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Forever Becoming: Teaching “Transgender Studies Meets Art History” and Theorizing Trans Joy Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Alpesh Kantilal Patel
Academics often comment that their teaching affects their research, but how this manifests is often implicit. In this essay, I explicitly explore the artistic, scholarly, and curatorial research instantiated by an undergraduate class titled “Transgender Studies meets Art History,” which I taught during the fall of 2022. Alongside personal anecdotes—both personal and connected to the class—and a critical
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‘Bodhisattva Bodies’: Early Twentieth Century Indian Influences on Modern Japanese Buddhist Art Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Chao Chi Chiu
The first decade of the twentieth century marked a turning point for Japanese Buddhism. With the introduction of Western academia, Buddhist scholars began to uncover the history of Buddhism, and through their efforts, they discovered India as the birthplace of Buddhism. As India began to grow in importance for Japanese Buddhist circles, one unexpected area to receive the most influence was Japanese
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Verification and Establishment of Techniques of Ajami Artwork Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Ziad Baydoun, Tenku Putri Norishah Tenku Shariman, Fauzan Mustaffa
Ajami, a technique of painted wood paneling, was popular in the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the late 18th centuries. Ajami art became prominent in Syria after the decline of tile production, and it rose to a sophisticated level of art in both local and global markets. Today, however, Ajami art has become almost forgotten and unknown by the modern generation, due to being an exclusive art that can
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Liturgical Spaces and Devotional Spaces: Analysis of the Choirs of Three Catalan Nuns’ Monasteries during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Marta Crispí
Choirs in female monastic and convent communities are spaces whose complexity has been highlighted because of their multipurpose and multifunctional nature. Although they are within the community’s private sphere of prayer of the divine office, it has also been noted that they play a liturgical role as the space from which the nuns ‘hear’ and follow the celebrations taking place in the church and even
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Performing post-apartheid feeling: A review of Wayward Feeling: audio-visual culture and aesthetic activism in post-rainbow South Africa Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Kylie Thomas
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Amy Tan’s Thing-Narrative in The Valley of Amazement Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Junwu Tian, Shuyue Liu
Delving into the various things in Amy Tan’s The Valley of Amazement, this article seeks to value the being of materiality with inspiration gained from Thing Narratology and New Materialism. Rather...
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How Many Lives for a Mesopotamian Statue? Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Imane Achouche
Among the indicators of the value and power ascribed to statues in Mesopotamia, reuse is a particularly significant one. By studying some of the best-documented examples of the usurpation and reassignment of a new function to sculptures in the round from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC, our study reveals the variety of motives and methods employed. We hereafter explore the ways in which the status of
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Aspects of Coexistence between Art Glass and Architecture—Façade Graphics Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Alina Lipowicz-Budzyńska
One of the key concerns for present-day society is the need to build the environment in which we live in a sustainable way, using green solutions, but without losing the aesthetic values. The following study proves that, when applied in the right way, façade graphics support sustainability. Art glass placed inside the envelope significantly influences a number of aspects related to how a building functions
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The Creative Impulse: Innovation and Emulation in the Role of the Egyptian Artist during the New Kingdom—Unusual Details from Theban Funerary Art Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Inmaculada Vivas Sainz
The present research analyses the role of the Egyptian artist within the context of New Kingdom art, paying attention to the appearance of new details in Theban tomb chapels that reflect the originality of their creators. On the one hand, the visibility of the case studies investigated is explored, looking for a possible explanation as to their function within the tomb scenes (such as ‘visual hooks’)
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“Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Wept”: Exploring Translations of Language, Practices and Story Forms in IsiZulu Journalism Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Khanyile Mlotshwa
In multicultural and multilingual societies like South Africa, newswork, or the practices that underpin the news-making process, is made possible by linguistic and cultural translation. In other wo...
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Making Space for the Better: Living by the Sacred Yamuna Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Vrushali Anil Dhage
Eviction could hold a different meaning if a home’s immediate surroundings contribute to its residents’ livelihood, especially for informal laborers. This paper explores the notion of the fragility of a home within an expanded space—the space on which a home stands and its surroundings when turned into a contested area. It specifically looks at the slum of Yamuna Pushta in Delhi, which was demolished
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Emancipatory Communication: A Critical Reflection on Communication Sciences in the Post-Pandemic Era1 Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Thomas Tufte
In an era of uncertainty, where epistemic freedoms are challenged and where many people feel excluded, how can communication – both as a discipline and a practice – serve to combat these uncertaint...
