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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Rubbings"”.
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Character extraction from ancient Chinese stele using discrete cosine transform
… applied to locate Chinese characters in ink rubbings of ancient Chinese steles (stone slabs with inscribed characters) in order to extract the characters by creating a bounding box in the image reconstructed by the inverse DCT. This work is a sub-project of a Chinese calligraphy bibliotic …
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Come to Your Senses, Remember Belongings: A Pedagogy of Making, Memory and the Haptics of Home
… distinct drawing installations of graphite rubbings on tracing paper, assembling a feminist response to familial vulnerabilities. The subject is the floors, walls, windows, ceilings, doors, stairs, furniture, clothing and surrounding landscape of an inherited home, forming a partial and …
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Playground for the Imagination
… the shapes of trees and their roots through rubbings, paintings, and sculpture, I sought to express this interaction between humans and nature. My artwork metamorphosed from the traditionally separated forms of painting and sculpture into an environment. The transformation of natural …
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Dear Sycamore
<p>I create paintings, sculptures, and rubbings to pay tribute to the earthly beings found within my immediate surroundings. I use indexical processes that stain, trace, and record to preserve a moment in time. The process of rubbing is a tactile and meticulous activity of excavation. It is an …
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Classification of Finishing Tools in Greek Bookbinding: Establishing links from the Library of St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
… with its dependencies is also explored. Rubbings of the approximately 5500 tool impressions on the 1195 decorated bindings have provided the core research material. They have been identified, classified and organized into a descriptive electronic database. Imaging techniques have been …
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The Tradition of Imitative Copying in Chinese Calligraphy
… masters, either through originals or through ink rubbings of stone inscriptions. There are no examples of calligraphers who became proficient in this art without modeling their work, for a certain period of their lives at least, on the calligraphic works of others. The tradition of imitative …
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Nancy Huston in Self-translation. An Aesthetics of Redoublement.
… feature is a constant attention to “phonetical rubbings and rhymings” of each language and for creating equivalent musical patterns in translation. Comparison showed, though, that strategies of self-translation are negotiated from context to context and from text to text, even within the corpus …