Browse

This work based on Romantic literature reflects the image of Jozef Bem as a romantic hero and a symbol of Polish-Hungarian friendship. Comparing the progress of the national literatures of this epoch, mainly the Polish and Hungarian one, and conditions of their development leads us to their overall conjunction of the 19th Century. In our paper, we use sources from history and literature and we try to put Jozef Bem’s person into right context of Hungarian revolution set in years 1848/1849 during governance of Habsb...

This article views the problems connected with the influence of globalization processes and new information and communication technologies on the transformation of cultural codes systems, the increase of intensity of adverse impacts of social anomie, the marginalization of culture, the destruction of the foundations of collective identity. In the present context the authors analyze new trends of civilizational development of society, having a direct impact on the transformation of value orientations of mass, youth...

The aim of this work is to analyze the self-portraits of De Chirico with a methodology of psychological investigation. The figurative elements are individually examined in order to understand the psychological determinants of the painter. In order to paint their own portrait, the artists have to deal with the mirror, with their own double, but above all, referring to Winnicott (1990) with the mirroring of themselves in the face of the other. According to Ferrari (2002), in the relationship with the portrait and th...

Historical museums are a specific reservoir of ways of representing past events, and a key element in the processes of rationalization and institutionalization of history. Museums legitimize and interpret the past for the visitors, while their wide impact and authority make them jointly responsible for the shape of collective memory. Each museum is part of historical policy pursued in order to shape the historical consciousness and collective memory of a community. Although museums try to appear (ethically and pol...

Human beings evince a natural tendency to perceive patterns like faces, figures or shapes in otherwise random phenomena. This well-known psychological phenomenon called “pareidolia”, “apophenia” or “clustering illusion” (depending on what we refer to) has a convincing evolutionary explanation. As a universal phenomenon it is therefore part of our human nature, although different cultural and/or religious factors can influence or even determine the sensitivity to detect hidden signs and patterns. The present paper ...

As we read in the Prologue of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Saviors of God: “We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting forth and the coming back, we die in every moment…But as soon as we are born, we begin to struggle, to create, to compose, to turn matter into life, we are born in every moment”[1]. The above excerpt taken from Kazantzakis’ early work resonates with an omnipresent leitmotif of his novels where we fi...

In this work, the creative idea that the artist strives to express in a vanguard work of art is put in juxtaposition to the idea embraced by a viewer with insufficient visual experience of perceiving this type of art. At the first stage of the experiment, the artist provided the description of the principal visual structures that reveal the creative concept of a set of his works, as well as the description of the works’ main ideas. After that, the works in question were shown to the viewers who were asked to descr...

The ontological turn or ontologically-oriented approach accentuates the key importance of intercultural variability in ontologies. Different ontologies produce different ways of experiencing the world, and therefore, participation in alternative realities is very desirable in anthropological and ethnological investigation. Just the participation in alternative realities itself enables researchers to experience alterity and ontoconceptual differences. The present study aims to demonstrate the power of ritual in alt...

The stage set has been designed, costumes for two spectral areas. Textile design has been arranged with two independent images, two pieces of information that we observe through infra-red cameras and parallel projection. The clothes contain a hidden image that brings its own story. The consequences of introducing a dual scene is a necessity for new methods in directing, stage set and the way of articulating new and old pieces for the theater stage. Digital print of the fabric has been subordinated to arranging twi...

The aim of this paper is to reveal and investigate the presence of Orientalism in the exotic world of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen. The term Orientalism can have various meanings, while the use of Oriental elements in artistic creations can be a way for representing alterity. Understanding how the Arab culture was born and the impact it had on the culture of the countries brought under Arab domination can reveal surprising information. Although situated in Europe, in the 19th century it was common to associate Spa...

Latvian children’s and young people’s literature, being a significant segment of literary production, in the course of history has not attracted attention on regular basis but rather fragmentarily; studies of its development trends have not been regular and have often remained marginal against the background of the total literary research. But child’s image is one of the most important components in the structure of childhood narrative; great significance is attributed in its depiction to characters’ portrait, act...

Osijek is one of the bigger cities in Croatia, and is considered to be the capital of eastern region of the country. Orientation to the European cultural values and the affiliation to the Austro-Hungarian cultural circle are often mentioned as the part of its identity. Today’s city administration states that their mission is to “develop Osijek as a European metropolis influencing the entire macro-region where it belongs geographically “. Also, their vision is „Osijek - a city of satisfied people … an economically ...

Magnetic tape is an important medium in the capturing of information and has had widespread use in audio, video, and computer applications over the past 60 years. As years go by, the preservation of the information stored on tape is becoming of increasing concern to society, particularly as the carriers suffer from physical decay and they threaten the survival of recordings holding a great cultural and commercial value. This article presents the methodology and the results of a chemical test aimed to determine the...

