work_2ffhhcdw4nfovfpyso4tssfrwm ---- Corondel nº1 211 LA IMPORTANCIA DEL ESPAÑOL PARA LA EMIGRACIÓN A ESPAÑA: EL ESPAÑOL, LENGUA DE OPORTUNIDADES THE IMPORTANCE OF SPANISH FOR EMIGRATION TO SPAIN: SPANISH AS A LANGUAGE OF OPPORTUNITY MAIMOUNA SANKHÉ* msankhe@hotmail.com Universidad Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal Resumen: El aprendizaje del segundo idioma más hablado del mundo se hace necesario en un mundo globalizado y marcado por las migraciones internacio- nales y la comunicación. Como segundo idioma de comunicación internacio- nal, el español ofrece importantes oportunidades en todas partes del mundo. Por esta razón, numerosos son los investigadores que no dudan en hablar del valor económico del español; nos referimos, por ejemplo, al libro coordinado por García Delgado y titulado: El español lengua de comunicación científica (2013). El objetivo del presente estudio es abordar las ventajas del aprendizaje del espa- ñol y, para ello, se han seleccionado unos trabajos específicos que sirven de apoyo y son mencionados en el trabajo. Palabras clave: Español; emigración; lide- razgo; oportunidad; África. Abstract: Learning the second most spoken language in the world is necessary in a globalized world marked by international migration and communication. As second language of international communication, the Spanish offers signifi- cant opportunities in all parts of the world. For this reason, many researchers are not hesitant to talk about the economic value of Spanish; for example, the book edited by García Delgado, entitled: El español lengua de comunicación científica (2013). The aim of this study is to address the advantages of learning Spanish and for that, we have selected some specific texts that support and are mentioned in the work. Key words: Spanish; emigration; leadership; opportunity; Africa. index l comunicación | nº 4 (2) | 2014 | Páginas 211-216 | ISSN: 2174-1859 [*] Doctora en Literatura Hispanoamericana. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx R ef er en ci ar c om o: S an kh é, M . ( 20 14 ). La im po rt an ci a de l e sp añ ol p ar a la em ig ra ci ón a E sp añ a: E l e sp añ ol le ng ua d e op or tu ni da de s. in de x. co m un ic ac ió n, 4 (2 ), 21 1- 21 6. R ec up er ad o de h tt p: // jo ur na ls .s fu .c a/ in de xc om un ic ac io n/ in de x. ph p/ in de xc om un ic ac io n/ ar tic le /v ie w /1 33 /1 29 1. Introducción A diferencia de otros países europeos, la inmigración africana a España es relativamente reciente. Esto se traduce en un cambio importante –y en poco tiempo– de la composición social, cultural y étnica de España. De repente, pueblos y culturas diferentes se ven en la obligación de coexistir. Lo cual con- vierte la integración y la inclusión en uno de los grandes desafíos del momen- to. Ya se sabe que algunos países receptores de inmigrantes han hecho del aprendizaje del idioma oficial del país de acogida una herramienta básica de integración. Aunque las barreras lingüísticas se acaben superando con el tiempo, el conocimiento del español incluso antes de emigrar a España no sólo agiliza la integración sino que dicha integración supondrá menores cos- tes para el país receptor. Si bien es cierto que hay muchos estudios que tratan de la importancia del español en el mundo y su valor económico, hay que reconocer que son escasos, por no decir inexistentes, los estudios que abordan la importancia de la presencia del español en África. Los estudios a los que se ha tenido acceso hablan de la necesidad de impulsar los estudios del español en Europa, Norteamérica y Asia. Por esta razón, el presente estudio abordará la importancia del español en África y girará en torno a dos ejes fundamentales: por un lado, el por qué la pre- sencia del español en África es una base fundamental para afianzar las relacio- nes económicas y culturales entre España y África y, por otro lado, las oportuni- dades que el español ofrece a nivel social, económico y cultural a los que lo hablamos en general y al emigrante en particular. Para la elaboración de este artículo, serán imprescindibles los valiosos estu- dios sobre el valor del español, coordinados por los investigadores José Luis García Delgado, José Antonio Alonso y Juan Carlos Jiménez. 2. Importancia del español en el mundo Para entender la importancia del español en el mundo basta con referirse al estudio de los investigadores García, Alonso y Jiménez (2013) para quienes: “el valor de un idioma aparece determinado primero por el número de personas que lo hablan” (García et al., 2013: 15) y, segundo, por el protagonismo que tiene la comunidad de dicha lengua en la “producción de riqueza material, tec- nológica, científica y cultural a escala global” (García et al., 2013: 16). Partiendo de estas premisas, es fácil entender la proyección del español en el mundo y las oportunidades que ofrece tanto dentro como fuera de los países de habla española. A las pruebas me remito, ya que según el último informe del Instituto Cervantes: “unos 500 millones de personas hablan español, convirtién- index.comunicación | nº 4 (2) | África con eñe 212 dose así en la segunda lengua del mundo por número de hablantes y el segundo idioma de comunicación internacional”. Debido a su constante expansión y al lugar privilegiado que ocupa en el mundo, el español es sin duda una de las lenguas que más oportunidades ofre- cen a quienes la hablan. Es la razón por la cual cada curso académico España recibe el 17% de los alumnos universitarios Erasmus, es decir, unos 35.000 alum- nos, convirtiéndose en el primer país de destino, entre los 32 países que partici- pan en este programa europeo. Esta importancia del español lo entendió temprano el francés René Durand quien llevó el hispanismo a Senegal y fundó el Centro de Altos Estudios Afro Ibero Americanos de la Universidad Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, además de dirigir el departamento de español desde 1957 hasta 1982. Desde entonces los hispanistas anhelaban tener un aula Cervantes y este esfuerzo fue premiado en el año 2009 durante el mandato de la catedrática Carmen Caffarel, como directora del Instituto Cervantes. A la inmensa riqueza humana se añade el liderazgo de España en muchos sectores tales como las energías renovables e infraestructuras del transporte, sin olvidar las humanidades que son el motivo de buena parte del éxito del español en el mundo. Lo que hace que su aprendizaje sea ineludible. No en vano se dice que el español es el ‘petróleo’ de España porque, ade- más de ser una herramienta que facilita la integración social, el español tam- bién tiene utilidades relacionadas con la economía. Por eso, la enseñanza del español es una inversión social que, a medio o largo plazo, da sus frutos. Todo parece indicar que la comunidad lingüística estimula más el comercio entre dos países que la pertenencia a un área de integración económica. Es, al menos, lo que opinan los investigadores García, Delgado y Alonso (2012) en su estudio sobre el valor del español. De modo que una fuerte presencia del español en el continente africano puede consolidar las relaciones comerciales entre España y los países africanos, facilitando la inversión por parte de empresas españolas en África. En apoyo a este punto cabe mencionar el planteamiento de Todorov quien arguye en Cruce de culturas (1988) que “el conocimiento de lo ajeno sirve para el enriqueci- miento propio: en este campo, dar es recibir” (Todorov, 1988: 25). El Banco Mundial publicó en 2010 un informe titulado Infrastructures afri- caines: une transformation impérative, en el que se manifiesta que la energía es el mayor desafío infraestructural de África. Según dicho estudio 48 países africa- nos, con unos 800 millones de habitantes, generaban más o menos la misma can- tidad de electricidad que España (que en el momento del estudio tenía 45 millo- nes de habitantes). Es enorme este déficit en materia de energías y transporte EL ESPAÑOL, LENGUA DE OPORTUNIDADES | MAIMOUNA SANKHÉ 213 cuyo corolario es el freno del desarrollo económico de África y el bienestar de las familias. La buena noticia es que África tiene grandes potencialidades para las energías renovables de las que España es obviamente líder. 3. Ventajas del aprendizaje del español Un estudio reciente titulado Lengua y emigración, coordinado por dos catedráti- cos españoles –José Antonio Alonso y Rodolfo Gutiérrez (2010)–ha demostrado que “la ventaja del buen aprendizaje del español entre quienes no lo tienen como lengua materna se refleja en que (…) tienen un porcentaje superior de permisos de residencia permanente, hay una frecuencia más alta de quienes han hecho inversiones, residen en zonas con menos problemas, y sobre todo, sus hijos han conseguido niveles educativos más altos, superiores incluso a los de los inmigran- tes hispanos” (Alonso y Gutiérrez, 2010: 26). Es decir, para estos investigadores: “todo parece indicar que los inmigrantes cuyos padres tienen mayor dominio de la lengua consiguen superiores niveles educativos” (Alonso y Gutiérrez, 2010: 29). El empoderamiento de las mujeres pasa por la educación, que es el motor del progreso y, ¡qué mejor que hacerlo en un idioma que es el segundo en comu- nicación internacional! La falta de oportunidades no sólo puede ser un caldo de cultivo de la violencia de género sino que puede favorecer la explotación sexual que es una de las grandes lacras de la globalización dado que, como bien afirma la política paraguaya Josefina Duarte en su artículo La educación, instrumento para la inserción laboral en un mercado global (2002), entre los actores de la glo- balización está desgraciadamente la mafia, es decir: “(todas las organizaciones dedicadas al narcotráfico, a la corrupción de todo tipo y al tráfico de personas), porque lamentablemente es la que con mayor agilidad y rapidez construye sus redes, extendiendo sus tentáculos por todo el mundo” (Duarte, 2002: 151).Tanto mujeres como hombres están siendo víctimas de estas mafias que abusan de la precaria situación de los candidatos a la inmigración irregular. La falta de conocimiento del español puede llevar a muchas mujeres inmigrantes a ignorar sus derechos como mujeres a la hora de enfrentarse a sus problemas. Es obvio que la mujer ha sido víctima y sigue siendo víctima de dis- criminación en muchas partes del mundo. En este sentido, la mujer inmi- grante africana necesita más que nadie aprender la lengua del país de acogida para romper los estigmas y estereotipos y para integrarse plenamente en la sociedad española. Como idioma de trabajo en la Unión Europea y en las Naciones Unidas, el español es una lengua práctica que ofrece oportunidades laborales en todas partes; basta con fijarse en el número creciente de demandas de profesores de español en las universidades de todo el mundo. Por lo tanto, invertir en la ense- index.comunicación | nº 4 (2) | África con eñe 214 ñanza del español en África es una inversión que da frutos en el ámbito eco- nómico, social y cultural. Imagínense para las escritoras africanas la traducción de sus obras al español. Estaríamos hablando de unos 500 millones de posibles lectores más y la posibilidad de difundir la cultura africana a través de los cinco continentes. 4. Conclusiones En resumen, África y España han tenido siempre un vínculo histórico que ha dejado sus huellas en la literatura y el arte. Recordemos el papel trascendental de Las señoritas de Aviñón (1907) de Pablo Picasso; un revolucionario cuadro ins- pirado en las máscaras africanas y que inaugura la primera de las vanguardias. El español es lengua de mestizaje entre africanos, americanos y europeos y, por eso, su aprendizaje por parte de los africanos es el primer eslabón para el reencuentro entre África y sus hijos de la Diáspora. Por lo tanto, el valor del español radica no sólo en la capacidad de liderazgo de la comunidad hispánica o en las numerosas oportunidades socio-económicas que ofrece sino también en su capacidad de unir a pueblos y continentes. Por esta razón, el querido profesor El Hadji Amadou Ndoye (2007), espe- cialista en literatura canaria y recientemente fallecido, afirmaba que aunque pueda parecer extraño que los africanos defendamos la lengua española, en rea- lidad no lo es tanto porque el español, además de ser idioma oficial en Guinea Ecuatorial, es la lengua en la que se expresa parte de nuestras raíces africanas que se encuentra en América. Aunque discrepo con el mexicano José Vasconcelos respecto al concepto de “raza cósmica” que él definía como una “quinta raza” donde negros e indí- genas, considerados como inferiores, serían absorbidos por los “tipos superiores” a través del mestizaje (Vasconcelos, 1925: 40), reconozco, sin embargo, que Salvador Lara (2007) acierta cuando alega que el español es la “lengua de la raza cósmica”. 5. Bibliografía � ALONSO, J. A. y GUTIÉRREZ, R.: ‘Lengua y emigración: España y el español en las migraciones internacionales’. Consultado el 30 de marzo de 2014 desde: http://eprints.ucm.es/10235/1/DT_14-10.pdf � DUARTE, J. et al. (2002): Globalización y mujer. Madrid: Pablo Iglesias. � GARCÍADELGADO, J. L. et al. (2013): El español, lengua de comunicación cien- tífica. Barcelona: Ariel. � GARCÍADELGADO, J. L.; ALONSO J. A. y JIMÉNEZ J. C.(2012): El valor econó- mico del español. Madrid: Ariel. EL ESPAÑOL, LENGUA DE OPORTUNIDADES | MAIMOUNA SANKHÉ 215 � Instituto Cervantes. Consultado el 25 de marzo de 2014 desde: http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_12/i_cervantes/p01.htm � NDOYE, El H. A. (2007): ‘La enseñanza del español en África: una oportuni- dad y un reto’. Ponencia presentada en el IV° Congreso de la Lengua Española del 26 al 29 de marzo de 2007 en Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. � SALVADOR LARA, J. (2007): La lengua de la raza cósmica. Quito: Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua. � TODOROV,T. (1988) (coord.): Cruce de culturas y mestizaje cultural. Madrid: Júcar Universidad. � VASCONCELOS, J. (1983): La raza cósmica: misión de la raza iberoamericana (1ª ed. 1925). México: Asociación Nacional de Libreros. index.comunicación | nº 4 (2) | África con eñe 216 work_2jdetzhswrah5gn7t7k6s65vuq ---- 106호목차 Journal of the Korean Institute of Interior Design http://dx.doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2014.23.5.058 Vol.23 No.5 Serial No.106 _ 2014. 10 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.1058 사라짐의 미학과 현대건축공간의 관계성에 관한 연구 * Study on Relationship between the Aesthetics of Disappearance and Contemporary Architectural Space Author 이미경 Lee, Mi-Kyung / 정회원, 동양미래대학교 실내디자인과 부교수 이영수 Lee, Young-Soo / 정회원, 홍익대학교 건축대학 교수, 공학박사 Abstract A desire to lightness of architecture has continued from the past to today. As Paul Virilio mentioned “The aesthetics of disappearance starts from a desire”, the desire of architecture to lightness assumes the connection to hidden dimension of everything over the freedom of materials when it is related to the aesthetics of disappearance. This study assumes that the lightness of an architecture today can be interpreted by means of the aesthetics of disappearance. The lightness of an architecture is a concept for the potential possibility of an architecture. Therefore, it is to analyze the relationship by connecting the features of the lightness which is obtained from the examples of the Cartier foundation of Jean Nouvel and Seattle central library of Rem Koolhaas to the aesthetics of disappearance, that is, the disappearance of the materials, disappearance of the subjects, disappearance of the meaning and disappearance of physical. Based on these, it is also to prove the influence of the aesthetic of disappearance on the architecture as a social phenomenon of technology today. Keywords 사라짐, 가벼움, 비물성, 탈신체, 무의미, 탈주체, 폴 비릴리오, 장 보들리야르, 장누벨, 렘콜하스 Disappearance, Lightness, Immateriality, Deviating from Body, Meaningless, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Nouvel, Rem Koolhaas 1. 서론 1.1. 연구의 배경과 목적 오늘날의 공간은 테크놀로지의 가속화와 함께 그 위 상은 추락하였고 의미 또한 축소되었다. 이러한 문제에 대해 쉬뢰르(Markus Schroer)는 철도의 확산을 묵도한 하이네(Heinrich Heine)가 1843년에 말한 “공간이 죽고 시간만 남았다”고 말한 시점에서 공간의 지양 문제가 시 작되었다고 말한다. 본격적인 기술 사회가 도래한 시기 에 하이데거(Martin Heidegger) 또한 공간적 거리가 줄 고 있음을 통해 자신의 사유를 출발시켰다. 오늘날 공간 소멸에 관한 논의는 보드리야르(Jean Baudrillard), 비릴 리오(Paul Virilio), 바우만(Zygmunt Bauman)등으로 넘 어오면서 공간의 무게만 가벼워지는 것이 아닌 의식의 차원으로까지 확장되어 통찰된다. 이들은 공간의 소멸을 물질적 성질의 현실적 차원과 주체, 의미, 신체 등 의식  * 이 논문은 2012년도 홍익대학교 학술연구진흥비 지원에 의하여 연 구되었음. 적 성질의 잠재적 차원을 동시에 사라짐의 미학으로 성 찰한다.1) 한편 공간 소멸의 사유는 건축의 끊임없는 새로움의 추구와 맞물려 가벼움의 욕구로 이어진다. 건축의 이러 한 욕구는 사라짐의 미학과 연결될 때 질료적 자유로움 을 넘어 모든 것의 잠재적 차원으로까지 연결됨이 가정 된다. 본 연구는 오늘날 건축의 가벼움이 사라짐의 미학 으로 해석 가능함을 전제하였다. 건축의 가벼움이란 건 축의 잠재적 가능성을 지향하는 개념이다. 따라서 누벨 (Jean Nouvel)의 까르띠에재단이나 콜하스(Rem Koolhaas)의 시애틀중앙도서관 등의 사례들에서 지향하 는 잠재적 특징이 물질의 사라짐, 신체의 사라짐, 의미의 사라짐, 주체의 사라짐으로 분류 가능한 사라짐의 미학 1) 쉬뢰르와 하이데거의 공간 지양에 관한 언급은 다음의 저서 등에 나타났다. Markus Schroer, 공간·장소·경계, 정인모·배정희역, 에코 리브르, 서울, 2010, p.181 / Martin Heidegger, 강연과 논문, 이기 상외역, 이학사, 서울, 2008, pp.183-209 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.10 59 과 관계됨을 증명하고 그 특성을 분석하고자 한다. 1.2. 연구 방법 및 범위 사라짐의 미학적 성찰은 비릴리오, 보드리야르, 바우만 등의 사고를 근간으로 하고 객관성 확보를 위해 베냐민 (Walter Benjamin), 밴험(Reyner Banham), 맥루한 (Marshall McLuhan), 누벨 등의 지원적 견해를 뒷받침하 였다. 사라짐의 미학에 관한 사유들을 근거로 그 현상들 을 추출한다. 추출된 사라짐의 미학적 현상과 건축에서 연결 가능한 사례들을 조사하여 관계성을 확보한다. 사라 짐의 미학과 연결 가능한 현대 건축 사례를 통해 특징들 을 분석함을 결론으로 제시한다. 사라짐의 원인이 속도라 는 이론적 배경을 근거로 논의하는 바 1900년 이후의 사 회 변화와 예술·건축의 영향을 중심으로 진행하였다. 2. 사라짐의 의미 성찰과 미학적 사유 사고(思考)는 곧 ‘보기’로부터 시작된다고 믿었던 플라 톤 기반으로 해석하면 사라짐은 곧 비가시성이다. 그러 나 ‘보기’가 기능적 과정을 넘어 좀 더 복잡하게 얽혀진 지적 요소들과 만나면 사라짐은 의식의 차원이 된다. 미 디어의 발달은 이러한 의식의 지각 구조에 커다란 영향 을 미치고 더욱 복잡한 차원으로 만들었다. 더 나아가 디지털 테크놀로지에서는 생리적 보기의 규칙은 완전히 해체되었고 시각을 벗어난 환영들은 더욱 복잡하고 미세 하게 사실화되어 현실로부터 사라지는 현상을 만들어내 었다. 즉 기술발달에 따라 의식의 지각구조가 복잡해질 수록 사라짐의 성찰은 불가피해진다. 사라짐의 성찰은 비릴리오나 보드리야르로부터 본격화되었다. 비릴리오는 사라짐을 연속적 시간의 흐름을 벗어난 상황, 사이의 시 간성2)이라고 말한다. 또 보드리야르는 “사라짐은 우리가 없는 세상(종말, 주체, 모든 것, 소실점 너머)이 어떠한지 를 알고 싶어 하는 욕구이며 세상에 현실성의 힘을 준 순간, 개념이 형성되는 순간 그리고 인간이 세상을 분석 하고 변형하고자하는 결심과 함께 사라짐은 시작된다.”3) 고 하였다. 이들의 성찰은 진화론적인 차원을 넘어 심리 학적인 의식의 차원으로 확장된다. 자동차의 동력사회로 부터 전자적 속도가 합류된 오늘날의 사회에서 사라짐은 의식의 관점에서 더욱 힘을 발휘한다. 2.1. 진화론적 사유와 사라짐 2) 폴 비릴리오는 순간 사라짐의 현상을 피크노렙시라는 의학용어를 사용한다. 피크노렙시는 영화에서 몽타주가 이에 속할 수 있다. Paul Virilio, 소멸의 미학_속도와 시간의 여행, 김경온역, 연세대학 교 출판부, 서울, 2008, p.9, p.28 3) Jean Baudrillard, 사라짐에 대하여, 하태환역, 민음사, 서울, 2012, p.15, p.27 보드리야르는 시뮬라크르(Simulacre)의 세계에서 실재 성의 과잉으로 극단적 가능성에 이르게 되면 역설적으로 죽음을 없애고자 하는 욕망 때문에 사라짐이 실현된다고 말한다. 이는 근원에서 종말로, 원인에서 결과로, 출현에 서 사라짐으로 바라보는 진화론적 성찰이다. 비릴리오 또 한 오늘날의 기술적 진화가 속도를 가속화 시켜 현실이 역설적으로 사라진다는 진화론적 관점을 내세운다. 진화 론적 사유에서 속도는 사라짐의 주요 원인이다. 비릴리오 는 현대 문명을 속도의 혁명이라 부르고 1차 혁명은 운송 수단의 진보, 2차 혁명은 통신기술의 가속화, 그리고 3차 혁명은 속도와 시간에 대한 지향이 궁극적으로 도달하는 지점으로 이식혁명 즉 인간의 신체와 기술을 구분 짖던 경계가 붕괴된 상황4)으로 사라짐의 결과를 예측한다. 비릴리오가 말하는 3차 혁명은 탈 신체로 연결된다. 기계를 신체 일부에 삽입함으로서 죽음을 초월하고자 하 는 욕구, 그리고 신체적 시각 범위를 벗어나 우주적 지 각을 확보하고자 하는 욕구 등은 탈 신체적 욕구의 실현 이라 할 수 있다. 진화론적 입장에서 탈 신체적 욕구는 전지전능함의 신체 확보이다. 이에 대해 메르쉬(Dieter Mersch)5)는 기계의 신체장악으로 인간의 직접적인 감각 이 쇠퇴하고 의지 없는 신체가 될 것을 예측하기도 하였 다. 반대로 맥루한은 <미디어의 이해>6)를 통해 청각과 촉각을 중심으로 인간의 감각과 신체가 확장된다고 반격 하였다. 그로스(Elizabeth Grosz) 또한 오늘날의 속도가 제공하는 것은 몸의 대체가 아니라 몸의 증대7)라며 탈 신체의 긍정적 입장을 주장한다. 상반된 양측의 입장과 상관없이 이러한 신체의 욕구는 물리적 신체로부터 사라 지는 탈현실의 주체가 된다. 이것은 지면 안의 원근법을 벗어나며 앙각(仰角), 궤도적(trajective)지각이 가능해지 는 원격 조정의 신체이며 이는 신체의 지각범위를 초월 한 거대함과 미세함8)을 동반할 수밖에 없게 된다. 한편 사라짐의 원인으로서 속도는 시선이 튕겨버리는 표피적 공간과도 연결된다. 증기기관차로부터 현재의 통 신 속도에 이르기까지 기술의 속도가 빨라질수록 거리는 좁혀지고 공간은 사라져 갔다. 거리가 없는 사회는 시간 차가 없이 동시적이어서 장소는 사라지고 깊이 없는 표 피적 공간이 된다. 이는 시선이 통과 가능한 거리를 가 4) 신성환, 폴비릴리오의 전쟁론과 시각 테크놀로지의 상관성, 영남대 학교 인문과학연구소, 인문연구66, 2012.12, p.258 5) Dieter Mersch, 매체이론, 문화학연구회역, 연세대학교 출판부, 서 울, 2009, p.188 6) Marshall Mcluhan, 미디어의 이해, 박정규역, 커뮤니케이션북스, 서울, 1999 7) Elizabeth Grosz, 건축 그 바깥에서, 강소영외역, 그린비, 서울, 2012, p.43 8) 장 누벨은 속도의 발달은 한없이 거대한 기계 괴물 속으로 사라지 기와 동시에 한없이 작은 것 속으로 사라지기의 현상을 낳게 된다 고 하였다. Paul Virilio, 시각 저 끝 너머의 예술, 이정하역, 열화 당, 경기, 2008, p.8 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.1060 <그림 3> 사라짐의 미학적 특징 진 시각적 공간과는 다른 공간으로, 장소는 왜곡되며 의 미의 생산 없이 객관적 현실을 사라지게 한다. 따라서 진화론적 입장에서 공간은 표피적이며 무의미화 되는 것 이다. 반면 표피적 공간을 사라짐이 아닌 오히려 분리되 었던 장소들끼리 상호 접근 가능해진, 그리하여 공간이 비로소 생겨난다고 보는 사회학적 관점이 있다. 사회학 적 관점에서 미디어 기술은 부가적 공간을 열어주고 만 들어 내므로 지속적으로 공간이 오히려 생산9)된다는 것 이다. 따라서 사회학적 관점은 사라짐을 다루는 본 논문 의 취지와는 다른 입장이므로 논의에서 제외하였다. <그림 1> 진화론적 사유에서의 사라짐 이상의 문헌을 살펴본 결과 사라짐의 미학적 성찰로 서 진화론적 사유는 물질의 사라짐, 신체성의 사라짐, 의 미의 사라짐의 유형으로 정리된다. 2.2. 심리학적 성찰과 사라짐 보드리야르는 현실의 미장아빔을 넘어 의식의 사라짐, 즉 심리학적 관점에서 사라짐을 사유한다. 그는 사라짐 을 소멸의 최종차원이 아니라 의식이 널리 편재한, 그럼 으로써 주체가 무한히 분할된 차원으로 받아들여야 한다 고 말한다. 즉 사라짐이란 사물의 가상변형이나 현실의 미장아빔이 아닌 의식이 연쇄적으로 분쇄되어 주체는 분 산되고 연속이 부재되는 차원이라는 것이다. 보드리야르는 속도로 인한 현실의 과잉이 주체 분할 의 원인이라 말한다. 즉 현실이 극에 달하게 되면 반대 로 현실과 재현, 실재와 가상, 주체와 객체의 대립 항이 구별되지 않는 내파(Implosion)의 상태가 되며 이때 실 재는 완전히 사라지고 주체는 도리어 무한히 분할된다는 것이다. 의식이 분할된 주체는 역사로부터 떨어져 나오 게 되며 끊임없이 생성되는 세계 안에서 지속적으로 변 이함으로 자체가 제거된 주체가 된다. 이는 주체의 죽음 이 아니라 새로운 주체의 양태화10)로서 각각의 모나드들 로 분산되고 편집되는 주체로서 사라짐이 반복된다. 이 9) Markus Schroer, op. cit., p.182 10) 장용순, 현대건축의 철학적 모험3, 미메시스, 경기, 2011, pp.115-116 상의 문헌을 살펴 본 결과 심리학적 사유는 주체의 사라 짐 유형으로 정리된다. <그림 2> 심리학적 성찰에서의 사라짐 이상의 이론적 근거들을 정리하면 진화론적 입장과 심리학적 입장은 서로 상반 개념이 아니며 심리학적 사 유의 계기가 진화론적 성찰에 기인한다는 점을 알 수 있 다. 이들을 종합해 보면 사라짐의 미학은 탈현실·가상 등과 관련하는 물 질의 사라짐, 탈 신체·신체 확장과 관련하는 신체성의 사라짐, 표피화와 관련되는 의미의 사라짐, 주체의 유 동성·탈 주체와 관 련되는 주체의 사라짐 등의 특징으로 정리될 수 있다. 3. 기술 발달에 따른 예술과 건축의 변화 기술발달의 사회로부터 영향을 받은 예술·미학·건축 등의 변화가 속도를 원인으로 하는 사라짐의 미학과 관 계함을 전제로 하였을 때 이 시기에 나타난 예술과 건축 의 특징을 분석해 볼 필요가 있다. 기술발달의 시기는 증기기관차의 발명과 더불어 생겨난 동력기술, 대량생산 체제가 형성된 소비시대, 인터넷 네트워크가 탄생한 디 지털시대까지 연결 지어 특징들을 분석하였다. 3.1. 형태의 파편화와 탈 질료 증기기관차의 발명으로 사물 인지에 대한 변화를 겪은 후 풍경을 파편화하기 시작한 큐비즘과 미래파는 형태 안에 시간 이미지들을 결합시킴으로서 기존의 신화적 질 서를 해체하고자 하였다. 피카소(Pablo Picasso)와 보치 오니(Umberto Boccioni)의 회화에서 보여지 듯 분해된 형태와 색 면들의 과감한 부딪힘은 기술 속도가 만들어 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.10 61 <그림 7, 8> ①말레비치, 하양 위의 하양, 1918, ②김아타, 온에어시리스, 타임스퀘어, 2005 <그림 9> NOX, D Tower, Netherlands, 2005 내는 풍경을 그대로 수용함으로서 질료 덩어리들을 사라 지게 하였다. 움직임의 궤적과 파편화된 면들은 속도의 힘이 만들어내는 탈 질료를 통해 가벼움을 실현하고 물 리적 사라짐의 징후를 보인다. <그림 4, 5, 6> ①피카소 L'Aficionado, ②보치오니, 마음의 상태, 1911, ③Josef Chochol, Hodek Apartment 큐비즘과 미래파 회화의 시간성 표현은 공간에 대한 새로운 의식이 생기도록 하는 계기가 되었으며 건축은 1912년 살롱 드 톤느에 출품된 <큐비스트의 집> 처럼 의도적인 형태 왜곡이 특징으로 나타났다. 건축에서의 이러한 파편화된 형태 왜곡은 큐비즘, 미래파의 회화가 시간성의 본질을 고민한 것과 달리 입방체의 집적과 변 환을 통한 장식을 벗어나지 못했다는 비판을 받았으나 기존 장식의 물성을 벗어나고자 한 특징은 분명하다. 속도에 대한 이상적 추구는 러시아의 말레비치 (Kazimir Malevich)가 이끄는 절대주의에서도 나타났다. 형태에 대한 집착으로부터 벗어나기 위해 극단적 속도로 서 구상적 재현의 흔적을 모두 제거하고자 하였다. 모든 형태와 색을 ‘무’로 인식하는 순수 추상은 오히려 자율적 이며 운동성을 가진다고 보았다. 극단적 속도를 통해 모 든 살아있는 것 을 사라지게 하 고자 했던 김아 타의 작업 또한 같은 맥락으로 연결할 수 있다. 그의 온에어 시 리즈 <타임스퀘 어>는 8시간의 카메라 노출을 통해 움직이는 피사체들을 모두 사라져버 리게 하고 에너지의 흔적만 남게 함으로서 속도와 사라 짐의 관계를 보여준다. 이러한 극단적 속도로 인한 사라 짐이 보드리야르가 말하는 ‘내파현상’이다. 인터넷 정보 통신망의 발달은 무게를 가지지 않는 것 들의 가능성을 실험하는 계기를 마련하였다. NOX의 D-Tower는 주민들이 자신의 감정을 웹사이트를 통해 입력을 하면 타원의 색이 변하도록 설계된 인터페이스 조형물로 질료적 특성에서 벗어나 사건을 만들어 내는 도시 네트워크의 구현 사례이다. 리오타르(Jean Francois Lyotard)가 비물질을 가능성의 상태11)라고 하였듯 이러 한 네트워크의 구현은 도시에 새로운 사건을 발생시키는 잠 재적 특성을 갖게 된다. 3.2. 궤도적 지각과 탈 원근 1900년대 동력시대에서 건축은 기계의 속도감과 역동성 의 표현을 통해 새로운 이상 세계에 대한 열망을 실천하 고자 하였다. 산텔리아(Antonio Sant’Elia)의 스케치에 나 타난 기계 도시 모습은 고전적 형태미가 아닌 기계적 속 도의 사회가 가지는 복잡성과 거대함의 미학을 수용함으 로서 원근법적 지각을 벗어나고 있음을 알 수 있다. 페브 스너(Nikolaus Pevsner)는 이러한 미래파 건축을 공상적이 며 환상적인 표현주의의 변형12)이라고 주장한다. 반면 밴 험은 전통미학을 벗어난 기계미학의 탈 원근적 인식 전환 으로 새로운 도시환경을 제시하였다13)고 대응한다. 페브스 너의 주장대로 마르키(Virgilio Marchi)와 같은 후기 미래 파 건축이 SF적 표현주의 성향을 부인할 수 없으나 기계 의 속도를 통해 원근법적 신체지각으로부터 벗어나 우주 적 지각이 등장하게 된 계기가 되었음을 부인할 수 없다. <그림 10, 11, 12> ①산텔리아, Citta Nuova, 1914, ②마르키, Citta' fantastica, 1919 ③젝슨 폴락의 작업 모습 이후 카메라의 등장과 인터넷 통신망의 원격 현시는 인간의 수평적 시각 범위를 완전히 벗어나 신체로부터 분리되는 지각을 얻게 된다. 오늘날 중심 없는 도시 구 축은 인터넷 기술에 의한 원격 통신과 인포메이션 네트 워크에 의해 생성되고 사라진다. 비릴리오가 말한 원격 현시가 물리적 현시를 대체하게 된 것이다. 그는 폴록 (Jackson Pollock)을 원격현시를 실행했던 최초의 화가 라 칭하고 폴록이 캔버스를 이젤이 아닌 바닥에 내려놓 음으로서 생긴 앙각이 서구문화의 지각사에 일대 혼란을 일으켰다고 하였다. 이러한 앙각은 인터넷 통신망에 의 해 완전히 소실점으로부터 벗어나게 되었으며 객관적 시 11) Jean Francois Lyotard, 지식인의 종언, 이현복역, 문예출판, 서울, 1993 12) Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of Modern Design, Yale Univ Pr, New Haven, Conn., 2005, pp.37-39 13) Reyner Banham, 제1기계시대의 이론과 디자인, 윤재희 역, 세진 사, 서울, 1997 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.1062 각의 확대 뿐 아니라 역사로부터 떨어져 나오는 주체의 잠재적 사라짐을 실현한다. 누벨은 이를 희생의 미학14) 이라는 용어를 사용하였는데 이는 신체의 사라짐으로 인 한 주체의 무한한 잠재성을 의미한다고 할 수 있다. 3.3. 공간 압축과 무의미 무선의 공급과 대량생산 체계가 형성된 1950년대 기술 발달은 단순한 동력기술이 아닌 생물학, 심리학, 생태학 등의 과학과 기술이 합쳐지면서 생산체계 혁신과 더불어 대중에게 넓게 확장된 시기이다. 당시에는 텔레비전, 라 디오, 광고 등의 폭발적인 정보가 생산되면서 팝문화라는 새로운 사회가 형성되었다. 이러한 팝문화는 그동안의 예 술작품의 위상을 전복시키며 뒤샹(Marcel Duchamp)과 워홀(Andy Warhol)의 작품 등을 빌어 초미학의 범주로 전환되는데 이는 현실풍자와 위트, 쓰이고 사라지는 소비 개념, 원본성의 부정 등으로 특징이 나타났다. 보드리야 르가 말하는‘예술의 내파 상태’인 것이다. 팝문화의 영향을 받은 아키그램(Archigram)은 모더니 즘 건축이 지향하는 구축에 대한 비판과 풍자, 그리고 건축의 소비성에 주목하였다. 이들에게 건축은 소비되어 사라지는 것으로 고정되지도 않으며 유일하지도 않은 무 의미한 것이다. 오직 행위자들 즉 소비하는 사람들에 의 해 그때마다 일어나는 사건들이 곧 건축이 된다. 쿡 (Peter Cook)의 플러그 인 시티(Plug in City)와 인스턴 트 시티(Instant City)는 고정된 장소나 의미가 아닌 그 때마다 다른 해석에 의한 체험으로서 내러티브가 없이 스펙터클이 강화15)된 건축 특성을 보이고 있다. 쓰이고 <그림 13, 14> ①walking city, Archigram, 1964, ② 피터 쿡, 인스턴트시티, 1968 버려지는 건축의 일회성과 행위에 의해 무의미해지거나 다시 생성되기도 하는 소비 건축은 무의미와 무가치를 지향하는 사라짐의 미학으로 해석된다. 소비건축과 함께 밴험이 집중한 자동차의 질주미학 또 한 무의미의 건축 실험과 연결된다. 속도의 경관을 최초 로 시도한 라르띠끄(Jacques Lartigue)의 사진처럼 고정 된 원근법적 시선이 아닌 자동차의 움직이는 시선으로 변모된 이미지 미학은 건축의 스크린화를 제시하게 되었 다. 사리넨(Eero Saarinen)은 제너럴 모터스 기술센터를 14) Jean Baudrillard,·Jean Nouvel, 특이한 대상_건축과 철학, 배영달 역, 동문선, 서울, 2003, p.57 15) 심혜련, 사이버스페이스 시대의 미학, 살림, 경기, 2011, p.80 통해 건축이 건축가의 고정된 시선이 아닌 자동차 속도 로 이동하는 운전자의 시선에 감지될 수 있는 거대규모 의 강렬한 미학에 근거해야 한다16)고 말하였다. 벤트리 (Robert Venturi)가 공간적 인지 보다는 속도의 시각적 이미지의 중요성을 통해 건축을 스크린화 하고 이미지의 쾌락성을 강조한 것과 동일하다. 표피화 된 건축은 공간 의 깊이보다는 소비사회의 쾌락성과 스펙터클 건축으로 서 무의미를 지향한다. <그림 15, 16, 17> ①Jacques H. Lartigue, 자동차여행, 1913, ②Eero Saarinen, General Motors Technical Center, Michigan, 1956, ③Studies of Billboards, Venturi Architects, Philadelphia, 1968 교통과 통신의 발달을 통해 얻어진 도시 간 접근 방식 은 더 이상 관문이나 단속을 필요로 하지 않는다. 