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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 245-274, October 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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Prussian Blue: Chemistry, Commerce, and Colour in Eighteenth‐Century Paris
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 154-186, February 2023., 2023 This essay reconsiders the story of a pigment. Prussian blue, discovered at the beginning of the eighteenth century, is often described as a revolutionary colour that instantly transformed painters’ palettes and practices. Grounded in a ‘thick description’ of the pigment's history in Paris, this article challenges the legendary account of Prussian blue
Charlotte Guichard +2 more
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JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 6, Issue 1, January–December 2023., 2023 This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. Abstract This paper aims to clarify the formation process of the concept of “form” from the 1920s to the 1930s by chronologically tracing the creation of Perriand's furniture. That is, by
Shoichiro Sendai
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German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 21-42, January 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The essay examines the representation of relationships between children on the cusp of adulthood and their parents in dramas by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, Heinrich Leopold Wagner and Friedrich Müller (known as ‘Maler Müller’). It positions the Sturm und Drang in dialogue with the wider European Enlightenment, and especially with Rousseau's ...
Elystan Griffiths
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L’inférence dans les romans judiciaires d’Émile Gaboriau
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 77, Issue 6, Page 386-404, December 2022., 2022 Résumé L’injection de l’heuristique dans le romanesque est loin d’être un recours littéraire nouveau. Un certain nombre de romanciers (tels Voltaire, Balzac, Bernanos, Robbe‐Grillet ou Butor) ne se sont pas privés d’y toucher. Ceci dit, ce sont notamment les écrivains attitrés du genre policier qui s’y sont spécialisés.
Daniela Ventura
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Sweet Femininities: Women and the Confectionery Trade in Eighteenth‐Century Barcelona
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 574-589, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the intersections between sweetness, femininity and the confectionery trade in eighteenth‐century Barcelona, at a time of growing consumption of sugar and slavery. Drawing on a range of underexplored archival material, this study traces the stories of women of different social groups, namely, elite housewives, nuns and ...
Marta Manzanares Mileo
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5. CONTROVERSIAL CHRONOLOGIES: THE TEMPORAL DEMARCATION OF HISTORIC EVENTS
History and Theory, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 134-149, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT In everyday language and in historiography, influential events are commonly described as “historic” but are rarely defined from a theoretical standpoint. Discussing temporal demarcations of events by scholars—in particular William H. Sewell Jr.'s foundational study of the Storming of the Bastille—this article considers the contemporary urge to
ANNA KARLA
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Appareil, 2012 Plus qu’à la redéfinition de l’art, c’est à la réélaboration du concept de temps requise par la découverte des œuvres préhistoriques à partir de la fin du xixe siècle que cet article est consacré. Analysant la conception de l’histoire et du temps de deux
Audrey Rieber
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«The Family of Man»: réflexions autour des usages et de la patrimonialisation d’une exposition photographique controversée [PDF]
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2014 Between its inception in 1955 and his temporary disappearance in 1966, the photographic exhibition «The Family of Man» curated by Edward Steichen from images collected around the world has continued to attract a large audience.
Claude Dupuis
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Markt und Manipulation in der historischen Auktionshausliteratur
Tr@jectoires, 2016 Dans la littérature du 19e siècle sur l'hôtel des ventes de Paris, la fraude est un thème primordial. Des livres d’historiens et de critiques d'art comme Jules Champfleury, Victor-Charles Préseau et Henri Rochefort mettent en lien le trucage et l ...
Lukas Fuchsgruber
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