Ogród – miejsce upraw czy symbol
Garden – A Cultivation Site or a Symbol?
Contributor(s): Witold Jacyków (Editor), Dariusz Rymar (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: garden; symbol; system; photographs
Summary/Abstract: In this book, the notion of the “garden” reveals its numerous aspects – being a system, a symbol, a metaphor, a means of artistic expression, a literary form, an object of scientific research – and is subject to multidimensional scrutiny. The body of the publication is divided into two distinct parts. The former one presents three pivotal topics functioning as a frame for the reflections and detailed descriptions to be found in the latter one. Both parts, in turn, serve as the intellectual “background,” which aims at entering a dialogue with an abundance of meanings carried within images in the collection of photographs placed after the theoretical discourse. As the editors claim, the text and the images together create a net of “permutations,” which should encourage the receiver to co-create aesthetic-intellectual “objects” actively.
Series: Nauki społeczne
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3264-2
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-226-3263-5
- Page Count: 186
- Publication Year: 2017
- Language: Polish
Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli
Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli
(The gardens of creativity)
- Author(s):Dariusz Rymar
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:15-79
- No. of Pages:65
- Summary/Abstract:The first part of the book presents three main themes which, as a whole, are intended to bea framework for more specific descriptions in its second part. In the first chapter, entitled Realgardens against the myths, the author shows selected examples of landscape designs and discusses theirutilitarian functions, their role in the religious cult, the mythical, symbolic and metaphorical contextswhich have directly affected either programme assumptions of the gardens or a treatment of certainfeatures of the landscape. The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome are discussedin these respects. The author addresses the intellectual foundation of English and sentimentalgardens to clarify their strong ties with the ancient understanding of the landscape, describing onthis background meaningful features of Arcadia park near Nieborów. The chapter concludes witha discussion of selected solutions in Little Sparta — a garden founded by Sue and Ian Hamilton Finlaynear Edinburgh, Scotland. The second chapter, entitled Gardens of Imagination, discusses literarydescriptions, abstracted from specific landscape implementations. Several examples of literaturefrom different historical periods are invoked, with an emphasis on the role of sensuality. The authoranalyzes the fragments of the Egyptian Book of Gates, the epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, Divine Comedyof Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil. The third chapter, entitled The gardensof thought, raises general epistemological issues, first: in terms of the philosophical proposals forovercoming the fear of death, and second: in terms of theory of art viewed from the perspective of thetwentieth-century crisis of the great narrations.The common theme of all the chapters is the Garden of Eden, whose main intentional “function”is to overcome the fear of death. This issue is discussed in the context of eschatological, agnostic,and nihilistic intuitions, organized according to their relationship with specific gardens (Chapter 1),with the literary themes (Chapter 2), and finally with the abstract contemplation on the conditionof mankind and its representation in contemporary art (Chapter 3). Such a structure, inspired byHegel’s description of the history of the Absolute, makes it easier to present the problems of gardensfrom various perspectives — specific relations with nature, aesthetic experience and thought of purelyintellectual character. This approach, on the one hand, serves the clarity of argument by avoidingexcessive complexity of description, and on the other, shows the complexity of the concept of “garden”,resulting from the build-up of different meanings over the millennia.
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Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli
Ogrody twórczości, wyobraźni, myśli
(A man in the garden)
- Author(s):Ewa Linkiewicz
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:81-94
- No. of Pages:14
- Price: 4.50 €
Bio…
Bio…
(Bio…)
- Author(s):Aleksandra Giełdoń-Paszek
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:95-106
- No. of Pages:12
- Summary/Abstract:A spectacular beginning of bio-art is ascribed to Eduardo Kac’s transgenic experimen GFP Bunny(2000). Since then, in art bio there have been distinguished number of trends, such as: a transgenic art, a microbial art, an agar art. A separate section of bio-art is the work with cells and tissue culture (in vitro). All trends are characterized by the work on unstable materials, the so-called wet media/ wetware, an ephemeral, a processuality, interactivity and the use of highly advanced technologies such as atransgenesis, neuropsychology and robotics. The biological world also inspires designers, builders and architects. The source of inspiration is mainly the physiology of living organisms, their structure and construction.In the bio art there also has appeared a critical movement. It deals with the problem of the relation between science and living organisms, the fight against commerce, the protection of life at each level. This results in a reevaluation of the relationship between humans and other species, which implies a departure from anthropocentrism. A critical aspect of this art is also a question about humans’ right to control their own evolution, to create new forms of life outside the natural order of living. On the one hand, bio art raises concerns, but on the other, it evokes a sense of the inevitability of transformation, of which we are witnesses. It is also heterogeneous in its ideological mssage. It questions the paradigm of the relationship between nature and culture, emphasizing morphism, liquidity and relativity of existing divisions, but it is involved in technology and a praise progress. Especialy dangerous aspect of bio-art is associated with biohacking and bioterrorism.
