The Reverse Regional Effect of the All-Union Unification (On the Example of the East Siberian Regional Union of Soviet Artists)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-223
Author(s):  
Yana Yu. Lisitsina
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Government Control ◽  
Regional Effect ◽  
Cultural Space

The establishment of Soviet artists’ unions in remote parts of the country has not been fully studied, but it is of interest for understanding the processes of formation of national fine art. One of the most important documents for the Soviet cultural space of the 1930s was the resolution of April 23, 1932, of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the restructuring of literary and artistic organizations”. Its impact is of a prolonged nature: artistic associations, originally created in the form of regulated unions, still exist, already having the status of entities exempt from direct government control. The main object of this research is the organization that united the masters of fine arts of a vast territory — the East Siberian Regional Union of Soviet Artists. The source base of the research is archival documents that make it possible to reconstruct the process of uniting provincial artists into a single regular organization and to assess the decisions of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks from the point of view of the development of the cultural space of the East Siberian Territory. Despite the regulatory actions common to the creation of such institutions, the process of organizing the association of Soviet artists in the peripheral parts of the country had a number of features that formed the final assessment of the outcome of the above-mentioned resolution. The article demonstrates that the geographic remoteness from the capital, the separation from the cultural centers, the harsh climatic conditions, the small population on a large territory, and technical communication difficulties had predetermined the specificity of the processes of Siberian social design, and the need for certain decisive actions and support from the authorities to create a viable association of fine art masters.

Nabaa, Nazir (1938--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneka Lenssen
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Puppet Theater ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Nazir Nabaa, a respected Syrian painter, made his greatest contributions to Arab modern art in the 1960s and 1970s, when he contributed to the graphic identity of progressive political causes and the Palestinian liberation struggle. He joined the Syrian Communist Party in the 1954 and in 1959 was briefly jailed for this affiliation. After his release, he traveled to Cairo on a fellowship to study painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, there developing a heroic realist style around social and labor themes. After returning to Syria in 1964, Nabaa taught drawing in rural schools and worked with myth and folklife. Moving to Damascus in 1968, he worked as an illustrator and became involved in creative projects in support of political mobilization, including poster design, puppet theater, fine art painting, and art criticism. Between 1971 and 1975, Nabaa studied in Paris at the Academy of Fine Arts. Upon his return, he joined the faculty of the College of Fine Arts in Damascus. His later paintings became more fantastical, combining goddess figures with still lifes of fruits, tapestries, and jewelry. He also developed a parallel corpus of abstract paintings based on the exploration of texture and color.

Ways of development of Soviet fine art in the context of the polemics of V.I. Lenin and A.A. Bogdanov

2021 ◽  
pp. 177-183
Author(s):  
Stepan S. Bakaryagin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Comparative

We examine the philosophical differences between V.I. Lenin and the head of the Proletarian cultural and educational organizations A.A. Bogdanov. It is pointed out that after the October Revolution of 1917, their views were transformed into a discussion about the essence, foundation and tasks of proletarian culture. Previously, this topic was mainly the subject of philosophical research, but did not become part of historical research. The author of the article made an attempt to assess the influence of the ideas of V.I. Lenin and A.A. Bogdanov on the formation of various approaches to the cultural policy of the Soviet government in the 1920s. In the course of the work, historical-genetic and historical-comparative methods, traditional for historical science, were applied. The use of the sociocultural method made it possible to consider the views of party ideologists on culture as a system of values that developed before the revolution and developed in subsequent years. It was noted that at the turn of the 1910–1920s polemics of V.I. Lenin and A.A. Bogdanov went beyond the limits of private contradictions and led to the emergence of two possible trends in the development of Soviet fine arts. Conclusions were made about the approval of the official point of view on cultural policy based on the traditions of realistic art.

