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Villegas-Broncano, Maria A., and J. Alberto Durán-Suárez. "Historical and technical insight into the human motifs in the glass sculpture." Arte, Individuo y Sociedad 33, no. 2 (February 4, 2021): 589–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/aris.69159.
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Although glass proto-sculptures were made with deep artistic value since the most remote times, in the late 19th century the glass sculpture was developed, and during the 20th century the Studio Glass Movement reached the maximum level of technical perfection and aesthetic variety. The scientific and technical glass knowledge contributed to achieve appropriate hot and cold working procedures, and the artists improved their designs and creations. This paper focuses on the binomial glass sculpture and human motifs. The historic evolution of the glass sculpture with human motifs is analyzed, taking into account the production techniques and the relationships between the glass work and the expression of the finished artwork. A set of sculptures and sculptors are shown as representative examples of the main historical periods in which the glass plays an important role in the sculpture scene. The human representation in the glass sculpture can be considered as a constant throughout centuries, even though it is not the most frequent creative or ornamental motif. Either figurative or abstract human references can be found, although the former are the majority. This tendency is also present in the contemporary Studio Glass Movement sculptures.
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Heavers, Nathan. "Marking Sacred Ground through Imported Trees and Medieval European Sculpture at the Washington National Cathedral." Acta Horticulturae et Regiotecturae 22, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 19–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ahr-2019-0004.
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Abstract The landscape of the Washington National Cathedral contains a variety of sacred objects imported from Europe and Asia. They include stone sculptures and living flora. Many of the stone objects came from the collection of George Grey Barnard, an American sculptor, trained in Paris, who travelled Europe in the early 20th century purchasing medieval antiquities (Weinberger, 1941). How do we understand these displaced pieces incorporated into this new context? On the one hand, their use in the landscape brings it significance, a physical and tangible connection to the roots of Christianity. On the other hand, they remind us of the relative youth of this sacred landscape and the question of what makes places sacred. Is a place sacred because of something inherent to it or do we mark ordinary ground with significant objects to sanctify it? Largely, the Washington National Cathedral landscape seems to demonstrate the latter approach. Imported objects mark and validate the sacredness of the site from medieval stone archways to significant pairs of trees.
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Lavrentiev, Alexander N. "AVANT-GARDE DIALOGUES." Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture 17, no. 5 (December 10, 2021): 104–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2021-17-5-104-108.
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The article is dedicated to comparative analysis of spatial constructions created by the Russian Avant-Garde Artist Alexander Rodchenko and the famous kinetic European and American artist Alexander Calder in the first half of the 20-th century. For both artists technology played the decisive role in constructing spatial objects, both of them used line as a basic expressive element. Still there is a certain difference stressed by the author: Rodchenko used linear elements to express structural and constructive qualities of spatial objects, while Calder was more intending to represent emotion and movement. Rodchenko and Calder belong to the common abstract artistic trend in 20th century sculpture. But their works served as the basis for the two different traditions: minimalist conceptual and geometric art of Donuld Judd on one side and spontaneous mechanisms of Jean Tinguely on the other.
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Iaţeşen, Mihai –. Cosmin. "10. Creativity and Innovation in Visual Arts through Form and Space Having Symbolic Value." Review of Artistic Education 14, no. 1 (March 2, 2017): 207–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rae-2017-0026.
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Abstract The numerous plastic approaches of form in the 20th century are characterized by creativity and innovation. Form, as expression of an artistic language, is the cause and effect for the cultural evolution of a particular spatial-temporal area. The invention of forms depending on the factors which will impose them in a particular socio-cultural context and location environment is not everything. The challenges of the act of creation are far more complex. For the art of the 20th century, the role of the type of expression in visual or gestural language proved much more convincing and meaningful as to the data or phenomena occurring in immediate reality. The personality of the artist, his cultural character, his media coverage and exterior influences of his inner world, his preceding experiences and receiver’s contacts in a specific area are the factors that influence the relation between the work of art and the audience against a particular spatial-temporal background. The psychological and sensory processes in works of plastic art are spatially configured in structures, which leads to self-confession. The artist filters the information and the elements of exterior reality through the vision of his imagination and power of expression specific to his inner self, and turns them into values through the involvement of his state of mind. Constantin Brâncuşi is the sculptor whose role was considered exponential as he revolutionized modern artistic vision by integrating and creating space-form relations through symbol. Throughout his complex work - the Group of Monumental Sculptures of Tg. Jiu, the artist renewed the language of the sculpture-specific means of expression, though archaic forms, by restoring traditional art. Archetypes often make reference to the initial and ideal form and they represent the primitive and native models composing it. Form attracts, polarizes and integrates the energy of the matter outside the human body, and art acquires a unifying function for the senses of our spirit. We identify the forms developed by the junction between fantastic forms, the figments of the imagination of artists who communicate deep human meanings. They invite us in a world of constructive forms and mysteries, truly innovative and elaborate creations, by underlying different directions in the compositional space with symbolic value.
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Rukmane-Poča, Ilze, and Linda Leitāne-Šmīdberga. "The Directions of Formal Expression in Latvian Contemporary Architecture in the Context of the Synthesis of the Arts." Architecture and Urban Planning 10, no. 1 (December 1, 2015): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aup-2015-0006.
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Abstract Different types of formal expression can be found in the modern architecture of the 21st century - in publications, internet resources and in the generalizations of critics. In the context of the synthesis of arts the styles of sculptural architecture and surface architecture are noteworthy. Characteristics of this synthesis are also noticeable in kinetic architecture where the styles of surface kinetic architecture and sculptural kinetic architecture are distinguished. The genesis of images of buildings constructed in these styles is the result of the synthesis of arts; it reflects the development of historical styles as well as the ways of formal expression and their influences in the end of the 20th century and in the 21st century. This paper provides an analysis of constructed objects and proposals put forth in architectural competitions in Latvia’s 21st century modern architecture.
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Paclíková, Klára, and Michal Preusz. "Paperless Archaeology on Castrum Novum." Muzeum: Muzejní a vlastivedná práce 55, no. 2 (June 1, 2017): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mmvp-2017-0043.
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Abstract Modern technology affects the development of the humanities, including the most traditional of the disciplines such as classical archaeology. We are looking for an answer to the question of whether high-tech could completely replace the basic tools without which we would not even imagine archaeology. Could pencil and paper completely disappear from the trench? We tested the principles regarding paperless archaeology on the exemplary research of the deserted Castrum Novum Roman Colony located in central Italy. The colony was founded in the 3rd century BC and disappeared in the 5th century AD. The discovery of the city occurred in the 18th century when the Pope decided to support the first excavations. Especially unique findings of sculptures became a feature of the Vatican Museums. After that the city was again forgotten. Only in the second half of the 20th century, have we managed to re-locate Castrum Novum. This resulted in the need for modern systematic archaeological research. Currently an extraordinary collaboration is bringing interesting discoveries and new perspectives for the Italian, the French and the Czech archaeologists.
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Rozmarynowski, Łukasz. "Abstrakcji przestrzeń wieloraka. Kategoria przestrzenności w twórczości Wojciecha Fangora, Jerzego Grabowskiego i Ryszarda Winiarskiego - studium porównawcze." Artium Quaestiones 31, no. 1 (December 20, 2020): 401–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2020.31.13.
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If one were to indicate some tendencies characteristic of the art of the 20th century, the pursuit of making artwork more spatial would certainly be one of them. This tendency manifests itself in the myriad of symptoms: an avant-garde redefinition of sculpture with its negative space; a proliferation of kinetic works enabling spectators to (re)shape artwork’s matter more actively; a dissemination of ephemeral forms, especially happening and performance; beginnings of installation art, to mention but a few. The present paper sets out to examine an artistic phenomenon which is not as spectacular as the aforementioned examples, but it could be somehow placed at the intersection of them. One can consider the particular type of abstract painting, embedded in a pictorial plane and slightly opening for surrounding space, but simultaneously reconceptualising the relation between the imagined and the physically present. The first part of the article deals with methodology. As far as research is concerned, the author assumes moderate scientism as the methodological perspective. It is based on the belief that mathematical sciences throughout history have developed notions and analytical methods allowing the observable and communicable features of things, including artworks and artistic phenomena, to be explained in an effective way, i.e. more faithfully and usefully. Because of the fact that mathematical truths are not absolute, the methodological perspective is called ‘moderate’. Taking into account these assumptions, the second part of the article defines the analytical category of spatiality, which expresses painting’s ability to evoke variously conceptualised spaces. The three subsequent sections of the article are devoted to some paintings by three Polish artists active in the second half of the 20th century, i.e. Wojciech Fangor, Jerzy Grabowski, Ryszard Winiarski. Each of them combined two differently understood spatial orders in their works: physical (related to phenomenological and sensual experience) and conceptual (related to notions and theories proposed by exact sciences). Having analysed a number of paintings by Fangor, Grabowski and Winiarski, one can define notions of cosmogonic, transcendence and probabilistic space, respectively. In summary, the specificity of works analysed in the context of ideas drawn from exact sciences is examined.
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Ermolenko, Elena V. "Daylighting of the Newest Christian Churches." Light & Engineering, no. 04-2021 (August 2021): 107–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.33383/2021-037.
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Semantic and spatial changes in the options for using daylight compared to tradition are presented, based on the analysis of the architectural solutions applied in a number of modern Christian churches. According to popular belief, sunlight is used in most modern temples only as an architectural technique proving the skill of an architect, and as a means of interior decoration. The study showed that behind the abstract modern methods of illumination a temple, there is a deep connection with the earlier cultural tradition. Sunlight was one of the key means used for decorating interiors of Christian churches. The light pouring from windows of the dome drum or cutting through the twilight of the extended naves, highlighting an apse with the altar, or emphasizing the beauty of the sculpture, was the conductor of the Divine on earth. The quintessence of the presentation of “divine light” in architecture, which clearly shows the connection between God and man, are the Gothic monuments. From the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century, temple architecture was rapidly changing. Renowned innovator architects of the 20th century offered their own vision of a modern temple. The extreme degree of individualization of the new objects of cult was based on a common principle: the rejection of the symbolic language traditional for Christianity. The architects were not tied to metaphors and images of biblical subjects. They boldly changed both the external appearance of a temple and the construction of its internal space, hence, its system of daylighting. Traditionally, sunlight was the semantic filling of the temple space. As a result of the present study, it has been shown that in the newest Christian churches, daylighting techniques, in their essence, replace the pictorial filling of the temple space with religious content. At the same time, the same techniques function as a modern interpretation for a number of traditional architectural methods used for lighting design of the temple space. By the examples of the works by Studio Zermani e Associati, Mark Cavagnero Associates, Vicens + Ramos, Königs architekten, modern interpretation versions for the themes of retablo, glowing cross, highlighting the altar space, and illumination of gilded surfaces are shown, and the upper and side illumination features of the newest temples are revealed.
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Heroldová, Helena. "Tibetan Objects in the Náprstek Museum." Annals of the Náprstek Museum 39, no. 2 (November 1, 2018): 65–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/anpm-2018-0013.
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Abstract The Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures acquired two hundred items from Tibet in the 1950s: bronze sculptures, paintings and ritual implements. These items came from private collections confiscated after the Second War World according to the presidential decrees dealing with the post-war state reconstruction. Although the administration of the confiscated properties was meticulous, the transfer of items to the Náprstek Museum interrupted the history of ownership and meant the loss of the historical knowledge of its origin. As the result, the Tibet collection in the Náprstek Museum reveals more about the political and social history of post-war Czechoslovakia than about the perception of Tibetan culture in Czechoslovakia during the first half of the 20th century.
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Lavrentiev, Alexander. "Vyacheslav Koleichuk as the Engine of the Russian Kinetic Art. Imaginary dialogue at the exhibition." Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture 17, no. 1 (March 10, 2021): 95–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2021-17-1-95-117.
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The State Tretyakov Gallery hosts a significant exhibition “Laboratory of the Future. Kinetic Art in Russia”. Its significance, the influence of the artistic phenomenon of kinetic art itself on domestic art of the 20th and 21st centuries has not yet been fully determined. The exhibition emphasizes kinetic art as one of the central national trends in experimental artistic creativity of the 20th century, even as some kind of a tradition. On the one hand, the exhibition would have been impossible without the participation of the creators of the Russian avant-garde, the founders of abstract art, the creators of the first abstract sculptures and dynamic structures: V. V. Kandinsky, K.S. Malevich, El Lissitzky, V. E. Tatlin, A. M. .Rodchenko. On the other hand, recognized masters, inventors of kinetic art in the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s, creators of the synthetic works of art combining the sound, color, form, images and motion are also important: Lev Nusberg’s “Group Movement” in Moscow and “KB Prometheus” under the leadership of Bulat Galeev in Kazan, the first kinetic construction at the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements Francisco Infante and the dynamic installation “Atom” by Vyacheslav Koleichuk, experiments with electronic sound and acoustics of the Experimental Studio of Electronic Music of Evgeny Murzin, the Theremen Center, created by Andrei Smirnov, space projects by Vyacheslav Loktev installations with light and sound in Leningrad by August Lanin 1. One of the key figures in this artistic process was the architect, designer, researcher, inventor, constructor and teacher Vyacheslav Fomich Koleichuk (1941–2018). This imaginary dialogue is covering some of the inventions of the artist, developing the traditions of Russian kinetic art, expanding the artistic space of modern design and architecture 2.
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Iorga, Rozalia. "Land-Art, Ecologie, Politică şi Societate." Hiperboreea A2, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/hiperboreea.2.1.0015.
