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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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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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Mary Gartside: A female colour theorist in Georgian England [PDF]
, 2010 The aim of this paper was to evaluate the work of Mary Gartside, a British female flower painter, art teacher and colour theorist, active in London between 1781 and 1809.
Loske, Alexandra
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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On The Road Reconsidered: Art, Identity, and the Highway
Panorama, 2023 David Smucker
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5. Bessarabian in the Modern Engraving Constitution and Interference with its European Art
Review of Artistic Education, 2016 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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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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Focus on the Physics of Cancer
, 2015 Despite the spectacular achievements of molecular biology in the second half of the twentieth century and the crucial advances it permitted in cancer research, the fight against cancer has brought some disillusions.
Risler, Thomas
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Art History in Remote Aboriginal Art Centres [PDF]
, 2013 The 2008 Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art in Melbourne suggested in its theme of 'Crossing Cultures' that art history must revise its nationalistic methodologies to construct more international histories of art.
Jorgensen, Darren
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