Theoretical Writings Research Articles

The Humorous Cosmos of Paul Klee and Its Temporal Orders

Paul Klee’s artistic legacy has prompted studies that range from art history and aesthetics to philosophy, and they have now matured to the point that they require the construction of a consistent methodology. Klee’s ample talents were expressed not only in his artworks but also in his polemical and theoretical writings and in the mastery of language he exhibited in his renowned Diaries; this makes the question of unity extremely important. What holds Klee’s oeuvre of different forms and genres together, and what lies at the center of his understanding of the world and of art’s role in it? The author argues that the three major aspects of Klee’s approach to art are united by humor of a kind much like the Romantic era’s humor as it was explained by Jean Paul (literary pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763–1825) in his Vorschule der Aesthetik (Preschool of Aesthetics). The article then explores how humor functions as a creative principle in Klee’s art. From the artist’s placing himself between different orders of being, it follows that humor becomes a generator of creativity. In Klee’s works that placement falls between an optical and a metaphysical contact with the object (see Klee’s Ways to Study Nature). These two orders diverge primarily in their temporal aspect: the artist is suspended between flowing time and the fullness of time, or eternity. The principles Klee follows to arrange the interplay between these temporal orders in his paintings are examined. He uses the simultaneous rhythm from fields of colors and a freely drawn line that creates and organizes space. Humor as a creative and artistic principle mediates the inevitable conflict between the boundless demiurgic role assumed by the artist and the unavoidable limitations on creativity.

СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦИЯ ПРАВА АНГЛИИ В НАЧАЛЕ XVII ВЕКА: ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ИДЕЙ ФРЭНСИСА БЭКОНА

Introduction: in the year of the 460th anniversary of the birth of Francis Bacon, an English philosopher and lawyer, statesman and court practitioner, of special relevance is research into Bacon’s contribution to the development of theoretical and organizational bases of the law reform and the technique of law systematization. In his works, Bacon put forward a set of ideas concerning rationalization of common law and novelization of statutory law in early modern England. Purpose and objectives: to identify the features of legal discourse and dogmatic opposition between legal corporations of lawyers of common and civil law; to analyze their influence on the formation of Bacon’s legal worldview; to determine his contribution to the development of the concept of the ‘reform of law’ and the doctrine of the sources of law in Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence; to evaluate the content of his theoretical treatises and legislative proposals concerning the systematization of statutory and case law in early Stuart England. Methods: in the course of the study of Bacon’s development as a thinker and his career advancement, we employed methodological approaches such as dialectical, cultural, general historical, sociological, dogmatic. When analyzing Bacon’s legal ideas and doctrines, his legislative projects and theoretical writings, we applied both general scientific methods (system-structural and formallogical, inductive and deductive) and special legal methods of cognition: historical-legal, comparative- legal and formal-legal, as well as methods of legal hermeneutics, interpretation, and juris linguistics. Results: we have formulated the definitions of the ‘reform of law’ and ‘systematization of law’ in the context of the legal discourse of early Stuart England and specifically in the framework of Bacon’s teachings; studied the directions of Bacon’s activity aimed at improving the judicial procedure and evidentiary practice, at unifying the law within the Anglo- Scottish union, and also the special model of the gradual reform of English law developed by Bacon. He defined the proper legal and technical conditions for the systematization of law, the necessary elements of legalistics, and the ‘general part’ in the form of a list of legal maxims andregulis juris provided in his translation. Conclusions: according to Bacon, ‘schematism’ of reforming the law involved several successive stages. We have established the following scheme of legal systematization as the ultimate goal of the legal reform according to Bacon’s plan: review and revision of statutory law – chronological incorporation of statutes and precedents – thematic hybrid codification (or consolidation) – creation of a ‘digest’ (corpus of laws) as a final document.

