CEEOL - Browse Subjects Result

We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.

Удачные последствия неудачного сватовства: Н. И. Тургенев в Англии (1829—1830)

Author(s): Vera Mil’china / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

The article of Prof. Vera Mil’china (RSUH / ИВГИ РГГУ, RANEPA / ШАГИ РАНХиГС) is based on Nikolai Turgenev’s unpublished correspondence, and explores an unknown episode from a Decembrist’s life story: his attempt to marry a daughter of a British squire. Turgenev’s letters show that this plan was one of the reasons why he reconsidered returning to Russia, where he had received in absentia a death penalty (later changed to a life-long hard labor term). In the beginning of 1830, Turgenev made the decision to return to Russia to affect a retrial that would allow him to overturn his conviction for high treason. However, none of this came to fruition: Turgenev did not marry Harriet Lovell and did not return to Russia. The article was written in the framework (and with the generous support) of the RANEPA (ШАГИ РАНХиГС) academic research program.

More...

Кто такой «музыкант Набоков»? (Из комментария к книге А. Ремизова «Учитель музыки»)

Author(s): Sergey Dotsenko / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

This article is a close reading of a passage from _The Music Teacher_ by Aleksey Remizov mentioning “the musician Nabokov,” who changes his Paris apartments so often that letters to him fail to reach their addressee. Although the most likely person this passage seems to be hinting at is Nicolas Nabokov, a composer, it should rather be seen as a tongue-in-cheek attack against the composer’s cousin, Vladimir Nabokov — a writer who was at odds with Remizov. Remizov [justkui ütleb, et] person changing apartments too often, does not exist — he is nothing (and this is something Remizov would not have said about Nicolas Nabokov).

More...

Прогулка с Шаляпиным: К «американской биографии» А. Ветлугина

Author(s): Irina Z. Belobrovtseva,Andrei Ustinov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

In this article, we make an attempt to bring together our previous work on the “American years” of A. Vetlugin (Vladimir Ryndziun, 1897—1953), one of the most successful bilingual lesser-known writers of his generation. We republish his essay “Only Five Short Blocks,” which originally appeared in 1941 in the Reader’s Digest magazine under nom de plume “Frederick van Ryn,” and also provide the annotated translation of the original text. This allows us to reconstruct some obscure facts of A. Vetlugin’s life story, and to give an example of his peculiar style that had won him unconditional popularity in Russian émigré press, and later in American journalism, once “Frederick Van Ryn” became a recognized writer for some authoritative magazines and newspapers.

More...

«А здесь я никому не нужен»: Послевоенные годы Николая Зарецкого в Праге

Author(s): Fedor Poljakov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

In his article, Prof. Fedor Poljakov of the University of Vienna focuses on the last years a Russian émigré painter, graphic artist and art collector Nikolai Zaretsky spent in the Socialist Czechoslovakia before escaping to Paris in 1950. It also contains an overview of Zaretsky’s pre-war exhibitions in Prague and tells the story of his major unfinished project — an illustrated book Risunki Russkikh Pisatelei (Russian Writers’ Drawings).

More...

«Не делать не в ее характере» (Новые материалы к биографии В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд)

Author(s): Marina Grigorievna Salman / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

The article is based on a series of memoirs dedicated to a pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg socialite baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband (e.g., those of Ekaterina Letkova-Sultanova and Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik). It also specifies the date of a sculptor Prince Sergei Ukhtomsky’s (1886—1921) arrest, and makes public a previously unknown letter from Korney Chukovsky concerning the living conditions of Uexküll von Gyllenband in 1921.

More...

В. И. Икскуль фон Гилленбанд. Из пережитого в 1918 году.

Author(s): Nikita G. Okhotin,Marina Grigorievna Salman / Language(s): Russian Issue: 9/2022

This is the first publication in toto of a forgotten memoir “My Ordeals in 1918” by baroness Varvara Uexküll von Gyllenband’s. Originally written in 1919, three years prior to her fleeing Petrograd, the memoir tells the story of her three-week detention by the Bolshevik secret police (the Cheka) in 1918.

More...

Teatrul „Satiricus”: dramaturgia contemporană ca formă de rezistență în republica Moldova

Author(s): Alexandru Grecu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

The article presents the contemporary dramaturgy in Moldova, as well as the possibilities of stage exploitation. The author starts from the premise that the serious social-political realities of Moldova are suggested in every show at "Satricus I. L. Caragiale" National Theater in Chisinau. After 1990, censorship in the theatre disappeared and it would have been expected that this new situation would contribute to the formation of a new generation of playwrights. However, the situation is much different from expectations, and one of the conclusions of the article is that it is advisable for the playwright to be in a close collaborative relationship with all the decision-makers who contribute to the birth of a theatre performance, strongly anchored in social realities.

More...

The Ugly Mirror Avots

Author(s): Anda Boluža / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2022

A Review Essay by Anda Boluža: Aivars Kļavis, Avota laiks (Riga: Zvaigzne, 2021) Avots, Neiburgs Hotel, Riga, Latvia.

More...

