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<i>Ut sophistes pictor</i>: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics
Published 2023-07-01“…This essay provides an introduction to the question of the contribution of the ancient sophists to aesthetics in Western art. It commences by examining the persistent analogies to visual arts in negative and positive discussions of sophistry, both philosophical and rhetorical, and proceeds to examine sophistic rhetoric in Gorgias, Aristides, Lucian, Philostratus and Byzantine <i>ekphrasis</i>, culminating with Philostratus’ discussions of mimesis and <i>phantasia</i> in <i>Apollonius of Tyana</i>. …”
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Artistic healing of post-disaster people through fibre art
Published 2023-01-01“…Fibre art, as a branch of art, has its origins in the ancient Western art of tapestry, but in the course of its development it has fused the best traditional textile cultures of the world and incorporated modern art concepts, making it an older and younger art form than other art forms, and a more positive exploration of the value of art for the psychological healing of people in post-disaster situations. …”
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Art historiography and Bild-wissenschaft: new perspectives on some objects by the Venda sculptor, Phutuma Seoka
Published 2012-01-01“… It is argued that the apparatus of western art history has been sharpened by the current media consciousness. …”
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The Study of Men’s Clothing Decorations in Qajar Era
Published 2016-02-01“…Altogethers under the influnec of western art, the art in Qajar era underwent evolution in terms of design and pro-duction. …”
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Pop goes the Pope: religion and popular music in Italy
Published 2021-07-01“…The advent of Christianity marked a sensible change in the way music was used, pioneering the very idea of listening as absolute, later extended to Western art music. The spread of popular music in the twentieth century impacted on religion too and the Christian world was particularly affected from the Second Vatican Council on, both within liturgy and in secular activities. …”
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Women’s image and role in art: from Medieval virtuous mystics to today’s Advertising perverse figures
Published 2021-11-01“…Secondly, we have a brief look at modern western art, based on the heritage of medieval art, that carries on even further the stereotyped image of women, systematically objectifying them. …”
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The Sources of the Psychology of Art and Its Place among the Disciplines That Study Art and Creativity
Published 2022-09-01“…The goal of this article is to analyze, on the basis of today’s research strategies and the sources that deal with the psychology of Western art during the 20th century, the emerging field of the psychology of art and of its component, the psychology of the creative process, in different national traditions and in various fields of the humanities (aesthetics, the philosophy of art, experimental and general psychology, physiology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, art history). …”
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Art historiography and Bild-wissenschaft: new perspectives on some objects by the Venda sculptor, Phutuma Seoka
Published 2012-01-01“… It is argued that the apparatus of western art history has been sharpened by the current media consciousness. …”
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Visual thought in modern orthodoxy: Art history as theology
Published 2023-06-01“…I will show that in Russia one of the most basic terms in Western art history, i.e., perspective, was thoroughly reworked, even turned on its head as suggested by the terminology, in order to serve a project of modern Orthodoxy. …”
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The Rediscovery of Japan: The Critical Reception of Japanese Architecture in Portugal after the Opening of Japan to the West
Published 2023-01-01“…This opening up allowed for contact with Japanese art, including architecture, which was progressively absorbed by Western art, giving rise to Japonisme. Portugal was receptive to Japonisme, even if that receptiveness was motivated more by a taste for the exotic than genuine interest in the values of Japanese art. …”
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Music preferences of Malaysian students and KBSM curriculum implications
Published 2002“…Ten excerpts of ethnic-based Malaysian music and twenty excerpts of non ethnic-related music comprising ten popular music excerpts and ten Western art music excerpts were utilised. Ratings of preferences, familiarity, and musical training were gathered from 139 randomly selected teenage students of two public schools in Serdang. …”
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Valuing Whiteness: The Presumed Innocence of Musical Truth
Published 2023-09-01“…Thinking critically about systemic racism at the end of a particularly challenging year, the time is ripe for interrogating how the institutional structures that uphold western art music are still tied to values about aesthetic truths that have yet to be decolonized. …”
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Oil painting tiles with motifs In the building of Shams-Ol-Emareh
Published 2023-03-01“…Its construction and decorations are influenced by the trend towards western art It has been in Iran. Since oil painting was often used on textured surfaces, the application of this method on glazed tiles had not been done until then. …”
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Strangers in the Village
Published 2019-09-01“…In juxtaposing these three artists, I argue that they express the dialectical energy of affiliation by articulating ongoing concerns of race relations in America while distinguishing themselves from Baldwin in terms of periodization, medium-specificity, and their broader relationship to Western art practice. In their adoption of Baldwin, Cole and Ligon also imagine a way beyond his historical anxieties and writing-based practice, even as they continue to reinscribe their own work with his arguments about the African-American experience. …”
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Quando il teatro va al museo. Una storia di oggi
Published 2011-03-01“…David Edgar’s Pentecost (1994) is an intellectual thriller, where the discovery of a fresco which could be of great relevance for the whole history of Western art is set within the tragedy of Sarajevo. The museological questions of connoisseurship, restoration and conservation are at the core of the play, but besides them the play shows that the museum is deeply compromised with the memory and history of a nation and contributes to define its identity. …”
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Rhythm dances in Bela Bartok : An analysis of Mirkokosmos No. 2 and No. 6, Volume 6 for piano / Nurul Nadiah Jamaluddin
Published 2014“…But he also engaged himself no less profoundly with the Western art music tradition.…”
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L’enigma dell’ombra: l’ombra portata come misura e presenza dell’altro
Published 2023-08-01“…In fact, the presence of shadow in Western art and representation is profoundly discontinuous and non-linear, and it does not become more frequent with a greater mastery of representation techniques. …”
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Building global art infrastructure from Nigeria: ART X Lagos and Lagos Biennial 2019“We Are Our Own Sun”
Published 2021-12-01“…Ultimately this draws the attention of Western art institutions and realigns international circuits of contemporary art towards Nigeria.…”
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Music as a Liberal Art: The Poetry of the Universe
Published 2022-08-01“…The article concludes with suggestions on how teachers can use 20th and 21st-century movements in Western art music as pathways to appreciate music’s pivotal role in the Catholic liberal arts tradition.…”
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Beyond the historiographical pantheon. Women and the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art after 1945
Published 2023-12-01“…Since the first post-war meeting, however, we found that all members were men: famous figures from the History of Art who made up the historiographical pantheon and built the twentieth-century Western art historiography. During the 1950s, the sole exception was Cécile Goldscheider, Rodin Museum curator, who attended the Bureau sessions and general assemblies as a secretary. …”
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