Rose-coloured Glasses Research Articles

Performance as Means of Creating Art Object in Creativity of Contemporary Ukrainian Artists

The purpose of the article is to consider performance as a means of creating an art object in the creativity of contemporary Ukrainian artists. The research methodology. An analytical method is used to collect and study theoretical material about the "Birth of Birth" artistic action, which opens the unique "Cosmogony" project, the exhibitions "Artarmor", "Shards of the Sun", art objects – "River-Love ", "The World through Rose-Coloured Glasses", "Friend", "Equilibrium", "Ladder", "Movement of Suprematism", "Wind Rose", "Confrontation opposite Bessarabka", and others. A hermeneutic method is applied to interpret the principle of performance as a means of creating art objects in the work of modern Ukrainian artists, while a theoretical method is used to summarise the results. The scientific novelty of the paper is that for the first time the principle of performance is studied as a means of creating art object in the creativity of contemporary Ukrainian artists. Conclusions. The article examines performance as a means of creating art objects in the context of the work of modern Ukrainian artists, using the example of the works of A. Logov ("Sun Fragments" project), P. Antyp ("Cosmogony" project), P. Bevz, Yu. Vakulenko, N. Bilyk ("Artarmor" project), D. Iva ("Bronze Ant"), V. Padun and L. Padun ("The World Through Pink-Coloured Glasses"), O. Lidahovskyi ("River Love", "Equilibrium", "Ladder "), O. Zolotariova ("The Movement of Suprematism", "Wind Rose", "Confrontation opposite Bessarabka"), O. Hodunov ("Friend"), mural "The Call of the Family", created by Ya. Vlasenko-Bernatska and Yu. Abramova. The art object, having its own artistic and functional features, in the work of modern Ukrainian artists acts not only as a new art form, but a means of communication that combines a mixture of different materials, methods, painting can be combined with graphics, sculpture with installation, performance may be accompanied by a video sequence. In the context of modern socio-cultural reality, an art object is a response to the surrounding events, it is a challenge and a reflection at the same time. Invoking the principle of performance, which has elements of visualisation, spectacle, play, mass, Ukrainian artists emphasise the creation of art objects that, in the modern cultural situation, reflect their vision of modern reality. The main feature of the art object is the absence of a canon or any rules in the process of its creation, a sculpture of an unusual shape can be combined with paper and wood. The main thing is the idea that the artist conveys to the recipient

The rose-coloured glasses are cracked.

The rose-coloured glasses are cracked.

Of Rose-Coloured Glasses, Old and New

Of Rose-Coloured Glasses, Old and New

‘Left Pessimists’ in ‘Rose Coloured Glasses’? Reflections on the Political Economy of Socio‐Legal Studies and (Legal) Academic Well‐Being

AbstractThis article reflects on the significance of the Journal of Law and Society and critical socio‐legal work in the context of changes in the political economy of universities and socio‐legal studies. It interweaves an analysis of this shifting political economy with consideration of another topic, namely, academic well‐being and mental health, especially in this moment, to demonstrate the continuing pertinence and importance of the left critique of universities. Well‐being has become part of a far broader set of counter‐narratives to neoliberalism evident in attempts to reposition it as a ‘force of change’, to develop new ways of working that might challenge traditional work cultures and organizational structures, and to resist the marketized neoliberal university and re‐envision what a ‘good university’ might be. Rejecting the criticism of ‘left pessimists’ in ‘rose coloured glasses’, I make the case for the continuing significance of engaging in public education and research as a public good.

Andrić and Bašagić in the Yugoslavian Key

The different views on identity politics in Ottoman Bosnia presented by Ivo Andrić and Safvet-beg Bašagić in their respective doctoral dissertations stem from differences in the historical and socio-economic experiences of each of their respective religious and confessional communities. Andrić, oriented towards the future, perceives Bosnia from the perspective of a newly introduced concept of Yugoslav national unity that does not value diversity. Bašagić, romantically looking into the past, sees Bosnia through rose-coloured glasses. Both Andrić and Bašagić share distinct notions of their historical periods and allow for non-scientific influences to shape their academic discourses.

