scholarly journals An ungovernable diversity?

1970 ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Lise Emilie Fosmo Talleraas
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
History Museums ◽  
The Subject

This article is based on my Ph.D. thesis, entitled An ungovernable diversity? Norwegian museum politics on the subject of local and regional museums in the period 1900 – ca. 1970 (Umeå 2009). It gives an historical account of the development of local and regional cultural history museums in Norway as a topic in Norwegian cultural policy 1900–1970. It describes how local and regional museums became a subject in Norwegian cultural policy during the twentieth century. In 1900, such institutions amounted to about fifteen. Seventy years later, the number was more than two hundred. The museums appear in this perspective as a cultural phenomenon in their own age, a phenomenon to which the Norwegian Parliament, the Ministry of Education and the museum profession attached both interpretations and conceptions. At the centre of their interest was the need to implement measures to ensure that these museums submitted to the main museums concerning key tasks, such as the preservation of objects of cultural value. It was important for the Parliament to create a policy based on accountability and equal treatment. 

The Unfinished Project

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Rose
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
The Subject

This chapter discusses how two Viennese scholars—Ernst Kris and E.H. Gombrich—worked in 1936 to complete a book manuscript. The manuscript explored the subject of caricature: the art of comic distortion and willful exaggeration, of irreverence and, according to its most serious practitioners, absolute fidelity to truth. Inspired by recent advances in psychology and by contemporary innovations in art, the two scholars approached caricature not as a low form of creativity or a debased mode of communication but as a distinctive psychological and cultural phenomenon with its own functions and evolution. They interpreted caricature as an ambitious psychological and artistic experiment, and their effort to grasp each aspect led them to employ theories and methods from both mental science and cultural history.

scholarly journals THE TRANSCARPATHIAN ART SCHOOL: ARTISTIC, AND CULTURAL CREATIVE VALUE

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (43) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Kashshay
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Color Scheme ◽  
High Level ◽  
Art School

The article is dedicated to the study of artistic and cultural value of the Transcarpathian Art School as a significant cultural phenomenon that has gained considerable weight in the modern visual context. The relevance of the study for modern art space is highlighted.Emphasis is placed on the need to determine the artistic value of the works of representatives of the Transcarpathian Art School, as their widespread recognition in the modern Ukrainian artistic context is associated with high professionalism, unique creativity and emotional musical melody.General scientific, systematic, and art research methods are used. The object of research is Transcarpathian Art School and its founding artists. The subject of research is the cultural and artistic value of the Transcarpathian Art School in the context of modern Ukrainian art space.Socio-cultural aspects of the formation of the Transcarpathian art school in 1920s-1950s, the stages of formation of art education that preceded the formation of the painting movement are covered. The importance of each of the masters included in the cultural circle of the regional circle is emphasized. The special sound of works of Transcarpathians against the general background of art development in the USSR is noted.The dominant artistic and aesthetic qualities of their work are considered. The main features and peculiarities are emphasized. Such artistic features as a high level of professionalism and skill, the use of principles inherent in folk art, special attention to the color scheme, creative energy inherent in the best paintings of school representatives.Key words: Transcarpathian Art School, Transcarpathian Art, Anton Kashshay, Art of Ukraine, Art of the 20th century.

scholarly journals Gákti ja goahti. Heritage work and identity at Várdobáiki Museum

1970 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Liisa-Rávná Finbog
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Local Ownership ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Assimilation Policy

The legacy of the harsh assimilation policy in Norway – fornorskingen – has resulted in a loss of language, cultural heritage and corresponding identities for many within the Sámi population. Helped along in particular by the practice of late nineteenth and twentieth-century ethnographic and cultural-history museums, the culture of Norway has often been presented as a singular culture with few, if any, references to the Sámi. Only in the last few decades have any attempts been made to rectify this image. In this article, I show how the Sámi communities have appropriated the tools of assimilation – i.e. museums – and used them to counteract its effects. I focus on the work of indigenous museums in one geographical area – the counties of Nordland and Troms – and the Marke- Sámi population and culture within this area. Using the Marke-Sámi community as my starting point I show how the use of local and traditional knowledge alongside heritage work in museums helps form a sense of local ownership of the Marke-Sámi culture and an entitlement to participate in the creation of modern Marke-Sámi identities amongst the local Marke-Sámi population. 

