scholarly journals „Szaman nigdy nie umiera”. Sztuka naskalna jako wyraz tożsamości w twórczości Jane Ash Poitras

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 207-233
Author(s):  
Andrzej Rozwadowski
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Visual Artist ◽  
Indigenous Perspective ◽  
Ancient Rock ◽  
Indigenous Spirituality

This article discusses the phenomenon of reusing of ancient rock art iconography in modern art on the example of the artworks of Canadian Cree visual artist Jane Ash Poitras. To understand the role the rock art plays in the collages of J.A. Poitras, the first part of the paper is focused on the Indigenous perspective, which provides the clue to reading complexity of history and contemporary art of the First Nations in Canada. Then the painting Shaman never die V is thoroughly analyzed. It is showed that rock art motifs used in this artwork had been very carefully selected and the meanings they evoke significantly go in pair with wider ideas related to traumatic history of Indigenous Canadians as well as ideas related to persistence of Indigenous spirituality symbolized by the image of shaman.

Contemporary Art

Art History ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Smith
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Local Language ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Public Media ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many

As an art-critical or historical category––one that might designate a style of art, a tendency among others, or a period in the history of art––“contemporary art” is relatively recent. In art world discourse throughout the world, it appears in bursts of special usage in the 1920s and 1930s, and again during the 1960s, but it remains subsidiary to terms––such as “modern art,” “modernism,” and, after 1970, “postmodernism”––that highlight art’s close but contested relationships to social and cultural modernity. “Contemporary art” achieves a strong sense, and habitual capitalization, only in the 1980s. Subsequently, usage grew rapidly, to become ubiquitous by 2000. Contemporary art is now the undisputed name for today’s art in professional contexts and enjoys widespread resonance in public media and popular speech. Yet, its valiance for any of the usual art-critical and historical purposes remains contested and uncertain. To fill in this empty signifier by establishing the content of this category is the concern of a growing number of early-21st-century publications. This article will survey these developments in historical sequence. Although it will be shown that use of the term “contemporary art” as a referent has a two-hundred-year record, as an art-historical field, contemporary art is so recent, and in such volatile formation, that general surveys of the type now common for earlier periods in the history of art are just beginning to appear. To date, only one art-historiographical essay has been attempted. Listed within Contemporary Art Becomes a Field, this essay (“The State of Art History: Contemporary Art” (Art Bulletin 92.4 [2010]: 366–383; Smith 2010, cited under Historiography) is by the present author and forms the conceptual basis of this article. Contemporary art’s deep immersion in the art market and auction system is profiled in the separate Oxford Bibliographies article Art Markets and Auction. This article does not include any of the many thousands of books, catalogues, and essays that are monographic studies of individual contemporary artists, because it would be invidious to select a small number. For similar reasons, entries on journals, websites, and blogs are omitted. A select listing of them may be found in Terry Smith, Contemporary Art: World Currents (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011; Smith 2011 cited under Surveys). Books on art movements are not to be found because contemporary art, unlike modern art, has no movements in the same art-historical sense. It consists of currents, tendencies, relationships, concerns, and interests and is the product of a complex condition in which different senses of history are coming into play. With regret, this article confines itself to publications in English, the international language of the contemporary art world. This fact obscures the importance and valiance of certain local-language publications, even though many key texts were issued simultaneously both in the local language and English, and many others have subsequently been translated. In acknowledgment of this lacuna, a subsection on Primary Documents has been included.

SYSTEM OF ARCHAIC SIGNS-SYMBOLS IN THE ORNAMENTS OF THE MESENA SPINNING ROTARY

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (77) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
A.A. Zhogolevа ◽  
◽  
E.G. Stolyarova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Single System ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The article is devoted to the study of the symbols of the Mezen painting as a single system. The spinning wheel is viewed as a cosmogonic model of our ancestors, where painting is directly related to the content of the image. The object of the research is the archaic symbols of the Mezen painting. The subject is the development of ornaments and prints for decor and product design. The history of the Mezen craft (geography, origins, traditions), the artistic features of the craft (materials, technology) and the semantics of the ornament are studied. The article considers archaic ornaments of Mezeno in connection with the ancient cultures of mankind (the Neolithic era, Andronov culture, Ancient Greece, etc.) and Slavic traditional culture. The article deals with deciphering the semantics of the ornament of the Mezen spinning wheel as a reflection of the idea of the world of our ancestors. The author's development "The symbolism of the Mezen painting in contemporary art" is given, showing the possibility of using the Mezen ornament at the present stage of the development of artistic culture in art and design. The authors of the article propose to use the ornaments and symbols of Mezeno as decor and prints in modern art and design.

