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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"visual sources"”.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Language
… Basquiat could not have found exclusively in his visual sources. Throughout this dissertation I argue that Basquiat's works are ""multivocal"" and operate on multiple levels of reference and perception; therefore, the words or images on the surfaces do not represent only one specific concept. They …
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The integration of facial and auditory affect: An emotional McGurk effect?
… has typically studied either auditory (vocal) or visual (facial) information in isolation. However, speech perception literature supports integration of auditory and visual phonetic information by way of the McGurk effect. This study hypothesized an emotional McGurk effect (i.e., integration of …
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Jupiter and Thetis
… synthesizes all the intellectual, stylistic and visual influences to which he had so far been exposed. Ingres worked within the classical tradition, choosing his subject from Homer’s Iliad. The scene he chose to depict, however, was not one commonly represented and was inspired by an illustration …
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Woven pleasure: continuity and change in Persian carpet making during the Ṣafavīd period
… argument versus historical evidence in original sources is one of the main aims of this research, the scope of this study is wider than the narrow implications of this examination. The research also aims to examine the chronology of carpet production and development in the 16th and 17th …
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The Sources, Rhetoric, and Gender of Artistic Dress
… the written explanations by designers and their visual sources results in the establishment of three camps of Artistic Dress, one allied with the current art nouveau movement, one an extension of the Reform movement, and a third related to the independence of women. In a study of the relationship …
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Imaging and Imagining the Waikato: A Spatial History c.1800-c.1914
… through a spatial history approach using a visual archive. I argue that Pākehā images of the Waikato were both contemporary records and instruments of colonisation in the region, and that the discursive power of these images is undiminished. In this thesis I focus on spatial occasions …
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Constructing Women and Nation: Feminized America in British and American Visual Culture 1760-1800
Early American women's history and the history of visual culture tend to avoid overlapping in terms of both sources and questions. A gendered lens when applied to the origins of America typically seeks to answer the question of how the Revolution affected women, whereas the history of American …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… anthropology, gender studies, global studies, visual studies and sports studies, and draws on a range of sources, including Lao and French archives, ethnographic writing, newspapers, magazines, cartoons and photography. This blend of textual and visual sources reveals how physicality is …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… anthropology, gender studies, global studies, visual studies and sports studies, and draws on a range of sources, including Lao and French archives, ethnographic writing, newspapers, magazines, cartoons and photography. This blend of textual and visual sources reveals how physicality is …
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Vom Bildnis zum Bit. Deep Learning zur Analyse der Ikonographie antiker Münzen
… and computer vision to address both textual and visual sources. Interpretative coin descriptions from digitized GLAM collections were transformed into machine-readable data using a custom Named Entity Recognition system based on a knowledge graph, incorporating alternative spellings, fuzzy …
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'Sermons in stone': eleventh-century figural sculpture from Croatia
… This methodological approach investigates the visual sources for the schemes depicted, followed by the exploration of their iconographic significance, at the basis of which are the exegetical writings of early Christian and early medieval theologians. Thus, this thesis examines the figural …
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Visual Representation and the Body in Early Modern Anatomy
… and science. This thesis argues that the visual representation of the anatomical body played a key role in this transformation. Until the end of the seventeenth century the iconography of anatomy legitimized the dissection of the body and portrayed the anatomist as an honourable, dignified …
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Visceral Creativity: Digestion, Earthly Melancholy, and Materiality in the Graphic Arts of Early Modern France and the German-Speaking Lands (c. 1530-1675)
… a model of creation, and how this was translated visually. Renaissance creativity was increasingly modelled on a series of natural processes like digestion, following a trend in favour of Aristotelian psychology. However, it has been largely overlooked in comparison to the bleeding, the pneumatic, …
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
<p>This thesis analyzes the iconography and visual sources of the title page to the first volume of <em>A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande </em>(1569) by the Tudor author Richard Grafton. Representing the visual synthesis of several distinct but interrelated currents …
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"Alla Greca"? Matter and Meaning of Greek-style bookbindings in Renaissance Venice
… have been examined in person, as have primary sources on their production and consumption. Through the analysis of both, I look at how book collectors articulated their antiquarianism through different collecting practices. Drawing on recent trends in historical studies, and namely the …
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A Static Sublime: Morton Feldman and the Visual, 1950--1970
… War. This dissertation concerns the role of visual sources in general, and abstract expressionist painting in particular, on Feldman's music and artistic thought during the first two decades of his career. Its first chapter serves as an overview of Feldman's professional life and a review of …
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From Inspiration to Garment Ideas : Elucidating the Threads of Inspiration in Apparel Design Ideation
… unique concepts from provided inspirational sources, laying the groundwork for further exploration into student-level processes. The second study showed that collaborative inspiration and ideation, driven by open dialogue and shared visual sources, led to curated mood boards. The third study …
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An Empire of Possibilities: Education in Fascist Italy’s African Colonies, 1922-1943
… exchange. Drawing from printed, archival, and visual sources, An Empire of Possibilities includes an introduction, eight chapters divided into three parts, and a conclusion. Part I retraces common understandings of education for African colonial subjects in fascist Italy and across academic and …
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The city's pleasures : architectural sensibility in eighteenth-century Istanbul
… wide array of Ottoman and European literary and visual sources, and architectural evidence. It departs from current interpretations, which view European influence as the chief impetus of architectural change in this period. Instead, I contend that this was a time when social transformations in …
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Women and fashion in Australia's nineteenth century
… press in the colony, as well as analysing the visual sources that survive from this period. I work within the frameworks that recognise the value of material culture, object analysis and also the new fashion studies and fashion histories that demand that the poor and everyday be considered as …
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