scholarly journals ERGONYMS ON THE SIGNS OF A PROVINCIAL CITY: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ASPECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-104
Author(s):  
Zhanna K. Gaponova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Town

The nominative space of a provincial town is the subject of the author's attention in the proposed article. An important aspect in consideration of functioning of signs, posters, and other objects in town space is a linguoculturological aspect meaning the analysis of interrelation of the language environment of the town and its inclusiveness into a sociocultural situation. The article analyzes various terminological designations of the names of urban objects in linguistics: urbanonyms, ergonyms, emporonyms, firmonyms and others. The author, referring to the opinions of well-known onomatologists, focuses the attention on the term ergonym, justifying the need to use it to denote the names of shops and institutions. The rethinking of names, according to onomatologists, actualizes the processes of the sociocultural life of the town associated with linguistic problems including games with graphemes. The work examines the current language process reflected in the language of the provincial town – the use of Cyrillic letters in the names of shops and institutions. The study of the naming trends of the provincial town allowed the author to talk about the cultural value of the names. The updating of Cyrillic letters on signs has become a means for forming the value and meaning space of a provincial town, on the one hand, and the process of creating errors on the other. The article describes linguistic contradictions: combinations of modern borrowings with pre-revolutionary graphics, mixing of graphic styles, processes of Eurolatinisation and retrorization, inconsistent use of graphemes. The author of the article concludes that as a result of rethinking the usual nominations in the spirit of pre-revolutionary design of urban space, a special linguistic and cultural phenomenon of a provincial town is formed, striving during globalization for authenticity and identity, which is perceived differently by citizens.

Epilogue: Americanists after America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Blaustein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Studies ◽  
International Order ◽  
American Empire ◽  
American Century ◽  
The Us ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
The Subject

If the American Century is over, must the Americanist Century be over, too? Nightmare Envy and Other Stories, in its circuitous way, has been about culture and the formation of the post-1945 international order. The epilogue reflects on the resonances of this cultural history for the present, as that international order breaks. The contemplation of the decline and fall of an American empire has long lurked as an Americanist preoccupation or perverse fantasy, and there are discernible continuities between the American Studies scholarship of the mid-twentieth century and that of our own time. The epilogue also ponders obituaries of the American Century, from before and after the US presidential election of November 2016. The paradigmatic narratives of “America” and “Europe” that are the subject of this book were minted in the mid-twentieth century. They appeared to be inverted in the twenty-first.

Carl Gustav Jung as a historical–cultural phenomenon

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Luigi Zoja
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Collective Phenomena ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Psychoanalytic Technique ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
The Subject

It can be argued that psychoanalysis was one of the most import revolutions of the twentieth century. It arose out of the person's need to reflect on his/her inner space. Essentially, the psychoanalytic technique is talking, an ancient human skill that locates the person as both the subject and the author of history, culture and society. Analytical psychology, with its specific sensitivity to cultural issues, cannot claim that it is a scientific discipline, in the sense that it has developed technical knowledge according to natural sciences; however, it has contributed substantially to developing a unique field of study within which one can reflect on individual and collective phenomena as they interact with each other and within their sociohistorical contexts. This article offers a reflection on our contemporary globalised world, with its subjective and changed sense of time and space; it is argued that a return to a Jungian humanism may enable us to grasp the complexities of people's interrelationship with the sociocultural realities within which they live.

scholarly journals Where did the dance come, or the simplicity of difficult movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Markov
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Dance Culture ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
The Difference

A recently published book of Irina Sirotkina on the specifics of the dance culture of the twentieth century is under review in this article. This book, compiled as an anthology or textbook, surpasses the objectives of such a manual, being a perfect generalization that takes into account the achievements of anthropology. Sirotkina shows the characteristics of dance as a social phenomenon marking “cultural” social practices, and proves that the 20th century was an era of emancipation, that turned dance from a marker of elitist appropriation into one of the universally relevant semiotic models of culture. The book is not constructed as an introduction to the subject or a consistent presentation of its history, but as a series of problem statements. In particular, the book indicates how Nietzsche’s philosophy influenced the change in body status. Dance is considered not as a form of leisure, but as a form of organization of movement, including labor, with reference to such theorists of proletarian labor as Alexey Gastev. The book analyzes the features of choreography and choreographic pedagogy, and how naturalistic approach, which at the beginning of the 20th century was a mask for emancipation, then itself required certain emotional reinforcements and a support system in the intermedial interactions. The book also shows the socio-political consequences of self-awareness of culture in the form of dance and plastic, and it is proved that ideology of plastic (classicism) now is succeeded by ideology of dance (modernism and postmodernism). At the same time, the author of the book argues that the dance metaphor based on general ideas about movement and the body is strong enough, so that the development of choreography in the 20th century is more lasting than contingent. The article raises the question of whether such a training book can refer to the specifics of dance as a cultural phenomenon of the twentieth century, relying only on the philosophy of dance and the difference between classical and non-classical philosophy in general.

The Warrior Queen: Reflections on Victoria and Her World

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter L. Amstein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
The Subject

The subject of monarchy remains more fashionable in the pages of People and the National Inquirer than among NEH peer review panelists or professional historians generally. To a surprising degree, indeed, the subject has been left to non-professionals or to non-historians. Yet, when one reflects on the fact that the best-known wedding and the most traumatic funeral of the twentieth century both involved the British monarchy in a very immediate fashion, then one can hardly contend that that institution is of no account in modern cultural history. In the course of the past decade, I have drafted, and in part published, a series of topical essays involving Queen Victoria as symbol, as personality, and as actor on the political stage, and this paper constitutes a consideration of yet another facet of her world. In the process of exploring Queen Victoria's world in both printed and unpublished sources, I have made two discoveries that may not surprise you unduly once I set them forth.First, each major biographer of Queen Victoria—and there have been a great many—tends to react to the last major previous biographers. Thus Giles St. Aubyn in 1991 and Stanley Weintraub in 1987 drafted their works in the context of Elizabeth Longford's biography of 1964 and Cecil Woodham-Smith's life of 1972. The latter two wrote their lives in reaction to Lytton Strachey's biography of 1921 and Arthur Benson's of 1930. In the process, these more recent historians have at times unwittingly neglected a number of cogent conclusions reached by Sidney Lee way back in 1902.

Cloud, Precinct of the Theological-Historical

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 277-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Copjec
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Switch Point ◽  
Late Work ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Imaginal World ◽  
Unity Of God

Regarded by many as the pre-eminent Islamicist of the twentieth century, Henry Corbin is also the subject of much criticism, aimed primarily at his supposed overemphasis on the mythological aspects of Islamic philosophy and his idiosyncratic privileging of the concept of the imaginal world. Taking seriously an unusual claim made by Steven Wasserstrom in Religion after Religion that the redeployment of Schelling's concept of tautegory by Corbin reveals all that is wrong with his work, this essay seeks to defend both the concept and Corbin's use of it. Developed by Schelling in his late work on mythology, the concept of tautegory turns out to be, for historical and theoretical reasons, a revelatory switch point. Not only does it make clear why the imaginal ‘locus’ is key to understanding the unity of God – the oneness of his apophatic and revealed dimensions – it also gives us profound insights into the links connecting Islamic philosophy, German Idealism, and psychoanalysis, which all take their bearings from the esoteric or mystical idea of an unconscious abyss.

Historical Fragments’ Mobile Echo

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Bell ◽  
Kathy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Ming Dynasty ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Opium War ◽  
The Subject

Translocation – Transformation is an ambitious contribution to the subject of mobility. Materially, it interlinks seemingly disparate objects into a surprisingly unified exhibition on mobile histories and heritages: twelve bronze zodiac heads, silk and bamboo creatures, worn life vests, pressed Pu-erh tea, thousands of broken antique teapot spouts, and an ancestral wooden temple from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) used by a tea-trading family. Historically and politically, the exhibition engages Chinese stories from the third century BCE, empires in eighteenth-century Austria and China, the Second Opium War in the nineteenth century, the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the mid-twentieth century, and today’s global refugee crisis.

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