred. These relationships are then applied in the creation of original sculpture by the artist.
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Rethinking the modern : imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art, New York
… of the emergence of the digital media as a new art form on the museum space. The museum as an institution has faced some ideological and philosophical contradictions in recent times. Economically, heightened competition for dwindling funds has begun to shape programming decisions. …
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Understanding disease through a post-modern art practice : (a collaboration of artistic and educational practice)
The focus of this thesis is to reflect on my artistic practice from a post-modern way of thinking and seeing the world. This research examines the educational potential of my art production. I propose definitions for three phases of learning, which emerge from my artistic practice: self-learning, …
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Spectacular architecture, identity crisis, cultural politics and the reinvention of the significance of museums of modern art
… on the impact of the architecture of museums of modern art has centred upon the 'spectacularity' of such structures and the regeneration effect on sites and/or cities triggered by their presence, often highlighting their agency in promoting mass tourist activity. However, apart from these widely …
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Marketing the aesthetic encounter : the role of consumption in the design of the new Museum of Modern Art
… in this thesis as a significant ground for articulating the relation between cultural and consumer practices. Assuming that contemporary societies increasingly operate within a highly consumptive culture, where people seek new experiences through travel, leisurely activities and cultural …
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Art Criticism, Scholarly Interpretation, and Curatorial Intent: A Reassessment of the 1998 Jackson Pollock Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective exhibition of artworks by Jackson Pollock. Curators Kirk Varnedoe and Pepe Karmel worked in an art historical context that had been significantly shaped by the early critical writings by Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. The curators’ …
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Using the traditional textile Sadu as an element of the Kuwait traditions and representing it as a monumental modern art form
… heritage through Sadu textile; the research starts with determining the factors needed by Sadu in order to move to the monumental modern art form. One of these factors is the analysis presented by the artists of the first generation in Kuwait concerning Sadu and what was presented by Sami …
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