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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo +2 more
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Iconography of the Labour Movement. Part 2: Socialist Iconography, 1848–1952
ICO Iconographisk Post, 2020 This is Part 2 of a two-part study which aims at preliminary conclusions regarding the iconography of the international labour movement. Earlier research in the fields of social history, art history and visual rhetorics has been consulted for this ...
Fred Andersson
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Искусство Евразии, 2020 This article is about the the meanings and iconography of Padma as a red lotus, Vajrayana deity, yogini, a Auspicious Emblem, one of the Eight Nagas (snakes), one of the incarnations of Avalokiteshvara. Famous images from Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian and
Chandra, L., Belokurova, S.M.
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Information and affective valence influence judgments of complexity, liking and understanding
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also influenced by familiarity and expertise. We examined how people represent visual complexity and its impact on perception and evaluation, focusing ...
Xiaolei Sun +3 more
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Orthodox Cosmology and Cosmography
Eikón Imago, 2014 Orthodox iconography is focused on the idea of representing the cosmos, the essence of God’s creatio ex nihilo, thus serving as a visual cosmology and thence - as a cosmography of all being. Icons depict the image of the archetypal world in its integrity,
Rotislava Todorova
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
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Images du Travail, Travail des ImagesIn Canada, Indigenous peoples represent a distinct minority that has been the target of policies of cultural assimilation and discrimination. Today, these Peoples, victims of considerable cultural loss, unite in common movements in which they exhibit a ...
Elisa Tripotin
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The shifting iconography of drinking horns in the Western Grassfields, Cameroon
Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 This paper examines the shifting iconography and iconology of the buffalo and cow horn drinking cup in the western Grassfields of Cameroon. It highlights the extraordinary creativity of how cow horn drinking cups have provided young people who were ...
Mathias Fubah Alubafi, Molemo Ramphalile
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The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere +2 more
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Capturing light in Late Antique Ravenna a new interpretation of the archbishops’ chapel [PDF]
Zograf, 2013 Analysing the cultural context in which the archbishops’ chapel in Ravenna was built, the article proposes a new interpretation of the structure. Designed in a period when the Catholic Church and the Arian court were clashing, and displaying ...
Ivanovici Vladimir
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