다양 한 전자장치들을 통해 통과의례는 자연스러운 행위의 일 부가 되었다. 거대화된 도시 간 접근은 전자적 표피를 통해 인터페이스로 접근되고 있으며 길과 건축물의 내러 티브는 사라져 가고 있다. 이러한 도시의 네트워크에 대 해 비릴리오는 구축된 공간 조직에 의해 짜여 지는 것이 아니라 지속 불가능한 시간의 계획이 만들어내는 연속체 로 짜여 지는 것이라고 말하였다. <그림 18, 19, 20> 영화 매트릭스의 공간적 표피와 시간과 장소가 혼합된 할리우드의 표피화 된 공간 영화 매트릭스에서 보여주었던 시간표상의 공간적 표피 들이 열리고 닫히는 관문은 오늘날 도시의 볼륨 없는 표 피를 대변한다. 거리의 차이는 모호해지고 객관적 경계 가 무시된 도시의 모습은 오늘날의 도시 네트워크와 일 치한다. 비릴리오는 이러한 인터페이스 공간에 대해 미 국의 할리우드를 언급하였는데 그는 할리우드가 영화 속 가상의 세계를 거리 곳곳에 하나씩 만들어 나가며 형성 시킨 허구의 바벨론이라는 점을 상기시키며 오늘날 도시 의 무의미한 표피성이 필수적임을 예견하였다. 3.4. 주체의 분할과 공간의 불확정성 1950년 이후 카메라, 인쇄술의 발달 등을 통해 베냐민 은 파편적으로 꼴라주 되는 소비사회를 영화의 몽타주 16) 박혜천, 인터페이스연대기, 디자인플럭스, 서울, 2009, p.72 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.10 63 <그림 23 ,24, 25> ①Giambattista Nolli의 로마 지도 ②애플사의 사이트 ③크리스토퍼 놀란, 인셉션, 2010 <그림 21, 22> ①전함포템킨, 에이젠슈타인, 1925, ②베르나르 추미, 맨하탄 트랜스크립트, 1981 <그림 27> Jean Nouvel, Cartier Foundation, Paris, 1997 이론으로 연결17) 시켰다. 디지털 이미지의 복제 대상은 매번 조 작과 변형을 통 해 다른 모습으 로 전환되어 스 스로 실재가 되 며 주체는 분산된다. 영화 <전함 포템킨>에서 오데사 계단 학살의 장면들이 충돌하면서 복제가 아닌 전혀 새 로운 실재가 되는 것처럼 원본이 사라진 몽타주는 주체 를 분산시키고 불확정한 실제들을 생성했다. 베르나르 추미 또한 이러한 몽타주 개념을 이용하여 건축의 장소, 역사, 맥락들을 해체하고 다양한 장르의 텍스트들을 중 첩, 충돌시킴으로서 블 확정한 공간을 만들어 내고자 하 였다. 1989년 버너스 리(Tim Berners Lee)가 제시한 월드 와이드 웹의 탄생은 지금까지의 미디어와는 전혀 다른 세계적 네트워크의 집합체로서 디지털의 폭발적 발전을 이끌었다. 기계적 속도는 디지털 속도로 변환되면서 물 질의 한계를 벗어나 공간적 점프가 가능해지고 지면의 공간적 접근은 표피적으로 인터페이스 역할을 담당하였 다. 1960년 린치(Kevin Lynch)가 제시한 5개의 도시이미 지18)와 다르게 인터넷 가상도시의 교차점은 모든 것이 랜드마크이며 무한적 점프가 가능해 졌다. 이렇게 구현 된 가상 도시에서 주체는 고정되지 않고 끊임없이 유동 하게 된다. 인터넷 도시처럼 영화 <인셉션>에서도 고정 된 주체와 공간은 없다. 현실과 환상이 끊임없이 열리고 닫히면서 공간적이기 보다는 서로 다른 시간들이 공간적 으로 배열되어 생겨나고 사라짐을 반복한다. 주인공의 기억 속에 잠재된 각각의 세계는 개별화되어 점프가 가 능하고 시간의 파편 속에 머문다. 이때 공간 또한 움직 이는 주체를 수용하기 위해 함께 유동하게 된다. 모든 변화의 궤적을 담는 이러한 유동성의 공간은 형태를 갖 17) Walter Benjamin, 기술복제시대의 예술작품, 최성만역, 길, 서울, 2012, p.47 18) 도시이미지의 5개 요소:Path, Edge, District, Node, Landscape Lynch, Kevin, The image of the city, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., 1960 지 못한 채 변이 현상들을 계속 받아들이게 된다. 4. 사라짐 미학과 현대건축공간의 관계성 분석 건축의 한계에 도전하기 위한 건축가들의 노력은 과거 로부터 오늘날에 이르기까지 끊임없이 지속되었다. 첨단 기술의 발달은 건축의 이러한 욕구를 더욱 다양하게 실험 할 수 있는 계기를 마련하였다. 누벨은 질료를 사라지게 하고 비 물질화 되는 것이야말로 건축이 제 것으로 삼아 야할 개념이라고 주장하였다.19) 세지마 또한 투명함이 물 리적 차원을 넘어 건축의 다양성과 유연성을 확보20)하는 방법임을 언급하였다. 이러한 건축가들의 사고가 사라짐 의 미학과 관계함이 본 연구의 목적인 바 2장과 3장에서 조사된 내용을 통해 건축과 사라짐의 미학의 관계 요소를 추출하였으며 이를 분석의 틀로 이용하고자 한다. <그림 26> 건축공간과 사라짐의 미학의 관련성 요소 분석 4.1. 물질의 사라짐과 비 물질의 잠재성 장 누벨의 카르띠에 재단 빌딩은 유리의 이중 외피를 사용하여 물질로부터 벗어나고자 하는 건축가의 욕구가 반영되었다. 건축 외피에 사용된 투명한 이중성은 흐르 는 시간과 지나가는 행인들이 중첩, 반사되면서 끊임없 이 실재들을 탈바꿈한다. 건축의 형태는 유리의 이중 반 사에 의해 탈 질료화 되고 주변의 실상과 허상이 뒤섞이 는 과정에서 현실로부터 벗어난 가상 세계가 구현되며 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소 안에 들어온다. 19) Jean Baudrillard,·Jean Nouvel, op. cit., p.19 20) EL Croquis S.L, Sanna:액체놀이터-대화의 파편들, EL Croquis 121/122호, 2008 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.1064 피터 쿡의 쿤스트하우스 그라츠는 문어 빨판 같은 9개 의 채광창과 600개의 형광등으로 이루어진 미디어 표면을 가진 작품이다. 50분마다 내는 초저음의 진동소리와 시간 마다 달라지는 미디어 정보는 방문자 간의 예측할 수 없는 유희와 커뮤니케이션을 확보한다. 유네스코 유산인 그라츠 지역의 역사성 보존이라는 무게를 벗은 무의미한 형태감과 매끈한 미디어 외피는 끊임없이 새로운 현실을 생성해 내 며 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소 안에 들어온다. <그림 28> Peter Cook & Colin Fournier, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, 2003 사라짐의 미학에서 물질의 사라짐은 탈 질료, 탈 형 태, 탈 재현의 관계 요소의 공통점을 가지며 실재가 끊 임없이 생성되는 잠재적 사건을 만든다. 4.2. 신체성의 사라짐과 원격 지각성 디지털 기술의 발달은 건축 프로세스에 상당한 영향을 미쳤다. 디지털 프로그램은 신체적 지각능력을 넘어 우 주적 시점을 가능하게 하였다. 이러한 과정에서 건축은 신체성이 초월된 스펙터클 한 낯선 건축 형태들을 가지 게 되었다. 탈신체한 원격 지각을 이용한 건축은 디자인 과정에서 두 가지 입장으로 나뉜다. 건축가의 사고와 디 지털 프로그램이 결합되어 만들어지는 공간의 우연성을 강조하는 입장과 제시된 텍스트들이 수학적 알고리즘에 따라 모핑(morphing)되면서 얻어지는 공간의 우연성을 다루는 입장으로 구분된다. 전자의 경우 건축가 사고와 이용자의 다양한 경험들이 결합되면서 발생되는 사건을 중요하게 다루게 되는데, 카티아 프로그램을 이용한 게 리(Frank Gehry)구겐하임 미술관을 예로 들 수 있다. <그림 29> Frank Gehry, guggenheim bilbao museum, 1997 후자의 경우 린(Greg Lynn)의 작업들을 예로 들 수 있다. 이는 대상이 가져갈 텍스트들과 알고리즘이 모핑 되어 얻어지는 형상들이 건축의 문제를 해결하는 것으로 서 입력되는 데이터가 바뀔 때마다 건축은 지속적으로 변형 가능한 생물학적 기반이 된다. 그의 작품 ‘발생학적 주택(embryological house)’은 이러한 방법으로 진행된 건축 실험으로서 건축가가 제외되고 전적으로 프로그램 에 의지하는 원격 현시의 대표적 사례이다. <그림 30> Greg Lynn, embryological house 위 두 가지의 사례 모두 탈 원근과 궤도적 지각, 거대 함의 특징을 통해 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소에 합류한다. 사라짐의 미학에서 신체성의 사라짐은 거대함 과 미세함, 탈 원근법, 우주적 지각의 관계 요소의 공통 점을 가지며 우연한 공간이 지속적으로 생성되는 잠재적 사건을 만든다. 4.3. 의미의 사라짐과 표피적 접근성 렘콜하스는 ‘정신착란증의 뉴욕’을 통해 도시의 혼돈을 인정하고 현대도시의 불확정성을 담을 수 있는 새로운 도시의 질서를 논의하였다. 그는 도시의 거대함과 팽창 이 기존 건축의 조형성, 윤리, 전통들과는 관계없이 공존 함을 긍정함으로서 아이러니하게 벤트리의 사고를 인정 한다.21) 그는 과밀함 속에 시간의 틈들이 쪼개지고 이 사이에서 발생되는 우연한 접근들이 표피화되어 인터페 이스로서 작동하게 됨을 사고의 핵심으로 삼고 있다. 이 것은 건축적이지 않으며 정체성에 도전하고 일시적인 것 으로서 의미를 가질 수 없는 것이다. 그의 작품 Conrexpo를 포함한 Euralille Masterplan은 그의 이러한 건축 사고를 그대로 반영하였다고 볼 수 있다. 이 작업 들은 석탄과 철강, 섬유산업의 작은 도시를 유럽과 연결 함으로서 문화의 목적지로 탈바꿈한 시도이다. 이것은 건축이라기보다는 거대화 된 도시의 인터페이스로서 역 할을 가진다. 호텔, 쇼핑몰, 전시장, 콘서트홀 등이 뒤섞 인 표피들은 어디든지 연결이 가능한 도시의 축소판이자 관문이다. 이것은 거리와 공간의 압축, 표피화, 무의미로 서 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소 안에 들어온다. <그림 31> Euralille Masterplan, Rem Koolhaas, Lille, France, 1994 UN Studio의 갤러리아 백화점은 디지털 매체를 이용 해 기존 건축의 물리적 구조로부터 벗어나 표피적 접근 성을 드러내었다. 4,330개의 LED들은 컴퓨터 시스템에 의해 다양한 정보와 이미지를 시시각각 다르게 제공함으 로서 주변 환경의 맥락으로부터 벗어난다. 프로그램에 21) Rem Koolhaas, CA Press, 서울, 2006, p.15 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.10 65 <그림 35> SANAA의 Rolex Learning Center, Swiss, 2010 <그림 33> 시애틀 중앙도서관, 램쿨하스 의해 짜인 표피는 시간에 따라 예술 작품으로 혹은 정보 제공으로 일회적 성질을 가진다. 시간표에 의해 공간적 표피들이 드러났다 사라지고 또다시 새로운 공간이 생성 되는 건축으로서 압축된 공간과 무의미를 지향함으로서 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소 안에 들어온다. <그림 32> UN Studio, 갤러리아백화점, Seoul, 2003 사라짐의 미학에서 의미의 사라짐은 무의미와 공간의 압축, 표피화의 관계 요소에서 공통점을 가진다. 시간이 압축된 수많은 대상들은 표피적으로 사라지지만 각각의 실체들은 오히려 무수한 가능성을 가진 채 지속적으로 생성되는 잠재적 사건을 만든다. 4.4. 주체의 사라짐과 공간의 불확정성 렘콜하스의 시애틀 중앙 도서관은 고정된 주체도 없고 공간도 끊임없이 유동한다. 본부, 서고, 사무실, 회의실, 주차장의 다섯 플랫폼에 네 개의 클러스터(사람, 거실, 혼합 챔버, 열람실)들이 애매하게 끼워져 유동 하는 사이 공간으로 작동한다. 열 려있는 네 개의 클러스터들은 이용 자의 유기적 접근과 공간적 점프가 가능해진다. 즉 기능은 고정되지 않은 채 이용자들의 행위에 의해 역할이 비로소 생겨나게 된다. <그림 34> 렘쿨하스의 시애틀중앙도서관 개념도 또한, 애매한 층간의 중첩과 오픈된 기능들은 이용자 의 시선과 응시를22) 뒤바꾸는 주체로서 불확정한 공간을 경험하게 된다. 분산된 주체와 유동하는 불확정적 공간, 탈 중심성의 특징은 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관계 요소 안에 들어온다. SANAA의 Rolex Learning Center 또한 식당, 도서 관, 사무실, 전시 등 각기 다른 프로그램들을 분리시키지 22) 이미경, 사건과 건축공간의 관계성 비교 연구, 한국실내디자인학회 논문집 제22권 1호(통권 96호), 2013. 2, p.141 않고 열린 공간에서 새로운 활동이 촉발되도록 계획되었 다. 공간은 언덕과 계곡으로 이루어져 각 프로그램 간의 거리를 좁히거나 넓힌다. 사용자들은 구불거리는 열린 공간에서 프로그램들을 자율적으로 이용한다. 열려있는 서로 다른 프로그램들은 자연스럽게 충돌되고 새로운 관 계를 형성한다. 공간은 잠재적으로 실재할 뿐 존재하지 않는 것이다. 사용자는 이러한 잠재적 공간에서 불확정 한 주체가 되는 특징으로서 사라짐의 미학과 건축의 관 계 요소 안에 들어온다. 사라짐의 미학에서 주체의 사라짐은 탈 중심성, 주체 의 분할, 주체와 공간의 불확정성, 연속의 부재 등의 관 계 요소에서 공통점을 가진다. 분산된 주체와 유동하는 공간적 특징은 끊임없이 떠돌면서 지속적으로 생성되는 잠재적 사건을 만든다. 5. 결론 본 연구는 실재와 가상의 문제가 아닌 현실적인 것과 잠재된 것의 문제를 촉진하는 사라짐의 미학이 건축에 영향을 미치고 있음을 전재로 관계성과 특징을 분석한 것이다. 사라짐의 미학적 특징은 탈현실·가상의 세계를 만들어 내는 물질의 사라짐, 탈 신체와 신체의 확장을 동반하는 신체성의 사라짐, 탈 공간·표피화의 현상과 관 계하는 의미의 사라짐, 탈 주체와 유동성을 가진 주체의 사라짐으로 분리할 수 있다. 사라짐의 미학 4가지 특성 은 기술발달과 더불어 건축의 현상에 영향을 미쳤으며 형태의 파편화와 탈 질료, 궤도적 지각과 탈 원근, 공간 의 압축과 무의미, 주체의 분할과 불확정성으로 특징지 어질 수 있다. 사라짐의 미학과 현대건축공간의 관계성 과 특징은 다음과 같이 확인되었다. 첫째, 모든 물성으로부터 자유로워지고자 하는 욕구로 서 물질의 사라짐과 현대건축공간은 탈 질료, 탈 형태, 탈 재현의 관계 요소의 공통점을 가지며 이는 끊임없이 새로움을 생성시킴으로서 모든 가능성을 열어주는 무한 한 잠재적 성격을 지닌다. 둘째, 원근법적이고 객관적인 시선으로부터 자유로워지 고자 하는 욕구로서 신체성의 사라짐과 현대건축공간은 거 대함과 미세함, 탈 원근법, 우주적 지각의 관계 요소의 공 통점을 가지며 인간의 신체를 넘어섬으로서 예측 불가능의 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제23권 5호 통권106호 _ 2014.1066 우연 공간을 끊임없이 생성시키는 잠재적 성격을 지닌다. 셋째, 공간적 거리, 역사로부터 떨어져 나오고자 하는 욕구로서 의미의 사라짐과 현대건축공간은 무의미와 공 간의 압축, 표피화의 관계 요소에서 공통점을 가지며 이 는 시간이 압축된 수많은 대상들이 표피적으로 사라지지 만 각각의 실체들은 오히려 무수한 가능성을 가진 채 지 속적으로 생성되는 잠재적 성격을 지닌다. 넷째, 파편화되고 유동하는 주체와 끊임없이 공간을 바꾸는 불확정성의 욕구로서 주체의 사라짐은 탈중심성, 주체의 분할, 모나드적 주체와 공간, 연속의 부재 등의 관계 요소에서 공통점을 가지며 이는 수많은 서로 다른 시간들의 잠재된 주체와 사건들이 끊임없이 충돌하면서 공간적으로 재배열되는 잠재적 성격을 지닌다. 이상의 결론을 통해 사라짐의 미학은 현대 건축과 물 질의 사라짐, 신체성의 사라짐, 의미의 사라짐, 주체의 사라짐을 통해 관계적 특성을 가지고 있으며 이러한 특 성 분석 결과 건축은 잠재성의 차원으로 사라짐을 실천 하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 참고문헌 1. 박혜천, 인터페이스연대기, 디자인플럭스, 서울, 2009 2. 심혜련, 사이버스페이스 시대의 미학, 살림, 경기, 2011 3. 장용순, 현대건축의 철학적 모험-03, 미메시스, 경기, 2011 4. 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EL Croquis S.L., Sanna:액체놀이터-대화의 파편들, EL Croquis 121/122호, 2008 22. Rem Koolhaas, CA Press, 서울, 2006 [논문접수 : 2014 08. 18] [1차 심사 : 2014. 09. 17] [2차 심사 : 2014. 10. 02] [게재확정 : 2014. 10. 17] work_2f3mobevijdorp5vk6lreipuie ---- http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk Original citation: Heath-Kelly, Charlotte. (2015) Picasso at the bombsite : whither resilient place? Politics, Volume 35 (Number 1). pp. 72-77. ISSN 0263-3957 Permanent WRAP url: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/64009 Copyright and reuse: The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available. 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For more information, please contact the WRAP Team at: publications@warwick.ac.uk http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/ http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/64009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12081 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9256.12081 mailto:publications@warwick.ac.uk Running Head: Resilience: A Forum Picasso at the Bombsite: Whither Resilient Place? Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick Places are targeted for terrorist attacks because they are symbolic: they mean something. Anders Breivik’s attacks of 22 nd July 2011, for example, targeted Norway’s pre-eminent site for left-wing activism, Utøya island, and the Government Quarter in Oslo. Similarly, the redevelopment of such sites focuses on consolidating the meanings of places as symbols of national unity and the overcoming of trauma (Heath-Kelly, forthcoming; Lundborg 2012). Place is significant to both terrorism and post-terrorist response. And yet the reshaping of post-terrorist space is rarely discussed as a form of resilience. 1 Why should this be? In what follows I will explore the controversy and debate surrounding the preliminary decision (now revoked) to tear down the Høyblokka building in the Oslo Government Quarter with reference to several ambiguities of resilience discourse. Whilst an emerging literature is beginning to critically tackle the policy and practical deployments of resilience, this paper instead explores resilience through its absence. Where and when is resilience not deployed? What does it mean for the coherence of resilience policy, which centralises the goal of adaptive capacity in the face of contingency, if resilience policy is not applied to the redevelopment of bombsites? This short piece thus explores the debates around the Oslo government quarter to expose the ambiguity and temporality of resilience discourse - which appears unconcerned with the ‘bouncing back’ of post-terrorist space. I make particular reference to Jon Coaffee’s discussion of ‘place-making’ in anticipatory UK resilience policy (Coaffee 2013) and Dan Bulley’s (2013) discussion of the production of communities through UK resilience practice. When considered alongside the non-application of the resilience signifier to bombsite recovery practices, the ambiguity of ‘resilient places’ becomes apparent. Resilience is not oriented toward the amelioration of disaster events, as policy discourse suggests, but rather the regulation of the everyday through anticipatory techniques. Image_1.jpg here (centred) 1 Although post-disaster cities are somewhat tacitly and uncritically discussed as resilient in Vale & Campanella (eds) (2005). Caption below: Figure 1: The damaged Høyblokka: (Photo by Alexander Ottesen, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexao/5978812209/) The Oslo government quarter is comprised of several different ‘blocks’, largely modernist and functional in style, all dominated by the overbearing high-rise structure of Høyblokka (Figure 1). Henrik Bull’s ‘G Block’ was constructed in 1906, followed by Erling Viksjø’s high- rise (Høyblokka) in 1958 and the Y block in 1969. Viksjø’s friendship with Pablo Picasso led to the innovative sandblasting technique developed on the facades and interiors of these buildings, where Picasso’s sketches are integrated within the concrete structures themselves (Figures 2 & 3). After Viksjø’s death, the development of the government quarter continued with the construction of S block in 1978, R4 in 1988, as well as the adaption in 1980 of Møllergata 19, the city’s former police station, built in the 1860s and 70s. Finally in 1996, building R5 was added (Ekman 2013). Despite the collaboration of noted artists and architects in its construction, the government quarter in Oslo has never generated much public affection. The passionless naming of the buildings, and the absence of alternative public nomenclature for them, points towards their status prior to 22 July 2011. Nobody had much interest in them. As Matthias Ekman has argued, the government quarter is located away from the main tourist trails in Oslo and failed to develop a symbolic persona in the style of the Parliament building or the Royal Palace (Ekman 2013). He argues that while most Norwegians possessed some conceptual understanding of the spatial location of the government buildings, these fragmentary framings located the buildings as somewhat featureless bureaucratic functionaries in the state apparatus. However, since Brevik’s bomb attack on the quarter in 2011, this ambivalence has radically shifted. Suddenly these buildings have come to matter – incorporated into debates concerning the appropriate architectural response to sudden violence. The questions surrounding the architectural and cultural worth of the government quarter have provoked heated discussion in Norway’s major newspapers and public fora. The importance and meaning of the buildings have been retrospectively renegotiated since they were targeted by Breivik, and since the report of a government appointed committee of architects, planners and structural engineers originally recommended the removal of key buildings, such as the looming Høyblokka, despite their structural integrity. The incorporation of Picasso’s sketches into the structures became a particularly salient narrative within the spirited defence of the government quarter. For example, after the report on reconstructing the Government Quarter was published, Oslo museum directors Lars Roede and Nina Berre were quoted in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten hailing the sandblasting technique used to integrate Picasso’s sketches into the concrete structures of government, opining that the buildings represent a ‘central work of Norwegian architecture’ (Nipen 2011). Similarly, in July/August 2013 the Oslo Museum of Architecture hosted an exhibit on this very technique, further developing the public narrative of retaining the government buildings as important features of national cultural heritage. Image_2.jpg here (centred) Caption below: Figure 2: Picasso mural at the Oslo Government Quarter (Author’s collection) Image_3.jpg here (centred) Caption below: Figure 3: Inside Høyblokka (reproduced courtesy of LPO Arkitekter) Simultaneously, the somewhat-bleak concrete modernism of the buildings has been reframed by commentators as a valuable statement of Norwegian egalitarian values, contra the regularly-invoked statement of Minister Rigmor Aasrud (who held the ministerial brief on the reconstruction project) that she is from a ‘country background’ and struggles to see the worth of ‘all this concrete’. For example, Roede and Berre narrate the history of the Government buildings as the ‘architectural centre-point for Norwegian nation-building’ where the High Rise and Y-Block exemplify the ‘foremost examples of modernism in Norway in the 1950s’. Nina Berre further commented that: The High-Rise can also be considered as a symbol of the social democracy that evolved in Norway, with the grid architecture which parcels the building into a series of rectangles. This equality and regularity can symbolise the democratic values the building represents (Berre quoted in Nipen 2011). Similarly Espen Johnsen, an art historian at the University of Oslo, publicly proclaimed after Breivik’s bombing that: The architect Erling Viksjø’s government building stands as our foremost symbol of the new monumental architectural design that was recognized in the decades after the war. The goal was to create new community-symbols to be used under the reestablished democratic society. Through a revised modernist idiom the architect and the artists succeeded to integrate the architecture and the art into a new unanimity. The Government Building represents the primary structure of this architecture ideal (Johnsen, 2011). After the attacks of 22 nd July 2011, then, Høyblokka (as representative of the Government Quarter) suddenly became the most talked about building in Norway. Breivik’s attack radically incorporated the Government Quarter buildings into public discussion of Norwegian topographical and architectural identity. Suddenly their disfigured forms have provoked debate about symbolic identity and the importance of retaining cultural heritage and Norwegian identity. While official recommendations initially highlighted the cost- benefits for tearing down Høyblokka and redeveloping the area, and noted the trauma which would potentially affect the officeworkers called upon to return there, public discussions and exhibits have overwhelmingly called for the government quarter to architecturally ‘bounce back’ from 22 nd July. Interestingly, for all the debate over the future of the government quarter, these questions have not been framed in terms of resilience. Yet the resilience discourse presents itself as enabling the capacity to ‘bounce back’ from violent disruption. It has come to dominate national and international approaches to the securing of life and infrastructure against threats. While the implementation of resilience is understood in a number of ways (Coaffee 2013; Holling 1973; Walker & Cooper 2011), policy documents frame resilience as involving the acceptance of disruptive events as inevitable and highlight the importance of fostering adaptive capacities of pre-emption and recovery. So what do ‘bouncing back’ and resilience mean, if they are not concerned with the recovery of urban sites? Resilience, it seems, is not applied to disaster sites to render them recoverable. Instead its policy application is almost entirely anticipatory, and when resilience claims relevance to disaster recovery it focuses in an abstract manner on the restoration of networked systems of transportation, communication, business and infrastructure (Cabinet Office 2013: 81-7), articulating a revealing lacunae with regard to place. So where is ‘place’ in resilience? And which temporalities does resilience discourse embody and silence? Jon Coaffee (2013) has explored the shifts in UK resilience policy which, he argues, have led away from the spatially focused first wave of resilience – which implemented bi-steel barriers and crash-rated bollards to ‘design out’ terrorism at high-risk sites. This ‘command and control’ structure for the resilience roll-out has now given way to a focus on decentralised, local structures which perform community resilience. Coaffee refers to this localised governmentality as ‘place-making’. This phrase is utilised to highlight the localised performance of fourth-wave resilience within a ‘more community driven social contract between citizens and state’ (Coaffee, 2013, p.246), contra the nationalised and securitised first wave articulation or the ‘crowded places’ agenda of the second and third waves. Similarly, Dan Bulley (2013) discusses the UK Resilient Communities program as a governmental strategy which produces communities as places through the extension of responsibilities for emergency planning and response. These are identifications of place-making through futurity (against the anticipated threat) in resilience practice. However, should the understanding of ‘place’ in resilience remain limited to the localisation and decentralisation of anticipatory resilience activities, and anticipatory in temporality? The post-event constitution of the Oslo bombsite as central to Norwegian cultural heritage suggests that public activism retrospectively reclaims and reconstitutes place. This could be called resilience, but it isn’t. As such, the renarrativisation of the Oslo government quarter provides an interesting window onto the discursive disregard within resilience discourse for the bombsite of the present and the retrospective reproduction of place. Why is this silence important? The Government Quarter buildings, while once denigrated and ignored, have now become framed as salient features in a national and cultural heritage. They have been made into crucial symbols of identity, and the proposal to tear down Høyblokka, in particular, has met with powerful public denunciation. The architecture of the damaged Government Quarter has been made representative of Norwegian identity, and the passionate calls for it to ‘bounce back’ could, in certain readings, symbolise a retrospective invocation of resilience – one which is not directed towards the mediation of future threat, but the restoration of a place damaged by an explosion. These practices could potentially be called resilience, but they aren’t. Why, then, doesn’t resilience recognise this retroactive place-making? Because place, for resilience, is only interesting as governmental technique. The ‘places’ forged through anticipatory community resilience policies (Bulley 2013; Coaffee 2013) fit the governmental remit of conducting conduct through devolving crisis responsibilities and hierarchies. They are not spaces for meaningful participation, discussion, art or dissent. Picasso simply doesn’t matter from this perspective. One might explain this discursive disregard for retrospective place-making activities by exploring ‘resilience’ as a tendency to abstract and depoliticise, and to govern the everyday (rather than the event) through anticipation. The absence of resilience from the bombsite exposes the unthinkability of ‘bouncing back’ as a restorative principle, then, and instead reveals it as a practice of technocratic and governmental management of population and futurity. About the Author Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly holds both a Warwick research fellowship and an Institute of Advanced Studies postdoc at the University of Warwick. Currently she holds a British Academy grant to research the ‘reclamation’ of post-terrorist space through architecture at the Manhattan WTC, Oslo Government Quarter, Utøya island and the Bali bombsites of 2002. Her monograph, Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name, was published in 2013 with the Routledge ‘Interventions’ series and was shortlisted for the 2014 BISA Susan Strange book prize. She has also published articles in Security Dialogue, The British Journal of Politics and IR, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Politics and International Studies, Social Sciences Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL. Email: c.heath-kelly@warwick.ac.uk References Bulley, Dan (2013) ‘Producing and Governing Community (through) Resilience’, Politics 33 (4), pp.265-75. Cabinet Office (2013) Emergency Response and Recovery: Non Statutory Guidance accompanying the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, London: Cabinet Office. mailto:c.heath-kelly@warwick.ac.uk Coaffee, Jon (2013) ‘Rescaling and Responsibilising the Politics of Urban Resilience: From National Security to Local Place-Making’, Politics 33 (4), pp.240-52. 