The Soviet Culture of Collage

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Peter J. Schmelz
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Soviet Culture ◽  
Violin Sonata ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 1 discusses the precursors for polystylism in the film, visual arts, and musicking of the Soviet 1920s and 1930s. It begins by considering two compositions that encapsulate the initial motivations and method for polystylism: Schnittke’s Violin Sonata no. 2, “Quasi una Sonata,” from 1968, and Silvestrov’s Drama for violin, cello, and piano, composed between 1970 and 1971. Both works juxtapose different techniques and approaches, shifting, often quite radically, from extremely dissonant, sonoristic gestures to quotations or pastiche. This chapter also presents a genealogy of polystylism, looking first at polystylistic antecedents in the music of Dmitriy Shostakovich, Gavriil Popov, Boris Asafyev, and other composers, as well as the general trend toward collage and montage in the Russian visual arts and film from the teens to the 1930s. It concludes by exploring the collage works that took hold in the 1960s in the USSR, starting with Arvo Pärt’s Collage on the Theme B-A-C-H, before spreading more widely, ultimately providing the fuel for Schnittke’s early polystylistic compositions and his theorizing of polystylism by the end of the decade.

Spaceflight: Discerning Its Meaning

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Neal
Keyword(s):  
Public Understanding ◽  
Human Spaceflight ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Leadership Success ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Innovation Leadership

Chapter 1, “Spaceflight: Discerning Its Meaning,” introduces key concepts of framing, branding, and construction of meaning and then explores the heroic, pioneering spaceflight imaginary of the 1960s as an example of the power of ideas and images to shape public understanding. For Americans, human spaceflight resonates with core ideas that pervade U.S. history and culture--exploration, pioneering, the frontier, freedom, innovation, leadership, success. President John F. Kennedy notably placed spaceflight in this frontier tradition, and pioneering the space frontier became NASA’s signature theme. Establishing the origins, influences, and communication of that matrix of meaning sets up the shift into the shuttle era.

Oye Shelly

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-66
Author(s):  
Miroslava Chávez-García
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Imperial Valley ◽  
Green Card ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
Cultural Tools ◽  
The U.S

To explore the ways in which migrants negotiated longing, gender, intimacy, courtship, marriage, and identity across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s and 1970s, chapter 1 opens by examining and analyzing the broader racial, labor, and environmental contexts shaping José Chávez’s—the author’s father—experience as a Mexican laborer in Imperial Valley in the 1950s and 1960s. Specifically, it pays attention to working and living conditions in el valle and how those contributed to his loneliness, isolation, and ambivalence as a border dweller, despite his status as a green card holder and his ability to engage in return migration. Next, it examines letter writing as a form of courtship as detailed in the love letters he crafted and the cultural tools—stylized letter writing, the English language, portraits, songs, movies, and the radio—he drew upon to convince Maria Concepción “Conchita” Alvarado—the author’s mother—to accept his marriage proposal. Finally, it shows that while Conchita never formally agreed to the nuptials, she walked down the aisle and married José, an act that set her life on a new course. Indeed, within a few days, she left her hometown and relocated with José to the Mexicali-Calexico border, where they set out to create a new future for themselves.

Growth Experiences of the Asian Economies

2014 ◽  
pp. 24-47
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Factors ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Growth Performances ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Openness To Trade ◽  
Rates Of Growth

This chapter describes the growth experiences of the sampled Asian countries, which are used as reference points in this textbook. This niche sample reflects the strong growth performance of these economies. Following a brief geographical backdrop, their economic growth outcomes, the binding constraints to growth, and some of the important underlying growth factors are discussed. The chapter concludes by discussing their expected short-term growth outlook, especially after the GFC. As indicated in chapter 1, the survey shows that the EAEs (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) have recorded remarkable rates of growth since the 1960s. Data also shows that China and India's growth performances are commendable as well, although India has not recorded rates close to those of China. The other countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Philippines) have also registered high rates of growth when compared to similar developing countries around the world. While the constraints to growth remain and are actually amplified by the GFC, the important growth factors that have added to the economic resilience of these economies have been openness to trade, accumulation and mobilization of human and physical inputs (including labor force), better infrastructure, and improved institutions. However, important trade related risks remain and these have been affecting the Asian economies severely. Detailed analysis of trade as an important driver of economic growth in the largest and most influential economy, China, is included in chapter 9.

“A well conceived scheme to maintain racial segregation”

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-44
Author(s):  
Nancy K. Bristow
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
State College ◽  
Freedom Summer ◽  
Racial History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

Chapter 1 situates Jackson State College in the racial history of Mississippi, emphasizing the struggle it faced against white supremacy and the balancing act its leadership performed. Determined to preserve the school, its presidents, both white and black, were forced to accept elements of racial containment. When protests emerged in Jackson in the 1960s, the Board of Trustees ensured that Jackson State’s president, Jacob Reddix, controlled student activism. When students joined Jacksonians to protest segregation in the city, he expelled them. When students voiced their political opinions, he dissolved the Student Government Association. During Freedom Summer, the Board of Trustees tightened restrictions on students. The smallest protest or rumor prompted white Jacksonians to condemn the campus as a breeding ground of criminals. In 1967 a new president, John A. Peoples, relaxed some restrictions on student life, even as the increasing influence of Black Power began to be felt on campus.

Denaturalizing Time: On Kris Verdonck's Performative Installation End

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATIA ARFARA
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Installation Art ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Space Art

Originating from the avant-garde's attempt to supplant the structural limitations of perspective which ‘bound the spectator to a single point of view’, installation art emerged during the 1960s and the 1970s as a critique of the pure, self-referential work of art. Belgian artist Kris Verdonck integrates that modernist debate into his hybrid practice of performative installation. Trained in visual arts, architecture and theatre, Verdonck uses sophisticated technological devices in order to blur binary distinctions such as time- and space-art, inanimate and animate figures, and immateriality and materiality. This study focuses on End (Brussels 2008), which shows the possible final stages of a human society in ten scenes. I analyse End as an echo of the Futurists’ performance tactics, which prefigured a broadening of the formal aesthetic boundaries of performance art under the major influence of Henri Bergson's theory of time.

scholarly journals Murilo Mendes, a disciplina do indisciplinado

eLyra ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103-112
Author(s):  
Kenneth David Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
The 1960S

With the rebelliousness characteristic of his self-description as an “experimental youth,” Murilo Mendes creates a critical distance between his poetic consciousness and his liberty of action. With the term, he retrospectively characterizes his entire literary production, from the poetry of the 1930s to the 1960s and 70s. To be indisciplined is to challenge norms and introduce thematic and graphic innovations, such as linguistic play, kitsch, graffiti, miniaturization and new tendencies of visual arts and electronic communications. Murilo is always attentive to the independence of the word and the musicality of poetry. Indiscipline is his self-described source of expression and method, thus a discipline in reverse that motives his poetic imagination

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