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Boxers, Cue Balls, and Comedians: E. E. Cummings’ Polytexts

Author(s): Vakrilen Kilyovski / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

Poetry and painting were “the twin obsessions” of the American modernist E. E. Cummings. His engagement with more than one artistic practice makes his work suitable for a case study of polytextuality, which is the purpose of the present article. First, a brief theoretical introduction to polytextuality is offered. Then, four of Cummings’ poems are read against the background of their visual counterparts. Since the poem-picture pairs are treated as polytexts, the discussion focuses on the “intersemiotic transposition” involved in the process of transferring thematic and material data from one sign system to another.

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Ритуалното измерение на материалите, използвани от Йозеф Бойс в „акциите“ му

Author(s): Mihaela-Florina Tănase / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2022

The current report takes into consideration the relationship between art and spirituality, as reflected in Joseph Beuys’s Aktionen (actions), focusing on the use of materials as vehicles of transport of energy and means of sculpting the social body, while transforming the human being into a creative one. Our attempt is to demonstrate, by analyzing the artist’s performative work, the iconography related to his actions; his declarations and talks; that the actionist artist surpasses the artistic and social dimensions of his work and, particularly, of the materials he uses towards a spiritual and ritual dimension, as mirrored in his actions, doubled by a deep understanding of spirituality as the foundation of his work.

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Теодора Хаджидимитрова (1884 – 1963). Ролята на жената художник в България

Author(s): Krasimir Dobrev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

Teodora Hadzhidimitrova (1884–1963) was a painter, pedagogue, fashion designer, decorator, folklorist, local historian, the first female art teacher and municipal councillor, defender of women’s rights, writer, and founding member of the following societies: Ravnopravie (Equality), Rodno izkustvo (Native Art), the Society of the Sliven artists, and the Club of cultural figures in Sliven. She was the first compiler and publisher of a Bulgarian textbook on the history of clothing.

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Грейсън Пери. Постигна ли художествената керамика своя Ренесанс?

Author(s): Mitko Sabev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2022

In 2003, the prestigious Turner Prize for Contemporary Art of the Tate Britain Museum was awarded to the artist Grayson Perry for his painted ceramic vases. This award has been described by many institutions across Europe as a positive reappreciation of the ceramic material in the contemporary art world, and Grayson Perry has been seen as a precursor of the long-awaited ‘renaissance’ of ceramics. When compared to contemporary artworks executed in other materials, contemporary works using or entirely executed in ceramics show no thematic or expressive limitations conditioned by the specific qualities of the ceramic material. However, ceramics still has a very limited presence on the contemporary art stage. Historically layered cultural classification prejudices in society and the difficult specificity of the ceramic metalanguage are cited as the main reasons for the undervaluation of this material.

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Școala autohtonă de giuvaiergerie: nume necunoscute și pe nedrept pierdute

Author(s): Liliana Condraticova / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

Associated in workshops or as freelancers, working mainly in the city of Chișinău as one of the most important socio-economic and cultural centers of the country, jewelers and craftsmen have left an indisputable legacy, conceived in many articles of historical, artistic and memorial value. The 1972–1991 years were marked by the founding of the Jewellery Workshop of the Plastic Fund of the UNAP (1972), which allowed the concentration and unification of the efforts of the few artists who artistically processed metals. The jewelers worked in the Jewellery Workshop, promoting and continuing the traditions of the local school, they created decorative articles and author jewelry. They created professional articles, from an artistic and technological point of view, and participated at exhibitions. The aim of this article is to bring into prominence the name of a few artists from MSSR, who worked at the Jewellery Workshop since its foundation and had an essential impact in the assertion of the art of metals in the MSSR. The local school included craftsmen, who studied at artistic educational institutions from MSSR, as well as those self-taught in the metal art field. Names like Ovidiu Alexeenco, Valeriu Vinitchi, Vasile Shocin hold a special place alongside such artists, as Oleg Barascov, Gheorghe Cojusnean, Vladimir Kalasnikov, Semion Odainic, Natalia Vavilina, Victor Rotari etc., who developed together the local school in the field of metal art.

