Dissertations / Theses: 'Decorative art'

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Raksadeja, K. "Digital and interactive media analysis of myths and traditions expressed in Thai fairground art." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/8604/.

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The core themes in Thai art have traditionally been didactic Buddhist ethical works and popular folkloric beliefs. Both are permeated with a cosmology and worldview that is supernatural but which is pervaded with ethical implications for people’s daily lives. Buddhist art aims to encourage selfless acts for the good of others, including other individuals, society, the country and the natural world. Such abstract themes have been rendered accessible to ordinary people by means of fantastical creatures and supernatural myths that insinuate moral values and demonstrate a coherent Theravada worldview that is uniquely Thai. This thesis explores the popular manifestations of such phenomena at the intersection of traditional folk beliefs and practices, popular entertainment, Thai official/ royal high culture and confessional Buddhist ethical instruction by analysing the art forms associated with temple fairgrounds at major festivals. Based on a review of related literature and analysis of Thai artists, it concludes that the renaissance of traditional Thai culture is reciprocal with authentic grassroots activities such as temple fairs fostered and supported by traditional patronage and cultural resources from the royal court culture and Buddhist ethics. Based on this analysis, my own work offers a modern rendering in the spirit of traditional forms utilising modern multimedia methods to create an immersive and interactive artistic experience.

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Hoban, Sally. "The Birmingham Municipal School of Art and opportunities for women's paid work in the Art and Crafts Movement." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5124/.

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This thesis is the first to examine the lives and careers of professional women who were working within the thriving Arts and Crafts Movement in Birmingham in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It utilises previously unresearched primary and secondary sources in art galleries, the Birmingham School of Art and local studies collections to present a series of case studies of professional women working in the fields of jewellery and metalware, stained glass, painting, book illustration, textiles and illumination. This thesis demonstrates that women made an important, although currently unacknowledged, professional contribution to the Arts and Crafts Movement in the region. It argues that the Executed Design training that the women received at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art (BMSA) was crucial to their success in obtaining highly-skilled paid employment or setting up and running their own business enterprises. The thesis makes an important new contribution to the historiography of The Arts and Crafts Movement; women's work in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the history of education and the industrial and artistic history of Birmingham.

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Baldini, Elisa <1970&gt. "Arti decorative: Bologna e Faenza tra Ottocento e Novecento." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2175/1/baldini_elisa_tesi.pdf.

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La ricerca approfondisce gli studi iniziati dalla dott.ssa Baldini in occasione della tesi di laurea e amplia le indagini critiche avviate per la mostra sull’Aemilia Ars, società attiva nel campo delle arti decorative bolognesi e romagnole tra la fine dell’Ottocento e i primi anni del Novecento. Inizialmente si intendeva allargare questo tipo di ricerca a tutto il territorio regionale, ma data la complessità e l’estensione della materia, si è optato per una ridefinizione degli ambiti. La ricerca si è quindi interessata alle aree di Bologna e Faenza individuando le connessioni che, nel periodo indicato, intercorrono tra la cultura artistica locale e quella nazionale ed europea. Per quanto riguarda l’ambiente faentino ci si è concentrati sull’opera degli artisti del Cenacolo baccariniano e delle botteghe artigiane locali, che stabiliscono un apprezzabile contatto tra le due città. L’indagine si orienta soprattutto allo studio degli aspetti decorativi legati agli arredi urbani, agli allestimenti d’interni e alle arti applicate, considerando gli eventuali collegamenti con pittura, grafica e scultura. Nella prima parte del lavoro viene delineato sinteticamente il panorama artistico e culturale di Bologna e di Faenza nel periodo che va dall’ultimo decennio dell’Ottocento al primo decennio del secolo successivo. Le due città, connesse da una rete di collaborazioni tra artisti e laboratori artigianali, vivono un momento di particolare vivacità e grazie all’impegno di valenti personalità e alla congiunzione d’interessanti sinergie, sono in grado confrontarsi con importanti esempi nazionali ed internazionali. Il clima artistico faentino di questi anni risente ancora della significativa eredità neoclassica lasciata da Felice Giani, il quale oltre a fornire ad artisti e artigiani ineludibili esempi nei palazzi locali – tra cui primeggiano gli splendidi apparati decorativi di Palazzo Milzetti – si era fatto promotore insieme al Laderchi della locale Scuola di Disegno. La Scuola, che dal 1879 era divenuta Scuola d’Arti e Mestieri, viene diretta da Antonio Berti per un quarantennio, dal 1866 al 1906. Il Berti, formatosi in area fiorentina e sostanzialmente antiaccademico, si fa portatore a Faenza d’istanze macchiaiole. In questi anni la Scuola si proietta anche verso una concezione delle arti decorative che s’ispira al mondo inglese delle Arts and Crafts. L’artigianato bolognese nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento è ancora saldamente ancorato ad una tradizione che affonda le sue radici nei due secoli precedenti. La cultura figurativa della città è inoltre influenzata dalla Accademia Clementina, i cui insegnamenti non risentono particolarmente del clima internazionale. Nasce proprio in questo periodo Aemilia Ars, uno dei più innovativi movimenti del contesto nazionale nel campo delle arti decorative. I membri del gruppo, raccoltisi intorno alla carismatica figura di Alfonso Rubbiani nei primi anni Ottanta, sono attratti da influenze nordeuropee e sin dall’inizio si mostrano orientati a seguire precetti ruskiniani e preraffaelliti. Molto importante in entrambe le città, per l’evoluzione dello scenario artistico e artigianale – in questi anni più che mai unite in un rapporto di strettissima correlazione – è l’apporto e il sostegno offerto dai salotti, dai circoli, dai caffé e dai cenacoli locali. Queste realtà alimentano il processo di rinnovamento, fornendo valide occasioni d’incontro e confronto tra gli operatori culturali locali e ospiti italiani e stranieri; supportano inoltre le nuove esperienze tese allo svecchiamento del settore produttivo, attraverso quel fenomeno sociale così tipico di questi anni che è la filantropia di marca più o meno utopista e socialista. Solo per citare alcuni esempi si deve ricordare l’attività dei cenacoli che si raccolsero a Faenza intorno ad Angelo Marabini, a Pietro Conti e a Domenico Baccarini, ma anche il sostegno che le famiglie Cavazza e Pizzardi non fecero mancare alle iniziative del gruppo bolognese, o ancora l’attività di cenacoli artistici come l’Accademia della Lira e il Comitato per Bologna Storica ed Artistica. Nella seconda parte del lavoro l’attenzione si è focalizzata sull’attività degli artisti e artigiani legati ad Alfonso Rubbiani, uniti in un sodalizio che fin dalla metà degli anni Ottanta prende il nome di Gilda di San Francesco e successivamente si istituzionalizza in Aemilia Ars. Si è cercato di esaminare l’intero campo di interventi per settori produttivi, delineando le principali modalità e caratteristiche operative di Aemilia Ars, dando risalto ai maggiori operatori di ogni settore. Ha inoltre dato ampio spazio dal punto di vista documentario, iconografico e fenomenologico al raffronto tra il lavoro dei bolognesi e quello che si ritiene essere stato per questi artefici il più rilevante ambito di riferimento, cioè l’attività degli artisti e artigiani inglesi che si formarono ed operarono attorno alla figura di William Morris. In conformità ai dettami anglosassoni si avvia un rinnovamento della tradizione artigianale sensibile dal punto di vista formale al mondo della natura, da cui sono selezionate forme eccentriche, idonee a subire un processo di razionalizzazione sintetizzante. Per quanto riguarda le modalità di realizzazione, si assiste spesso all’adozione di metodiche ibride che risentono di una volontà di recupero di modi produttivi antichi congiunti a materiali nuovi o perlomeno inusuali. Questo slancio innovatore, che si avvale di elementi fitomorfi, si fonde a un gusto storicista rivolto in particolar modo al recupero di modelli tardogotici – assai diffuso in Europa – o del primo Rinascimento; in entrambi i casi si tratta di forme particolarmente adatte alla modalità lineare ed astrattiva a cui tendono i principali interpreti dell’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento. I settori produttivi che si sono indagati riguardano prevalentemente la ceramica, l’ebanisteria, i ferri battuti, l’oreficeria, le arti tessili e i cuoi. Gran parte di queste lavorazioni – che si erano attardate nella realizzazione di oggetti dalle forme pesanti, di ispirazione seicentesca, certamente poco adatte all’affermarsi di una produzione industriale – subiscono ora una decisa accelerazione verso forme più leggere e svelte che, adeguandosi alla possibilità di riproduzione seriale degli oggetti, si diffonderanno quasi capillarmente tra l’aristocrazia e la borghesia, faticando tuttavia a raggiungere le classi meno abbienti a causa degli elevati costi di produzione. Nell’ultima parte viene tracciato sinteticamente il quadro delle attività artistiche e artigianali faentine del periodo indicato, con una particolare attenzione all’opera delle personalità afferenti al Cenacolo baccariniano: Giovanni Guerrini (Faenza 1887 – Roma 1972), Francesco Nonni (Faenza 1885 – 1976), Domenico Rambelli (Faenza 1886 – Roma 1972), Orazio Toschi (Lugo 1887 – Firenze 1972) e Giuseppe Ugonia (Faenza 1881 – Brisighella 1944). Viene notato che i giovani artisti, riunitisi intorno alla figura di Domenico Baccarini, interessati all’area anglosassone ed impegnati nel rinnovamento dell’artigianato locale, si avvicinano marginalmente al gusto floreale nella fase iniziale di ispirazione simbolista, per approdare negli anni successivi ad esiti spesso più vicini all’Espressionismo o al gusto déco. Viene tracciato un panorama delle attività articolato per settori produttivi: ceramica, ebanisteria e ferri battuti, all’interno dei quali si è dato risalto a coloro che maggiormente hanno influito sull’innovazione e lo sviluppo dell’artigianato locale. Si è inteso ricercare quelle che furono le principali collaborazioni con gli artisti e le botteghe prese in esame nel capitolo precedente, mettendo in rilievo le affinità stilistiche con il contesto nazionale ed europeo. Oltre ai già citati artisti inglesi è stato messo in evidenza il riferimento all’area scozzese e mitteleuropea. Questa ricerca si propone lo studio delle relazioni che si stabiliscono tra l’estetica neomedievalista e l’aspirazione al rinnovamento delle arti decorative. Tale orientamento, che nasce e si sviluppa tra Francia e Inghilterra alla metà dell’Ottocento intorno agli scritti e alle opere di figure quali Eugène Viollet-le-Duc e John Ruskin, è prontamente recepito in Italia tra gli anni Ottanta e gli anni Novanta dell’Ottocento dal gruppo di artisti e artigiani riunitosi nel capoluogo emiliano intorno ad Alfonso Rubbiani. In seguito questi artisti prenderanno strade diverse, portando con sé la propria cifra stilistica legata a quel gusto che in Italia si chiamerà “Stile Floreale”, che nel frattempo si diffonde anche attraverso importanti vetrine quali l’Esposizione Internazionale di Arte Decorativa di Torino e le Biennali veneziane nonché sulle pagine di autorevoli riviste come Emporium e Arte Italiana Decorativa e Industriale. Il successo dell’esperienza bolognese unito alla collaborazione che sorse con la città di Faenza, si ritiene abbia offerto significativi stimoli per la formazione di alcuni tra i principali artisti faentini di fine secolo.

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Baldini, Elisa <1970&gt. "Arti decorative: Bologna e Faenza tra Ottocento e Novecento." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2175/.

