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Lang, Graham Charles. "Aspects of brutality : anxious concepts in sculpture since 1950." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012724.

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It would be wrong to suggest that this essay is in any way a comprehensive study of brutal sculpture. Certainly not. There have been many deliberate omissions for reasons which become clear in the text. Very briefly, omissions of certain sculptors and their work are largely due to my wish to avoid repetitive ideas and images. My view in this essay is to provide a cross-section of ideas and works, whereby the reader might gain some insight into the varied nature of this kind of sculpture. Thus, there seemed very little need for endless similarities of concept and expression. It was the diversit

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Nasifoglu, Yelda. "Walter Pichler : the modern Prometheus." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32821.

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The ritualistic aspect of Walter Pichler's work greatly problematizes the traditional view of the art object as the locus of aesthetic contemplation. Yet how are we to approach such art in our secularized world? For it to maintain its meaningfulness, does not ritual require a shared symbolic system?<br>Indirectly guided by Pichler's work, this thesis is an exploration of the contemporary status of the work of art. An investigation into the myth of Prometheus reveals that art and ritual share the same origin. Further inquiries into early Greek sculpture, as well as the concepts of techne and mi

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Hardwick, Carole. "The dissemination and influence of Willem M. Dudok's work in the climate of modernism in architecture in Australia, 1930-1955." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/18154.

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The thesis studies the role of the European modem architect, the Dutchman Willem Marinus Dudok, in the dissemination of certain aspects of the concepts of architectural modernism in Australia from 1930 to the mid-1950s, and examines the manner in which his works and ideas were actually transferred. The thesis establishes the significance of Dudok's role in the Australian architectural context. An introductory discussion of European architectural modernism is presented so that Dudok's position can be understood in relation to it. This is followed by an examination of Dudok's professional life a

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Lamb, Jacquelyn R. "The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection of Twentieth-Century Sculpture, 1967 to 1987." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501252/.

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Over a period of two decades, Raymond D. Nasher, a Dallas-based real estate developer, and his late wife Patsy amassed a collection of significant modern sculptures. For years, pieces from the private collection--numbering over 300 as of 1990--were on display in various museums and civic institutions, and they were installed on a rotating basis at Northpark Center, a Dallas shopping mall developed by Nasher. Since the 1987 Dallas Museum of Art exhibition, the collection has been shown in several major international museums. This study documents the formative period of the collection, the Nashe

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Waldmann, Anna. "Desiderius Orban: an Australian romantic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1987. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26267.

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Desiderius Orban (1884-1986) was born in Hungary. He had been a successful painter and teacher in his country of origin and came to Australia in 1939 as a mature and formed artist. He gained recognition in the Sydney art circles relatively soon after his arrival, had a large number of exhibitions, took part in numerous competitions, became a member of various art groups. Orban published three books and ran an art school from 1941 until his death in October 1986. In an unpublished autobiography written in 1965, Orban commented about his artistic career: I always had doubt of my achievements.

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Williams, Court. "Sensitive skin." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28932.

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The work being considered for examination will be my gallery installation Affliction. Consisting of approximately six hundred digitally printed and hand constructed three dimensional models, it will be installed on the gallery floor as a part of the Postgraduate Degree show at Sydney College of the Arts (Tuesday December 9th through to Wednesday December 17th). My masters project explores the isolation and dislocation experienced in the urban environment and situates un-commissioned street art as a construct that potentially generates modes of plurality through immediate encounter, co

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Robb, Charles. "The Self as Subject and Sculpture." Thesis, Monash University, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16903/1/16903.pdf.

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This paper analyses and contextualises the artist’s exploration of self-portraiture through the sculptural bust format. Conventionally, the portrait bust epitomises an antiquated view of the human subject as fixed, finite and knowable. The classicistic allusion of the form seems the perfect embodiment of a pre-modern and hopelessly idealised view of subjectivity and its capacity to be represented. This paper will show how, despite these impressions, the portrait bust is in fact a highly volatile sculptural form in which presence and absence are brought into question. When used as a vehicle

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Aramendía, Manuel. "Alternativa personal para el estudio del proceso escultórico : precedentes históricos y debate actual." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405419.

