Framing this article is an interest in post-colonial theory's impact on art history, and the ethical demands it has placed on that history. It explores the ways in which post-colonial studies have situated the development of disciplines in terms of their complicity with nationalist and colonialist agendas. Post-colonial theory's political intervention into art history also raises the question of the ethical limits of partisan reading and foregrounds an ethics of looking. The essay considers Surrealism and its manifesto, reading for its latent ghosts. It discusses André Breton's relation to three women: Hélène Smith, Nadja and the artist Baya Mahieddine. A responsibility to the work of this haunting figure involves an understanding of French colonial contexts, and an ethical response to this over-scripted and over-determined painter, who tends to disappear from view as her signature is tied to the art-historical terms of naivety and primitivism, the colonialist terms of Arabian mysteriousness and childishness, the psychoanalytic terms of primitive mentality, and post-independence nationalist terms of nativist representation. The demands made by Baya's paintings argue for an understanding of her as haunting yet material – a Surrealist conundrum.
A set of organic compounds (pyrazole ester derivatives,viz.5-[3-(substituted)-propoxy]-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid methyl ester and 5-[2-(substituted)-ethoxy]-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid methyl ester) was synthesized and their affinity and stability towards the acetone molecule were tested by NMR.
Four sulfonamide based bis-ethylene bridged heteroaromatic dimers were crystallized in offset face-to-face stacked geometry. Further, density functional theory revealed that crystallized structures were the most stable conformers.
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.