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Script to Screen: Refining the Sense of Screenwriting and Directorial Cinema in Adapting The Da Vinci Code

Author(s): Caleb Theodar,Saranya P / Language(s): English Issue: 96/2023

This research mainly explores the connection between Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, with the filmmaker’s cinematic depiction of literature. Ron Howard as an adaptation director in the Hollywood industry is evaluated in the context of his auteurism and examined his approach of repudiating a substantial portion of the Catholic secrets which dodged the predicament of fidelity, a core of conventional Film Adaptation. Disregarding the controversy, fidelity is indeed a deliberate action overtly brought by the auteurist vision resulting from screenwriting. This article explores the modern implications of screenwriting on auteurist function, aiming at how Hollywood’s conception of the director’s auteurism in cinema works and the film’s artistic approaches from the novel to the screenplay. This study illustrates that the adaptation highlights the author’s and his work’s superiority yet emphasises the director’s technique as inevitable during the transposition.

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Zły mit. Obrazowanie międzypokoleniowych przeżyć rewolucji i wojny

Author(s): Jessica Zychowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2023

This abridged chapter from the book Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine provides a historical and theoretical context for the arts in Ukraine concerning concepts of freedom of expression, in particular among generations who emerged in the 2000s and the years leading to 2022. The author considers “intergenerational” transmissions of memory of twentieth-century wars and revolutions, in particular in those cases when the great “myths” of the Soviet past are challenged and reinvented in aesthetic experiments conducted within the post-revolutionary (post-Maidan 2013) public sphere, aimed at exposing and overturning antidemocratic rule, systematic corruption, and censorship in recent decades.

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Rasprava o Meštrovićevim Indijancima u gradu Chicagu: odnos kulture, prostora, identiteta i javne skulpture

Author(s): Silva Kalčić,Anđelko Mihanović / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2024

As part of the debate centering on the Black Lives Matter movement, the Chicago Monuments Project Commission was established in 2021, with the task of reviewing the meaning of public art, its role, message, form and medium. The discussion concluded in the summer of 2022, and it touched upon the ideological background of the pair of Indian sculptures by Ivan Meštrović, made in New York and Zagreb in 1926 and 1927, and erected in the public space of the city of Chicago in 1928. Statements by Dalibor Prančević and Barbara Vujanović, experts on Meštrović’s work and modern sculpture in Croatia, dominated the media coverage. Prančević and Vujanović “defended” the Indians because of their formal qualities and for being part of Croatian national art, relating them to the wider urban context of Chicago and considering the conditions and the circumstances of their placement in Chicago’s public space. In contrast, Nikola Vukobratović and Ivana Hanaček approached the issue from the point of view of postcolonial studies, according to which the promotion of narratives about white race supremacy and moral superiority means presenting inaccurate and/or humiliating characterizations of Native Americans. The discussion primarily revolved around whether the Indians present a selective and one-sided view of American history and whether they caricature and stereotype Native Americans, riding on the tension between the opposing opinions of the experts and the general public. Postcolonial theory primarily deals with the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized, the colonial and the postcolonial in the past and the present, and in the case of the Indians, the discussion concerned homogenized stereotypical images of others and the subtle construction of subjects from the point of view of a group antithetical to the dominant position, about which stereotypes are constructed and which is understood through these stereotypes. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the reception of the sculptures from their creation until the present day.

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Intermediality in Alasdair Gray’s "Lanark" Film Storyboard

Author(s): Petra Pugar / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

This article analyses Alasdair Gray’s storyboard for a never made film adaptation of the novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) as a self-standing intermedial artwork. It presents an argument that the specificities of the nested graphic narrative medium, or “graphicality”, can be used not only for the reading of the storyboard’s text/image/space convergence, but for a better understanding of the textual and visual elements of the source novel as well. Gray’s autoreferential process, recognized in previous analyses of his literary work, is thus approached through the optics of his foregrounded media materiality. What takes centre position is the process of realising the story, and of the new artistic object made in the process. Such an object questions the reading and viewing regimes reproduced and displaced by every artwork. The analysis of the Lanark storyboard, which is an artwork “between” literature, graphic arts, and film, is a contribution to a rising body of scholarly work that uses a comprehensive theoretical approach to gain a better understanding of such syncretic artworks.

