Oscar Wilde is regarded as the emblematic figure of Aestheticism and Art for Art’s sake and thus of the autonomisation of the arts in late nineteenth-century Britain. That is why The Soul of Man under Socialism, his most overtly political essay, published in The Fornightly Review in February 1891, h...

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25 universities offered art history in the Third Reich, one of which was the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Unlike other artistic institutes, the influence of NS cultural policy is hardly studied here. Documents from the Uni archive provide insights. Georg-Swarzenski, a full honorary profes...

Françoise Sullivan’s name is perhaps still little known outside Canada, but the rich and multi-facetted work of this artist, who is nothing less than a monument—still very much alive and kicking—in the history of Canadian art, deserves special attention well beyond the borders of the country she was...

European Heritage Days: the architecture and history of the College of France attracted 6 200 visitors. These days allowed the College of France to present the architectural heritage of the Marcelin Berthelot site and to offer the public a pathway at the heart of its scientific and intellectual hist...

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...

International audience “To gaze is to think” notes Salvador Dalí. The artist’s observation is illustrative of the tradition of representing perception as analogical with thinking. Analysing perception, Arnheim, for example, claims that there is no difference between a percept and a concept inasmuch...

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...

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To focus on the graphics of the structure in the Wasmuth Porfolio, we must first know the figure of Frank LLoyd Wright and thus better understand his work as a reflection of his architectural trajectory. Frank LLoyd Wright, a figure relevant when we talk about the history of architecture. Its implem...

In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, written in the 1940s but about the distant future, he describes a device that plays a recording of a 3D moving image with sound. The display device is a glass cube, in which the viewer sees a human figure talking—something like a talking head on television, but...

As a boy, the Basle physician Felix Platter (1536-1614) once got in trouble for loitering at a market stall to admire some biscuit moulds. When recalling the episode in his memoirs, Platter described the carved wooden biscuit moulds as "works of art". The anecdote raises the question: if, around the...

International audience This paper is inscribed in a long-term research about social representations of work, of the management and of companies in different spheres or institutions discourses such as education, corporate communication, television (TV series such as entertainment programs), art and,...

Is it possible to steer the concepts of development and transformation to a wide range of different sizes, with the aim and goal of developing and transforming our societies and social groups, our territories and places at local, sub-regional and regional levels? If this row can be built, is it poss...

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twenty years after the publication of the post-apocalyptic comic strip Le Transperceneige, created by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the film Snowpiercer of Korean director Bong Joon-Ho went to the cinema in 2013. This is not an adaptation as such, but rather a real recreation, the change of me...

Thursday 29 March 2012 10:00 German Forum for Art History, Hôtel Lully Event for Fellows of the German Forum for Art History under the annual theme ‘Silence. Schweigen’, chaired by Stephanie Marchal and Séverine Gossart For discussion, the essay of Susan Sontag’The aesthetics of Silence (1969), in:...

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...

During the last decade of the 19th century, a number of English writers converted to Roman Catholicism: the “Decadent” poets John Gray, Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson joined the Church in 1890 and 1891, while Oscar Wilde flirted with the Catholic faith during his college years at Oxford, and recei...

Façade de de l'église Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais de Paris Type : Appel à communication Date limite de l'appel : 1er juin 2017 Date de l'événement : 22-24 Mars 2018 Lieu : Nouvelle Orléans [1] The Glory of Inscriptions: epigraphic writing, classical architecture and monumental art in the Renaissance...

Copy objects of the art/history relationship In 2014, a group of Berlin activists, ‘No Humboldt 21’, published a series of posters to denounce or highlight certain aspects of the conflict history of collections intended to take place in the Humboldt Forum on the Island at Museum. A brass head of the...

Crépiat Caroline, Saint-Amand Denis and Schuh Julien (ed.), Poétique du Chat Noir (1882-1897), Nanterre, University Presses de Paris Nanterre, 2021, (Hors Collection). Despite the renewed interest over the past 15 years in the 19th century press study, a landmark title of the late century, Le Chat N...

"Envisioning Socialism examines television and the power it exercised to define the East Germans’ view of socialism during the first decades of the German Democratic Republic. In the first book in English to examine this topic, Heather L. Gumbert traces how television became a medium prized for its...

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1962 TO THE ATTENTION OF THE ICAICLA Havana DIRECTION COUNCIL, 3 June 1961. Apart from other reasons which I am prepared to discuss if necessary, the following is the reason for this decision: following the problems with the film PM and the introduction of its ban, ICAIC drew u...