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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
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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Book Review:\u3cem\u3ePilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan.
Prabhu, Joseph
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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
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Iconoclasm as a Subject of Visual Theology / Иконоборчество как предмет визуальной теологии

open access: yesВизуальная теология, 2021
The purpose of the research is analyzing philosophical and theological aspects of iconoclasm taking into account its various forms and secular analogies.
Alexander Pigalev / Александр Иванович Пигалев
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Lubetkin's Lenin Memorial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This conference paper summarised my recent research on the strange story of the Lenin Memorial erected in wartime London and destroyed shortly afterwards. It placed this episode within the wider context of iconoclasm and the destruction of public art.
Kerr, Joe
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Iconoclasm – A Road to Modernization?

open access: yesEuropean Review, 2022
My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed theology. Soon, however, mainstream Lutheranism took over and statues and pictures were reintroduced. The different views on images in
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Epistemology and Ontology in Family Therapy: A ‘Holding’ of Both

open access: yesJournal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Historia de dos monumentos: el ascenso del héroe, la caída de un villano y el olvido de Rodin

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2023
While Captain Arturo Prat was an early victim of the Pacific War (1879-1883), turning his defeat into a symbol of heroism, General Manuel Baquedano led the Chilean army to victory in that same war, turning his triumph into a ...
José de Nordenflycht
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 217-236, March 2026.
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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« My dear audacious Moore » : les poses de l’artiste décadent dans Confessions of a Young Man

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012
In George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man, published in 1886 at the beginning of Moore’s career, audacity, which is manifested both in the story and in the telling, verges on iconoclasm yet also appears as a pose.
Fabienne Gaspari
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