scholarly journals The artistic image of Norway: to the issue of fixation the cultural landscape

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena Som-Serdyukova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Romantic Hero ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Informative Content ◽  
Research Function ◽  
Scientific Documentation ◽  
Artistic Image

The purpose of the article is to review changes in worldview and artistic expressions in fixing the cultural landscape of Norway; to trace the reasons in the formation of the style of romanticism, where research function in reflecting nature and culture had a big role; to analyze the features of the local artistic tradition and forms of stylistic transformations that led to the evolution of the cultural landscape vision. To achieve the goal, the analyses from the works of J. Flintoe, J.C. Dahl, N. Astrup, C. Krog, E. Munch, G. Mynthe, E. Werenskiold, K. Kielland, H. Sohlberg, B.Ness, N. Krantz. This made it possible to focus on figurative diversity in the interpretation of the cultural landscape. The research methodology is based on the application of theoretical methods, art analysis, and systematization of works that correspond to this topic. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the actualization of artistic possibilities in capturing changes in the cultural landscape. Conclusions. Paintings are becoming a part of the scientific documentation for the present day. This leads to a new perspective, where painting becomes historical evidence and valuable material for modern architects, restorers, historians, archaeologists. According to the results of the research, it was proved that in the period from the 1820s to the 1920s the most expressive and active development of the cultural landscape theme, was realized by using art as a document. Various clarifications have been developed, such as the mood of romanticism transforms into the style of modernism, and how the compositional constructions of the Middle Age are actualized in the style Art Nouveau. This strengthens the idea of using works of art as a tool for analyzing the evolution of the cultural landscape, due to its potential informative content. One of the main conclusions of the study is based on the idea of relations towards the environment while creating an artistic image of the cultural landscape. In the Norwegian context, the cultural landscape, as a human environment, has been transformed from a panoramic landscape of nature interspersed with human footprints; through the application of man to scale, as a staff, as a romantic hero, a social character. The image of cities has evolved from the documental historical place form to the conflict inside the environment, and like blended color textures. According to the results of the study, it is concluded that art is an active element in fixing the cultural landscape. It is proved that works of art of previous epochs are invaluable material in interdisciplinary research in the reality of contemporary. The comprehensive and systematic experience of Norwegian researchers should be implemented in similar assignments in Ukrainian realities.

Rock carving on Ayodhya Hill: an avenue for geoheritage, geoconservation and environmental sensitization

Ensemble ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Sanjukta Banik ◽  
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Malay Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Commercial Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Future Potential ◽  
Purulia District ◽  
The Hill

The present paper aims to throw light on the environmental sensitivity illustrated through art on a hill signifying interface of nature and culture .Ayodhya Hill in Purulia district, displays an aspect of aesthetic attachment of humans with nature in the form of in-situ rock cut sculpture ‘Pakhi Pahar’which has transformed the bare hill into a piece of art. For the past three decades the hill has been sculpted by a group of local artists, creating around 65 birds.Even the boulders lying on the foot of the hill are sculpted, to save these fragile components of nature from stone quarrying and crushing machines which are demolishing and fragmenting the rocks and hills of the chotanagpur terrain to gather stone chips for commercial use. It may also be argued by a few ,that the natural environment of Matha range of Ayodhya Hill is infringed upon for the sake of art. The present researcher seeks to explain through empirical observation, narrative analysis and perception study of local people whether Pakhi Pahar is an “Aesthetic Regard” or “Aesthetic Affront” for nature . This paper also tries to bring in to focus the future potential of this cultural landscape in developing as a tourism site and giving employment to the local youth.

scholarly journals Cultural project «Soviet man»

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Tatyana S. Zlotnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Empirical Material

The article actualizes the concept of «Soviet man» as a socio-cultural and philosophical-anthropological phenomenon. Based on a broad empirical material, the author substantiates the idea of the project «Soviet man» as a generalized artistic image, a set of social and moral characteristics, visual and verbal matrices. The integration of the cultural project with the world tradition (in particular, the ancient one) is established, and the artistic-aesthetic and socio-political aspects of works of art as cultural practices are substantiated. It is concluded that the considered concept incorporates human experience, which is in demand due to its diversity, tendentiousness, structural certainty, strangeness and recognizability.

