消失与变迁的三峡城镇空间 ：以贾樟柯和章明的电影为例 = Disappearing and changing space in the towns of the Three Gorges : a case study on Jia Zhangke and Zhang Ming's movies... by 梁祖儿 Liang, Zuer

“…This paper selects Jia Zhangke's “Still Life” and “Platform”, and Zhang Ming's “In Expectation” and “Weekend Plot” as analytical representatives to explore how film images present the disappearing and changing space of the Three Gorges small towns. …”
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Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres

“…Images de Graffigny<br/> Colin Harrison, Les portraits de Mme de Graffigny<br/> Joan Hinde Stewart, ‘Still life’: la vieille dame et la mort<br/> Christina Ionescu, La série illustrative dessinée par Le Barbier l’aîné pour les <em>Lettres d’une Péruvienne</em> de Mme de Graffigny<br/> Jean Sgard, La lettre sur <em>Cénie</em><br/> II. …”

Cities are a product of time by Stefano Della Torre

“…The disordered and productive vitality of the city is opposed to the determinism of the crystal: beautiful, immutable in its isomorphism, ready for a shooting session for a photographer specialized in still-life, or (metaphysical) architecture. The crystal is not affected by time and does not promise anything more than its own perfection. …”
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"Glittering corpses" : les natures mourantes dans les nouvelles de Rick Bass by Claire Cazajous-Augé

“…With the descriptions of skeletons or rotting bodies that are not so much still-lifes as they are dying-lives, Bass invents a performative writing that exposes its author’s literary and activist project. …”
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Van Gogh’s Irises and Roses: the contribution of chemical analyses and imaging to the assessment of color changes in the red lake pigments by Silvia A. Centeno, Charlotte Hale, Federico Carò, Anna Cesaratto, Nobuko Shibayama, John Delaney, Kathryn Dooley, Geert van der Snickt, Koen Janssens, Susan Alyson Stein

“…Abstract Vincent van Gogh’s still lifes Irises and Roses were investigated to shed light onto the degree to which the paintings had changed, both individually and in relation to each other since they were painted, particularly in regard to the fading of the red lakes. …”
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If you love me when I'm breathing; you don't love me when I'm dead? by Emma Minkley

“…What can be opened up if we are to think the oral/aural through the puppet in its relation to movement and stillness, life and death?…”
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An Attention-Based Generative Adversarial Network for Producing Illustrative Sketches by Jihyeon Yeom, Heekyung Yang, Kyungha Min

“…Our GAN-based framework with an attention map and a relaxed cycle consistency loss effectively produces illustrative sketch styles on various target photographs, including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework through a human study, ablation study, and Frechet Inception Distance evaluation.…”
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The religious iconography of female artists in the Independent Culture Movement by Tadeusz Boruta

“…Even when they paint scenes without human figures, such as landscapes and still lifes, their images express the drama of separation and the hope for the restoration of human relationships.…”
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In search of the Face. Danuta Waberska’s way to sacred art by Renata Rogozińska

“…Readings in the mystics, Zen Buddhism, symbolic poetry, and depth psychology provide a mine of inspiration for her figural scenes, still-lifes, landscapes, and semi-abstract paintings. …”
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Jutustuse ja romaani vahel: Elisabeth Aspe linn. Between a story and a novel : Elisabeth Aspe’ s town by Elle-Mari Talivee

“…Aspe’s novels may also be seen as momentary still-lifes during the final outbreak of city-life: fundamental changes had already taken place, but their direction was uncertain. …”
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