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Holography—A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Holography—A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-02
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Artists have been exploring the spatial, conceptual and three-dimensional qualities of holography for over fifty years. Why, then, is there so little sustained critical pressure placed on this process, methodology and mode of visualisation which underpins the developing practice?In 1994, pioneering British artist Margaret Benyon, in her doctoral thesis, posed the question “How is Holography Art”, and offered a range of answers, by applying critical pressure to her considerable work in the field. Over 25 years later, we have used Benyon’s investigation as an invitation to ask more questions. This Special Issue in Arts brings together artists working with holography, as well as curators ...

Atlantic Transformations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Atlantic Transformations

This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires, between empires and colonies, and within colonies as parts of processes of global economic and political restructuring. By treating metropolis-colony relations within the framework of the modern world-economy, the contributors call attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world. They reinterpret as specific local responses to global processes the conflicts between empires, within imperial relations, the formation of national states, the creation of new zones of agricultural production and the decline of old ones, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 956

Handbook of Latin American Studies

Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...

Shadows of Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Shadows of Empire

This book traces the history of the late colonial Andean elite and their privilege and authority.

Fathers on the Frontier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Fathers on the Frontier

Introduction : les confrères et les pères in American Catholic history --Missionary formation and French Catholicism --Missionary experience and frontier Catholicism --Missionary revival and transnational Catholicism --Missionary politics and ultramontane Catholicism --Slavery, Civil War, and southern Catholicism --Conclusion.

Optical Metrology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 794

Optical Metrology

Optical Metrology is a rapidly expanding field i'n both its scientific foundations and technological developments, being of major concern to measurements, quality control, non-destructive tes ting and in fundamental research. In order to define the state-of-the-art, and to evaluate pre sent accomplishments, whilst giving an appraisal of how each of the particular topics will evolve the Optical Metrology-anAdvancedStudy Institute was organized with a concourse of the world's acknowledged experts. Thus, the Institute provided a forum for tutorial reviews blended with topics of current research in the form of a progressive and comprehensive presentation of recent promising developments, lea din...

Colonial Habits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Colonial Habits

A social and economic history of Peru that reflects the influence of the convents on colonial and post-colonial society.

Guide to Collective Biographies for Children and Young Adults
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Guide to Collective Biographies for Children and Young Adults

Help middle and high school students find the books they need for school reports quickly and easily. The author has indexed the lives and accomplishments of more than 5,700 notable men and women from ancient through modern times in this tool that will aid librarians, media specialists, and teachers with a student's search to find biographies written especially for their age group.

The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 373

The End of Iberian Rule on the American Continent, 1770-1830

Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil.