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Twentieth-Century Art From the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection.
Twentieth-century art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection Catalog of the exhibition held May 26 - September 1, 1969 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Text by William S.
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Music and figurative arts in the twentieth century
This book explore the relationship between music and figurative arts in the XX century. The relationship between music and the figurative arts during the twentieth century is encoded in the links that exist between various composers and artists (e.g ...
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ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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On The Road Reconsidered: Art, Identity, and the Highway
David Smucker
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘Das Problem der persischen Kunst‘, a translation edited with an introduction by Yuka Kadoi [PDF]
Among several publications written by the Vienna School of Art History professor Josef Strzygowski (1862 – 1941) during the first few decades of the twentieth century, “Das Problem der persischen Kunst” (1911), deserves a detailed art-historiographical ...
Josef Strzygowski, Yuka Kadoi
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5. Bessarabian in the Modern Engraving Constitution and Interference with its European Art
Runing the new century (XX) attests in Bessarabian art, the experience of several decades of professional artistic activity (the first Evening School of Drawing appears in Chisinau in 1887 and is due scholar Academy of Arts in St.
Saviţkaia-Baraghin Iarîna
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Mid-twentieth century radio art : The ontological insecurity of the radio text
In this article, I set out to examine the ontological instability of mid-twentieth century artistic works written for the medium of radio that derives from the tension between transient sound and permanent text.
Querido, Pedro
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