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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"illusionism"”.
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Describing Chaos: Willem de Kooning's Collage Painting Asheville and its Relationship to Traditions of Description and Illusionism in Western Art
Any study of Willem de Kooning is inevitably speculative. As an artist he was more concerned that the viewer "never know" and in provoking questions rather than presenting answers. The diverse and disjointed de Kooning literature bears witness to his success in this regard and to the opaque nature …
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Ersatz
… statement will address issues of surface and illusionism in modern pictorial theory and the importance of perception verses objectification. In addition I will discuss the subject matter, composition, and techniques employed to create the works. I will also address the influences of artists …
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The Anamorphic Library
… reality. The library contains this duality of illusionism and realism. Similar to reading a book, one might get lost in the story, imagine themself as one of the characters, and question if they are in reality, or in the illusion of the book. To further enforce this falsehood, the library holds …
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Ambivalent Images, Beloved Objects: Building Bridges between Picture Books and the Tangible World
… <p>This paper challenges practices of pictorial illusionism, arguing for the implicit superiority of nature over an artist's rendering, and endorsing an "archaeological" approach to art-making that elevates practices like discovery, reconstruction, and curation that lead readers to the tangible …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… Barbara Rose and Lucy Lippard’s work on Abstract Illusionism. The project is further contextualised by reference to commentary on recent developments in abstraction and current issues in painting by Arthur C. Danto, David Reed, Bob Nickas, Jan Verwoert, Katy Siegel and Laura Hoptman.
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
… Barbara Rose and Lucy Lippard’s work on Abstract Illusionism. The project is further contextualised by reference to commentary on recent developments in abstraction and current issues in painting by Arthur C. Danto, David Reed, Bob Nickas, Jan Verwoert, Katy Siegel and Laura Hoptman.
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THE SKY IS FALLING - Skyscapes and the anthropocene landscape
… serves to undercut the visual certitudes of illusionism. Here the process of painting is visibly evident, rendering the works, or world they depict, as ‘in the making'. In support, the accompanying theoretical text: explores artists' creation of fictional/ imaginary worlds using landscapes …
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Beyond Perspective: A Spectacular History of the Three-Dimensional Image through the Stereoscope, the View-Master, and Marcel Duchamp
… in relation to the tradition of perspective and illusionism in art. The stereograph’s emergence alongside photography marks an intensification of a longstanding fantasy to represent three-dimensional space in two-dimensions. This project argues that although the stereograph appears to transcend …
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Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art
… image, the film image, with its narrative, and ‘illusionism’.An alternative position is provided, informed by a Deleuzian transcendental empiricism that locates the phenomenological distinctions between art object and spectator as a form of tracing, to reposition the subject as a synthesis of …
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Painting, performance, senses, and space: immersing the viewer in the Last Supper refectory frescoes of fifteenth-century Florence
… addition to quattrocento techniques of pictorial illusionism, the dynamic performances of sacre rappresentazioni informed the interest in activating the viewer’s emotional engagement with the Last Supper fresco. Chapter three more directly involves the space of the refectory in my analysis, as I …
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Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770)
… medieval visual aesthetic of craft and pictorial illusionism. The fourth and final chapter analyzes the rhetoric of narrative autobiographical poems, traditionally approached as non-figurative factual records, in order to elucidate Du Fu's retrospective construction of a self. A picture thus …
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Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: a Case-Study of 'Three Men and the Dog of Irúath'
… how metanarration, mise en abyme and narratorial illusionism are used in the text. Finally, I return to the intertwining of fíanaigecht and dindshenchas and I demonstrate that dindshenchas is used as a structural and compilatory tool in *AS* and *AB*, offering evidence that *AB* was compiled using …