Wearing rose-coloured glasses. The happiness effect of party attachments in Europe

ABSTRACT As related research in political psychology shows, election results affect the emotions of individuals, although most studies report about a short-term effect that disappears in one or two weeks. This paper investigates whether election results influence the general mood, the happiness of individuals in the long run. The analysis uses the European Social Survey data from 30 European countries between 2002 and 2015. Regression models suggest that voting for and being attached to an incumbent party increases happiness, while ideological closeness to the government does not. Moreover, the interaction effects show that the closer people feel to their preferred party, the larger the happiness gap becomes between government and opposition supporters. This trend, however, does not hold in case of opposition supporters, whose happiness level is not alternated by the closeness of the attachment. These results prove that partisan motivations are in action in the non-political sphere of life too, and they complement former evidence about an intense short-term effect of winning the elections on voters’ happiness. By testing and confirming the effects of the most widely used explanatory variables of happiness on a large cross-national sample, the paper contributes to general happiness research as well.

Is visual representation coloured by desire?

People are often told they ‘view the world through rose-coloured glasses’. But do desires in fact change perceptual representations? A new study suggests people not only report observing what they wish was true, but they are also more likely to see what they wish was true.

Does emotion influence visual perception? Depends on how you look at it

ABSTRACTOne of the biggest challenges in the study of emotion–cognition interaction is addressing the question of whether and how emotions influence processes of perception as distinct from other higher-level cognitive processes. Most theories of emotion agree that an emotion episode begins with a sensory experience – such as a visual percept – that elicits a cascade of affective, cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioural responses (the ordering and inclusion of those latter components being forever debated). However, for decades, a subset of philosophers and scientists have suggested that the presumed perception → emotion relationship is in fact bidirectional, with emotion also altering the perceptual process. In the present review we reflect on the history and empirical support (or, some might argue, lack thereof) for the notion that emotion influences visual perception. We examine ways in which researchers have attempted to test the question, and the ways in which this pursuit is so difficult. As is the case with the ongoing debate about the cognitive penetrability of perception, we conclude that nothing is conclusive in the debate about the emotional penetrability of perception. We nonetheless don rose-coloured glasses as we look forward to the future of this research topic.

The Theme of Lost Generation: A study of Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”

This paper primarily examines the theme of lost generation in Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and the physical and psychological desperation faced by the protagonist, an American volunteer, Robert Jordan. This paper attempts to find the reasons behind this emotional crisis and Hemingway’s notion of describing the mental trauma of Postwar effected generation. Coming to a very close grip with harsh realities and brutalities of wars, Hemingway along with his characters adopt a strong tendency to denounce war which induces abominable sense of emptiness. The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) serves to epitomize the post-war expatriate generation. The "point of the book" was not so much about a generation being lost, but that "the earth abideth forever". The characters in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) may have been "battered” and “lost” No study of Ernest Hemingway’s literary work can be completed without an understanding of the author’s life because he is one of those authors whose life and works are interdependent. Hemingway made the term ‘Lost Generation’ famous by using it permanently in his novels. All his protagonists are lost generation, wandering aimlessly in the post-war world and had refused to look at the world through rose-coloured glasses. They cut a sorry figure in terms of moral, social and religious values.

Heinart Sillastu, Through rose-coloured glasses: from the Soviet times to independence. Recollections of an Estonian Professor Emeritus

Heinart Sillastu, <i>Through rose-coloured glasses: from the Soviet times to independence. Recollections of an Estonian Professor Emeritus</i>

