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Land Grant Application- Davis, Elijah (Bridgeton)
No full textLand grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Elijah Davis for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Phebe Whitney.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1247/thumbnail.jp
The relative Whitney trick and its applications
No full textWe introduce a geometric operation, which we call the relative Whitney trick,that removes a single double point between properly immersed surfaces in a-manifold with boundary. Using the relative Whitney trick we prove thatevery link in a homology sphere is homotopic to a link that is topologicallyslice in a contractible topological -manifold. We further prove that anylink in a homology sphere is order Whitney tower concordant to a link in for all . Finally, we explore the minimum Gordian distance from a linkin to a homotopically trivial link. Extending this notion to links inhomology spheres, we use the relative Whitney trick to make explicitcomputations for 3-component links and establish bounds in general.<br
Report on industrial attachment with Pratt & Whitney Services Pte Ltd
No full textThis report aims to cover the projects carried out by the author during his 22 week Industrial Attachment at Pratt & Whitney Services. The author was part of the Rotating Air Seal repair development team. He assisted in the Repair Process Launch Review preparation, which entails evaluating technical data, identifying critical to quality key product characteristics, evaulating capital requirements, identification of tooling requirements and creating summary of operations
Juvenalia, or How I came to own a Blu-Ray of Point Break
No full textAgony Klub and Publication Studio Vancouver are pleased to present Whitney Houston, vol. 2. A continuation of Whitney Houston, et. al., editor/author Casey Wei invites six writers to reflect on their relationship to popular music in film, keeping in mind that popular music has always been as much about the desire for an image as about the catchiness of a song. The resulting essays on Elliot Smith, Amélie, Real Genius, The Pixies, Drive, and The Conversation explore themes of time, love, and evolution.final article publishedReal Genius (1985
Dr. Whitney Wall- Veteran\u27s Mental Health Survey and Analysis
No full textDr. Whitney Wall speaks at the Chesnutt Library of Fayetteville State University about her recent work on a mental health survey of veterans and their needs.
Presented live on November 11, 2025 as part of Chesnutt Library\u27s Faculty Author Series.https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/faculty_author/1023/thumbnail.jp
Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art
No full textThe meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this detailed reinterpretation of the images carved on ivory knife handles and schist cosmetic palettes. These images are among the most important documents of early Egyptian history and include the Narmer Palette, often considered the very inception of ancient Egyptian image making.Davis deciphers the intriguing pictorial narratives and complex metaphors of images that are concerned with "masking the blow" of the ruler. "Masking the blow" refers to the ways that the images - from hunted animals to human antagonists - represent, elide, or suppress the depiction of a ruler's violent act of conquering an enemy.Examining late prehistoric Egyptian images in light of contemporary visual theory and illustrating his analyses with excellent reproductions, Davis goes beyond the usual concern for stylistic development and iconographic meanings that characterize prior studies. His work will greatly interest art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of the visual arts
David Rabinowitch : Constructions métriques, 1988-1991
No full textDavis analyzes this Canadian sculptor's "metrical constructions," developing the concepts of plane (as a field of standpoints from which to view), "metricality" (referring to proportion and measure), and global perception. The author compares the sculpture of Rabinowitch to the minimalism of Morris, the Amerindian totem, and the architecture of Romanesque churches. Biographical notes. 69 bibl. ref
Masking the blow the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art
No full text"The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious and as little understood as the circumstances of their production. Analyses of these images, as a result, have been merely general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis's Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art provides a welcome remedy in its detailed reinterpretation of images carved on ivory knife handles and schist cosmetic palettes, including the Narmer Palette, often considered the very inception of ancient Egyptian canonical image making in the dynastic pharaonic tradition. Davis deciphers the intriguing pictorial narratives and complex metaphors of images that are concerned with "masking the blow" of the ruler. "Masking the blow" refers to the many ways in which the late prehistoric Egyptian images represent, elide, or suppress the depiction of a ruler's decisive violent act of conquering an enemy, whether a hunted animal or a human antagonist; although this act is the central theme of late prehistoric Egyptian representation - the basic concern of pictorial narrative - it is partly disguised within images themselves. The book examines the pictorial mechanics of this "masking" and interprets the "scene of representation," the context of image making, in which it transpires." "Examining late prehistoric Egyptian images in light of contemporary visual theory and illustrating his analyses with excellent reproductions of the works of art, Davis goes beyond the usual concern beyond the usual concern for stylistic development and iconographic meanings that characterizes prior studies."--BOOK JACKET
Anmeldelse: Whitney Davis A General Theory of Visual Culture:Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2011.
No full textWhitney Davis bog A General Theory of VisualCulture vil utvivlsomt blive opfattet som en provokationaf mange deltagere i forskningsdebatterneom visuel kultur. At basere en »generel« teori omvisuel kultur – dvs. en teori, som benytter sig aftermer som »visualitet« – på et kerneargument defacto centreret omkring ikonografiske debatter istarten og midten af det 20. århundrede, f.eks. omAlbrecht Dürers værk Ridder, død og djævel, kunneumiddelbart synes som en stemme fra fortiden. Sagtanderledes: Davis bog er et indlæg i en debat omvisuel kultur, hvor de mange intentioner om at udvikleet alternativ til den kanoniske kunsthistorie fåret modspil. Visuel kultur-debatten, som den kendesi dag, bør ifølge Davis korrigeres, eller måskereelt ignoreres, til fordel for en opdateret teori omhistorisk formalisme, som kan bringe kunsthistorienpå højde med nutidige kulturbegreber. Vi taleraltså om, at det faglige felt, som udkrystalliserer sigomkring Heinreich Wölfflin, Alois Riegl og ErwinPanofsky i første halvdel af det 20 århundrede, medudstikkere til f.eks. Cassirers filosofi om symbolskform og Bernard Berensons »connoisseurship«, skalopdateres med et kulturbegreb. For en umiddelbarbetragtning er Davis teori altså alt andet end detforskningsprogram, som i de sidste 20 år, f.eks. sidenHal Fosters programtekst fra 1988 i Vision andVisualites, har udviklet sig med en dagsorden fokuseretpå »discursive determination« (Foster), »visuality« (Mirzoeff), »practices of looking« (Sturken &Cartwright), »pictorial turn« (Mitchell) osv
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