scholarly journals Contemporary Art in the Cultural Space of the Metropolis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisovets I.M.

One of the most important features of modern art is its existence in the everyday urban culture and active transformation of the latter. The purpose of the article is to analyze the presence of art in the space of the modern metropolis and its influence on the culture. A special role here belongs to the current urban art practices, which turned out to be necessary for the development of Russian cities of the third millennium and their inhabitants. Using the socio-cultural and philosophical-aesthetic methodology  to analyze the contemporary art in the context of urban culture, the author refers to the space of Yekaterinburg, which is a megacity of the third millennium. By way of concretization, the article addresses the results of a study of the cultural environment of the Ural capital called “Yekaterinburg Pulse”, which determined the features, status and problems of the megacity. Keywords: urban art practices, metropolis, language and institutions of modern art, culture space of Yekaterinburg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Nessya Fitryona

West Sumatera is one of areas in the visual arts development in Indonesia. In 1980-1990s, there were found the presence data about installation of art and some alternative art works in art institutions and in public. The emergence that art works caused the struggle of the view of art practices in art society. That struggle seemed to thaw since emergence of Komunitas Seni Belanak (2003). This research explained the process of view of art practices that were occurred in West Sumatra which had changed from 1986 until 2003. This research used the concept of historical movement by Hegel dialectics theory and sociohistorical approach. The changing process of the art practices started from antithesis phase which was divided into two periods. The first antithesis period was the arrival of Agus Purwantoro (1986-1999). The second was the movement of IKIP Padang college students (1995-2003) and continued to the emergence of Komunitas Seni Belanak. The results of this study was the struggles in view of art practices in 1986 until 2003 was important as the transition period between the practices of modern art and the development of contemporary art in West Sumatra.


Author(s):  
A. Ulyanova

Автор анализирует такое явление культурного ландшафта российской столицы, как независимые кинотеатры. Независимый кинотеатр может выступать одним из способов трансляции объектов современного искусства, так как отвечает задачам культурной среды города, а именно: представляет собой пространство для реализации горожанином своих интересов и свободы действий, сопровождающейся формированием в нем определенных культурных ценностей. Право на город отражает способность горожан моделировать, совершенствовать городское пространство в соответствии со своими потребностями. По мнению автора, независимый кинотеатр является именно таким необходимым объектом городской среды, посредством которого осуществляется трансляция современного искусства.The author analyzes such a phenomenon of the cultural landscape of the Russian capital as independent cinemas. Independent cinema can be one of the ways to broadcast objects of contemporary art, as it meets the goals of the cultural environment of the city. It is a space for citizens to realize their interests and freedom of action, accompanied by the formation of certain cultural values. The right to the city reflects the ability of citizens to model and improve urban space in accordance with their needs. The author believes that an independent cinema is a necessary object of the urban environment, through which modern art is broadcast.


Author(s):  
Steven Jacobs ◽  
Susan Felleman ◽  
Vito Adriaensens ◽  
Lisa Colpaert

Sculpture is an artistic practice that involves material, three-dimensional, and generally static objects, whereas cinema produces immaterial, two-dimensional, kinetic images. These differences are the basis for a range of magical, mystical and phenomenological interactions between the two media. Sculptures are literally brought to life on the silver screen, while living people are turned into, or trapped inside, statuary. Sculpture motivates cinematic movement and film makes manifest the durational properties of sculptural space. This book will examine key sculptural motifs and cinematic sculpture in film history through seven chapters and an extensive reference gallery, dealing with the transformation skills of "cinemagician" Georges Méliès, the experimental art documentaries of Carl Theodor Dreyer and Henri Alekan, the statuary metaphors of modernist cinema, the mythological living statues of the peplum genre, and contemporary art practices in which film—as material and apparatus—is used as sculptural medium. The book’s broad scope and interdisciplinary approach is sure to interest scholars, amateurs and students alike.


2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-267
Author(s):  
Alexander H. Joffe
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Author(s):  
Loreta De Stasio

En este artículo examinaremos algunas de las principales estrategias discursivas empleadas en dos artículos publicados por U. Eco en L’Espresso, una revista semanal muy conocida en Italia de carácter político, social, cultural y económico, en el marco de una página personal titulada “La Bustina di Minerva”, es decir, “El Sobrecito de Minerva”. El título es una referencia a la comunicación breve, a las observaciones de cualquier tipo, pero igualmente, de forma simultánea. Los sobrecitos reflexionan sobre el mundo contemporáneo, la sociedad italiana, los medios de comunicación de masas; tratan de la actualidad y la relacionan con la historia y la filosofía, con Internet y el futuro del Tercer Milenio, y nos proponen los pensamientos de U. Eco con más viveza que una conferencia o un tratado.La ironía, la sátira y la parodia son las bases argumentativas de muchos “Sobrecitos”. Generalmente, el humor transmite dos sentidos a la vez. Detrás de una serie de textos tan variados temáticamente aparece a menudo una misma estructura binaria, un cuerpo dual. Con frecuencia, un mismo artículo obedece a una doble orientación tematica, ya que suelen mezclar dos motivos que pertenecen a áreas diferentes, alternando simultáneamente dos sujetos. A esta doble orientación temática del “Sobrecito” corresponde la doble orientación semántica de la palabra irónica que, junto con la parodia es un discurso dialógico o bi-direccional en el que se mezclan dos voces.In this article some of the main discursive strategies used in two articles published by U. Eco are examined. These articles have been published in L'Espresso, a weekly review very widespread in Italy, of political, social, cultural and economic character, within the framework of a column titled “La Bustina di Minerva”, that is to say, “The little bag/envelope of Minerva”. This title refers to a brief communication, to observations of any type, but also, immediate. The “bustine” reflects on the contemporary world, the Italian society, the mass media; they deal with present time and relate it to history and philosophy, Internet and the future of the Third Millennium, and they propose us Eco’s thoughts with more vividness than a conference or an essay.Irony, satire and parody are the argumentative bases of many “bustine”. Generally, humour transmits two senses simultaneously. Behind a series of texts so thematically varied there is often a same binary structure, a dual body. Frequently, a same article obeys to a double thematic direction, since usually they mix two arguments that belong to different areas, alternating two subjects simultaneously. To this double thematic direction of the “bustina” corresponds the double semantic direction of the ironic word that, along with parody, is a dialogic or bidirectional speech in which two voices are mixed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 208-210
Author(s):  
Zaineb Lstrabadi

Dorothy Drummond's book was born at the dawn of the third millennium,when the author was in Jerusalem. She had taken notes throughout hertravels in the Holy Land, which she defines not only as the land of historicPalestine, but also the lands of present-day Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq,and Egypt (i.e., where the Patriarchs, Prophets, and the Holy Familyroamed). Rather than write a travelogue, she decided to write a book aboutthe Arab-Israeli conflict while interspersing her personal comments (initalics) about her journeys. Her intent is not to "answer the question posedin the title of this book. Rather, by shedding light on dark corners, itattempts to bring understanding," as she explains in the prologue.The book is divided into three parts: a discussion of the IsraeliPalestinianconflict in the present, a discussion of the roots of the conflicttraveling 4,000 years into the past, and a brief discussion of how negotiationis the only way to resolve the conflict. There are maps and pho tographsthroughout the book, as well as a 40-page glossary of the HolyLand's people and places. Drummond has written the work in the presenttense, because of the immediacy of all that has happened in the MiddleEast, but the discussion ultimately centers on the area between theMediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.Her book promises to be a good, balanced account written in a wonwonderfullyaccessible style. However, early on it runs into problems. Forexample, when she talks about the 1956 Israeli attack on Egypt, she fails ...


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