scholarly journals Metaphysics of postmodern figurative art in Ukrainian art of the late XX - early XXI century

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Tatiana Mironova
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
Domestic Art

The purpose of the article is to study the artistic traditions and conceptual innovations in the works of Ukrainian artists of the XX-XXI centuries. In contemporary Ukrainian art, figurative language is produced simultaneously with the renewal of public consciousness and in certain aspects directly contributes to its formation. Figurative imagery using Ukrainian artists of this cultural period is not only the result solely of sensory experience, they also absorb the institutionalization of social experience that allows them to reflect different levels of reality. The methodology is the cultural-semiotic analysis of the forms of manifestation of visualization of modern art culture. The application of a systematic approach allowed us to study semiotic systems that contribute to the comprehensive disclosure of the problem of the semantics of modern forms of visualization. The integrative approach has enabled research in new forms of visualization of modern artistic language, which combines informational and aesthetic functions. Due to the revealed changes, traditional images are visualized with the help of a new artistic language, which does not correspond to the traditional meanings of the artistic image. The scientific novelty of the work lies in understanding the metaphysics of postmodern figurative art in contemporary Ukrainian art. A characteristic feature of the development of modern culture is the rapid social transformation, covering all areas of human activity. For the structure of art, the nature of which is due to constant change and renewal, the problem of the relationship between tradition and innovation is important. Thus, contemporary artists in their figurative, non-figurative and conceptual practices use the memory of artistic culture and artistic traditions as a mediator between the past and the present. Ukrainian art practitioners build a multiple and diverse artistic and image system based on the mechanism of interaction of traditions and innovations, involvement in the creative process of specific stylistic combinations of past and present, and reflection on cultural realities. Conclusions. Ukrainian culture is being revived in the following main directions: the process of self-consciousness and the formation of national historical memory has intensified, and the vector of development of social consciousness has been determined. Also, due to the weakening of totalitarian control, upgraded ideological and spiritual social norms. In the context of freer cultural development, artists use simple and clear images in various unusual contexts, often visualizing the determinants of the renewal of the collective consciousness. At the same time, the entry of domestic art into the world art arena meant the urgent need for rapid change in all spheres of art. This speed led to a number of complex problematic issues related to the difficult interaction of traditions and innovations, as well as folk and classical in contemporary art, determined the formation of a new series of images.

National Mentality and Risks of the Transformation of Belarusian Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Victoria V. Anohina
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Reflexive Modernization ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Potential Risks

The article analyzes the socio-cultural risks of the modernization of Belarusian society as well as the opportunities to minimize these through communication mechanisms of cultural tradition. Since in the postmodern conditions social transformation takes the form of a “reflexive” modernization, its inherent risks should be considered as closely linked with globalization of culture, in particular, with glocalization, pluralization of social identity, hybridization of cultural traditions, fragmentation of the “lifeworld” and of the nation’s historical memory. The author considers various levels of the structure of cultural tradition, paying special attention to the national mentality as its basic layer. The goal of this paper is to show how the specific features of Belarusian mentality become sources of risk and to reveal the role of cultural traditions in preventing or reducing such risks. Analyzing different strategies for constructing the national identity, the author defines the vulnerabilities involved. It argues that the formation of modern forms of national identity in Belarusian society is due to interaction of at least two identification models: the “strong” and “weak” ones. By analyzing the specifics of the “strong” national identity of Belarusians, the author notes that its poles – the nationalist and the patriotic ones – are largely compatible and do not respond to the most urgent challenges. On the contrary, the model of a “weak” identity has a high capacity to adapt to the conditions of “reflexive” modernization. This model is implemented in the process of constructing a pluralistic civic identity of Belarusians, but it has potential risks, especially in conditions of geopolitical turbulence and external pressure on Belarusian society. A reflexive attitude to the past is considered a possibility to minimize such risks, to avoid or to limit potential adverse impacts of social mobilization or national identity construction. It is emphasized that discussions about the past should be carried out in the form of a dialogue that meets the rules and requirements of communicative rationality.

