‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Zosia Kuczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Process

The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.

Agafonov’s Early Kharkiv Creative Period: Dialogue with the Theatre

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
V. Chechyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Partial Reconstruction ◽  
Theatrical Space ◽  
Native Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Artistic Values ◽  
First Time ◽  
History Of Formation

This article is dedicated to the study of the nature of E. Agafonov’s creative ties with the theater – a topic that has been insufficiently covered in the native art history. The author’s field of view is set in the artist’s early Kharkiv period, marked as the years of 1905–1913. The article focuses on the exceptional role of E. Agafonov in the organization and the artistic practice of the first modernist theater “Blakytne Oko” in Kharkiv (1909–1911). Agafonov belonged to the constellation of masters who was very sensitive to the problem of evolving the artistic speech. He viewed the theater as a convincing platform for promoting and approving of the latest artistic values, discovered by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Experiments in easel art (with color, plastic, line, techniques, materials, etc.), largely inspired by the work of D. Burliuk (1906–1908), were directly reflected in Agafonov’s stage practice, namely in numerous designs of the modernist productions based on plays by M. Maeterlinkc, A. Schnitzler, S. Pshybyshevsky and O. Blok. In turn, it was established that theatrical motives were reflected in E. Agafonov’s easel art, as well as in the art of the students of his artistic studio – O. Rybnikov, I. Terentyev, M. Sinyakova, and K. Storozhnichenko. In this regard, a special attention is given to the linocuts by F. Nadezhdin. It was found that the program of “total” design of theatrical space (stage and auditorium), as well as the implementation of production ideas in the cabaret theater “Blakytne Oko” were the result of the master’s fascination with the concepts of artistic synthesis, actualized in the era of Modern. Agafonov moved from dramatization of paintings (of A. Beklin, F. Malyavin, and O. Rodin) to staging experimental show-programs like “The Evening of Autumn”, “Visiting Pierrot” and “In the Middle of Nowhere”, partial reconstruction of which was undertaken for the first time by the author of the article. Agafonov was close to the idea of artistic synthesis, identified by him in F. Malyavin’s paintings, in V. Komissarzhevska’s theatre and I. Duncan’s choreography. The study of E. Agafanov’s theatrical art expands the understanding of the history of formation and development of Ukrainian scenography at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Redefining the Role of Experiment in Bacon's Natural History: How Baconian was Descartes before Emerging from His Cocoon?

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 158-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mădălina Giurgea ◽  
Laura Georgescu
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Rene Descartes ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
René Descartes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

AbstractIn this article we argue that the views that Francis Bacon and René Descartes held about the role of experiments in the process of discovery are closer than previously accepted. Looking at the way experiments and the heuristics of experimentation are embedded in Bacon's posthumous History of Dense and Rare and Descartes' Discourses 8, 9, 10 of the Meteorology, we will show that experiments help the investigator both in solving specific problems that could not have otherwise been foreseen and in generating relevant information that advances the scope of the investigation.

scholarly journals CULTUROLOGICAL ORIENTATORS OF MODERN UKRAINIAN CINEMA CRITICS

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
T. G. Kokhan
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
Formation History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personalized Approach ◽  
Ethics And Psychology

The article analyses the position of Ukrainian scientists, represented in their works during the first two decades of the XXI century, when the influence of the basis of the cultural analyses on the development of cinema critics has become appreciable. The accent has been made on new approaches both to the history of Ukrainian cinema in trying to understand personalized approach prevails and to the estimation of subject direction of the films shoot on the boundary of the XX – XXI centuries. It is underlined that film expert's attention was concentrated on the further improvement of notion-categorical apparatus which provides investigations in film critics. It is shown that film science outlines some human problems which having historical cultural traditions, can appear as aesthetical-artistic reference points in creative process. It is declared that the important aspect of the article is dedicated to the fixation of the art studies formation history in the process of cinema development. The role of Danish producer Urban Gad, the author of the book "Cinema, its means and aims" is marked. It is indicated that while constantly shooting films U.Gad summarized his own experience of work in the cinema making in the first European investigation in the cinema studies. It is underlined that taking into consideration the dynamics of cinematograph's development, using of historical and cultural achievements of the past as reference points for modern cinema theory demands caution and correctness. In the context of this thesis systematization and analysis of works of Ukrainian film critics on the activities of national cinematograph's development are presented both actual and expediency. It is shown that using in the cinema study fundamental principles of cultural analysis in particular cross-scientific personalization a composed element of biographic method – to correlate cinema analysis with material of such human sciences as aesthetics, ethics and psychology. It is noticed that taking into consideration collective character of the creation in cinematograph the principle of personalization objectively appraises the contribution of each representative of the cinematic group within the creative process.

Layering lines and thoughts: A study of musical time through drawing

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan José Guerra-Valiente
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Musical Time ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Process And Outcome ◽  
Spiral Line ◽  
Opening Up

Through the analysis of the drawing Sans Titre (Apres P. B. Notations) (2017), the following article seeks to explore the role of writing in my own artistic practice, which is concerned with the relation between music and drawing. This article examines the creative process that is carried out in relation to drawing with a musical composition, in this case Pierre Boulez’s Notations (1945), and how the imbrication of text influences and shapes the process and outcome of the artwork. In addition, this article analyses how the text engages with a wider theoretical approach of time, through ‘Chronos’ and ‘Aion’, two categories of time developed by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze primarily in The Logic of Sense ([1969] 2004), and the way they relate to drawing and opening up new ways of understanding it. Thus, the research will look at the role of the spiral line or helix as a visual model that could lend shape to musical time constituting the main frame of the drawing.

