scholarly journals El Mago (de) Matthew Barney: Influencias Renacentistas en el Ciclo Cremaster

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Anca Luiza Sirbu

In this article we will try to offer a new interpretation of the video art work of the artist Matthew Barney (California, 1967) the Cremaster Cycle, approaching a more humanistic and less biological vision, the last one being the principal study aspect for the experts on Matthew Barney. We will focus on the character of the Magician, a key figure in the Cremaster Cycle. The Magician lighting the pass to a possible interpretation of the Cycle in Renaissance key, the magician character while being a personification of aesthetic- artistic interests of Matthew Barney is also an approximation to the ideal of the Renaissance man: philosopher, magician, healer. Alter-ego of Matthew Barney, the escape artist Harry Houdini represents (and through him all other magical branches) a possible link with the powerful magician Renaissance described by the philosopher Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), able to metamorphose, influence in the sensitivities of his objects, through self-knowledge and knowledge of the Divine.

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. FITZGERALD ◽  
KWOK WAI LAU

AbstractThe partition monoid is a salient natural example of a *-regular semigroup. We find a Galois connection between elements of the partition monoid and binary relations, and use it to show that the partition monoid contains copies of the semigroup of transformations and the symmetric and dual-symmetric inverse semigroups on the underlying set. We characterize the divisibility preorders and the natural order on the (straight) partition monoid, using certain graphical structures associated with each element. This gives a simpler characterization of Green’s relations. We also derive a new interpretation of the natural order on the transformation semigroup. The results are also used to describe the ideal lattices of the straight and twisted partition monoids and the Brauer monoid.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 114-123
Author(s):  
Alexandra Dmitrievna Staruseva-Persheeva

Video art is a hybrid, combining features of both contemporary art as well as screen arts. It brings together different ways of perception working both in a manner of a movie which transfers the viewer into virtual daydreaming (Matthew Barney, Steeve McQueen), and in a manner of a painting or sculpture which gives a viewer some intense corporal experience (Tony Oursler). Accordingly, there are two ways of presenting video art: in a white cube and a black box. In 1970-s video art used to be presented in white cubes of contemporary art galleries where they nailed the screens right to the wall. In a white cube video comes into the viewers sight together with other items in display, therefore a show-piece comes into contact with other ones in a spectators minds eye. Moreover, a white cube gives visitors an opportunity to be in charge of their time of viewing, which implies, that the white cube perception appears rather chaotic and the final cut of a video in the spectators mind becomes unpredictable, what is characteristic of video. In 2000-s when both video and film technologies got replaced by the digital one, all the moving pictures started to resemble one another. A well-lit room of a white cube was not appropriate for high definition videos, whereas a black box is usually associated with a cinema hall and consequently a video presented in such a cinematic manner makes a viewer unconsciously expect to see a cinematic piece of art. Video today is an indispensable figurant of any significant exhibition of contemporary art and it is defined as an artistic (not cinematic) media. Traditionally video is being exhibited in a white cube of a gallery; however, there is now a distinct tendency to present video art in a black box, that is in a cinematic way. As a result its getting harder and harder to distinguish video art from experimental cinema. Nowadays the very strategy of presentation of video may help this media to retain identity or to lose it.


Author(s):  
Brian Cremins

Billy Batson and his alter ego Captain Marvel reached the height of their popularity during World War II. This chapter studies several of Billy’s wartime adventures, stories that artist C. C Beck often dismissed later in his career. In these narratives, Captain Marvel embodies aspects of the ideal American soldier figured as an innocent boy whose courage all but guarantees a victory over the Axis powers. The chapter also examines the social and cultural consequences of this idealized figure, especially on returning soldiers and their families.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Adeliana Galih Nurbaidhah ◽  
Nurhadi Nurhadi ◽  
Sigit Pranawa

Dolalak dance is a folk dance whose movements and costumes adopted the Dutch soldiers war training and dancing movements and costumes. The exsistention of the traditional art become degradation in a year. Dolalak dance is also influenced by the cultural change from modernity, and then the meaning of Dolalak will be gone.This enable people interprete the ideal value of Dolalak dance in daily life that different from Dolalak dance in the past that was full of life regulation values.This qualitative research uses a case study method to answer the different interprete the meaning of Dolalak dance.It uses interview, observation and documentation techniques to collect data. Theory in thisresearch using interpretative culture from Clifford Geertz.This research reveals that Dolalak experienced a cultural creativity by combining with other arts, i.e dangdut and Campursari.It also experienced changes in players, movements, makeup, costumes, and time performanes. As a folk dance play a role in unity and guide the social life. Dolalak dance is interpreted as a religious symbols, varlour, faith and social conditions. Nowdays, it has a new interpretation as a equality, effectivity, efficiency and specialization lead to individualization in the group.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Loredana-Maria Păunescu ◽  
Constanţa Popescu ◽  
Ioana Panagoreţ ◽  
Adina Cezarina Tofan

