Millennial landscape and tourist development in China. The case of the Hani rice terraces in Yunnan by Myriam Dao

“…My work combines a sensitive approach through diverse artistic representations of landscapes – from classical Chinese art to the works of contemporary artists, including mine – and examines landscape planning and patrimonial policies. …”
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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…When in the mid 1850s Assyrian sculptures excavated by a French delegation got lost in the river Tigris all what remained was a set of drawings that the London artist William Boutcher had made during a British expedition in Mesopotamia. …”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…This article compares the representation of time in its relation to the transformation of the body, in the hegemonic (artistic) culture and in the semiological content of transgender works. …”
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Les trois âges du paysage by Philippe Montillet

“…First of all, the farmer was at the origin of landscapes through farming activities. Then, the artist represented them in his own image - by putting man and his sensibility at the core of the relationship. …”
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François Morellet et la scène géométrique française des années 1950 : du formalisme à la formativité. by Roxane Ilias

“…He sought new working methods, ones that were no longer subject to the artist’s whims but to external constraints. Self-taught and based in Maine-et-Loire (western France) but not isolated from the French art scene, he drew on non-Western abstract sources, the new generation of foreign artists active in Paris and the geometric art of his time for his minimal, restrained painting, generated by elementary, playful “systems”. …”
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Two Seventeenth-Century Garden Views from the Royal Palace of Aranjuez by Marianna S. Simpson, Richard L. Kagan

“…Around 1660 the artist Benito Manuel Agüero completed thirty-three paintings for the «Salón» of Philip IV’s palace at Aranjuez. …”
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La Permanence, une politique de l’attention by Giulia Tellier, Tiphaine Hameau

“…This contribution is the outcome of exchanges between an architect and a garden-artist, both of whom are attached to the act of writing as a means of putting real life situations into perspective and providing feedback on their own experiences. …”
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Trompeuses séductions. La Chute d’Icare des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique by Dominique Allart, Christina Currie

“…The painting is no doubt a copy after a lost original by the artist. The analysis of a cross-section of the paint layer and radiocarbon dating of the canvas suggest that it is an old copy. …”
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Madame Bovary et ses trente-quatre « vous », ou le retour du refoulé by Alain Vaillant

“…Flaubert, as we all know, is the artist of impersonality, of the elocutionary disappearance of the novelist. …”
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L’Antiphonaire d’Oosteeklo et son enlumineur (Cornelia van Wulfschkercke ?) by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe

“…Moreover, the historiated initials can be related to a documented artist: the celebrated Cornelia van Wulfschkercke, Carmelite of the Sion convent in Bruges, to whom an important body of works has been attributed. …”
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“La suavidad de Artemisa”: reflections on the reception of Artemisia Gentileschi in Spain by Jesse Locker

“…Thanks to documentation hitherto not linked to them, the author proposes to attribute the busts to Filippo Scandellari, the first artist to create realistic wax portrait busts in his birthplace of Bologna. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…Its inscription in a late-century symbolism opens up promising new fields of research by taking into account the sacred in private architecture and by the emancipatory role played by female artist. It would illustrate the dissemination at work of theosophical ideas in the formal development of the first current of Art Nouveau, Modern style.…”
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Homais et le journal by Corinne Trichet

“…This article aims to show that this double novelistic existence is subjected to the same logic of invalidity by the novelist: the chemist is the typical character whom Flaubert despises, provincial bourgeoisie, the language of stupidity… As for the press - this writing of haste, ephemeral, industrial, commercial -, it is totally opposed to the ideal of the artist’s writing, slow, ripened, stylistically elaborated, striving for eternity. …”
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Escritura publicitaria en el tránsito entre el medievo y la modernidad by Alejandro García Morilla

“…This is undoubtedly the objective pursued by the artist (or artists) who created the altarpieces of Doubt and Passion for the Caparroso funeral chapel in Pamplona Cathedral. …”
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From Exigent to Adaptive by Elizabeth Gálvez

“…In his proposal for Air Architecture, French artist Yves Klein proposes the opposite: an architecture devoid of the responsibility to temper human environs. …”
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« Une descente dans la vérité »: contribution à l’étude de l’œuvre de Jean-Louis Forain à partir de la collection de dessins du musée d’Orsay (conservés au département des arts gra... by Hélène Fernandez

“…In 2011 a major retrospective of the artist’s work was held at the Petit Palais where Hélène Fernandez set out its main characteristics. …”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…Through study and experiment, and by following the examples of other artists who had achieved artistic mastery and was of proven Catholic orthodoxy, he educated himself as an artist in the Western manner. …”
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Due ritratti in cera in cerca di autore by Andrea Daninos

“…Thanks to documentation hitherto not linked to them, the author proposes to attribute the busts to Filippo Scandellari, the first artist to create realistic wax portrait busts in his birthplace of Bologna. …”
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“From in the light I touched the light” by Anne-Laure Tissut

“…In the collaborative graphic novel Ever, writer Blake Butler and visual artist and writer Derek White explore the various forms of interaction between text and image to open out the possibilities of meaning and representation. …”
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Inji Efflatoun entre le pinceau et la plume : « L’exposition de la révolutionnaire » by Nadine Atallah

“…A leading figure in modern Egyptian art, Efflatoun made a name for herself with her dual career as a painter and Marxist, feminist and anti-colonialist activist. While pursuing her artistic training, she organised her exhibition against the backdrop of the Suez Crisis, which heralded the 23 July Revolution and accelerated the struggles for national independence. …”
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