JOCUL SATULUI ÎN COMUNA MOCIU. NOTE PE MARGINEA UNUI INTERVIU ETNOCOREOLOGIC

Author(s): Silvestru Petac / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2016

An event considered profane in the traditional Romanian village, thevillage dance is still little studied even today, despite the importance the eventhas had for the traditional socio-cultural life. In connection with an ethno-choreological interview, the paper aims to highlight some of the issues that weconsidered relevant to understanding the network of social and culturalsignifications surrounding the event - as it occured until the establishment ofcollectivization in a small ethnographic area (around Mociu village). In thisrespect, the paper discusses rules, prohibitions and customs governing the event;the connection between the establishment of communism and the disappearanceof the event discussed here; the repertoire that was performed at the villagedance and some observations on premarital importance of the village dance.An event considered profane in the traditional Romanian village, the village dance is still little studied even today, despite the importance the event has had for the traditional socio-cultural life. In connection with an ethno- choreological interview, the paper aims to highlight some of the issues that we considered relevant to understanding the network of social and cultural significations surrounding the event - as it occured until the establishment of collectivization in a small ethnographic area (around Mociu village). In this respect, the paper discusses rules, prohibitions and customs governing the event; the connection between the establishment of communism and the disappearance of the event discussed here; the repertoire that was performed at the village dance and some observations on premarital importance of the village dance.

Nieistniejące organy firmy Braci Rieger z Karniowa w kościele pw. św. Jakuba Apostoła w Tuchowie. Analiza instrumentoznawcza

Author(s): Andrzej Gładysz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2017

In the article is carried out an instrumentological analysis of the Rieger Brothers of Jägerndorf (Krnov) organ dismantled in August 2015. The instrument, built in the Tuchów parish church 100 years ago, is part of the company’s numerous organs in the Tarnow diocese and in Poland in general. The first part of the article outlines the circumstances of assembly and repairs of the organs until they are dismantled. The second part focuses on the description of the instrument: chorus, case, bellow, console, tracker action, windchest, and instrumentation, along with a schematic display of the pipe system inside the cabinet. The third part is an analysis of the sound structure including the discussion of vertical and horizontal scale and the membership of individual voice families.

Wpływy czeskie w architekturze polskiej w okresie wczesnego średniowiecza – wybrane problem

Author(s): Artur Różański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2012

LA DÉCORATION BAROQUE DES ÉGLISES CATHOLIQUES ROMAINES EN HONGRIE ORIENTALE ET EN TRANSYLVANIE AU XVIIIe SIÈCLE

Author(s): Anna Jávor / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2014

In the context of the re-Catholicisation of the eastern periphery by the order of the Jesuits, Anna Jávor examines the role played by a few Austrian artists such as Michelangelo Unterberger and Johann Lucas Kracker, as well as Franz Anton Maulbertsch and Johann Ignaz Cimbal. She emphasizes the roles of bishops in the development of the art of their time.

ANCIENT DEATH MASKS AND THE PREHISTORY OF HUNGARIANS - LESSONS OF A MUSEUM EXHIBITION

Author(s): István Fodor / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

From June to September 2013 I was organizing an exhibition entitled “Ancient Death Masks” in the Hungarian National Museum. The most important goal of the exhibition was to display for visitors an idea supported by scholarly research. According to this conclusion, silver and gold death masks observed in the graves of the 10th century Hungarians who settled in the Carpathian Basin originated from Magna Hungaria, the Uralian territory of the Hungarians. We displayed death masks found in three large regions of Eurasia: that of Tashtyk Culture in the Yenisei Valley (1st–5th cc.), 6th–11th century masks of the Ural Region, and 10th century masks from the Carpathian Basin (Fig. 1). Although the religious background of the masks in the three territories is similar, the forms of manifestation are different. From the shape of the masks we can clearly conclude that the 10th century Hungarians brought this burial custom from the Ural Region, Magna Hungaria. This can be cited among the few pieces of archaeological evidence (compeer to the historical evidence) attesting to the migration of the Hungarians from the east to the west.

