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Showing 1 to 20 of 255 for “"decorative"”.
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Decorative Specter
… relationships and grand aspirations.Decorative Specter is an exhibition of sculpture and video that depicts a distant future inhabited by decorative artifacts of long extinct human civilizations. The works in this exhibition are speculative portraits of alien, but eerily familiar …
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A decorative arts center for Boston
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1959.
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Experiments in the Decorative Process of Salt-Glazing
It is the purpose of this study to explore the process of salt-glazing and to develop a representative range of colored salt glazes by the application of soluble and insoluble metallic salts to the surface of the clay bodies. Varying percentages of clay forming constituents and metallic salts were …
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Collecting Renaissance Decorative Art in Britain 1850-1914
… private and public collections of Renaissance decorative art in Britain 1850-1914, to establish the role that emerging networks of collectors, curators and dealers played in shaping the demand for Renaissance art objects and establishing the scholarly canon. It seeks to provide an analysis of …
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A decorative art center for New York City
Thesis (B.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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Iron age decorative metalwork in southern Africa: an archival study
… and change in the manufacture and use of decorative metalwork in the Iron Age (200-1900 AD) of southern Africa, within a framework of archival studies and artefact studies theory. The thesis adopted a direct historical approach which exploited the huge database of existing information to …
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The Decorative Imagination: American Modernist Poetry and the Art of Adornment
… this thesis argues that late nineteenth-century decorative art had a profound influence on American modernist poetry. Despite the fact that many modernist artists and critics actively disavowed any decorative influence, I argue that a decorative ethos lives on in modernist poetry. Many of the …
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Developing Fashion Embellishment: Decorative Alternatives to Fur and Exotic Animal Materials
… that existing imitations did not encompass the decorative qualities and appeals associated with high fashion. Embellishment alternatives to fur and exotic animal materials had not previously been documented through research. Applying the researcher’s skills and tacit knowledge as a fashion …
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Characterisation of Potential Replacements for Nickel Compounds used in Decorative Chromium Plating
… replacement to the nickel deposit under the decorative chromium deposit has been characterised in terms of the appearance, surface topography and corrosion resistance by using spectrophotometry, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), linear polarisation, …
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… or Western creations of Chinese-style decorative arts, upon an eighteenth century colonial American audience. Chinese products such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in …
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Reactive magnetron deposition and characterization of ZrN thin films for decorative and field emission applications
… films are as protective hard coatings as well as decorative layers. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized on ZrN, Al2O3, Si (100) and Al2O3/Si (100) substrates by means of sputtering under varying conditions of acetylene and hydrogen gas flow rates, deposition time as well as temperature. The …
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The material culture of the Polley Mansion, Whitehall : vernacular architecture, decorative arts, and domestic arts.
… the Polley Mansion—its vernacular architecture, decorative arts, and domestic arts— draws upon those archives and others to provide a detailed picture of the Polley Whitehall Mansion. Through letters, maps, receipts, photographs, historic records, and newspaper articles we meet the family, and …
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An investigation into the astrological symbols present in two decorative paintings of José de Almada Negreiros (1893 – 1970).
This dissertation presents an investigation of the astrological symbols used in two mural paintings by the twentieth century Portuguese artist José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (1893–1970), known as Almada. Dating from 1939, the paintings are situated in the public hall of the Diário de Notícias …
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