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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"W990 - Creative arts & design not elsewhere classified"”.
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AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND: Dialogic and Exhibitionary Practices of Black Contemporary Artists and Curators in Art Museums
This research seeks to better understand how Black artists experience the mainstream art museum. The thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship on curating contemporary art through qualitative analysis of subjective approaches to art museum space. It makes evident responses to …
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The philosophy of anti-art
… that the problems to which I draw attention have not been sufficiently appreciated by those philosophers and critics and historians who have written about them. I claim that the problems I raise are, in part at least, philosophical problems and that to solve them we need to examine the criteria we …
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A strategy for culture: Five nation study of arts support systems
… in organisational behaviour to the study of the Arts C ouncil as reflected through its policies , in the belief that few , if any , real attempts have thus far been made by academics to relate some of the profound difficulties of the public administration of the art to this branch of the …
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
The aim of the thesis is to consider the surrealist portrait and whether it has added to an understanding of portraiture as a genre. It uses Richard Brilliant's Portraiture (1991) and Shearer West's Portraiture (2004) as points of reference, using the limited examples of surrealist portraiture …
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The chemistry of some polysubstituted derivatives of di - and triphenylmethane dyes
… of the first frequency absorption band. It is noted that the 2,3dichloro derivative produced an anomalous spectral result and an explanation is postulated. The linear relationship between the wavelength of maximum absorption for the x-band of the 3,47 and 3,5-diubstituted derivatives of …
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A study of some derivatives of brilliant green
A series of derivatives of Brilliant Green containing substituents in the ortho-position of the phenyl ring has been synthesised, together with some derivatives in which the phenyl ring has been replaced by a heterocyclic ring. The visible absorption spectra of the dyes have been correlated with …