Iskustva tragedije i nemoći: bosanskohercegovačka likovna zbilja nakon dva rata

Author(s): Merima Jašarević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 78/2017

In this paper, two identical experiences are considered: renewal and reconstruction of the country. The main focus is on functions and expressions of fine arts in time of creation socialist culture in B&H. Except that, focus is on the role of culture or better say, cultures after last war in Bosnian society. Those special art solutions have been created mainly trough politics, then trough concepts of socialist culture and Marxist philosophy / esthetics. This short impressum of fine arts during the 50s will give away to the reader some segments about culture and arts which are noticed until today.

Elöljáróban

Author(s): Róbert Árpád Lakatos / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2016

We dedicated this issue of ME.dok entirely to the subject of the documentary.

Goethe NAUSIKAA -töredéke

Author(s): Ibolya Tar / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2009

The fragments (165 lines) and the framework of the Nausikaa-tragedy by Goethe were written during his Italian journey in Sicily in the spring of 1787. There are some scenes of high literary quality in worked out form. The main source of the Nausikaa is Homer, although not only the Odyssee itself but the landscapes in Italy, too, appercipiated as real homeric landscapes. The antiqity and the Greek sujets are no more simple copies of ancient works in the Nausikaa and in other works by Goethe, but they suggest a new form of artistic creation: the nature and human emphasis reflected through the personality of the artist. The figure of Odysseus and that of Nausikaa as „archetypes” are in several variations in the works by Goethe present; Nausikaa revives in Ottilia of his novel Wahlverwandtschaften.

Міфопоетика сакрального в сучасному українському образотворчому мистецтві

Author(s): Olena Vyacheslavova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2009

Review of myth aesthetics from antiquity till nowadays witnesses unbeatable «literaturecentrism», which always prevailed in this sphere. In spite of the spread of neomythologism in image creativity of the XX century, especially in Ukrainian art of 1990-2000-s, there were no special aesthetic researches of image creating myth poetry before. The most widespread in modern Ukrainian aesthetic thought version of myth conception doesn’t let us study the poetry of image creating art. In the article we propose an application of semiotic approach in researching of the topic.

Állítólagos zománcképek a corona graecán

Author(s): Iván Uhrman / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2009

A CSÁSZÁRKORI RÓMAI SZARKOFÁGOK ERÓS-„MELLÉKTÉMÁI” ÉS A POLISZÉMIKUS KONTEMPLÁCIÓ

Author(s): László Berczelly / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2008

As a starting point, the author summarizes some unsolved problems and innovative results in iconographical studies of Roman sarcophagi. He puts also forward a proposal of interpreting the decorations on Roman sarcophagi as pictorial incitements for the mourner’s free contemplation. To describe the phenomenon he is introducing the term polysemious contemplation. The selection of examples engaged by him, derives mostly from erotic sarcophagi, especially from the so called sub-motifs.

W stronę domu. Metamorfozy Apulejusza z Madaury w perspektywie ekologii teatru Włodzimierza Staniewskiego

Author(s): Wiktor Uhlig / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2017

The article offers the reading of the ancient novel Metamorphoses, otherwise known as The Golden Ass by Apuleius. It relies on the theoretical frame of theater ecology (or oikology), which is the artistic concept initiated and practiced by Włodzimierz Staniewski at the Academy for Theater Practices “Gardzienice”. The nomadic and ecocentric aspects of this perspective indicate its similarities with geopoetics. The geographical space, nature and spirituality intertwine as the protagonist, who turns into a donkey and is introduced to the cult of the goddess Isis, sets on a journey in the search of οἶκος (home).

Facets of Multidirectional Memory in Miriam Katin’s Letting It Go

Author(s): Roxana Mocanu / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2017

This paper analyzes Miriam Katin’s graphic memoir Letting It Go by using the concept of multidirectional memory as coined by Michael Rothberg, arguing that this is a narration that uncovers multiple perspectives on a traumatic event, with an ethical purpose in mind. The focus is on the novel way in which this is achieved given the specific modes of graphic narration. I analyzes the literary modes behind the narrative in order to show the overlap of the narrator I, narrated I, and protagonist, and I unveil the graphic modes of the narrative as powerful tools that shape perspective and yield subjectivity.

