A Report from the Field: Mediating, Interpreting, and Negotiating The Meaning of Works of Art in Galleries and Museums

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-77
Author(s):  
Leslie Cunliffe

In this paper I describe the mediation of specific resources and learning strategies for sustaining pupils’ perceptions of a work of art. Participants in the research were aged between 8 and 11 years and of mixed gender and ability. Three complementary forms of intervention were designed. The first took the form of a video to explain the artist’s work and her working methods. In the second intervention I used the semantic differential instrument to support pupils’ perceptual exploration and interpretation of a piece of sculpture made by the artist. In the third intervention I used a semistructured interview to prompt pupils to evaluate and reflect about their recorded interpretations of the work in question. These interviews are presented in a case study format. The results show that the interventions had a substantial influence on the way participants were able to structure their perceptions and justify interpretations of the meaning of the sculpture in question.

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Marcos Cabezas ◽  
Sonia Casillas ◽  
Azucena Hernández

This article presents the main results from eight case studies carried out at different Spanish schools. Using a common protocol, the authors compared different cases of schools in which computer-supported collaborative learning experiences were carried out in order to identify what standard actions they had in common. In order to facilitate data collection and analysis, the authors opted for a mixed methodology, the instruments being interviews, observation, document analysis, a monitoring guide for the teachers and a semantic differential for the students. It was concluded that collaborative learning strategies favour students, since all of them benefit from constructing knowledge together, sharing responsibilities, taking ideas more in depth, having greater autonomy and control over their own learning, and helping each other in the process.


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Aurélio Todorov Silva ◽  
Thiago Bomjardim Porto

ResumoA arte de lavrar a rocha em variadas formas geométricas e figurativas foi amplamente usada no século XVIII, tinha como finalidade ornamentar e estruturar edificações de diversos usos e formas. Mas esta arte foi se tornando cada vez menos usual, devido ao surgimento de materiais que possibilitavam agilidade na construção e por serem economicamente mais viáveis. Assim com o desuso da cantaria, as técnicas e seus executores foram diminuindo e se perdendo no adentrar do século XX. A origem da arte da cantaria torna-se vulgar quando comparados com os atuais produtos tecnológicos, neste contexto mercadológico e modista é preciso resgatar o reconhecimento da obra de arte, e esse resgate se dá através da comunidade em que ela se insere, o envolvimento efetivo, tanto através do conhecimento técnico como cultural dos elementos pétreos, trará o empoderamento necessário para o surgimento de uma ação mais efetiva na conservação da matéria e restauração das obras de arte. O objeto tomado como referência de estudo é a Ponte da Cadeia, localizada na cidade de São João del Rei/MG, datada do ano de 1798, em pedra e cal, com cantaria miúda de picão em todas suas faces e lados. Palavras Chave: Ponte da Cadeia, cantaria, empoderamento, comunidade, projeto de restauraçãoAbstractASCENSION AND DECLINE OF STONEWORK ART. CASE STUDY: PONTE DA CADEIA. The art of plowing a rock in various geometric and figurative forms was widely used in the eighteenth century, its purpose was to decorate and structure buildings of various uses and shapes. But this art became less and less usual, due to the appearance of materials that allowed agility in construction and because they were economically more feasible. Thus with the disuse of the Stone work, the techniques and their executors were diminishing and getting lost in the entering of XX century. The origin of the stonework art becomes vulgar when compared with the current technological products, in this marketing and modiste context it is necessary to rescue the recognition of a work of art, and this rescue takes place through the community in which it is inserted, either an effective involvement throught he technical and cultural knowledge of the Stone elements, will bring a necessary empowerment to the emergence of a more effective action in a matter conservation and restoration works of art. The Bridge of the Chain is the object taken as reference, located in the city of São João del Rei / MG, dated from 1798, in stone and lime, with a little of abrasión Stone work on all its faces and sides.Keywords: Chain Bridge, masonry, stonework, empowerment, community


Author(s):  
Marta Perez Mata ◽  
Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen ◽  
Kristina Shea

Tools to aid designers achieve specific perceptions through the aesthetics of their products are needed in order to compete and stand out in the current consumer society. This research aims to develop a spatial grammar to include perceptions. This is conducted through a case study where rules from previous research are used to guide the spatial grammar development and generation of solutions. Results show that it is possible to develop a spatial grammar to design for perception rules extracted from consumers using Semantic Differential (SD) scales and advanced statistics. These elements combined can generate a tool that provides designers with many new aesthetically pleasing solutions. The Spapper module within the FreeCAD software is used for the implementation. Initial work examines only two perception rules (simplicity and tall), and shows the need for the third (curves) to obtain the expected results. Future work should focus on expanding the shapes available for generation (i.e. 3D primitives) to include spheres, ellipsoids, tori, revolved profiles and sweeps, which could increase the number of valid solutions.