In the margins of Byzantium? Some icons in Michael Psellos

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Cutler ◽  
Robert Browning
Keyword(s):  
Byzantine Art ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Church Councils ◽  
Legal Opinion

In the face of a supposed dearth of recorded responses to icons, historians of Byzantine art commonly infer these either from characteristics that they suppose to inhere in works of art themselves, or transfer to the personal and practical realm such theoretical attitudes as are proclaimed in the proceedings of church councils and similar documents. These methods of argumentation give rise to assumptions that (i) aesthetic reactions to images were unimportant or at least subordinate to attitudes born of piety, and (ii) artists used older works as models and the value of their artefacts was understood to be directly proportional to the fidelity of their copies to the ‘prototype’. Views of this sort can indeed be supported by texts that set out a variety of orthodox positions ranging from bodies of legal opinion to anecdotal accounts of devotion to icons. But to suppose that such readings represent immutable standards is to take part of the picture for the whole. The study of what seem at first sight to be aberrant attitudes can lend a new perspective on behaviour that is often treated as normative. Artists’ ‘deviations’, and highly emotive and even criminal reactions to their work, are still marginal to our perceptions of Byzantium formed by texts that present one or another official position, even while we are aware that styles of painting (as of writing) varied from one individual to another and that private passions and crimes flourished in this society as in any other.

Pottery and Politics: Making Sense of Pottery Traditions in Central Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Livingstone Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
South Central ◽  
The World ◽  
Level I ◽  
New Perspective

The multiscalar analysis of pottery traditions in south central Africa opens a new perspective on the study of ancient polities. Focusing on an area of central Africa known for the existence of great kingdoms, I show how past political entities have left lingering traces in the cultural landscape and, more specifically, in the pottery traditions. As ceramics are one of the major tools in the archaeological arsenal, the way they can be related to political structures is of interest to archaeologists around the world. Analysing the chaîne opératoire of living pottery traditions, at an individual and regional level, I characterize the geographic extent of a series of technical behaviours. These technical domains fit with other aspects of society such as languages or matrimonial strategies, but also with economic and political aspects such as salt making and distribution networks and past political entities. They are the materialization of resilient social spaces created by ancient political entities.

scholarly journals Unity of the process of creating a fine art painting: ideal and material

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Denis Nikolaevich Demenev
Keyword(s):  
Fine Art ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Aesthetic Form ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Technological Means ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Ideal

The subject of this research is the interaction of the ideal and the material, which ensures unity of the process of creating a fine art painting. The object of this research is the dynamics of this process, which gradually materializes the ideal through poetic transformation of the objective reality. In the course of creating a fine art painting, the author underlines the importance of ontological-phenomenological and socio-gnoseological aspects of human existence, which in many ways determine the technical and technological means of solution of the artistic and creative tasks. Special attention is given to contemplation of the objective world, purposive action of the artistic will, establishment of the artistic image as interrelated stages of objectification of the ideal. The novelty of this article consists in interpretation of the phenomenon of the ideal, reflected in painting via integrated will. The latter is the synthesis of artistic will and subjective will of the painter. The author describes a “shuttle principle” in objectification of the ideal in the works of art within the framework of the history of development of painting, as well as within a single process: 1) from the aesthetic form to the embodiment of universality of the content; 2) from the universal content to aesthetic embodiment. The following conclusions were made: 1) the objectively ideal in a painting is an aesthetically perceived (visually, mentally, and spiritually) boundary of beauty and beautiful depicted via perfect, absolute unity of the artistic form and content, artistically and graphically, adequate to its concept in its material outcome, in reality. It is of rare occurrence in the works of art, something to be sought for; 2) an artistic form should be correlated in the artwork with universality of its content, which results in the fusion of the ideal and the real, and forms their indifference; 3) the universal meanings, ideologically underlying the content of a fine art painting, deepen and broaden the possibilities of artistic matter for objectification of the ideal in aesthetic form.

scholarly journals Striking an Interactive Balance Between Nature and Culture in Human Developmental Exploits for Sustainable Environmental Protection and Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
George Ohabuenyi Abah ◽  
Sebastian Okechukwu Onah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Resultant Effect ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Ecological Modernisation ◽  
Pass Through

BACKGROUND: The desacralization of nature, the resultant effect of which is evident in multiple environmental issues, has become a global concern. The subtle, yet insidious poisoning of the food-chain, the chemical burdening of the nature cycle, the increasing volume of air pollution, the greenhouse effect with the attendant global warming, climate change, flash floods, and so on, are the echoes of the murderous attacks on nature. At the centre of this destruction is the human species, whose unguarded actions against nature especially in his violent movements from the biosphere to the technosphere, stifles the ecosystemic homeostasis. Yet, development demands that man must necessarily move from nature to culture wherein the destruction of nature is inevitable. METHODOLOGY: The study used a qualitative design. The methods used were historical, descriptive, and critical. The historical method was used to trace the submissions of varied literatures on nature-culture relationships. RESULTS: Using the qualitative research design, thereby applying the historical, descriptive and evaluative methodological approaches, and reclining on the Risk Society Theory of Ulrich Beck as well as the Ecological Modernisation Theory of Arthur J.P Mol, we would like to establish that the attainment of sustainable environmental protection and management in the society would largely depend on the maintenance of a respectful balance between cultural superimpositions and natural landscapes in the contemporary society. RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that all developmental projects must be subjected to, and pass through environmental protection and sustainability censorship and tests. This will help to create reasonable and reconciliatory boundaries between nature and culture for a balanced human environment.

