scholarly journals The Problem of Representation of Religious in Contemporary Art. Secular and Postsecular Perspectives

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religion And Art

The article deals with the relationship between religion and contemporary art, discussing their configurations from two different perspectives – the one of secularization and the postsecular one. The author mantains that in the perspective of secularization the fields of religion and art are treated as autonomous and separate, therefore the passage to postsecular condition implicates the destruction of principle law of autonomy, by this opening the possibility of the interlaying of the contexts of religion and art. The article comes to the conclusion that postsecular approach supposes that the relationship between religion and contemporary art becomes possible only by accepting the refusal of the direct representation and this means that religious implications can be recognised not as the representations of religious contents, but rather as the track of them, which can assume the forms of profanation or reflection on the experience of secularization.

Images between Religion and Art

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Critical Potential ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religion And Art ◽  
Contemporary Artists

This chapter discusses the different ways contemporary artists re-use religious motifs and the effects of such citations. In the majority of cases their artworks function as a context to turn that religion into a topic, and an object of discussion. The critical potential of contemporary artworks that deal with religious themes lies somewhere apart from art’s rejection or mocking of religion, as blasphemy retains its proximity to the specifically religious power of images. When contemporary artists reuse religious motifs they become counter-motifs. The interest in religion, in its various traditions and guises, indicates a desire for self-understanding by re-staging the past. The multifaceted relationship between contemporary art and religion is examined through a detailed discussion of twelve exhibitions organised between 1999 and 2010, which approach religion and religious art from a variety of perspectives. Many of the curators claim that they are emphatically not religious, nor trying to send a religious message. Including religion in the infrastructure of display associated with contemporary art creates a different visibility in the public space and asks questions concerning such visual practices as iconoclasm; the relationship between commercialism, mass media and religion, and the afterlife of religious art, among many others.

scholarly journals Contemporary art and financialization: Two approaches

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Derivative Instruments ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This essay identifies two approaches to theorizing the relationship between financialization and contemporary art. The first departs from an analysis of how market logics in non-financial spheres are being transformed to facilitate financial circulation; the other considers valuation practices in financial markets (and those related to derivative instruments in particular) from a socio-cultural perspective. According to the first approach, the contemporary art market is in theory a hostile environment for financialization, although new practices are emerging that are increasing its integration with the financial sphere. The second approach identifies socio- cultural similarities between the logics by which value is extracted, amplified, and distributed through derivative instruments and contemporary art. The two approaches present a discrepancy: on the one hand, contemporary art functions as an impediment to outright financialization because of market opacity; on the other, contemporary art represents a socio- cultural analog to derivative instruments. The essay concludes by setting out the terms for a more holistic understanding of contemporary art’s relationship to financialization, which would enable an integration of its economic and socio-cultural dimensions.

scholarly journals DISTINCTION AND DIFFERENCE: REVISITING THE QUESTION OF TASTE

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Rebentisch
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Recent Trend ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Logic ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

The essay discusses the logic of distinction under the sign of the contemporary culture of difference and proposes a discussion of the relationship between taste and contemporary art. The recent trend toward greater individualization might have rendered social codes more permeable. But this state of affairs is neither the opposite of the standardization nor does it imply that the social logic of distinction has been suspended. It has merely undergone further differentiation, but without abolishing the signifiers of status. On the one hand art as a commodity partakes in the respective developments, on the other, certain strands in contemporary art can also be read as opposing the subject of aesthetic experience to the subject of consumerist taste.

scholarly journals Author’s course in acting in choreography: issues and development prospect

2020 ◽  
pp. 216-227
Author(s):  
Anna E. Melovatskaya
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Methodology ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Separate Area ◽  
The One ◽  
Training Professional ◽  
The Relationship

The article explores the issue of teaching acting in choreography; the author analyzes the relationship between the acting in the drama and ballet theaters, as well as their fundamental differences; the specifics of teaching the discipline “Theory and Practice of Acting in Ballet” and a number of requirements for those who teach this course are considered; in the article, acting in choreography is considered, on the one hand, as a separate area of dramatic art, on the other hand, it is inextricably linked with the dance itself and with the process of training professional dancers. The paper raises the issue of the lack of teaching methodology for acting in choreography at the highest level of education, as a result of which only personal practical experience, understanding, analysis and accumulated knowledge of the teacher who wants to teach this subject can be the basis on which the material for teaching this subject is formed. The article compares the acting programs of Moscow State Academy of Choreography and the Institute of Contemporary Art, and reviews the specialized literature.

scholarly journals SEKULIARIZACIJA, MENAS IR RELIGIJA, ARBA – KAS YRA ŠV. SEBASTIJONAS?