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Esta tesis da una visión sintética de las diferentes corrientes escultóricas internacionales que confluyen en el panorama actual español. Una vez contextualizada nuestra joven escultura se pasa a estudiar las reacciones individuales concretas de nuestros escultores, dejando claro que estos análisis individuales son solo una fase de la metodología sin que constituyan una finalidad por sí mismos. A través del análisis de las posiciones individuales se detectan una serie de planteamientos que rebasan las posturas particulares concretas y que se expresan mediante unos "ejes de discusión". Es

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Dawson, Louisa Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Moving house: the renovation of the everyday." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43084.

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This paper describes my research project and body of work, which investigates social inequalities through the different language and functions of everyday objects. The research moves on from my previous Honours research project on the dou ble nature of caravan parks in NSW and looked at the changing demographics of these locations. I noted the increase of semi-permanent, residential 'homes' for low income earners and the unemployed, in these holiday locations. This paper examines broader social issues of homelessness and social inequalities within our society. I look at the complexities in t

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Wise, Gianni Ian Media Arts College of Fine Arts UNSW. "Scenario House." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Media Arts, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26230.

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Scenario House, a gallery based installation, is comprised of a room constructed as a ???family room??? within a domestic space, a television with a looped video work and a sound componant played through a 5.1 sound system. The paper is intended to give my work context in relation to the processes leading up to its completion. This is achieved through clarification of the basis for the installation including previous socio-political discourses within my art practice. It then focuses on ways that the installation Scenario House is based on gun practice facilities such as the Valhalla Shooting

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Mello, Eduardo Bortolotti de. "O volume na escultura de Sérgio Camargo." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284916.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T01:15:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mello_EduardoBortolottide_M.pdf: 24701423 bytes, checksum: d5a3d14748b8cbbbcbafe292a5148eda (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo das articulações do volume que Camargo realizou ao longo de sua obra. Com base em uma afirmação do artista sobre seu próprio trabalho, nós iremos decodificar a linguagem abstrata de Sérgio, revelando as relações volumétricas presentes na obra do artista como por

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Valera, Albert. "La relación teoría práctica en la escultura catalana contemporánea: proceso, materia y comportamiento." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672115.

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A partir del momento en que el escultor entiende su obra como un elemento trascendente, donde la imagen que crea adquiere una vocación de transmisión de ideas, aparece un comportamiento donde la reflexión sobre los mecanismos de creación y las consecuencias expresivas, que se derivan de este hecho, fundamentan el quehacer artístico. Este trabajo se centra, precisamente, en este tema: el de la relación entre la teoría y la práctica en la escultura y concretamente en el ámbito de la escultura catalana contemporánea. El tema de la relación entre la teoría y la práctica se ha enfocado desde la

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García, García Ascensión. "El puente y la escultura: un diálogo entre funcionalidad y estética." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672090.

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Este trabajo de investigación plantea una relación entre los puentes y su historia, estructura y funcionalidad, su análisis estético formal y la escultura. Como método de aproximación se utiliza una doble vía: la via histórica, mediante un recorrido por los puentes de todas las épocas, poniendo en paralelo la evolución formal de los mismos con los materiales y tecnologías utilizados. A la vez, se intercalan, de manera comparativa, propuestas escultóricas que se aproximan al lenguaje de los puentes por analogía. No se marcan límites temporales ni tampoco espaciales, entendiendo que el lenguaje

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McNamara, Phillip Anthony. "A modernist sensibility and Christian wit in the work of Tom Gibbons." University of Western Australia. School of Architecture and Fine Arts, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0124.