Removing the rose-coloured glasses: it's high time we published the actual data

Removing the rose-coloured glasses: it's high time we published the actual data

Imagining the posthuman: hybrid bodies for education

In a time of global economic crisis with imminent austerity measures, protests in the form of the ‘Arab Spring’ and the ‘Occupy’ movements, a reluctance both domestically and internationally to deal with ecological sustainability, concomitant issues around intergenerational equity and the unprecedented technological advancement in science and communications, one should not be surprised that having to think about the future can warrant anxiety or possibly unequivocal apathy. Education, in this world order, is no different. Consumed by a political agenda unashamedly making education a subsidiary of economic reform governed only by the mind-numbing logic of instrumental reason, those of us working in the area of contemporary education research are left with such an extraordinarily narrow description of modern education that we appear to have only penurious possibilities for representing educational futures. It is therefore with great joy that this essay reviews three recent books devoted to developing radical philosophical, ethical and practical understandings beyond a schooling system based on standardised testing, yet that do not hark to a past viewed through rose-coloured glasses. Instead, the three texts that form the basis of this review ask us to consider what it means to be, to live, and to be educated in what some may consider an incantation to a ‘posthuman’ world. Thus, this review will

From rose-coloured glasses to reality: addressing the family policy deficit in Canada.

From rose-coloured glasses to reality: addressing the family policy deficit in Canada.

Do you see yourself through rose-coloured glasses? Body image disturbances in restrained and unrestrained eaters

A characteristic of eating disordered people and restrained eaters is that they are dissatisfied with their body. The common theory is that they have an incorrect view of themselves, a so-called body image disturbance. In the present study, digital photos were taken of 152 female students, wearing a tight sport outfit. Afterwards, each photo was stretched and compressed in the horizontal direction. The participant had to adjust these two distorted photos, first into the perceived real body size and next into their ideal body size. The differences with the original photo were calculated. Results showed that restrained eaters estimated their body as broader than unrestrained eaters, but this difference was mainly caused by the unrestrained eaters who significantly underestimated their body size. Restrained eaters had a smaller ideal body size than unrestrained eaters and consequently, the difference between ideal and perceived body size was larger in restrained eaters than in unrestrained eaters. In conclusion, unrestrained eaters are more realistic in their ideals and over-optimistic in their perceived body size: they see themselves through rose-coloured glasses. Restrained eaters perceive themselves more realistic but foster unrealistic slender illusions.

Rose-Coloured Glasses: The Discourse on Information Technology in the Romanow Report

Abstract: Here discourse about information technology in Canada’s health sector is examined. After an overview of the emergence of the Canadian Health Information Infrastructure, discourse within the Romanow Report is discussed in relation to three key themes: standardization, empowerment, and time/space compression. While an instrumental view of technology in the health care sector is the predominant discourse articulated in the report, we argue that, by emphasizing technology assessment, the Romanow Report makes room for a more nuanced analysis of technology implementations than is common to government reports. We conclude by suggesting how investigations of information and communication technology in the health sector, such as this, may offer opportunities to raise critical questions about technology and health policy from a communications perspective.&#x0D; &#x0D; Résumé : Dans cet article, nous effectuons une analyse de discours sur les technologies de l’information dans le secteur de la santé au Canada. Suivant un survol de l’infrastructure de la technologie de l’information sur la santé du Canada, nous passons en revue le discours du rapport Romanow relatif à trois thèmes clés : la standardisation, l’autonomisation et la compression espace-temps. Bien qu’une perspective instrumentale sur la technologie dans le système de soins soit le discours prédominant articulé dans ce rapport, nous soutenons que le rapport Romanow, en mettant l’accent sur la prospective, effectue une analyse plus nuancée des mises en oeuvre technologiques que celles qu’on lit ordinairement dans des rapports gouvernementaux. Nous concluons cet article en proposant que des études comme celle-ci, qui portent sur la technologie de ’information et de la communication dans le secteur de la santé, ont le potentiel, tout en privilégiant une perspective communicationnelle, de soulever des questions critiques sur les politiques en matière de technologie et de santé.

Seeing Slums Through Rose-Coloured Glasses: The Mountain Street Site, Sydney and its Limitations in the Search for Vanished Slum Communities

In recent years there has been a tendency in some quarters to use the archaeological record uncritically to argue for a level of comfort and disposable wealth in nineteenth century Australian slums that rarely, if ever, existed there. The Mountain Street excavation, in what was once the Blackwattle Creek slum but which is now the fashionable inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo, has demonstrated that site formation processes can seriously distort our perceptions of nineteenth century slum life. It demonstrated that even on sites where site formation processes could be expected to exaggerate the levels of poverty, the appalling living conditions and deprivation in these places were actually understated in the archaeological record. Thus, although some general observations could be made about the ways in which people lived in the area in the nineteenth century, the excavation data also demonstrated that ‘slum’ excavations should only be used with extreme caution in the so-called ‘slum debate’, which is presently occupying some sections of the Australian archaeological community.

