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Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Sixteenth‐Century Spanish Court☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 399-438, June 2023., 2023
Abstract This article charts the activities of featherworkers (plumajeros) at the Habsburg court in Madrid. Drawing on archival records, objects, and paintings from sixteenth‐century Spain, I argue that royal featherworkers' skills, wit, and intricacy in the transformation of materials established feathers as luxury items.
Stefan Hanß
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The Art of Assemblage at La Venta

Art History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 832-857, September 2022., 2022
How might the meaning of monumental sculpture be ephemeral? At La Venta, objects from greenstone figurines to massive basalt sculptures were recycled, reworked, and moved around the landscape, their new configurations and associations creating new kinds of meaning and enabling new kinds of ritual interaction.
Claudia Brittenham
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Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil's Northeast

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 101-122, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This article analyzes a popular, folkloric dance drama in the small city, Laranjeiras, a thriving slave port for its first three centuries. Lambe‐sujo e Caboclinho, dating to the 19th century, depicts the practice of missionized Indigenous people engaged to capture and return fugitive slaves.
Jan Hoffman French
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African Political Elites and the Making(s) of the China Model in Africa

Politics &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 5, Page 887-907, October 2020., 2020
States in Africa are labeled “system ineffectual,” inconsequential to global politics, and lacking material and ideational capabilities to structure their foreign relations. The result is a portrayal of a passive Africa at the whims of its bilateral partners—be they China, the United States, or Russia.
Obert Hodzi
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A Colonial‐Scientific Interface: The Construction, Viewing, and Circulation of Faces via a 1906 German Racial Atlas

American Anthropologist, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 327-341, June 2020., 2020
ABSTRACT Atlases of anthropometric portraits—a scientific genre that emerged during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the context of classical physical anthropology—invite readers to compare different races from all over the world. Concentrating on Bernard Hagen's Atlas of Heads and Faces of Asian and Melanesian People (1906), this article ...
Geertje Mak
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Anglo‐Spanish Enlightenment: Joseph Shepherd, an English ‘ilustrado' in Valladolid

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 43-60, March 2020., 2020
Abstract This article studies Joseph Shepherd and his role in Anglo‐Spanish cultural exchange in the last decades of the eighteenth century, at the dawn of Anglophilia in Spain. Though largely unknown, this Catholic recusant, established in Spain as rector of the Royal English College of St Alban in order to continue the training of English priests ...
Ana Sáez‐Hidalgo
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SinVergüenza

INDEX Revista de Arte Contemporáneo, 2018
Esta serie de retratos fotográficos comprende un registro en la SinVergüenza, espacio político que celebra la diferencia y la libertad a través de los afectos y la generación de un espacio seguro en las noches quiteñas.
Martina Avilés, Sofía Acosta, Anaís Córdova   +2 more
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Tácito, Ann., IV, I: el retrato de Elio Seyano

Nova Tellus, 2023
El libro IV de los Anales, considerado por Paratore como el libro fundamental en la economía y en el desarrollo de la historiografía taciteana, contiene, en su primer capítulo, el mejor retrato que Tácito dibujara para sus lectores, el de Elio Seyano ...
José Tapia Zúñiga
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(Auto)retratos poéticos na obra de Herberto Helder

2i Revista de Estudos de Identidade e Intermedialidade, 2019
O nosso objetivo é analisar uma série de retratos poéticos esboçados na obra do poeta português Herberto Helder. Partindo da importância do gênero artístico frequentemente evocado na obra, tentaremos mostrar como o retrato ultrapassa as referências ...
Daniel Rodrigues
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Retrato

Elyra, 2018
A facilidade do ato de fotografar, aliado às novas mídias e às redes sociais, povoa o cotidiano. A ideia é discutir sobre o papel da fotografia na representação do sujeito e na construção de sua imagem. Os trabalhos dos primeiros fotógrafos do Brasil e a transformação do gênero retrato na fotografia também são salientados nesse plano de aula.
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