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La ricerca approfondisce gli studi iniziati dalla dott.ssa Baldini in occasione della tesi di laurea e amplia le indagini critiche avviate per la mostra sull’Aemilia Ars, società attiva nel campo delle arti decorative bolognesi e romagnole tra la fine dell’Ottocento e i primi anni del Novecento. Inizialmente si intendeva allargare questo tipo di ricerca a tutto il territorio regionale, ma data la complessità e l’estensione della materia, si è optato per una ridefinizione degli ambiti. La ricerca si è quindi interessata alle aree di Bologna e Faenza individuando le connessioni che, nel periodo indicato, intercorrono tra la cultura artistica locale e quella nazionale ed europea. Per quanto riguarda l’ambiente faentino ci si è concentrati sull’opera degli artisti del Cenacolo baccariniano e delle botteghe artigiane locali, che stabiliscono un apprezzabile contatto tra le due città. L’indagine si orienta soprattutto allo studio degli aspetti decorativi legati agli arredi urbani, agli allestimenti d’interni e alle arti applicate, considerando gli eventuali collegamenti con pittura, grafica e scultura. Nella prima parte del lavoro viene delineato sinteticamente il panorama artistico e culturale di Bologna e di Faenza nel periodo che va dall’ultimo decennio dell’Ottocento al primo decennio del secolo successivo. Le due città, connesse da una rete di collaborazioni tra artisti e laboratori artigianali, vivono un momento di particolare vivacità e grazie all’impegno di valenti personalità e alla congiunzione d’interessanti sinergie, sono in grado confrontarsi con importanti esempi nazionali ed internazionali. Il clima artistico faentino di questi anni risente ancora della significativa eredità neoclassica lasciata da Felice Giani, il quale oltre a fornire ad artisti e artigiani ineludibili esempi nei palazzi locali – tra cui primeggiano gli splendidi apparati decorativi di Palazzo Milzetti – si era fatto promotore insieme al Laderchi della locale Scuola di Disegno. La Scuola, che dal 1879 era divenuta Scuola d’Arti e Mestieri, viene diretta da Antonio Berti per un quarantennio, dal 1866 al 1906. Il Berti, formatosi in area fiorentina e sostanzialmente antiaccademico, si fa portatore a Faenza d’istanze macchiaiole. In questi anni la Scuola si proietta anche verso una concezione delle arti decorative che s’ispira al mondo inglese delle Arts and Crafts. L’artigianato bolognese nella seconda metà dell’Ottocento è ancora saldamente ancorato ad una tradizione che affonda le sue radici nei due secoli precedenti. La cultura figurativa della città è inoltre influenzata dalla Accademia Clementina, i cui insegnamenti non risentono particolarmente del clima internazionale. Nasce proprio in questo periodo Aemilia Ars, uno dei più innovativi movimenti del contesto nazionale nel campo delle arti decorative. I membri del gruppo, raccoltisi intorno alla carismatica figura di Alfonso Rubbiani nei primi anni Ottanta, sono attratti da influenze nordeuropee e sin dall’inizio si mostrano orientati a seguire precetti ruskiniani e preraffaelliti. Molto importante in entrambe le città, per l’evoluzione dello scenario artistico e artigianale – in questi anni più che mai unite in un rapporto di strettissima correlazione – è l’apporto e il sostegno offerto dai salotti, dai circoli, dai caffé e dai cenacoli locali. Queste realtà alimentano il processo di rinnovamento, fornendo valide occasioni d’incontro e confronto tra gli operatori culturali locali e ospiti italiani e stranieri; supportano inoltre le nuove esperienze tese allo svecchiamento del settore produttivo, attraverso quel fenomeno sociale così tipico di questi anni che è la filantropia di marca più o meno utopista e socialista. Solo per citare alcuni esempi si deve ricordare l’attività dei cenacoli che si raccolsero a Faenza intorno ad Angelo Marabini, a Pietro Conti e a Domenico Baccarini, ma anche il sostegno che le famiglie Cavazza e Pizzardi non fecero mancare alle iniziative del gruppo bolognese, o ancora l’attività di cenacoli artistici come l’Accademia della Lira e il Comitato per Bologna Storica ed Artistica. Nella seconda parte del lavoro l’attenzione si è focalizzata sull’attività degli artisti e artigiani legati ad Alfonso Rubbiani, uniti in un sodalizio che fin dalla metà degli anni Ottanta prende il nome di Gilda di San Francesco e successivamente si istituzionalizza in Aemilia Ars. Si è cercato di esaminare l’intero campo di interventi per settori produttivi, delineando le principali modalità e caratteristiche operative di Aemilia Ars, dando risalto ai maggiori operatori di ogni settore. Ha inoltre dato ampio spazio dal punto di vista documentario, iconografico e fenomenologico al raffronto tra il lavoro dei bolognesi e quello che si ritiene essere stato per questi artefici il più rilevante ambito di riferimento, cioè l’attività degli artisti e artigiani inglesi che si formarono ed operarono attorno alla figura di William Morris. In conformità ai dettami anglosassoni si avvia un rinnovamento della tradizione artigianale sensibile dal punto di vista formale al mondo della natura, da cui sono selezionate forme eccentriche, idonee a subire un processo di razionalizzazione sintetizzante. Per quanto riguarda le modalità di realizzazione, si assiste spesso all’adozione di metodiche ibride che risentono di una volontà di recupero di modi produttivi antichi congiunti a materiali nuovi o perlomeno inusuali. Questo slancio innovatore, che si avvale di elementi fitomorfi, si fonde a un gusto storicista rivolto in particolar modo al recupero di modelli tardogotici – assai diffuso in Europa – o del primo Rinascimento; in entrambi i casi si tratta di forme particolarmente adatte alla modalità lineare ed astrattiva a cui tendono i principali interpreti dell’ultimo ventennio dell’Ottocento. I settori produttivi che si sono indagati riguardano prevalentemente la ceramica, l’ebanisteria, i ferri battuti, l’oreficeria, le arti tessili e i cuoi. Gran parte di queste lavorazioni – che si erano attardate nella realizzazione di oggetti dalle forme pesanti, di ispirazione seicentesca, certamente poco adatte all’affermarsi di una produzione industriale – subiscono ora una decisa accelerazione verso forme più leggere e svelte che, adeguandosi alla possibilità di riproduzione seriale degli oggetti, si diffonderanno quasi capillarmente tra l’aristocrazia e la borghesia, faticando tuttavia a raggiungere le classi meno abbienti a causa degli elevati costi di produzione. Nell’ultima parte viene tracciato sinteticamente il quadro delle attività artistiche e artigianali faentine del periodo indicato, con una particolare attenzione all’opera delle personalità afferenti al Cenacolo baccariniano: Giovanni Guerrini (Faenza 1887 – Roma 1972), Francesco Nonni (Faenza 1885 – 1976), Domenico Rambelli (Faenza 1886 – Roma 1972), Orazio Toschi (Lugo 1887 – Firenze 1972) e Giuseppe Ugonia (Faenza 1881 – Brisighella 1944). Viene notato che i giovani artisti, riunitisi intorno alla figura di Domenico Baccarini, interessati all’area anglosassone ed impegnati nel rinnovamento dell’artigianato locale, si avvicinano marginalmente al gusto floreale nella fase iniziale di ispirazione simbolista, per approdare negli anni successivi ad esiti spesso più vicini all’Espressionismo o al gusto déco. Viene tracciato un panorama delle attività articolato per settori produttivi: ceramica, ebanisteria e ferri battuti, all’interno dei quali si è dato risalto a coloro che maggiormente hanno influito sull’innovazione e lo sviluppo dell’artigianato locale. Si è inteso ricercare quelle che furono le principali collaborazioni con gli artisti e le botteghe prese in esame nel capitolo precedente, mettendo in rilievo le affinità stilistiche con il contesto nazionale ed europeo. Oltre ai già citati artisti inglesi è stato messo in evidenza il riferimento all’area scozzese e mitteleuropea. Questa ricerca si propone lo studio delle relazioni che si stabiliscono tra l’estetica neomedievalista e l’aspirazione al rinnovamento delle arti decorative. Tale orientamento, che nasce e si sviluppa tra Francia e Inghilterra alla metà dell’Ottocento intorno agli scritti e alle opere di figure quali Eugène Viollet-le-Duc e John Ruskin, è prontamente recepito in Italia tra gli anni Ottanta e gli anni Novanta dell’Ottocento dal gruppo di artisti e artigiani riunitosi nel capoluogo emiliano intorno ad Alfonso Rubbiani. In seguito questi artisti prenderanno strade diverse, portando con sé la propria cifra stilistica legata a quel gusto che in Italia si chiamerà “Stile Floreale”, che nel frattempo si diffonde anche attraverso importanti vetrine quali l’Esposizione Internazionale di Arte Decorativa di Torino e le Biennali veneziane nonché sulle pagine di autorevoli riviste come Emporium e Arte Italiana Decorativa e Industriale. Il successo dell’esperienza bolognese unito alla collaborazione che sorse con la città di Faenza, si ritiene abbia offerto significativi stimoli per la formazione di alcuni tra i principali artisti faentini di fine secolo.

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Thickpenny, Cynthia Rose. "Making key pattern in Insular art, AD 600-1100." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41009/.

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Key pattern is a type of abstract ornament characterised by spiral shapes which are angular rather than curved. It has been used to decorate objects and architecture around the world from prehistory onward, but flourished in a unique form in Insular art (the art of early medieval Britain and Ireland, c. AD 600-1100). Ornament of many kinds was the dominant mode in Insular art, however, key pattern has remained the least studied and most misunderstood. From the 19th century, specialists mainly have relied on simplified, line-drawn reproductions rather than original artworks. These 'correct' hand-made details, isolate patterns from their contexts, and in the case of Insular key pattern, de-emphasise its important physical structures. This resulted in misunderstandings of key pattern's structure and an inability to recognise evidence for medieval artists' working processes. Postwar art historians and archaeologists then largely abandoned study of ornament structure altogether, in critical reaction to this earlier method. For two centuries, academics have overlooked the artists' role in pattern-making, and how their creative agency is reflected in patterns' internal structures. In response, this thesis presents a new, artist-centred method for the study of Insular key pattern, which adapts Michael Brennan's pioneering approach to Insular interlace (a different pattern), to suit key pattern's distinct structure. Close examination of objects and monuments, rather than idealised 'types', has revealed how Insular artists themselves understood key pattern and handled it in the moment of creation. The core of the thesis is an analysis of key pattern's structural properties, i.e. its physical parts and the abstract, often mathematical concepts that Insular makers used to arrange and manipulate these parts, in order to fix mistakes, fulfill specific design goals, or invent anew. Case studies of individual artworks support this analysis and demonstrate how key pattern is a vehicle for accessing Insular artists' thought processes, as they improvised with the pattern's basic structures for maximum creative effect. For the first time, this thesis also places Insular key pattern in its global context, via comparative analyses of key patterns from other world art traditions. This investigation has confirmed key pattern's origin in prehistoric basketry and weaving technologies and explains why Insular key pattern's geometric complexity remains unparalleled. The adaptation and expansion of this new analytical method for key pattern also proves its applicability to any type of ornament from any culture, making it immediately useful to art historians and archaeologists. This thesis therefore represents a larger paradigm shift that brings ornament study into the 21st century.

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Lu, Qiang. "The art of traditional architectural ornaments in northern China." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297119.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 2007.
Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0705. Adviser: Henry Glassie.

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Donahue, Nathaniel J. "Decorative Modernity and Avant-Garde Classicism In Renoir's Late Work, 1892-1919." Thesis, New York University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3602655.