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În zodia pandemiei

Author(s): Andreea Scrumeda / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2023

The present paper aims to chronologically and comparatively present the evolution of human behavior, from the first recorded pandemics to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are interested in the attribution of these infectious disease’s origin, as well as in the literary and artistic manifestations that represented these disasters. While in the Antiquity the pagan philosopher Porphyry of Tire lamented the rise of Christianity, blaming it for the appearance of the plague, in Middle Ages Europe, Christians looked for scapegoats among the religious minorities. Epidemics and pandemics also proved to be an irresistible subject for many writers; in visual arts, the Great Plague of the Middle Ages inspired the iconographic theme Danse Macabre. Today, movies deal with this topic from an apocalyptic perspective, thus marking a return to the ancient conceptions of plagues. We also find that, from the Middle Ages to the present day, the popular reactions are broadly the same, including negationism, misinformation and mistrust of authorities. Apart from questionable cures, the tendency to reject sanitary measures has also been survived, especially since social media currently provide a huge amount of right and of false information, hard to classify.

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RÖNESANS DÖNEMİ İTALYAN TABLOLARINDA MÜCEVHER VE TAKI

Author(s): Meral Kiliçarslan Khodaei / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 80/2023

Jewelry is an ancient phenomenon that dates back to the time when man began to rule the earth. People who feel weak against nature, first started to use jewelry for totemic purposes. They moved the jewelry, which she started to use for totemic purposes, to another dimension with the discovery and processing of the mine, it brought together artists from different disciplines with the emergence of jewels with the glamorous splendor of the finest tastes throughout history. While observing the stages of jewelry and jewelery, which has been affected by social events such as scientific developments, geographical discoveries and various art movements, we can see that this process, which forms the basis of today's jewelry, is a part of its social history. Although jewelery changes with the trends and needs in clothing fashion, it has been given serious and important meanings in every age. The fact that humanism, which emerged especially in the Renaissance period, valued human beings as an individual, made the jewelry a part of the clothing by removing the jewelry from being merely the ornament of the ruler, and as the attention paid to the outer appearance of the person and the clothing. Thus, Renaissance jewelery and jewels have been revealed as a mirror reflecting social development as a document reflecting the artistic understanding of the period. We can read the most striking examples of renaissance jewelery and jewelery, which have few examples today due to fashion trends, economic and political reasons, from the paintings of the goldsmith-origin painters of the period. In this article, the jewelery and jewelery in the paintings of the painters of Italy and Italy Florence, when the Renaissance emerged, were examined, the artistic understanding of the period was researched, and the social, economic and cultural structure of the period was emphasized through the development stages of jewelry.

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ВИТОКИ ФЕНОМЕНУ ІЛЮЗІОНІЗМУ В СИНКРЕТИЧНИХ ФОРМАХ КУЛЬТУРИ

Author(s): Mark Zhavoronkov / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the article is to investigate the origins of illusionism art in syncretic forms of culture. The research methodology consists in the application of analytical, semiotic, and hermeneutic methods in the study of illusionism as a phenomenon of folk creativity that serves as a means of communication, accumulating a layer of sociocultural experience of the society. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time the phenomenon of illusionism art is analysed in the cultural plane. In our research the illusionism art consists of works belonging to various genres that arise in a certain environment and perform ritual-magical, ceremonial, and entertainment functions, representing a cross-section of concrete-historical mass consciousness and culture. Conclusions. The illusionism art, which comprise illusion and manipulation, is a separate cultural phenomenon that incorporates a number of religious beliefs, folklore traditions, and samples of artistic creativity, forming as a process of social interaction. Illusionism combines the results of the evolution of knowledge and methods of their representation with the elements of general communication that form a symbiosis of cognitive and entertaining cultural content. As a means of intercultural communication based on a verbal and non-verbal component, illusionism has shown the ability to form social and cultural dialogue, which affected the general dynamics of cultural processes in the development of society.

