Le costume populaire roumain – vecteur de construction identitaire. Le cas d’Ana Davila

Author(s): Graţiela Buzic / Language(s): French Issue: 6/2017

The work hereby starts with the explanation for provenance of a folk dress seen in the painting Romanian Lady by F. A. Bridgman, identified as the region of Muscel. It also presents the interest shown by queen Elisabeth of Romania for the folk dress, particularly the Muscel one, which she used to wear in many occasions and her way of using the folk dress in several campaigns, especially to promote the country abroad. The research shows that this interest is due to Ana Davila, Romanian with noble descent, and the tradition Ana followed in this matter, serving the ideals of equality, fraternity, liberty and national union. We show the influence of the activities done by Ana Davila and her relatives to the artistic creation between 1850-1860, to the beginnings of ethnographic research in Romania and to the development of national identity and conscience whose most important promoter at the time was queen Elisabeth of Romania.

Jedwabne tafty drukowane i malowane z XVIII wieku. Technologia wytwarzania na przykładzie wzorzystej tafty

Author(s): Przemysław Krystian Faryś / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2023

The article concerns silk clothing fabrics with hand-painted patterns. They were fashionable in eighteenth-century Europe. The original design of these fabrics competed with silk fabrics with woven patterns. Painted silks were produced in China (for the European market) and in Europe. They were more or less in the chinoiserie style. Examples of these fabrics and costumes made of these materials have survived. The article focuses on taffeta with a painted pattern. One of the fabrics is subjected to a deeper analysis in terms of the manufacturing technique.

Пазарно конструиране на ценност в практиките на съвременното изкуство

Author(s): Nikolina Deleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The general commercialization of all spiritual fields in modern society removes them from the sphere of the sacred and turns them into a commodity. Art loses autonomy and identity, becomes indistinguishable from non-art, and all its evaluations outside the sphere of the market are relativized and illegitimate due to the lack of aesthetic norms. The article examines the market and social mechanisms that replace aesthetic criteria in the evaluation of contemporary collectible art.

ИЗВЕСТНО И НЕИЗВЕСТНО ЗА АЛЕКСИ АТАНАСИУ ЗОГРАФ

Author(s): Teodor Peev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

There is not much information about Aleksy Athanasius’s life and his works. All that we know by now is that he is from Naousa (Greece) and that he was both working on murals and icons. Some of his works are dated and bare his signature. From the time of 1845–1850 Aleksy Athanasius has lived in the village Gorni Voden (today’s district of Assenovgrad). In 1857 Aleksy Athanasius moves along with his family in Assenovgrad. A big part of his creative period is related to parts of the city that he had lived in and the villages of the Rhodope Mountains. Aleksy Athanasius is one well educated painter, who has mastered the techniques of painting of his time. His works are rich in color and his iconographic schemas can be recognized from their good composition and excellent knowledge of biblical and gospel topic.

ОБРАЗ И СИМВОЛ. ПРАВОСЛАВНИ МОТИВИ В ИЗКУСТВОТО НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ СИМВОЛИЗЪМ ОТ 20-ТЕ ГОДИНИ НА ХХ В.

Author(s): Daniela Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

The publication examines the meaning behind the paintings of the Bulgarian symbolist artists from the 1920s, in the context of the Native Art movement. With the advent of Symbolism in the Bulgarian art scene, religious images, which are part of the overall conceptual apparatus of European Symbolism, began to appear more and more often in the works of various artists. Thus, along with the modernized “academic” appearance of the new Bulgarian church art, the images of Christianity enter the modern Bulgarian art, mostly through the symbolist narrative. After the end of the First World War, passed through the tragedy and horror of national catastrophes, the Bulgarian artist turned his attention to the religious image in a deeper way, finding in it both spiritual trust and search for a higher meaning, than everyday life, as well as a foundation of his national identity, of his ancestral memory and essence, inextricably linked to the Orthodox faith. In the decade of the 1920s, the complex way in which secessionist aesthetics and Symbolism merge is particularly clear. Not only in Bulgaria, but also in other countries where the Secession develops, it cultivates and educates a special sensitivity to the spiritual and the legendary. Whether in the religious narrative, or in the ascetic images of the monks, the paintings inspired by the Orthodox faith in the Bulgarian art from the 1920s are most often are recreated by the language of Symbolism. Like the old masters, Bulgarian artists realize that in the philosophical depths of the themes of spirituality and faith, the easiest way to embody specific ideas is through the symbol.

