The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…Drawing upon the writings of such critics as Clement Greenberg, Dwight MacDonald, and Archibald MacLeish, my paper revives a 1940s aesthetic discourse that imposed strong divisions between highbrow and lowbrow art. …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

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Nobility and domestic conviviality in the paintings of archduchess Maria Christine by Michael Yonan

“… Scholars have long identified Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings as central texts to the history of the family. …”
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‘Our precious quand même’: French in the Letters of Henry James by Daniel Karlin

“…Patterns of usage may be unconscious (determined by certain recurring epistolary ‘situations’) but there are also cases where the use of French constitutes a trenchant and finely-judged stroke of art. Nowhere is this more so than when the subject is James’s own art. …”
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The “New” Beckett and the Word/Image Parallax: An Infra-Disciplinary Short-Circuit by Robert Kilroy

“…First, the word/image problematic is re-conceptualized through reference to the writings of Slavoj Žižek. On the basis of a “word/image parallax”, a new iconological approach is elucidated by adapting art historical tools in line with psychoanalytic theory. …”
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Flaubert et l’image légendaire / légendée by Sabine Narr

“…In many ways legends are at the heart of Flaubert’s work. Indeed, his writings show a subtle reception of the hagiography which focuses on the imaginary potential of legends, in their esthetic and intermedial dimension. …”
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…Looking at the aesthetic writings of Marriott Watson’s The Art of the House, Schaffer has shown how she forged a new, complex version of aestheticism by both aligning herself with male aesthetes in their critique of women’s arts and crafts tradition and distancing herself from male aestheticism by re-articulating an aesthetic of the home embedded in feminine décor.But how did female aesthetes inhabit and live that aestheticism We know nothing of how Watson’s theories informed her own life as an aesthete. …”
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The Artistic Commitment of Kenyon Cox: An American Neoclassical Artist by Marc S. SMITH

“…The goal of this paper will be to show in what way Kenyon Cox’s general theories on art, on history and on society can be seen as forms of artistic commitment. …”
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« Nothing can retain the spirit, and why should we preserve the shadow of the form ? » : imitation et recréation dans A Laodicean, la perpétuation de la tradition générique en ques... by Peggy Blin-Cordon

“…Thus, A Laodicean focuses on the notions of imitation and creation in the art of fiction and in the perpetuation of a generic tradition.…”
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THE CONFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND ARTISTIC INSPIRATION IN GYÖRGY LIGETI’S MUSICAL THINKING by Attila FODOR

“…Our study tries to find out the roots of these dichotomies, mainly through his writings and memories. …”
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Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), retrospective or exhibition? by Bruno Chalifour

“…He was a curator then an assistant director of the George Eastman Museum (1957 – 1969), working with Beaumont Newhall and Minor White, the co-founder of the Society for Photographic Education (1963) and Oracle (international conference of photo historians and curators since 1983), the founder of Visual Studies Workshop (1969) and its magazine (Afterimage, 1972 – 2018), and a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts (president 1976 – 1991). …”
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Innovation et système des brevets aux États-Unis : un modèle en question(s) by Martine Azuelos

“…In an effort to promote economic growth by stimulating innovation, the Founding Fathers engraved the concept of patent in the Constitution of the United States by granting Congress the power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.” …”
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O Ideário de São Bernardo e a sua influência na arquitectura militar templária by Nuno Villamariz Oliveira

“…The analysis of Saint Bernard’s work opens new horizons that largely surpass the monastic sphere of action, casting new light on the understanding of military and religious art erected by the Templars in the Latin Orient and in Portugal.…”
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‘Why is it that a photograph always looks clear and sharp, — not at all like a Turner?’ John Ruskin & Perceptual Aberration by Lawrence Gasquet

“…The presence of the camera becomes prominent among scientific and artistic discourses of the 19th century; it is also fundamental to John Ruskin’s aesthetic theory, as a close study of several of his writings shows. Photography reveals for instance the existence of some physiological distortions in human perception, and perceptual aberration was analysed at great length by John Ruskin, whether it be revealed by Turner’s art or by the daguerreotypist’s talent or lack of skill. …”
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Looking Ahead with the New International Studies by Andrew Wright Hurley

“… As I write this, the world seems to be in a more precarious position than it was 30 years ago, when the Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (BAIS) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) was established. …”
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Tangential Points: Aleksandr Bogdanov and Sergei Eisenstein Revisited by Tikka Pia

“…Eisenstein began to establish an international reputation thanks to the originality of his films and his eclectic theoretical writings that have remained a rich source of continuing discoveries for film scholars. …”
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An Ontology of the Word in Catalan Romanesque Culture by Alfons Puigarnau

“…This article presents a compelling analysis of a series of manuscripts from the monastery of Ripoll in the context of Catalonia’s visual and intellectual culture between the 10th and 12th centuries. These writings demonstrate the pivotal role of the arts of the word (dialectic, rhetoric, and grammar) in this cultural center of great European significance. …”
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La classe à plusieurs cours à l’épreuve du modèle de la classe homogène. Une organisation pédagogique subversive de la forme scolaire ? by Sylvie Jouan

“…After a presentation of the state of the art on the performance of French multigrade classes, an analysis of several institutional writings since the end of the 19th century allows us to corroborate the hypothesis that the reticence towards these classes can be explained by the attachment to a pedagogical model incompatible with the reality of a multigrade class: a model of simultaneous teaching, consubstantial with the school form, prescribing the constitution of homogeneous classes. …”
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L’Angleterre et le Continent―Xe et début XIe siècles by Marthe Mensah

“…Their influence can be observed in the political, legal, commercial, religious sectors as well as in the arts. The present article focuses mainly on the religious and artistic innovations that arose from such contacts. …”
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Histoire de constructions et reconstruction de l’Histoire : l’écriture documentaire de Patrick Keiller by Isabelle Cases

“…He thus re-writes History in both a poetic and deeply committed way.…”
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