scholarly journals The problem of social and anthropological crises in the painting of Vasyl Kurylyk

Author(s):  
Khrystyna Beregovska

The purpose of the article is to solve the problem of social crises and human degradation in the secular paintings of the Canadian-Ukrainian artist William Kurelek (1927-1977) on the example of selected works. Methodology. General scientific and interdisciplinary research methods were used to solve the set tasks: analysis, synthesis, hermeneutic and comparative methods. The method of formal and stylistic analysis made it possible not only to identify the origin of individual works, but also to characterize the artistic processes that took place in the Canadian-Ukrainian environment and which are reflected in the work of W. Kurelek. This methodological approach helps us to characterize the composition of the work (space, time, color, light, composition, perspective). Scientific novelty. For the first time in the context of art discourse, on the example of specific works of the artist, we analyzed the acute social problems that William Kurelek showed in his paintings. Conclusions. The article analyzes the preconditions for the creation of some secular works by William Kurelek, as well as the artistic and stylistic features of his paintings on current social issues. In particular, we analyze the problem of globalization, social crisis and spiritual and ethical degradation of personality. Social issues are divided into: temptation, race, oppression of "inferior", abortion, fear, the routine of the "third world", the contrast of good and evil, justice and betrayal, love and hate, and others.

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Jackson

Decolonization in parts of the Third World and particularly Africa has resulted in the emergence of numerous “quasi-states,” which are independent largely by international courtesy. They exist by virtue of an external right of self-determination— negative sovereignty—without yet demonstrating much internal capacity for effective and civil government—positive sovereignty. They therefore disclose a new dual international civil regime in which two standards of statehood now coexist: the traditional empirical standard of the North and a new juridical standard of the South. The biases in the constitutive rules of the sovereignty game today and for the first time in modern international history arguably favor the weak. If international theory is to account for this novel situation it must acknowledge the possibility that morality and legality can, in certain circumstances, be independent of power in international relations. This suggests that contemporary international theory must accommodate not only Machiavellian realism and the sociological discourse of power but also Grotian rationalism and the jurisprudential idiom of law.


1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Yassin El-Ayouty

In January 1972 the UN Security Council accepted the invitation to meet in Africa which had been issued by the African states and, in late January and early February 1972, Addis Ababa was the scene of an historic session. For the first time, Africa's “burning issues” were considered in depth and plans were made to implement earlier decisions adopted in connection with them. Africa's success in having the Council meet on its territory was the culmination of persistent efforts by the African group at the UN aiming, since 1960, at making colonialism and apartheid in Africa matters threatening international peace and security. Today, on the twenty-seventh anniversary of the adoption of the UN Charter, it is necessary to analyze the nature of this evolving relationship between Africa and the World Organization as a case study of UN relationships with the Third World.


1982 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Howard J. Wiarda

The meetings of heads of state and foreign ministers of the eight already industrialized and the fourteen developing nations held at Mexico's lush island resort of Cancun raised high hopes and expectations among some, consternation and frustration among others. The real meaning and substance of the meeting were often obscured by the media's forced reliance on the official press briefings and, in the absence of other information, the emphasis on the food eaten, the elaborate security precautions, and the luxury of the surroundings. By now Cancún has faded from the headlines, but the issues and agendas raised are likely to be with us for a long time.The Cancún meeting may have been a watershed. It is not that the place is so important or even that this particular gathering was so crucial. The issues have been building for years. But what Cancún did was to provide a prestigious forum and sounding board for the Third World ideas, and to bring some of these home to the American public for the first time.


1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-434
Author(s):  
B A Chokor

Interdisciplinary research into people and environmental settings in the Third World is only beginning to develop, but without an appropriate focus. An agenda of study and major issues that should inform research are outlined in this paper. It is demonstrated that fruitfulness of research in the Third World lies in the identification of culturally relevant form and unit of space of study, as well as of the contexts in which various environmental appraisals are to be made. Both issues are identified and described. It is advocated that appropriate environmental research associations be formed, on regional and international levels, to coordinate and stimulate further research relevant to national environmental design policy.


1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
Tim Griggs

The author, a Briton, presents an informal case-study of two years as Publications Secretary at a Nigerian agricultural research institute. The difficulties and frustrations he faced are described. Staff, supply, and equipment problems are discussed. He suggests that such problems may be general to black Africa and are likely to be faced by technical communicators moving for the first time to this region and to some other parts of the Third World. He concludes that such posts demand more of their incumbents in terms of personality than in terms of qualifications. He questions whether potential Third World communicators are properly informed about or prepared for their posts, and criticizes the tendency of employers, particularly international organizations, to require applicants for communications posts to hold exalted formal qualifications.


1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
David Kerr

Theatre workers in the Third World have largely rejected both the outward trappings and the underlying aesthetic assumptions of the colonial styles they first inherited: but the impulse to evolve or rediscover indigenous forms has often involved the imposition of a would-be ‘popular’ theatre form by an elite of university-educated animateurs. David Kerr has described these as ‘induced’ forms, and here analyzes the process by which one such experiment, in Malawi, was both adopted and assimilated by villagers, for the better understanding of whose social problems it was conceived. From 1974 to 1980 David Kerr was artistic director of the Chikwakwa Theatre project in Zambia (described in the first series of Theatre Quarterly, III, No. 10), since when he has been teaching in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts in the University of Malawi, and serving as co-ordinator to the Travelling Theatre project there.


1986 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viron P. Vaky

In 1968 Henry Kissinger wrote: “A mature conception of our interests in the world … would deal with two fundamental questions: What is it in our interest to prevent? What should we seek to accomplish?” (Kissinger, 1974: 92) Whatever its general relevance, that passage is an apt description of the lens through which American policymakers have contemplated the phenomenon of political change in the Third World. Those are the first questions they tend to ask.The rationale for this particular concept of foreign policy tasks has its roots (1) in the complexities of an increasingly interdependent world in which world politics have become truly global for the first time in human history, and (2) in the deep antagonisms embedded in the US/Soviet relationship. Because nuclear realities .have placed a cap on the way in which the two superpowers confront and contend with one another, conflict between them tends to get pushed to the periphery and to take place in indirect ways.


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