ЖИВОПИСНИ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯ ОТ ФОНДА НА НАЦИОНАЛНИЯ ЕТНОГРАФСКИ МУЗЕЙ – СОФИЯ. ЗА ЕДНА МАЛКО ИЗВЕСТНА КОЛЕКЦИЯ

Author(s): Ilia Borisov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2023

In 1906, the National Ethnographic Museum was established. Historically, the national museums that existed until September 9, 1944 – archaeological and ethnographic – were transferred to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Thus, from the end of 1948, the Archaeological Institute with a museum and the Ethnographic Institute with a museum were established at the BAS. Since then, the Ethnographic Museum has shared a building with the National Art Gallery, which is part of the former royal palace. Popular and well-known names from the artistic life of the country are represented in his painting collection. At the present time, it is difficult to recreate the initial selection of the collection, as well as to trace the movement of specific works, due to the institutional hiatus created as a result of transfer between galleries.

Литература и кино в епохата на глобализацията – фрагменти от дебата за културната хибридизация през XXI век

Author(s): Ivan Ivanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article examines the globalization of the 21st century, which is driven by the postmodernist processes of decanonization that create a hybrid cultural environment in the present. The main focus of the text is the film-literature relationship, which is both synergistic and competitive in the market of cultural products. The article presents key postmodern novels from the 80s and 90s of the last century and their film adaptations, which even in the 21st century reproduce with the techniques of cinema a common, archetypal, futuristic, fictional model. Cinema and literature in the third millennium are subordinated to corporate interests and media giants, and the rhizomatic interface between the arts argues for the ubiquitous hybridization of culture. In conclusion, the dialogical modes between world literature, world cinema, and world media are highlighted.

Езикови средства за представяне образа на имението в руския реминисцентен текст

Author(s): Lyudmila Karpenko / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2023

The article analyzes the content structure and linguistic means of creating the image of the manor in the Russian-language text on the material of reminiscence character. Texts of different periods in which descriptions of the manor are revealed are analyzed. The work employs a complex approach combining elements of etymological, structural-semantic, contextual analysis. The study concludes that the conceptual core of the image of the manor has been preserved since ancient times: the manor is a place of the mastered world, a dwelling place. This meaning corresponds to the image of the manor in the reminiscences of Russian writers and memoirists. The text of the reminiscences of the XIX-XX centuries allows us to trace the updated semantic dominants: the transformation of the image of the manor over two centuries, the change of ideas about the order of things in the world, the destruction of the ideal image. The dynamics of the development of the image of the manor in the Russian literary text and individual-author semantic increments are revealed, as well as in the systematization of linguistic means of creating the image.

Рецензия на "Производство на несъгласие. Икономическата политика на онлайн медиите"

Author(s): Nikolay Kolev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 14/2023

The economic policy of online media. Manufacture of dissent." is an extremely relevant and modern academic research, which builds a bridge between the foundations of the theory of Mass Communication and the rapid development of processes in the field of digital media in the 21st century. The author Peter Ayolov persuasively points to the "production of dissent," a “divide-and-conquer” online principle as a dominant commercial paradigm, responsible for the erosion of many democratic processes in modern societies.

The Specific Characteristics of the Creativity of Alexander Chekmenev in the Concept of the Development of Social Documentary as a Significant Part of Contemporary Ukrainian Art Photography

Author(s): Anna Safronova,Camil Mihăescu,Valeriy Safronov,Olena Safronova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Social documentary photography is one of the key genres that Ukrainian artists use for creating a series of works presented in the form of a photo book or as an independent project. Among the most prominent representatives of this direction, Alexander Chekmenev and the members of Kharkov School of Photography (Boris Mikhailov, Evgeny Pavlov, Mikhail Pedan, etc.) should be singled out. It is notable that despite the fact that their works have common issues, the similar choice of the method and general stylistics, there are a number of significant differences. With the transfer of individual facial features, Aleksander Chekmenov seeks to reveal the psychology of the person being portrayed and elevate a person in the eyes of others, while representatives of the Kharkov school of photography use sharp, satirical language with the active inclusion of various manipulations of the image. On the basis of the art history analysis of a number of well – known projects by Alexander Chekmenev, certain regularities in the strategy of creating a social documentary project in his works have been identified.