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Renoir's late work represents a paramount contribution to the history of modernism that has often been overlooked and obscured according to a paradigm of reactionary escapism. This dissertation instead positions Renoir's staunch commitment to the decorative arts, and his advocacy of decorative and classical styles of painting in the late work, as central to the political and cultural debates of its time--both as a link to the traditions of the eighteenth century that satisfied politically conservative cultural nationalists, and as a badge of avant-garde formalism among new collectors of modern art such as the Steins, Maurice Gangnat, Paul Guillaume, and Albert C. Barnes. Renoir's response to modernity was less one of denial than one of protest against a mode of production that diminished the hand crafted sensuality of the object in favor of machine made efficiency. This interpretation re-imagines the dominant teleology of Modernism by re-installing the decorative and the Symbolist movement as the important aesthetic revolutions they were for Renoir and his young admirers: the Nabis, Picasso, Maillol, and Matisse. During his late career Renoir adopted successive hybrid styles that combined decorative and classical forms and which encouraged synesthetic responses in the viewer. His pictures of music-making, dress-up, millenary, and the notorious late bather paintings and sculptures unabashedly revel in the depiction of decorative motifs and tactile flesh, ultimately locating the origins of aesthetic form in the slippages between the senses of sight and touch.

Ultimately Renoir's late work serves as an alternative paradigm of modernity, one that complicates the traditional narrative predicated on Greenbergian purity, media specificity, and flatness. Instead, Renoir presents a body of work which traffics in opposites: a decorative style that is willfully heterogeneous, synesthetic, and which explores the liminal space between the pictorial and the sculptural. As an antihero of modernism, a detailed understanding of Renoir's late work expands our understanding of this period by intertwining decorative, classical and avant-garde painting styles in a web connecting the diverse aesthetic movements and social upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Measell, James Scott. "A provincial school of art and local industry : the Stourbridge School of Art and its relations with the glass industry of the Stourbridge district, 1850-1905." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7008/.

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Founded in 1851, the Stourbridge School of Art offered instruction in drawing, art and design to students engaged in industries, especially glass. Using social history methodology and primary sources such as Government reports, local newspapers and school records, this thesis explores the school’s development from 1850 to 1905 and explicates its relationships with the local glass industry. Within the context of political, economic, social and cultural forces, the school contributed to the town’s civic culture and was supported by gentry, clergy and industrialists. The governing Council held public meetings and art exhibitions and dealt with management issues. Working class men attended evening classes. Women from wealthy families attended morning classes. This thesis argues that a fundamental disconnect existed between the school’s purpose (art instruction to train designers) and its instruction (basic drawing and fine art). The school enrolled men employed in glass decorating but few from glass manufacturing. Classes reflected the South Kensington curriculum, and the art masters were unaware of the design needs of industry. Glass manufacturing firms provided modest financial support but did not encourage employees to attend, creating frustration for the Council. In contrast, similar schools in Brierley Hill and Wordsley were well-supported by the glass industry.

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Gaunt, Pamela Mary School of Art History/Theory UNSW. "The decorative in twentieth century art: a story of decline and resurgence." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Art History/Theory, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25983.

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This thesis tracks the complex relationship between visual art and the decorative in the Twentieth Century. In doing so, it makes a claim for the ongoing interest and viability of decorative practices within visual art, in the wake of their marginalisation within Modernist art and theory. The study is divided into three main sections. First, it demonstrates and questions the exclusion of the decorative within the central currents of modernism. Second, it examines the resurgence of the decorative in postmodern art and theory. This section is based on case studies of a number of postmodern artists whose work gained notice in the 1980s, and which evidences a sustained engagement with a decorative or ornamental aesthetic. The artists include Rosemarie Trockel, Lucas Samaras, Philip Taaffe, and several artists from the Pattern and Decoration Painting Movement of the 1970s. The final component of the study investigates the function and significance of the decorative in the work of a selection of Australian and international contemporary artists. The art of Louise Paramor, Simon Periton and Do-Ho Suh is examined in detail. In addition, the significance of the late work of Henri Matisse is analysed for its relevance to contemporary art practice that employs decorative procedures. The thesis put forward is that an historical reversal has occurred in recent decades, where the decorative has once again become a significant force in experimental visual art.

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Yallop, Jacqueline. "Narrative objects : decorative art in the museum and the novel, 1850-1880." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14892/.

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In the face of financial disaster, Dr Lydgate attempts to share his concerns with his wife, Rosamund, in George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871). Rosamund's refusal to engage with the crisis, or to sympathise with her husband's despair, is repeatedly presented by Eliot as a preoccupation with inanimate, decorative objects: Rosamund 'turned her neck and looked at a vase on the mantelpiece'. 1 The mid nineteenth-century novel increasingly explores what it means to own, collect and display objects, and how personal and public lives can be constructed and defined by 'things'. Recent critical discussion has examined the significance of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and the subsequent international exhibitions, as a catalyst for, and an expression of, new ways of producing and consuming objects. 2 These dazzling exhibitions, in conjunction with the foundation of the South Kensington Museum (1857), began to formulate principles of design and models of taste for the public. Increasingly influential, however, was the development of the smaller, regional museum collections of decorative objects which began to emerge in the second half of the nineteenth century. Most of these shared with their national counterparts an intention to educate the public; almost all retained the intimacy and distinct authoring of their roots with local collectors. This thesis draws together common impulses from real and fictional evidence to suggest ways in which people's relationships to their objects were becoming increasingly sophisticated and intimate. It explores the growing role of local municipal museums in presenting manufactured and decorative pieces, in reinforcing moral and social messages around collecting and display, and in popularising decorative 'things' in the home and beyond, while also examining the growing fictional fascination with, and the increasing visibility of, objects in the novel.

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Hamling, Tara. "Narrative and figurative imagery in the English domestic interior, c.1558-c.1640." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268689.

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York, Karen S. "American portrait cameo cutting an alternate apprenticeship in relief sculpture, 1830-1870 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3162291.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History of Art, 2005.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed April 15, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0007. Chair: Michelle Facos.

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Wako, Miho. "Figured in lively paint : Eastern decorative art, English aestheticism, and consumer culture 1862-1900." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51548/.

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My thesis aims to explore how John Ruskin's idea of the workman's "freedom of thought" was disseminated to late Victorian female consumer culture, through the transformation of its ideal from Gothic architecture into Eastern decorative art. By examining both elite and popular Aesthetic texts, I will argue that references to Eastern art are not only about the issue of style, but also involve theoretical interests about how to integrate art, consumption, women and the home. In chapter one, I examine Ruskin's conception of workmen's free thought, and how the architect William Godwin adapted it by transferring his ideal example of it from Gothic to Eastern architecture. In chapter two, I discuss how manual books by Mary Eliza Haweis acknowledged the authority of wealthy middle-class women's consumption by using Ruskin's ideas alongside Eastern dress examples. In chapters three and four, I examine the Art at Home series, an affordable set of household manuals, to see how they acknowledged less wealthy middle-class women's capacity to be effective house decorators by raising the status of inexpensive Eastern art. Chapter five analyses the catalogues of Liberty's, an Oriental goods shop, and examines how they presented the principles of Eastern art as their own. In chapter six, I discuss The Woman's World, edited by Oscar Wilde, to show how the perspective of Eastern art can crystallise the definitions of female artists by both elite and popular Aesthetes. In chapter seven, I will examine the representation of Eastern art in Vernon Lee's Miss Brown, and show how her text is a critical response to the definition of female artists in elite and popular Aestheticism. By focusing on these various approaches to Eastern art, we can see that Aestheticism was engaged in a process of critiquing and customising Ruskin's ideas in order to acknowledge the artistry and autonomy of consumers.

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Harrius, Caroline. "The Repulsive Flower : A material based research about art history, gender and decorative porcelain." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för konsthantverk (KHV), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7239.

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In this project I am investigating my relationship with western traditional porcelain produced between 1700 and 1900 from a gender perspective. While looking at what has been feminine coded within the late history of ceramics I made the horrible realization that I do not value this kind of ceramics. The 21th century Scandinavia with stripped down, clean surfaces, filled with cool people dressed in black leaves little room for romantic, billowy vases decorated with flowers. I have produced a series of 30 porcelain vases, all decorated in the same way with a botanical pattern. They are installed in an old wooden shelf, packed tightly together. With this installation I want to discuss what part art history has made it to the museums and what parts has been stored away and labelled as tasteless knick knack. How has gender affected this? For some reason all my artistic role models has been male painters and not female ceramicists.

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Tzavaras, Annette. "Transforming perceptions of Islamic culture in Australia through collaboration in contemporary art." Faculty of Creative Arts, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/120.

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My creative work investigates the negative space, the ‘in between space’ that leads to new knowledge about other artists and other cultures. The fundamental and distinctive elements of Islamic pattern in my paintings in the exhibition Dialogue in Diversity are based on my own experience of misinformation as well as rewarding collaboration within a culturally blended family.This research explores the continuity of the arabesque and polygon. I experiment with the hexagon and its geometric shapes, with its many repeat patterns and the interrelatedness of the negative space, or the void indicative of the space between layers of past and present civilizations that are significant fundamentals in my paintings.The thesis Transforming perceptions of Islamic culture in Australia through collaboration in contemporary art traces the visual history of Orientalist art, beginning with a key image of Arthur Streeton, Fatima Habiba, painted in 1897 and contrasts Streeton’s perception with that of important Islamic women artists working globally such as Emily Jacir who participated in the Zones of Contact 2006 Biennale of Sydney.A core element of my research is working with emerging artists from Islamic backgrounds in Western Sydney. The February 2007 exhibition Transforming Perceptions Via . . . at the University of Wollongong brought together artists from east and west.By adopting the Islamic pattern in my paintings, I hope to strengthen the interaction between the Christian and Muslim interface in Australian contemporary society. My work contemplates the human aspects of relationships and responsibilities within the cross cultural spectrum.

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Jordanov, Iliana H. "Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/844.

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In this thesis, I will examine pattern making in art practice from two cultural perceptions, Slavic and Australian. Existing differences between the two cultural backgrounds will be used to debate how pattern is understood by the viewer or practiced by an artist in a particular chosen environment. The central argument focuses on pattern as a decorator and/or a narrator. I will examine the outcomes and changes in narrative pattern according to cultural context and exchange. By introducing Slavic pattern into contemporary (Australian) art practice, I examine how traditional cultural values and functions change. In discussing the processes of changes that occur in intercultural exchange, I will draw my opinions and observations from writers, critics and artists such as William Morris, Lucien Henry, Stuart Hall, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Grace Cohrane, Nicolas Pevsner, Faith Ringgold, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro and Cynthia Carlson. My final conclusion will be drawn from my personal visual practice that uses pattern

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Lee, Mindy. "A graphic design curriculum development project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569031.

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Examining the design education climate of Los Angeles results in finding a broken art education system and misconceived notions about graphic design. The struggle to implement design education into the lives of high school students leads to some students who have access to art classes with an emphasis on technical digital art and some students who have never taken an art or design class. This project is the work of bringing design education to students in the Los Angeles area. This design curriculum was created to promote creative process, problem solving, play and experimentation, and a deeper understanding of the use of graphic design as a communication tool. This curriculum was implemented at the High School Institutes at Inner-City Arts, a nonprofit that provides free arts education to thousands of youth in Los Angeles.

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Mounce, Kiersten. "Revolution through Beautiful Modern Art: René Herbst's Chaises Sandows and the Union des Artists Modernes (1929-1937)." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18376.

