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This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth-century visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume offers nine contextual and cross-disciplinary essays that engage with a rich panoply of discourses ranging from art criticism to biography, to collecting and the art market, to art theory and practice and the institutions that shaped them, to beauty and fashion, sociopolitical and philosophical issues, gender studies, patronage, iconography, and print culture.
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Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture.
Discover a new generation of organic nanomaterials and their applications Recent developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology have given rise to a new generation of functional organic nanomaterials with controlled morphology and well-defined properties, which enable a broad range of useful applications. This book explores some of the most important of these organic nanomaterials, describing how they are synthesized and characterized. Moreover, the book explains how researchers have incorporated organic nanomaterials into devices for real-world applications. Featuring contributions from an international team of leading nanoscientists, Organic Nanomaterials is divided into five parts: Part O...
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La historia de las canteras antiguas de la Península Ibérica es muy reciente y casi siempre ha tenido como punto de partida el uso de tal o cual material para la construcción de un monumento o conjunto monumental determinados. Sin embargo, numerosas investigaciones de ámbito local o regional y con diferentes perspectivas y metodologías, proporcionan hoy una visión más completa y coherente de la antigua industria de la piedra. Este libro está dedicado principalmente a la Hispania antigua, pero también presenta estudios realizados en Grecia (Thasos) y Francia (Marsella, Nîmes, Val d'Oise) que permiten comparar estrategias de análisis, criterios de datación e identificación, así c...