The beauty of an icon as absolute cognition

Author(s): Anna Grzegorczyk / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Niekwestionowana więź ikony i prawdy aktualizuje problem poznania absolutnego. Poznanie to przebiega procesualnie w oparciu o doświadczenie estetyczne i religijne uruchamiając kategorię obecności jako konieczną do poszerzania możliwości poznania przestrzeni transcendentnych i sakralnych zarazem. Więzi ikony i słowa, ikony i obrazu, ikony i dźwięku, ikony i prawdy wyznaczają metafizyczne i meta racjonalne tory poznania, które stanowić mogą argument kalokagatyczny na istnienie Boga i kształtować poznanie najwyższe – absolutne. Poznanie ikoniczne jako poznanie absolutne wpisuje się tym samym w filozofię mądrościową i może spełniać funkcję fundamentalną dla kształtowania humanistyki obecności.

The multilayer composition of an iconostasis

Author(s): Tatiana Misijuk / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

The paper indicates a complex meaning of the iconostasis both in sacred art and the liturgy of the Orthodox Church. Selected examples illustrate a process of historical development of the iconostasis, contemporary variety of forms and its influence on worship celebrated in the Orthodox church.

Hősszerepek és anyagi krízis

Author(s): Katalin Ágnes Bartha / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2017

The analysis of the heroic and at the same time financially vulnerable aspects of 19th-century Transylvanian actors’ public image draws attention to the fact that selective narrativisation, the memorial genre, and the concern for social prestige usually censor the information about the constant economic uncertainty of the actors’ life. Katalin Ágnes Bartha’s study, entitled Heroic Roles and Financial Crisis, presents the tight budgetary situation and the financial adventures of the outstanding tragic hero, Gyula E. Kovács, and his wife.

Kolozsvári vendégjátékok és a budapesti kritika. Mátrai-Betegh Béla esete

Author(s): Tibor Pethő / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2017

In his article on Guest Performances from Cluj and the Budapest Critics, Tibor Pethő examines the critical reception of the plays The Palm Sunday of a Horse Dealer and Cain and Abel, performed in Budapest in the 1980s by the company of the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj-Napoca. The author focuses especially on the case of the editor Béla Mátrai-Betegh, whose allusive critical texts referencing the Ceaușescu regime in Romania started a veritable avalanche. His writings have drawn attention to the suppression of national minorities and created tensions within the Hungarian-Romanian relations, followed by debates, defences, dismissals and the retirement and tragic death of​ the theatre critic.

Négyszemközt. A TESZT egyszemélyes előadásairól

Author(s): Nóra Ugron / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

The novelties of this year’s TESZT festival were the one-to-one performances, meant to be seen by one spectator or by a very small audience. These productions also raise the question of the form in which appropriate criticism could be written about them. In her text entitled Between You and Me Nóra Ugron answers this dilemma by adopting the form of a reflective diary in which she relates her personal experiences, but completes them with the experiences of other spectators/participants.

Hogyan kap értelmet a zene a színházban: ábécéskönyv kezdőknek

Author(s): Joseph Cermatori / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

In his essay How to Make Sense of Music in the Theatre: a Primer for Beginners (translated by Barzsi Szonja) Joseph Cermatori proposes at first the principle of music as gesture for the interpretation of audio materials, then, by enumerating basic guidelines and questions, he explains how it is worth listening to and interpreting the music of theatre performances. The essay can function as a perfect aid for theatre professionals and students of theatre who are not so knowledgeable about (classical) music.

Kép(let)ek kortárs színházra

Author(s): Kata Demeter / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 2/2017

Kornélia Deres’s Image hammer (Képkalapács) published in 2016 in Budapest deals with stage imagery, bringing Hungarian and foreign examples. The main virtue of the book is the survey and clarification of expressions from the field of theatre theory. Although the reviewer, Kata Demeter considers that the book is not an easy read, the reward is getting connected to the contemporary professional and theoretical trends.