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Great-Grandmother, Grandmother, Mother, and Me: A Search for My Roots through Research-Based Theatre Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Mette Bøe Lyngstad
In this article I present how I use Research-based Theatre (RbT) to better comprehend my own roots, history, and multiple selves. The purpose of this research project is also for me to explore RbT before I invite my oral storytelling students to do the same. Using RbT as my central methodology, I have explored my own and others’ narratives by using an aesthetic, arts-based approach. Drama conventions
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Adelheid Frackiewicz: Landart, Mourning, and Translation Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Suzanne de Villiers-Human, Adelheid von Maltitz
The authors position and contextualise Adelheid Frackiewicz’s recent landart amid comparable works by contemporary artists, dealing with land loss, mourning, and migration. Paul Ricoeur’s magnanimo...
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Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Long Jiang, Yuxin Wei
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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An Unlikely Match: Modernism and Feminism in Lynda Benglis’s Contraband Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Becky Bivens
In 1969, Lynda Benglis withdrew her large latex floor painting, Contraband, from the exhibition Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials. Looking beyond the logistical problems that caused Benglis to pull the work, I suggest that it challenged the conceptual and formal parameters of the exhibition from its inception. Taking hints from feminism, modernist painting, camp aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, pop
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Introduction for Special Issue “Rethinking Contemporary Latin American Art” Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Gabriela Germana Roquez, Lesley A. Wolff
Today’s fleeting spectacles—art fairs, biennials, and NFTs—continue to shape a global consensus about contemporary Latin American art based on practices developed in urban, white, and mestizo middle- and upper-class contexts [...]
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From Primal Matter to Surrogate Veneer: Wood and Faux Bois in Picasso’s Cubism Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Christine Poggi
In the spring and summer of 1906, while visiting the rural village of Gósol in the Spanish Pyrenees, Picasso executed his first woodcut, made two sculptures out of boxwood, and began to focus on the topoi of wood and the forest as avatars of primal matter and of that which lies beyond civilization. In a subsequent series of paintings, he used wooden supports for images that depict male and female heads
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“Lost in Flowers & Foolery”: A Gendered Reading of the 9th Earl of Devon’s Flower Watercolors Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 James Thomas Stewart
William Courtenay, 3rd Viscount Courtenay and 9th Earl of Devon (1768–1835), has been most remembered for his romantic relationship with author and slave owner, William Beckford (1760–1844), which scandalized London society in 1784. However, the 9th Earl’s life after this event has received little attention despite his artistic contributions to the built environment of his ancestral home of Powderham
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Sex, Sign, Subversion: Symbolist Art and Male Homosexuality in 19th-Century Europe Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Ty Vanover
There is something queer about Symbolism. Art historians have long acknowledged the links between Symbolist aesthetics and contemporaneous ideas about human sexuality, and even a cursory examination of artworks by male Symbolist artists working across the continent reveals an eyebrow-raising number of muscled nudes, lithe ephebes, and intimate male couplings. The sensual male body could register the
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Affect and Ethics in Mike Malloy’s Insure the Life of an Ant Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Gerald Silk
This essay examines a little-known but important installation entitled Insure the Life of an Ant, conceived by artist Mike Malloy and displayed at the O.K. Harris Gallery in New York in April of 1972. This provocative and idiosyncratic piece confronted gallery-goers, who became viewer–participants, with the option of killing or saving a live ant displayed like a sculpture on a pedestal, either by pushing
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Freeport as a Hub in the Art Market: Shanghai Art Freeport Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Fanyu Zhang
With the soaring interest in art as an alternative investment approach and an asset class, there has been a remarkable rise in the volume of artwork transactions globally. However, trading in the art market differs from the traditional financial market; the cost of taxes, logistics, storage, and other transaction services is enormous for collectors, stimulating the emergence of related businesses,
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Aesthetic Production in Clay Molding: Mental and Dynamically Embodied Action Mediate Between Formal and Material Aspects of Experience Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Johannes Wagemann, Sarah Starosky
Aesthetic production, that is, the processing of material with a focus on the experiential and formal qualities of resulting objects and the process itself, encompasses basic dimensions of art, creativity, craft, and design. To explore these dimensions, we propose the Rubicon model of action phases as a general framework. Additionally, we introduce Schiller's aesthetics as an interactive account of
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Dialogues between Past and Present? Modern Art, Contemporary Art Practice, and Ancient Egypt in the Museum Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Alice Stevenson
