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The light screens and effectiveness in the interior space Islamic architecture

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2017
The slots are linked to the element of the light that is considered one of the intellectual constants affecting the philosophical to Muslim architecture The holes of the most important influences in the design of the mosques of the happy moments with ...
Mohamed Abdel Hafiz   +2 more
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Art History as Ekphrasis [PDF]

open access: yesArt History, 2010
This paper makes a case for the essentially rhetorical nature of the art-historical enterprise: description is the key act which both translates the object’s object-hood into words appropriable for art-historical argument and betrays that object-hood by making the object something other than it materially is, a word-picture.
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An Affective Art History

open access: yesTeksty Drugie, 2015
This paper presents the project of affective modern art history in Poland in the perspective of ethics and affirmative humanities. In respect to the specific situation of the post-war art history field in Poland the author addresses the following questions: What is affect? How can the category of affect be applied to studying works of art?
Benjamin Koschalka, Luiza Nader
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Minimization of space in the architecture of modern Japan

open access: yesПроект Байкал
In recent years, tiny apartment buildings and tea houses, capsule hotels, and micro-gardens have become increasingly popular in Japan, which suggests a vivid tendency to reduce space.
Нина Коновалова
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Integrative taxonomy reveals first record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae, Sicariidae) in the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal
The spider family Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880 represented by the synanthropic Mediterranean recluse spider, Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820), is reported in the Philippines for the first time, based on morphological and molecular data.
Aimee Lynn Barrion-Dupo   +9 more
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Perceptions and Controversies on Cholera in the Traditional Chinese Medicine Field in the Late Qing Dynasty

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture
. At the beginning of the initial cholera outbreak in China, Wang Qingren (王清任), after years of clinical trials, became an early representative who discovered the infectious characteristics and observed the course of cholera in the field of traditional ...
Shiqiang GUO   +3 more
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Experiments with Form: Deconstruction and Neoconstructivism in the Moscow Architecture of the 1990s-2000s [PDF]

open access: yesХудожественная культура
At the turn of the 20th — 21st centuries, Moscow architecture was dynamic, with different architects working simultaneously, embodying individual meanings in a variety of architectural form and materials.
Vyrva Arina
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From the Garden Ring to Mokhovaya street: author's searches in the 1990s–2000s Moscow architecture

open access: yesАрхитектон
The focus of this article is Moscow’s architectural objects of the 1990-2000s, stretching from the Garden Ring (Zubovsky, Smolensky and Novinsky Boulevards) to Mokhovaya Street along the border of Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street and Prechistenskaya Embankment
Vyrva Arina Yu.
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Chapter 6Beyond the Great Divide: New explorations in editing the Complete Works of Dutch Novelist Willem Frederik Hermans

open access: yesDigital Studies, 2016
Though the publication of the Complete works of Dutch novelist Willem Frederik Hermans (1992-1995) is a challenge in itself, nowadays the aim of the mere publishing of 24 printed volumes is far from enough.
Peter Kegel
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