Cultural Revolution

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard King
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Bright Future ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Political Function ◽  
State Patronage ◽  
Ruling Party

Culture served communist-ruled states by presenting a vision of nations and peoples in transition from a dark and oppressive past into the projected bright future of communism. National and party leaders followed Lenin in ascribing great importance to the persuasive powers of the arts and insisting on their incorporation into the machinery of government. Artists creating works of literature, film, and the performing and visual arts according to the official doctrine of socialist realism presented images of new socialist persons overcoming difficulties and accomplishing tasks to instruct and entertain their audiences. While they might enjoy the benefits of state patronage, artists also risked condemnation and punishment if their works displeased the ruling party and its leadership. The arts of socialism have largely lost their political function and are now viewed as nostalgic memorabilia or kitsch.

Diaghilev and British Writing

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-92
Author(s):  
Susan Jones
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Responses ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Ballets Russes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

This article explores the diversity of British literary responses to Diaghilev's project, emphasising the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of Diaghilev's modernism were sometimes unexpectedly echoed in expressions of contemporary British writing. These discussions emerge both in writing about Diaghilev's work, and, more discretely, when references to the Russian Ballet find their way into the creative writing of the period, serving to anchor the texts in a particular cultural milieu or to suggest contemporary aesthetic problems in the domain of literary aesthetics developing in the period. Figures from disparate fields, including literature, music and the visual arts, brought to their criticism of the Ballets Russes their individual perspectives on its aesthetics, helping to consolidate the sense of its importance in contributing to the inter-disciplinary flavour of modernism across the arts. In the field of literature, not only did British writers evaluate the Ballets Russes in terms of their own poetics, their relationship to experimentation in the novel and in drama, they developed an increasing sense of the company's place in dance history, its choreographic innovations offering material for wider discussions, opening up the potential for literary modernism's interest in impersonality and in the ‘unsayable’, discussions of the body, primitivism and gender.

Gerak Tari Baris Tunggal dalam Fotografi Ekspresi Menggunakan Teknik Strobo Light

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Candra Yana*
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
Strobe Light ◽  
Creative Idea ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Art Photography ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

Dance  photography  is  a  photo  shoot  on a  dance  movement  which  has  a  characteristic as  it  shows  on  a  particular  movement  with unique costumes. The arts of dance photography specifically describes through a specific thematic effect  with  an  aesthetic  and  creative  oncoming. Based on the photographer experience to capture the  light  together  with  his  aesthetic  expression on  movement  photography,  he  finally  presented the  visual  arts  on  Baris  Tunggal  Dance  in  art photography expressions using strobe light. Basically,  the  creative  works  focused on  the  dancer  movements  and  transformed  into photography  expression  which  blended  with aesthetic  and  creative  idea  (ideational)  also  the technical photo shoot capability (technical) of the photographer. The photo shoots technique chosen through a variety of consideration which oriented on practical implementations possibilities, resulting photographs  in  freeze,  blurred,  and  multiple-images  as  art  photography.  The  art  photograph includes  extrinsic  and  intrinsic  aesthetic  values through photo presentation. With the presence of this photography art works it was not only present Gerak Tari Baris Tunggal dalam Fotografi Ekspresi Menggunakan Teknik Strobo Light in the form of mere documentation but it was the art photography expression on creative and aesthetic level. Keywords:  movements,  Baris  Tunggal  Dance, photography expression, strobo-light * Dosen ISI Denpasar

Developing Craft in the Ballet Class

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
Susie Crow
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Embodied Learning ◽  
Sports Science ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theoretical Investigations ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions

The ballet class is a complex pedagogical phenomenon in which an embodied tradition is transmitted in practice from one generation to the next, shaping not just the dancing but the attitudes and perceptions of dancers throughout their careers. This paper emerges from observations and experience of recent and current ballet class practice, and theoretical investigations into embodied learning in the arts. It outlines the influential role of large hegemonic institutions in shaping how ballet is currently taught and learned; and the effect of this on the class's evolving relation to ballet's repertoire of old and emerging dances as artworks. It notes the increasing importation into ballet pedagogy of thinking rooted in sports science, engendering the notion of the dancer as athlete; and of historic attitudes which downplay the agency of the dancer. I propose an alternative model for understanding the nature of learning in the ballet class, relating it to what Donald Schön calls ‘deviant traditions of education for practice’ in other performing and visual arts ( Schön 1987 p16). I look at the dancer's absorption via the class of ballet's danse d’école, its core technique of academic dance content. I suggest how this process might more constructively be understood through the lens of craft learning and the development of craftsmanship via apprenticeship, the dancer learning alongside the teacher as experienced artist practitioner who models behaviours that foster creativity.

