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The Burden of History: Kirkjubæjarklaustur and the Biography of Landscape
The importance of landscape has long been recognized within monastic studies, both as an economic and spiritual resource. This paper focuses on the surrounding landscape of a single monastic site, that is Kirkjubæjarklaustur on Síða (south Iceland), one ...
Sigrún Hannesdóttir
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The supervision of water systems in many countries is centralised and taken over from local water management collectives of ‘water workers’ by governmental or other water management institutions.
Inge Bobbink, Suzanne Loen
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Le paysage, forme biographique
1. Landscape, a descriptive genre, is not specific to European culture. There are beautiful examples in Chinese painting of landscapes with an (auto)biographical content. 2.
Jean-François Chevrier
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This article presents a combination of landscape biography and stratigraphy as a method for the visualisation of historical landscape change. The main goal was to analyse the evolution of the cultural landscape of part of the Ogrodzieniec municipality –
Urszula Myga-Piątek +1 more
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This article focuses on two methods employed in the selection, interpretation, and representation of diverse source materials for developing alternative biographies for my ancestral landscape - Nanhai district in the Pearl River Delta in southern China.
Hong Wan Chan
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This article offers a first analysis of the question of time in the work of some of the Italian photographers who contributed to the seminal exhibition and publication Viaggio in Italia (1984).
Antonello Frongia
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Landscape in the creative work of Vasily Perepletchikov
The purpose of this article is to reveal the creative biography of Vasily Vasilyevich Perepletchikov as an landscape lyricist. The article analyzes the difficult creative path of the artist, who was generously gifted in various fields of fine art ...
Filippova, O.N.
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Maria Glazovskaya—A Pioneer Soil Scientist and Geochemist Ahead of her Time (1912–2016)
In the USSR and in Russia, women predominated among soil scientists despite the problems related to field research in tundra, taiga, mountains and other severe environments.
Maria Gerasimova, Maria Gerasimova
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Muriel Rukeyser’s “Campaign” and the Spectacular Documentary Poetics of the Whistle Stop Tour
This article examines how documentary poetics—particularly as employed by Muriel Rukeyser—use a montage of images to form a visual landscape. This visual landscape is wielded effectively by politicians during the Whistle Stop Tour electioneering.
Michael Anthony Smith
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A monograph devoted to the life and work of the outstanding landscape architect Leonid Ivanovich Rubtsov has been recently published. The book provides information about the projects developed and implemented by professor Rubtsov, as well as the main ...
Yurii Klymenko
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