Strategie komunikacyjne i procesy twórcze
Communication strategies and creative processes
Contributor(s): Mariusz Bartosiak (Editor)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: science of art.; art of science; poetry; animated film; communication theory; dialogue with nature
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-8220-762-0
- Page Count: 186
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: Polish
Poetyka widzenia Joanny Ślósarskiej, teoria widzenia Władysława Strzemińskiego, teoria języka Ronalda W. Langackera
Poetyka widzenia Joanny Ślósarskiej, teoria widzenia Władysława Strzemińskiego, teoria języka Ronalda W. Langackera
(Joanna Ślósarska’s poetics of seeing, Władysław Strzemiński’s theory of vision and Ronald Langacker’s theory of language)
- Author(s):Elżbieta Tabakowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:10-20
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:conceptualization; dimensions of imagery; perspective of moving vision; realism of the object; realism of the viewing process; subjectivity
- Summary/Abstract:The paper deals with the relation between seeing a picture and talking about a picture. Selected poems by Joanna Ślósarska are juxtaposed with theses put forward by Władysław Strzemiński in his theory of vision and by Ronald Langacker’s in his cognitive theory of language and grammar. In the analytic part of the article, the author discusses fragments of Ślósarska’s poems and extracts from Strzeminski’s monograph on theory of vision and Langacker’s introduction to cognitive grammar. For Strzemiński, a “single look” of the painter, which implies not more than a single point of view, cannot objectively reflect the essence of an object, because this is impossible. The art of painting – like the art of language – describes the world not as it is but as it seems to be to an observing eye of a particular viewer in a particular context; it is determined by spatial, temporal, cultural and pragmatic parameters. Hence, realism of the object is a fiction: the object viewed is irrevocably determined by the subjective, phenomenological “human factor”. What brings Strzeminski’s theory of vision close to Langacker’s theory of language and the dimensions of imagery, which Langacker considers to be crucial as linguistic parameters that determine choices made by speakers in view of the nature of the images transmitted in communication: the perspective, the arrangement of figure and ground, the level of salience and the specification. When analysed in the context of cognitive grammar, Ślósarska’s poems become a bridge joining the theories of viewing as proposed by a painter and a linguist and reveal important analogies between the ways that the painter (and the viewer of the painting), a poet (and the reader of poetry) and the theorist of language look at their worlds.
Ulotne duchy. Indianie w poezji Philipa Freneau i Williama Cullena Bryanta a koncepcje rasowe dziewiętnastowiecznej nauki
Ulotne duchy. Indianie w poezji Philipa Freneau i Williama Cullena Bryanta a koncepcje rasowe dziewiętnastowiecznej nauki
(Fleeting ghosts: The image of Native Americans in Philip Freneau’s and William Cullen Bryant’s poetry and 19th-century scientific conceptions of race)
- Author(s):Justyna Fruzińska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Studies of Literature
- Page Range:21-27
- No. of Pages:7
- Keywords:Romanticism; American poetry; race; Native Americans
- Summary/Abstract:The paper analyzes the depiction of Native Americans in poems by two 19th-century American poets: Philip Freneau and William Cullen Bryant. Romantic writers were interested in Native Americans as “noble savages,” but also as a metonymy of “natural” America as opposed to “civilized” Europe. The poets often took the side of the Native population, mistreated and pushed westward by whites, both for ethical and esthetic reasons: appreciating their “picturesqueness” and nostalgically describing cultures which no longer constituted a military threat on the eastern shore of the United States. At the same time, however, their attitudes towards Native Americans could be far more complicated, as one can see in Bryant’s poem “The Prairies,” which de facto justified the US Indian policy of the 1830s. What is more, both poets’ works largely reflected racial ideas dominating 19th-century science. The poems which this paper analyzes refer to the motif of the “dying American,” doomed to extinction because of his physical weakness and unwillingness to accept white civilization, as well as the enigma of the “mound builders,” which intrigued many 19th-century scientists and was taken up by Bryant in his “Prairies.”
