Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9149

Audrey Chan

{"title":"Alberto Breccia’s Parody of Futurist Paintings in Modern Bande Dessinée: Resisting Transatlantic Fascism","authors":"Audrey Chan","doi":"10.2218/forum.1.9149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.1.9149","url":null,"abstract":"During wars, art and culture often develop a “culture of camouflage” (Ojeda 68) to invite the reader to decipher hidden meanings as a form of political subversion. In Argentina, the ‘Golden Age’ of comics emerged in the 1940s in response to the rise of Fascist sentiments originating from the Futurist leader Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s transatlantic propaganda and flourished in the following decades. During and following the ‘Process of National Reorganisation’ from 1976 onwards, illustrator Alberto Breccia used graphic narratives as a form of counter-censorship as he appropriated Futurist aesthetics and the conventions of the modern bande dessinée. He considered this method as being able to allow “artistry and imagination [take] over from logical progressions” (Grove 25). Using this form, he encouraged the public to reflect on Argentina’s changing transatlantic landscape. This paper examines to what extent Breccia’s Le Coeur Révélateur: Et Autres Histoires Extraodinaires d’ Edgar Poe (1995) borrows Futurist visuality and makes use of the flexibility of the settings in Poe’s stories. This is done to recreate the haunting figures of history as they “turn away from the original work” to “conceive new forms of storytelling that explore the medium-specific properties of the host medium” (Baetens 7). This paper employs an interdisciplinary approach as, in addition to reading Poe’s original texts, this article also discusses Breccia’s appropriation of Futurist techniques, including “Divisionism, the use of threadlike brush strokes,” uniform application of colours according to their “precise tone and luminosity” (Rainey 9), and the dynamic sensation (Boccioni 46).","PeriodicalId":53229,"journal":{"name":"Forum","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919300","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}

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Ageing and Death: A Focus on How to Transcend Diseases for Transhumanist Movements 老龄化与死亡:如何超越疾病的超人类主义运动的焦点

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9154

Jessica Lombard

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NOTES ON RITUAL AS HAUNTING // RITUAL AS HEALING 关于仪式的笔记作为困扰//仪式作为治疗

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9150

Prerana Kumar

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Resisting Transhistorical Violence: Fringe and Art Activism 抵制跨历史暴力:边缘与艺术行动主义

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9140

M. Bryn Brody

{"title":"Resisting Transhistorical Violence: Fringe and Art Activism","authors":"M. Bryn Brody","doi":"10.2218/forum.1.9140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.1.9140","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1587 and 1589, Netherlandish artist Jan van der Straet engraved a series of plates entitled New Inventions of Modern Times. One, Allegory of America, portrays an Indigenous woman in a feathered headdress and skirt eagerly welcoming Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci as he steps onto land. Van der Straet’s work occupies space in a long history of male European artistic depictions of Indigenous women, but the white colonial gaze evident in Allegory has not gone unchallenged. In 2007, Rebecca Belmore (Anishinaabe) responded to transhistorical violence against Indigenous women and girls with a billboard instalment entitled Fringe. Although originally displayed as a direct response to the Pickton murders in Vancouver, Fringe transcends a single event or story. Belmore’s billboard reimagines controlling images that construct Indigenous women as sexually available conquests. She strips the image of the icons that artists have used to represent Indigenous women. By placing the billboard in a crowded metropolitan area, Belmore forces the viewer to confront the still-present reality of Indigeneity alongside the concomitant brutality of settler colonialism. Belmore’s art functions on multiple levels to convey a sense of survivance in the face of systemic attempted genocide. Fringe is a fully realised, modern, and powerful piece of art activism that transforms visual culture. In this paper, I analyse the transhistorical effects of art as a tool of colonisation, as seen in van der Straet’s work. I then theorise Fringe as a vibrant piece of art activism (artivism) that subverts the white male colonial gaze.","PeriodicalId":53229,"journal":{"name":"Forum","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919302","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}

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Turning Up the Volume on Translation: Transforming Narratives in the Work of Mercè Rodoreda 打开翻译的音量:Mercè Rodoreda作品中的叙事转换

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9148

Daisy Isabelle Towers

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Trans as Description and Method 译为描述与方法

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9134

Claudia Sterbini

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Never/Nor: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hartley Coleridge in Poetry’s Transfictional Worlds 从不/不:塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治和哈特利·柯勒律治在诗歌的跨虚构世界

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI: 10.2218/forum.1.9147

Adam B. Neikirk

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AUO – Versorgungsforschung in der Uroonkologie 泌尿科的后勤研究

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI: 10.1007/s12312-023-01254-0

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The academy as a mythical landscape 学院是一个神话般的景观

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5117/forum2023.3.010.mara

Yorgos Maraziotis

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What’s in a name? Kunstenaarschap en leraarschap: een verleiding tot het midden 名字里有什么?艺术和教学:中间的诱惑

Forum Pub Date : 2023-10-01 DOI: 10.5117/forum2023.3.003.sael

Ann Saelens

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