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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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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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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Opening up Bodyspace: Perspectives from Posthuman and Feminist Theory by Xenia Kokoula

“…These theses are examined not only within their own disciplinary discourses but also as aesthetic categories and spatial organisation principles aimed at tentatively exploring the implications for space-related disciplines including architecture and design.…”
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Proximités géographiques et distances culturelles entre la ville et l’agriculture by Roland Vidal

“…The emergence of the landscape in the Western culture has been accompanied by keeping the farming world at a distance, a world of which the aesthetic qualities have been recognized, but of which we refused to understand the social, technical, and economic functioning – the one that made the daily reality of those who inhabited it : the farmers. …”
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Economic Impacts of the Turfgrass and Lawncare Industry in the United States by John J. Haydu, Alan W. Hodges, Charles R. Hall

“… The turfgrass and lawncare industry in the United States continues to grow rapidly due to strong demand for residential and commercial property development, rising affluence, and the environmental and aesthetic benefits of turfgrass in the urban landscape. …”
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Marius’ ‘grammar of assent’: Pater’s Dialogue with Newman by John Coates

“…In a dialogic relation to Newman, and by examining the moral value of aesthetic experience, of isolated introspection and sublimated erotic instincts, Pater creates his own ‘grammar of assent’.…”
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Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) Cells by Nuclear Reprogramming by Dilip Dey, Gregory R. D. Evans

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“In a Miracle Wellspring” of Goethe’s Poetry: Comments on the Role of Translated Poetry in a Small Literature by Liina Lukas

“…Based on research, I conducted with my co-authors Vahur Aabrams and Susanna Rennik for our recently published book Goethe’s Poetry in Estonian (University of Tartu Press, 2021), I will show the dynamics of the reception and translation of Goethe’s poetry in Estonia and in the wider Baltic cultural space, and I will explore the local socio-cultural and more general aesthetic and ideological factors that influenced this reception. …”
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Economic Impacts of the Turfgrass and Lawncare Industry in the United States by John J. Haydu, Alan W. Hodges, Charles R. Hall

“… The turfgrass and lawncare industry in the United States continues to grow rapidly due to strong demand for residential and commercial property development, rising affluence, and the environmental and aesthetic benefits of turfgrass in the urban landscape. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“…The stories of these «protogentrifiers » in many ways anticipate the arrival of an elite group (comprising prominent figures from politics, culture, entertainment, and finance) who, starting in the late 1990s, will invest significant funds to purchase and renovate farmhouses, transforming them into aesthetically valuable house that represent high social status, thus leading to a radical process of gentrification in the area. …”
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Blindness and Design: Kneass’ Philadelphia Magazine for the Blind (1899) by Vanessa Warne

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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De l’individuel au collectif, des mythes aux pratiques by Véronique Zamant

“…The results raised questions concerning the aesthetic, political and eco-symbolic relations established by the inhabitants with their living environment, on the one hand, and on the other hand, made it possible to draw a map of a “cultural landscape” as perceived by the inhabitants. …”
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Skyscapers and greenery. An unprecedented symbiosis by Simona Talenti, Annarita Teodosio

“…Greenery applied to Italian skyscrapers, however, should raise questions about the actual environmental, economic and social sustainability of these design solutions, which sometimes seem to respond to mere aesthetic and ornamental requirements or marketing demands. …”
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Pater and Contemporary Visual Art by J.-B. Bullen

“…Several unpublished documents deal with his views on centrality of the visual arts in modern culture, his book reviews display a knowledge of the subject not seen elsewhere, and his ‘School of Giorgione’ was almost certainly a statement in support of the modern Aesthetic school of painting at the recently opened Grosvenor Gallery.…”
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Qu’imite-t-on dans une traduction ? by Camille Fort

“…The translator will not attempt to delete what, in the text, constitutes a testimony to or dialogue with the linguistic and literary conventions of the time, but they will bring the text into a certain present – that of the aesthetic event. They will enact what Antoine Berman calls « a non perceptible resemblance », letting the force of the text become manifest beyond mere semantic conversions.…”
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La place du paysagiste dans le paysage agricole by Laurence Renard

“…Whereas a similarity between landscape architects and farmers had been clearly established in the 1990s, the aesthetic approach to the landscape is sometimes criticised by the farming sector which defends its vocation of producing food. …”
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“First they bomb as much as they please, then they film”: The Politics of War Ruins in Two Vietnam War Documentaries by Zachary Baqué

“…The purpose of this article will be to address the political and aesthetic implications of war ruins in Vietnam documentaries. …”
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Framing the Woman Poet: William Archer’s Poets of the Younger Generation (1902) by Sarah Parker

“…This essay situates these woodcuts within the context of late-Victorian celebrity, the aesthetic revival in woodcut and wood-engraved illustration, and the increasing presence of the authorial portrait in the age of mechanical reproduction. …”
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A Living Architecture for the Digital Era by Carlo Ratti

“…Soaring feats of technological prowess became a new aesthetic at the nexus of architecture and engineering. …”
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