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Mitsuyama-Wdowiak, Kiyoko (2000). The critical reception of contemporary Japanese art exhibitions held in the West (1945-1995). MPhil thesis The Open University.

Adewole, Adebisi (2002). Information sharing and supply chain relationships in small and medium sized garment manufacturing firms in the UK. PhD thesis The Open University.

Ashmore, Sonia (2001). Liberty's Orient: taste and trade in the decorative arts in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 1875-1914. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Barfield, Naren Anthony (1999). Integrated artworks : theory and practice in relation to printmaking and computers, and the influence of "non-Euclidean geometry" and the "fourth dimension" on developments in twentieth-century pictorial space. PhD thesis The Open University.

Chambers, Dennet (1995). A study of lithographic ink and water interactions. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Corby, Thomas James Patrick (2000). The disappearing frame : a practice-based investigation into the composition of virtual environment artworks. PhD thesis The Open University.

Fletcher, Kate Tanya (1999). Environmental improvement by design : an investigation of the UK textile industry. PhD thesis The Open University.

Glynn, Deborah (2001). The preservation and conservation of ink jet and electrophotographic printed materials. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Hasdogan, G (1993). The nature and limitations of user models in the household product design process. PhD thesis The Open University.

Kikuchi, Yuko (1998). Mingei theory and Japanese modernisation : cultural nationalism and "oriental orientalism". PhD thesis The Open University.

Lane, Jonathan (1998). An investigation into the novel application of high power ultrasound on the deinking of mixed office waste paper. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Lyons, Patricia (1998). Mimesis in practice : an investigation into the employment of the mimetic faculty in fine art practice. PhD thesis The Open University.

McCartney, Aron (2001). The development and utilization of the ceramic shell mould technique and mould surface release agents in the design and forming of small scale studio hot glass. PhD thesis The Open University.

O'Riley, Timothy (1998). Representing illusions : space, narrative and the spectator in fine art practice. PhD thesis The Open University.

Pinheiro, Maria Gabriela V (2001). Art from place : the expression of cultural memory in the urban environment and in place-specific art interventions. PhD thesis The Open University.

Rynne, Sally (2000). Hybridity, style and identity : the court art and architecture of Lucknow 1770-1850. PhD thesis The Open University.

Sananpanichkul, Wanna (1993). Paper and printed paper surface characteristics studied using an optical method. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Silva, Jofre (1999). The aesthetics of illusion in advertising photography : an investigation of the aesthetic of illusion in advertising, 1980-1995, based on Peircean semiotics, and how photographic technologies have contributed to the consolidation of this aesthetic. PhD thesis The Open University.

Tchan, Jack Soning (1998). Development of an image analysis system to produce a standardised assessment of print quality. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Vanke, Francesca Jane (1998). British cultural and aesthetic relationships with decorative arts of the Islamic Orient, with special reference to ceramics, 1851-1914. PhD thesis The Open University.

Wilson, Jabe George (2000). Developing support for artist software designers. PhD thesis The Open University.