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Устойчив дизайн и креативни практики

Author(s): Bilyana Kaloyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

The article explores the application of the sustainable method in design. It defines what is sustainable design, along with the connection of the definitions for sustainable, green and eco design. The principles and criteria to define design practices are elaborated. The different aspects of sustainable design are presented by examples showing the diversity of creative practices included in this category.

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Дървесината в устойчивия дизайн. Качества, специфики, дефекти на дървения материал

Author(s): Ivanka Dobreva-Dragostinova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2015

Wood is one of the most widely spread building and manufacturing materials, which has been used from antiquity till nowadays. Having irreplaceable technological and operational qualities, it is applied in different fields of architecture, design and art. In terms of sustainable design, timber with defects, arising in the process of tree growth or due to mechanical or insect interventions, is still applied while the defects are underlined and thus turned into effects. Often these defects (turned into effects) determine the structure and the shape of the product.

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ESKİ TÜRK DOMBRASINDAKİ SAZ YAZI

Author(s): Karjaubay SARTKOJAOĞLU / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 14/2012

Author gives the information about musical instrument, which was found in the Cave of Altai Mountain. He have been investigating this instrument and came to that this instrument is “Dombra (musical instrument of Kazakh people)”. On the neck of this instrument was runic inscription, author entered the sentence, which was read by him, in the scientific turn. The sentence gives the following meaning: “The fragrant melody gives the pleasure us”. Analyzing the peculiarities of this runic inscription author made conclusion that this instrument is concerned to 5th-7th century. The appearance of term “kui” proves that this instrument is the heritage of Sak’s (Scyth) period. Thus, author concludes: there is a possibility of that this instrument, which was found in Altai mountain, is one of the primary examples of the string instruments.

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AZERBAYCAN ŞİİRİNDE NEVRUZ

Author(s): Şureddin Memmedli / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 5/2010

Bin yılların, yüzyılların kültür olgusu olan Nevruz'un – Yeni Yılın ilk gününün bahar heyecanını uluslar çeşitli mitolojik unsurlarla, kendi örf ve gelenekleriyle kaynaştırarak bugün de büyük coşkuyla kutlamaktadırlar. En eski Türk milli bayramı olan Nevruz'un "Ergenekon" destanında: "O günden beri Yeni Yılın başladığı gece Gök-Türklerde adettir. O günü bayram sayarlar. Bir parça demiri ateşe salıp kızdırırlar. Önce Kağan bunu kıskaçla tutup örse koyar, çekiçle döver. Ondan sonra beyler de öyle yapar. Bugünü mukaddes bilirler, böylece Tanrı'ya şükretmiş olurlardı" – diye yansıtıldığını, Göktürk Devletinin kardeş kavgalarıyla tarih sahnesinden silinmesinden sonra, Altay Dağları’yla sınırlandığı kabul edilen Ergenekon havzasına sığınmış Oğuz boyunun oradan bir Nevruz günü ayrılıp, Kutluk Devleti’nin temellerini attıklarını; Hunların 21 Mart'ta bahar şenlikleri yaptıklarını; bugün Nevruz kutlamalarındaki geleneklerin o zamanda da yer aldığını; Kaşgarlı Mahmut'un "Müslüman olmadan önceki Türklerin Nevruz'dan sonraki ilk aya Oğlak ayı derler ve o gün bayram yaparlar” diye yazdığını biliyoruz. Nevruz, zaman zaman kültürü, edebiyatı, şiiri de etkilemiştir.

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SERAMİK SANATI ve EĞİTİMDE KARŞILAŞILAN GENEL SORUNLAR

Author(s): Bengütay Hayirsever / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 5/2010

Anadolu’da kültürel mirasımızın yaşayan ürünleri olan ve geçmişten günümüze ışık tutan seramik sanatımız tarihi gelişim süreci içerisinde çeşitli uygarlıklara tanıklık yaparak günümüze kadar ulaşmıştır. Şimdi bu kültürel mirasımızı günümüzden geleceğe taşıma görevi seramik eğitimcilerine ve daha da önemlisi yetiştirdiğimiz öğrencilerimize düşmektedir. Seramik sanatımız günümüzde de gerek tanıtımında gerekse sanat eğitiminde pek çok problemle karşılaşmaktadır. Bu problemleri aşabilmek için ülkemizin güzel sanatlar fakültelerinde seramik eğitiminin istenilen noktaya getirilmesi gerekir. Bunun için de ülkemizin sağlıklı bir kültür sanat bilincine erişmesi gereklidir.

