scholarly journals Modernolatria (Modernolatry)

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (25) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Júlio Bernardo Machinski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Technological Advances

<p>Este texto trata-se da tradução de “Modernolatria”, quinto capítulo da primeira parte do livro <em>"Modernolatria" et "Simultaneità": recherches sur deux tendences dans l'avant-garde littéraire en Italie et en France à la veille de la première guerre mondial</em>, do historiador e tradutor sueco Pär Bergman. Após ter abordado o repúdio dos futuristas por todas as formas de culto ao passado, Bergman trata da fascinação dos artistas ligados à vanguarda italiana em relação às descobertas científicas e aos avanços tecnológicos no início do século XX. Segundo o pesquisador, o neologismo futurista “modernolatria”, num sentido amplo, buscava caracterizar o ambiente juvenil e antitradicionalista geral que serviu de contexto histórico ao movimento. Em sentido restrito, o termo refere-se à temática adotada pelos futuristas em todos os domínios das artes: literatura, pintura, música etc., questão que é tratada mais detidamente ao longo do capítulo.</p><p><strong><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This paper refers to portuguese translation of “Modernolatria”, Chapter 5 Part 1 of historian and translator Swedish Pär Bergman’s book, entitled <em>"Modernolatria" et "Simultaneità": recherches sur deux tendences dans l'avant-garde littéraire en Italie et en France à la veille de la première guerre mondial</em>. Having addressed the futurist repudiation for all forms of worship of the past, Bergman deals with the fascination of artists related to the Italian avant-garde for scientific discoveries and technological advances in the early twentieth century. According to researcher, the futuristic neologism "modernolatria" in a broad sense, sought to characterize the youth environment and general anti-traditionalist who served as the historical context to the movement. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the thematic adopted by futurists in all areas of arts: literature, painting, music etc., which are addressed in more detail throughout the chapter.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Futurism; modernolatry; simultaneity; historical vanguards.</p>

Fighting with Words: American Composers' Commentary on Their Work

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
New Music ◽  
American Composers ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of literature concerning the changes taking place in American art music. In many cases, this literature is the work of the very people who are making those changes, the composers of new music. Much of their commentary is written in a manifesto style reminiscent of avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century. The dominant topic concerns the changes composers feel are needed to revolutionize American music.

scholarly journals La écfrasis en la obra de Luis Javier Moreno

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Carbajosa Palmero
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Multiple Perspective ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Siglo Xx

El presente trabajo analiza la poesía ecfrástica de Luis Javier Moreno dentro del contexto teórico e histórico de la écfrasis, entendida ésta como instrumento semiótico y epistemológico de primer orden y, más concretamente, como elemento mediador entre el poema y la realidad. Desde esta perspectiva múltiple, la naturaleza de la relación verbal-visual que es objeto de la écfrasis adquiere connotaciones heredadas de la época de las vanguardias de principios del siglo XX, claramente relacionadas con la invasión visual de la postmodernidad, lo que se estudiará en relación a los poemas elegidos para el análisis.The present article analyzes the ekphrastic poetry of Luis Javier Moreno within the theoretical and historical context of exphrasis as a primordial semiotic and epistemological source; furthermore, as a mediating element between the poem and reality. From this multiple perspective, the nature of the visual-verbal relationship, which is the concern of ekphrasis, shows connotations brought about by the avant-garde period of the early twentieth century, and clearly related with the current visual invasion of postmodernity. All this will be dealt with in relation to the poems chosen for analysis.

The Obligation to Choose

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Crossland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Light Quanta ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Night And Day ◽  
Scientific Ideas

Chapter 1 explores Woolf’s writings up to the end of 1925 in relation to scientific ideas on wave-particle duality, providing the ‘retrospect of Woolf’s earlier novels’ which Michael Whitworth has suggested shows that she was working ‘in anticipation of the physicists’. The chapter as a whole challenges this idea of anticipation, showing that Woolf was actually working in parallel with physicists, philosophers, and artists in the early twentieth century, all of whom were starting to question dualistic models and instead beginning to develop complementary ones. A retrospect on wave-particle duality is also provided, making reference to Max Planck’s work on quanta and Albert Einstein’s development of light quanta. This chapter pays close attention to Woolf’s writing of light and her use of conjunctions, suggesting that Woolf was increasingly looking to write ‘both/and’ rather than ‘either/or’. Among other texts, it considers Night and Day, Mrs Dalloway, and ‘Sketch of the Past’.

scholarly journals ‘From Zionism to Communism’: Emilio Sereni and the Consiglio di Gestione in postwar Italy

Modern Italy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Andrea Bonfanti
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Postwar Italy

