C. G. Jung a Hermann Hesse: Umìní, terapie a zdroje tvorby

Author(s): Pavel Kalina / Language(s): Czech Issue: 3/2015

An intimate relationship of Hermann Hesse to analytical psychology, based on his personal contact with C. G. Jung and his disciple J. B. Lang, belongs to the well-known topics from the history both of literature and of psychotherapy of the past century. The foregoing studies were, however, writte in the time when Jung´s pivotal work, The Red Book, was not available to the public. The Book was written as a medieval manuscript where an important role is played not only by words but also by pictures which were painted by Jung himself. In this article I deal with the question how far it is possible to use Hesse´s texts, especially his novel Demian, for better understanding of Jung´s ideas, in particular his approach to images in the framework of the therapeutic process at the time when The Red Book was written. Besides, I will analyze the hypothetical pictorial sources which could have been used by Jung when writing The Red Book. These sources could have been the works of the Beuron school which could be known to Jung either from his own experience or from photos and postcards. The extensive visual culture of the time of the “print capitalism” could supply the visual inspiration both to Jung, and to Hesse.

Historia pewnego obrazu: M. Bersanelli, Wielki spektakl na niebie. Osiem wizji wszechświata od starożytności do naszych czasów, tłum. A. Liszka-Drążkiewicz, Copernicus Center Press, wydanie 1, Kraków 2020, ss. 317

Author(s): Milena Cygan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 29/2022

Fotografie

Author(s): Wojciech Parfianowicz,Karolina Pawłowska,Katarzyna Matejek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 10/2022

Początki bazyliki św. Jana na Lateranie (313 – 455 n.e.)

Author(s): Michał Łukaszczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2021

The article provides an account of the building of one of the first Christian churches in ancient Rome – the Basilica of St. John Lateran – up until the year 455. It also presents the process of adapting the building to public use for Christians who came out of hiding after 313, and a description of the first basilica – Basilica Nova – which was used for sacral purposes in ancient Rome. Due to the limited size of the article, it intends to provide a concise presentation of the discussed theme.

Św. Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński i jego ikonografia

Author(s): Janina Bosko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2021

The article presents the figure of Archbishop Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, who stayed in Warsaw as the governor of the Warsaw archdiocese for only 16 months (1862 – 1863). Following the decision of the Russian Tsar, he spent twenty years in exile in Yaroslavl by the Volga River. He then stayed in the Austrian partition: in Dźwiniaczka and in Cracow, where he died in 1895. His mortal remains were transferred to the Warsaw Archcathedral (1921). He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Krakow (2002) and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome (2009). Commemorations of the Archbishop (monuments, epitaphs, memorial plaques, paintings) are to be found in Poland, Ukraine, as well as Rome, Curitiba (Brazil) and other places. They are being erected especially in the places where the Franciscan Sisters ofthe Family of Mary work, who are the guardians of the memory of Archbishop Feliński. We do not yet have a complete catalogue of the Saint’s commemorations.

Wielkie formy muzyczne dedykowane św. Józefowi

Author(s): Piotr Towarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2021

The submitted article presents in outline the great musical forms dedicated to St Joseph.They developed in the Church especially in the 16th and 17th centuries with the increase ofthe cult and veneration towards the person of the Guardian of the Holy Family (1621, PopeGregory V). This applies to the proprium Missae (introits, alleluias, sequences, communions) as well as to the Baroque ordinarium Missae (Zelenka, Bassani, Zumaya) and litanies (Biber, Wagner, Biechteler, Eberlin, Lolli). The heyday of the latter is especially associated with the establishment of St Joseph as the patron saint of the Habsburg state and monarchy (1676).To the musical heritage connected with St Joseph belong also the oratorios of the Italian Baroque period (Cazzati, Colonna, Alberici, Perti, Corradini, Conte, Fischietti), especially the work of G. B. Pergolesi (La fenice sul rogo, ovvero La morte di San Giuseppe). Traces of musical references to St Joseph can also be found in the Classical (Haydn brothers, Albrechtsberger) and Romantic (Elsner, Ravanello) eras. Compositions dedicated to the Saint in the 20th and 21st centuries include masses (Peeters, Tinel, Krężołek, Kern, Korczak, Di Rocco) and oratorio works (Frisina, Golinski, Pałka, Schmid). They are important contemporary testimonies of transforming faith into culture (Pope John Paul II).