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Народната песен на китайския етнос нанайци „Планините и реките омаяха нанайците“

Author(s): Li Gen / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 15/2024

The Hezhe people (Nanai people) are a minority ethnic group with a long history in Northeast China, who are good at singing and dancing. Their music mainly records their life and daily production, especially their fishing traditions. The article analyzes the song "Mountains and Rivers Bewitched the Nanai people", exploring the musical culture and expressions of the Nanai people and focusing on the musical structure, melody, rhythm, force, tempo and structure of the accompaniment. The role of the emotions that the song evokes is also discussed. The purpose of the article is to expand the interest in Nanai folk music, familiarization with it for the further study and even better performance of Nanai music and songs.

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Мисли към изложбата на Ангел Коцев „Тишина – равновесие между чувствата и разума“

Author(s): Elizaveta Boeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 15/2024

After observing the 20 photographs of the exhibition of Angel Kotzev the viewer is (I am) left with the feeling of unreality (the author presents this effect as aloofness): and no, this is not connected just with the abstract space, unusual tonality or the combination of objects. This is mainly because of the aesthetic taste – the aesthetics of ordinary objects, which are presented as a fantastic conventionality.

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Ecological Approach to Cinematographic Lighting of the Human Face – A Pilot Study

Author(s): Sampsa Huttunen / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2022

One key aspect of cinematographic lighting – and lighting in general – is its direction and how the lighting illuminates people and other objects of attention. In a natural setting, the light reaching the target usually has at least some level of directionality instead of being just ambient overall light. In cinematography directionality is used, among other things, to enhance the lit object’s three-dimensionality in an otherwise two-dimensional medium by bringing out its shape and texture and separating it from the background. While lighting has typically been studied based on its physical qualities that render for quantitative measures, such as intensity or color spectrum, less is known about how cinematographic lighting gives rise to the spectator’s emotive-cognitive experiences. Overall, film lighting has been studied surprisingly little, although both practical and academic literature emphasize its important role in cinematic expression. This paper presents a pilot study that examines viewers’ emotional reactions to photographs of an expressionless human face under lighting from different directions. The initial results indicate that lighting that obscures, hides, or distorts facial features creates stronger emotional reactions in the viewer than lighting that reveals them, contributing to the scientific understanding of the audience’s reactions and the filmmaker’s creative decisions.

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An Archeology of the Metaverse: Virtual Worlds and Optical Devices

Author(s): Àngel Quintana,Alan Salvadó-Romero,Daniel Pérez-Pamies / Language(s): English Issue: 10/2022

The following article comes as a result of a Spanish Ministry R&D funded project entitled “Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and Audiences”. Our starting hypothesis is that some of the central ideas that define the metaverse’s virtual imaginary can be found in some of the visual devices and apparatuses from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The article contextualizes and details how the desire for immersion, three-dimensional images, observation of replicas of our worlds, and living a non-narrative experience are contained in early optical devices such as magic lanterns, stereoscopic photography, panoramas, maréoramas or phantom rides. The main purpose is to illustrate that, despite the technological transformation, we ultimately are part of a long history where equivalences, parallelisms and returns arise between past and present times. The metaverse’s visual culture is no exception, and it gathers the imaginary of virtual worlds figured in some of the optical devices and visual spectacles of the past.

