Kimlik/Kültür/Mekân Üçgeninde Bir Tarihi Merkez: Sürdürülebilirlik Bağlamında Santa Harabeleri

Author(s): Murat TUTKUN / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2015

In the historic environments located in rural areas, the difficulty of transportation and physical services causes the active use of these fields be difficult, and over time, these areas are faced with the danger of extinction. In this sense, “Santa Ruins” that is one of the important locations especially in terms of its historical importance, many architectural heritages that it contains and the mountain tourism is an important figure which faces extinction. Santa Ruins is considered as one of the areas to be protected when it’s examined in terms of its history, religious and cultural background, the character of rural settlement, its location at the intersection of important historic routes, the architectural / cultural heritages that it contains, having archaeological value, and the natural value of the region, etc. In the studies done specific to Piştoflu District, the necessary measurements of the buildings in the neighbourhood and the measurement drawings that belong to the buildings were obtained using photogrammetric and conventional methods after the historical researches, photography studies and obtaining the overall work plan. The considerations were done in the context of identity, culture and space by analysing the structural data, building material data, information about its conservation status, living conditions and the data related to in-service spaces and non-advanced spaces of the buildings that are located on this area.

Nikomedeia (İzmit) Suyolları

Author(s): Taner Aksoy / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2015

The urban Nicomedeia, that was built 264 BC, had grown up in the Roman period and become a great metropole. Together with the developments like population growth and agricultural developments, the need for water increased and the urgency of mastering water to be able to efficiently use it, made start building of the monumental water works. As a consequence of the findings taken place in the urban Nicomedia, it was been discovered that it had 4 water lines. 23 aqueducts, 18 water conduits, 14 water springs, 2 water wells, 4 cisterns, 7 ventilation and control shafts pertaining to this water lines were been determined and documented. In the light of information acquired from the study of the water lines, the calculation of the inhabitant was been realized and found that these 4 water lines carrying water to Nicomedeia was capable of covering the water need of 174122 people.

Świadectwa potocznych odbiorów sztuk fabularnych

Author(s): Bogusław Sułkowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2017

The paper is interested in the psychosocial practices of reception literature, drama, film, television fictions. The text fits in so-called reception aesthetics or reader response, is rooted philosophically. Compiles the views of postmodern criticism and pragmatism with the phenomenology of literature (R. Ingarden) and hermeneutics (H.-G. Gadamer) and with the glances of contemporary followers. In the second part the text suggests the typology of 12 styles of colloquial, nonprofessional practices of the reception of art fictions.

Povezanost glazbenih preferencija s osobnim vrijednostima te crtama ličnosti

Author(s): Anja Wertag,Tomislav M. Pavlović,Tena Benaković,Marija Prpa / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2017

The main goals of this research were to explore the relationship between music preferences, Schwartz's personal values and Dark Triad traits, as well as to investigate whether there are stereotypes on listeners of specific musical genres. There were 510 participants, Croatian students, in the first part of the research, focused on exploring the mentioned relations. Participants completed the musical preference questionnaire constructed for the purpose of this research, the Short Dark Triad (Jones & Paulhus, 2014) and Portrait values questionnaire (Schwartz et al., 2001). In the second part, 115 participants from the first part of the study estimated the typical fans of specific music genres in a questionnaire constructed for this research based on the Dark Triad questionnaire and Portrait values questionnaire. The results have shown a low-to-medium correlation between the Dark Triad and personal values, as well as low and in most cases insignificant correlation of music preferences with the Dark Triad and personal values. The results also point out the existence of stereotypes of an individual's characteristics based on their preferred music genre, which were especially negative towards fans of turbofolk music.