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2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
Brigid Doherty

This article analyses a footnote to the third version of the ‘Work of Art’ essay in which Walter Benjamin presents an account of ‘a certain oscillation’ between ‘cult value’ and ‘exhibition value’ as typical of the reception of all works of art. Benjamin's example in that footnote is the Sistine Madonna (1512–13), a painting by Raphael in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie that has played an important part in German aesthetics since Winckelmann. Benjamin's footnote on the Sistine Madonna, along with his critique of Hegel's aesthetics in that context, demand to be understood in relation to his remarks on Dada elsewhere in the artwork essay, and to his claim that technological reproducibility leads to the ‘actualization’ of the original reproduced. In that connection, the article concludes with an analysis of Kurt Schwitters's 1921 montage picture Knave Child Madonna with Horse.


KÜLÖNBSÉG ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Szilvia Csanádi-Bognár

In the 16th and 17th centuries the concept of the line was discussed in the context of the debate between advocates of disegno colore and Poussin-Rubens as the device for forming images and the space of paintings. In contrast, parallel to the emergence of aesthetic discussion in the 18th century, the discussion of the concept formed part of the relation and the space between the work of art and the viewer. The distinctness of form became part of the discussion on abstract notions and ethical states. The importance of the line was discussed by several authors of the 18th century, like Winckelmann’s ideas on the outline. As a result, a whole cult of the silhouette emerged by the end of the 18th century. Wincklemann connected the notion of the outline to the concept of the idea, while Herder resisted granting importance to the notion of the line. The first section of the paper traces the place of the concept in 18th century theories of art. The second section summarizes the reasons for Herder’s resistance and shows what other concepts take over the role of the line in his epistemological model. The third section traces another difference between Herder and his contemporaries: why it remains unproblematic to talk of works of art, especially of sculpture, for Herder.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Sirkeci

Transnational Marketing Journal is dedicated to disseminate scholarship on cross-border phenomena in marketing by acknowledging the importance of local and global or in other words, underlining the transnational practices marked by national and local characteristics in a fluid fashion spreading over more than one national territory. The first article by Paulette Schuster looks into “falafel” and “shwarma” in Mexico and discusses the perception of Israeli food in Mexico. The second article is a case study illustrating a critical account of cultural dimensions formulated by Schwarz using the value surveys data. The third article in the issue is a qualitative study of the negative attitudes of millennials torwards mobile marketing. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Charles Cathcart

Sejanus His Fall has always been a succès d'estime rather than a popular triumph. Neverthless, there was an odd and pervasive valency for the speech that opens the play's fifth act, a speech that starts, “Swell, swell, my joys,” and which includes the boast, “I feel my advancèd head/Knock out a star in heav'n.” The soliloquy has an afterlife in printed miscellanies; it was blended with lines from Volpone's first speech; the phrase “knock out a star in heav'n” was turned to by preachers warning of the sin of pride; John Trapp's use of the speech for his biblical commentary was plundered by John Price, Citizen, for the polemic of 1654, Tyrants and Protectors Set Forth in their Colours; and in the year between the Jonson Folio of 1616 and the playwright's journey to Scotland, William Drummond of Hawthornden borrowed directly from the speech for his verse tribute to King James. For all Jonson's punctilious itemising of his tragedy's classical sources, his lines were themselves shaped by a contemporary model: John Marston's Antonio and Mellida. What are we undertaking when we examine an intertextual journey such as this? Is it a case study in Jonson's influence? Is it a meditation upon the fortunes of a single textual item? Alternatively, is it a study of appropriation? The resting place for this essay is the speech's appearance in the third and final edition of Leonard Becket's publication, A Help to Memory and Discourse (1630), an appearance seemingly unique within the Becket canon and one that suggests that Jonson's verse gained an afterlife as a poem.


Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson

Building on the picture of post-war Anglo-Danish documentary collaboration established in the previous chapter, this chapter examines three cases of international collaboration in which Dansk Kulturfilm and Ministeriernes Filmudvalg were involved in the late 1940s and 1950s. They Guide You Across (Ingolf Boisen, 1949) was commissioned to showcase Scandinavian cooperation in the realm of aviation (SAS) and was adopted by the newly-established United Nations Film Board. The complexities of this film’s production, funding and distribution are illustrative of the activities of the UN Film Board in its first years of operation. The second case study considers Alle mine Skibe (All My Ships, Theodor Christensen, 1951) as an example of a film commissioned and funded under the auspices of the Marshall Plan. This US initiative sponsored informational films across Europe, emphasising national solutions to post-war reconstruction. The third case study, Bent Barfod’s animated film Noget om Norden (Somethin’ about Scandinavia, 1956) explains Nordic cooperation for an international audience, but ironically exposed some gaps in inter-Nordic collaboration in the realm of film.


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