scholarly journals The autograph book of visitors in Podhorce castle in the years 1923–1930

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 236-247
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Paduch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
School Children ◽  
Works Of Art

Podhorce is one of the greatest aristocratic residences. The owners of the palace were members of the families: Koniecpolscy, Sobiescy, Rzewuscy and Sanguszko. Waclaw Rzewu-ski (1709-1779) created in Podhorce a huge collection of works of art, he founded an armory, an archive and a library. Whereas Leon Rzewuski (1808-1869) gave museum character to the collection gathered in the palace. After visiting the residence the guests signed in the guest book of the palace. Based on the analysis of the guestbook from the years 1923-1930 it can be concluded that the palace was visited by representatives of different social strata. The largest group were the excursions organized by scholarly institutions (school children, scouts, students). The document includes signatures of the representatives of the polish gen-try, distinguished professors, scientists, researchers and senior clerics. The presented book contains about one thousand seven hundred autographs, that had been placed in the book for seven years of its conduct. A significant number of signatures in the document confirms the enormous interest in the Podhorce collection in the twentieth century.  

‘A revolution of incalculable effect’: modernism and the teaching of art in schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-82
Author(s):  
Daniel Moore
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
School Children ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
County Council ◽  
Abstract Art ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This chapter explores a range of encounters between modernism and school-children. Focused most sharply on the work of Marion Richardson, teacher of art at Dudley High School for Girls, it ranges across arts education policy in Britain in the early twentieth century and some other initiatives designed to get abstract art into the classroom. Richardson, in particular, has hardly been attended to by modernist scholars, but her work at Dudley, and later at the London County Council, was crucial in transforming the teaching of visual art across Britain.

Medicine Reading Literature: the Paradigm of Degeneration

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Lena Arampatzidou
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nervous System ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
German Physician ◽  
Natural Life

This article is part of a larger project on the interaction between Natural/Life Sciences and Literature, and is a first attempt to scout the area through concentrating onDegeneration, a book that sees Literature through the eyes of Medicine. Max Nordau, the author of the book, was a turn-of-the-twentieth-century German physician who read contemporary movements in Art and Literature as Disease. He was an adversary of pre-modernist and modernist movements such as aestheticism, decadence, impressionism, and so on, and failed to recognize their avant-garde character. The article examines how Nordau reads certain features of literary texts and works of art which he cannot understand as symptoms of the malfunctioning of the nervous system of the painters and writers concerned. Moving from the body of the text to the body of the artist, Nordau reads particular artistic features as signs of bodily disease of the artists, and he does so by opposing the rationalist discourse of Medicine to the figurative language of Literature.

The Transitive Multiverse of Charles Ives's “Concord” Sonata

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-194
Author(s):  
Christopher Bruhn
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Brain ◽  
William James ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Piano Sonata ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Multiple Levels

The philosophy of William James can be useful in the interpretation of works of art, although James himself never specifically set forth an aesthetic theory. As an example, a Jamesian view of consciousness is enacted on multiple levels in Charles Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60,” and the accompanying Essays before a Sonata. James's metaphor for the working of the human mind—a view widely circulated in Ives's day—as a “stream of thought,” the largely transitory movement of which James likened to a bird's flights and perchings; the value James finds in vagueness; and his treatment of the nature of truth as fundamentally mutable and provisional all find musical expression in the “Concord” Sonata. Additionally, the complex genealogy of the sonata and its connection to related works, notably the Fourth and Universe Symphonies, can be interpreted as reflecting James's cosmological vision of a pluralistic universe or “multiverse.” Reading the sonata through a Jamesian lens provides new insights into the behavior of Ives's music by relating it to turn-of-the-century thinking about the functioning of the human brain as well as early-twentieth-century American philosophy and cosmology.

From crime to art. Contradictions in the cultural transformation of Afro-Brazilian Candomblé

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Roger Sansi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Material Religion ◽  
Afro Brazilian

The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé radically changed in the twentieth century. From being persecuted as crime and sorcery, it has become identified as culture. Its objects and images have become works of art. This article presents this process of ‘culturalization’ through objects and images. This transformation, however, resulted in some contradictions, that left some of these objects in ambiguous positions. This case study aims to contribute to current debates on the agency of objects and images in material religion.

