Sutures génériques et fêlures intérieures chez Charles Burns by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

“…Charles Burns’ comics typify an aesthetics of the in-between unfolding on several levels. …”
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Sociabilidade e cidadania: os espaços públicos de Salvador como entrelaçamento do concreto, do simbólico e do imaginário by Cíntia San Martin Fernandes

“…For this purpose, the author chose Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, as a constitutive example of a city that builds its sociability, its daily interlacement, not on instrumental rational relationships (ruled by objective and regulating ends and means), but on sensitive reason (ruled by sensitivities, such as art, aesthetics, the body and gestures). The article is divided in three parts: the first one briefly presents some approaches of the concept of network in order to situate the authors perspective among others; the second one elaborates on this approach; the third part describes elements of the nagô [which some call Yoruban] communication, which is seen as a foundation for the interpersonal communication that prevails in the city of Salvador.…”
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Numerical Analysis of a Dental Zirconium Restoration and the Stresses That Occur in Dental Tissues by Rosa Alicia Hernández-Vázquez, Guillermo Urriolagoitia-Sosa, Rodrigo Arturo Marquet-Rivera, Beatriz Romero-Ángeles, Octavio-Alejandro Mastache-Miranda, G. Guillermo Urriolagoitia-Calderón

“…When it is about restorative dental materials, aesthetics is traditionally preferred. This has led to the selection of materials very visually similar to the enamel, but unfortunately, their mechanical properties are not similar. …”
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Un théâtre astral et « révolutionnaire » : les visions « fanta-scientifiques » de Paul Scheerbart by Cristina Grazioli

“…Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) is a well-known author in studies on the origins of science fiction in Germany and is often quoted for his contribution to the aesthetics of modernist architecture. Yet he was rarely studied for his theatrical conceptions and writings; his theatrical work was never considered enough, nor under the prism of the anticipations of SF theatre. …”
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La relocalisation des terres agricoles en ville : des sols et des paysages à (re)connaître by Claire Aragau

“…This redefinition of the relationship between the city and agriculture via the soil and the open land radically impacts the morphologies and spatial arrangements of a whole range of landscapes that may be described as agri-urban. Their aesthetics are marked by technical elements, adjustments and an unsustainable aspect which all relate to the difficulties of using the soil for agricultural purposes in an urban context.…”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…Thomas Hardy is a figure of transition caught between a classic type of mimetic aesthetic and a modern type of aesthetic. Just like Turner, he did manage to disrupt the aesthetics of classic realism when he gave up writing novels and wrote The Dynasts. …”
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Chu Calligraphy on Bamboo Slips. The Visual Evolution from Seal Script to Clerical Script and Its Artistic Value by Mansu Wang

“…The use of specific writing tools and techniques not only set the foundational aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy but also played a critical role in the development of calligraphic styles and the establishment of calligraphy as an independent art form. …”
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Wild Wild West : une série au carrefour des affirmations dans les États-Unis du milieu des années 1960 by Jean Ruhlman

“…While it cleverly brings together the aesthetics of the western and spy fiction, its success also has to do with the historical and social relevance of the themes it addresses. …”
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Poets and Puppets: Interarts Collaboration in Alfred Kreymborg’s Lima Beans by Yasna Bozhkova

“…This article focuses on a little-explored case of modernist collaboration situated at the crossroads between different arts: the performance of Alfred Kreymborg’s play Lima Beans, produced by the Provincetown Players in December 1916, in which poets Mina Loy and William Carlos Williams played the two leading parts, together with poet and artist William Zorach, who also designed the sets. The play’s novel aesthetics breaks with the principles of the realist dramas typical of the time and favored even by more experimental groups like the Provincetown Players. …”
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Faire obstacle à la vérité et tromper les attentes : Hitchcock et Wilder comme on les connaît peu by Julie Michot

“…Hitchcock’s and Wilder’s aesthetics and preferred themes seem so different that the two European-born directors have rarely been compared, although they were at the height of their fame at about the same period in Hollywood. …”
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Public Art: a Review. Social and Political Practices by Styliani Bolonaki

“…Public art covers a range of phenomena in which aesthetics and urban life intersect. Public art introduces a broad of practices that opened to a number of interpretations regards their contributions to the urban environment, functions as a key factor in a city’s regeneration policies, and is the primary fuel of urban capital production and accumulation today. …”
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Intelligent Garden Planning and Design Based on Agricultural Internet of Things by Aijun Jia

“…The theories used include Internet of Things technology, agricultural industrialization theory, sustainable agricultural development theory, new rural construction theory in agricultural disciplines, ecotourism theory, tourism psychology theory in tourism disciplines, landscape ecology theory, landscape aesthetics theory, and garden planning and design theory. …”
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Pour une approche esthétique, technologique et procédurale de la fabrication des atmosphères : étude de Roma d’Alfonso Cuarón by Isabelle Singer

“…Aesthetic-technological choices aim for an ecstatic presence of things, from which the atmosphere emanates.…”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…It will first deal with the decisive encounter of Shakespeare’s drama with prison in Avignon’s Papal Palace in 1947 – an encounter that acts as a catalyst for the festival’s ethos and aesthetics. The focus will then shift to the festival’s partnership with Le Pontet penitentiary. …”
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Camping it out in the Never Never: Subverting Hegemonic Masculinity in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994) by Anne Le Guellec-Minel

“…The article explores how the aesthetics and politics of kitsch, which allow the film to balance subversion and conservatism, may have been the recipe for success. …”
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MUSINGS IN THE GARDEN: SCULPTURE PARK AND THE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY by NADIR A. NASIDI, FAIDA SAMUEL

“…This paper concludes that the Garden also serves many purposes different from art and aesthetics, including the proliferation of businesses while providing a serene environment for meetings, lectures, and shelter for lovers. …”
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Tectonic perspectives for urban ambiance? Towards a tectonic approach to urban design by Elias Melvin Christiansen, Lea Holst Laursen, Marie Frier Hvejsel

“…By recalling the etymological meaning of tectonics as a contextual joining of aesthetics and technology at the architectural scale, the paper states that this can be understood as a tectonic challenge which crosses the architectural and urban domains. …”
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The sounds of early eighteenth-century pastoral: Handel, Pope, Gay, and Hughes by Jeffrey HOPES

“…In the early eighteenth century the composer George Frideric Handel and the poets Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Hughes all engaged with the language and aesthetics of pastoral. Alexander Pope published his Pastorals in 1709, John Gay his Shepherd’s Week in 1714 and John Hughes the texts for six English Cantatas which were published after his death in 1735. …”
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Minimizing Surgical Margins in Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Single Institution's Experience with Excision and Reconstruction Methods by Sang-Oh Lee, Tae Gon Kim, Kyu Jin Chung

“… Background Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the predominant nonmelanocytic skin cancer, with preservation of both function and aesthetics being essential during tumor removal. Existing surgical margin guidelines primarily target ill-defined BCCs prevalent in Western countries. …”
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L’art du portrait entre l’esthétique occidentale et persane dans l’Iran safavide 1501-1736 by Aya Sakkal

“…Those perpetuated the aesthetics tradition and condemned the art of portraying the living and advocated at the same time for the defense of the values of the art of illustrating fictional tests and oriental style portrait. …”
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