Karel Janeček − a leading figure in Czech Music Theory and Pedagogy: his theoretical writings from the 1930s and 1940s

Karel Janeček − a leading figure in Czech Music Theory and Pedagogy: his theoretical writings from the 1930s and 1940s

НЕТВАРНЫЙ СВЕТ И ОСЛЕПИТЕЛЬНЫЙ МРАК: ВИЗАНТИЯ АВАНГАРДА

Avant-Garde painters were amazed by fifteenth to sixteenth century “old style” Russian icons, which saw the light of the day in the early twentieth century after two centuries of prohibition. In the seventeenth century, ascetic had been replaced by “Western” mimetic images. Icons had a massive impact on Mikhail Larionov, the founder of Rayonism, who wrote that “Russian icon painters <…> were strongly drawn towards abstraction”. In 1913 he organized an exhibition of his Rayonnist paintings with rays of light reflected from objects. Kazimir Malevich was also influenced by icons. In his theoretical writings, he refers to Gospels. Launching his Suprematism at the “0,10 Exhibition” in 1915, Malevich placed his masterpiece in the “beautiful corner”, as an icon. Alexandre Benois said that the Black Square is a “cult of emptiness, darkness, ‘nothing’”. It will be justified that it was another type of darkness, connected to the concepts of “uncreated light” and “dazzling darkness” in Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory Palamas’ theology. I refer to Pavel Florensky and Sergey Bulgakov’s philosophy to demonstrate how an application of Palamas’ theory, hesychasm, was reflected in fifteenth-sixteenth-century icon-painting and later in Avant-Garde theory and paintings, in particular by those of Larionov and Malevich.

On Misencounters and Possibilities

Discussion| December 18 2020 On Misencounters and Possibilities: Reflections on the Mexican Reception of George Kubler’s Theoretical Writings Karen Cordero Reiman Karen Cordero Reiman Karen Cordero Reiman is an art historian, curator, and writer based in Mexico City. She has published on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican art; the relationship between “fine” and “popular” arts in Mexico; Mexican art historiography; body, gender, and sexual identity in Mexican art; and Mexican museological and curatorial discourses. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2020) 2 (4): 67–71. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.2.4.67 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Karen Cordero Reiman; On Misencounters and Possibilities: Reflections on the Mexican Reception of George Kubler’s Theoretical Writings. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 18 December 2020; 2 (4): 67–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.2.4.67 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search The work of George Kubler (1912–96) is of key importance for the historiography of Mexican art because, in a discipline that almost always refers to the European context for its methodological roots, he advanced theoretical positions founded in large part on his experience studying the pre-Columbian and viceregal art of Mesoamerica. His questions and conceptual observations are based on that research experience, and the ways in which he elaborated their implications led him to continually interrogate the limits of the art historical discipline and its modes of narration. His theoretical and methodological contributions allowed the aesthetic and art historical recognition of works outside the Western canon, and offered insight into how to describe the changing significance of forms and techniques in different political, cultural, and historical contexts. I had the opportunity to study with Kubler during my first year in graduate school at Yale University in 1980. In the course... You do not currently have access to this content.

Azerbaycan İstiklaline Adanmış Bir Ömür: Abdulvahap Yurtsever

Abdulwahap Yurtsever, one of the leading ideas men of the Azerbaijan liberation movement, is one of the intellectuals who devoted his life to the independence of Azerbaijan. On 27 April 1920, he was the vice-chairman of the secret Resistance Committee established under Musavat immediately after Azerbaijan came under Soviet Russian domination. Yurtsever was arrested for his struggle against the Bolshevik government and tortured in the dungeons of the Cheka. After some time his punishment was completed, but the administration sentenced him to eleven years in prison. Yurtsever, who managed to escape with his plan, participated in the Musavat Party congress held in Europe in August 1936, with the guidance of his friend, sidekick and master Mehmet Emin Rasulzade. In order to continue his political struggle with other representatives of the Azerbaijani emigration, he came to Turkey in 1939 and studied law. He played an important role in the establishment of the Azerbaijan Cultural Association in 1949. He was one of the editors of the Azerbaijan journal published by the association in 1952. The voice of the independence of Azerbaijan and the occupied Turkish countries cries out to the world through this journal. Yurtsever has written scientific and theoretical writings in many fields such as history, literature, art, culture, theatre, and has also been the guide of the representatives of the Azerbaijani emigration. Our work is based on document research and covers the life, political struggle and literary activities of Yurtsever.

