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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"textile art"”.
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What is seen: Challenging the five-sense hierarchy through performance and textile art
… dimensions of the senses. This has been partly based on a critique of the privileging of sight over the other senses in western thought and culture. This practice-based research project takes the critique as a point of departure to explore the impact of traditional western …
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The Material Language of Protest: Textile Art and Clothing Craftivism, Britain 1970-2018
… specifically the communicative capacity of textile art and clothing handcrafted for activism in Britain from 1970 to 2018. The inquiry emerges from a multidisciplinary practice that became known as ‘craftivism’ (craft + activism), a term coined by writer Betsy Greer in 2003 to represent a …
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Needling the system : the textile art of Colette Whiten, Barbara Todd, and Ann Newdigate
This thesis examines contemporary Canadian textile art by three women: Ann Newdigate, Barbara Todd and Colette Whiten who, through their respective mediums of tapestry, quilting, and embroidery, challenge existing systems of meaning through a strategic critique of dominant cultural ideologies. …
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What are you? Queer?! Data Visualization of Contemporary Queer Political and Social Issues through the medium of Textile Art
… paper and the accompanying exhibition focus on textile art designed and created around truths in the world that threaten our prosperity as queer people. Having had a lifelong interest in politics, a bachelor’s degree in its study, and a propensity towards activism, the central theme of the …
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Studio report: Welcome and farewell
The Sub-thesis: THE SHROUD AS A CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART FORM IN THE WESTERN WORLD is the result of research into the resurgence of the shroud both as a practical object and form of conceptual textile art. The Sub-thesis argues that shrouds are becoming a significant phenomenon embodying personal, …
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Studio report: Welcome and farewell
The Sub-thesis: THE SHROUD AS A CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE ART FORM IN THE WESTERN WORLD is the result of research into the resurgence of the shroud both as a practical object and form of conceptual textile art. The Sub-thesis argues that shrouds are becoming a significant phenomenon embodying personal, …
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A Study of Translating the Weaving Art into Architecture: Carpet Museum in Washington DC
… most ancient craft and craft of building : The textile art and architecture. Two branches of art which are said their inventions coincide with each other and both came from the same origin : a pen (fence),an interwoven partition. The question of thesis led me to start my research on textile arts …
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The Textile Landscape: A Journey through the Structure of Landscape
… architecture is theoretically related to the "textile art." It establishes a theoretical analogy of the landscape as a kind of textual manifestation, "the landscape is a textile," and aims to establish new resemblances that show how the landscape and textile arts are related, not only with …
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The sensory topography of cloth: Soft armour and worn stories
… of the surface manipulation of cloth through textile art making and the poetics of female artists and writers. A consideration of western feminism and worn cloth further explores how the politics of wearing affects the feminine sense of wellbeing and how the sartorial can be a type of armour. …
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Drawing Water, Drawing Breath, Drawing Thread, A synthesis of clinical and creative practice through space-time
… skills and language across science and art. Clinical practice is focussed on the work of a highly specialist respiratory therapist. Creative practice includes a hybrid of land and textile art situated in the littoral, using the body as a transformative medium, writing and drawing. The …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
… 94/5) among historians of early modern art. With his combination of traditional techniques, such as the gold ground, and witty effects of pictorial illusion, Crivelli’s work makes an effective case study for revisionist methods in art history, demonstrating the fluid boundary between …
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I often think of life as a tight rope stretching across an expanse. Our inner strength enables us to walk forward across it. When this fails us, we fall. But in those moments when we prevail, we soar and float as though weightless and timeless. As a gymnast I learned that control of one's …
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NOMAD ART Traversing smooth and striated spaces in textile practice
This practice-led research explores textile-making as a form of nomadic art through the lens of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “nomadology.” The study investigates the dynamic between “smooth” spaces (exemplified by boundless deserts where nomads dwell) and “striated” spaces (characterised by …
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Aside from the norm: artistic sexual/gender dissent and nonnormative formations in Ukraine.
… complex relationship with the institutionalized art system. Turning to ‘artistic sexual/gender dissent’ in this regard opens a discussion on what is considered ‘dissenting’ in terms of sexuality and gender, and how such artistic dissent is related to the various nonnormative formations in …