scholarly journals Transhistorical Dialogue Concerning Images: Baltrušaitis and Kircher

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Odeta Žukauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Visual Phenomena ◽  
Athanasius Kircher ◽  
Modern Thinking

SummaryThe article explores the works of Jurgis Baltrušaitis on depraved perspectives. In particular, it examines his references to Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in the books dedicated to anamorphoses, aberrations, Egyptomania and distorting mirror’s reflections. The paper questions what led Baltrušaitis to the dialogue with the German visionary. The close reading of Baltrušaitis works reveals that in Kircher’s pre-modern thinking the art historian found those domains of between-the-two, communalities of art and science, art and nature, art and social imaginary that have become more important in postmodernist period. Kircher’s treatises, previously uninterpreted in the context of art history, encouraged the development of the broader studies of images focused on visual phenomena that remained for a long time outside the autonomous field of art history. Without privileging an aesthetic and evolutionary approach in art history, Baltrušaitis’ works reveal anthropological and ontological dimensions of images. They disclose that the image is always related to visual experience and imagination, which takes us beyond the horizon of reality.

Resonance in Dhvani Aesthetics and the Deleuzian Logic of Sensation

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Srajana Kaikini
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Sanskrit Poetics ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Time Image

This paper undertakes an intersectional reading of visual art through theories of literary interpretation in Sanskrit poetics in close reading with Deleuze's notions of sensation. The concept of Dhvani – the Indian theory of suggestion which can be translated as resonance, as explored in the Rasa – Dhvani aesthetics offers key insights into understanding the mode in which sensation as discussed by Deleuze operates throughout his reflections on Francis Bacon's and Cézanne's works. The paper constructs a comparative framework to review modern and classical art history, mainly in the medium of painting, through an understanding of the concept of Dhvani, and charts a course of reinterpreting and examining possible points of concurrence and departure with respect to the Deleuzian logic of sensation and his notions of time-image and perception. The author thereby aims to move art interpretation's paradigm towards a non-linguistic sensory paradigm of experience. The focus of the paper is to break the moulds of normative theory-making which guide ideal conditions of ‘understanding art’ and look into alternative modes of experiencing the ‘vocabulary’ of art through trans-disciplinary intersections, in this case the disciplines being those of visual art, literature and phenomenology.

The Systemic Image

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge Hinterwaldner
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Art History ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Real Time Simulations ◽  
The Relationship

In media art history as well as in science studies an intensified reception of cybernetic and system-theoretical concepts can be seen in the last few years. In the book a conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in interactive real-time simulations is proposed. To this end, the author differentiates between four main strata of form-giving design decisions: perspectivation, modelling, iconization, interaction. The particular images – ephemeral, changeable and open for interventions – fulfill the conditions of all these layers and, as a necessary consequence, they exhibit characteristic aesthetic features. With a close reading of the chosen example works, the variations within the repetitive cycles become evident as does the reason why the narration remains ‘flat’ (with only a few consecutive steps), contributing to the general impression of being confronted with a situation rather than a story. How are the borders of simulations either artificially marked or hidden and extended with images or other models? What role does the sensuous interface play for the degree and mode of user participation in the simulated scenery? The book assembles some basic preconditions and main features of image worlds based on computer simulations.

Art and Science: Analogy and Anachronism in Modern Thinking

Leonardo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 402-402
Author(s):  
Consuelo Vallejo Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Art And Science ◽  
Modern Thinking

scholarly journals Aristophanes in Comic Books: Adaptation as Metabase

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Asimakoulas
Keyword(s):  
Comic Book ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Adaptation Studies ◽  
Visual Rhythm ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Book Format ◽  
Formal Properties ◽  
Shed Light

Translation studies researchers have for a long time critically engaged with the idea of translation being a mode of creative rewriting across media and cultural or temporal divides. Adaptation studies experts use a similar premise to study products, processes and reception of adaptations for specific locales. This article combines such perspectives in order to shed light on an under-researched area of comic adaptation: this is the metabase, or transfer, of Aristophanic comedies to the comic book format in Greek and their subsequent translation into English for an e-book edition (Metaichmio Publications 2012). The paper suggests a model for the close reading of creative transfer based on Lefèvre’s (2011; 2012) typology of formal properties of comics and Attardo’s (2002) General Theory of Verbal Humour. As is shown, visual rhythm and text-image relations create a rich environment for anachronism, parody, comic characterisation and ideological comments, all of which serve a condensed plot. The English translation rewrites cultural/ideological references, amplifies obscenity and emphasizes narrator visibility, always taking into consideration the mise en scène.

scholarly journals Contribution to art history: Ornament and its regulations

Sinteze ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Tamara Žderić
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Art History ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Human Race ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Complex Forms

The ornament is a part of every visual culture in the world. Its history goes back to early ages of human race. It is one of the most important fine art categories. The ornament was less important fine art category for a long time. The subject of this paper are various types of ornament altogether with personal experience in creating ornaments. The main aim was to reveal basis of ornament, its features and also to put in focus the importance of our attention in art process. Ornament has four categories determined by its appereance. Its complex forms, mathematical approach and lots of details are features I found similar in my art practice (paintings or drawings with various themes). The conclusions derived from comparison of this two various types of ornaments are contribution to examinations of its history through the eye of the artist.

