The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…This article offers a reading of American Objectivist poet Lorine Niedecker 1934 Next Year/, Or/ I fly my Rounds, Tempestuous. It is an artist’s book which never went into print and remained unpublished until it was included in the Complete Works by Jenny Penberthy in 2002. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“…In the introduction to his book Yorùbá Art and Language: Seeking the African in African Art, Rowland Abiodun concludes that only those with a mastery of the Yorùbá language and deep cultural familiarity can interpret Yorùbá artworks effectively. …”
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Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí as a Yorùbá Novelist by Lere Adeyemi

“…In the pre-colonial era, the authorship of the stories in the folktales and in some poetic genres could not be claimed by any particular artist/artiste, but due to the influence of colonial rule, western literary traditions, among others, storytellers can claim authorship of their works today. …”
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Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator and Aesthete by Audrey Doussot

“…Laurence Housman’s work in the fields of fairy literature, illustration and book design was one of the most inventive and innovative contributions to the British Aesthetic movement which turned the artistic and literary scene upside down in the second half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Des vitrines sur le roman : les couvertures de Madame Bovary et Salammbô by Bruna Donatelli

“…These two figures of the literary imagination incite book cover artists and iconographers to make fundamentally different choices, even if some common features of these heroines’ personality (their instable and dreamy nature), outline analogies in the iconic transposition process when one wants to remodel them according to the dominant canon in the cultural context of the time.…”
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Prestige de la hache et haches de prestige by Mélisande Bizoirre

“…In the eighteenth century, when the Iranian world was instable, the battle-axe (tabarzin in Persian) emerged as an artistic support; it bore complex decorations, inspired by that art of the book. …”
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La représentation de la vie d’un maître estropié du passé au xixe siècle : L’Aleijadinho d’Henrique Bernardelli by Fábio D’Almeida

“…The analysis of the painting will highlight the way in which the canvas distances itself considerably from the formulas that are frequently present in the European book also figuring the lives of the Old Masters in the nineteenth century.Antonio Francisco Lisboa, Aleijadinho, peinture brésilienne, xixe siècle, maîtres anciens, art colonial, genre anecdotique, histoire des artistes…”
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Flaubert et Taine devant l’image by Bernard Vouilloux

“…What did Taine keep from the material Flaubert sent him? What, in his book, confirms or coincides with Flaubert’s observations? …”
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O a(u)tor e suas "interversões" em Retrato desnatural, de Evando Nascimento by Fabíola Padilha

“…This paper aims at proposing a reading of the supposedly fictional book Retrato desnatural (diários - 2004 a 2007), by Evando Nascimento, published in 2008, by observing the way through which the author, in consonance with the notion of “writable text” by Roland Barthes, entertains a dialogue with diverse artistic lan- guages (plastic arts, music, theater, cinema, literature) as well as with the western philosophy. …”
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Reflexões críticas em torno de Rubén Darío: relendo as interpretações de José Enrique Rodó e de Manuel Gondra by Elisângela da Silva Santos

“…This article aims to retake two criticisms made to the book Prosas profanas y otros poemas, by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916), criticisms that were written by Manuel Gondra (1871-1927) and José Enrique Rodó (1871- 1917). …”
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Performative Translation: Latvia’s Orbita Group as a Post-Monolingual Heterotopia by Kevin M. F. Platt

“…The article explains this achievement as resulting from the Orbita collective’s practices of “performative translation,” which make translation a highly visible and central element of various forms of artistic activity, including multimedia installations, book publishing, video poetry, public performance, proper, and more. …”
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Sérgio Ferro au prisme d’une histoire brésilienne,(re-)lire Dessin-chantier by Sandra Fiori

“…He is the author of Dessin-chantier (2005, éd. de la Villette), a troubling book based both on a radical criticism of architectural production conditions and orignal proposals for a professional emancipatory practice. …”
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THE YIJING AND THE CRISIS OF WESTERN TRADITION by Ernest Ženko

“…Jung, and even to 20th century physicists, artists or musicians, this ancient text had always something relevant to say. …”
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Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…These genre foundations serve as a substrate for creating a unique artistic expression. The transitional period of the 1990s in Slovak literature, marked by significant changes in the socio-political landscape and a shift in literary life, is identified as the typical era for such ironically subversive text-forming practices. …”
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Quarenta anos do Quarenta clics em Curitiba, de Leminski e Pires by Ana Luiza Fernandes, João Queiroz

“…Una colaboración de Paulo Leminski y Jack Pires, la obra no aparece en ninguna antología dedicada al género “fotolibro”, ni es mencionada como un proyecto de libro de artista (artistic book) en publicaciones especializadas, siendo así olvidada por la crítica y la historiografía literaria. …”
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