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The Expert Witness and the Applications of Science and of Art to Human Identification, Criminal Investigation, Civil Actions


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2019 | 254 Pages | ISBN: 1334297347 | PDF | 2 MB
Excerpt from The Expert Witness and the Applications of Science and of Art to Human Identification, Criminal Investigation, Civil ActionsIN some respects this book may be regarded as a sequel to my Science and the Criminal, part of which was also concerned with the problems of circumstantial proof, but in its more restricted field its scope is wider, since it discusses not only the methods of scientific proof, but also specialised evidence of every kind.Although the word expert is tending to fall into disuse in America, there is no word in this country which quite covers the same ground, for it connotes a special form of evidence, which, by the way, may be far from justifying its description of expert in the sense of skilled.The book owes much to the kindness of those who have allowed me to make use of their material and illustrations. In particular, I wish to thank Messrs. Wilder and Wentworth, and their publisher, Mr. R. Badger, for the readiness with which they gave me permission to quote from their standard work Personal Identification, and also for various communications and photographs which they have sent me privately.On writing the chapter on Experts in Art, I have been indebted to Major Kaye for the loan of the blocks of radiographs of Old Masters, which he kindly put at my disposal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more atwww.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Painting the Dark Side Art and the Gothic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America


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English | 2006 | pages: 349 | ISBN: 0520249879, 0520238214 | PDF | 173,1 mb
Voices from the dark, or "gothic," side of American life are well known through the work of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But who were the Poes of American art? Until now, art historians have for the most part seen the gothic as the province of misfits and oddballs who rejected the bright landscapes and cheerful scenes of everyday life depicted by Hudson River School and other mainstream painters. In Painting the Dark Side, Sarah Burns counters this view, arguing that far from being marginal, the gothic was a pervasive and potent visual language used by recognized masters and eccentric outsiders alike to express the darker facets of history and the psyche. A deep gothic strain in the visual arts becomes evident in these beautifully written, richly illustrated pages, illuminating the entire spectrum of American art.

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The Art of Misadventure


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English | October 26, 2022 | ISBN: 1771604638 | 208 pages | PDF | 5.16 Mb
Experience the quirky missteps, humorous adventures, and professional development of a renowned Canadian photographer in this entertaining memoir.

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The Art and Soul of Dune


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English | October 22, 2021 | ISBN: 1647221552 | True PDF | 240 pages | 198 MB
Immerse yourself in the world of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and discover the incredible creative journey that brought Frank Herbert’s iconic novel to the big screen.

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THE ART OF BUSINESS


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English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BQ6XVTN2 | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Are you ready to take the next step in your business journey?

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Art Hiding in Paris An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light


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English | November 29, 2022 | ISBN: 0762480661 | 272 pages | PDF | 56 Mb
Explore masterpieces hidden in plain sight, historic artist enclaves, and iconic works of public art in this charmingly illustrated exploration of Paris, from the authors ofArt Hiding In New York.

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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media


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2008 | 374 Pages | ISBN: 0674024451 | PDF | 16 MB
Benjamin’s famous ‘Work of Art’ essay sets out his boldest thoughts–on media and on culture in general–in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the machine age morph into literature and theory and then back again to images, gestures, and thought.This essay, however, is only the beginning of a vast collection of writings that the editors have assembled to demonstrate what was revolutionary about Benjamin’s explorations on media. Long before Marshall McLuhan, Benjamin saw that the way a bullet rips into its victim is exactly the way a movie or pop song lodges in the soul.This book contains the second, and most daring, of the four versions of the ‘Work of Art’ essay the one that addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. The collection tracks Benjamin’s observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. The volume contains some of Benjamin’s best-known work alongside fascinating, little-known essays–some appearing for the first time in English. In the context of his passionate engagement with questions of aesthetics, the scope of Benjamin’s media theory can be fully appreciated.

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The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent


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2014 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 0292753152 | PDF | 48 MB
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or "crowned nuns," that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death. This study identifies these portraits as markers of a vibrant and changing society that fused together indigenous and Euro-Christian traditions and ritual practices to construct a new and complex religious identity that was unique to New Spain.To discover why crowned-nun portraits, and especially the profession portrait, were in such demand in New Spain, this book offers a pioneering interpretation of these works as significant visual contributions to a local counter-colonial discourse. James M. Cordova demonstrates that the portraits were a response to the Spanish crown’s project to modify and modernize colonial society–a series of reforms instituted by the Bourbon monarchs that threatened many nuns’ religious identities in New Spain. His analysis of the portraits’ rhetorical devices, which visually combined Euro-Christian and Mesoamerican notions of the sacred, shows how they promoted local religious and cultural values as well as client-patron relations, all of which were under scrutiny by the colonial Church. Combining visual evidence from images of the "crowned nun" with a discussion of the nuns’ actual roles in society, Cordova reveals that nuns found their greatest agency as Christ’s brides, a title through which they could, and did, challenge the Church’s authority when they found it intolerable.

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