Metaforyczne ożywianie miasta. Praktyka na pograniczu nauki i sztuki
Metaforyczne ożywianie miasta. Praktyka na pograniczu nauki i sztuki
(Metaphorical Revival of the City. Practice Between Art and Science)
- Author(s):Błażej Filanowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Philology
- Page Range:28-38
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:Urban Studies; Renewal; City as a Organism; Metaphor; Urban Planning
- Summary/Abstract:The paper analyzes the sources of the modern metaphor of revival of the city, finding conections with of two concepts taken from the biological sciences: circulation and metabolism. The author describes how this understanding of the city as an organism influenced two important architectural and artistic concepts: the Modern City and the Situacionist City. Assuming contemporary relevance of both concepts, the paper develops usus of the word "revival" as a participatory process in the crisis-define area in the contemporary discourse on a field of administrations and research in Poland. The author compares the revival practice with the analyzed artistic concepts and their contemporary reception, noting that every action is unique, and its effectiveness it's difficult to predict.
Nauka prawa w sztuce filmów animowanych
Nauka prawa w sztuce filmów animowanych
(Legal Science in the Art of Animated Movies)
- Author(s):Piotr Paweł Ostrowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Administrative Law
- Page Range:39-52
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:law; animated movies; law and literature
- Summary/Abstract:This paper deals with the analysis of legal content in animated films. The study covers both the presence, functioning and role of legal aspects in these pieces and the possibility of their use in the process of legal education. The analysis is conducted on the basis of the ten most lucrative animated movies in the history of cinema, which were released until 2017. The author points out the structuring role of law in animated movies and notes that the plot of the film in many cases develops due to the occurrence of legal events, and the motivations of the characters' actions are often determined by incentives to achieve the desired legal consequences. The article emphasizes that the law is treated in animated movies as a means to achieve certain goals, for example, humoristic or regarding developing plot, as evidenced by the differences in the translation of dialogues involving legal issues into different languages. At the same time, the author draws attention to the practical possibilities of using animated films in the process of legal education of children.
Dziennik malarski jako fenomen artystyczno–psychologicznego wyrazu i oddziaływania
Dziennik malarski jako fenomen artystyczno–psychologicznego wyrazu i oddziaływania
(The Painting Diary as a Phenomenon of Artistic-Psychological Expression and Influence)
- Author(s):Daniel Jerzy Żyżniewski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts
- Page Range:53-79
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:art; painting; psychology; perception; brain; Mindfulness
- Summary/Abstract:Some basic mechanisms between perception, thinking and mood with artistic process of creation are described in this article. Main aspects of cognitive-behavioral reception of reality and its meaning for dynamic of creative energy are explained in this article. Some basic terms taken from Mindfulness therapeutic techniques including guided meditation technique are outlined in the context of brain activity. Dependencies between Mindfulness techniques with cognitive behavioral ones and painting creativity are also outlined in this article. The Painting diary created by Weronika Naszarkowska-Multanowska is described as a painting work and simultaneously as a self-therapeutic technique, which meets some of the psychological help criteria. In this article the painting diary is described as a tool of social communication and mood regulation in low energy of artistic creativity. The painting diary is presented as multilayer medium of interdisciplinary forms of expression and influence, which agency is seen not only in artist’s life, but also in audiences.
Prostota
Prostota
(Simplicity)
- Author(s):Jarosław Janowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Language and Literature Studies
- Page Range:80-92
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Science methodology; order; Gestalt psychology; modernism; Mies van der Rohe
- Summary/Abstract:According to Gestalt psychologists, the simplification rule is the fundamental law of visual perception. It can be understood as making our perception sensitive to certain regularities and distinguishing individual objects from the environment. From this ability to see rules grew the science understood as the systematic description of regularities using general laws. Simplicity is the initial composition of the accumulated knowledge about the world. Therefore, the criterion of simplicity seems to be important in the case of the scientific description of the world. Ernst Gombrich draws attention to the relationship of simplifying perceptual mechanisms with science and art. Karl Popper, on the other hand, paradoxically rejects the usefulness of the concept of simplicity in the methodology of science as a manifestation of merely an aesthetic liking or a certain feature of our minds. Nevertheless, he proposes a solution to the problem of simplicity in the methodology of science - theories with a lower dimension are easier to falsify. A hypothesis that is easier to test is more valuable, and easier to test, because it's easier. If, as Popper wants, simplicity is aesthetic, it has found application in an area as refined as art. Works of art, however, must have a certain complexity and richness. This opposition to simplicity is apparent. The artist is forced to show only certain aspects of reality by simplifying it in accordance with his intention.
