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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"art theory"”.
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Public occupations : art theory, cultural methodology, and social change
Various combinations of the terms "public" and "art" circulate in news sources, gallery publications, art magazines, and theoretical texts. Within this area of art theory, criticism, and discussion, the designation public functions as a "discursive operator" (J. M. Berthelot) because similar …
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Affective Analysis of Abstract Paintings Using Statistical Analysis and Art Theory
… on empirical studies, we employ the state-of-the-art computer vision techniques in order to understand what makes an abstract artwork emotional. We identify and quantify the emotional regions of abstract paintings. We also investigate the contributions of the main aspects present on abstract …
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The Autonomous Maker within: 'Fantasia' in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art Theory (1501-1568)
… the significance of the notion of fantasia for artists and critics of art in Italy during the sixteenth century up to the definitive edition of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives (1568). It charts the pre-history of this term in an age before the imagination was attributed paramount importance in …
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Johnathan Richardson's art theory: The canon of history painting and its preeminent realization in Raphael's cartoons
… 1715, when Richardson published An Essay on The Theory of Painting, he established English leadership in the writing of theoretical treatises on art. Prior to this time, no Englishman had produced a distinctive and comprehensive explanation of art theory or an essay that was of equal stature to …
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Style and truth in the neoclassical art theory and criticism of Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Winckelmann
… enjoyed a greater reputation as an educator and art theorist than as a painter. Mengs' advice to young artists on the masters and precepts of the classical-minded Roman School of painting was substantially enriched by his early collaboration with Johann Winckelmann in Rome during the middle …
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Drawing Through A Linear Temperament
… person statement is a written extension of the art that constitutes my thesis. It discusses the links between my work and the Enlightenment, Humanism, Catholicism, ethics and the Western canon as well as my use of perspective and other classical techniques in relation to history, language, high …
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Cognitive aspects of pictorial address and seriality in art: A practice-led investigtion
… to notions of pictorial address and seriality in art. It is interdisciplinary and practice-led, culminating in a written outcome and a portfolio of creative work. The thesis suggests a model for the exchange of ideas within experimental psychology, art practice and art theory. The research …
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An investigation from the view of the illustrator, into the representational stereotypes contained within UK-published, children's picture books, 1960-1994
… illustration within educational, literary, and art theory studies, as a means to site the research amongst other arts-related academic works, and to present critical/theoretical prompts for further study in the subject. The practical element has involved the production of a collection of …
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
The subject of this thesis is ephemeral art; a phenomenon which has surfaced repeatedly in Western art history since the middle of the last century. The research begins from the premise that in order to understand ephemeral art it must be approached as a philosophical proposition concerning the …
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Postmodernism and the fall of the Berlin Wall: the role of postmodernism in Berlin’s aesthetic before and after 1989
… as its focus the impact of postmodern critical theory on the vanishing Berlin Wall and on the work of selected German artists working before, during and after the fall of the Wall. It discusses the Wall itself as a sign that has been subjected to various discursive translations: from divider of …
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Epistemic Theatres: The Dramaturgy of Knowledge in Twenty-First Century Theatre
… literature, science and technology studies, and art theory to attend the distinctive dramaturgical features of lecture-performance and other contemporary examples of epistemic theatres. After theorizing their roots, their causes, and their objectives, I build on the intrinsic and mutual links …
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The reception of Dutch genre painting in England, 1695-1829
… the place of Dutch genre painting in the English theory of art between 1695, when Dryden's translation of Du Fresnoy's De Arte Graphica established it as the quintessential example of bad artistic practice, and 1829, when the obsolescence of this way of thinking was signalled by the publication of …
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Why Not Kinkade? An Evaluation of the Conditions Effecting an Artists Exclusion from Academic Criticism.
… debate, the subject of Thomas Kinkade and his artwork is discernibly absent from the realm of academic discourse. This paper is an investigation into that condition and the circumstances for its perpetuation. Central to the issue is Kinkade's art theory and practice, which establishes his …
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Zeegezichten
… produced during the course of my Masters of Fine Art (MFA) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. For a better understanding of this body of work, it is important that I relate the events in part that led up to its production. My intention from the start (in selecting a change of working location …
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Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States
… (and often intentional contradiction to) the art theory being incubated in contemporaneous art institutions, pedagogies, and practices. His written texts and museum praxis responded to emerging notions of subjectivity, restoration, and perception in the aesthetic theory of Alois Riegl and …
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G.-Albert Aurier, critic and theorist of Symbolist art
This is a study of all the published writings on art by the Symbolist poet-critic G.-Albert Aurier, intending to elucidate the systematic theory of art that underlies all his criticism. It includes a brief biographical account of Aurier's career as an art critic as well as a Symbolist poet and …
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Landscape painting as a critical cross-cultural art practice : exploring how the theories and methodologies in ancient Chinese painting can be fused into contemporary landscape art practice to expand existing artistic formats
This thesis is part of a practice-based Ph.D. study that investigates the genre of landscape painting through a cross-cultural perspective and method of practice. It attempts to link and step across the fields of ancient Chinese and contemporary Western art, with a focus on how to critically …
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Measurements of the Absolute Cross Section of the Three-body Photodisintegration of Helium-3 Between E[gamma] = 11.4 MeV and 14.7 MeV at HIGS
… phase space calculations, and state-of-the-art three-body calculations. The inclusion of the Coulomb interaction in the three-body problem has been a long-standing challenge in theoretical nuclear physics. The present experimental data were found to be in good agreement with the …
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