Early History of French CG

Leonardo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Welker
Keyword(s):  
Computer Graphics ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Early History ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Visual Effects ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

This paper provides an historical summary of the emergence of computer graphics research and creation in France between 1970 and 1990, a period of innovation that transformed artistic practice and French visual media. The paper shows the role of these developments in the history of art, the evolution of digital technology, and the expansion of animation and visual effects in the film industry.

Dave Brubeck's Time Out

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen A. Crist
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Central Group ◽  
Time Out ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Vital Element

This book is the first full-length study of Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, one of the most commercially successful albums in the history of jazz. Although the music of Time Out is exceedingly well known, and it remains a vital element of the American soundscape, it has received very little scholarly investigation until now. A central group of chapters examines the project’s seven cuts from several different points of view. The Quartet’s creative process is charted, from Brubeck’s earliest compositional sketches and drafts through multiple takes of the recording sessions in 1959. Other topics that receive attention include Brubeck’s ability to meld jazz with classical and world musics, the album’s recorded legacy, the role of lyrics in later recordings of this repertoire, and Brubeck’s contributions to metrical experimentation in jazz. These chapters are preceded by several others that trace the path leading to Time Out, from Brubeck’s student days and the Quartet’s rise to fame in the early 1950s. The book concludes with consideration of its resonances in four additional “time” albums in the 1960s. Informed by a wealth of documentary evidence from several major archives, this study reveals many aspects of Time Out that previously have been hidden from view. It also attempts to articulate a judicious view of this album’s role in jazz of the 1950s and 1960s.

scholarly journals The role of the Albanian community in the restoration and development of the statehood of Montenegro at the beginning of the 21st century

2020 ◽  
pp. 473-494
Author(s):  
Zoya V. Klimenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Full State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Relations

The research is devoted to the Albanian community in Montenegro and its political organisations. Though small in size (and gradually deteriorizing) the Albanian community in Montenegro exercises large and maybe even major influence on the contemporary history of Montenegro. Its role became especially remarkable in the period when Montenegro obtained its full state sovereignty in 2006, as well as in the years that followed. The author explores positions of prominent Albanians politicians, mutual relations of the largest national political parties. Special attention is paid to the problem of the influence of neighbouring Albania and Kosovo on the development of inter-ethnic relations in Montenegro. Moreover it is stressed that under the influence of Albanian politicians Montenegro, became a member of NATO in 2017.

scholarly journals Reconstructing the History of Motown Session Musicians: The Carol Kaye/James Jamerson Controversy

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-109
Author(s):  
BRIAN F. WRIGHT
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Skilled Professional ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractMotown Records churned out hit singles with remarkable efficiency, thanks largely to a stable of skilled professional session musicians. However, exactly who played on their most iconic recordings remains a mystery because, as was standard within the music industry, no Motown release in the 1960s credited these musicians for their work. These practices have led to conflicting accounts, the most famous of which concerns bassists James Jamerson and Carol Kaye. To this day, Kaye alleges that she played on numerous classic Motown recordings but has been purposefully omitted from Motown history. Conversely, Jamerson—who died more than thirty years ago—continues to be vehemently defended by acolytes such as biographer Allan Slutsky, who see Kaye's claims as blasphemous. Drawing on previously unexamined sources, this article reconstructs Kaye's involvement with Motown and, in so doing, reevaluates the merits of the Kaye/Jamerson controversy. Building on the work of Andrew Flory, I explore the role of session musicians in Motown's creative process and argue that critics and fans have propagated a problematic discourse in which Jamerson has been valorized and Kaye has been dismissed. Ultimately, Kaye's story not only provides a useful corrective to the historical record, it also demonstrates the need for further research into session musicians’ contributions to popular music.

Gutting a good idea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kendall
Keyword(s):  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Police Interrogation ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Regulatory Purpose ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Deaths In Custody

This chapter provides a critical and analytical history of custody visiting, centring on the policy issues, and compiled from desk and archival research. Michael Meacher MP made the first proposals for custody visiting in 1980, and in 1981 the Scarman Report on the Brixton riots adopted this idea and included a recommendation for a statutory scheme of custody visiting. The scheme would provide for the supervision of the conditions of police interrogation and detention. The government declined to implement the proposals. However the government encouraged the growth of custody visiting from 1984 on the rather haphazard and unofficial basis known as ‘lay visiting’, run by police authorities. A statutory scheme was introduced in 2003. Over the whole period to date, the powerful influence of the police, and the Home Office following their views, have eroded the original regulatory purpose of custody visiting, and has airbrushed out the role of custody visiting as a deterrent to police misconduct leading to deaths in custody.

Seeing the Unseen

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-127
Author(s):  
Tom McLeish
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Visual Imagination ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contemporary Artist

The first mode of imagination—the visual—is shared by art and science. The chapter starts with an account of the history of visual perception, working though the ancient theory of ‘extramission’, because it sheds light on the role of the mind’s active projection of visual impressions on the world in the interpretation of incoming images. The commonality of scientific and artistic visual imagination is partially to be found in mappings between spaces of three to two dimensions, exemplified perfectly by astronomy, and the work of medieval painter Giotto. Comparisons of the creative process in a recent astrophysical discovery are made with a contemporary artist (Graeme Willson) and through a detailed study of a lesser-known work by Monet.

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