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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"sculptural"”.
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Sculptural Furniture
The artist should employ his sense of playful experimentation that requires the re-investigation of old manners and styles. I have attempted to apply the imagination of my senses to the furniture object in order to satisfy other human needs aside from comfort. These artistic requirements remove the …
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Usurping architecture : sculptural resistance to the built environment
… as developed on the two-dimensional format, in sculptural strategies and their insertion in the lived, everyday environment.The role of geometric formalism is expanded on in the chapters on minimal art, where I explore the role of Gestalt psychology in creating a phenomenological response in the …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
During the Spring of 1969, as if adopting the guise of the explorer/adventurer of yesteryear, the American artist Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) and his artist-wifeNancy Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American …
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A re-assessment of ornament as a sculptural element
… forms through a re-assessment of their value as 'sculptural' elements and by an ironical examination of their past associations. Before re-contextualising the work in a contemporary dimension, it was necessary to undertake a survey of the historical antecedents of revivalism and other forms of …
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Fallen things: delineating veil-wound-womb through sculptural practice
Fallen things is an exhibition of sculptural objects and accompanying text that investigates how the overlapping motifs of veil-wound-womb can articulate fragility and the erotic in sculptural practice. This research draws from Christian iconographic traditions of the contact relic and vera icon, …
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Objects Of Display: Presenting Intimate Queer Histories Through Sculptural Practice
This research project employs a sculptural practice to generate intimate and minor queer histories that challenge the normative modes involved in the production and display of material histories. It examines how archaeological artefacts are bound within a western construction of linear time and how …
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Dubious Cosmology: A Photo/Sculptural Rendition of Landscape and Modern Myth
Dubious Cosmology is a series of photographs and sculptures that examine the visual portrayal of landscape and science fiction in contemporary Western culture. The work considers why human beings feel the need to have a dialogue with the unknown, and how this dialogue takes on both rational and …
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Transferring the improvisational potential of drawing to a contemporary sculptural practice
… potential of drawing to a contemporary sculptural practice, using Diana Cooper and Hew Locke's practices (2000-2004) as precedents?"- This is the final form of the question, which evolved over time in response to the findings of this research. The original question was: "Is it possible …
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Space, object, and illusion : a sculptural environment with light and shadow
An environmental light sculpture with screen-like architectural units which interact with moving light and shadow to create a complex spatial environment. The environment involves movement and change and has many possibilities and configurations rather than one fixed view. It evolved from an …
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Encountering Statues: Object Oriented Ontology And The Figure In A Sculptural Practice
This study reappraises the role and value of statues (i.e. the figure as sculpture) in order to determine what happens when we encounter these objects. The consideration and construction of statues in my studio practice has generated specific insights into statues as person-shaped objects and into …
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An Investigation of the Coherence of Instrumental Accumulation, Using a Sculptural Methodology
… from their environment are also expanded. The sculptural methodology used to undertake this investigation has used the feature of materiality and it’s behaviours, of both human fabrication and the living environment, as a means to explore processes outside the limitations of specialist human …
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Pentimento: Revealing the integral polaroid in a digital age. Singular, physical, sculptural
… lead to an articulation of the Polaroid as a sculptural material in distinction to the location of an image. Representations of the Polaroid on the page and the screen will be investigated throughout, cumulating with the representation of the Polaroid by notation only. By tracing such …
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Hermetic heresies: a sculptural revision of the iconography of the classical muse
Concentrating on the object as vestige of function in the portrayal of muses in ancient Greek sculpture, my aim is to dismiss their traditional representations, and to reconstruct the choir of the muses by iconographic substitution. The hypothesis is that if the muses are prototypes rather than …
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An electronic laager: a sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order
… issues that the title, An electronic laager: A sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order, forms a concise description, and 'key' to an interpretation and understanding of the various issues which have amalgamated to inform my iconography, and the way in which these …
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Stereo-tectonic choreography: A sculptural [re]surfacing of an enigmatic genius loci
This inquiry draws on architectural pieces - collages and models - that explore the tactile and spatial world conceptually. I have a broad interest in the mechanical world and the processes of assembling and disassembling. The making of the pieces and my fascination with the medium is manifested …
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