A Content Analysis of Digital Art History Publishing Platforms

The landscape of art history publishing has vastly shifted in the past decade as it transitions to a digital world. While various constraints have hindered the growth of digital art history publishing, cultural institutions have now started to create comprehensive publications. This paper presents a content analysis of three different art history publishing platforms: the Getty Institute’s Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, Canadian Online Art Book Project, and Artifex Press. The results of the study show that the majority of the publications focus on white, male, Western artists reinforcing canonical ideas of art history. Important structural trends are apparent from the analysis that can be utilized to examine future publications. The conclusion of the paper highlights the various new publications that have emerged since the start of the project, further reinforcing the idea that art history publishing is truly at a tipping point in regard to the proliferation of digital formats.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Recovering Ornament in High Art: Tom Phillips's A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel

In 1966, British artist Tom Phillips began an artistic journey that spanned half a century; picking up a used book in a bookstore, Phillips meticulously altered each page of the work to create a new artist’s book titled A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel. Despite the fact that many scholars consider A Humument to be a canonical example of an altered artist’s book, there is a dearth in visual analysis scholarship on the work. In this thesis, I will be looking at Phillips’s theories of ornament through his lecture “The Nature of Ornament: A Summary Treatise” and demonstrate the ways in which he makes the case for a reinvigoration of ornament in high art throughout his artistic oeuvre, principally in A Humument.Master of Art

Purposely Induced Tics: Electrophysiology

Tics are non-rhythmic movements that can be simple or complex. Clinically, they may appear as quick voluntary movements (50–200 ms), but can also be longer and more sustained (>300 ms). These movements are often described as being predictable. An inner tension builds which is relieved by the movement in most cases, and the movement can be suppressed for some time. Most patients report a feeling of relief once they release the movement, and therefore do not prolong the suppression. Thus, to some extent, the movement is under voluntary control. Tics have been called “unvoluntary”; a movement between voluntary and involuntary behavior.4 Here we present a person who can purposely induce tics. Simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and electromyographic (EMG) activity were recorded to capture the Bereitschaftspotential (BP) to explore the physiology of this phenomenon

Les intersections primates : étude d’une architecture autre

Le sanctuaire de chimpanzés de la Fondation Fauna, situé à Carignan, Québec, ouvrait ses portes à quinze chimpanzés en 1997. Après avoir servi de cobayes de laboratoire pendant de longues années, ils arrivaient en sol québécois avec leurs cicatrices physiques et psychologiques pour y entamer une retraite bien méritée. Sur le terrain de Gloria Grow et Richard Allan, les fondateurs du sanctuaire, ils trouvaient une demeure au design étrange dont l’architecture avait été conçue tant en fonction de leurs besoins primaires que de leurs blessures. À travers la fréquentation prolongée d’espaces qui les avaient rendus esclaves de notre regard et, dans plusieurs cas, porteurs de nos propres maladies (dont le VIH), ils avaient en commun d’avoir été, pour ainsi dire, infectés d’humanité. Ce mémoire propose une analyse en profondeur de l’architecture complexe du sanctuaire de Fauna : une immense cage en mouvement. Sur la trace des différents milieux occupés par les chimpanzés de Fauna, j’aborderai leur sanctuaire en tant qu’« espèce » et œuvre d’art. D’après un avis municipal paru en 1999, le sanctuaire de Fauna exploite ses installations selon un permis de jardin zoologique et se conforme à certains des codes de sécurité des laboratoires de recherche biomédicale. La réflexion que je pose va en ce sens et présente le sanctuaire tel un amalgame constitué de certaines de leurs structures. Je démontrerai de quelles façons il se réapproprie des éléments du design de ces espaces de mort à travers un renversement total de leurs fonctions, exposant ainsi le sanctuaire comme un espace de vie synonyme d’espoir

Politics and the Criminal Enforcement of The Toxic Substances Control Act

Environmental crimes related to chemical substances are governed under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). When these violations involve significant harm or culpable conduct they may be remedied through criminal prosecution. While Democratic and Republican presidents have offered historically varied support for criminal enforcement, we know very little about how politics affects TSCA enforcement outcomes or TSCA criminal enforcement generally. To address these issues, we performed a content analysis of 2,728 criminal prosecutions from 1983-2021 that derive from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) criminal investigations and select all TSCA prosecutions. Results show 75 prosecutions were adjudicated, involving 137 defendants who were assessed 161 years in prison, 277 years of probation and directed to pay over $170 million in monetary penalties. Prosecutions and penalties trend upward for Republican presidents, but the stronger trend is one of structural disinvestment in criminal enforcement over decades spanning both political parties

Dissociation, shame, complex PTSD, child maltreatment and intimate relationship self-concept in dissociative disorder, chronic PTSD and mixed psychiatric groups.

Whilst a growing body of research has examined dissociation and other psychiatric symptoms in severe dissociative disorders (DDs), there has been no systematic examination of shame and sense of self in relationships in DDs. Chronic child abuse often associated with severe DDs, like dissociative identity disorder, is likely to heighten shame and relationship concerns. This study investigated complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), borderline and Schneiderian symptoms, dissociation, shame, child abuse, and various markers of self in relationships (e.g., relationship esteem, relationship depression, fear of relationships). Methods: Participants were assessed via clinical interview with psychometrically sound questionnaires. They fell into three diagnostic groups, dissociative disorder (n¼39; primarily dissociative identity disorder), chronic PTSD (Chr-PTSD; n¼13) or mixed psychiatric presentations (MP; n¼21; primarily mood and anxiety disorders). All participants had a history of child abuse and/or neglect, and the groups did not differ on age and gender. Results: The DD group was higher on nearly all measured variables than the MP group, and had more severe dissociative, borderline and Schneiderian symptoms than the Chr-PTSD sample. Shame and complex PTSD symptoms fell marginally short of predicting reductions in relationship esteem, pathological dissociative symptoms predicted increased relationship depression, and complex PTSD symptoms predicted fear of relationships. Limitations: The representativeness of the samples was unknown. Conclusion: Severe psychiatric symptoms differentiate DDs from chronic PTSD, while dissociation and shame have a meaningful impact on specific markers of relationship functioning in psychiatric patients with a history of child abuse and neglect