Łódzkie wille fabrykanckie

Author(s): Krzysztof Stefański / Language(s): English,Polish

The villas built by Lodz factory-owners constitute an important element of the city’s historical heritage. These mansions witnessed the industrial development of Lodz in the 19th and early 20th centuries and display the wealth and social position of their owners. They clearly signify the economic success and advancement of a people who more often than not, started out with just a few textile workshops, and who over the course of a few decades hard work, managed to make sizable fortunes. The construction of magnificent villas and palaces is undisputable proof of this. Erecting such buildings became the practice of the rich bourgeoisie, a social class formed in the 19th century which included manufacturers, merchants and bankers. Throughout Europe the dwellings of these people imitated those of the aristocracy, though usually on a smaller scale and with a more functional design. The proportion and form of such constructions expressed their owner’s needs and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their social class and social group. Such buildings also enabled architects to display how their creative vision could meet the needs of their clients, and to show how au fait they were with the range of styles fashionable at that time. As far as Lodz is concerned, a huge range of formal responses were to be seen in the space of a century, including historical imitations, Art Nouveau, Early and High Modernism, and Art Deco. A wide range of styles can also be seen in the interior decoration of these buildings, in which diverse ornamentation often displayed an extremelyhigh standard of craftsmanship.

Az Erdélyi Nemzeti Múzeum Érem- és Régiségtárának története

Author(s): Béla Pósta / Language(s): Hungarian

The present volume is a delayed edition of a manuscript which was born one hundred years ago, on the Collection of Coins and Antiques of the Transylvanian Museum Society (TMS).Founded in 1859, the TMS was conceived as a replica of the Transylvanian Hungarian society against the neo-absolutist regime, established following the defeat of the Hungarian revolution and fighting for freedom of 1848–1849. Its objective was the salvation, conveyance to the public and scientific analysis of natural and inherited man-made treasures. This noble intention was marked by the establishment of a library, a natural collection, and also a collection of coins and antiques.On the fiftieth anniversary of the TMS, Béla Pósta, professor at the archaeology department of the university and also the manager of the collection of coins and antiques, was asked to present the history and background of the collection he was entrusted with. The invitation was sent at the beginning of 1909 and a year later the manuscript, together with its addenda, was ready to be printed. The publication did not take place however, initially because of a lack of funds and later because of the start of WWI and the political changes that followed this. The manuscript was recently discovered in the archives of the TMS and brought to the attention of those who were interested by Professor Csetri Elek. Although delayed, the publication of the manuscript is motivated by the fact that it is the most comprehensive presentation of the collection and is therefore a reference work for those who are going to come into contact with the past of the museum movement of Cluj and of Transylvania.The history of the collection, which takes up more than half the manuscript, is divided into three shorter periods. Although the initial offers and donations arrived later, the first period (1862–1872) is calculated from the time when Henrik Finály was elected custodian of the collection of coins and antiques; he was charged with organising the collection, which in the meantime became independent. The 25 year long second period, which lasted from 1872 to 1898, was dominated by the takeover of the management of the collection by the recently established university, though this did not compromise the TMS’s ownership of the collection. From that moment on, the pieces of the collection were used in the educational process as well as in obtaining new sources of income, which were used to enrich the collection.The re-housing of the collection, caused by the start of construction work on the ornate new university building, and the death of Finály in 1898 threatened the double collection with a Cinderella-like destiny, but the third period, the next 10 years (1899–1909), which began with the appointment of Pósta, marked the renaissance of the collection. This was a decade of growth and spiritual excitement, its benefits increased vertiginously in the next five years, until the start of WWI. The second half of the manuscript is richly illustrated and presents the objects of the collection in historical order and also catalogues them according to where they came from. Among the acquisitions of the Finály period a number of pieces stand out; the Zsófia Torma collection from Turdaş followed by the Greek helmet discovered at Uioara, the Roman funeral statue (mother and child) from Potaissa, appendages from the princely tomb (Omharus) in Apahida and Albert Bíró’s collection of majolica. During the Pósta period the collection grew constantly by buying valuable new objects (the little bronze statue of Venus from Potaissa, tankards, the altars from Jimbor and Guşteriţa and oriental carpets), and thanks to donations and deposits (vestments and paintings by Hungarian contemporary artists).However, thanks of their scientific value, the most important additions were the acquisitions that came from the archaeological excavations initiated by the new curator (at Iclod, Balsa and Sântana de Mureş), as well by ethnographic collections (fishermen’s tools, embroideries). Among the most recent acquisitions the manuscript mentions are the bronze finds from Uioara, bought in 1909, and the contents of the tombs which came from the migration era cemeteries of Târgu Mureş, excavated in 1909–1910. The Egyptian mummy, which was received in December 1909, was omitted from the list, perhaps because it was not possible to include it with the monuments of Transylvanian history, the basis of the collection. It is clear that the discoveries made in 1910–1911 at the Turdaş, Valea Nandrului, Cioclovina and Cluj excavations, and which substantially modified knowledge of the Paleolithic and Neolithic in Transylvania, and also the period of the Hungarian establishment, remained out of the presentation.The description of the coin collection is missing from the manuscript. István Kovács, Pósta’s disciple, was asked to write this since he was assigned to supervise the collection. The title of the mentioned study appears in a contemporary enumeration of his speciality works, but only an extract of it was published, being the introduction of an article in which is described the jubilee plaque of the TMS. The original manuscript did not come down to us.In the present publication, in the annex of Pósta’s work, one can find Kovács’s article, and thus the reader can get a fairly accurate image of the double collection a hundred years ago. A second annex offers another unpublished manuscript by Pósta, which has the text of the conference dedicated to the presentation of the above mentioned plaque. Most of the pictures are publications of the images selected by Pósta, though a few missing photographs were replaced from other sources. Included in this category is a published image of the plaque, as well as two photographs of some pages from the manuscript dedicated to the double collection.The original manuscripts, and also most of the pictures in the present publication, are in the National Archives, Cluj County Department. After the dissolu tion of the TMS, at the start of the communist regime, its collections were taken to different state run museums in Cluj, but the most valuable pieces were taken to Bucharest. Following the collapse of the dictatorial regime, the Transylvanian Museum Society is still waiting for the restitution of those spiritual items it was deprived of in dark times.