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This thesis is an investigation of how spiritual ideas have contributed to West Australian academic and artist Tom Gibbons’s approach to Modernism. Against the backdrop of the local context I show how Gibbons’s 1950s undergraduate and 1960s post-graduate studies in the area of the occult and esoteric influences on Early Modernism provided him with an atypical perspective on Modernism itself but that this perspective resulted in his development of a Modernist sensibility particularly suitable for the type of questions asked about art in the later part of last century. My thesis traces Gibbons’s

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Lega, Lladós Ferran. "La Cimática como herramienta de expresión artística." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/146136.

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En esta tesis doctoral, se exploran las diferentes técnicas cimáticas existentes (la cimática es la ciencia que estudia las representaciones visuales generadas por las ondas de sonido y los fenómenos periódicos de vibración sobre la materia), y se realiza un riguroso estudio desde una perspectiva audio-visual. A partir de los resultados, se desarrollan herramientas para su aplicación en las diferentes disciplinas artísticas contemporáneas.

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Asensio, Fernández José Antonio. "Una revisión de la luz como nuevo factor creador en la escultura. Desde 1950 hasta nuestros días." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145558.

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La presente tesis se basa en el estudio de las múltiples variantes plásticas que la luz ha permitido desarrollar dentro de la escultura contemporánea, siendo prioritaria una aproximación a las poéticas generadas por la utilización de ese material determinado o el que se deriva de su observación. Para ello se ha diseñado una estructura consistente en varios capítulos destinados a analizar la poética en general referida a las obras de arte que conjugan luz y el concepto de tridimensionalidad en un ámbito contemporáneo dado que analizamos el arte y a los artistas que trabajan en este ámbito despu

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Sans, Massó Alexandra. "La escultura matriz de Louise Bourgeois, un espacio para la revuelta." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/382834.

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Louise Bourgeois se está convirtiendo en una de las artistas modernas más conocidas en occidente, su fama es casi una parodia del anonimato en el que vivió durante la mayor parte de su vida artística. En el último cuarto de siglo se ha escrito una cantidad abrumadora de literatura sobre su trabajo, siendo su obra mostrada en grandes exposiciones internacionales itinerantes y convirtiéndose en el centro de estudio de críticos, académicos y estudiantes. ¿Qué es lo que aún queda por decir sobre esta artista tan ampliamente estudiada? Este fue una de las grandes interrogantes que se me plantea

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Ruiz, i. Carulla Martí. "Escultura sonora Baschet. Arxiu documental i classificació d'aplicacions pel desenvolupament de formes acústiques." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/363918.

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El nostre estudi -basat en les fonts documentals originals i el treball de camp-, aporta una lectura del corpus de l’obra a la llum del sistema conceptual desenvolupat pels Baschet, per facilitar la comprensió dels principis acústics i les seves aplicacions. L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és posar en valor aspectes estètics i tècnics -en relació als posicionaments vitals dels Baschet respecte la noció de l’Escultura Sonora com a objecte de participació pública-, per afavorir la reflexió i contribuir a establir les bases per a la conservació, recerca i desenvolupaments posteriors, tot insertant-se n

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Mesa, Vázquez Rufino. "Anell de pedra, L'." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1543.

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"L'Anell de pedra" és una aliança amb la natura i una reflexió oberta sobre la comunicació que s'experimenta en contacte amb ella. Presenta un ordre en la complexitat de l'acte creatiu i manifesta la voluntat de fer un pacte estable. Vol ser una gnosi, un fil d'unió entre el pensament estètic, la sensibilitat espiritual i el paradigma emergent. Amb la informació disponible sobre l'existència paradoxal de les coses, la tesi defineix una gràfica virtual amb tres àrees de realitat: <br/><br/>· El món exterior construït amb matèria inerta, base comuna de la realitat.<br/><br/>· Les coses sensibl

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Cohen, Joshua Irwin. "Masks and the Modern: African/European Encounters in 20th-Century Art." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8BG2M4Z.

