Âmes sensibles s’abstenir : violence à / de l’art contemporain by Catherine Bernard

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Le lieu propre du néant by Pamela Bianchi

“…For Rachel Whiteread, the void has a shape, and nothingness occupies a place. The British artist solidifies specific volumes of air (the interior of bottles, the space surrounding a mattress, the interior space of a room, a house, etc.); in doing so, she highlights the emergence of absence. …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…In her essay “Modern Poetry,” published in the little magazine Charm in 1925, the British artist Mina Loy identified the source of the renewal of the English language in the streets of New York, famously claiming: “It was inevitable that the renaissance of poetry should proceed out of America, where latterly a thousand languages have been born.” …”
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John Collier’s Paintings of Clytemnestra by Georgina Muskett

“… The British artist John Maler Collier produced two paintings of the legendary Mycenaean queen Clytemnestra, in which he incorporated elements of contemporary archaeological discoveries. …”
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The Malayan Landscape Paintings by Sarena Abdullah, Yuen Beng Lee

“…This article explores the evolution of the representation of Malaysia in landscape paintings from the early 19th century to mid-20th century by examining selected works and discussing how these artistic renditions reflect the changes that were happening in Malaya, from the types of landscapes produced by British artist-officers to how the British government mooted the Malayan cultural strategy to gain public trust and confidence in their ability to combat insurgency. …”
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The Malayan Landscape Paintings by Sarena Abdullah, Yuen Beng Lee

“…This article explores the evolution of the representation of Malaysia in landscape paintings from the early 19th century to mid-20th century by examining selected works and discussing how these artistic renditions reflect the changes that were happening in Malaya, from the types of landscapes produced by British artist-officers to how the British government mooted the Malayan cultural strategy to gain public trust and confidence in their ability to combat insurgency. …”
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Bloomsbury Art Theory: An Assessment by Anne-Pascale Bruneau

“…It outlines the parts played by Roger Fry and Clive Bell as mediators of visual modernism and as promoters of an involvement with that practice among British artists. The shifts in art discourse introduced by Fry’s criticism are discussed, and the potential for controversy inherent in a discourse promoting the internationalisation of the British art scene is highlighted. …”
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L’objet à l’œuvre dans l’art des British Young Artists by Charlotte Gould

“…The works of the Young British Artists, at the very end of the century, have suggested a way out of both the dematerialization process inaugurated by some of their elders and the very weighty materialism of the New Sculpture of the eighties with its “truth to material” motto, by adopting a lighter approach, unencumbered with history, which does away with the unbearable heaviness of things.…”
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Dérision de l’étranger et exaltation du Britannique dans l’œuvre de William Hogarth 1697-1764 by Isabelle Baudino

“…There also existed a euphemised version of these armed conflicts, which affected most the emerging British artistic field, namely the cultural war in which Hogarth took an active and creative part. …”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…The article concentrates on contemporary British artistic photography and on how it represented industrial and post-industrial sites in the period of de-industrialisation. …”
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Does Frankie Go to Hollywood? From American influence to articulatory phonetics: the singing pronunciation of 1980s pop artists by Coline Caillol, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…This article draws inspiration from Trudgill’s foundational paper on pop song pronunciation, where he found that certain British artists such as The Beatles tended to sing in what could be described as an American-influenced accent. …”
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Louise Jopling, esthète réticente, féministe convaincue by Laurent Bury

“…L’engagement dans le sens de l’esthétisme reste pourtant timide dans son œuvre, peut-être par crainte de ne pas trouver d’acheteurs pour des œuvres plus avant-gardistes, et il semble que ce soit plutôt dans le camp du féminisme que Louise Jopling ait déployé son énergie : transformée en objet d’art par le regard de ses portraitistes Whistler et Millais, elle prit soin d’affirmer son autonomie en tant que sujet, devenant en 1880 membre de la Society of Women Artists, ouvrant en 1887 sa propre école d’art pour les femmes, puis en étant en 1901 la première femme admise au sein de la Royal Society of British Artists. Le sujet de diverses œuvres aujourd’hui perdues laisse néanmoins entrevoir un possible lien entre féminisme et esthétisme, culminant avec sa Salomé de 1885.…”
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