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Serghei Crețu și muzica neo-tradițională: traseul de creație în perioada sovietică

Author(s): Vasile Chiseliță / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

The study „Sergei Cretu and neo-traditional music: the creative path in the Soviet period” sketches a brief portrait of the artist, highlighting the important biographical data on specialized studies, the context of professional evolution in the Soviet period of the 1960s-1980s, marked by the so-called „new wave of folklore”. Special emphasis is placed on the refl ection of his activity as a dulcimer player, arranger and composer in the Popular Stage Orchestra and in the „Folclor” Orchestra of the Moldovan Republican Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Th e main compartments and aesthetic directions in the his interpretive and compositional creation, the structure of the genres and styles, including the place, the sources and the social motivations of the works of Soviet ideological inspiration and instrumentalization are also highlighted. Th e study capitalizes on documents, data and information from the Archive of the „Teleradio-Moldova” Company, materials from the press of the time, audio and video sources as well as a series of concepts from modern specialty literature, able to promote the interpretation and analysis of cultural facts.

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Discursurile muzicale cultural distincte în noile școli componistice de la sfârșitul sec. al XIX-lea — începutul sec. XX

Author(s): Valeria Barbas / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

In this article is analyzed the correlation of the concepts of music and identity is analyzed, in which music lends itself as one of the key elements of identity, because it off ers a perception of the self, but also of the collective. Th e concept of musical identity was the main focus in the creation of new national musical schools (Eastern Europe). Musical compositional creation that tended to embody tradition has served as a powerful cultural resource for nationalism since the 19th century. Th e compositional vector was directed, on the one hand, to get out of the crisis of the romantic music trend, and on the other hand, to strengthen the new national schools in the states of Eastern Europe, where the academic musical culture was at a relatively young stage. In the post-romantic crisis, the appeal to formulas of folklore origin brought a new breath, diversifying the musical language and the means of expression, in order to affi rm musical cultures (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania), etc. Th e new states, previously under the infl uence of the great empires, distanced themselves somewhat from Western musical culture, a fact that allowed, on the one hand, the creation of national schools and the preservation of traditions in the conditions of essential changes in European, pan-European and world composition.

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PERFORMANCE ART AS A POTENTIAL FORM OF BENJAMINIAN AURATIC EXPERIENCE

Author(s): Daniela Vizireanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 36/2024

The following paper aims to briefly analyze how Frankflurt School theorist Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘aura’ from his unfinished essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ can be reactualized in the context of performance art, using as a case of study the works of two émigré artists in North America between 70s – 80s: Ana Mendieta and Tehching Hsieh. Benjamin discusses the work of art in the age of its technical reproductibility in which the artistic product loose its authenticity, its uniqueness given by its creative process and its tradition throughtout the centuries (historical object). The auratic experience can be represented in the performative moment when the human body becomes, perhaps, the most authentic artistic product because the performer leaves himself to the will of the audience. In many cases, a performance can be considered interactive art because the audiece becomes the participant, as can be seen in the case of Marina Abramović and Chris Burden’s works. Hence, performance art has a powerful militant dimension in which its cultural and social worth are being assessed.

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NEO-INTERTEXTUALITY: FAN FICTION AS A CONTEMPORARY PHENOMENON

Author(s): Andra-Astrid Belibou / Language(s): English Issue: 36/2024

Fan Fiction presents itself as a form of creative expression in which fans of various forms of media contribute to their communities with engaging stories. With the rising popularity of this genre as a vibrant and dynamic aspect of contemporary popular culture, this paper will provide an overview on its emergence, its particularities, and its roots in fan communities with the purpose of understanding how it shapes and reflects contemporary media landscapes. Further, the implications of Fan Fiction’s ties with intertextuality for notions of authorship, creativity, and participatory culture in an age in which the concept of authorship has begun to lose its meaning and value.

