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Arts, Volume 7, Issue 3

September 2018 - 28 articles

Cover Story: In 10th-century Córdoba, mathematics—and geometry in particular—was applied to the design of architecture in innovative ways to organize ground plans and elevations, as a way to measure the human field of view, and as a means of decoration. Based in part on my own research at Madinat al-Zahra, I attempt to trace this “mathematical turn” in architectural design back to a specific, novel concept of space, a concept that pointed the way towards new possibilities of designing architecture, possibilities which were to be tested further in Gothic and Renaissance architecture. View this paper
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Articles (28)

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10,680 Views
14 Pages

13 August 2018

Healthy romantic relationships contribute to human physical health and emotional well-being. Technologies that catalyze human sexuality such as silicone sex toys and video-conferencing are increasingly common today, and disruptive sexological artifac...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,155 Views
36 Pages

13 August 2018

This methodological study assesses the potential for automatically generated data, netnographic data and market data on metal-detecting to advance cultural property criminology. The method comprises the analysis of open sources that have been identif...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,278 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2018

Our future effects on the earth, in light of the Anthropocene, are all dire expressions of a depleted world left in piles of detritus and toxic ruin—including the diminished human as an assemblage of impoverished existence, yet adumbrating that...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
26,771 Views
21 Pages

8 August 2018

My first exposure to the epigraphic program of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, published in 2001, came from reading an article on the ideological meaning of the decoration and the Quranic citations inscribed in al-Ḥakam II’s addition to the buildi...

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2 Citations
4,732 Views
17 Pages

3 August 2018

Because of the numerous types of world heritage that currently exist, UNESCO divides them into four categories: cultural heritage, natural heritage, cultural and heritage dual heritage, and cultural landscape heritage. Taiwan’s Cultural Heritag...

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3 Citations
11,703 Views
15 Pages

1 August 2018

The main objective of this article is to reflect on the importance and influence of the Andalusian cultural legacy during the years of the Almohad dominance in the Islamic West. To do this, I will examine the written Arabic documentation and those ma...

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Arts - ISSN 2076-0752