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Walker, Jeremy & Cooper, Melinda (2011) ‘Genealogies of Resilience: From Systems Ecology to the Political Economy of Crisis Adaptation’, Security Dialogue 42 (2), pp.143-160. http://alt.sagepub.com/content/37/3/240.short http://alt.sagepub.com/content/37/3/240.short work_2np4qtdcozbe7dfwcl5ifmderi ---- Licit International Traffic in Cultural Objects for Art's Sake Licit International Traffic in Cultural Objects for Art's Sake Hugo Keith Weihe* 1 Introduction The movement of works of art and cultural properties has at all times been beneficial to the development of new cultural values in new places and eras. There is no question that it encourages the mutual understanding and respect between people. Major historic events throughout the world have always entailed the relocation of cultural goods when victors took their tributes from the defeated. These goods were treasured and highly regarded for their level of human achievement. In a series of lectures entitled 'On the removal of works of art from the conquered territories to Rome',1 held in Leipzig at the Casselischen Alterthumer-Gesellschaft in 1798, L. Volkel justifies Napoleon's seizure of works of art in Italy and the Netherlands at that period, by relating it to the Romans abducting sculptures from Greece to Rome. The latter had captured the sculptures of Greek gods, robbing them of their protective function in their native terri- tories, but continued to worship them and were inspired by their artistic beauty. Now they were being captured once again to be placed in a new temple, a temple of art, the Louvre. What formerly was a standard procedure by the victorious, making hostages of the guardian gods of the defeated, had now become.a full tribute to their cultural status. To possess these great pieces naturally reflected on the grandeur, knowledge and style of the new owners, apart from being a token of their martial superiority. At no time were they inter- ested in destroying them. In the same year, 1798, Napoleon had taken with him to Egypt a staff of scientists who immediately set about registering the monu- ments and making exact drawings which some years later led to the first major publication in the field. The famous Rosetta Stone un- earthed by his troops was to become the actual key to Egyptian culture when it was deciphered by Francois Champollion. However, in an unprecedented change of fortune Napoleon was cornered by * Artibus Asiae, Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland. 81 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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This is a characteristic of all cultural transfers throughout history. If not warlords, then there are connoisseurs somewhere else in the world, who are eager to obtain foreign cultural objects. This is in the first place a tribute to the curiosity of mankind, to learn about and to cherish other peoples' achievements. A priori there is no arrogance, reckless exploitation or derogatory attitude of the politi- cally superior, or of the 'civilized' nations towards the Third World countries. The only exceptions to this were blinded by the obvious material value, as were the Spanish faced with the gold treasures of the Aztecs, which they chose to cast into ingots. Had they known the potential market value they would certainly have refrained from this brutal act. Cultural heritage consists of various goods that bear a distinctive relevance to a people's origin and development. The term 'national cultural patrimony' is applied in a broad sense to cultural goods and works of art created within a nation, but not necessarily by an artist of that specific nationality. This would apply, for instance, to the works of Pablo Picasso, a Spanish artist spending most of his cre- ative life in France. At the same time he remains a unique artistic talent — as every artist essentially is — at various stages of his life venturing into new artistic realms, initially perhaps indebted to French impressionism but probably more so to African art, later truly independent — or rather becoming influential himself. It is a remark- able phenomenon that the work of an individual should become rep- resentative for a whole nation, apart from the fact that he may not even be of that nationality. Some categories of cultural heritage, for example music and lit- erature, stand apart for their specific properties. Although there is an original score or manuscript, they factually exist only as a perform- ance or as printed matter, whereby the problem of uniqueness is eliminated. Without this burden and the lack of a singular material base they have transgressed all borders and in a quite straightforward way exploit their potential to become the cherished good of the world. The aspects of nationality and internationality have thereby already been overturned, without the loss of a specific identity. In view of this and with regard to the three images of the international cultural property milieu in mind, (1) 'national cultural heritage', 82 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Licit Traffic for Art's Sake (2) 'cultural heritage of all mankind' and (3) 'cultural context', why should this kind of liberation not be possible for all embodiments of cultural heritage? In the following I will choose to speak mostly of works of art, but generally imply cultural goods in a broader sense. 2 Culture in Context The 'context' is the crucial point of view of the art historian. I would like to provide various aspects of this term beyond the object/context relationship as employed in archaeology. The art historian is trained to adopt both a local historical perspec- tive as well as a concept of 'global positioning', the assessment of mutual influences on a national and international level and cross- cultural exchange. Art history is as much about individual masters as it is about anonymous workgroups, their predecessors and followers, embedded in a cultural context, whose work may or may not become a gradient, a stepping stone in the artistic evolution. One of its most powerful tools is comparison, both within a cultural context and beyond. Art itself thrives on relative values; mostly there is an el- ement of technical accomplishment, for example of taking architec- tural structures to ever greater heights and more splendid decoration. But beyond that there is vision, innovation, singularity, creativity, genius. This is what we cherish and which is to the benefit of all humankind. An interesting aspect in view of cultural importance is the fact, that cultural goods in their making are very often not recognized as such. Naturally many cases are obvious by the sheer magnitude and effort employed in the construction of objects of national status right from the start, for example the great pyramids of Giza and their contents, but there are others that are first passed by, generally 'mo- bile' works, like the paintings of Vincent van Gogh or the Im- pressionists. Still others may slip into oblivion for a while, like the works of the Pre-Raphaelites, to be rediscoverd at a later point in time. These latter cases are most interesting to our argument, stress- ing the volatility of judgement. One of the crucial aspects is how we perceive art over a period of time. Why is it possible that works of art like the paintings by Vincent van Gogh were not considered to be art when they were first created and virtually unsellable at any price, only to become unchallenged masterpieces less than a century later and commanding the highest prices ever achieved by cultural goods at auction? True, the letters published by his widow revealed a powerful personality of great insight totally determined in his artistic quest and this has undoubtedly helped to form his image, but should that not have been clearly visible in the paintings themselves right from the start? How are we to know which of the goods of today are the cultural heritage of tomorrow? 83 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Hugo Keith Weihe It is the liberality that has always existed in the contemporary art market — at any given time and undisputed today — that has been instrumental in the making of an artist. His work needs to be disco- vered, i. e. needs to be shown around to as broad an audience as possible. The collector buying from a dealer, a gallery or an auction is making a 'cash commitment', he needs to be sufficiently con- vinced of its quality to entail a financial suffering. This commitment to art by individuals is its status nascendi. It needs to be perceived as such and placed within its cultural context. This cultural context does not therefore exist per se, but is formed by growing consent in the relevance of an individual work for a community. More collec- tors might begin to compete, the prices would rise, themselves be- coming an indication of value and relative importance. There is no guarantee however that a once fashionable artist might not become forgotten again, whole artistic movements (re)considered to be sec- ondary. The failure to recognize art in the making is therefore ex- tended by a perpetual uncertainty in its potential as national heritage. However, the more time elapses, the more precise this evaluation will probably be. This would cast considerable doubt, for example, on the justifi- cation of considering a painting by Matisse as cultural property, par- ticulary as the time factor becomes overly important. When does a Matisse in Italy become a National Treasure? In 1940, 50 or 60? The owner intending to move the painting might just miss his chance by a few years. The time element is decisive, there is movement in the perception of art and the status and influence it exerts at any given time in past, present and future. 3 Commodification and Collecting Turning cultural objects into commodities is sometimes considered morally questionable. However, it is an inevitable historic fact and mostly a sign of recognition and respect. Speaking merely of specu- lation is too simple, there always is a relationship between market value and cultural relevance at any given time. The market is not out to destroy, but to intermediate and to supply to other more strongly interested parties. Futhermore, the market guards itself from overly excessive activities. The apparent eagerness of the art market in rich nations has encouraged fakes which to some extent act as an inbuilt protective measure for the real thing and have made many fields of collecting far less desirable, for example Pre-Columbian ceramics. From the history of collections and the building of artists' repu- tations it cannot be emphasized enough how important the role of the private collector is as the main driving force of artistic discovery. At the initial level of collecting there is no restriction, but why should the fruit of individual connoisseurship eventually result in a 84 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Al- brecht Diirer argued in the case of the so called 'Heller-altar',3 that the more time he would invest in this commission the finer the result would be - thereby trying to coax out an extra 100 guilders from his client.4 Essentially he was not willing to compromise his artistry by a modest price level. This awareness of market value on the part of artists, culminating in the contracts between the Paris art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger and others in the early 1900s, guaranteeing them a certain sum per can- vas of a specific size, established art in the making as a commodity. The history of the making of an artist generally proves that the dealer who makes works available and assembles exhibitions and the private collector who buys .from him are instrumental in this process. To discredit the private collector would be equally detri- mental to the public interest, as museums heavily rely on donations from private sources. To that extent, private collections very often represent an intermediary state. The private collector, as opposed to any institution, is only responsible to himself, drawing on his own funds and therby generally being far more enterprising and taking greater risks. A museum, as a rule, has to reach a decision within a large premium and be in a position to publicly justify any acqui- sitions. This will often prevent it from acquiring avantgarde art at an early stage. The image of the private collector might have been tinged by the avaricious approach, particularly in the eighties, of investors new to the art market, but the true collector still is the carrier of connoisseurship. It should not be forgotten that works of art very often are highly individualistic products and likewise require a personal approach. It is a false conception to believe that by becoming a sellable commodity a cultural object ceases to be an object of cultural ident- ity. Naturally its actual cultural value cannot be priced; none the less it has a market value at any given time which may vary according to location. If 'commodification' is an inevitable attribute, it is by no means a priori detrimental. At any time the actual or potential market value is an indication of the importance of a given cultural object or of its momentary perception.5 Most importantly the status of works of art has been established by their effective or potential market value reflecting back on them. The market offers a manag- able reference to relative values between objects. Without trade art would only have an intrinsic value. The market-place does not neces- 85 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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He set about in 1618 offering his own works in exchange, some of which he had sold previously and bought back at higher prices, thereby underlin- ing their importance.6 An agreement was ultimately reached, in which Sir Dudley accepted a number of paintings up to a specific total value, insisting on the difference being made up by Gobelin tapestries, a highly prized good at that time. Subsequently both par- ties parted again with their newly acquired treasures, Sir Dudley offering the Rubens' to the King of Denmark, Rubens being asked by the infanta Isabella of Spain in a move of appeasement with England to pass on his collection to the Duke of Buckingham, to which he obliged. Both the paintings by Rubens as well as the an- tiquities are cultural goods today. The status of tradable goods they enjoyed in the past not only asserted their importance, but helped alleviate political tension. A distinction should therefore be made between these 'mobile' cultural goods, and those commissioned for a specific function. A vast majority of the cultural goods handled in the art market will at one point become part of a public collection. Private collectors, seen in a historic context, are part-time owners. The main concern is for archaeological and ethnographical mate- rial which is most prone to looting. The fact that there is a demand for archaeological objects is in line with the general interest in all cultural artefacts and should neither be condemned nor indeed sup- pressed. The market, the private collector as well as institutional collections, are to some extent the driving forces for further dis- coveries. The uncovering of hitherto unknown cultural objects fur- thers the general knowledge. There is no question that excavations today must be undertaken in controlled conditions to ensure the ob- ject/context image. However, once this has been established and re- corded, there is no immediate reason why objects should not be dispersed other than that they should remain together to form a study collection. It could be argued that without the outlook of market- ability, many excavations could or would not be undertaken. Any art historian, particularly so in a museum, must be interested in the furthering of public interest, knowledge, and awareness of cultural values. The more material surfaces, the better. The denial of expertise to pieces of questionable source by experts and scholars would boomerang scientific advance, apart from the fact that 'em- bargos' of this sort never work in a global perspective. Naturally there can be no interest in a black market, where objects submerge 86 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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For example Max Loehr correctly established the development of archaic Chinese bronze styles in the Shang period based on careful observation of existing objects of which most had no record, just by deducing a logical sequence of development.7 Many objects had been found by farmers ploughing their fields in the vicinity of ancient tomb sites, who would later sell them in the market place, where subsequently all traces of origin were lost. His analysis supported by theory alone, which was no easy task, proved to be correct based on pieces later found in controlled excavations in Hunan province. The fact that the nationalist image dominates in Third World source nations notably has to do with the fact that they have been exploited and have not profited financially to the full extent. If they have been stripped of their heritage almost completely, there will have to be some consideration placed in the restitution of individual pieces by a body like UNESCO. Otherwise, the solution can only be to further awareness and knowledge locally to guard what remains. However, there must be a strict line of conduct to avoid a double- faced approach. In a phase of economic strain there must not be any semi-official sale of works formerly considered 'national heritage' in an attempt to alleviate this condition. There is to be no tolerance of clandestine excavations in order to profit from commissions. 4 Exchange and Perception The mutual understanding between people and above all, the 'Com- mon Heritage of Mankind' (CHOM) are concepts strongly supported by the UNESCO. Both in effect strengthen the argument for a liberal approach of exchange. Ever since the times of Albrecht Durer, prints of all kinds have become a very effective means of distributing art and the knowledge of cultural achievements. Today, in the age of luxurious book publi- cations with beautifully printed colour plates throughout, the status of the original work has changed. Masterpieces thereby become gen- erally known and are accessible from all over the globe, in some cases already via electronic databases. However, there can be no doubt that the ability to reproduce cultural goods, both physically as well as in high quality photographs, always fails to substitute the original, as its 'aura' and uniqueness in time and location ('hie et nunc') remain irreproducible.8 Only an original has the attributes of a cultural property. The high level of mobility we enjoy today can 87 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Hugo Keith Weihe never make up for actually having works in our immediate vicinity or even living with them. Still, the increasingly easy access through various media might justify a reconsideration of this position, par- ticularly in an era of computerized communication and the concept of the world as a 'global village'. Cultural exchange should not just be left to acts of war. Exchange and dislocation is a strong driving force in the making of cultural values, if not a catalyst in cultural evolution. Probably every culture in history has profited from foreign imports influencing and affect- ing the perception of its own culture. African cultures adopted new shapes and utensils brought to them by the Portuguese, while African masks triggered the development of cubism in France. Persian scroll- work was adopted by the Chinese in the Yuan period blue-and-white porcelain which in turn became highly prized collectables in Persia, whereby influences and goods were exchanged via the silk route. Just as their works, the creators of cultural goods may potentially profit from moving around, as naturally every artist is strongly influ- enced by his surroundings. So he might sometimes precisly choose to escape in search of new input: for example, Van Gogh moved from Holland to Paris and then to the south of France. His dark early works were now replaced by much brighter ones. The vivid colours he experienced in the vibrant sun of the Provence were most ben- eficial to his artistic development, but more striking is the fact that he described this landscape as his personal view of Japan,9 a far more distant culture of which he formed a vision through the colour woodblock prints that had been introduced to the Western art world around the mid 1850s. The strong colours he found in these 'off- prints' from the land of the rising sun had led him to this belief. It might therefore be said that a high level of liberality in exchange of goods, thoughts and visions is often instrumental in an artistic process. Why not pledge for an interchange of cultural property on the basis of loans? After all, among the most successful exhibitions to- day are the blockbusters bringing together the output of a lifetime of the likes of Braque, Cezanne, Picasso, Rembrandt, to name just a few. It might therefore even be argued that it would appear more practical if these works had always remained together. But Van Gogh or Picasso would certainly not be the internationally renowned masters they are today if their work had not been distributed world- wide and thereby granted the opportunity of being viewed and disco- vered internationally. Today, the exchange of loans of cultural ob- jects is becoming increasingly difficult. Many objects are too fragile or too unique in their importance to risk frequent dislocation, apart from the insurance premiums and the cost of safe transport being prohibitive. While this may be seen as a repercussion of the art market, it is foremost an account of the importance of each work. At all times contemporary art is exempt from any restrictions. Age barriers concerning cultural goods are set at fifty or one hundred use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Licit Traffic for Art's Sake years, but are purely technical measurements lacking actual justifi- cation. The making of a cultural object is fluent and not determined by precise age barriers. At one time all cultural products were 'con- temporary'. Because they have not yet proven their cultural import- ance, they cannot be looked back on and seen within a cultural de- velopment. They are granted total freedom so that they can prove their importance — and rightly so, although this would appear incon- sistent from a protectionist point of view. Spreading also guarantees a higher level of survival of cultural objects by distributing the risks of destruction by natural causes, by vandalism or theft. The keeping of cultural objects in their source nation alone does not guarantee the best rate of survival, on the contrary. Naturally this does not just apply to Third World source nations. Finally, it could be argued that strong protective measures as im- plied by the UNESCO convention to some extent damage cultural objects by making them untouchable ('noli me tangere'). They might thereby lose a certain degree of accessibility within a source nation most interested in preventing this. 5 Conclusions Foremost, it is imperative to further strengthen the awareness of all peoples of their own local heritage, to further education, knowledge and ethics in all fields including culture in a broader perspective. With regard to archaeological excavations it is vital for govern- ments to gain control, in order to conduct them with the necessary care and to record existing objects and the context of those yet to be discovered. In order to assure this, a certain amount of private enterprise in this field could be considered along the lines drafted. Even looters and smugglers could be trained to use more care and develop more knowledge, as the financial rewards are greater the better the condition of an object and the more they are aware of its importance. Blaming destruction of monuments in Third World countries on a receptive market in the rich countries focusses away from the lack of necessary control in the countries themselves. Preventing clandestine looting by killing.the market might prove an uphill battle rather like fighting drug abuse. The causes of collecting cultural goods are generally noble and not detrimental to health or a financial burden to society. Rules as expressed by the American Journal of Archaeology not to publish any works that have not knowingly been in a collection for more than thirty years prior to the 1973 rules could backfire in the sense that important but illegally exported works would have to be withheld from general knowledge, thereby seriously hindering scientific advance. 89 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Hugo Keith Weihe With regard to the concept of 'global treasures', the preservation of each cultural object would be of foremost importance. It would therefore be necessary to assure its best possible protection in the safest available haven wherever that might be. After controlled as- sessment of its historic context, it should be made generally available and placed in the most suitable surroundings regarding accessibilry. Regulations for the movement of cultural objects should be as simplistic and unbureaucratic as possible. The British and Canadian export regulations appear to be the most workable as they respect the workings of the art market. The long tradition in the sale of works of art through auctions in England has established a liberal approach. The problem of Third World countries often being unable to afford buying back their own cultural goods would be alleviated, if they were to sell goods under controlled conditions and fully docu- mented at their true market value. This would also be a way of assuring true exchange, allowing them to acquire cultural goods from other source nations. Art has always flourished by exchange. We are obliged not only to look back, but also to look forward. Cultural objects should be allowed to be there where they are most treasured and can unfold their greatest potential. Notes 1 L. Volkel, 'Uber die Wegfiihrung der Kunstwerke aus den eroberten Landern nach Rom, Eine Vorlesung in der Casselischen Alterthiimer-Gesellschaft ge- halten von L. Volkel,' Leipzig, 1798. 2 Cf. Sources UNESCO, no. 28 (July/August 1991), p. 11. 3 Commissioned from the artist by Jakob Heller in 1507 and destined for the Dominican church in Frankfurt am Main. 4 Cf. Hugo Weihe, 'Kiinstlerische Qualitat und Marktwert,' Diss. phil., Zurich 1992, pp. 15ff. 5 It is important to consider these values as relative rather than absolute. For example, according to present legislation, the same Matisse painting might be 'worth' less if it were in Italy rather than in England, for the fact that it cannot be moved. This fact would be reflected in its market value. 6 Jeffrey M. Muller states: 'Through his active choice and seeking out, Rubens became, in effect, a collector of his own work.' in 'The artist as collector,' Princeton 1989, p. 15. 7 Max Loehr, 'The Bronze Styles of the Anyang Period,' Archives of the Chi- nese Art Societ of America, New York 1953, VII, pp. 4 2 - 5 3 . 8 Cf. Walter Benjamin, 'Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Repro- duzierbarkeit,' Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. 1, Frankfurt am Main, 1974. 9 Van Gogh expresses an admiration for Japan and Japanese colour woodblock prints in various letters to his brother written in Aries between 1888 and 1889, cf. Johanna Gesina Van Gogh- Bonger (Ed.), Vincent von Goghs Briefe an seinen Bruder, Frankfurt am Main 1988, Vol. Ill, pp. 340, 342, 385, letters 526, 527, 540. 