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Šerpytytė
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Religious Art ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Religious Meaning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Religion And Art

Straipsnis skirtas sekuliarizacijos kaip šiuolaikinio pasaulio iššūkio prasmės aptarimui. Svarstomos skirtingos sekuliarizacijos prasmės sampratos, išryškinant jų ontologinę perspektyvą. Grindžiamas požiūris, kad tik sekuliarizacijos ontologinės prasmės akcentavimas įgalina paaiškinti sekuliarizaciją kaip šiuolaikinio pasaulio iššūkį. Pasiremiant šia perspektyva, analizuojamas ir interpretuojamas religijos ir meno santykis šiuolaikiniame pasaulyje. Straipsnyje taip pat susitelkiama į vieną iš šiuolaikinio meno tendencijų – konceptualizavimo tendenciją. Ne tik interpretuojant atskirus meno kūrinius, bet ir išryškinant skirtingas šiuolaikinio meno startegijas, atskleidžiama „religinio“ meno religinės prasmės „mutacija“. Analizė parodo, jog meno sekuliarizuota prasmė tarpsta „gyvoje“, „aktyvioje“ religinėje prasmėje. Daroma išvada, kad šiuolaikinio religijos ir meno santykio analizė įgalina atskleisti sekuliarizacijos ambivalentiškumą – jos sakraliąją ir profaniškąją prasmes, tam tikrą sekuliarizacijos proceso dialektiką.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: sekuliarizacija, menas, religija, nihilizmas, Ch. Tayloras, Vattimo.SECULARIZATION, ART AND RELIGION OR – WHAT IT IS – SAN SEBASTIAN?Rita Šerpytytė SummaryThe article deals with the meaning of secularization as the challenge for contemporary world and considers the ways that secularization affects religion and art as well as their mutual relationship. Different concepts of the meaning of secularization are discussed and their ontological perspectives are highlighted. The attitude, that it is namely the ontological emphasis of the meaning of secularization that enables us to explain its challenge for contemporary world, is being justified. Based on this perspective, the relationship between religion and art in the contemporary world is analyzed and interpreted. The article also focuses on one of the tendencies of contemporary art, i.e. the tendency of conceptualization. Not only by interpreting certain works of art, but also elucidating different strategies of contemporary art, the “mutation” of the religious sense of “religious” art is disclosed. The analysis shows that the secularized meaning of art flourishes through its “alive” and “active” religious meaning. The conclusion is drawn that the analysis of the contemporary relationship between religion and art enables us to disclose the ambiguity of secularization – its sacral and profane sense, a certain dialectics of the process of secularization.Keywords: secularization, art, religion, nihilism, Ch. Taylor, Vattimo.

Misreading Egypt

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Schotter
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Technologies

The first chapter of Hieroglyphic Modernisms exposes the complex history of Western misconceptions of Egyptian writing from antiquity to the present. Hieroglyphs bridge the gap between modern technologies and the ancient past, looking forward to the rise of new media and backward to the dispersal of languages in the mythical moment of the Tower of Babel. The contradictory ways in which hieroglyphs were interpreted in the West come to shape the differing ways that modernist writers and filmmakers understood the relationship between writing, film, and other new media. On the one hand, poets like Ezra Pound and film theorists like Vachel Lindsay and Sergei Eisenstein use the visual languages of China and of Egypt as a more primal or direct alternative to written words. But Freud, Proust, and the later Eisenstein conversely emphasize the phonetic qualities of Egyptian writing, its similarity to alphabetical scripts. The chapter concludes by arguing that even avant-garde invocations of hieroglyphics depend on narrative form through an examination of Hollis Frampton’s experimental film Zorns Lemma.