Bazaar aesthetics: On excess and economic rationality

For more than a century, social theoretical writings on consumer culture and commodity aesthetics have concentrated on the world of capitalist commodities and commercial spaces: on brands, shopping malls and global media culture. Popular commodity aesthetics have had a marginal presence in the literature. However, today, as the popular masses are entering commercial culture to an unprecedented extent, through cheap electronics, ubiquitous internet connectivity and accessible knock-offs, popular commodity aesthetics have increased in importance. In this article, I use fieldwork in Delhi’s electronics bazaars to develop an inside perspective on the popular aesthetic of the bazaar. I argue that bazaars are characterized by excess: the excess of a seemingly chaotic architecture, household objects, and unhindered sociality. The excess is not simply a symptom of an underlying irrationality. It is deeply embedded in the social and economic life of bazaars and contributes towards the ability of small-scale commerce to endure and survive.

Fictionality in New Materialism: (Re)Inventing Matter

Throughout the last decade, calls for a return to materiality have reverberated within the humanities and social sciences. Few, however, have noticed that this return has also entailed a return to fiction, as the new theoretical writings on matter regularly include elements of storytelling, fabulation or other genres of invention. This article asks why this alliance between new materialism and fiction has come about: Why do scholars united by a common interest in ‘getting real’ consistently utilize a type of discourse defined precisely by not committing itself to reality? Examining works by Jane Bennett, Dominic Pettman, Stacy Alaimo, Astrida Neimanis, Donna Haraway, and Rebekah Sheldon, the article explores this question by tracing three modes of fictionality in new materialism distinguished by inventing non/human entanglements, scientific knowledge, and future societies respectively. Ultimately, the article argues that fictionality is a particularly attractive tool for attempts to transcend anthropocentric regimes of truth.

The afterlives of Galway jail, ‘difficult’ heritage, and the Maamtrasna murders: representations of an Irish urban space, 1882–2018

AbstractThis article explores the spatial history and ‘afterlives’ of Galway jail, where an innocent man, Myles Joyce, was executed in 1882 following his conviction for the Maamtrasna murders; in 2018 he was formally pardoned by President Michael D. Higgins. The article traces how the political and cultural meanings of this incident were instrumentalised in the building of Ireland's last Catholic cathedral on the site of the former Galway jail. It analyses how the site was depicted – in different ways and at different moments – as one of justice, of injustice, of triumph, and of redemption. It investigates how these different legacies were instrumentalised – or at times ignored – by Irish nationalists and later by the Catholic bishop of Galway, Michael Browne. It uses Joyce's execution to explore the site's legacy, an incident that at times dominated its representations but at other moments faded from prominence. The article situates the former jail site within theoretical writings on memorialisation, ‘difficult’ heritage, and studies of architectural demolition, while also commenting on mid twentieth-century Irish Catholic politics and culture.

Not just another internal service provider: how a firm’s marketing research function influences uses of market research information

PurposeThis paper aims to better understand a firm’s market research function’s (MRF) roles and influences on the different uses of market research information (MRI) (instrumental, conceptual and symbolic) in the firm.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a mixed-methods design: In a qualitative study among marketing managers (n = 9) and market researchers (n = 10); different roles of a firm’s MRF are scrutinized. The quantitative study among corporate users of MRI (n = 235) tests a conceptual model on the MRF-related determinants of MRI uses, using structural equation modeling.FindingsWhen the MRF exhibits methodological, market and business expertise and interacts with market research users, these features indirectly influence instrumental, conceptual, and symbolic uses, through MRI quality perceived by the users. The users’ knowledge of market research methods, the function’s integrity, top management support, and decentralized decision-making have various beneficial influences on the three uses of MRI.Research limitations/implicationsBroadly speaking, this research expands the theoretical understanding of marketing-related organizational learning processes. It considers message, source, recipient, and context variables to explain changes in attitude and behavior, related to MRI uses.Practical implicationsOverall, corporations should use MRI more thoroughly. Treating the MRF as a strategic asset rather than just another internal service provider increases its value to the firm. Firms should thus bolster the MRF’s different roles, namely, internal colleague, service provider, customer representative, quality assurance, and knowledge broker.Originality/valueThis paper is the first to comprehensively analyze the MRF’s role in MRI generation and various uses. It identifies three expertise dimensions of the MRF to fully leverage the MRF’s value to the organization and empirically underscores theoretical writings on the MRF’s roles in the firm.

