Wall Painting in Pompeii

This second edition of Alison E. Cooley’s accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was...

The textbook provides an analysis and characteristics of various thermal, waterproofing and wall materials, an assessment of their suitability for use in construction. Classificati...

In The Aesthetics of Qiyun and Genius: Spirit Consonance in Chinese Landscape Painting and Some Kantian Echoes, Xiaoyan Hu provides an interpretation of the notion of qiyun, or spi...

Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices. The book reads p...

It is found experimentally that all the components of fluid velocity (not just thenormal component) vanish at a wall. No matter how small the viscosity, the large velocity gradient...