AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.13
Gabriel M. Badea
{"title":"Aby Warburg: The Collective Memory as a Medium for Art","authors":"Gabriel M. Badea","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I intend to study the contribution of Aby Warburg, a cultural theorist and an art historian, especially his concern with the relations between memory and history, relations that have been theorized in the late 20th century, but which Warburg anticipated, to a certain degree. In his writings, there can be identified those relations that make memory a metahistorical category or an anti-historical discourse (Pierre Nora, Yosef Yerushalmi); then, his writings can be connected with those of Maurice Halbwachs, the first who approached memory as a social phenomenon. Thus, according to Warburg, collective memory can be regarded as a medium for art, which ensures the survival of images and pathos formulas even when the violence of historical development leads to a decline of the creative spirit. One might say that via a detour through the archaic (Pueblo Indian culture), Warburg managed to reduce the distances which the historical method had established to the Antiquity's vestiges (process that started in the Renaissance). His hypothesis was that the employment in the historical development of Western civilization leads to the atrophy of certain potentialities of the human spirit, which can be addressed in the anti-historicist discourse, specific to postmodernity. In the last part of the paper, I propose to dwell on The Mnemosyne Atlas, Warburg’s last project, as a visual synthesis of the research that he conducted throughout his life.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73776684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.03
Juliana Santos Dinoá Medeiros
{"title":"The iconographical diversity of theSirens’ physical forms in medieval bestiaries","authors":"Juliana Santos Dinoá Medeiros","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the physical representation's forms of the Siren in medieval bestiaries. Depending on the manuscript, the creature could appear in three hybrid forms: bird-woman, fish-woman and fish-bird-woman. The difference draws attention, considering that the text is the same in each manuscript and specifies the Siren's physical as being that of a bird-woman. Starting from a reconstruction of the Siren myth, since its origin to the Middle Ages, we see how the beast was transformed from a bird-woman into a fishwoman and how this very transformation was received in the bestiaries. Considering the particular relation between image and text in bestiaries and conceiving them as independent traditions, we realize that, contrary to previous studies, the distinct representations were not the result of confusion among different creatures. It is the illuminator who associates the textual description (that determined the Siren asa bird-woman) with his contemporary imagery (that consolidated the Siren as a fish-woman).","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82141096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.08
Valérie Buisine
{"title":"Art roman et art moderne : « affinités sentimentales »","authors":"Valérie Buisine","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78710996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.02
O. Roshchenko, Nataliy Byelik-Zolotaryova
{"title":"The Roman Catholic Liturgy and Its Role in the Composer's Missa Formation","authors":"O. Roshchenko, Nataliy Byelik-Zolotaryova","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"A number of interdependent problems was solved in this study: the missa concept meanings’ system definition in the context of the Roman Catholic liturgy; the order of the missa’s musical sections in the liturgy’s structure; the invariant-variant nature of the Gregorian Masses; the theological and musical preconditions for the composer’s mass genesis. The purpose of the study is the liturgical context of the composer's mass determination as a musical genre and a subject for a musicological analysis. It is stated that missa’s range of meanings extends from the word to the liturgy analogue and from the sequence of musical and verbal parts, divided by the rite actions, to the antiphonary where they are present without verbal sacred “insertions”; from the liturgy to the composer’s genre as an entire cyclical artistic phenomenon of authorial origin. The Roman Catholic liturgy equal to the missa, and the missa as an extra-liturgical phenomenon of the composer’s creativity have a different number of musical sections. In the Gregorian Mass, in the Antiphonary’s composition as an obligatory component of the liturgy, the imitation of the canon presented in eighteen musical versions of sacred monophonic singing dominates. In the composer's missa, the distancing from the liturgical source has led to its free interpretation, as well as to the changes in its purpose, location, target audience, words and music interaction. It is the place of the missa’s musical sections in the liturgical action that is determined here. While the church mass is not entirely musical, the composer's missa is based exclusively on a musical drama. The logic of a change from one section of the musical missa to the next is due to the development of the liturgical action. The cyclical nature as a principle of form and content formation is inherited by the composer's missa from the liturgical prototype.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88382003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.14
Zamfira Birzu
{"title":"About angels","authors":"Zamfira Birzu","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"This work reveals the definition of «angel», a generic classification of angel hierarchies, their main characteristics, a short history about them according to Bible stories and also a history of their representations in iconography. There are also problematised opposite moral aspects, such as: good and bad, spirituality and sin, immortality and ephemerality, sacred and profane, heaven and earth. This theme is analysed from a multiple perspective, such as from a religious, but also from a philosophical and artistic point of view. In the last pages of the article there are 2 paintings entitled «Seraphim» and «Angel» which are visual representations of these heavenly creatures.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89145008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.09