The main objective of the article is to introduce a less known Slovak author Matúš Kavec. From the theoretical and practical point of view and the orientation of the study one of the sub-objectives is the characterization and interpretational analysis of the author’s work. In the context of the Slovak literature the author is being listed as a writer of the inter-war period. From the thematic aspect, the work of Kavec is divided into two main areas: urban environment and tinker theme. Since tinkering is a Slovak c...

With different disciplines of culture, art and science increasingly merging, transdisciplinary approach to phenomena and works of art seems nowadays to be not only a matter of fashion but a necessity. Overlapping of scientific areas in certain points of interest provides for new research fields and forms. Therefore, an act of creation may be viewed as an idea prompted by an impulse, although defining what a creative impulse actually represents (a physiological phenomenon, a chemical reaction, a philosophical thoug...

The Romanian composer Constantin Rîp? is an outstanding personality of contemporary music who seeks to integrate myths of the universal philosophy and mythology by means of his last opus: the ballet The Young Man and Death. The performance is a synthesis of all its constituent elements: music, literary content, choreography, and scenography. Through a vision evoking total theatre, and a remarkable conceptual unity, the composer confers this ballet a dramatic character, extending its duration from one to three acts...

In my paper I am going to consider the process of composing from the perspective of influences from space surrounding the author. I was inspired by environmental psychology – human factors science - as an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. We know today that environmental psychology expands widely in attracting other areas of kn...

This article adopts a socio-cultural position to describe and analyze the main patterns in the development of the cultural environment of modern postindustrial cities. The author presents the historical experience and contemporary condition of Pittsburgh to illustrate his arguments. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Pittsburgh developed an international reputation as an important center of American heavy industry. It achieved particular fame for its iron and steel works. However, by the end of the twentie...

The article presented here has its origins in the framework of R+D project Multiculturalism and Social Exclusion in Images for Children: Illustration and Pedagogy (HAR2014-53168-P. Spanish Ministry of the Economy and Competitiveness). The fundamental aim of this project is to analyze the potential of children’s picture books as a complementary tool for teaching infant and primary level schoolchildren about values with regard to gender equality, multiculturalism, disability and, in general, “difference”. Set out he...

The interest in Freemasonry has shifted today from the field of metaphysics to the scope of aesthetics. The method of the “new hermeneutics”, proclaimed by Ulitskaya, presupposes an appeal to the world culture codes. The mythology of Freemasonry occupies an important place, which is connected both with interest in the Silver Age, and with a common for transitional epochs attention to the problem of world evil. The principle of high game, helping to overcome the boundaries of what is visible in the name of existenc...

Digital humanities is an activity based on a symbiosis of the humanities sciences and information technologies. This is an international activity. There are many communities implementing projects in this area. For example: Russian Association for Digital Humanities (http:// dhrussia.ru) and European Association for Digital Humanities (http:// eadh.org/). Under the flags of Digital Humanities ITMO University (Department of Graphic Technologies, Center of design and multimedia), Saint Petersburg State University (de...

The scope of the study was to identify social factors influencing significant transformations of the landscape in south-eastern Poland, with particular emphasis on the rural areas of the Podkarpackie Province. The research methodology included quantitative social research (CAPI) performed in selected villages regarding the perception of tall trees in the immediate neighbourhood of respondents' residence site (house, street). An archival query on cartographic and iconographic materials of selected settlements enabl...

A certain article aims to develop a topic of the IT and visitor interaction in terms of a museum's space. The essay evaluates a practical implementation of the IT technologies as well as its utilitarian function. The article proves that a practice of using gesture management tools as well as semantic web possibilities are the future of the European cultural landscape. Analysis of the museum’s cases within international field gives a certain opportunity to understand both current and future possibilities of the cul...

The paper investigates memory narratives in contemporary Latvian and North American life-writing with the focus on Latvian writer Anita Liepa's autobiographical fiction and Canadian writer Alice Munro's short stories. The theoretical framework of the paper is related to the fast developing memory culture after the end of the Cold War in Europe and Latvia as well as globally, and sketches out the theoretical framework of memory writing referring to the studies of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Paul Ricoeur, Aleida...

The culture of modern society as an object of study is a complex interaction of many fields and factors. One of the most important is education as a necessary minimum of knowledge about the world. We investigated the results of the implementation of the programme of education for all in the world practice, taking into account reports of UNESCO and the World Conferences on Education. The documents that guarantee everyone's right to education, starting with the Declaration of Human Rights, were chosen as the basis. ...

Presenting the world in its theosis, in transformation into saved reality was and is the basic function of all types of art. This is how it used to be. Is this the case today? Is such a synthesis possible nowadays? Is it a transmission of “living” Church Tradition and its esthetic and religious experience of sacrum? How does it happen? Asking a question about the meaning of human existence, we also ask about the meaning of man’s creativity through art, creativity understood as a continuation of divine work of crea...