In Search of Rosie Ney: A Life Reflected Through the Lives of Others

Author(s): Rastislav Rusnák / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This study examines a brief period in the lives of four artists: František Foltýn and Gejza Schiller, two of the most renowned figures in the Košice Modernist movement, the author Béla Illés, and the main character, the photographer Rosie Ney. Several sources have suggested that the paths of these four individuals crossed in Košice in 1921. The study does not intend to present their lives or work in their full complexity but aims instead to clarify some ambiguities over their fates in the early 1920s. The primary focus of the article is to address the persisting uncertainty over the nature of the relationships between the four individuals and their movements between 1919 and 1923. The research collates and analyses a wide range of fragmented evidence of varying degrees of reliability in an effort to identify possible connections between the lives of the four artists and thereby raise the discussion of the issue to a new level. On the more settled question of the marriage of Rosie Ney and Béla Illés, the study also attempts to identify Rózsi Földy, alias Rosie Ney, within Illés’s autobiographical novel Ég a Tisza and to clarify the timeframe of their marriage and various aspects which can shed light on subsequent events. The key topic is the unresolved question of the relationship between Rosie Ney and František Foltýn. By outlining the sequence of events in the lives of the two artists in the early 1920s, the study offers a new perspective and some interesting findings regarding the nature of their relationship.

The Representation of Melancholy in the Visual Arts, Today and in the Past

Author(s): Katarína Ihringová / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The concept of melancholy is woven throughout the history of Western art and thoughts as an imaginary Ariadne’s thread that links the perceptions and thoughts of ancient Greece with the present day. At the same time, it could be interpreted as a sign that refers to the endless road to human self-knowledge. Over the course of history, this process of cognition has taken many intricate and crooked paths, linking melancholy with a number of different definitions and interpretive viewpoints as well as diverse visual renderings. The paper focuses on presenting the idea of melancholy from an aesthetic-cultural point of view. It sees it as a phenomenon reflecting various cultural and historical aspects, which were subsequently transformed into the visual art of the given time. Although the portrayal of melancholy was typical of historical periods, of which Albrecht Dürer’s depiction of Melancholy is the most famous, 20th-century art also reflected on it, for example, the work of Pablo Picasso or Giorgio de Chirico. In the Slovak visual arts of the 20th century, we can find several interesting depictions of melancholy, for example in the work of L. Mednyánszky, Mikuláš Galanda, or Jozef Pospíšil. However, the paper sufficiently analyses the work of contemporary Veronika Rónaiová, who has returned to portraying the idea of melancholy again.

Caricature as a Tool of Freedom of Expression

Author(s): Martin Solík,Martin Lomen,Bianka Francistyová,Dušan Blahút / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Cartoon humour does not provoke reactions of laughter and amusement randomly, immediately, without any particular intention or thought, but because it is dependent on our physical and mental dispositions to perceive and interpret the observed image, which is inherently polysemic. Just as we are able to analyse social interactions and their meanings, we are able to analyse the meanings of images and notice their subjective and objective levels of interpretation. Cartooning is all about perceiving and observing details that we have learned to overlook over time. Cartoon and caricature imply visual, cultural and semantic components, especially the cartoon or otherwise caricatured image, the theme, the content and the humour – the comic, ironic or satirical sphere of life or cultural and artistic expression, taking the form of a joke, anecdote or aphorism. A caricature is a deliberate modification of a phenomenon with the intention of retouching or hyperbolizing some particulars or a single part of the phenomenon. In our study we are concerned with caricature, which not only represents an artistic representation, but can also be a criticism, a tool of propaganda, but primarily represents a tool of freedom of expression.

En deçà et au-delà du cauchemar chez Samuel Beckett, avec un effet de halo sur Film

Author(s): Liviu Dospinescu / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2023

The oneiric universe is present in almost all of Samuel Beckettʼs work, if only in the aspect of a form of reverie as found in modified states of consciousness, distinct from the usual states of mind, and which are often quite closeto trance or hypnotic states, or even, sometimes, to quite problematic psychologicalstates. At first glance, all of Beckettʼs characters are dreamers, but by dint offollowing them in their inner turmoil, we may discover the signs of a deeper if notfunding activity of the spirit. Oneirism in Beckett, when it is not the simplerepresentation of its phenomenality, can be part of an articulatory strategy ofsimulacra of deep experiences of the psyche, most of the time in connection withexistential questions which are neatly brought into the spectatorʼs field ofconsciousness, so that, with the guard down or in no way forced to “connect” to the genre of discourse, (s)he finally lets her/ himself be experientially inhabited by it.In the opening of this article, I will present a brief overview of the formal, aspectualdiversity of oneirism in a few short pieces by Samuel Beckett: …but the clouds…,Nacht und Träume, What Where and Ghost Trio. Then, most of the development isdedicated to the descriptive analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Film, which will highlightthe richness of dreamlike forms and contents from his uniquely non-verbaldiscourse. Its aspectual diversity ranges from philosophy with phenomenologicaland existential tints, to the anthropology of rites and popular beliefs, and even topsychoanalysis, for the sharpness of the figures of the work of the dream which relate to it, as surprised in the field of manifestations of this unique cinematographic work.