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НАЦІОНАЛЬНІ АРХЕТИПИ В СУЧАСНОМУ ЗМІСТІ МОДЕЛІ ЯПОНСЬКОЇ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ

Author(s): Sofiia Ruskykh / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the article is to reveal the content and main directions of implementation of the model of cultural policy in Japan. Its peculiarities related to the traditional worldview, visuality, sensuality, and oriental aesthetics, and combined with the orientation towards human values are substantiated. This model, the main recipient of which is young people, unlike many models of Western countries, is implemented within the framework of mass culture, significantly influences American culture and is attractive to residents of other regions. The researchmethodology consists in the use of such approaches as synchronic and diachronic analysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics in the selection and analysis of works of art, strategies of cultural policy of Japan. Scientific novelty of the work is the first cultural analysis of the combination of traditional and modern cultural heritage in such leading genres of Japanese visual art as anime and manga. Conclusions. Due to the sensual nature of the authors' nature, the products of the Japanese creative industry reflect on such important universal problems as ecology, social injustice, moments of important emotional experiences of teenagers at their tender age and family values. The important contextual content of anime and manga is presented in an extremely aesthetic visual form, which often makes animation and literature equal to works of art. Many animated films and series are considered by connoisseurs to be an example of an ideal balance of visual and semantic load, which allows both to plunge into philosophical reflections on the meaning of life, one's place in society, or the existence of the dichotomy of good-evil, and simply to satisfy aesthetic needs in contemplation of beauty. Thus, the combination of Japanese thought and Western technology was realised in products – anime and manga – that became desirable in European and Western countries.

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СТАНОВЛЕННЯ І РОЗВИТОК ДИЗАЙНУ ДИТЯЧИХ ПЕРІОДИЧНИХ ВИДАНЬ В УКРАЇНІ

Author(s): Olena Leonidivna Khramova-Baranova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the paper. The article aims to perform art analysis in order to show the process of formation and development of design of children's periodicals in Ukraine, as well as to determine the prospects of this process. The research methodologyis in the application of a specific historical method to analyse the impact of design development on the promotion of children's periodicals in Ukraine, as well as to use the comparative analysis method and a historical and cultural approach, which help to identify the main trends in the development of children's periodicals in Ukraine. Scientific noveltyis an attempt to understand and identify the main trends of children's periodicals in Ukraine, which can influence the competitiveness of these publications in Ukraine and in the world. These trends are conditioned by historical, social, and cultural processes. Conclusions. The article shows the main characteristics of the concept of creation and development of children's periodicals in Ukraine and their importance for promoting publications. Literature sources are analysed, which confirms the need to develop new trends in the design of aesthetic and functional children's publications and the formation of the child's worldview due to this. The analysis of the essence of formation and development of children's periodical design indicates the interdependence of cultural heritage and achievements of the early twentieth century, which affects the popularization and quality of publications.

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РЕГІОНАЛЬНИЙ ФОКУС ФОРМУВАННЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО КНИЖКОВОГО ДИЗАЙНУ

Author(s): Viktoriia Oliinyk / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the article is to study specific regional features in Ukrainian book design and determine the degree of their mutual influence. The research methodology is based on art analysis in the context of historical-chronological, iconographic, inductive, deductive, and comparative methods. The scientific novelty is represented by theses on the differences of conventionally defined Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv and Odesa graphic schools, which had an impact on the development of local book design, and, consequently, on the formation of the artistic image of the modern Ukrainian book. The conclusions are conditioned by significant phenomena and trends in regional graphic art, which caused the corresponding processes in the formation of the image of the book publishing industries of Kyiv region, Lviv region, Kharkiv region, and Odesa region. In particular, the Kyiv school of graphic design in the all-Ukrainian cultural and artistic context is distinguished by a bold desire to master the latest technologies, active consumption of the experience of specialists from other collaborations, high genre elasticity, and a tendency to multivariate interpretations of traditional forms, which was accordingly reflected in local book design. On the other hand, the Lviv art book, which is a bright and heterogeneous phenomenon from the point of view of design due to the irregularity of its own development, today is an original product, formed after a long search for an individual image against the background of gravitation to European trends, which was manifested by the diversity of creative methods and author's approaches in its design. The artistic design of the Kharkiv book looks relatively more restrained and constructive, due to the dominance of the infographic approach in the design of multi-genre publications and the production of the classical tradition of Ukrainian bookmaking. In addition, the printing of books from this region deserves high praise. The Odesa graphic school, which from the middle of the 20th century had a solid foundation of realism with a flavour of social art, is characterised by the interpenetration of various regional features of book design due to the active migration of book artists between publishing houses and the multinationality of the creative center.