Śpiew jako wartość osobowa dziecka. T. 1: Stałość i zmienność rozwoju myśli naukowej przełomu XX i XXI wieku

Author(s): Jadwiga Uchyła-Zroski / Language(s): Polish

The publication constitutes a pedagogical monograph which consists of two parts comprised of eight chapters. The first, theoretical part consists of three chapters, while the remaining five comprise a comprehensive empirical study, including methodology, research findings, in-depth analysis of those findings, and conclusions. The monograph is devoted to the analysis of singing and voice training in children from the perspective of personal values. In the first part of the monograph, the author refers to older research concerned with the development of voice in children, using lesser-known sources in Polish as well as other languages. Thus, the monograph addresses the issue also from the historical angle, allowing for broad analysis of the theoretical background for the subsequent empirical research. The theories cited in the monograph have been subject to thorough evaluation and comparative analysis. The monograph addresses both the constants and the changes in the theoretical approach to the issue, paying particular attention to the notions concerning development and voice training in children; assessment of the new—heuristic—method of vocal training; appropriate training for students preparing them for taking on the role of the teacher with regard to values and making value judgments; the role of fine arts universities in shaping creative attitudes in students. The theoretical part also includes the results of diagnostic and comparative studies of children and students, elaborated upon in the second part of the monograph. The proposed method, founded upon the principle of the creative process, is most effective when applied to elementary school students (class I—III); nonetheless, some of its elements can be utilised by parents and legal guardians in the home environment, and by teachers during music as well as music and movement classes in kindergartens, schools, and in therapy work with disabled children. This method as well as its didactic and educational benefits should be taught to students specialising in musical education, integrated teaching, preschool education, as well as to teachers working with special needs classes and counselors working with disabled children.