Фестивалите на пясъчните скулптури в дигиталната епоха: Медийни проекции и комуникационни стратегии

Author(s): Hristina Hristova / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 2/2023

This article discusses effective communication strategies in the event management domain. The focus is on the integrative potential of certain art events with a growing popularity for the development of visual arts and of the prosperous cultural tourism – the sand sculpture festivals. The research objective is to identify strategic approaches ensuring recognizability of the festivals in a virtual space that is already oversaturated with content. The paper also studies the possibilities for mediatization and competitive performance of the sand sculpture festivals in the world of digital technologies. The subject of the narrative is the Sand Sculpture Festival in Burgas (the first of its kind in Bulgaria), outlined in the brand’s own media: website and social media sites, which helps shape its image. In achieving the research objective, the case study method has been applied.

Following the Hero’s Memories: The Role of Memory as a (Re)construction of the Narrative in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Author(s): Esteban Vera / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This paper discusses the concept of the hero and the role of memory as an object of (re)construction of the world in the narrative of the Nintendo digital game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Through the analysis of how memory is reconstructed in Link and the characters that inhabit Hyrule, memories, historical and social memory, monuments, documents, space, and gameplay within the same digital game are also reconstructed. Testimonial memory, in turn, will help remember and construct the narrative of Link’s personal and social history by reconstructing the story. The personal experience that the player has while interacting with the game through the act of playing can build the metadiscourse between memory and narrative to understand the hero and his journey through the world. In this sense, the importance of the character Link within the game is affirmed, as he is a much more complex subject than a simple archetype within the game mechanics.

Dizajn przyszłości – przyszłość dizajnu. Jak zwymiarować imponderabilia dizajnu?

Author(s): Jacek Mianowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 23/2022

The visual transformation of women’s identity: From Lot’s wife to the women of Iran

Author(s): Evaguelia Diamantopoulou / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

In Art History, the representation of the female figure has an important role, since as early as the prehistoric period and the Venus figurines and is respective to the social and cultural conditions that differ from era to era and place to place. As these data are linked to social stereotypes and the construction of the social gender, the woman as an object of representation is transformed according to her role as a social subject. The artists derive their themes from both myth and reality regarding how the female identity is transformed. This research proposal focuses on a comparative analysis of the works of two contemporary artists who draw their themes from Jewish religious tradition and women’s lives in the Middle East. These are the sculpture Lot’s Wife, by the Greek sculptor Froso Efthymiadi-Menegaki, and the film Turbulent, by the Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat. The research is based on the theory of social gender, as formulated by the Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell, and the theory of social representations, introduced by the French social psychologist Serge Moscovici.

Cornel Chiriac (1942-1975)

Author(s): Flori Bălănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2023

Romanian journalist, radio producer, record producer and jazz drummer, Cornel Chiriac (1942–1975) was born in Bessarabia. He graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of English Language. Cornel produced for Radio România the most popular music show of the 1960s – METRONOM. After Invasion of Czechoslovakia he played a ballad which relates how five small wolves and a bigger one attacked a sheepfold. Later put on The Beatles' Back in the USSR. He was discovered by Radio Free Europe director Noel Bernard in the Traiskirchen refugee camp and continued his activity in Munich, in RFE's Romanian-language section. He re-launched Metronom and Jazz magazin, and started Jazz à la carte. On March 4, 1975, Cornel was stabbed near his car, in a Munich parking lot.

Hans Bergel și recurența întoarcerii spre România

Author(s): Flori Bălănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3-4/2023

This is a review of the book Hans Bergel, Always looking to Romania, by Cosmin Budeancă, Preface by Florian Kührer-Wielach, Afterword by Ana Blandiana, Cultural Foundation „Memoria” Publishing House and MEGA Publishing House, Bucharest – Cluj-Napoca, 2023, 216 p.