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Luster, Craig. "Seed Pods, Bases and Formalism: An Artist's Journey". PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5259.
Testo completoBuydens, Mireille. "Formalisme et aformalisme: essai sur le statut de la forme et du regard au travers d'une analyse du maniérisme". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212664.
Testo completovan, Boekel Lambertus Gerardus. "Painting in the computer era: the transformation of archaic structures to contemporary formalism". The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382709534.
Testo completoChristofides, Sheila School of Art History & Theory UNSW. "The intransigent critic: reconsidering the reasons for Clement Greenberg???s formalist stance from the early 1930s to the early 1970s". Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Art History and Theory, 2004. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20562.
Testo completoMillward, William. "Abstract painting the development and analysis of innovative processes". Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2003. http://d-nb.info/990055116/04.
Testo completoVroombout, Lynn. "Striking a balance between formalism and expression in visual arts practice and visual arts education". Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/859.
Testo completoLaFountain, Jason David. "The Puritan Art World". Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11006.
Testo completoHistory of Art and Architecture
Burnett, Matthew Christian. "Aesthetic/ activism : the liminal area between aesthetic formalism and socio-political activism in art education". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14856.
Testo completoKolokytha, Chara. "Formalism and ideology in 20th century art : Cahiers d'Art, magazine, gallery, and publishing house (1926-1960)". Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/32310/.
Testo completoSlivo, Yalda. "Den rörliga bildens formlöshet : En studie av den rörliga bilden". Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148312.
Testo completoThis study aims at understanding the history and relation between the moving image and two modernistic art movements, minimalism and abstract expressionism.
Henriksson, Carina. "Tamara de Lempicka : Expressivt och dekorativt". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Konstvetenskapliga institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-375243.
Testo completoAlberro, Alexander. "The turning of the screw : the Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition, Daniel Buren, and the new cultural conservatism". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28913.
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Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of
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clark, jared lindsay. "One Million Paintings 2005-2007: A Thesis". VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/935.
Testo completoMachado, Oscar A. "A Philosophy of Architecture". Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/205.
Testo completoAndrus, Timothy G. "Stuart Davis's Early Theoretical Writing, 1918–1923: Realism, Cubism, and Dada". VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4589.
Testo completoKosovac, Ena. "Awkward formalism the role of objects in contemporary painting installation : this exegesis is submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Art and Design, 2009 /". Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/799.
Testo completoSchiavo, Bruno. "Autonomia e campo ampliado: Peter Eisenman, Rosalind Krauss e The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (1964-1984)". Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-20122016-145452/.
Testo completoThe current situation is marked by the continuous discovery of the disciplinary interstices as Catalysts of all kinds of practices; Expressions such as \"Expanded Field\" and \"Complexo artearquitetura\" Are called to reflect how such arrangements Confluence between architecture and the arts. The research seeks to locate, over the years 1960 to the 1980s, a debate that called for these areas to reconfigure their Instruments of analysis, criticism, approach to form, and even a new inscription of Their meanings and scope: the crossing of the intellectual trajectories of the theoretical and critical Rosalind Krauss and the architect and theorist Peter Eisenman at The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies - IAUS, headquartered in New York from 1967 to 1985. The Has placed himself as the core of interdisciplinary research of his time while promoting courses, Conferences, exhibitions, publications, and by bequeathing two specialized journals Would move the agendas of architecture and the arts in the following decades, Respectively, Oppositions: The Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture (1973-1984) and October (1976 to present). The study goes through the questioning propositions of primacy Of artistic support in minimalism until the crystallization of these dynamics in the essay \"The sculpture In the extended field \", by Krauss; And the verification, in the early 1960s, of the need By the re-elaboration of issues of relevance to architecture and urbanism, which Would lead to the self-critical sense invested in the notion of disciplinary autonomy, and to the sense Self-referential autonomy of the architectural form, as engendered by Eisenman. At Experiences that would take physical space as constitutive of artistic work contrast In several levels with the conceptual modality examined by this architecture. Some of Points of support shared by the theoretical movements in question are the notions of Object, environment, formalism, language, modernism and postmodernism. Keeping each other Relations of complementarity, of reciprocity, of contradiction, the loan to such Between disciplines is understood in view of a second institutional plan.
