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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"landscape art"”.
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Science and the perception of nature: British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
… saw striking changes in the depiction of British landscape. Conventional pictorial formulae (the sublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque) were abandoned in favour of what has been called a more 'naturalistic' mode of representation. The thesis argues that this is not the outcome of a logic …
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Visions of their Land: Młoda Polska & The Making of Landscape
<p>This dissertation focuses on the landscape art produced by artists of the Młoda Polska (Young Poland) movement, active ca. 1890-1914. This period of art-making coincides with the condition of non-sovereignty. Poland as a nation-state ceased to exist from 1795 to 1918, partitioned by imperial …
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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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Visual art discourses as rhetoric: exploring the colonial creation of the Canadian Northwest Passage
… the creation of a professedly nationalist landscape mythology. In the words of A.Y. Jackson, Canada needed “a new, modern landscape art tradition, for a new modern nation.” According to Jonathan Bordo, such colonial myths of origins have served to supplant aboriginal peoples by establishing …
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Shakespeare and England's Empire, 1780-1800.
… between 1780 and 1800. Chapters investigate landscape art and empire in the Boydell gallery, death and imperial subjectivity, gender and form in appropriations of Shakespeare by women artists and writers, caricatures that reference Shakespeare during these years, the use made of Shakespeare …
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Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics.
This research is about landscape aesthetics. Aesthetics is not purely Platonic but a result of human communication with nature which relates to landscape experience and, in turn, reflects and guides the way people appreciate, paint and design. This is an issue of art philosophy and design …
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TRACES OF A LOST LANDSCAPE TRADITION AND CROSS-CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN KOREA, CHINA AND JAPAN IN THE EARLY JOSEON PERIOD (1392-1550)
This dissertation traces a lost landscape tradition and investigates cross-cultural relationships between Korea, China and Japan during the fifteenth and mid sixteenth centuries. To this end, the main research is given to Landscapes, a set of three hanging scrolls in the Mori Museum of Art in …
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From masterplanning to adaptive planning : understanding the contemporary tools and processes for civic urban order
My research is an examination of the scope of contemporary urban design and planning tools and processes which can act as alternative qualitative methodologies for the renewal of urban conditions at multiple scales through adaptive methods embracing change, stresses and shocks affecting societies …
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Mixed use property development and its place in UK urban policy
During the last 20 years, as part of a putative Urban Renaissance, Mixed Use property development has assumed a prominent place in UK urban policy, producing significant morphological and spatial change based on a distinctive vernacular deemed appropriate for the 21st century city, but which …
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Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957
… readings of textual and audio-visual sources. Part 1 asks how landscape was inhabited, culturally? Aboriginal artforms and European landscape art are juxtaposed with military reconaissance and 'remote sensing' to trace the formation of a 'citizen-observer' attuned to the nation's need for …
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The depth structure of a London high street : a study in urban order
… most public uses are found in the ‘shallowest’ parts of depth, and these are the most valuable sites because they command the greatest passing trade. Secondly, depth has a social order, through playing out of place ballet by people as they live their lives. The social order operates …
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… to architectural and urban theory, and particularly to Arabian Gulf studies; (2) to develop an analytical framework based upon hermeneutic phenomenology that incorporates architecture into its structure of understanding; (3) to use this framework to illuminate the structure of Doha’s …
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'This neighbourhood is an endangered species' : investigating urban conflict and reciprocity between Chicala and Luanda, Angola
At the heart of this thesis is an investigation of the reciprocal relationship between the city of Luanda and one of its central informal neighbourhoods, Chicala. The study situates Chicala among conflicts that have arisen in the urban densification process and their socio-political management, and …
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The strategic dimension of the concept of community in cultural projects within urban regeneration schemes
… in the East End of London and organised as part of the local urban regeneration programme. Archive analysis and participant observation have constituted the chosen methodology of investigation. The study sheds lights on the manipulations of the notion of community by all actors in order to …
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Wilderness and western society: the essential role of myth in a cultural contructivist approach
… myths in these two countries focuses on artistic representations, including landscape art, literature, and film. A range of responses towards wilderness is identified which has directly affected our modem perceptions of ecological problems. Individual cases are explored that demonstrate …
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Siberian imaginaries: evaluating participatory placemaking as a tool for civic development of shared spaces in the postcolonial contexts of Yakutsk and Lensk, north-eastern Siberia
This PhD by practice examines the potential of participatory placemaking as a tool for the civic development of shared urban spaces in the postcolonial contexts of the cities of Yakutsk and Lensk located in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), North-Eastern Siberia. Inhibited by its colonial history …
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The genesis of English landscape etching
… and methods. More than in any other area of art historical investigation, the study of prints has relied upon the distinction between subject matter and technical treatment. In the past this arbitrary distinction rarely permitted the intimate combination of theme and treatment for the study …
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