Roweratura. O rowerze w literaturze i kulturze

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Publikacja ma charakter pionierski, dotychczas bowiem w humanistyce polskojęzycznej powstało niewiele rozważań teoretycznych nad rowerem. Wydanie antologii wzbogaca o kulturowy kontekst dyskusję nad rolą roweru w przestrzeni miejskiej oraz włącza się w prorowerowy ruch coraz silniej wyrażany zarówno przez samych cyklistów, jak i przez władze Miasta Poznania.Na antologię składa się jedenaście tekstów młodych badaczy i badaczek z różnych ośrodków akademickich w Polsce, pierwotnie wygłoszonych podczas ogólnopolskiej konferencji naukowej „Roweratura. Rzecz o rowerze w literaturze i kulturze”, która odbyła się 19–20 kwietnia 2013 roku na Wydziale Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej UAM w Poznaniu.

Technokultura i jej manifestacje artystyczne. Medialny świat hybryd i hybrydyzacji

Author(s): Piotr Zawojski / Language(s): Polish

Biotechnology delineates today's framework of reflection on technoculture in a time of postdigital and postnetwork society, while decline of the cognitive capacity of the new media categories requires a search for other concepts enabling a description and interpretation of the condition of contemporary technoculture and its artistic manifestations. This process revolves around and is fuelled by various strategies of media hybridization, through which the media hybrids have become prevalent artifacts, both material and non-material, or, objects manufactured in the cultural production, but also conceptual vehicles serving a description of the phenomena of contemorary culture dominated by objects and technological discourses. Hybridity today is one of the crucial categories, around which I attempt to develop my own interpretation of technoculture in the postdigital era. In doing so, I do not adopt the approach of technological determinism, which viewed the process of emancipation of technology in dark tones. I depart on a journey around this world outlining numerous dilemmas concerning the place of art and artists in a continually changing context implied by bio-techno-logical reality. This reality is shaped by the increasingly significant, not to say dominant, tendencies, which are conceptualized in the post-humanist and trans-humanist way of thinking. New media artists use the instrumentation of contemporary technology and, referring to scientific developments, they unceasingly experiment, using new tools of creation for the interpretation of technocultural reality. The triad: art – technology – science along with another triad: art – new media art – post media art are landmarks for my research explorations into major artistic and cultural processes within the practices and theoretical discourses of the media world. "After media" and by means of postmedia, a contemporary face of postdigitalism is developing, in which deep remix becomes one of the fundamental practices of contemporary atists and of each participant in the cybercultural world. The universum of technoculture is processing, very frequently critically and outright, the commonly held to date opinions and judgements of the digital revolution and mediatized reality. The working of the new media, or, in better terms, our work with the new (post)media is an example of unending work in progress. This is discussed in the third part of the book, which presents various artistic strategies of eminent new media artists. These strategies show that it is possible to pursue different ways of artistic creation without abandoning scholarly, cognitive, research and philosophical ambitions. Ken Goldberg, Stelarc, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, Ryoji Ikeda and many artists whom I present in the last chapter devoted to hybrid art, represent different tendencies and movements in media art, but, at the same time, they are only a departure point for deliberations reaching far beyond their artworks. I am considering the status of new media art, technoart and hybrid art, which, possibly, should be regarded as the most symptomatic manifestation of transformations within media art, although crossing the boundaries of the genre, type (analogue vs. digital, traditional vs. new media) and transmediality are its defining features. These artists (the ones discussed in detail in extensive chapters devoted to their work, and the ones discussed only briefly) are well-known to anyone interested in media art issues. However, quite symptomatically, none of them has ever won as much acclaim in the, broadly understood, art world as artists pursuing traditional art forms including painting, sculpture and even architecture. Why? Because, say, despite the ubiquity of the new digital media in social space and communication, the new media art still constitutes the margin of contemporary art. In a way, in this book, I myself attempt at re-evaluation, or rather, greater recognition of the contemporary art making use of the cutting-edge media technologies. Their distinctive feature at present is being dominated by hybrids, hybridity and hybridization processes, yet, in fact, I mean something more than that. I attempt at taking a view at contemporary technoculture through the works of contemporary artists who are treated marginally and as a ballast of technological transformations, whereas, in fact, they are the true avantguarde of the civilizational and cultural transformations of the contemporary world.

