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Book 2023.0

Into the Miracles

Miroslav Ballay

Edition
1 edition

Arts - performing | visual Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre 9788055820705 Available

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Other title information: interpretačné sondy na predmet Základy umeleckej komunikácie a interpretácie

Annotation: University textbooks continuously accompany the reader with current examples of the dimensions of artistic communication and interpretation. While the previous volume, Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation, represented a modeling entry, or rather an overview of artistic communication and interpretation, its subsequent continuation, Into the Miracles /interpretative probes on the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation/, expands on other reception and communication strategies. For students of the cultural studies study program, it is an exercise teaching material, complementary to the in-depth study of the subject Fundamentals of Artistic Communication and Interpretation in connection with some focal models of selected representatives of the so-called Nitra school. This time, the dominant focus of attention was completely narrowed to the international multi-genre site-specific festival in the countryside, Into the Miracles (July 1 - July 4, 2023), which was unique and special in several aspects. The concept of this event was a multi-day pilgrimage for miracles along an 80 km long walking route through the regions of south-central Slovakia. The festival thus provided an extraordinary experience of the journey/procession (of artistic communication as a journey). The event was ideal for cultural and aesthetic-scientific studies as an example of researching the laws of reception, artistic communication and interpretation, so to speak, in an outdoor environment with the dominant backdrop of the landscape and its picturesqueness, natural environment and overall rural color. At the same time, it offered an extremely diverse variability of the reception semiosis of artistic miracles by domestic and foreign creators, which were distributed across the country within the set hiking route. The multi-day pilgrimage for the sacred dimension of beauty also became an opportunity to perceive the narrative level of the entire festival, providing in its dramaturgy the uniqueness of scenes/phenomena of miracles and the need for its search or revitalization.

Identifier: 9788055820705

Status: Available

Book 2019.0

Spaces and Meanings

Olga Lavrenova

Edition
1 edition

Space Springer Cham 9783030151676 Available

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Other title information: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape

Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.

Identifier: 9783030151676

Status: Available

Book 2014.0

Companion to European Heritage Revivals

Edited by Linde Egberts | Koos Bosma

Culture SpringerOpen 9783319077697 Available

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Annotation: This Companion to European Heritage Revivals offers inspiration and new ideas to those who want to engage a large, international audience in activities which bring the past to life. It offers a critical examination of the field's basic concepts and discusses a vast array of 'heritage revival tools', including games, historical re-enactments, 3D-visualisations, films, television documentaries, spatial designs and, most importantly, international heritage routes. Through many case studies, this book demonstrates how various aspects of heritage can be effectively presented by linking historical places and landscapes in a single revival to create a multifaceted but coherent whole.

Identifier: 9783319077697

Status: Available

Journal Article 2011

Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics

Kati Lindström, Kalevi Kull, Hannes Palang

In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics

Pages
12-36

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.01

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.01

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Book 2011.0

The space of culture

edited by Tiina Peil

Culture Tartu University Press 9789949196234 Available

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Other title information: the place of nature in Estonia and beyond

Annotation: This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis

Identifier: 9789949196234

Status: Available

Book 2010.0

Пространства и смыслы

Olga Lavrenova

Space Институт наследия 9785864431627 Available

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Other title information: Семантика культурного ландшафта

Notes: This book has a table of contents and annotation in English.

Annotation: This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space. Highlighting the use of semiotics of culture as a basic concept of research, it describes the power of the cultural landscape in the context of culture philosophical research. Opening with a discussion of the existence of culture in space, it establishes basic concepts such as noosphere and pneumatosphere. The author acknowledges the early contributions of thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who first observed that human activity has become a geological force.

Identifier: 9785864431627

Status: Available

Journal Article 2002

Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku

Kati Lindström

In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2

Pages
653-676

Sign Systems Studies 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.18

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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.18

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Landscape, indirection, and feminine subjectivity in Madame Bovary

Harold D. Baker

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
369-372

Semiotics Around the World

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Proceedings Paper 1997

Poetics of painting and pictures in poetry. On the semiotic space of C. F. Barnas’ Vogelsberg landscapes

André G. F. van Holk

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
489-492

Semiotics Around the World

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Book 1993.0

Landscape

Edited by Barbara Bender

Space Berg 0854963731 Available

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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives

Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested

Identifier: 0854963731

Status: Available

Book 1991.0

Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism

Frederic Jameson

Edition
1 edition

Culture Verso 9780860915379 Available

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Annotation: In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Fredric Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a definition of a term which has taken on so many meanings that it has virtually lost all historical significance. He presents an extensive discussion on the cultural landscape—both ‘high’ and ‘low’—of postmodernity, evaluating the political fortunes of the new term and surveying postmodern developments in a range of different fields—from market ideology to architecture, from painting and instalment art to contemporary punk film, from video art and high literature to deconstruction. Finally, Jameson revaluates the concept of postmodernism in light of postmodern critiques of totalization and historical narratives—from the notion of decadence to the dynamics of small groups, from religious fundamentalism to hi-tech science fiction—while touching on the nature of contemporary cultural critique and the possibilities of cognitive mapping in the present multinational world system. This provocative book will be fundamental to all future discussions of postmodernism.

Identifier: 9780860915379

Status: Available

Book 1990.0

The city as text

James S. Duncan

Space Cambridge University Press 0521611962 Available

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Other title information: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom

Annotation: The study of landscape - broadly defined as encompassing both rural and urban environments - has hithero concentrated upon the impact cultura groups have had upon its shaping and design. In The city as text : the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

Identifier: 0521611962

Status: Available

Book 1988.0

The iconography of landscape

edited by Denis Cosgrove | Stephen Daniels

Space Cambridge University Press 0521324378 Available

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Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society

Identifier: 0521324378

Status: Available

Book 1979.0

The interpretation of ordinary landscapes

J.B. Jackson | Peirce F. Lewis | David Lowenthal | D.W.Meinig | Marwyn S. Samuels | David E. Sopher | Yi-Fu Tuan; edited by D.W. Meinig

Space Oxford University Press 0195025369 Available

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Other title information: Geographical Essays

Annotation: The concern of these essays are concerned with the everyday life of a man on earth. We specify ordinary landscapes to indicate our primary interesr in that continuous surface which we can see all around us.

Identifier: 0195025369

Status: Available