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Within 20th. Century art, the concept of the ‘normative’ image, as an attribute of things, has been challenged. As a consequence, paintings must now picture the ‘real’ world in other ways, incorporating knowledge and meaning beyond the analogon. Such descriptive representations were revealed as paradigmatic, rather than incontrovertible fact. Dependent on pre-conceived notions of stereotypicality, these descriptive images relied on surface illumination. My thesis explores images of things in the world as culturally inspired and information based. I examine paintings and sculptures of other cultures, such as black African, and other historical periods such as the Medieval, which reveal metonymously the basis for variations in representations of the ‘real’ world. The new enhanced representations which Modern artists created in their work were denigrated as deviant from the absolute ‘normative’ or regarded as distortions for purely mannerist and stylistic reasons. Postmodern research has reassessed them as multiple or extended imagings in whose facture new knowledge and human responses can be incorporated. These new forms of representation can be regarded as theoretical constructs rather than stylised depictions of appearance. In this way referents are transferred through the mind onto objects and vistas in the real world to align with our developed view of the physical world and better our understanding of humanity’s symbiotic relationship with nature.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--B.Y.U. Dept. of Communications.

Thesis--Uppsala. / Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-181).

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-171).

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 244-246.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Wayne Wanta. Includes bibliographical references.

The Bioloqy Department at McMaster University is interested in courses for which students can generate computerized text presentations around a computerized data base of biological images. The student texts are to be added to the pre-existing data base at the end of the semester. This project describes the problems encountered when developing a CD-ROM to contain the images. The images were initially incorporated onto Kodak photo CDs. To place all the images on a single CD-ROM they were compressed into a JPEG file format. The suitability of Asymetrix Multimedia ToolBook 3.0 and Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 for use by students preparing accompanying text is then assessed. A development strategy for the data base is then explored. Hypertext is judged to be the environment of choice. Research into the structuring of hypertext to enhance student learning reveals that the development of tutorials to accompany the students' texts and the computerized data base will be a crucial step. Behaviourist and cognitive psychology strategies for learning are used as a platform to suggest a structure for the data base. Finally interface design research is used to outline the format of the student presentations. / Thesis / Master of Science (Teaching)