Front Matter,
2016
Syracuse University
Imitation Amber Beads Of Phenolic Resin From The African Trade,
2016
Syracuse University
Imitation Amber Beads Of Phenolic Resin From The African Trade, Rosanna Falabella
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
Examination of contemporary beads with African provenance reveals large quantities of imitation amber beads made of phenol-formaldehyde thermosetting resins (PFs). This article delves into the early industrial history of PFs and their use in the production of imitation amber and bead materials. Attempts to discover actual sources that manufactured imitation amber beads for export to Africa and the time frame have not been very fruitful. While evidence exists that PFs were widely used as amber substitutes within Europe, only a few post-WWII references explicitly report the export of imitation amber PF beads to Africa. However they arrived in Africa, the …
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 28 (Complete),
2016
Syracuse University
Beads: Journal Of The Society Of Bead Researchers - Volume 28 (Complete)
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
No abstract provided.
Beads And Pendants From The Tumuli Cemeteries At Wadi Qitna And Kalabsha-South, Nubia,
2016
Syracuse University
Beads And Pendants From The Tumuli Cemeteries At Wadi Qitna And Kalabsha-South, Nubia, Joanna Then-Obłuska
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
More than 500 beads and pendants were excavated by a Czechoslovakian team in the early 1960s at two sites in Lower Nubia. The beads were associated with 40 tumuli in the Wadi Qitna cemetery and two tumuli in the Kalabsha-South cemetery. These 4th-century cemeteries are related to the Blemmyes, the Eastern Desert dwellers whose pottery has been commonly recognized in the region between the Nile Valley and the Red Sea coast at a time of intensive overseas trade contacts. The bead assemblage, stored at the Naprstek Museum in Prague, was recently restudied and its materials and parallels could be more …
Bead Netting And Plaiting Techniques In The Peranakan World,
2016
Syracuse University
Bead Netting And Plaiting Techniques In The Peranakan World, Valerie Hector
BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers
It has long been recognized that the Peranakan Chinese peoples of Southeast Asia were expert bead embroiderers. As it happens, they were also expert bead netters and plaiters. After establishing a conceptual framework for discussing bead netting and plaiting techniques in general, this article discusses 14 pieces of Peranakan Chinese (or Minangkabau) beadwork and various techniques. The techniques likely derived not just from Europe, as early researchers tended to assume, but from island Southeast Asia and China as well. Knowledge of these and other needleworking techniques helped Peranakan beaders devise radically new permutations, some of them highly complex. Additional factors …
Embroidery In The Circle Of The Last Romanovs,
2016
Chapman University
Embroidery In The Circle Of The Last Romanovs, Wendy Salmond
Art Faculty Articles and Research
This article essay examines the liturgical embroideries associated with the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna and her sister Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna. It suggests that the sisters’ needlework for sacred purposes was invested with a significance not seen in elite Russian society since the late seventeenth century. At a time when the arts of Orthodoxy were undergoing a state-sponsored renaissance, who was better suited to lead the resurgence of liturgical embroidery than the wife and sister-in-law of the Emperor, the last in a long line of royal women seeking to assert their piety and their power through traditional women’s work? In the …
Visigothic Spain And Armenia: Masonry Consideration,
2016
Sacred Heart University
Visigothic Spain And Armenia: Masonry Consideration, Anahit Ter-Stepanian
Art & Design Faculty Publications
Visigothic monuments display architectural and sculptural features which are hard to explain in 7th c. Western Europe. These features include high level of stone craftsmanship, cruciform plans, tall and narrow sprayed windows, horseshoe shaped arches, vaulted spaces, monumentality combined with small size, figural, geometric, and floral ornamental motifs applied to unusual areas for Western Christian architecture. Since many individual Visigothic features can be traced to Roman, Syrian, or Byzantine monuments, these traditions are considered instrumental in creation of Visigothic architectural vocabulary. More recently, a growing number of studies point to Islamic art as a possible source of influence and thus …
Caracol, Belize, And Changing Perceptions Of Ancient Maya Society,
2016
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Caracol, Belize, And Changing Perceptions Of Ancient Maya Society, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase
Anthropology Faculty Research
No abstract provided.
A Matter Of Class: Sin Yun-Bok’S Depictions Of Kisaeng As Participants Of Everyday Life,
2016
Hollins University
A Matter Of Class: Sin Yun-Bok’S Depictions Of Kisaeng As Participants Of Everyday Life, Abigail Sease
Undergraduate Research Awards
The eighteenth century within the Korean peninsula, part of the extensive Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), was marked by peace and prosperity after a long period of foreign invasions, war, and factional conflict. After centuries of negatively shifting political and social relations, intellectual and cultural life was flourishing beyond the walls of the palace. Despite prevailing differences in class and education, both the literary and visual arts rapidly developed. Works produced during this time mutually influenced one another, developed into vernacular understandings, and tended towards representing the native and the local, rather than foreign or imaginary subjects. A new nativist form of …
2016 Bethsaida Field Report,
2016
University of Nebraska at Omaha
2016 Bethsaida Field Report, Rami Arav, Carl Savage, Kate Raphael, Vanessa Workman, Kenneth M. Bensimon, Nicolae Roddy
Field Reports
No abstract provided.
