Economic circumstances of the performing artist: Baumol and Bowen thirty years on

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作客启功先生"坚净居"

阳春三月,我首次来到启功先生那著名的"坚净居"。从侯刚先生《启功》一书中得知,启功先生有一方砚,上有铭文: "一拳之石取其坚,一勺之水取其净。"先生取砚石之坚,勺水之净,将自己的书房取名"坚净居"。"坚"应为先生做人的风骨,而"净"则为先生一生的道德修为。看先生虽然九旬有一,却有如孩童般纯净的气质,确实有如水之净,而言谈语吐间自然流露的鲜明的是非标准,着实让人感受到拳石之坚。     

Introduction to the Plenary Session on the 30th Anniversary of The Performing Arts: An Economic Dilemma by Baumol and Bowen — Ninth International Conference on Cultural Economics Boston 8–11 May 1996

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Digital modeling of world's first known length reference unit: The Nippur cubit rod

It is a fact that the most important thing for transmitting cultural heritage to posterity starts with a sensitive documentation step. Up to the present, there have been many developments in documentation of cultural heritage by developing technology, and contemporary documentation techniques have progressed speedily. Nowadays besides of a sensitive documentation, rapidness has gain importance for the sake of time and cost. Because of these facts, the techniques that provide fast and reliable documentation and modeling like digital close-range photogrammetry and laser scanning became preferable with respect to classical architectural methods. In this paper, the studies of precise measurement, 3D modeling and documentation of Nippur Cubit is presented. The Nippur cubit–the first known standard measure of length–was a heavy copper bar, unearthed at Nippur on the Euphrates River dating from about 2650 B.C. This ancient measuring device is nowadays exposed in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. For the purpose of 3D modeling and archiving of the mentioned object, digital close-range photogrammetry and laser scanning technology were applied and results obtained from these two techniques were compared.     

The Grudging Modernizer: A Trip to the Middle East and Cold War Social Science

Minerva - The postwar era is generally recognized as a unique moment of impetuous growth of the social sciences, due to the interest of Western internationalist elites in the development of a set...