On the Politics of Self-spirituality

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galen Watts
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
Individualistic Culture

In the last quarter century, a steadily increasing number of North Americans, when asked their religious affiliation, have self-identified as “spiritual but not religious” (SBNR). Charles Taylor argues that the popularity of “spirituality” is the result of the “massive subjective turn of modern culture”; while Paul Heelas has deemed this new religious form, “self-spirituality.” Many scholars have taken a critical stance toward this recent cultural development, positing that self-spirituality is a byproduct of the self-obsessed and individualistic culture which saturates the West, or that spirituality, at its worst, is simply a rebranding of religion in order to support consumer culture and the ideology of late capitalism. In this article, I seek to problematize these accounts. Drawing from qualitative data collected from semi-structured interviews with Canadian millennials who self-identify as SBNR, I will argue that self-spirituality is less individualistic and narcissistic than these scholars assert, its relationship to late capitalism is better understood as ambivalent, rather than congenial, and due to their methodological prejudices these critiques of self-spirituality are inadequate to analyse and understand the politics of self-spirituality.

scholarly journals Crimean Tatar Ornament in Modern Art and Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Liliana Vezhbovska
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Communicative Ability ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Crimean Tatar

The purpose of the research is to identify the functioning features of Ornek, a traditional Crimean Tatar ornament in modern culture, art and design. The research methodology is based on the application of art history, comparative and semiotic analysis. The novelty of the research is to identify the functioning of the Crimean Tatar ornament in modern times, to determine special symbolic and graphic structures in the visual system Ornek, which allow not only to develop in modern Crimean culture but also show the high communicative ability to establish a cross-cultural dialogue. Conclusions. The study of Crimean Tatar ornament in modern art and design testifies to its high ability to adapt to new conditions, which allows us to talk about the flexibility of its visual system. In modern art and design projects, it appears as a phenomenon that can abstract from archaic forms and organically combine not only with the latest materials and techniques but also to create unity with the phenomena of other national cultures.

scholarly journals Reception as a Unity of Cultural and Historical Memory, Oblivion, and Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 163 (4–5) ◽  
pp. 255-265
Author(s):  
N.A. Tereshchenko ◽  
◽  
T.M. Shatunova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Outstanding Representative

This article is dedicated to the memory of Evgenii Aleksandrovich Chiglintsev, a brilliant historian, an outstanding representative of the university intelligentsia, and a wonderful comrade with the best human qualities. E.A. Chiglintsev’s works are interdisciplinary, useful for practically all humanities, and certainly important from the philosophical and socio-philosophical perspectives. The study aims to analyze and evaluate the phenomenon of cultural reception in the context of E.A. Chiglintsev’s writings. The main problematic field of the article is the meanings, boundaries, and prospects of the phenomenon of reception, which has become one of the main subjects of E.A. Chiglintsev’s research interest. E.A. Chiglintsev focused mostly on the universal meaning of reception, whereas this article also considers its historical backgrounds, as well as the possibilities and meanings of cultural and historical receptions in the modern culture and society. The research is relevant due to the practical need to develop an adequate attitude to the past in the modern society, i.e., because of the need to distinguish what and in what forms should be remembered, what and how to forget, how to take fire from the past, not ashes. Today, every person who considers himself or herself modern must constantly undergo the path of rethinking his or her historical past, and thus participate in the reception of past cultures. The conclusion is made about the historicity of reception, the classical forms of which are developing in the modern culture, about the problematic nature of this phenomenon in the postmodern culture. The problem of further development of the meaning of reception in the modern culture and its limits is posed.

scholarly journals SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF ADAPTED ADVERTISING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CHINA AND WESTERN PEPSI “RISING” GLOBAL ADVERTISING