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Abstract The Land-Art was integrated to Postmodernism by the most art historians, having as arguments the important affinities presented by the two artistic phenomena, both at the expressing modalities level but, especially, at the level of principles and, of the ideological sphere. The Postmodernism intended, as it is well-known, to parody or to interpret, in a proper way, a cultural tradition whose authority had become disturbing the Land-Art also started an innovating programme in the 60s -70s of the 20th century, through which the millenary art of the landscape was questionable, trying this way, a new and radical art-like approach of nature. The Art-Land was given various other names, syntagms which points out the work modalities or the materials used in the creation art: “Sociological Art”, “Earth Art”, “Works Art”, “Environmental Art”, “Earthworks”, “The Art of Landscape”, “The Sculpture of Landscape”, “The Walking Art”. The Land Art borrowed, in a great measure, the own means of expression of other tendencies which were performing on the artistic stage in the same time, such as the technique of installation, some of the principles experienced by Process-Art, by the Environmental Art or by Happening. The most representative land artists knew to integrate all the borrowings to a new vision, an original one, which, for the first time, was turning the nature into the support of the artistic creation. Apart from the point of view through which the Land Art is understood as an integral part of Postmodernism, there are also opinions, supported by well-known specialists, through which the Modernism of the 60s from the past century is seen as a possible origin of the Land-Art, especially if we have in mind the works of some great modern artists, such as Henry Moore, Robert Morris, Anthony Caro, Yves Klein and Tony Smith. Land Art presents two different ways of demonstration, hostile from the point of view of attitude towards nature and public: on the one hand some of the land artists look for the privacy of the act of artistic creation in the natural environment (one example this way is Richard Long), others, on the contrary, are guided by an art with clear social implications (e.g. the typical case of Christo). The ecological position of the tendency is underlined by the artists ' spokesman, Robert Smithson, who thinks that it should be adopted a committed, fighting attitude, pragmatically sheltered itself towards future.
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Streeck, Jürgen. "Depicting gestures." Gesture 9, no. 1 (June 11, 2009): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/gest.9.1.01str.
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In “Depicting by gestures” (Gesture, 8 (3)), I have explored the methods by which hand gestures depict the world. Here I explore how gestures themselves are depicted. Many paintings and sculptures show human bodies in motion or showcase traces of body movements, including gestures of the hand. The issue is how the artists succeeded in depicting or insinuating movement in media that are inherently still, and how such arrested gestures function in pictures of social life so that these are perceived as “legible interactions” (Gombrich). By scrutinizing the changing logic of representation of embodied communication in the visual arts, gesture researchers can gain insights into the relationships between movement, form, meaning, and context, and recontextualize their own analytic methodologies within the broader discourse in the humanities on human behavior and its interpretation (Streeck, 2003). In the following, I examine a number of characteristic attempts, made during different periods of Western art-history, to solve this problem: in Egyptian, Greek, and Hellenistic art; in some medieval illuminations; in the early and late Renaissance; and in the 20th century styles of “écriture automatique” and Abstract Expressionism. Each of the strategies involved is predicated on three types of analysis: of ways in which body motion communicates meaning, of visual perception, and of the nature of pictorial representation.
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Portnova, Tatiana. "Dance in Sculpture of the Early 20th Century." Sculpture Review 68, no. 4 (December 2019): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0747528420901915.
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This article is concerned with the ratio of plastic arts as exemplified by sculptural works depicting dances of the early 20th century. Special attention is paid to the Greek motives in the Russian art of this period, which became the subject of inexhaustible aesthetic and artistic interest. The representation of ancient dance motifs, their figurative image and the nature of antiquity in sculptural plastics, various approaches to the interpretation of ancient plots and themes, the role and significance of the “antique” component in their artistic structure are considered in the article. The study of multi-level interactions between sculpture and dance in the context of antiquity calls for a comprehensive approach, including historical-cultural, theoretical-analytical and comparative-typological methods. Relating to ancient Greek images, ballet images of S. Konenkov, M. Ryndzyunskaya, N. Andreev, V. Vatagin, V. Beklimishev and S. Erzya provide a purely individual, unique and peculiar vision of dance corresponding to the ancient era. The categories and expressive means of dance were simultaneously analyzed close to the sculptural style of the masters because they are difficult to be divided methodologically and exist as an established artistic system. The concepts of “plastic expressiveness” in relation to the dancers imprinted in sculptures were interpreted. Analyzing the museum materials and sculptures depicting the dancing process, it was concluded that the ancient influence of plastic images on structural and genre determinants may vary.
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Burganova, Maria A. "Letter from the editor." Scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The space of culture 18, no. 4 (September 10, 2022): 6–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2022-18-4-6-9.
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Dear readers, We are pleased to present to you Issue 4, 2022, of the scientific and analytical journal Burganov House. The Space of Culture. Upon the recommendation of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission, the journal is included in the List of Leading Peer-reviewed Scientific Journals and Publications in which the main scientific results of theses for the academic degrees of doctor and candidate of science must be published. The journal publishes scientific articles by leading specialists in various humanitarian fields, doctoral students, and graduate students. Research areas concern topical problems in multiple areas of culture, art, philology, and linguistics. This versatility of the review reveals the main specificity of the journal, which represents the current state of the cultural space. The journal opens with articles by Chinese researchers devoted to the art of Ancient China. In the article "The Heaven-and-Man Oneness Concept and the Style of Funerary Plastic Art During the Han Dynasty", Xiang Wu analyses the idea of heaven-and-man oneness, which was important for the art of this period. It was based on the Confucian view, the rituals of a strict social hierarchy and Taoist metaphysics. Qiu Mubing’s scientific research topic is “Objects of the Funerary Cult in the Han Dynasty. Gold and Silver Items. Aesthetics of Gold and Silver in the Han Dynasty”. Examining archaeological sources, the author concludes the high achievements of Chinese artisans during the Han Dynasty on examples of works of arts and crafts made of precious metals. In the article “Aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. The Origins of the New Style of Furniture Design in China", N.Kazakova and Qiu Qi analyse the vector of development of the furniture industry through the prism of the industrial design evolution. The reasons for the emergence of the New style in furniture design in China are studied. They are analysed in detail against the background of changing economic, political and cultural realities. The issues of the influence of Ancient China aesthetics on the formation and development of a new language in furniture design are touched upon. In the article "Problems of Colour Harmonisation of Composition and Development of Associative and Imaginative Thinking in the Environmental Design", N.Bogatova reveals the potential of colouristic graphic two-dimensional modelling in artistic and imaginative thematic compositions. On the example of the compositional laws of colouristics, the author traces the path of ascent from the concrete to the abstract, pictorial to the expressive, and emotional to the figurative. P.Dobrolyubov presents the text “Sculptor Alexander Matveev’s School and His Students”, which includes many archival documents and photographs. The author describes the process of learning from teacher and sculptor A.Matveev, names the main dates in his creative work, reveals the details of the sculptural craft, talks about the variety of moves in the master’s plasticity, analyses the methods and principles of work in sculpture, shows the attitude of students to their teacher, and highlights the entire course of historical milestones in the sculptor’s creative biography. In the article "The Golden Age of PRC History Painting (1949–1966): Origins, Searches, Achievements”, K.Gavrilin and L.Xiaonan consider the issues of the formation of the modern Chinese art school. Its foundation was laid in the framework of the creative and educational dialogue between China and the Soviet Union at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century. The authors believe that the characteristic features of the golden age of Chinese historical painting were, on the one hand, the popularisation of painting as an art form and, on the other hand, the predominance of the dominant position of realism over the traditional styles of Chinese painting. It is noted that during this period, two main plots became widespread: scenes of socialist construction and historical events of the revolution. S.Zubarev considers theoretical and practical aspects of the activities of military musicians in the article "Academic Music in the Practice of Russian Military Bands of the 19th - early 21st Centuries". In the process of studying military bands, special attention is paid to the study of the features of military band service development in the 19th and 20th centuries. Factors revealing the role of Russian composers in the history of military musical culture are highlighted, and several works of academic music performed by military bands are analysed. In conclusion, the author notes that in the national culture, unique conditions for the development of military musicians’ arranging activity were created. They made it possible to preserve the traditions of the military band service and form the value principles of academic art. The publication is addressed to professionals specialising in the theory and practice of the fine arts and philology and all those interested in the arts and culture.
