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E-BooksArts of the Medieval Cathedrals Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache



Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache
Free Download Kathleen Nolan, "Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals: Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache "
English | ISBN: 1472440552 | 2015 | 314 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache's career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use of practical geometry in designing entire buildings and their components. Saint-Denis, Reims, and Chartres, all monuments studied by Prache, are discussed in the next part, on stained glass. These chapters demonstrate how old problems can be clarified by new evidence, whether from the accessibility of previously unknown archival information, for Reims, or through revelations that arise from restoration, at Chartres. These essays also include a study showing the complexity of making attributions for the storied glass of Saint-Denis. The final set of essays likewise takes different approaches to sculpture, whether constructing links to the liturgy at Reims, or discussing the meaning of a sculptural ensemble studied by Prache early in her career, the cloister of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux in Châlons-en-Champagne, or scrupulously examining the façade sculpture at Bourges Cathedral for insights into the design process. As a whole, the volume provides a window onto key directions in the study of



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E-BooksArtificial Intelligence–based Infrared Thermal Image Processing and its Applications



Artificial Intelligence–based Infrared Thermal Image Processing and its Applications
Free Download Artificial Intelligence-based Infrared Thermal Image Processing and its Applications by U. Snekhalatha, K. Palani Thanaraj, Kurt Ammer
English | September 28, 2022 | ISBN: 103215814X | 246 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
Infrared thermography is a fast and non-invasive technology that provides a map of the temperature distribution on the body's surface. This book provides a description of designing and developing a computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) system based on thermography for diagnosing such common ailments as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), diabetes complications, and fever. It also introduces applications of machine-learning and deep-learning methods in the development of CAD systems.



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E-BooksArtificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Civil Engineering



Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Civil Engineering
Free Download Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Civil Engineering by Vagelis Plevris, Afaq Ahmad, Nikos D Lagaros
English | June 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1668456435 | 385 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
"This reference book offers state-of-the-art contributions in the area of AI and its applications in the field of civil engineering presenting methods and implementation of AI and machine learning in multiple facets of civil engineering"-



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E-BooksArtemis



Artemis
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English | ISBN: 0367001004 | 2018 | 184 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Artemis is a literary, iconographic, and archaeological study of the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt, who presided over the transitions and mediations between the wild and the civilized, youth and maturity, life and death. Beginning with a study of the early origins of Artemis and her cult in the Bronze and Archaic Ages, Budin explores the goddess' persona and her role in the lives of her worshippers.



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E-BooksArtaud's Theatre Of Cruelty



Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty
Free Download Albert Bermel, "Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty "
English | ISBN: 0413766608 | 2008 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The definitive guide to the life and work of Antonin Artaud



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E-BooksArt Deco Decorative Patterns in Full Color



Art Deco Decorative Patterns in Full Color
Free Download Christian Stoll, "Art Deco Decorative Patterns in Full Color "
English | ISBN: 0486448622 | 2006 | 64 pages | EPUB | 24 MB
Derived from various avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century, the Art Deco movement comprised a mix of Cubism, abstraction, distortion, and simplification. Geometric shapes and vibrant colors were popular elements of this sophisticated style of ornamentation that found expression in architecture and the applied arts.



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E-BooksArt + Archive Understanding the archival turn in contemporary art



Art + Archive Understanding the archival turn in contemporary art
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English | ISBN: 1526156857 | 2022 | 348 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns. Deftly combining writing on archives from different disciplines with artistic practices, the book clarifies the function and meaning of one of the most persistent artworld buzzwords of recent years, shedding light on the conceptual and historical implications of the so-called archival turn in contemporary art.



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E-BooksAround the World on a Bicycle



Around the World on a Bicycle
Free Download Around the World on a Bicycle by Fred A. Birchmore, David V. Herlihy
English | May 1, 2020 | ISBN: 0820357286 | 464 pages | MOBI | 31 Mb
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endurance and determination, Around the World on a Bicycle tells of a young cyclist's ever-changing and maturing worldview as he ventures through forty countries on the eve of World War II. It is an exuberant, youthful account, harking back to a time when the exploits of Richard Byrd, Amelia Earhart, and other adventurers stirred the popular imagination.



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E-BooksArithmetic Geometry



Arithmetic Geometry
Free Download Arithmetic Geometry by Gary Cornell, Joseph H. Silverman
English | PDF | 1986 | 359 Pages | ISBN : 0387963111 | 31.3 MB
This volume is the result of a (mainly) instructional conference on arithmetic geometry, held from July 30 through August 10, 1984 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. This volume contains expanded versions of almost all the instructional lectures given during the conference. In addition to these expository lectures, this volume contains a translation into English of Falt ings' seminal paper which provided the inspiration for the conference. We thank Professor Faltings for his permission to publish the translation and Edward Shipz who did the translation. We thank all the people who spoke at the Storrs conference, both for helping to make it a successful meeting and enabling us to publish this volume. We would especially like to thank David Rohrlich, who delivered the lectures on height functions (Chapter VI) when the second editor was unavoidably detained. In addition to the editors, Michael Artin and John Tate served on the organizing committee for the conference and much of the success of the conference was due to them-our thanks go to them for their assistance. Finally, the conference was only made possible through generous grants from the Vaughn Foundation and the National Science Foundation.



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E-BooksArena The Story of the Colosseum



Arena The Story of the Colosseum
Free Download Arena: The Story of the Colosseum By John Pearson
2011 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1448207991 | EPUB | 3 MB
This electronic edition published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Reader.In the year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.As well as his vivid account of the erection of the Colosseum, Mr. Pearson discusses the origins of death spectacles and their evolution into highly organized games intended to enhance imperial prestige and provide the populace with an effective substitute for politics and war. 'Butchered to make a Roman holiday', the victims of this lust for slaughter were slaves and criminals, the human surplus of their day, coached for an almost certain death. One chapter highlights the perverted death-wish of many early would-be martyrs and decisively establishes that there is no evidence for the death of a single Christian martyr in the Colosseum.The book concludes with a brief survey of the building's subsequent history; looted and despoiled yet still the embodiment of Rome's spirit and greatness, it became a sublime romantic ruin, now exposed by slum-clearance as a gigantic traffic island. Mr Pearson is acutely aware of the violence that was endemic in Roman society, and in his shrewd analysis he draws disturbing parallels with the twentieth-century situation.



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