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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"sculptor"”.
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The sculptor Sir George Frampton
… was arguably one of the most important sculptors of the movement that became known as 'The New Sculpture' in Britain from the 1880s to around 1920. Frampton's generation became known for its employment of detailed surface modelling, attention to anatomical detail and a predominance of …
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The extended museum : production and design of the Harold Tovish, Sculptor and Eadweard Muybridge, Motion studies videodiscs
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.
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Stellar phase-space clustering in dwarf spheroidal galaxies
… in two dwarf spheroidal galaxies: Fornax and Sculptor. We use a novel measurement based on the particle phase space density, P2SAD, as a 2D extension of the two point correlation function, averaged with a number count within a volume in phase-space. The key elements and equations of P2SAD are …
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… become the defining image for the American women sculptors who worked in Rome in the midnineteenth century at the height of neoclassicism, subsuming their works and histories under the connotations of its words. Instead of simply permitting us to name these sculptors, `white, marmorean flock' …
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The future of the past: inherent atmospheres
… Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer, famously said, Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. He clearly understood his role as the vessel by which an idea came to life in the physical world. …
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The Business of Sculpture in Venice, 1525-1625
… What meanings did materials have? How did sculptors’ workshops operate? The first two chapters examine the various stages of the commissioning process, from a patron’s initial motivations, to choosing a sculptor, drawing up a contract and agreeing a price. Chapter 1 examines who …
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Camille Claudel: The Struggle for Artistic Idenity
… light. The path she took to become a woman sculptor in nineteenth-century France will be explored. Her relationship with Rodin, her use of themes of destiny, and the educational and societal restraints on a woman sculptor in nineteenth-century France all inform our understanding of L'Âge Mûr.
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The Washington Bronze Dionysos
… the figure as representing the god Dionysos. The sculptor drew upon earlier prototypes, specifically a figure called the Westmacott athlete, which has been tentatively attributed to the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. The head of the statue reflects a different, possibly female, prototype. An …
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A study of children's theatre.
… a painting, a play, a poem, a song, a piece of sculptor, or a dance. The end product of such a program is a well-integrated adult, superior in taste, individual in approach and creative in thought.
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The Art of Invention: Antonio Canova's Bozzetti
The Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) modeled sketches in terracotta and wax, known as bozzetti, that serve as unique and invaluable witnesses to his creative process. In stark contrast to his exquisite marble sculptures, those palpitating sketches reveal Canova’s complex method of …
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The life and work of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
… time, the most popular, prolific and honoured sculptor of nineteenth-century England. This thesis aims to salvage Boehm's life and work from oblivion and to assess his achievements by complementing art history with art criticism.Boehm was Hungarian by parentage and Austrian by birth but English …
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Augmented manual fabrication methods for 2D tool positioning and 3D sculpting
… methods. The first is a method for helping a sculptor create an object that precisely matches the shape of a digital 3D model. In this approach, a projector-camera pair is used to scan a sculpture in progress, and the resulting scan data is compared to the target 3D model. The system then …
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Questioning Horatio Greenough's thought on architecture
Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), the Bostonian sculptor, is an important intellectual of the antebellum United States. The sculptor is renowned for his two colossal pieces that were placed on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, ''Rescue'' and "George Washington," together with his writings on …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Putti as Moralizers in Four Prints by Master H.L.
The German Renaissance wood sculptor and engraver known as Master H.L. left behind only a small body of printed works from his career in the early sixteenth century. Among these prints four are tied together by their depiction of <italic>putti<italic>, and display his ability to work with …
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A Search For Balance
… is animated" (Auguste Rodin). My intention as a sculptor is to explore the intersection between nature and industry. I seek to find a balance between the industrial (steel) and the natural (stone). Steel represents societal obligations. Stone (river rock) is specific to place and representative …
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Vincenzo Danti and the Medici court : constructing professional identity in late Renaissance Florence
… long-term patronage and to become the primary sculptor to the Medici dukes. This project represents both a reappraisal of Vincenzo Danti’s career and an examination of the ways that artists at the Medici court positioned themselves in relationship to their patrons and to one another.
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The cult of Rodin : words, photographs, and colonial history in the spread of Auguste Rodin's reputation in northeast Asia
… and textual accounts before actual works by the sculptor were exhibited. By carefully examining printed materials circulated in the three countries from the early 1900s to the first Rodin exhibition in Japan, Korea, and China held in 1966, 1985, and 1993, respectively, this study argues that wide …
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On Making
… with the object of his making. A painter or sculptor works without the hindrance of having to translate that which is in his mind to others. Changes can be made without consult, refinement is sought at every movement of the hand, and, in the end, perfection is the only acceptable conclusion.
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WOMEN ARTISTS’ TELEVISION Artists’ television from the 1970s to 2000s: Broadcast experiments and interventions into television by and about British-based women artists’, producers and commissioners. Doctoral research project
… modernist pioneer female TV artist and ‘sculptor of the air’. Moreover, to summarise my outcomes and highlight what is new and significant about my findings, I have identified a new field of practice based on experimental broadcast interventions interrupting or intervening the flow of …
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