293 research outputs found
Art, Biography, Sexuality: Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan
No full textThis critical review forms a reflection on the research published within the following publications:
Patrick Procktor: Art and Life (Unicorn Press, 2010)
Keith Vaughan: The Mature Oils 1946-1977, (Sansom & Co., 2012)
The research is on two artists, Patrick Procktor (1936-2003), and Keith Vaughan (1912-1977). The monograph on Procktor – previously one of the least documented of the generation of artists who came to prominence in London in the Sixties – positions him in a history of art from which he had been notably absent. The research on Vaughan asserts a new reading of his work, one that is both deeper and more nuanced in its analysis of the ways in which personal experience and sexuality are encoded autobiographically within his work. Crucially, in both artists biography and work are symbiotically linked; the research therefore examines the links between life and art.
Revisionary in intent, the work examines trajectories of experience of gay British (or rather, English) artists in the twentieth century, artists who sought to express themselves and forge careers within the constraints of a heteronormative society, albeit one in which attitudes to sexuality were undergoing change. As gay men, both were constrained by the social mores of their times, and each used painting as a means to affirm personal and sexual identities. A key research interest is in the ways in which sexuality and persona are reflected in critical responses to the artist’s work: in Vaughan, Procktor and other gay male artists of the period. The writing on both Procktor and Vaughan examines the relationship between their personal and professional/artistic lives, framed within a broader socio-political and art historical context. It asserts the place of biography as a means to understand and form new readings of the work. The work adds substantially to the literature and wider discourse on post-war British painting and social history
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Kinematic analysis of outcrop-scale structures, southern Big Sur segment of Highway 1, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, California
No full textThe Nacimiento Block is located in the Southern Coast Ranges of California, and consists mainly of Franciscan Complex accretionary prism rocks. It is cross-cut by the San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone, a major right-lateral strand of the San Andreas Fault System. The Nacimiento Block is bounded on the east by the Nacimiento Fault, of debated timing and kinematics, which separates it from the Salinian Block. The Salinian Block is a piece of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, and both the Salinian and Nacimiento Blocks have been displaced from southern California by right-lateral slip on the San Andreas Fault System. To address the question of fault kinematics, a 48 kilometer long section of the Nacimiento Block was examined along California Highway 1 between Lopez Point and Ragged Point. Exposure occurs along approximately 20 kilometers of the transect, and landsliding obscures approximately half of the exposure. The remaining 10 kilometers of outcrop were mapped. Kinematic data were taken on 29 outcrops, totaling 542 minor faults, 406 with slickenlines and 258 with sense of slip indicators, along with 314 veins. Of the faults, 202 are dip-slip (60-90° rake), 113 are oblique-slip (31-59° rake), and only 91 are strike-slip (0-30° rake). The dominant mode of minor faulting is normal, with 111 faults observed, compared to 25 reverse, 24 left-lateral, and 28 right-lateral strike-slip. Two sets of vein and one set of dike orientations were measured. Stereographic analysis reveals the normal and reverse faults dip steeply to the southwest and strike northwest-southeast, subparallel to the coast and San Gregorio-Hosgri and Nacimiento Faults. There is no dominant orientation to the strike-slip faults. Faults of all types cut 17 slab-window related andesitic dikes, which are likely Early Miocene in age according to apatite and zircon fission track ages. The character of all fault planes is similar, indicating they are coeval. Three stages of deformation are recognized. Subduction generated mélange, the dominant lithology in this area, and "broken formations". A second stage of deformation is recorded in the emplacement of dikes and one set of veins. A third stage of deformation is recorded in the minor planar faults that were measured in this study. It is proposed that this latest phase of deformation is caused by the gravitational collapse of the western edge of the Santa Lucia Range. The normal faults parallel the coastline and local slope angles are up to 40°. Coeval strike-slip associated with the San Gregorio-Hosgri Fault Zone is superimposed on this deformation. Apatite fission track ages (n=3) indicate that the dikes mapped along Highway 1 cooled to 110°C at approximately 11 Ma. This indicates an unroofing rate on the order of 300 m/my. This anomalously fast unroofing is accomplished by side-inwards gravitational collapse and erosionEarth and Planetary Science
Measurement of ocular surface protection under natural blink conditions
No full textabstract: Purpose: To evaluate a new method of measuring ocular exposure in the context of a natural blink pattern through analysis of the variables tear film breakup time (TFBUT), interblink interval (IBI), and tear film breakup area (BUA).
