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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Statues"”.
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Dreams, hallucinations, moving statues, and Ekphrasis in Ludwig Tieck's visual writings
<p>When reading Ludwig Tieck's texts the reader becomes aware that dreams, the unconscious, and art play a key role. This study seeks to posit that Ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
… physically powerful ghosts, and natural looking statues serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and playwright as they work …
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Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities
… of becoming visible through commemoration in statues. This thesis compares the commemoration of historical women in four different American cities. Stakeholders hold the key to implementing and changing public policy to increase the visibility of women and people of color in public monuments. …
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Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice
This study reappraises the role and value of statues (i.e. the figure as sculpture) in order to determine what happens when we encounter these objects. The consideration and construction of statues in my studio practice has generated specific insights into statues as person-shaped objects and into …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
… the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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Ah Jongumsobomvu! an analysis of the commemorative statues of Nkosi Jongumsobomvu Maqoma
… minor dissertation examines two commemorative statues of Nkosi Maqoma with the aim of unpacking the very different local and national political projects in which his memory has recently been mobilised. The first statue, commissioned by the Eastern Cape government through independent heritage …
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
<p dir="ltr">Volume II - Under permanent embargo</p>
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
… a radically new purpose. The so-called ‘talking statues’ operated as customary sites for the affixion of anonymous satires, giving a voice to those aiming to express political and religious criticism freely. The phenomenon was initiated at the statue of Pasquino. The popularity of this statue and …
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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture
Stephen Guy-Bray argues that though the story of Pygmalion has taken various forms in the nineteenth century, “it is often read as a story of artistic and sexual triumph” (447). But a sexual triumph for whom? My thesis addresses questions pertaining to how the nude female body is vieon the …
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A Case Study of Michelle's Statuary
… traveling to California to purchase unpainted statues. The statues were brought back to Omaha to be sold painted or unpainted through outlets such as hobby or art shops and exhibitions. Jimmie began ordering these statues from California through his friends. But the high overhead forced him to …
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The gayest sculpture in history: Obscured male same-sex desire in the descriptions of the Antinous statues in eighteenth-century art history and nineteenth-century German fiction
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 121063 Lift date: 2024-01-12T22:35:30Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… the relationships that take place between statues and devotees show that instead of being mere objects, statues of the Goddess and Virgin are subjective, relational participants in ceremony, rites and ritual, and they play central roles in how human relationships with the divine are …
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Henry Adams: An Education in Autobiography
… a nation’s character might well be found in the statues that stand in its municipal parks or the books that lie on its library shelves. In the wake of Charlottesville, we have begun to pull-down equestrian statues of Stonewall Jackson and the like – knocking them off their proverbial high horses. …
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Buddhist sculpture of Wu Yueh, 907-978: Chinese sculpture of the tenth century
… the construction of many Buddhist temples and statues.
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The life and work of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
… commissioned by Queen Victoria and his portrait statues of her and other royalty. Chapter 4 examines Boehm's other portrait statues, with emphasis on his best documented works such as the monuments to Sir Francis Drake and the Duke of Wellington. Chapter 5 does the same for his church monuments. …
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Memorialising White Supremacy: The Politics of Statue Removal: A Comparative Case Study of the Rhodes Statue at the University of Cape Town and the Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia
… (#RMF) movement, a movement that would see statues questioned and vandalised across the country. Two years later, fierce contestation over the hegemonic narrative told through the American South’s symbolic landscape erupted over the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert …
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Go through the waves : a novel
… Gwyn Thomas, who continuously builds statues to communicate with unseen people, and who drowns in her search for them. Then there is Jane Evans who volunteers in the Korean War, and returns traumatised and haunted by the soldier who she killed accidentally and with whom she attempts to …
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Johnathan Richardson's art theory: The canon of history painting and its preeminent realization in Raphael's cartoons
… 1719, and in An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas Reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, 1722, Richardson's prominence in the field was fixed.
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