Rzeczywistość od rzeczy. Serial paradokumentalny w świetle genologii lingwistycznej

Author(s): Alicja Bronder / Language(s): Polish

The present monograph entitled Irreal reality. A quasi-documentary series in the light of linguistic genology offers a holistic analysis of the title television text, which has lately gained more and more popularity in media discourse. The work constitutes the first in Polish scholarship comprehensive discussion of a quasi-documentary series treated as a genre, taking into account its features at each discourse level: structural, cognitive, stylistic, and pragmatic. In the conducted analyses, the polysemiotic context, vital for the observation of multimedia texts, as well as the relation between the codes belonging to different semiospheres have been taken into consideration. The perspective outlined in this way has allowed for the use of linguistic tools (textological and genological) in the observations of complex messages, not just verbal ones, which frequently escape monodisciplinary research attempts. The study is divided into two parts, theoretical and empirical. The former presents research tools that are applicable to audiovisual text analyses, and therefore to a quasi-documentary series: the theory of text, including the problem of the polysemiotics of text, linguistic and film/media genology, television discourse, an intriguing phenomenon of television voyeurism, as well as the issues concerning language in TV. Furthermore, on the basis of available publications related to, inter alia, the field of cultural and media studies, the problems with defining quasi-documentary series itself have been surveyed, and data subjected to investigation within the conducted research have been presented.The second part of the monograph is constituted by practical chapters, containing the results of the analyses of the genre of a quasidocumentary series. Four of the chapters subsequently demonstrate genre aspects: structural, cognitive, stylistic, and pragmatic, and also in detail discuss each feature and indicate functions performed by them in the standard genre. The considerations have been additionally illustrated with extensive research data, which has allowed for the portrayal of the problems analysed and their more complete presentation. The empirical part concludes with an extensive chapter summarizing the analyses, gathering the most important conclusions drawn from the studies performed. The whole work is wrapped up with the final concluding chapter.The present monograph is aimed both at linguists focusing on genologic problems, as well as at media experts, sociologists, and culture experts, and also at persons interested in pop culture and its influence on receivers. The author expresses the hope that the presented research results will become an inspiration for more careful observations of mass culture texts, which, despite appearing to be irreal sometimes, nevertheless constitute a substantial means of observing the mentality and condition of a speech community, which is formed by each of us.

Joga w kontekstach kulturowych 2

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

Yoga in cultural contexts 2 is a publication associated with a joint project (realised since 2013) of the Department of the Theory and History of Culture of the University of Silesia and of the Department of the Management of Sport and Tourism of the Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice. Within the framework of this project annual scholarly interdisciplinary paper-workshop conferences are organised (since 2014). These are meetings of researchers who represent inter alia the humanities, social sciences and the sciences of physical education) with the people who practice yoga.The conferences are followed up by publications; although these are not conference volumes strictly speaking; the articles which are featured there are considerably extended versions of papers and the works which are submitted to the editors. In 2016 Wydawnictwo AWF in Katowice published the first volume: Yoga in cultural contexts 1 (ed. Janusz Szopa, Aleksandra Budzisz).Yoga in cultural contexts 2 is also an interdisciplinary work; it contains the works of specialists in the field of cultural studies, indologists, specialists in the field of religion, sociologists and psychologists. There are texts which are devoted to yoga as a complex system of beliefs and practices which are deeply rooted in the cultural context of India as well as to yoga as a phenomenon which gains increasingly greater momentum in the culture of the West. The monograph is supplemented by a dictionary which familiarises the reader with concepts which are important for the problems in question.

