scholarly journals The Poetics of “Twilightness” in the Space of an Era

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Yu.N. Girin ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Tuning Fork ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Universal Scale

In the article it is intended to consider the code of “Twilightness” in the context of the world culture of the first two decades of the 20th century. Expressionist anthology Twilight of mankind is published in 1919. This anthology serves as a tuning fork of all “Symphony of the latest poetry”, as it was specified in the subtitle. Not only in the German-speaking area, but also in Russia, the atmosphere of impending twilight was a sign of an entire era and coincided with the currents of the avant-garde movement on a universal scale. The interconnected constants of this perceptions, such as the motives of the victim, doom, death, despair, longing, fear, were quite specific to this age and meant more than mere minor emotion,— it’s an important cultural phenomenon waiting to be understood. In the artistic field of expressionism, the tanatological code that contains a whole spectrum of the main mythologem of the avant-garde, is the core, acting as a sort of counterway, a re-e versal of the utopian-transformative code.

The Russian Futuristic Experiment: the Language of the Poetic Resistance

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-272
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Creative Mind ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind

The main Avant-garde trend in the first third of the 20th century, Futurism, through its various groups and creative personalities, upholds its own conception of art and creator, strives to give a contemporary image of the world, to reveal the hidden essence of things, the inner relation of the elements. According to Futurism, art is meant to change lives, but not as it seems in the writings of nineteenth-century realists: by influencing the rational and changing the mind of the reader. The development of a new artistic expression, in a new poetic language, the use of contemporary forms of artistic conditionality have become major tasks for the generation of poets and artists from the 1910s. Poet futurists reduce the language of literature to its traditional understandings, neglect its inherent rules and laws, because they accept it as something external to the subject, which impedes the expression of its essence. From the depiction of the object to its expression - this is how the break in the creative mind of the futuristic author can be characterized. The linguistic revolution, effected with poetic means by the futurists, is a desperate and utopian attempt to acquire the organic integrity of the world, thirsting for its transformation. Thanks to futurism, the register of poetic techniques was expanded in the 20th century and directions were created for the creation of new expressive means of writing poetic text.

scholarly journals The Transformation of a Music Festival in St. Petersburg “The World of Art. Contrasts”

ICONI ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 159-171
Author(s):  
Anton А. Rovner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Arnold Schoenberg ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Italian Music ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article presents the history of an extraordinary music festival organized in St. Petersburg by two composers Igor Rogalev and Igor Vorobyev. The festival was fi rst called “From the Avant-garde to the Present Day,” subsequently “From the Avant-garde to the Present Day. Continuation,” and during the last three years — “The World of Art. Contrasts.” This festival was founded in 1992, and its aim was to create a venue for performance of music by contemporary composers and representatives of the “forgotten generation” of the early 20th century Russian avant-garde movement, such as Nikolai Roslavetz, Alexander Mosolov, Arthur Lourie, etc. Many premieres of these and other composers were performed at this festival, as well as well-known works by such early 20th century established masters as Arnold Schoenberg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, etc. Some of the leading contemporary composers of the late 20th and early 21st century were invited to participate in the festival, as were numerous outstanding performances, ensembles and orchestras up to the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater, artists, poets and writers. At the present time the artistic goal of the festival is to connect the strata of music by contemporary composers with the masterpieces of the great classics of the previous centuries — from the Renaissance era to the 19th century. Each year the festival has a certain particularthemes, such as, for instance, Italian music or Japanese music, around which the program is built endowed with a broad stylistic and genre-related pallette.

Metacinema

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Global Cinema ◽  
The World ◽  
First Time ◽  
Selection Of

When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art—either by reference to itself or to other works—we have become accustomed to calling this move “meta.” While scholars and critics have, for decades, referred to reflexivity in films, it is only here, for the first time, that a group of leading and emerging film theorists joins to directly and systematically address with clarity and rigor the meanings and implications of the meta for cinema. In ten new essays and a selection of vital canonical works, contributors chart, explore, and advance the ways in which metacinema is at once a mode of filmmaking and a heuristic for studying cinematic attributes. What we have here, then, is not just an engagement with certain practices and concepts in widespread use in the movies (from Hollywood to global cinema, from documentary to the experimental and avant-garde), but also the development of a veritable and vital new genre of film studies. Since metacinema has become an increasingly prominent cultural phenomenon—a kind of art and logic familiar to everyday experience around the world—its abundance and pervasiveness draws our attention. With more and more films expressing reflexivity, recursion, reference to other films, mise en abîme, seriality, and exhibiting related intertextual traits, the time is overdue for the kind of capacious yet nuanced critical study now in hand.