PERFORMANCE AS A CONTEMPORARY ART PHENOMENON

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-156
Author(s):  
Yu. Yu. Padyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Special Period ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Xxth Century ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
History Of

The end of the XIXth — beginning of the XXth centuries is a special period in the history of world art culture, characterized by the emergence of such trends as modernism, post-impressionism, avant-gardism, abstractionism, cubism, surrealism and many others. The motto of XXth-century art was "Art into Life". Often new trends became a response to the demand of the mass consumer. One of them was the art of performance. Appearing as a rejection of traditional practices of painting, sculpture and theater, performance organically incorporated wellknown and new approaches and technologies that caused an alternative way of working with space and time. It should be noted that historiography focuses on materials that explore the origins of performance and installation on a global scale. The most significant are the works by American, Western European and Polish authors. At the same time, the historiographic review showed a lack of a large scientific heritage of Russian artists in the field of performance: the process of forming modern art criticism, which would reflect the later history of performance than the first half of the XXth century, is still out of the researchers' sight.

scholarly journals A Summary and Analysis of J.R. Miller’s “The Southern Numbered Treaties,” and Sharon Venne’s “Understanding Treaty 6: An Indigenous Perspective”

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-46
Author(s):  
Miranda Watters
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Popular Narrative ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Indigenous Perspective ◽  
The University

There are many accounts of the history of the treaties between the Crown and the Indigenous peoples in Canada. This paper summarizes and analyses two of them. J.R. Miller, history professor emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, gives an account of treaties one through seven in his article, “The Southern Numbered Treaties,” which is contained in his book Compact, Contract, Covenant: Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada. Sharon Venne, an accomplished First Nations lawyer and member of the Cree Nation, also writes about the treaties in southern Canada, focusing particularly on treaty six, in “Understanding Treaty 6: An Indigenous Perspective.” These two articles analyze the processes of treaty making, and offer perspectives contrary to the popular narrative, as well as arguing that the popular narrative does not include the entire history. This paper starts by summarizing each article separately, then analyses some of the main points. The analysis will argue in favour of the arguments put forth by Venne and Miller.

scholarly journals But is it art? : the construction and valuation of illustration in Victoria's Island Illustrators Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Jaleen Grove
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Division I ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Commercial Art ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
History Of

In Canada, illustration, commercial art, and conservative, traditional art are often spoken of as separate from and opposite to "non-commercial", "contemporary art", a division I argue stems from the older distinction between art and craft but one that can be subverted. Using concepts from Gowans, Greenhalgh, Mortenson, Shiner, and Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production, this thesis traces the sociology and art history of the division between traditional and modern art that led to the formation of the Island Illustrators Society in 1985 in Victoria, British Columbia. I argue illustration is an original, theoretical art form indistinguishable from but alienated by contemporary art, that conservative art is neither static nor irrelevant, and that non-commercial contemporary art is a misnomer. I find the Society challenged the definitions of art and illustration by promoting illustrative fine art and by transcending binary oppositions of conservative and contemporary, commercial and non-commercial.

scholarly journals But is it art? : the construction and valuation of illustration in Victoria's Island Illustrators Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon Jaleen Grove
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Division I ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Commercial Art ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
History Of

In Canada, illustration, commercial art, and conservative, traditional art are often spoken of as separate from and opposite to "non-commercial", "contemporary art", a division I argue stems from the older distinction between art and craft but one that can be subverted. Using concepts from Gowans, Greenhalgh, Mortenson, Shiner, and Bourdieu's theory of the field of cultural production, this thesis traces the sociology and art history of the division between traditional and modern art that led to the formation of the Island Illustrators Society in 1985 in Victoria, British Columbia. I argue illustration is an original, theoretical art form indistinguishable from but alienated by contemporary art, that conservative art is neither static nor irrelevant, and that non-commercial contemporary art is a misnomer. I find the Society challenged the definitions of art and illustration by promoting illustrative fine art and by transcending binary oppositions of conservative and contemporary, commercial and non-commercial.

scholarly journals Ferula świętego papieża Pawła VI – innowacja i symbol tradycji

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Irena Rolska
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