Ogień i nóż – pirofityczna twórczość Erny Rosenstein

Author(s): Marta Tomczok / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2022

Fire and knife. Erna Rosenstein’s pyrophytic works. This article aims to demonstrate the meaning is attached to fire in Erna Rosenstein’s poetry and art. Based on the pioneering analyses by Dorota Jarecka, I suggest that the particularly intense presence of fire in the artist's oil paintings, assemblages and poems is driven by the need to create a constellation of random objects, myths and autobiographical material centered on the experience of witnessing her parents' deaths in 1942. By analyzing various approaches to fire, I show that Rosenstein searches for a form of invigorating and evolving destruction in her poetry (which I define as “pyrophytic art”) which would enable her to fantasize about a world after a catastrophe, a world without human life. In this approach, poetry emerges as an extension of the ideas presented in her art. Taking at times narrative, fairy-tale or mythographic forms, poetry defines Rosenstein’s artistic idiolect in a more individual way than art could, allowing the artist's voice, her own speaking self, to be emphasized and dynamized.

More...

EL YAZMASI ESERLER

Author(s): Tuba SU / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 57/2023

Manuscript, writing, mahtut (plural mahtutat), handwriting, handschrift, etc. it takes names such as. It means that books or treatises are reproduced by hand and not in a printing press. Each of these written works, which are identical to each other and formed as a result of the reproduction of a work by hand-written in this way, is called “nüsha” (a copy). Manuscripts can be found in the form of a book, as well as in the form of a scroll, roll and cönk, although it is rare. The reason why manuscripts are valuable is because they usually have a historical qualification. In order to observe the Mushaf calligraphy of development and to move the calligraphy to the advanced stages, it is necessary to see and study previously written works. We must preserve the ancient works that contain our values of science, art and culture and ensure that they are passed on to future generations.

More...

IMAGINEA ȘCOLII DIN BANATUL SÂRBESC ÎN PERIOADA INTERBELICĂ ÎN ROMANUL CÂND VINE PRIMĂVARA DE RADU FLORA

Author(s): Marinică Mozor / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2020

My research is based on the presentation of the school in the interwar period in Radu Flora’s novel "When Spring Comes". In this novel, Radu Flora gives description of the school system in the interwar period in the Serbian Banat. Even if he states that it is neither an autobiographical novel, nor a product of fantasy, but a mixture of everything, he admits that the novel is not something that is detached from reality. His novel is providing information about the school system in that period, Romanian and Serbian pedagogues, and the form of school and boarding school organization. Novel ”When Spring Comes” for Romanian literature in the Serbian Banat is a treasure of historical and social information from the interwar period.

More...

STRUCTURES IMAGOLOGIQUES DE L’EXILE – MIROSLAV KRLEŽA, DUBRAVKA UGREŠIĆ ET OGNJEN SPAHIĆ

Author(s): Carmen Dărăbuş / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2021

The paper Imaginary Structures of Exile Miroslav Krleža, Dubravka Ugrešić and Ognjen Spahić includes three subchapters: The (Auto)exiled Returned Home, The (Auto)exiled Left Abroad and Sanitary Exile, which discuss some aspects, individual and collective, of this kind of experience. The history of humanity includes forms of exile, consequences of power struggles, ideologies and drifting collective or personal history. The demographic and ethnic map of the world has been in perpetual transformation. Closely related to the notion of”chronotope”, the exile, in all its forms (autoexile, exodus etc.) refers to the time and space left behind.

More...

Clashes of temporality in AI and artistic creativity

5.00 €

Preview

Clashes of temporality in AI and artistic creativity

Author(s): Nevena Ivanova / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Art creates a specific relation to time and especially to the present moment. It opens the experience of the present towards its indeterminacy and emergence. On the contrary, AI does not know the present. It recognizes only the past and future. We could even say that artificial neural networks do not “know” time at all. Instead, they know only logical functions which process patterns of information. Yet, what makes time “time” is genuine transformation, which happens outside of the abstract realm of logic. I support these observations by analysing two works of art: Bill Viola’s The Raft (2004) and Hito Steyerl’s This Is the Future (2019). While artistic creation opens up the intervals “in-between seconds” for an unpredictable and transformative event to occur (The Raft), AI closes these intervals and fastens the future into predictability calculated on the basis of past data (This Is the Future). Although this machinic operation makes the present even more unpredictable and prone to catastrophes, its potential for transformation seems to be withdrawn.

More...

Creativity through autonomy: The real challenge of the computer art today

5.00 €

Preview

Creativity through autonomy: The real challenge of the computer art today

Author(s): Nikoleta Kerinska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper questions the notion of creativity found in certain artworks produced with A.I. technologies. The artistic examples concerned are: The Giver of names by David Rokeby, Oscar by Catherine Ikam and Louis Fléri, and Emotion Vending Machine by Maurice Benayoun. These artworks were selected because they stand out for their autonomous behavior in front of the human public. In this context, creativity is revealed as a consequence of the functional autonomy, which is very typical of these pieces of art. The intention is to establish a relationship between the notion of autonomy and that of creativity, reviewing their meanings and applications in philosophy and in the field of life science. For this, the notion of autonomy is approached from Kant’s definition as a decisive value indicating the moral principle that defines the individual and his free conduct, and then approached as a property of life from Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana’s research. Autonomy is also a tendency that characterizes a general process of technical lineages according to Chapoutier and Kaplan. In all these studies, autonomy presents complementary meanings that help us to draw parallels with the notion of creativity. The analyzed artworks allow us to visualize some ways of simulating creativity, while offering unique aesthetic experiences. From a broader perspective, this paper promotes the vision that some computer artworks open up as multi-sensory and multi-conceptual universes, projecting original ideas, and making us feel the very human substance of these technologies. Interacting with these artworks, we are placed at the heart of the aesthetic metamorphosis provoked by the phenomenon of the computer revolution.

