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The article deals with the works of art and exhibitions of contemporary Bulgarian artists, which are similar – with respect to their attitude towards images and expressions – to advertising activity. A presentation is made of different artistic ways of adopting means of expression from advertising and popular culture, as well as of relations with the surrounding cultural and social environment. The author raises the issue of art in its function of advertising message in large-scale artistic events. Cases of curatorial methods which are similar in ideas and purpose to advertising strategies, are also discussed.
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The article examines the dynamics of storytelling in animation, de¬termined by the specificity of the art of the moving images. Being al¬ways spatial and expressly fortuitous, this dramaturgy has worked out its unique ways to achieve maximum expressiveness of the plot. The investi¬gation of these specific means of animation storytelling is the essence of this text.
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French animation dates back to 1908 although Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844-1918) made a cinematographic screening of caricatures much earlier before this time in the Théâtre Optique at the Musée Grévin in Paris. The article is focused especially on its first steps. It discusses films created by prominent authors who have left their mark the in history of animation such as Émile Cohl – known as the father of French cartoon films, Léopold Survage, Wladyslaw Starewicz and many others.The author analyzes the development of the artistic expression of the structure of the animated cartoon on the basis of spiritual and philosophic ideas of the epoch, represented by the ideas of thinkers and poets - such as Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, etc. - about the role of color, rhythm and movement in the creation of the image. The problem of the relations between caricature, comics art and the pictorial language of the new art movements in Modern time and animation cinema is little known in history and theory of animation, and for this reason its investigation by the author is of contributive character. He successively considers works by artists such as the representatives of Dadaism Man Ray and Tristan Tzara, the representative of Cubism Fernand Léger, or by Marcel Duchamp and their impact on the language, techniques and character design of the animated film. A great attention is given to creative artists as Bertolt Bartosz 168 (with his cut paper characters) and Alexander Alekseev (with his famous pinscreen) who contribute to the enhancement of the diversity of techniques and styles in the rendering of the image not only in French animation but also on a global scale.
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The article presents a new, hybrid approach to the artistic and scientific creative work, called “painting geoiconics”. It is a sort of informal practice in art, claimed by the contemporary artist as a model for putting ahead an actual research problem and at the same time being a bridge to the art about nature. “The painting geoiconics” was presented by the author for the first time in 2004 in Canada. Yonko Stoyanov defines it as a painting science about the earth – geological scientific knowledge recreated by means of painting. The article gives a comment on today’s artistic practices from different points of view – of aesthetics, philosophy and cultural studies – and emphasizes on the necessity of new approaches towards development of visions, stimulating the advancement of thought. It renders a cognitive model in the form of a complex artistic and scientific project entitled “Geological pulse”. The results of the investigation within the project display the important meaning of the changing natural peculiarities for the cultures on the world map. In his artistic practice the author demonstrates and expresses the scientific assertion of the influence of natural phenomena upon the modulation of creative processes.
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The article refers to the sources of the archetype of the path in Scandinavian mythology. The mythical hero and his journey are incorporated in the core of the archetype of the path in Scandinavian mythology. The sources of the archetype of the path in Scandinavian mythology are discussed according to a basic two-fold classification: literary texts (oral/verbal and written records) and non-literary (visual) texts, which have come to us mainly as archaeological artifacts. The first group includes old-Scandinavian poems, songs, odes, as well as prose works written by the Icelandic intellectual Snori Sturluson and the skald-poets, whereas the second one entails monumental structures: runic stones (“runstenar”) and funeral structures, items related to the Scandinavian customs household, cults and weaponry. The poetic texts and the runic inscriptions prevail among the sources. The conclusion emphasizes the fundamental deduction drawn by the author throughout his entire research: that, in his pilgrimage, the real historical person (king, warrior) in Scandinavian medieval culture follows and campaigns the pattern of the path that was already used either by a divinity or by a cultural hero in Scandinavian mythology.
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Situlae from the Illyrian cultural circle are a specific group of objects, summarized in the literature under the name “Situla Art”. The time frame to which they belong is VII-IV century BC and, according to some schol-ars, the period of their peak is V century BC. They are distinguished by their rich figurative decoration, a strong example of the artistic relations in the ancient world. There are archaizing iconographic models from as far back as the time of the Geometric style, strong influences from the Orientalizing style, elements from the Animal style, as well as Greek and Etruscan iconographic elements, mixed with a specificity, typical for the region of the South-Eastern Alps; all of them can be observed in the dec¬oration of the situlae. Their excavation in burial (Etruria and Slovenia) and treasure (Tirol) context, as well as their rich decoration excludes the idea that they were ever used in everyday life. The frieze compositions, depicted on them, include scenes from military parades or real military orders, scenes showing contests – chariot racing or fist fighting, as well as scenes of sacrificial rites and feasts. The scenes depicted on the situlae provide a direct clue about what the vessels were used for in Antiquity and about their central place in the feast. Being the main containers for drinks at celebrations, they are depicted as carried by the participants or placed at a central position. No doubt, a sign of prestige, these objects have an entirely representative function. Their iconographic programme illustrates the process of formation of cultural identity of a specific com¬munity, and the claim of their notable members to take their deserved place of elite by demonstrating their property and responsibility in front of the group.