„Hagiologiczny Kerygmat”. Teologiczna „lektura” bazyliki San Stefano Rotondo w Rzymie

Author(s): Katarzyna Parzych-Blakiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2021

The article presents the theological interpretation of the sacred space of San Stefano Rotondo in Rome. It is the result of research in the area of saints and holiness – that is, hagiology. The aim of the research undertaken is to define the temple as locus theologicus. San Stefan is a rotunda. In the middle there is a presbytery illuminated by natural light. Around it is a nave with 34 frescoes depicting scenes of the martyrdom of saints from the first centuries of Christianity. The theological interpretation concerns the whole interior, including its artistic furnishings and architecture. It was done in the perspective of papal teaching onholiness as a daily experience of closeness to God and taking into account the assumptions of aspectual hagiology. She has led to conclusions that include a proposal to use a new term– „hagiological kerygma” for use in further hagiological research aimed at „theology for innovation.”

Poglądy Stefana kardynała Wyszyńskiego na rolę muzyki w Kościele

Author(s): Sławomir Ropiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 22/2021

Stefan Card. Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, expressed his views on music during his speeches and sermons, especially to organists and church choirs. It follows from them that the basic source of music in the Church is the contemplative celebration of the Mystery of Faith. Music is to be performed first of all for the glory of God and secondly for the benefit of people. Cardinal Wyszyński considered as music worthy of the Lord’s temple only that musicwhich is directed to the adoration of the Creator’s majesty and arises from the contemplation of the Incarnate Word of God. Chorale, church singing as well as organ music have a therapeutic meaning, as they calm shattered emotions and help to focus scattered thoughts. Music with true artistic qualities soothes pain and suffering, gives solace, awakens hope and joy.The creators and performers of music should shape their Marian spirituality so that they can fulfil their honoured vocation well. The service in the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice demands from church musicians an exemplary life, a good knowledge of the liturgy and a high artistic level. According to Cardinal Wyszyński, the need to cultivate folk singing, which is an expression of piety and patriotism, is still valid. It is also connected with the development of new musical forms growing out of Christian culture.

Konflikty o kościoły pomiędzy katolikami a protestantami w Prusach Królewskich i Książęcych w I połowie XVII wieku

Author(s): Piotr Birecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 21/2020

This article presents the history of Catholic and Lutheran churches during Swedish wars in the south part of Baltic sea the 17th Century. The Swedish rulers Gustav II Adolf and Carl X Gustav when they were fighting with Polish Republic during the first and second Swedish-Polish wars (commonly called the war at the mouth of the Vistula river and Swedish deluge) led to the strengthening of the religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics. The result in the Royal Prussia was, depending on the support of the authorities’ power, not only destruction or the mutual receipt of church buildings but also numerous robberies and exports of church cultural goods and liturgical equipment to Scandinavia. In this article the author discusses the fate of the individual buildings, their pastors and gives examples of church war losses. In the second part of the article the author presents the war expedition of the Polish-Lithuanian-Tatar troops to Ducal Prussia to break the alliance of Frederic William, Elector of Brandenburg with Charles X Gustav of Sveden. The soldiers destroyed dozens of Lutheran churches, burned down many cities and towns, and contributed to the death of thousands of people. Finally, the author mentioned grave monuments commemorating soldiers taking part in the both wars. The result of those events in the mid-17th century was the final imbalance of confessional balance and the growing, increasingly hostile attitude toward Polish Protestantim.

"Communiones" mszalne dawniej i dziś

Author(s): Piotr Towarek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 21/2020

This article presents an outline of the history of shaping communio chants (one of the Proprium Missae chants for Communion): from Christian antiquity (Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Apostolic Constitutions), through the Middle Ages (Ordo Romanus Primus), the post-Tridentine period (Communiones totius anni by Mikołaj Zieleński), to the reform of the Second Vatican Council, to which we owe the collection of antiphonae ad communionem (Graduale romanum, Graduale Simplex, Missale romanum, Ordo Cantus Missae) in liturgical books, and indirectly also contemporary chants and songs intended for the communionprocession.

