Female Spectatorship and the Masquerade: Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills

Since the late 1970s Cindy Sherman has been one of the most prominent artists in the USA. She is a cult figure because of her chameleon-like masquerade in a female imagery reminiscent of American and European cinema and western art. Her dramatic metamorphosis began with Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980), in which she acted out a variety of female roles from Hollywood and European movies. In the early 1980s she gradually transformed her image into horrific monsters and decaying matter. In the late 1980s Sherman assumed different male and female personas based on old master paintings. Since then, the subject matter of her pictures has increasingly been taken up by hybrid dolls with surreal or grotesque connotations. This paper attempts to venture back into the terrain of Untitled Film Stills that inaugurated Sherman's artistic career. This series of photographs has become one of the most prominent landmarks of feminist/postmodern art. I will propose a new interpretation against the grain of the established feminist readings of these photographs.     

Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction

Over the last four decades, the onset of computation has enabled architects and designers to employ generative patterns in their exploration of emergent social, material and spatial systems. Theodore Spyropoulos provides an overview of the field and discusses how it has been developed by the Design Research Lab (DRL) at the Architectural Association into an ‘Adaptive Ecologies’ agenda. In the context of parametric urbanism, the DRL has explored models of living through behavioural patterns found in nature, examining the role of the singular and the collective. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

光源显色指数的计算方法研究

光源的色温(相关色温)和显色性是评价光源的颜色特性的重要参数。通常情况下,用显色指数来评价光源显色性。计算显色指数是一个烦杂的过程,比较了三种计算光源显色指数的方法,鉴于标准的计算显色指数的方法需要庞大的数据表,特征矢量法引入的大量计算,和沃尔特斯法中拟和系数不准确性等等缺点,通过对这几种方法的综合得到一种更简便易行的计算方法。     

Orchard Building,Bedales School

The new classroom and administration building by Walters and Cohen for Bedales School also acts as a new entrance for the campus. Jeremy Melvin describes how as such the architecture is ‘symbolically as well as functionally significant’ in a manner that is in keeping with the school's ethos. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Richard Haig Walters.

Presents an obituary for Dr. Richard Haig Walters whose death on December 27th, 1967 shocked and saddened his many friends. Dr. Walters was the first permanent chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo; a director of the Canadian Psychological Association and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the British Psychological Association. In the year prior to his death, he was Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Oxford University. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)