In this paper, a new and simple pathway to fabricate polymer brush layers with lateral control over the chemical composition is described. The process combines two subsequent free radical grafting ...from steps: in the first step, a micropatterned polymer brush is grown by photochemical initiation of the polymer growth from the surface through a mask in direct contact. The uncoated areas are then backfilled with a second polymer brush by using the unreacted surface-bound initiator molecules to thermally trigger a second polymerization. As an example for the overall process, the co-assembly of a micropatterned, soft, water-swellable layer consisting of the two-brush system poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA)−poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) is demonstrated.
Drawing on broad research, this study explores the different social and theatrical masking activities in England during the Middle Ages and the early 16th century. The authors present a coherent ...explanation of the many functions of masking, emphasizing the important links among festive practice, specialized ceremonial, and drama. They elucidate the intellectual, moral and social contexts for masking, and they examine the purposes and rewards for participants in the activity. The authors' insight into the masking games and performances of England's medieval and early Tudor periods illuminates many aspects of the thinking and culture of the times: issues of identity and community; performance and role-play; conceptions of the psyche and of the individual's position in social and spiritual structures. Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England presents a broad overview of masking practices, demonstrating how active and prominent an element of medieval and pre-modern culture masking was. It has obvious interest for drama and literature critics of the medieval and early modern periods; but is also useful for historians of culture, theatre and anthropology. Through its analysis of masked play this study engages both with the history of theatre and performance, and with broader cultural and historical questions of social organization, identity and the self, the performance of power, and shifting spiritual understanding.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Popular Masking: Early masking; Carnival; Mumming; Courtly Masking: Tournaments; Disguisings; Courtly mumming; Amorous masking; Theatrical masking: Mystery plays; Morality plays; Theory and Practice: Ideas and theories of masking; Materials and methods of mask-making; Terminology; Bibliography; Index.
Porous polyurethane films with well-ordered pores were prepared using polystyrene microspheres as a template, and the surface pore sizes were tuned using a new upside-down (USD) method. After ...polystyrene microspheres were self-assembled on a substrate and the voids between microspheres were infiltrated with a polyurethane prepolymer solution, the samples were placed upside down to allow the prepolymer solution to flow back before it was solidified. The surface pore sizes of the porous films were tuned by changing the time in which the samples were placed upside down. Using microspheres of the same size, we prepared porous polyurethane films with surface pore sizes ranging from 32 to 87% of the templating microsphere size.
This book pursues an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers down to this day. Who was the man who wore an iron mask and was kept in prison for ...years during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV? Paul Sonnino brilliantly traces his decade-long quest to solve the mystery.
"A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask-as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object-to clarify modernity's relationship to ...history."--Carrie J. Preston, author ofModernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance "Covering an impressive range of geographies, cultures, and time periods, these carefully researched essays explore the fascinating role of masks and masking in mediating the relationship between tradition and modernity in both art and literature."--Paul Jay, author ofThe Humanities "Crisis" and the Future of Literary Studies
Behind the Masks of Modernism reconsiders the meaning of "modernism" by taking an interdisciplinary approach and stretching beyond the Western modernist canon and the literary scope of the field. The essays in this diverse collection explore numerous regional, national, and transnational expressions of modernity through art, history, architecture, drama, literature, and cultural studies around the globe. Masks--both literal and metaphorical--play a role in each of these artistic ventures, from Brazilian music to Chinese film and Russian poetry to Nigerian masquerade performance.
The contributors show how artists and writers produce their works in moments of emerging modernity, aesthetic sensibility, and deep societal transformations caused by modern transnational forces. Using the mask as a thematic focus, the volume explores the dialogue created through regional modernisms, emphasizes the local in describing universal tropes of masks and masking, and challenges popular assumptions about what modernism looks like and what modernity is.
In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dance in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an ...authentic expression of Islam by analyzing the objects themselves.
Cro is unstoppable. First the masked rapper conquered the batch heat in Germany, Austria and Switzerland with his single\ "Dream\." Then his new album\ "Melodie\" in all three countries also made it ...to one. At a festival performance, the mid-twenties from Stuttgart tell us how he deals with success and whether he still has unfulfilled dreams.
Cro ist nicht zu stoppen. Erst eroberte der maskierte Rapper die Chartspitze in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz mit seiner Single "Traum". Dann schaffte es auch sein neues Album "Melodie" in allen drei Ländern auf die Eins. Bei einem Festival-Auftritt erzählt uns der Mittzwanziger aus Stuttgart, wie er mit dem Erfolg umgeht und ob er noch unerfüllte Träume hat.
We report on a plasma-based method to fabricate chemical and physical patterns on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces. A copper TEM grid was placed on cured, planar (2D) and periodic (3D) PDMS ...surfaces, and the samples exposed to a low-pressure “air” plasma. The pattern of the grid was precisely replicated, forming hydrophilic channels only where the grid wires contacted the PDMS surface. Exposed regions of the surface between the mesh wires were not chemically modified and retained their hydrophobic character. This plasma-based procedure provides a simple, fast, and inexpensive method for creating patterned chemical functionalities on 2D and 3D PDMS surfaces for directed assembly and for the development of micro-scale sensors and bio-chip devices.
In its conventional meaning, masquerade refers to a festive gathering of people wearing masks and elegant costumes. But traditional forms of masquerade have evolved over the past century to include ...the representation of alternate identities in the media and venues of popular culture, including television, film, the internet, theater, museums, sports arenas, popular magazines and a range of community celebrations, reenactments and conventions. This collection of fresh essays examines the art and function of masquerade from a broad range of perspectives. From African slave masquerade in New World iconography, to the familiar Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to the branded identities created by celebrities like Madonna, Beyonc and Lady Gaga, the essays show how masquerade permeates modern life.
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