EXHIBITION AS A GENRE OF PLASTIC ART: "DIOR"

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-150
Author(s):  
Mariya T. Maistrovskaya ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Museum Of Fine Arts ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
Fashion Designers

The article is the second part of the research that consider and analyze two exhibitions held in recent years at the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts named, “Chanel: according to the laws of art” (2007) and “Dior: under the sign of art” (2011), dedicated to the largest fashion designers of our time. The original concepts and artistic solutions of the exhibition design of these exhibitions became events not only in the fashion world, but also in the art of the exhibitiaon. These exhibitions presented various exhibition solutions, vivid artistic images, expressive spatial organization, conceptual and scenographic arrangement of copyright collections in the context of high fine art. The most important conceptual component of the exhibitions was to present the art of fashion designers, juxtaposing, giving rise to associations and building analogies and contexts with visual art, against which unique collections were exhibited and in the circle. With this single conceptual view of their work, and the single space of the museum in which the exhibitions were held, the artistic and architectural strategy of the exhibitions was diametrically opposite, revealing the palette and variety of artistically expressive means and modern exhibition design. Both exhibitions were created by modern foreign curators and designers and represent talented and creative exposition projects, the analysis of which can be useful for domestic environmental design as vivid examples of the exposition as a genre of plastic art, which is considered the modern museum and exhibition exposition at its highest and creative forms.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЙНІ ПРОЦЕСИ В СФЕРІ КУЛЬТУРИ : НОВІ ПІДХОДИ ТА ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
Space Region ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
National Union ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Artistic Activity ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Experience

Аналізується важливість і проблемний ряд здійснення реформи місцевого самоврядування в регіонах країни і шляхи її розв’язання у галузі культури. Пропонуються найбільш ефективні кроки для управлінських структур різних рівнів щодо зміни ставлення як представників керівної ланки, так і місцевого населення щодо різноманітних культурних практик. Акцентується увага на ролі методичних служб галузі у процесі здійснення цієї реформ. Наголошено на використанні досвіду інших країн в активізації місцевого населення у цьому процесі. Здійснено спробу запропонувати ефективні, на думку авторів, рішення у питанні проведення зазначеної реформи. Акцент зроблено на освітній чинник. . Ключові слова: культурні практики, місцеве самоврядування, соціальна активність, заклад вищої освіти, організаційно-культурна діяльність.   On the example of organizational, cultural and artistic activity the practice of holding anniversary art exhibitions of regional artistsOleksandr Harvat (photo art) and the first Head (1991-1998) of the regional department of the National Union of Artists Kostiantyn Lytvyn (fine arts, graphics)is analyzed. The specificity of their creative experience, influence on the cultural environment is considered. The most striking pages of the creative biographiesof each of them and the influence of exhibition activity on the artistic environment of the region are revealed. The importance of continuing to preserve the culturalheritage of regional artists in order to position Ukraine in the cultural space of the world is emphasized. Keywords: creative biography, artistic activity, exhibit, cultural space, region.

„Arvīd, uz kurieni Tu aizgāji?”: Arvīda Griguļa personības loma Rakstnieku savienības vēsturē

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-84
Author(s):  
Madara Eversone
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
State Archive ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Literary Heritage ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Impact

The article aims to highlight the role of Arvīds Grigulis’ (1906–1989) personality in the Latvian Soviet literary process in the context of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union, attempting to discover the contradictions and significance of Arvīds Grigulis’ personality. Arvīds Grigulis was a long-time member of the Writers’ Union, a member of the Soviet nomenklatura, and an authority of the soviet literary process. His evaluations of pre-soviet literary heritage and writings of his contemporaries were often harsh and ruthless, and also influenced the development of the further literary process. The article is based on the documents of the Central Committee of the Latvian Communist Party, the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union and the Communist Party local organization of the Latvian Soviet Writers’ Union that are available at the Latvian State Archive of the National Archives of Latvia, as well as memories of Grigulis’ contemporaries. It is concluded that the personality of the writer Arvīds Grigulis, although unfolding less in the context of the Writers’ Union, is essential for the exploration of the soviet literary process and events behind the scenes. The article mainly describes events and episodes taking place until 1965, when Arvīds Grigulis’ influence in the Writers’ Union was more remarkable. Individual and further studies should analyse changes and the impact of his decisions in the cultural process of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century.

