"Prawdziwe męstwo" – czyli o możliwościach lektury gatunku jako politycznego zwierciadła

Author(s): Ireneusz Skupien / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 93-94/2016

The article shows how the postmodern cinema uses the tradition of a genre in order to construct the discourse of contemporary America. The author hypothesized that “True Grit” by Coen brothers, a western entangled in a web of intertextual references (both literary as an adaptation of the novel by Ch. Portis and film based, as a remake of H. Hathaway’s film), has the potential of creating representations not based on text. The present article is a polemic against the most common research stand, which negates the possibility of generating by the postmodern aesthetic meanings beyond the text. The author defends the thesis that the film by Coen brothers is a text which lends itself well to interpretation as a reflection of social attitudes, anxieties and desires. The author also discusses the question of demythologization and polemics of the Western tradition and the matter of approaching the western as a source of historical meanings.

"Punctul de saturaţie cu artă proastă"

Author(s): Dorina Bohantov / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 25/2003

Interview with Karl Knapp.

"Quo Vadis?" by Enrico Guazzoni and "Quo Vadis?" by Gabriellino D’Annunzio: Production – Dramaturgy – Reception

Author(s): Anna Miller-Klejsa / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2017

The paper concentrates on two feature films based upon Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel about ancient Rome – "Quo Vadis?" (dir. Enrico Guazzoni [1913]) and "Quo Vadis?" (dir. Gabriellino D’Annunzio, Georg Jacoby [1925]). Both films belong to the peplum genre, popular during the era of silent cinema. The paper reconstructs production circumstances of both films as well as their historical reception. It is argued that both films can be seen through the prism of socio-political contexts, including the colonial ambitions of the Italian state.

"Rinia" e Sorrentinos

Author(s): Kastriot Kurti / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 5/2015

Një trashëgimi e pasur kombëtare që ka bërë historinë e kinemasë europiane dhe botërore, dhe një shirit i grisur 35 milimetërsh që rrëshqet nën mëngë, ky është identiteti kinematografik i regjisorit italian, Paolo Sorrentino

"Róbcie!"

Author(s): Ula Kijak,Michal Opalinski,Anna Ilczuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 04/2017

"Śpiewa słowik, a z nim dzieci, siedem słowiczątek"… O pieśniach Witolda Lutosławskiego dla dzieci

Author(s): Grazyna Darlak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2014

Celebrating Witold Lutosławski’s 100th birthday has become an impulse for many artistic and scientific actions. They also lied behind the basis of the very overview of Lutosławski’s song works dedicated to children. Another reason for reconsidering the very output of the author of "Gry weneckie" was the observation of the school practise and the fact that composer’s songs that used to be known by almost all kids in Poland, has almost been totally eliminated from the repertoire devoted to both singing and listening in schools these days. Hence, it seems reasonable to bring this outstanding output closer, to make it possible for a young performer and listener directly approach the composer’s work. The analysis of the lists proving the composer’s output show that songs for children were in the centre of attention in composer’s three moments of life. For the first time it was during a post-war period (to the end of the 1950s) where the majority of compositions dedicated to young performers and listeners were formed. The second period was 1957 when Lutosławski composed "5 Pieśni" for voice and piano, a crucial work for his compositions. The last time the composer referred to child poetry was 1990 in the cycle "Chantefleurs et chantefables". Each of these moments had common motivations the composer was led by creating this type of works and different means and ways of a musical setting of a literary layer. In the era of important civilization changes we witness it is worth returning to a good tradition of playing music with children and teenagers basing on the best artistic patterns to which unquestionably belongs the world of the author of "Pan Tralaliński".

"Student video art festival" Shumen 2014

Author(s): Valeri Hristov Chakalov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Education is a personal process in the infinite, it is the place where one can experiment, create new methods and technologies of teaching. One of the main accentuation is that universities are turning into laboratories, in which students study, make experiments and create art. Any modern university institution builds a local cultural centers, art galleries, creative areas and festivals in support of student creativity.

