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X-ray diffraction analyses of five samples of pigments from a recently excavated mural at the archaeological site of Huaca Tacaynamo, a part of the Chan Chan archaeological complex, northern Peru, show that minerals rela...

Abstract Magnetically coupled rodless cylinders are widely used in the coordinate positioning of mechanical arms, electrostatic paintings, and other industrial applications. However, they exhibit strong nonlinear charact...

The Las Cuevas Canyon at Los Toldos locality (Santa Cruz, Argentina) has played a prominent and controversial role in the debate about the peopling of America. In spite of the high concentration of paintings in Los Toldo...

WILLYS DE CASTRO desenvolveu os Objetos ativos (1959-1962) durante o período neoconcreto. A partir da lingüística de Ferdinand de Saussure e do conceito de "desconstrução" de Jacques Derrida, este artigo defende que...

The Hualfin Valley presents a long occupation period from the first agropastoralist societies (BC 200) to the Inka occupation (AD 1400). Ceramic production has played a fundamental role, being an important indicator of s...

The material study is focused on the work of the now almost forgotten prose writer and playwright D. P. Syarov. He made his debut as a novelist, but already during his studies in Switzerland he began to write travelogues...

In the 40s hegemonic psychiatry in Brazil turned to scientific and technological innovations and to the consolidation of an organic vision of mental illness. Within this context, Nise da Silveira researched the developme...

This text focuses on the role of the brushstroke in Vincent van Gogh’s work. Van Gogh’s brushstroke technique draws on the tradition of European painting, spanning from Titian to Delacroix and the Impressionists, a t...

The article examines Ukrainian folk paintings of Cossack Mamai as the most complete visual archetype of the Cossack, a professional warrior of the Early Modern period. It argues that Mamai’s static posture and melancho...

The notion landscape in Deleuze and Guattari’s writings are the origin of two aesthetic concepts: the percept and the catastrophe. The percept indicates visual compound independent from artist, subject and viewer.  De...

Over the past four decades, global actualistic taphonomy studies have grown significantly, driven by increased interest in present day patterns and processes of fossilization. South America has mirrored this trend, thoug...

In her short stories, Karen Blixen often uses fine art as a model for describing characters or landscapes. When analyzing these references, researchers face a basic problem in many cases: how can one prove that the autho...

At the end of 1947, a small book was published, taking stock of the controversial reception of the exhibition of national artists of the Soviet Union, which in May of that year introduced Soviet socialist realism to Czec...

Dentro de la pintura mural civil mexicana del siglo XVI, ubicamos dos anónimas series iconológicas en dos habitaciones de la Casa del Deán de la ciudad de Puebla: Sibilas y Triunfos realizadas en 1580. Analizamos la p...

En sus Memorabilia, Jenofonte transcribe dos conversaciones mantenidas por Sócrates con un pintor y un escultor. En el presente artículo se analiza el significado de dos términos que aparecen a lo largo de ambos diál...

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” ...