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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"public exhibition"”.
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Richard Wilson: Landscape painting for a new Exhibition Culture
… British art world with the onset of the annual public exhibition. This dissertation will consider Wilson’s submissions to the Society of Artists’ annual exhibitions between 1760 and 1768. I will argue that Wilson pursued a highly deliberate strategy of self-advertisement when choosing pieces to …
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The Barbershop: a photographic documentation and exhibition
… experience of Richmond barbershops through public exhibition.
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The Company of Animals: a Nontoxic Approach.
… and focus of the artwork contained in the public exhibition. These original images focus on the similarities between animal and human personalities. Also included is a brief history of each "ink on paper" printmaking process used and a comparison of the results. All of the techniques …
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Marking Time: a Figurative Humanist Approach to Drawing.
… is a supportive paper for the M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition "Marking Time" held at the B. Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree. Within this paper, I discuss the subjective nature of my drawings and claim my role as a figurative …
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An environmental response in the design of a public aquaculture center at the Charlestown Navy Yard
… make a human-oriented environment, providing a public place in the city, contributing to the contextual landscape. The building is an aquaculture research center in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Three main programmatic components define the building: a production-oriented fish farm which uses the …
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Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb
… and related contemporary phenomena, such as the public exhibition of dwarfs. These “people in miniature” have been examined, cooed over, ridiculed, and all too often compared to children both in and out of literature. While most critical work on Victorian-era dwarfs has examined ways they have …
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Lesbian adolescents' narratives of identity : a participatory photovoice project
… The Photovoice process culminated in a public exhibition of the participants' photographic work. The focus group transcripts, interview transcripts, photostories, and photographs were analysed using thematic narrative analysis. Five main narrative themes emerged: Narrating 'tomboy' …
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An exploration of hybrid art and design practice using computer-based design and fabrication tools.
… developed a curatorial framework for a public exhibition and symposium that explored the direction that art and design practitioners are taking in relation to computer-based tools. These events allowed the researcher to survey existing works, explore future trends, gather audience and …
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Embroidering and the Body Under Threat: Suffragette Embroidered Cloths Worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912
… of a body of hand-embroidered textiles for exhibition and through archival and theoretical investigation. The submission takes the form of a public exhibition of the textiles and a written thesis that also includes a full visual record of the textile works.
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Universities and festivals : cultural production in context
… when they produce cultural events for the public. It is a context-specific and empirical study that examines events at three individual universities in major UK cities. It takes as its starting point the range of third mission, or engagement activities through which universities form links …
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Unruly Encounters: Re-staging Images of Drone Warfare through an Embodied Art Practice
… reflection enabled by the installation and public exhibition of the work, theoretical research and an ongoing dialogue with other artists working in the field. The hybrid and experimental nature of the practice engenders experiential sensory modes of encountering the re-staged images in an …
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<i>Relative Poverty</i>: Documentary photography, public engagement and making change
… can be summarised as the usefulness of the public exhibition of social documentary artworks when aiming to affect public opinion. If we want our photography to change the world we need to heed lessons of the past and incorporate a contemporary participant centred approach. The thesis …
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Supporting meaningful social networks
… maintenance. The existence of static links as public exhibition of private connections causes the problem of friendship inflation, which refers to the online practice that users will usually acquire much more “friends” on SNSs than they can actually maintain in the real world. There is mounting …
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‘The Road to Learning’: Re-evaluating the Mechanics’ Institute Movement
… nationwide building programme funded entirely by public subscription. Beginning with a handful of examples in major British cities, they eventually spread across the Anglophone world. They were at the forefront of public engagement with arts, science and technology. This thesis is a history of the …
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The Photograph As A Site of Mnemonic Return
… which also includes research outputs through public exhibition, discussed sequentially in Chapters 2, 3 and 4. A comprehensive overview of all practice-based outcomes has been produced as a series of books to accompany this text (Appendices i-iv). These include a full catalogue of artworks …
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems: Visions towards Sustainable Entrepreneurial Futures for Informal Settlements and Recycling Communities
… through immersive multimedia as part of a public exhibition. Using a novel methodology, the thesis adopts the learnings from the economic, physical, and community-based interventions observed in informal e-waste recovery processes. The thesis combines quantitative data from satellite …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… forms of tradition, these authors discovered a public realm in which modern literature's aspirations to “make it new” could find their fullest expression. Thus, for example, a dying D. H. Lawrence exchanged letters with the editor ofThe Architectural Review, a correspondence culminating in what …
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The Politics of Post-Industrial Cultural Knowledge Work
… (techno-)socio-cultural spaces of knowledge: a public exhibition about the new Gotthard Base Tunnel currently under construction in the Swiss Alps, Jennifer Baichwal’s film Manufactured Landscapes (2006) about the Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and China’s industrial revolution, and the …
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Defense d'afficher : the wartime art of Jean Lurç̧at and Jean Dubuffet
… executed works which took up concerns of a public nature during the Occupation. These gestures toward the growing resistance in France between retreat and liberation participated in a conspiracy of culture that arose in the period. Without public exhibition, and including a coded means of …