"Suszyć, skruszyć, zmielić, zważyć". Kino gatunków a filmy z Panem Kleksem

Author(s): Radoslaw Pisula / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 15/2016

Polish genre cinema in the time of Polish People’s Republic was in stagnation due to the sociopolitical situation. Limited access to the thriving foreign film industry suppressed a natural evolution within the genre cinema. However, the liberalization of stagnant and overly politicized rules in the communist film industry brought change in the 1980s.The government used to saw movies as a way to sell propaganda in the country. This cultural revolution was marked by the appearance of a new generation of directors, similar in some ways to American New Hollywood; rise of a VCR market and laxity of political restrictions.One of the best representatives of this progression is the Mr. Kleks movie trilogy. Adaptations of Jan Brzechwa’s cult book series: Academy of Mr. Kleks (1983), The Travels of Mr. Kleks (1985), Mr. Kleks in Space (1988). All of theme were directed by Krzysztof Gradowski. The series is a perfect example of a genre-melting pot. Something unprecedented in the Polish cinema.Although there are many radically different conventions in the story, the narrative is very coherent. The release of the first installment clearly marks the beginning of the transformation in the Polish film industry.In the article, I will present the ways in which the film genres are functioning in the Mr. Kleks movies and analyze how these highly original productions were part of a turbulent period of transformational change in communist Poland.

"Szkice z pamięci": czasy okupacji

Author(s): Ewa Krakowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1-2/2015

A chapter from the book: "Szkice z pamięci" by Ewa Krakowska, first wife of Tadeusz Kantor, presenting life in Cracow during the German occupation, the beginnings of her marriage to Kantor, and the Underground Theatre. A fragment of a portrait of the Cracow artistic milieu of the 1940s.

"tema de joc aparent"

Author(s): Radu Procopovici / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 26/2003

Article about the Tony Cragg's exhibition in "kunst-und austellungshalle" Bonn, 2003.

"Theoretical turn” in post-avant-garde art and the aesthetics of de-differentiation

Author(s): Iwona Lorenc / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2015

In this article I use the term “theoretical turn” to refer to phenomena in contemporary art that incorporate theory into their body and mode of action. I understand this incorporation similarly to Arthur Danto, Robert Jauss and Scott Lash. Within the domain of aesthetics these developments are related to a new philosophical, conceptual framework, open to the changes taking place in contemporary culture (particularly its mediatisation and aestheticisation). This involves de-differentiation and the blurring of borders between the aesthetic and the non-aesthetic rather than the Kantian criteria of differentiation. It acknowledges the tendencies of late modernity (e.g. the avant-gardes) to autonomise the aesthetic and rewrites them as a temporary element of cultural transformations. The aesthetic no longer occupies a separate domain; it concedes the existence of borders, but at the same time, points to the processes in which they dissolve.

"tot mai multe şi mai multe lucruri vor intra în orizontul de interes al artistului"

Author(s): Victor Tupitsyn / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 26/2003

Dialogue between the conceptula artist Bakhchanyan and the theoretician Victor Tupitsyn

"Video / artefact al alterităţii" "Casa bătrânească adusă la modă"

Author(s): Radiana Folescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 25/2003

"Vidi coelum novum et terram novam". Treści ideowe i geneza form Kaplicy Matki Boskiej Karmelitańskiej we Frydmanie

Author(s): Maria Kazimiera Staniszewska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 17/2017

