scholarly journals Writing the Artist’s Gaze: Ethics and Ekphrasis in Early Twentieth Century Historical Fiction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Dougall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Pat Barker

This article examines portrayals of visual artists in novels by Pat Barker and A.S. Byatt, focusing on artists’ appeal to writers, and the associated ethical and artistic challenges. It proposes that artist characters can offer creative ways of probing not only particular periods of history, but the creative process itself.

Together We Move

2017 ◽  
pp. 588-606
Author(s):  
Cynthia Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Community Dance ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Folk Dancing ◽  
Early Influences

This chapter discusses the process of creating a large-scale dance event inspired by the early-twentieth-century movement choirs of Rudolph Laban. A brief biography of Laban outlines the early influences leading to his conviction that community dance is a critical component in creating group empathy and goodwill. These influences include his exposure, as a young man, to whirling dervishes, and his experience with folk dancing within rural communities. The development of his ideas on dance and his concept of Festwille—the urge for a group of people to participate in meaningful celebratory activity—are also examined. The article describes the evolution of the movement choir from workshops which Laban held for amateur dancersm, and the cultural circumstances in post-industrialized Germany that contributed to this evolution. Finally, the creative process in setting a Laban-inspired movement choir of approximately 500 participants is described.

Historical Fiction, Academic History, and Civic Pageantry (c. 1850–c. 1960)

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-156
Author(s):  
J. Patrick Hornbeck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Fiction ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Historical Fictions

Chapter 4, which covers the period from c. 1850 to c. 1960, begins with a genre of representation that came into its own in the nineteenth century: historical fiction. The chapter addresses some of the interpretive challenges that historical fictions present and offers new readings of two early stories about Wolsey, both set in his native Suffolk. The emergence of historical fiction occurred contemporaneously with far-reaching developments in academic historiography. With the publication of copious original documents from the Henrician period came new resources for the study of Wolsey. The chapter explores the work of such historians as James Anthony Froude and J. S. Brewer, alongside the Wolsey biographies of Mandell Creighton (1891), Ethelred Taunton (1902), A. F. Pollard (1929), and Hilaire Belloc (1930). It observes how Victorian historians were often zealous about policing the boundaries of their discipline. Finally, since it is from this period that we have the earliest evidence for the public commemoration of Wolsey, the chapter explores the ways in which the cardinal was remembered in early-twentieth-century civic pageants in Oxford and Ipswich, as well as on the anniversaries of his Oxford foundation, currently known as Christ Church.

The Great Text in Our Economy Today

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

This chapter explores the origins of the organizational impulse that animated the American acting community in the early twentieth century. It begins by examining the transformation of the theatrical economy that was brought about by the rise of the theater trusts at the end of the nineteenth century. It goes on to consider production practices in the metropolitan theater industry, highlighting the growing emphasis on rationalization and standardization and exploring how this dual imperative impacted upon the creative process. It also looks at the experience of work in the early twentieth-century theater, documenting conditions on the theatrical shop floor and highlighting the role of race, ethnicity, and gender in determining the degree of opportunity available to individual performers. The chapter argues that while actors undoubtedly had grievances against their employers, the theater trusts had actually done a great deal to improve their lot by stabilizing a notoriously volatile employment market. The formation of the Actors' Equity Association in 1913 had less to do with conditions of employment than with a perception on the part of an influential section of the acting community that it had relinquished its accustomed autonomy to a group of employers whom they held responsible for declining standards in the theater.

scholarly journals Pen, Paper, Steel

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Probst
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Paul Klee ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of

Graphs drawn on rastered paper and a monumental steel sculpture display how visual artists Paul Klee and Henrik Neugeboren conceived of Johann Sebastian Bach’s polyphonic style in 1920s Germany. Focusing on the representational decisions behind these artistic translations of music, this article explores the ways in which such artifacts manifest a specific analytical lens. It highlights congruencies with and deviations from the theoretical framework of “linear counterpoint,” as epitomized in Ernst Kurth’s influential treatise from 1917, and thereby positions the artworks within the controversial reception history of Bach’s music and attendant theoretical frameworks in the early twentieth century. More generally, the article proposes that graphical and sculptural renderings of music can offer the opportunity to investigate music theory’s intangible methods and conceptual metaphors through different sensory experiences.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitan spaces of international film festivals

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-110
Author(s):  
Dorota Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Festivals ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
French Riviera ◽  
Internal Architecture

Since its inception, the Cannes Film Festival was envisioned as a continuation, expansion and enhancement of the Riviera’s long-established cosmopolitan, carnivalesque and exclusive space. The Riviera’s cosmopolitanism was shaped by travel and the mobility of its international visitors, making it into a non-place; some of them, in addition, transformed the Riviera through their horticultural activity, thus literally rooting themselves in the Riviera. The particular version of the Riviera’s cosmopolitanism was mirrored in the internal architecture of the festival, in terms of its audiences and programming, which was international, elitist and characterised by the interplay of place and non-place. In this article, I argue that the origins of the festival as a cosmopolitan event are found in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century cultural history of the French Riviera—as it was rendered on the pages of the diarists who travelled to the region, and realised in the activities of the visual artists living and working there. I contend that the Cannes Film Festival replicates the dynamics and tensions inherent to the space in which it is settled—that of the French Riviera—and thus, it is not only rooted in the Riviera’s culture, but it is also a fascinating extension of the myth of the Riviera.

scholarly journals ARTISTIC HARMONY OF THE POETICS OF HISTORICAL TRUTH

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-273
Author(s):  
Z. Sametova ◽  
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M. Aitimov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Historical Truth

This article States that the classic artistic basis of modern Kazakh prose, which influenced its content and form, were the works of new written realistic literature ( works of Abay, Y. Altynsarina et al.). Images of Kazakh prose created by Shokan, Ibrai, Abai and works written at the subsequent stages of the development of Kazakh literature are national spiritual values. It also examines the literary process of the early twentieth century and the work of individual writers who contributed to the development of the novel genre in Kazakh prose along with examples of world literature. A large number of Kazakh novels created during the period of independence were published in the 90s of the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century. The article examines how the centuries-old history of the Kazakh people, the history of the Kazakh state from ancient times to the present day is depicted in fiction within the framework of the traditional creative process.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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