Oggetti persistenti. La somiglianza a posteriori nelle icone del design
Design has made everyday artifacts less and less anonymous, first recognizing their authorship and then providing them with a title and a name. Some of these artifacts have started to live a "cultural life" of their own, so much so that they are ...
Anna Riboldi, Salvatore Zingale
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Our Place in New Zealand Culture: How the Museum of New Zealand Constructs Biculturalism [PDF]
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa opened in 1998 amidst controversy but has been a huge popular success and has become an icon of national identity.
Goldsmith, Michael
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The Local and the Global: Hokusai's Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design [PDF]
This article examines the impact and significance of Hokusai’s so-called The Great Wave in contemporary product promotion and design. Arguably Japan’s first global brand, this influential 19th-century woodcut has been widely adopted to style and ...
Guth, Christine
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Overlooked jaguar guardians: Indigenous territories and range-wide conservation of a cultural icon. [PDF]
Figel JJ +3 more
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History of mathematics and history of science [PDF]
This essay argues that the diversity of the history of mathematics community in the United Kingdom has influenced the development of the subject and is a significant factor behind the different concerns often evident in work on the history of mathematics
Mann, Tony
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An introduction to Elinor Glyn : her life and legacy [PDF]
This special issue of Women: A Cultural Review re-evaluates an author who was once a household name, beloved by readers of romance, and whose films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas.
Alexis Weedon +19 more
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MAKNA “CANTIK†DARI SEBUAH BARBIE: ANTARA “IKON†GAYA HIDUP DAN KOMODITAS
Barbie, a doll that first time exists in America at 1959, has become a lifestyle icon that represents beauty. Barbie act as cultural icon that able to fill a niche that replace religious symbols as cross or saints statue, especially at secular country ...
Aris Saefulloh
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Editorialising practices, competitive marketablility and James Thomson's 'The seasons' [PDF]
The lapse of Andrew Millar's copyright for James Thomson's The Seasons in 1765 resulted in an increasing number of new editions of the poem being published in the late eighteenth century.
Van De Walle, Kwinten
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Winston Peters “Puts His Hand to the Plow”: The Bible in New Zealand Political Discourse [PDF]
This article examines the charismatic New Zealand politician Winston Peters’ sparse use of the Bible as a case study in the propagation of the “Cultural” and “Liberal” Bibles across the relatively irreligious landscape of New Zealand’s political ...
Robert Myles
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'The enigmatic but unique nature of the Israeli legal system' [PDF]
The Israeli legal system is unique in that it straddles the two otherwise opposing worlds of tradition and innovation. This creates an enigma for the comparatist, making the exploration of this system an onerous and challenging task. The author wishes to
Platsas, Antonios E.
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