Bronze and glass in the symbology of liminal space. Between the sacred interior of the Christian temple and the secular exterior by Grażyna Ryba

“…The artists’ exploration often leads to the expansion of the church entrance, inclusion of various forms of installations, and increasingly often they turn to the use of new media. Contemporary artists are to a large extent inspired by the Church’s stance, which emphasises the importance of the liminal space between the sacred and the secular, and consequently more and more often refers to the symbolism of the door and sponsors new innovative solutions. …”
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The advantages and disadvantages of Art History to Life: Alois Riegl and historicism by Diana Reynolds Cordileone

“…Finally, it traces ways in which Riegl used his early exposure to Nietzsche, particularly Nietzsche’s second Untimely Meditation (The advantages and disadvantages of History to life) to craft his responses to contemporary artistic and social crises in the final decade of the nineteenth century.…”
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Trade Mark Strategies of Emerging Music Artists by Tarik Sabry

“…The principal objective of this research is to present a relevant and practical insight into the actual trade mark practices of contemporary artists.…”
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Early Twenty-First-Century Literary Images from the Margins of the Russian (Orthodox) World by Mirja Lecke

“…The analysis of Viktoria Lomasko’s travel feature about Georgia and of Lasha Bugadze’s documentary novel “A Small Country” shows how contemporary artists and writers reassess the question of Georgia’s religious heritage and its difference from the Russian religious heritage. …”
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History and Stories through Jeremy Deller’s Performances by ROBERTO PINTO

“…In my paper I will try to investigate, through Deller's work (and through the comparison with other artistic experiences), how some contemporary artistic interventions try to exploit the mechanisms of performance in order to reconstruct historical events not only relying on the strategies of re-enactment, but also resorting to an immersive and unexpected relationship able to produce an extreme involvement. …”
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Strangers in the Village by Monika Gehlawat

“…This essay uses Edward Said’s theory of affiliation to consider the relationship between James Baldwin and contemporary artists Teju Cole and Glenn Ligon, both of whom explicitly engage with their predecessor’s writing in their own work. …”

Crossing borders: the path of photomicrography towards artistic recognition by Sandra Santos

“…The data retrieved and analysed was complemented with information regarding contemporary artistic photomicrography. Research has shown that, despite persistent resistance, in the early years of the twentieth century artistic photomicrography was accepted and subsequently acknowledged and encouraged. …”
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Visual Music: K-Pop’s ‘CAWMAN’ Effect on a Transnational Music Subculture by Elina Luise Haessler

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The edition as a collective process. Artists` books from IMPRESOPORMI proyect by Alicia Karina Valente

“…The investigation of this work is located between the studies of the Artist's Book and collective artistic practices within the framework of contemporary artistic production. In that sense, some definitions of Artist's Book as a category of visual arts are replaced, as well as some classification criteria that are operative for the analysis of the selected corpus. …”
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Bob Flanagan, quand les performances d’un supermasochist exorcisent la mort by Stéphanie Bouguet

“…Despite the difficulty to face this ontological condition, we can see that the subject of death is more and more present on the contemporary artistic scene. The body which is central in relation to this problematic becomes for the artist the material through which death exorcizes and declines itself. …”
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Sauvegarder ou encourager la dentelle française ? by Emmanuel Pénicaut

“…By the progressive renewal of models and of projects, they assure the perpetuation of the techniques of needle-point lace (at Alençon) and bobbin lace (at Le Puy-en-Velay) and have allowed leading contemporary artists to appropriate these techniques.…”
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Fundacje architektoniczne rodziny Rozdrażewskich – problemy stylu i znaczenia formy by Witold Miedziak

“…The features of the period, as well as a religious controversy among the family members, made it possible to approach a number of problems connected to contemporary artistic changes, such as the so-called “gothic style around 1600,” relations between Protestant and Roman Catholic architecture, and claims about the purposeful “archaism” of the architecture of the period, emulating the Romanesque or the Gothic style. …”
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The Artistic Pillars of the Arabic Character Between Stillness and Movement by yara ELfakharany

“…Strong or weak, intense or dispersed, static or mobile.The Arabic letter is a comprehensive artistic language in line with all traditional and contemporary artistic techniques, enriching our Arab identity, and helping the artist to express his imagination and the issues he discusses. …”
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“Not the End” by Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou

“…It explores how this lag is critically interrogated by two contemporary artists that approach uranium mining histories as unresolved; as a series of situations whose unfolding goes on, thus going against the closure of narratives of uranium mining. …”
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An Exploration of Artistic Expressions of Everyday Peri-Urban Landscapes as a Method of Socio-Spatial Analysis in Spatial Planning by Annelies Staessen, Antonio José Salvador, Ingfrid Lyngstad

“…Based on a selection of contemporary artistic works in the fields of drawing, photography, and cinema, this paper explores, through an analysis of specific projects and interviews with the artists, the potentials and constraints of these types of representations. …”
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Michael O’Brien’s Theological Aesthetics by Rebekah Lamb

“…By focusing on the interface between theory and practice in O’Brien’s art, this article shows that conversations about the philosophy of the Catholic imagination benefit from attending to the inner standing points of contemporary artists who see in the arts a place where faith and praxis meet. …”
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The simultaneous museum : a transformation of the exclusive type into a coexistent urban form by Robinson, Roy C., Jr

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La stele di Polibio: arte e politica nel Peloponneso del II secolo a.C. by Melfi, M

“…The stele should, in fact, be considered as part of a series of documents aimed at paying extraordinary honours to the historian for his political activity, and inserts itself in the contemporary artistic environment. …”

Expanded ways of seeing : two exhibitions on ceramic art in Singapore by Seah, Lucinda Kar Hui

“…The first: Kembara Tanah Liat (Clay Travels), is a retrospective on master potter Iskandar Jalil held at the National Gallery Singapore in 2016, while the second, SG Ceramics Now 2021, is a group exhibition of contemporary artists based in Singapore held at Gillman Barrack. …”
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The Creativity of the Artistic Culture as a Challenge to Education Studies by Wiesław Andrzej Żardecki

“…The interaction of the culture and creativity constitutes an important aspect of the contemporary cultural life and an educational challenge to enhance the culture through development of creativity and most importantly to boost creativity through cultural development is considered as an enrichment activity. although the universal values documenting the creative achievements of the man throughout its time demonstrate the extent of the challenge, it needs to be emphasised that the greatest challenge lies in dealing with the clear signs of a crisis and ilemmas of the contemporary artistic culture.…”
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