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Neue Slowenische Kunst: Političko čitanje umjetnosti kao retrogradne nadidentifikacije s budućnosti

Author(s): Jasmin Hasanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 1-2/2016

The aim of this paper is to present the political dimension of a controversial artistic, but also political movement Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), established in 1984 in Slovenia, as a total project including different disciplines from music, art, design, installation art, film, innovative theater, also including the Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy. Their political interpretation, often associated with totalitarianism will be analyzed in the context of time in which Neue Slowenishe Kunst as such appears and exists – in the context of the dissolution of socialism in former Yugoslavia. Therefore, the paper does not sees Neue Slowenische Kunst as a critics towards the socialist system being its totalitarian reflection, but more like the reflection of that that the postsocialist future will bring.

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Der visuelle Turn in der Südosteuropaforschung – kommt er oder kommt er nicht? Ein Forschungsbericht

Author(s): Karl Kaser / Language(s): German Issue: 72/2013

Since the middle of the 1990s the so-called pictorial turn or visual turn in human, cultural and social sciences has been in full swing. After two decades, we recognize the emergence of new research centres in visual studies, the foundation of pertinent journals and the conception of interdisciplinary university courses and doctoral programs on visual culture. The humanistic, cultural and social science research on and in Southeast Europe has reacted to the challenge of the visual rather reservedly. Therefore, the question whether the visual turn will establish itself in Southeast European Studies or not is not merely rhetorical. My prognosis is that it will occur because it has to occur. The digital age will not pass by without having touched Southeast European Studies and without having relieved them from the responsibility to study historical, social and religious practices and performances as well as the power and cogency of the visual.

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Uniwersytet jako przyłącze: lokalna infrastruktura społecznej zmiany

Author(s): Krzysztof Nawratek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 7/2016

Using as a pretext design proposals for University of Silesia’s campus urban development, made by the students of the second year Master of Architecture programme at the University of Plymouth in the academic year 2014—10151, the chapter explores the possibilities and conditions of existence of special urban territories, excluded from the logic of short-term profit. These types of territories exist / could exist based on different value systems, and the purpose of their existence and development should be defined based on logics going beyond the financial gain of individual or collective actors. The chapter focuses on the possibilities of the occurrence of urban spaces enabling social experiments, allowing testing post-capitalist future in a context of contemporary Polish university campus.

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Atvirumo paradigma ir liberalizmo idėjų sklaida 10-ojo dešimtmečio Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene

Author(s): Giedrius Gulbinas / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 4/2016

The article deals with the political and ideological context of the 1990s, the spread of ideas of cultural liberalism and its impact on the culture at the time. The aim of the article is to define the concept of openness as one of the main discourses in the Lithuanian contemporary art of the 1990s by revealing a complex political and cultural meaning of openness and its relation to the liberal ideology and identifying its manifestations in the processes and phenomenon of contemporary art in Lithuania. The main topic of the article is based on the concept that ideas of cultural liberalism which were popular among a significant part of intellectuals were also important to Lithuanian artists. The manifestation of institutional decentralisation, democratisation of public space, opening of the concept of art and critique of closed were visible both in common processes and directly expressed in the artworks of that time.

