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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Mapping Greek Villages: Neda
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Monday, May 26, 2014. Mapping Greek Villages: Neda. The process follows producing three different site-plans. The final pass involves zooming further into Google and extracting finer information about the buildings, including how they relate to one another, roof types, etc. Labels: Deserted Greek Villages. Dear Kostis: Drink a glass of Retsina for me! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Mystical K
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Friday, November 21, 2014. William Penn and Benjamin Franklin have dominated Pennsylvania's historical airwaves. Their no-nonsense Protestant ethic served well the ideology of the nation as it developed into a capitalist empire. It is particularly interesting how the majority of Philadelphia Quakers became Episcopalians in the 19th century, suggesting that Quaker spirituality became increasingly incompatible with the industrial state and...
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Craft: High/Low-Brow Conspiracy
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Wednesday, August 06, 2014. Bill Caraher has proposed a new blog series on Archaeology and Craft. But I'm not ready yet. What I'd like to note instead is this weekend's conversation in the New York Times. A. O. Scott's " The Squeeze on the Middlebrow. Relates class stratification to cultural taste. Inspired by Thomas Piketty's " Capital in the 21st Century. 1949) and elaborated on by Dwight Macdonald in " Masscult and Midcult. The New Archaeolog...
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Deserted Greek Villages: Hackman Research Fellowship Report
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Sunday, November 16, 2014. Deserted Greek Villages: Hackman Research Fellowship Report. For the remainder of the report, I will describe the specific activities that we carried out in each of the six sites. 1 Athenian Agora Excavations. 2 The Mount Lykaion Project and the Parrhasian Cultural Heritage Park. 3 The Western Argolid Project. 4 Ancient Corinth Excavations. 5 The Lidoriki Project. I hope this is of some help to you. There was another v...
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Papadiamantis Fireplace
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The fireplace is a central component in Greek vernacular architecture. I have begun a more systematic survey of 19th-century literature for its architectural references. The survey begins with the stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis. The edition of Papadiamantis that I have access to is the 1970 edition of Seferli. Labels: Deserted Greek Villages. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you can't be witty, then at least be...
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: O Young Building, Grand Forks ND
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Monday, August 03, 2015. O Young Building, Grand Forks ND. The Young store had an iron post on its other back corner, but it has been replaced with a newer steel column. A staircase leading to the basement on Demers Street features another iron element, a beautiful post for the railing, most likely manufactured by the same foundry (below):. North Dakota Man Camps. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World.
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: 5/1/15 - 6/1/15
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Pine, painted decoration, iron. Titus C. Creesy Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Summer is here, tenure has been granted, I rush to finish a sleuth of over-due articles, while also getting ready for another season of The Deserted Greek Village Project. After a hiatus, I feel compelled to return to blogging. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, A Colorful Folk. At Winterthur, and Framing Fraktur. Links to this post.
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Egon Schiele Portraits - Neue Galerie
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Egon Schiele Portraits - Neue Galerie. At Neue Galerie, New York. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. Piano Poetry Pantelis Politics music, literature, friends, resistance. If you can't be witty, then at least be bombastic. Immigrations–Ethnicities–Racial Situations. The Edge of the Village. Η Αφρική με Οποιοδήποτε Άλλο Όνομα. School's not out (yet).
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: 2/1/15 - 3/1/15
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Friday, February 20, 2015. Leon von Ossko: Lancaster's Orientalist. View of Funerary Complex of Qaytbay, Northern Cemetery, Cairo. By Leon von Ossko (1859-1906). The Phillips Museum of Art. At Franklin and Marshall College is a treasure-trove of artifacts that we are in the process of cataloging. July 17, 2015), Anderson offers a similar view published in Émile Prisse d’Avennes, L’art arabe. 1869-77), shown left. At the Philadelphia Museum of Ar...
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OBJECTS-BUILDING-SITUATIONS: Pine Door 1770
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MUSINGS ON ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY BY KOSTIS KOURELIS. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Pine, painted decoration, iron. Titus C. Creesy Collection. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Summer is here, tenure has been granted, I rush to finish a sleuth of over-due articles, while also getting ready for another season of The Deserted Greek Village Project. After a hiatus, I feel compelled to return to blogging. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, A Colorful Folk. At Winterthur, and Framing Fraktur. Immigrations–Eth...
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