Results 11 to 20 of about 225 (182)

Sleep and Dreams as Reflected by Science Fiction Literature and Films-Anything to Learn From? [PDF]

open access: yesJ Sleep Res
ABSTRACT Sleep and dreams are frequent themes in science fiction (Sci‐Fi) literature and films, often used to explore questions about consciousness, reality, technology and the human experience. Sci‐Fi authors and filmmakers utilise the enigmatic nature of sleep and dreams to blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, raising philosophical ...
Riemann D   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2017
The Hereford Screen is one of the most complex and intricate choir screens of the Victorian era. Positioned in the gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s main entrance, its glistening metalwork, brass, and terracotta effect surfaces, incrustations ...
Ayla Lepine
doaj   +1 more source

Les ivoires gothiques : foisonnement et renouveau des études

open access: yesPerspective, 2017
Since the 1970s, the study of Gothic ivories has undergone a genuine revival that has further flourished in recent years, thanks in particular to the Courtauld Institute of Art online database containing more than five thousand pieces.
Michele Tomasi
doaj   +1 more source

Decheng, Beitang and Tushanwan Cloisonné Workshops: A New Contribution on Chinese Christian Art

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Recent research has played a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of cloisonné enamel production in China during the 19th and 20th centuries. However, Christian workshops, whether operating under missionary subcontracting or owned by the Catholic ...
Manuel Parada López de Corselas
doaj   +1 more source

Medieval Stained Glass and the Victorian Restorer

open access: yes19, 2020
The recovery of the ‘true principles’ of stained glass as an integral part of the Gothic Revival of the nineteenth century grew out of a complex relationship between restoration, reinvention, and startling creativity. The tensions between craft, commerce,
Sarah Brown
doaj   +2 more sources

POLITICAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE GOTHIC AND THE ARTHURIAN REVIVAL

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
The article focuses on the existence of The Gothic revival and The Arthurian revival in Victorian England. Оn the basis of Russian and English-language historiography the author makes a conclusion that The Arthurian revival, prepared by The Gothic ...
E. M. Kiryukhina
doaj   +2 more sources

Snippets from the north: Architects in Durban and their response to identity, common culture and resistance in the 1930s

open access: yesVitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability, 2019
Previously colonized by both Holland and Britain, South Africans have always borrowed; many taking aesthetic clues from memories of ‘home’. Applied seemingly irrelevantly, these ‘clues’ often border on the pastiche.
Debbie Whelan
doaj   +1 more source

Gotyk polski?

open access: yesPoliteja, 2019
Polish Gothic? Establishing Real and Imaginary Boundaries through Architecture in the II Half of the 19th Century Intensive development of national identities is a characteristic feature of the 19th century European science, culture and politics.
Jan Nowicki
doaj   +1 more source

Vitrine-Gothic: A Secular Revival Of The Gothic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
<p><b>Gothic for a time was the architectural style that represented all of Western civilization, in subsequent centuries it has been reasserted as the Western style in periods of cultural, national, and religious revivals. The thesis identifies the current societal conditions as conducive to potentially another such revival, this is the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Une restauration « spectaculaire »

open access: yesCeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, 2010
This article replaces the restoration of a Madonna and Child by Joseph Van der Vecken within the context of a period.Documented by the patron, the intervention did not meet his expectations and resulted in a de-restoration.
Véronique van Caloen   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy