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6 days ago · Although he taught in Montreal from 1967 to 1979 and was a research fellow at the Getty Center in Santa Monica in the early 1990s, the Swiss historian of art, architecture, and urbanism André Corboz (1928–2012) remains relatively unknown to North American practitioners and scholars, perhaps because few of his writings have been translated and made available in English. In the French ...
May 23, 2024 · One of the oldest fragments of a Hebrew manuscript written and preserved in Europe is probably a Latin palimpsest written on fragments of a Hebrew roll which contained liturgy for Yom Kippur. Estimated to date from about the beginning of the eighth century, it is preserved at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
May 27, 2024 · “Palimpsest” (according to the American Heritage dictionary I received for Christmas when I was 12 years old) means the following: "A written document, typically on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of earlier, imperfectly erased writing still visible, remnants of this kind being a major source for the…
1 day ago · Using the metaphor of the palimpsest, the thesis opens with an in-depth analysis of the building, uncovering layers of physical, social and artistic histories embedded within its walls. The project then focusses on four case studies, using a close reading of archival and secondary sources, as well as an examination of installation photographs ...
4 days ago · An outdoor advertising company wants to erase a historic (and legally protected) wall sign in Tribeca, but preservationists are saying, “not so fast.” The wall in question is at 109 West Broadway, at the corner of Reade Street, where a faded three-story billboard of uncertain origin and ...
5 days ago · Drawing from the concept of the palimpsest as used by Abdelfattah Kilito to define the structure of the narrative, the article argues that it comprises layers of separate but interconnected narratives accommodating divergent and at times contradictory viewpoints on the journey motif that can emerge in isolation in a single story.
May 22, 2024 · Critical constitutional law uses the metaphor of the palimpsest to study law and the search for essential origins. In antiquity, a palimpsest was a document treated with chemicals or scrubbed to erase the original text. This allowed the document to be recycled and written anew. Yet, some documents still retained faint images of the original text.
