Zapach malarstwa – zapach sztuki (sensuous theory)

Author(s): Marta Leśniakowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2022

The affective dimension of experience conceived as a factor organising the psyche is an essential current of the new humanities which accept the “sense-centric“ and multi-sensory perspective derived from French existential phenomenology and based on neuroaesthetics and osmosociology. It resolves the question concerning the manner in which assorted artistic practices are received as a direct multisensory experience upon successive stages of the origin and functioning of art – from the artist’s studio, where art is produced, to the museum/gallery, where it is presented. For the first time in Polish literature the text analyses the participation of scent in the creation and perception of painting by engaging the sensuous theory (Vivian Sobchack) devised by so-called film studies 2.0. The author cites numerous statements made by artists and recipients of art dealing with this theme as well as fragments of the belles lettres, at the same time indicating contemporary art and exposition practices based on scent as well as most recent scientific research (library of the scents of historical objects).

Professional and personal self-determination in the conditions of distance learning

Author(s): Sitora Mustafayeva / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

Distance education (DE) has actualized the use of media resources for psychological support for schoolchildren and students. However, career guidance work with high-school-age children in a distance learning environment has not been well addressed in the research to date. This study aims to demonstrate the positive influence of cinema art on the attitudes, views, preferences, and motives of schoolchildren in their career choices. A total of 290 students from a humanitarian technical college participated in the experiment conducted by this study. Based on this study's results, film education's effectiveness in forming the professional and personal self-determination of college students has been empirically confirmed. The study made it possible to analyze the process of professional and personal self-determination of college students, as well as to develop a program contributing to the successful professional and personal self-determination of high-school-age children.

Fenomen utworu Baby Sharkz perspektywy akwizycji języka

Author(s): Kinga Michałek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2022

This article is divided into three sections. The first one contains an overview of the available academic research of speech development. Furthermore, its contribution to forming interpersonal relationships is put into consideration. Linguistic, neurobiological and psychological observations are presented here. The following analysis of the Baby Shark video and other publicly available digital material of children’s reactions to the initial sounds of this song, aims to show its phenomenon. It is also an example of the impact that modern culture and technology have on both L1 and L2 acquisition. All of this makes it possible to acknowledge this perspective as an important element of the speech therapy interview. Observations contain in this article might be also worth to put into discussion with other researchers and specialists. The final section of the article is its bibliography containing both Polish and English-language scientific texts and, due to the specificity of this topic, numerous internet sources.

შერმადინ შარია, ბედიის სამონასტრო კომპლექსი, თბ., 2021.

Author(s): Goneli Arakhamia / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 1/2022

The given scientific – popular book, as the title suggests, is dedicated to the history of a prominent monument of Georgian cultural heritage, Bedia Cathedral and the monastery complex established around it. The paper has not only cognitive but also social significance, as this great monument of Georgian Christian culture is located in the territory of occupied Abkhazia.The aim of the book is to introduce the history of the monument from the day of its foundation (end of the X century) until now. The structure of the paper is also relevant to the aim and includes all the main aspects of the adventures related to the monastery.The book contains and analyses the vast material such as written sources and scientific literature available today about the Bedia Monastery complex, which, for obvious reasons, are scattered in various publications and are less accessible to the general public interested in this monument. The value of the book under con-sideration and the author’s merit is that everything the generations of historians, philologists, art critics, archeologists, and epigraphists had created is gathered and organized here.

რომანტიზმის ანტირაციონალისტური ბუნება

Author(s): Paata Gergaia / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 1/2022

The role and significance of Romanticism and Classicism as cultural move-ments in terms of aestheticizing and humanizing the world is substantial.And science, too, has long been in collaboration with them:Numerous scientific and literary works on these movements adorn the world cultural treasures. Postmodernism does not lag behind the scientific and literary unity; that is to say, the replenishment of these treasures has not lost its relevance to this day.And I, as a citizen of the modern cultural society, as a rationalist - a member of the “Hegel-Spinoza Club”, will join the discussion with slightly different touches of my own.These different touches evoke an inner feeling in me prompting to spend more time and, more importantly, much more resources on the subject in the future.

