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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Sculptors"”.
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The making of art: sculptors, artisans, and artists in the Apuan Alps
… to sculpture in the way they do. When examining sculptors’ personal trajectories, it becomes apparent that the picture of practical reasoning championed by the anthropology of ethics has overlooked the non-moral goods that guide people’s actions in the workplace. These five chapters will …
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Investigations into the Notion of Sculptors’ Drawings as a Type in Renaissance Tuscany
… another. Furthermore, drawings made by Tuscan sculptors of the sixteenth century are often neglected altogether. This thesis investigates the notion of a sculptural type of drawing and attempts to understand more clearly the appearance and purpose of drawings made by sixteenth-century sculptors …
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Following the stone: Zimbabwean sculptors carving a place in 21st century art worlds
… trajectory of the products of Zimbabwean stone sculptors to examine the interplay between international art markets and the agency of the artists themselves. Although this 1960s arts movement gained recognition within global art circuits during the colonial era – and greater acclaim following …
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The Sociology of Female Artists: A Study of Female Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers in St. Louis
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:45:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606864.pdf: 6292079 bytes, checksum: b57dbb9178464f4d26d7815a5ffa62cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… become the defining image for the American women sculptors who worked in Rome in the midnineteenth century at the height of neoclassicism, subsuming their works and histories under the connotations of its words. Instead of simply permitting us to name these sculptors, `white, marmorean flock' …
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Health Assessment of Artisanal Metal Work: Injury Patterns, Aerosol Exposures, and Biomonitoring
Artisanal metal sculptors are an often independent and self-employed workforce whose contributions to the cultural landscape remain underrecognized in public health research. Despite sustained exposure to airborne particulates and acute injury hazards, these workers operate outside traditional …
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‘The sister arts’: Modern Sculpture and its settings in Britain, c. 1725-1895
… and other, overlapping, professions within which sculptors worked in this period. As both fine and decorative art, sculpture is the key medium with which to reconcile this artificial divide, which I attribute mainly to the founders of the Royal Academy and to their influence on historians. My …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… What meanings did materials have? How did sculptors’ workshops operate? The first two chapters examine the various stages of the commissioning process, from a patron’s initial motivations, to choosing a sculptor, drawing up a contract and agreeing a price. Chapter 1 examines who …
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Scultura a Padova: 1540-1620 circa. Monumenti e ritratti
… busts. Crucial is the connection between the sculptors, the Veneranda Arca di Sant'Antonio and the intellectuals related to the Studio or to the academies of the city. The stylistic development and peculiar forms are compared with those of the contemporary Venice.
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Silicosis among Cape gemstone workers : tigers' eye pneumoconiosis
… gem stones. They had been employed as stone sculptors in lapidaries where they processed tigers' eye, rose quartz, amethyst, quartz crystal and a variety of other locally occurring semi-precious stones. In five of the cases exposure was in small and poorly regulated lapidaries without …
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Studies in the Hellenistic Sculpture of the Island of Rhodes
… now missing statues they once held and about the sculptors who signed them. An attempt is then made to correlate the evidence of the extant sculpture with that of the statue bases, and to correlate the entire body of the material evidence with the literary sources.</p> <p>The preserved marble …
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Circling Modernism: Charles Ray, Tom Friedman, Analia Saban, and Sculpture after 1970
… This dissertation presents a study of three sculptors working in the wake of the medium’s sea change. Born roughly fifteen years apart, Charles Ray (b. 1953), Tom Friedman (b. 1965), and Analia Saban (b. 1980) were trained in progressively different decades: Ray in the seventies, Friedman in …
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MoMA in France: The Construction of an *American Cultural Identity
… the fifties: 12 Modern American Painters and Sculptors (1953); 50 Ans d'art aux etats-unis (1955); and The New American Painting (1958--59). Together they define a key phase for the history of the International Program, spanning its tentative beginnings through to the breakthrough for American …
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Conceptions of giftedness and creativity from Africa : the Shona culture's perspective
… to generate a mid-range theory of Shona stone sculptors’ talent attributions focusing on how they propel a field of art. Participants in the study were 20 top talented Shona stone sculptors (icons of creative works in Zimbabwe). The Shona model of giftedness that emerged is spiritual, …
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Pit House Revival: An Exercise in Composition
… of discipline, being "at once architects, sculptors, decorators and picture-painters" (Dow, 1997).
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Pietro Perugino (1450-1523) and the Practice of Reuse: Redefining Imitazione in the Italian Renaissance
… in his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1568). Significantly, in the sixteenth century, theorists revised the concept of imitation to incorporate not only the notion of replication, but emulation as well. An examination of Perugino's reproductive practices …
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Uncoiling the Laocoon: Revealing the Statue Group's Significance in Augustan Rome
… This led prosopographical experts to date the sculptors' activity to the early decades of the Roman Empire and while this date has been accepted by most scholars of Hellenistic art, the implications of situating the Laocoon in this period has not been fully explored. This thesis examines the …
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How can art change the meaning of the city? : an examination of an installation in a public setting, Compton Court, M.I.T.
… included theories of perception and cognition. Sculptors are challenging the assigned role to public institutions, in terms of the work's symbology and meaning. Planners are questioning the value of their work based upon the lived perceptions of people on its streets. This shared questioning …
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Translating and interpreting South Africa’s cultures: art, song and dance in Mda’s selected novels
… (1995), The Heart of Redness (2000), and The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013). The study employs post-colonial theories and decolonial perspectives to discern how Mda deploys these artistic expressions to transcend their aesthetic value, acting as powerful symbols of resistance, unity, and …
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton: Victorian Art Critic (England)
… the selection of subject matter for painters and sculptors and whose role it was to educate a new art-buying public about what constitutes good art and what does not. This attempt to analyze the proposals and solutions put forward by Hamerton, in his time, is intended to shed light on the function …
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