Among the topics of the Second Vatican Council were issues related to art. Pope Paul VI wanted contemporary art to open up to a new post-Conciliar era in the history of the Church. Artistic events and the works of modern art themselves, under the patronage of the Pope, in conservative environments, provoked discussions on contemporary religious art, and even the lack of consent for artists to depart from accepted canons of art. Perhaps the greatest opposition of conservatives was caused by the papal ferula, a centuries-old sign of the pope’s religious authority given by God. Paul VI ordered a new ferule from the sculptor Lello Scorzelli. Paul’s VI ferule is an example of a work of modern art, but the symbolism contained in it refers to the old tradition. The arrangement of the tormented, elongated body of Christ refers to medieval doloristic crucifixions – painful crosses. Christ on the ferule was crucified on the Tree of Life, which symbolically gives food to life for Christians. The form of a bent, not straight cross beam was also taken from the period of medieval art. It was a symbolic break with the statement that the pope’s authority came from God. At the same time, he symbolically stated the pope’s obedience to the mystery of the cross and his apostolic mission. Ferule St. Pope Paul VI in his apostolic mission used Popes: John Paul I, and the longest St. John Paul II.

Industry and Intelligence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Gillick
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Current Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history of modern art only through catastrophic events cannot account for the subtle developments that lead to the profound confusion at the heart of contemporary art. In Industry and Intelligence, the artist Liam Gillick writes a nuanced genealogy to help us appreciate contemporary art’s engagement with history even when it seems apathetic or blind to current events. Taking a broad view of artistic creation from 1820 to today, Gillick follows the response of artists to incremental developments in science, politics, and technology. The great innovations and dislocations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have their place in this timeline, but their traces are alternately amplified and diminished as Gillick moves through artistic reactions to liberalism, mass manufacturing, psychology, nuclear physics, automobiles, and a host of other advances. He intimately ties the origins of contemporary art to the social and technological adjustments of modern life, which artists struggled to incorporate truthfully into their works.

scholarly journals Seni Lukis Modern Bernafaskan Islam di Bandung 1970-2000an

Panggung ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Cahyana ◽  
Reiza D Dienaputra ◽  
Setiawan Sabana ◽  
Awaludin Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
The West ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTWriting the history of the development of modern Indonesian painting from thematic point of viewstill refers to importance events that compose the mainstream of contemporary art trends in Indonesiainfluenced by the West. While events that are no less important relating to the emergence of aesthetictendencies related to religion have been marginalized, especially in modern art with Islamic breath becomeimportant part in the history of the development of modern Indonesian painting, aesthetic approach toanalyze the visual elements present in the painting. The result of this study the development of modernIslamic art in Bandung shows that there are 4 period of development, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and 2000s.This division of time is based on thematic tendencies that emerge and became the main tendencies at eachtime.Keywords: Painting, modern, Islam, BandungABSTRAKPenulisan sejarah perkembangan seni lukis modern Indonesia dari sudut pandang tematik hinggasaat ini masih mengacu pada peristiwa penting yang menggubah arus utama kecenderunganseni rupa kontemporer di Indonesia yang dipengaruhi Barat. Sementara peristiwa yang tidakkalah penting berkaitan dengan munculnya kecenderungan estetik yang berkaitan denganagama menjadi terpinggirkan, khususnya dalam seni lukis modern bernafaskan Islam. Halitu yang menjadi latar belakang penelitian ini dilakukan dengan tujuan agar perkembanganseni lukis modern bernafaskan Islam menjadi bagian penting dalam sejarah perkembanganseni lukis modern Indonesia khususnya di kota Bandung. Penelitian ini menggunakan metodesejarah visual yang tentu melibatkan pendekatan estetik untuk menganalisis unsur-unsurrupa yang hadir dalam lukisan. Hasil dari penelitian ini perkembangan seni lukis modernbernafaskan Islam di kota Bandung secara tematik menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 4 periodeperkembangan, yaitu masa tahun 70-an, masa perkembangan di tahun 80-an, di tahun 90-andan tahun 2000-an. Pembagian masa ini berdasarkan kecenderungan tematik yang muncul danmenjadi kecenderungan utama pada tiap masa.Kata Kunci: Seni lukis, modern, Islam, Bandung

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Kim A. Munson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comic Art

This introduction to the book Comic Art in Museums by art historian Kim A. Munson explores the history, controversies, and trends that have shaped comic art exhibitions, important publications, and key museums, galleries, and collecting institutions. Munson explains how the six sections of the book map out the history of influential shows of original comic art from newly rediscovered shows of the 1930’s to contemporary blockbusters like High and Low: Modern Art, Popular Culture and Masters of American Comics, as well as the critical dialogue surrounding these exhibitions. This introduction also contains a brief discussion on shows of fine art influenced by comics, such as Splat, Boom, Pow! The Influence of Comics on Contemporary Art. Includes exhibition photos: Marvel (Seattle), Krazy Kat (Madrid), Rube Goldberg (San Francisco), Mangasia (Nantes).

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