Akademici Vojin Bakić, Edo Murtić, Vladimir Marković: susret u zavičaju

Author(s): Sanja Cvetnić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 10/2016

The paper Akademici Vojin Bakić, Edo Murtić, Vladimir Marković: susret u zavičaju (AcademyMembers Vojin Bakić, Edo Murtić, Vladimir Marković: Meeting in the Home Country) follows the life-and-work attachment of three members of the Department of Fine Arts of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts to their native places – Bjelovar, Velika Pisanica and Daruvar in the present Bjelovar-Bilogora County. Out of the three, Vojin Bakić lived in his hometown longest – until he graduated from secondary school. Edo Murtić left Velika Pisanica as a pre-school child, while Vladimir Marković was but a newborn when his family left Daruvar.However, through exhibitions and paintings at the City Museum (Murtić); gallery works and public sculptures (Bakić); and scientific work (Marković), it is possible to follow the trace of their comeback to their native place.

It’s a Pity and a Sin’:Images of Disability, Trauma and Subverted Power in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

Author(s): Katherine E. Smith / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This article explores parallels between society’s treatment of those with disabilities and the characters in Disney’s 1991 and 2017 versions of Beauty and the Beast. By comparing Gabrielle de Villenueve’s text with the films, I will highlight where they deviate from the text in order to connect with a disability stereotype. With a focus on the perceived connection between moral character and physical appearance, my article will analyse how the character of The Beast perpetuates the idea that only those with moral deficiencies become disabled. Employing Wolf Wolfensberger’s classifications of deviancy and disability, such as the eternal child, the sub-human organism and others, the article seeks to prove that Disney continues to promote pejorative images of the disabled body. Using trauma theory, I will illustrate how the curse of the Beast is a source of trauma. Lastly, this article analyses Foucault’s principle of subject and object, focusing on how the most recent film versions of Beauty and the Beast posits able-bodied characters as subjects over the disabled ones.

Searching for inclusive narrative: Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian films

Author(s): Olga Gontarska / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Films, including Ukrainian feature films, remain an undervalued source in historical research. However, Ukrainian movies produced in the period of independence are an interesting and important source and mirror social changes and various perspectives regarding history in the times of transformation. After 1991 it was a significant challenge for the state and historians to define the role of the Crimean Tatars in Ukrainian history and society. Ukrainian feature films from the years 1991–2017 are evidence of attempts to address and present various concepts related to this issue.

Themerson and Schwitters

Author(s): Adam Dziadek / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The starting point is the history of acquaintance between Stefan Themerson and Kurt Schwitters, who first met in unusual circumstances in London. The discourse’s core is an attempt at analysing and interpreting Stefan Themerson.s and his wife’s, Franciszka Themerson.s, original books on Kurt Schwitters. The book (as an object) becomes a multilevel text assuming the form of a collage, functioning within several sign-based systems and making the reader creatively active. As the Author believes, a text thus made combines autobiography, biographies, existential and artistic experience, the whole rich space of traces and signs. The books by the Themersons under discussions become a specific and unique case of interference of arts.

O nevysloviteľnom v umení (Kant – Schopenhauer – Wittgenstein)

Author(s): Štefan Haško / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 1/2013

The work sets its goal in an attempt to name the possible relationship in Kant’s, Schopenhauer’s and Wittgenstein’s thoughts about art. The notion less character of the ’idea‘ of an art piece, outlined by Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, will be studied in the context of Wittgenstein’s points of view on the question of meaning or interpretation of art pieces. On the theme level, the chosen study can be titled as an analysis of thoughts of the alleged thinkers, these then offer reasons of silence when being ’in front of‘ an art piece. In the second part I turn my attention mainly to some of the connections concerning Wittgenstein’s thoughts and personal experience, which explain in a more broad context his silence, i.e. the mystical dimension of his philosophy.

Oko poetki. Uwagi o twórczości Ewy Elżbiety Nowakowskiej

Author(s): Magdalena Rabizo-Birek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 33/2018

The article describes the work of the poet from Cracow, the author of short stories, essayist and translator – Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska. Her poems were situated on the map of Polish literature among the “born in the seventies”, in the strand of “emboldened imagination” poetry, in the background of “Cracow school of poetry”, in a circle of women’s poetry. The main themes of her work: religion, the world of nature, history, culture and were presented by selecting relevant examples of her poems. In the conclusion, it was hypothesized that the varied work of the poet combines with the interest in perception and cognition, for what is available for the sense of sight as well as for what is hidden: transcendence and the mystery of being, expressed in the poet’s works by the broad metaphor of “the eye”.