L’antisémitisme de Wagner et les différentes formes sémiotiques

Abstract In his essay “La judéité dans la musique,” Richard Wagner’s horrid portrayal of a Jew by way of physical, economical, linguistic and musical description exposed his anti-Semitic convictions. Much of this aspect has either been forgotten or softened, however, when evoking Wagner, it is in fact the relationship between his anti-Semitism and his work that is the most problematic. This paper proposes to consider three symbolic forms through which this reticence is expressed by looking at the the theoretical writings, opera booklets and their music. Using the Beckmesser character in Les Maîtres Chanteurs de Nuremberg, although Beckmesser is not introduced as a Jew but rather a good German bourgeois, one cannot deny the allegory positioning him as a Jew. First element of demonstration: the analogical resemblance between Beckmesser and the Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick to whom Wagner accused of hiding his Jewishness. Second element: it has already been proven that Beckmesser’s serenade sung during the second act to the Master Singers was a mockery of a Jewish prayer. Third element: in Cosima’s, Wagner’s wife, diary she explains that this particular piece generated at that time a strong reaction by the Jewish community in Vienna, thus supporting the claim that his antisemitism was already known and problematic to his contemporaries.

La facezia nel tardo ’400, forma popolareggiante o raffinato genere umanistico? Sondaggi su un capitolo minore della produzione "letteraria" di Leonardo da Vinci

The facezia in the late 15th century, popular form or refined humanistic genre? A look into a minor section of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘literary’ production This article briefly traces the general lines of a complex cultural process that led the facezia to assume, through its connection with humanistic rhetoric, a leading role in the context of refined discursive, social, and cultural practices of the courtly life of the second half of the 15th century. By interpreting the facezia in the double meaning of a literary genre and a ‘socialized linguistic act’, a little-known aspect of Leonardo da Vinci's cultural production is re-interpreted within this framework: i.e. those works in which the Master played the role of a perfect vir facetus. The articles discusses three ways in which Leonardo seemed to appeal to the theoretical elaborations promoted by the humanists. Firstly, he uses rhetorical-argumentative jokes in his theoretical writings. Secondly, he uses Poggio’s Liber facetiarum, of which he was a passionate reader, as a source from which he drew ‘learned’ words. Lastly, he collects and writes numerous jokes of erudite or courtly character.

Literatura jako poszukiwanie prawdy. Poetyka Gottholda Ephraima Lessinga

The aim of the article is to show the significant change in the reflections of art and literature due to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). It consists of three essential parts. Firstly, I present the historical and philosophical context which influenced Lessing’s point of view on art and literature. Secondly, according to Lessing’s theoretical writings, I move on to the most important aspects of his poetry, which are inter alia the liberation of the scheme of French classicism and the approach to Greek antiquity. Theory and practice were for Lessing closely connected. Therefore I establish in the third part of the article examples of Lessing’s domestic tragedies in which the author fulfils the scheme he presented in theoretical writings.

Literatura jako poszukiwanie prawdy. Poetyka Gottholda Ephraima Lessinga

The aim of the article is to show the significant change in the reflections of art and literature due to Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). It consists of three essential parts. Firstly, I present the historical and philosophical context which influenced Lessing’s point of view on art and literature. Secondly, according to Lessing’s theoretical writings, I move on to the most important aspects of his poetry, which are inter alia the liberation of the scheme of French classicism and the approach to Greek antiquity. Theory and practice were for Lessing closely connected. Therefore I establish in the third part of the article examples of Lessing’s domestic tragedies in which the author fulfils the scheme he presented in theoretical writings.

