scholarly journals Trends in Contemporary Art Discourse: Using Topic Models to Analyze 25 years of Professional Art Criticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Roose ◽  
Willem Roose ◽  
Stijn Daenekindt
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Computational Technique ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Magazine ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Art And Society ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we use topic modeling to systematically explore topics discussed in contemporary art criticism. Analyzing 6965 articles published between 1991 and 2015 in Frieze, a leading art magazine, we find a plurality of topics characterizing professional discourse on contemporary art. Not surprisingly, media- or genre-specific topics such as film/cinema, photography, sculpture/installations, etc. emerge. Interestingly, extra-artistic topics also characterize contemporary art criticism: there is room for articles on new digital technology and on art and philosophy; there is also growing interest in the relationship between art and society. Our analysis shows that despite evolutions in the field of contemporary art – such as the ‘social turn’, in which contemporary art starts paying more attention to social forms and content – the prevalence of certain topics in contemporary art criticism has barely changed over the past 25 years. With this article, we demonstrate the unique value of topic modeling for cultural sociology: it is both a powerful computational technique to generate a bird’s-eye view of a huge text corpus and a heuristic device that locates key texts for further close reading.

scholarly journals Art in the time of (neoliberal) capitalism: Adorno vs. Mikelsen

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Divna Vuksanovic
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Art And Society ◽  
The Relationship

The article opens the question of the perception of the relationship between art and capitalism in the contemporary era. This complex problem is treated from two angles of observation, which seem to be in a contrasting relationship. The first interpretative emphasis is placed on Adorne?s aesthetic theory of the mediation of art and society, while the other is summed up in Mikelsen?s theory of the effects of non-philosophical contemporary art which, in fact, conquers the position of power in the context of neoliberal capitalism with its empiricism. The article examines both these approaches, given their basic intentions, ranges and possible outcomes.

Mobile Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 369-391
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Cindy Sherman ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter surveys the multiple ways in which mobile media art has been defined by outlining some of the ways in which the field has been defined as it moves from media arts and hybrid reality to a more holistic contemporary art practice. It is then considered how mobile art is heralding ways in which to rethink the relationship between the quotidian, the social, and the politics of data. Finally, the chapter reflects on movements by artists (such as Cindy Sherman) to social mobile media as a site for critique and questioning of contemporary culture and everyday life.

scholarly journals The identification method of 6-7 year-old-children’s «duovector» giftedness in the art-creativity process

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-335
Author(s):  
Larisa Yuryevna Kalinina ◽  
Dmitriy Victorovich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
The Relationship

The paper deals with one of the aspects of early identification of giftedness: the establishment of the relationship between its types. The authors see a solution of the problem in the development and validation of the methodology based on the integrated modern scientific knowledge - psychological, pedagogical and art criticism, in the field of contemporary art. This technique is expected to meet the conditions of efficiency and accessibility in the application of teachers working with children. Clarifications have been made to the basic concept of giftedness for the paper. The authors propose a term describing the interrelated manifestation of two types of giftedness - duovector talent. The method is aimed at finding hidden signs of duovector giftedness: musical mathematics, in the field of fine art and sports, musical and linguistic. The basis of this approach is the idea of the dependence of the frequency and brightness of giftedness manifestations on the conditions, the most important of which is the aesthetic environment enriched with multi-modal material for creativity. At the same time, it is advisable to involve children in accessible and aesthetically valuable works of modern art, in the search for new knowledge in the same ways that adult authors of the XXI century use. Modeling directly perceived creative techniques and forms, the child masters the world, structures it non-linearly, on the principle of creating a rhizome. As a catalyst of creative activity, a set of tasks-subtests adapted to the age peculiarities of children is offered. The procedure of the experiment in a specially organized educational environment (an art workshop) is characterized. Plunging into the atmosphere of fruitful disorder, the child will act freely and directly, engaged in creativity as a game, creates an art product that has value as a marker of his talent. The content of creative tasks is presented, according to the results of work on which the diagnostic card is filled, in turn, which is the basis for the conclusions about the presence of the childs duovector talent. At this stage of the study, the authors have prepared a method for validation by comparing it with tests and subtests of other methods. The materials of the paper logically continue the research in the field of finding reference points for the development of individual educational routes of students, preparing them for lifelong learning.

scholarly journals DISTINCTION AND DIFFERENCE: REVISITING THE QUESTION OF TASTE

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Rebentisch
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The essay discusses the logic of distinction under the sign of the contemporary culture of difference and proposes a discussion of the relationship between taste and contemporary art. The recent trend toward greater individualization might have rendered social codes more permeable. But this state of affairs is neither the opposite of the standardization nor does it imply that the social logic of distinction has been suspended. It has merely undergone further differentiation, but without abolishing the signifiers of status. On the one hand art as a commodity partakes in the respective developments, on the other, certain strands in contemporary art can also be read as opposing the subject of aesthetic experience to the subject of consumerist taste.

