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Record Nr.

UNINA9911117533403321

Autore

Olmsted Jennifer

Titolo

Delacroix's Moroccans : art and masculinity / / Jennifer W. Olmsted

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, PA : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9780271099491

0271099496

9780271099484

0271099488

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Disciplina

759.4

Soggetti

Masculinity in art

Men in art

Moroccans in art

Critiques d'art

Art criticism

Electronic books.

Morocco In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : revisiting Delacroix's orientalism -- From Chios to Tangier : the Ottoman influence -- Manly restraint : costume, classicism, and self-containment -- Men on horseback : military heroes of the Maghreb -- The sultan's authority : painting and politics at the Salon of 1845 -- Delacroix's Moroccans after 1845 : memory, imagination, and modern masculinity.

Sommario/riassunto

The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment is arguably Eugène Delacroix’s best-known work from his trip to Morocco in 1832, and the attention scholars have paid to it has obscured a crucial fact about Delacroix’s Moroccan subjects: most of his paintings of North Africa depict men rather than women.After serving as a diplomat’s companion on a mission to Morocco, Delacroix went on to devote over three-quarters of his massive North African oeuvre to the military prowess, effective



leadership, equestrian virtuosity, and elegant dress of Moroccan men. Using the evidence of his writings, sketches, and paintings, Olmsted argues that rather than embodying a typical colonialist fantasy, Delacroix’s paintings of Moroccan men instead show his subjects as models of heroic masculinity and political sovereignty, a position that ran counter to prevailing French attitudes toward North Africans. In this way, Delacroix’s Moroccans intervenes in the discourse of imperialism to examine the multiple, heterogeneous features of cultural response and provides nuanced readings of the artist’s work that support the idea that European constructions of non-European cultures were not monolithic.Olmsted’s multifaceted analysis creates a powerful and original understanding of Delacroix’s Moroccan oeuvre and a counternarrative to the colonialist imagery of his era. Through close attention to Delacroix’s paintings, drawings, and writings, as well as their historical and political contexts, this book illuminates the artist’s practice and offers a fresh avenue for assessing colonialism and art produced within colonial contexts.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911145795403321

Autore

Guo Haipeng

Titolo

Coastal groundwater system changes in response to large-scale land reclamation / / Haipeng Guo and Jiu J. Jiao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009

ISBN

1-60741-209-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JiaoJiu J

Disciplina

628.1/14

Soggetti

Reclamation of land - Environmental aspects

Groundwater flow

Groundwater - Quality

Coastal zone management

Estuarine hydrology

Saltwater encroachment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [81]-84) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Intro -- COASTAL GROUNDWATER SYSTEM CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO LARGE-SCALE LAND RECLAMATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- IMPACT OF LAND RECLAMATION IN AN EXTENSIVE LAND MASS -- 2.1. IMPACT OF RECLAMATION ON GROUND WATER LEVEL AND SALTWATER INTERFACE -- 2.1.1. Solution for Ground Water Level and Saltwater Interface -- 2.1.2. Numerical Verification and Comparison -- 2.1.3. Discussion of the Analytical Solutions -- 2.1.4. Hypothetical Example -- 2.1.5. Application: a Case Study in Shenzhen, China -- 2.2. IMPACT OF RECLAMATION ON GROUND WATER TRAVEL TIME -- 2.2.1. Analytical Solution for the Ground Water Travel Time before Reclamation -- 2.2.2. Analytical Solution for the Ground Water Travel Time after Reclamation -- 2.3. IMPACT OF RECLAMATION ON STREAMLINE PATTERN AND FLOW VELOCITY -- IMPACT OF LAND RECLAMATION IN AN ISLAND -- 3.1. IMPACT OF RECLAMATION ON GROUND WATER LEVEL AND SALTWATER INTERFACE -- 3.1.1. An Island Bounded Below by a Horizontal Impermeable Layer -- 3.1.2. An Island Bounded Below by Saltwater-freshwater Interface -- 3.2. IMPACT OF LAND RECLAMATION ON GROUND WATER TRAVEL TIME -- 3.2.1. Analytical Solution -- 3.2.2. Discussion of the Analytical Solutions -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

Most large urban centres lie in coastal regions, which are home to about 25% of the world's population. The current coastal urban population of 200 million is projected to almost double in the next 20 to 30 years. This expanding human presence has dramatically changed the coastal natural environment. To meet the growing demand for more housing and other land uses, land has been reclaimed from the sea in coastal areas in many countries, including China, Britain, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Coastal areas are often the ultimate discharge zones of regional ground water flow systems. The direct impact of land reclamation on coastal engineering, environment and marine ecology is well recognised and widely studied. However, it has not been well recognised that reclamation may change the regional groundwater regime, including groundwater level, interface between seawater and fresh groundwater, and submarine groundwater discharge to the coast. This book first reviews the state of the art of the recent studies on the impact of coastal land reclamation on ground water level and the seawater interface. Steady-state analytical solutions based on Dupuit and Ghyben-Herzberg assumptions have been derived to describe the modification of water level and movement of the interface between fresh groundwater and saltwater in coastal hillside or island situations. These solutions show that land reclamation increases water level in the original aquifer and pushes the saltwater interface to move towards the sea. In the island situation, the water divide moves towards the reclaimed side, and ground water discharge to the sea on both sides of the island increases. After reclamation, the water resource is increased because both recharge and the size of aquifer are increased. This book then derives new analytical solutions to estimate groundwater travel time before and after reclamation. Hypothetical examples are used to examine the changes of groundwater travel time in response to land reclamation. After reclamation, groundwater flow in the original aquifer tends to be slower and the travel time of the groundwater from any position in the original aquifer to the sea becomes longer for the situation of coastal hillside. For the situation of an island, the water will flow faster on the unreclaimed side, but more slowly on the reclaimed side. The impact of reclamation on groundwater travel time on the reclaimed side is much more significant than that on the unreclaimed



side. The degree of the modifications of the groundwater travel time mainly depends on the scale of land reclamation and the hydraulic conductivity of the fill materials.