La vie, la mort et la résurrection des objets archéologiques by Anne-Lise Guigues, Zahra Hashemi

“…Antiquities from Luristan, unknown when they arrived on the art market in the early twentieth century, were first and foremost “collectors’ items” – dealers played a part in ascertaining their aesthetic and commercial value. The region where antiquities originated sometimes replaced the typology of object when it was described or sold. …”
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Modernist Disavowal by Stephen ROSS

“…Disavowal of the supernatural stands at the origin of modernist self-conception, anchoring the challenge to “make it new” directly in a matrix of ethico- aesthetic concerns.…”
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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…This essay provides one such account by analysing the influence of David Lean’s classic 1948 Cineguild production on subsequent films, with a particular focus on two twenty-first-century examples. The dramatic and aesthetic effectiveness of Lean’s Oliver Twist might be seen, in a sense, as an improvement on the efforts of an inexperienced writer, and it has certainly had a strong effect on the novel’s life on film and television. …”
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In the Clouds: On the Vagueness of Atmospheres by Andreas Rauh

“…Atmospheres can be made tangible by means of the qualitative-empirical method of ‘aesthetic fieldwork’. This method stresses three methodological aspects as a consequence of the vagueness of atmospheres. …”
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Mémoire et minorité : l’identité collective dans la littérature germanophone de Belgique by Arvi Sepp

“…Through a close reading of selected literary texts from German-speaking minority authors in East Belgium, this contribution will discuss the status of the literary representation of minority culture and its expression of multiple identities and allegiances as a space (be it geographic, cultural, linguistic, or aesthetic) in which global and local forces interact. …”
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Ileana Mălăncioiu: vedere de pe muntele interior by Daniela Moldoveanu

“…Ileana Mălăncioiu ensures – through her dual membership in poetry, also assumed and given by social involvement of the personal identity endorsed here in the idea of political freedom equal to the inner freedom – the moral and aesthetic element of continuity, so necessary for a nation’s development. …”
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Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…It argues that Wilde adopted the foreign language as a strategy for representing the taboo of incestuous and homoerotic desire, murder and necrophilia. His aesthetic objective was to produce a work belonging to the school of French decadentism and adhering to its principles of symbolism. …”
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Rêver la forêt, cultiver les arbres by Alan Guillou

“…The article reports on an educational approach that departs from the usual frames of reference by instilling the importance of the role of trees and forests in a profession that sometimes loses sight of the tree’s role as a tool. By working on the aesthetic and symbolic aspects of trees, these pupils have adopted an old heritage, a long cultural affiliation of their profession to the forest. …”
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Iconic Sites for Alpine Geology and Geomorphology by Emmanuel Reynard, Fabien Hobléa, Nathalie Cayla, Christophe Gauchon

“…What is new, however, is the movement that consists in basing the selection of heritage sites on their intrinsic scientific value with regard to their pertinence to the history of the Earth, rather than for any merely picturesque or aesthetic qualities. This tendency towards the implementation of geoheritage contributes to the general drive for the sustainable development of alpine territories, particularly by means of the establishment of territorial development tools such as Geoparks.…”
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Le Paris d’Hemingway : une question de style by Clara Mallier

“…This article analyzes Hemingway’s style in the light of this enigmatic aesthetic statement. The author’s idiosyncratic syntax tends to blur the semantic frontiers between juxtaposed words, and his use of repetition enhances the musicality of sentences, which constitutes the city as an object of experience rather than of mere significance. …”
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“Voice of anarchy”: Gender aspects of aggressive metal vocals. The example of Angela Gossow (Arch Enemy) by Florian Heesch

“…Growling can be regarded as a key aesthetic practice of death metal. This practice, throughout the history of the genre, has been heavily gendered; while practiced both by men and women since the early 1990s it has nevertheless been associated with masculinity, due to its perceived aggressive sound, as well as corresponding notions of perceived low pitch and noise. …”
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La nécessité du pays by Damien Sans

“…When we free the landscape from the aesthetic straightjacket in which it has been imprisoned (at least in France) by the great narratives of its origins (Briffaud, 2014), it becomes possible to embrace the diversity of perceptions and relationships formed between people and their environments. …”
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Ceci n’est pas le territoire: Transcending the Visual and Literary Frame by Dane Coult

“…By highlighting their aesthetic frames, these works invite audiences to engage in an artistic exchange that collapses the critical distance often associated with conceptual art in favor of a more immersive experience with the work, the artist, or the reality beyond the frame. …”
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« The Enduring End » by Andria Pancrazi

“…Amongst the recurring aesthetic themes that he explores, the transition between the state of life and the state of death is at the centre of many of his poems, which he composes using innovative forms — the most characteristic one being very long rhapsodic poems and roundels (a particular variation on the rondeau of his own invention). …”
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Les hauts lieux géologiques et géomorphologiques alpins by Emmanuel Reynard, Fabien Hobléa, Nathalie Cayla, Christophe Gauchon

“…What is new, however, is the movement that consists in basing the selection of heritage sites on their intrinsic scientific value with regard to their pertinence to the history of the Earth, rather than for any merely picturesque or aesthetic qualities. This tendency towards the implementation of geoheritage contributes to the general drive for the sustainable development of alpine territories, particularly by means of the establishment of territorial development tools such as Geoparks.…”
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Robert Adams in Transatlantic Review: Archiving the Barbary Captive and Traveller by Stephen F. Wolfe

“…Each set of textual “editors” and reviewers attempt to use the text to intervene in a debate about Timbuctoo, the future of African exploration, and the ways a literary “curiosity” is placed within the aesthetic and ideological needs of emerging discourses of African exploration and racial representation in the first decades of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic.…”
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Danser et être dansé by Maria Acselrad

“…The caboclinhos are linked to Jurema, an Afro-indigenous religion that worships the caboclos (ancestral spirits of indigenous people, warriors and healers). In the aesthetic of north-eastern Brazil, the understanding of the “world as a battle” is central to conceiving of the ethos of this religion (Lagrou and Gonçalves, 2013). …”
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Teatro folk e sciamanesimo in Corea by Giovanni Azzaroni

“…In Korean dances, various parts of the body are interconnected, delicate aesthetic gestures indicative of the dances that inspire them are displayed, and the upper body is emphasized. …”
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Sculpture as Literature and History: Captive and Captivating Venus Figures from the Greek Revolutionary Era by Gonda Van Steen

“…The Venus de Milo has become an iconic figure, heavily overwritten by aesthetic judgments, adventure stories of movement and migration, and the accounts of personal and political trajectories, all playing out in the upper and Western echelons of imperialist Europe and its classist (and racist) underpinnings.…”
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Twin Peaks, ou l’exploration de l’espace américain by Zachary Baqué

“…The aim of this article is to show that there are three major ways of representing the American territory onscreen, which all have a specific aesthetic function (poetic, realistic and metafilmic). …”
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