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ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ КОМП’ЮТЕРНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ У ВИРІШЕННІ ВІЗУАЛЬНИХ ОБ’ЄКТІВ У РЕКЛАМІ

Author(s): Andrii Podlevskyi,Yevhen Hula,Alla Osadcha / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the work is to reveal the peculiarities of computer technologies application in solving visual objects in advertising. The research methodology consists in the application of a number of approaches: analytical to understand the literature on the topic of the article; interdisciplinary – to comprehensively study factual material and acquire new knowledge; systematic with the use of a whole range of methods (biographical, semiotic, cultural, hermeneutic, historical, and theoretical generalisation) – to comprehend the stated purpose of the research. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the interrelationship between the use of computer technologies and the visualisation of advertising is systematically studied. Conclusions. The publication proves the statement: the functional role of linguistic means of influence in advertising texts is determined by the communicative and appellative functions of language, which are basic to the advertising text. It was revealed that the combination of photo, audio, and video materials in one advertising multimedia content is carried out within the framework of convergent advertising. It has been established that there is a tendency for real and virtual environments to converge, while the very principle of interaction is changing, which is increasingly based on the materialisation of visual images with the help of which the user controls the virtual environment, the development of human-computer interfaces acquires great importance. Technologies based on 3D-stereovisualisation are gaining more and more development. Editorial and publishing preparation of advertising materials and publications includes the entire process of preparing an advertising message, starting with the definition of goals and objectives and ending with the production of a material medium intended for distribution. The content of this process: technological stages, composition of performers, legal and economic relations between the customer and the performer depend on the type of advertising material and the channel of its distribution (newspaper, postcard, booklet, and others).

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ВІТЧИЗНЯНА ГУМАНІСТИЧНА ТРАДИЦІЯ ТА УКРАЇНСЬКА ЛЕКСИКА – ПЕРШОДЖЕРЕЛА ДЛЯ НАУКОВОЇ ТЕРМІНОЛОГІЇ З ФАХОВИХ НАПРЯМІВ ТВОРЕННЯ СЕРЕДОВИЩА

Author(s): Serhii Tsarenko / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the article is to find domestic lexical definitions of architecture, urbanism, and environmental design. The methodology of the research is an interdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge based on dialectics (H. Hegel) and the general theory of systems (L. von Bertalanffy). Scientific novelty. For the first time, the author has analysed the problem of the completeness of the domestic terminology on environment creation to express original meanings according to the Cyrillic humanistic tradition, and specialisations of activity. It has been proposed to introduce into scientific circulation a general definition of a group of professional artistic directions for creating an environment for human life as a hierarchical environmental image creation, the purpose of which is the integral beauty of spatial forms. Conclusions. The content of the borrowed terminology requires a more careful selection, as it is intended to enrich the vocabulary and clarify relevant industry concepts and professional specialisations, in particular, according to international qualification definitions. However, lexical borrowings do not have sufficient potential for worldview, mental-cognitive compliance with the national linguistic environment. In order to ensure national philosophical goal setting, in accordance with the national Slavic-Greek-Latin tradition of a complete and true Living Word, we need, along with borrowed names and terminology, to use primarily national, including Old Slavic, vocabulary in quality of the main methodological one. The domestic humanistic tradition, the peculiarities of word formation and the lexical fund of the Ukrainian literary language make it possible to return to wider use the national name of the content and purpose of an artistic composition (leepota) and to introduce into scientific circulation the natural definition of object-spatial arts, namely "environmental imagery" as well as «hierarchical environmental imagery».

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ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ БІОФІЛІЇ В ІНТЕР’ЄРНОМУ СЕРЕДОВИЩІ ГРОМАДСЬКИХ БУДІВЕЛЬ

