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Decoration And Pattern As Picture, Nancy Norman

Art & Art History ETDs

Many of the concepts for my imagery are drawn from an attitude of affirming the decorative in art and a personal choice to further explore those possibilities. Ornamentation can enhance art, not because it is superfluous and not because it can embellish life with beauty, but as in the ornamental arts themselves it can magnify qualities already present in material life and work. In this presentation I present my decorative ideas in art from a contemporary perspective in terms of an art historical context a well as through my individual vision represented by paintings, lithographs, and paper pieces. Both sections …

From Obsession To Oxymoron: Sonic Cartoons, Steven Ralph Fitch

Art & Art History ETDs

In this thesis I will identify some of the motives and sources behind my present series of photographs and in the process, attempt to clarify their meaning as visual statements and as cultural artifacts.

Mother Knows Best, Robert Saxby

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis is a personal and brief chronicle of my artistic development. It attempts to put my art, and my attitudes toward art into a biographical framework. The English educational system, my emigration to the United States, and my three years at the University of New Mexico are examined, and the effects of each of these experiences on my work are noted. The thesis also deals, quite specifically, with my art work. What I have created, even how I have created it, is briefly discussed. I also scan the primary ideas and influences on my work. I conclude with a …

Towards The Completion Of An Illusion, Joan Emaime Martin

Art & Art History ETDs

I have made an investigation of Renaissance perspective in pursuit of an illusion of objects in space. The drawings reflect the analytical nature of the investigation and a continuing search for new objects which can be represented in the environment of lines and marks used to create the perspective illusion itself.

The Camera: Its Literary Context, Dana Asbury

Art & Art History ETDs

A discussion is undertaken of modern ideas on the nature of appearance and reality, and how these ideas relate to photography, especially portraiture.

An examination is made of some portrait photographers (August Sander, Richard Avedon, Arnold Newman, Diane Arbus) to trace the evolution of my own approach, which is further related to some movements in art history (Romanticism, Surrealism) and to twentieth century literature (Virginia Woolf).

Dream Confirmation: Present Thoughts On My Work Completed Between The Summer And Autumn Of 1977, Philip J. Calabria

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis discusses an approach to art, as well as an investigation into the concepts underlying the author's work that was completed between the summer and autumn of 1977. The thesis is separated into three parts. Part I deals with the influences that contributed to shaping the author's aesthetic approach. An examination of the author’s work immediately preceding the present sequence is the main topic covered in Part II. And in the final section, Part III, the current sequence, "Dreams through a Crimson Chamber,” is the focus of attention, with particular emphasis given to the formal activity and symbolic theory …

Of Elements, Memories, And Dreams, Margaret Emily Newman

Art & Art History ETDs

This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between my paintings and various memories, reflections, and experiences. Because there is an elusiveness to the memories of experience which over time confuses dreams and reality, I describe these events in prose poem forms, which seems better suited to the nature of these reflections.

Response To Structure: An Explication Of My Work, Dennis Paul Grady

Art & Art History ETDs

The chronological development of my art is discussed in relation to the ideas involved in the ark. The central notion, that art is an impulse which answers to the structure of the world, is dealt with in terms of how information and structure are presented, and represented, in my pictures. The first section deals with work done from 1971 to 1976. The second section deals with work done since arriving at the University of New Mexico in the fall of 1976.

Apologia Photographica, Joseph William Marshall

Art & Art History ETDs

A general examination is made of the author's personal history as a photograph r from 1970 to 1977, with concurrent evaluations of the changes in his pictures under the pressure of events. Beginning with a brief discussion of the role of intellect in the author's picture making process, the narrative describes the ongoing modifications in his aesthetic opinions up to and slightly past the completion of his thesis exhibition. The autobiographical events which caused those changes and their pictorial results are also discussed.

The Creation Of Abstract Forms In Metal, Lynn Ellen Peters

Art & Art History ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to explain the creation and the reasoning behind a group of jewelry pieces which was begun in August, 1974. The following discussion of my work covers a range of topics related to my jewelry and how they reflect my philosophical outlook. In my efforts to create abstract forms derived from nature, I work with two mental processes which deal with my intuitions and intellect and they help me to make use of my creative abilities. Much can happen from these processes, and I hope to justify my jewelry making not only on these terms, …

Because I Must, Debra M. Sachs

Art & Art History ETDs

Things that make sense don’t necessarily work. Those that are nonsense often do.

Predicting The Unpredictable, Elizabeth A. Kay

Art & Art History ETDs

My work is an attempt to create a visual metaphor for my personal attitude towards life which stems not only from intuition, but also from my continued interest in literature, history, and philosophy. I have tried to clarify my intuitive feelings by drawing upon other points of view which seem to resemble my own and to question personal opinions when others seem more reasonable. Consequently, my work is the visual product of a great deal of mental speculation and the imagery often has a close relationship with the thinking that inspires it.

I Want To Say Something About All That Noise, Stacy Louise Mann

Art & Art History ETDs

When I paint, I often feel as though I am casting characters for an episode. The characters come from the world around me. They are arranged diagrammatically or physically with other images. The characters are talking their places for a ritual. Through rituals we can transcend our surroundings or pass through gates and extend our aesthetic limits. It is fantasy.

The Cliché-Verre In The Nineteenth Century, Elizabeth J. Glassman

Art & Art History ETDs

The cliché-verre process is a photographic technique; an image is made on a glass plate which is then employed as a negative for contact printing on a light-sensitive sheet of paper. The cliché-verre method for creating prints was developed in the mid-nineteenth century, a period of intense technical experimentation in photography and of revived interest in the graphic process of etching. As the cliché-verre incorporates elements of both printmaking (a drawn matrix through a prepared ground) and photography (the presence of a photographic negative), the technique has occupied a middle ground between the two arts. The process has been explored …

An Historical And Practival Manual For Hand Silk Screened Textiles, Grace Danisch Kraft

Art & Art History ETDs

The development and evolution of hand-stenciled textiles is studied from early Chinese cultures (C.A. 15,000 B.C.) to the present. The history of printed textiles is traced in western China, Japan, India, France, England, and America, with Japan and India playing important roles in the types of stencils used and importation of printed fabrics to other parts of the world.

Three Essays On The Reality Of Art, Brent A. Sparlin

Masters Theses

Three essays make up the main body of the thesis. The essays, “Can Art Really Be Real?,” “The Artist's Role” and “The Artist's Role in Society, Part II; Silence,” each deal with specific subjects which when combined, explain the thesis' title, The Reality of Art.

The first essay, “Can Art Really Be Real?” is an attempt to clarify what is real from what is unreal in art. The essay deals first with representational realism (such as is found in the work of Thomas Eakins), and defines artists who strive for exact renderings of objects as being illusionistic and not …

Mycenaean Masonry Practices And Elements Of Construction, James C. Wright

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is a study of the basic practices and primary elements of construction in Mycenaean architecture: foundations, terraces, rubble, and ashlar masonry, cyclopean masonry and its relation to circuit walls. Special consideration is given to conglomerate masonry in the circuit walls and the practice of corbelling. Addenda deal with the cyclopean terrace at the Argive Heraeum and the construction of the Southern Citadel of Tiryns.

The study is a summation of a detailed catalogue of information gathered from published reports of excavations and from on the spot inspection of most of the sites discussed; it is accompanied by 155 …