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Odrekhivskyi, Volodymyr, Vasyl Odrekhivskyi, and Roman Odrekhivskyi. "Ukrainian sculpture of the 20th century: main ideological and plastic transformations." LAPLAGE EM REVISTA 7, no. 3B (September 20, 2021): 187–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-6220202173b1534p.187-194.
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In this article we attempt at demonstrating the inseparability of Ukrainian sculpture from global culture creating process despite cultural and political isolation as a component republic of the Soviet Union for over 70 years of the 20th century. There is a considerable difference in the character of creativity of Ukrainian sculptors, who lived and worked within the borders of the Soviet Union, and those, who migrated to Western Europe or America and had an opportunity to freely experiment with shape and ideas. In this article, particular attention is dedicated to those personalities that have made the most significant ideological and plastic transformations in the 20th-century sculpture with respect to the previous epochs, i.e., to the sculpture of avant-garde and modernism. The last decade of the 20th century was marked by the end of the Soviet-era cultural isolation from the democratic world, when a powerful stream of information penetrated the artistic arena of already independent and open Ukraine, and simultaneously the examples of various conceptual trends and styles appeared – from pop art and installation to performance art, which influenced the development of sculpture.
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Steklova, Irina A., and Olesya I. Raguzhina. "THE SCULPTURE PARKS OF THE MID-20TH CENTURY: UNDERLYING ARTISTIC CONCEPTS." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 38 (2020): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/38/11.
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Dzwonkowska, Paulina. "Photography and sculpture:The multifaceted relation of sculpture to photography and new media in the light of the evolving concept of sculpture." Journal of Education Culture and Society 1, no. 1 (January 17, 2020): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20101.26.36.
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The relationship between photography and sculpture, unlike the dialogue between the latter and painting, was long treated as a peripheral issue. Yet as early as the mid-20th century photography began to show potential that sculpture seemed to be lack. Aware of a large degree of overlap between the two forms of artistic expression, (e.g. with respect to materiality, spatiality, or accentuating frozen gestures) sculptors did not leave sculpture for photography, but attempted to create works that were interdisciplinary in structure. The rise of interest in photography displayed by Polish sculptors was closely connected with the evolution of the concept of sculpture. In the mid-20th century artists creating traditional sculptures (understood as a solid or as a visually rendered spatial form) began to experiment and cross the boundaries of well-established artistic tradition. The changes introduced enabled sculptors to interweave their field with other artistic disciplines, especially photography, even more closely. More and more frequently, sculpture started to establish multi-faceted relations with the new medium. At the beginning the potential of photography as a documentation tool was exploited. Then sculptors began to appreciate photography’s core values, using it to capture and preserve a given moment in time. Finally, they applied it in works that can be classified as close to hyperrealism. The employment of still newer materials and tools made the link between sculpture and photography inextricable, as can be shown through works of Polish artists.
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Choi, Sun il. "Flow of Buddhist Sculpture in the First Half of the 20th Century." Dongak Art History 24 (December 31, 2018): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.17300/dah.2018.24.4.
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Hotsaliuk, Alla. "Art of Sculpture and Its Development in Ukraine (Late 20th – Early 21st Century)." Ukrainian Studies, no. 1(70) (March 7, 2019): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.30840/2413-7065.1(70).2019.164745.
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Portnova, Irina V. "MODEL OF “WILD NATURE” IN THE PATRIOTIC ANIMALISTIC SCULPTURE OF THE 20th CENTURY." Historical and social-educational ideas 9, no. 5/1 (January 1, 2017): 173–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.17748/2075-9908-2017-9-5/1-173-179.
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Wang, Jun Xiao. "Study on Sculpture Based on New Materials." Applied Mechanics and Materials 340 (July 2013): 335–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.340.335.
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In the field of sculpture, the material is a sculptor's medium for the expression of aesthetic ideas, presenting a visual image. In a strict sense, all of the sculptures in the world are reflected through the material. It is recorded in the history of Western civilization development that ancient man started the sculpture very early and they also learned to take advantage of them during the creation of the material. As time goes on, the material has been an extremely important role to play in the sculpture development. In China, traditional sculpture materials have thousands of years of development, and our predecessors have already been familiar with heat and use it freely. After the beginning of the 20th century, the traditional Chinese culture triggered major changes in the concept under the influence of Western culture shock, the traditional realist sculpture in the West spread in China for more than half a century. During this period, Western art experienced the evolution of modernism and post-modernism, and the Western modernist sculpture broaden people's understanding of the "material", they were no longer the four materials of clay, wood, stone and copper of the traditional sense. And the use of the material is very extensive. In view of this, the article analyzes and discusses the application of a new type of material in sculpture.
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Steklova, Irina A., and Olesya I. Raguzhina. "SCULPTURE PARKS OF THE XX CENTURY LAST THIRD – THE XXI CENTURY BEGINNING: TYPOLOGY EXPERIENCE." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 41 (2021): 80–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/41/7.
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The purpose of this article is to present sculpture parks at the modern stage of development, from the last third of the 20th century to our day. The relevance of this purpose is due to the relevance of these parks, which meets, firstly, on the challenges of culture, reproducing itself in the synthesis of landscape and monumental-decorative arts; secondly, on the demands of the population in artistically interpreted natural spaces; thirdly, on the life-building claims of modern art, which is looking for optimal ways of self-presentation. The representation of the sculpture parks is implied their systematization, which, in the course of the factual and visual material analysis, exhibits the most typical trends of formal and informative diversity and takes the form of a typology. To start building a typology, it was necessary to draw up a rather broad and spacious representative sample of objects and to select reference criteria in the trends of the manifold. Thus, a representative sample was made up of 90 Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America brightest objects, and following criteria were put forward: environmental involvement, authorship, the nature of specific forms and links between them. Typology showed that approximately two thirds of the sculpture parks are a product of the natural environment and one third of the architectural environment. In the natural environment, in authentic natural spaces, these are co-author full (independent and contextual) and special (by place, material, style, theme) formats, as well as mono-author formats. In an architectural environment, in integrated or interpreted natural spaces, these are, first of all, city formats that can be both co-authors and mono-authors: destinations, stops, transit zones. The implementation of the typology was facilitated by the attraction of a new material for the national art history. In the scientific circulation were introduced information about objects that were not mentioned before and unknown artists. Accounting for this information, along with known realities, allowed us to reach a higher understanding level of sculpture parks as a modern hypostasis of artistic synthesis.
