Любомир Кутин: „Българските фестивали. Категории и системи за оценка“
Lubomir Kutin: “Bulgarian Festivals. Categories and Evaluation System”

Summary/Abstract: This review seeks to present a new book, Bulgarian Festivals (2014) by cultural specialist Dr Lubomir Kutin, which is a follow-up to his study Festival as a Phenomenon of Artistic Culture (2004). In the first part, Lubomir Kutin’s body of work is presented. Both as a theoretician and researcher and as a practician, Kutin’s every effort has been devoted to work in the field of running and management of culture. The second part of the article treats Bulgarian Festivals as a set of two studies. The first one features a typology of the festivals on the basis of nine anthropological, socio-cultural and artistic categories: play, spectacle, celebration, space, time, institution, artistes, programme, audience. The second study gives a consideration to the necessity for a new approach to the control and evaluation of the festivals in Bulgaria. The final part of the review quotes an excerpt from the author’s statement at the public discussion on his Bulgarian Festivals, held in autumn 2014 at the Centre for the Study of Democracy.

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