In the present article the authors will direct their attention to the processes of selection of young, highly educated graduates in economics on the job market. It is known that career planning involves a proper strategy in order to obtain a certain job especially one that suits best with the academic training. It is of high importance the idea that self-knowledge, self-evaluation and understanding of the young academic graduates own limits and skills, interests, values, personal or occupational preferences will help them to articulate their own way in their search for a suitable profession. In light of all the existing realities in the labour market, information and verification of employment opportunities, young graduates, and not only them, will be able to anticipate the opportunities and avoid the negative situations that might affect them emotionally, thus losing their confidence in their own forces and in their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves if necessary. It is appropriate to evaluate and identify all the alternatives, to select the best solution and to act accordingly. Setting a career plan is another essential step in the success of a graduate. More than that, determining individual goals in order to find the ideal job and planning ways of obtaining the objective to be attained are also crucial.


Author(s):  
Anca Luiza Sirbu

El presente trabajo de investigación representa un intento crítico para abordar el concepto de continuidad en el pensamiento artístico basado en el estudio de caso de una obra artística única en su tipo, el Ciclo Cremaster de Matthew Barney. Es una producción artística notoria, que ha suscitado mucho debate y dividido las opiniones de los críticos y del público, sin llegar, sin embargo a concluir de manera definitiva el proceso artístico del autor. La hipótesis que manejamos es la de contemplar al Ciclo Cremaster como una especie de manifiesto contemporáneo de los sistemas desarrollados por el filósofo y libre pensador Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), cuyos tratados sobre el cosmos, la memoria, la imaginación, la magia y la imagen se condensan en una “maquina mágica de la memoria” que podría ser una significante precursora del trabajo de Barney.


Author(s):  
Rachel Nisbet

      In this paper I contend James Joyce invests Finnegans Wake’s river-woman Anna Livia Plurabelle with the agency to reconnect Dublin’s inhabitants to the environs that resource their urban ecology. In early twentieth-century Dublin, Nature retained the fearsome power of Giambattista Vico’s thunderclap. Regular typhoid outbreaks contributed to increased infant mortality rates in the inner city; and, as Anne Marie D’Arcy observes, the River Liffey delta could not absorb the raw sewerage discharged from the city’s wealthy coastal townships, so this washed upriver, offering the ideal conditions for typhoid’s parasitic bacterium to multiply. There is no place for the Romantic sublime in such a setting. Yet  Finnegans Wake nurtures the hope that Dubliners might remediate their city’s urban ecology. Anna Livia “gifts” the city three key means to this end: birth control to limit population growth, an uprising of the poor to redistribute wealth, and gout to curb greed and thus reduce natural resources consumption. While these steps might initiate the beginning of an egalitariansociety in Dublin, they require the city’s inhabitants to gain a heightened consciousness of their actions. With such a revolution, recalling Peter Kropotkin’s EcoAnarchism, played out on an intergenerational timescale, urban Dublin could regain equilibrium with the environs that sustain it, countering the global phenomenon of the ‘Great Acceleration’. Reading the Wake as ecoanarchism is one approach to discover that, like his fictional alter-ego Stephen, Joyce seeks to change the urban ecology of Dublin by pricking the conscience of generations of readers who enjoy the privileges of education, and contemplation. Resumen      Este trabajo argumenta que James Joyce otorga a Anna Livia Plurabelle, la “mujer del río” de Finnegans Wake’s el poder para reconectar a los habitantes de Dublín con los alrededores que forman su ecología urbana. En el Dublín de principios del siglo veinte, la naturaleza retenía el poder aterrador del trueno de Giambattista Vico. Brotes frecuentes de fiebre tifoidea contribuían al aumento de la tasa de mortalidad infantil en el centro de la ciudad, y, como destaca Anne Marie D’Arcy, el delta del río Liffey no podía absorber las aguas residuales que venían de los ricos municipios costeros, así que ésta subía a contracorriente, creando las condiciones óptimas para el desarrollo de la bacteria que produce  la fiebre tifoidea. No hay lugar para el concepto de lo “sublime” del Romanticismo en este escenario. Sin embargo, Finnegans Wake de Joyce alimenta la esperanza de que los dublineses quizá puedan remediar la ecología urbana de su ciudad. Anna Livia ofrece a la ciudad tres claves al respecto: métodos anticonceptivos para disminuir el crecimiento poblacional, el levantamiento de las clases pobres a fin de exigir la redistribución de la riqueza, y la gota para contener la codicia y de ese modo reducir el consumo de recursos naturales. Aunque estos pasos tal vez iniciarían el principio de un Dublín más justo y equitativo, requerirían que los habitantes de la ciudad fueran más conscientes de sus acciones. Con esta revolución, evocando el ecoanarchismo de Peter Kropotkin y aplicándolo a una escala de tiempo intergeneracional, el Dublín urbano podría recuperar el equilibrio con los alrededores que lo mantienen, contrarrestando el fenómeno global de la “Gran Aceleración”. Leer Finnegans Wake desde el punto de vista del ecoanarquismo es una forma de descubrir que, como su álter ego Stephen, Joyce busca cambiar la ecología urbana de Dublín, apelando la conciencia de generaciones de lectores que disfrutan los privilegios de la educación y de la contemplación.


