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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"embellishment"”.
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Developing Fashion Embellishment: Decorative Alternatives to Fur and Exotic Animal Materials
… appealing resources in the creation of fashion embellishment. The researcher’s prior experience working for fashion brands which incorporated fur and exotic animal materials was that existing imitations did not encompass the decorative qualities and appeals associated with high fashion. …
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Maps, metaphor and memory : a personal investigation through image manipulation and textile embellishment
This exegesis supports the artist-researcher's Creative Arts Project, which explores how personal memories and reflection on family history and narratives can be used as resources for image making. The exegesis underscores the essentialness of Efland' s (1990) Expressive Psychoanalytic model as a …
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The embellishment in Mozart's keyboard music with specific application to seven of his late piano concertos
… and need filling out. Other places require embellishment. These aspects are characteristic of the late piano concertos, and are used in this study, namely: K.466 in D minor, K.482 in Eb major, K.488 in A major, K.491 in C minor, K.503 in C major, K.537 in D major, and K.595 in B b major. The …
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Islamic ceramic ornamentation and process: proposals for a new aesthetic vocabulary in contemporary architectural embellishment within kuwait
… been the application of ceramic ornamentation or embellishment. There is a growing concern, however, that this legacy is being eroded. The diminishing identity of Islamic visual culture is particularly evident through current architectural developments occurring in the Arab states. The building …
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Material INTO Practice, Practice ONTO Body and OUT TO Space; Exploration of sequins as a spatial concept through a new embellishment technique
… history, materiality, and development of fashion embellishment, with a particular emphasis on sequins for the first time. It is an interdisciplinary PhD study using cultural studies, art histories, fashion practice and theory, and it expands the subject of embellishment to include sculptural …
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Technicolor Memoirs of Miss Gene Lily Richardson
… to fit with the time-period with only slight embellishment. The fictional Miss Gene Lily Richardson is the persona and character through which these non-fictional stories breathe through on stage.</p>
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Distillation
… aperture. An honest detail, delivered without embellishment, instills emotion. Form is sculpted and resculpted, distilled, until a minimum of moves create the "particular sequence of motion and fact that make the emotion". Clear lucid simplicity, the ability to share a fundamental emotion with …
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Of Time and Place / A Municipal Government Facility in Edenton, NC
… of attaching community-accepted stylistic embellishment to any new building. This is unfortunately done without historic examination of place. All too often the desire is for a historic connection through iconographic application. This usually results in a farce that mocks and devalues the …
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Wild Embrace
… page, they have been run through a variety of embellishment, artistic license, and shifting narrative forms.</p> <p>The poems in this collection attempt to capture a heightened emotional truth that can’t be attained by mere reporting of fact. WILD EMBRACE sifts through the ashes of suffering …
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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… maintains both historical truth and fictional embellishment, whereas Littell's and Haenel's texts are <em>too</em> fictionalized, and therefore fail to maintain enough historical accuracy to be considered historically true.</p>
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From Hand Craft to Digital Technology: a practice-based material culture analysis of the historical and contemporary ancillary trades of the London élite fashion industry
… to those trades that are concerned with embellishment; and by developing and applying a material culture framework to the execution and analysis of practice. The ancillary trades serve the material production of luxury fashion through the small scale, bespoke manufacturing of items such …
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Sensory flows of spice: a multisensory ethnography exploring how spice influences home cooks’ sense of belonging in Cape Town
… previously known as the Malay quarters. This embellishment of a spicy orientalist narrative of Cape history continues to silence the realities of complex overlapping identities that are held in “coloured” bodies in post-apartheid South Africa. It is these fixed cuisine narratives that begin to …
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Chet Baker : a study of his improvisational style, 1952-1959
… use of nonharmonic tones, use of jazz cliches, embellishment of the melodic line, use of melodic and rhythmic patterns, range, tone quality, articulation, vibrato, and vocal scat syllables. As a result of this analysis, the researcher was able to draw conclusions concerning Baker's …
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Ozarkitecture: Shaping the Sense of a Region
… loci—the spirit of place—not as a nostalgic embellishment, but as an ethical and practical imperative. It traces the philosophical and historical foundations of place, examines how contemporary practice has diluted its meaning, and explains why a new approach is necessary. From this …
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Historical Performance Practices in Organ Works Before 1750 in Liège
… temperament, fingering, pedaling, ornamentation, embellishment, rhythmic freedom, agogics, notes inégales, and venue acoustics. Finally, an appendix presents a lecture recital on the topic of historical performance practices in organ works by the composers Buxtehude, Clérambault, J. S. Bach, and …
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"Through all maskes my wo"; poet and persona in Astrophil and Stella
… some of the sonnets seem to reject rhetorical embellishment and use of traditional material, calling instead for an unadorned poetry which would find original themes and expression, while on the other hand many of the poems within the sequence are composed in an ornate style and the work as a …
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The employment of ornamentation in present day trombone performance of transcriptions of Baroque literature
… performance. The Italian tradition of free embellishment is presented and compared with the French tradition of composers' providing specific ornaments for their music. The author's choice of ornaments presented in the sonatas of Galliard, Marcello, and Vivaldi in Chapters 4, 5, and 6 is …
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Delineating disease : a system for investigating Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
… Relevant detail is emphasized without additional embellishment or alteration of information, offering clarity to the understanding of the delineator and the viewer.</p> <p>Collaborative workshops with medical illustrators and archaeologists were undertaken to understand differences and …
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Chopin's Cantabile in Context
… yet idealized style involving spontaneous embellishment and responsive rubato, these passages also refine our understanding of how melody was created and improvised in standard early-nineteenth-century performance practice, why cantabile was particularly conducive to an intersection of …
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Rewriting Torah in the Fourth Gospel: with particular reference to scriptural interpretation in the Prologue
… the literary devices of expansion, omission, and embellishment in the Prologue’s engagement with Scripture provide significant hints for tracing the exegetical motivations and rhetorical purposes that lie behind the composition of the Johannine narrative. We therefore explore how John prepares his …
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