Whenever twentieth-century modern art or new contemporary artworks are included amongst displays of ancient Egypt, press statements often assert that such juxtapositions are ‘surprising’, ‘innovative’, and ‘fresh’, celebrating the external perspective they bring to such collections. But contemporary art’s relationship with museums and other disciplines needs to be understood in a longer-term perspective
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Leaving the “Discomfort” Zone: The Correlation between Politics and New Artistic Practices at the Beginning of the 19th Dynasty Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Gema Menéndez
At the end of the Amarna Period, a process of political and religious restoration began. This attempt at recovery went beyond the strictly official, as the Egyptian society seemed to demand a moral reparation. It was a much-needed change that would encompass all aspects of society and it was imperative that the changes be visible. It is for this reason that visual art would be one of the main means
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Modernist Antagonisms and Material Reciprocities: Chase-Riboud’s Albino Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Elyse Speaks
This paper considers the material exchange initiated in the early sculptural practice of Barbara Chase-Riboud when she began to incorporate fiber into her bronze sculptures by looking closely at her 1972 work, The Albino. I suggest that Chase-Riboud staked a claim for sculpture as a symbolic site at which material knowledge might be transferred across time and space. The work’s negotiations open western
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Royal Tamga Signs and Their Significance for the Epigraphic Culture of the Bosporan Kingdom Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Michał Halamus
This article examines the phenomenon of the so-called royal tamga signs issued on stone stelae in the Bosporan Kingdom in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. Tamgas were symbols commonly used by Eurasian nomads throughout the first millennium BCE. The appearance of tamgas in the northern shores of the Black Sea in the 2nd/1st BCE, followed by their adoption into the Greek epigraphic culture of the kingdom
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“My Story is Not a Pink Story”: Enabling Care in a Research-Creation Practice with Parents of a Disabled Child in Inclusive Trajectories Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Silke Daelman, Inge Van de Putte, Elisabeth De Schauwer
With growing attention to including parents and eliciting their voices in the inclusive journey of their children, this paper discusses a process of research-creation. With examples of parents maki...
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“Play You is [Me]!”: Third Space Rituals, Memory & the Performance of Self as Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Deborah Lee Matthews
This paper reflects upon an in-progress, exploratory piece of digital theatre adapted from Zeno Constance’s seminal bildungsroman The Ritual. In this work, Black women engage in a process of theori...
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Shared Anthropology: When Anthropology Meets Critical Public Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Arjang Omrani, Tahereh Aboofazeli
The article explores the common ground between critical public anthropology and critical public pedagogy as critically conscious, engaged, and animating practices. Through intervention in the publi...
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Escaping from Confinement: Hell Imagery in the Shōjuraigōji Rokudō-e Scrolls Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Zhenru Zhou
This article explores the pictorial representation of the Buddhist hell in Kamakura (1185–1333) Japan, with a focus on a mid-thirteenth century rokudō-e, or Pictures of the Six Realms, preserved at Shōjuraigōji Temple. The examination revolves around how these scroll paintings convey messages of salvation by representing the symbolic architecture of the hell realm, the lowest level within the six realms
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The Affective Byzantine Book: Reflections on Aesthetics of Gospel Lectionaries Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Joseph R. Kopta
The aesthetic qualities of Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries in Middle Byzantine times, afforded by their material construction, fostered an intermedial relationship with the architectural interiors of the churches and chapels where they were used in sacred liturgies. In particular, Byzantine book makers employed discreet reflective materials—particularly albumen and gold—that engendered an aesthetic of
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Images as a Hint to the Other World: The Use of Images as Mediators in Medieval and Early Modern Societies Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Roger Ferrer-Ventosa
The Middle Ages and Early Modern periods saw the interpretation of reality through symbols, connecting the natural world to the divine using symbolic thinking and images. The idea of a correspondence between the human and universal macrocosm was prominent in various fields such as medicine, philosophy, and religion. Symbolism played a crucial role in approaching divine matters, with symbols serving
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Symbolist Androgyny: On the Origins of a Proto-Queer Vision Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Damien F. Delille
This article focuses on artistic and aesthetic practices within the idealist and symbolist movements of the late 19th century in France. It investigates how artists and art critics embraced androgynous imaginaries derived from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Platonic myth, transforming them into tools for social and sexual emancipation and giving rise to a proto-queer vision. An analysis of the art of
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In Place of a Missing Place Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Noam Segal
