Krokodil’s Format and Visual Language

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-72
Author(s):  
John Etty
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Tripartite Model ◽  
Graphic Satire ◽  
Soviet Ideology

The first half of the chapter considers six political, cultural and social traditions-pre-revolutionary satirical literature, pre-revolutionary satirical journals, the lubok, Orthodox iconography, Soviet satire theory, and Soviet theatre-that influenced Krokodil. Tracing a fuller picture of Krokodil's heritages than previous literature provides, this chapter shows that Krokodil was the progeny of a complex system of satirical legacies, and it was also engaged in a mutually productive relationship with contemporary satirical forms. The chapter's second half analyzes Krokodil's visual language that is intended to move beyond the support/criticism binary vision of the magazine proposed by previous interpretations, and it thus proposes a tripartite model for explaining Krokodil's visual language. Considering all of Krokodil's graphic schemata-cartoons "contesting" anti-Soviet ideology, those "affirming" Soviet ideology, and images depicting the process of "becoming" Soviet-this chapter reveals how the magazine's cartoons dialogically and self-reflexively commented on serious Soviet discourses on graphic satire.

scholarly journals The Function of Painting as a Visual Language (Djoko Pekik Trilogy Analysis)

REPRESENTAMEN ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haryono Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Social Criticism ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cave Wall

Painting is a language expression that is expressed by artists through symbols or visual signs. Painting does not only reveal beauty, but also the role of symbolic language that will be realized by artists. The role of symbolic language in paintings is very influential to imply meaning, both denotation and connotation. Painting in general certainly aims to convey an unlimited message, it can be a social criticism, a historical record, and can also be present as an appeal. The message conveyed depends on what he wants to convey. So the focus of this study, how the role of painting as a visual language is realized through the symbols in the painting. This study uses the literature study method which is reviewed from some previous literature which is used as a sample or reference. The formation of visual language began in cave wall paintings, pictographs, and contemporary paintings such as the Djoko Pekik trilogy. Every painting shows that humans are able to express something through pictures or paintings.Keywords: Painting, Visual Language, Djoko Pekik Celeng Trilogy.

scholarly journals Sculptural rhymes of Art Nouveau: on the visual poetics of symbolism

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Olga Sergeevna Davydova
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Art Nouveau ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Visual Poetics ◽  
Western Art ◽  
The Aesthetic

This article is first within the Russian and Western art history to examine the concept of visual poetics as a separate subject of research. Based on the analysis of iconographic and theoretical searches of the masters of symbolism, which found reflection within the boundaries of expressive means of visual art, the author comes concludes on the poetic principles of symbolist artists as the fundamental sources of the formation of the style of Art Nouveau – a new sculptural language of the XIX – early XX centuries. Detail characteristic of the philosophical-aesthetic content that underlies optical forms of the visual symbolist image, in its scientific origins leans on the capabilities of the art comparative-formal analysis, as well as iconological method adapted to the period under review. The innovative conceptual approach towards studying the art of symbolism lies in the fact that poetry as the concept is depicted beyond the literary sphere, as a specific type of artistic worldview that influenced the development of the visual language of art in the era of Art Nouveau. At the same time, visual poetics is compared to the complex system of internal images, which shape in with the works of the master throughout the entire path of his self-expression, and are directly related to profoundness of the poetic principle of the soul, lyrical and metaphorical intuition of the artist. This approach allows us broadening the representation on the aesthetic benchmarks of the symbolist artists, as well as designating the new methodological coordinates in the field of studying the art of symbolism in both national and international contexts.

Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Etty
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Large Range ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Media Theory ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Graphic Satire ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Collaborative Exploration ◽  
Everyday Reality

Krokodil produced state-sanctioned satirical comments on Soviet and international affairs from 1922 onward. Authored by professional and non-professional contributors, and published by Pravda in Moscow, it became the satirical magazine with the largest circulation in the world. Every Soviet citizen and every scholar of the USSR was familiar with Krokodil as the most significant and influential source of graphic satire in the USSR. This book uses an original framework for reconsidering the forms, production, consumption, and functions of Krokodil magazine. It considers the magazine's content, structures and conventions; it also uses modern cultural and media theory to look beyond content analysis to consider visual language and the performative construction of character. Empirical analysis of Krokodil is thus used to extend and nuance our understanding of Soviet graphic satire beyond state-sponsored propaganda. In several ways, this book challenges existing approaches. It conducts close readings of a large range of different types of cartoons that have not before been discussed in depth, and it does so in ways that reveal new insights. It shows that Krokodil's satire was complex, subtle and intermedial. It highlights the importance of Krokodil's readers' and artists' collaborative exploration and shaping of the boundaries of permissible discourse, and it argues that Krokodil's cartoons simultaneously affirmed, refracted and critiqued official discourses, counterposing them with visions of Soviet citizens' responses. Ideology, Krokodil's satire suggests, is an interpretive tool for negotiating everyday reality and official discourses, and it was not always to be taken seriously.

A Reproducible Selective Stain for Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
R. A. Waugh ◽  
J. R. Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Cardiac Sarcoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Transmission Electron

Cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a complex system of intracellular tubules that, due to their small size and juxtaposition to such electron-dense structures as mitochondria and myofibrils, are often inconspicuous in conventionally prepared electron microscopic material. This study reports a method with which the SR is selectively “stained” which facilitates visualizationwith the transmission electron microscope.

Art as a Self-Organizing Complex System

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Apenova ◽  
Igor Yevin
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Self Organizing

The Elachistidae of southern Siberia and Central Asia, with descriptions of five new species (Lepidoptera)¹

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Kaila
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Baikal Region ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Southern Siberia

The Elachistidae material collected during the joint Soviet-Finnish entomological expeditions to the Altai mountains, Baikal region and Tianshan mountains of the previous USSR is listed. Previous literature dealing with the Elachistidae in Central Asia is reviewed. A total of 40 species are dealt with, including descriptions of five new species: Stephensia jalmarella sp. n. (Altai), Elachista baikalica sp. n. (Baikal), E. talgarella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan), E. esmeralda sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan) and E. filicornella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan). The previously unknown females of E. bimaculata Parenti, 1981 and Biselachista zonulae Sruoga, 1992 are described.

Implementation of Fuzzy Logic Control on Battery Charging System

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prihangkasa Yudhiyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Fuzzy Logic Control ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Rule Base ◽  
Battery Charging ◽  
Charging System ◽  
Logic Control ◽  
Charging Control

This paper presents the implementation fuzzy logic control on the battery charging system. To control the charging process is a complex system due to the exponential relationship between the charging voltage, charging current and the charging time. The effective of charging process controller is needed to maintain the charging process. Because if the charging process cannot under control, it can reduce the cycle life of the battery and it can damage the battery as well. In order to get charging control effectively, the Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) for a Valve Regulated Lead-Acid Battery (VRLA) Charger is being embedded in the charging system unit. One of the advantages of using FLC beside the PID controller is the fact that, we don’t need a mathematical model and several parameters of coefficient charge and discharge to software implementation in this complex system. The research is started by the hardware development where the charging method and the combination of the battery charging system itself to prepare, then the study of the fuzzy logic controller in the relation of the charging control, and the determination of the parameter for the charging unit will be carefully investigated. Through the experimental result and from the expert knowledge, that is very helpful for tuning of the  embership function and the rule base of the fuzzy controller.

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