Krispinsson, Charlotta. "Abstrakt konst idag : En studie av Ann Edholm och Jacob Dahlgrens förhållande till modernismen". Thesis, Södertörn University College, The School of Culture and Communication, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1055.
Testo completoThis paper presents an approach in contemporary, abstract art for a new way of experiencing modernist abstraction. This has not been possible until now, about 40 years after the postmodern turn against modernism in art, and the closely connected formalism. This new approach is represented in this paper by the Swedish contemporary artists Ann Edholm and Jacob Dahlgren. Modernist artists such as Kasimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian receives a new relevance to contemporary abstract art. This opens up for a new, more complex and more dialectical understanding and re-evaluation of modernism and its abstract art.This is shown by a historical and chronological investigation which highlights modernist abstract art, formalism, and the critical and post-modern Neo-geometric ‘abstraction’ of the eighties. This background has been a way of proving how modernist abstraction still can possess a validity for contemporary art today, and even vitalize a continuation for abstract art as a contemporary practice.
Svedbäck, Kerstin. "Konst eller Kitsch? : Konst producerad i DDR speglad genom utställningar efter 1990". Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97643.
Testo completoVid den elektroniska publiceringen har två bilder tagits bort från den ursprungliga versionen av upphovsrättsliga skäl, bild 21 och 26.
SARGENTO, PEDRO. "A forma a partir da forma: uma leitura conceptual da teoria e da história da arte entre os sécs. XIX e XX". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/202615.
Testo completoThis thesis provides a historical reading and an interpretation of the concept of «Form», drawn upon methodological aspects of the History of Art, upon Art Theory and Aesthetics between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Considering the central position of this concept and the variations on its field of reference throughout the History of Aesthetics and within Art Theory, this research focuses on the several notional elements and schools of thought that contribute to an elucidation of the understanding and to drawing the relevance of the concept of Form within the historical and theoretical reflexion on the work of art. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that in this period the concept of Form is bound to the determinations of materiality, of presenciality and to its spatial-temporal reality. Furthermore, throughout a reading of the historical mutations occurring in the semantic field of the concept (which we call «formology»), the concept of Form is also attached to the very interpretation and theorization of the development of artistic forms in time
Chousionis, Vasileios. "Thermodynamical Formalism". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4631/.
Testo completoLéglise, Matthieu. "Manet après Manet : 1900-1960 : le spectre du moderne". Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H056.
Testo completoThe purpose of this dissertation is to decompose the spectrum of commentary, historical and literary, along with the multiple visual counterpoints, that were generated from the work of Édouard Manet in the first half of the 20th century. Manet allows for this « total methodological exercise », in Pierre Bourdieu's words, which endeavours to reckon with a mythical, monumental, yet mostly unknown reception, while continually conducting a reflexive analysis of its own investigative tools. Through the scope of these posthumous, heterogeneous and often extremely violent occurrences, the goal is to retrace the genealogy of the narrative concept of« modernity » which was uncoiled from the figure of Édouard Manet, in Europe and the United States, during a time when his work was simultaneously being distorted as an incarnation of national classicism. More than a point of origin, Manet can be defined as a « crossroad » : a powerful specular junction of ideologies, historicities and phantasmagorical projections. The abject of these analyses is the dense network of attraction, repulsion, and contamination that has been woven between the various and discordant systems of enunciation, studied in the light of processes set up by Manet himself, through a body of work both profoundly relational, yet radically alien. The recurrent question of fractioning, in its multiple issues and schizoid determinations - from dualism to fetishism - make up the guiding principle of this effort of intellectual exhumation; here are retraced in detail the impossible attempts that were made to do away with a painter who has time and again proven to be cause for concern to an idea of modernity created under his name
Jullian, Martine. "Formalisme et réalisme dans la sculpture romane en France : les occupations des mois". Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100196.