ახ.წ. IV-VII საუკუნეებისსამშენებლოკერამიკასამხრეთ-დასავლეთსაქართველოდან

Author(s): Tamaz Darchidze / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 2/2022

The present paper deals with the Ceramic building material (CBM) of 4th-7thcenturies AD found as a result of archaeological works, carried out on different archaeological monuments of south-western Georgia. We are discussing the sig-nificance of the CBM as an archaeological source. It is known that this group of ceramic goods can give a certain idea about the local cultural identity and thus is important in terms of investigation of the urban forms as well. In the present paper we will touch the main groups of CBM discovered recently in Petra Tsikhisdziri, Gonio-Apsaros and the remains of Avgia church, discuss their main characteristics, scope of use, places and techniques of its manufacturing. On the basis of study of materials preserved in the museum funds we managed to determine the main local types and shapes of the flat roof tiles with bent edges and compare them with the contemporary materials. When determining the typology of the flat roof tiles with bent edges, unearthed in the studied region, we mainly followed the principle, already accepted by researchers: the tiles were grouped according to their shapes and sizes of edges. We considered such pronounced characteristics as colour of the pan tile, its structure and dimensions. Considering these characteristics two main groups and four main types of roof tiles have been singled out: type I – high-edge rectangular roof-tiles; II – low-edge rectangular roof-tiles; III - blunt-angle roof-tiles with straight sides; IV - blunt-angle roof-tiles with bent edge. The studied samples differ from each other by the outline of the bent edge, colour, structure and dimensions of the pan tile. This proves that they have been manufactured at different times in different workshops. Common characteristics of roof-tiles united by us in particular types and forms, resemble each other. In our opinion a major part of the studied materials should have been manufactured locally. Based on the processing of archaeological materials the conclusions on dating of particular types of CBM were drawn.

ინსბრუკის ლანგარი, როგორც შუა საუკუნეების ქართული კულტურის ენციკლოპედია

Author(s): Beka Chichinadze / Language(s): Georgian Issue: 1/2021

In Innsbruck, Austria, is preserved a unique Medieval art artefact, an enamel-decorated plate. Its height - five Centimeters, Diameter - twenty-five Centimeters. Dark Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Turquoise, Black and White Colors are used in his images. In the middle of the plate, a circle depicts a famous story, The Rise of Alexander the Great - the young man holds crossed sticks in his hands, surrounded by two birds. Around the circle containing image of Alexander, there are six other circles below the plate and six on the lower side and images of Peacocks, lions, as well as a wide variety of compositions: Snakes with Eagle claws, Winged Horses, Wrestlers, Dancers and Acrobats, Flute players, Birds and Trees of life. Inscription shows, that this plate received as a gift one of the Artuqid rulers - Amir Daud (1114-1142), the owner of Hisn Kaifa. According to some researchers, this product belongs to the Georgian school of enamel. Many images of plate are repeated on various monuments of Georgian art of this era. We have shown several cases, when various stories and plant motifs reflected on the plate, are repeated in the Georgian ecclesiastical art. In the Middle Ages, enamel products had a very high price, which is why this product was considered a suitable royal gift in Georgia. Georgian chronicles pay great attention to the royal gift and attach special importance to the ability to choose a worthy gift among the qualities necessary for the king. The Innsbruck plate also belongs to this tradition, as a magnificent monument of Medieval art, where many images from this era can be found, which, unlike ecclesiastical art, are not limited.