This essay reflects on works chosen from the Sonnenfeld Collection at the Katzen Gallery at American University in Washington, DC—it originally accompanied an exhibition at that gallery in early 2021—to comment on the observations of several generations of Israeli artists on the land and its meaning for the culture and politics of Israel’s coming into existence and evolution during the first 70 years
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Understanding Musical Beauty Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski, Nicola Dibben
An exploratory study was conducted investigating the concept of beauty related to music listening—“musical beauty.” The study implemented an online qualitative questionnaire aimed to evaluate how listeners construe the concept of beauty, the pieces of music considered to be beautiful, and the intrinsic and/or extrinsic features that listeners attribute to musical pieces being considered as “most beautiful
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The Spacetimes of the Scythian Dead: Rethinking Burial Mounds, Visibility, and Social Action in the Eurasian Iron Age and Beyond Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 James A. Johnson
The Eurasian Iron Age Scythians, in all their regional iterations, are known for their lavish burials found in various kinds of tumuli. These tumuli, of varying sizes, are located throughout the Eurasian steppe. Based, at least partially, on the amounts and types of grave goods found within these mounds, the Scythians are usually modeled as militant, patriarchal mobile pastoralists, with rigid social
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Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical Archives Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Kirstin Ringelberg
Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928) might appear to be a typical “woman artist” of the Belle Époque, a painter of images of fashionable women, equally popular for her watercolor flowers and her skills as a salon hostess, with biographical sketches of her then and now assuming that if she had sex or romance, it was with men. However, a closer look has also revealed Lemaire to be potentially atypical. Unlike
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Humanistic Responsibilities in the Upsurge of “Metaverse” Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jun Zeng
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation: A Descriptive Study of Chinese Translations of Huckleberry Finn, Tess, and Pygmalion (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation) Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-12 Zhang Congran
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Correction: Bloom (2024). Jewish “Ghosts”: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory. Arts 13: 50 Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Lisa E. Bloom
Due to a production error during processing, a number of mistakes appear in the original publication [...]
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Scythian Jewelry Meshes and the Problem of Their Interpretation Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Oksana Lifantii
This article explores the phenomenon of a specific type of personal adornment worn by members of the Scythian elite in the North Black Sea region in the second half of the 5th century and throughout the 4th century BCE. The discussion juxtaposes the records from 19th-century and early 20th-century excavations with contextual analyses of very recent discoveries from Ukraine, which shed significant new
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Is There a Timeless Truth for Good Arrangement of Paintings in Art Galleries and Museums? An Experimental Investigation of the Barnes Collection Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Katja Thömmes, Ronald Hübner, Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring
The Barnes Foundation is a traditional art collection and it is one of a kind as for the assorted hanging of the paintings. The sophisticated wall compositions by Albert Barnes were created as a tool for art education, and they have not been altered since 1951. Today, we are interested whether Barnes’ taste withstood the test of time. We asked participants in an online study to create their own hangings
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The Royal Chapel of Pedro I of Castile in the Christianised Mosque of Seville Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Pablo Gumiel-Campos
Pedro I of Castile (1350–1369) founded a royal chapel in the Christianised Mosque of Seville. He intended to house there his body, that of Queen María de Padilla, and their son the Infant Alfonso (1359–1362). This mausoleum is well documented both in the king’s will and in the chronicles of López de Ayala; however, there are no material remains as it was demolished with the construction of the new
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Issue Information The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
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Progressive Rock from the Union of Soviet Composers Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Mark Yoffe
This article focuses on the influence of Western progressive rock music on some innovative members of the Union of Soviet Composers, who were open to new trends and influences. These Soviet composers’ interest in progressive rock was not only intellectual, but also had serious practical implications. During the 1970s, several composers made attempts to create original works following various styles
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Wayward Feeling — Audio-Visual Culture and Aesthetic Activism in Post-Rainbow South Africa Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Jiayao Fan
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Testing Textual and Territorial Boundaries in Bulat Okudzhava’s Song “And We to the Doorman: ‘Open the Doors!’” Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Alexander Zholkovsky
This paper contextualizes Okudzhava’s song “And We to the Doorman” (AWD), initially marginal in the Soviet poetic mainstream. It explores its shifts in tone, irregular rhythms, colloquial language, and semi-criminal undertones. AWD’s structure, with uneven stanzas and no clear refrain, reveals underlying symmetry and recurring themes. The meter is predominantly iambic but varies. Unconventional verse
