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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Monumental architecture"”.
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Construction of history : Mohammad-Reza Shah revivalism, nationalism, and monumental architecture of Tehran, 1951-1979
… thesis focuses on modem Iranian national/revival architecture under the Pahlavi royal dynasty, in particular the reigning period of Mohammad-Reza Shah. I analyze and interpret three specific monuments: the mausoleum of Reza Shah built in 1950, the Shahyad Aryamehr Monument built in 1971 on the …
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A Sign of the Times: Administration, Agency of officials and Monumental architecture in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt
… a great extent by the physical manifestations of monumental projects. This study examines whether the state’s authority is decentralised among its officials, the state’s proxies, and whether they use their own agency to exert control over the landscape, the resources, and the people. The …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
… and dematerialization, did not neutralize the monumental but reinvented it as a new practice: one that involved the audience explicitly through conventional transactions, best understood through the speech-act theory of J. L. Austin (who coined the term "performative" in the 1950s). To specify …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… in 1891 and was immediately captured by the monumental prehistoric ruins nestled in the winding canyons of the high desert. Concerned about their destruction, over the next fifteen years Hewett worked to protect these antiquities. In 1906, he successfully drafted federal preservation …
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Art, Ideology, and Politics at El Achiotal: A Late Preclassic Frontier Site in Northwestern Petén, Guatemala
… grew into a small ceremonial center with monumental architecture that was decorated with murals and modeled stucco in local styles but conceptually following regional trends. I argue that Structure 5C-01-sub 4 was a bundle house symbolizing kingship and the political economy. The …
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Public Buildings and Civic Pride: Town Halls in Northern Germany, 1200--1618
… development of the town hall as a category of monumental architecture in the Hanseatic cities of Northern Germany. It traces the origin of communal buildings in this region from the earliest period in which they are known to have existed, the early 13th century, up to the decades immediately …
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Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City
… situated as regime landscapes, where symbolic, monumental architecture has been inherited by the new regime. Finally, Qsar Bardo and its locality is an exceptional site of the capital city, where national and local government overlap with official representations of the nation-state. Through a …
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A Souvenir for the Land of Pagodas
… a series of investigations into challenging monumental architecture and repurposing its narrative capacities. If these architectural forms function as narrative tools of the state, how can they be claimed in order to tell alternate stories? This thesis approaches memory(s) as an inheritance, …
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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
… sealing practices, long-distance exchanges, monumental architecture, and craft specialization. Seals and sealings are a particularly sensitive proxy for complexity because of their economic and political potential as administrative devices, a pre-literate form of record keeping. Although …
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An Experiment in Piety: The Three Domed Suhrawardy Tombs at Uchch Sharif
… in their own right, the 14th-15th century monumental tombs of Bahā’ al-Halīm, Bibī Jiwindī, and Ustād Nuriyā at Uchch have not been the subject of any dedicated study and have generally been ignored in scholarship. To remedy this dismissal, this thesis will analyze the monumental tomb …
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Origins of Roman art
… wall painting, terracotta sculpture, and basic architecture, and how the Etruscan approach to Greek inspirations later became the same pattern followed by the Romans. The next two chapters deal with Roman cultural cha-racteristics that brought about their insatiable appetite for art. Systematic …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
This dissertation studies premodern temple architecture, freestanding sculpted stones, and Tamil language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting populations on European …
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The Sethi merchants' havelis in Peshawar, 1800-1910: form, identity and status
… was undertaken with the premise that domestic architecture provides an alternative and compelling narrative about historical and cultural changes undergone by Indian society. The Sethi havelis constructed over a period of a hundred years (1800-1910) combined residential, business and communal …
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The role of cultural flagships in the perception and experience of urban areas for tourism and culture. Case study: The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
… and cultural consumption, with distinctive architecture, heritage and a wide range of attractions and leisure opportunities. The Royal Opera House, established at the core of the area, stands as a world renowned provider of high culture and has a rich history and heritage of its own, yet it …