90 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:39:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739195000063 https:/www.cambridge.org/core work_2ombz7n2c5d4dffqvm3w57opwy ---- Okumuş & Yavan / Geçmişte ve Günümüzde Seramiğin Kullanım Alanları JOURNAL OF ARTS E-ISSN: 2636-7718 Cilt:1, Sayı:3, 2018 Vol:1, Issue:3, 2018 http://ratingacademy.com.tr/ojs/index.php/arts/index MODADA KÜBİZM ETKİLERİ EFFECTS OF CUBISM IN FASHION Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Başak BOĞDAY SAYĞILI Atılım Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Tasarım ve Mimarlık Fakültesi, Moda ve Tekstil Tasarımı Bölümü, İstanbul/TÜRKİYE E-mail. basakbs@gmail.com İngilizce ÖZET Makale Geçmişi: Geliş: 28 Eylül 2018 Kabul: 31 Ekim 2018 Günümüzün felsefi, bilimsel sosyolojik yaklaşımların temellerinin atıldığı sanayi devrimi ile yaşanan sosyal olaylar ve teknolojik gelişmeler, estetik anlayışın değişmesine neden olmuştur. Estetik anlayışın değişimi ile sanat anlayışı da değişime uğramıştır. 19. Yüzyılın sonu “Moda” kavramının oluştuğu ve “Modern Sanat”ın oluştuğu dönemdir. Bu araştırmanın amacı; sanat akımlarından biri olan kübizm sanat akımının etkilerinin görülmeye başlandığı 1900 ‘lerin başından günümüze kadar olan modadaki etkilerini örneklerle açıklamaya çalışmaktır. Araştırma, nitel bir araştırmadır. Veri toplama tekniği olarak belgesel tarama yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular, görseller ile desteklenmiştir. Araştırmanın sonucunda, modanın kübizm sanat akımından nasıl etkilendiği ortaya konulmuştur. Anahtar Kelimeler: Moda, Sanat, Kübizm, Moda Tarih DOI: 10.31566/arts.2018345690 ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: 28 September 2018 Accepted: 31 October 2018 The social revolution and technological developments that have taken place with the industrial revolution that the foundations of today's philosophical, scientific sociological approaches have taken place have caused a change in aesthetic understanding. With the change of aesthetic understanding, the understanding of art has also changed. The end of the 19th century is the period of "Fashion" and "Modern Art". The purpose of this research; Cubism, one of the artistic trends, is trying to explain with examples the effects of the 1900s, from the beginning of the effects of the art flow to the day-to-day fashion. Research is a qualitative research. Documentary screening method was used as data collection technique. Obtained findings were supported by visuals. As a result of the research, it has been revealed how fashion is influenced by cubism art movement. Keywords: Fashion, Art, Cubism, Fashion History DOI: 10.31566/arts.2018345690 1.GİRİŞ Sanayi devrimiyle birlikte yaşanan gelişmeler, toplum düzeninde köklü değişimler ortaya çıkarırken, sanat dünyasında da önemli değişimlere neden olmuştur. Sanat, sanayi devriminin ardından modern sanat olarak nitelendirilmeye başlamıştır. Modern sanat tarihçileri, modernizmin temel eğilimini genellikle soyutlamaya yönelik olduğunu belirtmektedirler. İlk soyut resmin kim tarafından yapıldığı bilinmemekle birlikte, http://ratingacademy.com.tr/ojs/index.php/arts/index mailto:basakbs@gmail.com BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 24 Cézanne’nin “Yıkananlar” isimli tablosu ilk örneklerden biri olarak gösterilebilir (Lynton;2004:19). Modern sanatın gündeme geldiği 20. Yüzyılın başından günümüze pek çok yeni akım ortaya çıkmıştır. Modern sanattın ana akımları “Fovizm, Kübizm, Fütirizm, Ekspresyonizm, Sürrealizm”dir. Bu akımlardan biri olan “Kübizm” akımını, modern sanatın babası olarak kabul edilen Cezanne’ın, küçük yüzeyleri yan yana getirerek, belirgin özellikleri bir mozaik gibi yerleştirmesinden etkilenen sanatçılar başlatmışlardır (Lynton;2004:24). Endüstri dönemi olan XX. Yüzyılda sadece duygu ve coşkularla çığır açan bir sanat yapılamayacağını savunan (İpşiroğlu;2012:168) Kübizm, 1907-1912 yılları arasında Pablo Picasso ve Georges Braque’ın ortaya atmış oldukları resim stiline verilen isimdir. Soyut sanatın başlangıcını işaret eden Kübizm, iki boyutlu resim yüzeyi üzerinde, birden çok bakış açısını kullanarak üç boyutlu bir etki yaratmaktadır (Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone, Cayton;2013:309). Bu iki isim dışında o dönemde pek çok sanatçı tarafından kübizim benimsenmiştir. Toplumların zaman içinde geçirdiği politik, ekonomik, sosyolojik, kültürel vb. değişimler, sanatın; akımlar, eğilimler, ekoller üzerinden sürekli değişimi ile doğru orantılıdır (Şenel, Karaoğlu;2017:306). Benzer biçimde, doğasında yenilenme etkisi barındıran modanın sürekli değişimi de bu toplumsal durum değişikliklerinden bağımsız düşünülemez. Moda tasarımcısı Schiaparelli’den günümüze moda sektöründe tasarımcılar koleksiyonlarında daha yaratıcı ve özgün olmak için bir konsept üzerinde çalışmaktadırlar (Koca, Koç, Kaya;2015:128). Çalıştıkları konseptlerden biri olan sanat akımları, sanatçıların fikirlerini yansıtma biçimi, tanımından yola çıkarak, modada da tasarımcıların ve kullanıcıların fikir ve düşüncelerini yansıtma biçimi giysidir. Tasarım ve sanatı aynı ortak paydada birleştiren bir diğer nokta, her iki alanın sonunda estetik bir ürün yaratma çabasıdır. Sanat, tasarımcılara ilham veren ilk kaynaklardan biri olmasından dolayı, tasarımcılar için sonsuz bir araştırma alanıdır (Varol;2016). Faith Popcorn (1991), kültürel hedef kitleye göre moda trendlerinin, • Yüksek kültür: güzel sanatlar ve performans sanatlarından; • Düşük kültür: Yerel olarak takip edilen faaliyetlerden; • Popüler kültür: Reklam, film, televizyon, dergi, kutlama haberlerinden ortaya çıktığını belirtmektedir. Yüksek kültür genellikle modacıları ve yüksek dikiş yapan hazır giyim firmalarını etkilemektedir. Örneğin Yves Saint Laurent, Piet Mondrian’dan etkilenerek 1965 sonbahar koleksiyonunu tasarlamıştır. Oscar De La Renta’nın 2012 koleksiyonunda Pablo Picasso’nun kübist resimlerinin etkileri görülmektedir (Brannon, Divita;2015:121). 1908’den 1920’lerin başlarına kadar modanın kübizmden etkilenmesi için kritik zamanlardı. O kritik dönemden sonra yaşanılan politik, ekonomik ve sosyal şartların da etkisiyle moda kübizmden oldukça etkilenmiştir (Martin;1999). Kübizm, moda için yaratıcı bir araştırma alanı olmasının yanı sıra iki boyutlu olan tekstil yüzeyini insan vücudunu saran üç boyutlu giysiye dönüştürme aşamasında da (kalıp) kullanmaktadır. Kübizmin ortaya çıktığı 1908’den günümüze pek çok tasarımcı giysilerini tasarlama aşamasında kübizmden yararlanmıştır. Tasarımcılar ya giysinin tekstil yüzeyinde, ya biçiminde ya da kalıbında kübizmden yararlanmıştır. Böylelikle Kübizm sadece resimde değil, modanın yapısına uygunluğu nedeniyle modada da sürekli kendini göstermektedir. Hanse’nin modayı batının kapitalist sisteminde, geçmiş ve gelecekte giysi stillerinde değişim ve yenilikler olarak gördüğünü (Hansen;2004) ve Baudrillard’ın modanın zaman zaman geriye dönerek, “eski” ve “yeni” tasarımlarda, zamanın eski ve yeni anlayışlarını aynı anda üreterek çelişkili bir durum yarattığını (Baudrillard;2002) aktaran Şahin, bu noktadan sonra giysinin bir ürün olduğunu vurgulamaktadır (Şahin;2016:378). Ürün olarak giysinin moda soyut kavramı içerisinde tasarlanma sürecinde eskilerin yenilenerek, yeni zamanın BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 25 şartlarına uygun olarak tasarlanma sürecinde tasarım araştırmalarının önemli bir alanı olan sanattan da ilham alarak tasarlanan ve modada kübizmi yansıtan giysiler bu araştırmanın konusu olmuştur. 2.YÖNTEM Moda tasarımcılarının kübizm sanat akımından etkilenerek tasarlamış oldukları giysilerin kübizm sanat akımının başlangıcından günümüze kadar ulaşılabilen belgeler doğrultusunda incelenmesi amacıyla yapılan bu nitel araştırmada; belgesel tarama yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın evrenini, kübizmden etkilenerek tasarlanmış tüm giysiler oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma örneklemini ise; kübizmin temel etkilerine dayanılarak tasarlanmış olduğu düşünülen ulaşılabilen giysilerin görselleri oluşturmaktadır. 3. BULGULAR 1907’de ilk kübizm resimleri ortaya çıkmaya başladığından günümüze pek çok moda tasarımcısı kübizmden etkilenmiştir. Birden çok bakış açısını kullanarak iki boyutlu bir malzemeyi üç boyutlu göstermeyi hedefleyen kübizm sanat akımı, moda tasarımcıları için çok iyi bir kaynak olmuştur. Moda tasarımcıları fikirlerini modanın hammaddesi olan tekstil yüzeyini üç boyutlu giysiye dönüştürmede, bol kesikli ve keskin hatları kullanarak ve giysiyi oluşturan tekstil yüzeylerinde kübizmden faydalanmışlardır. 1910-1920 yıllarında kübizmin etkileri modada görülmeye başlansa da asıl etki daha sonrasında gerçekleşmiştir. Kübizm, modayı özgünlüğü, bir bütünün parçalara bölünmüş hali olması nedeniyle, bir giysinin insan vücudunu saran parçalı bir bütün olduğu düşünüldüğünde prensipte çok yakın çalışma alanları olduğu söylenebilir. Kübizm akımı modayı etkilemesi ile akım daha çok çevrelerce görülür ve fark edilir olmuştur (Martin;1999:16). Resim 1. Resim 2. Resim 3. Kaynak.https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Leneif+ fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6DrHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X &ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%2 0fashion&f=false https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Leneif+fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6DrHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%20fashion&f=false https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Leneif+fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6DrHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%20fashion&f=false https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Leneif+fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6DrHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%20fashion&f=false https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Leneif+fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6DrHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwCXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%20fashion&f=false BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 26 Kübizmin modadaki ilk ve uzun süre öncülüğünü yapan Gabrielle Chanel’dir. Chanel ve Picasso’nun ilk birbirlerinin işlerinden etkilenmesi, Chanel’in, Picasso’nun dekorasyonunu yaptığı “Antigone” adlı oyuna kostümler tasarlaması ile olmuştur. Chanel ilk kareli palto stilini yaratmış, tül kafesli dar kreptöşin elbisesi moda dergilerinde haber olmuştur (Dereboy;2008:46). Chanel hem yüzey tasarımında, hem form, hem de biçim tasarımında kübizmden etkilenerek giysiler tasarlamıştır. Desenleri parçalamış tekrar birleştirmiştir (Resim 1-2). 1920’lerde Pariste önemli bir moda evi olan Leneif’te kübizmden etkilenenlerdendi. Leneif, Resim 3’te görüldüğü gibi form, biçim ve renk bakımından kübizmden faydalandığı görülmektedir. Resim 4. Resim 5. Resim 6. Kaynak. https://20thcenturydesignersfinalproject.weebly.com/jean-patou.html http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75097/evening-dress-paul-poiret/ https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1253-view-1920s-profile-caroline-reboux-2.html Jean Patou’nun 1920’li yılların spor giysisinde (Resim 4) köşeler, kareler, kesikler ve parçalar görülmektedir. Paul Poiret’in 1933’e ait krem ve yeşil renkli parçalı gece elbisesinin de (Resim 5) kübizm etkisinde hazırlandığını söyleyebiliriz. Caroline Reboux’un, 1920’lerde tasarlamış olduğu kap, kübist hareketin etkilerini taşımaktadır (Resim 6). https://20thcenturydesignersfinalproject.weebly.com/jean-patou.html http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75097/evening-dress-paul-poiret/ https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1253-view-1920s-profile-caroline-reboux-2.html BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 27 Resim 7. Resim 8. Resim 9. Kaynak.https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2015/03/19/new-fashion-exhibition-jeanne-lanvin-in-paris/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/les-couturiers/madeleine-vionnet http://www.vogue.it/en/news/encyclo//designers/v/madeleine-vionnet Jeanne Lanvin’in de 1920’li yıllarda tasarlamış olduğu giysilerde kübizmin etkisi görülmektedir (Resim 7). Madeleine Vionnet; kübizmden etkilenerek pek çok giysi tasarlamıştır. Tasarlamış olduğu özellikle eteklerde kübizmin etkileri belirgin bir şekilde görülmektedir (Resim 8). 1932 yılında tasarlamış olduğu gece elbisesi ise, biçim bakımından kübizmden faydalanarak, giysinin kalıbı hazırlanırken bütün keskin hatlarla parçalanarak oluşturulmuştur. Renkler yine kübizmin renkleridir (Resim 9). Resim 10. Resim 11. Kaynak. https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-ladies-workwear-clothes/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee-christian-dior- granville https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2015/03/19/new-fashion-exhibition-jeanne-lanvin-in-paris/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/les-couturiers/madeleine-vionnet http://www.vogue.it/en/news/encyclo/designers/v/madeleine-vionnet https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-ladies-workwear-clothes/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee-christian-dior-granville https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee-christian-dior-granville BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 28 1940’lı yıllara gelindiğinde 2. Dünya Savaşı nedeniyle kadın giysilerinin formu erkek giysilerine daha çok benzemiştir. Artık kadınlar çalışma hayatında daha çok yer almaktadır. Bu nedenle daha rahat giysilere ihtiyaç duyulmaktadır. Savaşın varlığı giysilere askeri tarzı yansıtmıştır. Bu dönemde kalıpsal olarak daha keskin hatlı giysiler kullanılmıştır (Resim 10). 1947’de Christian Dior’un “New Look” koleksiyonuyla kadınlara toplum içindeki yeri yeniden hatırlatılarak, kadın giysileri vücut hatlarını yeniden ortaya çıkaran ancak herşeye rağmen keskin hatlardan ve kübizm etkisiyle hazırlanan giysilerde çok kullanılan pili ve piliselerden yine de vazgeçilmeyen giysiler tasarlanmıştır (Resim 11). Resim 12. Kaynak. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html 1950’lerin sonunda kareli kumaşlar yeniden moda sayfalarında kendini gösterirken hem yapısal hem de yüzey desenlerinde kübizm etkileri görülmektedir. O dönemde bu etkilerinin görülmesi sadece sanatsal etki değil, aynı zamanda dönemin politik, ekonomik, zorlu ve kesin kurallı dönemleri olmasının da etkisi büyüktür (Resim 12). Resim 13. Resim 14. Resim 15. Kaynak. https://vogue.com.tr/haber/yves-saint-laurentin-modaya-yon-verdigi-ikonik-anlar/2 https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1258-view-1970s-profile-paco-rabanne-3.html http://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Paco-Rabanne-styles-sexy-aliens-for-spring,514306.html#.W21K_tIzYdU http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html https://vogue.com.tr/haber/yves-saint-laurentin-modaya-yon-verdigi-ikonik-anlar/2 https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1258-view-1970s-profile-paco-rabanne-3.html http://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Paco-Rabanne-styles-sexy-aliens-for-spring,514306.html#.W21K_tIzYdU BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 29 Yves Saint Laurent’in Mondrian’dan esinlenerek hazırlamış olduğu koleksiyon 1960’lı yıllara damgasını vurmuştur ki Mondrian’ın da kübistlerden çok etkilendiği bilinmektedir (Resim 13). 1960’lı yıllara damgasını vuran bir başka isim Paco Rabanne’dir. Paco Rabanne de bütünü parçalayarak kübizm etkili giysiler tasarlamıştır (Resim 14). Metal elbisesi hem 1960’ların uzay ruhunu yansıtmaktadır hem de kübizmi yansıtmaktadır. Paco Rabanne 2000’li yıllarda bile hala kübizmin etkisini modada hissettiren yegâne markadır (Resim 15). Resim 16. Resim 17. Resim 18. Kaynak. https://www.arthipo.com/artblog/sanat-tarihi/op-art-sanat-akimi.html https://trendychicvintage.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/op-art/ https://www.accessoriesmagazine.com/breaking-trends-spring-2013-optical-prints/ 1960’lı yıllarda optik resim olarak bilinen Op-art sanatı gündeme gelmiştir. Op-artta, kübizmdeki gibi bütün parçalara bölünür ve sürrealizmde olduğu gibi göz yanılsamalarına neden olur. Bu sanat akımı; kübizmin ve sürrealizmin etkilerini ve öğelerini aynı anda kullanılarak yeni bir sanat akımı oluşturulmuştur (Resim 16). Resim 19. Resim 20 Kaynak. https://auntiefashion.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/oscar-de-la-renta-resort-2012/ http://www.kaluginastyle.com/en/how-to-choose-your-summer-skirt/ https://www.arthipo.com/artblog/sanat-tarihi/op-art-sanat-akimi.html https://trendychicvintage.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/op-art/ https://www.accessoriesmagazine.com/breaking-trends-spring-2013-optical-prints/ https://auntiefashion.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/oscar-de-la-renta-resort-2012/ http://www.kaluginastyle.com/en/how-to-choose-your-summer-skirt/ BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 30 1960’lardan sonra kübizmin etkileri daha çok Op-art sanatı ile görülse de 2000’lere gelindiğinde kübizmin modadaki etkileri hem biçim, hem form hem tekstil yüzeyi hem de renk olarak görülmektedir (Resim 17). 2000’li yıllarda giysilerin etek uçlarında keskin köşeli hatlar oluştuğu görülmektedir (Resim 18). Giysilerde çok parçalılık ve bu çoklu parçaların belirginleştiği görülmektedir. Bu çok parçalılık Op-art’a gönderme yapsa da temelinde kübizim yer almaktadır. Aynı zamanda Kübizmin renkleri olan siyahlar, bejler, toprak tonları ile 2000’li yıllarda çok karşılaşılmaktadır. 4. SONUÇ Sanayi devriminin ardından 20. Yüzyılla birlikte başlayan modern sanatın ilk akımlarından biri olan Kübizmin öncüleri, Ceazanne’ın resimlerinden etkilenen Picasso ve Braque’tır. Picasso, Braque ve akımın diğer sanatçılarının eserleri moda dünyası için ilham kaynağı olmuştur. Özellikle 1910-1920 yıllarında modada kübizmin ilk tohumları atılmış, 1920-1940 yılları arasında ise moda da kübizm büyük bir yükseliş yaşamıştır. 1960’larda modada yeniden doğan kübizm, daha sonra Op-Art sanatı olarak modada devam etmiştir. 2000’li yıllara gelindiğinde kübizm yeniden modada hayat bulmaya başlamıştır. Bütünün parçalara bölünmesi ile ifade edilen kübizmde koyu renkler ve toprak tonları tercih edilmiştir. Öncelikle Kübizmin renklerinden etkilenen moda, daha sonra bütünün parçalanmasından faydalanılarak iki boyutlu olan kumaşı üç boyutlu insan yüzeyini kaplamak için faydalanmış ve giysilerin kalıplarında kullanmıştır. Daha az kumaş harcayarak vücudu saracak giysiler oluşturulmasında ve bu parçalanmanın kübist resimlerde olduğu gibi kesin hatlarla tasarlandığı görülmüştür. Moda da kübizmden ilham alan tasarımcılar ve moda evleri; Gabrielle Chanel, Leneif, Jean Patou, Paul Poiret, Caroline Reboux, Jeanne Lanvin, Jean Paquin, Madeleine Vionnet, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Paco Rabanne’dir Sanat akımları, belirli bir dönem başlayıp bitmezler. Sanatçılar ve tasarımcılar için sanat akımları her daim araştırma kaynağı olabilecek bir alandır. Kübizmde bu akımlardan biridir ve bu akımı moda, kendi alt alanlarında dönem dönem ilham almaktadır. BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 31 KAYNAKÇA BRANNON, E. 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Görsel Kaynaklar Resim1.2.3.https://books.google.com.tr/books?id=Fq3RbM4d4CkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35& dq=Leneif+fashion&source=bl&ots=LePCGDwT00&sig=Bw4xrhACmcgADsUFv6D rHMTlHmg&hl=tr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjkjIvB_9_cAhVFJ5oKHXd6BbkQ6AEwC XoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Leneif%20fashion&f=false Resim 4. https://20thcenturydesignersfinalproject.weebly.com/jean-patou.html Resim5. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75097/evening-dress-paul-poiret/ Resim 6. https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1253-view-1920s-profile-caroline-reboux- 2.html Resim 7. https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2015/03/19/new-fashion-exhibition-jeanne- lanvin-in-paris/ Resim 8. https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/les-couturiers/madeleine-vionnet Resim 9. http://www.vogue.it/en/news/encyclo//designers/v/madeleine-vionnet Resim 10. https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-ladies-workwear-clothes/ Resim 11. https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee- christian-dior-granville https://20thcenturydesignersfinalproject.weebly.com/jean-patou.html http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75097/evening-dress-paul-poiret/ https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1253-view-1920s-profile-caroline-reboux-2.html https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1253-view-1920s-profile-caroline-reboux-2.html https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2015/03/19/new-fashion-exhibition-jeanne-lanvin-in-paris/ https://meganinsaintemaxime.com/2015/03/19/new-fashion-exhibition-jeanne-lanvin-in-paris/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/les-couturiers/madeleine-vionnet http://www.vogue.it/en/news/encyclo/designers/v/madeleine-vionnet https://vintagedancer.com/1940s/1940s-ladies-workwear-clothes/ https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee-christian-dior-granville https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/blogs/dior-the-new-look-revolution-at-musee-christian-dior-granville BOĞDAY SAYĞILI / Modada Kübizm Etkileri Journal of Arts, Cilt / Volume:1, Sayı / Issue:3, 2018, 23-32 32 Resim 12. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html Resim 13. https://vogue.com.tr/haber/yves-saint-laurentin-modaya-yon-verdigi-ikonik-anlar/2 Resim 14. https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1258-view-1970s-profile-paco-rabanne- 3.html Resim15.http://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Paco-Rabanne-styles-sexy-aliens-for- spring,514306.html#.W21K_tIzYdU Resim 16. https://www.arthipo.com/artblog/sanat-tarihi/op-art-sanat-akimi.html Resim 17. https://trendychicvintage.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/op-art/ Resim 18. https://www.accessoriesmagazine.com/breaking-trends-spring-2013-optical-prints/ Resim 19. https://auntiefashion.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/oscar-de-la-renta-resort-2012/ Resim 20. http://www.kaluginastyle.com/en/how-to-choose-your-summer-skirt/ http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html https://vogue.com.tr/haber/yves-saint-laurentin-modaya-yon-verdigi-ikonik-anlar/2 https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1258-view-1970s-profile-paco-rabanne-3.html https://theredlist.com/wiki-2-23-1249-1258-view-1970s-profile-paco-rabanne-3.html https://www.arthipo.com/artblog/sanat-tarihi/op-art-sanat-akimi.html https://trendychicvintage.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/op-art/ https://www.accessoriesmagazine.com/breaking-trends-spring-2013-optical-prints/ https://auntiefashion.wordpress.com/2011/05/17/oscar-de-la-renta-resort-2012/ http://www.kaluginastyle.com/en/how-to-choose-your-summer-skirt/ work_2rqzebt6erhspbnlqq2qb7g62e ---- draft 14 The Demoiselles d'Evanston: On the Aesthetics of the Wigmore Chart The Harvard community has made this article openly available. 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Hay Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA† Forthcoming, Law, Probability and Risk (fall 2008) There is an old adage that the Investigating Officer can often remember to good purpose, namely, “Cherchez la femme,” “Seek for the woman.”1 I The International Exhibition of Modern Art arrived arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago in March 1913, a few months before John Wigmore of Northwestern University published the The Problem of Judicial Proof, in which he introduced his “chart method” of analyzing and evidence.2 Known as the Armory Show, the exhibition was billed as America’s first big introduction to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, and the other fashionable isms of the contemporary European art scene.3 (“Splash! Splotch! Cubist Art Here,” one Chicago newspaper headline † Email: bruce_hay@harvard.edu. AUTHOR’S NOTE: This paper was originally presented at a conference on Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence at Cardozo Law School, most papers from which were published in a special issue of Law, Probability & Risk in December 2007. I thank Peter Tillers for organizing the conference and including me. 1 GROSS, H. (1924). Criminal Investigation: A Practical Textbook for Magistrates, Police Officer and Lawyers. London: Sweet & Maxwell, __. 2 WIGMORE, J. (1913) The Problem of Proof. Illinois Law Review, 8, 83. Portions of the articles were taken from his book, WIGMORE, J. (1913). The Principles of Judicial Proof as Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience and Illustrated in Judicial Trials . Boston: Little, Brown. 