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Taking Paris as its geographical nexus, this dissertation tracks European and African modernist appropriations of African sculpture across a three-tiered historical trajectory spanning from 1905 to 1980. Part I charts engagements with West and Central African masks and statues by the Fauves and Pablo Picasso; Part II assesses the work of pioneering black South African artists Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto; and Part III chronicles the nationalization of modern art in Senegal under President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Through examinations of the cross-cultural, formal, and politicized dynamics

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Da, Cruz Carla. "The use of clay as a medium in contemporary sculpture (1980- 2003)." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/2187.

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Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master's Degree in Technology: Fine Art, Durban Institute of Technology, Durban, 2004.<br>This dissertation investigates the use of clay as a medium in contemporary sculpture made between 1980 and 2003. This research focuses specifically on discussing the artists' (both sculptors and ceramists) different approaches and attitudes to working with clay, from construction, manipulation, firing and glazing techniques through to their personal aesthetics and ideas. This dissertation examines how and why the contemporary s

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Simpson, Sally Robyn. "Practice-led research into ways the museum is explored as a house of wonder in contemporary sculpture." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156002.

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The contemporary ecological debate embodies diverse opinions reflecting the complexity of information available. The museum has recorded the history of human-nature relations, and has influenced ways in which meaning has been assigned to nature. Its influence over the interpretation of objects has been critiqued by 20th century artists and postmodern theorists. However, the museum also continues to engage and inspire some artists, and this research uncovers reasons for this. This research investigates the ways in which contemporary sculpture can employ museum aesthetics to draw attention to fl

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Gunn, Anthea Caroline. "Imitation realism and Australian art." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109407.

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The work of the Imitation Realists has rightly been seen as marking the start of the widespread use of assemblage and popular culture by Australian artists during the 1960s. Viewed within the context of their training and the debates of the Australian art world in the 1950s, it can be seen that the impetus for their work was to find an alternative form of 'Australian' art. The stated objective of this thesis is to demonstrate how the work of the Imitation Realists adapted and contributed to changes to art in Australia. This is achieved by considering the work of Mike Brown, Ross Crothal

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Lahy, Waratah. "Painted objects : investigating the imagery of Australian iconic culture." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149626.

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Couldridge, Fiona Sharon Kemsley. "Christian thematics in the work of Jane Alexander." Thesis, 2014.

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Adsett, Peter. "Beyond picturing." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155939.

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Beyond Picturing is practice led research aimed at determining whether horizontality can be deemed a medium in its own right, and further, whether it can establish a new set of conventions, enabling a cross-cultural dialogue between peoples of our region, particularly Aboriginal people and Maori and those of European heritage. I chart the course of horizontality across the art of the 20th century, identifying it as a medium for practice. My thesis examines examples in which horizontality as a methodology was a vehicle for meaning, based on the theories of structural linguistics and phenomenolo

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Edmunds, Paul Jonathan. "Inherent ecology : an examination of sculpture by Walter Oltmann, Andries Botha and Paul Edmunds." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5990.

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I begin by describing Western culture in the way proposed by Fritjof Capra whose ideas remain seminal to my argument throughout this examination. I argue that Western value systems are in the midst of a major transformation, exhibiting an increasing Ecological awareness. I define Ecology as an all-encompassing phenomenon which includes the biological definition of the term as well as the practice of environmental, peace and feminist groups and movements. As such it is seen as a philosophy or approach to experiencing the world which has much in common with many spiritual traditions, contentions

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Bowan, Kate. "Musical mavericks : the work of Roy Agnew and Hooper Brewster-Jones as an Australian counterpart to European modern music 1906-1949." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109691.

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In 1920 the Lone Hand reported that Sydney composer Roy Agnew (1891-1944) had “after much anxious consideration been forced to abandon the limitations of key and tonal relationship.” For this transgression, he was branded, among other things, a musical Bolshevik. Three years later in Adelaide, Hooper Brewster-Jones (1887-1949) wrote the first of his “formula” pieces which are part of a larger body of works that experiment with various aspects of musical language. In this thesis, I will argue that together certain works of these two isolated composers constitute an instance of what is kno

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Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Estelle Juliana. "The Iconography of the 'indigene' in Mary Stainbank's sculpture c 1920-1940." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/879.

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