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

Author(s):  
Алина Михайловна Свердлова-Александрова

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.

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jóhann Páll Árnason

The discovery of late antiquity – as a distinctive period and a cultural matrix of later developments – is one of the most important breakthroughs of recent historical scholarship. It seems justified to speak of a discovery rather than a rediscovery: although there are considerably older precedents for the identification of late antique phenomena, especially in art history, no holistic understanding of the period as a cultural world was achieved before the late twentieth century.


Author(s):  
Doug Bailey

Holes are paradoxes of visual culture and human behavior. Difficult to define, alive with consequence, holes affect behavior in significant ways. This chapter examines holes as slippery, elusive, material, always absent, and as parasites (to surfaces). Starting with the author’s excavation of 8,000-year-old pit-houses from the Neolithic site at Măgura (Romania), this chapter investigates the complexities of holes and surfaces as philosophic entities, and then examines the cutting work of the late twentieth-century artist Gordon Matta-Clark. The approach taken is to juxtapose otherwise disparate examples and analyses from within archaeology, art, and beyond. Though immaterial objects, holes have relations and properties. They disrupt at subconscious levels, altering understandings of our place(s) in the world, and our relations with other people, objects, and institutions. By unpacking and closely redefining holes, one gains new perspectives and analytic tools for the study of human behavior, and the traces it leaves behind, that are applicable across the humanities and social sciences, from archaeology to art history, from anthropology to design and material culture studies.


Author(s):  
Doug Bailey

This chapter presents a detailed description of Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1975 art work Conical Intersect, its interpretation in art history, and the position that it occupies in Matta-Clark’s oeuvre and in late twentieth-century Paris (esp. the destruction of Les Halles and the building of the Centre Pompidou). Discussion examines Matta-Clark’s architectural cutting art in terms of action and performance, and the spectation of the cut. The chapter concludes with an extended discussion of the relevance that Conical Intersect has for the reader’s understanding of the pit-houses at Măgura and other sites like it in terms of cutting as destroying, as participation, as knowing (and opening), as part of the visual field, and as an object within a political context.


What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries? Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ‘hard man’, has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of masculinity in a wider context. This interdisciplinary collection examines a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, exploring the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romances, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men – work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce – the book also illustrates the range of masculinities that affected or were internalised by men. Together, the chapters illustrate some of the ways Scotland’s gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how, more generally, masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history


2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76
Author(s):  
Quan Manh Ha

Trey Ellis has emerged as a prominent African American writer of the late-twentieth century, despite the small number of his published works. “The New Black Aesthetic,” an essay that he first published in CaUaloo in 1989, one year after the publication of his first novel, Platitudes, stands as a manifesto that defines and articulates his perspective on the emerging black literary voices and culture of the time, and on “the future of African American artistic expression” in the postmodern era.1 According to Eric Lott, Ellis's novel parodies the literary and cultural conflict between such male experimental writers as lshmael Reed and such female realist writers as Alice Walker.2 Thus, Ellis's primary purpose in writing Platitudes is to redefine how African Americans should be represented in fiction, implying that neither of the dominant approaches can completely articulate late-twentieth-century black experience when practiced in isolation. In its final passages, Platitudes represents a synthesis of the two literary modes or styles, and it embodies quite fully the diversity of black cultural identities at the end of the twentieth century as it extends African American literature beyond racial issues. In this way, the novel exemplifies the literary agenda that Ellis suggests in his theoretical essay.


1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-263
Author(s):  
John F. Wilson

Over the last decade, a noteworthy number of published studies have, in one fashion or another, been defined with reference to religious denominations. This is an arresting fact, for, coincidentally, the status of religious denominations in the society has been called into question. Some formerly powerful bodies have lost membership (at least relatively speaking) and now experience reduced influence, while newer forms of religious organization(s)—e.g., parachurch groups and loosely structured movements—have flourished. The most compelling recent analysis of religion in modern American society gives relatively little attention to them. Why, then, have publications in large numbers appeared, in scale almost seeming to be correlated inversely to this trend?No single answer to this question is adequate. Surely one general factor is that historians often “work out of phase” with contemporary social change. If denominations have been displaced as a form of religious institution in society in the late twentieth century, then their prominence in earlier eras is all the more intriguing.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-259
Author(s):  
Ethan White

In the second century, the Roman Emperor Hadrian deified his male lover, Antinous, after the latter drowned in the Nile. Antinous’ worship was revived in the late twentieth century, primarily by gay men and other queer-identified individuals, with Antinous himself being recast as “the Gay God.”


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