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Art and Literature scientific and analytical Journal Summaries of articles

№1 2009

И.М. Сахно

Ключевые слова: В. Хлебников, А. Крученых, супрематизм, абстрактная живопись, футуристическая поэзия.

Keywords: V.Khlebnikov, A. Kruchenykh, Suprematism, abstract painting, futuristic poetry.

Summary: I.M. Sakhno article analyzes methodological link between the picturesque and poetic abstraction in paintings and literary works of Russian avant-garde. According to Sakhno there were two textological models in Russian futuristic poetry at the same time: Semantic zaum expressed in the works of V.Khlebnikov, and phonetic or graphic zaum elaborated by A. Kruchenykh. Futuristic word becomes an end in itself, absolute object, demonstrating its autonomy in relation to things, objects,established pragmatic policy. Sakhno identifies common basis of Suprematism, abstract painting and futuristic poetry.

Ключевые слова: Швейцарская школа графического дизайна, Графический дизайн, Типографика Реклама.

Keywords: Swiss school of graphic design, Graphic design, Typography, Advertising

Ключевые слова: цензурная политика, дореволюционная Россия

Keywords: sculpture and the city, city sculpture, genre sculpture.

Summary: In Russia and the former USSR there is still a big interest in the genre sculpture, which had begun to appear in our cities several years ago. City sculpture of this type began to perform the duties of the park sculpture, and became a mediator between people and milieu. Unfortunately, most of such a sculpture doesn’t exist in harmony with urban environment. These new city sights are usually overfilled with details and naturalistic effects. No wonder that in such conditions the question of quality has been frequently ignored. This problem may have a negative effect on the image or the whole city.

Ключевые слова: музей К. Миллеса, скульптура.

Keywords: Karl Milles museum, sculpture.

Summary: The article examines symbols, artistic peculiarities and the spatial-architectural diversity of one of the most significant sculptural ensemble in European art dated by the first half of XX century. In the XX century art sculpture revealed its distinct leader qualities. Consequently a number of sculpture museums arose in Europe to become bright artistic phenomenon. The art studio and park around it form the basis of such museums. Surrounding landscape serves as an active part of the exposition. The most important example of such a museum in landscape zone is the sculpture park created by Karl Milles in Stockholm in the first part of XX century.

Keywords: ritual, banquet in the Art of Ancient Egypt

Summary: This article is devote to the theme of funerary banquet in the art of Ancient Egypt from Old to New Kingdom. This theme is look into relations of sacrifice and funerary rites. The works of monumental art, funerary reliefs, stelaes and manuscripts, some of them from collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, are used for study the semantics and meanings aspects of this theme, in the contexts of сosmic reinnovation, the victory of life above death; the development of iconography of this themе, the images and metaphores of food in Egyptian Art; evolution of the theme of funerary banquet and its significance for the following periods of art history.

Ключевые слова: мозаики Римской Африки.

Keywords: mosaics in the North Africa.

Summary: In her article “Compositional structures of the floor mosaics in the North Africa (I-IV c. BC)” Temnikova I.U., postgraduate student of the Stroganov University, analyses peculiarities and evolution of compositional structures of Roman floor mosaics in the North Africa. This attributive indication is of great importance as it enables us to analyze a work of art in terms of the evolution of the style. Such a detailed analysis and the systematization of the material, provided by the author of the article, have never been made before. As the result of our research the most settled compositional schemes of floor mosaics and their combinations were singled out. The experience in decorating ancient interiors for private dwellings with floor mosaics can be of interest for modern applied art.

Ключевые слова: чавинская цивилизация, ольмекская культура.

Keywords: the Chavin civilization, the Olmeck culture.

Summary: The article is devoted to research of symbolic architecture of ancient Peru based on the example of ritualadministrative centres of the culture of Chavin - the governor of all Andes civilizations. The problems of tech-nical achievements providing seismic stability of Chavin buildings and their artistic value are covered in thearticle. The competitive analysis of common features between this culture and the Mezoamerican Olmeck culture hasbeen done. The common features of both cultures can be found in architecture, ceramics, ornamental and hieroglyphic drawings. Together with art criticism problems, the problems of ethnografic research work are discussed.

Ключевые слова: армянская архитектура Средневековья, Арцах, Гандзасар, Эчмиадзин.

Keywords: Armenian medieval architecture, Arzah, Gandzasar, Echmiadzin.

Ключевые слова: Герард Давид; правовая иконография; примеры правосудия; нидерландская живопись; поздняя готика; Правосудие Камбиза.

Keywords: Gerard David; Justice of Cambyses; legal iconography; exempla iustitiae; justice scenes; Early Netherlandish painting; Late Gothic.

