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Estonian Pop Animation 1973–1979: Hand-Drawn Animation in the Context of Recent Art History

Estonian Pop Animation 1973–1979: Hand-Drawn Animation in the Context of Recent Art History

Author(s): Andreas Trossek / Language(s): English / Issue: 01+02/2009

Keywords: Soviet 'non-official' art; Pop art; animation; art history of re-independent Estonia

This treatment is focused on selected animated films made from 1973 to 1979 in the division of animated cartoons of the studio Tallinnfilm. During the 1970s in the Estonian SSR, a number of artists who were influenced, among other things, by Pop art (and also by The Yellow Submarine cartoon from 1968), such as Aili Vint, Leonhard Lapin, Sirje Lapin (Runge), Ando Keskküla, Rein Tammik and Priit Pärn, were actively engaged in the process of making hand-drawn animated films. Although these artistic figures need no introduction in the cultural sphere of today’s Estonia, their oeuvre in the field of animation has been left out of the value systems of local post-war art history. However, it is clear that quite a few animations from the 1970s rightly belong in the museal framework of Soviet Estonian Pop, or ‘Soviet Pop’ as this localized version of Pop art is often referred to.

Costume, Rank and Race: Othello’s Visual Identity in the Eighteenth Century

Costume, Rank and Race: Othello’s Visual Identity in the Eighteenth Century

Author(s): Stuart Sillars / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2009

Keywords: François Boitard; class; ethnicity; Hubert Gravelot; Thomas Hanmer; Francis Hayman; illustration; Iroquois; Philip James de Loutherbourg; Omai; Othello; performance; rank; Joshua Reynolds; Nicholas Rowe; Thomas Rymer; William Shakespeare

An exploration of the ways in which the character of Othello was presented in visual form, both performance and illustration, during the eighteenth century, in terms of the approaches to ethnicity and social rank that they reveal. It begins with the illustration by François Boitard for the edition of Nicholas Rowe, moving through images by Francis Hayman and Phillip James de Loutherbourg. Later images are discussed in comparison with visits by a group of Iroquois dignitaries, in which they themselves become performers in various social settings, and that of the Tahitian Omai, in particular the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pantomime based on his visit, and visual presentations of him as a figure of high rank as well as a representative of a different race.

In Defence of the Defenceless

In Defence of the Defenceless

Author(s): Kornel Földvári / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2009

The fate of the first work of Slovak literature encapsulates the trials and tribulations that accompanied its later development. Having banned his epigrams a few years earlier, ecclesiastical censorship prohibited the publication of part II of Jozef Ignác Bajza’s The Adventures and Experiences of the Young Man Rene (René mládenca príhody a skúsenosti, 1784). However, writers learned how to “self-regulate” within a few decades. As they embarked on their romantic quest of developing national self-awareness which was accompanied by a dangerous increase in national oppression, their writing was expected to perform a weighty role and to stand in for non-existent national institutions. Writers were expected to adhere to a strict military discipline, not unlike that of an ascetic religious order. Anything that protruded from the tight formation was ruthlessly eliminated, like undesirable new shoots disfiguring a carefully trimmed hedge.

Let’s See Action

Let’s See Action

Author(s): Theodoros Alexandridis / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2007

Born and raised in Kalamata, a small city to the south-west of Athens, Greece, I could never imagine that one day I would somewhat presumptuously undertake to jot down a short autobiographical note (nor for that matter that anyone would be interested in reading it). As it often happens, my involvement in the field of Roma rights was the result of a series of (fortunate) accidents. Following my failure in the Greek University Admission Examinations, I migrated to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Essex. My efforts during the first two years were devoted solely on passing my exams, and it would be only in the third and final year of my LLB that I would first get a glimpse of the human rights world and decide that this is what I would like to explore further.

Azerbaijan: Brothers, Neighbors, Rivals

Azerbaijan: Brothers, Neighbors, Rivals

Author(s): Ali Valiyev / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/24/2009

Keywords: Azerbaijan; Iran; Baku; Tehran; religion; Shiite; Muslim; President Ilham Aliev; Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; ISNA; Armenia; flue; Nagorno-Karabakh; political; economic; cultural; ethic; resources; minority; Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki; media;

Behind smiling faces and handshakes, Baku and Tehran continue a tense rivalry.

