scholarly journals Aesthetical views of Vojislav Vučković in the light of 'Theory of reflection and critical theory'

New Sound ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Milan Milojković
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Stage

Although Vojislav Vučković (1910-1942) did not leave an elaborate and selfcontained theoretical system behind, his creativity can nevertheless be perceived from a relatively integral perspective, thanks to collections of papers published posthumously. It should be kept in mind that our great composer lost his life at the pinnacle of productivity; hence, we can safely say that his work was interrupted in every sense of the word, and thus left somewhat fragmentary. There is a very significant difference between the views on problem solving he advocated in his early essays and those he promoted before and during the war, given that the timespan involved is just ten years (1932-1942). Based on these theoretical wanderings, one could assume that Vučković was following the intensive changes on the West European theoretical stage of his time, endeavouring to shape his standpoints in a dialogue with the main theoretical currents. In this text, I will try to highlight the possible connections between some of Vuþkoviügs views and the theories which left an important imprint on the cultural life of Europe between the wars, such as the theory of reflection by Todor Pavlov (1890-1977) and critical (aesthetical) theory by Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). It should be said that Vučković used Pavlov's theory directly, but in a quite distinctive way which, alongside the theoretical trends of the upcoming generation of Marxist thinkers, was close to the critical standpoints of distinguished members of the Frankfurt School, who in those years, like Vučković, were writing new chapters of the history of aesthetics

Grand Illusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Giuseppe Verdi ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Tristan Und Isolde ◽  
Giacomo Meyerbeer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grand Opera ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

Grand Illusion is a new history of grand opera as an art of illusion facilitated by the introduction of gaslight illumination at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris) in the 1820s. It contends that gas lighting and the technologies of illusion used in the theater after the 1820s spurred the development of a new lyrical art, attentive to the conditions of darkness and radiance, and inspired by the model of phantasmagoria. Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno have used the concept of phantasmagoria to arrive at a philosophical understanding of modern life as total spectacle, in which the appearance of things supplants their reality. The book argues that the Académie became an early laboratory for this historical process of commodification, for the transformation of opera into an audio-visual spectacle delivering dream-like images. It shows that this transformation began in Paris and then defined opera after the mid-century. In the hands of Giacomo Meyerbeer (Robert le diable, L’Africaine), Richard Wagner (Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, and Tristan und Isolde), and Giuseppe Verdi (Aida), opera became an expanded form of phantasmagoria.

HATİCE SULTAN (NEŞETÂBÂD) SARAYI GRAVÜRÜ ÖRNEKLEMİNDE DEĞİŞEN İSTANBUL KÜLTÜRÜ

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Nazlı Ece GEYİK ◽  
Musa BİLİK
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Topographic Image ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
The West ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Structure

The fact that the Ottoman Empire was an exotic and mysterious Eastern country has been an important issue that has great meaning for Western orientalist engraving artists. The natural landscape, topographic image, mosques, palaces, daily life and the Bosphorus of Istanbul which is the capital of the Empire, were important elements that lived in the engravings of many painters. After going to Europe, many of these painters turned their paintings into an album with the technique of Engraving. These albums have survived to the present day as a historical document introducing the socio-cultural life of the Ottoman Empire. 18. in the century, Sultan III. During Selim's period, there were serious changes and transformations in the cultural sense. During this period, the Ottoman palace opened its doors to Western artists, and a culture that developed under the influence of the West began to gain a place, especially in Istanbul. In this article, after briefly mentioning the history of Engraving art, information is given about the life of the Orientalist Painter Melling, who grew up under the influence of the Renaissance period in Europe and turned his face to the East. After mentioning the artist's work as a painter and architect in Istanbul, his relationship with Hatice Sultan, the sister of Sultan Selim III, and the dimensions of this relationship were evaluated. It is aimed to examine the change and transformation of the palace and the socio-cultural structure of the period through the Neşetabad Palace engraving made by Melling.