Summary: The article deals with the general iconographic problems of “exempla iustitiae” - a specific class of sacred and profane Late Gothic imagery depicting model scenes of justice. The article focuses on a single representative work – Gerard David’s “Justice of Cambyses” diptych from the Groeningen museum in Bruges. The author examines the literary and visual sources of the legend, and considers the device of spatial and temporal actualization of depicted action by means of “disguised portraits” of the artist’s contemporaries. A special emphasis is given to the issue of interpreting the “Justice of Cambyses” as a political allegory –the author proposes new iconographic insights into this important problem.

Summary: The article is devoted to creative work of Yavlensky during his stay in Sent-Preks, Switzerland from 1914 till 1921. The new phase in his art started at 1914 when he was forced to leave Germany because of the World War I. Z S. Pyshnovskaja reconstructs spiritual environment and considers creative work of the artist in a view of his emotional mood. She characterizes his new circle of acquaintances (Marcel Yanko, Hans Arp, Vilhelm Lembruk). The author analyses stylistic features and spiritual content of the painting series created at this time: “Meditation”, “Images of the holy land”, “Constructive heads”.

Ключевые слова: Л. Бакст, Академия художеств, студия Е.Н. Званцевой, Русские сезоны, Эрте, Ж. Лепап, П. Пуаре, стиль orient.

Keywords: Academy of Fine arts, L. Bakst, Studio of E. N. Zvantseva, Saisons Russes, Erte, G. Lepape, P. Poiret, “style orient”.

Ключевые слова: А.Н. Бенуа, издательство при Общине св. Евгении.

Keywords: A.N. Benois, Publishing House of the St. Eugenie Society.

Summary: In the article for the first time is considered such little known aspect of A. Benois’s life and creative work as collaboration with the publishing house, which was founded at the St. Eugenie Society with the purpose of gaining for a charitable needs and which published postcards and books. The article is based on new archives materials; in it is analyzed both a work of a painter at the drawings for postcards and his occupation as unofficial artistic leader of the publishing house. The history of the relationships with the firm is traced back until the last years of its existence.

Ключевые слова: эффект отражения, окно, зеркало

Keywords: effect of reflection, window, mirror

Американская декоративная керамика последней трети ХХ века

Ключевые слова: декоративная керамика, китч, гипер реализм, экспрессионизм.

The American decorative ceramics of last third of XX-th century

Keywords: decorative ceramics, kitsch, super realism, expressionism.

Непубличные самодостаточные тексты. Литературное творчество художников второй половины ХХ века

Ключевые слова: непубличный самодостаточный текст, литература андеграунда, литературные тексты художников.

Not published self-sufficient texts. Literary creativity of artists of the second half of XX century.

Keywords: nonpublic self-sufficient texts, underground literature, literary texts of artists.

Summary: This article is devoted to a special form of the literature which can be described as a not-public self-sufficient text. This phenomenon is not connected with political subjects or idea of opposition. It stands aloof from the underground literature in which the conception of resistance, underground distribution, and exposure played a primary role. It is not about memoirs literature, diaries, and epistolary genre. But it is about texts, which have arisen as a special form of creative laboratory, and quite quickly moved to the status of unique artwork. Non-public texts have become a kind of reflection of the existence of a new cultural space that had come to replace the thaw. And it accumulated a new aesthetics of society, the aspiration for philosophy and analysis, isolation andexclusiveness.

Теософические истоки замысла поэмы Прометей

Ключевые слова: Скрябин, Прометей, Поэма огня, музыка, теософия, Блаватская, Мистерия.

D.A. Shumilin

Theosophical sources of a plan of a poem Prometheus

Keywords: Skryabin, Prometheus, Poem of fire, music, theosophy, Blavatsky, the Mystery.

Тема смерти в музыке Шостаковича

Ключевые слова: Шостакович, тема смерти, пассакалия.

Theme of death in Shostakovich music

Keywords: Shostakovich, theme of death, passacaglia.

Summary: The article is devoted to the theme of death in music of Dmitry Shostakovich. This theme is closely connected with the tragic history of XX century and the World War II. F.Lemer investigates heritage of Shostakovich and analyses images of death, grief and protest elaborated by the composer in the various music forms during different periods of his creative work. F. Lemer gives special consideration to passacaglia –the form of mourning elegy, which Shostakovich used in many of his famous works during and after the war period.

Жанры вокально-хоровой музыки на телевизионном экране

Ключевые слова: вокально-хоровая музыка, телевидение, хор, режиссер, экранно-музыкальная поэтика, экранно-музыкальная интонация.

The vocal choral music genres at television staging