Abraham Lincoln and the Movies
From American Nineteenth Century History By Melvyn Stokes Abstract Comparatively little work has been done on how Abraham Lincoln has been represented in American cinema. Yet movies have been a major – and during the first half of the twentieth century probably the major – influence on how his memory has been constructed in American ...
An algebra for periodic rhythms and scales
Story via Journal of Mathematics and Music. By Emmanuel Amiot and William A. Sethares Abstract This paper shows how scale vectors (which can represent either pitch or rhythmic patterns) can be written as a linear combination of columns of scale matrices, thus decomposing the scale into musically relevant intervals. When the scales or rhythms have ...
Stained Glass and the Culture of the Spectacle, 1780–1862
Story via Annals of Science. By Jasmine Allen Abstract Stained glass has been significantly overlooked in studies of nineteenth-century visual culture. This article examines the important role that stained glass played within ‘the era of public glass’ by exploring the dialogues between stained glass and ‘spectacle’ in the late Georgian and early Victorian periods. The ...
Hercules Firing Arrows at his Children
By Phin Upham “Hercules Firing Arrows at his Children,” by Antonio Canova, is a moving and masterful piece of art. The genius of this work lies not only in its subtle use of detail to convey meaning, but also in the way it conveys emotion. Painted with oil on paper in 1799 and glued to ...