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...

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:...

Based on a finding, the difficulty of finding reports on poverty in French collections of photographs, the article seeks to demonstrate the existence of another decisive aesthetic model. Indeed, for a long time built on the models of fine arts and theatre, some of the photographs retained from the n...

International audience This article aims at showing how environmental aesthetics relates to the common environment, the ordinary environment that we discuss, share, and live in. Aesthetics has primarily been understood in relation to art and art history, but it has now been emancipated from this fra...

Depuis sa naissance, notre science est restée fidèle dans son évolution à une idée, celle qui veut que la jouissance et la création esthétiques, la beauté et l’art soient indissociables. L’objet de cette science peut présenter des formes diverses, mais il est homogène. L’art est considéré comme la r...

This article analyses the depiction of the effects of alienation caused by migration. The non-mord hand of Ornela Vorpsi through the link it creates between fragmentation of the idea and meeting with aesthetics. Art, in the same way as subjectivity dissociated from migration, creates a fictitious wo...

The manifesto is one of the “genders” of modernity and accompanies the shift from a model aesthetic to an aesthetic of innovation. But its evolution makes it possible to grasp the breakthrough of the foresight. By moving the manifesto from programmatic to poetic, by constituting it as a shape and wo...

Summary In the 20th century, popular music was Brazil’s strongest artistic language and one of Brazil’s great aesthetic forces. Since the 30s, she has held an important position in cultural debates and nationalist projects and, over the years, expanded its reach with the progress of the media. That...

The following thesis is a research about the art of performance in its aesthetic, political,ethical, cognitive and subjective implications; within the Brazilian anthropophagy tradition’s artistic and cultural context in the period when the art of performance emerges as an artistic genre, in the sixt...

The evolution of the aesthetic and economic value of a photographic print has been set up by a temporality, which takes 1980s as a starting point for the research. Our aim is to emphasize historical aspects as well as economical, aesthetic and theoretical ones, which have made structuring of a photo...

, where does the history of Belle come from to sleeping wood? Who are the “fées” present at the birth of the small princess? This volume brings together contributions that reflect the extraordinary richness and complexity of this old history that was believed to be familiar, from its distant origins...

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) is of one of the most well-known texts of eighteenth-century British art and aesthetics alongside with Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty (1753) and Reynolds’s Discourses at the Royal Academy (1769 – 1790...

This study explores the works of Jonathan Safran Foer, Daniel Mendelsohn, and Art Spiegelman through the notion of trace, the founding principle of the aesthetics and ethics of post-Holocaust writing. The incomplete knowledge of these “post-Holocaust generations” implies the presence of a “postmemor...

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the ‘opening’ power of the image in narrative texts written after the 1980s : Claude Simon’s Le Jardin des Plantes, Peter Handke’s Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht and Der Bildverlust, and Richard Powers’ Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. The category of the v...

The image of food is the subject of a foisonating editorial production, proteiform: kitchen books, recipes; books on taste, table, gastronomy, chefs, styles and food cultures; culinary broadcasts and blogs; countless media and multimedia, artistic and museum productions. Without drawing up an invent...

This thesis takes the reader through Robert Pinget’s protean work, from early poems to notebooks including novels, theatre and art books. This work will examine literary history, sociopoetics and genre pragmatics in order to show that poetry represents an aesthetic horizon for the New Novelist, in o...

A recent publication by the Muzeum Współczesne in Wrocław sheds light on a compelling, even though not yet fully acknowledged, practice of the Polish artist Zbigniew Geppert (1934-1982). The trajectory of Geppert’s artistic development was not uncommon for his time, as the artist studied respectivel...

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It is clearly difficult to climb Racine and find a visual aesthetic at the height of his language, without falling into aesthetic ponds conveyed by tradition. Perhaps it is even more difficult to climb up Berenice, due to the tenuity of its action; above all, it is difficult to make the majesté, cha...

Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Œuvres is a wonderfully useful compendium for all readers interested in the philosopher’s major ideas, but perhaps especially for those interested in his contribution to aesthetics and philosophy of art. A voluminous (almost 1850-page) collection, it contains complete version...

Le couple problématique de l’instrumentalisation et de l’autonomie de l’art a été au cœur des enjeux de la modernité artistique, des controverses entre partisans romantiques de l’art pour l’art et promoteurs utilitaristes d’un art social au début du 19e siècle, jusqu’à l’opposition esthétique et pol...

Image or screen, obvious and opacity, characterises the image: doubling the object, it is self-evident, allowing the distance of visibility to be played without, however, allowing any appeal by the invisible. It is this pervasive and unclean picture paradox that we focus here from Giacometti to Prou...

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...

This article studies Frank Miller's 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns' (1986) graphic design, as a key figure for the concept, narrative treatment and publication format of the book, which were important parts of its formal innovation and cultural impact. In particular, cover design, page design and...