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Arta şi limbajul în viziunea lingvisticii integrale a lui Eugeniu Coşeriu

Author(s): Angela Savin-Zgardan,Ion Manoli / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

In the present study, we address the conception of the philosopher and linguist Eugeniu Coseriu regarding culture and the common features between art and language, as constituents of culture, as well as the distinctive feature between them. With respect to culture, therefore - to art and language, the scholar claims that any human activity has its internal norm, a norm that implies a certain morality and a certain ethics of this activity. In art, the norm is not to make any concession to the empirical subject, which means that the universal subject in the person of the artist, who is also an ethical and moral person, should create in the way he/she considers, but not according to the taste of the public or of any party. These norms imply for culture and, respectively, for art and language, constancies such as: universality, non-dogmatics, tradition, national specificity, universal culture, culture in history, the relevance of culture, the duty of man of culture, of art, to the cultural situation of his community in history. In the matter of the differentiated characteristic between art and language, with the exclusion of poetic language, which is considered to be art in the conception of the great linguist, it is about the characteristic of the universal subject that excludes alterity in art, but which is specific to language. However, in the end, as far as art and poetic language are concerned, the existence of alterity is admitted on the condition that „the absolute self” addresses „the internalized self” of the creator in art.

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Ipostaze ale adaptării melosului psaltic la prozodia şi topica limbii române în prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea

Author(s): Violina Galaicu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

If the 18th century initiated - through Psaltichia Rumănească by Filotei sin Agăi Jipei - the process of autochthonization of psalter singing in the Romanian area, and then it ensured its upward course, the first half of the 19th century marks the zenith of the approach, bringing in the foreground personalities such as Macarie Hieromonk and Anton Pann. Both the Macarian concept of Romanization of sacred singing, as well as Anton Pann’s achievements in this domain, have a certain artistic and instructive value and, in their time, were affirmed as attitudes and models to follow. At the same time, the current Byzantinistics insists on the limited character of these contributions, showing that the two precursors only referred to Constantinopolitan singing after 1814 and did not capitalize on the old autochthonous liturgical music, did not take into account the psalter singing from villages, close to the folkloric matrix. They aimed especially at the text of the pew singing and not at the musical background, which changes only to a small extent.

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Le Modèle Dramatique Du Roman Français Du XIXe Siècle

Author(s): Elena PRUS / Language(s): French Issue: 2/2023

The dramatic model is associated with the entire generation at the end of the 19th century, a time of “generalized staging” with a predisposition for the spectacular. The city is perceived as a scenic place. A true phantasmagorical space, the urban space dramatizes the inhabitants who are transformed, in turn, into actors. Paris, in the 19th century, was not only the place of famous world exhibitions, it became itself an object of exhibition, thus spreading its influence over people and things. All the French novelists of the 19th century experienced theatrical training, having launched certain dramatic projects (Balzac, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Zola, Daudet, Flaubert, and Goncourt). The novel of the studied period has a visible organization, dramatic pattern, and vision associated with a time that presupposes a generalized dramatization of society. The theatrical metaphor appears frequently in the 19th century novel to denounce the hypocrisy of society which hides dubious things under honest appearances. This is the leitmotif of the realist/naturalist novel, which aims at revealing and develop realities in profusion. Social relations, places, behaviors are placed under the sign of appearance, of the mask. The itinerary of the characters consists in learning the scenic regularities behind the scenes of the sets, as well as the techniques, which precede the performance. The success of the hero is largely based on his skills to play the role. The drama of the novel speaks of the fragile boundary between genres in the 19th century and characterizes the new poetics of the novel.

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Relations of dance culture and social structure in a Moldavian rural community

Author(s): Vivien Bondea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

The social structure of the Moldavian Csángó settlements and the social systems that form in the dance scenes significantly determine the possibility of participation in dance occasions and the formal and stylistic performance of dances. The gender, age, and marital status of community members, as well as the specific position of dancers and the relationship between them, are revealed in dance forms and practices of space use on the dance floor, individual dance construction, and dancers’ behaviour. Through the study of local dance cultures, a social structure is observable that is held together by gendered and generationally defined norms, rules, and obligations. This makes dancing a socially defined collective activity in rural communities in Moldavia, Romania. The aim of this study is to interpret the representational practices of age and social status in dance culture, which are constantly changing, through the example of dance events, especially weddings, in a single Moldavian Csángó village.

