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In Phaidon’s newest release, Art Cities of the Future (2013), Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca is listed third, and partners up with Istanbul as the only two European future art capitals of the world. For some, this may sound as surprising, for others, it is a heart-warming pleasure and an honour. Be that as it may, the question that pops into most minds is: how did it come to that? How could a shy Transylvanian city trade its comfortable anonymity for worldwide fame? The answer is as obvious among international art connoisseurs, as it seems to be ignored locally, and lies within the Academy of Visual Arts from Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca, or, more precisely, in the visual artists it produces. For the last twelve years, the author had the splendid opportunity of becoming close friends with a few painters, graphic artists and curators, present teachers and former students of the academy, of listening to their stories, watching them transpose their daily delights, joyous hopes and sometimes dire fears onto the canvases. This short story conjures up a fraction from the lives of four painters, Zsolt Berszán, István Betuker, István Kudor Duka and Szabolcs Veres, founders of the visual arts group known as Bázis, whose members went on to worldwide fame.
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The paper deals with the manuscripts of a folk specialist, János Papp (born: 1930 in Visa/Viºea, county: Cluj), who is widely known in his rural area due to his naive paintings and his published autobiography, entitled Visszaemlékezés az elmúlt évekre (Memories of the Years Past. Eds. Mihály Sztranyiczki, Géza Kiss. Visa, 2010). The author interprets his body of work in the context of popular writing, remembrance and everyday life. The paintings and the written stories document not just János Papp’s private life story, but also the local history of his village and the social and cultural changes during the second part of 20th century.
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Perambulation was a legal act exercised by the king in the Middle Ages. Several surviving charters from the Middle Ages contain descriptions of borders and disputes regarding perambulation. These charters are of major importance for local history, due to the fact that they also mention villages that no longer exist, while also providing descriptions of natural history. In our earliest surviving document, the Establishing Charter of the Tihany Abbey, which was issued by King Andrew I, we find toponyms in Hungarian. By examining the process of perambulation, the author provides a welldefined picture of the legal customs of the medieval Transylvania as well as of its settlements and borders.
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Fashion is nowadays increasingly associated with fastness. This study concentrates on the emergence of “fast fashion”, illustrated by the example of the Swedish brand H&M, a company distributing clothes and accessories. This brand has always been mentioned as the typical example of fast fashion in the literature, and the company defines itself for its consumers in the same way. Empirical researches of fashion have also been based on the fact that the company is one of the great brands of fast fashion. However, the investigation of fast fashion and of the brand communication of H&M reveals some special characteristics by way of which this brand differs from its rivals (Zara, Pull and Bear), as well as from the definition of fast fashion drawn up by the researchers. The analysis of the video and printed advertising of H&M calls into question its self-identification as fast fashion and the scholarly definitions of the relevant literature.
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