L’enclos comme parcelle et totalité du monde : pour une approche holistique de l’art des jardins

S’appuyant sur le concept d’hétérotopie forgé par Michel Foucault, notre réflexion propose d’expliciter certains repères méthodologiques pour aborder le jardin à la fois en tant que système ouvert, matériel et vivant, par une confrontation indispensable avec l’in situ, compris dans la complexité de son intégration environnementale, et en tant que lieu de cristallisation de phénomènes et d’enjeux complexes. Leur analyse exige de poursuivre l’effort, engagé depuis quelques décennies, de décloisonner les disciplines susceptibles d’éclairer sa place dans la culture et la société d’une époque, les discours et les pratiques dont il forme le support.The paper draws on the concept of hétérotopie articulated by Michel Foucault. We wish to make certain methodological points explicit for a discussion of the garden. It can be seen as an open, material and living system, through an indispensable confrontation with the in situ, understood within the complexity of environmental integration. The garden can also be seen as the place where complex phenomena and issues are crystallised. In order to analyse this, we must continue the work carried out over the last few decades to cross disciplines which may clarify the role of the garden in the culture and society of the time, as well as the discourses and practices of which it is the foundation

Tumor-Associated Macrophages (TAMs) Form an Interconnected Cellular Supportive Network in Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma

BACKGROUND: A relationship between the increased density of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) and decreased survival was recently reported in thyroid cancer patients. Among these tumors, anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is one of the most aggressive solid tumors in humans. TAMs (type M2) have been recognized as promoting tumor growth. The purpose of our study was to analyze with immunohistochemistry the presence of TAMs in a series of 27 ATC. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Several macrophages markers such as NADPH oxidase complex NOX2-p22phox, CD163 and CD 68 were used. Immunostainings showed that TAMs represent more than 50% of nucleated cells in all ATCs. Moreover, these markers allowed the identification of elongated thin ramified cytoplasmic extensions, bestowing a "microglia-like" appearance on these cells which we termed "Ramified TAMs" (RTAMs). In contrast, cancer cells were totally negative. Cellular stroma was highly simplified since apart from cancer cells and blood vessels, RTAMs were the only other cellular component. RTAMs were evenly distributed and intermingled with cancer cells, and were in direct contact with other RTAMs via their ramifications. Moreover, RTAMs displayed strong immunostaining for connexin Cx43. Long chains of interconnected RTAMs arose from perivascular clusters and were dispersed within the tumor parenchyma. When expressed, the glucose transporter Glut1 was found in RTAMs and blood vessels, but rarely in cancer cells. CONCLUSION: ATCs display a very dense network of interconnected RTAMs in direct contact with intermingled cancer cells. To our knowledge this is the first time that such a network is described in a malignant tumor. This network was found in all our studied cases and appeared specific to ATC, since it was not found in differentiated thyroid cancers specimens. Taken together, these results suggest that RTAMs network is directly related to the aggressiveness of the disease via metabolic and trophic functions which remain to be determined

Gilbert Erouart, L'architecture au pinceau, Jean-Laurent Legeay, un Piranésien français dans l'Europe des Lumières, Collection « Essais et Documents » dirigée par Georges Teyssot

Mosser Monique. Gilbert Erouart, L'architecture au pinceau, Jean-Laurent Legeay, un Piranésien français dans l'Europe des Lumières, Collection « Essais et Documents » dirigée par Georges Teyssot. In: Bulletin Monumental, tome 141, n°3, année 1983. pp. 331-333

Le souper grec de Mme Vigée Le Brun

Monique Mosser : Mme Vigée Le Brun's Greek supper. The famous woman painter Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun, who held an important Parisian artistic salon in the rue de Clery, attempted to reconstitute a Greek supper after the publication of J. -J. Barthelemy's novel Le Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce in 1788. She thus symbolises the emergence of a new type of social figure — the leader of fashion. The account of this social event given by the artist in her Souvenirs reveals the close link between art and fashion. Apart from the draperies amd Etruscan vases, the disposition of this dinner reproduces «attitudes » and «tableaux vivants » which are essential for an understanding of the evolution of painting and theatrical design on the eve of the Revolution. Thus, a simple dinner can become a manifesto of Neoclassical art at its zenith.Mosser Monique. Le souper grec de Mme Vigée Le Brun. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°15, 1983. Aliments et cuisine. pp. 155-168

Morbid Symptoms : Arcadia and the French Revolution

To accompany James' photographs of French gardens of the second half of the 18th century, Mosser's essay embraces notions of the poetic, pastoral and romantic, rapture, ectasy and panic. The author uses both a myriad of references to period literature and art and notions of "the sublime allegorical idea", imaginary landscape and the readable labyrinth to draw the gardens, the photographs and her text into the same domain. 10 bibl. ref

Trois colonnes hiéroglyphiques, de J.-C. Delafosse

Mosser Monique. Trois colonnes hiéroglyphiques, de J.-C. Delafosse. In: Revue de l'Art, 1986, n°73. pp. 65-66

Jean Locquin : La peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785. Réédition précédée d'une biographie de l'auteur par Jacqueline Viaux-Locquin, 1978

Mosser Monique. Jean Locquin : La peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785. Réédition précédée d'une biographie de l'auteur par Jacqueline Viaux-Locquin, 1978. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°12, 1980. Représentations de la vie sexuelle. p. 571