Cătălin Soreanu
{"title":"Photographic appropriation vs. Baroque painting expressiveness. Postmodern artistic practices in Benetton advertising","authors":"Cătălin Soreanu","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.09","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we analyze from the perspective of vocabulary and visual language elements the way in which the photographic media provides advertising with one of the most consistent expressive resources. The realism of the image, the endless possibilities in managing the visual composition, the premises of reproductibility and, last but not least, the appetite of an audience eager for technological image, ensured the success of this medium acquisition in the field of advertising expression. The way in which photography is used in advertising mechanisms is, instead, the prerogative of the artistic sphere and it is fully subject to professional standards of design, concept, and realization of the image. In particular, we examine how contemporary advertising becomes the territory where various means of expression contribute in a complementary way to the constitution of the meaning of a work, emphasizing the specific sensitivity of those expressive mediums – namely photography and painting. The case study will approach the activity of Oliviero Toscani and his collaboration with Benetton, materialized in memorable advertising campaigns that have practically rewritten the visual history of contemporary advertising. Using “AIDS – David Kirby” ad from Benetton’s “Shock of Reality” advertising campaign from 1992, we will specifically analyze the creative premises and mechanisms that characterize Toscani’s creation, the reading conditions of his advertising works, as well as the way in which his creative strategies combine the expressiveness of the referential painting memory with the technological precision of press photography, and the appropriation artistic strategies specific to postmodernity.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88578489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2021-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2021.1.06
C. Minea
{"title":"Medieval Art, National Architectural Heritage and Museums in Late 19th Century Romania","authors":"C. Minea","doi":"10.35218/armca.2021.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2021.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes how the material heritage was given new shape and meaning in the context of the new nation-state of Romania. It starts by looking at the history of the first public museum in Romania, namely the Museum of Natural History and Antiquities in Bucharest and also at the broader interest in the Roman antiquities in 19th century Romania. It then focuses on the first restoration of historical monuments and the initiatives of two of the most well-known architects at the time to establish museums of religious art: André Lecomte du Noüy (1844-1914) and Ion Mincu (18521912). The process of creating a national heritage for Romania has led to the design of valuable new buildings and was underpinned by a powerful will to modernise the country. At the same time, it has represented a destructive force. The built fabric of historical sites and historical artefacts were reshaped, rebuilt, given new meanings and context, so that to fit into the political objectives of the new nation-state. The article will balance and analyse the significance of these various efforts to restore historical monuments and establish the first museums of Romanian heritage.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85880895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2020-05-29DOI: 10.35218/ARMCA.2020.1.08
Irina-Andreea Stoleriu
{"title":"A Contemporary Approach of Las Meninas","authors":"Irina-Andreea Stoleriu","doi":"10.35218/ARMCA.2020.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/ARMCA.2020.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is meant to underline the importance of a\u0000famous work from the baroque period, Las Meninas, made by the painter\u0000Diego de Silva y Velásquez who has become a source of inspiration for\u0000future generations of artists. Numerous modern and contemporary artists\u0000have integrally or partially ”paraphrased” Velásquez’s composition by\u0000intercepting the portrait of revolutionary group for the time when it was\u0000created, extremely innovative regarding its compositional qualities and its\u0000hidden meanings which underlined the role and status of the artist in the\u0000context of a conservative society. Thus, the painting becomes the living\u0000proof of the way in which the artist manages to overcome the limitations\u0000of the social status of ordinary human beings, by portraying himself as a\u0000close friend of the royal family and by opening, through this type of\u0000representation, an important chapter in the history of portraiture.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80521128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2020-05-29DOI: 10.35218/armca.2020.1.03
Cristina Stratulat
{"title":"The Icon, a Hexadic Analysis","authors":"Cristina Stratulat","doi":"10.35218/armca.2020.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/armca.2020.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper brings forward an analysis of the Orthodox icon,\u0000made by deploying the model of semi-logical hexade which describes the\u0000situation of creative communication. Starting with the presentation of the sociocultural context in which the icon appears and continuing with the other\u0000parameters of the hexade – the purpose which justifies the activation of the\u0000creative act, whom is this icon addressed, who created it, what psychological\u0000mechanisms have concurred to its birth and which is the result of this creative\u0000process – our focus has been the defining and description of what the icon is","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78661567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}