Book Review: American Music Therapy Association with Introduction by Kenneth E Bruscia, Early Theoretical Writings on Music Therapy: 1951-1960

Book Review: American Music Therapy Association with Introduction by Kenneth E Bruscia, <i>Early Theoretical Writings on Music Therapy: 1951-1960</i>

What is it like to be a crane? Notes on Alevi semah and the Sivas massacre

ABSTRACT Semah is an Alevi ritual practice performed throughout Anatolia (Turkey) and the Alevi diaspora consisting of collective, dance-like movements that often take on or mimic the movements of animals, especially cranes. In attempting to elucidate that interplay between human performer and sacred animal, I draw on theoretical writings (especially philosophy and affect theory) about how people might – or might not – be able to become – or become like – other animals or forms of life, and what kind of affective processes that becoming might entail. I focus here especially on the role of semah in Sivas, Turkey, during the 1993 Pir Sultan Cultural Festival, during which Alevi participants, including many semah performers and musicians, were killed in an arson attack. Histories of that event highlight how prior to the attack, semah performers at the festival exemplified the possibility of becoming (like) cranes. Furthermore, many Alevis have placed semah at the centre of subsequent memorial events, suggesting new forms of affect and becoming as a political (and often public) response to the trauma of the Sivas massacre.

Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Nelisita: Shifting the Boundaries of Art and Science in Angolan Revolutionary Cinema

ABSTRACT Nelisita (1982) was directed by the Angolan filmmaker, writer and anthropologist Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941–2010) in collaboration with the Mumuhuila of Huila, an ethnolinguistic group belonging to the Nyaneka-Humbe of south-west Angola, in the historical context of the Civil War (1975–2002). One of the most important films of the Angolan revolutionary cinema’s corpus, Nelisita shifts the boundaries of art and science, articulating aesthetic inventiveness with an anthropological dimension. Combining cultural critique, aesthetic analysis and a brief study of Carvalho’s theoretical writings, this paper aims to insert Nelisita, a prominent example of the intersections between avant-garde/experimental cinema and anthropology, in the history and main issues of Angolan ‘post-colonial’ national cultural-aesthetic project and revolutionary cinema, and to relate it to the tension between modernism and primitivism traversing the history of cinema. It examines, in particular, the way the film addresses the tension between the abstract universalism inherent to the construction of the ‘post-colonial’ nation-state and ethnicity. As it dissolves disciplinary boundaries, Nelisita questions the distinction between the aesthetic and the anthropological and interweaves the sequential time of history with the cyclical time of myth (Mumuhuila’s cosmology).

Проблемы государственного регулирования рынка алкогольной продукции в странах СНГ: общетеоретические и технико-юридические проблемы

Проблемы государственного регулирования рынка алкогольной продукции в странах СНГ: общетеоретические и технико-юридические проблемы

Feminist research changing organizations and societies: taking stock and looking to the future

ABSTRACT Feminist research has produced important insights into the causes and forms of, and impediments to overcoming, gender-based discrimination in the workplace and society. Yet the impact of such work is rarely acknowledged or evaluated in the various research assessment exercises on which neoliberal universities increasingly rely to appraise the quality of their outputs. This article considers the social impact of research by tracing paradigmatic shifts in theoretical writings by feminist scholars and activists, namely Judith Butler and Silvia Federici, that influence policies, organizational practices and debates on gender. This impact, it is suggested, occurs despite evidence of insufficient or stalled progress in addressing old and new inequalities in organizations and society, which cannot and should not be ignored or underplayed. It is argued that courageous and novel theorization is required to create new imaginaries, as well as engagement in the political process through academic activism to better understand and transform the world in which we live.

Dissonante Namen. Die Namen in E.T.A. Hoffmanns Märchen Die Königsbraut

Even after having achieved international fame with his fantastic stories, the Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann considered himself more as a musician and composer than as a writer. In his theoretical writings about music, he extolled the value of dissonances, though he produced them rather more in his poetic works than in his musical compositions. These dissonances can be distinctly perceived in the proper names found in his fairy tale The King’s Bride which, with the exception of the river Main and the personal name Anna/ Ännchen, are all invented by Hoffmann.