The time–space tactics of Chinese Buddhist and Taoist believers under state–religion tension

2021 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2110609
Author(s):  
Wing Chung Ho ◽  
Lin Li
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
State Regulations ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Ethnographic Observation ◽  
Communist China ◽  
Ruling Party

This study explores the experience of elderly rural Buddhist and Taoist believers in communist China where the ruling party has maintained decades-long regulatory control over religion. Based on ethnographic observation and oral histories, the analysis begins with how the actors made sense of and coped in their relationship with the state during the fieldwork period (May–June 2020) when state regulations restricted public religious practice because of COVID-19. The analysis then looks back on how practitioners experienced tightening state ideological control from the early 2010s to before COVID-19; further back at the religious revival during the opening and reform (1980s–2010s); and finally, the Cultural Revolution period (1960s–70s) when strict atheistic measures were imposed. Their narratives reveal the practical logic (habitus) which practitioners used to mediate their resistance against and compromise with the authoritarian state. Specifically, four logical modes that involve actors’ different time–space tactics were identified, namely state–religion disengagement, state–religion enhancement, religious (dis)enlightenment, and karma. The implications of these ostensibly conflicting modes of thinking in mediating the actors’ resistance–compliance interface in contemporary China are discussed.

The Arts We See, a Simplified Introduction to the Visual Arts

Art Education ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Keel ◽  
Vincent Lanier
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Arts

scholarly journals Turismo na Serenissima entre ficção e realidade: de Morte em Veneza, de Luchino Visconti, à pós-pandemia

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Claudia Maria Astorino
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Corpus Analysis ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Geographic Setting ◽  
Luchino Visconti

RESUMO: Ao longo de sua história, Veneza vem atraindo um número considerável de turistas. Incrustrados em tão singular cenário geográfico, seus canais, gôndolas, pontes, campi, tesouros arquitetônicos e artísticos constituem um legado singular e, consequentemente, uma oferta turística inigualável, que tem seduzido o imaginário de turistas potencias das mais distintas procedências. O presente estudo objetivou analisar como a atividade turística em Veneza tem evoluído e de que modo vem sendo ilustrada nas artes, sobretudo, no cinema, na música e nas artes visuais. Nesse sentido, formou-se um corpus de estudo composto por filmes e videoclipes italianos e estrangeiros, além de obras de artes visuais, com a finalidade de confrontá-los com as etapas do turismo no percurso do tempo. Trata-se, portanto, de um estudo qualitativo, descritivo e comparativo. A metodologia constou de pesquisa bibliográfica em fontes secundárias, de forma a traçar a evolução do turismo em Veneza, seguida pela composição do referido corpus de estudo, análise das obras selecionadas para este corpus e, por fim, comparação entre ficção e realidade.Palavras-chave: Veneza. Turismo. Ficção x realidade. Filmes e videoclipes. Artes visuais. ABSTRACT: Nel corso della sua storia, Venezia ha atratto un numero considerevole di turisti. Incastonati in uno scenario unico, i suoi canalli, gondole, ponti, campi, tesori architettonici e artistici costituiscono un patrimonio singolare e di consegenza un’offerta turistica impareggiabile che da sempre ha popolato l’immaginario di potenziali turisti delle più svariate origini. Il presente studio si è proposto ad analizzare come si è evoluta l’attività turistica a Venezia e come à stata illustrata nel campo delle arti, in particolare nel cinema, nella musica e nelle arti visive. Si è dunque formato un corpus di studio, composto da film e da videoclip italiani e stranieri, oltre ad opere di arti visive, per confrontarli con le tappe dello svilupo del turismo nel tempo. Si tratta quindi di uno atudio qualitativo, descrittivo e comparativo. La metodologia è costituita da una ricerca bibliografica su fonti secondarie, al fine di tracciare l’evoluzione del turismo a Venezia, seguita dalla composizione di un corpus di studio, dall’analisi delle opere selezionate per questo corpus ed infine dal confronto tra finzione e realtà.Parole-chiave: Venezia. Turismo. Finzione x realtà. Film e videoclipe. Arti visive. ABSTRACT: Throughout its history, Venice has attracted a considerable number of tourists. Embedded in such a singular geographic setting, its canals, gondolas, campi, architectural and artistic treasures constitute a unique legacy and, consequently, an unparalleled tourist offer that has seduced the imagination of potential tourists from the most diverse origins. The present study aimed to analyze how the tourist activity in Venice has evolved and how it has been illustrated in the arts, especially in cinema, music and visual arts. In this sense, a corpus was formed, composed of Italian and foreign films and video clips, in addition to visual arts works, in order to confront them with the stages of tourism in the course of time. It is, therefore, a qualitative, descriptive and comparative study. The methodology consisted of bibliographic research in secondary sources, in order to trace the evolution of tourism in Venice, followed by the composition of a study corpus, analysis of the works selected for this corpus and, finally, comparison between fiction and reality.Keywords: Venice. Tourism. Fiction x reality. Films and video clips. Visual arts.

scholarly journals Intellectuals in power: Social patterns in the formative years of second Yugoslavia

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Dusan Boskovic
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formative Years

Political history of the Second Yugoslavia was continuously sacral, while secularization mainly took place within the arts? domain. The Cominform (Informbiro) and split with the SSR opened up a space for greater freedom of creativity (Kardelj, Djilas, Segedin) and for the abandonment of the socialist realism and its attempt to control the content of art (Zogovic). A third position on literature was promoted by Vladan Desnica.

scholarly journals 'Culture-organising': Joe Heenan and the Beginnings of State Patronage of the Arts

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Barrowman
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  
State Patronage

'Culture-organising': Joe Heenan and the Beginnings of State Patronage of the Arts

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