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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"historic monuments"”.
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Will to war, will to art : cultural internationalism and the modernist aesthetics of monuments, 1932-1964
… 1932 and 1964, works once known as artistic and historic monuments-from buildings to bridges, paintings to shrines, ruins to colossi-acquired a "cultural" value as belonging to the "universal heritage of mankind." Promoted as didactic objects of international understanding, they became subjects …
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Fractured and Dissolved, Architecture Ablaze: Towards an Understanding of Ayeneh-Kari in the Palaces of Iran
… a form of architectural ornament found in myriad historic monuments across Greater Iran. This decorative medium first emerged in the celebrated palatial structures of the Safavids (r. 1501–1722) and culminated in the intricate geometric mosaics that became the preferred decorative schema for both …
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Heritage of the Red Orient : theories and practices of architectural restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991)
… vision of the past into the physical fabric of historic monuments. It proceeds from unpacking the Marxist-Leninist concept of "progressive" heritage formulated within the discipline of historical materialism; in Soviet historiography of Central Asian architecture the category of progressive …
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Vision, movement and landscape experience in Princely Town Amber, India
… important to conserve them, along with built monuments, to truly protect and represent them as sites of the past. This study focuses upon one such important cultural landscape of historic Amber fort and town, located in Jaipur district, India. Amber Fort Complex along with six other hill forts …
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The effects of channel power, destination attractiveness and destination political risk events on U.S. tourism channel firms' performance: the case of tourism destinations in Africa
… constituting tribal life, ethnic customs and historic monuments; (3) Activity factors - hunting safaris, local tribal life participation and local shopping .Overall, the total variance explained by these factors amount to 51.5%. Regarding the factor groupings for political nsk, two main …