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A biosemiotic approach to landscapes: Alois Riegl’s theories of Kunstwollen and Stimmung revisited in the contexts of cognitive and evolutionary aesthetics

Author(s): Jui-Pi Chien / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2023

This study explores the art historian Alois Riegl’s heuristic terms ‘Kunstwollen’ and ‘Stimmung’ in the contexts of cognitive and evolutionary aesthetics. To begin with, the author draws on notions of instinct theorized by George Romanes, Charles Darwin and Charles Peirce. They are shown to have embraced instinct and associated it with states of mindfulness, good reasoning and intelligence of survival. Another art historian, August Schmarsow, is also shown to have favoured instinctive attitudes and mental trials and errors as the sophisticated approach to art. These rigorous theorizations of instinct serve to expand Riegl’s idea that Kunstwollen suggests a relatively strong human will and desire for art. Further, to verify how viewers may attain states of Kunstwollen and Stimmung, the author draws on two landscapes (Landscape with Roman Ruins, 1536; The Heart of the Andes, 1859) to broaden viewers’ horizons. Viewers are advised to take full advantage of the medium made up by light, air and space so as to work out perspectives that favour their mental wellbeing and the reception of artworks. Finally, the author integrates Riegl’s theories into current research and emphasizes the necessity of unifying biological and cultural factors for the attainment of knowledge or original thinking in inquiries. In brief, Riegl’s theories appear fairly biosemiotic when we consider the rich evolutionary, psychological and semiological contexts surrounding the birth of his insights.

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“The most cooperative of writers”: Brendan Behan’s Collaboration with Carolyn Swift on The Quare Fellow

Author(s): James Little / Language(s): English Issue: 67/2024

Brendan Behan was a writer for whom collaboration was a central part of the creative process. His work for the inherently social art of theatre thus provides a fascinating case study through which to examine collaborative textual geneses, particularly when there is an archival trail that enables us to analyse these collaborations. Building on the recent turn in genetic criticism towards the study of collaborative creative processes, this article draws on the recently acquired papers, at the University of Galway, of Pike Theatre co-founder Carolyn Swift, who was central to the editing of Behan’s plays for performance. Focusing on drafts of The Quare Fellow (first staged 1954), the essay shows that Swift deleted multiple instances of violent language from Behan’s manuscript, suggesting that the play’s violence was censored by this key collaborator. Bringing the tools of genetic criticism to bear on Behan’s theatre work demonstrates the significance of Swift’s role in Behan’s collaborative creative practice and the centrality of collaboration to his aesthetic. In conclusion, the article calls for a revised reader’s edition of Behan’s plays which would take into account the collaborative nature of his theatre work.

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Rowdy and Rough: Brendan Behan Sings Songs from The Hostage

Author(s): David Livingstone / Language(s): English Issue: 67/2024

Although most well-known for his plays and prose, the Irish writer Brendan Behan also recorded a number of songs, some of his own composition and others either traditional or written by contemporaries. His best-known recording, Brendan Behan Sings Irish Folk Songs and Ballads, remarkably captures not only his voice, but also his wit and distinct joie de vivre. The collection from 1960 includes not only the songs themselves (with Behan still in fine singing form), but also his introductions and wry comments on a range of subjects. The article looks at the circumstances behind the recording, the actual songs included on the album, and Behan’s ongoing commentary about a range of topics. The focus is on the first half of the recording which consists of songs from his play The Hostage, with an additional short discussion of one of his most well-known pieces, “The Auld Triangle,” which serves as an ongoing leitmotif in his earlier play, The Quare Fellow.

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Euritmijos pratimų taikymas ugdant mokinių ritmo pajautą muzikos pamokose: veiklos tyrimas 7 klasėje

Author(s): Ieva Šauklė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 2 (52)/2022

The article reviews the ideology of the É. Jaques-Dalkroze musical-rhythmic education system, the eurythmy method is described, as well as its practical significance in developing a sense of rhythm through a case study, in the 7th grade music lessons of X Pro-Gymnasium.The results of the qualitative activity study revealed that students with good coordination, reaction, and motor skills have a good sense of rhythm. The sense of rhythm of weakly sensitive/anti-arrhythmic research participants during the practice of eurythmy exercises developed positively: the reaction of the participants improved, the internal sense of time duration, body movements became more expressive during the rhythm, and anti-rhythmicity no longer appeared during the practice of eurythmy exercises. Also, after practicing eurythmy exercises, better social skills, emotional state, and positive classroom climate of the participants were observed.