Problems of the interaction of reality and fiction in Russian literature in the 20s of the XX century

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Jyldyz K. Bakashova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Artistic Image

The article is devoted to one of the important problems of literature at the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century — documentary artistic creation. Writers, and later filmmakers, introduce real materials into their works that create a historical narration. Writers of different creative orientations are united in their attitude to the documentary trend. The article examines the actual problem of using prototypes by Russian writers when they create works of art. The views of Russian writers on the problem of interaction between reality and fiction in their work are considered on the example of the statements of L.N. Tolstoy, N.K. Hudzia, F.M. Dostoevsky, N.V. Gogol, V.G. Belinsky, A. Serafimovich, A. Todorsky, A. Blok. Russian writers believed that artistic truth is inseparable from the truth of life, real reality is the basis that feeds art. But no less significant is the creative understanding of the facts of life. The path from the prototype to the artistic image created by the writer in the work is closely connected with the figurative vision of the world, with generalization and individualization, with the aesthetic comprehension of real facts, there is a dialectical connection between art and life. Adequate reconstruction of events presupposes their aesthetic comprehension by the writer.

‘School Milk’ in the Context of the Australian Dairy Industry

Rural History ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
VIRGINIA THORLEY
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
School Children ◽  
Dairy Industry ◽  
Cow’S Milk ◽  
Cow's Milk ◽  
National School ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractAustralia, as with a number of other countries with dairy industries, established a national school milk scheme which operated from 1951 to the beginning of 1974 at no cost to the children's families. The scheme, funded by the federal government and administered by the states, ended abruptly after costs blew out, with resultant losses by the industry. This article describes the limited provision of milk in schools in two states prior to the national scheme and how, after the cessation of the national scheme, dairy industry initiatives in some states were gradually developed to market liquid cow's milk, including flavoured products, at subsidised prices to school children who were perceived as potential lifelong consumers. The article traces the rise and decline of these schemes in the late twentieth century within the context of moves towards dairy deregulation and its effects on the industry.

scholarly journals Self-portrait in the painting of Irkutsk artists of the late twentieth century

2020 ◽  
pp. 320-336
Author(s):  
Алина Михайловна Свердлова-Александрова
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Art History ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

В статье рассматриваются автопортреты иркутских художников, созданные в период 1980–2000 гг. и хранящиеся в собрании Иркутского областного художественного музея имени В.П. Сукачева. Два последних десятилетия ХХ века стали временем глобальных общественных и политических перемен, последствия которых отразились на жизни граждан. Попытка сопоставления глубоко личных произведений искусства и исторических событий, происходящих параллельно их созданию, дает возможность оценить, как внешняя среда влияет на творческий процесс художника. Приведен искусствоведческий анализ автопортретов Г. Новиковой, В. Кузьмина, Н. Вершинина, Н. Башарина В. Смагина, Б. Десяткина, Л. Гимова, В. Чевелева. The article deals with self-portraits of Irkutsk artists created in the period of 1980–2000 and stored in the collection of the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum named after Vladimir Sukachev. The last two decades of the twentieth century were a time of global social and political changes, the consequences of which affected the lives of citizens. An attempt to compare deeply personal works of art and historical events that occur in parallel with their creation makes it possible to assess how the external environment affects the artist's creative process. An art history analysis of self-portraits of G. Novikovа, V. Kuzmin, N. Vershinin, N. Basharin, V. Smagin, B. Desyatkin, L. Gimov, V. Chevelev.

scholarly journals Hugh Ramsay’s Self-Portrait: Re ections on a Spanish Master Painter

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Jenny Beatriz Quijano Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Works Of Art

The interest in European masters from the past was a phenomenon related to the development of the artistic careers of many artists in Australia at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. More than that, the copying or emulation of great works of art was seen to be a necessary part of an artist’s training1. This paper looks at Hugh Ramsay and his fascination with the painting Las Meninas (1656) by Velázquez as part of a larger study into understanding how the Spanish in uence was re ected in Australian art. Ramsay introduced elements from Las Meninas into his Portrait of the artist standing before easel, which took him to personify the role of the painter as Velázquez.  

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