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At the Salon d'Automne of 1929, French designer René Herbst (1891-1982) inaugurated the Chaises Sandows, a series of mass produced chairs built with seamless tubular steel and brightly colored elastic straps (sandows). The chairs were deemed beautiful modern art by the Union des Artists Modernes (U.A.M.), a revolutionary artist collective that Herbst co-founded the same year. The group defined beautiful objects as those that provided psychological repose and were financially attainable for every class, highly functional and socially engaged. Based on the naturalism of Hyppolite Taine, the U.A.M. believed that if beautiful art like the Chaise Sandows was consumed en masse, an egalitarian utopia would be produced. This thesis offers comprehensive understanding of their project as defined by Herbst and their manifesto and the group's connection with larger political concerns during the interwar period.

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Loughlin, Dana. "The entomology of ornament : 'essai de papillonneries humaines' and the metamorphoses of eighteenth-century decorative art." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42931.

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A unique collection of French ornament prints entitled Essai de papillonneries humaines was executed by the royal embroiderer of King Louis XV, Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin in the mid-eighteenth century (c. 1748-1756). Intended as design models for transfer onto a wide range of decorative art objects, the etchings depict witty vignettes of anthropomorphized butterflies performing activities exclusive to the elite classes. Through a consideration of the designs’ material translations and subsequent social and spatial contexts, my thesis explores the interrelated issues of class relations, intellectual history, salon practices, the culture of appearances, and various forms of ornamentation, especially of domestic interiors. Indeed, an unprecedented fervor for butterflies in the decoration of new private spaces emerged in the eighteenth century, coinciding with a fashion for entomology (the study of insects) in the cultural and intellectual projects of the period known as the Enlightenment. Drawing from changing concepts on the relationship between humans and insects expressed in entomological, philosophical, and literary natural history publications of the mid-century, I examine the ways in which insects were increasingly referenced as a source of metaphor for the social, political, and individual self as the century progressed. I suggest that there was a cultural language of entomology, one that would have been particularly familiar to the educated nobility and newly wealthy bourgeoisie and drawn upon in the practices of salon sociability. Butterflies were the host of an array of specific associations that would have been activated by the intellectual conversation and games of wit practiced in salon spaces. As such, through the example of the papillonneries designs, my project endeavors to intervene in the discourse of ornament, positing that ornamentation was a dynamic social actor, rather than mere decoration in eighteenth-century France.

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Atkinson, Victoria. "Unravelling the musical in art : Matisse, his music and his textiles." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/21219/.

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From flamenco guitarists to parlour pianists, Matisse’s images of music-making often appear within decorative scenes of gleaming carpets, multi-coloured costumes and lavishly embroidered wall hangings. All of these textiles and more comprised what he called ‘ma bibliothèque de travail’, a working library of inspiration that he maintained throughout his career. ‘I am made up of everything I have seen,’ he remarked, to which he might have added, ‘and heard.’ Practising, performing, listening and concert-going: music, like textiles, was a lifelong pursuit. But his passion for them is not simply of anecdotal significance, nor does it explain their mere co-existence as the subject-matter of his art. Rather, just as music and textiles are interwoven at every stage of his life, so too is their structural and conceptual significance in his work. In a series of case studies, a single textile from his working library is paired with the art it inspired: the kasāya robe and 'The Song of the Nightingale'; the Moghan rug and the Symphonic Interiors; and the Bakuba velours and 'Jazz'. In each case, visual form is found to have musical counterpart, both in the textiles themselves and as represented by Matisse. This opens up new, more imaginative possibilities of interpreting his visual musicality, which is found to be metaphysical, modal and motivic in concept. Finally, these separate strands are drawn together in a single synoptic analysis of the Chapel of the Rosary, the artist’s self-proclaimed masterpiece and ‘total’ work of art. This thesis explores the expansive musical space created by the reduced visual form of textiles. Considered together for the first time, these enduring and inseparable continuities of Matisse’s art – music and textiles – suggest not only a means of unravelling his own visual musicality, but point towards a much-needed methodology for interpreting this notion more broadly.

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ORSERO, MARGHERITA. "L'Age d'or del Camposanto di Pisa. Cantieri e fasi decorative pittoriche nella prima metà del Trecento." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Genova, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1042228.

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The Camposanto of Pisa, a unique monument in Europe, built from 1277 onwards, is the product of religious, identity and artistic requirements, which can only be studied and understood through an interdisciplinary approach. Pisa, still at the beginning of the Trecento, was the Ghibelline city par excellence, but from the end of the 1320s, the politics of the city underwent a radical change, thanks to the intervention of Count Fazio Donoratico della Gherardesca. He drove out the vicar of Louis the Bavarian, Tarlato Tarlati, freeing Pisa from imperial domination and sought to establish good relations with Florence and Genoa, once Pisa's worst enemies, and above all with Pope John XXII. It is in this complex political context that the fresco decoration of the Camposanto began. The phases of the formulation of the project, the management of the building site, and the choice of artists and iconography cannot be properly understood outside this context. This dissertation focuses, therefore, on the sponsors of the frescoes and on the interweaving of the building site with civic society: the role of the Council of Anziani, the body of the Pisan political government that also presided over the Camposanto; of the "Operai" - in particular Giovanni Rossi and Giovanni Scorcialupi - who functioned as an interface between the Commune and the artists; of Archbishop Simone Saltarelli and the Dominicans; and, not least, of of Count Fazio Donoratico della Gherardesca, an emblematic figure in Pisan life at the time.
Monument unique en Europe, le Camposanto de Pise, construit à partir de 1277, est le produit d’exigences religieuses, identitaires et artistiques, qui ne peuvent être étudiées et comprises que par le biais d’une approche interdisciplinaire. Pise, encore au début du Trecento, était la ville gibeline par excellence, mais à partir de la fin des années 1320, la politique de la ville subit un changement radical, grâce à l’intervention du comte Fazio Donoratico della Gherardesca. Il chassa le vicaire de Louis le Bavare, Tarlato Tarlati, en délivrant Pise de la domination impériale et chercha à établir de bonnes relations avec Florence et Gênes autrefois les pires ennemis de Pise et surtout avec le pape Jean XXII. C’est dans ce cadre politique complexe que la décoration à fresque du Camposanto prend son départ. Les phases de la formulation du projet, de la gestion du chantier, jusqu’au choix des artistes et de l’iconographie, ne peuvent pas être bien compris en dehors de ce contexte. Cet thèse porte, donc, sur les commanditaires des fresques et sur l’imbrication du chantier avec la société civique : le rôle du Conseil des Anziani, organe du gouvernement politique pisan présidant aussi au Camposanto; des « Operai » – notamment Giovanni Rossi et Giovanni Scorcialupi – qui fonctionnaient comme une interface entra la Commune et les artistes ; de l’archevêques Simone Saltarelli et des Dominicains ; et notamment, du comte Fazio Donoratico della Gherardesca, personnage emblématique de la vie pisane de l’époque.

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Yu, Kopotienko V. "FEATURES OF ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS OF NOVOMYRHOROD DISTRICT, KIROVOHRAD REGION OF UKRAINE." Thesis, ПОЛІТ.Сучасні проблеми науки.Гуманітарні науки:тези доповідей XVII Міжнародної науково-практичної конференції молодих учених і студентів:[y 2-x т.].Т.2(м.Київ,4-7 квітня 2017 р.)/[ред.кол.:В.М.Ісаєнко та ін.]; Національний авіаційний університет.-К.:НАУ,2017.-374 с, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/27732.

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Conclusions. The investigation has helped identify the peculiarities of the architecture, interior design and household goods of Novomyrhorod district, the formation peculiarities which correspond to the general stages of the country development. The most preserved buildings for their aesthetic value for the region are Elias Church and St. Nicholas Church, Anna Dmitrian hospital and Slatopolsky gymnasium.

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Economides, Aliki. "Modern Savoir-Faire: Ernest Cormier, “Architect and Engineer-Constructor,” and Architecture’s Representational Constructions." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467511.

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This dissertation is a historical study of the life and work of French-Canadian architect and engineer, Ernest Cormier (1885-1980), who is considered to be among the most important Canadian architects of his generation, yet about whom relatively few scholarly studies exist. In light of the range of issues raised by Cormier’s work and their degree of importance to an understanding of Canadian culture at large during the first half of the twentieth century, this dissertation argues that no other architect operating in Canada during the interwar period made a contribution that touched on so many salient issues as Cormier did. A cosmopolitan figure who tapped into everything available to him, Cormier’s multidisciplinary practice spanned over five decades in his native city of Montréal, and reflects his synthesis of diverse influences, his role as an agent of cultural transfer, and his remarkable degree of savoir-faire in everything he undertook. Entrusted with important commissions at local, national and international levels, Cormier’s contribution merits further study both as a milestone in the development of architecture in Canada, and for what it reveals about the charged sociocultural dynamics of Montréal at that time, which was then the cultural and economic capital of the country. Cormier was particularly active during the interwar period, which was an important time in the advent of cultural modernity in the province of Québec, and in the development of a national consciousness among French Canadians. Focused primarily on the close study of two very different yet interrelated projects by Cormier that date from this period, this dissertation contends that the house he designed for himself (1930-31) and the main pavilion of the Université de Montréal (1924-43) are his most important works, both for what they reveal about his sustained commitments as well as for the innovative ways in which they address the conditions of modernity, and thus, critically illuminate the opportunities and constraints of their time and place. Heavily reliant on the study of archival materials alongside empirical analyses of the buildings, and readings from a range of interdisciplinary sources in order to take account of the work’s meaning and significance within and beyond architecture culture, a central leitmotif of this study is the theme of ‘construction’ construed both as a preoccupation internal to Cormier’s oeuvre and as a theoretical orientation driving my analysis of his work. In the first instance, the figure of the constructeur [constructor] is incorporated into Cormier’s professional title to better align himself with French architecture and engineering culture, particularly with the work of Auguste Perret, whom he greatly admired. As well, for Cormier, construction in the sense of building things, is inseparable from design, and finds sustained expression in his deep curiosity for how things are made, his investment in making at all scales across diverse métiers and media, and his exacting standards for all of his work to be well executed. Finally, keenly attendant to architecture’s communicative function, this dissertation examines the profound representational role played by the Cormier residence and the Université de Montréal in the construction of identity at the respective scales of the individual and that of a collective.
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Winthrop, Emily. "Allegories of the Modern: The Female Nude in Art Nouveau." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4203.

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Modernism is a plurality, not a singular concept. This project explores examples of Art Nouveau nudes to describe the particular expressions of the modern through varied and complicated allegorical bodies. The female nude as a nexus for ideals of gender, art, and beauty, is informed by and constructs the understanding of these ideals within society. Art Nouveau thus employed the nude to represent complex manifestations of modernity. Three diverse cases provide the subjects of each chapter. All explore modernism through objects and interiors, in public and private environments, and each connects the decorative arts with accounts of European modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The modernist movement, in these decades, is still predominantly understood through painting. This project draws its case studies from Paris, Glasgow, and Vienna, each a distinct cultural arena during the 1890s and 1900s: the sculptural furniture of François Rupert Carabin (1862-1932); the metalwork of Margaret Macdonald (1865-1933) and her sister Frances Macdonald (1873-1921); and the graphic motifs of Ver Sacrum, created by the artists of the first Vienna Secession (1897-1905). In conception and expression, these nudes articulated the diverse representational practices of different modernisms. They each embody drastically different histories, aesthetics, and social expressions. Their varied modernisms expose the prominent nationalism of Art Nouveau. Examination of these three very different cases expands and complicates current understandings of the nude, allegory, and the modern.