Portraits, Politics and the Picturesque in the Art of Colonial India

Author(s): Prachi PRIYANKA / Language(s): English Issue: 39/2022

Colonial art of India highlights a remarkable blend of east and west – converging on grounds of matter and manner of expression. An important intervention of colonial experience on the cultural life of India was the establishment of art colleges in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay with an intent to ‘elevate’ the status of Indian art by teaching them western theories and finer taste. This paper examines the politics behind establishment of art institutions and how company paintings, portraits and representation of the picturesque became perfect examples of the amalgamation of east and west on canvasses. The paper also explores how this cross-cultural exchange revolutionized modern Indian art in the process.

Spiritual Expressionism or Dynamic Meditation?

Author(s): Kamil Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Kamil Varga is a significant Czechoslovak photographer based in Prague, Czech Republic and one of the key figures of the photographic group Slovak New Wave. The author’s work has changed over the years. This portfolio attempts to show his key moments. He created his first works at FAMU in Prague, in the company of his generation called the Slovak New Wave. They are created in the spirit of figurative staged photography. However, from the very beginning of his studies he was fascinated by painting with light, which became his dominant creative approach for a long time. In the second half of the 1980s he began to work in large-scale photographic cycles exploring the mysterious magic of the artist’s specific perception of the world as a whole universe, in which the energy of his own subconscious, mysticism and the teachings of Eastern philosophies play an important role. He himself calls his work “spiritual expressionism”, when the contrast of these two words contains the tension that is a prerequisite for any creative work. For the most intense materialization of this intention, he uses the photographic method of luminography (drawing with light), which is best able to capture the tension of flowing physical and spiritual energy, concentrated in dynamic, rhythmic and sometimes almost ritualistic transformations. He thus creates his own, quite unique world of mysticism, mysterious patterns and symbols, concentrated in a liberating rhythm of ever new and new photographic fantasy images. Through black and white and colour magic rituals, mysterious symbols that intertwine with each other beyond space and time, he records the extrasensory flowing cosmic energies, but also the stories of man, mankind, civilisation and landscape anchored in darkness, through which he visualises the world of his own subconscious, consciousness, fantasy and faith into original photographic images.His photographs are at one time the result of his own purifying spiritual psychoanalysis, resembling stirring ritual dances, at other times they become intangible archetypal symbols of eternally flowing life-giving energies. Throughout the work, the artist’s primary concern is the exploration of the universe, which takes many forms in the artist’s art world.

Journeys to Parallel Worlds

Author(s): Robo Kočan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The portfolio of the visual artist and photographer Robo Kočan, who is based in Poprad, Slovakia, presents a selection of his artwork. He belongs to the prominent representatives of the second new wave of Slovak photographers, who in the 1990s intervened strongly not only in the Slovak but also in the Central European art space, especially through their multimedia approach to photography and new techniques in staged photography. His body of work is focused on mixed-media (issues of identity, family history and racial unity) and staged photography (luminography, scenography, additional painting into the image). Topics of night, fairy-tale fantasies, pre-staged compositions, large scale images and limited editions of prints brought this artist international recognition with many opportunities for artists-in-residence and other creative programs. In his work Robo Kočan combines a variety of aesthetic approaches in a rare ratio; the systematic method with an unceasing need to discover the novel, technical excellence with poetry, and an entertaining playfulness in combination with dark journeys into our unconscious. His photographic series reflect both his need and ability to employ reality as a backdrop for the creation of his fantasies. Through his art Kočan doesn’t aim to escape from reality but to broaden the perception and deepen the awareness of elements hidden beneath the surface of everyday life. His artistic work is characterised by a systematic review of photography as a medium and an exploration of the possibilities of its extension. Robo Kočan has the ability to “see the anticipated”. The anticipated and wanted, buried deeply in the subconsciousness, which transports us through the “lines of light”" of his photographs by means of an inconsiderate – ironic, but also poetic, to a childish playful view of the world. Robo Kočan connects parallel worlds. He balances the noise of the city with the silence of nature, he casts doubt on reality through fiction, and draws light into darkness. He often travels, travelling around for meditation and the diversity of other countries and cultures, in order to add perceptions and emotions into his photographic images. For him, photography has never been an authoritative documentary tool, but a storyteller, a medium that can reveal the imperceptible layers of everyday life, his reality, which, for a moment, can also be ours.