Author(s): Tetyana Malik,Ruslana Osmolova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the work is to determine the peculiarities of the biophilia concept, to find out the feasibility of using this tool in the interior of public buildings, to pay attention to its positive impact on the psycho-emotional state of a person, as well as to analyse the prospective development of the use of biophilia. Research methodology is based on systemic and environmental approaches, which allow considering the interior space and subject environment with the application of biophilia as a holistic project. The study has used the method of systematic analysis of specialised resources and scientific publications on the subject of the study; method of comparative analysis of similar objects; generalisation of information obtained in the process of research. Scientific and journalistic articles, domestic and foreign project development of spaces where this concept has been used became the source base of the research. The scientific novelty of the research consists in determining the features and means of biophilic design for their application in public spaces in the conditions of Ukraine, which creates an environment of life and promotes such social organisation and functioning of people that ensure the preservation and strengthening of their emotional state. Conclusions. Biophilia is one of the important ways to help people return to a life close to nature. It has been proven that satisfying a person’s inherent inclination to communicate with nature, biophilic design generates an emotional attachment to certain spaces and places. These emotional attachments motivate people to work productively, and they also motivate us to identify with the places where we live and to support them. Biophilic design promotes positive and permanent interaction and relations between people and the natural environment. Humans are a deeply social species whose safety and productivity depend on positive interactions in a spatial context. The research is motivated by the expansion and deepening of knowledge about the formation of the environment design with the use of the latest biophilia tool, which provides the possibility and can be used in the practice of designing natural environments. The research outcomes can be used in the practical activities of architects, designers and students of educational institutions of this specialisation.

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СОЦІОКУЛЬТУРНІ АСПЕКТИ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦІЇ КУЛЬТУРНОЇ СПАДЩИНИ М. П. ГЛУЩЕНКА

Author(s): Olena Kapshukova / Language(s): Ukrainian Issue: 2/2022

The purpose of the article is to reveal the regularities of socio-cultural and art history activity formation in the context of researches and representations of M. Hlushchenko`s tangible cultural heritage. The research methodology is based on cultural-historical, analytical, synthetic, and comparative methods to outline similarities and highlight differences in processes of socio-cultural activity related to M. Hlushchenko’s figure, artistic work, and personal archive. The scientific novelty. Based on the analysis, synthesis, and comparison of the main exhibitions, publishing projects, and journalistic activities dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Mykola Hlushchenko, the priority vectors of specialists’ activities in socio-cultural sphere have been identified. Dependency of socio-cultural activities in process of representing the M. Hlushchenko`s cultural heritage has been detected through the cultural-historical method in accordance with public needs. Conclusions. For 30 years since Ukraine regained its independence, the tradition of presenting socio-cultural projects for artist's anniversaries, probably borrowed from the Soviet times, has been established. In other words, the actualisation of M. Hlushchenko’s cultural heritage takes place cyclically, every five years. Today, the number of open, but still unexamined archival documents is growing every year, and mostly they are included in the scientific circulation without proper systematisation and processing. Traditionally, exhibition activity, namely the demonstration of some individual pieces of M. Hlushchenko's creative achievements, occurs at regional level. The main scientific investigations of M. Hlushchenko’s heritage has been carried out in related scientific fields, such as history, cultural studies, and archival work. Research activities are held by scientists insufficiently, accordingly, M. Hlushchenko’s cultural heritage still remains understudied, although it occupies an exceptional place in the history of Ukrainian art of the 20th century and deserves special attention and more detailed modern art research. Currently, we consider that the most significant contribution to research and representation of M. Hlushchenko’s cultural heritage in the field of socio-cultural projecting is publication of information with limited access, in particular archival documents and artistic works.

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Nazivi za slikovnicu (Bilderbuch) u hrvatskim rječnicima u 19. stoljeću

Author(s): Matijas Baković / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 02/2022

The paper presents the terms for picturebook used in dictionaries of the Croatian language since the appearance of the first translation of the German term “Bilderbuch” in the middle of the nineteenth century. An attempt is made to reconstruct the path taken by the translations of the German term and the presence of each of the terms in Croatia at the time. By researching the Croatian-German dictionaries of the period, the dates of the first appearance of the term and its Croatian equivalents are established.

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Этнокультурные стереотипы малорусов и белорусов в визуальных текстах российской культуры второй половины XIX в.: Проблемы интерпретации

Author(s): Maria Leskinen / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2 (32)/2022

