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In the midst of great kings: the monumentalization of text in the Iron Age Levant
Manuscript and Text Cultures, 2022 The Bar-Rakib Palace Inscriptions from Zincirli have received relatively little attention from philologists and archaeologists alike because of their predictable and derivative content.
Timothy Hogue
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Smashing Monuments as a Counter-Monument
Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, 2023 Critical analysis of Sebastián Díaz Morales’ “Smashing Monuments” presented within documenta fifteen.
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Science, 2020 Next week marks the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall's arrival in what is now Tanzania's Gombe National Park to study wild chimpanzees.* Although her story is a familiar one to many scientists, it has taken on a new importance in this era when climate change, racism, and a rapidly spreading coronavirus ravage the globe.
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‘Not Months but Moments’: Ephemerality, Monumentality, and the Pavilion in Ruins [PDF]
The Open Arts Journal, 2014 This article examines a fundamental tension between ephemerality and monumentality in the history of pavilion architecture. Descended from the ancient tent, the pavilion was taken up by European landscape architecture in the eighteenth century ...
Ihor Junyk
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NON-COMMEMORATION AND THE NATION: MEMORY AND FORGETTING IN THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA [PDF]
University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022 The concepts of monumentality and collective memory have not been neglected by discourses concerning national identity. However, insights favouring forgetting and counter-memory are considerably new approaches reconstructing identities and redressing ...
Alysse Kushinski
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Beyond the aestheticization of modern ruins: the case of Incompiuto Siciliano [PDF]
, 2016 The modern Italian landscape includes a large number of public construction projects begun over the past 50 years but abandoned before completion—a testament to the misuse of public funds through political corruption and the influence of the Mafia. Since
Arboleda, Pablo
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Paolo Soleri and Arcology: An Analytical Comparison to Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn [PDF]
, 2018 The city proposals of Paolo Soleri, he called them arcologies, are monumental and complex geometric megastructures intended to project great heights above desert horizons. These proposals purposefully abandon conventional notions of the city.
Millard, Henry
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Hierarchical Structure and Fabrication of Functionally Graded Biointerfaces in the Mussel Byssus
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.The byssus is a fibrous protein‐based holdfast consisting of mechanically distinct interfaces, which mussels use to anchor their soft living tissue to hard seashore surfaces. Here, multiscale methodologies were used to elucidate the compositional and structural features underlying these functionally graded interfaces and how they are fabricated through
Lucia Youssef +4 more
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La monumentalità vegetale sotto la lente del legislatore
Aestimum, 2021 Is there any form of legal protection for plant monumentality? This work envisages an excursus on the interventions made by the Italian legislator on this subject, highlighting the close connection between nature and culture emerging from the regulatory ...
Nicoletta Ferrucci
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