Visual Aesthetics of the Digital Media

Author(s): Svitlana Merkulova,Svitlana Pryshchenko / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The article presents the results of study stylistics and visual imagery of new communications – digital media. The relevance of the topic lies in the growing use of computer technologies in visual communications: media design, web design and advertising. Multimedia as a fundamentally new type of communication has acquired its own senses, meanings and images. Therefore, the value of the study lies in the theoretical generalization of web graphics development outlook from visual aesthetics perspectives. A number of scientific methods, such as system-structural, sociocultural, axiological and comparative were used to achieve this goal. The authors emphasize that advertising information must have metaphorical language, attractiveness, concise and clear declarations of product or service characteristics, authentic composition, non-standard perspective, contrast and a harmonious colour scheme to ensure the functionality of each message promoting a particular idea. It is emphasized that any electronic product (website, animation project, commercial, Internet banner, presentation) is the result of the implementation of creative, technological and organizational components of design activities to meet public information needs. The obtained scientific results deepen the idea of graphics, generalize its communicative and artistic-aesthetic aspects and enable defining new ways of visual art at the conceptual and prognostic levels.

Narrative as an Element of Podcast Production: The Case Study of Nezhasínaj!

Author(s): Patrik Kolenčík,Zora Hudíková / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The podcast has discovered its own listeners over the past few years and has naturally integrated itself into their daily lives. Its remarkable growth is also resonating in professional and scholarly circles, where attempts are being made to define it and integrate it into mass media theories. The diverse range of genres and means of expression offered by the podcast as a medium has (in terms of the means of communication used) overlaps (in terms of the medium) mainly with radio, but also with television production, and in terms of the broader division of genres mainly with journalism and also with news and fiction genres. The common denominator of all the forms of content presentation mentioned above is the frequent presence of a narrative, which makes the media work attractive and, as we will point out in the article, comprehensible. The principle of narrative as a means of communicating their content has been adopted by podcast creators from other media forms, which may result in the fact that on some podcast platforms a separate category of content division - Stories - is emerging. In the present study, we will highlight how a story can be built in podcast production, and what are the means of building a story in a podcast.

Ten Years of Flowing Reality

Author(s): Monika Stacho / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

Działalność warsztatu organmistrza Andreasa Hildebrandta w Elblągu i jego okolicach w latach 1711 – 1725

Author(s): Krzysztof Urbaniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 18/2017

Spent in Elbląg and its neighbourhood from 1711 to 1725 was important and relatively inexperienced in the current literature period for the activity of the Gdańsk organist AndreasHildebrandt workshop. The instruments created in and around Elbląg in this period offered Hildebrandt not only the opportunity to experiment on new tonal and technical concepts but also constituted an important reference, which seems to have contributed to the reputation of the workshop and opened the way for subsequent large orders in Gdańsk. The article contains information about newly built, rebuilt or attributed to Hildebrandt instruments in Elbląg (churches of St. Nicholas’, St. Mary’s and Corpus Christi), Przezmark (church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross), Pasłęk (St. Barthelemew), Skowrony (church of the Assumption of Mary), Jelonki (church of the Sacred Heart).

Princípy hudobnej výchovy pre deti predškolského a mladšieho školského veku

Author(s): Martina Krušinská / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2022

The text deals with the principles that are key to the musical education of preschool and early school children. In defining the principles, the author is based on the laws of folk art in Slovak folk music culture and on the music-pedagogical principles of Carl Orff based on the musical manifestations of natural cultures.

Detské prekoncepty o pojmoch múzeum a galéria a ich vizuálna podoba

Author(s): Daniela Valachová / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 4/2022

The paper presents a research probe of a broader conceived research plan, which is constituted in the topic of children's pre-concepts about the concepts of museum and gallery. The aim of the research probe is to convey the results of the analysis of children's naive theories in connection with the above concepts.

Drzwi kościelne jako brama wiary

Author(s): Ryszard Knapiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 16/2015

Church doors are one of many symbolic elements of the church body. In the Old Testament it developed eschatological significance that have taken the gate, understood as the gates of hell. In this sense the church gate appear in the iconography of the Court of God. This symbolism was taken over by Christianity. Allegorical and symbolic significance of the church doors was lined in the writings of the apologists of the faith and the Church Fathers.