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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"works on paper"”.
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Ford Madox Brown: works on paper and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
This collaborative thesis focuses on the extensive collection of works on paper and related objects by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) held at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (BMAG). It is the first academic study to use Brown's works on paper as the basis for discussion. In doing so it seeks to …
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Pyxidis Echo Lacuna
The intention of the work that supports this thesis is to provide a space for the viewer to suspend the exterior world and move into a space where he or she finds a line of questioning and a cyclic experience that ultimately leads to self-reflection. The microcosm and macrocosm enlarged and …
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Catalysis.
… that led to her Master of Fine Arts exhibition at Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, from March 19 to 23, 2007. Investigations in printmaking, mixed media, and symbol are highlighted. The work for the thesis show consists of nineteen, 30" hand pulled works on paper. All …
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
The multi-media paintings and works on paper which form the basis of my work are in essence an attempt to subvert the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture. In employing the term "mass-culture" I wish to refer to a network of interlinked forms which dominate contemporary existence. …
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An American Jesuit Treasury of Religious Art: The Van Ackeren Collection in the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University
Abstract On 13 October 1967 Virginia P. and Robert C. Greenlease donated a walnut crucifix by French sculptor César Bagard to Rockhurst University’s Jesuit community in Kansas City, Missouri. This gift initiated a collaboration of thirty years between Mrs. Greenlease and Rockhurst’s president, …
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The anonymous portrait: a creative and critical investigation of diaspora, portraiture, subjectivity
… proposes a viewing of portraiture through the conceptualisation and consciousness of diaspora. The thesis is divided into two sections: a creative body of original artwork and a supporting exegesis. The practice-based part of the thesis presents collective, non-essentialised portraits in the …
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SELF(ISH)-FUSION THINKING AND PRACTICE- A (MAINLY) VISUAL INVESTIGATION OF POLY-MODAL ART-MAKING
… that a 'body of training' has a crucial impact on a creative practice, my own history of 'training' would be difficult to trace within any specific discipline or mode of self-expression. I have been 'trained' as a visual artist, actor, performance-artist, and to some extent, musician/sonic …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
This practice-led research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting …
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Motion and Spatiality: Material Illusions in Abstract Painting
This practice-led research investigates the continuing role of abstraction within contemporary art through a painting practice that involves collage, works on paper and paintings on canvas. The project is focussed on testing ways in which devices historically associated with illusionistic painting …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
The articulation of happenstance and of the enigmatic nature of everyday things is one way concepts in my work have been filtered through and informed by memory, emotion and the experience of life that is both lived as a process and inhabited as a space. My current work attempts to embody as much …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
The articulation of happenstance and of the enigmatic nature of everyday things is one way concepts in my work have been filtered through and informed by memory, emotion and the experience of life that is both lived as a process and inhabited as a space. My current work attempts to embody as much …
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Fourteen Columns
The thesis inquiry is a study of the interrelations between character, emotion and rationality in architecture. The primary modes of representation are digital still photography and hand drawing. To best illuminate these issues the work of the eye and hand of the architect play a vital role. …
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Copyright Privileges, Intellectual Property and Image Ownership: The Role of Law in the Art of Renaissance Venice
… copyright and intellectual property law in relation to the production of artwork and cartography in Early Modern Venice. The modern conception of art copyright, intellectual property and image ownership began as result of a convergence of several factors. Innovations in the Venetian printing press …
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About face: renegotiating the self and the family through grieving
This Master of Arts takes the form of artworks for exhibition, and exegesis. The project involved investigation of the relationship between the grieving process and the art making process. This has been a highly personal journey of reclamation and reconciliation with the aim of understanding and …
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Adopting an Orphaned Collection
"Architecture itself is linked not only to other arts but also to the broader context of life; it is only on that scale that we may understand its specific contribution to the formation of the communicative space of culture."* - Dailbor Vesely 2004 Architects have explored Art Galleries as a medium …