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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Museum Of The Mechanical Eye: The Phenomenology Of Perception In Architecture, Isabela Sierra
Museum Of The Mechanical Eye: The Phenomenology Of Perception In Architecture, Isabela Sierra
Architecture Senior Theses
Since ancient tines, philosophers have tied knowledge to clear vision. Sight has been deemed the most important sense to mankind. Plato said vision was "humanity's greatest gift." It is human nature to make optical conclusions, to reify, to totalize, to control. What is seen is assumed to certain because of the uncontested and unexplored optical gray areas upheld by our rational and technological culture. We solidified our ocular-centric society by creating vision-generated understandings of knowledge, truth, and reality. Architecture, along with art and film, deals directly with human existence in space. Architecture is the construction of human perception.
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Remerbering/Gendering War:Gerda Taro's Spanish Civil War Photographs, Kathryn Everly
Remerbering/Gendering War:Gerda Taro's Spanish Civil War Photographs, Kathryn Everly
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship
Spanish Civil War photography is reframed as a feminist project as seen through Gerda Taro's photos of women milita.
Wyschogrod’S Hand: Saints, Animality, And The Labor Of Love, Virginia Burrus
Wyschogrod’S Hand: Saints, Animality, And The Labor Of Love, Virginia Burrus
Religion - All Scholarship
That the lives of saints constitute an unmediated appeal suggests both a call to imitate what cannot be imitated (thus can result in no mimesis of sameness) and a call to respond to the extremity of the saint's vulnerability; and I would suggest that the two calls turn out to be the same. Because the saint is radically open to the need of others, she is endlessly vulnerable to need herself (she will give everything, again and again); and because she is endlessly vulnerable to need herself, she is radically open to the need of others.
Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Silenced Sacred Spaces: Selected Photographs Of Syrian Synagogues By Robert Lyons, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
Discusses the history and architecture of the synagogues of Syria documented by photographer Robert Lyons in a survey sponsored by the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund.