scholarly journals “Humanization” of Art: Museums on the Internet

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-243
Author(s):  
V.D. Evallyo ◽  
◽  
V.P. Krutous ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Digital Museum ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Interactive Manipulation ◽  
Website Content ◽  
Expert Support

In this article, the digital museum is examined through the perspective of the “humanization” processes, which is the reorientation of museums to reach the widest audience and to introduce works of art in media discourse. First of all, these problems cover the transformation of the usual communication between museums and their visitors. Thus, new accents are formed and landmarks are shifted from a work of art to its recipient. The purpose of this study is analyzing the visual component of museums’ websites, cultural research of digital content. As a result of the release of museums and their material and cultural archive in the field of mass culture, access to works of art, and its informational, expert support are realized, but also a kind of desacralization of cultural objects is fixed. The article concludes that the range of visual shows presented in digital museums is wide and relies largely on game aesthetics, on the possibility of interactive manipulation of website content.

scholarly journals TRANSLATING TEXTS ON ART (ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM MUSEUM TEXTS IN RUSSIAN, ENGLISH AND FINNISH)

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 135-141
Author(s):  
I. P. Ryabkova ◽  
A. A. Deryugina
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Translation Analysis ◽  
Target Languages ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
Formal Business

The article studies the ways of rendering stylistic and lexical features of museum texts in the Russian, English and Finnish languages in translations. Research in the field of translation of museum texts seems important in view of the growing popularity of museums and the increased number of international visitors who have to refer to translated texts. The study uses the texts of Kiasma and the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), Helsinki, as well as the texts of the Museum and Exhibition Complex of Small Arms named after M. T. Kalashnikov, Izhevsk. The source languages ​​(SL) of the analyzed texts were Russian and Finnish, the target languages ​​(TL) were Russian and English. The objective of this research was to study the peculiarities of translating museum texts. In the course of the study, a linguistic analysis of texts in the SL was carried out. It was found that museum texts feature a combination of different functional styles. In addition to publicist and scientific styles, museum texts can have some features of fiction, formal business and colloquial functional styles. The study showed a link between the type of the museum text or the nature of the museum and the functional style of the text. In the course of a comparative and translation analysis of texts in the SL and the TL, the main stylistic and lexical problems of translating museum texts were identified, and optimal translation solutions for conveying the stylistic and lexical features of museum texts were described. It was found that lexical translation problems were most often associated with idioms and the vocabulary lacking equivalents in the TL, as well as the dependence of texts on the visual component of works of art. Stylistic problems, in turn, were due to the need to preserve the functional and stylistic characteristics of the original.

scholarly journals Visual research in the context of the examination of cultural values

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Shman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Visual Research ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theoretical Generalization ◽  
Social Components

Purpose of the article. The article analyzes the methodological support of the examination of cultural values, including the initial step - art analysis, clarifies the interdependence of art and visual approaches in the interpretation of works of art. In particular, the prospects for the development of visual research as a source of new information during the examination of cultural valuesare identified. The problems of visual research of culture are highlighted and the specifics of its application during the research of works of art are determined. The possibility of implementing methods of visual and expert research of cultural valuesis considered. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study were the principles of historicism, comprehensiveness and scientific reliability, as well as art and cultural approaches, typological and theoretical generalization, which allowed to determine the main forms of visual research, its interaction and role in research of cultural objects. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is determined by the possibility of applying new methods and approaches in expert activity, in particular understanding the current trends in the analysis of cultural objects, acquaintance with the dynamics and forms of analysis of visual research, understanding the theory of images used by visual researchers. examination of cultural values. Conclusions. Today, new methods from various fields of knowledge are actively involved in the study of cultural values, which led to the emergence and formation of a powerful domestic school of expertise in the field of culture. Visual research is a relatively young phenomenon, characterized by pronounced socio-cultural dynamics. Consideration of visual research in the context of the examination of cultural values is an attempt to go beyond traditional art history and the formation of new value criteria, and possibly the social components of expert research.

scholarly journals ART AND COMMUNICATION AS A NOVEL EXPERIENCE IN MODERN CULTURE

ARHE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (32) ◽  
pp. 141-167
Author(s):  
KOSTAS THEOLOGOU ◽  
YOULI RAPTI ◽  
PETER FETTNER ◽  
YOULI PAPAIOANNOU
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Impact