3 The exhibition opened in New York’s 69th Regiment Armory in February 1913, featuring about 1,250 paintings, sculptures and decorative objects by about 300 European and American artists. About half of those works traveled Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1308602 2 announced, following the popular press’s custom of using “cubist” as an umbrella term to designate all of the strange new styles.4) It is intriguing to speculate (for I have been unable to determine) whether Wigmore attended the exhibition, and if so whether he saw any connection between the art on display there and the schematic diagrams in his Judicial Proof article, which came out in June of that year. If he did see a connection it was, to his mind, probably negative. Wigmore was enormously learned and had a wide-ranging knowledge of many cultures, but his leanings were had Victorian. He would have considered his chart method, designed as it was for the orderly administration of justice, as being firmly opposed to the decadence, libertinism, anarchism, bolshevism, and sheer mental derangement that many traditionalists discerned in the works of Matisse, Gauguin, Duchamp, Picasso, and other artists of what the newspapers called the “advance guard.” Indeed, Wigmore presented his method as a self-conscious reaction to what he saw as the disorder reigning in the continental legal systems. What America needs, he says in his 1913 article, is “a probative science – the principles of proof – independent of the artificial rules of procedure.”5 If we fail to develop one, “we shall find ourselves in the present plight of Continental Europe,” where in the previous century “the ancient to Chicago and then to Boston. For a general account of the exhibition, see BROWN, M. (1988). The Story of the Armory Show. New York: Abbeville Press. 4 Chicago Daily Tribune, 23 March 1913, p. 1. 5 The Wigmore quotations in this paragraph are from The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, pp. 77-78. 3 F ig ur e 1. W ig m or e, C ha rt o f t he E vi de nc e in C om m on w ea lth v . U m ili an . 19 13 . Fr om T he P ro bl em o f P ro of 4 worn-out numerical system of ‘legal proof’ was abolished by fiat and the so-called ‘free proof’ – namely, no system at all – was substituted.” European jurists, he explains, never acquired an “understanding of the living process of belief; in consequence, when ‘legal proof’ was abolished, they were unready, and judicial trials have been carried on for a century past by uncomprehended, unguided, and therefore unsafe mental processes.” He makes free proof sound like the juridical equivalent of free love; his talk of “unsafe mental processes” echoes what the guardians of public morals in Chicago are saying about the strange, unconventional nudes at the Armory Show. “Nasty, lewd, immoral, and indecent,” one schoolteacher declares; do not expose the young to these “degeneracies of Paris,” a clergyman warns.6 “The idea that some people can gaze at this sort of thing without its hurting them is all bosh. This exhibition ought to be suppressed,” says the president of the city’s Law and Order League. And newspaper calls the work “pollution … materialized in several paintings of the nude; portrayals that unite in an insult to the great, self-respecting public of Chicago. Just who is responsible for this showing of dishonor to sensitive great art that finds expression in the chaste and beautiful painting of the human figure in the nude in our Institute?” And a speaker at at a ladies’ group in Evanston intones: “The body is the temple of God, and the cubists have profaned 6 The remaining quotations in this paragraph are taken from The Story of the Armory Show, supra note 2, p. 206. 5 the temple.”7 Whatever Wigmore’s one views on the exhibition were, it is unlikely he thought it had much in common with his own work. Still, certain parallels between his chart method and artistic modernism are hard to resist. His project should, I think, be seen as part of the response to the “crisis of representation” making itself felt in many forms of cultural production at the time. Think of the year 1913 alone:8 Russell and Whitehead complete the Principia Mathematica, providing what they think will be a firm logical foundation for mathematics; Wittgenstein begins the correspondence concerning Russell’s theory of knowledge that will result in the Tractatus; Saussure dies, prompting the publication of his Cours de Linguistique Generale from student notes; in the legal academy, Hohfeld publishes his Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning. In the arts, the Rite of Spring, composed by Stravinsky and choreographed by Nijinsky, sparks a riot at its premiere in Paris; Malevich paints his Black Square, thought by some art historians to be the first purely abstract painting in western art; Joyce’s Portrait of the 7 Not all Chicagoans had such narrow-minded reactions. Many were enthusiastic about the new styles; others were skeptical, but urged “fair play for insurgent art,” as one Chicago newspaper put it. See The Story of the Armory Show, supra note 1, at 179. See also Martinez, A. (19__). A Mixed Reception for Modernism: The 1913 Armory Show at the Art Institute of Chicago. Museum Studies, 19, 30; PRINCE, S. (1990). Chicago Critics Take on Modernism. The Old Guard and the Avante-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-40 (S. Prince ed.), pp. 98-102. On responses to the exhibition across the country, see MANCINI, J.M. (1999). “One Term is as Fatuous as Another”: Responses to the Armory Show Reconsidered. American Quarterly, 51, 833. 8 I am indebted to Neal Feigenson for some of the examples in the paragraph. A recent treatment of that year’s achievements is Rabaté, J. (2007). 1913: The Cradle of Modernism. 6 Artist as a Young Man is serialized, the first volume of the Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu iss published, and Virginia Woolf completes her first novel. In their different way each of these works, like Wigmore’s method, is a self-conscious effort to develop a new language for its aesthetic or intellectual domain. The Wigmore article doesn’t make the splash these other works do, but that shouldn’t keep us from viewing it in their company. The Wigmore chart system, as Peter Tillers has remarked, is an important precursor to current research on the visual representation of information, and for that reason deserves the attention of anyone interested in the subject of the recent symposium in these pages on visual evidence. 9 The analytical properties of the Wigmore system have been well explored by a number of scholars who have approached it from the perspective of cognitive science, demonstrating its potential value for drawing correct inferences from disaggregated bits of information.10 I am a fan of this work, being partial to the use of visual diagrams and also to the 9 See TILLERS, P. (2007). Introduction: Visualizing Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings. Law, Probability & Risk , 6, 4. Wigmore’s system has been mostly ignored by evidence scholars, who view it in rather the same way traditionalists saw the artistic avant-garde work of the period: as weird and illegible. The difference, of course, is that the avant-garde works of that era have now become mainstream, while the the Wigmore article is still generally seen as a “quaint, even bizarre, period piece,” as William Twining characterizes the prevailing attitude. TWINING, W. (1985). Theories of Evidence: Bentham and Wigmore. Stanford: Stanford University Press, p. 165.. 10 The Wigmore system has only received the sustained attention of a few scholars, most of them writing after the 1970s. See, for example, SCHUM, D. AND MARTIN, A. (1982). Formal and Empirical Research on Cascaded Evidence. Law and Society Review, 17, 105; Theories of Evidence, supra; TILLERS, P. and SCHUM, D. (1988). Charting New Territory in Judicial Proof: Beyond Wigmore. Cardozo Law Review, 9, 907; ANDERSON, T. AND TWINING, W. (1991). Analysis of Evidence: How to Do Things with Facts, Based on Wigmore’s Science of Proof. Boston: Little Brown. 7 study of rational decision making. But I am also a believer in the close reading of images, and wonder whether we students of the Wigmore system have not overlooked some of the meanings embedded in its outwardly formal, abstract language of primitive shapes. With that possibility in mind, I propose – somewhat irreverently – to examine at the Wigmore system from an aesthetic and vaguely psychoanalytic point of view, comparing it to another, better known geometric system of representation that also made its Chicago debut in that spring of 1913. My reflections here should not be taken as a judgment on the general project of developing tools for the visual analysis and representation of evidence, a project with which (to repeat) I am quite sympathetic. Rather, they should be taken as a reminder that if we are to understand visual evidence, we need to learn to look carefully at what we are seeing. II I would liken the Wigmore method to the aesthetic of Picasso’s Standing Female Nude, which traveled to Chicago with the Armory Show and now hangs in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.11 A charcoal drawing done in 1910, this work is typical of the so-called analytic phase of cubism, with its characteristic monochrome palette, 11 I should note that this work did not attract the condemnations lavished on the paintings of Duchamp, Gauguin, and especially Matisse (whose paintings were burned in effigy). 8 Figure 2. Pablo Picasso, Standing Female Nude. 1910. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 9 multiple planes, and reduction of its subject to simple lines, curves and angles.12 Nearby the Picasso I have reproduced the two complete charts Wigmore included in his Judicial Proof article as examples of his method; both are his own diagrams of the evidence in a murder case (figures 1 and 3). The charts employ the elaborate system of symbols Wigmore has developed in the article – closed circles and boxes, respectively, for “affirmatory” testimonial and circumstantial evidence; open boxes and circles, respectively, for “negatory” testimonial and circumstantial evidence; triangular objects for “explanatory” and “corroborative” evidence; an assortment of lines, arrows, squiggles and dots to indicate the source of the evidence, the degree of its perceived credibility, the conclusion toward which it points, and other things (figure 4). Of the cubist painters, a contemporary admirer said that soon they will have “created the algebra of painting,” by which they will “separate out – according to their own own analytical methods and to the characteristics of the object – the principal elements of the bodies they propose to translate.”13 He might almost have been speaking of Wigmore’s algebra 12 The analytic phase of cubism is usually dated to the period 1910-1912. The “synthetic” phase is said to have started in late 1912 when Braque and Picasso started using collage techniques to construct images out of newspapers, string, and other objects. 13 From critic Maurice Raynal’s catalog for a June 1912 modern art exhibition in Rouen. The English translation here is taken from FRY, E. (1966), Cubism. London: Thames & Hudson, p. 92. 10 Fi gu re 3 . W ig m or e, E vi de nc e C ha rt fo r H at ch et t v . C om m on w ea lth . 19 13 Fr om T he P ro bl em o f P ro of 11 of evidence. The lexicon of geometric shapes in the Wigmore chart has a surprising resemblance to that of the Picasso drawing, though obviously their terms of reference – one represents the physical world, the other purely abstract relations among thoughts – are very different. There is also a remarkable congruence in the problems of representation the two figures are designed to address. Sympathetic critics around 1913 are praising cubism for, among many other things, compressing more information into an image than could be achieved by conventional pictorial techniques.14 Where conventional painting gives just a partial view of an object, showing it from one side only, cubism can show the object from many sides at once; where conventional painting froze time at a single moment, cubism could capture successive moments in a single image.15 In cubism, one writer claims, the aim is to “depict the object as one knows it is – that is, from several angles at one time[,] … yielding a complete representation of the object”; 14 In comparing the critics’ theories of cubism to the Wigmore’s rationale for the chart system, I confine myself to some of the critical views circulating in 1913. For brevity’s sake, I do not take up the voluminous theoretical writings on cubism that have appeared since. For a recent view (emphasizing cubism’s semiological interrogation of the nature of the sign), with references to the broader literature, see FOSTER, H., KRAUSS, R., BOIS, Y., AND BUCHLOH B. (2004). Art Since 1900. New York: Thames & Hudson, 106-19, 691. 15 It was also suggested that cubism gave expression to recent developments in science and mathematics, including non-Euclidean geometries and the idea of a fourth dimension. See, for example, APOLLINAIRE, G. (1913). Les Peintres Cubistes. The English translation is excerpted in relevant part in CHIPP, H. (1968). Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 224. 12 Fi gu re 4 . G lo ss ar y of W ig m or e C ha rt S ym bo ls Fr om T he P ro bl em o f P ro of 13 this gives the observer “a real simultaneous vision of all of its faces.”16 The “quest for a ‘simultaneity’ of the aspects of the object,” another writes, was “close to the heart of cubism.”17 Compare Wigmore on his chart method: “Many data, perhaps multifarious, are thrust upon us.” The task for the decision maker is “to avoid being misled (it may be) through attending only to some fragments of the mass of data. We must assume that a conclusion reached upon such a fragment only will be more or less untrustworthy.”18 The difficulty is that “those data have entered into the formation of our belief at successive times; hence a danger of omission or of inferior attention. Knowledge in the highest perfection would consist in the simultaneous possession of facts.”19 We see different sides of a case at different times; the challenge is somehow to see them all at the same time, to “enable all the data to be lifted into consciousness at once.”20 To comprehend the whole matter and not just fragments, “it is necessary also to simplify it, to reduce it to its elements” – words that could have been Wigmore’s, though in fact they were written by the cubism theorist quoted above.21 16 LACOSTE, C. (1913). Sur le “cubisme” et la peinture. Temps Present (Paris, 2 April). Reproduced in English translation in Cubism, supra note 11, p. 120. 17 DELMARLE, F. (1914). Quelques note sur la simultanéité en painture. Poème et Drame (Paris, 14 March). Reproduced in English translation in Cubism, supra note 11, p. 131. 18 The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, p. 79. 19 Ibid. (emphasis in original; internal quotation marks omitted). 20 Ibid., p. 82. 21 Sur le “cubisme” et la peinture, supra note 14, p. 121.. 14 A related aim of both systems is to represent the processes of thought – to show how separate fragments of data are combined into a cognitive unit. For the cubists, one writer suggests in 1913, the aim is to get past the flow of mere sensory impressions in order to paint one’s mental conception of the object: “Therefore they no longer imitate the misleading appearances of vision, but the truer ones of the mind.”22 Compare Wigmore, for whom the purpose of his method is “not [to] show us what our belief ought to be,” but rather “to show only what our belief actually is, and how we have reached it.”23 When seeing and hearing evidence, we test it in our consciousness and reach a conclusion. “And thus step by step we set down the separate units of actual belief, -- connecting, subsuming, and generalizing, until the subfinal grouping is reached; then dwelling in consciousness on that, until at last a belief (or disbelief) on the final fact evolves into our consciousness.”24 The chart system tries to reproduce the assembly of sense data into an object of belief; it tries to show, as the cubists do, not just what we see but what we know. I really cannot do justice to the uncanny echoes between Wigmore’s manifesto for his system and the manifestoes for cubism that were being written by European art critics at the same moment. To read his work alongside theirs is to see how patently his article deserves to be treated as a document of high modernism. 22 RAYNAL, M. (1913). Qu-est-ce-que … le Cubisme? Comœdia Illustré (Paris, 20 December). Reproduced in English translation in Cubism, supra note 11, p. 130. 23 The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, p. 82 (italics in original). 24 Ibid., p. 83. 15 III Some readers will object that I have committed a category mistake. Wigmore is creating not pictures but diagrams, bearing a greater resemblance – and, the objection would go, more properly compared – to electrical circuit charts or industrial flow charts than to cubist portraits. Yet are we sure about that? No one thinks of Wigmore’s work as having anything to do with the representation of women. But for that matter, no one thought that of cubist works either, at least not initially. During the Armory Show, a prize was offered to anyone who could actually find the alleged nude in one of the most notorious cubist works.25 And who, even today, would know the subject matter of the Standing Female Nude, without either being told the title or being thoroughly acquainted with Picasso’s work? Yet there she is, once you look carefully: the female figure emerges unmistakably from Picasso’s tangled maze of lines, angles, and curves. Let us see whether we can also find her in, or between, the lines, angles and curves of the Wigmore system. Having set forth the glossary of symbols in his system, Wigmore gives two examples of how evidence discrediting a trial witness should be diagrammed in hypothetical cases (figure 6). In both examples, the circle on top of the box on the upper right represents the testimony of the 25 See The Story of the Armory Show, supra note 2, p. 136. The work in question was Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, one of the lightning rods of the show. 16 witness; the shapes to the left and below represent numbered items of evidence that discredit the testimony.26 The symbols in Wigmore’s system are presented as entirely arbitrary, with no necessary connection between signifier and signified, as Saussure might have put it. The shapes are not supposed to represent any information about a witness; they are simply said to designate certain formal qualities of the evidence (box = testimonial, circle = circumstantial, etc.). Look carefully at the images, however. In both, the refuted witness is represented by a venus symbol (♀), while the refuting evidence is represented as arrows – mars symbols (♂) in one of the figures – aimed roughly in the witness’s direction. The witnesses in these hypothetical examples are not supposed to be women. 27 Yet the concept of discredited testimony takes the visual form of a female on a box; and the concept of evidence that exposes the truth takes the visual form of phalanx of sharp arrows pointed at her. This may or may not have been intentional. But it is no coincidence that untrustworthy evidence in this system is placed under the sign of the female. Again and again in Wigmore’s his voluminous work on evidence, women emerge as a menace to sound thinking and the search for truth, and a scientific approach to evidence becomes 26 As Wigmore explains, the larger figure involves hypothetical testimony against a former employer. Items 19 and 19a in the figure represent the facts that the witness had been fired, and that a fired employee is likely to be biased; item 20 represents the demeanor of bias the witness showed on the stand. The smaller figure involves eyewitness testimony. Items 8, 9 and 10 are bits of information suggesting the witness could not have seen the incident clearly. See The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, pp. 87-88. 27 In describing these examples Wigmore uses the male pronoun to refer to the discredited witness. 17 Figure 5. Wigmore, Sample diagrams of evidence discrediting a witness. 1913. From The Problem of Proof 18 synonymous with minimizing the influence of the irrationality and disorder associated with the female mind. The best-known instance of this is his position on the testimony of alleged rape victims, which is aptly summed up by the topic’s placement in his Evidence Treatise. Here are two adjacent entries in the treatise’s table of contents: A. § 200. Character of Complainant in Rape Charge, from Particular Acts of Unchastity. § 201. Disposition of an Animal, from its Behavior in Particular Instances. Unchaste women, unruly animals. Sexual assault charges, in Wigmore’s view, are often the fabrications of oversexed adventuresses who sleep with men and then turn around to cry rape. For this reason he vigorously advocates putting rape complainants’ reputation and sexual history before the jury, and disapproves of rulings that limit the admission of such evidence.28 But false rape charges are not only brought by women who asked for it; they are also brought by women who have masochistic fantasies they cannot distinguish from reality. This “unchaste (let us call it) mentality finds incidental but direct expression in the narration of imaginary sex-incidents of which the narrator is the heroine or the victim.”29 Hence his infamous proposal, purportedly backed with the authority of the latest psychological research, that no rape case should go to trial 28 See WIGMORE, J. (1904). A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence. Boston: Little Brown. Volume I, p. 201. 29 WIGMORE, J. (1940). A Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence, Third Edition. Boston: Little Brown. Volume III, p. 459. 19 before a psychiatrist examines the supposed victim and determines that her story is not a wishful fantasy.30 We learn more about the women’s animalistic nature in Wigmore’s Principles of Judicial Proof, the 1913 book whose publication accompanied the chart method article. The book contains some of Wigmore’s own writings, but mostly consists of other authors’ works that he offers as “illustrative” of the principles underlying the probative science he has called for in the chart article.31 The work of Hans Gross, the German criminologist whom I quoted in the epigraph, makes a frequent appearance. (Wigmore dedicates the book to Gross, “who has done more than any other man in modern times to encourage the application of science to judicial proof.”)32 Wigmore reproduces an extensive passage from Gross to illustrate what Wigmore terms the “generic traits” of women.33 Let us, the passage urges, confront honestly and unsentimentally the true nature of female psychology, in the spirit of scientific investigation. The facts are these: women feel rather than think; they intuit rather than reason; they gossip 30 Ibid., pp. 459-60. For a critical look at Wigmore’s position, see Bienen, L. A Question of Credibility: John Henry Wigmore’s Use of Scientific Authority in Section 924A of the Treatise on Evidence. California Western Law Review, 19, 235. 31 Principles of Judicial Proof , supra note 1, p. 2. 32 Ibid., dedication page. 33 In the second edition of the book, Wigmore introduces this passage as demonstrating that “women are more apt to confuse what they really have observed with what they have imagined or wished to occur; and [relative to men] are apt to fall below in candor and honesty.” WIGMORE, J. (1931). The Principles of Judicial Proof, or The Process of Proof, As Given By Logic, Psychology and General Experience and Illustrated in Judicial Trials. Second Edition. Boston: Little Brown, p. 292. 20 endlessly never get to the point; they perceive the world in terms of concrete objects and personalities, and cannot think logically, analytically, or conceptually; and “they have no real knowledge of justice.”34 Most importantly for purposes of the science of proof, the fairer sex has serious trouble telling the truth. “Dishonesty,” we learn, “is a specially feminine characteristic; in men it occurs only when they are effeminate. Real manliness and dishonesty are concepts which cannot be united.” You can seldom get a straight answer out of a woman, and if you do it is probably the opposite of what she means:35 But even her simplest affirmation or denial is not honest. Her ‘no’ is not definite; e.g., her “no” to a man’s demands…. So Schopenhauer agrees: “Nature has given women only one means of protection and defense – hypocrisy: this is congenital with them, and the use of it is as natural as the animal’s use of its claws. No means yes; and watch out for her claws. This is the female, which the many “science of proof” must face down and bring to heel. And here is a passage from a book on trial advocacy Wigmore offers to illustrate the principles of the “testimonial process”: The ferocious beast rears her head again:36 When a witness comes into the box with what is commonly called a “knowing” look, and with a determined pose of the head, as though he would say, “Now, then Mr. Counselor, 34 Principles of Judicial Proof , supra note 1., pp. 340-42. This passage is presented as an excerpt from GROSS, H. (1911). Criminal Psychology. 35 Ibid., p. 343 (ellipses in original). 36 Ibid., p. 530 (ellipses added). This passage is presented as a quotation from HARRIS, R. (1892). Hints on Advocacy. 