The Making of World Flutes

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale A. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Descriptive Information ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Music Iconography

All cultures have their specific ways of constructing their flutes, which fit within their particular and usually unwritten music theories, aesthetics, and practices. Folktales and mythology, like music iconography, however, offer very little reliable descriptive information about flute construction techniques or even flutes as material objects; artistic license, such as exaggeration, understatement, ambiguity, hyperbole, deception, exists in both the narrative and visual arts. To understand why cultures construct their flutes in the ways they do, the narrative arts with their use of metaphor, symbolism, double entendre, and other ways of saying (and writing or singing) things often provide indigenous perspectives about processes, including flute construction. This chapter discusses the construction of some world flutes in three case studies: the Warao of Venezuela, the Buganda of Uganda, and the Japanese.

Woolfian Afterlives

2021 ◽  
pp. 621-640
Author(s):  
Laura Smith
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
North American ◽  
International Study ◽  
Landscape Painting ◽  
American Opera ◽  
Judy Chicago ◽  
Dominick Argento

This chapter explores Virginia Woolf’s catalysing role for artists working in non-verbal media, including the visual arts, music, dance, and design. An analysis of Woolf’s impact beyond the medium of her writing allows for a trans-historic and international study of her legacy, charting her influence from, for example, landscape painting in Cornwall to Japanese Butoh; and from North American opera to the Ballet Russes. The chapter will trace many of the vital and fluid connections between Woolf, her contemporaries, and those whose work she has inspired. In the visual arts, case studies include: Sara Barker, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Judy Chicago, Aleana Egan, Rebecca Horn, Laura Owens, and Patti Smith. The music of Edith Sitwell, Ethel Smyth, Dominick Argento, Indigo Girls, The Smiths, and Patrick Wolf is discussed alongside dance by Lydia Lopokova, Wayne McGregor, and Setsuko Yamada.

scholarly journals Droni e fotogrammetria moderna per il rilievo dei castelli

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Pecci
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Structure From Motion ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
San Fernando ◽  
Cartagena De Indias ◽  
Steep Slopes ◽  
Geomorphological Features

Drones and modern photogrammetry for castlesCastles, often built on hills with extremely steep slopes, or on sea cliffs overlooking stretches of water, were difficult to conquer. Construction techniques and geomorphology of the area were a key factor in making castles impregnable to sieges of military troops or bands of pirates or robbers. Today, the same characteristics make them difficult to survey. In fact, there are huge difficulties in surveying fortified structures on the top of hills or on the edge of a precipice. Such geomorphological features sometimes make the survey difficult, time consuming and expensive and unsafe for operators. Today, these problems can be reduced through the use of drones and photogrammetric processing tools which are based on Structure from Motion algorythms and are easy to use. This method allows us to acquire data with geometric resolution in order to map and study masonry characteristics, as well as analyze and monitor decay and crack patterns for restoration purposes. In this paper, we will discuss the potential of drones and modern photogrammetry techniques in architectural surveys and applied to three case studies. These include the castle of Isabella Morra in Valsinni (Basilicata, South Italy), perched on a cliff; the medieval citadel of Uggiano in Ferrandina (Basilicata, South Italy) in an advanced state of degradation and on a plateau with high geological risk; and the San Fernando Fuerte to Bocochita (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) overlooking the sea.

Lessing’s Laocoon as Analytical Instrument

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Analytical Instrument ◽  
Classical Archaeology ◽  
Analytical Importance ◽  
Twenty First Century

Luca Giuliani evaluates Laocoon as an ‘analytical tool’ for twenty-first-century classical archaeology. In doing so, he returns to some of the same literary case studies that so engrossed Lessing 250 years ago—and none more so than Homer’s Iliad. By probing Lessing’s theories of the respective workings of art and text, and exploring them in the context of ancient depictions of the Iliad (especially seventh- and sixth-century BC vase-paintings), the chapter explores both the virtues and the problems of Lessing’s account. As Giuliani argues, this historical perspective can help us formulate the analytical importance of Lessing’s framework; at the same time, the perspective of ancient art can help us see how Lessing’s text is as much a treatise against as about the visual arts.

Representing Ethnicity in Contemporary French Visual Culture

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph McGonagle
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Post Colonial

The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remains one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society. This is the first book to analyse how a range of different ethnicities have been represented across contemporary French visual culture. Via a wide series of case studies – from the worldwide hit film Amélie to France’s popular TV series Plus belle la vie – it probes how ethnicities have been represented across different media, including film, photography, television and the visual arts. Four chapters examine distinct areas of particular importance: national identity, people of Algerian heritage, Jewishness and France’s second city Marseille.

scholarly journals A feminist approach to space: How women "project their home environment" through visual arts

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Mariela Cvetić
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Women Artists ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Personal Attitude ◽  
Starting Point