More...

Artificial intelligence: Three philosophical interpretations of the anthropocentric frame of reference

5.00 €

Preview

Artificial intelligence: Three philosophical interpretations of the anthropocentric frame of reference

Author(s): Hristina Ambareva / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

The author discusses the problem of what AI is and how we can understand the “anthropocentrism” of AI from a philosophical point of view. Three interpretations of the relationship between humans and technology are presented: 1) AI-aided human intelligence, based on the extension theory of technology (Stiegler, 1998); 2) human-aided AI intelligence, based on ideas related to political economy (Crawford, 2021); and 3) the relativity of the anthropocentric frame of reference (AFR), based on the taxonomy of species. The purpose of the article is to provide considerations of the three different interpretations of the relation-ship between humans and technology and how they lead to different opportunities to answer the question of how we can understand AI’s creativity.

More...

Book review. After Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions, by Oana Șerban (Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022). A theory of aesthetic validity, inspired by Thomas Kuhn

4.50 €

Preview

Book review. After Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions, by Oana Șerban (Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022). A theory of aesthetic validity, inspired by Thomas Kuhn

Author(s): Diana Ghinea / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

Book review. After Thomas Kuhn. The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions, by Oana Șerban (Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022)

More...

Dukanovićevo razdoblje ili bosanskohercegovačko-poljske književne veze za vrijeme Druge Jugoslavije

Author(s): Leszek Małczak / Language(s): Bosnian,Croatian,Serbian Issue: 2/2019

This article describes Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Polish literary contacts in the period of the second Yugoslavia. I’ve started with a brief presentation of the history of literary and cultural contacts between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland. They are shown within the context of law, political and the institutional circumstances of cultural cooperation. The most detailed presented period from 1944 to 1989 can be named as ‘Dukanovic’s period’ dute to the role this translator, literary critic, and editor, who stayed in Poland after the Cominform Resolution of June 28, 1948, played in cultural contacts.

More...

Nowa deiksa? Nowa anafora? Nowa semantyka? Językowa gra w oczywistość płci

Author(s): Arkadiusz Jabłoński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The investigation of language and language processes is based on the assumption that they are related to a certain verifiable reality. Still, not all parameters of language express the reality in an exact manner. Moreover, the postulate to render strictly the actual properties of designates in language may reveal the hallmarks of a manipulative communication game. In the paper, an analysis of some fragmentary, chosen, although in the general perspective viewed as representative examples of use of certain elements of deictic and anaphoric character in marking the sex of a designate (not always identical with the grammatical value of gender in Polish) is proposed in terms of such a game in the texts from the contemporary Polish communicative domain.

More...

Literary and Philosophical Text in the Interconnection of Opinions (G. Vámoš: Atoms of God and The Principle of Cruelty)

Author(s): Marcela Antošová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

This paper focuses on the writer Gejza Vámoš (1951 – 1956), namely his two publications of different natures, i.e. the novel Atoms of God and his Dissertation thesis in philosophy, The Principle of Cruelty. These are texts that were more or less created in the same time period, and in which the writer communicated his philosophical worldview in almost identical ways. The aim of this paper is to show the semantic proximity of philosophical and literary communication, and at the same time to make accessible how the various philosophical theses were “imprinted” into the novel through a literary setting.

More...

Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Context of the Development of Art Marketing Communication in the Space of Selected Cultural Institutions

Author(s): Lucia Spálová,Marek Štosel,Lukasz Pawel Wojciechowski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2023

As new technological tools, virtual and augmented reality caused a revolution in culture and art during the critical situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It allowed the viewers to become the co-creators of art, which then changes under their influence. The property/essence of interactive art is the creation of a situation in which the visitor to a cultural institution comes into direct contact with an art object, which fundamentally changes the reception of the artefact. The aim of this scientific study is to identify the hybrid models of visitor participation in the artistic events hosted by Slovak cultural institutions – both offline and online – with a focus on interactive technologies. Using the case study method, we analyzed the contradictions in the definition of interactivity in terms of the pragmatic enhancement of the visitor experience in the cultural institutions (interactive work versus interactive marketing communication) in the interdisciplinary contexts of selected cultural institutions: Ponitrian Museum, Bratislava City Museum and Poliankovo Digital Gallery. The results show a scarce use of augmented reality in the art marketing communication of Ponitrian Museum, and interactive artefacts being part of the exhibition in the other analyzed institutions.

More...