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Both the function of one’s conscience, as Thomas Aquinas understands it, and the work of casuistry in general involve deliberating about which universal moral principles are applicable in particular cases. Thus, understanding how conscience can function better also indicates how casuistry might be done better – both on Thomistic terms, at least. I claim that, given Aquinas’ descriptions of certain parts of prudence (synesis and gnome) and the role of moral virtue in practical knowledge, understanding particular cases more as narratives, or parts of narratives, likely will result, all else being equal, in more accurate moral judgments of particular cases. This is especially important in two kinds of cases: first, cases in which Aquinas recognizes universal moral principles do not specify the means by which they are to be followed; second, cases in which the type-identity of an action – and thus the norms applicable to it – can be mistaken.
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The subject of the volume Changes in a human life is the process of the broadly understood transformation taking place in the lives of both individuals and whole communities. It is a process that may have various faces and characters and that may refer to numerous fields of research and various contexts. Therefore, the group of notions that the authors of this volume focus on is comprised of those related to the problems of disability, fatherhood, prostitution, intelligence, corporate work or migration. The included articles are of an overview, exploratory and empirical nature. However, all of them bring the reader closer to the processuality, changeability and dynamism of the lives lived by individuals and communities.
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The article corresponds to the problems of terms describing people as mentally disabled vs. intellectually disabled, compared to those with an intellectual disability. The application of each of those notions is justified by the premises of an axiological and worldview nature. Political correctness encourages us to replace stigmatizing terms with more neutral ones. However, the question arises: from where did the terms of a discriminating character appear in the language? The article presents examples of the application of segregation policy since the 1970s, as a result of which the intellectually disabled remained in residential care centers, separated from the rest of society. Based on the literature of the 1970s, a dramatic picture of the fate of people deprived of human dignity is painted. This situation meant that the terms applied to intellectually disabled people condemned them to the worst position in society. It began to change when the policy of social integration and inclusion was implemented in the West. The second part of the article includes deliberations over the understanding of the words "disability" and "intelligence" (a word present in the term intellectual disability). Two contrasting ways of comprehending the term intelligence are presented: one derived from ancient times and the other introduced by the modern system of psychological measures. I demonstrate what consequences the application of those two understandings of the term intelligence bring for the understanding of the human condition entangled in the modern world. The summary presents the conclusion that mental retardation does not need to be treated as a deficiency or a dysfunction, but it may be – according to the idea of variety – treated as an equal way of being a human, different from the statistical majority of the population, however, still demonstrating a unique specificity and beauty.
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Anthony Celano argues that after Thomas Aquinas the flexibility of Aristotle’s ethics gives way to the universal codes of Christian morality. His argument posits that the Schoolmen adopted a line of moral reasoning that follows a Platonic tradition of taking universal moral principles as the basis of moral reasoning. While Thomas does work in a tradition that, resemblant of the Platonic tradition, incorporates inerrant principles of moral reasoning in the habit of synderesis, his understanding of those principles is distinctly Aristotelian in character and thus the flexible moral reasoning of Aristotle’s phronimos is retained. For Thomas synderesis is the first principle of practical reason and is the source rather than the inhibitor of personal and spontaneous moral reasoning. This article will first outline Celano’s position, detail the thought of Thomas’ predecessors, and then show how Thomas employs the principle of synderesis in a distinctly Aristotelian framework.
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The article raises the notions of the changes that take place in the lives of physically disabled people which are caused by their engagement in a sports activity. In the article, I will attempt to prove that practicing sport may create advantageous conditions for self-discovery and self-acceptance by a person with an acquired body dysfunction. The purpose of the conducted research is to analyze the processual dimension of the transformations of a disabled person's life which take place under the influence of experiences related to practicing sport. There is qualitative information applied in the research, collected through the techniques of in-depth free interviews and observations, conducted among disabled people who practice sport. Analysis and interpretation of the research material was performed in accordance with the procedures of grounded theory.
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Referring to a set of narrative interviews being professional biographical interviews with managers and professionals, I would like to present some definite typically patterned professional careers. The course and main phases of the settling into corporate order are identified and described with Fritz Schütze’s analytical tools and categories. The main focus of interest is not only biographical processes of growing-up in corporation, that is the sphere of cognitive, normative and emotional references, but also their relation to the institutional sphere. Simultaneously, I intend therefore to address two types of questions: what type of biographical experiences are we dealing with: biographical plan (an autonomous, self-reflexive and intentional process of planning one's own actions), institutional pattern (a normative-based process of meeting institutional expectations), trajectory (a suffering-involved process of uncontrollably being subject to external circumstances), metamorphosis (a surprise-driven creative process of change); and what are the ways a biography reflects corporate order, that is, some definite type of the social order in late capitalism, and the related processes of Europeanization, globalization, multiculturalism and transculturalism, as well as the neoliberal economic order?
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The 19th Century New England author Thoreau provides an approach to conscience and unjust laws approximating that given by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologiae. But the portrait of conscience given by Thoreau in the 1848 oration “Civil Disobedience” is incomplete. Thoreau’s approach is solved by accepting insights given in Part I and Part I–II of Summa Theologiae. Allowing St. Thomas’ insights requires reform of Thoreau’s civil disobedience and conscientious objection. But Thoreau’s arguments are given new life.
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