The Landlady from Hell. The Iconography of the Medieval Wall Paintings in Rimavské Brezovo and Liptovské Sliače

Author(s): Peter Megyeši / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The text deals with the iconography of the medieval wall paintings in the churches in Rimavské Brezovo and Liptovské Sliače. Both of these paintings of female figures holding vessels and beset by demons represent the specific motif of a landlady or tavern keeper suffering in Hell. Depictions of the figure of the landlady in combination with demons can be found throughout medieval Europe from the early 14th century until the early modern period, and negative portrayals of the character appear in numerous literary sources of the period. The preserved paintings in Rimavské Brezovo and Liptovské Sliače are valuable evidence of eschatological concepts and the ways in which they were disseminated in the 14th and 15th centuries.

Eine andere Moderne im Paris der Dritten Republik. Die „Fontaines Wallace“ und Jules Coutans „Porteuse de pain“ als Avantgarde-Kunst

Author(s): Hans Körner / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2021

Of the two studies that deal with works of the ‘other modernity' of the French 19th century, the first deals with objects that, as multiply producible and stylistically eclectic objects, fell through the Modernist grid, although they correspond exactly to a definition of the avant-garde as formulated in the succession of Saint-Simon. The second asks whether the iconography of “modern life”, in the sense of Charles Baudelaire’s “Le peintre de la vie moderne”, should not be added to the definition of modernity - against a limited formalist definition of modernity.

The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine

Author(s): Elżbieta Olzacka / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2023

Since the Euromaidan revolution, Ukrainian cinema has been experiencing a renaissance, associated with both the wave of civic and creative activity and the policy of the post-Maidan authorities supporting the film industry. The article analyzes the development of Ukrainian cinema from 2014 to 2019, focusing not only on organizational, institutional, and legal changes but also on the accompanying controversies. It addresses the main socio-political, economic, and cultural factors influencing progress in the number of films produced in Ukraine and their popularization on the domestic and foreign market. The article particularly emphasizes the context of Russian aggression toward Ukraine and the ongoing war in Donbas, as it influences not only the topics taken up by filmmakers but also the priorities of authorities in the field of cultural policy. Cinema has become one of the fronts of the conflict. Thus, the post-Maidan authorities’ concern was both to block Russian content deemed dangerous from the point of view of national security and to produce and promote “Ukrainian-centric” narratives. The last part of the article will discuss the new Ukrainian “patriotic cinema,” supported and subsidized by the state, with a focus on the role it plays in a society experiencing conflict.

Рефлексия на обичайното. Изкуство и философия

Author(s): Andrea Kern / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Unde(r)construction. Деконструкция на „аудиовизуалното“ и разрастване на „виртуалното“

Author(s): Bogdan Ghiu / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Опит за историзиране на огледалния образ

Author(s): Vladimir Andreev Trendafilov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

The narrativism quarrel revisited: can inquiry revive narrative?

Author(s): Josef Řídký / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2019

This paper investigates the narrativist debate on the nature of history and presents a review of some of its most significant contributors through the prism of concepts of ‘narration’ and ‘inquiry’. Since the main issue on which narrativist theoreticians and defenders of the historians’ craft disagree is their view on whether language is the source or merely a tool of history, this text investigates the role and importance the two parties ascribe to the layers of critical inquiry and narration. The paper focuses mainly on the writings of Hayden White and Paul Ricoeur, while also briefly commenting on the crucial theoretical works of Franklin Ankersmit, Hans Kellner, Philippe Carrard, and Ivan Jablonka. While White is often considered to be the main proponent of narrativists, it turns out that his approach to the subject was more nuanced than often thought and that it evolved over time. Paul Ricoeur, on the other hand, tends to view inquiry as a sort of poetic act and narration as an essential part of historical understanding.