Reading Disability in Literature and in Film: A Review of Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić (Editors and Introduction). The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 2010, 239 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8142-5231-4 and

Author(s): Anne-Marie Callus / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2018

This is a review-article of two major studies in disability studies, one edited collection, The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film, edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić and one authored volume, Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson.

Świadkowie i prorocy

Author(s): Rafał Grupiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 07/1988

Być jednocześnie w Paryżu lub Londynie i ciskać gromy na emigracyjne spory, i walczyć z niedowładem myśli polskiej, i jednocześnie wędrować ze swoim bohaterem po ulicach Berdyczowa, Trembowli czy Stanisławowa, i tam wybaczać mu wszystkie wady i śmiesznostki, naiwność i bezradność. Być narratorem przygód nowego Beniowskiego, choć historia mierzy dziś surowiej każdy błąd, bezwzględnie karząc za każdy krok w stronę łudzących przyszłą szczęśliwością utopii.

Miasto po Zagładzie. Dzielnica żydowska w Lublinie i jej upamiętnienia

Author(s): Marta Kubiszyn,Joanna Zętar / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2018

During World War Two, the urban structures along with buildings of several Jewish quarters in Poland as well as in other European countries were demolished by the Nazis to a great degree. After 1989, the process or recovering the memory of the Jews developed. Many buildings in the areas of former Jewish districts were renovated to serve as an element of local tourist offers. At the same time, non-commercial, educational and artistic projects commemorating the Holocaust were initiated. In this paper such issues are a reference point for analyzing the post-war history of “Podzamcze”, the former Jewish neighborhood in Lublin from the destruction of the historical Jewish quarter in 1942–1954, via creating a new urban structure in its former location by the communist regime in 1954, to the initiatives undertaken on a wider scale since the 1980s focused on commemorating Jews of Lublin and the district itself within its former area.

Filozofia feministyczna i autobiografia: wokół myśli Luce Irigaray

Author(s): Katarzyna Szopa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2018

The article discusses the relations between autobiography and feminist philosophy, taking Luce Irigaray’s thought as an example. Although traditional philosophy usually has been perceived as anti-biographical, as it divides philosophical concepts from its material roots, feminist philosophers and theoreticians exposed materiality of knowledge by stressing the importance of its bodily, sexuated, historical, and cultural situatedness. In this sense autobiography of feminist philosophies is understood as both, public and private, academic and personal, theoretical and practical, ontological and epistemological way of knowledge production.

el-Etvâru’t-târîhiyye fi’t-te‘âmul ma‘a mes’eleti’s-semâ‘ fi’l-ezmineti’l-kilâsikiyye: ile’l-karni’s-sâdis enmûzecen

Author(s): Mohamad Anas Sarmini / Language(s): Arabic Issue: 50/2018

The issues related to listening and playing with music instruments in the history of fiqh are rich of aspects of opinions and arguments. The basic question was whether the issue of music is originally permissible or forbidden. According to the first opinion, the prohibiting evidence are for exceptional types of music, and for the second opinion, the evidence that allows certain models of singing and musical instruments those are the exceptions. It has been noticed that there is a certain characteristic of each era in the classical centuries, when very few exceptions have been advocated by Ulama. In one century the Hadith approach dominated, while in the other century, the mystic approach or the jurisprudential approach outweighed the other approach. In another era, a moderate approach is observed, however strict approach is observed in another era. This research, in addition to revealing these views on the issue, tries to analyze the reasons for the emergence of such views, their relations with previous periods, and their influence on later periods.