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bowe
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Guittone D'arezzo ◽  
The Rich ◽  
New Perspective

Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante provides a new perspective on the highly networked literary landscape of thirteenth and fourteenth-century Italy. It demonstrates the fundamental role of dialogue between and within texts in the works of four poets who represent some of the major developments in early Italian literature: Guittone d’Arezzo, Guido Guinizzelli, Guido Cavalcanti, and Dante. Rather than reading the cultural landscape through the lens of Dante’s works, significant though they may be, the first part of this study reconstructs the rich network of literary, especially poetic dialogue that was at the heart of medieval writing in Italy before and contemporary with Dante. The second part of the book uses this reconstruction to demonstrated Dante’s engagement with and indebtedness to the dynamics of exchange that characterized the practice of medieval Italian poets. The overall argument of the book, for the centrality of dialogic processes to the emerging Italian literary tradition, is underpinned by a conceptualization of dialogue in relation to medieval and modern literary theory and philosophy of language. By triangulating between Brunetto Latini’s Rettorica, Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘dialogism’, and as sense of ‘performative’ speech adapted from J. L. Austin, Poetry in Dialogue shows the openness of its corpus to new dialogues and interpretations, highlighting the instabilities of even the most apparently fixed, monumental texts (such as Dante’s Commedia).

Reconsidering the World Heritage Potential of the Kinta Valley Post-Industrial Mining Landscape, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Suriati Ahmad ◽  
David S. Jones ◽  
Nadiyanti Mat Nayan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Industrial Mining ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Post Industrial

The distinct landscape of the Kinta Valley is undeniably unique in its capacity in narrating significant phases and processes in Peninsular Malaysia’s history and culture. While tin mining brought about massive development to the Valley’s landscape, evidenced in the making of modern Kinta and Kampar Districts today, and Malaysia generally, this paper focuses on the potential of Kinta Valley as a World Heritage Listed mining cultural landscape. The rich cultural tapestry that is evident today across the Valley’s mining lands provides a significant living platform to understanding and appreciating the diversity of Malaysia’s cultural landscapes and in particular, offering a new perspective about industrial heritage values to Malaysia’s domestic and international tourism catchments. Keywords: Cultural Landscape as Heritage; Heritage Conservation; Post-Industrial Mining Landscape; Kinta Valley.eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v4i11.1736

Problems of the interaction of reality and fiction in Russian literature in the 20s of the XX century

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Jyldyz K. Bakashova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Artistic Image

The article is devoted to one of the important problems of literature at the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century — documentary artistic creation. Writers, and later filmmakers, introduce real materials into their works that create a historical narration. Writers of different creative orientations are united in their attitude to the documentary trend. The article examines the actual problem of using prototypes by Russian writers when they create works of art. The views of Russian writers on the problem of interaction between reality and fiction in their work are considered on the example of the statements of L.N. Tolstoy, N.K. Hudzia, F.M. Dostoevsky, N.V. Gogol, V.G. Belinsky, A. Serafimovich, A. Todorsky, A. Blok. Russian writers believed that artistic truth is inseparable from the truth of life, real reality is the basis that feeds art. But no less significant is the creative understanding of the facts of life. The path from the prototype to the artistic image created by the writer in the work is closely connected with the figurative vision of the world, with generalization and individualization, with the aesthetic comprehension of real facts, there is a dialectical connection between art and life. Adequate reconstruction of events presupposes their aesthetic comprehension by the writer.

The Middle Holocene ‘funerary avenues’ of north-west Arabia

The Holocene ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 095968362110604
Author(s):  
Matthew Dalton ◽  
Jane McMahon ◽  
Melissa A Kennedy ◽  
Rebecca Repper ◽  
Saifi Eisa Al Shilali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Radiometric Dating ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
North West ◽  
Stone Monuments ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Third Millennium Bce ◽  
New Evidence

The desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula and Levant are criss-crossed by innumerable pathways. Across large areas of north-west Arabia, many of these pathways are flanked by stone monuments, the vast majority of which are ancient tombs. Recent radiometric dating indicates that the most abundant of these monuments, elaborate and morphologically diverse ‘pendant’ structures, were constructed during the mid-to-late third millennium BCE. Thousands of kilometres of these composite path and monument features, ‘funerary avenues’, can be traced across the landscape, especially around and between major perennial water sources. By evidencing routes of human movement during this period, these features provide an emerging source for reconstructing important aspects of ancient mobility and social and economic connectivity. They also provide significant new evidence for human/environment interactions and subsistence strategies during the later Middle Holocene of north-west Arabia, and suggest the parallel existence of mobile pastoralist lifeways and more permanent, oasis-centred settlement. This paper draws upon the results of recent excavations and intensive remote sensing, aerial and ground surveys in Saudi Arabia to present the first detailed examination of these features and the vast cultural landscape that they constitute.

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