scholarly journals New Deterministic Mathematical Model for Estimating the Useful Energy Output of a Medium-Sized Solar Domestic Hot Water System

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2753
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Zukowski ◽  
Walery Jezierski
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Power ◽  
Optimization Procedure ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Daily Consumption ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Domestic Hot Water

According to the authors of this paper, the mathematical point of view allows us to see what sometimes cannot be seen from the designer’s point of view. The aim of this study was to estimate the influence of the most important parameters (volume of heat storage tanks, daily consumption of domestic hot water, optical efficiency, heat loss coefficient, and total area of a solar collector) on the thermal power output of solar domestic hot water (SDHW) system in European climatic conditions. Three deterministic mathematical models of these relationships for Madrid, Budapest, and Helsinki were created. The database for the development of these models was carried out using computer simulations made in the TRNSYS software environment. The SDHW system located at the Bialystok University of Technology (Poland) was the source of the measurement results used to validate the simulation model. The mathematical optimization procedure showed that the maximum annual useful energy output that can be obtained from 1 m2 of gross collector area is 1303 kWh in the case of Madrid, 918.5 kWh for Budapest, and 768 kWh for Helsinki weather conditions.

Political Intimacy

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 658-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neringa Klumbytė
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
The State ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Political Dialogue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Shared Meanings ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
Late Socialism ◽  
Power Orders

This article explores intersections between power, subjectivity, and laughter by focusing on Šluota ( The Broom), a humor and satire journal published by the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party during late socialism (1970s to mid-1980s). In Lithuania, while the official newspapers and journals were commonly distrusted, The Broom was perceived as a grassroots media. In this article, the author asks how officially sanctioned socialist humor was translated into readers’ sincere laughter; how sensual and political dialogue was created between state authorities, artists, and readers. The author shows that in the case of the official culture of humor presented in The Broom, laughter cannot be easily classified as performance of resistance or support for the regime. In The Broom, the discourse of power was never monologic and simply oppressive. It was situational, contextual, and changing. Officially sanctioned laughter was infused with and mediated by private emotions and values. Moreover, the journal provided space for artistic creativity and self-expression that reshaped official political aesthetics. Laughter blurred the distinctions between the state and the citizen, the public and the private, the hegemonic and the sincere. The author argues that laughter is an experience and a performance of political intimacy through which various agents imagine a self, society, and the state and reproduce various power orders. Political intimacy refers to coexistence of state authorities and other subjects in fields of social and political comfort, togetherness, and dialogue as well as in the zones of shared meanings and values.

scholarly journals Thin-film-induced morphological instabilities over calcite surfaces

2015 ◽  
Vol 471 (2176) ◽  
pp. 20150031 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Vesipa ◽  
C. Camporeale ◽  
L. Ridolfi
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Water Film ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Transport ◽  
Physical Mechanisms ◽  
Water Films ◽  
Dissolved Ions

Precipitation of calcium carbonate from water films generates fascinating calcite morphologies that have attracted scientific interest over past centuries. Nowadays, speleothems are no longer known only for their beauty but they are also recognized to be precious records of past climatic conditions, and research aims to unveil and understand the mechanisms responsible for their morphological evolution. In this paper, we focus on crenulations, a widely observed ripple-like instability of the the calcite–water interface that develops orthogonally to the film flow. We expand a previous work providing new insights about the chemical and physical mechanisms that drive the formation of crenulations. In particular, we demonstrate the marginal role played by carbon dioxide transport in generating crenulation patterns, which are indeed induced by the hydrodynamic response of the free surface of the water film. Furthermore, we investigate the role of different environmental parameters, such as temperature, concentration of dissolved ions and wall slope. We also assess the convective/absolute nature of the crenulation instability. Finally, the possibility of using crenulation wavelength as a proxy of past flows is briefly discussed from a theoretical point of view.

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