Avant-garde artists at the Kharkiv Art School: Vasyl Yermilov and Boris Kosarev

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (02) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
T. Pavlova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Team ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Easel Painting ◽  
Art School

The article deals with the formation of avant-garde as an alternative to the academic artistic paradigm in the Kharkiv Art School. The contribution of Kharkiv artists to the world culture is determined primarily by the avant-garde art. Its agents, who steadily carried the baton of modernization of artistic culture, were V. Yermilov and B. Kosarev. During 1915–1916 a group of artists, The Union of Seven, was formed at the Art School; their work reflected the diverse palette of changes that accompanied the formation of Cubo-Futurism in Kharkiv. Fundamental changes took place in the artistic culture of Ukraine in the 1920s. The initiative to transform Kharkiv Art School into an Art Technical School with the rights of an institution of higher education in 1921, is attributed to Yermilov (it actually became an institute in 1927). In the 1920s–1930s his teaching team was joined by such artists as Mykola Burachek, Ivan Padalka, Oleksander Khvostenko-Khvostov, Anatol Petrytsky, and Borys Kosarev. Studios were established: easel painting (Mykhailo Sharonov), monumental (Lev Kramarenko), and theatrical (Oleksander Khvostenko-Khvostov). From 1922 to 1934 Yermilov led the graphics studio (together with Padalka starting in 1925). The key figures in the creation process of artistic avant-garde culture in Kharkiv after the 1930s were V. Yermilov and B. Kosarev, who influenced the formation of the next generation of artists. Yermilov’s work in Kharkiv (including teaching at Art Institute) had an impact on the creative features of O. Shcheglov, V. Platonov, V. Savenkov, and defined the horizon of effective development of design in the region. Among those who continued Yermilov’s design traditions are M. Molochynsky, І. Krivoruchko, V. Lesnyak, O. Bojchuk, V. Danilenko, O. Veklenko. Launched by the latter International Environmental Forum of Eco Poster “The 4th Block” has found quite a resonance in the world. “Yermilov’s Mansard” appeared on Kharkiv cultural space as an artistic centre and an original example of artistic design in the spirit of Bauhaus. Due to B. Kosarev a constellation of talented artists appeared in Kharkiv artistic culture and defined its uniqueness. Among his students in the theatre and decorative department there were such people as a teacher Konstantinov; a theater artist, a Doctor of Architecture, corresponding member of the AAU V. Kravetz; the Main artist of Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko T. Medvid; theatre artists M. Kuzheliev, G. Nesterovska, P. Osnachuk, L. Pisarenko, N. Rudenko-Krayevska and others. Among the artists, whose creative work shaped under the influence of B. Kosarev, were Honoured Artist of Ukraine, member and Vice President of AAU V. Sidorenko, and Honored Artist of Ukraine, famous graphic N. Myronenko.

Painters and Painting on the Porcelain, Contemporary Porcelain Collection of the Latvian Painters at Zvartava Castle

2012 ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Inese Brants
Keyword(s):  
Process Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Art Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Visual Materials

The goal of paper is to actualize the importance of Latvian Artit`s Contemporary Porcelain Collection of Zvartava in the Regional cultural meaning with context of Latvian art process development. Briefly characterizing the style of creative expression of the most prestigious Latvia painters compare with the distinctive characteristic features of the porcelain painting techniques. The art historian statements illustrate the painters' creative style of their artistic handwriting characteristic of paintings by period. Teachers experience by giving the Master classes of Porcelain Painting to famous Latvian artists grow up my practical experience of porcelain painting technical problems for painters. Visual materials contents from photographic images what was taken by me during the Porcelain Painting Symposia. Avant-garde, artistic, modern and free approach to porcelain painting is quite distinct from china industrial design and mass production. The Contemporary Porcelain Painting Collection of Latvia Artists Union in Zvartava castle lists also has no analogues in the world and may be considered to cultural phenomenon of the Latvia and world art scene.

Japanese cuisine in the world: cultural phenomenon and features of geography

2021 ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Irina Tikhotskaya
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
National Cuisine ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Nutritional Balance

Japanese cuisine, one of the few national cuisines considered as intangible cultural heritage of humankind, has gained great popularity around the world. Among the main reasons of its attractiveness to people is the association with a healthy diet due to its natural taste and nutritional balance. The aesthetic component - "food as art" also plays an important role, along with the interest of foreigners in Japanese culture. The deliberate policy of the Japanese government promoting the national cuisine abroad, has become an instrument of "soft power", and is bringing its results. By analyzing the differences in the distribution of Japanese restaurants in cities, countries and regions of the world, the authors show and interpret the heterogeneity of Japanese cuisine worldwide at different scales. The popularity of Japanese cuisine in a given country depends on its involvement in the process of globalization. One of the most striking examples of the intra-country heterogeneity of Japanese cuisine is the United States. The study of the microgeography of Japanese cuisine based on a core estimate of restaurant density showed that the geography of Japanese cuisine in the cities is determined by the presence or absence of a Japanese ethnic district. In case if there is one, the core of its concentration is located there, otherwise it coincides with the core of the restaurants and city as a whole.

scholarly journals Byzantine church singing in the studies of fr. Peter Franz Krypiakevych

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Natalia Syrotynska
Keyword(s):  
Common Theme ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Cultural Complex ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
The Church

This article examines the historical path of the development of the Byzantine hymnography and sacred monody in the researcher’s works of fr. Petro Krypjakevych. An important role of the research of the Byzantine sacred hymnography is his study of its specific characteristics and the phenomen of the relations with ancient writing heritage. Church poetry played a major role in the development of the literature poetry, its images were used by many ukrainian writers of the XVI-XVII centuries, most of which in their profession were related with the Church, and, therefore, knew perfectly sacred hymnohraphy. Liturgical books also helped to a perfect knowledge of singin monody material. In the Byzantine hymnography the main place taked the Marian theme. The article analyzed the cultural complex of the existing forms of the liturgical singing tradition, defined existence of the expression among the sacred hymnohraphy. In the development of the Christian rite, the dramaturgy of the Theotokion texts is improved, the system of genres, which is combined by the common theme, is formed, the image of the Virgin gains the axiological completeness and becomes as the source of valuable norms in opposition to evil and hope for salvation. This explains the involvement of the Marian chants into all the spheres of the liturgical worship that allows recognizing the Theotokion as a cultural phenomenon, evidenced by the high emotional and intellectual concentration and communication within the syncretic filling all the rite levels. The investigated material by fr. Petro Krypjakevych reveals the continued interpretation of God Mother‘s image as the carrier of the core foundations of the human spirit that remains to be ideal in interpreting the various artistic and philosophical systems, based on manifesting the eternal valuable categories such as: love and compassion. That’s why the research of fr. Petro Krypjakevych is an important contribution to the world treasury of the recognition of the spiritual culture of humankind.

scholarly journals Composer of the revolution: Scriabin’s idea of the Mysterium - the total work of art

Muzikologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
Branislava Trifunovic
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
Artistic Vision ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Alexander Scriabin with his conception of the total work of art, named Mysterium, unconsciously provided the artistic vision of revolutionary claims, anticipating the October Revolution of 1917. Since the first decade of the 20th century, the revolutionary conscience was a singular feature of the Russian intelligentsia, so the concept of Mysterium was, in such social climate, a concept of force that prompted the artist to seek a better world. Just like avant-garde artists - whose actions are an intervention in social systems - in his Mysterium Scriabin emphasized the need for a transformation of the world through art. Bearing this in mind, the musicological interpretation of Mysterium here is made with the aim of positioning Scriabin as a modernist subject. The insights into the composer?s responses to socio-political reality - both within Scriabin?s philosophical and creative narratives - refer to the demands of the revolutionaries for the collective/sobornost. This study shows that those demands were, in the case of Scriabin, shaped as the idea of the utopian function of art.

scholarly journals Motif of struggle in the chronicles "The Cathedral Clergy" by Nikolai Leskov

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Valeriya G. Andreyeva
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
Universal Scale ◽  
Intrinsic Basis

The author of the article addresses history of the publication of the chronicles "The Cathedral Clergy" by Nikolai Leskov; she notes that the subject and the core conflict of the work collided with its publication in a number of magazines, and that only Mikhail Katkov realised the chronicle's importance and accepted it in his magazine "The Russian Messenger". In "The Cathedral Clergy", Nikolai Leskov looks at the world from a special perspective which opens his point of view as an eternity look, whereas what becomes the core conflict in the work, is confrontation of belief and unbelief of global, if not universal, scale. Realisation of one of the book's most significant motifs – motif of struggle – is analysed in the article. It is considered how Nikolai Leskov on a set of examples illustrates the heroes' active and energetic strength that is shown in advocacy of belief, in resistance to meanness and premeditated deception. The writer very thinly and skillfully shows that fight is not an intrinsic basis of righteous people, that all of them live under the law of love, however they cannot be passive observers in the world where the truth is profaned.

Diagnosing and Debunking Korean Pseudohistory

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-80
Author(s):  
Andrew Logie
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
The Core ◽  
Early State

In current day South Korea pseudohistory pertaining to early Korea and northern East Asia has reached epidemic proportions. Its advocates argue the early state of Chosŏn to have been an expansive empire centered on mainland geographical Manchuria. Through rationalizing interpretations of the traditional Hwan’ung- Tan’gun myth, they project back the supposed antiquity and pristine nature of this charter empire to the archaeological Hongshan Culture of the Neolithic straddling Inner Mongolia and Liaoning provinces of China. Despite these blatant spatial and temporal exaggerations, all but specialists of early Korea typically remain hesitant to explicitly label this conceptualization as “pseudohistory.” This is because advocates of ancient empire cast themselves as rationalist scholars and claim to have evidential arguments drawn from multiple textual sources and archaeology. They further wield an emotive polemic defaming the domestic academic establishment as being composed of national traitors bent only on maintaining a “colonial view of history.” The canon of counterevidence relied on by empire advocates is the accumulated product of 20th century revisionist and pseudo historiography, but to willing believers and non-experts, it can easily appear convincing and overwhelming. Combined with a postcolonial nationalist framing and situated against the ongoing historiography dispute with China, their conceptualization of a grand antiquity has gained bipartisan political influence with concrete ramifications for professional scholarship. This paper seeks to introduce and debunk the core, seemingly evidential, canon of arguments put forward by purveyors of Korean pseudohistory and to expose their polemics, situating the phenomenon in a broader diagnostic context of global pseudohistory and archaeology.

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