Abbot Suger’S St. Denis And The Cult Of Relics,
2016
Trinity University
Abbot Suger’S St. Denis And The Cult Of Relics, Kathryn Funderburg
The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities
No abstract provided.
Women Surrealists: Muses Or Seekers?,
2016
Scripps College
Women Surrealists: Muses Or Seekers?, Noor A. Asif
Scripps Senior Theses
Surrealism has often been labeled as a misogynistic movement that sought to provide man with an avenue into a higher reality at the expense of the humanity of women. By perceiving the opposite sex as their muses, Surrealist men rendered women as mysterious sources of the marvelous, the name given to the higher realm, which they desired to attain. I propose that Surrealist women were empowered by the fact that ‘woman’, as an abstract concept, and femininity were synonymous with the marvelous. This entailed that Surrealist women had the advantage of being “sources of revelation, as provokers of wonder, dreams, …
Old Masterpieces, New Mistress-Pieces: Cindy Sherman's Reinterpretations Of Renaissance Portraits Of Women,
2016
Scripps College
Old Masterpieces, New Mistress-Pieces: Cindy Sherman's Reinterpretations Of Renaissance Portraits Of Women, Caitlyn D. Marianacci
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis examines a selection of eight photographs in the History Portraits series by American photographer, Cindy Sherman, produced from 1989 to 1990. The photographs are based on Renaissance paintings of biblical and secular women painted by old master artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, and Raphael. Sherman focused on the female types of Biblical mother and femme fatale, as well as wives and models. These types are defined in their relation to men and are depicted by men. In Sherman’s reinterpretations of their portraits, she retells the stories of these women in ways that reaffirm their independence …
V.1 2016-2017 Supplement,
2016
Rhode Island School of Design
V.1 2016-2017 Supplement, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The 2016-2017 Supplement issue contains handwritten answers on post-its to the question "What feels urgent to you in your studio? In your life? In the world?" These post-its were written at a grad-student gathering on the day after the 2016 US Presidential election, scanned and printed as a zine the next day, and distributed at open studios the day after that.
Dever's "The Lives Of Ordinary People In Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology And The Bible Intersect" (Book Review),
2016
Southeastern University
Dever's "The Lives Of Ordinary People In Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology And The Bible Intersect" (Book Review), Kathleen Kempa
The Christian Librarian
A review of Dever, W. G. (2012). The lives of ordinary people in ancient Israel: Where archaeology and the Bible intersect. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 436 pp. $17.05. ISBN 9780802867018
Fictions Of Abundance In Early Modern Madrid: Hospitality, Consumption, And Artistic Identity In The Work Of Juan Van Der Hamen Y Leon,
2016
Portland State University
Fictions Of Abundance In Early Modern Madrid: Hospitality, Consumption, And Artistic Identity In The Work Of Juan Van Der Hamen Y Leon, Carmen Ripollés
Schnitzer School of Art + Art History + Design Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article examines how still-life painting contributed to the creation of a distinct urban aristocratic culture in seventeenth-century Madrid. Focusing on a group of paintings by Juan van der Hamen, the article situates these images within the context of the picture gallery and the practice of aristocratic hospitality. By giving visual form to this new urban mode of magnificence, Van der Hamen’s still lifes created a fiction of abundance that glossed over Madrid’s economic realities. At the same time, Van der Hamen concealed signs of manual craftsmanship and commercial interest in order to advance and ennoble his own artistic identity.
Mass Effect: Art And The Internet In The Twenty-First Century,
2016
University of Northern Iowa
Mass Effect: Art And The Internet In The Twenty-First Century, Elizabeth Sutton
Art Inquiries
Book review of Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter.
Back Matter,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
Time, Space, And Devotion: The Madonna Della Clemenza And The Cappella Altemps In Rome,
2016
Loyola Marymount University
Time, Space, And Devotion: The Madonna Della Clemenza And The Cappella Altemps In Rome, Kirstin Noreen
Art History Faculty Works
Placed on the altar of the Cappella Altemps in the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere (Rome) in 1593, the medieval icon of the Virgin and Christ known as the Madonna della Clemenza was the focal point of a newly decorated space. The chapel’s pictorial program underscores that decisions ratified at the Council of Trent were not only situated in the context of biblical history, but were also directly connected to the presence of the cult image of the Madonna della Clemenza. This article will explore the late sixteenth-century architectural and decorative reframing of the icon as a means of …
Interview With Duane Paxson,
2016
LaGrange College