The Faces Of Janus

The Faces Of Janus

Author(s): Mihai Chioveanu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2003

JAMES GREGOR, The Faces of Janus: Fascism and Communism in the Twentieth Century, Yale University Press, 2000

Renegades, Traitors, Murderers in White Coats (The Image of the “Jew” as the “Enemy” in the Propaganda of the Late Stalinist Period)

Renegades, Traitors, Murderers in White Coats (The Image of the “Jew” as the “Enemy” in the Propaganda of the Late Stalinist Period)

Author(s): Kateřina Šimová / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2015

Keywords: Jews as the "enemy"; propaganda during the Stalinist Period; 1948-1953;

When Stalinism was at its peak, between 1948 and 1953, there was a marked escalation in anti-Jewish manifestations by the Soviet regime, which has often been called“state,” “official,” or “Stalinist” antisemitism. This article endeavors to provide an account of this by analyzing the image of the “Jew” in the propaganda of the time.The basis for the analysis is the concept of the “image of the enemy” as a basic figure of the totalitarian ideological canon. The article traces the way in which the image was filled with meanings linked with the term “Jew.” To this end, the author employs the so-called semiotic textual analysis, which enables her to gradually uncover the character of the signs in the propagandistic language. She focuses on two propaganda campaigns that dominated the Soviet public space in this period.One was against so-called “cosmopolitanism,” from January to March 1949; the other was the so-called “Doctor’s Plot” from January to March 1953. The method in concern enables her to provide evidence of the anti-Jewish orientation of the campaigns, which have so far been deduced chiefly from quantitative lists of acts of repression against specific individuals of Jewish descent. Analysis of the semantic field of the image of the “Jew” then reveals the mechanisms that, because of the many layers of the sign character of this image, were used to provide reasons for the home and foreign policies of the Soviet regime, as well as to justify its problems at home and abroad. The last part of the article consists of conclusions that the author finds applicable to the Czechoslovak case at that time.

FEATURES OF THE ROMANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XIXTH CENTURY

FEATURES OF THE ROMANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XIXTH CENTURY

Author(s): Andreea Popa Elena / Language(s): English / Issue: 20/2017

Keywords: Romanticism; Modernism; literary language

This work discusses the main features of the literary language in the first part of the XIXth century, it also emphasizes the original language that Grigore Alexandrescu uses in his poetry.

Authorial Self and Modernity as Reflected in Diaries and Memoirs. Three 19th-Century Hungarian Case Studies

Authorial Self and Modernity as Reflected in Diaries and Memoirs. Three 19th-Century Hungarian Case Studies

Author(s): Béla Mester / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2019

Keywords: authorial self; modern culture; nation building; public intellectual;

The role of the diaries and memoirs in the process of the conscious self-reflection and their contribution to the emergence of modern individual personalities are well-known facts of the intellectual history. The present paper intends to analyze a special form of the creation of modern individual character; it is the self-creation of the writer as a conscious personality, often with a clearly formulated opinion about her/his own social role. There will be offered several examples from the 19th-century history of the Hungarian intelligentsia. This period is more or less identical with the modernization of the “cultural industry” in Hungary, dominated by the periodicals with their deadlines, fixed lengths of the articles, and professional editing houses on the one hand and the cultural nation building on the other. Concerning the possible social and cultural role of the intelligentsia, it is the moment of the birth of a new type, so-called public intellectual. I will focus on three written sources, a diary of a Calvinist student of theology, Péter (Litkei) Tóth, the memoirs of an influential public intellectual, Gusztáv Szontagh, and a belletristic printed diary of a young intellectual, János Asbóth.

International scientific conference History, culture and research

Међународна научна конференција History, culture and research

Author(s): Božica Slavković Mirić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2020

Међународна научна конференција History, culture and research

Contemporary Man's Need for Spiritual Life

Contemporary Man's Need for Spiritual Life

Author(s): Tulcan Ioan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: anthropology; Spiritual Life; Christian teaching;

In order to truly understand the existence of man on earth, some of his essential coordinates must be considered: the beginning of his existence(or in other words his origin), the stages of his life, the lines of force his life relies upon and which is the purpose of his actions and of his life, in general. Without taking these human aspects into account, it is impossible to outline a unifi ed vision of him, and, above all, it is diffi cult to reach the true understanding of the human being

Introduction. Jokes of Repression

Introduction. Jokes of Repression

Author(s): Serguei Alex Oushakine / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2011

Keywords: Aristotle; Poetics; comedy; laughter; political intimacy; politics; political relations;

In his Poetics, Aristotle famously defined comedy as “an imitation of inferior people.” However, as the philosopher specified, not every defect is an object of the comic ridicule: “The laughable is an error or disgrace that does not involve pain or destruction: for example, a comic mask is ugly and distorted, but it does not involve pain.” Aristotle’s equation of the laughable with painless mockery usefully points to several important aspects of laughter discussed in this cluster. The comic genre provides symbolic mechanisms for simultaneous description of and distancing from the disgraceful. [...]

