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Sleep and Dreams as Reflected by Science Fiction Literature and Films-Anything to Learn From? [PDF]
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 ...
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Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen
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
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Les ivoires gothiques : foisonnement et renouveau des études
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
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Decheng, Beitang and Tushanwan Cloisonné Workshops: A New Contribution on Chinese Christian Art
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
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Medieval Stained Glass and the Victorian Restorer
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
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POLITICAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE GOTHIC AND THE ARTHURIAN REVIVAL
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
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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
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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
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Vitrine-Gothic: A Secular Revival Of The Gothic [PDF]
<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 ...
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Une restauration « spectaculaire »
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
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