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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 News of Carter’s discovery in the Valley of Kings was first transmitted by magazines and daily papers in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in late 1922, but the finds from Tutankhamun’s tomb continued to draw the public’s attention in the ...
Siniša Lekić
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2023 This paper argues that what advocates of the ontological turn refer to as the question of ontology cannot be understood without taking ideology into account. Enki Bilal’s comic book The Nikopol Trilogy (1980–1992) and the movie Immortel, ad vitam (2004)
Uroš Matić
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Transhistorical Dialogue Concerning Images: Baltrušaitis and Kircher
Meno Istorija ir Kritika, 2020 The article explores the works of Jurgis Baltrušaitis on depraved perspectives. In particular, it examines his references to Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in the books dedicated to anamorphoses, aberrations, Egyptomania and distorting mirror’s ...
Žukauskienė Odeta
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Bibliothecae.it, 2020 The rediscovery of the ancient Egyptian civilization is a distinctive feature of humanistic culture. This Egyptomania, which extends also to the seventeenth and the subsequent centuries, is well documented in early printed books and focuses on two ...
Antonella Brunelli
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“Is Cleopatra Black?”: Examining Whiteness and the American New Woman
Humanities, 2021 In the 1920s and 1930s, conceptions of the “New Woman” and Egyptomania shaped American culture. Employing methods of critical race art history and material culture studies, I focus on a 1925 Callot Soeurs dress and silk pajamas (c.
Angelica J. Maier
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Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2022 The University of Warsaw has a collection of ancient Egyptian objects, including four human mummies (200334 MNW, 236805/3 MNW, 236806 MNW, along with the mummy remains under two numbers KMS St. 0089 and KMS St. 0096 from the coffin 236804 MNW).
Wojciech Ejsmond, Marzena Ożarek-Szilke
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Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2020 Entre rêverie et authenticité – une immersion dans l’Égypte Ancienne avec le peintre Stefan Bakałowicz This article consists of a study of two Egyptian paintings of the Russian-Polish painter Stefan Bakalowicz (1857-1947). The study seeks to establish
Valentin Boyer
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Excavating the Modern Self: Haggard’s Egyptological Romances
E-REA, 2020 Henry Rider Haggard’s Egyptomania took many shapes, from regular journeys to Egypt to extensive collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts. This article looks more particularly at Haggard’s representation of ancient Egypt in his literary works and at the ...
Nolwenn CORRIOU
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Ancient Egypt in our Cultural Heritage?
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016 Inspiration derived from ancient Egypt is usually expressed through the Egyptian motifs in arts and popular culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as through the non-scientific interpretations of the culture, very much based upon the Renaissance
Vera Vasiljević
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In Situ, 2016 As a result of their necessary modernisation, old chemists’ shops are a particuluraly threated sector of the private, commercial heritage. The Gros Pharmacy in Clermont-Ferrand designed in 1921; was famous all around the world for its exterior decor and ...
Jean-Marcel Humbert
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