This paper reconsiders the relation established between (the architectural) space - the house and the woman in it, or versus it. Such a relationship is projected through visual arts, as is evident in the examples of the selected case studies. The objective of this thesis is to elaborate upon the idea that contemporary women authors use "their house" as the topic of inspiration behind works, which are quite often reminiscences of the emotional spectrum they lived during their own childhood. Furthermore, it also shows that through those works they establish their personal attitude towards the notion of "house" in general. The starting point of this paper is based on the theoretical views of Griselde Pollock,a feminist critic and theoretician of visual arts, and her analyses of "the space of femininity" and the women artists in modernism.

scholarly journals Some assembly required : an architectural systems approach to future requirements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Pevcevicius
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Modular Structure ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Urban Condition ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
Over Time

This thesis examines how a building can respond to changes in user needs. Specifically, the research component of this publication seeks to understand how and why buildings change, using primarily a typomorphological based approach to the urban condition. Research methods used in this thesis include literature reviews, case studies, and design experimentation. The design portion of this thesis responds by taking a systems approach to architecture that can be used to deal with user issues of program and form over time. The design proposal utilizes a prefabricated system that is comprised of 5 main elements. Combined, these elements produce multiple design opportunities that allow for future changes through the standardization of fabrication and construction techniques. The system is designed for future modifications through modular structure and elements. This allows for the addition, replacement, and upgrade of rooms, floors, walls, or entire buildings as its user needs change.

Reality is interface: Two motion capture case studies of human–machine collaboration in high-skill domains

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua David Bard ◽  
David Blackwood ◽  
Nidhi Sekhar ◽  
Brian Smith
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Motion Capture ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Free Form ◽  
Building Trades ◽  
Freehand Sketch ◽  
First Case ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
High Skill

This article explores hybrid digital/physical workflows in the building trades, a high-skill domain where human dexterity and craft can be augmented by the precision and repeatability of digital design and fabrication tools. In particular, the article highlights two projects where historic construction techniques were extended through live motion capture of human gesture, information-rich visualization projected in the space of fabrication and custom robotic tooling to generate free-form running moulds. The first case study explores decorative plastering techniques and an augmented workflow where designers and craftspeople can quickly explore patterns through freehand sketch, test ideas with shaded previews and seamlessly produce physical parts using robotic collaborators. The second case study reimagines a roman vaulting technique that used terracotta bottles as part of an interlocking masonry system. Motion capture is used to place building elements precisely in material arrays with real-time visual feedback guiding the hand-held placement of each bottle. These case studies serve to underscore the emerging importance of reality capture in the design and construction of the built environment. Increasingly, the algorithmic power of computational tools and the nuances of human skill can be combined in hybrid design and fabrication workflows.

Institutional Experiments: Progressive Responses to the Dissolution of Autonomous Art

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuba Szreder
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Use Value ◽  
European Institutions

The paper discusses radicalised forms of new institutionalism in the field of contemporary visual arts, which has emerged since 2010. The text focuses on case studies of European institutions associated with the international coalition L’internationale, to analyse how those institutions bend conventions of the modernist institution of art. The article argues that the institutions analysed move beyond the conceptual divisions embedded in modernism, such as the distinction between high art and popular creativity, or between use-value and aesthetical value of art. In this way, radical institutions respond to the transformation of both function and understanding of contemporary art, prompted by economic and social incorporation of artistic activities. The text discusses progressive institutional models of museums 3.0, the neoliberal museums of 1%, and the nationalist museums, as contradictory responses to the underlying, structural tension, caused by the dissolution of the modernist frame of art.

Theatricality in Contemporary Visual and Performance Art on New World Slavery

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilka Saal
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
New World ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

This article examines forms and uses of theatricality in recent African American productions on slavery in the performing and the visual arts. It argues that by deploying modes of the comic, such as satire and parody, along with racial stereotypes, in their engagement with the traumatic history of slavery, contemporary artworks aim to provoke their audiences into an affective relationship with the artwork and the history it represents. In this manner, they seek to bring into focus not the past itself but our present-day reactions to it, asking viewers to reflect on their involvement with the ongoing mimetic and affective legacies of New World slavery. The article discusses Suzan-Lori Parks’s 1996 playVenusand Kara Walker’s 2014 installation ASubtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Babyas case studies.

Late Medieval Jewish Physicians and their Manuscripts

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 734-750
Author(s):  
Maud Kozodoy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Medieval Iberia ◽  
Personal Use

Abstract Most medieval Hebrew manuscripts in late medieval Iberia, especially those containing non-religious texts, were copied by individuals for their personal use. Hebrew medical codices were thus very often both written and used by Jewish physicians. Considering these manuscripts as material objects opens a new window onto medical practice among the Jewish community. This article uses two case studies—one exploring a single manuscript (Vatican Biblioteca Apostolica ebr. 362) and the various medical texts it contains and the other following the transmission of a single medical text (Bernard de Gordon’s Lilium medicinae) through a number of different manuscripts—to inquire into what can be learned from the scribal practices of the Jewish doctors who wrote, owned and used these manuscripts.

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