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Formalųjį švietimą papildančio muzikinio ugdymo proceso kokybės tobulinimas taikant savivaldų mokymąsi: atvejo analizė

Author(s): Loreta Venslavičienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 2 (52)/2022

Music education, which complements formal education, is, in the essence of the realization of its educational process, close to the essence of the self-directed learning process, therefore there are theoretical and practical possibilities for the realization of self-directed learning in a music school. The application of self-directed learning redistributes the power and responsibilities of the participants of the educational process, therefore opportune preconditions are created for the change of the interaction between the pupil and the educator and for the transition from teaching to learning. Therefore, the provision is observed that the implementation of self-directed learning in educational practice changes the quality of the educational process. The article analyzes how the self-directed learning, established in the educational process of a specific music education institution (music school) that complements formal education changes the interaction between the pupil and the educator, what circumstances are significant, what are the links with the quality of the educational process. The analysis of the results of the empirical research allows us to state that teachers understand self-directed learning and its importance theoretically, but teaching itself has not become a natural strategy for organizing the educational process; fragmentary features of pupils’ self-direction are seen, positions of learning power are more characteristic of teachers than pupils.

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Hiroshima’s Bag Lady

Author(s): Luciana Nunes Nacif / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

What is considered ugly, grotesque or unpleasant by the fashion world? The ﬁrst collection presented by Rei Kawakubo in Paris was classiﬁed as offensive to Western aesthetic standards, for it questioned the French ideal of beauty and elegance. Through silhouettes covered in frayed, perforated and monochromatic fabrics, Kawakubo disrupted the established notion of the beautiful body, stripping it of the clichés of femininity, explicit sexuality and glamour. Under the lens of Vilém Flusser’s philosophy, the Japanese fashion designer created the new, the beautiful, that which is capable of expanding the parameters of the real.

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The Essence of Perception - An Artist’s View

Author(s): Helga Griffiths / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2024

Helga Griffiths, a Germany-based multi-sense artist, explores the intersection of art, science, and technology through her innovative installations. Her work often incorporates olfactory elements to enhance the sensory experience and evoke memories and emotions. Griffiths' notable projects include "Observatorium," which used a device to release scents in sync with video scenes, and "Space Souvenirs," which created scents representing different planets. She has exhibited internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and the Nevada Museum of Art. Her installations aim to expand perceptual horizons by transforming technical data into multi-sensory experiences. Griffiths' work emphasizes the subjective nature of smell and its powerful connection to memory and identity. She has received numerous awards and residencies, and her work is featured in several permanent collections and publications. Her recent projects include "18C Essence of Coal," which explores the transformation of coal and its symbolic significance.

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Xenakis – Heidegger: Common Paradigms of Worldview

Author(s): Iryna Riabchun / Language(s): English Issue: 117/2023

The article presents a study of piano work by Iannis Xenakis in connection with the peculiarities of the composer’s personality. A comparison is made between Martin Heidegger's philosophy and the writings of Iannis Xenakis. Biographical paradigms of I. Xenakis’s compositions with the focus on his opuses for piano accompanied by a symphony orchestra, are studied. The primary themes of the composer's work including antiquity, alienation, loss of mother, experience of a trauma are established. The philosophical aspects of the compositions Eonta, Synaphaï, Erikhthon, and Kegrops are compared with the concepts of Heidegger's Being and Time. The issue of “being thrown into being” mentioned by M. Heidegger is investigated in I. Xenakis’ Concert Erikhthon. It is concluded that I. Xenakis and M. Heidegger share common views on the unity of the ancient Greek philosophical foundation and its relation to the modern world.

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Stylistic Heritage of Ukrainian Avant-Garde Theatrical Costume

Author(s): Iryna Ivanivna Nesen / Language(s): English Issue: 117/2023

The article offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and significance of avant-garde theatrical costumes in Ukrainian art during the early 20th century. Distinctly emphasizing the shift of stage costume from mere functional apparel to a symbolic imagery, the study investigates the blending of local Ukrainian traditions with external avant-garde influences from Western Europe and Russia. It underscores the significant roles of artists like Malevich and Exter in the fusion of futurism and cubism within theatrical designs. The avant-garde movement in Ukraine transformed theatrical costume design by introducing non-standard shaping methods, innovative materials, and techniques that prioritize symbolic over aesthetic values. The article concludes with the avant-garde's revolutionary impact on scenographic approaches, accentuating its role in the artistic synthesis of performance, stage design, and costuming. This study serves as a crucial reference for scholars exploring avant-garde influences in theatrical design and its implications in art history and theatre studies.

