Browsing Edinburgh College of Art by Title
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“La femme modèle” from the first communicant to the affectionate mother: a dialogue between painting and moral discourse under the early Third Republic (1870-1900)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)This PhD dissertation seeks to define the configuration and evolution of French women’s moral identity and social status, through works of art created during the first thirty years of the Third Republic (1870-1900). More ... -
La peinture impressionniste et la décoration dans les années 1870
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)Throughout their careers the Impressionists demonstrated a strong, but rarely examined, interest for decoration. A careful examination of both archival material and well-known artworks produced between 1870 and 1895 shows ... -
The Laird’s Houses of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Industrial Revolution, 1560–1770
(The University of Edinburgh, 2008-05)The purpose of this research is to define the architectural development of laird’s houses. The term ‘laird’s house’ can imply, simply, ‘the house of a laird’. Architecturally, it is used to describe a category of dwelling ... -
Landscape architect's role in archaeological resource management in Britain
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996) -
Landscape brief for Egyptian desert new towns
(The University of Edinburgh, 1990) -
Late Completion of Cologne and St-Vitus Cathedral
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)Abstract Completions of Cathedrals were, in some cases (e.g. Sagrada Familia in Barcelona) still are large scale and unique projects which were carried out across Europe at the end of the 19th and even during the course ... -
Le Corbusier's exploration of primitive culture and worldwide civilizations through the construction of a personal museum (circa 1930)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2006) -
Life and works of Ahmed Adnan Saygun
(The University of Edinburgh, 1999-07-16)Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991) was one of Turkey's most prominent composers, described in The Times obituary as "the grand old man of Turkish music, who was to his country what Sibelius is to Finland, what de Falla is to ... -
Life drawing: to what extent might exploiting design epistemologies within an inquisitive graphic practice reveal graphic design undergraduates’ experiences and understandings of the contingent and multi-contextual nature of employability?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-05)This research was designed to elicit insights from the implausibly-hushed stakeholders of graduate employability – current undergraduates. (Johnston, 2003; Moreau and Leathwood, 2006; Tymon, 2013). It is argued that ... -
Literary intervention in architecture - the making of Burns cottage as a writer’s house
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The concept of writers’ houses is a modern invention. Along with the growth of literacy popularity and the rise of modern writers, whose origins are no more of privileged class, their houses start to be pilgrimage ... -
Little mouse: a journey. The making of a picture-book artwork
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)The picture book is an artistic medium is part of literature, especially of children’s literature. This discussion of the picture book extends to the dynamic between author and illustrator, and interactions between the ... -
Locating authenticities : a study of the ideological construction of professionalised folk music in Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012-11-28)In the last forty years, there has been a steady increase in research on Scottish traditions of music and song. Growing from its roots in ‘collection’, the field (in Scotland) has been dom ... -
Locating contradictory architectural imperatives: appropriation and subversion in the urban field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011-06-29)This thesis investigates the value of locating contradictory architectural imperatives when attempting to understand the nature of uneven development in the urban field. The thesis is an attempt at establishing seemingly ... -
Lord Lindsay and James Dennistoun: two Scottish art-historians and collectors of early Italian Art
(The University of Edinburgh, 1976) -
Lyon: the development of archetypal urban forms: an investigation into the public realm of the ancient city
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-05)The public realm of the ancient, Western city evolved situationally – over time and in response to the ethos of its citizens. Some of the urban forms that were born within the context of the ancient city are still in use ... -
Macedonian domestic architecture: the northern Greek house in the 18th & 19th centuries
(The University of Edinburgh, 1985) -
Making people up
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-07-04)This thesis is a process of writing characters using a cyclical methodology to turn the writer into a reader of their own work, then back into a writer again. The components of this thesis both practice and propose writing ... -
Managing change: tensions between urban morphology and everyday life in the heterotopic urban context of Tainan
(The University of Edinburgh, 2011-06-29)Urban conservation and development practices are often in conflict. This thesis examines this general claim in the context of rapid urban development in East Asia through an analysis of the postcolonial historic city of ... -
The many lives of Pascual de Gayangos (1809-1897)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2005) -
Marketing problems of farmers in Punjab, Pakistan : a case study
(The University of Edinburgh, 1987)The incentives which encouraged the author to undertake this research work stem from the need for such work. First of all, comparatively little information is available within or outside Pakistan concerning the origins and ...