THE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF WOMEN WORKERS IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS: A HISTORICAL SURVEY FROM THE DISTANT PAST TO THE EARLY DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Alice Irma Prather-MosesTHE BOOK OF GODDESSES AND HEROINES. Patricia Monaghan

Author(s):  
Marcia R. Collins
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Kalkstein

Photography portfolios—published sets of loose photographs housed in a folder or box—have been produced continuously since at least the 1850s, but have rarely received serious critical attention as a distinct format. This thesis focuses on mid-twentieth-century limited edition portfolios and argues that they were informed by, and have contributed to, developments in photography more broadly. It provides a historical survey of the photography portfolio; considers its material, expressive, and commercial qualities, particularly in comparison to the photography book; and presents five case studies comprising eight portfolios produced between 1940 and 1972: Paul Strand’s Photographs of Mexico (1940) and The Mexican Portfolio (1967); Ansel Adams’s Portfolio One (1948); Berenice Abbott’s 20 Photographs by Eugène Atget 1856–1927 (1956); Lee Friedlander and Jim Dine’s Photographs & Etchings (1969); and Les Krims’s The Deerslayers, The Little People of America 1971, and The Incredible Case of the Stack O’Wheats Murders (1972).


2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Peter Hicks

The article provides a rapid survey of concepts of human personhood over the last two and a half millennia, focussing particularly on the issue of dualism. It illustrates the variety of concepts of personhood, and the variety of types of dualism. The main thinkers touched on are the Presocratics, Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume and Kant, with a brief final section on developments in twentieth century psychology.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto

Abstract This article provides a preliminary historical survey of Brazilian biological anthropology from the second half of the twentieth century. Even today, little historiographic information on the last 50 or 60 years is available and/or has been explored, while few allusions to bioanthropology can be found in existing works on the history and contemporary state of anthropology in Brazil; this article attempts to span this gap. The first section examines various aspects of the general development of biological anthropology as it radiated from the centers (Europe and the United States) outward over time. This initial survey affords a clearer understanding of the Brazilian case, which is the topic of the second section. This is followed by a brief historical and bibliographic account of the most recent state of biological anthropology in the country, including a number of specialized areas of research. The article concludes with a short discussion of the material covered.


1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1169-1178 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIKULÁš TEICH

Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: the diplomacy of Edvard Beneš in the 1930s. By I. Lukes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+318. ISBN 0-1951-0267-3. £22.50.Carpatho–Ukraine in the twentieth century: a political and legal history. By V. Shandor. Cambridge, MA: distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 1998. Pp. xvii+321. ISBN 0-9164A-5886-5. £21.95.Czechoslovak national interests, Part I: A historical survey of Czechoslovak national interests, Part II: Reflections on the demise of Czechoslovak communism. By Oskar Krejčí. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. Pp. 193, 167. ISBN 0-8803-3343-X. £31.00


Early China ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 163-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Lan-Ying Tseng

No decorative arts in China have aroused as intense modern academic interest as the TLV mirror that was mass-produced in the Han dynasty. Scholars from different fields have strived to rival one another in identifying its obscure design since the beginning of the twentieth century. With new evidence, particularly a mirror and a wooden board unearthed in 1993 at Yinwan, it is time to settle and set aside the old disputation about identification, and to move on to the intellectual adventure of the cultural significance of the TLV mirror in Han China. This paper first considers the complex of art, game and divination. It then discusses how the TLV mirror can serve a cultural sign that demonstrates the “auspicious mentality” of the Han. It also considers how the formal variants of the TLV mirror illustrate the life of a cultural sign.


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