Kronologija događaja

Author(s): Fra Marko Karamatić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1+2/2017

FRANJEVCI BOSNE SREBRENE (25. IX. 2016 – 25. IX. 2017) 1. Franjevačka teologija 2. Izdvojene teme 3. Kroz Bosnu Srebrenu IZ POKRAJINSKE CRKVE I KRŠĆANSKOG SVIJETA KULTURA – UMJETNOST 1. Likovna umjetnost 2. Kulturni događaji, pisci, knjige 3. Putopisne bilješke DRUŠTVO – POLITIKA

Arabų–Musulmonų Pasaulio Menotyrinės Es Tetikos Savitumas

Author(s): Antanas Andrijauskas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 94/2018

The article explores various aspects and specific features and of traditional Arab-Muslim artistic aesthetics. It reveals the main theoretical and methodological differences between the philosophical and artistic aesthetic approaches to art phenomena. Much attention is paid to the study of factors that are decisive for basic Islamic artistic aesthetics. The concept of art and problems of artistic interactions are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the influence of the Islamic religion on artistic aesthetics and the metamorphosis of its historical development. The relation between art criticism and aesthetics is highlighted with the actual needs of theoretical reflection on art practice. The comparative analysis reveals the peculiarity of Arab-Muslim aesthetics and its main specific typological features.

In memoriam Цветан Грозданов

Author(s): Ralitsa Russeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 36/2018

Ikonograficzne przedstawienie treści dogmatu trynitarnego na przykładzie ikony Trójcy Świętej Andrzeja Rublowa

Author(s): Jan Strumiłowski OCist / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The byzantine art is based upon the Christological dogma. The artistic representations of Christ and saints is justified by the fact of incarnation. Since God became visible in Christ, it is possible to represent the God’s Son in the venerable images. However, such a strong connection between the legitimacy of the icon and the Christological doctrine raises the question whether it is possible to express other particular dogmatic contents by means of that art and aesthetics.The present article attempts to read integrally the Trinitarian truth as represented in the Andrei Rublev icon “The Trinity”. Yet, such integral reading requires not only to read the content displayed in the icon, but also to analyse if the internal dynamism of the aesthetic expression of the divine truth, besides its Christological justification, has a Trinitarian reason as well.

Visual Litteracy and the Crux of the Visible: Is Stained Glass a Manifestation of the Diaphanous?

Author(s): Oana Maria Nae / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The present paper addresses the tension between two possible readings of stained glass in relation to theological discourse, taking as case study the landmark Abbey of Saint-Denis. According to Norman Bryson, these readings may be characterized as discursive and figural. On the one hand, there is an iconological reading of stained glass as a suitable means for illustrating the Scriptures, which responds to an anagogical reading prompted by its material qualities (colour and light). On the other hand, we encounter its interpretation as a means of materializing the philosophical notion of diaphanous given its transparent nature and its aesthetic properties associated with light in the Middle Ages (lux, splendor, claritas). I claim that, in the particular situation of stained glass, these readings are not mutually exclusive, but complementary, given the anagogical function of stained glass imagery suggested by Panofsky’s reading of Suger. This can be seen as a way of conveying the distance between divine and created light found in early Christian philosophy. Thus, I claim that the metaphor of light, understood as a field of visibility and as a transcendental carrier of spiritual enlightenment (meta-phoros), becomes crucial for understanding the architectural function of stained glass within gothic architecture.

When the East Meets the West: Ang Lee’s Cross-Cultural American Family in Taking Woodstock

Author(s): TING-TING CHAN / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This article focuses on Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, a film that directly addresses political and social aspects of a rather turbulent time in the US during the 1960s. I argue that the director’s view of 1960s America in this cinematic representation reflects a particularly Taiwanese cultural ideology—the worship of the US as a superpower. Lee, as an example of transnationality himself, fittingly illustrates how intricately sociohistorical contexts and political diplomatic relations shape an individual’s multifaceted cultural identity, political views, and national ideology in an era when Western thought and lifestyle have found a way to merge themselves with local Taiwanese ones. Taking Woodstock represents Lee’s idealized view of the American society, a utopia that he longed for as a Taiwanese teenager. By focusing on family (one of Lee’s signature themes), Taking Woodstock shows a different view of America from an East Asian perspective. Lee’s Woodstock represents a Taiwanese ideology impacted by US-Taiwanese diplomatic relations, cross-pacific media transmission, state intervention, and pseudo-imperialist cultural invasion in Taiwan.

Культурно-мистецька освіта в умовах поствестфальського світу

Author(s): Olga Rafayilivna Kopiyevska / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 1/2011

The present article finds out the specific of new postwestfallen system of international relations. It explains the content, principles of its functioning. The factors that stipulate the uiquenesses of a cultural and art education in the conditions of the postwestfallen world are determined.

