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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History, EarlyView.Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
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A New Insight into the Iconography of the Civitas Classis Mosaic at Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna
Journal of Mosaic Research, 2018 Ravenna boasts a high number of mosaics dating from the Late Antique period. Scholars have often considered these artworks in isolation, often within historical and topographic studies, and only from a very limited symbolic and iconographic perspective ...
Federico UGOLINI
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Specular suffering: (staging) the body in pain [PDF]
, 2008 For the abstract see the PDF ...
Richards, M
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Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic [PDF]
, 2000 Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context.
Tanner, J
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Minou Schraven, Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration (Farnham and Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2014), xviii + 320 pp., 13 tables, 51 b/w illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-7546-6524-3. Price £70 (hardback) [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Richards, John
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The iconography of Asphyxiophilia: From fantasmatic fetish to forensic fact [PDF]
, 2004 This is a post print version of the article.
Dany Nobus +10 more
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Theorizing White Ignorance From Du Bois to Mills: Narrative and Consumptive Innocence
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting with Du Bois, scholars of race have investigated the role of White ignorance as it perpetuates White supremacy. Today, Charles Mills and scholars continue this inquiry by expanding the importance of White ignorance to include multiple forms. This article contributes to this inquiry by highlighting the role and types of White innocence.
Miguel Montalva Barba, Camille Petersen
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Shrines of Goa: Iconographic Formation and Popular Appeal
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2018 Religious shrines in Goa (India), both Hindu and Catholic, are marked by notable differences. Shrines in temples and churches are distinguished from wayside shrines by their formalized iconography and elite patronization.
Alexander Henn
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