scholarly journals Analysis of Individual and Social Forms of Psychological Trauma

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-298
Author(s):  
A.I. Krasilo
Keyword(s):  
Reference Group ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Projective Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The article attempts to determine its socio-psychological essence through the analysis of the social form of psychological trauma, as well as to identify the psychological nature of the pathological neoplasms that have arisen as a result of it, the specificity of which largely determines the methods and technology of personalistic counseling. These neoplasms are both individual psychological, including the sphere of experiences, and socio-psychological, affecting the relationship of the victims. The integration of the dominant parasitic "Ego" into the depth of the victim's personality, up to the very first level of the primary trusting relationship between the all-powerful and loving mother and a helpless child, we called the introjection of the personifier. As a result of the analysis, we come to the need for a specific restructuring of the irrational relationships of the victim with two other participants in the traumatic situation: the beneficiary, who receives personal benefits from this situation, and the reference group of the victim, who is traumatically personified by him in the image of an impersonal social personifier. The main methods of victims’ examination during the thirty years of counseling were: clinical conversation and projective methods of personality research.

‘Alive and Present’: Theatresports and Contemporary Live Performance

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-173
Author(s):  
MATTHIJS ENGELBERTS
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Social Event ◽  
Screen Media ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Social Fields ◽  
Live Art ◽  
Art And Society

Theatresports have been played for several decades now, and the form can claim international acceptance. This success is best viewed against the background of theatre's position in contemporary art and society. This form of theatre markedly takes advantage of the specificity of theatre, of its immediacy, of the fact that it is ‘live’ art. The improvisational matches thereby stress to what extent the ‘live’ aspect of theatrical performance has become distinctive in the domain of art. Moreover, theatresports highlight the social nature of theatre to such an extent that they probe the boundaries between the artistic and the social fields. By privileging the social event theatresports turn to advantage an aspect that allows theatre to buttress its position in competition with screen media.

Kinship, Primordial Ties, and Factory Organization in Turkey: An Anthropological View

1976 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dubetsky
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Forms ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The social organization of industrial work in Turkey provides us with an interesting case for the examination of the relationship between established social forms and meanings and the technological ad organizational exigencies of economic production. The organization of Turkish industrial production is, on the one hand, clearly an outgrowth of the technological apparatus that was imported from the Vest in the process of development since the nineteenth century. On the other hand, it is also deeply rooted in an indigenous social structure and culture. In this paper I hope to outline the interrelationship between these diverse factors.

scholarly journals Bad Citizens and Symbolic Subjects: Wang Jin, Zhou Tiehai, and the Art of (In)Civility

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-146
Author(s):  
Ros Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Market Reforms ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Citizenship ◽  
The Relationship

This article illuminates the relationship between contemporary art and visual representations of civility in postsocialist China. Focusing on a close visual analysis of two works of art: Wang Jin’s Ice-96 Central Plain (1996) and Zhou Tiehai’s Fake Cover (1996), it examines how artists sought to reject the binary terms with which civility is commonly constructed: between model and shameful forms of deportment, good and bad, spiritual and material, civil and uncivil. Directly challenging the social and political role of civility as it is shaped, imagined and “imaged” in China, it explores how civility plays a pivotal role in making and unmaking citizens and argues that these artists offer a redefinition of civility not as a “discourse of lack” but as a surplus quality, an embodied excess, something which could be performed, parodied or publicly cast off. It therefore stands as an argument for considering the vexed and contested parameters of civility as artists sought to navigate the fraught terrain between ideology and market reforms, consumer citizenship and the exigencies of globalisation.

scholarly journals Contemporary Art on the Touchstone of Social Sciences: The Experience of the Artist Jeff Koons as a Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Wisam Abdulmawla
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Jeff Koons ◽  
The Relationship

The current research aims to clarify the overlap of visual arts and contemporary different social sciences. It also aims to re-read the art work in a way to highlight the deep interaction of the recipient with the theme of the artwork in order to establish some art concepts which contribute to change and build a new visual culture for the society. This research also seeks to highlight the importance of today’s contemporary art as one of the fields of science. It dialogues many other areas and intersects with a lot of different sciences including the social sciences as a model for intermediary sciences. It shows the overlap between visual arts and different contemporary social sciences. It seeks, moreover, to re-read the artwork so as to highlight the deep interaction of the recipient with the society’s visual culture. The study tries to consider the idea of crossing borders between the various arts by opening onto each other. In other words, it wishes to emphasize the unique artistic pattern which had been considered to be confined within a unit of specialty with no partnership between one art and another or connection to the social sciences can transcend these borders. The research focuses on the experience of the artist Jeff Koons as a model of the complementary relationship between the practice of fine arts associated with many other fields of specialty, most importantly the social sciences. The research focuses on the experience of the artist as a model for the relationship of complementarily between fine practice and numerous other areas, notably the social sciences. 

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