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Teória kultúrnych úrovní

Author(s): Alexander Plencner / Language(s): Slovak Issue: 2/2013

Autor sa v tomto článku zaoberá teóriu kultúrnych úrovní – predstavou, že kultúru možno z hľadiska kvality rozdeliť na rôzne úrovne. V koncepci- ách kultúrnych úrovní sa najčastejšie uvažuje o dichotomickom členení (vysoká kultúra a masová kultúra), alebo o trichotomickom (vysoká kultúra, stredná kultúra a nízka kultúra). Text dokumentuje ako tieto predstavy historicky vznikali, a v ktorých prame- ňoch sa objavili. Od estetickej a esencialistickej predstavy o kultúrnych rovinách článok postupne prechádza k sociologickému vymedzovaniu kultúry. Autor sa snaží ukázať, že uvažovanie o rôznych úrovniach nehovorí iba o kultúre samotnej, ale je aj určitým svedectvom o atmosfére danej doby, o intelektuáloch, ich hodnotách a zámeroch. Článok komentuje rôzne prí- stupy, ktoré ku kultúre zaujímali kritici: elitársky (typický pre konzervatívcov rovnako ako radikálov), populistický (typický pre liberálov) a sociologický. V závere autor dochádza k presvedčeniu, že členenie kultúry na vysokú, strednú a nízku je výsledkom sociálnej konštrukcie a na jednotlivé roviny kultúry by sme sa mali dívať ako na historicky podmienené sféry spotreby, ktoré si pre seba vyčlenili jednotlivé sociálne vrstvy. Argument kvality z dnešného pohľadu neobstojí. Vkus môžeme chápať ako dispozíciu, ktorá závisí od pozície jednotlivca v sociálnom systéme. Často slúži sa odlíšenie sa od iných sociálnych vrstiev. Ukazuje sa tiež, že dominantné vrstvy v spoločnosti spotrebúvajú produkty zo všetkých rovín kultúry, nielen z vysokej. Nízka kultúra alebo masová kultúra oslovuje všetky spoločenské vrstvy.

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READING ‘STUDIUM’ AND ‘PUNCTUM’ IN STEVE MCCURRY AND RAGHU RAI’S PHOTOGRAPHY

Author(s): Rajni Singh,Seema, K. Ladsaria / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

The paper attempts to study ‘studium’ and ‘punctum’ proposed by Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida with reference to the prominent photographers, Steve McCurry and Raghu Rai. It deals with the orientalist and occidentalist photographic gaze that primarily investigates the imaging of India. Steve McCurry delves on the intersubjective cultural spaces that diffract from the reciprocal exchange of images and Derridian notion of ‘interiority/exteriority’. For McCurry, photography is not a technological miracle, rather it is an extension that is evoked from the consensual relationship between the photographer and the photographic subject. Raghu Rai on the other side chooses to acknowledge reflections of the societal attitude that transform the art of living. He depicts the subject’s expression that explores the objective view of images. Hence, the paper focuses on the cultural longing and intricate relationship between cultural paradigms of the referential signs of the photographic image.

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Reliefs: Drawing with Shadows

Author(s): Márta Kovalovszky / Language(s): English Issue: 03/1995

György Jovánovics’s retrospective was one of the highlights of this year’s Venice Biennale, where many of the exhibits, to tell the truth, were something of a disappointment. It was only too obvious that the great creative trends of the ’80s had run their course, and nothing had emerged to take their place. In the French, British, Polish, Czech, and Slovak pavilions, for instance, there were works by “classics” such as Cézár, Kossoff, Opalka, Malich and Jankó vie, artists who, like Jovánovics, had ties to artistic tradition. The works of the Hungarian sculptor, however, stood out with their purposeful coherence, intellectual depth, and powerful forms.

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Zarządzanie pamięcią o Cyprianie Kamilu Norwidzie (1821–1883) w kontekście 200. rocznicy urodzin artysty

Author(s): Alicja Kędziora / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2016

This article is an attempt to locate the anniversary resolutions, adopted by the Sejm and Senate of Poland and dedicated to outstanding Polish artists, in the context of the memory management processes. The considerations, for which the starting point is the 200th anniversary of Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s birth, falling in 2021, particularly refer to the mechanisms allowing for the adoption of the resolutions and their effects in the form of cultural projects and the financial resources designated for their implementation.

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Symbolism of shells in world culture

Author(s): Eliza Rybska / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The article presents a collection of reflections on the shell as an object placed in a cultural context. Symbolism of the shell and its possible artistic representations are the main focus. There are over 30 symbols or symbolic representations of the shell classified into 7 categories. These are described with supporting examples from culture, art and myth. Particular attention was paid to the anthropological meanings of the shell with reference to characteristics or aspects of human behaviour.

