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The Black Revolution: A Turning Point in American Negro Art? (open access)

The Black Revolution: A Turning Point in American Negro Art?

The Black Revolution, an American social upheaval of this century, poses numerous questions and challenges to all segments of our culture. For the artists, black and white, there is a dilemma of commitment as regards the acceptance of Black art for its merit without approval of the white artist. The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the Black Revolution would be a turning point in American Negro art.
Date: August 1971
Creator: Silvey, Patricia J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experiment in the Deliberate Subordination of Primary Pictorial Features in Painting and Investigation of the Pictorial Interface (open access)

An Experiment in the Deliberate Subordination of Primary Pictorial Features in Painting and Investigation of the Pictorial Interface

This study concerns the deliberate subordination in painting of thirteen art elements and principles, the primary pictorial features, and examination of the intervals between pictorial events, the pictorial interface. A written record was kept of the artist's observations and impressions during the making of ten nonobjective paintings and their later study. The artist selected five paintings as more successfully subordinating the primary pictorial features and three paintings as most successfully exhibiting the three characteristics determined for the pictorial inter face: (1) conceptual resonance, (2) ambiguity, and (3) unbiasedness. The three paintings selected as most successfully exhibiting the characteristics of the pictorial interface coincided with three of the five paintings selected as more successfully subordinating the primary pictorial features.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Quantz, Manfred
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changing Perceptions of Heraldry in English Knightly Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (open access)

Changing Perceptions of Heraldry in English Knightly Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the changing ways in which the visual art of heraldiy was perceived by the feudal aristocracy of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. It shows how the aristocracy evolved from a military class to a courtly, chivalric class, and how this change affected art and culture. The shifts in the perceptions of heraldry reflect this important social development of the knightly class.
Date: August 1996
Creator: Lewis, Robert Lee, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

Creative Stitchery in the Art Program of the Dallas Independent School District

The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent creative stitchery is used in the art program of the Dallas Independent School District, when it is found to be most valuable, and what limitations it is found to have.
Date: August 1965
Creator: Reeves, Wilma Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Basic Design Education in Turkey and Implications for Changes in Postsecondary Art Curriculum (open access)

An Analysis of Basic Design Education in Turkey and Implications for Changes in Postsecondary Art Curriculum

This study explored the current status of Turkish basic art education and the objectives of the first year art program at the university level in Turkey. Also, the researcher attempted to explore the objectives and expectations of Turkish art professors and to examine the applicability of certain concepts of American basic design education in the teaching of studio foundation courses in Turkish art schools. The study included the literature review concerning changes in educational philosophy related to the history of design education in the West and in Turkey.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Oztuna, Haci Yakup
System: The UNT Digital Library