MAKING VISIBLE Smith, Olga
Photographies,
06/2018, Volume:
11, Issue:
2-3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This article analyses recent photographic practices that make visible underlying realities faced by Western societies today as they struggle to reconcile contradictions between their policies on ...race, immigration and ethnicity and the quest for an integrated national identity. The main case studies are drawn from the works of Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony. The article demonstrates how their photographic projects confront the logic of social and cultural marginalisation of the immigrant communities, which often overlaps with their spatial consignment to urban peripheries. By combining reality and fiction, symbolism and documentation, these projects offer alternatives to the modes of representation available in photojournalism, as well as re-connecting with the genre of street photography.
Deskins focuses on the work by Judy Chicago entitled The Dinner Party and explains that her original methods offer a most proactive, critical, and approachable curatorial presentation, providing ...considerations for future research. Research on Chicago's The Dinner Party is abundant, focusing on the monumental table of thirty-nine place settings, each representing a woman who made some contribution to Western history. It was produced over a five-year period, from 1974 to 1979, with more than four hundred volunteers. Scholars have examined, praised, and criticized the installation, predominantly the sculptural table, from feminist and formal aesthetic perspectives. From Chicago's early innovations developing context through research, artistic experimentation, and creating a framework for honoring women's contributions to history, to The Dinner Party's contemporary display, the curatorial implications are significant.
This article traces the historical relation of heartbeats, science and art. It begins with an outline of historical ideas and science concerning the heart and the arterial pulse that will give better ...understanding of the intimate relation and differences between both and how early studies of the heart led to the discovery of the pulse and to the early relationship between heartbeats and art. Secondly, it tracks through history the particular interest of artists in making the pulse visible. Devices linked to bodies serve as mediators in artworks that project body mechanisms beyond corporeal limits. The works discussed project heartbeats as metaphors of emotions and life in installations that involve multiple senses.
Women hospitalized on an antepartum unit can benefit from an open studio art therapy group. A case description follows six women over five group sessions. Several common experiences that occurred ...throughout the sessions included isolation/boredom, uncertainty, lack of control, and family. Art therapy in a group setting allowed the women to express their fears and anxieties and gain support from other women experiencing similar situations.
El indigenismo fue uno de los aspectos que más se resaltó en periódicos como El Universal, en particular en los primeros años, cuando se organizó el concurso de la India Bonita. Este certamen, que ...venía de una política editorial conservadora, capitalista y progobierno, se presentó por primera vez en 1921, y fue una de las principales respuestas a esa tendencia por revalorizar la belleza indígena y el origen étnico del mexicano. Las fotografías de las concursantes y el discurso dado en las columnas contiguas son otros dos elementos editoriales que más evidenciaron esta perspectiva noticiosa, con la que se construyó toda una idea de altruismo y moralidad en torno a la mujer indígena.
The 2013 revision of the Ethical Principles for Art Therapists added creativity as a core value underlying the profession. At the same time, the ethical principles also included a nondiscrimination ...clause to protect the interests of nonnormative clients. In this article I explore creativity as a basic human right, promoted through freedom of artistic expression with clients to promote positive change. Creativity is viewed as a guiding principle to provide an outlet for expression, self-understanding, and transformation for those otherwise marginalized.
Various facade designs in modern architecture have expanded the limits of materials and construction methods. In this study, I explored and analyzed structural, decorative, media, and adaptive as ...representative case studies of facade expression. This study identified the following modern architectural trends for new facade construction methods in South Korea. First, efforts to improve the function of spaces by integrating interior and exterior spaces. Second, attempts for creating decorative facade expressions that stimulate human senses, or expand perceptions and increase aesthetic sense. Third, forming complementary relationships with the city by demonstrating regionality. Fourth, enhancing the performance of facades with adaptive facades. Fifth, helping to expand publicness, such as strengthening and combining the relationships between city, building, and person. Changes and advances in architectural facades will ultimately enhance fundamental aspects of architecture, enriching our daily living through harmony between the traditional and the modern, buildings and humans, and buildings and the environment.
A procura pelo conhecimento sobre o papel da superfície têxtil como veículo de expressão estética e conceptual na Moda leva à abordagem do tema proposto. A investigação tem como objetivo explorar as ...tecnologias como ferramentas de materialização do conceito e a estética da marca Maison Margiela, na qual se pode considerar que a expressão artística é central. Este projeto foca-se no entendimento mais profundo do processo criativo da Maison Margiela, com destaque para as propriedades das superfícies têxteis. Analisa todo o universo de materialização da expressão da marca (processos, tecnologias, materiais, características, entre outros), abordando, de uma forma geral, sob a forma de metodologia não intervencionista qualitativa. A problematização envolve o aprofundar do entendimento das possibilidades de materialização das superfícies têxteis, sendo expectável que estas sejam uma forma relevante de desencadear experiências estéticas e até mesmo sociais. A mão e a máquina aplicadas em convergência, com noções morfológicas de design, representam uma solução quer para a expressão artística de uma marca, quer para a comunicação simbólica com o observador (recetor). Espera-se ter obtido um contributo válido para o alargamento do conhecimento na área do Design de Superfície e da Estética, incitando à interpretação dos objetos de moda feminina e das suas superfícies.
This special issue, with its focus on Cultures of Protest in American Music, is anchored in the investigation, from various diverging perspectives, of a set of core questions. What possibilities of ...protest can be found in music? How does music, as a form of artistic expression and cultural communication, facilitate – or even articulate in itself – the act of protest? What changes, in measurable societal and political terms, can the production and reception of music in the contemporary world in general, and in the Americas in particular, engender and create?
The upheavals of glasnost and perestroika followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed the art scene in Kyiv, launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a global ...phenomenon. The previously calm waters of the culturally provincial capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became radically stirred with new and daring art made publicly visible for the first time since the avant-garde period of the early twentieth century. As artists were freed from the dictates of the fading Communist ideology and the constraints of late socialist realism, an explosion of styles emerged, creating an effect of baroque excess. This exhibition catalogue traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of these transitional and exhilarating years in Kyiv while providing some historical artworks for context. Published in partnership with the Zimmerli Museum.
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