Ciało niedoskonałe? Seksualny aspekt niepełnosprawności fizycznej w kinie współczesnym

Author(s): Małgorzata Kozubek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 83-84/2013

In films dealing with disability, independently of the convention, genre or the author’s strategy, there always appears the theme of sexuality. Often the whole story is organised around this theme. Sometimes it is a starting point, or appears only in one scene, but always one of great dramatic importance. The article discusses two opposite ways of presenting a disabled body in contemporary cinema in the context of sexuality. On the one side it is the desired body ("Quid Pro Quo", "Crash", "American Mary", "Boxing Helena", "A Zed & Two Noughts"), on the other it is the unwanted body ("The Sessions", "Hasta la vista!", "The Art of Flight", "The Be All and End All", "Shall we dance?", "Mundane History"). In both cases the body is subjectified, taken out of the discourse of the universal, ideal body, created by the postmodern culture.

Cloth Supplied

Author(s): Tamás Koltai / Language(s): English Issue: 180/2005

When I was a boy, some tailors’ shop signs (if a tailor had a sign at all, as most worked at home in straightened circumstances, with only a few customers knowing about them) would state that they undertook to cut suits from cloth supplied by the customer. Cloth supplied did not always mean something bought in a shop: often new clothes would be made up from old. More than once I was given an old suit of my father’s. On these occasions the tailor would ask, “Adjustment to fit?” Then he made a new suit out of the old.

Contingency and its consequences in Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Author(s): Tomasz Umerle / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010

My paper proposes a new approach to the famous novel by Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy. In my reading of this work I use the category of contingency which I define by referring to the German philosopher Odo Marquard and literary theories of a monographer of the contigency in literature and film Rafa􀃡 Koschany. These are the basic inspirations for reflections on Tristram as a character, and simultaneously, narrator in the novel. In my view contingency manifests itself in Sterne's work in a two-fold manner it affects Tristram's life and narration. I will try to focus on the different ways in which these manifestations relate to each other.

Furka

Author(s): Gesine Schmidt,Andres Veiel / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2009

Kazalište Playdrama

Author(s): Gesine Schmidt,Andres Veiel / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3/2009

Изкуствената плът на дигиталното изображение

Author(s): Nikolai Treiman / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

In the article the author opposes widely spread attitude toward digital image. With pain and nostalgia he establishes extinctive traits of classical photography, by affecting the deep causes of the process from phylosophical and religious point of view.

К вопросу о типологической связи серии портретов «Умалишенньгх» Теодора Жерико с фотографией

Author(s): Elena Zyryanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

The portrait series "Les Fous" created by Theodore Gericault during the 20s of the 19 century is unusual in its designation. Comparing the purpose and character of realization of those portraits with photographic images of sick people during the second half of the 19 century, suggests that the paintings perform the function of photography before its invention. Publications such as the "The Clinical Cases is Saint-Louis Hospital in Photography", "Photographic Review of the Hospitals in Paris", "Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere" are examined as photographical examples.

Образ и пиксел

Author(s): Georgi Linkov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

The matter of interest to this text is generally the "easiness" in contemporary photography and the way it affects the image and the approach towards it. As the reader will get to know, the easiness has both positive and negative influence on the author and the audience. Having art history in mind, my understanding for this matter is that we should aspire to considering the very art medium as a historical achievement through which certain people's skills are expressed. The medium in itself /even though it creates prerequisites and has certain predetermining features/ is nothing but a tool, waiting to be utilized in the best possible way.

Фотографията и смъртта

Author(s): Georgi Lozanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

The article studies some of the theoretical views about the nature of photography and its specific traits. On this basis the author develops his interpretations concerning topics such as, chance, authenticity, objectivisation, time, connection between image and archetype, speech and image.

Тялото и неговият двойник

Author(s): Elena Alexieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

When photography offers the human body, what is it that it does and why is this gesture so irresistible? Is the image an image of something? Image of what is the image of the body? The tension in this question - a tension stretching between the desire to refer to the thing and its impossibility - is what captivates the gaze. The image never approaches us, nor does it await us. We are the ones who, if they wish so, can approach it but there is no room for even such a deceptive closeness because once it begins to approach, the gaze loses the vital distance of the relation with the object it desires. The image is more than a presence. And the gaze is not the first but the last, the least important connection to it.

Иван Маразов. Тракийският воин

Author(s): Kostadin Rabadzhiev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

"Женският мотив". Из илюстрациит в съветския и българския периодичен печат (1948-1956)

Author(s): Katerina Gadjeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

Photography legitimizes the new socialist woman, which otherwise lives only in the realm of ideas. The party has carefully given shape to her "matrix" that produces strictly reglamented images of "super women", which fearlessly plunge into the whirlpool of the socialist everyday life - somewhere between the "desired" and the "real".

Джоел-Питър Уиткин: Пленник на свободата

Author(s): Rafaelo Kazakov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

Artist and critic Rafaelo Kazakov introduces the work of American photographer Joel Peter Witkin. Excerpts from Witkin's most recent book "Disciple And Master" provide inroads in the creative process of the photographer and the historical references and parallels his works almost always imply.

Резюмета

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2006

Ханс Белтинг. Антропология на образа

Author(s): Margarita Kuzova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

Миланка Тодиh.Фотографща и пропаганда: 1945-1958

Author(s): Katerina Gadjeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

Възход и упадък на фотографското изображение

Author(s): Ivo Hadzhimishev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

The article traces some of the major phases within the history of the photographic image — since its beginn' lg up to modern day. The emphasis is set on George Eastmann and Oscar Barlac's inventions, the democratization of the photographic process which, having lost a part of its 'magic' hallo, has become accessible to the general user. The text places the work of the ruthor, attitudes of the viewer and the photographic work in the framework of increasingly rapidly developing modern technologies.

Натюрмортът — от конкретността до безсмислието

Author(s): Nikola Lautliev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

The article affects the appearance of the still life as a genre in photography. This fact is illustrated with attempts to imitate the painting techniques, and the appearance of still life in photography should be associated with those attempts rather than independent development of genre with solely a photographic position. In the beginning of 20 century the advent of still life is provoked in most cases by the idea of studying shape, fracture and illumination. During 1950-1960s the progress of still life is imposed by the appearance of colour photography. Realization of ideas is displaced from structure and symbolics towards colour and realism. In the last years of 20 century still life follows the tendency of fine arts. As a result of globalization and developed informational technologies, artistic work and ideas have no limits.

Фотографията на сюрреализма — между чудото и факта

Author(s): Milanka Todić / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2006

Tito, među ostalim

Author(s): Jurica Pavičić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 9/1994