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Manso, Marta, Ana Bidarra, Stéphane Longelin, Sofia Pessanha, Adriana Ferreira, Mauro Guerra, João Coroado, and Luísa Carvalho. "Micro-Analytical Study of a Rare Papier-Mâché Sculpture." Microscopy and Microanalysis 21, no. 1 (September 15, 2014): 56–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1431927614013129.
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AbstractThe analysis of a Portuguese “papier-mâché” sculpture depicting Saint Anthony is presented in this case study. Several questions were addressed such as the characteristics of the support, pigments used, and artistic technique in order to establish a possible timeline for its production. Qualitative analyses of the cross-sections and of the paper support were performed by optical microscopy using reflected light. Two polychrome layers from different periods and a rag pulped support were identified on the sculpture. The use of micro X-ray fluorescence and Raman microscopy techniques enabled the differentiation of coloring materials used in both polychromies. Semi-quantitative analyses of the gilded samples were also performed by scanning electron microscopy in combination with energy-dispersive spectroscopy allowing the determination of a common Au–Ag–Cu alloy with differences in the purity of the gold. The identified coloring materials lead us to believe that the sculpture was produced in the 19th century, being overpainted in the first half of the 20th century.
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Pouyet, Emeline, Monica Ganio, Aisha Motlani, Abhinav Saboo, Francesca Casadio, and Marc Walton. "Casting Light on 20th-Century Parisian Artistic Bronze: Insights from Compositional Studies of Sculptures Using Hand-Held X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy." Heritage 2, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 732–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2010047.
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paris was home to scores of bronze foundries making it the primary European center for the production of artistic bronzes, or bronzes d’art. These foundries were competitive, employing different casting methods—either lost-wax or sand casting—as well as closely guarded alloy and patina recipes. Recent studies have demonstrated that accurate measurements of the metal composition of these casts can provide art historians of early 20th-century bronze sculpture with a richer understanding of an object’s biography, and help answer questions about provenance and authenticity. In this paper, data from 171 20th-century bronzes from Parisian foundries are presented revealing diachronic aspects of foundry production, such as varying compositional ranges for sand casting and lost-wax casting. This new detailed knowledge of alloy composition is most illuminating when the interpretation of the data focuses on casts by a single artist and is embedded within a specific historical context. As a case study, compositional analyses were undertaken on a group of 20th-century posthumous bronze casts of painted, unbaked clay caricature portrait busts by Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808–1879).
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Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, and Luigi Todisco. "Review Article: The Study of Classical Sculpture at the End of the 20th Century." American Journal of Archaeology 98, no. 4 (October 1994): 759. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/506553.
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Honcharuk, V. "Artistic explorations of Lviv artists of decorative and applied arts in small-scale plastics of the second half of the 20th century: image of a human being." Science and Education a New Dimension IX(258), no. 47 (September 25, 2021): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.31174/send-hs2021-258ix47-02.
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The present article examines the special characteristics of the development of small-scale sculpture as an independent phenomenon in Lviv fine arts of the second half of the 20th century within the framework of the interpretation of a human being image, since the following problem has not been sufficiently studied in Ukrainian art criticism. In particular, the research focuses on the specific features of artistic experiments of the representatives of decorative and applied art in the field of anthropomorphic sculpture; traces characteristic features of conceptual and modelling solutions; identifies artistic and stylistic features and peculiarities of the representation of a human being image. The author stresses upon the role of Lviv Ceramic and Sculpture Factory that largely set trends in the development of small-scale sculpture. In addition, as based on works of famous representatives of Lviv school of decorative arts, the author identifies the variety of interpretations and wide range of modelling means as well as traces the most vivid anthropomorphic designs.
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Xu, Min. "Chinese art: A survey of collections and research materials in the United States." Art Libraries Journal 39, no. 2 (2014): 43–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200018319.
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During the 20th century a range of museums in the United States were engaged in acquiring Chinese art objects, developing major collections of painting and calligraphy, ancient bronze, Buddhist sculpture, ceramics and other decorative arts. Research materials on Chinese art have been collected by art libraries in major museums and the East Asian libraries of the main research universities. The author surveys significant Chinese art collections in museums and research libraries in the United States today.
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Portnova, Irina V. "Russian Animalistic Art of the 20th Century as a Special Kind of Fine Art." Observatory of Culture 18, no. 5 (October 29, 2021): 486–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2021-18-5-486-495.
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This article aims at analyzing the genre features of the 20th century animalistic art as a special, original phenomenon of Russian artistic culture. There are highlighted the aspects that make up its content basis. The author considers the issues of human perception of an animal, attitude to it, the system of views on the world of flora and fauna, the methods of interpretation of animals and birds. Together, they form the specific characteristics of animalistic art, which appeared in their organized and integral form in the 20th century. The article is relevant because the relationship between human and nature is being more and more re-evaluated, which is why the ideological features and the system of views of the 20th century artists are getting increasingly important (in particular, in the historical and artistic aspect).Animalistic art, having become noticeable as a genre already in the 18th century, passed through the entire 19th century, and crystallized in the 20th century in the most characteristic, typical features in various types of fine arts (graphics, painting, sculpture and their varieties). There is no doubt that among other genres of fine art, animalistic art is an original visual and plastic phenomenon that is fundamentally different from the art that depicts a person. The article notes that the complexity of animalistic art lies in the properties of human perception, which is prone to subjective evaluation and, accordingly, gives an animal human traits. The principle of “imitation” of nature, the study of nature, being constantly followed by artists, pointed to the overcoming of the subjective moment and became the leading one in composing the figurative concept of an animal.
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ÖZDEMİR, Soner. "ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCE AS A COMPONENT CONSTITUTING THE SCULPTURE." IEDSR Association 6, no. 15 (September 20, 2021): 235–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.46872/pj.351.
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Light, which is the main source in which plastic arts produce meaning by processing it, indirectly takes place in all works of art with its different colors and tones throughout the history of art. With the use of new materials and techniques in art with the modern period, it is seen that the light itself, that is, the light source, is also included in art works as a medium. This situation allowed the artists to create brand new perceptions and effects. With the second half of the 20th century, the use of artificial light source in sculpture as an element belonging to the sculpture is encountered. Some of the artists selected as examples in this study were chosen in terms of being the first example in terms of the material they used, the way they used the light source and the diversity of the content they produced with these materials. Light, which is one of the primary conditions for perception in sculpture; In this study, the material forming the sculpture, such as transparency and reflection, is not based on its interaction with its structure, but as an element that forms a part or whole of the sculpture. It is aimed to show the effect of using artificial light source in sculpture on expression and perception through selected examples.