On the Lost Legs of the Snake that Seduced Eve

Author(s): Eric W.A. Mulder / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

There are many paintings and sculptures depicting a well-known motif from the garden of Eden: seducing Eve. The animal that tempts Eve in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, is referred to as the serpent. The modern meaning of the word "serpent" has largely determined the manner of presenting this animal in art. However, according to the literal interpretation of Genesis, before having given the forbidden fruit to Eve, the serpent must have had limbs. It seems that changing the appearance of the serpent is contrary to both the biblical and evolutionary record. Nowadays, the evolution of snakes from four-legged ancestors is well known on the basis of fossil record data and discoveries in the field of molecular biology. The process of ultimate limb loss and body extension in (proto) snakes is a great example of evolution. Equally fascinating is the fact that the loss of the legs by the serpent caught the attention of ancient civilization in the Middle East, which thought it was a divine punishment.

Український фарфор: загальноєвропейський вимір та національна специфіка

Author(s): Lyudmila Viktorovna Bekh / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 29/2012

The article is devoted to Ukrainian porcelain late 18th – 19th century. Ukrainian porcelain regarded as a phenomenon of culture in the context of Western European tradition of porcelain art, that allows to evaluate Ukrainian porcelain in a new light, reveal its national identity.

Відродження традицій меценатства в культурному розвитку України на початку ХХІ століття

Author(s): Natalia Kolosova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 29/2012

Considered traditions of philanthropy in the cultural development of today's Ukraine. Particular attention was paid patronage of businesses collectors.

Пояс як невід’ємний елемент українського народного костюма Середньої Наддніпрянщини кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття

Author(s): Liana Bilyakovych,Olena Yuryevna Kozyreva / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 27/2011

Belt as inalienable element of the Ukrainian traditional costume in region of middle Dnieper Ukraine in the period of the end ХІХ– begin ХХ centuries. In the article a belt is exploring as inalienable element of the Ukrainian traditional costume in region of middle Dnieper Ukraine in the period of the end ХІХ – begin ХХ centuries with the purpose of the determination of his art features and semantic value.

Historia organów w opactwie oo. Cystersów w Krakowie-Mogile

Author(s): Piotr Matoga / Language(s): Polish Issue: 01 (36)/2018

The history of the organs in the Cistercian Abbey in Kraków-Mogiła has not been studied so far. The article elabo-rates this topic based on the results of an archival query. Most of the sources used are preserved in the Cistercian Archive in Mogiła. Examining them, the author discusses the history of instruments in the monastic church and in the former St Bartholomew church. On the basis of the sources, it was stated that at least in the 18th century the monastery church was equipped with two pipe organs. This fact has not been pointed out so far by researchers. The following article is supplemented by archival photographs.

21.YÜZYILDA SANAT NE KADAR ÇAĞDAŞ OLABİLİR?

Author(s): Serenay Şahin / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 45/2018

The Global Culture Politics want consumer society to be optimistic, because only then it can be able to continue its own existence. For being sustainable, it uses every kind of instrument, every apparatus. Communication and art are the dominant elements in these apparatus. This article is focusing on how communication century contributes to optimism campaign with the help of the 21. century technologies; with the using of the same tools by the global culture politics how art is influenced and how art reinforces this contribution. Prosecution of the present state and an eternal present are the artery of the global culture politics. For us, art, who helps the artery to pump blood constantly, has lost its critical position, and therefore, this article raise the question whether art can be contemporary anymore.

Dramaturgia Daniiła Charmsa na współczesnych niemieckich scenach. Rekonesans badawczy

Author(s): Jadwiga Gracla / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2017

This Article present the story of performances of dramas Daniil Charms in modern Germany. Author of the article draws attention to the interest of researchers and spectators Charms works. It indicates the particular performances created in the last time: Elizabeth Bam and the play WIRTL. The dramaturgy of Charms is very popular in Germany and it is the object of interest of theater artists. According to the author the performances they show the spirit and ideas of the text of Charms.

