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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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Between the ideal and the reality: The human body through the eyes of European artists [PDF]

, 2015
The human body has always been one of the most important subjects for European artists. But the way it is displayed in art has varied in different epochs.
WAŁEK, Janusz
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Harold Osborne (édit.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Art. New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1981. 656 + x p., 40 illus., 29,50$ (relié) [PDF]

, 1984
Elliott Moore
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
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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Self-Portraits and Photocopies: Anita Steckel’s Feminist Collage

Panorama, 2023
Rachel Middleman
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Exploring in a research-oriented art exhibition: PIONEERING: Chinese Artists Abroad in France and Chinese Modern Art (1911–1949) in a 360-degree panorama

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The art exhibition PIONEERING: Chinese Artists Abroad in France and Chinese Modern Art (1911–1949) held by the CAFA Art Museum in 2019 has been recognised as the largest-scale research exhibition on the ‘early twentieth-century study-abroad phenomenon ...
Yijiao Xu, Sarena Abdullah
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Beauty (Essay 8 of Seeing: When Art and Faith Intersect)

, 2002
Excerpt: Beauty as a concept has given twentieth century writers, especially art critics and art historians, a great deal of difficulty. Why is this so?Answering would take several volumes--! will settle for less.
Campbell, Douglas G.
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Editor's Introduction: I. Writing Modern Art and Science – An Overview; II. Cubism, Futurism, and Ether Physics in the Early Twentieth Century [PDF]

, 2004
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
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