This essay demonstrates that it is impossible to appreciate the actions of the Italian communist Emilio Sereni without considering his Zionist background. Anyone who is interested in understanding the complexities of communism in the past century and to avoid simplistic conclusions about this ideology will benefit from the study. The problem at stake is that researchers often approach communism in a monolithic manner, which does not adequately explain the multiform manifestations (practical and theoretical) of that phenomenon. This ought to change and to this extent this essay hopes to contribute to that recent strand of historical research that challenges simplistic views on communism. More specifically, by analysing the Management Councils that Sereni created in postwar Italy, we can see that many of their features in fact derived from, or found their deepest origins in, his previous experience as a committed socialist Zionist. The study, then, also relates Sereni to and looks at the broader experiences of early twentieth-century Zionism and Italian communism in the early postwar years.

Christianity, Plurality and Vernacular Religion in early Twentieth-Century Glastonbury: A Sign of Things to Come?

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Marion Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Vernacular Religion ◽  
Important Time ◽  
To Come ◽  
Shed Light

This essay focuses upon a significant place, Glastonbury, at an important time during the early twentieth century, in order to shed light on a particular aspect of Christianity which is frequently overlooked: its internal plurality. This is not simply denominational diversity, but the considerable heterogeneity which exists at both institutional and individual level within denominations, and which often escapes articulation, awareness or comment. This is significant because failure to apprehend a more detailed, granular picture of religion can lead to an incomplete view of events in the past and, by extension, a partial understanding of later phenomena. This essay argues that by using the concept of vernacular religion a more nuanced picture of religion as it is – or has been – lived can be achieved.

scholarly journals a vital past

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-67
Author(s):  
Elena Grigoryeva ◽  
Konstantin Lidin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
Design And Construction

We lived and lived. But then, whoops!We found ourselves in other times…Timur Shaov. “Other times (listening to Galich once again)”Crises shaking our reality in the last decades happen so often that they overlap each other like roof tiles. Linear development of the second half of the twentieth century gave way to the era of cardinal changes. While building a new world, we strongly feel the need to preserve and comprehend the past. It is possible to understand the new only in comparison with the past. The disappearing world that consists of separate, isolated and selfcontained fragments is embodied in monuments of architecture. Images, techniques and practices of design and construction acquire a special meaning and new relevance in these new times. Wooden architecture of Siberia and stone merchant houses in Yalutorovsk, ancient churches and Leonidov’s avant-garde project, ruins of Stalin’s camps and the Korean Garden in Irkutsk are elements of the past that we need to understand the present. Protesting against the unification of tastes, breach of family relations and destruction of traditions, glocalization is on the rise.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Enzo Traverso
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Financial Capitalism

The introduction analyzes the historical context in which left-wing melancholy arises as a prismatic frame for rethinking the past: “presentism,” a dilated present that absorbs in itself both the past and the future. It corresponds to a neoliberal temporality that replaces twentieth century utopias with a spasmodic acceleration retreated into the boundaries of financial capitalism, deprived of any projection into the future.

Swanscombe: A Standard Stone-Age Sequence for Britain?

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Apparent Loss ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Age Sequence

In the early twentieth century, Palaeolithic research seemed to be flourishing on the Continent. Commont was carrying out groundbreaking work in the Somme, and rich hauls were being recovered from the reindeer-caves of France and Spain. France could also boast a research centre: the Institute of Human Palaeontology, where Boule, Breuil, and Obermaier held posts. Britain, though, was weighed down by nostalgia: unfavourable contrasts were being drawn between current research and the glorious decades of the past when Evans and Prestwich had brought such renown to British investigations. This apparent loss of impetus was noted abroad. Boule considered the British to have sunk into insularity after 1875, never to regain their early brilliance; in 1912, Breuil remarked at a luncheon party in Cambridge that no one in England knew anything about prehistory. The British Museum’s Guide to the Antiquities of the Stone Age, published in 1911 at the height of Commont’s work, declared: ‘the French system has now been revised in the light of recent discoveries, and is the basis of all Continental classifications’. It was regretted that the English river drifts had still not received any systematic excavations, and that the implements in these sediments still lay in confusion. This Guide was produced by Reginald Smith of the British Museum under the direction of Charles Hercules Read (1857–1929). In 1912, the same year that Breuil made his disparaging comment, Read arranged for Smith to excavate in one of the most productive Palaeolithic localities of the Thames Valley: Swanscombe village. Smith was assisted by Henry Dewey (1876–1965) of the Geological Survey, but the negotiations that gained Dewey’s help would also reveal differences of opinion between their two respective institutions about the value of Palaeolithic research. The connections drawn by Smith to the Continental sequence after working at Swanscombe would lift the gloom about British backwardness. These connections would also help draw the Palaeolithic and geological sequences closer together.

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