Sally Foster with Siân Jones (design and original artwork by Christina Unwin), My Life as a Replica: St John's Cross, Iona

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-95
Author(s):  
Aonghus Mackechnie
Keyword(s):  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Pieke

Art history has its own demands for recording visual representations. Objectivity and authenticity are the twin pillars of recording artistic data. As such, techniques relevant to epigraphic study, such as making line drawings, may not always be the best approach to an art historical study, which addresses, for example, questions about natural context and materiality of the artwork, the semantic, syntactic, and chronological relation between image and text, work procedures, work zones, and workshop traditions, and interactions with formal structures and beholders. Issues critical to collecting data for an art historical analysis include recording all relevant information without overcrowding the data set, creating neutral (i.e., not subjective) photographic images, collecting accurate color data, and, most critically, firsthand empirical study of the original artwork. A call for greater communication in Egyptology between epigraphy/palaeography and art history is reinforced by drawing attention to images as tools of communication and the close connection between the written word and figural art in ancient Egypt.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (4) ◽  
pp. R955-R955
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
A. K. Mircheff ◽  
C. B. Hensley ◽  
C. E. Magyar ◽  
D. G. Warnock ◽  
...  

Pages F1004–F1014: Y. Zhang, A. K. Mircheff, C. B. Hensley, C. E. Magyar, D. G. Warnock, R. Chambrey, K.-P. Yip, D. J. Marsh, N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou, and A. A. McDonough. “Rapid redistribution and inhibition of renal sodium transporters during acute pressure natriuresis.” The immunoblot panels in Figures 2 and 5–7 were inadvertently printed from low-resolution copies of the original artwork; in addition, the panels in Fig. 6 were incorrectly labeled. The correct figures are reproduced on the following pages. (See PDF)


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Bratu ◽  
Monk Siluan ◽  
C. Măruţoiu ◽  
I. Kacso ◽  
S. Garabagiu ◽  
...  

Part of an indestructible component of any orthodox church, the Imperial Gates represent an important symbol in our cultural heritage. But in many cases the Imperial Gates from the wooden churches were damaged. In order to preserve and restore them, the scientific investigations of the Imperial Gate belonging to Nicula Monastery wooden church were performed by employing nondestructive and destructive methods. The wood essence was established, with its “health” status being investigated by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectroscopy and DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) thermal analysis. The painting materials employed by popular artists were determined by FTIR and XRF (X-ray fluorescence) spectroscopy as gypsum, calcite (rear background), lead white (Archangel Clothes), lead-minium (Archangel Clothes, leaf), iron oxide (Imperial Gate frame), malachite (green), Prussian blue (blue), orpiment (yellow), aliphatic, ester, and protein (probably egg yolk degradation products). Using similar colors as in the original artwork (resulting from the scientific investigation of the pigments) a 3D reconstruction has been performed. The restored Imperial Gates are placed in the old Nicula wooden church, being included into a tourist and religious circuit.


Author(s):  
Georgina Colby

This chapter explores the significance of the archive to a reading of avant-garde writing, taking the work of Kathy Acker as a case study. Utilising a framework of genetic criticism, the chapter explores the relation between the avant-texte and an avant-garde politics of materiality. Examining Acker’s original artwork for Blood and Guts in High School (1978) housed in the Kathy Acker Papers at Duke University, the chapter contends that the avant-textes reveal a feminist politics of materiality at work in Acker’s compositions. Through the lens of Johanna Drucker’s work on diagrammatic writing and performative materiality, the chapter argues for the avant-texte as a site of socio-political material resistance. The diagrammatic in Acker’s work demands new reading practices commensurate with this resistance.


2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 272-277
Author(s):  
Diego Mellado Martínez ◽  
Lino García Morales

This paper describes the study case of the conservation of a new media artwork, Cannula, by Daniel Canogar (2016). This artwork combines and distorts videos downloaded from YouTube in order to create an oil-like live painting. Main new media conservation strategies are first introduced and discussed. Following, “re-creation” is presented as the best option to deal with the conservation of the elements that compose the artwork, such as its hardware –display, computer- and its software –custom made applications that combine and distort videos-. This paper focuses on a key element to the artwork that cannot be conserved by any of the exposed means: the Internet. YouTube is used to provide the videos to be used. If the service is not reachable –the connection is lost or YouTube is no longer available- the artwork will cease to exist as the artists conceived it. Storing in the memory of the computer the contents previously used provide a mean to re-use them if needed. In that case, the artwork will no longer be such –according to the artists, the live connection to the Internet defines the artwork- but a “demonstration”. A self-documentation state defined as “demo”, which, according to the authors, represents the closest possible experience to the original artwork.


2020 ◽  
pp. 32-58
Author(s):  
Robert Brenneman ◽  
Brian J. Miller

In four case studies of congregations in Guatemala, this chapter introduces and discusses the concept of building energy: the emotional energy that groups experience when undertaking a building project. In a country with an increasing number of congregations, it discusses: a Seventh-day Adventist congregation pooling their resources to purchase land and construct a cement-block church; a Pentecostal congregation that constructed a corrugated steel building on rented land but outfitted it with white ceramic tile floor, original artwork, and an impressive PA system; a Catholic church in an indigenous town that worked through conflict to construct a new sanctuary with the help of the community; and a non-denominational church that chose to design and build a structure themselves, using the project as a means of providing work and architectural apprenticeship for its young adults. Across the cases, the building projects brought church and/or community members together, even though the projects often revealed tensions over congregational identity.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (1) ◽  
pp. F242-F242
Author(s):  
Y. Zhang ◽  
A. K. Mircheff ◽  
C. B. Hensley ◽  
C. E. Magyar ◽  
D. G. Warnock ◽  
...  

Pages F1004'F1014: Y. Zhang, A. K. Mircheff, C. B. Hensley, C. E. Magyar, D. G. Warnock, R. Chambrey, K.-P. Yip, D. J. Marsh, N.-H. Holstein-Rathlou, and A. A. McDonough. “Rapid redistribution and inhibition of renal sodium transporters during acute pressure natriuresis.” The immunoblot panels in Figures 2 and 5–7 were inadvertently printed from low-resolution copies of the original artwork; in addition, the panels in Fig. 6 were incorrectly labeled. The correct figures are reproduced on the following pages. (See PDF)


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