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Tkachev, Natalia. "The work of art in the field of cultural production : the principle of legitimization in the digital era /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2767.

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Murray, Philippa, and pmurray@swin edu au. "The Floating World - An investigation into illustrative and decorative art practices and theory in print media and animation." RMIT University. Arts and Culture, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080506.143949.

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Considered under the theme 'The Floating World', the aim of this research project was to create a written exegesis and a series of artworks, primarily in the form of digital animation and illustration, which investigate decorative and illustrative art practices and their historical lineages. Particular emphasis was given to investigating the links between contemporary decorative/illustrative art practice and the aesthetics and psychology of the Edo period in Japan (C17th - C19th), in which the term 'The Floating World' was used to describe the city of Edo (old Tokyo). The writing concerned with The Floating World is comprised of the following chapters: history; concepts; aesthetics; contemporary adaptations of Ukiyo-e; and gothic romance and associated genres. The outcomes of my Masters program represent a sustained exploration of decorative and illustrative art practice and theory, and incorporate experimentation with associated genres such as magic realism, gothic romance, the uncanny, iconography, surrealism and other metaphorical and abstract representational practices. More broadly, my Masters project is an investigation, both theoretical and practical, into the way drawing and illustration have been a process through which to (literally) give shape to hopes and fears, and to describe understandings of self and the world. I am particularly interested in exploring how, through the act of abstraction and the use of metaphor and decoration, a capacity to 'speak the unspeakable' and 'know the unknowable' are somehow enabled. For example, when contemporary Japanese artist Takashi Murakami decorates Edo-inspired screens with a colourful arrangement of morphing cartoon mushrooms, he conjures up a startling and complex poetic space that juxtaposes traditional Japanese aesthetics and philosophy with the hyper-consumerist characters and ethos of Disneyland, as well as disquieting references to the mushroom bombs that dropped down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from US planes. A similarly complex space is enacted by contemporary US artist Inka Essenhigh: her oversized canvases seem like sublime Japanese-inspired screens but a closer inspection reveals that the decorative motifs are actually dismembered body parts morphed together to create a savage and compelling metaphor for contemporary America that is all the more disarming for being perf ormed in a seemingly innocuous illustrative style. My research will draw on these examples but will endeavour to create a series of artworks that are particular to an Australian context. This interests me particularly in a time when, as a nation, we appear to be confounded about what it means to be Australian: as a contemporary artist I am interested in how we represent ourselves as a nation, and in exploring the motifs and attributes that we consider to be ours.

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Summatavet, Kärt. "Folk tradition and artistic inspiration : a woman's life in traditional Estonian jewelry and crafts as told by Anne and Roosi /." [Helsinki] : University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0805/2008400416.html.

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Milner, Reed Meaghan. "Junk." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555284.

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My thesis work, which consists of a series of small scaled, mixed media constructions, is inspired by the beauty and complexity of the natural world in which we live. There is beauty in the harmony and balance found in the intricate arrangements and order of a variety of living systems such as the rising and falling tides, human DNA structures, life cycles of plants, and the orbits and rotations found in our galaxy. Each work is intended to reveal the density and sophistication of these networks through layers of information and intricate detail. Found wooden cases, drawers, wire, reclaimed metals and recycled plastic, found glass objects, thread, monofilament, and mylar are just a few of the materials I work with to create my sculptures or assemblages.

The beauty and sophistication of the diverse elements in the natural world have inspired me to create these small scale assemblages or microcosms. Using science and nature as a foundation, I allow my interest in the reuse and transformation of found objects to direct the construction of these intimate environments. I hope the size of the work and layers of visual information entice viewers to explore the spaces and consider the numerous associations evident from my unique orchestration of elements.

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Kummerow, Daniel Richard. "Private settings /." Online version of thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11743.

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Ren, Wei. "The Writer's Art: Tao Yuanqing and the Formation of Modern Chinese Design (1900-1930)." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17465116.

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The dissertation examines the history of modern design in early 20th-century China. The emergent field of design looked to replace the specific cultural and historical references of visual art with an international language of geometry and abstraction. However, design practices also, encouraged extracting culturally unique visual forms by looking inward at a nation’s constructed past. The challenge of uniting these dual, and seemingly contradictory, goals was met in a collaborative book cover design project between Lu Xun (1881-1936), China’s most influential modern writer, and Tao Yuanqing (1893-1929), a painter who transformed ancient motifs into a transnational vocabulary of modern design. As the title suggests, the dissertation provides a history of modern Chinese design in four chapters, with the Lu Xun-Tao Yuanqing collaboration at its core. The investigation begins with the moment of culmination, wherein Lu Xun and Tao Yuanqing’s intersubjective dynamic allowed for evocative yet inscrutable book cover designs to be created. In the new medium of design, the writer’s anxiety regarding the inadequacy of language converged with the artist’s desire for ambiguity in art. The critical analysis then moves back to earlier instances of design and examines how the history of design in China was inflected by the World Exposition, Japan, art education, and commercial art. The inquiry finally moves forward to the discussion of Tao Yuanqing’s art and design’s relationship with a range of discursive fields in aesthetics and literary criticism, including modern notions of beauty, childlikeness, empathy, the native soil movement, cosmopolitanism, symbolism, and ambiguity in art. This part reveals how Tao Yuanqing’s innovations ironically endorsed while simultaneously subverting contemporary interpretive efforts.
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Choudhury, Anamika. "Traditional art and craft of Sub- Himalayan Darjeeling: historical study." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2019. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4026.

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Lotery, Kevin. "an Exhibit / an Aesthetic: The Independent Group and Postwar Exhibition Design." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463126.

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This dissertation tracks the exhibition design practices developed in and around the Independent Group (IG) from the late 1940s through the 1950s. A loose affiliation of artists, architects, and critics, the IG gathered at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early to mid-1950s to debate the aesthetic, socio-political, and techno-scientific forces of their present (key figures included Lawrence Alloway, Reyner Banham, Richard Hamilton, Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alison and Peter Smithson). Synthesizing science-fiction, Dada, theoretical biology, and cybernetics (among many other topics) within a single mode of research, IG members formulated a non-hierarchical model of the cultural “continuum” in discussions, presentations, and most importantly, collaborative exhibition designs. The dissertation contends that exhibition design provided the IG with a timely strategy for navigating the contradictory traditions of aesthetic and technical production that came together in Britain during postwar reconstruction, from interwar avant-gardes to emergent American technocracy. IG members realized that exhibition design was the one technique that could move fluidly between the phenomenological conditions of architecture and display and the technological networks of communication, image distribution, and scientific production structuring the “continuum.” The goal was to bring these circuits and spaces—gallery, factory, laboratory, office, home, cinema, television, street—to bear on bodily experience so they might first be lived, then studied and redesigned. Chapter 1 examines Hamilton’s Growth and Form (1951), arguing that the exhibition’s apparatuses for displaying images and models of organic processes materialized a looming shift in global power structures. Chapter 2 unpacks a “Brutalist” empiricism from Parallel of Life and Art (1953), a web of photographs of cultural and technical materials. Chapter 3 investigates Hamilton’s Man, Machine and Motion (1955), which was less exhibition armature than metallic machine of production. Chapter 4 considers IG participation in This is Tomorrow (1956), a collection of propositions for artistic integration. Here, the IG met spectators, not in the realm of bodily experience, but on the plane of fantasy. Chapter 5 examines Hamilton’s an Exhibit and Exhibit 2 (1957/59), proto-Conceptual projects testing whether forms of affect, play, and chance might be fabricated within production systems no longer requiring human operators.
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Proctor, Ann R. "Out of The Mould: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics in Vietnam." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1692.

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‘Out of the Mould: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics in Vietnam’ is a study of the current practice of sculptural ceramics in Hà Nội, Vietnam and its historical antecedents within Vietnam and in the West. It examines the transition from a craft based practice to an art practice in some areas of ceramic practice in Hà Nội during the twentieth and early twenty first century. The theoretical basis for the thesis centres on Alőis Riegl's writings, especially Stilfragen (Problems of Style), 1893, in which he makes a close chronological examination of stylistic changes in various media, while intentionally disregarding any hierarchy within artistic disciplines. This is considered an appropriate model for the study of Vietnamese ceramics as the thesis proposes that, in recent years, ceramics has once more resumed its place as one of the major art forms in Vietnam. This status is in contrast to its relegation to a 'decorative', as opposed to a 'fine art', form in the discourse of the French colonial era. As background, the thesis examines the history of sculptural ceramics in Vietnam and discusses what is currently known of ceramic practice and the lineages of potters in particular villages famous for their ceramic works in the area around Hà Nội. The transition in ceramics practice is discussed in terms of the effect of changing conditions for the education of ceramicists, as well as the effect of other institutional structures, the economic changes as reflected in the art market and exhibitions structure and sociological changes. The role which ceramics has played in the emergence of installation art in Vietnam is also examined.

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Proctor, Ann R. "Out of The Mould: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics in Vietnam." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1692.

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‘Out of the Mould: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics in Vietnam’ is a study of the current practice of sculptural ceramics in Hà Nội, Vietnam and its historical antecedents within Vietnam and in the West. It examines the transition from a craft based practice to an art practice in some areas of ceramic practice in Hà Nội during the twentieth and early twenty first century. The theoretical basis for the thesis centres on Alőis Riegl's writings, especially Stilfragen (Problems of Style), 1893, in which he makes a close chronological examination of stylistic changes in various media, while intentionally disregarding any hierarchy within artistic disciplines. This is considered an appropriate model for the study of Vietnamese ceramics as the thesis proposes that, in recent years, ceramics has once more resumed its place as one of the major art forms in Vietnam. This status is in contrast to its relegation to a 'decorative', as opposed to a 'fine art', form in the discourse of the French colonial era. As background, the thesis examines the history of sculptural ceramics in Vietnam and discusses what is currently known of ceramic practice and the lineages of potters in particular villages famous for their ceramic works in the area around Hà Nội. The transition in ceramics practice is discussed in terms of the effect of changing conditions for the education of ceramicists, as well as the effect of other institutional structures, the economic changes as reflected in the art market and exhibitions structure and sociological changes. The role which ceramics has played in the emergence of installation art in Vietnam is also examined.

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Harrison, Tracy Elizabeth. "Visualizing Complexity : A Spatial Analysis of Decorative Geometric Pattern in the Islamic World, 900-1400 AD." PDXScholar, 2005. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2434.

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This study explores how the use of complex decorative geometric patterns in Islamic architecture spatially relates to advances in the fields of science and philosophy in the Islamic world between the ninth and fourteenth centuries. This project examines hypotheses developed by vario~s scholars on the forces that shaped the use of these patterns (known as the geometric mode) in Islamic architecture. The prevailing assumption that advances in mathematics contributed to the use of the geometric mode is used as a starting point for subsequent analysis. For this study, two spatial databases were created. One contains over two hundred and twenty monuments of Islamic architecture exhibiting the geometric mode, while the other contains over one hundred records of activity in the sciences and philosophy. From these databases, decorative geometric pattern types were classified and ranked, and scholarly activities were classified. Density maps were developed from these classes and ranks for each century, and were compared in a series of analytical overlay maps. Each map depicts the spatial relationships of the activities in question over a span of three centuries, enabling a spatio-temporal analysis of the connections between disciplines within the context of the broader cultural elements at work. These maps allow for examination of these disciplines in a new way; there has never been a spatial analysis testing the existing hypotheses until now. The density overlay maps show that some of the prevailing hypotheses are partially supported by the data, but the primary hypothesized relationship-that activity in mathematics prompted use of the geometric mode-is not applicable to all regions of the Islamic world during this time period. The spatial analysis exposes the previously overlooked possibility that the geometric mode could have influenced activity in the sciences and philosophy. This study provides tools to better understand the complex relationships among art, science, and philosophy: two spatial databases, a geographic information systems (GIS) model, and resulting analytical overlay maps. The maps produced in this project reveal examples where the quality of contact among disciplines in these very specific times and places is worth examining in greater detail.