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Alfakih, E. "Genres of urban sculpture in context of metropolis, Moscow, Tsvetnoy Boulevard." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 1 (30) (March 2017): 165–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2020-3-165-168.
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The article examines multivariate saturation of limited locations (Tsvetnoy Boulevard) executed at different times and diff erent in the image and style of the sculptural works. Due to this Boulevard space takes the value exhibition area for the testing, presents not only free conglomeration of forms, but also time-varying ideas about the place of sculpture in the urban environment and its communication capabilities. A description and analysis of selected monuments of the second half of 20th – beginning of 21st century («Song», «Yuri Nikulin», «Circus Clown») in terms of their own aesthetic value, as well as interaction with the surrounding environmental context, enables create panoramic deployed in time and space idea of some aspects of the general problem.
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Kim, Suk. "A Study of Expressive Feature of Facial Sculpture after 20th Century -to post-modernism art 1980s-." Journal of Basic Design & Art 19, no. 1 (February 28, 2018): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.47294/ksbda.19.1.7.
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Mellby, Julie. "AMERICAN ART IN THE 20TH CENTURY, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 1913–1993. Christos M. Joachimides , Norman Rosenthal." Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 13, no. 1 (April 1994): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/adx.13.1.27948624.
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Laïïdi, Adila. "Liberation Art of Palestine: Palestinian Painting and Sculpture in the Second Half of the 20th Century." Journal of Palestine Studies 34, no. 4 (January 1, 2005): 110–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2005.34.4.110.
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Rovira, Sergi Cortiñas. "Metaphors of DNA: a review of the popularisation processes." Journal of Science Communication 07, no. 01 (March 21, 2008): A02. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.07010202.
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This article offers a 1953-present day review of the models that have popularised DNA, one of the fundamental molecules of biochemistry. DNA has become an iconic concept over the 20th century, overcoming the boundaries of science and spreading into literature, painting, sculpture or religion. This work analyses the reasons why DNA has penetrated society so effectively and examines some of the main metaphors used by the scientists and scientific popularisers. Furthermore, this article, taken from the author's PhD thesis, describes some recent popularisation models for this molecule.
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Shkolna, Olha, and Alla Buigasheva. "Life and Work of Anhelina Zhdanova - Master of Porcelain Painting of the Second Half of the 20th Century." Demiurge: Ideas, Technologies, Perspectives of Design 5, no. 1 (May 27, 2022): 131–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2617-7951.5.1.2022.257488.
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The aim is to identify the key porcelain works painted by the Honored Artist of Ukraine Angelina Zhdanova during the second half of the 20th century, to reveal the artistic features of her decoration of sculptures, utensils and vases. Research methods – ontological, axiological, hermeneutic, historical-chronological, historical-comparative, cultural, typological, art analysis. Their combination allows us to reveal the specifics of the creative method of Anhelina Zhdanova concerning the design of sculptures of small forms and design development of decors for fine ceramic ware and vases. Novelty comprises the analysis of the artist’s appeals to the Ukrainian in the decoration of the best examples of domestic porcelain sculpture of the third quarter of the 20th century. (first of all, according to the designs of V. and M. Trehubov’s forms) and the use of exquisite Petrykivka painting in the design of vases, dishes, tableware of the second half of the twentieth century, created at Korosten and Svitlovodsk porcelain factories. Conclusions. The milestones of the work of the outstanding Ukrainian artist-designer in the field of porcelain Anhelina Leonidivna Zhdanova are traced. The list of main works in sculpture, vases and utensils, decor projects which she created at Korosten and Svitlovodsk porcelain factories in the 1950s – 1990s is outlined. It is determined that A. Zhdanova is the author of the original painting of the famous sculptures ‘Ukrainian Dance’ and ‘Shoes’, the forms for which were developed by V. Trehubova in the mid – second half of the 1950s. Portraits of Soviet figures on plates and vases, such as party executives, astronauts, foreign ambassadors or the UN Secretary General, are important in the artist’s work. A separate segment of Korosten products by A. Zhdanova consists of paintings with skillfully executed floral ornaments for framing portraits. The paintings are made in a delicate brush technique ‘cat’, the type of Petrykivka paintings.
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Rzeczycka, Monika. "Biblical Symbols in the Works of Rudolf Steiner’s Followers: Initiation/Archangel Michael by Amalia Luna Drexler as an Example of an Anthroposophical Interpretation of the Spiritual Mission of the Slavs." Studia Religiologica 53, no. 1 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20844077sr.20.001.12504.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, national mythologies inscribed in the Christian tradition were held in high regard within the milieu of Polish and Russian followers of esotericism. The international anthroposophical movement initiated by the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner is a special case. Among his Russian and Polish devotees sprang the common idea of the Slavic spiritual mission in the service of Archangel Michael. The author of this article explores this idea using the example of a sculpture entitled Initiation/Archangel Michael made in 1927 by the Polish artist Amalia Luna Drexler, who belonged to the group of “first generation”anthroposophists.
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Ruprecht, Louis A. "Still Life." liquid blackness 6, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 140–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/26923874-9546602.
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Abstract This essay explores the subtle interplay between sculptural bodies and animate bodies by exploring several “moments” in the history of classical and neoclassical aesthetics. These exemplary moments include the ancient Roman period (Pliny's reflections on Greek sculpture); the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Winckelmann's reflections on Greek sculpture and later Italian excavations at Pompeii); the twentieth century (Nazi adaptations of ancient Greek sculpture in Munich); and the twenty-first century (recurring discussion of polychromatic Greek art). Given that most of the art under discussion was “pagan,” this slippage between sculptural bodies and animate bodies highlights the presence of desire, specifically a desire for forbidden bodies.
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Samu, Margaret. "The Nude in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Sculpture." Experiment 18, no. 1 (2012): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221173012x643044.
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Abstract This article analyzes Russian attitudes toward nudity in art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from the importation of Italian nudes by Peter the Great to the continued study of the nude model by Socialist Realist artists. Questions addressed include the reception of nude sculpture in Russia and its change over time; the role of life models; and the subject matter sculptors chose.
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Anisimov, K. V. "The “Living Statues” at Times of Mausoleums and Unknown Soldiers: New Commemorative Practices in the Mirror of Russian 20th Century Poetry." Critique and Semiotics 38, no. 1 (2020): 186–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2020-1-186-206.