Book review

Book review

Author(s): Jay Friesen / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

Not being a Pharisee: thoughts on rule-following in Serbian Orthodoxy

Not being a Pharisee: thoughts on rule-following in Serbian Orthodoxy

Author(s): Nicholas Lackenby / Language(s): English / Issue: 18/2021

Keywords: Serbian Orthodoxy; rules; liturgical life: belief; orthopraxis; Serbian Orthodoxy; rules; liturgical life; belief; orthopraxis;

This article considers the rich Serbian Orthodox discourse about rules. Using ethnographic data from the central Serbian town of Kraljevo, it argues that – at the level of everyday religious practice – people find ideas about rules and right practice incredibly generative for evoking the abstract concepts of sincerity, repentance, and belief. Orthodox faith is elusive, and people frequently evoke in terms of that which it is not.

Foreward

PRÉSENTATION

Author(s): Julien KILANGA MUSINDE,Mariana Şovea / Language(s): French / Issue: 31/2021

Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

Author(s): Ioana BACIU / Language(s): English / Issue: 9-10/2021

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Petar Stoyanovic, The Road to Sofia. Origin, Education and Motivation of Prince Ferdinand Saxe-Coburg and Gothic for the Mission in Bulgaria. Sofia, Faber, 2021, 252 p. ISBN 978-619-001-341-9.

Петър Стоянович, Пътят към София. Произход, образование и мотивация на принц Фердинанд Сакс-Кобургски и Готски за мисията в България. София, Фабер, 2021, 252 с. ISBN 978-619-001-341-9.

Author(s): Rositsa Stoyanova / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2021

Book review

Book review

Author(s): Antti Lindfors / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2022

Folklore “language” in Latvian political cartoon (the stage of parliamentary democracy)

Folkloras “valoda” Latvijas politiskajā karikatūrā (parlamentārās demokrātijas posms)

Author(s): Angelika Juško-Štekele / Language(s): Latvian / Issue: 39/2019

Keywords: political cartoon; folklore quotes; stylization; allusion; humor and satire journals; conceptual metaphors;

Political caricature as one of the political discourse genres portrays the characteristic comic affect, inter alia, by the implementation of folklore characters, motives, calendar, conventionalities and figurativeness. Especially intensive and diverse usage of the folklore language is evident in the first part of the 20th century, when traditions of parliamentary administration in Latvia just started to develop and the first Constitutional Assembly and first four Latvian parliaments, i.e. Saeima got elected. The popularity of the folklore “language” may also be substantiated by the fact that folklore and mass communication have close relation; theoretically they are non-dissociable because conventional formulas have been used in both verbal and visual communication. However, with the intermediation of the folklore the society expresses traditional values, whereas mass communication culture (which by nature is commercial) strives to create new knowledge, based on a traditional formula. The usage of the folklore “language” in Latvian cultural environment was promoted not only due to the favorable background of parliamentary democracy and freedom of speech, but also by the personalities of caricature authors, who were prominent intellectuals and representatives of art of their time and got excellent knowledge not only in the content of the folklore and its figurativeness, but also were able to apply the knowledge to express a new content related to the current events and interests of contemporary society. The folklore “language” in the beginning of the 20th century entered the political caricature genre in the form of citations, stylization and allusions. Practically, it covered all folklore genres and techniques of figurativeness; it confronted not only the traditional and contemporary values, but also created a new metaphorical understanding about the essence of the parliament and its operating principles. Such conceptual metaphors as “parliament – children” and “parliament – war” have proven to be sustainable even nowadays. Although the last Latvian humor and satire magazine “Dadzis” suspended its publication in 2008, the political caricature still remains popular in Latvia’s renewed democracy. It gets published in printed and electronic media and still serves as one of the most prominent reflections of public political processes.

Short History of Book Illustration

Short History of Book Illustration

Author(s): Maria Bilașevschi / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Book Illustration; short history; review;

Review of: Cezarina Florina Caloian, Scurtă istorie a ilustrației / Short History of Book Illustration, Artes Publishing House, Iași, 2020, 160 pages.