Cultural logics and global economies: Maya identity in thought and practice

Edward F. Fischer, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001, xii + 320 pages (paper).Reviewer: Marilyn Gates Simon Fraser UniversityWe (Westerners) tend to view the contemporary Maya with a romantic gaze, as remnants of a long-ago high culture. We think of majestic cities and temples shrouded in the rain forest, hieroglyphs guarding their secrets, such as the riddle of the sudden Classic Maya collapse. We see the descendants of these ancient Maya today as clinging to only vestiges of their illustrious past, glimpsed in stubbornly persistent languages, arcane religious ceremonies, time-tested agricultural practices, colourful costumes and other folk crafts, perfect for tourist souvenirs. Guatemala's relatively small Spanish-speaking ladino (non-Indian) elite, historically have viewed the Mayan majority through much less rose-coloured glasses, aiming at assimilation in the nation-state under the modernization model of dependent capitalism, via civilizing and educating them, or disappearing those perceived as a threat to national security. Despite these concerted efforts, however, the Maya have not vanished, constituting one of the largest concentrations of indigenous peoples in the Americas. They are also one of the poorest and most divided. Edward Fischer argues that, paradoxically, the current surge of globalization provides a window of opportunity for marginalized and fractured ethnic groups such as the Maya to re-imagine and re-assert their identity and distinctiveness vis-a-vis the dominant Hispanic society.In Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and Practice, Edward Fischer explores the dynamics of ethnic-identity construction among the Guatemalan Maya in the new world-system context of postindustrial core countries and offshore production and assembly in the periphery. Drawing on recent theories in interpretive ethnography, cognitive studies, and political economy, Fischer applies a multilayered and finely textured analysis to tease out the international, national and local factors that have opened up new venues of pan-Mayan expression, especially since the waning of the civil war in the late 1980s and the rapid expansion of neoliberal free-market economic policies. Fischer maintains that these macro-level economic changes are ...closely correlated in time and space to the rise of identity politics and various forms of hyphenated nationalism in peripheral areas. Indeed, it appears that ethnicity has eclipsed the importance of class identity in stimulating struggles of resistance. (p. 24)Fisher examines the apparently successful colonization of this postmodern identity space by uncovering the tensions and synergies that arise at the intersection of national pan-Maya identity politics and the lived experiences of Maya in the Kaqchikel towns of Tecpan and Patzun. Taking a constructionist stance, building on Bourdieu's model of the habitus and Giddens's theory of structuration, Fischer is able to navigate smoothly from the macro-level to the micro-level to show how open-ended cultural logics as shared predispositions linked both to the underlying substrate and to a dynamic articulation with global relations of political economy condition the ways in which both Maya leaders and the rural masses creatively express their identity. Maya leaders seek to unite Indian groups long divided by rugged terrain, geographic rootedness and local custom in order to attain a greater political voice after centuries of oppression. However, they are constrained in the creation of a new pan-Maya identity by the need to stay true to norms that emerge from everyday lived experiences, as idiosyncratic internalizations of received culture remain firmly embedded in broader continuities and commonalities.After reviewing the global and national processes which impinge on pan-Maya identity politics, Fischer zeros in on the movement itself and on Maya identity as lived experience in Tecpan and Patzun. …

Psychological climate changes for women in academic psychology: Forecasts, sources, and implications.