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Auksinės sraigės opera kaip antropoceninės savivokos apraiška

Author(s): Vytautas Rubavičius / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 119/2024

Drawing on the example of the “Golden Snail Opera”, the article discusses the essential aspects of the cultural, scientific and political impact of contemporary art, which is rising ecological awareness and appealing to the understanding of the challenges of the Anthropocene. By transcending the distinction between nature and culture through works of art or artistic political events, the prevailing idea of the aesthetic relationship with the work of art and the theoretization based on it are becoming meaningless. The primary is an artistic exploratory political process involving the wider community. The group of 4 women artists and scientists who created the "Golden Snail Opera" is an example of the unbreakable globalization of East and West, as well as the cultures and scientific institutions of the global South and North. In the video of 7 actions with a prologue and an epilogue, there are three characters, whose texts can be read by one or three voices, and the connection of the work is performed on Taiwanese drums. The work was created by filming and recording the specific experience of a particular farming in the cultivation of rice in an area of Taiwan, it collected and summarized large-scale, diverse scientific data that showed how lifestyles and people's self-awareness changed in this area, how modern capitalism "broke" traditions, how people were forced to adapt to new living conditions, which increasingly began to be associated with the events of globalization and their consequences. The main character of the opera is a golden snail appearing in its own sounds and images, brought from Argentina and became a harmful invasive species with which humans began to learn to coexist. The article also uses other works of ecological scientific artistic research that develop a "more than human" attitude towards the world or an "ontological turn", and highlights the aspect of the world's multispecies consciousness and spirituality that emerges in these arts. In this aspect the experience of the life of mankind is accumulated.

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Mythology, Demonology, and Symbolism in Art Education: Fostering Creativity and Critical Thinking in Students

Author(s): Karim Baigutov / Language(s): English Issue: 119/2024

This study explores the integration of mythology, demonology and symbolism within art education to enhance students' creativity and critical thinking skills. It explores the intersection of these themes with art education, providing a rich tapestry for students to explore and interpret. Drawing on historical and cultural contexts, it highlights the influence of religious beliefs, philosophical debates and symbolic representations on artistic expression. By incorporating insights from demonology, students engage with themes of darkness, temptation and the supernatural, fostering a deeper understanding of moral struggles and spiritual warfare. In addition, the study discusses how mythology and symbolism provide a framework for students to explore diverse cultural narratives and visual languages, encouraging critical analysis and interpretation of artistic representations. Through interdisciplinary explorations, students are encouraged to examine the interconnectedness of human action, natural phenomena and the metaphysical realm, leading to a deeper appreciation of the complexity of human experience. Ultimately, this approach to art education aims to nurture students' creativity, broaden their perspectives and cultivate their ability to engage critically with diverse artistic expressions and cultural contexts.

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„Konceptuální literatura“: Zamyšlení nad problematickou kategorií

Author(s): Pascal Mougin / Language(s): Czech Issue: 69/2024

The article explores the concept of conceptual literature, a term that emerged in the 1990s and remains loosely defined, particularly in the Francophone world. Unlike conceptual art, which is well-documented and theoretically established, conceptual literature lacks a clear definition and is often confused with experimental literature or constrained writing. The article discusses the challenges of applying the term "conceptual" from visual arts to literature and highlights the differences in how the term is perceived in French and Anglo-Saxon contexts. It also examines the influence of Oulipo and the idea of literature as a set of protocols or actions rather than traditional narratives. The text delves into various forms of conceptual writing, including aleatoric texts, mannerist texts, ready-made texts, and illegible texts, and their implications for contemporary literary practices.

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