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The James Blair Historical Review Volume 12, Issue 1, 2023 William & Mary

The James Blair Historical Review Volume 12, Issue 1

James Blair Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Jogakpo Window (7 Feet X 4 Feet), Seo-Young J. Chu 2023 CUNY Queens College

Jogakpo Window (7 Feet X 4 Feet), Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

Materials: glass, sunlight, post-it notes. Image description: Photographs show a large window covered with a 조각보 patchwork of colorful post-it notes. Sunlight illuminates the paper.


The Application And Impact Of Digital Technology In Jewelry Art, Lai Tai 2023 Sotheby's Institute of Art

The Application And Impact Of Digital Technology In Jewelry Art, Lai Tai

MA Theses

Since the invention of the first electronic computer in 1946, digital technology
has gone through three stages: the computer, the Internet, and a new-generation of information technology. The form of digitalization has different background and
environment, and the meaning explained is also different. The digitalization of
specific affairs is actually in a narrow sense, while the digitalization of enterprises and organizations is mostly in a broad sense. Digital technology has a big feature, which is that it can let you leave the physical world and come to the digital world. The digital technology revolution promotes the digital transformation of mankind. …


Djurberg & Berg: A Relationship Saga, Johanna Graflund 2023 Sotheby's Institute of Art

Djurberg & Berg: A Relationship Saga, Johanna Graflund

MA Theses

Djurberg & Berg is one of the most famous artistic duos in today’s contemporary global art market. This thesis will pinpoint crucial relationships and important career milestones that helped them achieve international recognition and success. As this thesis argues, one of the most important relationships is with Moderna Museet. Moderna Museet is a well-renowned top-tier museum that brings legitimacy to the artists it shows. As a government-funded museum, it is responsible for promoting Swedish art, and artists can not go unnoticed.
Along with Moderna Museet, the duo has established vital support from major
institutions such as the Fondazione Prada and …


Analysis Of The Integration Of High-Tech Virtual Technology To Improve The Audience's Experience: Taking China Exhibition Hall As Examples, Zizhou Guo 2023 Sotheby's Institute of Art

Analysis Of The Integration Of High-Tech Virtual Technology To Improve The Audience's Experience: Taking China Exhibition Hall As Examples, Zizhou Guo

MA Theses

The existence of an exhibition hall is nothing more than to display the works of art, and the design of an exhibition hall is nothing more than to let the audience better understand the works of art. In order to do this well, the design of exhibition space, as a container for artworks, plays an important role. This paper starts with the exhibition space of the exhibition hall, analyzes some new features and existing problems of the exhibition space of the contemporary exhibition hall, and takes space scale, space sequence, exhibition and display methods, and multimedia as the research objects. …


No Canvas, No Rules, Francisca B. Ugalde 2022 University of Akron

No Canvas, No Rules, Francisca B. Ugalde

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This presentation activity is a creative exploration of the concept of DIS-EASE, as in the absence of ease, uneasiness, or discomfort.

Conceptually, I am exploring DIS-EASE in three ways:

  1. As you can see, I am painting directly onto the gallery wall. As the keeper of these galleries, I can assure you that this is a big no-no. I mean how dare anyone disturb these pristine surfaces?! The rationale behind my discomfort is rooted in the idea that the gallery is a sacred space, and that these walls ought to be kept pristine so that the objects displayed against them …


Artificial Intelligence And The Preservation Of Historic Documents, Gaute Barlindhaug 2022 University of Tromsø

Artificial Intelligence And The Preservation Of Historic Documents, Gaute Barlindhaug

Proceedings from the Document Academy

In recent decades, digitization has been presented as an important strategy both for the preservation of historic documents and for giving increased access for researchers to such materials. In the Norwegian context, this has not only implied the digitization of printed matter but also the digitization of audiovisual material like photography and analog tape recordings. From a technical perspective, there are of cause difficulties in digitizing such a variety of material when considering the diversity of media formats dating back to the nineteenth century. However, from the archival community criticism has been raised not only about the quality of the …


The Rehabilitation Of Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills: A Case For A Unique Public-History Site And Open-Air Museum, Nina Elsas 2022 Kennesaw State University

The Rehabilitation Of Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills: A Case For A Unique Public-History Site And Open-Air Museum, Nina Elsas

Master of Arts in Art and Design Theses

By the 1990s, Atlanta's historic Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills (The Mill) had fallen into extreme disrepair. After operations ceased, the 19th-century factory suffered from years of neglect, forcing the decision to either demolish or rehabilitate its industrial structures. Fortunately, a choice was made to convert the majority of Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills’ buildings into residential lofts, despite the significant financial risk. The research related to this study aims to address whether the successfully renovated Fulton Bag & Cotton Mills could identify as an open-air museum.

