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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Quilts"”.
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Quilts as Visual Texts
I argue that quilts should be considered as visual texts, one to which theories of visual rhetoric and rhetoric in general can be applied. In drawing together the worlds of academia and quilting, I will use a variety of theoretical lens to explore quilts as texts. As a text, quilts contain units of …
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Appalachian quilts of Floyd County, Virginia
… of the research was to study the evolution of quilts in Floyd County, Virginia, as a means of documenting the life and culture of the county natives. Both documents and relics were examined and methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis were utilized. The relics were any existing quilts …
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Pseudoholomorphic quilts with figure eight singularity
… core of this construction is pseudoholomorphic quilts with figure eight singularity. In the first part, I propose a blueprint for constructing an algebraic object that binds together the Fukaya categories of many different symplectic manifolds. I call this object the "symplectic …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
<p>When traditionally feminized crafts such as quilting are embraced as fine art, the discourses surrounding their "elevation" often serve to bolster the power of art world establishments by referencing the tenets of modernism and employing mutually reinforcing aesthetic hierarchies. In this …
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Material matters : color, pattern, cognition, and perception in quilts from the Winedale Collection
American quilts, at their best, have been celebrated for nearly fifty years as masterpieces of unschooled and unintentional modernism, and their mostly female makers cast as implicitly innocent and ignorant. Myth and convention hold that patchwork quilts materialized from scraps of cloth and an …
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Hawaiian Quilt Art: Continuity and Change
… moe</em> (barkcloth) to modern contemporary quilts. Hawaiian Fiber Arts, patchwork quilts, traditional appliqued quilts, flag quilts, contemporary quilts, and contemporary/sashiko quilts are presented. The time period studied in this thesis spans approximately 200 years. Data have been …
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A Seamless Journey
My quilts serve as a visual journal of some of my travels and experiences. Through my quilts, I remember the rich colors and memories of my European adventures. The methodical process of stitching quilts line by line is an important process for my recollection of the many steps taken during my trip …
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Material Memory
… and prints. With works on pedestals, suspended quilts, and framed prints, this exhibit embodies the physical and emotional landscapes of home. The use of household objects to construct the artworks conveys themes of family memories trapped in domestic clutter.</p>
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A cultural illness : women, identity and eating problems in Faith Ringgold's 'Change' series
… the use of photomontage and text, Ringgold's quilts articulate her eating patterns from the early 1930s through to the 1980s. She discloses her eating habits of the different "women", (all of them, of course, being herself) who are portrayed on the quilts, and voices the construction of …
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Chere
… and their African American hybrid forms, quilts. This project analyses Ptolemaic concepts in regards of pre-Columbian and African map conventions, and African syllabaries in order to visualize aspects of the African diaspora such as colonization, evangelization, displacement, instability, …
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Between Friends.
… work including prints, metal point drawings, and quilts. These works are an exploration showing the artist's voyeuristic studies through line, texture, form, pigment, and wax.</p><p>This thesis goes into detail about how the artist came to create this group of art by discussing tools, printmaking …
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Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
… precarity of the state. My study of Irish AIDS Quilts explores the practice of AIDS Quilting among voluntary HIV/AIDS organisations that have been operating within a context overshadowed by religious moralization, and shaped by an inequitable geographical distribution of disease. I begin by …
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
… in examples of folk art and culture, including quilts, mojo hands, Afro-Carolinian face vessels, memory jugs and burial sites. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, artists appear to have recontextualized elements of minkisi within their work, among these James “Son Ford” Thomas, James …
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Women, Art, and Community: A Proposal for a Non-Profit Pottery Program in Appalachia.
… individuals who enjoy making and sharing quilts, songs, paintings, poetry, and other art. However, many women in rural areas of Central Appalachia lack access to basic resources because of poverty.</p><p>While many agencies help poor women find shelter, clothing, and food, there are few …
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Symplectic cohomology and duality for the wrapped Fukaya Category
… for W via a wrapped version of holomorphic quilts, (2) new geometric operations, coming from discs with two negative punctures and arbitrary many positive punctures, (3) a generalization of the Cardy condition, and (4) the use of homotopy units and A-infinity shuffle products to relate …
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The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture
… the Islamic aesthetics in African American quilts. This work focuses on design and color elements and I trace Islamic influence from West Africa to the U.S. South by way of the slave trade. The original scholarship comes from in the Mississippi Delta, although this thesis also uses quilt …
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Toward an Artifact-Forward Feminist Design History
… a block quilt from the Library of Congress’<em> Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978–1996</em> allows for testing the efficacy of an artifact-forward research method, Prownian analysis, as a means of studying such objects. Through this case study, I discover the rich potential in highlighting …
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‘As I cannot write’: transforming perceived barriers toautobiographical writing through the use of experimental writingpractices
… autobiography, formed from linked sequences of quilts, which are embellished and embroidered with experimental and conceptual writing. The basis of the pieces will be found texts, rather than memoir, in order to investigate the potential of experimental writing techniques to construct and …
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