Jan Václav Michna z Vacínova a emblematická výzdoba kostela sv. Jakuba Většího v Kratonohách by Pavel Panoch

“… The paper focuses on the building history, ceiling decoration and furnishings of the St. James' Church in Kratonohy (East Bohemia). The originally gothic object was markedly rebuilt within the years 1710-1711 in baroque style. …”
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Les monstres d’Aubrey Beardsley et le « grotesque darwinien » by Catherine Delyfer

“…The elusiveness and hybridity of fin-de-siècle identity are also captured in the various symbols late-Victorian artists created in order to represent themselves or their art : James Whistler’s signature butterfly, Odilon Redon’s foetuses and Aubrey Beardsley’s embryos are a few of the famous motifs which foreground the mutation and transformation processes which fascinated the imagination of Aesthetic and Decadent artists. …”
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Beyond Anything Realism Can Represent? Monstrous Crime in Marx’s Victorian Novel by Jayson Althofer

“…Yet his indispensable informants include factory inspectors whose reports, according to Fredric Jameson, provide testimony beyond anything realism can represent. …”
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