Géographie, photographie, polygraphie : retour sur l’établissement d’une méthode d’enquête by Jordi Ballesta

“…From late 1960’s, in the United-States, and one decade after, in Europe, artistic works defined here as photo-geographical have deeply changed the representation of contemporary landscapes, focusing on common places and urban forms not influenced by the organizing principles of urban planning. …”
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Inter-American Memories: Frances Toor, Alma Reed and the Mexican Cultural Renaissance by Michael K. Schuessler

“…As for Frances Toor, she founded and edited the groundbreaking bilingual magazine Mexican Folkways, which explored and celebrated the artistic traditions of the country’s myriad indigenous groups and, due to its bilingual nature, also served as a vehicle to spread knowledge about Mexico and its rich cultural heritage in the United States and beyond.…”
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Penser la musique, Écouter les images. Lectures de Cahiers d’art, Jazz et Documents sur le jazz et le cinéma américains by Diane Turquety

“…Marked by popular culture, the United States and the “exotic” touch embodied by the American black community, these entertainments were elevated to the rank of new forms of artistic expression, vectors of an ideal modernity. …”
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L’effacement des lynchages californiens. La mémoire et l’instrumentalisation des images by Pierre Vialle

“…Before being extensively practiced in the Old South after the abolition of slavery, lynching was massively used in the West of the United States causing hundreds of victims. The artist and academic Ken Gonzales-Day, specialists in the matter in California, questions through with work how the abundance of lynching in the region was able to supply lacks of recordings in the American History in spite of the fact that there are numerous photos of these crimes. …”
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À la Recherche de Yankee Art by Dimitrios S. Latsis

“…A complex intertextual and intermedial web emerges from this comparison that reveals various tensions around an emerging “narrative” for the self-representation of the United States as a world-power and an artistically “emancipated” nation and provides a glimpse into a New Deal-era attempt at cultural diplomacy on the eve of WW II. …”
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Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…From the moment the picture reappeared in the mid-1980s, a compulsive repetition occurred through various artistic media. While the The damages caused by the United States and represented by the child victim remain constant, the initial anti-war message has been transformed into an anti-imperialistic one, closely related to the American consumer society. …”
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Les représentations de l’ennemi et du combat dans les dessins animés soviétiques de 1941 by David Maurice

“…In front of the largeness of threat, the Soviet authorities did not hesitate to mobilize artistic community to relay a patriotic discourse to the masses, casting a particular picture of the enemy as well as behaviours to adopt in front of him, in the same way as France, Great Britain or the United States could make it. …”
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Our Fascinating and Complex World by Jackson Kelly

“…Later, I began posting maps of countries in Southwest Asia, then Europe, Africa, Oceania, and ending with the United States. People commented proudly about their homeland and culture and what it meant to them for an American artist to depict their country in a positive light. …”
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Emilie Oléron Evans, Transferts culturels et historiographie de l'art : le cas de Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) by Émilie Oléron Evans

“…It tackles the main aspects of his contribution, from the issue of the Modern movement, through the use of the concept of space in the architectural discourse based on the principle of empathy (Einfühlung), to the exploration of the artistic production and the architectural heritage of Pevsner’s country of adoption. …”
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Spectacle and Spectatorship at the Nineteenth-Century American Racetrack by Natalie Zacek

“…This paper argues that, in the antebellum United States, many people attended horse races at least as much from a desire to produce and consume spectacle as from a fascination with the sport itself. …”
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BROOM: An International Magazine of the Arts (1921-1924) : une revue d’avant-garde américaine by Ambre Gauthier

“…It championed a vision of artistic creation that was plural and international, one in which the United States and Europe joined forces to produce universal works. …”
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Rock Music and The Political Scripting of Vietnam War: Reading Dispatches by Michael Herr by Lalit Kumar

“…The music industry played a pivotal role in reinforcing anti-war sentiments in the United States, exemplified by songs such as Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “Universal Soldier” and Phil Ochs’ “Vietnam Talking Blues.” …”
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Dorothy C. Miller, Chase Manhattan and American Banking: Investing Art? by Christine Zumello

“…This article offers an exploration of the imbrications of “business and art” in the United States in the second half the 20th century. …”
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Rise of Love and the People: French Matter and Manner in the Early Victorian Drama of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

“…In the short period between 1837, when Queen Victoria came to the throne, and 1843, when the Theatre Regulation Act amended the Licensing Act of 1737 and thus reconfigured theatrical freedom and production in the United Kingdom, the fruitful collaboration of renowned novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and actor and theatrical manager William Charles Macready would prove to be decisive in shaping early Victorian drama and setting high standards in production and artistic integrity, which would be followed by successive managers. …”
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Athlete A Documentary Analysis: Breaking the Silence on Harassment and Abuse in Sports by Canan Koca Arıtan, Pinar Ozturk, Mine Kızılgüneş

“…This study aims to listen to the voices of athletes of the United States of America (USA) Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team (WAG) against the sexual abuse and organizational neglect they have been exposed to for more than 30 years in order to understand the reasons that lead to abuse. …”
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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…Ruskin’s innate love of nature (‘the ruling passion of my life’ (5.365)) was strengthened by literary, artistic, and historical associations uniquely connected to the European cultural tradition. …”
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Ukrainian Social Elite in Pylyp Orlyk’s Lliterary Works by Larysa Lytvyn

“…His poetry collections "Ruthenian Alcide" and "Sarmatian Hippomenes", in addition to several insignificant eulogies, which were published in the course of the "Mazepian era", united the military, religious and cultural elites around the hetman. …”
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Hidden aspects of meaning in the phonetic layer of Haft-Peykar by Gholamhosehn Madadi, Ebrahim Estaji, Azam Estaji, ali tasnimi

“…In the process of achieving literariness, language moves away from its usual form, and linguistic elements in the text go beyond conventional types for an artistic usage. In outstanding literary works, there is a special link between the content and the way linguistic units are used in different layers. …”
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Franciscan Library and Museum with Pinacotheca in Ljubljana by Jan Dominik Bogataj

“…The newly designed museum showcases some of the friary’s key cultural and artistic objects. …”
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