scholarly journals Reticular Chemistry and Harvesting Water from Desert Air

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng-Hsin Liu ◽  
Ha L. Nguyen ◽  
Omar M. Yaghi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Art And Science ◽  
Atomic Arrangement ◽  
Molecular Building Blocks ◽  
Long Time

Although chemists, in general, are concerned with the art and science of constructing molecules and understanding their behavior, for a long time the idea that such molecules can be linked together by strong bonds to make infinite, extended structures were fraught with failure. The notion of using molecular building blocks to make such structures invariably led to chaotic, ill-defined materials and therefore not only defying the chemists’ need to exert their will on the design of matter but also preventing them from deciphering the atomic arrangement of such products. The field remained undeveloped for most of the twentieth century, and it was taken as an article of faith that linking molecules by strong bonds to make extended structures is a “waste of time” because “it doesn’t work.”

scholarly journals Transcribing Greece, Arranging France: Bourgault-Ducoudray’s Performances of Authenticity and Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-168
Author(s):  
Peter Asimov
Keyword(s):  
Music History ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Ethnic Nationalism ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Artistic Integrity ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Paris Conservatoire

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910), composer, folklorist, and long-time professor of music history at the Paris Conservatoire, dedicated intense energies to the propagation of ancient Greek modes as a modern resource for French composition. Instigated by his 1875 folk-song collection mission in Greece and Anatolia, Bourgault-Ducoudray’s attraction to Greek modes was bolstered by ideological commitments to Aryanism (nourished by his relationship and correspondence with philologist Émile Burnouf), and further reinforced by his observation of “Greek modes” in Russian and Breton folk song. This article examines how Bourgault-Ducoudray translated his quasi-philological analyses into an artistic agenda through techniques of transcription, arrangement, and composition. Beginning with a close reading of his important collection, Trente mélodies populaires de Grèce et d’Orient (1876), a continuity is established between his transcriptive and compositional practices, with particular attention paid to Bourgault-Ducoudray’s performances of authenticity through calibrated scientific and artistic rhetoric. I then turn to the reception of Bourgault-Ducoudray’s collection by two composers—Alfred Bruneau and Camille Saint-Saëns—who rearranged his Greek songs in different contexts. Treating the songs with remarkable plasticity, they appropriated Bourgault-Ducoudray’s authority to enhance representations of “oriental” and “ancient” worlds, negotiating a balance between scholarly research and artistic integrity. The article concludes by returning to Bourgault-Ducoudray’s work in the 1880s—a period during which the musical and ideological ambitions of his song arrangements were magnified to an operatic scale—culminating in a rereading of his Thamara (1891) in light of his ethnic nationalism.

scholarly journals Considerations of Visual Quality in Ocular Surgery as Presented at Dry Eye University

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ((SP1)) ◽  
pp. e28-e29
Author(s):  
Frank Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Visual Acuity ◽  
Visual Experience ◽  
Visual Quality ◽  
Ocular Surgery ◽  
Optical Efficiency ◽  
Corrected Visual Acuity ◽  
Uncorrected Visual Acuity ◽  
Visual Phenomena ◽  
Visual Disturbances ◽  
Best Corrected Visual Acuity

Visual quality may be described as the visual experience which reflects the optimal optical efficiency of the eye. Patients undergoing ocular surgery expect improvement in visual acuity. Ocular surgeons typically aim to improve best-corrected visual acuity. Refractive surgeons, on the other hand, strive to improve uncorrected visual acuity. It is not uncommon that patients with excellent corrected visual acuity following surgery may be dissatisfied with visual quality which is less than anticipated due to unexpected visual disturbances. These visual phenomena may include ghosting, glare, halos, reduced contrast sensitivity, and visual fluctuation.

scholarly journals Taking “KuangLu Figure” as an Example, This Paper Discusses the Significance of the Collection of Imitation Works in the Study of Art History

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Hengjie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Original Work ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
The Status ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of

For a long time, “KuangLu figure” (Figure 1) has been regarded as one of Hongguzi’s representative works. In fact, the masterpiece “KuangLu figure” is not the original work of Hongguzi but a copy of later generations, but it has not affected the status of the masterpiece in the history of art. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss the importance of the imitation in the study of art history.

An alphabet of colors

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Sophie Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Art History ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Teacher's Manual ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence

A close reading of the first handbook for teachers written in the Dutch Republic by Dirck Adriaensz Valcooch and the color recipes it contained, offers some answers to broader questions concerning the role of art making in general education: was the broad literacy movement in the Protestant Republic beneficial to creative practices? Did the ubiquitous presence of art works support the emergence of practice-based learning? And were pedagogical and artistic expertise related when it came to teaching art? In order to move the teacher’s manual closer to the domain of art history, this article first addresses the difficulties that instructive descriptions of color-related processes posed for Karel van Mander and others, and then briefly looks at how general education welcomed or discouraged creative practices before and around 1600. The analysis of Valcooch’s chapter on ink and paint against the background of wider pedagogical developments, argues that educational writings can significantly add to our understanding about how the artistic use of colors was conveyed in teaching.

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