Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change ...and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art , Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting.
Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide range of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to artists’ films, video, sound work, animation, and installation—and analyzes the work of internationally prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In doing so, Cheetham reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a long tradition of landscape depiction in the West that boldly enters into today’s debates on climate science, government policy, and our collective and individual responsibility to the planet.
An ambitious intervention into eco-criticism and the environmental humanities, this volume provides original ways to understand the issues and practices of eco art in the Anthropocene. Art historians, humanities scholars, and lay readers interested in contemporary art and the environment will find Cheetham’s work valuable and invigorating.
Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly
ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of
contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with
rapid climate change ...and related environmental issues. In
Landscape into Eco Art , Mark Cheetham systematically
examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art,
land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of
landscape painting.
Through eight thematic case studies that illuminate what eco art
means in practice, reception, and history, Cheetham places the form
in a longer and broader art-historical context. He considers a wide
range of media-from painting, sculpture, and photography to
artists' films, video, sound work, animation, and installation-and
analyzes the work of internationally prominent artists such as
Olafur Eliasson, Nancy Holt, Mark Dion, and Robert Smithson. In
doing so, Cheetham reveals eco art to be a dynamic extension of a
long tradition of landscape depiction in the West that boldly
enters into today's debates on climate science, government policy,
and our collective and individual responsibility to the planet.
An ambitious intervention into eco-criticism and the
environmental humanities, this volume provides original ways to
understand the issues and practices of eco art in the Anthropocene.
Art historians, humanities scholars, and lay readers interested in
contemporary art and the environment will find Cheetham's work
valuable and invigorating.
The special issue Analogical Practices in the Global Art World systematically examines for the first time the widespread practice of constructing global art and architectural histories through ...analogy. In addition to summarizing the essays presented and the pertinent literature on analogy across several fields, this Introduction marshals primary research alongside scholarship and observations from diverse disciplines to advance two overarching arguments. First, we claim that art world analogies both disclose and influence the axes along which art-historical and museological thinking is habitually oriented: national groupings or "schools" above all, but also chronology, gender, race, cultural identification, art media, and style. Second, we argue that the art world analogy paradigmatically involves collaborations of textual iteration with works of visual art. Proposing, ultimately, that visual analogy is never just visual, we build a theory of analogy-as-discourse for the visual arts.
The genre of landscape, earth, and land art from the 1960s and 1970s, and more recent ecological art, are typically separated in the field of art history. While there are good reasons to distinguish ...these modes in terms of materials and purpose, and to avoid seeing them as superseding one another teleologically, I argue in favour of their comparison and linkage. All are practices of picturing and manipulating the Earth. All are part of the Anthropocene conceived as beginning in the Industrial Revolution. Focusing on the widespread habit of moving landscape--“the outside”--into structures, art galleries, and institutional matrices in work by Chris Drury, Simon Starling, and John Gerrard, I argue that in specific practices and as categories, eco art, land art, and landscape are active and imbricated actants in the Anthropocene.
John Guille Millais reported in his 1899 biography of his famous father, John Everett Millais, that The North-West Passage (1874) was “perhaps the most popular of all Millais’ paintings at the time”. ...The picture’s adoptive subtitle—“It might be done, and England should to do it”, purportedly uttered by the aged sailor in the painting—captured the patriotic zeal for the British Arctic Expedition of 1875–1876, rather than the past glories (and tragedies) of the British quest to traverse the Northwest Passage. “It” in this motto looks ahead to the planting of the British flag at the North Pole and to the treatment of the Arctic in contemporary art. Looking closely at this complex painting and its surrounding discourses in the Victorian period and in related works from our own time, I argue that The North-West Passage was and remains a “metapicture” that distilled speculation on Arctic voyaging from the Anglosphere in the 1870s and does so again today.
Spontaneous clostridium septicum infections are rare and are associated with a high mortality. Association of clostridium infection with colorectal malignancies have been previously reported and most ...cases are described in tumours of the ascending colon. We report our experience of clostridium septicum infection in the presence of tumour perforation in a series of two patients as a reminder of its association with sepsis in the presence of colorectal malignancy.
We isolated clostridium septicum infection in a series of two patients admitted as emergencies. One patient was found to have a perforated caecal tumour intraoperatively whilst the other had a perforated rectal tumour. The clinical outcome and management of each case are reported and underlying reasons for variations in outcome are discussed.
Although uncommon, the possibility of clostridium septicum sepsis should be borne in mind in patients who present with underlying malignancy and have sepsis. The cumulative effect of sepsis and malignant perforation is associated with a high morbidity and mortality. Awareness and early diagnosis of clostridium septicum may improve the prognosis of what is usually regarded as a fatal infection.
Haemorrhoidectomy usually cures haemorrhoids. Day surgery is feasible, and is associated with high patients' satisfaction and few complications, but patients take an average of 2 weeks off work after ...surgery. Stapled haemorrhoidectomy has the potential to decrease postoperative pain and time off work. However, data on longterm efficacy and function are lacking.
22 patients underwent stapled haemorrhoidectomy: seven in a pilot study, and 15 in a randomised controlled trial to compare the new stapled operation with diathermy haemorrhoidectomy in a day-case setting. All operations were done by one consultant surgeon.
16 patients were followed up for longer than 6 months, five of whom (31% 95% Cl 8·5–54·0%) developed symptoms of pain and faecal urgency which persisted for up to 15 months postoperatively. The randomised trial was suspended, and patients were investigated with endoanal ultrasonography, anorectal physiology, and examination under anaesthetic. All five affected patients were reviewed by two independent surgeons experienced in the stapled operation. In one patient, a fibroepithelial polyp was found adjacent to an anodermal ulcer; in the other patients, no abnormality was found. Four of the five affected patients had some muscle incorporated into the doughnut, compared with only one of 11 of the unaffected patients (p=0·012, Fisher's exact test). No other significant differences in operative variables were identified between patients with and without symptoms.
Persistent severe pain and faecal urgency has been found in a disturbingly high proportion of patients after stapled haemorrhoidectomy. The mechanism behind this phenomenon is unclear, although muscle incorporation in the doughnut may have a role. Other groups who have studied stapled haemorrhoidectomy urgently need to audit their long-term results to assess the frequency of this problem.
Cutaneous metastasis from colorectal cancer after excision of the primary is a rare occurrence and presents as cutaneous or subcutaneous nodules or as a rash commonly on the anterior abdominal wall.
...This is a case description of the management of a large fungating peristomal cutaneous metastasis occurring 14 years after abdomino-perineal excision of the primary cancer. The gross appearance initially suggested possibility of a true metachronous cancer with peristomal spread. But histopathology of the resected specimen showed no colonic mucosal involvement suggesting a true large cutaneous peristomal metastasis which has not been reported previously. Literature review of presentation, management and prognosis of cutaneous metastasis from colorectal cancer is described
Cutaneous metastasis following colorectal cancer resection is a well-recognised entity though rare. Any unusual skin lesions especially on the abdominal wall skin, previous incision scars or near the stoma should be biopsied early to rule out metastatic disease and systematic work-up should be carried out to rule out any metachronous tumour or metastasis elsewhere in the body.
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