The article analyzes a number of visual representations of «Little Russians» / «Malorusy» (Ukrainians) and Belarusians («Belorussians» / «White Russians»), which were addressed to a wide range of Russian society in the 1860s – 1900s and which were formed under the influence of literature, scientific and popular ethnographies descriptions and text-books. These visual texts were creating the stereotypical images of peoples / nations (so as of the Russian people) in mass consciousness the Russian Empire. The works that are accessible primarily by the mass audience (genre canvases, bookillustrations, magazine lithographs, advertisements, posters, postcards etc) are analyzed in context of ethnic stereotypes (of «Little Russians» / «Malorusy» (Ukrainians) and of «Belorussians» / «White Russians» (Belarusians)) reflections. The author is considered some methodological problems dealswith stereotypes’ researching in the field of the identification of «the Russian people» as the unity of Great Russians, Little Russians and White Russians during imperial nation-building. Complications of interpreting visual ethnic images are also due to the differences of discourse of the Ukrainianand Belarusian identities history and national movements in the Russian Empire of the 19th century. In particular, Ukrainian Soviet and modern historiography considers many artists to the pantheon of national culture. But if we accept such attributions, it turns out that stereotypes of the «others» (the heterostereotypes of Little Russians / Ukrainians) turns out to be their auto stereotypes. If we proceed from the assumptions that the creators of the images belonged to the Russian («all-Russian») culture, the questions arise did they interpret them as specifically ethnic, or as the embodiment of regional / gender or only the social (the peasant) variations?

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В. Т. Георгиевский об охране памятников церковной старины: Проект 1917 года

Author(s): Vitaliy Gennadevich Ananiev,Vitaly G. Ananiev / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2 (32)/2022

The article is devoted to the problem of preservation of religious heritage in Russia in 1917. The focus of the attention is a report on this topic, prepared by a prominent expert in the field of medieval Russian art V. T. Georgievsky (1861–1923). The report was prepared as part of the works of the Commission on the creation of the Ministry of Arts, organized with the active participation of the Institute of Art History (Petrograd). The article analyzes the relationship of V. T. Georgievsky with this Institute and his participation in the development of measures to protect religious heritage at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. In his report V. T. Georgievsky gives a detailed description of the history of the protection of church heritage inRussia at the beginning of the 20th century, the measures that were proposed and implemented in this area. The author of the report characterizes not only the results of these measures, but also the circumstances of their discussion and implementation. He also lists the most significant collections of ecclesiastical objects from the late imperial period. This is important for understanding what the network of such meetings was like on the eve of revolutionary upheavals. Finally, at the end of the report, he proposes some measures aimed at improving the protection of church heritage in Russia. This part of the report is succinct, but it is of particular importance. The main idea of V. T. Georgievsky is the centralization of the protection of monuments throughout the country. This is important for understanding the connection between the projects of the late imperial period and the policy in the field of monument protection and museum works in the early Soviet period. For the first time, the full text of the report from the archival fund of the Institute is published..

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Kultura i sztuka ulicy w Maghrebie na przykładzie Algierii i Tunezji. Zarys problemu

Author(s): Anna Barska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 13/2022

In her article, Anna Barska presents various strategies used by social actors to manifest their desire to speak, to break taboos and to make sense of their presence in the city. The places represented, the time, the themes and the creator(s) are a form of message and communication. The examples Barska discusses, i.e., Algiers, Oran, Tunis and Djerba, are helpful in understanding the complexity of the socio-cultural and political life in the Maghreb.

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FROM NOVEL TO FILM: THE ROLE OF MUSICAL INSERTS IN TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA’S THE LEOPARD

Author(s): Anamaria Milonean / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 16/2019

If we can talk about additional significance in the case of a filmic text as compared to that of a novel, this is mainly due to the former’s multi-code nature. There are various codes-ranging from visual-iconic to linguistic and sound representations-that underpin the meaning of a filmic text, as form of a complex creative expression, conferring it a highly synergic character in comparison with the verbal text. The written text does indeed feature references to signifying structures belonging to codes other than the linguistic one; however, these are also textually updated by means of words. While the reading of a verbal text involves a syntagmatic reception of messages originating from various semiotic systems, the audio-visual flow of the filmic text allows for a simultaneous reception similar to a real-life situation. In light of these premises, our article emphasizes the importance of musical structures in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusaʼs ʽThe Leopardʼ, as well as in the homonymous film directed by Luchino Visconti. After a concise presentation of the typology of sounds and their support in shaping the specificity of cinematographic language, we will highlight the role of musical inserts in both novels and films. Thus, we will compare their functions and valences in outlining the overall textual meaning for two distinct signifying objects which nevertheless interact through a fruitful intertextual dialogue.

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