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Žilys, Irmantas. "DEKORATYVUS DAUGIAFUNKCINIS BALDAS „KUBAS“." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100903_084103-14041.

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Bakalauro darbo tikslas sukurti dekoratyvų daugiafunkcinį baldą „KUBAS“. Kūrybiniame procese naudojamos informacijos šaltinių studijos. Nagrinėjama istorinė baldų raida, baldų rūšys, medžiagos naudojamos baldų gamyboje. Kūrybinio darbo idėjos paieškoje naudojant informacijos šaltiniuose pateiktą medžiagą nagrinėjama konceptualių, ekologiškų ir daugiafunkcinių baldų gamyba ir pritaikymas interjere. Išnagrinėjus šią medžiagą pristatoma galutinė gaminio idėja – dekoratyvus daugiafunkcinis baldas „KUBAS“. Įgyvendinant idėją kuriami eskizai, braižomi brėžiniai, gaminamas maketas. Praėjus šiuos kūrybinio darbo etapus, pasirinkus medžiagas ir suplanavus darbo eigą pagaminamas „KUBAS“. Dekoratyvaus daugiafunkcinio baldo kūrybinio darbo proceso patirtis bus pritaikoma technologinio ugdymo procese.
Bachelor's goal to create a decorative multi - functional furniture "Cube". Creative process, sources of information used in studies. Examining the historical development of furniture, furniture types of materials used in furniture manufacturing. Creative ideas for job search information sources using the material at issue in the conceptual, eco - friendly and multi - functional furniture and interior applications. Examination of the material presented in the final product idea - a multifunctional piece of furniture decorated with "Cube". Implementing the idea of creating sketches, drawings are done and made model. After these stages of the creative work, selecting materials and planning of the work produced in the course "Cube". Decorative multi - functional piece of furniture the creative process of working experience will be adapted to technological education.

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Shai, Meital <1981&gt. "Villa Grimani Molin Avezzù at Fratta Polesine : cosmological themes in decorative programs of sixteenth-century Venetian villas." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3008.

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Il progetto di ricerca fornisce la prima analisi iconologica d’insieme per le decorazioni di Villa Grimani Molin. Una approfondita ricerca documentaria ha permesso di fissare un quadro cronologico sul quale innestare coerentemente gli interventi edilizi e decorativi, attribuibili rispettivamente a Vincenzo Grimani e alla sua figlia Betta Grimani Molin (anni ’70-’80 del ‘500). Sulla base di prove tecniche e stilistiche, e sulla base di indizi documentari che attendono una verifica definitiva, lo studio vuole proporre come autori l'architetto Vincenzo Scamozzi, e uno o più pittori della famiglia ferrarese dei Filippi. Gli affreschi testimoniano l’erudita estrazione culturale-intellettuale dei committenti e degli artisti; essi tradiscono una presenza femminile notevole che riflette l'identità del committente principale. Il programma iconografico può essere definito come un apparato di filosofia cosmologica, intesa però non come disciplina puramente celeste-astronomica, ma piuttosto come filosofia della natura, dunque dell'ambiente naturale con tutte le sue leggi, così come la disciplina era stata compresa nella cultura rinascimentale. La varietà dei riferimenti culturali ed alcune scelte iconografiche sono servite come metodo per esplorare diversi sistemi di conoscenze, culminanti con la personificazione di una Sapienza che costituisce il cuore del programma.
The study provides the first comprehensive iconological analysis for the frescoes of the Villa Grimani Molin. A thorough documentary research established a chronological framework that enabled to coherently position the construction and decorative interventions, attributed respectively to Vincenzo Grimani and to his daughter Betta Grimani Molin (1570’s-1580’s). Based on technical and stylistic evidence, and documentary indications awaiting a definitive verification, the study proposed as authors the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi, and one or more painters from the Ferrarese Filippi family. The frescos testify the erudite cultural-intellectual background of their innovators; they embody a notable female presence, reflecting the identity of the main patroness. The iconographic program may be defined as an apparatus of cosmological philosophy, intended not as a purely celestial-astronomical discipline; rather, as a philosophy of nature, within the laws of the natural environment, as the discipline was understood in Renaissance culture. The variety of cultural references and certain iconographic choices served for exploring different systems of knowledge, culminating with the personification of Wisdom constituting the core of the program.

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Boyd, Kelly Elizabeth. "Mme. de Pompadour: Self Promotion and Social Performance through Architecture and the Decorative Arts." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/90.

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The structure of this thesis relies on the physical locations of Mme. de Pompadour. Although the chapters are roughly chronological, beginning with her arrival at Versailles in 1745 and ending with her death in 1764, this work makes no attempt to comprehensively chronicle the entirety of her involvement in the decorative arts. Rather, it focuses on several specific aspects of her patronage, with the goal of illuminating her social position and public image, and how she worked to control the two. Chapter One deals with the first rooms Mme. de Pompadour inhabited, from 1745-1750. These upper apartments characterize her early attempts to convey meaning through décor and to shape social interactions within a constructed environment. Chapter Two follows Mme. de Pompadour’s move downstairs, to the lower apartments in 1750. This move parallels an important evolution in her role at court and seeks to explore how her newly political functions were expressed through these interior spaces. Chapter Three is more expansive, examining three architectural projects undertaken by Mme. de Pompadour and Louis XV on her behalf, over the course of her nineteen years at court. These independent homes represented an opportunity for Mme. de Pompadour to actively work to change public perception of herself and her role, an opportunity that she did not waste.

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Andrade, Marques Inês Maria. "Arte e habitação em Lisboa 1945-1965. Cruzamentos entre desenho urbano, arquitetura e arte pública." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145901.

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Esta tese tem como objeto a produção de arte pública na cidade de Lisboa, nas grandes unidades habitacionais de promoção pública que se planearam e edificaram no período definido entre 1945 e 1965: Alvalade, Olivais Norte e Olivais Sul. A obra de arte pública é assumida como um facto urbano, integrado num percurso de conformação do espaço. Cada uma das áreas é estudada desde a sua génese até ao seu estádio consolidado sob três aspetos: o plano de urbanização, o processo de edificação e a participação de artistas na produção de obras de arte pública, de modo a entender como se cruzam no espaço as variadas ideias e intenções ao nível do plano e dos projetos, e como estas sugerem ou condicionam o surgimento da obra de arte pública. O período escolhido - as duas décadas seguintes ao fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial - permite apreciar a entrada e o desvanecimento dos ideários modernos racionalistas nos modos de pensar e construir a cidade. Através do estudo de Alvalade, Olivais Norte e Olivais Sul pode acompanhar-se a intromissão dos princípios da Carta de Atenas, primeiro limitada a pequenas unidades de urbanização [Alvalade], depois assumida à escala de uma célula experimental [Olivais Norte] e finalmente posta em prática numa grande malha residencial, mas onde se sentem já as tensões com outras correntes modernas, abrindo caminho às primeiras ruturas com o documento de 1933 [Olivais Sul]. Neste processo de desagregação do vocabulário urbano tradicional e de abandono dos figurinos oficiais impostos pelo regime desde o início da década de 1940, o objetivo principal da tese é perceber como é que arte pública se adequou aos edifícios e espaços públicos de configurações absolutamente novas, geradas pela aplicação destes novos paradigmas e formulações estéticas. É também perceber ao serviço de que intenções a obra de arte pública foi sendo chamada a pontuar o espaço da cidade. A presente tese aborda uma produção artística geralmente negligenciada: a arte pública que acompanha a arquitetura e o urbanismo modernos. Apesar de quase exclusivamente circunscrita aos exemplos lisboetas, ensaia também uma aproximação exploratória à produção de arte pública para o universo da habitação social, de grande relevância no contexto do pós Segunda Guerra e décadas subsequentes. Se para arquitetos e urbanistas a habitação tinha sido desde o início do século XX tema de eleição e de demarcação doutrinária, foi também um campo que cativou artistas socialmente engajados, provenientes de várias linhagens estéticas e políticas, mas que tinham em comum uma intenção de aproximação ao espaço do cidadão comum. Esta tese move-se entre várias áreas disciplinares. Além de perspetivar a arte pública no seu contexto arquitetónico e urbano, por se enquadrar conceptualmente na abordagem proposta pelo Cer Polis, a autora adapta a metodologia da história oral como forma de resgatar parte da informação necessária à escrita da tese. PALAVRAS CHAVE - Arte Pública, Áreas residenciais, Urbanismo residencial, Síntese das Artes, Integração das Artes, Movimento Moderno
This PhD thesis aims to study the production of public art in the city of Lisbon, in major public promotion housing units that were planned and built in the period between 1945 and 1965: Alvalade, Olivais Norte and Olivais Sul. The work of public art is assumed as an urban fact, part of a plan of shaping the space. Each area is studied from its origin to its consolidated stage under three aspects: The urbanization plan, the process of building and the participation of artists in the production of works of public art The period chosen - the two decades following the end of the Second World Warallows us to appreciate the input and the fading ideals of modern movement ideals in the ways of thinking and building the city. The study of Alvalade, Olivais Norte and Olivais Sul, allows us to monitor the interference of the principles of the Athens Charter, initially limited to small urbanization units [Alvalade], later adopted to the extent of an experimental cell [Olivais Norte] and finally put in place in a large housing estate, but where tensions with other modern currents could already be felt giving way to the first breakthroughs with the document of 1933 [Olivais Sul]. In this process of dissolution of the traditional urban vocabulary and abandonment of the official models imposed by the regime since the early 1940s, the main objective of the thesis is to understand how the public art adapted itself to public buildings and spaces of absolutely new configurations, generated by the application of these new paradigms and aesthetic formulations. It is also to understand with what intent the work of the public art was being called to mark the city space. This thesis concerns an often overlooked artistic production: the public art that accompanies modern architecture and urbanism. In spite of being exclusively limited to the Lisbon examples it also rehearses an exploratory approach to the production of the public art to the universe of social housing, which had great relevance in the context of the post Second War and subsequent decades. Having in mind that to modern architects and urbanists housing had been the subject of election and doctrinal demarcation since the beginning of the twentieth century, it was also a field that captivated socially engaged artists from various aesthetic and political lines, who had a common intention of approaching the space of the ordinary citizen. This thesis moves between several subject areas. Besides appreciating public art in its architectural and urban context, because it fits conceptually the approach proposed by Cer Polis, the author adapts the methodology of oral history as a way to redeem part of the necessary information to write the thesis.
Aquesta tesi té com a objecte la producció d'art públic a la ciutat de Lisboa, a les grans unitats habitacionals de promoció pública que es varen planificar i edificar en el període comprès entre 1945 i 1965: Alvalade, Olivais Norte i Olivais Sud. L'obra d'art públic és assumida com un fet urbà, integrat en un procés de conformació de l'espai. Cadascuna de les àrees és estudiada des de la seva gènesi fins al seu estat de consolidació sota tres aspectes: el pla d'urbanització, el procés d’edificació i la participació d'artistes en la producció d'obres d'art públic. El període escollit - les dues dècades que van seguir al final de la Segona Guerra Mundial - permet apreciar l'entrada i l’esvaïment dels idearis moderns en les maneres de pensar i construir la ciutat. L'estudi d’Alvalade, Olivais Norte i Olivais Sul permet seguir la intromissió dels principis de la Carta d'Atenes, inicialment limitada a petites unitats d’urbanització [Alvalade], posteriorment assumida a l'escala d'una cèl•lula experimental [Olivais Norte] i finalment posada en pràctica sobre una gran malla de caràcter residencial, però on se senten ja les tensions amb altres corrents moderns, obrint el camí a les primeres ruptures amb el document de 1933 [Olivais Sul]. En aquest procés de dissolució del vocabulari urbà tradicional i d'abandonament dels models oficials imposats pel règim des de l’inici de la dècada de 1940, l'objectiu principal de la tesi és comprendre com l'art públic es va adequar als edificis i espais públics amb configuracions absolutament noves, generades per l'aplicació d'aquests nous paradigmes i formulacions estètiques. Ho és també entendre al servei de quines intencions l’obra d’art públic va ser cridada a marcar l'espai de la ciutat. La present tesi valoritza una producció artística generalment oblidada: l’art públic que acompanya l’arquitectura i l’urbanisme moderns. Malgrat estar exclusivament circumscrita als exemples lisboetes, intenta també una aproximació exploratòria a la producció d'art públic per l'univers de l'habitatge social, de gran rellevància en el context de post-segona guerra mundial i les dècades posteriors. Si per arquitectes i urbanistes moderns l’habitatge havia estat des d’inicis del segle XX un tema d’elecció i de demarcació doctrinària, fou també un camp que va captivar artistes socialment compromesos, provinents de diferents línies estètiques i polítiques, però que tenien en comú una intenció d'aproximació a l’espai del ciutadà comú. Aquesta tesi es mou entre diverses àrees disciplinàries. Més enllà de posar en perspectiva l’art públic en el seu context arquitectònic i urbà, pel fet d’enquadrar-se conceptualment en el plantejament proposat per Cer Polis, l'autora adapta la metodologia de la història oral com una forma de recuperar part de la informació necessària per l’escriptura de la tesi.

