I am a professional dancer, choreographer, and Alexander Technique instructor. I joined the Performing Arts faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in 1994, where I teach contemporary concert art dance and somatic practices. Dancing is fundamentally a study of coordination, balance, and movement control. Because these essential goals are shared in movement therapies, I have become interes...

It is widely recognised that the history of art reveals the contemporary attitudes of societies and artists to changing patterns of social and sexual behaviour. This collection of artistic creations shows that representations of syphilis in art, over more than five centuries, are consistent with this view. The first quarter century of the morbus gallicus in Europe, starting in 1493, coincided w...

printed in the modem style of double columns and on good art paper. It has attractive chapter headings, artistically arranged tables and is exceedingly well paginated. The text is eminently readable, the style is clear, and the information authoritative and up-to-date. The book is liberally illustrated throughout with well chosen tables and figures. Most of the illustrations are in black and wh...

Beijerinck's entirely new concept, launched in 1898, of a filterable contagium vivum fluidum which multiplied in close association with the host's metabolism and was distributed in phloem vessels together with plant nutrients, did not match the then prevailing bacteriological germ theory. At the time, tools and concepts to handle such a new kind of agent (the viruses) were non-existent. Beijeri...

“O homes were very decorative, full of...pattern... color....The people used this as a means of brightening their life,” said Jacob Lawrence, attributing his love of vibrant color design to his youth in Harlem (1). When asked if anyone in his family was artistically inclined, he would say no, “It’s only in retrospect that I realized I was surrounded by art. You’d walk Seventh Avenue and look in...

Spencer Smith In the mid–second century AD a well-educated, Latin-speaking North African named Lucius Apuleius composed an extended prose narrative that explores some of the foundational themes of the western intellectual tradition: the place of the human in the world, the nature of social order, the quest for spiritual identity—the very nature of being itself, as well as of the divine. Much to...

Cities have been inspirational for the creators of visual art works long since, first as mere secondary, additional motifs to indicate “urban” environment main scene, then subject-matters in their own right. Those images could depict both imaginary and actual cities past future, including mythological Biblical locations, documenting distant lands fantasizing on appearance utopian cities. In som...

This article is focused on the literary representation of historical memory about totalitarian past Ukraine in dystopias by Olexandr Irvanets. The aim research to analyze how phenomenon necropolitics, substantiatiated theory Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe as a sovereignty’s right decide who can live and must die, artistically reflected Irvanets’s works “Rivne / Rovno (The Wall)”, “Ochamymri...