Türk-İslam Sanatları Tarihinde Bazı Yanlış Varsayımlar

Author(s): Lale Avşar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 9/2017

Early Islamic Ceramic Art and especially Pre-Seljuk period are not generally taken into account in terms of the Turkish art effects. This is based on traditional assumption of established in the history of art. According to this, the Islamic ceramic art has developed and emerged from sources of Sasani Iran and Christian Byzantine, in time, cultural and commercial relations have resulted in the emergence of new sources due to aspire of Chinese ceramic art and especially the Chinese porcelain. Reviews about Samarra ceramics of Abbasi period has revealed effects of Turkish art. These effects, firstly encountered in white opaque glazed and lustre ceramics. Also, it present in compositional arrangement, in human and alive representations, in clothes, in sitting style, in hand-held object and in some other details. The question of why such influences are so unrecognized up to now brings to mind the existence of some conceptual problems by philosophical direction of the research. In the research, this issue has been tried to be define of the thoughts that we believed to be misplaced. The aim, monitor of their accuracy and re-evaluations by coming to the fore to certain assumption.

Teatr Polski w Los Angeles

Author(s): Czesław Nowiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2002

The Polish theatre in Los Angeles was initiated in the 1940s and developed slowly. Its activity became more intense in the beginning of the 1950s, together with the arrival of large groups of Polish intelligentsia in South Carolina, mainly soldiers and their families. Those who had some skills in theatrical art took part in numerous national celebrations, holidays, and anniversaries, enriching them with artistic events. This made the organization “Self-help” to establish a Literary-Dramatic Circle at the beginning of the 1950s, and then - to set up a permanent post: a Dramatic Circle under the supervision of Alicja Skarbek-Kruszewska. Forty actors participated took part in the Dramatic Circle in the period of 1951-1956.At the beginning of 1956 a Polish Theatre was established at the “Self-help”, which was named after A. Skarbek-Kruszewska after her death in 1960. The “Self-help” had morally and financially supported the Theatre until 1975, when the association joined the River's End Polish Centre, and the Theatre was dissolved. The Theatre largely consisted of amateurs. Through the period of two decades mainly Polish plays were performed for Polonia. It acted in the national and religious spirit, staging a religious-historical mystery play on the occasion of the celebrations connected with the millennium of the Baptism of Poland in 1966. The play was entitled “The Queen of Poland”, and then “Polish Bethlehem” written by Lucjan Rydel in which as many as 103 artists-amateurs took part.During the break in the activity of the Polish Theatre (1967-1970) the Polish Experimental Theatre was established in Los Angeles by Jerzy Grotowski (1933-1999). He put on stage and filmed the play “Acropolis”. After the dissolution of the Polish Theatre under Alicja Skarbek-Kruszewska in 1975, Hanna Tyszkiewicz established in Los Angeles in 1982 a new permanent institution: the Helena Modrzejewska's Polish-American Theatre. Its task was to present Polish culture, Polish artists, theatrical classical literature, and modern plays not only among the Polish people, but also in American society. There were some misunderstandings in relation with the establishment of this theatre, and that led to the establishment of a Theatrical Study Group in Los Angeles, with Małgorzata Samborska at its head. After several years Hanna Tyszkiewicz intervened and Samborska gave up her job.In 1983 a professional actress, Barbara Kraftówna, arrived from Poland. Hanna Tyszkiewicz employed her in the Theatre as artistic director. The Theatre staged Henryk Rozpędowski's drama Świadomość przemijającego czasu [Awareness of the Passing Time], Gabriela Zapolska's comedy Moralność pani Dulskiej [Lady Dulska's Morality] and then a few cabaret revues and plays. In 1988 Barbara Kraftówna collaborated with Prof. Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek from California University (UCLA) staged Kram z piosenkami [A Stall with Songs] by Leon Schiller with 40 actors. The play was then staged three times: in 1989 and 1990 and, additionally, in San Francisco. In 1990 Adam Mickiewicz's Dziady were put on stage. Among artists-amateurs Count Adam Tyszkiewicz, the great animator of the theatre, was most prominent. Hanna Tyszkiewicz was the driving force of the Polish-American Theatre. She fulfilled the function of the Chairwoman of the Board and was the only sponsor of the institution. Barbara Kraftówna's duty was to select a repertoire, actors and do rehearsals, most of which took place in Tyszkiewicz's residence.From the time of the last two plays in 1990 the Theatre became inactive. Barbara Kraftówna went to Poland. The Theatre died a natural death. In order to preserve a vivid contact with Polish stage art, Polonia had to satisfy itself with performances played sporadically by theatrical groups from Poland.