Testo completoThe corpus of sculpted Romanesque calendar in France which forms the object of the thesis constitutes 33 cycles, spread over 32 monuments. Each calendar receives an individual notice in which are exposed the principal problems of each, and where every scene is meticulously described and identified (volume II). The study of this corpus revolts around four points (volume I). The situation of the calendar in terms of space as much as time is grouped: the majority is implanted in a crescent spreading from lands region to burgundy and was carved between 1140-1160. In the building, the privileged position of the calendars (west facade, door way, exterior archcurves), which has helped to define a "modal architectural formula" has not been without impact on the role of theme in the church as a factor of order both spatial and in time. From the iconographical point of view, the double phenomenon of steadiness and variation has also helped to reveal a "modal iconographical formula", and mark a difference between obligatory themes and regional or individual variants. Last of all, the question is aborded as to the documentary value of sculpted calendars, works of art which were not conceived in order to capture a reality hitherto disappeared and whose aesthetic aspect must certainly be taken into consideration by the historian. The analysis of forms and themes leads to an observation of reality at the same time very fine and selective. This delicacy and selectivity within the sculptor art gives not only an undeniable documentary value to the image of material twelfth century civilization, but also a spiritual dimension. Realistic detail and at times extreme stylization, when combined at as a revealer to the expression of an ideal: fundamentally optimistic ideal of well-being
Schrank, Brian. "Play beyond flow: a theory of avant-garde videogames". Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/42865.
Testo completoBen-Porat, Orit. "L'abstraction picturale chez Paul Klee : entre formalisme et symbolisme". Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA083670.
Testo completoThe purpose of this research is to clarify the abstract language, white evolving around the work of Paul Paul Klee. This study will also deal with various themes and symbols reappearing in his work whose rich variety is due among other things to his personality and his choice of expressing the unity behind several artistic movements. Another reason for his multiple pictorial expressions lies in his intention to exercise all the components of painting and the diversity of their associations. In doing so, his personal synthesis is fully illustrated by his practice and theory. A true disciple of the modernist spirit of creation, his main idea was to employ while exploring it a new type of pictorial space focusing on the psychological and philosophical levels. By choosing specifically 18 paintings, out aim is to throw light on his approach towards colour, line and symbol (and from in general), and their interaction. This will enable us to show the functioning of the artistic language, playing its role between verbal and visual language. Our purpose is finally, to keep in sight a unique view point white referring to content and innovation, and all the same to obtain a wider scope and new keys for the comprehension of creation as a whole
Mariucci, Giulia <1995>. "L'esperienza estetica fra Dewey e Greenberg: pragmatismo e formalismo a confronto". Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18002.
Testo completoBréhin, Yannick. "La structuration de la production artistique contemporaine au tournant des années 1960 : approche formaliste et socio-historique". Paris 8, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA082554.
Testo completoBizzarro, Salvatore. "Il significato della pittura. Imaginative art e actual criticism in Roger Fry". Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/2136.
Testo completoThe present work traces on a chronological schedule the most important steps of Roger Fry’s critique, from the beginning as connoisseur in the end of the 19th Century, through the formalist season of the Twenties, till the formalism crisis and his thoughts on the method and the practice of art criticism in the latest years. This research moves around, from a critic point of view, not only on the rereading of the first contribution on Renaissance Art published by Fry, but also on some unreleased manuscripts, from which some quotes are submitted, that furnish a full documentary repertoire, not explored so far, through which we can build up the study of the ancient Renaissance Masters that for the young connoisseur Fry represents the first field test of his aesthetic sensibility... [edited by author]
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Duval, Romain. "Les formes vivantes de l'art : esthétique figurale et analyse des oeuvres". Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010592.
Testo completoDunn, Adam. "A model of wildfire propagation using the interacting spatial automata formalism". University of Western Australia. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0071.
Testo completoClements, Neil. "The Ivory Tower and the Control Tower : formalist aesthetics and cultural affiliations in British abstract art, 1956-1968". Thesis, Glasgow School of Art, 2017. http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/5606/.
