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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"tactility"”.
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Tactility and architecture : Peter Zumthor's Thermal baths in Vals and the hybridization of the two motifs of tactility-materiality and movement
Tactility holds a unique position in modem architectural discourse. Oftentimes, it has been evoked "as an alternative to two-dimensional vision. However, the notion of tactility sometimes denotes ambiguous and often conflicting meanings. Since the 1970s, tactility has been mainly associated with a …
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Women, tactility and consumption : middle-class female sensory participation in Victorian shopping environments
… importance of touch for shopping, focusing on tactility brings other issues to light. Understanding tactile habits allows for a reevaluation of the public-private division. Rather than shopping representing a break from the home, habits of touch allowed the two environments to be strongly …
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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
… meditations on the sensorial faculty of tactility (“das Taktische”). According to the first version of the “Work of Art” essay, along with the distinctive structures of perception of the new modes of reproduction, film and photography, architecture is the artistic domain which tactility …
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Tactility and modernity: the sense of touch in D. H. Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Walter Benjamin, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The aim of this dissertation is to examine the unique importance of tactile perception in Western Modernism, focusing on three individuals and an artistic group, namely, D. H. Lawrence, Walter Benjamin, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and an artistic circle centering around Alfred Stieglitz. In the …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… over the more base sense of touch. Questions of tactility tend to be absorbed into histories of materiality or the body, and this terminological slippage becomes particularly apparent as these histories enter the Romantic period. However, when we attend to the sense of touch, an alternative …
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Pterratactile
… meditations on myth, spatial poetics, and tactility. Allowing the material demands of writing work and reword our language manifests a renewed dignity between our selves, each other, and the physical objects of language itself. The result is a collection of visual poetry, prose meditations, …
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Who's Afraid of Female Pleasure?
… on film. The film is treated sensually in its tactility of smooth, slick, luminous qualities; folding; manipulating with heat that gets flushed; bubbling; overflowing on the surface. Femininity and the body are adorned through film; layers that present themselves to the world. We reveal and …
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Places, Please!
… and self-surveillance. I harness the beauty and tactility in both my paintings’ imagery and the medium of oil paint to direct the viewer inward, intimating complicity. In my large-scale paintings, I employ the visual interruption of the stage curtain and the spotlight as painted tactics of the …
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Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”
… “feeling” here becomes a matter of simultaneous tactility and sentiment. Under this lens, perhaps no historical period becomes more desirable to feel than the Middle Ages; it is here, after all, that readers’ responsibilities with texts are pluralized: readers move from listeners born from oral …
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The Body, Touch and The Clay in Motion
… the research-creation methodology, I examine the tactility and materiality behind the artistic mediums used in stop-motion animation. I specifically focus on various kinds of clay employing the methods of puppet-making, figural modelling, set building and animating in an attempt to bridge the …
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Trace of Everyday Performance: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Ondol and Dot-Jari
… with issues of transience, warmth, comfort and tactility, locating my everyday performance in architecture or public space. The gathering of dispersed visual research materials is a significant part of my methodology, and the research has involved compiling and editing images into the thesis in …
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Ruin[ed] edge[iness] ruined landscape: Inverting and resurfacing the buried ruin with the scarred landscape
… transition also carefully uses structure and tactility, with walls that grow out of the existing ruined landscape and protect the site. The social user then inhabits this structure and controls or changes their own space to suit their needs within this new vertical spatial framework.
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… with specific attention to celluloid film tactility, can instil landscape knowledge and care. This thesis asserts that participation through interactive process-driven encounters in landscape spaces produce sensory and embodied (or sensuous) knowing. Diagrams, experimental filmmaking …
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Listening to the voices of boys in dance
… displaying increasing normalcy of homosocial tactility with other boys (Anderson and McCormack, 2014) as a means to cope in dance. The data demonstrated desired ownership over the content and increased social connectedness through collaborative activities. My thesis illustrated that …
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Towards the haptic encounter: investigating and theorising a strategy for writing a web-series screenplay, prioritising the sensory
… where the haptic encounter fully exploits the tactility of personalised screen on which the web series are viewed. Secondly, the practice-led research considers the impact and the potential of foregrounding the haptic encounter in the process of writing a web series specifically for the …
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Lotte Reiniger and the Animated Ornament in Experimental Film
… practice that deploy qualities such as tactility, horizontality, and flatness as important facets of the ornament-in-motion. Theories of ornament are deeply connected to conceptions of the Orient and this project positions Reiniger in a landscape of Weimar cinema, where both shadow play …
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Petr Herel: the Artist's Book as Aberrant Object
… experimentation that embraces qualities of tactility, emotion, and temporality that jar with conventional art histories. It is from this foundational idea of artist’s book as aberrant object that I have examined Herel’s work in relation to the encounter, Surrealism, the visual presence of …
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The Discarded Garment in Motion in 1950s and 1960s Narrative Film through the Lens of Drawing
… where these relate to movement, sight and tactility. Employing an emergent methodology, and in reflective dialogue with the practices of contemporary and historical artists and theorists on drawing, multiple viewpoints are adopted to open out interpretations of the excerpts. In contributing …
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Petr Herel: the Artist's Book as Aberrant Object
… experimentation that embraces qualities of tactility, emotion, and temporality that jar with conventional art histories. It is from this foundational idea of artist’s book as aberrant object that I have examined Herel’s work in relation to the encounter, Surrealism, the visual presence of …
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The work of vitalism : Murano Togo
… were human skin (body), described by Murano as, "tactility." Consisting of curves and shades (colors), this anthropomorphic aesthetic was conceived by Murano to prolong "Life" of his architecture under the force of capitalism because in his mind the human subject cannot be consumed. It turned …
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