Keywords: image: media: senses: digitálky: body Abstract There are two cultural strategies shaping the order of images and visual culture by reaching beyond their traditional understanding. The ...second is based on biotechnological attempts to bypass senses and plug images directly into the neural system of the human body. The aim of this essay is to decode both strategies in a number of artistic creations by Yves Klein, Björk, and Jason Derulo, and to explain them in terms of visual culture and digital media theories by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John Berger, Didier Anzieu, and Melina Diaconu. ...a mixture of media practices and theories leads to questions regarding future of watching, seeing and interacting with images, as well as our ability to use them in digital surroundings. Oferowane przez nie możliwości komunikacyjne i działania dokonywane za pośrednictwem obrazów angażują już nie tylko spojrzenie, ale także inne zmysły i mechanizmy poznawcze w różnych konfiguracjach.
This article explores the various uses and functions of the Latin language in the material culture of Fascist Italy. It shows that Latin words and phrases were used across diverse media and artistic ...styles, served several communicative purposes, and went beyond elitist literary circles. The analysis pays special attention to the material aspects and symbolic implications of the ways in which Latin words were showcased in specific locations and settings. Through brief case studies from graphic design, architecture, monumental sculpture, and landscape design, it demonstrates how Latin could become a means of political messaging, also for those with limited knowledge of the language. Offering a more encompassing discussion of the subject than currently available, the article sets the stage for future research and presents some avenues for further exploration.
This article investigates the shaping of European visual culture by tracing the international and intermedial trajectory of the visual motive of a chandelier from a 15th-century Burgundian manuscript ...in the decades around 1800. Passing from Brussels, Paris, Lyon, Mannheim, and Vienna to Coburg, and moving from illumination to drawing, archaeological illustration, painting, engraving to the applied arts, its trajectory exemplifies the historical conditions and cultural phenomena that animated the formation of a European visual culture, at a time when historical and national consciousness were developing on the continent.
Review of: Popular Pleasures: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Popular Visual Culture, Paul Duncum (2021)London and New York: Bloomsbury, 229 pp.,ISBN 978-1-35019-339-0, p/bk, $28.84/£26.97
Editorial Schwerda, Mira Xenia
Art in translation,
09/2022, Volume:
14, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The artist Mona Hatoum aims to “expand the idea of a shaky ground to include the entire world.”1 The articles in this varia issue of Art in Translation discuss the topics of translation and ...transformation, and they underline that the global history of art and visual culture is complex, unexpected, and ever-changing—in some ways resembling Hatoum’s “shaky ground.” This issue’s articles foreground unpublished, original research on intercultural translation. While focusing on specific case studies or people, the articles address broader questions that have been at the heart of art history over recent decades: The authors lead us away from the deceptive paradigm of linear rise and decline and from the question of original and copy, which preoccupied art history for so long. They examine specific routes taken by objects and moments of cultural contact rather than searching for illusive origins, explore the development of specific phenomena, ideas, and symbols, and investigate the cultural, political, and personal context of art, artists, and art historians. Geographically this issue’s essay topics range from East Asia, to Southeast and South Asia, the Middle East and West Africa, with some references to European and North American art histories and art historiographies, thereby illuminating specific chapters in a global, interconnected history of art.
El cine de Disney ha educado durante décadas a las sucesivas generaciones de públicos usuarios, llegando a la mayoría de la población. Planteamos aquí un acercamiento al cine Disney desde la ...perspectiva del análisis de los “motivos visuales”, una metodología elaborada por Jordi Balló y Alain Bergala, quienes proponen un esquema en el que cada “motivo visual” se establece en tanto que modelo para la mirada, y funciona como acicate visual desde la memoria y el recuerdo de cada situación o composición gráfica. Hemos recogido una serie de ejemplos para analizarlos desde la perspectiva de la cultura visual, ateniéndonos al concepto de “motivo visual”. Proponemos llevar estas dinámicas de corte analítico y reflexivo al ámbito de la formación inicial de docentes, con el fin de elaborar un discurso innovador en lo referido a conocimiento de las imágenes y recursos retóricos por parte del alumnado de grado de maestro/a de primaria. El objetivo consiste en favorecer un mayor contacto del colectivo docente con el cine y el audiovisual, creando motivaciones teóricas y prácticas desde la cultura visual y la educación artística. Al haber elegido la filmografía Disney proponemos una lectura crítica y desprejuiciada, abordando temáticas urgentes como la inclusión y la integración de las diversidades en el ámbito académico y escolar.
In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial ...status of Asian Americans. Nishime's perceptive readings of popular media--movies, television shows, magazine articles, and artwork--indicate how and why the viewing public often fails to identify multiracial Asian Americans. Using actor Keanu Reeves, the Matrix trilogy, and golfer Tiger Woods as examples, Nishime suggests that this failure is tied to gender, sexuality, and post-racial politics. Also considering alternative images such as reality TV star Kimora Lee Simmons, the television show Battlestar Galactica, and the artwork of Kip Fulbeck, this incisive study offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.
El objetivo del presente artículo es identificar diferentes imágenes “orientalistas” en los posters de la industria cinematográfica italiana de los años cincuenta y sesenta dentro de lo que se conoce ...como el género del péplum y demostrar que estas imágenes forman parte de un régimen discursivo orientalista. A su vez, demostrar cómo la construcción de la alteridad en estos afiches se sustenta fuertemente en las representaciones iconográficas decimonónicas pero con un elemento distintivo, el “héroe”, que aglutina en su figura todos los rasgos positivos de la civilización occidental. Para ello se analizaran algunos carteles cinematográficos promocionales de películas italianas hacia mediados del siglo XX con temática del “Próximo Oriente antiguo”, como La Cortigiana di Babilonia de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1954), Io Semiramide de Primo Zeglio (1963), Le sette folgori di Assur de Silvio Amadio (1962) y L´eroe di Babilonia de Siro Marcellini (1963) entre otras.
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