Abstract Reflecting on the past, and observing the present, what kinds of psychological changes might be in the forecast for women in psychology, for women affected by our discipline, and for the discipline itself? Using metaphors borrowed from meteorology and climatology, a psychological almanac is constructed for feminist psychology in Canada, warming trends are examined on both the academic and applied fronts, and weather advisories are issued. Psychological Almanac A narrative account of the herstorical climate for women in Canadian psychology could well begin with the clicheed introduction was a dark and stormy night... . Androcentric models of career paths, of productivity, of research, of psychological development, of psychopathology, of psychological interventions, of knowledge, of governance, of psychological health, of sexuality, of mentoring, of therapeutic outcome, of cognition, and of meaning predominated (Bem & Bem, 1971; Broverman, Broverman, Clarkson, Rosenkrantz, & Vogel, 1970; Chester, 1971, 1972; CPA Task Force, 1977; Gilligan, 1982; Gove, 1980). Women had so much difficulty getting research on women's issues accepted for presentation at the 1972 Canadian Psychological Association (cPA) Convention that the herstoric Underground Symposium had to be mounted in Montreal (Pyke, 2001; Pyke & Stark-Adamec, 1981). It was the best of times - for some; it was the worst of times - for others (Stark, 1997a, b). But in the wake of the storm, in what was referred to as the dawning of the age of Aquarius, there were rainbows, there was promise, and there was progress for women in CPA (Pyke & Stark-Adamec, 1981).' Everything sparkled with energy and, good will and CPA served as a model of integrity for other professional associations (Christiansen-Ruffman, Murphy, Stark-Adamec, & Davidson, 1986; Stark, 2000; see Table 1 for a partial listing of key achievements) .... Or so it seemed - to those of us who were looking through rose-coloured glasses rather than, as in one of Ingmar Bergman's films, through a glass darkly. Was that warming trend for women, and for feminist psychology, merely a Chinook? Reflecting on our past and observing the present, what kind of weather changes might be in store - both for future generations of feminist psychologists and for Psychology itself? Current Psychological Conditions Although not all feminists are alike (just as not all men are misogynists and not all women are feminists), there may be some common underlying themes among the various feminist philosophies - themes such as commitment to the empowerment of women, commitment to social action (e.g., a commitment to the elimination of oppression/injustice, a commitment to equitable distribution of resources, a commitment to ecological responsibility/environmental protection), respect for diversity, rejection of androcentric othering of women, rejection of the derogation/denigration of skills at which women excel, perhaps even a celebration of so-called female traits and of skills at which women excel, recognition of the complexity and embeddedness of psychological processes in general and of women's lives in particular. To be sure, other humanistic philosophies share some of these same commitments and rejections; but it may be only within what I will refer to as Female Feminism that they combine in a manner that has the potential for transforming Canadian (and other) psychology so beneficially. Female feminists can be seen to have altered - dramatically - many aspects of both the climate and the terrain. Feminist research paradigms, and feminist approaches to ethics and to psychological interventions, can be transformative and empowering; they can give voice to the silenced! In discussing the sources of these transformations, I am making the same data-based assumptions as Snyder, McDermott, Leibowitz, and Cheavens (2000, pp. 642646), viz., that: * women, as compared to men, have greater access to their emotions; * women are less confrontational than men; * women are more communal and aware of others' needs; * women value and work harder atr preserving relationships than do men; * women are especially sensitive to struggle and social inequity; * women seem more approachable and easier to interact with (nonthreatening); * women are more likely to engage in both contextual and holistic thought. …

The science of life as seen through Rose-coloured glasses

This commentary takes issue with two of Rose's central themes from the perspective of the psychology of intelligence. In the case of reductionism, I argue that Rose fails to live up to his own rhetoric by claiming a veto from his own discipline (biology) over facts of the matter in another (psychology). In the case of “Lifelines,” Rose's argument is contradicted by evidence from both individual differences and developmental change in intelligence.

The Lived Experience of Becoming an Occupational Therapist

This paper describes the lived experience of becoming an occupational therapist. The complexity of the journey is illustrated using a phenomenological approach. Data were gathered through two semi-structured interviews and the reflective writings of a newly graduated occupational therapist after 4 months of clinical practice. The lived experience is described within three broad themes: through rose-coloured glasses, the impact of reality, and onward and upward. Within the broad themes a number of sub-themes are discussed. Reflection on the experiential meaning of becoming a therapist includes suggestions for curriculum change and further research.