scholarly journals Way Beyond Art

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Liviu Nedelcu
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Performance Projects ◽  
Sensitive Issues

Abstract On the private and independent art scene, the male and female artist and curator addressing socio-political issues are recurring presences, explained by the art historian Beti Zerovc through the spreading of curating accompanied by a politicized discourse on how art and its institutions can contribute to building a better, more democratic, more egalitarian and freer world1. In this article, I will focus on male and female artists who address sensitive issues in society either to make them visible or to offer possible alternatives, using performance as a means of artistic expression due to its immaterial character and specific immediacy it implies. I propose a brief account of the history of performance in the field of visual arts, to review the role given to art in a close relationship with society, in a transversal and close relationship with the viewer, in a relationship with artistic institutions which is often critical. Finally, I will present a series of artistic projects carried out in the past ten years in Romania, to explore the dynamics of art - society - artist - spectator - institution and to identify the sensitive issues involved and the forms, values, lifestyles that art performance projects that I propose.

Creative geographies of Islam: the case of Islamic and traditional visual arts scene in Istanbul

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402110536
Author(s):  
Hulya Arik
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Early Republican

While research on geographies of creativity have proliferated in the last few years, there has been scant attention to religious cultural and artistic practices, particularly in the context of the Middle East. This research seeks to address such gap with a focus on the Islamic and traditional visual arts scene which has flourished in Istanbul in the past decade and a half along with the rise of political Islam in Turkey. Rendered obsolete through the Western-oriented and secular cultural politics since the early republican era, art forms such as Arabic calligraphy ( hat), miniature ( minyatür), and illumination ( tezhip) have now found currency as ‘authentically Turkish and Islamic’ in an art scene that emerged alongside Islamist politics. This paper examines the trajectory of Islamic and traditional visual arts through the lens of cultural and creative industries starting from the cultural politics of Islamic urban governance through the 1990s and 2000s, and to the emergence of an Islamist-nationalist authoritarianism in the past decade. In doing so, it aims to situate Islamic and traditional visual arts on the map in studies on geographies of creativity, particularly in the Middle Eastern and Islamic context, where limited attention has been paid to cultural and artistic practices. With ethnographic reflections from the field, it highlights the internal dynamics of an art scene and the potential it bears in unsettling the core concepts of Turkish Islamic nationalism from within.

Student Athlete Activism in a Millennial World

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Myron L. Pope ◽  
Darnell Smith ◽  
Shanna Pope
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Student Athletes

College student athletes are among the most recognized students in their communities, across the country, and in some cases around the world. Their voices hold a significant esteem, and they can impact many societal and political issues. Some have postulated that college student-athletes are hesitant to be a part of these politics, but during the past few years, many have taken stands through social media and through protests on their campuses that have been in opposition to the stances of their coaches, their university's administration, and their teammates. Many, however, challenge the role that student athletes have in these protests. This chapter will explore the history of student athlete activism and its developmental aspects, highlight the more recent instances of such activism, and finally discuss how university administration and others can support and be responsive to the concerns that are expressed by this unique set of students.

Intergroup Communication: Asia/Australasia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Liu
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Intergroup Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of

Located in the Asia Pacific region, Asia and Australasia have established a long and close relationship over the past centuries. Asian immigrants play a key role in the development and maintenance of this relationship between the two continents. As Australia not only occupies 86% of the Australasia region but also has a long history of receiving Asian immigrants, dating back to the 18th century, research on intergroup communication between Asian immigrants and host nationals tends to be concentrated in Australia. Under the early White Australia Policy, restrictions on Asian immigrants were imposed to protect the White Australia. This reflected the values and attitudes at the time when many Australians considered Asia as a threat and defined themselves as separate from it. Since the removal of this policy in 1973, particularly in the past four decades, there has been a substantial boom of Asian immigration to Australia. They transformed Australia’s economy, society, culture, and more importantly, Australians’ attitudes toward Asia and Asians. Asian immigrants are therefore central to the study of intergroup communication in Australasia.

scholarly journals PREHISTORIC CHARACTERS ART AND COLOR COMBINATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3SE) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Anjali Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Color Combination ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Time

