scholarly journals Installations of the XXI century – from the conception to the implementation of contemporary art examples in Russia and the CIS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Галина Геннадьевна Мажейкина
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Research Material ◽  
French Theory

Инсталляция как популярный жанр в современном искусстве ХХ–XXI веков анализируется, исходя из контекстных изменений в художественном языке визуальной культуры постмодерна. Автор рассматривает инсталляцию как презентационное поле смыслов, руководствуясь французской теорией (постструктурализм), темой желания и соблазна, положениями психологии бессознательного, современными коммуникационными стратегиями в массовой культуре. Инсталляции, выбранные в качестве материала исследования, демонстрируют влияние технологий массовой культуры на идеи проектов, а также маркируют проблему взаимодействия «зритель – произведение искусства», приглашая к диалогу. Автор прослеживает взаимосвязи «вызов – ответ», характерные для культуры постмодерна. The installation as a popular genre in contemporary art of the XX – XXI centuries is analyzed on the proceeding of contextual changes in artistic languages of visual culture of postmodernism. The author considers the installation as a presentation field of significances, referring by the French Theory (Poststructuralism), the theme of desire and seduction, the position of the psychology of the unconscious, current communication strategies in mass culture. Installations selected for the research material demonstrate the influence of mass culture technologies on project ideas and also mark the problem of interaction between spectators and artworks, inviting to dialogue. The author traces «challenge – response» interdependency characteristic of postmodernism culture.

Axis: broadening the constituency and extending the sphere of influence of visual art

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Doug Sandle
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Text Data ◽  
Widening Access ◽  
Visual Text ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
National Information

The Axis database is the only national information resource on British artists and craftmakers. It contains visual-text data on over 2,500 contemporary British practitioners and is a rapidly growing source of data for researchers, students, curators, commissioning agents, architects, planners and patrons and purchasers of visual arts. Axis also has an important national role in promoting contemporary art and artists and widening access to visual culture.

scholarly journals Issue of Integrity of Art Education in the Context of Changes in Art and Visual Culture

Pedagogika ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
Edita Musneckienė
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Arts Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Wide Range

This article examines a paradigmatic change of contemporary art education in the context of visual culture and focus to the integrity of arts in formal and informal art education. The article is based on an international research “Contemporary art and visual culture in education” which reveals the problematic aspects of contemporary arts and visual culture in education in general. The research method was the discourse analysis of the participants and researchers, who presented the insights in reflective groups and during the interview with teachers and educators.This paper explores how contemporary cultural context and the spread of visual culture provide preconditions for changes in art education. The aim of the article is to analyze theproblems and perspectives of integral arts education in formal and non-formal education: what the educational challenges and opportunities appear in the context of contemporary art and visual culture? How the integral arts could be realized in art education practice in different arts disciplines and areas of education?Contemporary art and visual culture is increasingly multidimensional, the wide range of visual art forms integral with per formative arts, new technologies and media merge the limits between the arts disciplines. That becomes relevant pedagogical problem with the fact that arts education is traditionally allocated to the separate arts subjects such as music, art, theatre, dance, which also can also be divided into separate areas. This subject segregation of the school curriculum and strong subject orientation limits multimodal contemporary arts education. Secondary Education programs provide opportunities for several options of arts education disciplines (photography, cinema art, graphic design, contemporary music technologies), but it needs special resources for the schools and professional teachers. Many schools follow on traditional model of teaching art and still focusing on simple interpretation of modern artworks, different media and technical skills.Contemporary model of teaching integrated arts and visual culture in education is challenging, because it is based on visual literacy and critical thinking skills, it emphasizes inquiry-based education, a critical understanding of contemporary art practices, problem solving and creating new valuable ideas. Knowledge and experiences came from various sources: formal, non-formal, accidental, individual.Great potential for contemporary art education has non-formal art education programs and projects. Successful project-based initiatives in art education have been excellent examples of arts integration.Artists and other creative people involved into a process of education, their collaboration with schools and communities could initiate some interdisciplinary and collaborative practices. Non-formal arts education environment creates more space for creativity, freedom and diversity. Additional arts education programs, museum and gallery education, artistic competitions and international projects allows for the wider development of arts education. Art education in the new age requires changing attitudes towards learning and teaching, changing roles of the educator and new learning environments.

An Exhibition about Italian Identities: Beyond Borders

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-224
Author(s):  
Viviana Gravano ◽  
Giulia Grechi
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Innovative Methodology

The chapter presents Beyond Borders: Transnational Italy/Oltre i Confini: Italia Transnazionale, the exhibition that was the result of a close collaboration between TML’s research team and Routes Agency: Cura of Contemporary Arts, a contemporary art curatorial collective founded by art historian Gravano and visual anthropologist Grechi. Assuming the form of a usable ‘object’, the exhibition sought to represent not only the research material but also the innovative methodology proposed by the TML team. The essay aims to explain the theoretical framework informing the organization of the exhibition from a curatorial perspective and presents the process of sharing and negotiation in which the curators and the TML researchers were engaged.

