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Updates in the flora of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean)
Get PDFDuring the last 5 years, this author has been involved in the research and exploration of the flora of the
Maltese islands in order to create and update the website http://www.maltawildplants.com. This paper
consists of several important discoveries of new populations of very rare or endangered floral species for
the Maltese Islands which were recorded during field surveys to collect material for this website. It also
includes the species Calendula bicolor Rafin., which is a new record for the Maltese islands.peer-reviewe
Flora Tristan Life Stories
No full textFlora Tristan is best known as a nineteenth century French social critic and reformer. Her writings can be seen as a precursor to Marxism and Feminism. Flora Tristan: Life Sories by Susan Grogan, investigates the life of Flora Tristan through an exploration of the way she represented herself in her own writings. The author also examines the portrayal of Flora Tristan in paintings and literature. Rather than adopting a chronological approach, the author surveys the personae of Flora Tristan through thematic chapters on her roles as author, socialist, traveller and "Mother of the Workers". She places Flora Tristan in the context of contemporary debates and ideas, adding to our understanding of the times in which Flora Tristan lived. Flora Tristan: Life Stories argues that Flora Tristan's self-representations were attempts to claim a role of authority and significance not open to women in the nineteenth century. This authoritative study also engages with attempts to re-evaluate the writing of biography and to explore the meaning of an individual life in historical context.Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- ContentsFlora Tristan is best known as a nineteenth century French social critic and reformer. Her writings can be seen as a precursor to Marxism and Feminism. Flora Tristan: Life Sories by Susan Grogan, investigates the life of Flora Tristan through an exploration of the way she represented herself in her own writings. The author also examines the portrayal of Flora Tristan in paintings and literature. Rather than adopting a chronological approach, the author surveys the personae of Flora Tristan through thematic chapters on her roles as author, socialist, traveller and "Mother of the Workers". She places Flora Tristan in the context of contemporary debates and ideas, adding to our understanding of the times in which Flora Tristan lived. Flora Tristan: Life Stories argues that Flora Tristan's self-representations were attempts to claim a role of authority and significance not open to women in the nineteenth century. This authoritative study also engages with attempts to re-evaluate the writing of biography and to explore the meaning of an individual life in historical context.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The Lecture Performance Is Dead, Hurray for the Lecture! (Or) Do Not Look to the Artist for Innovation, and Neither to the Scientist!
No full textThis contribution takes the form of a script for a fictional performance by two characters: flora lysen and antye guenther. This staged event takes place at the stedelijk museum in amsterdam, where the two characters perform, giving a presentation about their collaborative practice at a conference event organized by ted. The frame of the performance turns the museum visitors into members of the ted talk audience. Through the format of the performance script, this contribution engages with different genres of performing positioned between arts and academia (performative lectures, lecture performances, lectures, demonstrations, presentations). It explores a “show not tell” approach through demonstrating elements of “performativity” in lecturing (enacting, calling into being) by means of “performing” on paper (emphasising dramatic elements in dialogues, gestures, stage directions and stage design). The central theme of the performance is the possibility of collaborative work between visual artists and academic scholars, zooming in on differing perspectives on the relationship between content, form and performativity.keywordsperformance scriptarts-academia collaborationinterdisciplinarityperformativitylecture performanceperformative lecturingfictionalised ted talk
What to do with the “Most Modern” Artworks? Erwin Panofsky and the Art History of Contemporary Art
Get PDFIn the 1930s, when the world-renowned Medieval and Renaissance art scholar Erwin Panofsky became acquainted with the New York contemporary art scene, he was challenged with the most difficult dilemma for art historians. How could Panofsky, who was firmly entrenched in the kunstwissenschaftliche study of art, use his historical methods for the scholarly research of contemporary art? Can art historians deal with the art objects of their own time? This urgent and still current question of how to think about “contemporaneity” in relation to art history is the main topic of this paper, which departs from Panofsky’s 1934 review of a book on modern art. In his review of James Johnson Sweeny’s book Plastic Redirections in 20th Century Painting, Panofsky’s praise for Sweeney’s scholarly “distance” from contemporary art developments in Europe is backed by a claim for America’s cultural distance, rather than a (historical) removal in time. Taking a closer look at Panofsky’s conflation of historical/temporal distance with geographical/cultural distance, this paper demonstrates a politically situated discourse on contemporaneity, in which Panofsky proposes the act of writing about the contemporary as a redemptive act, albeit, as this paper will demonstrate, without being able to follow his own scientific method. </div
Brainmedia:One hundred years of performing live brains, 1920–2020
Get PDFBrainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020 examines how scientists, science educators, and artists perform conceptions of the “brain at work.” My main argument is that approaching the history of brain and mind sciences as a history of live brains helps to see the extent of media’s imbrication in thinking the brain at work – not only of (clinical and laboratory) visualization technologies, but also of recording and broadcast media. By describing and analyzing assemblages of brains and media in particular historical contexts as brainmedia, I show how specific practices of and ideas about mediation impacted how scientists, science educators and artists conceptualized and demonstrated the active human brain. Five key historical case studies substantiate my thesis. I analyze illuminated brain models from the 1920s until the 30s; staged brainwave recordings from the 30s to the 40s; live brains on television and conceptions of brains as television in the 40s and 50s; EEG feedback circuits and the rise of real-time interfaces around 1970; and “brain-to-brain” art-science experiments between 2013 and 2019. In my analysis of live brains, I move away from a confined view of scientific (brain) image making. Instead, I establish the urgency of analyzing performing knowledges of the live brain. My study moves between scientists conceptualizing active brains in laboratories and scientific publications, and practices of demonstrating and exhibiting live brains in public. This approach allows me to analyze the politics of fascination that impact how publics are asked to engage with brainmedia
Get up, stand up: art's affordances for unseating and unsettling
No full textIn response to Erik Rietveld's text "The affordances of art for making technologies," this commentary probes art's affordances for what Rietveld calls behavioral "changeability." I ask, how can a view of art's affordances help to better understand collective and relational affects and habitual behaviors? Can artworks help to "radically change the affordances available in our surroundings," to generate collective social action and behavioral change
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