The past tense can only be studied through the present. For the study of the past, one can draw conclusions about past events by taking the present objects or present-day memoirs as residuals of the past. The arguments on which conclusions are drawn are based on observation of current things, events and relationships. "1Since time immemorial, humans have been trying to discover the past. With the development of knowledge, humans started searching for evidence related to the knowledge of the past and facts were proved with the appropriate evidence. Historians also have to use various evidence for factual presentation of knowledge related to the past. Archaeological material has become the mainstay of scientific and factual study of the history of the past. The major source of archaeological material is human creativity and artistic expression. Whose utilitarian form comes to us in the form of man-made pottery. Pots are used by historians as part time and society as special. भूत काल का अध्ययन केवल वर्तमान के माध्यम से ही किया जा सकता है। बीते हुए समय के अध्ययन के लिये वर्तमान वस्तुओं अथवा वर्तमान में विद्यमान संस्मरणों को भूतकाल के अवषेषों के रुप में लेकर उनसे भूतकाल की धटनाओं के बारे में निष्कर्ष निकाला जा सकता है। वे तर्क जिनके आधार पर निष्कर्ष निकाले जाते वे वर्तमान वस्तुओं, घटनाओं तथा सम्बन्धों के अवलोकन पर आधारित होते हैं।’’1अनादि काल से मानव अतीत की खोज के लिए प्रयत्नषील रहा है।़ ज्ञान के विकास के साथ मानव ने अतीत के ज्ञान सम्बधीं साक्ष्य खोजने प्रारम्भ किये और उपयुक्त साक्ष्यों से तथ्य प्रमाणित किये जाने लगे। इतिहासकार को भी अतीत सम्बंधी ज्ञान की तथ्यात्मक प्रस्तुति के लिये विभिन्न साक्ष्यों का प्रयोग करना पड़ता है। पुरातात्विक सामग्री अतीत के इतिहास के वैज्ञानिक एवं तथ्यपूर्ण अध्ययन का प्रमुख आधार बन गई है। पुरातात्विक सामग्री का प्रमुख स्त्रोत मानव की सृजनात्मकता और कलात्मक अभिव्यक्ति है। जिसका उपयोगितावादी स्वरुप मानव द्वारा निर्मित मृद्भांड के रुप में हमारे सामने आता है। मृद्भांडों को, इतिहासकार काल विषेष तथा समाज विषेष के रुप में प्रयोग करते हैं।

Theatricality in Contemporary Visual and Performance Art on New World Slavery

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilka Saal
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
New World ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

This article examines forms and uses of theatricality in recent African American productions on slavery in the performing and the visual arts. It argues that by deploying modes of the comic, such as satire and parody, along with racial stereotypes, in their engagement with the traumatic history of slavery, contemporary artworks aim to provoke their audiences into an affective relationship with the artwork and the history it represents. In this manner, they seek to bring into focus not the past itself but our present-day reactions to it, asking viewers to reflect on their involvement with the ongoing mimetic and affective legacies of New World slavery. The article discusses Suzan-Lori Parks’s 1996 playVenusand Kara Walker’s 2014 installation ASubtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Babyas case studies.

Salvation and female heroics in the parodos of Aristophanes' Lysistrata

1997 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 38-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Faraone
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
General Theme ◽  
The Past ◽  
Battle Of The Sexes ◽  
Sudden Appearance ◽  
Old Men ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Light