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The article traces the alterations of the “harmful statue” motif as it was conceptualized by Roman Jakobson. In the present research the author draws upon a number of representative verses by Russian 20 th century poets – V. Bryusov, I. Selvinsky, B. Slutsky. The theoretical juxtaposition of the metaphoric nature of a monument and strategies of overcoming this nature has been put in focus of this work. These strategies are represented in the convergence of sculpture and body (the reinforcement of iconicity), in implicating the metonymic, substitutional character in new monuments. The author shows how the practice of establishing the new “political” tombs (unknown soldiers, mausoleums) proliferating since 1920s was reflected in verses’ rhetoric and affected these texts’ genre poetics. As a first collection of examples the “Pompeian” plots of Russian “ekphrastic” poetry are studied. Here Russian poets rethink the technology invented by mid-nineteenth century Italian archaeologists who were the first to introduce the sculptural reconstruction of human bodies preserved by volcanic soil in area of 79 a.d. Vesuvius eruption. The first step on this way of rethinking the “living statue” motif was the intrinsic to modernism and openly exposed problematizing of the relationships between body and its representations in stone or metal. Having begun its “own” life, the sculpture is currently observed as a direct, “drawn on a contour” replica of an organism, unprecedented in unicity of its physical existence. This semiotic discovery has formed the receptive “niches” of expectations – prior to the emergence of the next commemorative practice, the creation in 1924 Vladimir Lenin’s “living sculpture” (A. Yurchak) or “self-icon” (J. B. Platt). However one difference here was of specific significance: the “Pompeian” plaster reconstructions were anonymous whereas the Bolshevik leader’s name was in contrast not just commonly known but also as strongly mythologized as his remains kept in mausoleum were. The semiosis taking place within a triangle body – monument – name had formed a perspective for the forthcoming of a new social commemorative practice, memory place and poetic image – the tomb of an Unknown Soldier. The author illustrates the interaction of the two political and memory cults on the level of official rhetoric and in the sphere of literary motifs.
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Čebron Lipovec, Neža. "Homage to a New Town in an Old One: Dequel’s Bust of Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 248–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ah.13.1.248-263.
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The concept of collective memory raises fundamental questions regarding the assessment of heritage, especially of built heritage in contested spaces. The simultaneous presence of different groups in conflict introduces into the space parallel memory discourses that can be recognised both in the built environment as well as in public sculpture, and both can be read as a symbolic marking of space (Veschambre, 2008). The urban space of northern Istria, where the Italian and Slovene communities have become intertwined throughout history, were drastically marked by the political and historic events of the mid-20th century. Post-war conflict-solving processes lead and an ongoing process of “ethnic metamorphosis” (Purini, 2010) in the region came to a peak when the majoritarian Italian-speaking population of the urban area emigrated, while the space was settled by newcomers from inner Slovenian regions and other Yugoslav republics. Tensions between Slovenes and Italians arose in the early 20th century, especially from the period of Fascist oppression and violence against the Slovene population. Nevertheless, the antifascist struggle united the two ethnic groups, specifically within the Communist ideology, so after WWII the area of the so-called Zona B of the Free Territory of Trieste was marked by the ideal of fratellanza, the brotherhood between Italians and Slovenes in Istria. A monument to this ideal was created by a sculptor from Capodistria, Oreste Dequel, who is unknown in the Slovene context. The sculpture represented the Protestant Bishop of Capodistria, Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane, a friend of the key Slovene Protestant Primož Trubar. Despite the then leading Socialist Realist aesthetics, the artist managed to intertwine in the artwork, using a subversive approach, several collective memories.
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Čebron Lipovec, Neža. "Homage to a New Town in an Old One: Dequel’s Bust of Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane." Ars & Humanitas 13, no. 1 (August 20, 2019): 248–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ars.13.1.248-263.
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The concept of collective memory raises fundamental questions regarding the assessment of heritage, especially of built heritage in contested spaces. The simultaneous presence of different groups in conflict introduces into the space parallel memory discourses that can be recognised both in the built environment as well as in public sculpture, and both can be read as a symbolic marking of space (Veschambre, 2008). The urban space of northern Istria, where the Italian and Slovene communities have become intertwined throughout history, were drastically marked by the political and historic events of the mid-20th century. Post-war conflict-solving processes lead and an ongoing process of “ethnic metamorphosis” (Purini, 2010) in the region came to a peak when the majoritarian Italian-speaking population of the urban area emigrated, while the space was settled by newcomers from inner Slovenian regions and other Yugoslav republics. Tensions between Slovenes and Italians arose in the early 20th century, especially from the period of Fascist oppression and violence against the Slovene population. Nevertheless, the antifascist struggle united the two ethnic groups, specifically within the Communist ideology, so after WWII the area of the so-called Zona B of the Free Territory of Trieste was marked by the ideal of fratellanza, the brotherhood between Italians and Slovenes in Istria. A monument to this ideal was created by a sculptor from Capodistria, Oreste Dequel, who is unknown in the Slovene context. The sculpture represented the Protestant Bishop of Capodistria, Pier Paolo Vergerio il Giovane, a friend of the key Slovene Protestant Primož Trubar. Despite the then leading Socialist Realist aesthetics, the artist managed to intertwine in the artwork, using a subversive approach, several collective memories.
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Hudson, Martyn. "Schwitters’s Ursonate and the Merz Barn Wall." Leonardo Music Journal 25 (December 2015): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/lmj_a_00942.
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This paper notes the importance of Kurt Schwitters’s Merz project to the modernist politics and poetics of exile of the 20th century. Placing the sound work of Schwitters within his full Merz project, the author assesses the relations between the Ursonate and the final Merzbau. He discusses three of these relations—collage, found objects and the structures of building materiality in language and sculpture—and presents Schwitters’s work as culminating in a vision of sound and building structures in what Brandon Taylor has called “intrusive new entities” of collage and assemblage that are themselves analogous to the “intrusive new entities” of human material itself.
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KRAETZ, O. "ChemInform Abstract: Chemistry Mirrored by Literature of the 20th Century." ChemInform 22, no. 29 (August 23, 2010): no. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chin.199129322.
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Rychkov, A. V., and A. V. Vodyanitskaya. "Attribution and restoration of the monument of O. M. Manizer «1905»." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture, no. 4 (45) (December 2020): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.30725/2619-0303-2020-4-98-103.
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The article discusses issues related to the application of a comprehensive and comprehensive analysis of the main trends in the development of the national sculpture of the 20th century, which makes it possible to attribute and identify the nearest analogues of the sculptural monumental work, from the St. Petersburg military Institute of the national guard of the Russian Federation. During the research, the degree of preservation of the monument, the presence of defects, destruction, loss, possible changes in the works that were previously admitted during the implementation of restoration measures were revealed. As a result, methods and models of restoration work were considered. The text also describes the restoration methodology used to preserve the work.
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Becker, Karin, and Geska Helena Brečević. "More Than a Portrait: Framing the Photograph as Sculpture and Video Animation." Membrana Journal of Photography, Vol. 3, no. 2 (2018): 48–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/m5.048.art.
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This essay traces the resurrection of the fotoescultura, a three-dimensional photographic portrait popular in rural Mexico in the early 20th century, as interpreted in recent works by Performing Pictures, a contemporary Swedish artist duo. The early fotoesculturas were an augmented form of portraiture, commissioned by family members who supplied photographs that artisans in Mexico City converted into framed sculptural portraits for display on family altars. We compare these »traditional« photographic objects with “new” digital forms of video animation on screen and in the public space that characterize Performing Pictures work, and explore how the fotoescultura inspired new incarnations of their series Men that Fall. At the intersection between the material aspects of a “traditional” vernacular art form and “new” media art, we identify a photographic aesthetic that shifts from seeing and perceiving to physical engagement, and discuss how the frame and its parergon augment the photographic gaze. The essay is accompanied by photos and video stills from Performing Pictures’ film poem Dreaming the Memories of Now (2018), depicting their work with the fotoesculturas. Keywords: fotoesculturas, frame, parergon, vernacular photography, videoart
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Melita, Lucia Noor, Katarzyna Węgłowska, Diego Tamburini, and Capucine Korenberg. "Investigating the Potential of the Er:YAG Laser for the Removal of Cemented Dust from Limestone and Painted Plaster." Coatings 10, no. 11 (November 17, 2020): 1099. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/coatings10111099.