Answers to this question were obtained from Primary Sources (such as interviews and …


An Imaginary* Interview With A Philippines Collections Museum Donor, Camille Ungco 2022 University of Washington - Seattle Campus

An Imaginary* Interview With A Philippines Collections Museum Donor, Camille Ungco

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

Ontological distance is the dehumanization that emerges from uninterrogated coloniality between colonized subjects and the oppressive systems. This distancing has occurred in the histories of U.S. teachers both domestic-based and abroad, especially in Southeast Asia. In Steinbock-Pratt’s (2019) historiography on the relationships between early 1900s U.S. teachers and their Filipinx students, ontological distance was “The crux of the colonial relationship was intimacy marked by closeness without understanding, suasion backed by violence, and affection bounded by white and American supremacy” (Steinbock-Pratt, 2019, p. 214). This dehumanizing psychological or ontological distance existed during U.S. colonial regimes abroad, specifically in Southeast Asia and …


Geographical And Attendance Impact On Financial Sustainability At The Field Museum In Chicago, Il, Clara Barbier 2022 Northern Illinois University

Geographical And Attendance Impact On Financial Sustainability At The Field Museum In Chicago, Il, Clara Barbier

Student Capstone Projects

This study focuses on the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, and analyzes how the geographical location of the museum and the rate of attendance impacts the museum’s financial health and sustainability. This study utilizes three sources of data: annual reports to donors, yearly financial audits, and a primary data source via a survey response from an employee of the finance department at the Field Museum. The data collected was analyzed qualitatively using three categories that aligned with the research question: location, attendance, and finances. These three categories, and the use of Excel and its equation functions, allowed …


The Dance Of Domesticity: How Gender Constructs Obscure Lived Experience At Museums, Marcy J. Botwick 2022 University of New Mexico

The Dance Of Domesticity: How Gender Constructs Obscure Lived Experience At Museums, Marcy J. Botwick

Museum Studies Theses

My thesis focuses on Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein and Ernest L. Blumenschein, married artists born in the late 1860s. Ernest Blumenschein was an important regional artist and member of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA). Paintings by Blumenschein and other TSA members promoted tourism in the Southwestern United States through annual exhibitions and their use in advertising the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Mary Greene Blumenschein was an award-winning painter and illustrator whose work focused on images of women at the beginning of the twentieth century, however, she is now a secondary and obscure figure in art history. …


Ana Vizcarra Rankin: Reimagining Maps As A Method Of Decolonization, Jessica Baker 2022 West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Ana Vizcarra Rankin: Reimagining Maps As A Method Of Decolonization, Jessica Baker

WCU Museum in the News

No abstract provided.


West Chester University: Philadelphia Spotlighted In Exhibition, Bill Rettew 2022 Daily Local News

West Chester University: Philadelphia Spotlighted In Exhibition, Bill Rettew

WCU Museum in the News

No abstract provided.


Exhibition Interpretation And The Visitor Experience, Theresa Ryan 2022 Technological University Dublin

Exhibition Interpretation And The Visitor Experience, Theresa Ryan

Case Studies

This case study explores the techniques used to interpret a commemorative exhibition staged in Dublin city library between the 14th of August and the 31st of October, 2019. The case discusses the way in which multiple media were employed to communicate the exhibition narrative to visitors, and how this resulted in very emotive, personal and meaningful visitor experiences. Through the use of a range of audio-visuals, original images, text, memorabilia and guided tours, the exhibition provided a multi-sensory experience, that engaged different cohorts of visitors with the collections, information and ideas on display. They provided a powerful means of …


The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen 2022 University of Oxford

The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen

Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History

Conventionally, museums are most often considered as a series of objects displayed, but I argue that the museum itself should be seen, first and foremost, as the object on display. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, built at the high tide of British Imperialism, is a very interesting case study. Interested in its engagement with its own past, I do not seek to investigate the actions it takes as an institution, for instance, as regards to the politics of repatriation. Instead, I want to explore the whole experience it facilitates as an object in its own right.

This experience begins with …


Information About The School Of Art And Design At Wvu, 2022 West Virginia University

Information About The School Of Art And Design At Wvu

Clio: WVU Art History Research Journal

No abstract provided.


An Introduction To Plastic Sheet Working, Griffin Nordstrom 2022 West Virginia University

An Introduction To Plastic Sheet Working, Griffin Nordstrom

Clio: WVU Art History Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Forman Analysis Of Caged In The Circus Of Civilization, Riley Red Klug 2022 West Virginia University

Forman Analysis Of Caged In The Circus Of Civilization, Riley Red Klug

Clio: WVU Art History Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Catholicism And Commercialism: The Many Aspects Of Andy Warhol's Life, Payton Brown 2022 West Virginia University

Catholicism And Commercialism: The Many Aspects Of Andy Warhol's Life, Payton Brown

Clio: WVU Art History Research Journal

No abstract provided.


Iridescent Skies, Joanna Rose Jacinto 2022 West Virginia University

Iridescent Skies, Joanna Rose Jacinto

Clio: WVU Art History Research Journal

No abstract provided.


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