Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Decorative arts'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Decorative arts.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
Mok, Kar-wing Maria. "Guangdong decorative arts of the Qing dynasty its characteristics and regional features = Qing dai Guangdong gong yi de te se ji qi di yu xing yin su/." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31987734.
Full textBird, Jennifer J. "Designs for the decorative arts by Francesco Salviati." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ63271.pdf.
Full textJordanov, 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.
Full textRaksadeja, 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/.
Full textBostwick, David. "Decorative plasterwork of the Yorkshire region, 1570-1670." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1993. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1895/.
Full textDuckworth, Chloë N. "The created stone : chemical and archaeological perspectives on the colour and material properties of early Egyptian glass, 1500-1200 B.C." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13935/.
Full textParkerson, Sarah Lawrence. "Variations in gold : the stylistic development of the picture frames used by James McNeill Whistler." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4471/.
Full textBeats, Kate A. "Size, surface and shape : experiencing the Athenian vase." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50045/.
Full textClay, E. S. "A material-led investigation into the creative potential of British 'waste' wools for fine craft felt-making." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2013. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/1734/.
Full textWhite, Andrew J. "Post medieval pottery in Lincolnshire 1450-1850." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1989. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28497/.
Full textTowle, Andrew C. "A scientific and archaeological investigation of prehistoric glasses from Italy." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11741/.
Full textFitzGerald, Claire. "Women, craft, and the object : Birmingham 1880-1930." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81961/.
Full textHardiman, Louise Ann. "The firebird's flight : Russian arts and crafts in Britain, 1870-1917." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709085.
Full textYork, 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.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed April 15, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0007. Chair: Michelle Facos.
Lasic, B. "The collecting of eighteenth-century French decorative arts in Britain 1789-1914." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508798.
Full textSmith, Michèle Mariette Hayeur. "A social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2003. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1000/.
Full textAllen, Joanne. "Choir stalls in Venice and northern Italy : furniture, ritual and space in the Renaissance church interior." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3603/.
Full textKnittler, Konstanze Amelie. "Motivations and patterns of collecting : George Salting, William G. Gulland and William Lever as collectors of Chinese porcelain." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2811/.
Full textMalchow, Lisa A. "Sealife Diptychs." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/770943.
Full textDepartment of Art
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.
Full textMilner, Reed Meaghan. "Junk." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555284.
Full textMy 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.
Cerutti, Lisa. "Visual grounded analysis : developing and testing a method for preliminary visual research." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2017. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1471/.
Full textLee, Mindy. "A graphic design curriculum development project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569031.
Full textExamining 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.
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.
Full textHorner, Elizabeth. "Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) designs for interiors, architecture and the decorative arts." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542373.
Full textLu, Zhiyong. "Decorative metallic threads of Famen temple silk : their categorization, application, and technology." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30974/.
Full textWhite, Gillian. "'That whyche ys nedefoulle and nesesary' : the nature and purpose of the original furnishings and decoration of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1200/.
Full textHoban, 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/.
Full textWedge, Tracey Leigh. "Constructing splendour : the wardrobe of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (1532/3-1588), consumption and networks of production." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377483/.
Full textBaker, Rosemary M. "Nineteenth century synthetic textile dyes : their history and identification on fabric." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/372624/.
Full textHolroyd, Sophia Jane. "Embroidered rhetoric : the social, religious and political functions of elite women's needlework, c.1560-1630." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2356/.
Full textCallaghan, Angela. "The ceiling of Skelmorlie Aisle : a narrative articulated in paint." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4891/.
Full textHolt, Alexia. "Reviewing Chanel : a catalogue raisonné and critical survey of the dress designs by Chanel published in British and French Vogue, 1916-1929." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5391/.
Full textThickpenny, Cynthia Rose. "Making key pattern in Insular art, AD 600-1100." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2019. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/41009/.
Full textArnett, Joanne. "Rogue gallery." Thesis, Kent State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1555301.
Full textI seek to capture the ephemeral in a series of large-scale weavings that examine relationships between public and private, real and artificial, the mundane and the extraordinary.
I use mug shots as a device because they represent a perfect juncture between conflict and resolution. I assume the role of the accused in all the compositions. Rather than present the images as photographs I transform them into weavings. The zeros and ones that make up a digital image file become a code which translates as the over and under of warp and weft and embeds the image in the finished cloth. Matte yarn is used for the warp, shiny wire is used for the weft, transforming darks and lights in to rich tactile surfaces. The resulting image appears and disappears depending on the viewer's perspective.