1. The Frankfurt School

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Stephen Eric Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Herbert Marcuse ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Erich Fromm ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inner Circle

‘The Frankfurt School’ provides a brief history of the formation of the Frankfurt School, and biographies of prominent members. The Frankfurt School grew out of the Institute for Social Research, the first Marxist think tank. However, in 1930, under the directorship of Max Horkheimer, the organization moved to America to escape the Nazis, and began to concentrate on critical theory. Aside from Horkheimer, notable members of the Frankfurt School's inner circle included Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas. Each member of the inner circle was different, but they all shared the same concerns, and attempted to solve them through intellectual daring and experimentation.

scholarly journals Lviv magazine cover between two world wars – collective image of national artistic modernism

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
P. Nesterenko
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
National Characteristics ◽  
Cultural Renaissance ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aesthetic Ideas

Now that we have the opportunity to view Ukrainian art in all its manifestations without ideological reservations and political boundaries, it is important to highlight magazine graphics. If the magazine graphic of the Ukrainian artists of the Russian and Soviet empires of the first half of the XX century is more or less investigated, then the Galician-Ukrainian cultural renaissance of the interwar twenty years in Lviv still requires its in-depth study. 1920s-30s of the XX century – time of productive ideas in the art of Ukrainian book and magazine graphics. A wave of emigration of creative intellectuals from eastern Ukraine comes to Lviv, which, combined with prominent local masters who received brilliant education in the West, raised the development of artistic culture, in particular book and magazine graphics, at an unprecedented level. Lviv was at the crossroads of diverse aesthetic ideas. All the contemporary art currents that reflected in the high artistic phenomenon – "Lviv's formalism" – were reflected here. An important factor in the history of the Galician artistic movement of the 1920s–1930s was the founding of the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists. Its main purpose was popularization and development of Ukrainian art, education of creative youth, assistance to Ukrainian artists. The Lviv Magazine graph between the two world wars demonstrated the diversity of artistic currents and was of great importance for the holistic development of Ukrainian culture. She demonstrated the high professionalism of the artists and organically fit into the pan-European art. Given the dispersal of Ukrainians and the danger of assimilation, the publishing business with its book and magazine covers encouraged and supported the cultural life of the Ukrainian diaspora. The artists who worked on preserving the Ukrainian national culture adapted the diversity of artistic currents and influences to national characteristics.

scholarly journals The Acts and Decrees of the Synod of Diamper and the Machinations of Religious Colonization

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Shimi Paul Baby
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Christian Practices ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Church

The Synod of Diamper is, arguably, amongst the most significant milestones in the history of St. Thomas Christians in Kerala. This Synod was convened in the church at Udayamperoor, Kochi, Kerala, from June 20 to June 26, 1599. As is documented, it was Archbishop Alexis De Menezes of Goa who convoked this Synod. 200 decrees were passed during the nine sessions which were held during the Synod; these decrees, in toto, became a turning point in the history of Christianity in Kerala. Primarily, the Synod of Diamper was a religious/theological one. However, its subsequent decisive role in the history and culture of Kerala also gave the Synod a social face. A close scrutiny of the canonas [canon] reveals that these decrees were formulated with a consideration of only Christian practices that were prevalent and familiar in the West [Occident]. In a grimly ironic sense, the canonas overtly attempts a coax-hoax, whereby the Christians of Kerala would be coerced to follow the rules of the occidental version of Christianity; and this disciplining would be aided by various methods including expulsions from parish, ex-communication, etc. One big fallout of this scenario was that the Christians of Kerala, who till then had a variegated co- existence with different cultures, were forced to take up an exclusive and singular notion of Christian culture. Through these canonas, many of the existing socio- cultural customs of the Christians of Kerala were abolished; an attempt to sculpt the socio-cultural life of this native populace and bring it in accordance with the image of the Christian that the West upheld.  This article aims to reveal the methodology through which the Institutionalized Western Theological-agencies, by means of constant surveillance and an enforced seclusion-exclusion axis, exerted power on regional and native Christian group.

Educação e imagem audiovisual: espaço para reflexões, conflitos e convergências / Education and Audio-Visual Image: Space for Reflections, Conflicts and Convergence

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Cristina Soares Dias Vermelho ◽  
Ana Paula Machado Velho ◽  
Regiane Da Silva Macuch
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Production Experience ◽  
Experience Education

