Gettysburg: A Town Built on Tourism
, 2014 In my most recent blog posts, I’ve adopted a rather unforgiving stance on the rampant consumerism that pervades the town of Gettysburg. Essentially, I have argued that the borough’s tacky gift shops sell odious little trinkets to gullible tourists and ...
Lavery, Kevin P.
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The First World War between Memory and History: A Conference Retrospective [PDF]
, 2012 Long after the guns of the First World War went silent on 11 November 1918, the war continues to spark debate. The many points of contention were on full display at the “From Memory to History” conference, hosted by Western University in London, Ontario,
Schultz, Christopher, Weier, Jonathan
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Kitsch as Experience of the World
ESPESThe term ‘kitsch’, widely laden with negative connotations, has often been used to designate worthless art, synonymous with artistic failure. However, there is something in kitsch that, beyond its apparent poor quality, distinguishes it from other art ...
Darío Hernández Guerra
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Mean Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Is a Sufficient Conventional Diffusion-weighted MRI Metric to Improve Breast MRI Diagnostic Performance: Results from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group A6702 Diffusion Imaging Trial. [PDF]
Radiology, 2021 McDonald ES +22 more
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El kitsch como narrativa identitaria. La transfiguración de los valores como marco de reflexión educativa [PDF]
, 2014 El artículo plantea un recorrido por algunas de las visiones más críticas que hasta ahora se le han otorgado al kitsch. Se cuestionan parte de estos planteamientos proponiendo una visión alternativa del kitsch, vinculada con la experiencia estética, como
Ramón Camps, Ricard
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North and South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’s 150th
, 2013 Sometimes the best special collections are right in your own backyard. Not the ones that come to you from a retiring professor, local collector, or estate settlement, but the ones that you put together yourself.
Wagner, Robin
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Public policy (not the coronavirus) should shape what endemic means. [PDF]
J Glob Health, 2022 Mendoza RU +5 more
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Decorative aspects of reality with reference to sociological painting [PDF]
, 1974 The writer could not blame the reader for finding the title to this essay couched in somewhat academic terms. It must be said immediately that the title is a fake -- or that the following essay is a fake; the title has pretensions to the academic -- the ...
Clark, Dorothy
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Співвіднесення кітчевого та високого у мистецтві плакату (The combination of kitsch and sublime in art of poster.) [PDF]
, 2012 В статті проаналізовано особливості поєднання кітчевого та високого у мистецтві радянського плакату. Досліджуючи це поняття можна дійти висновку, що плакат бере безпосередню участь у формуванні світогляду суспільства Радянського Союзу.
Коваленко , Л. (L. Kovalenko)
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