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Front of a postcard featuring the cross view of a very large felled tree in front of a leafy green background. On the cross section of the tree, nine white text boxes label different rings on the tree with dates and events. Tree Rings and Blood Lines Sally Promey Article
Planning drawing for Hilma af Klimt's Temple Material Objects
Postcard of labeled California redwood cross-section, tree felled in 1987 near Jordan Creek on the “Avenue of Giants.” Material Objects
img Depicting Kongo and Angola in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Cécile Fromont Article
A figure with long, dark, curly hair is seated facing away from the viewer, draped in material covered in calligraphy. The same material covers the background of the image, and the figure's right hand is raised, holding a pen, writing on the material. Corporealizing Moroccan Place Ellen Amster Article
Stone path in an old cemetery, surrounded by dark trees, fog, and headstones and monuments of various sizes. Material Economies of Life-Time: Grief, Injury, Expiation, Desire Tracy Fessenden, Hillary Kaell, and Alexia Williams Article
Dr. Levitt pictured, shoulders up, in a purple shirt and glasses, reading from Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts from her office. A Photograph in Words Laura Levitt Article
A still from a YouTube video features a choir, symphony orchestra, and conductor on the Carnegie Hall stage Pausing on a Sunday: What Kind of Secular is the American Musical? Kathryn Lofton Article
View of bright, open building with white rafters pointed steeply at the roof. People, seen from a distance, walk through the space. A Closing Conversation Sarah Rivett and Lerone Martin Article
Long brown hair fastened with bejeweled rose clip, photographed from the back with shoulders--in blue and pink floral top--in frame The Intimate Ironies of the Wifey: Material Religion and the Body Ellen Amster, Dusty Gavin, and Suzanne van Geuns Article
Frontispiece to Claude d'Abbeville, Histoire de la Mission Material Objects
Abstract painting with a circle at its centre divided up into segments of block colour Designing Risk, Accumulating Failure: Purgatory, the Planned, and Primitive Accumulation Kati Curts, Emily Floyd and Paul Johnson Article