Note și recenzii

Author(s): Amalia Ludmila PAVELESCU,Ilie Moise,Cosmina TIMOCE-MOCANU,Nicolae Constantinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 31/2017

Tri safavidska tepiha iz turbeta šaha Niʻmatullāha Valīja u Mahanu iz zbirke Zemaljskog muzeja BiH

Author(s): Fatima Žutić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 67/2018

The paper examines seven fragments that make up a set of three similar carpets in the so-called vase style of knotting. The carpets are from the shrine of Shah Niʻmatullāh Valīj in Mahan, Iran, dating back to the 17th century and held at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All three carpets include cartouches with inscriptions in Persian woven inside. Two of the carpets are dated, and two include a signature of the waver. The international scholarly community is particularly interested in these carpets because they are dated. This is very rare in early Oriental carpets, and it helps date an entire group with greater certainty. The paper examines the origin of these fragments, the path they crossed from the original location in the shrine dedicated to Shah Niʻmatullāh Valī in Mahan, Iran, to Sarajevo, their place in the vase style carpets, structural analysis and weaving technique, their current condition and appearance and their overall significance in the study of carpets. The author has already touched upon these issues in a recent paper published in the Hali Magazine published in London. This paper focuses on additional facts related to the fragemnts, not included in the paper published in the UK; the most important new element is that we have been able to reconstruct the original appearance and the position of all three carpets of irregular shape, weaved to fit around the cenotaph inside the shrine.

Завесата, това е самата картина. Архитектура на дизайнерското мислене

Author(s): Maria Koycheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 38/2018

Maria Koycheva teaches various courses in the Graphic Design Program, NBU. The text presents her students’ experience of a project for a real client - The Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum. The students had to design a portable theater house for children, presenting various elements of traditional Bulgarian culture.

Kolaż, czyli komplikacja życia (Wspomnienie o Stefanie Themersonie w 30. rocznicę śmierci artysty)

Author(s): Robert Pysz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 30/2018

The article is a memoir about Stefan Themerson – a Polish writer, poet, filmmaker,publisher and composer (on the 30th anniversary of his death). Language,ethics and human dignity were the topics Themerson wrote about most. His significance for the development of the Polish experimental avant-garde film is enormous, yet his novels and „semantic poetry” have become a real field of collision between various semiotic systems, mainly as a result of his use of the collage poetics.

Narodna umjetnost u Splitu

Author(s): Branka Vojnović-Traživuk / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 26/2003

The paper examines an evaluation of the folk artistic expression in the popular culture of Split between the late 19th century and the beginning of the Second World War. Several private or school collections existed and exhibitions of traditional handcrafts were held in Dalmatia before the founding of the Ethnographic Museum of Split in 1910. In the beginning the Museum work was closely connected to the Crafts School and later to the manual training held in the Banovinska poslovnica. An important activity was the development of artistic handcrafts based on folk motifs and techniques. Final products were decorative artifacts and souvenirs. The folk expression was adapting itself to current culture movements and the process of national identification that was going on in the town. These influences made the beginning of the transformation of traditional life in general. Functional and formative changes of the folk artistic expression prove the existence of strong interactions between the urban and rural culture. Such an interpretation of traditional culture was a cultural process that was typical of Split, though it was also in accordance with similar movements in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. In this dynamic relation between folk artistic expression and its reception in the town, various interpretations of folk art were taking place, through which objects of ethnography were transformed from rarities into souvenirs.

Mnich z duchowym wyposażeniem artysty. Sztuka Thomasa Mertona

Author(s): Paul, M. Pearson / Language(s): Polish Issue: 31/2018

Born in a family of artists, Thomas Merton was destined to become an artist himself. As a young man, he tried his hand at drawing; he drew the faces of women and saints. Later, distancing himself from representational art, he took to calligraphy and was attracted to abstract art (especially the minimalism of his Columbia friend, painter Ad Reinhardt) which fascinated Merton as an analogue of the apophatic tradition. Towards the end of his life, the monk was attracted to the camera as a tool of contemplation, enabling him to look at the world as it is rather than through the prism of his imagination. This article demonstrates that Merton’s artistic development parallels his evolving spirituality, both of which started with youthful dogmatism and ended with a mature relationship with God, the world, and himself.

Otarci i tkane slike

Author(s): Tihana Petrović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 21/1998