Methods: The traditional methodology (Forced-Stare [FS]) measures TFBUT and IBI separately. TFBUT is measured under forced-stare conditions by an examiner using a stopwatch, while IBI is measured as the subject watches television. The new methodology (video capture manual analysis [VCMA]) involves retrospective analysis of video data of fluorescein-stained eyes taken through a slit lamp while the subject watches television, and provides TFBUT and BUA for each IBI during the 1-minute video under natural blink conditions. The FS and VCMA methods were directly compared in the same set of dry-eye subjects. The VCMA method was evaluated for the ability to discriminate between dry-eye subjects and normal subjects. The VCMA method was further evaluated in the dry eye subjects for the ability to detect a treatment effect before, and 10 minutes after, bilateral instillation of an artificial tear solution.
Results: Ten normal subjects and 17 dry-eye subjects were studied. In the dry-eye subjects, the two methods differed with respect to mean TFBUTs (5.82 seconds, FS; 3.98 seconds, VCMA; P = 0.002). The FS variables alone (TFBUT, IBI) were not able to successfully distinguish between the dry-eye and normal subjects, whereas the additional VCMA variables, both derived and observed (BUA, BUA/IBI, breakup rate), were able to successfully distinguish between the dry-eye and normal subjects in a statistically significant fashion. TFBUT (P = 0.034) and BUA/IBI (P = 0.001) were able to distinguish the treatment effect of artificial tears in dry-eye subjects.
Conclusion: The VCMA methodology provides a clinically relevant analysis of tear film stability measured in the context of a natural blink pattern.The final version of this article, as published in Clinical Ophthalmology, can be viewed online at: https://www.dovepress.com/measurement-of-ocular-surface-protection-under-natural-blink-condition-peer-reviewed-article-OPT
Pascal and Wittgenstein : common epistemological elements in the Pensées and On certainty.
No full textThe guiding intuition behind this disquisition is that Blaise Pascal and Ludwig Wittgenstein are similar philosophers with similar philosophies. This intuition is not argued in its entirety here. Instead, the author seeks to establish a limited version of this intuition as his thesis; viz., that Wittgenstein and Pascal share six elements of their theories of knowledge. The author executes a demonstration of this thesis by contrasting Wittgenstein's epistemology with G. E. Moore's and contrasting Pascal's epistemology with Rene Descartes'. By showing that Wittgenstein's epistemology contrasts with G. E. Moore's in the same way that Pascal's epistemology contrasts with Descartes', the author is able to conclude that Wittgenstein's theory of knowledge is indeed similar to Pascal's with respect to the six elements mentioned above
Pascal and Wittgenstein : common epistemological elements in the Pensées and On certainty.
No full textThe guiding intuition behind this disquisition is that Blaise Pascal and Ludwig Wittgenstein are similar philosophers with similar philosophies. This intuition is not argued in its entirety here. Instead, the author seeks to establish a limited version of this intuition as his thesis; viz., that Wittgenstein and Pascal share six elements of their theories of knowledge. The author executes a demonstration of this thesis by contrasting Wittgenstein's epistemology with G. E. Moore's and contrasting Pascal's epistemology with Rene Descartes'. By showing that Wittgenstein's epistemology contrasts with G. E. Moore's in the same way that Pascal's epistemology contrasts with Descartes', the author is able to conclude that Wittgenstein's theory of knowledge is indeed similar to Pascal's with respect to the six elements mentioned above
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A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America
No full textUpon signing the first U.S. arms agreement with Israel in 1962, John F. Kennedy assured Golda Meir that the United States had “a special relationship with Israel in the Middle East,” comparable only to that of the United States with Britain. After more than five decades such a statement might seem incontrovertible—and yet its meaning has been fiercely contested from the start.A Shadow over Palestine brings a new, deeply informed, and transnational perspective to the decades and the cultural forces that have shaped sharply differing ideas of Israel’s standing with the United States—right up to the violent divisions of today. Focusing on the period from 1960 to 1985, author Keith P. Feldman reveals the centrality of Israel and Palestine in postwar U.S. imperial culture. Some representations of the region were used to manufacture “commonsense” racial ideologies underwriting the conviction that liberal democracy must coexist with racialized conditions of segregation, border policing, poverty, and the repression of dissent. Others animated vital critiques of these conditions, often forging robust if historically obscured border-crossing alternatives.In this rich cultural history of the period, Feldman deftly analyzes how artists, intellectuals, and organizations—from the United Nations, the Black Panther Party, and the Association of Arab American University Graduates to James Baldwin, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Edward Said, and June Jordan—linked the unfulfilled promise of liberal democracy in the United States with the perpetuation of settler democracy in Israel and the possibility of Palestine’s decolonization
