Preserving the Picturesque: Perceptions of Landscape, Landscape Art, and Land Protection in the United States and China by Aaron M. Ellison

“…Because decisions regarding landscape preservation and subsequent management of preserved areas in both countries reflect aesthetic preferences more than they reflect economic values placed on ecosystem services, contemporary artists have an opportunity to help shape future societal decisions regarding what natural areas to conserve and protect.…”
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Before the Performance: contributions of speculative pragmatism to the sociology of art by Daniela Felix Martins

“…As a main conclusion, the text sought to systematize the ways in which pragmatic-speculative sociology may provide access to the complex networks of actors and social practices involved in contemporary artistic production. …”
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L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine by Michèle Gally

“…The dramaturgical choices of each producer, the differences between the creations and the text of the play, allow us to ponder on relations carried by contemporary artists with the idea of the Middle Ages.…”
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Decolonizing Memory and Spaces: Contemporary Narratives about Portugal’s Colonizing Past by Karolina Golemo

“… The article aims to show contemporary artistic interpretations of colonialism in Portugal as expressed by Afro-descendants from former Portuguese colonies. …”
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Visuality, voice and thought in Lu Menezes's poetry by Paula Glenadel

“…Part of contemporary artistic activity (probably the most interesting part), including the work of criticism and recent philosophy, take visuality and voice as a puzzle. …”
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Et puis soudain, au détour du sentier, une œuvre d’art... by Marie-Sylvie Poli

“…Then we discover the expectations that prompted the hiker to undertake a visit to these steep sites in which contemporary artists have created in the wild unique works closely related to the landscapes and people of Haute-Provence. …”
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Contemporary Australian Artists from the Middle Eastern Diaspora by Cherine Fahd

“…For nearly two decades contemporary artists from the Middle Eastern diaspora have enjoyed international acclaim with significant representation across major international exhibitions in Western art centers. …”
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Figuração e Negritude: A Arte e o Outro como Ficção by Marco Antonio Vieira

“…This text proposes the scraping of this figurative landscape with a view to understanding how ‘blackness’ might be reinvented by contemporary artistic poiesis. By analyzing the works of three Brazilian black contemporary artists, namely, Rosana Paulino, Dalton Paula and Antônio Obá, this article is anchored in the notions of figure and fiction, as established by textual references in Art History and Theory of History. …”
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منهجية المدرسة الدعوية المعاصرة للشيخ الصواف في التفسير = Manhajiyyah al-madrasah al-da'awiyyah al-ma'asirah li al-syaykh al-sawaf fi al-tafsir... by Jassim, Layeth Suud

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There and Back Again – Current Cognitive Values of the Hippie Music by Marcin Michalak

“…In the conclusion the author made an attempt at shifting the distinguished values of the hippie music onto the educational ground with references to the contemporary artistic, civic education, as well as – critical pedagogy or didactics of creativity.…”
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À la croisée de l’art et de la science : la cartographie sensible comme dispositif de recherche-création by Élise Olmedo

“…By retracing surveys and enquiries with contemporary artists, landscape architects, architects, urban designers engaged in such practices, this article shows how they contextualize their work within a relationship with places and people, thus often expressing an invisible dimension of the areas, an emotional dimension that reveals day to day situations. …”
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Representation, Victimization or Identification. Negotiating Power and Powerlessness in Art on Migration by Erik Berggren

“…Instead the article looks at some contemporary artists who surface an opposite recognition, the radical lack of power for large groups within the global migration system, without attempts at temporary symbolic solutions. …”
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The heritage of the Byzantine art in the mosaic decoration of odessa eparchy orthodox temples by Ганна Акрідина

“…The mosaics in Odessa temples by contemporary artists A. S. Charkin, A. O. Shelyuto are considered. …”
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John Kinsella by Erminia Ardissino

“… Among the many re-uses of Dante’s Comedy in contemporary artistic expressions (movies, music, novels, poetry) the essay presents John Kinsella’s trilogy, Divine Comedy. …”
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Media, art and technology: a contemporary reflection by Fernando Augusto Silva Lopes

“…It also provides a reflection on current contemporary artistic practices as elements that seek to evidence and question the standardizing influence of mass media and of the market. …”
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PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE FORMATION BY MEANS OF MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES by Liudmyla H. Havrilova

“…The article focuses on an urgent problem of contemporary artistic education and concerns implementation of multimedia computer aids of learning in the process of music teachers training. …”
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Spectres of War in Deimantas Narkevičius’s Legend Coming True and Sergei Loznitsa’s Reflections by Brasiskis Lukas

“…This text discusses Deimantas Narkevičius’s Legend Coming True (Legendos išsipildymas, 1999) and Sergei Loznitsa’s Reflections (Отражения, 2012), two films by contemporary artists and filmmakers that revisit war traumas – the Holocaust in Lithuania and the Siege of Sarajevo in Bosnia – indirectly, without narrative reconstruction of the events or use of the archival images to display their atrocities of these two tragedies. …”
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„Don Giovanni”, sex’n’roll i echa kontrkultury: Krótka historia pożądania czytana wstecz by Artur Żywiołek

“…It presents the hybrid relationships linking operatic “archaicness” with film, philosophy, and music in their contemporary artistic forms. The central argument is that the widespread phenomenon of aestheticization of life is based on the illusion that one is able to achieve absolute fulfillment in a transient world. …”
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Parodying Mao’s Image: Caricaturing in Contemporary Chinese Art by Minna Valjakka

“…Although Chinese contemporary artists are often criticized for creating superficial works that parody Chairman Mao without any deeper meaning, the employment of parody is a far more complex phenomenon. …”
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À l’est de Chypre – la Vénus de Botticelli chez Āghdāshlū, Karamustafa et Osūlī by Alice Bombardier, Gabriel Montua

“…This essay analyses different modalities of transfers of Botticelli’s Venus rematerialized in the works of three contemporary artists from Turkey and Iran. While contributing to the shaping of a globalized intercultural space, these works reload the motif of Venus with new meanings and draw attention to the everyday environment these artists live in, namely to their value systems, social and political issues or the current state of their visual culture: distinct in each case, this may be kitsch culture, the loss of tradition or the present renewal of the Persian miniature’s heritage. …”
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