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Privilege and Property. Essays on the History of Copyright [PDF]

, 2010
Copyright law is the site of significant contemporary controversy. In recent years copyright history has transformed as a subject from being one of interest to a few books historians to the focus of sustained historical investigation attracting the ...
Bently, Lionel, Deazley, Ronan, Kretschmer, Martin   +2 more
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

For a rereading of Latin American art historiography, from Diana Weschler’s concept of “Road Map” and María Soledad García’s “Compositions and decompositions”

Pensamiento Palabra y Obra, 2010
This essay analyses two proposals for new readings of the historiography of Latin American art made by two Argentine researchers, to begin to establish what questions are asked today by art historians, where are they directing their efforts to, and if ...
Paola Camargo
doaj  

Introduction: Historiography of Islamic art and architecture, 2012 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2012
This introduction to Islamic art historiography outlines the collection of articles contained in the present volume, and offers a brief account of the field of Islamic art history at a time when it has become increasingly reflexive, a trend that is ...
Moya Carey, Margaret S. Graves
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Irony, historiography, and political criticism : The Porcaria coniuratio [PDF]

, 2020
This article examines Leon Battista Alberti’s 'Porcaria coniuratio', the historical epistle on Stefano Porcari’s conspiracy against Nicholas V, which was discovered by the pope before the conspirators could carry out the plot, in January 1453.
Celati, Marta
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

0211 Vorwort zum Special Issue „Prekäre Vergangenheit? Barockforschung im östlichen Mitteleuropa unter den Bedingungen des Sozialismus”

RIHA Journal, 2019
The special issue “Precarious Past? Research on Baroque Art and Architecture in East Central Europe under Socialism”, edited by Michaela Marek (†) and Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė, originates from a conference held at Humboldt University of Berlin in 2014.
Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė
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Towards a Cartographic Methodology for Art Historiography

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1980
Calvin Seerveld
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Claiming space outside dominant narratives: feminist strategies based upon freedom and diversity, alternative God-talk and criticizing structures of authority [PDF]

, 2015
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van den Brandt, Hendrika
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source