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Chitwood, Heather. "The Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati simulating reality /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2000. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin962377073.

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BARBIERI, ALESSANDRO. "LE TERRECOTTE DECORATIVE DEL MUSEO D'ARTE ANTICA DEL CASTELLO SFORZESCO DI MILANO: PRODUZIONE FITTILE E ARCHITETTURA NELL'ETA' SFORZESCA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6605.

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Le attività di ricerca e catalogazione effettuate durante lo stage condotto tra il 2010 e il 2011 sui materiali fittili conservati nel deposito del Museo d’Arte Antica del Castello Sforzesco di Milano sono state all’origine di alcune riflessioni e considerazioni sul tema delle terrecotte decorative del primo Rinascimento in Lombardia - in particolar modo a Milano e a Cremona - che ha trovato un primo importante esito nella presentazione al convegno del 2011 Terrecotte nel Ducato di Milano. Artisti e cantieri del primo Rinascimento. La scelta, in seno alle ricerche per il dottorato, è stata quella di proseguire, incrementandoli, gli studi sulla collezione fittile delle Civiche Raccolte d’Arte di Milano, approfondendo il tema della produzione coroplastica decorativa nell’età sforzesca, non tralasciando di analizzare, per alcuni casi rilevanti, il coevo contesto architettonico. I risultati ottenuti, riordinati e raccolti nelle pagine di questa tesi, costituiscono il tentativo di una prima mappatura dei repertori ornamentali, dove partendo dai patterns decorativi esibiti dalle singole formelle presenti nel deposito del museo è stato possibile stabilire confronti e tracciare relazioni con i numerosi complessi architettonici con decorazione fittile sparsi sul territorio lombardo e nelle regioni confinanti.
The research and cataloguing activities conducted during the internship in 2010-2011 on the clay materials preserved in the deposit of the Museo d’Arte Antica at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, were what sparked off a series of considerations and reflections on the subject of decorative terracottas during the early Renaissance in Lombardy - particularly Milan and Cremona - the results of which were discussed during the presentation at a conference held in 2011 entitled Terrecotte nel Ducato di Milano. Artisti e cantieri del primo Rinascimento. The decision behind the research conducted for my PhD was to continue and extend the studies to include the collection of clay products preserved by the Art Collections of the Municipality of Milan, more specifically the decorative coroplast productions in the Sforzesca era, which included an in-depth analysis of the contemporary architectonic context of some of the most significant cases. The results obtained, indexed and included in this thesis aim to present an initial mapping of the ornamental repertoires where, starting from the decorative patterns of the individual tiles preserved in the deposit of the Museum, it was possible to establish comparisons and trace relations with the countless architectonic complexes highlighting clay decorations scattered throughout the Lombardy region and bordering areas.

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BARBIERI, ALESSANDRO. "LE TERRECOTTE DECORATIVE DEL MUSEO D'ARTE ANTICA DEL CASTELLO SFORZESCO DI MILANO: PRODUZIONE FITTILE E ARCHITETTURA NELL'ETA' SFORZESCA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/6605.

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Le attività di ricerca e catalogazione effettuate durante lo stage condotto tra il 2010 e il 2011 sui materiali fittili conservati nel deposito del Museo d’Arte Antica del Castello Sforzesco di Milano sono state all’origine di alcune riflessioni e considerazioni sul tema delle terrecotte decorative del primo Rinascimento in Lombardia - in particolar modo a Milano e a Cremona - che ha trovato un primo importante esito nella presentazione al convegno del 2011 Terrecotte nel Ducato di Milano. Artisti e cantieri del primo Rinascimento. La scelta, in seno alle ricerche per il dottorato, è stata quella di proseguire, incrementandoli, gli studi sulla collezione fittile delle Civiche Raccolte d’Arte di Milano, approfondendo il tema della produzione coroplastica decorativa nell’età sforzesca, non tralasciando di analizzare, per alcuni casi rilevanti, il coevo contesto architettonico. I risultati ottenuti, riordinati e raccolti nelle pagine di questa tesi, costituiscono il tentativo di una prima mappatura dei repertori ornamentali, dove partendo dai patterns decorativi esibiti dalle singole formelle presenti nel deposito del museo è stato possibile stabilire confronti e tracciare relazioni con i numerosi complessi architettonici con decorazione fittile sparsi sul territorio lombardo e nelle regioni confinanti.
The research and cataloguing activities conducted during the internship in 2010-2011 on the clay materials preserved in the deposit of the Museo d’Arte Antica at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, were what sparked off a series of considerations and reflections on the subject of decorative terracottas during the early Renaissance in Lombardy - particularly Milan and Cremona - the results of which were discussed during the presentation at a conference held in 2011 entitled Terrecotte nel Ducato di Milano. Artisti e cantieri del primo Rinascimento. The decision behind the research conducted for my PhD was to continue and extend the studies to include the collection of clay products preserved by the Art Collections of the Municipality of Milan, more specifically the decorative coroplast productions in the Sforzesca era, which included an in-depth analysis of the contemporary architectonic context of some of the most significant cases. The results obtained, indexed and included in this thesis aim to present an initial mapping of the ornamental repertoires where, starting from the decorative patterns of the individual tiles preserved in the deposit of the Museum, it was possible to establish comparisons and trace relations with the countless architectonic complexes highlighting clay decorations scattered throughout the Lombardy region and bordering areas.

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Davis, Kiersten Claire. "Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1465.

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This thesis explores the implications of chinoiserie, or Western creations of Chinese-style decorative arts, upon an eighteenth century colonial American audience. Chinese products such as tea, porcelain, and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in Europe by the eighteenth century. The American colonists, who were primarily culturally British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares via their European heritage. While most European countries had direct access to the China trade, colonial Americans were banned from any direct contact with the Orient by the British East India Company. They were relegated to creating their own versions of these popular designs and products based on their own interpretations of British imports. Americans also created a mental construct of China from philosophical writings of their European contemporaries, such as Voltaire, who often envisioned China as a philosopher's paradise. Some colonial Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, fit their understanding of China within their own Enlightenment worldview. For these individuals, chinoiserie in American homes not only reflected the owners' desires to keep up with European fashions, but also carried associations with Enlightenment thought. The latter half of the eighteenth century was a time of escalating conflict as Americans colonists began to assert the right to govern themselves. Part of their struggle for freedom from England was a desire to rid themselves of the British imports, such as tea, silk, and porcelain, on which they had become so dependent by making those goods themselves. Americans in the eighteenth century had many of the natural resources to create such products, but often lacked the skill or equipment for turning their raw materials into finished goods. This thesis examines the colonists' attempts to create their own chinoiserie products, despite these odds, in light of revolutionary sentiments of the day. Chinoiserie in colonial America meshed with neoclassical décor, thereby reflecting the Enlightenment and revolutionary spirit of the time, and revealing a complex colonial worldview filled with trans-oceanic dialogues and cross-cultural currents.

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Zeisler, Wilfried. "Les achats d’objets d’art français par la Cour de Russie, 1881-1917." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040109.

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La thèse Les achats d’objets d’art français par la Cour de Russie, 1881-1917, consacrée à un nouvel aspect des relations franco-russes, pose un regard bilatéral sur les arts décoratifs français et russes, dont elle étudie le goût au cœur d’interactions politiques, commerciales et artistiques. Le contexte favorable dans lequel s’effectuent ces achats sous les règnes d’Alexandre III et de Nicolas II repose sur l’ancienneté des relations franco-russes, reconnues pour leur richesse au XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe siècle. Il se manifeste par le développement des exportations des produits de l’industrie française d’art et de luxe en Russie depuis le Second Empire, d’autant plus facilitées par la conclusion de l’Alliance franco-russe. Ainsi favorisés, les fournisseurs de l’objet d’art français en Russie, appartenant à des industries variées – mobilier, bronze, textile, orfèvrerie, céramique, verrerie, bijouterie et joaillerie – bénéficient des séjours répétés de la clientèle russe en France. Fournisseurs et différents intermédiaires en profitent pour développer leurs relations avec le marché russe et y renforcent le succès de l’objet d’art français, dont les modèles ont une certaine influence en Russie.De l’empereur au grand bourgeois, les clients russes, reflet de l’évolution sociale du pays accumulaient les achats dans leurs résidences et affirmaient ainsi, par le goût du fabriqué en France, leur appartenance à une élite européenne. L’étude des collections russes d’objets d’art français, dispersées à la Révolution, permet de cerner un aspect de l’histoire du goût et témoigne du rayonnement international de l’art décoratif français
The thesis The purchases of French “objets d’art” by the Russian Court, 1881-1917, dedicated to a new aspect of French-Russian relationships, gives a dual view on the French and Russian decorative arts and studies them in the context of political, commercial and artistic interactions.The favorable context of these purchases, during the reigns of Alexander III and of Nicolas II, is based on the historical French-Russian relations, very developed in the XVIIIth century and at the beginning of the XIXth century. This context results in an increased of export of French “objets d’art” in Russia since the Second Empire, facilitated by the new French-Russian Alliance.The suppliers of the French “objets d’art” in Russia, belonging to the various French Art and Luxury industries – furniture, bronze, textile, silver, ceramic, glassware and jewellery – benefit from repeated stays of Russian customers in France. Consequently, suppliers and various partners develop their relations with the Russian market and strengthen the success of the French “objets d’art”, which were used as a model in Russia.From the emperor to the “grand bourgeois”, the Russian clients, who illustrate the social evolution of the country, collected their purchases in their residences and showed, by their taste for the made in France objects, that they belonged to the European elite. The study of the Russian collections of French “objets d’art”, dispersed during the Revolution, illustrates an aspect of the history of taste and shows the international success of the French decorative arts

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Fravalo, Fabienne. "La revue Art et Décoration (1897-1914) : de l’Art nouveau à un art décoratif moderne." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF20009.

