Carte postale photographique et balnéarisation des villes littorales : le cas de Royan (1895-1920) by Benjamin Caillaud

“…Using a visual rhetoric that is specific to the postcard, Fernand Braun “invents” the landscape of Royan’s shores and spreads a modern aesthetic of the Atlantic coastline.…”
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A estética dos becos em Cora Coralina ou “Um modo diferente de contar velhas estórias” by Clovis Carvalho Britto

“…From a marginal insertion, especially due to prejudices regarding their age and condition of women, Cora developed an aesthetic of alleys where women and other minorities, not always numeric, become the center.…”
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EXPLORING THE TOURIST ATTRACTIVENESS OF CULTURAL SITES: THE CASE OF KAZAKHSTAN by Dinara KADYRBEKOVA, Aza YEVLOYEVA, Albina BEIKITOVA, Yerkegul DYUSSEKEYEVA, Bakyt AKTYMBAYEVA, Adil MOLDAGALIYEV, Yerlan ISSAKOV, Lóránt Dénes DÁVID*

“…Fifteen distinct variables were identified to delineate the allure of these sites, encompassing criteria such as historical significance, aesthetic and architectural value, integration of a cultural object with the natural landscape and environment, involvement of the local community in the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage, among others. …”
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Le corps féminin à Casablanca : un reflet mouvant des rôles de genre ? by Leila Bouasria, Nezha Aidi

“…A considerable influence is exerted by aesthetic, economic, and media norms, reshaping the perception of the female body. …”
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Economia criativa e resistência: o artesanato indígena no Estado do Rio de Janeiro by Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus

“…Craft can lead to greater autonomy and development of indigenous communities by linking aesthetic, symbolic and social elements of local crafts to the improvement of the political and socioeconomic living conditions of communities in the context of the stimulus to creative sectors in areas of the state of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Marges, gloses et décor dans une série de manuscrits arabo-islamiques by Annie Vernay-Nouri

“…Nonetheless, a small group of Arabic books, preserved in the National Library of France (BNF), contain glosses of micrographic writing which are composed of figurative motifs which, in the most finished work among them, have an aesthetic quality over a double page when the book is laid out open. …”
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Charles Dickens et le « nouveau pittoresque » by Nathalie Vanfasse

“…The picturesque is an aesthetic ideal which became almost a cult between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century. …”
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Notes on the Modern Greek Literary Model (From Its Beginnings to the 1930s) by Fotiny Christakoudy-Konstantinidou

“…The study explores the interplay of internal and external cultural influences throughout this extended period, highlighting their impact on the aesthetic (self)definition of contemporary Greek literature. …”
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À la recherche du paysage dans la « forêt monumentale » de Guyane française à travers la culture amérindienne by Fabienne Boursier

“…This study is based on bibliographical research and seeks to find out if there exists a “vision of the forest landscape” among the Wayana, Wayãpi and Teko, on the basis of toponymic and aesthetic notions. The perspective of the French authorities is examined in view of conducting a comparative study. …”
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Patrimoine naturel et médiations visuelles : les solutions du paysage by Catherine Saouter

“…However, the standpoint in favor of heritage, by overvaluing the aesthetics of the landscape, creates the illusion of preserving nature and can even hinder this very preservation. …”
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Clarissa Dalloway’s itinerary: narrative identity across texts by Monica LATHAM

“…Clarissa Dalloway migrates across texts, mutating and adjusting to new socio-cultural concerns and aesthetic contexts.…”
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Décadence urbaine et Hors-la-loi sexuels dans l’univers de Blade Runner by Robert Yeates

“…The film and the 1997 video game based upon it take a novel set in San Francisco, the home of some of the first gay neighborhoods in the US that suffered from the crackdowns of the late 1970s and 1980s, and transplants this to Los Angeles, a city which glamorized decay, adding an aesthetic that draws on the look of New York, a city notoriously in economic decline in the 1970s. …”
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Changements d’horizon : Circa, une aventure éditoriale traversant les frontières by Valérie Morisson

“…It has contributed to disseminating contemporary aesthetic forms as well as postmodern theories, and has widened the scope of criticism. …”
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L’art engagé : images de résistance, de résilience et de reconstruction humanitaire. by Dima Nachawi, Michela Villani

“…From then on, Dima has been using biographical elements to produce images of hope and promote an "aesthetic of reparation" (Best 2016). Dima Nachawi’s artistic writing is, at times, reminiscent of illustrative drawings for children, which she uses in humanitarian work, where she is engaged both as artist and as a social activist. …”
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Événement et trauma dans Doctor Atomic de John Adams by Mathieu Duplay

“…John Adams’s 2005 opera Doctor Atomic, written in collaboration with Peter Sellars, is a case in point, not only because it deals with one of the most violent traumas in 20th‑century history—namely the nuclear test conducted at Los Alamos prior to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but also because, in addition to offering a potent meditation on the unthinkable, it reveals that all events, be they historical or aesthetic, call for new and as yet unformulated modes of thought ; as psychoanalysis suggests (sometimes in spite of itself), this is a clear sign of their traumatic nature.…”
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Pour une étude interdisciplinaire et sémio-linguistique de la viralité dans les médias by Alain Rabatel

“…They favour sharing, provoke the over-significance and emotional saturation of viral messages, in connection with ideological and ethical, aesthetic and playful over-investments. When they emerge on a shared common background, all these parameters prove to be good predictors of viral dynamics on socio-numerical networks.…”
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Entre los marcos jurídicos y las cartografías indígenas by Hortensia Caballero Arias

“…Indigenous participatory mappings are objects of socio-historical production that reflect both the heritage and aesthetic sense of local knowledge about space and territory as a more political sense of the idea of nation.…”
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Les Novelettes astrales (1912) ou l’utopie subversive de Paul Scheerbart by Yves Iehl

“…They rather conjure up pleasant scenes of a utopian peaceful way of life based on art and aesthetic contemplation. Thanks to their humorous sense of grotesque and derision, these narratives depict an attractive form of literary alterity.…”
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Des livres pour « faire joli » ? by Marine Le Bail

“…Indeed, books can be at the center of several scenographies that contribute to expose them at home ; as such, they become part of our daily environment. Beyond their aesthetic interest, however, books are also part of a self-dramaturgy that takes place at home as well on the Bookoverse, according to new patterns. …”
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