Researching (with) Major Food Retailers

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Evans
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Major Food ◽  
Food Retailers ◽  
Food Retailer ◽  
The One ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

This paper considers the relationship between social science and the food industry, and it suggests that collaboration can be intellectually productive and morally rewarding. It explores the middle ground that exists between paid consultancy models of collaboration on the one hand and a principled stance of nonengagement on the other. Drawing on recent experiences of researching with a major food retailer in the UK, I discuss the ways in which collaborating with retailers can open up opportunities for accessing data that might not otherwise be available to social scientists. Additionally, I put forward the argument that researchers with an interest in the sustainability—ecological or otherwise—of food systems, especially those of a critical persuasion, ought to be empirically engaging with food businesses. I suggest that this is important in terms of generating better understandings of the objectionable arrangements that they seek to critique, and in terms of opening up conduits through which to affect positive changes. Cutting across these points is the claim that while resistance to commercial engagement might be misguided, it is nevertheless important to acknowledge the power-geometries of collaboration and to find ways of leveling and/or leveraging them. To conclude, I suggest that universities have an important institutional role to play in defining the terms of engagement as well as maintaining the boundaries between scholarship and consultancy—a line that can otherwise become quite fuzzy when the worlds of commerce and academic research collide.

Choice Of Technique And The Volume Of Saving (A Re-Examination Of The Cobb-Douglas Model)

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-617
Author(s):  
Mohammad Anisur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Production Function ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
Labour Intensity ◽  
The One ◽  
Choice Of Technique ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between the degree of aggregate labour-intensity and the aggregate volume of saving in an economy where a Cobb-6ouglas production function in its traditional form can be assumed to give a good approximation to reality. The relationship in ques¬tion has an obviously important bearing on economic development policy in the area of choice of labour intensity. To the extent that and in the range where an increase in labour intensity would adversely affect the volume of savings, a con¬flict arises between two important social objectives, i.e., higher rate of capital formation on the one hand and greater employment and distributive equity on the other. If relative resource endowments in the economy are such that such a "competitive" range of labour-intensity falls within the nation's attainable range of choice, development planners will have to arrive at a compromise between these two social goals.

Bastard Feudalism and the Framing of Thirteenth-Century England

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Coss
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

In the introduction to his great work of 2005, Framing the Early Middle Ages, Chris Wickham urged not only the necessity of carefully framing our studies at the outset but also the importance of closely defining the words and concepts that we employ, the avoidance ‘cultural sollipsism’ wherever possible and the need to pay particular attention to continuities and discontinuities. Chris has, of course, followed these precepts on a vast scale. My aim in this chapter is a modest one. I aim to review the framing of thirteenth-century England in terms of two only of Chris’s themes: the aristocracy and the state—and even then primarily in terms of the relationship between the two. By the thirteenth century I mean a long thirteenth century stretching from the period of the Angevin reforms of the later twelfth century on the one hand to the early to mid-fourteenth on the other; the reasons for taking this span will, I hope, become clearer during the course of the chapter, but few would doubt that it has a validity.

scholarly journals A New Paradigm in the Relationship between Melatonin and Breast Cancer: Gut Microbiota Identified as a Potential Regulatory Agent

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 3141
Author(s):  
Aurora Laborda-Illanes ◽  
Lidia Sánchez-Alcoholado ◽  
Soukaina Boutriq ◽  
Isaac Plaza-Andrades ◽  
Jesús Peralta-Linero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Bacterial Population ◽  
Kynurenine Pathway ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Bacterial Composition ◽  
Glucuronidase Activity ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Melatonin Production

In this review we summarize a possible connection between gut microbiota, melatonin production, and breast cancer. An imbalance in gut bacterial population composition (dysbiosis), or changes in the production of melatonin (circadian disruption) alters estrogen levels. On the one hand, this may be due to the bacterial composition of estrobolome, since bacteria with β-glucuronidase activity favour estrogens in a deconjugated state, which may ultimately lead to pathologies, including breast cancer. On the other hand, it has been shown that these changes in intestinal microbiota stimulate the kynurenine pathway, moving tryptophan away from the melatonergic pathway, thereby reducing circulating melatonin levels. Due to the fact that melatonin has antiestrogenic properties, it affects active and inactive estrogen levels. These changes increase the risk of developing breast cancer. Additionally, melatonin stimulates the differentiation of preadipocytes into adipocytes, which have low estrogen levels due to the fact that adipocytes do not express aromatase. Consequently, melatonin also reduces the risk of breast cancer. However, more studies are needed to determine the relationship between microbiota, melatonin, and breast cancer, in addition to clinical trials to confirm the sensitizing effects of melatonin to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and its ability to ameliorate or prevent the side effects of these therapies.

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