The article focuses on the compositional activity of Oskar Gottlieb Blarr. This contemporary German artist creates diverse music based on a variety of themes, forms and styles, and carrying a humanistic and religious message. His works arise from the past, document historical memory and pay tribute to traditions. As a musical testimony of the past, they commemorate events, facts and figures, but they also express a reflective longing for lost homeland. History and traditions present in Blarr’s music are discussed ...

Beauty and accuracy are the two features that a botanical illustration must have in order to be considered as such, rather than simply as an artistic representation of a plant. The scientific and teaching focus must take priority over questions of aesthetics and art. From the first example of botanical illustration on the walls of the Temple of Thutmose III in Karnak, to the illustrations of Redouté in the 19th century, the evolution of botanical illustration has been constant and parallel to science, until photog...

The piece Trio rustic pentru vioar?, viol? ?i violoncel de Ion Ghiga (Rustic trio for violin, viola and cello by Ion Ghiga) was written in 1950 as he reached his stylistic maturity as a composer. In this work we can distinguish a series of morphological features which are wonderfully mirror the elements of Romanian folk musical language. Such elements are particularly represented by some motifs with archetypal values, as rhythmical and sound pitch elements, harmonic-polyphonic textures or architectural structure. ...

This study aims to present the sensitivity of the Bologna curator, Francesca Alinovi, who showed great interest in the emergent artistic expressions of her times, amongst which Writing. Francesca Alinovi’s sensitivity towards Writing emerged during her visit to New York City in 1980, a trip on which she saw Graffiti works and gain first-hand experience of their historical and social context. The sense of unease and contestation of mainstream culture which Alinovi found in New York led her to draw parallels, within...

Symbol has always been an intrinsic part of a person. A person’s life is marked with symbols. In the past, this was directly reflected in the architecture and in the art of all religions. They have their special compensation in the temple and vice versa; the temple is a concrete manifestation of the function of a symbol. Thanks to them, art could manifest itself, could naturally pass from the level of aesthetics to the level of religion. One of the proofs to confirmate this thesis is an example of dome and iconost...

Though distant in time and style, the two classics of the European culture display a common and deep understanding of the human nature and of humanity’s way of reaching its purpose and truth. Refined observers of human behaviour, they both emphasize, each in his own manner, and with specific artistic means, the human need for self-knowledge and accomplishment, and the way it fails or succeeds in attaining them. With both playwrights, there is no way to self-knowledge and happiness but in the mirror of another cons...

Colorimetry and exposure measurement rank among the key technological attributes for the qualitative acceptance of a media work in the context of using modern technologies. Abrupt changes and a rapid development in audiovisual recording represent a qualitative shift in the formal understanding of a media work. Our research focuses on the practical determination of exposure and of the colorimetric setting of modern digital cameras for low-budget films, exploiting the maximum digital recording potential of various r...

The material of Yakut literature is a great illustration to the problem of the dialogue between cultures. Typological parallels can be found between Yakut Olonkho and other peoples` heroic songs, for example, Turkic heroic songs and European archaic significant sites like Celtic legends and Scandinavian Poetic Edda. The old comparative linguistics exceptionally found similarity reasons of artistic-literary phenomena in immediate connections, migratory subjects or mythological archetypes. But representatives of the...

Referring to the knowledge and deepening in the plastic art, besides the growing artistic talent manifested in the field of creation, it can be undoubtedly asserted that a remarkable contribution to it has been and still is its art amateurs - the collectors, that have shown their passion, first in their own interest or for personal pleasure, as they later realized, that plastic art and valuable artistic creations must be given to the public. In interwar Romania, collectors have morally awarded their status and hav...

The aim of this paper is to describe German literature in a Czech region called Moravian Wallachia in years 1848-1948, when Wallachia was seen as a distinctive multicultural space, which included the Czech culture and also significant traces of German and Jewish cultures. The paper focuses on the following issues: basic tendencies in German-written literature from Moravian Wallachia, methodological problems of this research, correlations in literary epochs, ties to the canon of German literature, perception of the...

Fanny Burney at 15 wrote in her diary addressing her thoughts to ‘Nobody’, to her silent self and interlocutor. Nobody learnt about this fact until her diaries were published. She became famous with her first epistolary novel about a young lady entering the world, though in the Preface to the novel the author pretended to be an editor of the letters. Her writing could be compared to contemporary blogs. Novelty and variety of subjects, personally coloured irony and wit, acute eyesight, ability to entertain a reader...