The separate entrances of the male and female semi-choruses in Aristophanes' Lysistrata are marked by an unusual bit of stagecraft whose importance to a general theme of the play the salvation of Athens–has never been fully appreciated. The old men enter the stage at v. 254 each carrying a pair of olive-wood logs, a vine torch and a small pot of live embers. Having heard that Lysistrata and her comrades have taken control of the Acropolis, they come intent on burning down the gates of the citadel and removing the women, whom they liken to the Spartan general Cleomenes who occupied the citadel in 510. The men pile their logs before the closed gate, ignite their torches in the hot coals and then try to set fire to the logs (vv. 307-11). But after a few minutes of hilarious bumbling their plans are foiled for good by the sudden appearance of a semi-chorus of old women who rush in with water-jars on their shoulders or in their hands; these women threaten the men and then finally–with an invocation of the river-god Achelous douse them and their fire (vv. 381-82), thus effectively ending the threat of incineration. In the past, this entire choral routine has been explained in one of two ways: either it is a standard bit of slapstick humour with no importance whatsoever to the development of the comic plot, or it is part of an elaborate sexual pun of Freudian proportions in which the closed entranceway to the Acropolis assaulted by men symbolically prefigures the battle of the sexes that is about to ensue. Of course given the wonderful richness and polyvalence of Aristophanic comedy, it is extremely difficult to deny either of these interpretations. I shall argue here, however, that the staging of the parodos also reflects a very popular type of Greek salvation myth, known to the Athenians from the tragic stage, from the visual arts and from rituals associated with local mystery cults. In light of these parallels drawn from the theatrical and religious life of the city, I shall argue that when the audience saw the women rush onto the stage with their hydriai, they would have undoubtedly seen them in a very positive light as saviours of the city–precisely the role they claim for themselves later in the play.

scholarly journals AKAR DAN BUAH TEGALSARI: DINAMIKA SANTRI DAN KETURUNAN KIAI PESANTREN TEGALSARI PONOROGO

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dawam Multazam
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Early Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Early 18Th Century

Pesantren Tegalsari Ponorogo that was born in the early 18th century is considered to have an important role in the history of Islam in Nusantara. This Pesantren is even believed as the first boarding institution and was born in 1742. This article examines historically the forerunner and the early development of Pesantren Tegalsari. Then, the role of students and descendants of kiai. By using the method of historical research and data mining to written documents, interviews, and observations, it is concluded that Pesantren Tegalsari has a close relationship with the elite in the past such as the Wali Songo and the King of Majapahit. In addition, through the students and descendants of kiai, these schools also have a major role in society, both in the propagation of Islam as well as in politics.

Student Athlete Activism in a Millennial World

2022 ◽  
pp. 1437-1449
Author(s):  
Myron L. Pope ◽  
Darnell Smith ◽  
Shanna Pope
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
College Student ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
College Student Athletes

College student athletes are among the most recognized students in their communities, across the country, and in some cases around the world. Their voices hold a significant esteem, and they can impact many societal and political issues. Some have postulated that college student-athletes are hesitant to be a part of these politics, but during the past few years, many have taken stands through social media and through protests on their campuses that have been in opposition to the stances of their coaches, their university's administration, and their teammates. Many, however, challenge the role that student athletes have in these protests. This chapter will explore the history of student athlete activism and its developmental aspects, highlight the more recent instances of such activism, and finally discuss how university administration and others can support and be responsive to the concerns that are expressed by this unique set of students.

Law and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Case of Catalonia in Comparative Perspective

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Penal Law ◽  
Major Break ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

By the close of the nineteenth century, most continental Europeans tacitly accepted, if they thought about it at all, the notion that a civil code governed multiple personal and familial relationships in their daily lives. Like so many legislative structures, intellectual suppositions, and cultural artifacts, what was once regarded as a novel or even a major break with the past came to be understood as one of the many requisites of modernity. Contemporary historians have adopted a similarly indifferent posture, their curiosity only piqued when encountering specific provisions entangled with other political issues. In a strikingly dissimilar approach to that adopted toward penal law, they have been disinclined to explore the relationship between civil legal endeavor and political culture or the history of ideas. Only with respect to Germany have scholars considered these topics worthy of in-depth analysis; in so doing, they have demonstrated that understanding juridical culture is fundamental to appreciating the textures and peculiarities of the liberal nation state.

scholarly journals ‘Bringing it all back home’: mentalities, models and the historical study of religions

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-242
Author(s):  
Tom Sjöblom
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Network System ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Cognitive Network ◽  
The Past ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Approaches

If historians of mentalities are studying cultural models of the past, the cognitive historians of religions are in their turn studying religious model.  A more useful definition for religious mentalities would be those cultural models which involves representations based on counterintuitive claims. The history of religions would methodologically be something like a specialized branch of the history of mentalities, and it would be necessary for them to work in close relationship, as applying cognitive approaches to cultural materials always relies on the principle of holism, that is, that all cultural representations should be viewed as parts of the cognitive network system they are found in.

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