In this paper we discuss the deadlocks of defining art in modern culture. The lack of criteria and modernism revisited are of crucial issue in this account. The theoretical mainframe of our approach is founded on the Frankfurt School thinkers (Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin), and of course Jürgen Habermas. This theoretical apparatus also draws on contemporary accounts given by Sorbonne Professor Marc Jimenez and art critic John A. Walker.[1] The paper discusses whether fine art may survive, in what forms – and to what purpose – in an age of mass media and in conditions of rapid networked communication. The paper sets off from the critical role radical art plays in today’s divided yet global world and on the continuing debates between high art and low culture, but reflects on the interaction between art, media and technology. To support our argument we suggest Body Art and other web/digital and technological applications in art, and the cyber-art currently being produced for the internet. The paper acknowledges the numerous interactions between art and culture in a postmodern pluralistic world, and draws from the vast range of contemporary works of art to illustrate and to criticize theoretical points. The true test of theory in aesthetics is their application to particular cases. When a theory shows limitations in such an application, we gain clues as to what theoretical adjustments or innovations are called for to accommodate today’s works. The introductory part of the essay comprehensively surveys recent debates on works of art, mass culture and society, and their socio-philosophical significance. The main discussion refers to the work of Walter Benjamin and Jürgen Habermas, aptly commented on by Marc Jimenez;[2] after exploring the complex relationships between culture and art as it’s reflected in that work, the argument provides an account of the 1980s political turn in aesthetics and explicates the impact of new communication technologies in modern culture. The narration is enhanced by specific examples of works of art in the era of mass media, web and digital culture, and underlines both the styles’ pluralism and the variety of parameters affecting the interaction between art and mass media communication. Critical findings and suggestions for further research conclude the paper.   [1] Marc Jimenez, Qu’est-ce que l’esthétique, Paris: Gallimard, 1997; John A. Walker, Art in the Age of Mass Media, London: Pluto, 2001. [2] Jimenez, Ibid.

scholarly journals The Sacred in the Symbols of Ukrainian Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Iryna Baltaziuk
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Cultural Code

Contemporary art as a measure of social consciousness becomes a reference point for finding the boundary between the sacred and the anti-sacred, the aspect that acting as a mirror becomes a reflection of reality, and only at first glance, it speaks of identity but is not true in its essence. Through the semantic key of the symbols of mirroring and reflecting, in the knowledge of the true picture, from divine emptiness to holy fullness, a dialogue of contemporary Ukrainian artists with Kazimir Malevich is formed. The most powerful example of this dialogue is created in the works of Ukrainian classics Oleksandr Dubovyk, Oleksandr Roitburd, and Oleksandr Klymenko. On this path, artists are helped by the heritage of the Ukrainian ethnos, which harmoniously combines the memory of Trypillia culture, national symbols, traditions of icon painting, the school of Mykhailo Boychuk and much more. This article focuses on the sacred in the symbols of contemporary Ukrainian painting that absorbs the most characteristic signs, codes, and ciphers of the previous centuries, transferring spirituality into the 21st century. The transformation of religious symbols into contemporary ones, in consequence of building a discourse with mass culture, generates them into a new cultural code. The semantics of mass culture gives the visual material that forms the sacredness of the 21st century, which exists on the border of the material and the spiritual, as a reflection of the myth. The works of art by Nina Murashkina, Andriy Tsoy, and Mykyta Tsoy are a striking example of that. The sacred in which the mystery of real life is concentrated can endow thinking with a true, rather than an imaginary essence and provide a tool for solving the problem of individuality, freedom, and existence, which the new century is filled with.

scholarly journals Russian Discourse of Mass Culture in the Focus of Socio-Cultural Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-435
Author(s):  
Tatiana S. Zlotnikova ◽  
Nataliya N. Letina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Study ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Regional Centers ◽  
Modern Mass

The article raises the problem of formation of the socio-cultural research algorithm that allows to reveal the unique ratio of the layers of Russian mass culture identified by the authors. There is presented the basis of sampling and content of survey materials. Particular attention is paid to the fact of continuity of studying the Russian discourse of mass culture in theoretical-methodological and empirical terms.The article defines the conceptual grounds that became the core of the socio-cultural survey: the Russian discourse of mass culture is correlated with the globalizational and authentic layers, the presence in which characterizes both the activity of creators and the work of mass consciousness in the perception of mass culture phenomena and self-consciousness.The article summarizes the globalizational challen­ges and authentic answers presented in the materials of 300 questionnaires that were received, du­ring the period from April 15 to December 30, 2017, from respondents representing geographically almost the whole of Russia (the cities of Murmansk, Kineshma, Krasnoyarsk, Rybinsk, Simferopol, Tambov; the major regional centers of Krasnoyarsk, Samara, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tyumen, Kazan; the small towns of Severomorsk, Novokuibyshevsk, Vsevolozhsk, Bolshoe Selo, Tutaev, Achinsk).The article proves that mass culture is not indiffe­rent for Russians — it is a challenge for formation of both active and passive position of its consumer. Having systematized the results of the socio-cultural survey of 2017, the article confirms the effectiveness of the integrative algorithm for socio-cultural study of mass culture perception, previously developed and tested in 2015. As a result, the article verifies the historically determined existence of modern mass culture in the consciousness of our contemporary as a signi­ficant environment of life, not reflected on the level of personal intentions of self-consciousness.

