ion. However, unlike Cubism and Mondrian’s Cubist-influenced work of the same time, van der Leck’s works such as Mine Triptych (1916) or Donkey Riders (1917) (97) explore an uncompromisingly flat reduction of form. In a letter to the artist, van Doesburg hailed his work as an unprecedentedly ‘pure and mature application of the principles of plastic art [...] _the rhythmic translation of the uni...

This paper describes Pierre Janet’s pioneering work in the area of hypnosis which was based on suggestion and dissociation. Janet was the first to describe somnambulism as a phenomenon whereby two or more states of consciousness are dissociated by a cleft of amnesia and seem to operate independently of one another. Janet’s early understanding of rapport also had roots in dissociation in that th...

HILMA AF KLINT: SEEING IS BELIEVING Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Louise Belfrage Stockholm: Bokförlaget Stolpe, 2020 Pp. 152. CLOTH, $35.00. NOTES AND METHODS Christine Burgin. CHICAGO, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288. Cloth, $31.25. VISIONARY 124. $31.72. ARTIST, RESEARCHER, MEDIUM Iris Müller-Westermann Milena Høgsberg. Moderna Museet, Hatje Cantz Berlin, Germany: Verlag, 280. $...

The King of Bangkok (Sopranzetti, Fabbri & Natalucci 2021) is a non-fictional graphic novel, based on more than decade anthropological research and an attempt to think graphically through ethnography ethnographically comics. book, which was first published in Italian, then Thai, finally English, tells the story Nok, old blind man who sells lottery tickets Bangkok, as he decides leave city retur...

This paper examines the limits of Cynical parrhesia. Based on fieldwork with artist-activists in post-recession Dublin, I recount their fraught efforts to use adventurous artistic expression provoke a critical awakening an audience strangers, who instead respond derision. My focus is thus narrow but prevalent feature artists’ work and lives, public’s experience challenging genres provocative pu...

The pre-scientific assumptions and testable propositions of chiropractic have always been in flux. The earliest evolution of chiropractic metaphors and hypotheses, however, has been obscured by the unavailability of most of D.D. Palmer's writings from before the turn of the century. Viewed in combination with Palmer's later publications, these writings provide a glimpse of the founder's concept...

A serious discussion took place between P. Curie in Paris and E. Rutherford in Montreal from 1900 until 1904 through the medium of scientific publications. P. and M. Curie had observed that radium produces “induced radioactivity”, whereas, at the same time, Rutherford had observed that thorium emits a kind of “emanation”. P. Curie, performing different experiments with his collaborators, believ...

Traditionally, ritual has been studied from broad sociocultural perspectives, with little consideration of the psychological processes at play. Recently, however, psychologists have begun turning their attention to the study of ritual, uncovering the causal mechanisms driving this universal aspect of human behavior. With growing interest in the psychology of ritual, the current paper provides a...

With the widespread adoption of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, there has been a shift in the way information is produced and consumed. Earlier, the only producers of information were traditional news organizations, which broadcast the same carefully-edited information to all consumers over mass media channels. Whereas, now, in online social media, any user can be a producer of in...

Votive objects or actions, which are widely referred to as ex-votos, are made in thanksgiving to deities or miraculous beings for graces received. In an ex-voto, the completion of the vow constitutes a votive offering. The process of promising and completing a votive acts as a coping mechanism utilized both by individuals and by their communities. This article explores the votive traditions and...