Writing and the rights of reality: usurpation and potentiality in Derrida, Plato, Nietzsche, and Beckett
No full textThe thesis critically evaluates Jacques Derrida's conferral of the rights of reality on writing, focussing on his theory of an arche-text in light of the speculative nature of this theory. The theory is initially considered in the context of Derrida's elucidation of the usurpatory status of writing within the Platonic and Nietzschean texts. This consideration reveals an admission of writing's usurpatory status by both writers while at the same time demonstrating their awareness of the intrinsically speculative nature of this view, the significance of writing lying in its ability to exteriorise the radically indeterminate status of consciousness m relation to reality rather than its ability to displace consciousness or reality The analyses, therefore, not only bring the Derridean hypothesis of a repressive or phonocentric metaphysical episteme into question but also exhibit the historical and philosophical role of potentiality in relation to writing, writing's ultimate significance lying in its capacity to exteriorise our existence as a mode of potentiality. Accordingly, in the second half of the thesis the Derridean theory of writing is countered with a specifically Aristotelian theory of the text as it is exhibited in the prose of Samuel Beckett, an author whose significance lies in his close alignment with Derridean theory within contemporary criticism. It is demonstrated that this identification has obviated an awareness of the significance of potentiality within the Beckettian text, his work consequently being appraised in the previously neglected context of Aristotelian metaphysics
Gerard Edwards Smith, Butters, Sandgate, [Kent], to Sir James Edward Smith
No full textEncouraged to write to Smith by the "persevering attention bestowed by [Smith] upon the progress & the wishes of young botanists, of which he possess so many solid proofs in [Smith's] works".
Discusses apparent ambiguity in earlier editions of "English botany" and "English flora" over the 'Ophrys' species considered 'O. apifera' by Haller and 'O. adrachnites' by Professor Murray; errors respecting localities; encloses sketches, to be returned; William Hutchinson of Hythe, [Kent], [Patrick] Keith [(1769-1840)] author of "Physiological Botany", Robert Price of Lyminge, [Kent], and himself all think it is variety of 'O. apifera'; detailed history and observations.
Provides localities for various local plants
The Thames Gateway paradox
No full textWould Patrick Abercrombie turn in his grave? In the 1940s the reformer, planner and author of both the County of London Plan and the Greater London Plan had the temerity to attempt to rationalise London through mapping its future, choreographing city spaces and land uses down to the smallest plot sizes. In recent years various bullish authors writing about the future of the city have suggested that the capital will be the site of sustained employment and population growth over the next two decades. At the same time, they are much more vague than Abercrombie about its spatial configuration
Latin America's experience with export subsidies
No full textTwenty years ago, it ws believed that export subsidies would produce more diversification and better export performance. This has not happened. In most cases, export subsidies were not supported by more open import policies - so subsidies reduced only marginally the anti-export bias of Latin American countries. Unstable real exchange rates have also hurt exports. Export subsidies appear to have improved exports in Brazil, which also liberalized imports, stabilized exchange rates, and promoted other policies conducive to export growth. Yet Mexico, after reducing import barriers, also enjoyed improved exports - with minimum export subsidies, and with apparently lower social costs than Brazil experienced. Export subsidies have failed in other Latin American countries - and particularly hurt development in Argentina, where fraud, corruption, and rent-seeking have been rampant. The author contends that the failure of export subsidies should remind us of the importance of distinguishing what is possible from what is likely. Finally, export subsidies compete with other government programs, and, considering their failure rate, the money might be better spent on infrastructure, health, and education projects.Tax Law,Economic Theory&Research,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Stabilization
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