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    A pictorial representation within a postmodern manner
    (Bilkent University, 1992) Avşar, Vahap
    The thesis aims to analyze the postmodern debate which has been subject of intense debate in the western societies in particular. The thesis discusses the postmodern discourse, and constitutes a body of theoretical work for this writer's approach to art. Geographically, the postmodern discourse exposes an immense variety and has been investigated from the viewpoint of major theoreticians and of theoreticians from the so-called peripheries. Recent postmodern art has been central to this thesis. Following the examination of such works, the works of art of this writer are discussed in terms of speculations on what constitutes them and in what kind of discursive practise they establish themselves.
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    Uses of the human body as the object of the artwork and its pictorial solutions
    (Bilkent University, 1993) Sağlam, Sefa
    This thesis tries to discuss the conditions of the relationship between art work and its producer together with the question of ‘outside’ of the artwork. This declaration is to discuss and to think about the artwork after the experience of making the artwork. The thesis is stated in a manner which opens the possibilities to analyze the representing and non-representing approach of the producer/painter during the experiencing process of painting, the act of creating a body. The theoretical usages consist of the attempt to construct a new way of evaluating the human body as an artwork. This wbrk/act of painting developed in the isolated field of the proce.ss of artwork, therefore, tries to objectify the thoughts of the producer within her psycho- logical/physiological approach.
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    Content and form analyses within the frame of neo expressionist trend
    (Bilkent University, 1994) Tolun Okur, Elif F.
    This thesis is aimed at discussing neo-expressionism which has become one of the most prevailing forms of expression that is still popular since the 1980s. First the structure and progression of neo-expressionism is examined by looking at its past starting from expressionism that simultaneously showed up in various geographies including Turkey. Secondly within the neo-expressionism topics like form and discourse importation, the concept of patch while displaying the existing structure in Turkey on one hand, increased the readability of my paintings and stated the problematic of my studies.
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    A Research on excess of media in social life, its reflections on art, and its pictorial resolution
    (Bilkent University, 1994) Doğudan, Zeynep
    This thesis aims to investigate the overload situation of media, which causes changes in perceiving the external world directly. At the same time, the thesis discusses the reversed functions of mass media and the changes in social structure. In relation with the excess of media, the investigation of the changes in the area of art, is handled as a reflection and a critique of this new visual environment. The examinations and discussions about this research subject, constitutes a theoretical ground for my works.
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    Use of screenprint to produce original art works by multiplying original images
    (Bilkent University, 1995) Sarıkartal, Zekiye
    Photography and screenprint constitute two important turning points throughout the history of printmaking. When photography freed printmaking from the task of producing analogues of reality, printmaking was sprung loose from its role subordinate to painting and sculpture. Printmaking has become a perfect medium to create images in which it is also shown that art and technology are combined in those images. Screenprint represents the entrance of mass culture and commercial values in the realm of art, especially with the use of photographic imagery in silkscreening process. In this study, after a historical survey of printmaking and photography, an account is given of the use of screenprint in art works from the 1950s up to the 1990s. Then, a detailed description is made of a work which is produced in the scope of this study in the light of the issues on photography and mechanical reproduction. Finally,, an evaluation is made on contemporary printmaking as far as the issues on originality and visual communication are concerned.
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    Tunisian tiles: Ottoman inspiration from the 16th to the 19th centuries
    (Bilkent University, 1995) Kura, Nermin
    The span of time stretching between the end of the 16th and the end of the 19th centuries marks the period in which Tunisia was included within the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire. The tile ateliers which flourished in Tunisia from the end of the 16th century onwards produced a large number of revetments not only for local use but also for exportation to neighboring countries such as Algeria, Libya and Egypt. As a result of the exigencies of the dynamic social and cultural mutations peculiar to this epoque, a style composed of diverse cross cultural influences was elaborated by Tunisian tile-makers responding to the new vogue of the times. The aim of this research is to elucidate the Ottoman inspiration in a group of Tunisian tiles manufactured in this era through an analysis of the use of motifs, patterns, surface arrangements and iconographical aspects elaborated in ceramic workshops. This research will help to understand the role of the Ottoman factor in the development of a stylistic synthesis in the North African Mediterranean context and also adds a link to studies dealing with the evolution of Ottoman provincial styles.
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    Signification of the artwork in relation to its placement within space
    (Bilkent University, 1996) Özseçen, Ebru
    The goal of this thesis is to research the relationship between artwork and spaces. There are different approaches to the meaning that space and art work add to each other. These works come to life within the space in which they are produced. The title of this thesis represents the common attitude of all the art works presented here, that is their undeniable relationship with the space that they are produced in.
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    Ephemerality in contemporary art
    (Bilkent University, 1999) Göktan, Zeynep Zeren
    In this study an aspect of “ephemerality” in contemporaiy art is analyzed. In this respect, while Land Art and Installation art are underlined in relation to a variety of concepts, like site-specificity, process, and evanescence, the notions of fragility, penetrability, and process are highlighted through the works of artists who may be said to take ephemerality in connection to their identity. Then, after noting ephemerality as the main framework, these concepts are traced in relation to my works.
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    The poetic geography
    (Bilkent University, 1999) Türkyılmaz, Mürüvvet
    In this study, Dada and Surrealism movements are analysed and compared with each other in accordance with historical, social, economical and political conditions. Especially, the techniques of Automatic Writing and Automatic Drawing in Surrealism movement are researched and explained the differences of usage in my works. Dada is analysed as an attitude and the relationship between Dada and my works are handled in the frame of his attitude. This attitude accepts art and life together. The influences of the I. World War bring the exploration of Dada. This exploration implies the feeling of isolation or loneliness in the fragmented geography. The similar conditions are seen n this century which people consume in faster span of life and which all borders have been passed on the map. At this point, Dada attitude and the attitude in my works are analysed on the same level.
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    Bodiless art
    (Bilkent University, 1999) Selen, Eser
    This research is derived from the notion of body in recent art, which may be thought within a concept of bodilessness. The aim of the study is to evaluate the answer(s) to the question “How is this bodilessness possible, if it is?”. During the study different genres of art will be discussed, examined and explored concerning both the researcher works and some contemporary artists' works, which deal with the ideas of the body. The works will be analyzed both in terms of their plastic language and by referring to psychoanalytic concepts in order to point to a way to show how the viewer/reader may experience this bodilessness as the consequence of these works.
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    A new method in object lighting : using surface chromaticity coordinates as a led-based lighting tool in museums
    (Bilkent University, 2007) Dikel, Ekrem Erhan
    In contemporary museum lighting, the common practice is to choose light sources with recommended Color Rendering Indices (CRI) and Color Temperatures (CT) that do not emit harmful wavelengths: ultraviolet and infrared. In addition to CRI and CT, the commonly disregarded component of each light source, the Chromaticity Coordinates (CC), do not exist in any guidelines that are intended to be used by museum lighting designers and curators. This thesis aims to create a guideline for the museum lighting designers by proposing a new lighting method based on the relation between the surface CC of the museum objects and the CC of the light sources that are proposed to be their illuminators. For this reason, an experiment was conducted by using the Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and computerized lighting controlled systems to test the validity of the proposed method. In the study, the appearances of the colored objects under a D65 reference light source were evaluated by comparing the created light source with their CC values and three other LED light sources with CT of 3000, 4200, and 6500 Kelvin that are mainly used in the museum lighting design applications. The results of the experiment showed that subjects preferred the appearance of the objects under lights that have same CC as the object. This thesis contributes to the museum lighting literature by creating the basis for a guideline for choosing and creating unique light sources for objects, by using their own physical properties.