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The Icelandic art community is a small, interconnected group that often presents challenges for newcomers, especially those lacking formal training, established contacts, or family ties in the field. This paper adopts an autoethnographic approach to explore how an emerging artist in rural Iceland constructs her identity and develops her brand. Although the findings may not be broadly generalizable, they provide a detailed case study illustrating how an enthusiastic amateur artist shapes her identity. Storytelling ...

This article is devoted to the study of the concept “Siberia” and its specifics of visualization in paintings on the example of the contemporary Krasnoyarsk artist Anton Dovnar. Of particular interest is the fact that the authors propose to consider the concept of “Siberia” not on the verbal, but rather on the visual level. The relevance of the study is in determining the additional possibilities of forming a regional identity, in expanding the characteristics and content of the concept “Siberia” owing to the vari...

Approaching the history of music at present day, entails, first and foremost, setting in order the writings of important authors, who, by their general- cultural view (connection to the historic, esthetical, philosophical and political ideas of the time), and musical (the balance between general aspects regarding the presentation of either eras, styles, or composers and their oeuvres, and the personal option for certain esthetics, certain language or significant opus), contributes to the diversity of research meth...