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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"statue"”.
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Pale statue
… Thesis is the beginning of a novel called, Pale Statue: Blood Sisters. The novel is cosmic horror set in rural Kentucky. The main protagonist, Maureen Ford, is a teenager who has grown up unaware of her father’s involvement in a cult during his college years and unaware that alien DNA has …
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Memorialising White Supremacy: The Politics of Statue Removal: A Comparative Case Study of the Rhodes Statue at the University of Cape Town and the Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia
In April 2015, the bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes- notorious mining magnate, archimperialist and champion of a global Anglo-Saxon empire- was removed from its concrete plinth overlooking Cape Town, South Africa. This came as a result of the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) movement, a movement that would …
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Dwarf Fortress gathers at the statue and attends a party
In designing DwarfFortress as part roguelike and part simulation, Tarn and Zach Adams of Bay 12 Games drew on a tradition of game genres that used proceduralism and simulation to give players unique paths through the game. The specific choices in their design served their goal of "giv[ing] rise to …
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Uncoiling the Laocoon: Revealing the Statue Group's Significance in Augustan Rome
… and patronymics of the artists was found on a statue group at Sperlonga that the same atelier working there was found responsible for creating the Laocoon. This led prosopographical experts to date the sculptors' activity to the early decades of the Roman Empire and while this date has been …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… focuses on the inter-animating properties of the Statue of Liberty and Emma Lazarus’ corresponding sonnet, “The New Colossus.” The research explores how these two forms of communication, one visual and one verbal, invite public perceptions that permit them both to retain their individuality as …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
… the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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Drawing borders: the political and symbolic importance of the United States in the creation of Czechoslovakia
In 2011, a statue of Woodrow Wilson, based on the original erected in 1928, was re-installed at Woodrow Wilson Train Station in the capital of the Czech Republic. The original statue commemorated Wilson's involvement in the creation of interwar Czechoslovakia, and his support for its independence. …
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Pygmalion and Adonis
… little after the first where Edvard finishes the statue and it comes to life. The now alive statue is named Marcy. In the third and last section, Edvard and Marcy visit a bookshop where they discover a unique device.
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Doctoral thesis recital (voice)
At the statue of Venus / Jake Heggie.
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Object, standpoint, and partial truth: Sartre, Heidegger, and Hegel on consciousness, human being, and the absolute
… of a part (of an object). A description of the Statue of Liberty, for instance, that goes: “It’s a tabula ansata, that is, a tablet evoking the law; on it is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, (and so on)” can be both rejected and acknowledged to …
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Talking Statues: An Italian Communicative Phenomenon from the Renaissance to the Present Day
… a radically new purpose. The so-called ‘talking statues’ operated as customary sites for the affixion of anonymous satires, giving a voice to those aiming to express political and religious criticism freely. The phenomenon was initiated at the statue of Pasquino. The popularity of this statue and …
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Xix, A Memorial and Study on the Proximity and Proportion of the Circle and the Square
… The existing memorial pavilion that houses a statue and commemorative plaque are being weathered by the elements. It is only a matter of time before the statue and plaque are overcome by the elements. This situation resulted in a complete transformation in the way that Xix remembers the war. …
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Flap of a Butterfly's Wings
… issue takes in international forums, but that a statue placed outside of the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea, is a major a force in and of itself in pushing the activists’ agenda for international recognition and support. The statues name in Korean is “Sonyeosang” [So-Neo- Sang] and is …
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Ah Jongumsobomvu! an analysis of the commemorative statues of Nkosi Jongumsobomvu Maqoma
… minor dissertation examines two commemorative statues of Nkosi Maqoma with the aim of unpacking the very different local and national political projects in which his memory has recently been mobilised. The first statue, commissioned by the Eastern Cape government through independent heritage …
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Studies in the Hellenistic Sculpture of the Island of Rhodes
… provenance, supplemented by the preserved statue bases. If it is not possible to demonstrate recurring technical, iconographic and stylistic traits within the Rhodian material, it may be assumed that the theory of regional schools should not be applied to Rhodes.</p> <p>One hundred and …
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Crafting Lagrange: A Southern Town's Search For Historical Identity In The 1970s
… French estate. This French connection led to a statue being placed in the LaGrange town square in 1976. By focusing on the planning, correspondence, and public events involving the bicentennial celebrations and the placement of the Lafayette statue this thesis intends to assess how a historical …
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Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches
… um einen rechteckigen oder quadratischen Statuenraum, ober- oder unterirdirsch innerhalb der Grabanlage gelegen, der primär zur Aufnahme mindestens einer Statue des/der Grabherr/in gedacht war. Die Materialbasis bilden Serdabs in rund 600 Grabanlagen von der 1. Dynastie bis zur 1. …
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La scultura a Piacenza in età sforzesca
… e botteghe impegnati nella realizzazione di statue, rilievi ed elementi architettonici.
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The Washington Bronze Dionysos
… the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. The head of the statue reflects a different, possibly female, prototype. An investigation of a group of Roman life-size and three quarter life-size bronzes reveals that the iconographic details which identity the Washington Bronze also place it outside the category …
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