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH SUSANTI GUNAWAN
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
America South ◽  
Chinese Advertising ◽  
Tv Commercial ◽  
Advertising Communication ◽  
Local Languages ◽  
Global Advertising

communication carried through the same advertising message is expected to help consumers easily recognize the brand anywhere. This strategy is also useful in reducing advertising cost because they don’t have to redesign new advertisements for different countries. Pepsi “Rising” TV Commercial was created by CLM BBDO Paris Agency as the Pepsi global advertising for Africa, Caribbean Sea, Central America, South America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia (India). The advertisements for other countries were only shortened and dubbed to make them fit with local languages. However, for the Chinese market, the agency changed the actor and some storyline attributes with those similar to the original ones. They used one global advertisement for many countries, but they deliberately changed it for the Chinese market. This study uses Roland Barthes’ semiotic to analyze the connotation level between the Pepsi global advertisement and the Chinese advertisement that have similar visuals and plot lines in the denotation level. This study aims to determine the elements that can change the message and ideology in the advertisement. The final results show significant differences among the advertisements that represent each unique cultural development.                   Keywords: adapted advertising; Chinese advertising; global advertising; individualism-collectivism; semiotic analysis

FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA E A IDENTIDADE PROFISSIONAL DOCENTE

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-317
Author(s):  
Flávia Maria Albertino
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Documentary Analysis

The article is an excerpt from the Master's research, which aimed to identify and analyze the theoretical and methodological assumptions for guiding the proposals for continuing education of teachers, offered by the Municipal Department of Education, in two Elementary Schools I, in a city in the interior of São Paulo and their reflexes in the teaching action. The theoretical contribution was of a historical-cultural nature (Bakhtinian); it is a qualitative investigation, configured as a case study, with documentary analysis and semi-structured interview, involving three teachers, two pedagogical advisors and a director, covering a total of six direct participants. The analysis of the data collected from the documents and the interviews was done through the theoretical process of triangulation, content analysis and semiotic analysis of historical-cultural interpretation (bakhtinian) of the speeches of the interviewed professionals. The results showed that the teacher education process does not occur in a dialogical and ambivalent way, based on cultural development, through interpersonal and intersubjective relationships, as emphasized by the historical-cultural theory. The present research enables a critical-reflexive review of the continuing education practices offered by the researched municipality, and by extension, it may serve as an object of confrontations with other contexts of teacher education in other Brazilian municipalities

scholarly journals Valuing Forest Ecosystem Services. Why Is an Integrative Approach Needed?

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 677
Author(s):  
Gabriela Elena Baciu ◽  
Carmen Elena Dobrotă ◽  
Ecaterina Nicoleta Apostol
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Goods And Services

Among the many types of terrestrial ecosystems, forests have some of the highest levels of biodiversity; they also have many interdependent economic, ecological and social functions and provide ecosystem services. They supply a range of tangible, marketable goods, as well as a variety of nonmarketable and intangible services derived from various forest functions. These translate into social, cultural, health and scientific benefits for people’s quality of life. However, because they cannot be traded on a market, nonmarketable and intangible services are often perceived as free, inexhaustible and, as a result, underestimated. The human–nature interaction has affected both nature (via resource consumption) and society (via development of human welfare and well-being). Decision-makers, both public and private, often manage natural capital for multiple aims. In recent years it has been found that the single, individual approach estimating the value for these goods and services is not able to provide information that generates and supports decisions and policies in complex areas of current relevance such as the constant loss of biodiversity, climate change and global warming in close connection with the need for social development and ensuring an acceptable level of well-being for the greatest part of humanity. An integrated assessment with advanced techniques and methods using a pluralist framework of a heterogeneous set of values is considered a better approach to the valuation of such complex nature of the ecosystem goods and services. This assessment should take into account both costs and benefits trade-off issues among the multiple uses of ecosystem goods and/or services, especially the relationships between them and how they influence or determine the economic, social and cultural development of society. It should also consider the estimation of the complex inverse effect, from society to nature, whose goods and services can be diminished to exhaustion by the extensive and intensive anthropization of natural ecosystems with major impact on the number and quality of goods and services provided by ecosystems. Research has shown that applying an integrative assessment approach that utilizes tools developed by sustainability sciences could be an important component of future environmental policy making.