The paper deals with the chapel located by the parish church in Frydmanin the Spiš (Scepusium) region, founded by the local parish priest Michał Lorencs in 1764.The interior of the octagonal building, is fitted with a homogeneous set of furnishingsconsisting of a centrally located two-sided retable surmounted by a unique shrine inthe form of a glazed star, and numerous wooden sculptures decorating niches in the walls.The chapel used to be a pilgrimage site and became the founder’s resting place. The paperdiscusses the history of the chapel, the religious and political context of its foundation aswell as problems explored in earlier studies, both popular and scholarly ones, with specialattention devoted to the article by Jan Białostocki and Adam Miłobędzki, from 1957, thathas served as a crucial point of reference in the existing interpretations of the chapel.Further, the article attempts to elucidate the still unresolved problem of the origins of thechapel’s plan and forms of its retable, pointing to the traits they share with the sacred architectureof pilgrimage sites, particularly shrines. The Chapel of the Holy Shroud in Turin hasbeen suggested as the closest counterpart for the Frydman chapel as far as its architecturalplan, the retable type and the way of displaying relics are concerned. The soft, flowing linesof the a-tectonic forms of the retable, in turn, seem to resemble South-German small-scalearchitectural church furnishings from the mid-eighteenth century.As far as the message carried by the decoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Chapel isconcerned, selected Old- and New Testament figures, depicted in the retable and wall niches,have been identified, and particular themes represented in the above decoration have beendetermined. The first, sepulchral, theme is manifested in the unmarked burial site of FatherLorencs, located ad sanctos, in the immediate proximity of the relics of catacomb saints.The next, Carmelite, theme is related to the Scapular Confraternity that had been associatedwith the chapel and church. The paper discusses also the Marian symbolism of the chapel,already explored to some extent in earlier literature, and its prominent Christological andEucharistic themes, which have hitherto not been adequately examined. In conclusion, OurLady of Mount Carmel Chapel is considered as a symbolic representation of the HeavenlyJerusalem and a powerful profession of faith in the intercession of saints and the Virgin Marybefore God.

"Viitorul e în Balcani"

Author(s): Iulian Robu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 24/2003

Interview with harald Szeeman, Swiss curator. Mr. Szeeman was organizig an exhibition of artists from the Balkans at "The Essl Collection" in Klosterneuburg/Vienna.

"We will win"

Author(s): Marcin Krasny / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2015

Interview with Polish artist Diana Lelonek

"Wydaje się, że widzę świat jaskrawiej niż inni..." Z Bogną Burską rozmawia Beata Jurkiewicz

Author(s): Bogna Burska,Beata Jurkiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2015

"Zvono" Poziv na ozbiljnu igru

Author(s): Branka Vujanovic / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1-2/2007

"Винаги съм се надявала да извадя децата от ... съня на селото, от съня на реалния живот"

Author(s): Diana Sofronieva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 29-30/2003

"МУЗИЧНЕ ПОВІДОМЛЕННЯ" ПІАНІСТА ЯК РЕЗУЛЬТАТ ЄДНОСТІ ВНУТРІШНЬОГО І ЗОВНІШНЬОГО У ПРОЦЕСІ ФОРТЕПІАННОЇ ГРИ

Author(s): Kateryna Yerhiieva / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 3/2017

The purpose of the work is to consider the problem of the "musical message" of the pianist in the process of public performance and to work out the problem of holisticity of piano playing in the internal and external aspects of concert performance of musical composition. The methodology of the research has an interdisciplinary character and consists in the application of the holistic approach and philosophical principles, such as the irrational theoretical model of S. Kierkegaard (the existential theory of singularity), the phenomenology and hermeneutics of P. Ricoeur as well as the aesthetic-semiotic, historical-musical, genre-stylistic, and textual research methods. As a basis of the theoretical searching of musical "message" problem in the context of the theory of artistic communication (playing a musical instrument "alive") there was selected a binary system with binary oppositions: author – performer, addressee – the addressee, internal – external, implicitness – explicitness, introversion – extroversion, internalization – externalization, language – speech, text – interpretation. Scientific novelty of the work consists in studying a new for musical science category, a category of "musical message". It is proposed to determine the musical message of the pianist as a complete in meaning, intoned for a listener piece of musical composition, which is an informative synthesis of the performer’s understanding of the text structure, the interpretation as the experience of the performer’s relationship to the idea of the work and the individual style of the playing. Conclusions. The result of pianist’s concert playing is musical message that embodies personal understanding of the interpretation of composer’s text. It must have such features as subjectivity, polysemy, topicality, persuasiveness, modernity, clarity, transitivity, completeness and integrity. In this case, the full-fledged artistic communication takes place and the message of the pianist becomes a peculiar epiphany for the recipient public.