Enigma as Art

HIV, TB and ART: the CD4 enigma

1 This is a development of a presentation given by Brian Williams at the ‘Modelling and Quantitative Research Priorities’ meeting of the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC), funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 28th and 29th September 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa Abstract The concentration of CD4+ T-lymphocytes (CD4 count) in a person’s plasma is widely used to decide ...

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Reflections on the Ontology of Mass Art as Avant-garde Art

The aesthetics of “everyday experience” is made by a paradigm that defines the duality of the Elite art/low-class art by focusing on the art of the majority/minority, based on the desire of the urban middle class, It has been put as the art of the people in opposition to the art of avant-garde. The study is based on reflections on possibility of finding the main origin between the art of the ma...

Art as Communication