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Listening to objects: an ecological approach to the decorative arts [PDF]
To transcend the divisions in art historical research between high art and decorative art, this study proposes an ecological approach. Drawing on research in the social sciences and humanities, and using the early modern domestic interior as a case ...
Erin J. Campbell
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Bold Impressions: block printing 1910-1950 [PDF]
An edited extract from the illustrated brochure produced to accompany a touring exhibition curated by Mary Schoeser for Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, shown in the Lethaby Gallery, Southampton Row, from October 3rd to 31st, 1995, and at ...
Schoeser, Mary
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century [PDF]
The primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period.
Jordan, Christopher
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An Examination of the Place of Fresco in Contemporary Art Practice [PDF]
This dissertation is the outcome of a practice-based research inquiry into innovations in processes and materials leading to a contemporary fresco. The research is in three parts: 1) the textual establishment of a historical framework for fresco; 2) an ...
Jin, YoungSun
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THE CONCEPT AND UTILIZATION OF SWASTIKA ‘HOOKED CROSS’ ON ISLAMIC ARTEFACTS [PDF]
(En)‘Swastika’ is an equilateral hooked cross, it is one of the symbols that became popular to several nations of different cultures since prehistoric times.
Boussy Zidan
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How does one recreate a historical interior when the original furniture has disappeared? This challenge was taken up at the Château de Prangins in Switzerland.
Helen Bieri Thomson
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Study Flower and vase motifs in Tile work of historical baths [PDF]
The design of abstract vases with Khatai flowers (One of the major schemes and contractual Decorative Arts of Iran that is used gilding carpet and tile, and it is the horn chart layout, tree or shrub with flowers and leaves and buds), in Safavid period ...
J. Mansoori Jezabadi
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The drawings of the superstitious and complex objects in the Ottoman arts
The forms of superstitious objects appeared extensively on the Ottoman decorative arts, which varied in shapes and types, which were usually not embossed as an independent subject, but were shown alongside the drawings of the real animals.
Shaimaa Abdel Rafei
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Empire de la nuit, amour maudit. De la peinture de l’Ottocento à “L’Inferno” (1911) [PDF]
Between 1905 and 1920, Italian cinema staged an imaginary return to the past, by drawing on the suggestions of different art forms, such as literature, musical theatre, painting, and the decorative arts.
Céline Gailleurd
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Image, art, artefact au xviiie siècle : l’histoire de l’art à l’épreuve de l’objet
Art history, and the humanities more generally, have recently experienced a “material turn,” drawing particular attention to the materiality of objects, documents, and gestures.
Charlotte Guichard
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