The Art and Times of ABDIAS NASCIMENTO: QUILOMBOLA EXTRAORDINAIRE

2021 ◽  
pp. 002193472110064
Author(s):  
Cheryl Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Black Theater ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Afro Brazilian ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

This paper explores the aesthetic trajectory of Abdias Nascimento in the context of his life’s work, arguing that he has to be apprehended as a Quilombola warrior figure, through his entwinement of political and artistic agency. More specifically, it explores how Nascimento harnesses the creative matrix found in the lived history, myth and figuration from candomblé as a dramatist and as a painter. First, it delves into his creation of the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN), the first black theater in Brazil and his use of candomblé as a template of dramaturgy in his play, Sortilégio. However, the main analysis centers on his paintings, which combines candomblé symbology, along with other African cultural forms, to create culturally meaningful aesthetic forms that affirmed Afro-Brazilian subjectivity and their historical belonging in the nation and connection to the larger Africana world.

Brief Analysis for the Aesthetic Form of Chinese Garden Art

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 650-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bian Ling Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Development History ◽  
Artistic Conception ◽  
High Uniformity ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

Chinese garden art has developed gradually along with the neutralization--lasting appeal--artistic conception trend till to the peak, meanwhile, those aesthetic forms can be existed synchronously with historical advancement, logic arrangement in parallel and correspondence as well as abundance and deepening of the interior connotation and exterior extension, which represent the high uniformity of the development history and logics of Chinese garden art. Nowadays, the landscape garden development is required to probe its root, explore its cultural soul, so as to base itself upon the garden industry all over the world. Additionally, the function of traditional aesthetic form will show the powerful functions, declare publicly the deep influence of modernized landscape garden development.

The What-Has-Been and the Now of a Communist Past in Malaya in the Films of Amir Muhammad

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Carlo Bonura
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Village People ◽  
Communist Past ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Malayan Emergency ◽  
The Village ◽  
Communism Today ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

This article considers two films by the Malaysian filmmaker Amir Muhammad, The Last Communist of 2006 and the Village People Radio Show of 2007. Both films are focused on the Malayan Emergency and the lives of a small group of Malayan communists. Through an engagement with Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Storyteller,” the analysis in this article examines the aesthetic forms that structure Amir’s films, namely nonlinear narratives, intertextuality, and the use of images and stories as comparative frames. This article argues that Amir’s films enable audiences to recognize how the truth of a communist past in Malaysia, both of its politics and suppression, inflects the present. The films provide an opening to recognize how the absence of communism today is the effect of the ideological clearing of all leftism that became the hallmark of the end of the British Empire in Malaysia. Communism is made meaningful in Amir’s films both as a lived experience and as a displacement that is absent from the postcolonial everyday.

scholarly journals Nordic Modernists in the Circus. On the Aesthetic Reflection of a Transcultural Institution

Humanities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Annegret Heitmann
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Henrik Ibsen ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

Around 1900 the circus was not only an important and highly popular cultural phenomenon all over Europe, but also an inspiration to writers and artists at the onset of Modernism. As an intrinsically intermedial form with international performers, it can be seen as an expression of certain important characteristics of modern life like innovation, mobility, dynamics, speed and vigor. Its displays of color and excitement, of bodies in motion and often provocative gender relations were experienced by authors as a challenge to create new aesthetic forms. However, the circus does not only figure prominently in well-known works by Kafka and Thomas Mann and paintings by Degas, Macke or Leger, it is also thematized in texts by Scandinavian authors. When writers like Henrik Ibsen, Herman Bang, Ola Hansson and Johannes V. Jensen referred to the circus in their works, they represented it as an experience of modernity and addressed themes like alterity, mobility, voyeurism, new gender relations and ambivalent emotions. As a self-reflexive sign, the circus even served to represent the fragile status of art in modernity and thus made an important contribution to the development of Modernism.

scholarly journals On Approximate Aesthetic Curves

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1394
Author(s):  
Ioana Crăciun ◽  
Dorian Popa ◽  
Florina Serdean ◽  
Lucian Tudose
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Neutral Curve ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Neutral Curves ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

Symmetry plays an essential role for generating aesthetic forms. The curve is the basic element used by designers to obtain aesthetic forms. A curve with a linear logarithmic curvature graph gradient is called aesthetic curve. The aesthetic value of a curve increases when its gradient is close to a straight line. We introduce the notions of approximate aesthetic curves and approximate neutral curves and obtain estimations between the curvature of an approximate aesthetic/neutral curve and an aesthetic curve.

USTAZ YOUTUBE: USTAZ ABDUL SOMAD AND THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGING RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES

Penamas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Dony Arung Triantoro
Keyword(s):  
Personal Communication ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

This article examines the dynamics of changing religious authority, especially in Ustaz Abdul Somad, whose lectures are widely uploaded via Youtube. This study is important because Youtube does not only act as a medium for contemporary da'wah but also a means to build and strengthen traditional religious authority. The questions that will be answered in this article include: First, what were the discourses that initiated the emergence of ustaz Youtube in Indonesia? Second, what are the dynamics of changes in religious authority taking place on Youtube? Third, how does the Youtube media change and strengthen Ustaz Abdul Somad's religious authority? To answer these questions, researchers conducted online ethnographic work and personal communication with Ustaz Abdul Somad's audience. This article finds that three concepts influence the dynamics of changing Ustaz Abdul Somad's religious authority on Youtube, including the nature of Youtube technology itself, the role of Ustaz Abdul Somad's fans, and the aesthetic forms in Ustaz Abdul Somad's lectures.

Urban Choreographies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Klein
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Public Protest ◽  
Artistic Interventions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Forms

In recent years, above all in urban environments, new cultures of public protest and artistic interventions have established themselves. These artistic and aesthetic forms increasingly operate with physical, theatrical, and choreographic practices and tools, developing a politics of images in an effective and affective media environment. This chapter discusses, using the examples of LIGNA’s performances Radioballet and Dance of All, the aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of artistic interventions based on a concept of community that is defined by corporeal and aesthetic practices. The chapter highlights the political potential implied in the aesthetic and artistic forms of public cultural gatherings. It focuses on the production of attention by means of bodily practices (gestures, facial expressions, movement, dance), theatrical settings (stage, costumes, music), and choreographic tools (organization of bodies, rhythm, dramaturgy).

scholarly journals Symbolic Games in A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Olivia Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Joyce Carol Oates ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractThis article will show that postmodern thoughts play an essential role in Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland Quartet. In its opening novel A Garden of Earthly Delights, I will also consider the imagery of Lewis Carroll’s Alice texts that influenced Oates’ Quartet. Oates’ and Carroll’s texts share the depiction of decentralised permissiveness and rejection of all authority that I interpret through the aesthetic conception of postmodern games by Gilles Deleuze. By blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, the aspect of violence is repressed in Carroll’s texts. However, Oates aestheticises violence to maximise the diverse impact of postmodern sentiment on American cultural forms that emerged in the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. In contrast to Carroll’s Alice, who demands order to protect herself from the chaos, Clara in A Garden of Earthly Delights rejects conventions and fabricates chaos to alleviate her unprivileged condition.

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