Testo completoRoncaglia, Roberto. "Studies of Classically Chaotic Quantum Systems within the Pseudo-Probablilty Formalism". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278979/.
Testo completoAuriol, Jean-Bernard. "Modélisation du sujet humain en situation de résolution de problème basée sur le couplage d'un formalisme logique et d'un formalisme d'opérateurs /". Paris : École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38845759g.
Testo completoBaker, David, e n/a. "Of Unprincipled Formalism: Readings in the Work of David Malouf and Peter Carey". Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040616.120642.
Testo completoBrembilla, Paola <1985>. "It's All Connected. Strategie competitive ed evoluzioni formali nelle serie TV statunitensi". Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7330/1/Brembilla_Paola_Tesi.pdf.
Testo completoThis thesis examines how the U.S. television industry's institutional, economic and technological evolutions shaped the styles, aesthetics and formats of scripted TV series, from the mid-Forties to today. Being the U.S. TV industry a highly competitive oligopoly, closely related to the fluctuations of the outer environment (national and global economy, mediascape, society and culture), the thesis focuses on how the market leaders responded to cyclical institutional, technological, and industrial changes, along with how these adaptive reactions shaped the forms and texts of TV series, constantly renegotiating their symbolic and financial values. The thesis is composed of five chapters that trace co-evolutionary paths between TV institutions and TV products. The first two chapters provide an historical account of the main industrial practices of the network era and the multichannel transition, highlighting the competition between broadcast TV and cable and outlining some main product groups sharing some aesthetic and narrative features. It then introduces the post-network era and digitization, along with the entrance of OTT players into the TV market. The following three chapters problematize this entrance and examines the manifold ways broadcasters reacted to the new scenario, focusing on corporate strategies, business strategies, formal strategies and the construction of digital and narrative ecosystems. Bringing together television and media studies and strategy analysis, the work uses a sistemic approach that highlights the dynamic features of the industry and its products, eventually bringing to the fore the co-evolutionary patterns of market forces and formal properties of TV series.
Lucena, Júnior Alberto. "Hipercinema : elementos para uma teoria formalista do cinema de animação hiperrealista". [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284589.
Testo completoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: A pesquisa almeja formular uma teoria estética para o cinema de animação hiperrealista. Após completar meio século de existência, a computação gráfica finalmente alcançou um estágio tecnológico no qual o artista dispõe de ferramentas poderosas e flexíveis o suficiente para enfim encarar o desafio de criar filmes com imagens realistas sintéticas absolutamente convincentes. Impõe-se, entretanto, a necessidade de fundamentação estética para fornecer o apoio artístico capaz de colaborar para o êxito expressivo desse novo cinema, tanto no trabalho de produção quanto na avaliação crítica. Para tanto o estudo empreende uma investigação do desenvolvimento da arte desde sua origem a fim de situar, seja na arte fixa ou na arte móvel, o lugar da forma realista e verificar as exigências formais que transformam uma imagem de alto nível icônico em obra de arte
Abstract: The research aims to formulate an aesthetic theory for the hyperrealist animated film. After completing half a century, computer graphics has finally reached a technology stage in which the artist has powerful and flexible tools to finally face the challenge of creating films with realistic synthetic images absolutely convincing. It must be, however, the need for aesthetic reasons to provide artistic support able to contribute to the expressive success of this new cinema, both in production work and in critical evaluation. For that, the study undertakes an investigation of the development of art from its origin in order to place, whether in still art or moving one, the place of realistic form and check the formal requirements that make a high-level iconic picture into the work of art
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Coiculescu, Ion. "Dynamics, Thermodynamic formalism and Perturbations of Transcendental Entire Functions of Finite Singular Type". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4783/.
Testo completoThebault, Patricia. "Formalisme CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problem) et localisation de motifs structurés dans les textes génomiques". Phd thesis, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00011452.
Testo completogénomiques est un problème dont l'importance est renouvelée par la
découverte récente de très nombreux ARN fonctionnels, opérant
souvent en interaction avec d'autres molécules.