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En 1897, paraît la première revue parisienne consacrée à la critique des arts décoratifs contemporains : Art et Décoration, publiée par la Librairie centrale des beaux-arts. Jusqu’en 1914,elle reste fidèle aux engagements énoncés par son programme : être l’auxiliaire du développement d’un art décoratif français moderne, au sens large, en suivant étroitement l’actualité artistique et en prenant part aux débats critiques, esthétiques, théoriques et idéologiques qui sous-tendent cette actualité. Cette recherche a pour but de décrypter l’action critique et théorique d’Art et Décoration en tant qu’auxiliaire de l’évolution des faits artistiques, selon trois niveaux de lecture : la place d’Art et Décoration et de ses principaux acteurs au sein du champ éditorial des revues d’art, la vocation militante de son discours critique, et, enfin, son élaboration d’une esthétique décorative extensive.Tout en suivant ce triple niveau de lecture, cette étude adopte un parcours en quatre temps,correspondant à quatre périodes, définies par la superposition de l’histoire interne d’Art et Décoration, de l’évolution des faits artistiques et du positionnement critique et théorique de la revue vis-à-vis de ces derniers
In 1897, the Librairie centrale des beaux-arts published the first Parisian review devoted to contemporary decorative arts criticism : Art et Décoration. Until 1914, the review adhered to its original mission of chronicling the development of modern, French decorative art by reporting artistic events, and taking an active role in the critical, aesthetical, theoretical and ideological debates of the period. This research intends to understand the critical and theoretical actions of Art et Décoration through three different perspectives: the role of Art et Décoration and its main contributors in the field of art review publishing; the militant language of its critical discourse ; and, its construction of an extensive decorative aesthetic. In addition to these three viewpoints, this study is further divided into four chronological periods based upon the internal dynamics of Art et Décoration, artistic developments of the era, and the progression of the review’s critical and theoretical positions

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Rahm, Philippe. "Histoire de l'architecture." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLD004.

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L'Histoire de l'architecture telle que nous l'avons reçue ces dernières décennies était fortement influencée par la pensée critique et post-moderne de la seconde moitié du 20ème siècle où les raisons politiques, sociales, économiques et culturelles dominaient le système d'explication des causes et des conséquences du surgissement d'une forme, d'un style, d'un langage. Induite par un contexte d'accès massif et facile à l'énergie (celle du charbon puis du pétrole) et par les progrès de la médecine (avec l’invention des vaccins et antibiotiques), cette Histoire qui nous précède, que l'on peut qualifier de culturelle, a largement ignoré les raisons physiques, géographiques, climatiques ou bactériologiques qui ont en réalité façonné, de façon décisive, à travers les siècles, la forme architecturale, celle des bâtiments, des villes jusqu'à la décoration d'intérieur. Ma thèse intitulée « Histoire de l’architecture » met en lumière les causes naturelles, physiques, biologiques ou climatiques qui ont influencé le déroulé de l'histoire architecturale et provoqué le surgissement de ses figures, de la préhistoire à aujourd'hui. Refonder l’histoire de l’architecture sur ses données objectives, matérielles, réelles permet de comprendre comment affronter les défis environnementaux majeurs de notre siècle et mieux construire demain face à l'urgence climatique
The History of Architecture we have received it in recent decades was strongly influenced by the critical and post-modern thinking of the second half of the 20th century, when political, social, economic and cultural reasons dominated the system of explaining the causes and consequences of the emergence of a form, a style or a language. Induced by a context of massive and easy access to energy (that of coal and then oil) and by the progress of medicine (with the invention of vaccines and antibiotics), this History that precedes us, which can be described as cultural, has largely ignored the physical, geographical, climatic or bacteriological reasons that have in reality shaped, in a decisive way, over the centuries, the architectural form, that of buildings, cities and even interior decoration. My thesis entitled "History of Architecture" highlights the natural, physical, biological or climatic causes that have influenced the course of architectural history and its figures, from prehistory to today. Reconstructing the history of architecture on its objective, material and real facts makes it possible to understand how to face the major environmental challenges of our century and better build for tomorrow in the context of the climate urgency

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Beyers, Lew Morris. "Daylight in architecture : the application of daylighting principles in the formulation of sacred space : a "one-volume" library for Leonardo da Vinci's Codex." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1237765.

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"Light, whose beauty within darkness is as jewels that one might cup in one's hands; light that hollowing out darkness and piercing our bodies, blows life into `space"'.'Tadao AndoThis thesis book documents the process and procedure of a two-year study of how daylight can be manipulated by design to enhance and elevate the experiential qualities of sacred space and then applies those characteristics to the design of an architectural thesis project.The exploration involved two major points of focus: one was the exploration to identify the principle qualities and characteristics of natural light and the other, to apply those principles of light into built form.This paper is presented in five processes: an introduction, three types of reflection, and a conclusion. Process I, presents the theoretical underpinning on the subject of light and identifies the key qualities and characteristics of light and the daylighting principles applied by Louis I. Kahn and Tadao Ando in the formulation of sacred space. Process II, presents the articulation of the necessary criteria to design a sacred space. Process III, applies the daylighting strategies to the design of a "one-volume" library for displaying Leonardo da Vinci's Codex. Process IV, presents an alternate scenario and an explanation of architecture as meaning. Process V, summerizes the meaning of the architecture and experience of the Library. 'Ando, Tadao, Complete Works, Phaidon Press Limited, London, (1997).
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Manauté, Benoît. ""Flambe! Illumine! Embrase!" La place de la manufacture de vitrail et mosaïque d'art Mauméjean dans le renouveau des arts industriels franco-espagnols (1862 - 1957)." Thesis, Pau, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PAUU1009/document.

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S’appuyant sur la petite structure créée à Pau, en 1862, les Mauméjean, père et fils, réussirent à développer une véritable firme internationale - basée en France (Paris, Hendaye) et en Espagne (Madrid, Barcelone, Saint-Sébastien) - qui, durant près d’un siècle, travailla à l’ornementation d’un nombre considérable d’édifices civils et religieux disséminés dans plus de vingt-cinq pays. Récompensé lors de l’Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes de 1925, leur travail fut pourtant, dès les années 1950, décrié, dévalorisé : pour répondre aux critères de la « noble expression artistique » un maître verrier devait nécessairement produire peu, dans une petite structure, avec de petits moyens. L’incroyable quantité de verrières sorties des ateliers Mauméjean contribua à forger le mythe d’une production sérielle, dépourvue de toute valeur esthétique. Malgré de récents apports, les recherches menées dans le domaine du vitrail semblent profondément marquées par cette traditionnelle opposition entre fabrication à grande échelle et artisanat. S’appuyant sur un large catalogue d’œuvres conservées en France, en Espagne ou aux États-Unis, ainsi que sur l’analyse d’un très riche fonds d’atelier, cette étude se propose d’interroger ces modèles de production, tout en réévaluant l’apport artistique d’une manufacture qui, offrant un remarquable exemple de réussite, participa activement au renouveau des arts industriels franco espagnols
The Mauméjean family, father and sons, managed to develop a real international firm, from the small business they created in Pau, in 1862. For almost a century, this international firm, based in France (Paris and Hendaye) and Spain (Madrid, Barcelona and Saint-Sébastien), worked on the ornamentation of a significant number of both civil and religious edifices, scattered over more than twenty-five countries. Though their work was rewarded during the 1925 Exhibition of Decorative and Modern Industrial Arts, it was also disparaged and depreciated, as early as the 1950’s. Indeed, to meet the criteria of the “noble artistic expression”, a master glazier had to produce small quantities, in a small structure, and with little resources. The incredible quantity of windows realised by the Maumejeans’ workshop contributed to the creation of the myth of a mass production, devoid of aesthetic value. In spite of new contributions, researches made in the field of stained-glass windows seem to be marked by this traditional opposition between mass production and craft production. Relying on a large catalogue of works kept in France, Spain, or even in the USA, as relying on the analysis of a very extensive workshop collection, this study offers to question these models of production, reappraising the new artistic dimension brought by a manufacture which, giving a remarkable example of success, actively took part in the revival of the Franco-Spanish industrial arts

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Neuner, Stefanie. "A Seamless Journey." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1586.

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Tharaud, Marie-Amélie. "L’Art nouveau dans les arts décoratifs et l’architecture à l’Exposition universelle de 1900." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEP036.

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L’Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris a constitué pour les acteurs du mouvement Art nouveau une rencontre unique par son envergure internationale. Si cet événement a longtemps été déconsidéré, il représente pourtant pour l’Art nouveau – appréhendé dans son acception internationale – un moment de confrontation et l’occasion, pour certains pays, de mettre en valeur leur modernité stylistique. La première partie de la thèse s’attache à comprendre les raisons de la présence de l’Art nouveau à l’Exposition, et donne une vision d’ensemble des édifices et objets d’art se rattachant au mouvement. Elle examine ainsi les enjeux artistiques, mais aussi politiques et commerciaux, que porte l’Art nouveau pour les pays participants. La seconde partie traite de la réception critique du mouvement par ses contemporains, en observant leurs réactions, diverses sinon opposées, selon les artistes et les nationalités représentées. En effet, par son caractère tantôt cosmopolite, tantôt nationaliste, l’Art nouveau est alors loin d’être perçu comme un mouvement homogène et l’Exposition suscite un ensemble de polémiques qui contribuent autant à le définir qu’à le discréditer. Enfin, la troisième partie étudie les conséquences à plus long terme de l’Exposition : en analysant les répercussions pour les artistes, l’entrée de l’Art nouveau dans les musées européens, les expositions suivantes, et les prolongements du débat artistique, elle cherche à évaluer la place de l’Exposition universelle dans l’histoire de l’Art nouveau. Un volume d’annexes réunit des plans et des vues générales de l’Exposition universelle, ainsi qu’un catalogue iconographique de plus de 800 numéros, illustrant l’Art nouveau présenté à l’Exposition dans les arts décoratifs et l’architecture
The 1900 Paris World’s Fair represented, for the artists of the Art Nouveau movement, an encounter unique by its international audience. Though this event was overlooked for a long time, it was nevertheless a moment of confrontation and the occasion, for some countries, to showcase their stylistic modernity. The first part of the dissertation endeavours to understand the reasons of the Art Nouveau presence at the Fair and gives an overview of the buildings and the decorative art objects which can be linked to this style. It examines the artistic, but also political and commercial stakes of Art Nouveau for each country. The second part examines the critical reception of Art Nouveau by its contemporaries, observing their diverse or even antagonistic reactions, according to the artists or the nationalities. Indeed, alternately cosmopolitan and nationalist, Art Nouveau was then far from being perceived as a homogeneous movement, and the Fair sparked a series of debates that contributed as much to define it as to discredit it. Finally, the third part studies the long-term consequences of the Fair: by analyzing the repercussions on the artists’ careers, the admission of Art Nouveau in European museums, the following exhibitions and the continued artistic debate, this part aims at assessing the place of the Fair in the history of Art Nouveau. A volume of annexes gathers maps and general views of the Fair, along with a catalogue of more than 800 entries, illustrating the Art nouveau works exhibited in decorative arts and architecture

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