Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…Exploring New Brutalism’s criticism of the established ethos of International Style architecture, the first part of this paper will highlight the movement’s tendency towards replacing the painterly with the sculptural, and this in reference to the contemporary interest in monolithic architecture. …”
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Better Than the Real Thing: Processed Reality in Victorian Art and Fiction by Béatrice Laurent

“…In the 1850s, strategies of aggregation were part of the regular compositional practice of Victorian painters, from the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt to William Powell Frith. …”
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La mode par ses métiers : histoire et savoir des fabricants du second xixe siècle by Émilie Hammen

“…But archaeologists and painters still concentrated primarily on the dress of the Ancien Régime, thought to be more interesting than contemporary clothing. …”
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The Texture and Color Matching of Oil Painting Materials Based on Multimedia Visual Communication by Feng Wang, Haozhang Sun

“…The experimental results show that the texture and color matching of oil painting creation materials based on multimedia visual communication are more popular with the public, and oil painters are also satisfied with this method. And, the expressiveness of oil painting texture has been improved by 10%. …”
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Proust’s Ruskin: From Illustration to Illumination by Emily Eells

“…My argument here is that Proust appropriated those two illustrations and transformed them into illuminations, in the sense that Ruskin gave to that term in Modern Painters.…”
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Framing the Land: Canadian Landscapes Revisited in Jin-me Yoon and Lorraine Gilbert’s Photography by Gwendolyne Cressman

“…While the photographers engaged in geographical and topographical expeditionary missions envisioned the land as the epitome of the sublime landscape, the Group of Seven painters of the 1920s and 1930s later sought to express the essence of Canada’s northern identity through the celebration of a mythical wilderness. …”
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Pascalova hlediska by Brocková, Alexandra

“…The primary part of the analysis is focused especially on Pascal’s “observing,” where observation is focused above all on fragments in which the French philosopher takes into account the inconstancy of the human in the partiality of the point-of-view, emphasizes the instability of knowledge and its methods, uses the metaphor of painterly perspective and reflects on the (im)possibility of having truth. …”

Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…In the master narrative of the period the emphasis is customarily put on the emergence of three-dimensional space. Initially painters aimed at generating homogenous depth within their work, a prerequisite of coherent immersive experience. …”
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Pour une archéologie des peintures murales, la Chasse royale de la chapelle Sainte-Radegonde à Chinon (Indre-et-Loire) : étude technique et résultat des datations par le 14C by Amaëlle Marzais

“…This dating provides a chronological framework for the paintings, which are at the crossroads of technical and stylistic changes. The painters of these works, including the Royal Hunt, used a technique that was partly based on fresh plaster and motifs from the Romanesque vocabulary, combined with a style that already showed marked 13th century characteristics such as a thick black ring and the gradual abandonment of modelling on the face.…”
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Abnormal Respiratory Symptoms of Workers and Sampling of Organic Vapors Using Solid-phase Microextraction Devices in a Golf Ball Manufacturing Factory by Wen-Hsi Cheng, Nai-Yu Chen

“…The highest worker time weighted average exposure concentration of n-butyl acetate was 16.92 ppm, and that for ethyl acetate was 19.69 ppm, as measured in a closed spray room. Painters’ and printers’ symptoms of respiratory tract abnormalities (RTA) were strongly correlated with their exposures to organic solvents as determined from the answers to a questionnaire survey on workers’ RTA symptoms. …”
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Livres muets by Martine Créac’h

“…The project leads to a collective work based on Seghers engravings by contemporary artists, painters and engravers in Le Livre des livres I (1974), accompanied by musicians in Le Livre des livres II (1982). …”
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„Wie die Geschichtsschreiber der Welt die Geschichte des Felsens schreiben“. Die zerschlagene Gedächtnislandschaft in der „Saison in den Alpen“ von Mieczysław Jastrun by Elżbieta Dutka

“…Mieczysław Jastrun stayed with a group of Polish painters and writers in Switzerland for three winter months between 1946 and 1947. …”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…The artist, his right arm cocked in painterly position, takes in the scene that he will frame for us. …”
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In Sight of Mont Blanc: an Approach to Ruskin’s Perception of the Mountain by Laurence Roussillon-Constanty

“…Grand admirateur de Wordsworth, il prend soin par la suite de faire précéder chaque section de Modern Painters d’extraits de The Excursion, se faisant ainsi l’héritier d’une tradition romantique pour laquelle la montagne est le lieu privilégié de l’expression du sujet lyrique et le reflet d’une intériorité sans cesse en mouvement. …”
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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…Such associations, he proposes in Modern Painters III ‘can be felt only by the modern European child . . . . …”
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‘Why is it that a photograph always looks clear and sharp, — not at all like a Turner?’ John Ruskin & Perceptual Aberration by Lawrence Gasquet

“…In volume IV of Modern Painters, Ruskin contends that photographs might after all be more on Turner’s side than he and other critics might have first thought: ‘Photographs never look entirely sharp; but because clearness is supposed a merit in them, they are usually taken from very clearly marked and un-Turnerian subjects; and such results as are misty and faint, though often precisely those which contain the most subtle renderings of nature, are thrown away, and the clear ones only are preserved. …”
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A Comparative Study on: the Aspects of Imagination in the Text and Paintings of Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin (Based on Gilbert Durand Hypothesis) by Farimah Pourmand, Bita Mesbah

“…Finally, the results show that the painters are totally depended on the poet’s aspects of imagination especially in the basic elements and descriptions of the principals and essentials of the story in the text. …”
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Les édifices néogothiques parisiens et leurs verrières : églises et chapelles catholiques by Martine Callias Bey

“…Paris played a leading role in the revival of stained glass during the early years of the 19th century, thanks in part to the perspicacious inspiration of certain figures in power, such as the Prefect of Paris, the Comte de Chabrol, who was at the origins of the ‘resurrection’ of the skill of stained-glass painters with the 1825 creation of the works at the Foire Saint-Laurent. …”
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Blood Lead Levels among Blood Donors and High-Risk Occupational Groups in a Mining Area in Ghana: Implications for Blood Transfusion among Vulnerable Populations by Veronica Agyemang, Joseph K. Acquaye, Samuel B. E. Harrison, Felix B. Oppong, Stephany Gyaase, Kwaku P. Asante, Edeghonghon Olayemi

“…We enrolled 40 participants each from the following high-risk occupational groups: small scale miners, painters/sprayers, drivers/fuel station attendants, and auto-mechanics as well as 40 healthy blood donors (made up of teachers, traders, and office workers). …”
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