Le formalisme des réseaux de contraintes est approprié à cette problématique aussi bien sur le plan de la modélisation que sur les développements algorithmiques qu'il permet de proposer.
Après une analyse et une comparaison des outils existants plongés dans le cadre des réseaux de contraintes, nous
montrons comment l'utilisation conjointe des réseaux de contraintes,
des techniques de résolution associées et des algorithmes et
structures de données du "pattern matching" permet de modéliser et de
rechercher efficacement des motifs structurés en interaction (faisant
intervenir plusieurs textes génomiques simultanément).
Thérault, Patricia. "Formalisme CSP et localisation de motifs structurés dans les textes génomiques". Toulouse 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOU30081.
Testo completoSimmons, David. "Random Iteration of Rational Functions". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115157/.
Testo completoMuir, Stephen R. "Gibbs/Equilibrium Measures for Functions of Multidimensional Shifts with Countable Alphabets". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc68021/.
Testo completoCapdeville, Loïc. "Fortune de l'historicisme : les usages du terme historicisme dans les écrits sur l'art". Paris, EHESS, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EHES0107.
Testo completoThe uses of the term "historicism" in the field of art, which have grown more and more frequent since the seventies, bear but little coherence. At most, this neologism can be associated to a Iimited number of functions: historicism, whether it be a way of rejecting historians, judging an era/epoch, or taking a stand on critical processes, raises more questions than it brings answers. If one attempts to study the terminology associated with the term, one even notices an ambivalence that is too widespread to be contingent. The great historical references complicate the matter further by forming a series of radically conflicting correlations/associations. A pragmatic approach, however, will contribute to delineate a notion which, from the point of view of lexicon, falls within a system of converse assertions, and, from that of history, can be regarded as a series of overlaps. It seems, from then on, that the relationship between art and historicism may simply be reevaluated as a derived version of that between art and history, a relationship that is made extremely complex by the divisions between different fields of study, the absence of historiographical alternatives, and the conflicting axiologies caused by a problematic secularization of the themes involved
Horng, Wen-Bing. "Using Extended Logic Programs to Formalize Commonsense Reasoning". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278054/.
Testo completoARRIGONI, Luigi Ernesto. "La metrica di Alfonso Gatto. Strutture formali e paradigmi artistici". Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/598.
Testo completoKim, Eun-Il. "Logiciels de thermique de l'habitat, formalisme et précision méthodes détaillées et méthodes simplifiées". Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37598729n.
Testo completoLeneutre, Jean. "Contribution à l'étude de la logique linéaire comme formalisme de modélisation et de spécification /". Paris : École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37054938h.
Testo completoMourgues, Gérard J. F. "Utilisation du formalisme de Wigner en mécanique statistique classique et en traitement des signaux certains". Grenoble 2 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37608304h.
Testo completoGrazzini, Serena Spies Bernhard. "Der strukturalistische Zirkel : Theorien über Mythos und Märchen bei Propp, Levi-Strauss, Melerinskij /". Wiesbaden : deutscher Universitäts-Verl, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399232852.
Testo completoPerata, R. "L'OUVERTURE D'OPERA ITALIANA DALLA MORTE DI MOZART ALLA RESTAURAZIONE - TECNICHE FORMULARI E INNOVAZIONI FORMALI". Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/370299.
Testo completoPECCHENINI, FEDERICO. "Evoluzione e caratteri formali dell'influenza francese sulla moda nobiliare del XVIII secolo". Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1857.
Testo completoThe thesis wants to focus on the continuity of the French influence on the evolution of European fashion during the eighteenth century to the Revolution. The first three chapters are indispensable to understand the origin of this success. The fight between the French and the Spanish court during the sixteenth century was also a fight for the supremacy of their own fashion style. The persistence in the eighteenth century of the court dress code for man and women that was elaborated during the reign of Louis XIV was functional to the maintenance of the guide role of the French court in Europe. At the end of the century, the refusal of strictly court dresses for new kind of clothes is peculiar of the women living at the court, but the French court has the ability to invent new fashions using ideas coming from other countries.