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Dansul folcloric în procesul educaţional

Author(s): Svetlana Talpă / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

Current research highlights the importance of art and its benefits in the holistic development of the individual in the educational process. The literature focuses mainly on the visual arts and music, while studies on dance, namely folk dance, and its contribution to the overall health of the individual are just beginning. The aim of the present study was to analyze the contribution of folk dance and its identity dimension in examining the holistic approach of the individual in the educational process. In particular, the contribution of folk dance during the school age represents the foundation of the development of the individual and his holistic approach. Folk dance is a practice of forming the cultural identity of individuals that allows them to self-identify, on the one hand, and redefine themselves on the other. Certain characteristics of mental resilience studied in relation to folk dance appear to contribute positively to children’s holistic psycho-emotional development, providing multiple benefits. Research has shown that folk dance works beneficially and holistically across all ages, genders, socio-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Thus, this article reports the conclusions of a study in the field of artistic-choreographic education highlights the identity dimension, the ends and goals of folk dance in the educational process.

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Mitul personal al Carpaţilor reîntregiţi al lui Emil Loteanu: ipostazele confesionale

Author(s): Ana-Maria Plămădeală / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

The originality of Emil Loteanu’s talent in the cinematographic sphere is strengthened by the consonance of the conception of Nature in the ideal and confessional hypostases propelled by the grand romantics, with Romanian patterns of nature-centric parentage. The article discusses the phenomenon of crystallization of the personal Myth of the Carpathians reintegrated as a philosophical-aesthetic and genuine-stylistic binder, which interpenetrates all the poetic and cinematic creation of the artist. This myth of the filmmaker’s myths simultaneously contains the cardiography of the turbulent history of the nation, but also of the personal life of the filmmaker-orphaned by his father and by both homelands of his childhood, who took refuge in the catharsis of the splendors of the Carpathians, bringing back in his inspired films the estranged Bucovina into a spiritual, aesthetic, civic whole. In the paper, Emil Loteanu’s creation is related to the sacred monsters of the world film, especially O. Welles, F. Fellini, I. Bergman, A. Tarkovski, who also through their personal myths revealed their unconscious personality to mankind, but also the hierarchies of spiritual values of world images.

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Semnificaţiile drumului în filmele inspirate din poveştile lui Ion Creangă

Author(s): Violeta Tipa / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2023

The article highlights the paradigm of the road, starting with biblical stories, myths and folk stories up to the image of the road presented in the youngest art - cinematography - where it is involved both functionally and symbolically-metaphorically. The road becomes a fundamental element, especially in the road movie genre, which obviously broadens its boundaries, discussing the most current issues. The emphasis will be on the meanings of the road in a special genre, the films-tales, and in particular, those inspired by Ion Creangă’s works. Arming ourselves with the theories of Vladimir Propp and those of Joseph Campbell, we will go through the interpretations of Crengian fairy tales in the films: De-ași fi…Harap Alb/If I were Harap Alb (1965), Povestea dragostei/Love story (1976), Maria Mirabela (1981) - all directed Ion Popescu Gopo, Se caută un paznic/ Looking for a guard (1965) by Gheorghe Vodă and Dănilă Prepeleac (1996) by Tudor Tătaru. The road in the mentioned films is one of the basic elements: from the road of knowledge of the world and the internal road to oneself, to becoming a personality, as well as other meanings that we will detect in the analysis process.

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Манипулятивная природа визуальных медия: от рукотворных образов до генеративных дипфейков

Author(s): Natalia Krivulya / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2023

The paper explores the problems of manipulation and reliability of information in the visual media. Manipulation is part of their essence. Distortions in the message arise from a shift in attention from reality as such to how it’s seen by others or who and how it’s represented. The objective vision is replaced by a presentation of the vision of others in visual media. This opens up the possibility of manipulation and becomes the reason for the creation of visual falsifications. Modernity has become the era of post-truth. Visual media are increasingly shifting towards total falsification with the development of digital technologies, artificial intelligence. The generated image turns out to be more real and reliable than reality itself. This paper uses the classification of visual media images based on how they are created. An attempt is made to identify the causes of distortions in the representation of reality at different stages of the development of visual media. The article analyzes how the technologies of creating visual images affect the development of manipulative and falsifying practices that undermine the credibility of the visual message.