Manifest niepoprawności
Manifest niepoprawności
(Manifesto of improperness)
- Author(s):Dobrosław Bagiński
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts
- Page Range:93-101
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:improperness; breaking the rules; imagination
- Summary/Abstract:Paper discusses the problem of creativity in scientific research and artistic activity. Based on the reflexions of the eminent (historical and contemporary) scientists and artists, and on the recent research in cognitive psychology Author substantiates the thesis that the essence of authentic creativity, both in science and arts, lies the imagination and deliberate breaking widely shared rules.
Nieostrość z perspektywy teorii komunikacji i badań normalności
Nieostrość z perspektywy teorii komunikacji i badań normalności
(Fuzziness from the perspective of communication theory and normality research)
- Author(s):Annette Siemes
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Philology
- Page Range:102-123
- No. of Pages:22
- Summary/Abstract:The issue of fuzziness has not been analysed as yet from the perspective of communication theory and communication research. The article deals with the role of fuzziness in the communication process (the latter understood as the mechanizm of negotiating meanings generating the third (communicational) reality). The starting point that illustrates the broadness of the issue and its various aspects is constituted by fuzzy pictures (photographies) and (verbal) reactions referring to them. The theoretic basis is built by communication theory and research concerning normality assumptions in communication; the results of other research in the field of language and visuality serve as a wider context. The text presents the characteristics of fuzziness as a category of communication(s), where fuzziness appears both as a construct and concept (linked to a system of assumptions). The analysis against a theoretic background allows to reveal the basic functions of fuzziness for starting and perpetuating the communication process that are realized by generating connectivity (in the sense of a broad range of potential references regarding a given communicational (visual or verbal) offer). This allows to outline the research problem and guiding questions for planned further empiric investigation which might concern (a) the semantics and communicational meaning of the word “fuzziness” in concrete applications as well as (b) the functional contexts of fuzziness not only as a term, but as a concept and functional element. Possible ways of operationalization regarding research material and methods are presented for both areas.
Od „topografii” do Nowej Topografii. Dwie natury ujawnione przez fotografowany krajobraz
Od „topografii” do Nowej Topografii. Dwie natury ujawnione przez fotografowany krajobraz
(From „Topographics” to New Topographics. Two natures revealed by the photographed landscapes)
- Author(s):Błażej Filanowski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts
- Page Range:124-131
- No. of Pages:8
- Keywords:photography; landscape; nature; New Topographics; anthropocene
- Summary/Abstract:New Topographics is an american photographers’ group whom in the 1970s referred to "topographics" - nineteenth-century photographs of the American West landscape. The "topographers" represented romantic ethos, visible in spectacular shots creating the myth and cultural identity of the colonized West also the entire United States. The New Topographics preferred repetitiveness and banality aesthetic of the contemporary landscape west of the Mississippi. Both movements are often analyzed in the context of identity changes and the demythologization of the region. In the paper, the achievements of "topographers" and the New Topographics are analyzed as visual messages representing the meaning of the current concept of nature - assuming that the concept of nature is discursive and its content changes over time.
Komunikacyjna rola przedogródka, czyli rzecz o ludowej wizji świata
Komunikacyjna rola przedogródka, czyli rzecz o ludowej wizji świata
(The communicative role of front garden. Reflections about the folk vision of the world)
- Author(s):Anita Grzegorzewska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Philology
- Page Range:132-146
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:act of communication; magic function; mental culture; folk communicative competence; front garden
- Summary/Abstract:Among the studies on the aspects of communication understood as the transfer of information (meanings), there are no works that discuss the communicative potential of nature. The author, referring to the methodological assumptions developed within communicativism, offers the concept of folk communicative competence. The proposed model of folk communicative competence, including the acts: plant (human) - human and plant (supernatural power / folk faith), allows to define the role of vegetation from the traditional backyard garden in the way of thinking and functioning of the rural community. The author prooves that the front gardens were not only an important element of material culture, but they were also connected with the sphere of spiritual culture.