2018 ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Viktor V. Barashkov ◽  

The article deals with the problem of dialogue between the church and contemporary art in Europe on the example of art installations in church space. The author analyses works of three contemporary artists: Christian Boltanski (“Na” - Old church in Amsterdam, 2017-2018), Bill Viola (“Martyrs”, 2014-, and “Mary”, 2016-, St. Paul Cathedral in London) and Stefan Knor (“Himmelwerd’s”, Cathedral in Bamberg, Germany, 2012). Christian Boltanski uses the fundamental theme of human obliteration for his art, strengthened by the space of the cathedral, functioned a long time as a crypt. Bill Viola gives a new interpretation of traditional Christian images of martyrs and Holy Virgin. The technique of video-art makes images dynamic, so spectator can “live” in that space. Stefan Knor aims by the means of contemporary art to actualize the fundamental theological ideas, for example, the idea of stairway to heaven. For the best acceptance of his works he collaborates with church members. The author claims that these artists become the religious owing to such characteristics as depth and sincerity in the interpretation of fundamental anthropological problems and the absence of irony (which is frequent for contemporary art). The article’s author shows that the interiors of the churches can harmoniously accept the works of contemporary artists, provided that the artists have to respect the religious traditions and sacred space of these churches.


2019 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
John Burt Foster

This chapter probes the distinction between higher and lower levels of artistic creativity developed in works by an intergenerational cohort of supremely gifted Russian writers, with Nietzsche’s disillusionment in Wagner as a parallel. In imagined renditions of exceptional achievement in music, painting, or fiction, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Nabokov enact their own high literary aspirations even as they allow for rivalries with lesser talents, for the blindness and hostility of various authorities, and for the urgency imparted by Russian belatedness vis-à-vis the West. In Pushkin’s tragedy of Mozart poisoned by the lesser composer Salieri, inspiration, originality, and many-sidedness emerge as hallmarks of literary/artistic creativity at its fullest. These qualities reappear in the paintings of Tolstoy’s alter ego, the expatriate artist Mikhailov, which include a portrait of Anna Karenina that eclipses the artistic efforts of her lover Vronsky, and in the pseudo-memoir by Nabokov’s megalomaniacal murderer Hermann, whose grandiose delusions are punctured by the parodic virtuosity of the hidden real author. “Genius,” the honorific word often used for exceptional creativity, applies most directly to Pushkin’s portrayal of Mozart (as well as to Pushkin himself). But Tolstoy’s Mikhailov chapters undercut the exceptionality of genius with their dawning interest in emotional infectiousness, which can unite artists with their audiences. In a further qualification, Hermann’s belief in his own genius perverts the ideal of exceptional creativity, indeed reveals its purely destructive potential; while Nabokov in the background gives the issue another twist, in his dazzling experiments with parody as second-order creativity.


Animals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 435
Author(s):  
Matilde Lombardero ◽  
María del Mar Yllera

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most influencing personalities of his time, the perfect representation of the ideal Renaissance man, an expert painter, engineer and anatomist. Regarding Leonardo’s anatomical drawings, apart from human anatomy, he also depicted some animal species. This comparative study focused only on two species: Bears and horses. He produced some anatomical drawings to illustrate the dissection of “a bear’s foot” (Royal Collection Trust), previously described as “the left leg and foot of a bear”, but considering some anatomical details, we concluded that they depict the bear’s right pelvic limb. This misconception was due to the assumption that the bear’s digit I (1st toe) was the largest one, as in humans. We also analyzed a rough sketch (not previously reported), on the same page, and we concluded that it depicts the left antebrachium (forearm) and manus (hand) of a dog/wolf. Regarding Leonardo’s drawing representing the horse anatomy “The viscera of a horse”, the blood vessel arrangement and other anatomical structures are not consistent with the structure of the horse, but are more in accordance with the anatomy of a dog. In addition, other drawings comparing the anatomy of human leg muscles to that of horse pelvic limbs were also discussed in motion.


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