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De soie et de plume, les oiseaux de paradis dans la décoration murale impériale

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles
A study of imperial wall decoration reveals the recurring presence of the exotic-bird motif. Presented in the exhibition Soieries impériales pour Versailles: collection du Mobilier national, the wall hangings in the Empress’s Versailles study and in the ...
Noémie Wansart
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Why Are All the Sets All the Sets?

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Necessitists about set theory think that the pure sets exists, and are the way they are, as a matter of necessity. They cannot explain why the sets (de rebus) are all the sets. This constitutes the Ur‐Objection against necessitism; it is the primary motivation cited by potentialists about set theory.
Tim Button
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Spartan Daily, May 17, 1951 [PDF]

, 1951
Volume 39, Issue 143https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11563/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Aurora [PDF]

, 2016
This paper is in support of my artist-based thesis research entitled Aurora. My practice is interdisciplinary with a focus on installation and sculpture, consistently engaged in questions surrounding culturally inherited power structures and resulting ...

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Curator As Lead Artist [PDF]

, 2017
My thesis research methodology investigates the spaces between curatorial and artistic practices. More specifically, I am interested in the boundaries and slippages between these separately defined disciplines, and the potential that exists in testing ...

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‘Why Did You Go to Buda?’: The Humanist Sodality and Mantuan’s Rustic Idyll in Bohuslaus of Hassenstein’s Ecloga sive Idyllion Budae (1503)☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the late fifteenth century, the Hungarian royal court at Buda was home to a cosmopolitan community of humanists. In early modern historiography, this cultural milieu has often been interpreted as one of the new, emergent ‘centres’ of the Renaissance in East Central Europe.
Eva Plesnik
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Heliconia rostrata Lobster Claw

EDIS, 2007
This document provides an overview of the Heliconia rostrata, commonly known as lobster claw or false bird of paradise. It describes the plant’s physical characteristics, including its leathery, dark green leaves and striking scarlet and yellow bracts ...
Edward Gilman, Alan W. Meerow
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Achieving Quality: Consumer Involvement in Quality Evaluation of Services [PDF]

, 2003
[Excerpt] The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the fact that changes in the approach towards the “clients” or “consumers” of services for people with intellectual disability do have an important impact on the way the quality evaluation systems ...
Inclusion Europe
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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