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ZAANGAŻOWANIE ŚRODOWISKA TEATRALNEGO W SPRAWY PUBLICZNE W OKRESIE OD CZERWCA 1989 DO GRUDNIA 1990 ROKU. REKONESANS

Author(s): Przemysław Brzuszczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2024

This paper is an attempt at analysing the involvement of the theatrical community in public affairs in the period extending from the June 1989 elections and the preceding electoral campaign, to the downfall of Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s cabinet in December 1990. The community opinion leaders jointly supported the direction of political transition presented by “our Prime Minister’s” government. The old masters (Gustaw Holoubek, Andrzej Łapicki, Andrzej Szczepkowski, Andrzej Wajda) decided to run in the 1989 elections under the banner of “Solidarność”, while the director of the Teatr Nowy in Poznań (Izabella Cywińska) was appointed Minister of Culture and Art in Mazowiecki’s cabinet. The group of supporters of the Prime Minister, as well as his political team, included many of the leading figures from theatre circles. This paper highlights their public activity, the means of expression they used for this purpose, and the fora where such activity occurred. The theatrical community, already well-accustomed to an allusive style of acting, so characteristic of the Polish People’s Republic, had problems finding its way in the newly emerging liberal democracy.

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From Post-Modernism To Critical Art

Author(s): Grzegorz Jarmocewicz / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

“[…]. Human existence – a vast, unlimited space of reﬂections on life and death, in the ﬁelds of philosophy, morals, history, culture… Grzegorz Jarmocewicz, reaching into all these areas and categories, gives us his own interpretations to launch in us layers of associations and references to our own experiences. […]”. Critic, art historian Marek Grygiel. “[…]. Jarmocewicz’s work presents a variety in the form of a search. It contains a modernist tradition, as well as an oppositional, postmodernist tradition. From the psychological side, through a speciﬁc form, it is contained between heaven and hell. […]”. Critic, art historian Dr. Krzysztof Jurecki. “ […]. (His photographs are) economic reﬂections of the diversity of cultural codes, which are the artist’s modest contribution to certain areas of reﬂection, at the same time deﬁning them and remaining outside the framework of the term […]”. Prof. Jerzy Olek. “ […]. He ﬁts in with his attitude and creative search in the area of photographers of philosophers who, with the help of their pictures-photographs, reﬂect on life, death, time, history, culture. […]”. Prof. Marek Szyryk.

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Walking with a Camera

Author(s): Peter Korček / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

In his work, the author primarily focuses on the urban landscape and its impacts on human life. His entire documentary work is linked by a unified authorial idea. In the “Jungle City” cycle, he works with the visual counterpart of the current form of the Bratislava metropolis, full of transportation routes, dense modern development, and concrete surfaces. The means to create unexpected views of the city for him are carefully selected locations on the urban peripheries surrounded by dense vegetation – trees and wild grasses. He thus achieves a completely new view of Bratislava, in which it returns to the wilderness. The project “Quiet Sunday Afternoons in the Town by the Refinery” is the author’s reflection on the impacts of industry in the rural surroundings. The focal point is the technical structure of an oil factory, which covers a significant part of an otherwise tranquil landscape of a small Austrian town. However, through austere visual expression, Korček delivers an urgent message about the adverse impact of the factory on the ecosystem. As part of the series “Here Is Our Paradise”, which unifies the theme of lawns and trees, Korček addresses the disruption of the stereotype of urban housing estates through the small self-help interventions of their residents. While walking with a camera, he supplements these plants with various found mixtures of folk interventions placed in front of panel buildings. In the “Searching” series, he adopts the position of an observer of urban movement, consisting of figures of pedestrians in narrow rays of the low-lying sun. This time he works in the environment of New York, but unlike the previous series, he does not specify this location, only utilizing its elemental potential. Korček does not work with photographic effects; he fully utilizes the poetics of the chosen locations. He skillfully works with perspective, multiple plans, or the selection of a location. Through their specific combination, he succeeds in creating authentic images of the location, in which we still find a lot of personal fantasy.

