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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"NB Sculpture"”.
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Renaissance to Regent Street: Harold Rathbone and the Della Robbia Pottery of Birkenhead
… ceramics. This was not only with the sculpture collections in the South Kensington Museum but through his experiences as he travelled in Italy. In the first sustained examination of the development of the Della Robbia Pottery within the wider histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement, …
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Sculpture in site: Examining the relationship between sculpture and site in the principal works of Giambologna
… from conducting an analysis of every inch of a sculpture’s surface and choose to look around the sculpture and understand its site, a whole new perspective reveals itself. This is the approach that I propose in my thesis. Taking three principal works of Giambologna—Fountain of Neptune, …
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The potential of digital representation: The changing meaning of the Ife ‘bronzes’ from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum
For many years, meanings and interpretations of artefacts that are taken to represent African culture including the Ife bronzes have been predominantly produced and fixed by a team of western curatorial experts (Ciolfi, 2012). Such museum practices have prevented visitors and the people being …
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Tilman Riemenschneider's monochrome sculpture: an examination of its origin
… It focuses on the sculptor’s Münnerstadt, Rothenberg and Creglingen altarpieces. The discussion which combines new observations with previous scholar’s theories, examines the nature of the monochrome glaze and Riemenschneider’s carving of detailed sculptural surfaces to enhance the monochrome …
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Object into action: group Ongaku and Fluxus
This study focuses on the relation of three Japanese artists to Fluxus: Takehisa Kosugi, Mieko Shiomi, and Yasunao Tone. In the early 1960s, these three were part of a free improvisational music group in Tokyo called ‘Group Ongaku’ (Music Group). In Group Ongaku, partly through concerns with …
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Floristry and fine art — a practical and conceptual investigation
This dissertation investigates the concepts of both floristry and art and how they are interrelated, drawing on the author’s 15 years’ experience in the floristry industry. The research is based on both theory and personal practice. The most common theoretical concepts of both art and floristry …
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Dalí's Religious Models: the Iconography of Martyrdom and its Contemplation
This thesis investigates Dalí’s adoption of religious iconography to help represent themes that he had conceptualised through Surrealism, psychoanalysis and other thought systems. His selective use of sources was closely bound to his life circumstances, and I integrate biographical details in my …
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Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Enter, Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Touch
Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Enter, Do ̶N̶o̶t̶ Touch, is an invitation to the viewer to enter the exhibition area and to interact physically with all the components of my installation. By this physical act of involvement, it highlights the questions of fear, vulnerability, courage and connection in relation to my …
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More Alive than Ever? Futurism in the 1940s
The 1940s are undoubtedly the years most neglected by scholars of Italian Futurism. The movement had long supported Fascism, but its vocal endorsement of Mussolini’s regime and its military adventures at this time is widely considered to represent Futurism’s ultimate betrayal of those …