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A successful application of Er:YAG laser for the cleaning of a restored Assyrian relief sculpture from the British Museum collection is presented. Displayed in the gallery, the sculpture has darkened over time due to the natural deposition of dirt, in particular on restored parts. Since traditional cleaning methods have demonstrated to be unsuccessful, a scientific investigation was performed to identify the composition of the soiling and the materials used for the restoration. The analysis suggested the presence of gypsum, calcium oxalate, carbonates and alumino-silicates on the encrustation. The molded plaster, composed of lime and gypsum and pigmented aggregates, was likely prepared at the end of the 19th century to mimic the stone color. It was repainted with what was identified as a modern oil-based overpaint, applied to cover darkening during a second conservation treatment in the 20th century. Laser trials were first performed on small areas of the objects and on mock-ups to determine the critical fluence thresholds of the surface, investigated through visual examination and analyses using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py–GC–MS). The right parameters and conditions to be used during the cleaning process were, therefore, determined. The chemical selectivity of the cleaning process allowed us to complete the treatment safely while preserving the restoration.
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Mosz, Jakub. "Ancient Patterns of the Sporting Body." Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research 47, no. 1 (December 1, 2009): 137–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10141-009-0041-x.
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Ancient Patterns of the Sporting BodyIn the world of ancient culture you can find images of corporeality which may be recognised as patterns of the sporting body. They come from Greek sculpture and vase painting. Among the preserved Greek cultural artefacts there can be pointed out three examples of patterns of male corporeality and one example of female corporeality connected with the world of sport. These are Polyclitus's sculptures "Doryphorus" and "Diadoumenos", Myron's sculpture "Discus Thrower", Lysippus's sculpture of "Heracles Farnese" and painting presenting Atalanta. They constitute ancient patterns of the sporting body, which are recognisable in the world of the European culture from the age of Renaissance to the 20th century. Each of those cultural artefacts points out to separate aspects of the world of sport: Polyclitus's sculptures are pictures of beauty of the body, Myron's sculpture expresses sporting movement, Lysippus's sculpture symbolises power and the figure of Atalanta is the first gender pattern in the world of sport. Ancient patterns of the sporting body perform functions of cultural archetypes in the contemporary world of sport. The contemporary sporting body is a corporeal form which is perceived and interpreted through the prism of the symbolic layer of ancient images of corporeal forms. A part of those corporeal patters has lost in European culture their sporting references, which were visible for Greek civilization. It refers to Polyclitus's sculptures and the figure of Atalanta, which was provided by Renaissance and Baroque art with a different semantic context. Research into cultural aspects of sport requires reconstruction of their sporting genealogy making it possible to construct wider interpretative contexts of contemporary corporeality. The notion of the "archetype of the sporting body" in European culture is enriched with a differentiated objective layer, which is composed of ancient patters of the sporting body encountered in social consciousness of the world of European art.
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Rozenberg, Nataliya Abramovna. "The Concept of a Romantic Hero in the Sculpture of Argentina in the 20–40s of the 20th Century." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 12 (December 11, 2020): 140–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2020.12.24.
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The interest in the history and culture of Argentina in the Russian Federation today has a special char-acter. It is believed that the presence of a huge number of immigrants from Europe, including from Russia, distinguishes Argentina culturally from oth-er countries of the New World, makes its culture more understandable. There is a perception that this is the most Europeanized country in South America. To a large extent, this ideologeme is the result of foreign policy pursued by Argentina itself. At the same time, the process of the formation of national identity in here was complicated and did not end until the 40s of the 20th century. The relevance of the study is to reveal the inconsistency of this process on the material of sculpture as a document of the era, to show the rejection by masters from a remote region of the country, the province of Chaco, the prevailing ideas about the barbarity and savagery of the Indians and Gauchos, the original population of this province and part of other territories of the state. The novelty lies in the comparative compari-son of the positions of the academic art history of Argentina and academic art in the understanding of Indian themes and in how it was interpreted by re-gional masters – K. Dominguez (died in 1969), C. Schenone (1907–1963), J. de la Mena (1897–1954), as well as in the art history analysis of significant works of the considered problematic and the roman-tic tendencies manifested in them. It is advisable to correlate the process of “Europeanization” of Indi-ans, bloody and long-term hostilities in order to expel the gaucho and Indians from their ancestral lands with the understanding of who was the true hero of history in the creations of their descendants. The works of the sculptors Chaco, romantic in spirit, are related to the great J. Hernandez’s poem “Martin Fierro”. Today they are kept not only in the capital of Chaco, Resistencia, but also in museums in Buenos Aires and foreign collections
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Kardum, Goran, Dubravka Kuščević, and Marija Brajčić. "The Impacts of Different Sorts of Art Education on Pupils’ Preference for 20th-Century Art Movements." Education Sciences 10, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci10010015.
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The research presented here aims to determine how art education influences students’ preferences for the 20th-century art movements. An educational experiment that spanned through one school year was conducted on 200 primary school students. It included three types of intervention: observing works of art from the 20th century, introducing works of art using a puppet, and the students’ art activities/artwork based on the 20th-century art movements. The results show that the model of art education is an important factor in changing students’ preferences for the 20th century art movements. Students reacted positively to each kind of education, as evidenced in the wider acceptance of 20th-century art (abstract, fauvism, cubism, pop art, and surrealism). The type of education did not influence preferences (as much) when it came to classical art and visual works without artistic value. We concluded that puppets and independent creative work should be used more often in art education.
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Chylek, P., J. Li, M. K. Dubey, M. Wang, and G. Lesins. "Observed and model simulated 20th century Arctic temperature variability: Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 11, no. 8 (August 15, 2011): 22893–907. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-11-22893-2011.
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Abstract. We present simulations of the 20th century Arctic temperature anomaly from the second generation Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM2). The new model couples together an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model, a land-vegetation model and terrestrial and oceanic interactive carbon cycle. It simulates well the observed 20th century Arctic temperature variability that includes the early and late 20th century warming periods and the intervening 1940–1970 period of substantial cooling. The addition of the land-vegetation model and the terrestrial and oceanic interactive carbon cycle to the coupled atmosphere-ocean model improves the agreement with observations from 1900–1970, however, it increases the overestimate of the post 1970 warming. In contrast the older generation coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models Canadian CanCM3 and NCAR/LANL CCSM3, used in the IPCC 2007 climate change assessment report, overestimate the rate of the 20th century Arctic warming by factor of two to three and they are unable to reproduce the observed 20th century Arctic climate variability.