PREGNANT WOMEN. VISIBILIZING A FEMALE EXPERIENCE

El tema de la maternidad ha sido ampliamente tratado en el arte occidental; baste con recordar que durante siglos la Madonna ha sido representada en multitud de ocasiones y que a partir del XVIII proliferan las maternidades laicas, muy vinculadas a la propagación del nuevo ideal burgués de la mujer, ángel del hogar. Sin embargo, en la maternidad hay un episodio que apenas ha sido representado; se trata del embarazo. Si bien existen muchas representaciones de las Madonne del parto (o María de la O), o de María y su prima Isabel encinta (escenas de la Visitación), ha habido que esperar al siglo XX para ver retratos de mujeres no bíblicas embarazadas. Escogeré comentar diversos representaciones visuales de mujeres embarazadas hechas por mujeres, ya sean retratos o autorretratos e intentaré explicar por qué el tema del embarazo se ha proscrito de la representación durante tantos siglos. ¿Imágenes poco seductoras?The theme of motherhood has been widely dealt with in Western art. For centuries the Madonna has been represented on numerous occasions and since the eighteenth century the so-called secular Madonnas have proliferated due to the widely spread bourgeois ideal of the angel in the house. However, pregnancy has rarely been the topic of many paintings. Although representations of Maria de la O, or of Virgin Mary and her cousin Santa Isabel (both of them pregnant in the visitation scene) may be found, we have to wait until the 20th century to find portraits of non-biblical pregnant women. In this paper I will comment on different visual representations of pregnant women (some will be portraits, others will be self-portraits) made by women artists, and I will try to explain why the issue of pregnancy has been overlooked for so many centurie

Worpswede - Ein deutscher Künstlerhimmel auf Erden

Besprechung "Ein Stück vom Himmel? Künstlerkolonie Worpswede." Übersichtsausstellung der Städtischen Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen.\u

August Sander’s ‘Der Bauer’ and the Pervasiveness of the Peasant Tradition

Examining August Sander’s Der Bauer group of photographs in relation to the historical representation of peasants in German art, Christian Weikop draws distinctions between Sander’s interest in peasant types and the ideological agendas of National Socialist proponents of racial purity

Method and Meaning: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection

What is art historical study and how it should be carried out are fundamental questions the exhibition Method and Meaning: Selections from the Gettysburg College Collection intends to answer. This student-curated exhibition is an exciting academic endeavor of seven students of art history majors and minors in the Art History Methods course. The seven student curators are Shannon Callahan, Ashlie Cantele, Maura D’Amico, Xiyang Duan, Devin Garnick, Allison Gross and Emily Zbehlik. As part of the class assignment, this exhibition allows the students to explore various art history methods on individual case studies. The selection of the works in the exhibition reflects a wide array of student research interests including an example of 18th century Chinese jade chime stone, jade and bronze replicas of ancient Chinese bronze vessels, a piece of early 20th century Chinese porcelain, oil paintings by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Fern Coppedge, prints by Salvador Dalí and by German artist Käthe Kollwitz, and an early 20th century wood block print by Japanese artist Kawase Hasui. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1014/thumbnail.jp

Knowledge-based best of breed approach for automated detection of clinical events based on German free text digital hospital discharge letters

OBJECTIVES: The secondary use of medical data contained in electronic medical records, such as hospital discharge letters, is a valuable resource for the improvement of clinical care (e.g. in terms of medication safety) or for research purposes. However, the automated processing and analysis of medical free text still poses a huge challenge to available natural language processing (NLP) systems. The aim of this study was to implement a knowledge-based best of breed approach, combining a terminology server with integrated ontology, a NLP pipeline and a rules engine. METHODS: We tested the performance of this approach in a use case. The clinical event of interest was the particular drug-disease interaction "proton-pump inhibitor [PPI] use and osteoporosis". Cases were to be identified based on free text digital discharge letters as source of information. Automated detection was validated against a gold standard. RESULTS: Precision of recognition of osteoporosis was 94.19%, and recall was 97.45%. PPIs were detected with 100% precision and 97.97% recall. The F-score for the detection of the given drug-disease-interaction was 96,13%. CONCLUSION: We could show that our approach of combining a NLP pipeline, a terminology server, and a rules engine for the purpose of automated detection of clinical events such as drug-disease interactions from free text digital hospital discharge letters was effective. There is huge potential for the implementation in clinical and research contexts, as this approach enables analyses of very high numbers of medical free text documents within a short time period