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Fotomedializm Natalii LL — przestrzeń natury (ogród) w fotograficznym metatekście
Fotomedializm Natalii LL — przestrzeń natury (ogród) w fotograficznym metatekście
(Photomedialism of Natalia LL — the space of nature (garden) in a photographic metatext)
- Author(s):Karolina Tomczak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:107-114
- No. of Pages:8
- Summary/Abstract:The text examines multi-faceted formal and meaning-related relationships in photo-media projectsby Natalia LL: performances such as Points of Support (Punkty podparcia), the Eagle constellation (1978) and the Pyramid (1979), which present the artist against the background of a broader nature. They bring up several important issues related to the innovativeness of a neo-avant-garde photograph of Wroclaw of the 1970s, i.e. permanent art and isomorphism that implement a conceptual metatextuality of a given work, post-manuality breaking with the modernist paradigm of art, multimedia nature, incorporating a performance, film and verbal text into the medium of photography used in an unusual way, the issue of a creative use of the nature-garden theme in experimental activities. As referred in the article the photo-media art by Natalia LL shows the artist as a deconstructing creator, a contemporary Eve who arranges the space of nature in a demiurgical way, arranging her feminine body in an artistic sign — and thus creates her self-reflexive and feminist compositions. At the same time, the text focuses on the pioneering nature and perversity of this art, as Natalia LL provocativelytoys with the archetypal nature-garden, keeps a modernist individualism and longing for metaphysics,ironic ambiguity, and humour of a simple message.
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Ogród zamknięty — otwarta przestrzeń znaczeń
Ogród zamknięty — otwarta przestrzeń znaczeń
(Enclosed garden — an open space of meanings)
- Author(s):Małgorzata Łuczyna
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:115-147
- No. of Pages:33
- Summary/Abstract:The concept of an enclosed garden — latin hortus conclusus is a starting point of my PhD thesis.In my theoretical and practical exploration I have used that concept as a key to understanding and interpreting selected phenomena in contemporary culture. For the purposes of my research I have formulated the idea of ‘an open space of meanings’ — the space to which various historical and contemporary, sociological, philosophical and artistic phenomena can be attributed. The concept of enclosed garden is a key and a symbol rather than a reference to only one form of historical gardens. Such an approach to the subject is a natural consequence of my artistic exploration and experience. In many of my works I have used the context of the creation of personal space, and the sense of relation and identity of the place. For the purpose of this publication I have chosen three chapters, two of which present the theoretical context and the third chapter is an analysis of my own project connected to the topic. The final part is followed by a set of photographs.
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Wymyślone — niestworzone
Wymyślone — niestworzone
(Enclosed garden — an open space of meanings)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Jaworska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:149-157
- No. of Pages:9
- Summary/Abstract:The cycle of photographs presents a vision of the Garden of Eden abandoned by God and man.The paradise after the expulsion. Dead, fossilized land, closed to people forever. The un-like paradiseknown for its descriptions of the Bible. Photographs show the emaciated, dead, arid landscapes, alongwith biblical Trees of Life and The Tree of Knowledge. The skeletons of trees are made of speciallycrafted bones that are to symbolize, on the one hand, the brevity of the material world, and, on theother, ethical relativim of man.
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Ogród jako miejsce zdarzeń osobistych
Ogród jako miejsce zdarzeń osobistych
(The garden as a place for personal)
- Author(s):Witold Jacyków
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Sociology of Art
- Page Range:159-184
- No. of Pages:26
- Summary/Abstract:“Strange garden’’, the painting by Józef Mehoffer (1902) is the spiritual inspiration for the photosincluded on the following pages of this book. The emotions triggered and inspired by this paintinghave become vividly remembered by the author of the photographs, until now. They become refreshedeach time, the sunlit and dazzled garden, scorching heat and playng children awake the ambivalentfeeling of sheer joy, in contrast to the subconscious fear of loss.
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