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A Wider View: Amie Siegel's Panorama and the Role of Contemporary Art in Natural History Museum Critique and Practice

open access: yesCurator: 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
wiley   +1 more source

Orthodox Cosmology and Cosmography

open access: yesEikón 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
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Representations of Gender and Computing in Consumer and Professional Magazines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Studies in the nineteen-eighties showed that advertising images of computers were gendered, with women relatively less represented, and shown with less empowered roles, problems or presented as sexual objects.
Alexander   +32 more
core   +1 more source

The Meaning of Obedience in a Time of Authoritarianism: Ethics of Care in and beyond the Military

open access: yesDialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In my book, On Obedience, Contrasting Philosophies for Military, Community and Citizenry, I anticipated emerging and different problems of authority and the nature/character of obedience in military and civic cultures. My anticipations proved to be correct, and more urgent questions have emerged.
Pauline Shanks Kaurin
wiley   +1 more source

A New Insight into the Iconography of the Civitas Classis Mosaic at Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
core   +3 more sources

How Undergraduate Students Perceive Postgraduate Training and Continuing Education: A French Survey

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The practice of Continuing Dental Education (CDE) serves as a fundamental requirement for lifelong learning but there is limited knowledge about how dental students handle CDE during their final educational period. This study examined how final‐year French dental students perceive CDE through their expectations, motivation and ...
Margot Queney   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Convergence of Slobozhanska Iconography in the Discourse of Western European Baroque

open access: yesEikón Imago
Based on the analysis, generalization and systematization of documents, some well-known to researchers and others not so much investigated, this article studies the influence of Western European Baroque art on the iconography of the region of ...
Tetyanа Volodymyrivna Panyok
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring drivers and costs of partial trans‐Saharan migration in juvenile vultures

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
Partial migration occurs when only a subset of individuals within a population undertakes a migratory journey. The decision to migrate can be influenced by intrinsic traits (e.g. sex or physical condition) as well as by extrinsic factors (e.g. social environment or resource availability).
Eneko Arrondo   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

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