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Kirkham, Pat, ed. 2013. Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 255 pp. Illus.
Get PDFKirkham, Pat, ed. 2013. Eva Zeisel: Life, Design, and Beauty. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 255 pp. Illus.
Reviewed by Judith Szapor, McGill Universit
Interiors in the age of Covid-19: interior design between the public and private realm
No full textThe Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space – as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces and more. Above all, our understanding of the home as a site to support and enhance the well-being of its inhabitants changed in a variety of novel ways.
Interiors in the Era of Covid is a collection of essays which explore the complex ways in which our inside spaces (contemporary and historical) have responded to Covid-19 and other human crises. With case studies ranging from US and Europe to Japan, China, Colombia, and Bangladesh, this is a truly global work which examines wide-ranging subjects from home-working and home technologies, to the impact of lockdown on people's identities, gender roles in the home, and the realities of domestic living with Covid in refugee camps.
Exploring the roles played by designers (both amateur and professional) in accommodating changing requirements and anticipating future ones – whether Covid or beyond – this book is a must-read for students and researchers in interior design, architecture, architectural and design history, and anyone interested in the home and the relationships between health and design
Tell Don't Show: The invisible plague in seventeenth-century Dutch interior paintings
No full textThroughout most of the seventeenth century plague epidemics raged through Dutch cities and took their toll in an enormous loss of life. However, seventeenth-century paintings of domestic life do not show the sorrow or the death toll, but portray healthy, thriving mothers and children in sunlit interiors. The sunny imagery of the seventeenth-century painting is so strong that it defies the historic reality of the countless plague victims. In a strange contradiction, up until the Dutch language harbours numerous references to The Plague, or pest as it is called in Dutch. My perception of the glorious Dutch Golden Age, and the sunny imagery if seventeenth-century interior paintings in particular, changed after reading the published transcripts of seventeenth-century Dutch letters written by women to their husbands at sea. What struck me most were the women's heartbreaking accounts of the loss of children due to The Plague. I have since tried to detect evidence of this daily reality in the paintings, given that art historians have warned against their deceptive realism.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Situated Architectur
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Una conversación entre Saul Bass y Billy Wilder
No full textEn el mes de agosto de 1994 tuve el placer de compartir en Los Angeles un relajado almuerzo con Billy Wilder y Saul Bass, entonces de 89 y 75 años respectivamente, ambos fabulosos narradores y, en opinión de muchos, el más grande director de cine vivo de Hollywood y el mejor diseñador de secuencias de títulos de crédito. Bass, conocido para los lectores por sus secuencias de títulos de créditos de los años cincuenta y sesenta, que incluyen El hombre del brazo de oro (1955), Anatomía de un asesinato (1959) y Psicosis (1960), y por su película Quest (1983), aún dirigía una empresa de diseño de éxito (el verano anterior había estado diseñando una serie de gasolineras en Japón). Su trabajo para el cine fue únicamente una parte de su vida laboral; cuando la industria demandaba un estilo de títulos que él no estaba dispuesto a producir, sencillamente regresó a lo que había estado haciendo en paralelo durante todo ese tiempo: el diseño gráfico. En los últimos años de su vida, en colaboración con su esposa Elaine, volvió al mundo del cine y creó algunas secuencias de crédito impresionantes, entre ellas las de tres películas de Martin Scorsese: El cabo del miedo (1991), La edad de la inocencia (1993) y Casino (1995)
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
'Maybe he's tough but he sure ain't no carpenter': Masculinity and In/Competence in <i>Unforgiven</i>
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