ABSTRACTThe article is the result of research with adolescents where we analyze the audiovisual production experience to understand the content of speech in audiovisual narratives. The hypothesis is that it is possible to use the audiovisual production to mix scientific content and social experience for a formation reflexive criticism. We analyzed 32 short films and we can say that the problems presented in the movies bring the dilemmas and conflicts that society brings adolescents. As experience, education can take ownership of the audiovisual production process as "pedagogical strategy", both to give greater meaning to education, and to "give voice" to these young people. We use the Freudian psychoanalytic theory, critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, in particular Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, and the field of communication theories of Jesus Martin-Barbero and German Rey.RESUMOO artigo é resultado da pesquisa com adolescentes na qual analisamos a experiência de produção audiovisual com objetivo de compreender o conteúdo do discurso nas narrativas audiovisuais. A hipótese de trabalho é de que seja possível utilizar a produção audiovisual como meio para articular conteúdos científicos e experiência social, na perspectiva da formação para a reflexão sobre a sociedade atual. Foram analisados 32 curtas-metragens e é possível indicar que as problemáticas apresentadas nos filmes trazem os dilemas e os conflitos que a sociedade lhe coloca, aliado às questões próprias da adolescên-cia. Do ponto de vista da experiência, vislumbramos a possibilidade da educação se apropriar do processo de produção audio-visual como “estratégia pedagógica” o qual poderá servir, dependendo de um conjunto de fatores, não só para dar maior significado à educação, mas também para dar voz a esses jovens, que possa ser ouvida e considerada pela sociedade. A base teórica para esse trabalho foi a psicanálise freudiana, a teoria social crítica da Escola de Frankfurt, em particular nas obras de Benjamin e Adorno, e no campo da comunicação nas teorias do Jesus Martin-Barbero e German Rey.

The Perpetual Allure of the Bible for Marxism

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Roland Boer
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn light of the general lack of awareness of the long history of Western-Marxist fascination with the Bible, this article offers a synopsis of part of that history. After showing how the Bible was an important element in the work of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, it the offers a critique of the current engagements with it by Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, Terry Eagleton and Giorgio Agamben. The third section deals with the most significant element of the religious Left in recent years, namely liberation theology. It closes with some comments concerning the growth of Marxist biblical studies and some suggestions for the way Marxism might reconnect with a non-reified biblical tradition.

scholarly journals Art, Aura, and Admiration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Patricia Anne Emison
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
Price Escalation ◽  
Establishment Phase

Summary Walter Benjamin famously argued that the mass public of the twentieth century would necessarily correlate with a newly politicized art. But the world has changed considerably since Benjamin’s article was written, as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer already were assessing less than a decade later. It is the purpose of this article to examine how the aesthetics of the Frankfurt school, though frequently still invoked, have lost some of their immediate relevance. The anti-establishment phase of the 60s, compounded by a pronounced taste for irony, rendered aura and exhibition outmoded values, while on the other hand, more recently, price escalation in the art market and digitization have made certain of the Frankfurt school arguments more pertinent than ever. Taking as examples Goldsworthy and Kentridge, this essay argues that a deliberate loosening of the artist’s control over both medium and reception displaces the warmed-over religious responses endorsed by Benjamin, positing instead increased intellectual agency on the part of viewers, whose identity as a mass public has become newly complicated.

Factor V Leiden Is Associated with Repeated and Recurrent Unexplained Fetal Losses

1997 ◽  
Vol 77 (05) ◽  
pp. 0822-0824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Grandone ◽  
Maurizio Margaglione ◽  
Donatella Colaizzo ◽  
Marina d'Addedda ◽  
Giuseppe Cappucci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein C ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Activated Protein C ◽  
Fetal Loss ◽  
Factor V Leiden ◽  
Factor V ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fv Leiden ◽  
Caucasian Women

SummaryActivated protein C resistance (APCR) is responsible for most cases of familial thrombosis. The factor V missense mutation Arg506>Gln (FV Leiden) has been recognized as the commonest cause of this condition. Recently, it has been suggested that APCR is associated with second trimester fetal loss. We investigated the distribution of FV Leiden in a sample (n = 43) of Caucasian women with a history of two or more unexplained fetal losses. A group (n = 118) of parous women with uneventful pregnancies from the same ethnical background served as control. We found the mutation in 7 cases (16.28%) and 5 controls (4.24%; p = 0.011). A statistically significant difference between women with only early fetal loss vs those with late events (p = 0.04) was observed. Our data demonstrate a strong association between FV Leiden and fetal loss. Furthermore, they indicate that late events are more common in these patients.

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