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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Aqueous aesthetics : an art history of change
, 2013 This essay, the edited text of a lecture by Ross Gibson, demonstrates what its author calls an "aqueous aesthetics", and in the process calls for an art history that "records, analyses and theorises how creativity proceeds in a world that is suffused ...
Gibson, Ross
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also influenced by familiarity and expertise. We examined how people represent visual complexity and its impact on perception and evaluation, focusing ...
Xiaolei Sun +3 more
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An Aesthetics of Endurance: Art, Visual Culture and Indigenous Presence in Nagaland, India
, 2020 This doctoral dissertation explores objects of Indigenous art and visual culture in Nagaland, northeast India as sites of emergence informed by a temporally layered Indigenous present that foreground the aesthetics of endurance that characterizes ...
Tankha, Akshaya
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‘Don't Forget Me, I'm Important Too’: Amplifying Self‐Advocate Voice Through Disability Theatre
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Across Canada, people with an intellectual disability continue to face systemic barriers and inequities in employment. To raise awareness and promote change, a self‐advocate led participatory disability theatre project acted as both inquiry and advocacy.
Leyton Schnellert +5 more
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Style Brush: Guided Style Transfer for 3D Objects
Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.We introduce Style Brush, a guided 3D style‐transfer method for textured meshes that provides precise creative control. It supports the use of multiple style images, smooth transitions and intuitive guidance, producing visually appealing textures that follow user intent as we demonstrate in our user study and results. Abstract We introduce Style Brush,
Áron Samuel Kovács +2 more
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The Painting "Confessions" of Nikolay Raynov
Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2018 The aim of the following paper is to show that it is not possible to penetrate into the depths of Nikolay Raynov's universe and to comprehend its wholeness, without posing and investigating the question about the origin or the foundation of his various ...
Yvanka B. Raynova
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, 2013 This thesis examines lace as a metaphor in contemporary art, comprising a practice-led inquiry based on the lace archive of Nottingham Trent University. Lace is placed in the context of creative art practice to establish an overview and understanding of ...
Buttress, J
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Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract Typography is an essential component of visual communication. Editing and animating text appearance for graphic designs, title sequences, commercials, and logos remain highly skilled tasks requiring detailed, hands‐on efforts from pro artists. Automating these challenging manual workflows requires balancing the competing goals of maintaining a
Kinjal Parikh +3 more
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