Proces kulturní výměny na příkladu historizující architektury: recepce francouzské novověké architektury jako součást historismu 19. století v českých zemích a v evropském kontextu

Author(s): Adéla Klinerová / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2019

This article analyses the reception of French modern architecture in nineteenth-century historicism, treating it as a case of cultural exchange. Historicist architecture inspired by French models was explored mainly in international studies written in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, a reinterpretation of historicist architecture through the prism of current methodological frameworks offers new perspectives and the same holds of a comparative approach which takes into account a wider European context. This study first addresses the issue of inconsistent terminology, thus coming to terms with the existing scholarly literature. Since this subject involves work with historical models originating in a particular cultural environment, one ought to consider the extent to which the actors could have been sufficiently familiar with the relevant models and the communication channels which may have contributed to their circulation. The particular factors which conditioned or enabled cultural transfer are presented in two case studies which focus on situation in the Bohemian Lands. Of importance was direct experience of the French environment, training in architecture, the person who commissioned a particular project, the personality of the architect, as well as the availability of theoretical literature and graphic images. In the final part of the contribution, the author outlines some directions in which this research could develop. She points out, for instance, that transfer may have been either direct or mediated by other cultural centres, whereby in case of mediated transfer, particularly the Viennese environment of the second half of the nineteenth century seems to have played a crucial role.

JITKA LUDVOVÁ a kol., Fidlovačka aneb Cokoli chcete, Praha 2014, Institut umění – Divadelní ústav

Author(s): Lenka Řezníková / Language(s): Czech Issue: 01/2016

Review of: JITKA LUDVOVÁ a kol., Fidlovačka aneb Cokoli chcete, Praha 2014, Institut umění – Divadelní ústav, 312 s. ISBN 978-80-7008-330-7

Antypolityczne strategie instytucji sztuki. 0 książce Octaviana Esanu The Postsocialist Contemporary. The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe after 1989

Author(s): Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus / Language(s): Polish Issue: 34/2022

Review of: Octaviana Esanu "The Postsocialist Contemporary. The Institutionalization of Artistic Practice in Eastern Europe after 1989", (Manchester University Press, Manchester 2021).

MOŻLIWOŚCI INTERPRETACYJNE KATEGORII WSTRĘTU NA PRZYKŁADZIE POPKULTUROWEJ FIGURY ZOMBIE. PERSPEKTYWA EDUKACJI ESTETYCZNEJ

Author(s): Alicja Lisiecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 64/2022

The article is devoted to the analysis of the interpretive potential of disgust, examining the pop culture zombie figure. The analyses are conducted from the perspective of aesthetic education. The author focuses on such aspects of the zombie figure as: epidemic, impurity, concept of the Other, abjection, the body, and corporeality. The literature used in the analyses comes from various disciplines: psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, pedagogy, etc.

Krzysztof Jakubiak, Monika Nawrot-Borowska, Dziecko i dzieciństwo na ziemiach polskich w źródłach narracyjnych i ikonograficznych z drugiej połowy XIX i początku XX wieku

Author(s): Katarzyna Kabacińska-Łuczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 64/2022

Review of: Krzysztof Jakubiak, Monika Nawrot-Borowska, Dziecko i dzieciństwo na ziemiach polskich w źródłach narracyjnych i ikonograficznych z drugiej połowy XIX i początku XX wieku, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2021, ss. 521.

KONTEKSTY REGIONALNE I TOŻSAMOŚCIOWE W TEKSTACH PIOSENEK ŚLĄSKICH RAPERÓW

Author(s): Patryk Stępień / Language(s): Polish Issue: 66/2022

The article is devoted to identify the regional and identity contexts in the lyrics of songs by Silesian rappers. The selection of artists was based on two criteria: they were born or raised in Silesian district and they still live there and the second is the most popular (as an Silesian rapper) by listeners on Spotify.com in June 2022. Rap is a unique kind of music with a lot of listeners. Rap as a part of popular culture would be useful in education as an example of sharing regional values, mentality, desirable behaviors, and the position of the Silesian identity in their lives. The lyrics contain the artists’ points of view on reality, the living conditions, and probably include guidance for listeners. Silesian rappers and their experience of being Silesian and a sense of Silesian identity could be part of the lyrics.