Szorstkość lnu i zapach wełny. Wykonywanie ściegu za ściegiem jako forma dialogu z naturą
Szorstkość lnu i zapach wełny. Wykonywanie ściegu za ściegiem jako forma dialogu z naturą
(The Roughness of Linen and the Smell of Wool. Making stitch by stitch as a form of dialogue with nature)
- Author(s):Ewa Danuta Kępa
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts
- Page Range:147-161
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:textile craft; everyday creativity; the anthropology of the line; autoethnography; dialogue with nature
- Summary/Abstract:Making traditional handicraft is a process of creative construction and deconstruction of the meanings from the past in current socio-cultural contexts. It is also a form of exploring the world, the way of human participation in the 'world-in-formation'. In the presented article I treat hand-made textiles as a dialogical process of creating knowledge, creating reality and communicating with the past. I am focus on the work of the hands of those who process organic materials in the bosom of nature. I weave autoethnographic threads into the presented text. Threads which are experiences accompanying me in the process of recreating the stitches of an old linen tablecloth made at the beginning of the 20th century.
Motyw Kobiety-Góry we współczesnych islandzkich filmach i serialach
Motyw Kobiety-Góry we współczesnych islandzkich filmach i serialach
(The Mountain Woman theme in contemporary Icelandic films and tv series)
- Author(s):Tomasz Adamski
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Fine Arts / Performing Arts
- Page Range:162-171
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:Iceland; volcano; mountain woman; film; tv series
- Summary/Abstract:The author begins his article with a description of the Icelandic landscape, with particular emphasis on volcanoes. This is the starting point for an outline of the mother (femininity) figure in Icelandic culture, which has been used to emphasize Iceland's independence and statehood. This figure was called the Mountain Woman and became an allegorical personification of the motherland for Icelanders. Over the years, she gained a bodily dimension (Fjallkonan) and her image was very often used in Icelandic art and poetry. References to this symbol also appeared in an Icelandic film or tv series, if only because nature was encoded as clearly feminine. The ideal woman is often depicted in Icelandic cultural texts as a person untainted by the evil of civilization and living in harmony with nature. The frequent identification of this mythical character with Iceland itself can be seen in contemporary Icelandic films and series such as: The Cliff, Rams. An Icelandic tale or 101 Reykjavik. The Mountain Woman can also be read as a prototype for the figure of strong women present in many contemporary Icelandic productions, to mention only: Valhalla Murders or The Woman at War.
Siedem gór, siedem strumieni. Wiersze o sensie istnienia
Siedem gór, siedem strumieni. Wiersze o sensie istnienia
(Seven mountains, seven streams)
- Author(s):Katarzyna Citko
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Theory of Literature
- Page Range:172-185
- No. of Pages:14
- Keywords:poetry; symbolism; mountain; stream
- Summary/Abstract:Mountains and streams are inherently connected with the mountain landscape, constituting its most beautiful scenes. Captivating beauty provokes artists; mountains with their streams and sources are a frequent theme in art, also in poetry. After all, poets do not only praise the beauty of rock landscapes, but look for a deeper meaning in them, reaching the roots of human existence and reflection on its essence. One of the persistently recurring poetic themes that have been inspired by images of a mountain and a stream is a hike. It evokes the symbolic image of a man traversing his life like a wanderer climbing to the top. The mountains here become an imaginative image of the journey of the human spirit, created and called to ascend from earth to the heights of heaven. It is an upward journey, an ascent towards the sphere of the sacred; there is, however, the opposite direction, downwards, with the stream flowing through its waters: towards the lowlands, towards the hell's gates, towards the mouth of the end of the river's existence, melting in the swaying waves of abyssal depths. The article analyzes seven selected poems exploring symbolic images of mountains and streams. These are works by Joanna Ślósarska, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Zbigniew Herbert, Adam Zagajewski, Czesław Miłosz, John Paul II and Katarzyna Citko. They are connected by reflection on the purpose and sense of human existence, contained in symbolic images of mountains and streams.