Introduction

Picture World ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Rachel Teukolsky
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Media History ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
Visual Culture Studies ◽  
Cross Media ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
Words And Images

The introduction explores both Victorian and contemporary theories of visual culture, while developing the book’s own interdisciplinary methodology. Visual culture studies, media history, art history, literary history, and cultural history number among the book’s disciplines. The chapters move across media to study novels and poems alongside photographs and illustrations. Weaving together both visual and textual strands, the book presents a revisionist, multidisciplinary approach to “culture” as it was lived and experienced in the nineteenth century. Academic divides between the disciplines today have obscured the cross-media connections studied in the book. The book’s approach captures the historical reality of the nineteenth century’s turbulent media moment, when the bounds of high art and mass culture were not yet fixed, and words and images mingled indiscriminately in the cultural field.

Application of Western Surrealistic in Design of Landscape Architecture

2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 2394-2397
Author(s):  
Dan Huo ◽  
Fan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Architecture Design ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Modern Landscape ◽  
Unconscious Mind

Surrealism was the twentieth century’s longest lasting art movement in the arts. It explored the mysterious dream world of the unconscious mind. Surrealist works depict a familiar yet alien world of dreamlike serenity and nightmarish fantasy, and their legacy pervades much of contemporary art, literature, film and popular culture. As a representation of irrational aesthetics in the modern art trends, it is worthwhile to study the influence and construction of Surrealism in modern landscape architecture. This paper explores the modern landscape form under the influence of Surrealism Art by analyzing and investigating the intrinsic relationship between Surrealist Art and the modern landscape architecture. Besides that, this paper described the connection between surreal spirit and Chinese landscape architecture design term metaphor of “presence”.

A Glut Of Faces

Public ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (60) ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Kristina Fiedrich
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Visual Expression ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Singular Representation ◽  
Increasing Trends

The face is a bodily surface that visually, historically and politically locates identity. Under the scrutiny of facial recognition and biometric software, the face can take the place of a whole identity, becoming a rigid singular representation. This paper draws connections between the increasing trends in surveillance and biometric technologies, and their manifestation within contemporary art practices. Specifically, I look to artworks that engage traditional portraiture and representations of the face, all the while manipulating expectations of the face-as-portrait. Artworks included in this project are Ursula Johnson’s L’nuweltik (We are Indian), Gillian Wearing’s Self Portrait at Twenty Seven Years Old and Anthony Cerniello’s Danielle. How has the face come to be represented in contemporary portraiture, and might these representations suggest a shifting logic of identity, away from the face? Art as visual expression is considered in relation to surveillance as another outcome of visual culture that highlights a continuing desire to categorize the subject within a social order.

scholarly journals The Handwork of Folkloristic-Ethnological Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Kari Tapio Korolainen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Point Of Departure

Drawing is discussed here, both from the historical and from the contemporary folklore and material culture stance. Folklore collector Samuli Paulaharju’s (1875–1944) drawings serve as a point of departure; again, cultural studies constitute the background, as the notion of representation and the construction of folkloristic-ethnologic knowledge are stressed. Material and visual culture comprises yet other central viewpoints. The research material consists of Paulaharju’s folkloristic descriptions (at the SKS) of the interlacements, as knots and lattices. The materials are discussed in the context of magic and belief, at first, and of folk games and plays further back. The research question is: how Paulaharju constructs the meanings of the interlacements by means of drawings? The method of membership categorization analysis (MCA) is combined with multimodal analysis, since the drawing–texts relations are analysed in detail. Thus, the examination demonstrates, that not only several drawing methods are utilised, but also the contexts, as agrarian life, appear diversified when the drawings are concerned. Then, by applying drawing innovatively and experimenting with it, Paulaharju operated between distinct viewpoints, and also challenged the established folkloristic practises. Accordingly, wide interestedness and learning-by-drawing are emphasised more than drawing as a restricted – or restrictive – orientation.

scholarly journals Jokes, the unconscious and social subjectivity: from the “latent narratives” to the groupal bond

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Marc Barbeta ◽  
María Jesús Izquierdo Benito
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The One ◽  
Methodological Reflection

The purpose of this paper is to propose a psychosociological approach to the configuration of human bonds, on the one hand, and a methodological reflection on the analysis, on the other. The bonds are analyzed in their less explicit side, in order to reveal those emotional and representational elements which tend to express themselves an unclear and obscure way. The empirical research material has been a set of jokes told in different focus groups, with participants located in similar social positions. We analysed the associative chains developed in group dynamics, presenting methodological schemes for each particular analysis. The “latent accounts” arising from the analysis of each discussion group exhibit significant differences which are expressive of link models specific to each social context. Additionally, the phenomenon of the joke is confirmed as a valuable tool for social research.

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