Inny/Obcy. Transnarodowe i transgresyjne motywy w twórczości Petera Weira

Author(s): Magdalena Kempna-Pieniążek,Przemysław Pieniążek / Language(s): Polish

The book traces a change in the perception of the work of Peter Weir that has been under way in recent years, marked by a shift from interpretations focusing on spiritual themes to approaches emphasising the situation of the author immersed in the context of “Global Hollywood.” It also presents the most important aspects of wanderings undertaken by Weir’s protagonists, who search for a deeper dimension of existence that could help them define their identity and alliances in the world where “everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.” It expresses the conviction that the origins of both motives – transgressive and transnational – may be found in the dichotomy of the Other / Alien, conspicuously present in Weir’s films. For this reason, while focusing on the figure of the outsider, the book draws attention to the nature of transgressions that are taking place in Weir’s works. On the one hand, there is confrontation with whatever is mysterious. Exploration of different states of consciousness leads through the world of dreams and myths – a path that Weir’s protagonists travel to face their own weaknesses and limitations imposed by the oppressive system of culture. On the other hand, Weir’s films never stop mediating between the points of view of national and trans-national identity, between the genre cinema and the artistic cinema, and between creativity and convention, thereby consolidating the unique position of the film director as an Alien, both in Hollywood and in Australian cinema. The dynamics of these tensions have determined the character and the form of this book. Peter Weir’s works are not discussed here in a strictly chronological order, a more important criterion being the evolution of selected story threads and their related contexts which define the unique element in his work. Chapter One is concerned with the two most famous Australian films by Weir: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The Last Wave (1977), which established the range of themes he often returned to in later works. Next chapter offers interpretations of Gallipoli (1981) and The Year of Living Dangerously (1982). If the former is perceived as a realisation of the idea of Australian national cinema, the latter marks Weir’s accession to mainstream world cinema. Chapter Three is devoted to his Hollywood films. The analysis of Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986), and Fearless (1994) draws attention to the point of view of an Alien who observes America and American culture from a certain distance. This theme is then continued in Chapter Four, which focuses on the figure of the outsider – a character typical of Weir’s films, who can be seen in statu nascendi in Dead Poets Society (1989) and The Truman Show (1989). Finally, Chapter Five brings together analyses of Green Card (1990), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and The Way Back (2010), in which the transnational motives receive more prominence than in other films by Weir.The interpretations offered in this volume provide an argument for the claim that the work of Peter Weir is a fruit of the genre cinema and the artistic cinema coming together, as well as of the interaction between Australian cinema and Hollywood (and, in the background, European cinema). In the light of most recent research, it appears as a transnational phenomenon, a result of a combination of themes borrowed from various systems, not only cinematographic but also cultural.

Sztuka i jej wartości

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,English,Czech,Polish,Ukrainian

“The monograph Sztuka i jej wartości (Art and its values) presents both art and values in three well-integrated parts: theoretical considerations focused on art, a practical approach towards art – the way it personally affects one and the way it is experienced and created – and the process of broadly understood aesthetic education. . . . Talking about art, we come very close to issues connected with its individual branches, both traditional and modern. We can also look for the values it brings on various levels: in already completed works of art, in the creative act itself, in interpretation, and in the act of reception. This multifaceted presence of values in art is evidence of both its richness and the vast possibilities it offers, and points to the need to implement it in education.” From a review by Prof. Elżbieta Szubertowska.

Ciało – muzyka – performans

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

In humanitites, the issues connected with playing, and therefore performing music have always been an integral part of theoretical reflections and they have always occupied a place in the classification of academic fields, however the aim of the present publication is the conceptualization of the situation of the performer, in which case the conventions of reception and genre classification neutralize the reflection upon the bodily dimension of performance. For this reason, it seems vital to indicate, reveal, and name these theoretical barriers, and look at performance from the perspective of the musicalness of the body and the bodiliness of music. Music can be treated as an abstract entity, as was argued in the past by Boethius and Leibniz, and presently by cognitivists, however when it is being performed, the music gains materiality, while the audial nature of an individual realization of an abstract piece of music constitutes a significant component of the musical work as such. The performance entails the presence of the performer’s body, which becomes the element of the whole aesthetic experience. The axis of reflections contained in the articles gathered in the present volume, quite arbitrarily grouped into two mirrored parts, evolves therefore around the issues of, on the one hand, the musicalness of the performer’s body, and on the other, the bodiliness of performance. Looking at performance from the perspective of music and the body allows to revive our attitude towards the existing and historically described viewpoints on the performer’s body and provide a new insight into this issue. Such a formulation of the problem gives rise to a multitude of methodological outlooks, which in turn demonstrate a dichotomy of research tracks. Some of them will still treat the body as an instrument, others, by contrast, will pay attention to the symbiosis of consciousness and bodiliness; some will emphasize the audiality, others will stress the fusion of the audial and the visual. It is symptomatic that in each case the art of performing, as well as the works themselves, initiates similarly inspiring academic discussions.

