Esta dissertação está focada no levantamento arquitetónico conjugado com a fotogrametria, esperando-se que a conjugação destas metodologias se torne mais eficaz para o levantamento e documentação do edifício, o que possibilitará aumentar a quantidade de informações detalhadas pa…
For twentieth-century American muralist Violet Oakley, art was never just for art’s sake. Politically progressive and active in the international peace movement, Oakley once claimed that art ought to be “a stimulus to civic righteousness,” and used it as a means of communicating…
Northern Ireland's contemporary visual culture reflects the ethno-political conflict, known as the Troubles, that spanned four decades from the late 1960s to the Belfast Peace Agreement in 1998. Since the mid 1980s, the Northern Irish artist Willie Doherty has reacted to this pr…
Murals have been the formal visual interpretation of the cultural, social and political life of all ages. Throughout they have been consistently combined with their architectural setting, for example, in ancient Egyptian tombs, in Renaissance churches and on the external walls o…
This thesis identifies the ways in which an officially sanctioned visual lexicon in Mexico was utilized in the Centro Escolar Revolución – a primary school constructed in 1936 in Mexico City as part of a new educational ideology rooted in socialism – throughout the 1930’s-1950’s…
This thesis explores issues concerning iconography, style, material, and patronage of a pictorial program in the Amitābha Hall of Chongfu Monastery which was built during the Jin period (1115-1234). This thesis provides detailed descriptions for murals in Amitābha Hall and recon…
Public art is an increasingly respected medium of communication, creative expression, and neighborhood development, with proliferating bodies of research on the economic impacts of investment and the individual benefits of engagement. As a specific subset of public art, particip…