‘What a perennial delight is in hearing the French language spoken!’: Class, Language and Taste in the Maison de Molière’s French Performances in London (1871–1893) by Ignacio Ramos Gay

“…The responses of theatre professionals inevitably raise the matter of high art by implicitly questioning which of the two theatrical traditions best reflect and recreate, through their language, such cultural standards: How is a language stylized to answer simultaneously to dramatic conventions and to expectations related to national sentiment? …”
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“Consummate Too Too”: On the Logic of Iconotexts Satirizing the “Aesthetic Movement” by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada

“…These iconotexts entail a double reading of the relation between image and text, but most important is their dialogue with high-art productions of Aestheticism. The question of gender, however, is not so much linked to the formal relation between image and text but to the discourse deployed by these iconotexts since what is aimed at is a caricature based on gendered constructions of the category of “Aesthetes”. …”
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The Studio and the Craftsman as Artist: A Study in Periodical Poetics (1893–1900) by Catherine Delyfer

“…Analyzing the successive magazine covers, the visual matrix of the magazine, the rubric dedicated to artists’ interviews and the “Lay Figure” editorial pages, this study examines the poetics of the magazine to show how this periodical successfully promoted the craftsman (traditionally viewed as a practitioner of low arts) as the ideal liberal artist (high art). In The Studio, the craftsman became the new artistic paradigm, thus leading to major changes in the readers’ perception of the artist, the nature of art and their relation to industry and commerce.…”
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Aesthetics in Kitsch art: the aesthetic ideology and teleological purpose behind the charged sentimentality. by Yasmine Gamal Abdrabbo, Cherine Gamal Abdrabbo

“…This article addresses the problem of perceiving Kitsch art and elaborates on the philosophical approaches taken to better understand all intellectual contexts surrounding the term, aiming to endorse its aesthetic aspect and assert its rightness to be subsumed under the notion of high art, the researchers sought to argue that besides the claim that the main issue of reading Kitsch was laid on miss-perceiving it, by means it was a problem of perception, we add to this assertion that it was also a problem of misinterpretation, that critics have constrained their judgments on Kitsch art by narrowed and prejudiced contentions while many aesthetic theories can ascertain its aesthetic existence at the time, and the most crucial one is the theories on aesthetic emotions, for it was the emotional charge of Kitsch paintings which the critics used to reject and vastly criticize to deny its ability to conceive any aesthetic features.…”
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Artesunate Restrains Maturation of Dendritic Cells and Ameliorates Heart Transplantation-Induced Acute Rejection in Mice through the PERK/ATF4/CHOP Signaling Pathway by Yuanyang Chen, Sihao Zheng, Zhiwei Wang, Xin Cai, Yanjia Che, Qi Wu, Shun Yuan, Xiaohan Zhong

“…In animal experiments, mice were divided into the control group, HT group, low ART+HT group, and high ART+HT group. Next, inflammatory cell infiltration, oxidative stress injury, and myocardial cell apoptosis were determined in heart tissue. …”
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