Doświadczenie wewnętrzne bohatera w dziele filmowym

Author(s): / Language(s): Polish

The book contains a collection of articles analysing the content and form of presenting inner experiences of film characters in the cinematographic work.The dissertations are dedicated to the following films: Stanisław Różewicz’s Świadectwo urodzenia, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Konformista, Roman Polański’s Lokator, Andrzej Wajda’s Panny z Wilka, Piotr Dumała’s Łagodna, Aleksandr Sokurow’s Aleksandra and Marcin Dudziak’s Wołanie.

Usiądziesz? Co sprawia, że na ławkach (nie) chce się siedzieć?

Author(s): Maja Skibińska,Mariusz Wieczorek / Language(s): Polish

A report from the exploratory research intended for determining the users’ needs with regard to functioning, number, location and the look of public sitting places in public spaces. The analysis of examples led to defining guidelines for designing sitting places on Warsaw streets and squares.

Urbanistyka oddolna. Koszmar partycypacji a wytwarzanie przestrzeni

Author(s): Łukasz Drozda / Language(s): Polish

The publication deals with the issue of evaluating the effects of the currently followed urban policies, especially in reference to the so-called nightmare of participation. The book is part of a debate concerned with phenomena such as urban social conflicts, the revitalization of urban space, urban planning and housing policies. The author analyses the problem of gentrification in Poland and its links to revitalization programmes. The publication in based on the author’s research on the bottom-up production of space in Warsaw, New York, and Istanbul.

Antropologia tańca

Author(s): Anya Peterson Royce / Language(s): Polish

In her dance studies, conducted from an anthropological perspective, Royce combines her own experiences of dance with ethnographical knowledge and knowledge of culture, which enables her to situate dance within other performative arts. The publication is a textbook for theatre studies students, ethnologists exploring the topic of rituals and central-American rites, students of cultural studies and the humanities, as well as practitioners analysing dance in action (instructors, choreographers) or specialists in dance therapy.

Wybór pism

Author(s): Fancesco Algarotti / Language(s): Polish

A selection of papers by Francesco Algarotti, a Venetian art connoisseur, propagator of the sciences, a man of letters and learning, widely known and recognised in the 18th-century intellectual and aristocratic milieus of Europe. His treatises and essays are proof of both the author’s versatile interests and of the intellectual setting of the Enlightenment of which he was part of. The present volume is the first opportunity for the Polish reader to become acquainted with Algarotti’s literary oeuvre.

DESIGNERZY. Rola zawodowa projektanta w oglądzie socjologicznym

Author(s): Paulina Rojek-Adamek / Language(s): Polish

O ile nie sposób podać uniwersalnej definicji designu, o tyle codzienna praktyka osób zajmujących się projektowaniem poddaje się różnym opisom tożsamościowym. Trudno jednak wskazać obiektywne kryteria, które pozwoliłyby na przykład na dystynkcję określeń „designer” i „projektant” czy na opisanie warunków niezbędnych, by ten zawód wykonywać (co czyni designera/projektanta – jaki typ przygotowania, doświadczenia, wykształcenia?). Kłopotliwe jest też pytanie o cel i zakres czynności zawodowych (czy to projektowanie form przemysłowych, czy także projektowanie usług? Czy również design doświadczeń?). Zagadnienia te pociągają za sobą kolejne – dotyczące postrzegania projektantów w ramach szerszej struktury społecznej, a więc odnoszące się do kwestii uznania i prestiżu. Jeśli niemal wszystko można nazwać dziś designem i niemal każdego designerem, to oba te określenia właściwie nic nie znaczą. Świetnie więc, że Paulina Rojek-Adamek zajęła się zbieraniem argumentów, które przemawiają za szerokim (bądź przeciwnie – za bardziej restrykcyjnym) rozumieniem designu. (…) Dobrze, że jej rozważania na temat designu i tego, jaka jest (jaka powinna być) dziś rola projektanta nie są zawieszone w próżni. Z jednej strony nawiązują one do coraz bogatszej literatury autorów identyfikujących się z socjologią designu, z drugiej – wypływają z rezultatów zrealizowanego przez Autorkę projektu badawczego.prof. dr hab. Rafał DrozdowskiKsiążka ta jest na pewno pracą erudycyjną, w której uwzględnione zostały zarówno podejścia klasycznej socjologii, jak i współczesnych autorów. (…) Polskiemu czytelnikowi jak dotąd nie zaoferowano wielu prac podejmujących tę problematykę, tymczasem zarówno estetyka, jak i – w węższym ujęciu – praca projektowa są dzisiaj uznawane za kwestię centralną dla rozważań związanych z nową ekonomią, studiami miejskimi, „zwrotem ku rzeczom” czy sztuką publiczną. dr hab. Małgorzata JacynoPaulina Rojek-Adamek, doktor socjologii. W swojej pracy naukowo-badawczej i licznych publikacjach zajmuje się tematyką designu, szczególnie aspektem społecznie odpowiedzialnego projektowania i rolą zawodową projektantów. Publikowała m.in. w czasopismach Polish Sociological Review, Kultura Popularna, Humanizacja Pracy. Współredaktorka tomu Drafts from Sociology of Design. Introduction to Discussion (2016). Adiunkt w Instytucie Filozofii i Socjologii Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w Krakowie, od kilkunastu lat współpracuje również z Akademią Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach.

