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Mutiler, tuer, désactiver les images en Égypte pharaonique
The Egyptian antiquities that have come down to us have often been severely mutilated. While the damage may be the result of natural and accidental causes, in very many cases the images show clear signs of intentional destruction.
Simon Connor
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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time
Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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Образ города в мозаиках базилики Рождества Христова в Вифлееме
Аниконическая иконография церковных соборов в виде архитектурных мотивов, которая представлена в мозаиках базилики Рождества Христова в Вифлееме 1169 г., встречается сравнительно редко.
Этингоф, Ольга Евгеньевна
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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On Christmas of the year 811, Emperor Michael I Rhangabe solemnly crowned his elder son Theophylact in the church of Hagia Sophia. On this occasion, he offered to the cathedral numerous precious gifts, among which was a set of four curtains embroidered ...
Piotr Grotowski
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Gesturing While Writing: An Alternate Perspective on Mimetic Prosody
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Paul Magee
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Epistemology and Ontology in Family Therapy: A ‘Holding’ of Both
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the changes brought to family therapy by the advent of postmodern philosophy. We examine the role of social constructionism in this context and distinguish its various versions based on their realist or anti‐realist perspectives.
Tasos Travasaros
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WEIGHING THE WORK OF LOVE: ON KATE DAVIS’S RE-VISIONED ICONOCLASM
This essay offers a close reading of recent work by Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis to argue that her practice engages iconoclasm in ways importantly modified by her feminist commitments.
Dominic Paterson
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?
Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
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ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
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