Historical Dynamics of Developing Decorative and Applied Arts: Culturological Aspects

Digital archive project to catalogue exported Japanese decorative arts

Japanese ceramic and lacquer objects have been collected and used as interior decorations in Europe since the early seventeenth century, and in the nineteenth century the fashion for Japonisme saw a boom of importing various Japanese decorative arts. Museums and private collections all over the world have rich holdings of Japanese decorative arts, however, the systematic research of Japanese de...

Applied Rheology in the Protective and Decorative Coatings Industry

The success of a wide range of commercial products and industrial processes depends on meeting specific flow requirements. Industrial applied rheology attempts to relate fundamental properties to fitness-for-use of fluids of commerce. Architectural and industrial coatings, molded plastics, adhesives, personal care products and cosmetics, inks, cement, drilling muds, ceramic slips, solder pastes...

Mme. de Pompadour: Self Promotion and Social Performance through Architecture and the Decorative Arts

Historical aspects of anxiety

"Anxiety" is a key term for behavioral, psychoanalytic, neuroendocrine, and psychopharmacological observations and theories. Commenting on its historical aspects is difficult, since history is properly a study of primary data. Unfortunately, much clinical anecdote does not correspond to factual records of a long time ago. Even reports of objective studies may suffer from allegiance effects. Thi...

Historical aspects of migraine.

The student of medicine first encountering the migraine literature will immediately perceive the extraordinary amount written, and will sense an unspoken frustrated fascination-a sort of blighted curiosity which pervades many accounts and descriptions. Enlightened self interest may explain some of the attention shown by physicians, since the incidence in our profession is as high as 30%. It is ...