A School Made of Acts Andrade Castro, Óscar; Reyes Gil, Jaime
Performance research,
12/2016, Volume:
21, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Re-founded in 1952 by a group of architects, artists and poets; the School of Valparaíso represents one of the most long-lasting and original experimental artistic experiences in the Latin American ...context. The article comments on a fundamental aspect of the School approach: the lived structure of Acts that organizes and gives shape to its creative experience and learning ambit-a continuous rhythm of Acts, structuring the spheres of life, work and study. The authors propose that one of the particular dimensions constructed by this practice is to summon and situate the work at the centre of the School quests. The article develops the idea that it is exactly through the work that the School seems to fulfil its role, transforming ourselves into the crafts.
Why does a society seek out images of violence? What can the
consumption of violent imagery teach us about the history of
violence and the ways in which it has been represented and
understood? Assaf ...Pinkus considers these questions within the
context of what he calls galleries of violence, the torment imagery
that flourished in German-speaking regions during the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these images and the visceral
bodily responses that they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues
that the new visual discourse on violence was a watershed in
premodern conceptualizations of selfhood.
Images of martyrdom in late medieval Germany reveal a strikingly
brutal parade of passion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated
organs, extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other torments.
Stripped from their devotional context and presented simply as
brutal acts, these portrayals assailed viewers' bodies and minds so
violently that they amounted to what Pinkus describes as "visual
aggressions." Addressing contemporary discourses on violence and
cruelty, the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of the
tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of violence to larger
cultural concerns about the ethics of violence and bodily integrity
in the conceptualization of early modern personhood.
Innovative and convincing, this study heralds a fundamental
shift in the scholarly conversation about premodern violence,
moving from a focus on the imitatio Christi and the
liturgy of punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem
in an ethical system. Scholars of medieval and early modern art,
history, and literature will welcome and engage with Pinkus's
research for years to come.
Les personnages circulaires dessinés par Huang Yao dans les années 1930-1940 et par Yancong dans les années 2000-2010 interrogent la possibilité d’une caricature non plus définie par la charge ...graphique, comme le laisse entendre d’abord son étymologie, mais au contraire par l’épure, par la stylisation presque géométrique des visages. Depuis le gag jusqu’à l’humour noir et à la satire, le Niubizi de Huang Yao et les personnages de Yancong provoquent différents types de rire, mais la subversion dans laquelle s’inscrivent ces caricatures s’avère avant tout esthétique. Enfin, le minimalisme des figures chez ces deux artistes peut s’expliquer par d’autres stratégies liées à des conditions techniques, des exigences commerciales, des inclinations idéologiques ou encore des considérations auctoriales.
What are Fayum mummy portraits? Why don't more people know about them? And why are they important for art educators to know about and to integrate into their curricula? In this article, the author ...aims to answer each of these questions.
The relevance of this study is preconditioned by the appeal to the problem of the development of the term semantics on the example of synonymy in the framework of modern terminology of art history. ...The article is focused on three synonymous units
astronomical art, cosmic art, space art.
They arouse interest as, on the one hand, these units claim the status of art history terms, and on the other hand, they are in synonymous relations, which contradicts the requirements for the term system. Revealing the features of the semantics and functioning of these units, and thus tracking the semantic processes that accompany their terminologization, the authors aim to establish the features of synonymous lexical units in the phase of their formation as terms. The study was carried out on the basis of the case method with the use of methods of definitional analysis, componential analysis, semasiological analysis, contextual analysis, as well as elements of chain and corpus analysis. The research material consists of specialized thematic dictionaries of art history terminology, as well as articles on art history. The concepts under consideration represent an interesting case of the formation of a term and the assignment of an appropriate semantic volume to it. Despite the fact that initially
astronomical art, cosmic art, space art
entered professional communication as synonyms, they are already breaking out of the scope of synonymy, as evidenced by their functioning in special texts: the concept of
cosmic art
is wider in meaning than
space art,
while, according to some sources,
astronomical art
and
space art
are in a hyper-hyponymic relationship.
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