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Discourse Of Expression Of Image Representations In Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

Author(s): Hana Pravdová,Magdaléna Ungerová / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The presented study deals with the issue of the discourse of pictorial portrayals in present-day audiovisual culture. The authors aim to find the basic parameters of the current discourse and discursive practices within audiovisual creation, especially film and television. They define basic concepts and categories and submit them to analysis. From this aspect, they examine aesthetic categories, especially aesthetic values and functions in relation to the interpretation of image representations. They formulate the premise that the expressions of visual presentations are reflections of the digital technical-technological platform of audiovisual making, the ethos of postmodernity and postmodernism, and the ideal of consumption of experiences as one of the most important values of present-day Western civilization. In a logical sequence, they deal with the matter of the ethos and value-related frameworks of postmodernism as relevant factors that condition the discursive practices of audiovisual creators. On the other hand, they name the mindsets of individuals, recipients of audiovisual statements, testifying to their specific desires for emotional encounters. They reach the conclusion that the discourse of the expression of visual representations in contemporary audiovisual culture has clearly defined parameters of creative approaches and reception expectations.

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Men With No Story. On The Work And Exhibition Kronos By Martina Lukić

Author(s): Martina Ivičič / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

The article reviews Martina Lukić's exhibition "Kronos," which juxtaposes analog and digital photography, specifically the historical anthotype technique with AI-generated visuals. Lukić explores the relationship between subject and object, creating anthotypic portraits using AI tools like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. The process involves generating negatives, applying natural dyes like turmeric and cherry juice to paper, and exposing them to UV light. The exhibition reflects on themes of time, power, and the ephemeral nature of images, questioning the distinction between human and AI perception of wisdom and emotion.

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Świat orientu w baśniach Bolesława Leśmiana. Wizja pisarza, odbiór czytelniczy i recepcja teatralna

Author(s): Adrian Uljasz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2016

The theme of the article is a vision of the world of the Orient, presented by Boleslaw Leśmian in Klechdy sezamowe and in the novel Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza, as well as readers’ and theaters’ reception of those pieces. The aim of the author was to popularize the vision of the writer in terms of problem-analyzing and to see how his pieces are received by the audience. The author analyzed the literary works of Leśmian, their reviews and other source materials connected to them. He analyzed the most important graphic editions of both books. He studied the opinions found on the Internet reading portals, paying attention to their quality and quantity. Knowledge about the reception of theaters’ came from analysis of the data on portal e-teatr.pl, posters, placards and theatre programs, as well as press releases. Research results were synthesized in the text of the publication. From the analysis of the research materials it appears that tales of Leśmian are still popular among both children and adults. They are also highly rated by readers. Adaptations of these works are very popular in theaters. The reception of Klechdy sezamowe and Przygody Sindbada Żeglarza shapes openness to cultural diversity of people reading books and visiting theaters.

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(Nie tylko) książki o sztuce dla młodego odbiorcy

Author(s): Sylwia Borowik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 12/2014

The aim of the article is to present the selected educational books on art, which can be divided into: informative positions, encyclopedic positions, exhibitions guides and books promoting cultural institutions; books inspired by the selected artworks; “kreatywniki – ćwiczenniki” (creativebooks – exercisebooks; books which develop the child’s creativity). These are books that promote art collections, exhibitions, and other artistic-cultural events, as well as develop the imagination and creativity of a young reader. It is extremely important for the children to take part in a widely understood culture, and thanks to educational books they shape their artistic sense and gain the habit of interacting with art.

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Styl ilustracji Edwarda Okunia w czasopiśmie „Chimera”

Author(s): Ewelina Saczko / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2005

In 1901-1907, Edward Okuń was the illustrator of “Chimera”, a Warsaw literary and ar-tistic magazine. In his work, he yielded to the influence of secession and to the climate of symbolism. When illustrating literary works, he omitted their literal meanings, in favour of their synthetic generalizations, and he treated their contents only as an inspiration of original artistic visions. In his pictures, he visualized those text fragments and motifs which were characterized by extreme emotions, e.g. sorrow, despair, euphoria. In his compositions, Okuń used imagery drawing upon both symbolism (fantastic visions of longing, spiritual travel, death), and impressionism (graphic expression of the emotions hidden in the creations of the characters), formally utilizing achievements of secession, tradition of pre-Raphaelites, and elements of Japanese art. Thus, he created unique illustrations kept within the symbolic-fantastic trend. The article presents graphic transpositions of the literary contents, based on the examples of Okuń’s illustrations to the following works: J. Zayer’s King Kofetua, A. Lange’s Ponder-ings, T. Miciński’s In the Darkness of the Stars, B. Leśmian’s A Fairy Tale of the Lord’s Knight, and J. Kasprowicz’s Judas, published in “Chimera”.

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