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Tchaikovsky, Onegin, and the Art of Characterization Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Francis Maes
Tchaikovsky enjoyed composing Yevgeni Onegin. He expressed his fulfillment in a famous letter to Sergey Taneyev. What could his enthusiasm convey about the content of the project? Music criticism has taken Tchaikovsky’s words as proof for the thesis that the opera is connected to autobiographical circumstances. In this mode of thinking, the quality of Tchaikovsky’s music is the result of the composer’s
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Reflection and Refraction: Multivalent Social Realism in the Work of Joaquín Sorolla Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Rachel Vorsanger
Joaquin Sorolla’s Social Realist work Sad Inheritance! provides the grounds for this cross-sectional case study into Social Realism in Spain, Spanish politics at the turn of the twentieth century, and affect theory in art. By formally analyzing this work, presenting its differing receptions in France and Spain, and discussing the identity crisis that Spain experienced at the end of the twentieth century
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Performance, Art, Institutions and Interdisciplinarity Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Rob Gawthrop
How have funding, art education, and politics affected the development of performance and interdisciplinary art? In England in particular, performance as an experimental and radical art practice developed largely from underground activities, political action and a range of art forms. Funding bodies, colleges and art institutions eventually accommodated, albeit to a limited extent, this activity. As
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Was Shostakovich’s Second Cello Concerto a Hidden Homage? Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Marina Ritzarev
Shostakovich’s direct quotation from the Odessan street song “Bagels, Buy My Bagels!” (Bubliki, kupite bubliki!) in his Second Cello Concerto Op. 126 (1966) featured an unusual style, even in relation to some of his other compositions referencing popular and Jewish music. The song is widely known as one of the icons of the Odessa underworld. Shostakovich’s use of this melody as one of the main leit-themes
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The Playful Karoo: Translating a South African Story into the Metaverse Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-28 Andrea Hayes
This research paper explores different game design methodologies that can be used to translate the South African novel Souvenir by Jane Rosenthal, set in the semi-desert region known as the Karoo i...
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“Sirens” by Joyce and the Joys of Sirin: Lilac, Sounds, Temptations Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Andrey Astvatsaturov, Feodor Dviniatin
The article is devoted to the musical context of the works of James Joyce and Vladimir Nabokov. Joyce’s Ulysses, one of the most important literary texts of the twentieth century, is filled with musical allusions and various musical techniques. The chapter “Sirens” is the most interesting in this context as it features a “musical” form and contains a large number of musical quotations. The myth of
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Dark Humour in Moving Frames: A Discourse Analysis of Bollywood Black Comedies Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Manash P. Goswami, K. Shruthi
The present study delves into the portrayal of dark humour in the Hindi films produced in Mumbai, popularly known as Bollywood films. The dark humour films of Bollywood mainly focus on prevalent so...
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Through the Eyes of the Beholder: Motifs (Re)Interpreted in the 27th Dynasty Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Marissa Stevens
This paper aims to highlight examples of artistic motifs common throughout Egyptian history but augmented in novel ways during the 27th Dynasty, a time when Egypt was part of the Achaemenid empire and ruled by Persian kings. These kings represented themselves as traditional pharaohs within Egypt’s borders and utilized longstanding Egyptian artistic motifs in their monumental constructions. These motifs
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Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom), 3rd edition Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Meiou Zhao
Published in Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Resonating Reflections: A Critical Review of Ethnosymbolic Dynamics in Les Six’s Music Nationalism Movement Arts (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xuewei Chang, Marzelan Bin Salleh, Jifang Sun
Les Six and their mentors stirred a debatement of French nationalist music in the early 20th century. However, this movement faced serious criticism and mockery from various quarters and eventually fell apart amid challenges. This critical review explores the ethnosymbolic dynamics within the nationalism music movement of Les Six, and drawing upon ethnomusicological perspectives, the study examines
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Aesthetic Dispositions, Aesthetic Engagement, and Meaning in Life Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, Rebecca J. Schlegel, Aleksandra Sherman
Previous research revealed that meaning in life is related positively to psychological engagement with art (i.e., aesthetic engagement), such as interest in art, knowledge about art, awe around art, and supernatural attributions for art experiences. We extended this work by considering the relevance of dispositions toward aesthetics (i.e., aesthetic dispositions), such as openness to experience, creativity
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Preparing Artists to Save the World: Community-Engaged Arts Practice as Critical Pedagogy Critical Arts (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Sarah Peters, Tully Barnett
The sustained marginalisation of creative arts in higher education in Australia risks the delivery of superficial learning experiences that are disconnected from the relationality of place, people,...