The French composer Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a colourful and enigmatic figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. Being active in several spheres of art, in an atmosphere of fin de siècle, he proposed and implemented the concept of musique d'ameublement (“furniture music”). In his vision music was supposed to play an extravagant role (as it was perceived in that period) of an acoustic background accompanying all daily events and not absorbing the attention of the listener. Satie’s idea can be treated...

First habits connected to alcohol drinking young people gain in the family. Misuse of alcohol and other addictive substances in young people is often connected to complex family situations and family problems while drinking model is primarily developed in peer groups. The aim of this study was to examine the connection between young people’s perception of parental acceptance-rejection, peer pressure and some sociodemographic characteristic (gender, family structure, parent's education, subjective estimation of fam...

The aim of the research was to indicate the characteristics of traditional wooden buildings, determining its multi-faceted value and the role it plays in the contemporary structure of the city, on the example of Rzeszów (south-eastern part of Poland). The research methodology included field work and analysis of the city plan that is identification of existing traditional wooden residential buildings. A query was made of archival materials and studies on conservation documentation regarding the studied objects in t...

The Bucharest Pinacotheque collection preserves 2500 paintings created by Romanian and European artists, more or less known to the public. In this context, the article presents the results of a research that aimed at offering a clearer image of Art Nouveau expressions in Romanian painting, under the influences of the late 19th century European artistic vision. Although the Art Nouveau movement in Romanian fine arts has been little embraced and researched, some audacious examples are still preserved, painted by the...

The article is dedicated to the role of education and science in the contemporary world. Development and interaction of them are necessary for mankind to survive under conditions of increasing challenges and threats of our civilization, especially ecological. The author accentuates attention in the importance of education in ecological sphere in all Institutes of Higher Education, including non-specialized, and for all specialties. This must be preceded by training ecological consciousness, beginning from the pre-...

The objective of the text is to focus on museum-based education as an element of critical pedagogy of space based. The text is the result of project titled Regional or trans-regional cultural education using the example of museums finansed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. It shows regional museums play important role in teaching about space interpreted as a glocal cathegory. The task of education is to make this journey more visible and to show its educational value, with particular emphasis on th...

The folk ceremonial culture was directly connected with three main events of human life: birth, wedding, and path to the next world. The most ancient and the best-preserved in world’s history is the funeral rite, which is one of the most ethnic signs of culture. In comparison with other rites, it is one of the most conservative, because embodies a slowly changing vision of the death, the spirit world, and the relationship between dead and alive. However funeral rite vulnerable to transformation, which attests to a...

In Slovakia the beginnings of systematic interest in folklore and culture are related to the Enlightenment or to the early periods of Slovak National Revival. The first Slovak sources documenting the systematic and conceptual interest in prosaic folklore, as presented by the German romantic school and which received a great deal of appreciation on a European scale in the form of writing and editing, was in the 1840s. As in other areas of scientific interest, the same methodological principle was applied here and f...

The article deals with the analysis of the inventories of the Royal Alcázar in Madrid. These inventories (1666, 1686, 1700) were first published by Yves Bottineau in the French journal The Spanish Bulletin in 1958. Yves Bottineau was also the first to study and comment on the inventories. In particular, he identified the items from the inventories with those preserved till today. However, the inventories still hold a great amount of information which has not been studied until now. For example, the inventories can...

Museum exhibition not only display objects, it tells the stories behind them, brings the ideas and concepts which were the source of their creation. The fundamental aspect of museum exhibitions is to create a space where the process of interpretation and conferring of a meaning will occur as an essential “content” of the museum. Therefore the overriding aim of this paper is to provide specific example of the role of museum exhibition in the process of constructing historical knowledge, based on the uniqueness of c...

The article deals with new paintings of Nada Žiljak, an academic painter. She applies an infrared method in painting. Infrared painting is an innovative method of creating a unique double image - one visible to the eye, and the other, hidden drawing that can be seen with an infrared camera. The first image is a luxurious, often abstract painting concealing a monochrome drawing of distinct erotic themes. The author creates an original world based on hiding and discovery inspired by the power of his own imagination....

This paper aims to highlight the main approaches to creativity that directly influence the creative processes that occur both in plasticeducation events into creative processes itself; to expose some techniques to stimulate creativity encountered in plasticapproachof great artists, with observation of generaltechniques to develop creativity in which their attempts individual falls, andin the end -some conclusions about the quality of the environment that supports creativity and cognitive processes favoring both th...

The paper is dedicated to some aspects of veneration of sacred objects: the Heaven (Tengri), mountains, hills, caves, stones, water sources, trees. Along veneration of sacred objects of natural landscape, an important place in the beliefs of Kazakhs occupies veneration of ancestors, warriors-heroes, cultural heroes. The vast area around their burials, are considered sacral, within which it is forbidden to tear plants, to hunt for wild animals and on which it is necessary to keep cleanliness. Traditional ritual beh...