The University of All Knowledge website (Odile Jacob Editions) offers several downloadable conferences (Real Audio); the ‘Art and Culture’ section includes communications (50 minutes) from Antoine Compagnon, Marc Augé, Roger Chartier and Gérard Genette. There are also several other interesting headi...

COHEN Evelyne, PASCALE Goetschel, MARTIN Laurent, ORY Pascal Ten years of cultural history: State of the art Villeurbanne: ENSSIB presses, 2011, 314 p. Collection Paper ISBN 978-2-910227-94-4 C 1099 Summary: In 1999, the Association for the Development of Cultural History (ADHC) was born of the grow...

International audience Connections between economics and art encompass far more than simply the art market. By looking beyond auction prices, artists’ career trajectories, and marketing strategies, scholars can better engage with the economic significance of art objects in a range of social and disc...

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The intrigue of what my eyes saw Laurent de Bartillat (2007) is about documentary research carried out by a doctorate in history of art interpreted by Sylvie Testud. The subject of her thesis is the representation of women in Watteau. She is led by a prominent professor played by Jean-Pierre Mariell...

H-ArtHist, an unparalleled international source of information for and by art historians, will be presented in Paris by its facilitators. Presentation by H-ArtHist, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, (German Centre for Art History), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 at 18: 30. Next year, the H-ArtHist mai...

Since Greek history, the history of Europe has often been lived as a civilisation surrounded (or even besieged) by barbaric. However, even Greece of Pericles was not insensitive to the East or the Gold of the Scythes, and Greenism is the mark of a merger between the Greeks and ‘the others’. The bag...

this collective book presents the work of young researchers studying international cultural relations and the emergence of a transnational cultural space in the various disciplines concerned by the field of cultural history: cultural, literary, gender, art, theatre, cinema, remembrance, sport, immig...

Diche by Camille Ambrosino, extract from the graphic file for the future online mapping ‘The world in museum’. The collections of African objects in museums in France are still very little known. This ticket launches a series of small texts which will give an overview once a week. These texts will b...

For the past 30 years, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been considered as a crippling memory disorder impairing any possibility of new learnings in declarative memory. However, in the history of neuropsychology, cases of residual encoding have been reported with amnestic patients presenting different e...

“From images of the history of art to those of mass visual media, from visual arts to visual culture, the image continues its triomphal walk.” — Peter Weibel Alliances, resistance, compromise, the relationship between art and power in the visual world, from portrait to muralism, from encroachment to...

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Schelling’s contribution to aesthetics will first have been to reject the name and project, which is expressly linked to Baumgarten’s beautiful science, because art is not focused, in his view, primarily on sensitivities, but on a high beauty above all sensitivity. The task of art philosophy is to p...

viewed the image and imagination at the beginning of the psychanalysis ‘à la Française’. Use of Desoille method in psychotherapy of children. Sketch of a ‘fate of the image’.

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International audience Processing and combustion of animal products including bone, fat, and oil for food and fuel can provide a crucial source of calories, heat, and light in cold, fuel-poor environments. Previous studies have shown that remnant lipids from the combustion and processing of animal p...

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The article develops considerations on the current design and presentation of archaeology and history of antique art in synthesis work for mainly didactic purposes. The critical analysis of a few recently published books makes it possible to address a series of questions concerning the logic of know...

Theophile legend is complex and occupies a privileged position in the medieval West. It is represented in several manuscripts and on numerous windows. She is also sculpted on the walls of a few churches and has a vast textual tradition at an early stage. The aim of this study is to analyse this topi...