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Water Plant (Ukikusa) and Zen Aphorism
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Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
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Pond with Water Lilies
Pond with Water Lilies
From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
Textile Fragment: Animals and Figures Around Vegetation
A portion of a red tapestry woven square (tabula). The design is characterized by mirror symmetry. Animals and birds flank a large abstract, jeweled candelabra plant emerging from ...
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 1 (2017)
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 1 (2017)
Still from video, (Professor Kim Snapchat Filter: Mouse with Glasses) Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963; Zen for Film, 1965 Satellite Art net.art Douglas Davis, The World’s First Col...
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 3 (2017)
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 3 (2017)
Still from video, (Professor Kim Snapchat Filter: Mouse with Glasses) Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963; Zen for Film, 1965 Satellite Art net.art Douglas Davis, The World’s First Col...
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 2 (2017)
Mina Cheon, Art History Lesson 8 Art and Technology Part 2 (2017)
Still from video, (Professor Kim Snapchat Filter: Mouse with Glasses) Nam June Paik, Zen for TV, 1963; Zen for Film, 1965 Satellite Art net.art Douglas Davis, The World’s First Col...
Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, sticks and guards of tortoiseshell, Great Britain, late 18th century. Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, showing jockeys on horseback
Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, sticks and guards of tortoiseshell, Great Britain, late 18th century. Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, showing jockeys on horseback
Pleated paper fan, painted on the front in water-colours with a racing scene, sticks and guards of tortoiseshell, Great Britain, late 18th century. Pleated paper fan, painted on th...
Band with Dancers and Plant Motifs
Band with Dancers and Plant Motifs
A red tapestry band features dancers and plant motifs. The red squares outlined in white contain four multicolored dancers with raised arms woven in yellow, pink, and blue wefts. E...
f.11 Wild buffalo
f.11 Wild buffalo
Water-colour drawing by John Johnson of a water
buffalo taken from a sketch-book of 36 drawings (36 folios)
depicting scenes chiefly in W. India and Mysore, dated
c.1795-1801.The w...
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The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933
The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933
Western and even Soviet publications have described the 1933 famine in the Soviet Union as “man-made” or “artificial.” The Stalinist leadership is presented as having imposed harsh...
An Etymological Dog Kennel, or Dog Eat Dog: Icelandic setja upp við dogg, Engl. to lie doggo, Engl. dog, and Engl. it’s raining cats and dogs
An Etymological Dog Kennel, or Dog Eat Dog: Icelandic setja upp við dogg, Engl. to lie doggo, Engl. dog, and Engl. it’s raining cats and dogs
There is a rare slangy British English phrase to lie doggo “to lie hid”. The earliest known example is dated in the OED to 1882. Doggo looks like dog + o (with -o, as in weirdo, ty...
Institutionalizing Afro-Asianism: Lotus and the (Dis) Contents of Soviet-Third World Cultural Politics
Institutionalizing Afro-Asianism: Lotus and the (Dis) Contents of Soviet-Third World Cultural Politics
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This article examines the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association’s (AAWA) magazine, Lotus, as an example of the cultural discourse of Afro-Asianism and the logisti...
‚Tradition und Moderne‘: Egon Wellesz’ Imagination des barocken Gesamtkunstwerks
‚Tradition und Moderne‘: Egon Wellesz’ Imagination des barocken Gesamtkunstwerks
Als Musikwissenschaftler und Komponist beschäftigte sich Egon Wellesz zeitlebens mit dem Musiktheater und entwickelte auf Basis seiner Forschungen zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts Lö...
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