Komputery, powieści i kino nieme. Procesy remediacji w perspektywie historycznej

Author(s): Jerzy Stachowicz / Language(s): Polish

Remediation is the transformation of cinematic works as a result of their media transposition. Utilizing tools offered by media studies, film studies and culture studies, the author examines the changes which accompanied the transformation of silent cinema into digital cinema, as well as cinema’s relationship with the book and the ways in which these two mediums mix and influence each other. The analyses are based on two films: Strong Man and Metropolis, presenting the path of cultural texts starting with the book, continuing through silent cinema, and up to digitized cinema and film work currently found in the web.

Od mobilnosti do interakcije. Dramsko pismo i kazalište u Bosni i Hercegovini, Crnoj Gori, Hrvatskoj, na Kosovu, u Makedoniji, Sloveniji i Srbiji

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian

Meddah – turecki teatr jednego aktora. Spotkanie tradycji kultury ustnej z kulturą widowiskową

Author(s): Agnieszka Aysen Kaim / Language(s): Polish

The monograph explores performative potential of narrative art in oral traditions of Altai and Middle Eastern culture. Turkish meddah inspires contemporary artists, offering an active model, equal for both the artist and the audience. As an artistic form it developed between the 11th and 19th century. It unites epic theatre of one actor with the elements of tradition of a nomadic narrator, Central Asian shaman, epic singer ozan, Arabic maddah and the Persian tradition of the narrator of The Shahnameh.

Украсата на старобългарските ръкописи до края на XI век (= Кирило-Методиевски студии. Кн. 12)

Author(s): Vera Ivanova-Mavrodinova,Lilyana Mavrodinova / Language(s): Bulgarian

The study deals with the ornamentation – initials, head-pieces, tail-pieces and miniatures – in the Old Bulgarian manuscripts of the First Bulgarian Kingdom and the continuation of the same tradition in the manuscripts of the 11th century. This is the first specific study of the decoration of each of the preserved Bulgarian written monuments of the Early Middle Ages. For outlining the circle of models from which the Old Bulgarian copyists and miniaturists had drawn inspiration were used stylistic and iconographic parallels testifying to links above all with pre-iconoclastic art and the art of the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire. As a result of this are predated some manuscripts such as the "Savina Book", the Codex Suprasliensis and Dobromir's Gospel. For amplifying the picture were studied also the more recent Russian copies, which copied not only the text but also the ornamentation of the Old Bulgarian protographs, translated and decorated in the palace scriptorium of the Bulgarian King Simeon in Preslav in the 10th c. Moreover the subject has been specified of the four miniatures on a whole leaf before the two parts of the so-called Svetoslav's Florilegium, as depictions of the first four Ecumenical Councils. The study was the last scholarly work of Vera Mavrodinova, the chief director for many years of the excavtions in the first Christian Bulgarian capital of Preslav. It was completed in 1979 with the assistance of senior research associate Liliana Mavrodinova who tried to bring up to date to a certain degree some formulations.