The viewer is required to physically interact with the artwork in order to see the portrait, creating a dynamic between him and the person pictured. The image slips away as the viewer steps closer, shifting the viewer's focus to other aspects of the work, and as he circles the art work to recapture the portrait there is time for layers of information to be read. The luxurious weavings are enigmatic and inspire a sense of wonder. Content, materials, and form combine to create a moment where the viewer is taken out of the expected, suspending a fleeting exchange in time and resulting in an experience rather than just a viewing.
Kim, Heechan. "Meaningful objects through process-oriented form research." Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1565134.
Full textThis work concentrates on the relationships between shapes and the lines those shapes are composed of as well as the process by which they are created. In this thesis, I intend to explore the different characteristics of wood and to visualize the language and meaning of the work which results both from those characteristics and from the artist.
As a maker, I have always been fascinated by the use of wood in the creation of objects. Man can control a material against its own intrinsic attributes to create something very different from that material's natural shape. My works concentrate on illustrating how wood reacts to external manipulation or physical force and how it can accordingly be transformed and yet still keep its original characteristics. Therefore, the process of the construction of the final piece is crucial in my work. The process embodies the relationship between outward control or manipulation and reaction from a material, and it creates the tension between the two entities, producing a physical structure and also a visual presentation. Additionally, this relationship encapsulates a deeper meaning; in the same manner in which the wood strains against the making act of the artist, so also does human nature strive against the outward influences which seek to control it. Through the work, I intend to clarify how human beings interact with each other and how those interactions create emotional tension.
DeNicola, Alicia Ory Wadley Susan Snow. "Creating borders, maintaining boundaries traditional work and global markets in Bagru's handblock textile industry (India) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textSwanson, Eric. "The contextual-scenario framework for representing subjective experience." Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3574933.
Full textThere is growing acceptance in interactive systems design for research approaches built on Phenomenological foundations. These approaches, which include methods such as Ethnomethodology and Participatory Design as well as techniques such as Personas and Cultural Probes, concern themselves with the lived experience of real people. They give insight into subjective experience—what it is like to be a particular person in a particular situation engaged in a particular activity. With greater insight into subjective experience should come greater ability to construct systems which fit into the worlds of users
However, insights into subjective experience are not always effectively sustained throughout systems development. Such findings do not blend smoothly with typical systems-development mechanisms for organizing and analyzing information, which work from an epistemology base more akin to Cognitive Science then Phenomenology. In contrast, narrative techniques, like scenarios and storyboards, tap human beings' basic abilities to use stories to understand the subjective worlds of others. But this primal nature makes narrative untrustworthy; good fiction reads like fact. To be trusted, stories for technology development must be built on a visible scaffolding of empirical data.
This research presents the Contextual Scenario Platform (CSP) design support tool. The CSP helps designers write scenarios about hypothetical people, in hypothetical situations, with thoughts, feelings, perceptions and choices for action based on empirical research. Underlying the CSP is an information framework whose structures reflect Phenomenological models of conscious experience. When encoding information into the CSP, researchers describe situations as collections of small situation-description components. Scenario authors use the same situation-description components when writing scenarios to describe each character's situation. Where these description sets overlap, the empirical finding applies to the hypothetical character.
Two case studies demonstrated the CSP's capabilities for encoding research findings and delineating complex situations with simple components. Designers in a subsequent study created scenarios using two approaches: CSP as auditor, restricting deviation from the empirical while constructing the hypothetical; and CSP as improvisational partner, with empirical data serving as catalysts for creative scenario construction.
WARD, JARVIS. "DEVELOPING A PAINLESS INJECTION DEVICE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1054125853.
Full textNEWMAN, RYAN P. "THE SECURE ILLUSION: DIPLOMATIC ARCHITECTURE INFORMED BY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SECURITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179424063.
Full textRosenzweig, Kristen Tanya. "Speaking Metaphorically in Product Design." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186673073.
Full textBoyd, 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.
Full textDavis, 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.
Full textMeasell, 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/.
Full textLillywhite, Marie-Louise. "The counter reformation and the decoration of Venetian churches 1563-1610 : San Giacomo dall'Orio, Santa Maria dell'Umiltà, the Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58313/.
Full textEconomides, 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.
Full textArchitecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Petersen, Tamar. "The Beat's Interior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78846.
Full textMaster of Fine Arts
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.
Full textThis 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.
Alazemi, Einas. "The role of fashion design in the construct of national identity of Kuwaiti women in the 21st century." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/359887/.
Full textKettley, Sarah. "Crafting the wearable computer : design process and user experience." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2007. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2418.
Full text