scholarly journals Portrait in Contemporary Russian Painting in the Context of World Art: A Typology of the Genre

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-648
Author(s):  
Svetlana M. Gracheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Portrait Painting

In Russian fine art, portrait painting has been traditionally distinguished by extraordinary variety and depth, reflecting the figurative and stylistic searches of artists of different periods. Russian art historians have comprehensively studied the portrait genre in the history of art. At the same time, the well-established classification of genres does not allow to take into account completely the variety of trends and approaches to the depiction of a person in contemporary art. The understanding of the portrait genre’s boundaries in contemporary art is extremely blurred. Sometimes it means either any image of a person, or even the absence of one at all. It appears essential and important to consider the work of Russian artists in the context of international visual art practices to compose a more holistic picture connected with general cultural development. The article proposes to expand the established typology of the portrait genre adopted in Russian art. The already well-known typology of portrait painting can be updated with other types of portrait based on the semantic and semiotic analysis of artistic works of the late 20th — 21st century. It is important to study contemporary Russian portrait painting from the perspective of a variety of typological models, and to use the new language of contemporary art history to understand the processes taking place in Russian painting of the late 20th — 21st century, in order to facilitate the entry of Russian art into the international cultural context. An idea has been matured to create a National Portrait Gallery in Russia which would collect portraits and self-portraits of the greatest personalities of our era in a real and virtual space.

scholarly journals The “Myths” about Challenges of the Modern Culture in the Researches on Cultural Theory of Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Olga A. Yanutsh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Theory Of Education ◽  
The Impact

Cultural theory of education is a relatively new branch of science, and the formation of its theoretical and methodological basis is not yet completed. The article examines several theses that can be found as basic axioms in the majority of scientific works on this direction. Revealing their hidden contradictions, the author proves the illegitimacy of such an approach. There is an extensive problem field requiring deep investigation behind each of the theses. Only after the investigation, it will be possible to estimate the complexity and comprehensiveness of the impact of these trends and phenomena of education on the cultural development in the long-term outlook.

scholarly journals SEMIOTIKA DALAM LIRIK LAGU ‘AL BARQ AL YAMANI’ OLEH NISSA SABYAN DAN ADAM ALI

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Adib Al-Falah ◽  
Singgih Kuswardono ◽  
Retno Purnama Irawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Matrix Model ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

Song lyrics are basically part  of literary works, they belong to poetry type literary works because both have  similarities in their elements. So the analysis of the meaning of the lyrics of the song  Al Barq Al Yamani which was popularized by Nissa Sabyan and Adam Ali is carried  out using a semiotic analysis of Michael Riffaterre's model which focuses on poetry  analysis (song lyrics). This study aims to find the meaning ofsong lyrics Al Barq Al Yamani's by  describing (1) the unsustainability of the expression, (2) heuristic reading, (3)  hermeneutic reading, (4) matrix, model and variant, and (5) hypogram. This research  is a descriptive-qualitative research with a semiotic approach and the lyrics of the song  Al Barq Al Yamani as its corpus. The design used in this research is library research.The results of this study are as follows. (1) the continuity of expressions  includes: (a) displacing of meaning shown through the use of personified figurative  language, metaphor and synecdiction, (b) distorsing of meaning through ambiguity and  nonsense, (c) creating of meaning caused by rhyme, enjambement and typography (2)  The heuristic reading describes the longing and desires of a person (writer) for his  lover. (3) Hermeneutic reading describes the longing and desires of a person (writer)  for his lover, namely the Prophet Muhammad SAW. A depiction of longing to meet  and hope to be by his side. (4) Matrix: Prophet Muhammad SAW, model: longings and  desires, as well as variants that spread throughout the verse. (5) Hypogram consists of  potential and actual hypograms

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