Mass culture and its determinants

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
I. F. Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Culture ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Methodological ambiguity of researchers' positions leads to the fact that mass culture is referred to different aspects of the phenomenon. In addition, it is rapidly transforming, acquiring new facets and properties within specific socio-cultural systems. The article shows that certain socio-cultural changes that occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, led to the emergence of mass culture in Western civilization, as a result of the formation of mass and mass consciousness. Under the mass should be understood not only the degree of distribution of the product (a large number of something), and above all the focus on widespread consumption and low moral and aesthetic level of the product (including works of art).

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI BUDAYA DALAM PERKULIAHAN MENULIS AKADEMIK MAHASISWA BIPA TIONGKOK

LITERA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Setyawan Pujiono ◽  
Pratomo Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Writing Classes ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Writing Class ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Foreign Speakers ◽  
Traditional Arts

Upaya untuk mengenalkan budaya Indonesia kepada penutur asing (BIPA) dapat dilakukan melalui berbagai pendekatan. Salah satu pendekatan yang terbuka luas adalah melalui perkuliahan Menulis Karya Ilmiah (akademik). Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menguraikan implementasi budaya dalam perkuliahan menulis akademik mahasiswa BIPA dan mendeskripsikan topik terkait budaya Indonesia dalam produk karya tulis mahasiswa BIPA. Metode penelitian ini berdasarkan hasil observasi, wawancara, dan studi pustaka dalam proses perkuliahan menulis akademik mahasiswa BIPA. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan selama proses perkuliahan menulis akademik sudah berbasis budaya. Saat perkuliahan, dosen sudah menggunakan materi tentang budaya dan aktivitas mahasiswa (pemilihan ide, pengumpulan data, dan penulisan laporan) sudah beorientasi pada budaya Indonesia (khususnya budaya Jawa). Kemudian, topik produk tulisan mahasiswa juga berbasis budaya seperti perilaku hidup masyarakat Jawa, upacara tradisi, seni tradisi, dan benda-benda (artefak) budaya. Topik budaya dipilih oleh mahasiswa BIPA Tiongkok, karena: a) topik budaya sesuai pilihan mahasiswa, sehingga memotivasi belajar mereka, b) penelitian budaya merupakan materi otentik dan beraneka ragam jenisnya, c) budaya merupakan lahan tumbuhnya nilai-nilai dan kepribadian yang luhur dan mempercepat penyesuaian mahasiswa terhadap masyarakat lingkungannya.Kata kunci: budaya, menulis akademik, BIPAIMPLEMENTATION OF INDONESIAN CULTURE IN ACADEMIC WRITING CLASS OF CHINESE BIPA STUDENTSAbstractEfforts to introduce Indonesian culture to foreign speakers (BIPA) can be made through various approaches. One approach that is wide open is through lectures on Writing Scientific Papers (Academic Writing). The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of cultures in the academic writing classes of BIPA students and to describe topics related to Indonesian cultures in the product of BIPA student research reports. The method of the study is based on the results of observations, questionnaires, and literature study in the academic writing process of BIPA students. The research results show that, during the lecture process, academic writing is based on culture. During classes, lecturers use material about students’ cultures and activities (idea selection, data collection, and report writing) which are oriented towards Indonesian cultures (especially Javanese cultures). Then, the topic of students’ writing is also based on cultures such as the behavior of the Javanese society, traditional ceremonies, traditional arts, and cultural objects (artifacts). The topic of the cultures is chosen by the Chinese BIPA students because: a) cultural topics are in accord with students’ choices, thus motivating their learning, b) cultural research is authentic material and has various types, c) culture is the land for the growth of noble values and personalities and accelerates the adjustment of students to their community.Keywords: culture, academic writing, BIPA

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