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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"etchings"”.
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The Revised and Expanded Version: A Series of Etchings
The Revised and Expanded Version is a series of large-scale intaglio prints that explore notions of beauty using line and text. Etched and printed over a series of eight different states, the prints illustrate their own evolution over time and a process of redaction and revision. Through the …
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Chorus for chimeras: a series of etchings towards the development of a personal iconography incorporating symbols, mythologies and ritual
… of this thesis. In a portfolio of twenty-one etchings, I have modified and recontextualised images from a variety of sources as a means to developing a personal iconography. Ritual and the creation of mythologies offer humankind one way in which inexplicable aspects of experience can be …
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The Printed Work of Vivant Denon (1747--1825)
The fifth chapter examines the etchings Denon executed for Jacques-Louis David as graveur de 1a Republique upon his return to Paris in December 1793. These images are evidence for Denon's involvement with radical revolutionary politics under Robespierre's terror regime. The plates Denon published …
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Escapist ideations
Escapist Ideations is a series of intaglio etchings exploring personal anxieties around global and systemic crises. Visualized as a series of escapist fantasies, each print represents a theme which is explored using representative objects staged throughout the scene. In the tradition of classic …
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A Discussion: Rembrandt's Influence on the Evolution of the Printmaking Process through his Experimental Attitude towards the medium.
… a technical and stylistic comparison of various etchings by Rembrandt and my six prints that serve as a visual illustration and personal interpretation of the artist's method.</p> <p>My research consisted of the consultation of many texts that aided in my supportive argument and eventual …
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O lirismo na gravura abstrata de Fayga Ostrower
… a fundamental element construct the image. Her etchings and woodcuts bring up poetry and lyricism. The interrelationship of planes of coloured transparencies created by the over printing the woodblocks contributes to the building up of this lyricism. The transparencies bring up a dynamic sight …
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Ceramic microforming process
… room compatible techniques to create silicon etchings, which are used to create a silicone transfer mold. The silicone molds are used to make numerous sacrificial mold into which ceramic slurry is cast. The wax molds are sacrificed leaving green ceramic parts which are fired to produce the …
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The violin sonatas of Heinrich Franz Biber
… a very discernable programatic content. A set of etchings associated with the manuscript are sometimes presumed to provide the programatic source, but in the writer's opinion, there is some reason to suppose that these pictures were a later addition.
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Deformation mechanisms and mechanical properties of hot rolled Fe-Mn-C-(Al)-(Si) austenitic steels
… transformation during cooling. Colour etchings and EBSD measurements revealed the mechanisms contributing to the overall plasticity of the investigated steels on the microscale. The plasticity of the Fe-26.5Mn-3.6Al-2.2Si-0.38C-0.005B and Fe-30.0Mn-3.1Al-1.9Si steels is produced mainly …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… The taphonomic observations included root etchings, rodent gnawing, carnivore chewing, and beetle burrowing marks. Cultural observations included evidence of original processing via cut marks and markings due to excavation of the remains. My focus is on how recorded element frequencies, …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… The taphonomic observations included root etchings, rodent gnawing, carnivore chewing, and beetle burrowing marks. Cultural observations included evidence of original processing via cut marks and markings due to excavation of the remains. My focus is on how recorded element frequencies, …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… Low Countries. The majority of these engravings, etchings, and woodcuts portray the attempted seduction of a provocative female nude by two old men, a scene which explicitly manifests "lasciviousness" and "seductive charm." This dissertation examines why these erotically charged prints of Susanna …
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Gilded City
Gilded City appropriates seven copperplate etchings produced by Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin between 1982 and 1990 in the pursuit of their preservation through reinterpretation and recontextualisation. Gilded City reacts to the political events in the United States of the past six months. …
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Autonomy in the Great War: the experience of the German soldier on the Eastern Front
… soldiers stationed near Vilnius as well as the etchings, poems and musings by ordinary soldiers in the Tenth Army's trench newspapers, which were also produced near Vilnius. I will argue that ordinary German soldiers cultivated their identities through everyday behaviors and they were individual …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
… writing (stencils, spray-paint, signatures, etchings, wall-paintings, murals and installations) is used to make these spaces transmit particular memories that impugn official versions of the past. This thesis draws on literatures focused on popular/public memory. Scholars argue that memory is …
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
… of contemporary photographs, paintings, etchings, and caricatures. This analysis demonstrates the inherent racism that still permeated American culture—even in the North—as well as revealing the duality of light-skinned slaves and the racial hierarchy of skin-tones in nineteenth-century …
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An Archaeology of the Fragment: The Transition from the Antique Fragment to the Historical Fragment in French Architecture Between 1750 and 1850
… effects, inspired by paintings and Piranesian etchings. Later, these fragments gradually became regular elements of architectural composition. Charles Percier and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, two disciples of Boullée, took over his imagery and technique of composing with antique fragments, but …
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Fact and sanctity : authenticating laudianism in the English Monasticon anglicanum's architectural prints (1655)
… etcher Wenceslaus Hollar also contributed a few etchings to the project. The ambitions of this antiquarian endeavor were articulated in the publication's preface. The Monasticon was to preserve a memory of the institutional histories of monasteries, which had been dissolved and dismantled by …
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Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
… of the subterranean - mineralogical atlases, etchings of rock formations, maps of sedimentary deposits, imagined grottos, and utopian architecture - are framed as part of a geological imaginary, a contributor to modernism's early inheritance. The first chapter contemplates how the cutting of …
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