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The BRB Guide to Budapest. An Arts Overview

Author(s): András Török / Language(s): English Issue: 01/1998

The following overview is for the uninitiated, not at all for the expert eye. If you want to know more about Hungarian arts and culture, from the comfort of your armchair, on a regular basis, you can’t do better than to subscribe to The Hungarian Quarterly and/or the present paper. These two quarterlies are truly Platonic shadows on the wall of the cave.

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Recenzja płyty

Author(s): Marcin M. Chrzanowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2013

Muzyka i taniec zawsze budzą emocje i zajmują wyjątkowe miejsce w życiu młodych ludzi. Muzyka stanowi szczególną formę wyrazu i – jako odrębna forma języka – pozwala się im określić, wypowiedzieć i niejednokrotnie zamanifestować swoją postawę, poglądy, czy też zdanie na jakiś temat. Potwierdzenie tych słów można znaleźć przeglądając raporty dotyczące badań zainteresowań polskiej młodzieży gimnazjalnej – w większości można znaleźć informację, że polscy gimnazjaliści w czasie wolnym słuchają muzyki.

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The Muslim Question in a Polish City: A Critical Analysis of Joanna Rajkowska’s Minaret (2009) and the Use of the City Space

Author(s): Elcin Marasil / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2016

The structural transformation of the Habermasian public sphere from the salons to the streets is directly related to understanding the boundaries of the city and the dynamics among its inhabitants today. The process of “transnationalization” via the mass media results in further “deterritorialization”, which brings with it the ambivalence of locality and universality within the same city. As the “counter-publics” continue to lack material means to rational-critical debate in envisioning the links between the city and its inhabitants, questions remain on what institutional arrangements can best facilitate participatory parity among the citizens. Joanna Rajkowska’s Minaret (2009-2011) bears a critical relationship to the city of Poznań as a site of play upon heritage, time-space relations, as well as religion. Who is the city really for – the inhabitant, the investor… the artist? Following Lefebvre’s definition and work conducted by such organizations as the UN-Habitat (2005), “the right to the city” suggests that all urban dwellers are equal participants. Does Rajkowska’s Minaret employ the best means that can ignite counter-public mobilization for Muslim minorities in Poznań, or does it simply make itself a victim to the postmodern Other?

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La mélancolie mystique et macabre du paysage breton

Author(s): Joanna Pychowska / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2016

In the short story La Sainte-Anne de Ploubazlanec two subjects dominate : the fantastic and art. The real world and the world of mystic and macabre dreams alternate in descriptions of Breton landscapes. However, its painting-like style and numerous references to art prove that E. Demolder was an excellent art critic.

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Визуализация литературных образов творчества Джона Р.Р. Толкиена

Author(s): Dmitry Lebedev Leonidovich / Language(s): English Issue: 6/2016

The theme of the report is dedicated to a number of the artists who made illustrations for the works of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien. Artists involved are Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, Donato Giancola, Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, Roger Garland, Cor Blok, Denis Gordeev and Sergey Juhimov and, of course, I could not help including the illustrations of Mr. Tolkien himself. In this research, I tried to define varieties in approaches of these artists and to understand which ideas they wanted to include in their own visions of Tolkien’s world. Considering these artists individually and together I found parallels between prominent and original artists and artists of the previous centuries. The report contains two different parts each of which analyses the problem in question from different perspectives. The first part concentrates on individualities of the artists, their styles and some references to their biographies. Differences and similarities in the works of the artists are analyzed in the second part. The research opens the way to determine, regarding all the specific qualities of each artist, both presence and absence of «the borders of fantasy».

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Czy muzyka jest ewolucyjną adaptacją?

Author(s): David Huron / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2015

In this paper it is being argued that music might be regarded as a adaptive human behavior in the light of the evolutionary process. The author recalls here the NAPS theory of music according to which music does not prolong the existence of humanity but it might use one or many channels related to feeling pleasure which had evolved to strengthen adaptive behavior. The article recalls examples of theoreis of musical evolution connected to such issues as sexual choices, social integrity, development of perception, development of movement abilities, group effort, reduction of conflict of interests, safe time consumption and communication between generations. All this evidence is being here regarded through archeological, anthropological and etological context. The conclusion of this paper is based on two assumptions. The first one is the notion that our mood is regulated through conversation and being with a friendly human. The other says that music takes and important place in this mood regulation.

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