The author presents some data on the last weaver’s locality in the village of Vukojevci in the Našice region, Slavonia. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part, Otarci (towels) deals with weaving textile art in Vukojevci in the period between the First World War and the beginning of the Patriotic War in the 1990s. Only women weaved in the mentioned period of time, and the main product from the 1950s were wedding towels (otarci). The second part, woven pictures, brings data on the period 1991-1997, when a young men has joint to female weavers, called “the weaver” although traditionally men did not participate in weaving activities. “The weaver” makes ordered wedding towels, but he also tries to find his own expression in textile art. According to his own sketches he weaves woven pictures, as he calls them. That are usually emblems of clubs (football), army units and statures of Virgin Mary. He is not only weaving but he also makes his own textile basis. The author points to the peculiarities of this weaver’s locality but also to some of the reasons that influenced that weaving in Vukojevci has been maintained so long and persistently until present days. One of the main reasons is the exchange of towels on the occasions such as birth of a child, death or wedding. Furthermore, there are some economic factors: because of low purchasing power people cultivated flax and they weaved textile on their own until 1960s. Women sold weaved textile material on markets, and money earned in that way was considered their personal property (prćija). Informants stress another reason that maintained tradition of weaving and that is love and affinity for this activity. It seems that one more element was crucial: women from that region preferred weaving to embroidery. The appearance of a young man, “the weaver”, is based on a local weaving art, skill, tools and tradition that was held by women. At first he was working with his mother weaver, but became an expert who is searching for his own expressions in weaving. He is also an example of an individual changing the inherited tradition. At the end, the author compares her own research with the studies made by the ethnologist Zdenka Lechner in the paper “A female weaver on the Northeast Croatia” (1982). Lechner defined the existence of some weaving phases in three localities: Draž in Baranya, Stari Mikanovci in Slavonia and Bapska in Srijem. She also drew attention to the fact that the activity of weaving has been changing, being interrupted, even stopped and then emerging again depending on the circumstances and the way of life.

Vijesti i prikazi

Author(s): Maja Povrzanović,Nerina Eckhel,Olga Supek,Aleksandra Muraj,Manda Svirac,Jasna Čapo,Ruža Bonifačić,Jelka Vince-Pallua,Milovan Gavazzi,Zorica Šimunović-Petrić,Tanja Perić-Polonijo / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 10/1987

1. Etnologija i povijest, by: Maja Povrzanović 2. Izvještaj o radu - za razdoblje od 1.10.1985. do 1.10.1987. god; podnesen na Skupštini SEDJ , održanoj 30.10.1987. u Kruševcu, by: Nerina Eckhel 3. Treći kongres Societe internationale d'ethnologie et folklore (SIEF), by: Olga Supek 4. "Lipovljanski susreti 87", by: Aleksandra Muraj 5. Osmi međunarodni simpozij Ethnographia Pannonica, by: Manda Svirac 6. V. Slovensko-hrvatske etnološke paralele, Dolenjske Toplice , 3. - 5. 11. 1987., by: Aleksandra Muraj 7. 22. savjetovanje Saveza etnoloških društava Jugoslavije, by: Jasna Čapo 8. 34. Kongres SUFJ, by: Ruža Bonifačić 9. Povodom otvorenja izložbe "Opančarstvo Jastrebarskog i okolice", by: Jelka Vince-Pallua 10. Review of: Vilko Novak, „Raziskovalci slovenskega življenja“, Cankarjeva založba, Ljubljana 1986, 371 pp., by: Milovan Gavazzi 11. Review of: „Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena 50“, Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 1986, 474 pp.; by: Zorica Šimović-Petrić 12. Review of: „Narodna umjetnost“, knj. 23, Zagreb 1986, 203 pp.; by: Maja Povrzanović 13. Review of: „Narodna umjetnost“, knj. 24, Zagreb 1986, 284 pp.; by: Maja Povrzanović 14. Review of: Maja Bošković-Stulli, „Zakopano zlato“, Istra kroz stoljeća, VII kolo, knj. 38, udruženi izdavači Čakavski sabor, Pula, Istarska naklada, Pula, Otokar Keršovani, Opatija, Edit, Rijeka, Centro di ricerche storiche, Rovinj, 1987.; by: Tanja Perić-Polonijo

Šaranje tikvica u županjskom kraju

Author(s): Zdenka Lechner / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4-5/1983

The art of gourd-decoration existed in the villages of eastern Croatia in the eighteenth century, as is confirmed by verses of Katančić from 1791 (Fructus auctumnales), and by a gourd dated to 1734. Data about this art in the nineteenth century are more abundant. The artists use nitric acid to produce red-brown ornaments, which harmonize well with cut-in black motives. In the twentieth century the art is not a shepherds’ specialty any more, nor exclusively male activity. It has become a house industry. The author describes the art of gourd-decoration in nine localities near Županja. She has confirmed that a gourd dated to 1891 has very similar decorative motives (scenes) to one from 1734. Thus, a continuity has been established, and both objects are considered first-class documents of Croatian folk art.