21 I’m your man, tackle me,” you may be sure you have a Flippant and masterful being to deal with…. But although I have used the masculine pronoun, this witness is very often a female. … You will always approach her as if she were a wild animal ready to tear you if she could get near enough. Talk about fauvism: the recurrent association of women with wild animals is remarkable.37 Consider, finally, the two sample full-scale charts Wigmore includes in his article, which I reproduced earlier. One (figure 1) is the author’s diagrammatic representation of the evidence from a 1901 Massachusetts case; the other (figure 3) refers to an 1882 Virginia case.38 Without going into their details, I think it is worth observing what kinds of case these charts are pictures of. Here, in brief, are the facts of the Massachusetts case: a man sought to prevent the defendant’s marriage to a woman, apparently out of jealousy; later his decapitated body was found at the defendant’s workplace, the defendant was convicted of his murder, and the conviction upheld on appeal. Here are the facts of the Virginia case: a man died of poisoning after drinking whiskey delivered by the defendant, who was charged with his murder; his conviction was overturned by the state’s high court, which suggested he had been framed by the victim’s wife, who was having an affair and “had been supplied by her paramour with strychnine to administer to her husband.” Notice the pattern. In one case a woman has used her charms on 37 The Fauvist painters get their name from the French word for wild beasts. 38 The cases in question are Commonwealth v. Umilian, 171 Mass. 582 (1901), and Hatchett v. Commonwealth, 76 Va. 1026 (1882). For the opinions, evidence lists, and charts, see The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, pp. 91-103. 22 two men, one of whom is decapitated as a result. In the other, an unfaithful wife kills her husband and lets an innocent man take the rap. Female promiscuity and double-dealing leading to death, destruction of innocent men’s lives, and male decapitation: these are the themes encoded in the innocous little shapes in Wigmore’s drawings, and the animalistic dangers against which his geometric apparatus is designed to provide some measure of protection. In pointing out the irrational, misogynistic overtones of his system, my purpose has not to pick on Wigmore, whose attitudes toward women were no worse than average for his era. In some respects they were better; he was more respectful of women law students than many of his contemporaries.39 My point is simply that the “unsafe mental processes” that his chart method article warned against tend, in the scheme of his writings, to be associated with the seductions and duplicities of sexually licentious women. Let the courts beware of the woman of unchaste body or mind who lies on the witness stand and ruins a man’s life; in the same way, let the science of proof be on guard against “unguided, and therefore unsafe” patterns of thought that would ruin its claim to be a true science. These projects are mirror images of each other in the rhetorical, conceptual and psychic universes of the chart method. Loose thinking is the 39 His biographer reports that Wigmore agreed on one occasion to serve as master of ceremonies for a joint social event for law students at Northwestern and another law school. Told by a student that she was not invited because it was a stag event, Wigmore announced that he would not participate if Northwestern’s women students were excluded. See ROALFE, W. (1977). John Henry Wigmore: Scholar and Reformer. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, p. 67. 23 counterpart of a loose woman; clean analysis is the sign of female probity and the containment of sexuality; a systematic diagram the index of a legal system that has not permitted itself to be unmanned by female teeth and claws. The implicit psychic function being served is hinted at, I think, by the title of another publication from 1913: Totem and Taboo.40 Viewing it in this way, we can see that the Wigmore system, novel as it is in some respects, has a long lineage in western graphic design. Consider, to take a single example, Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, whose 1538 treatise on geometric drawing and its applications (in which the woodcut appears) is an important precursor to modern analytical chart systems. 40 FREUD, S. (1913). Totem and Taboo. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XIII (Strachey, ed., 1955). 24 Fi gu re 5 . D ür er , D ra fts m an D ra w in g a R ec lin in g N ud e. c . 1 52 5. H ou gh to n L ib ra ry , H ar va rd U ni ve rs ity 25 In Durer’s image, the man uses a reticulated net and a viewing rod to accurately register the proportions of his subject on an oblong sheet of paper. As Lynda Nead and others have pointed out, the picture dramatizes the transformation of disorderly nature, figured as a scantily clad, voluptuous female, into ordered knowledge, figured as a disciplined, attentive male accompanied by vertical instruments and a carefully manicured tree.41 The figure sets in opposition culture to nature, abstraction to physicality, knowledge to sexuality, male to female. Notice the positioning of the woman’s hand, and the air of anxiety hanging over the draftsman. The screen grid with its protects him from the feminine and enables him to impose order on it. Geometric clarity and scientific knowledge, in this picture, go hand in hand with the control of women and the containment of female sexuality. The draftsman who would tame the beast must keep his lines straight, his angles right, and his drawing implement sharp. Hence the instructions – from Wigmore – for good diagram drawing: Use an oblong sheet of unruled paper. … Use right-angled continued lines. … 41 See NEAD, L. (1992). The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality. New York: Routledge, pp. 2, 11. For similar analyses of the image, see RUSSELL, H.D. (1990). Eva/Ave: Woman in Baroque and Renaissance Prints. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, pp. 21-23; FREEDMAN, B. (1991). Staging the Gaze: Postmodernism, Psychoanalysis, and Shakespearean Comedy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, pp. 1-2. On the semiotics of representation of the female body in western art more generally, see the essays collected in Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism (Broude & Garrard eds.). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005; The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (N. Broude & M. Garrard eds.). New York: Harper Collins, 1992; The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives (S. Suleiman ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. 26 Use a sharpened lead pencil. 42 The Durer woodcut helps us understand some of the significance of these words. As does the work of Picasso, so much of which, like the woodcut and the Wigmore chart, is devoted to finding new formal techniques for disassembling the female body. IV I do not want to be misunderstood as saying that analytical diagrams of this type (or scientific approaches to evidence more generally) are inherently associated with the cluster of anxieties I have identified here. Any such generalization would be completely out of keeping with premise of this paper, which is that identifying the meaning(s) of an image requires close attention to its specific context, which in this case means the written apparatus of which it is a part. To date, connoisseurs of the Wigmore system have, I think, been overly taken with its formal properties, treating it as the purely cognitive system its author presented it as, ignoring the full range of meanings embedded in its strange figures. In this respect they may have traced a path similar to the one Picasso scholars have followed when interpreting his epochal Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (figure 7).43 For decades, 42 The Problem of Proof, supra note 1, pp. 88-89. 43 By way of defending the title for this article, I note that while Northwestern’s law school is in Chicago, Wigmore lived in Evanston, where the rest of the university is located. See John Henry Wigmore: Scholar and Reformer, supra note 34, at 71. 27 critical assessments of this painting focused almost entirely on its formal pictorial innovations – Figure 7. Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. Museum of Modern Art, New York. 28 the flattening and splintering of space, the proto-cubist reduction of the figures, the appropriation of Egyptian and African tribal art, the utter sabotaging of Renaissance compositional conventions. Only since the 1970s has a “revisionist” critical literature emphasized that this painting is, after all, a picture of prostitutes, and that its sharp edges and menacing figures enact a psychosexual drama blending fears of women, death, and castration.44 A revisionist understanding of Wigmore’s contribution to modernism might, as I’ve suggested, proceed along roughly similar lines. If my reading punctures some of his system’s pretensions, it also puts him in distinguished company. I hope it serves as a reminder that analytical charts are pictures, whatever else they may be. And that as students of visual evidence, we can never learn to look too closely at the pictures we are seeing. 44 A sample of recent scholarship, plus an overview of the history of the work’s critical reception, is contained in the anthology Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (C. Green ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. The pivotal revisionist work examining the painting’s erotic dimensions was Leo Steinberg’s essay The Philosophical Brothel, in Art News, vol. 71 nos. 5-6 (Sept. and Oct. 1971), reprinted in October, vol. 44 (Spring 1988), pp. 4-74. See also Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Studies in Modern Art 3 (Rubin, Seckel and Cousins eds.). New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994; CHAVE, A. (1994). New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Art Bulletin, 76, 597. 29 work_2uaef3obkzen3lul7dq2vcoumq ---- Microsoft Word - 1_Mathias Rithel_Art_Style_[Final].docx Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 11 Be Tasteful! Be Kitsch! A critical analysis of social standards of beauty Waldenyr Caldas Abstract For a better understanding, this article seeks a more precise delineation of the differences, in the broadest sense, of these two qualifying adjectives—"tasteful" and "kitsch." Thus, we must consider social, economic, and cultural barriers and the ever-present class prejudice. Without a social analysis, this kind of criticism would be impaired and, by extension, superficial. We can already see that many obstacles separate these two concepts, and the difference between both terms shows a social border. By analogy, the concepts that separate these two terms can therefore be understood, not just a limit. This separation, it seems, is much more identified with a border—the outer edge of something—than a barrier—a structure that bars passage. It would be naive to deny or ignore this conceptual tension between "tasteful" and "kitsch," although there is a stratified consumption of cultural production. The capital society, always very smart and consistent with its origins, can deal with this stratification. In this sense, a way is sought to satisfy everyone, maximize profits, and keep the status quo unchanged, which has been the logic of Capitalism since its origins and, therefore, nobody denies it. Agreeing or not, with its political-ideological practices is another issue on which we have the free will to accept it or not. This frontier has been consolidating and, at the same time, become a recurrent theme of academic discussions, mainly due to the subjective aesthetic criteria of judging an artwork, qualifying a design, or choosing a musical concert or piece of clothing, among other things. This article mainly embraces the dichotomy created over time about these two terms and its social meaning. Christ Waldenyr Caldas, “Be Tasteful! Be Kitsch! A Critical Analysis of Social Standards of Beauty,” Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 5 (March 12, 2020): 11-23, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4088933 Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 12 Aesthetics and Politics We begin our analysis with a matter of extreme subjectivity, which necessarily involves the aesthetic values of class culture. Loosely and with possible exceptions, it is almost always dogmatic content analysis that is read, seen, or heard. Being kitsch is tasteless, and being tasteful is suitable for cultured and refined people. This affirmation is a syncretism that places modest products of mass culture and popular culture as something of the subaltern classes alone. Indeed, this attempt at such fusion is accurate, and there is a logic to it, although not as precise as it may seem. The cultural industry stratifies its production precisely to reach the consumer market of all social classes. Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer (1947), in their well-known analyses of "the cultural industry" in the humanities, have already taught us that the masses are not the measure, but the ideology of the cultural industry, even though the latter cannot exist without them. Empirical observation of the facts makes it current, as long as one thinks of the society of Capital, where the ideology of profit and the masses become inseparable and interdependent. The syncretic misconception, however, is the aesthetic evaluation (sometimes also political) that some critics make of these products. Its consumers are almost always of low income, low education, with restricted repertoire, a low level of information, and residents on the periphery of large and medium-sized cities. This model is almost a standard of the analysis and reviews that we see in journalistic texts—academic as well—when we think of art criticism, whatever its origin. In this sense, the syncretism is always present. For these reasons precisely, the aesthetic evaluation of products aimed at the subaltern classes or produced by them, with very few exceptions, is always very unfavorable. These products are considered unimportant and of dubious taste at least. But, this facet is only part of the question. There is another, which, in my view, is even more critical. The "aesthetic" analysis of these products is always full of qualifying, repetitive, innocuous adjectives that, strictly, say nothing or almost nothing. Some of them seek, among other things, to analyze the possible political- ideological content of the work, as if the author had an obligation to publicize their political engagement, their option for a political ideology. Often, this approach has the background and objective of establishing a serious tone and depth to the analysis. In Brazil, in the face of a troubled and broken political trajectory of systematic authoritarianism, this is very noticeable, even though we have been searching for democratic consolidation since 1985. During the 1960s to 1980s, the Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 13 political and ideological issues were a kind of "aesthetic thermometer" of any cultural product. To be respected, artists would have to declare themselves and engage politically by showing the ideological profile of their artworks. Then, by most of the criticisms, their artworks were considered good. Now, we all know that aesthetics and politics have always been pari passu, but not exactly in this way. An artwork may incorporate profound political-ideological issues, but that does not necessarily mean that, because of this incorporation, it is of good quality, which is a mistake mainly because the issue of the quality of work is something much more complicated than it may seem. Thus, but not only, these evaluations are almost always empty text. An attempt to explain the quality of the work aesthetically, but without any substrate or upholstery, is something notoriously sterile. In other words, reading or not reading this assessment would be almost the same. The readers leave the text as if they had not devoted their time to reading. It is necessary to understand, for example, that when Pablo Picasso made Guernica, he intended to denounce and protest against the arbitrariness, violence, and horrors practiced in this city in his country. The Nazis were ruthless. However, it would be unreasonable, I think, to expect that visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where this artwork remained for a long time, see Guernica for the same purposes and with the same criticality as Picasso. Many museum visitors want to know the artwork itself without worrying about its political-social significance. This approach, of course, does not mean alienation. However, this aesthetic experience may or may not, in some cases, emerge at the time of the visit, depending on the viewer's repertoire. Knowing an artwork of the magnitude of the Monalisa, Guernica, and others is already something pleasing to the visitor. Thinking about its socio-political relevance as the author did at the time of its creation is an attitude, a very personal option for its visitors. It is known that great works are almost always disputed by people for their mythical figure and iconic character, understandably so. The crowd that annually visits European, American, and Asian museums, among others, is not interested in or simply does not know the history of that artwork. They do not know how artist arrived at the result displayed in the museum. With some exceptions, this view is limited to specialists and scholars of the arts, which is the prevalence. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 14 Toward Kitsch Art The aesthetic concepts used by professionals in the analysis of any cultural product could have more precise and explicit arguments and theoretical foundations. The reader must objectively know the reasons why the critic refutes a specific artwork and places it on the level of the artwork of "dubious taste." But after all, what are the objective criteria that led the critic to assign that work an uncertain status? This objectivity strictly does not exist, and the whole argument is lost at the level of subjectivity. Prevailing in the preparation of the aesthetic evaluation of criticism, the individual critical opinion—in the absence of more consistent arguments— chooses the path of "wishful thinking," which is the most modest empirical way of making a qualitative assessment (if possible) of artwork when there is neither theoretical resources nor an adequate and sufficient repertoire to do so. In the absence of these elements, the critic, consciously or not, uses a resource and strategy terribly similar to that of television presenters. It is the so-called “factual function” of language, as the French linguist and semiologist Georges Mounin explains in his work (1974). He says that for the factual function, the language seems to serve only to maintain among the interlocutors a sense of acoustic or psychological contact and pleasant proximity—for example, in social, hollow, or loving talk wherein nothing is said. Apart from matters of love, empirically, the presenters of television programs make use of the phatic function of language. They need to speak without interruption when they are not showing the planned attractions in their programs. If they do not, there is a severe risk that the viewer will change channels due to a lack of motivation in the program itself. The viewer loses this dynamic due to the absence of gestural stimuli, so crucial in the process of mass communication and dialogues with audiences. It should be noted, however, that the program presenters are not making any aesthetic evaluation of any product. They are merely doing their television work. If they use it consciously or not, the phatic function of language is another issue that could undoubtedly be the subject of further study. It does not seem to be the right or correct option to leave thinking about “aesthetic quality” under the responsibility of this intelligentsia. Consequently, merely accepting that it establishes within its criteria and knowledge what is of good quality or beautiful is, in short, a judgment of taste that implies the quality of a product, an artwork, a handcrafted piece, and more. In this case, all the educated and specialized people in their respective areas would have the intellectual authority to establish the criteria for the aesthetic taste of any work related to their métier. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 15 However, it is not exactly this. It is not correct (and perhaps not even fair) to attribute to educated people—even with a solid academic background and specialized in the arts, for example—the ability to determine what is beautiful, artistic, good taste, dubious taste, or even distasteful. If so, we would be sanctioning an authorization for educated people to dictate the rules and criteria of what is considered beautiful, of good taste, and good aesthetic quality. I do not think this approach would be the best thing to do, because situations like this have already produced great mistakes and will undoubtedly continue providing them. An example, in my view, quite enlightening to this issue is the following: Initially, it was registered in the work of Stanley Edgar Hyman1 (1948) but was carefully interpreted by Professor Antonio Candido2 in his work (1978). In 1837, Liszt gave a concert in Paris, which announced a piece by Beethoven and another by Pixis, an obscure composer already considered of low quality. Unintentionally, the program changed the names, attributing the work of Pixis to be from Beethoven. The audience applauded Pixis thinking it was Beethoven and disqualified Beethoven thinking it was Pixis. Cases like this one are not unique, and scholars of art and literature, from time to time, record cases similar to what happened here. It is quite likely that a person who is cultured, sensible, and with a more refined degree would refuse to make any aesthetic judgment as if its result were something definitive. However, it would not happen. They would do it knowing that their evaluation is only one among so many other meanings in the face of subjectivity and aesthetic values. Therefore, in fact, it makes no sense for the art critic to label such an artwork as kitsch while exalting another artwork as excellent with complimentary adjectives. Collectively—that is, for the public—criticism does not contribute at all. Individual experiences have their importance and contribution in the field of cultural criticism, there is no doubt, but they cannot be extended to a universal participation and acceptance. No evaluation, no objective principle of taste is possible. There are many subjective factors that interfere in the faculty of judging and creating means to justify what is beautiful, forming a judgment of taste. But there may be some affinities between the art critic and a select group, even taking a universal dimension to like an artwork or not. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 16 At first, one has to think about the following: if we analyze an artwork, or merely a street event that we witness, we do so with our repertoire and knowledge of our class culture. This is understandable and would happen spontaneously, mainly because we do not know enough about the culture of other social classes and their respective strata, hindering a more in-depth analysis of the cultural ethos, its intricacies, and subtleties of everyday events, which could compromise, among other things, the quality of empirical information on the artwork. This limitation would be enough for us to understand that it is not possible to carry out a more in-depth analysis, and, more than that, we would certainly not feel comfortable doing so. Empirically, it is easy to understand this issue, and the examples seem to be quite illuminating. Think of one of them: a young worker leaving the industry at the end of her workday looks vastly different from the president of the company. The difference in socioeconomic level, educational background, and repertoire creates the values and judgment of different tastes. With some exceptions, this becomes visually perceptible, not only in the appearance revealed by their clothing but also in their personal adornment. This entire set of seemingly unimportant factors shows the differences and aesthetic conceptions of class cultures and, of course, of socioeconomic level. Under these conditions, therefore, the concepts of kitsch and tasteful could be misused, as almost always happens, moreover, with a powerful charge of social prejudice. It Is, above all, a matter of citizenship, respecting the class condition without an aesthetic assessment of who is kitsch or tasteful, based merely on the subjectivity of an isolated opinion and without theoretical support. Thus, even with distinctive visual evidence between the worker and president of the industry, it would not be possible for us to say that the aesthetic taste of one is superior to that of the other. This attempt, most likely, would lead its author to make conceptual errors in search of positive results that would undoubtedly be imprecise and full of redundancies and innocuous and unnecessary words for their explanations, as always happens. The factual discourse on the aesthetic evaluation of cultural products is always full of adjectives that clarify little. And what we have seen so far not only occurs with so-called tacky or old-fashioned products. Everything is repeated precisely the same way for the evaluations of products considered in good taste. In the arts, for example, products of tasteful people are predicated on words that say nothing; the logomachy, factual speech is also present, just set up to a degree of greater Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 17 complexity, while the speech goals are the same, valuing the product and making it as profitable as possible, even if it uses logomachy discourse. There are exceptions to be considered, but it is not unusual to have an unofficial partnership between the entrepreneur of the arts and the art critic, in the sense of providing greater visibility and seeking to value an artwork so that they will be well quoted in the art market. Thus, the art critic, through the media, must create the image of an artist and artwork of special relevance. With this agreement, the art critic transfers his or her prestige (if he or she has some) to the artist and unofficially fulfills what was previously agreed with the entrepreneur of the art market. Under these conditions, the quality of that artist’s work is not discussed, even subjectively. What is on the agenda is another matter. There is interest where marketing overlaps with aesthetic evaluation, though when the artist has no talent, it requires a set of words, a critical speech in the criticism writings, testimonies, or other forms of communication. Such “talent” can indeed be manufactured in the media as it occurs in all segments of the arts. Now we return to a central question in this article: how to justify an artist's talent, if not with personal and subjective opinions about their artwork and, therefore, open to doubt? This is a question with answers that remains unsatisfactory. In a Capitalist society, often, having talent is not enough for the artist to receive recognition for their artwork. The term “kitsch” that is used to disqualify is also understood as a means by which the “substitution” of values shows the viewer simpler forms of perception and interpretation (and this offers greater emotional strength). In this sense, what is the need to make a highly intellectualized analysis of the work of art, if the person who makes it only offers his opinion and nothing else? Well, this does not mean that they are right or wrong in their aesthetic concepts; they are solely giving opinions. It also does not mean that the analyzed work is an excellent artwork or a kitsch one. There are no universal taste standards, and there is an internal taste logic that differentiates aesthetic taste between different social classes. And this, of course, does not mean that a social class has a more refined aesthetic taste, more sophisticated than the other. It just means they are different and nothing more. Even the taste for classes also differs internally between people. If, for example, a person with a rather modest repertoire is dazzled by Demoiselles d'Avignon, and Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 18 another viewer with a solid intellectual background falls in love with Jeff Koons's sculpture Tulips, undoubtedly the “status” of both will remain the same. Pablo Picasso’s artwork will maintain its prestige as a great work of art as for being the first cubist painting, while Jeff Koons’ sculpture Tulips will retain its “status” as consecrated work by the general public. Indeed, the set of artistic works by Koons has a very critical purpose, as Professor Christiane Wagner shows in her article entitled “Kitsch, Aesthetic Reminiscences and Jeff Koons” (2016). She explains that Koons has been collaborating with the public’s self-esteem through his artworks, destroying guilt or shame in people who, in their banalities, immerse. Tulips sculpture—seven tulips of varying colors fabricated from mirror-polished stainless steel—is part of the Celebration series, in particular reports the day-to-day aesthetic values added to the celebration symbols. Moreover, Koons also emphasizes these common aesthetic values with another sculpture series called Banality that sets the kitsch as the high motivation for the audience. Sculpture Tulips (1995-2004) by Jeff Koons. Photo by Pawel Biernacki. June 10, 2018. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 19 Aesthetics of Imposture We are here in the face of what we might call, for lack of a better term, an “aesthetics of imposture,” because of logomachy discourse as an artifice that consists of presenting subterfuges and arguments that are not true and, thus, an imposture. Certainly, this is not an intentionally artful language, which would be unacceptable. It seems to be, rather, the lack of objective arguments to better spell out the aesthetic values of the work. This lack is quite common among so- called art critics without the resources to make their opinion explicit. However, this art criticism may not exist as universal participation, but only as subjective judgment. Aesthetics is part of the philosophy that reflects on art and beauty. All the literature in this regard does not propose, approve, or accept consolidated judgments. In the Platonic sense, there is a reflection on the absolute beauty in aesthetics, or in the Kantian sense for the universal taste, but there is no unanimity among thinkers in aesthetics. Among them, we highlight Hegel, who is opposed to both the Platonic and Aristotelian senses. He instead considered the principles of the relationship between form, sensitive, artistic achievements and content, the idea, in a process of synthesis and evolution of the spirit as a historical moment. Therefore, art Is part of a historical and cultural context. In this path, it is considered that the art's meaning is related to time and culture as well as social class. This approach is one of the largest problems of art criticism. Exceptions aside, when critics make their aesthetic assessments of taste and the idea of beauty, it is as if they are talking about a universal truth. However, there is no replica of their text. Their words reverberate strongly with the public, as if it were, in fact, a universal truth. Thus, this criticism can consecrate a specific artwork, creating an “untouchable aura” of the ideal of beauty and quality about it or destroying it by labeling it as inferior quality or of a dubious taste. This discussion aligns with some illuminating observations made by Immanuel Kant (1790), precisely because this thinker analyzed taste and beauty from the perspective of objectivity and subjectivity. Kant argues that there is not an objective taste that determines by concept what is beautiful because every judgment, itself, is aesthetical—as such, it is a perception that determines the motive and the subject's feeling and not the quality of an object. Thus, the search for a principle or general criterion for beauty and taste through certain concepts is senseless since what is sought would be impossible and contradictory in itself. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 20 Kant's lessons lead us to believe that art critics—who use factual discourse—do not know these lessons, have forgotten or misinterpreted them, or at least have not yet read them. Instead, the reader receives elusive explanations that cannot be sustained with a closer reading. Now, if this is something partially or entirely intentional, this approach creates is another situation. Each case must be viewed and analyzed separately, avoiding injustices. Therefore, it is necessary to understand that responsible criticism does not act in this way. In any case, the dichotomy that I mentioned at the beginning of this article prevails. The product of educated people is also seen as tasteful by much of the population, especially of the more modest strata, but not only. This is the ground to be protected by an "aura" that exerts a psychological influence of respect and admiration in people, even by the combination of these two adjectives. There are two aspects to be highlighted for specific segments of society to reach these concepts mentioned above. The first is the ignorance, or almost, of the cultured people's products. The second is a little more complex and depends on the socioeconomic status of each social class. The subordinate classes, or at least some segments of them, tend to mitigate and psychologically revere the consumption of the so-called more affluent social classes, precisely given the considerable difference in purchasing power between them. This is the “aura” that I referred to earlier. To illustrate empirically, it is worth mentioning one example, but there are many others. In São Paulo, the Municipal Theater, located in the so-called old city center, keeps an intense program of musical concerts and other cultural events every year. On show days and just before the start, while people are arriving, there are other people on the sides of the entrance door who, most likely, pressed by economic scarcity, look respectfully at people entering the Theater. It is the curiosity and natural desire of a notoriously modest audience who could hardly buy tickets to attend a musical concert. It is not about homeless people (these appear in small numbers), but about people who have not had the opportunity to see a "tasteful" show full of cultured people. But at this point, if any of those people wanted to come to watch the show, it would not be possible if it were not with ticket in hand. In this case, there is no alternative but sublimation or to seek other forms of entertainment and social interaction. As known, sociability in large cities, although essential for all of us, is something a bit more complicated. This topic is not part of this article, but it is worth reading David Riesman's work, The Lonely Crowd (1961). Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 21 But everything does not always happen as described above. There are situations in which the so-called kitsch and tasteful products come to have a close and pleasant view. In São Paulo (not an exception), the government sometimes organizes free shows that include the presence of artists highly considered by the cultured public and the specialized press. It is worth remembering, as an example, the outdoor musical concerts in Ibirapuera Park, which in those moments becomes a democratic space. On these occasions, the public is undifferentiated because it contemplates all social classes and their respective segments; thus, the concepts treated here are irrelevant. This issue of kitsch and tasteful goes unperceived precisely because it is unimportant, but also because the people who are there at that moment come willing to participate without worrying about these irrelevant and imprecise aesthetic issues. This audience is presently interested in leisure, entertainment, not dwelling on subjective aesthetic evaluations that explain nothing. It is much better this way. Public parks, among other things, even have the virtue of eliminating at the base this tension between kitsch and tasteful, although visually, the socioeconomic differences between their visitors are realized. It is at this moment that people have the same focus on enjoyment, finally, for recreational pleasure. Fraternization and sociability prevail as something essential, especially in cosmopolitan cities like São Paulo. Final Considerations To finish this article, I want to again raise the lessons of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1790) when considering the issues on the judgment of taste. He says that the unfavorable judgment of others can arouse in us justified reservations about our judgment; however, it can never convince us that our judgment is incorrect. Therefore, there is no empirical argument to impose on anyone the judgment of taste. That is right, perfect! There is nothing more just, more libertarian and democratic, than to respect people’s judgment of taste without any aesthetic bias, especially when we lack solid arguments and fundamentals. This approach is what is routinely seen. It is necessary to make this assessment accurately, from within oneself and not in a protocol way, just to let others know that we “respect” people’s right to like anything kitsch or tasteful. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 22 The Kantian lessons, in my view, should be read by some art critics before they disregard any artistic work. Their opinions and ratings are just more such thoughts, even though each critic considers them as teachings for the public accustomed to the arts. Nonsense. They should be regarded as, of course, exceptions. It is natural, for example, for the art critics to give their opinion. What is not reasonable is that they believe themselves to present the truth and expect their ideas to prevail as a kind of a consolidated norm as aesthetic criteria of an artwork evaluation. This is unwise, much less acceptable. It is a childish narcissism that cannot be accepted. And, to conclude, I want to register the following: when a work of art becomes public, at the same time, it also becomes subject to the most diverse interpretations. Naturally, viewers experience your reading just from the elements they perceive in the work. Of course, for this, they will be based on their repertoire, their experiences in everyday life, and, above all, their class condition, among other things that, together, will enable them to read the work. Therefore, we will have an opinion, an analysis no less critical than that of the critic specialized in the subject. If both interpretations (that of the critic and that of the ordinary citizen) are convergent and complementary, the interested public will benefit from knowing the subtleties that a work of art may have. But if they are divergent, there is no need to prioritize the words of the art critic. After all, it is just one opinion among many others. In some cases, as I already demonstrated at the beginning of this article, the critic's opinion may even be committed to market values, which would be natural because, after all, the work of art is, among other things, fundamentally merchandise, like almost everything in capital society. At that moment, it is very convenient to remember the work of the Italian literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, Umberto Eco, in his work Opera aperta (1962) translated in English as The Open Work (1989). Still, which has crossed time and remains current, he teaches us that any work can enable us to interpret it. The artwork is open because it does not have a single interpretation. It is polysemic, and therefore open to the most diverse analyses. There is no way to disagree with Umberto Eco in his arguments mainly because no model of theoretical analysis can cope with revealing the aesthetic characteristics of a work, but only how to perceive that work according to its assumptions. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 23 Author Biography Waldenyr Caldas is a full professor in Sociology of Communication and Culture at the University São Paulo. He was a visiting professor at University La Sapienza di Roma and the Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France. Caldas has been a professor since 1996 as well as the vice-director (1997-2001) and Director (2001- 2005) of ECA - School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo. In his academic career, he obtained all academic titles until the highest level as a full professor at the University of São Paulo. Currently, he is a representative of the University of São Paulo, together with the Franco-Brazilian Committee of the Agreement “Lévi-Strauss Chairs,” and a member of the International Relations Committee of the University of São Paulo. Its scientific production records many books published, and several essays published in magazines and national and international collections. waldenyr@usp.br References Adorno, Theodor W. Théorie esthétique. Translated by Marc Jimenez. Paris: Klincksieck, 2011. Eco, Umberto. The Open Work. New York: Harvard University Press, 1989. Kant, Immanuel. Le jugement esthétique. Textes choisis. PUF, 2006. Mounin, Georges. Histoire de la linguistique des origines an XXe siecle. Paris: PUF, 1967. Riesman, David. The Lonely Crowd. New Haven: Yale University Press, [1961] 2020. Wagner, Christiane. “Kitsch, Aesthetics Reminiscences and Jeff Koons,” Revista Visuais, Institute of Arts (Sep 24, 2016), UNICAMP. Notes 1. Stanley Edgar Hyman, The armed vision (Knopf, New York, 1948) 323-324. 2. Antonio Cândido, Literatura e sociedade (Editora Nacional, São Paulo: 1978) 41. work_2unzkseei5efxg3szt3h6asvl4 ---- Atenea 489 63 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 RESUMEN En el año del centenario del nacimiento de Pablo Neruda, el autor expone hechos y plantea conje- turas en torno a la relación de amistad que existió entre el pintor Pablo Picasso y el poeta chileno, acerca de la que, por extraño que parezca, es poco lo que se sabe y menos aún lo publicado hasta hoy en esta forma. Palabras claves: Picasso, Neruda, amistad, hechos y conjeturas. ABSTRACT In the centennial celebration of the birth of Pablo Neruda, the author examines facts and proposes conjectures around the friendship that existed between the painter, Pablo Picasso, and the Chilean poet; a friendship about which, although it may seem strange, very little is known and even less has been published. Keywords: Picasso, Neruda, friendship, facts and conjectures. Recibido: 17.02.2004. Aprobado:10.06.2004. E L 8 DE ABRIL DE 1973, Pablo Neruda se enteró en Isla Negra de la noticia que los teletipos emitieron ese día a todo el mundo: su amigo el gran pintor Pablo Picasso había muerto en Nôtre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, Francia. Consternado por este hecho, Neruda, pese a la gravedad del mal que a él mismo le aquejaba, expresó el deseo de querer dar la que ISSN 0716-1840 ENRIQUE ROBERTSON* PICASSO Y NERUDA HECHOS Y CONJETURAS EN TORNO A UNA AMISTAD *Médico. Investigador. E-mail: e.robertson@t-online.de 63 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 pp. 63-87 64Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 sería la última entrevista que concedió a la prensa chilena: el recordatorio que hizo de Picasso con ocasión del deceso del universal malagueño. Dicha entrevista apareció en la edición dominical del diario El Siglo el 15 de abril de 1973, pocos meses antes del fallecimiento del propio Neruda el 23 de septiembre, acaecido en trágicas circunstancias que, en los útimos doce días de su vida, al poeta le recordarían dolorosamente lo ocurrido cuarenta años antes en la guerra civil española. De esa guerra, con España en el corazón, Neruda rindió estremecedor testimonio. Picasso hizo lo propio con el “Guernica”. Ambas obras se han comparado en más de una oportunidad. En no pocos aspectos, también sus autores son comparables y hermanables. En la mencionada entrevista –reeditada en la revista Cuadernos de la Fundación Pablo Neruda1– dijo el poeta, sin precisar fechas, que había co- nocido a Pablo Picasso hacía largo tiempo. Picasso, por su parte, en un dis- curso pronunciado en Breslau, Polonia, 1948 –cuyo tema era una protesta por la persecución política a que era sometido en su país el poeta chileno, discurso al que volveremos más adelante–, dio a entender lo mismo. Se co- nocían, pues, desde hacía largo tiempo. ¿Qué significaba esto, con algo más de exactitud? En aquellos años signi- ficaba desde la guerra, o desde antes de la guerra. De los tiempos de antes de la guerra se puede decir que aunque Neruda hubiese oído hablar muchas veces del famoso Picasso, y que por eso –de oídas– no fuese para él un desco- nocido, no hay datos que permitan sostener que le haya conocido personal- mente en aquel entonces; por ejemplo en Barcelona, durante la última visita que el pintor hizo a la ciudad condal en 1934, cuando Neftalí Reyes –Pablo Neruda– llegaba a ella para asumir allí su cargo consular. Descartada la po- sibilidad de que se conociesen en esa oportunidad, lo probable es que, ya en plena guerra civil y solidariamente hermanados en el bando leal a la Repú- blica española, trabasen personal relación en Francia dos larguísimos años más tarde. Neruda había llegado a Barcelona en mayo de 1934, procedente de Buenos Aires, donde había conocido a Federico García Lorca. En Barce- lona recibe la dolorosa noticia de la muerte en Santiago de un entrañable amigo suyo: el poeta Alberto Rojas Giménez2. De las venturas y desventuras de hispanoparlantes avecindados en el París de los años 20 –que Neruda oyó de sus amigos chilenos Ortiz de Zárate, Pachin Bustamante, Isaías Cabezón, Jean Emar, etc.3–, Rojas Giménez debió ser el que más le impresionó al ha- 1Mansilla, Luis Alberto. Cuadernos, Fundación Pablo Neruda. Santiago de Chile, Nº 35. 1998. 2Plath, Oreste. Alberto Rojas Giménez se paseaba por el alba. Ediciones de la Dirección de Bi- bliotecas, Archivos y Museos. Santiago, Chile. 1994. “Alberto Rojas Giménez viene volando”. Neruda. OC, I, pp. 335-338 (poema publicado por primera vez en Revista de Occidente, Madrid, julio 1934. 3Rojas Giménez, Alberto: “Pintura nueva” e “¿Y en Chile? Los Independientes de 1927” (Picasso es mencionado en estos dos artículos de A. Rojas Giménez, reproducidos en Plath, Oreste. Alberto Rojas Giménez se paseaba por el alba, op cit.). Portada de la primera edición española de España en el corazón de Neruda. 65 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 A. Rojas Giménez (por Huelén).Revista Cuadernos Nº 35, 1998. “Guernica” de Picasso. García Lorca y Neruda. 66Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 blarle de Picasso. Porque fue a Rojas Giménez a quien se le ocurrió la idea de decir que Pablo Picasso descubría e incorporaba continentes imprevistos al mundo plástico, afortunada idea que Neruda nunca olvidó. Además, por el propio Neruda se sabe que no le había sido posible evitar que a sus oídos llegase lo que de Pablo Picasso decía otro gran poeta de Chile: Vicente Huidobro4. Y, precisamente en relación a Huidobro, le llegaba, también de Chile, otra noticia: la muy irritante nueva que le hacía saber que en su país estaba siendo blanco de unos ataques de inusitada virulencia. Cumple Neruda treinta años de edad y, diciendo Aquí estoy, contraataca con no menos saña con un poema en el que menciona a Picasso por primera vez, sin que éste nada tuviese que ver con los motivos de su legítima ira5. En febrero de 1935 Neruda se traslada a Madrid donde García Lorca ya lo había presentado, siendo recibido con gran simpatía y homenajeado por su libro Residencia en la Tierra. También en 1935, un poco antes que él, Delia del Carril6, siguien- do los consejos de María Teresa León y Rafael Alberti, llegó de Francia a fijar su residencia en Madrid. Delia había vivido largo tiempo en París y conoci- do a Picasso y a muchos de sus amigos españoles, hispanoamericanos y fran- ceses. Ese mismo año, uno de estos últimos –Robert Desnos– participa con otros poetas galos en un encuentro político-cultural franco-español realiza- do en Madrid. Por un especial motivo, Desnos prolonga su estadía hasta noviembre. Antes de regresar a París quería asistir, en octubre de 1935, a la aparición del primer número de la revista Caballo Verde para la Poesía, edi- tada por Manolo Altolaguirre y dirigida por Neruda. Desnos celebró con ellos el lanzamiento de Caballo Verde, un poema suyo había sido elegido para su número inaugural. Este hecho importa porque lo más probable es que Neruda contactase personalmente con Picasso por primera vez en Pa- rís, en un homenaje póstumo a García Lorca organizado por Robert Desnos y Jean Cassou. A partir del alzamiento militar de julio de 1936, una san- grienta avalancha de hechos luctuosos había comenzado a arrasar con imparable e irracional violencia a toda España. En el triste verano de 1936 fueron asesinados muchos miles de civiles indefensos. Federico García Lorca fue uno de ellos. Este alevoso crimen y otros no menos deleznables que Neruda vio con sus propios ojos en Madrid, movieron al hasta entonces más bien apolítico poeta chileno a comprometerse definitivamente con la causa republicana española. Se integra en la Alianza de Intelectuales Antifascistas y colabora en el semanario que Alberti llamó El Mono Azul; este semanario contaba con el apoyo de Picasso, a quien, lo mismo que a Neruda, la guerra civil hizo cambiar políticamente de Saulo a Paulo. 4Teitelboim, Volodia. Huidobro. La marcha infinita. Biografía. Ed. Bat. Santiago, Chile. 1993 5Neruda, Pablo. “Aquí estoy”. OC, tomo IV (pp. 374-380). 6Sáez, Fernando. Todo debe ser demasiado. Biografía de Delia del Carril, la Hormiga. Ed. Sud- americana. Santiago de Chile. 1997. Vicente Huidobro por Picasso. Jean Cassou. 67 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 Desposeído de su cargo consular, vía Valencia –donde se queda Delia– y Barcelona –donde recoge a Maruca–, Neruda llega a Francia –a Marsella– y por fin, en diciembre de 1936, a París. Con la revista Los Poetas del Mundo Apoyan al Pueblo Español y con el Grupo Hispano-Americano de Ayuda a España, que funda con César Vallejo, continúa participando aquí en activi- dades solidarias. En enero de 1937, Delia del Carril, que tres semanas antes había llegado a reunirse con él, escribe en una carta: “Pablo dará el veinte una conferencia sobre Federico García Lorca”. Así fue; a partir del 20 de enero de 1937 y con gran asistencia de público, en la Maison de la Culture de París tienen lugar unas jornadas de solidaridad con la República Española, en cuyo marco se rinde un homenaje al poeta asesinado. El día 21, Neruda dio su famosa con- ferencia en memoria de Federico, que se inició, según dejó constancia la revista Commune, con unas palabras de presentación de Robert Desnos. No podía sospechar Neruda que el destino de su amigo el poeta Robert Desnos, que ese día de enero de 1937 le presentó al público parisino, sería similar al de García Lorca que le había presentado en Madrid en diciembre Neruda junto a Delia del Carril. Robert Desnos, frag. de un cuadro de Max Ernst. Neruda y su primera esposa (María Antonieta Hagenaar, “Maruca”). César Vallejo, retratado por Picasso. 68Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 de 1934. En La Barcarola les recordaría después, junto a Miguel Hernández, llamándoles compañeros sin tregua en el sol y en la muerte7. Margarita Aguirre apunta que en esta conferencia Neruda dio cuenta del cambio que se había producido en su vida, al terminar diciendo muchos esperaban de mí tranquilas palabras poéticas distanciadas de la tie- rra y de la guerra... No soy político ni he tomado nunca parte en la contienda política, y mis palabras, que muchos habrían deseado neutrales, han estado teñidas de pasión. Comprendedme y comprended que nosotros, los poetas de América española y los poetas de España, no olvidaremos ni perdonare- mos nunca el asesinato de quien consideramos el más grande entre noso- tros, el ángel de este momento de nuestra lengua... No podremos nunca ol- vidar este crimen, ni perdonarlo. No lo olvidaremos ni lo perdonaremos nunca. Nunca. El texto completo de este bellísimo discurso se publicó en Valencia poco después, en un apartado especial de la revista mensual Hora de España8. El día del homenaje a García Lorca debió ser el día en que Neruda cono- ció a Picasso. Se puede dar por seguro de que así fue, porque el pintor, nom- brado poco antes director del Museo del Prado y comisionado además por el gobierno de la República Española para pintar un mural que resultaría ser el “Guernica”, realizó para esas jornadas el primero de los dos grabados que titularía “Sueño y mentira de Franco”. Por ello pocas dudas pueden ca- ber de que Pablo Picasso, y muchos amigos suyos –que también lo eran de Delia, como Aragón, Eluard, etc.– estaba presente ese día en la Maison de la Culture de París. Allí pués, debió haber sido donde el poeta chileno trabó personal relación de amistad con el famoso pintor español. Es también muy probable que por mediación de Bergamín –malagueño como él–, Picasso ya conociese Residencia en la Tierra, editado por éste en Madrid (Cruz y Raya, 1935) y que de ese libro el poema “Walking around” le hubiese impresiona- do muy especialmente. Por esas fechas –en una etapa que él mismo designó como una de las peores de su vida– Picasso había sufrido los efectos de una severa crisis existencial que le hizo dejar de pintar; todo hace pensar que también hubo días en que le sucedía estar cansado de ser hombre, como reza el primer verso de ese poema. Entonces, Pablo Picasso escribió. De sus escri- tos destacan los que, quizá muy irreverentemente, el autor de estas líneas ve como una paráfrasis: por ejemplo el texto con que Picasso acompañó al gra- bado “Sueño y mentira de Franco”. Este y otros textos suyos de ese tiempo José Bergamín. 7Neruda, Pablo. La Barcarola (OC, III, p. 212). Además: Robert Desnos. A la misteriosa. Las tinieblas. Ed. Hiperión. Madrid. 1996. En la Introducción (de Ada Salas y Juan Abeleira), ver nota 14 (p. 23). 8Hora de España, III, Valencia, 1937. OC, tomo IV (pp. 388-393). 69 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 hacen recordar los fragmentos finales de “Walking around”. Quizá no sea una total insanía de juicio aventurar que Picasso, condimentándolos con algo de la mordaz acritud de “Aquí estoy”, para escribirlos encontró surreal inspiración en esos versos de Neruda. Si así fue, no hizo más que obrar en consecuencia: Pablo Neruda, el poeta autor de Residencia en la Tierra, había logrado interesarle. Y, entre otros, Desnos, Bergamín y Alberti le habían ha- blado de él. Por ellos ha de haber sabido que Huidobro, a quien conocía muy bien, acusaba a Neruda de plagiario de Tagore9. Picasso no debe haber dado ninguna importancia a este hecho. Lo que en su apreciación de Neruda sí debió importarle mucho ha de haber sido “Walking around”, poema que le había tocado –dicho taurinamente: le había rejoneado– profundamente. 9Neruda, Pablo. Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. O.C., tomo I (pp. 191 y 1.148: Poema 16, paráfrasis a R. Tagore). Grabado de Picasso “Sueño y mentira de Franco”. 70Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 Quizá por eso, al asir el rejón de escribir y hacer diestramente la faena, Picasso escribió a la Neruda. Esta conjetura se basa en el constatable hecho de que Picasso figura en la lista de suscriptores de Residencia en la Tierra (Cruz del Sur, Santiago de Chile, 1947). Esta notable suscripción podría tener una muy especial im- portancia: demostraría que Pablo Picasso, después de haber conocido la edición madrileña de Residencia en la Tierra –con “Walking around”– ha- bría deseado recibir desde Chile la versión definitiva del libro. Y, como suscriptor, sin duda ha de haberla recibido. Aceptado lo anterior, puede irse más lejos: si el texto de Picasso remite al vate chileno, el críptico mensaje de su grabado –indescifrable en muchos aspectos– quizá remita, con rejón de grabador, a Federico García Lorca. Y a Jean Cassou, amigo del poeta granadino y uno de los principales organiza- dores del homenaje en su memoria. La base de esta conjetura, más osada si cabe que la anterior, es saber que García Lorca dedicó a su amigo Jean Cassou el romance que tituló “Burla de don Pedro a Caballo”. Algunas escenas de “Songe et Mensonge de Franco” parecen ilustrar este romance. Quede lo anterior expresado con todas las debidas cautelas, licencias y reservas. La fecha 21 de enero de 1937 sería, pués, la imprecisa y remota fecha en la que el poeta, en la entrevista de 1973, dijo haber conocido a Picasso. Fieles a lo conjeturado, creemos que en esa fecha el pintor conocía Residencia en la Tierra y también los envenenados dardos de “Aquí estoy”, en el que Neruda le nombraba incidentalmente por primera vez. En el mordaz conflicto oral y escrito “Huidobro y De Rokha contra Neruda”, conocido como la guerrilla literaria10, Picasso entró en la poesía nerudiana aludido en relación a un retrato pasado por las verijas de Vincent Huidobro, y a un pedo del “poeta francés nacido en Santiago de Chile”. Un debut que probablemente no halagó a Picasso. O quizá sí. En la forma “Aquí estoy” debió gustarle y merecer de él un comentario mucho más humorístico que agrio; de más sabía Picasso lo que era ser denigrado por sus connacio- nales; lo que le sucedía a Neruda en Chile, le sucedía o había sucedido tam- bién a él en España; y quedado enciclopédicamente documentado en el Espasa. Manuel Abril, Premio Nacional de Literatura de 1934, en su libro De la naturaleza al espíritu acerca del arte español, había tenido que defenderlo de sus más contumaces detractores. Entretanto en España, la guerra civil seguía con aún más dantescos capítu- los: tres meses después del mencionado homenaje a García Lorca, el 26 de abril de 1937, la villa vasca de Guernica fue reducida a escombros y cenizas 10Zerán, Faride. La guerrilla literaria. Huidobro, De Rokha, Neruda. Editorial Sudamericana Chilena. 1997. 71 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 por la aviación de Hitler, führer de la Alemania nazi y poderoso aliado de los sublevados. Se asegura que José Bergamín, apreciando la tremenda dimen- sión de este inaudito crimen, fue quien acudió primero, con el diario L’ Humanité en la mano, a dar a conocer la estremecedora noticia a Pablo Picasso. La realización del gran mural para el pabellón español de la Exposición Mundial en París que Picasso bautizó “Guernica”, y el trabajo de Neruda en la comisión organizadora del II Congreso Internacional de Escritores que se realizaría en Valencia –dos enormes tareas que culminaron en julio de 1937 y denunciaron al mundo ese crimen horrendo– ocuparon al pintor y al poe- ta a tiempo completo. El único chileno que pudo ver el proceso de creación del cuadro más famoso del siglo XX no fue Pablo Neruda, como se ha dicho alguna vez; fue el pintor Roberto Sebastián Matta. El joven Matta, en cumplimiento de sus funciones de aprendiz de arquitecto y chiquillo de los mandados, subió muchas veces la interminable escalera de la casona de la calle de Grands- Augustins, alto lugar donde estaba el atelier de Picasso. Allí, por encargo de sus jefes, le preguntó una y otra vez al pintor si ya era posible trasladar el El “Guernica” de Picasso, visto por Roberto Matta. 72Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 cuadro al pabellón español donde se le esperaba con urgente impaciencia. Esta tarea de esperar a que el genio diese la pincelada final a su obra, permi- tió a Matta ver al “Guernica” en algunos de sus diversos estados. A su modo, Matta lo recordó posteriormente. Terminada y expuesta la pintura, Neruda no agregó nada a lo dicho por su amigo Paul Eluard en “La victoria de Guernica”; quizá porque todo allí había quedado dicho: No habíais pensado en la muerte El miedo y el coraje de vivir y morir La muerte tan difícil y tan fácil Hoy es el fin de nuestro mundo cada uno muestra su sangre Definitivamente Los niños adquieren un aire ausente La tierra es fría como un muerto. Años después, Neruda diría: una de las obras más importantes de la época contemporánea es el “Guernica” de Picasso, un cuadro estremecedor por su contenido antiguerrero. Ahí se ve el horror del ser humano y el horror animal ante la destrucción y el asesina- to que significa la guerra. Paul Eluard junto a Picasso en Breslau (Polonia). Cartel de la Galería Bellechasse “Toros”. 73 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 Un comentario relativamente magro, si se esperaba algo más. Por cierto, Mario Ferrero (Premio Nacional de Literatura) dijo más del “Guernica”, pero muchos años más tarde. El Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile fue adjudicado el año 1945 a Neruda. En su discurso de agradecimiento dejó oír una voz que le permitió evocar a Picasso y a Paul Eluard. Desde esas fechas, evocar a Picasso sería algo frecuente en sus alocuciones. También le saludaría en ocasión de los muchos años que iba cumpliendo el siempre joven y renovado pintor. A mediados del siglo Neruda llamaría a Pablo Picasso: Padre de la Paloma; comparándolo además –en una fructuosa geografía– con una isla, un puer- to o un continente, comparaciones que reiteró en su última entrevista al decir que la muerte de Picasso equivalía a la desaparición de un continente, de un país con sus ríos, sus casas y su gente. Por su parte, Picasso, al definirse a sí mismo como un río, señalaría su fluvial hermandad con Neruda, que, según propia declaración, también era un río. EL DISCURSO DE WROCLAW (BRESLAU) La primera declaración pública de la existencia de una amistad entre Picasso y Neruda la expresó el pintor, acentuándola reiteradamente para evitar cual- quier duda. En efecto, la primera documentación que existe, de palabra y por escrito, de esa amistad, es el breve discurso que Picasso leyó en Wroclaw, Polonia, el 25 de agosto de 1948 en el Congreso de Intelectuales por la Paz realizado allí –al que asistió porque Paul Eluard logró la dificilísima hazaña de convencerle a viajar en avión de París a Varsovia–. Se dice que ese discur- so fue el único que Pablo Picasso pronunció en su vida. Comenzó diciendo a los allí reunidos que conocía y era amigo de Neruda: Tengo un amigo que debería estar aquí, un amigo que es uno de los mejores hombres que haya conocido. No es solamente el más grande poeta de su país, Chile, sino también el más grande poeta de la lengua española y uno de los más grandes poetas del mundo: es Pablo Neruda. Pablo Neruda, mi amigo, es no sólo un gran poeta, sino también un hom- bre que, como todos aquí, se ha dedicado a presentar el bien bajo la forma de lo bello. Ha tomado siempre el partido de los hombres desgraciados, de los que piden justicia y combaten por ella. Mi amigo Neruda está actualmente acorralado como un perro y nadie sabe ni siquiera dónde se encuentra. Nuestro Congreso, a mi modo de ver, no debe aceptar una injusticia tal, que se vuelva en contra de nosotros todos. Si Pablo Neruda no recobrara su libertad, nuestro Congreso no sería un Congreso de hombres dignos de ser libres. Yo os propongo que se vote la resolución siguiente, a la cual daremos la mayor difusión: 74Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 El Congreso Mundial de Intelectuales, reunido en Wroclaw, envía al gran poeta Pablo Neruda la expresión de su apoyo, de su admiración, de su afec- to, de su solidaridad. Los 500 miembros del Congreso, que representan a 46 naciones, denun- cian a todos los pueblos la abyección de los métodos policiales de los gobier- nos fascistas que se atreven a atacar a uno de los más eminentes representan- tes de la cultura. Exigen imperiosamente para Pablo Neruda el derecho a expresarse libre- mente y vivir libremente donde le plazca. El vate chileno, que –conjeturamos– fue quien hizo de Picasso un poeta, recordó en sus memorias este singular capítulo del pintor como orador: Entonces surgió Picasso, tan grande de genio como de bondad. Estaba feliz como un niño porque había pronunciado el primer discurso de su vida. El discurso había versado sobre mi poesía, sobre mi persecución, sobre mi au- sencia. En Confieso que he vivido, Neruda habla del primer, pero no del único discurso de Picasso. LOS LIBROS No es raro encontrar poesía nerudiana ilustrada con obra gráfica picassiana. Pero aquélla creada expresamente por el pintor para alguna obra del poeta se reduce a la que ilustra uno solo de sus libros. Neruda recuerda en su última entrevista la edición ilustrada del poema “Toros” que data de 1960. A 15 dibujos a tinta –para los 520 ejemplares, 50 de lujo, de que constó la edición– se suma una litografía fechada el 14.12.60, de la que se tiraron 50 ejemplares para la edición especial y se reimprimió en el cartel de la Galerie Bellechasse de París que, en los meses de abril y mayo de 1961, expuso estas ilustraciones. Neruda recuerda también que se proyectaba editar “El gran océano” –libro XIV de Canto general– ilustrado por Picasso. Lamentablemente dicho pro- yecto y otro no llegaron nunca a realizarse. En cuanto a los libros de Neruda que Picasso conociese, además de lo conjeturado en relación a Residencia en la Tierra, podemos decir, sin temor a equivocarnos, que conoció también los dos poemas dedicados a él en Las uvas y el viento, y que es muy probable que Neruda le hiciese llegar un ejem- plar de dicho libro11. 11Neruda, Pablo. Las uvas y el viento. OC, tomo I (pp. 922-923 y 1.069-1.072). 75 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 LA PINTURA Neruda centró su admiración por la obra picassiana en una magnífica tela que conoció durante los días en que, ilegal e indocumentado extranjero en Francia, vivió escondido en París. Ello sucedió en el apartamento de Mme. Françoise Giroux, propietaria de un cuadro de Picasso. La fascinación que esa obra ejerció sobre el poeta, germinada durante muchas horas de soledad en que la observó largamente, quedó consignada en sus memorias escritas dos décadas después. En ellas describe al cuadro con algunas variaciones, rebautizándolo con poética licencia. Agrega además una anécdota, y da cuenta de un deseo que, para lamento del Museo de Bellas Artes de Chile, nunca se llegó a cumplir. En esa casa –dice– había un Picasso de grandes dimensiones, uno de los más hermosos que he visto. Representaba dos cortinajes de felpa roja que caían entrecerrándose como una ventana sobre una mesa. La mesa aparecía cru- zada de lado a lado por un largo pan de Francia. El cuadro me pareció reverencial. El pan enorme sobre la mesa era como la imagen central de un antiguo ícono, o como el San Mauricio de El Greco que está en El Escorial. Yo le puse un título personal al cuadro: La Ascensión del Santo Pan. En uno de esos días vino el propio Picasso a visitarme en mi escondite. Lo llevé ante su cuadro, pintado hacía tantos años. Lo había olvidado por completo. Se dedicó a examinarlo con mucha seriedad, sumergido en esa atención ex- traordinaria y algo melancólica que a veces se le advertía. Estuvo más de diez minutos en silencio, acercándose y alejándose de su obra olvidada. –Cada vez me gusta más –le dije cuando concluyó su meditación–. Voy a proponerle al museo de mi país que lo compre. La señora Giroux está dis- puesta a vendérnoslo. Picasso volvió de nuevo la cabeza hacia el cuadro, cla- vó la mirada en el pan magnífico y respondió por único comentario: No está mal. BANDERAS DE POSTGUERRA. DE LAS BIOGRAFIAS DE AMBOS PERSONAJES En las diversas biografías de Neruda, la lectura de los capítulos que tratan del tiempo en que vivió en Barcelona, Madrid y París resulta muy interesan- te. Ello permite conocer detalles relacionados con su vida privada –que al- gún paralelismo tiene con la de Picasso–, así como la historia de España en el corazón y la del Winnipeg, que en 1939 transportó a Chile a miles de repu- blicanos exiliados. En las biografías de Picasso, hacer lo mismo que con las del poeta permite enterarse de su no poco atormentada vida privada y el reflejo de ésta en su obra, representada particularmente también en el “Guernica” con su trascendencia política, y su propia politización. Esto deja 76Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 Cuadro de Picasso que gustó a Neruda: “Panes y frutero sobre una mesa” (de 1909). Desde 1951 es propiedad del Museo de Arte de Basilea, Suiza. 77 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 vislumbrar mejor las relaciones de amistad que Picasso recalcó. Luego con- viene continuar dicha lectura al alimón, en una década en la que no se vie- ron, hasta la fecha en que se reencuentran en París en el Congreso Mundial por la Paz. Picasso asistió –podría decirse que como sucesor de Romain Rolland12– al Congreso Mundial de Intelectuales por la Paz en Breslau, en agosto de 1948. Luego, en abril de 1949, al Primer Congreso Mundial de Partidarios de la Paz, en la Sala Pleyel de París, al que el último día, para sorpresa de Picasso y de todos, también asistió Neruda. En septiembre del mismo año preside el Congreso de la Juventud del Movimiento por la Paz en Niza, que inaugura con un discurso. En octubre de 1950 asiste a la Se- gunda Conferencia de la Paz en Sheffield, Inglaterra. Pero un mes más tarde ya no habrá quién pueda motivarle a volver a Polonia –fracasan Eluard, Aragon y Ehrenburg– y no viaja al Segundo Congreso Mundial de Partida- rios de la Paz para recibir en Varsovia el Premio Lenin de la Paz que se le otorgaba junto a Pablo Neruda, quien sí asistió y que, el 22 de noviembre de 1950, en parte de su discurso dijo: Cambió también mi poesía. Llegaron las guerras, las mismas guerras de an- taño, pero llegaron con nuevas crueldades, más arrasadoras. De estos dolo- res que a mí me salpicaron y me atormentaron en España vi nacer el “Guernica” de Picasso, cuadro que a la misma altura estética de la Gioconda está también en el otro polo de la condición humana: uno representa la con- templación serena de la vida y de la belleza y, el otro la destrucción de la estabilidad y de la razón, el pánico del hombre por el hombre. Así, pues, también cambió la pintura. Dos y medio meses más tarde Picasso y Neruda son homenajeados en París en el Palais de la Mutualité. El motivo de la ceremonia es hacer entrega a Pablo Picasso del premio que debía haber recibido en Varsovia. El pintor, de muy buen humor y haciendo bromas, llegó al atestado local preguntan- do al poeta quién tenía el cheque con los duros que ambos compartirían. Se refería a la nada despreciable cantidad de dinero que acompañaría al pre- mio junto a diploma y medalla. Llegado el momento, cae de las manos del representante del Consejo Mundial de la Paz un rectángulo de papel que revolotea en el aire mientras Picasso exclama: “Merde! Le chèque!” 12Rolland, Romain. Premio Nobel de Literatura 1915, pacifista al que se llamó “la conciencia de Europa”. Cartel con paloma de la paz de 1949. 78Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 MAS BROMAS, RISAS Y ANECDOTAS Del encuentro de Picasso y Neruda en la sesión final de dicho congreso se cuenta anecdóticamente que Neruda apareció allí por sorpresa, llevando un ejemplar de la legendaria edición clandestina de su Canto general. Era el ejemplar que Neruda –disfrazándolo bajo el título de Risas y lágrimas de un imaginario autor llamado Benigno Espinoza– había portado en su escaso equipaje al salir de Chile cruzando a caballo la Cordillera de los Andes. De manera tan espectacular como se había escenificado su llegada, el poeta ha- bría procedido allí, ante los muy numerosos asistentes al acto, a regalar el grueso tomo a Picasso, para luego, en privado, pedirle su devolución porque era el único que tenía. De ser cierta esta anécdota, la prueba de que el pintor no se molestó por ello es que después, entre más risas que lágrimas, alojó al autor del libro –un familiar suyo– en su casa de Vallauris. En efecto, Pablo Ruiz hospedó a un poeta apellidado Ruiz, como él. Era Pablo Neruda que, al salir de Chile burlando a la policía política, cruzó la cordillera andina llevando su disfrazado Canto general; y disfrazado él mis- mo de barbudo y emponchado jinete cuyo nombre, según dejaba constan- cia la documentación que portaba, era el de Antonio Ruiz. Paloma de la paz de 1950. 79 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 De esos días pasados en Vallauris, pueblo que menciona en uno de los dos poemas a Picasso contenidos en Las uvas y el viento, Neruda recordó en Confieso que he vivido: ... con ternura fraternal, el genial minotauro de la pintura moderna se pre- ocupaba de mi situación en sus detalles más ínfimos. Hablaba con las auto- ridades; telefoneaba a medio mundo. No sé cuántos cuadros portentosos dejó de pintar por culpa mía. Yo sentía en el alma hacerle perder su tiempo sagrado. Relacionar la anécdota del libro regalado y reclamado en devolución, con el minotauro de la pintura del que habla Neruda en esta cita, trae a la memoria otra que dice que Picasso le regaló al poeta un pequeño minotauro de oro, de cuyo paradero después nunca más se supo. Sostener que la expli- cación de tal misterio es que en bromista represalia por el da y quita del poeta, el pintor también le pidió la devolución del regalo, sería absurdo y cronológicamente imposible. Pero, de no serlo, una broma de este tipo no habría sido nada raro ni impensable; es sabido que ambos se contaron chis- tes e hicieron bromas no siempre livianas. Picasso, por ejemplo, se rió mu- cho de Neruda al sorprenderle una mañana en paños menores. Con la frase: Carnet de “Antonio Ruiz” (Neruda con documentación falsa). 80Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 ¡he visto al poeta en calzoncillos!, recibió muerto de risa a todos los conoci- dos que llegaron ese día a su casa en Vallauris. También se aliaron ambos para hacer bromas a terceros. En la ya varias veces citada última entrevista, el poeta recordó que en un acto público en que participaron juntos –quizá el realizado en el Palais de la Mutualitè– a sugerencia del pintor y por reírse de los cazadores de autógrafos, él firmó Picasso, y Picasso firmó Neruda. Cuenta también el poeta que Picasso se desternillaba de la risa cuando le leía versos de un librito de poesía erótica española que había encontrado en un mercado de viejo. Pero (por José Miguel Varas) se sabe que el éxito joco- so más rotundo lo obtenía el poeta cuando le contaba a Picasso el nada erótico chiste de Damocles: Una señora consulta al médico: –Doctor, no sé lo que me pasa, estoy tan nerviosa. Siento como si todo el tiempo colgara sobre mi cabeza la espada de Colón... El médico: –¿La espada de Colón? Mmm... ¿No será el huevo de Damocles? Dice J.M. Varas que Picasso literalmente se revolcaba de risa al oírlo13. Neruda tampoco lo hacía mal a la hora de reírse. En la conocida fotogra- fía en que recibe de Picasso un beso en la mejilla, puede verse al poeta rien- do como reía. Conmovía su rostro entero: sus ojos desaparecían, sus carrillos se elevaban, dos arrugas paralelas se le marcaban a cada lado de la nariz, y una contagio- sa risa de niño le brotaba de lo más profundo. LAS FOTOGRAFIAS La simpática y muy oportuna instantánea del beso en la mejilla fue tomada en París, y no en Varsovia como se dice a veces erróneamente. Esta foto y otra, que muestra una escena con varias personas en una plazoleta de Cannes, han sido publicadas suponiéndose que eran las únicas que les mostraban juntos. En la segunda el poeta no ríe. Muy por el contrario, desde el margen derecho de la foto observa de perfil a los presentes con cara seria, sombría y más bien tristona. No es extraño esto: el cónsul uruguayo en Cannes14 le había estropeado el día concienzudamente. Picasso, en la misma foto, difícil de apreciar por lo distante y por tener la cara sombreada por la toma a con- traluz que hizo el fotógrafo, tampoco parece muy alegre. Quedémonos, pues, con la primera toma, de la que el autor de estas líneas ha tenido la suerte de encontrar otras tres versiones, es decir tres fotografías realizadas pocos mi- 13Varas, José Miguel. Nerudario. Ed. Planeta. Chile. 1999. 14Id., “Un tal Germán Denis Barreiro o Ferreiro”: en Nerudario, p. 137. 81 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 nutos antes o después de la del beso en la mejilla. No son desconocidas; una la publicó su autor en un opúsculo que tituló Picasso, arte y libertad15. Pro- bablemente no fue muy difundida; muchos no conocen esta publicación y nunca vieron la fotografía en la que, ante numerosas banderas, un muy ce- remonioso Neruda parece estar diciendo unas palabras de agradecimiento o elogio a un Picasso que lo mira con divertida curiosidad. Por lo que el fotógrafo dice de ella: que cree que es la única que muestra a Picasso y Neruda juntos en el Congreso Mundial de Partidarios de la Paz de París, pudiera creerse probado que no fue él quien hizo la del beso en la mejilla. Pero cabe dudar de ello porque el mismo fotógrafo olvidó otra similar que hizo en la misma ocasión. Que las cuatro fotos fueron hechas en el mismo lugar, no cabe duda. Lo prueba la vestimenta de los retratados: corbata incluida, es idéntica en las cuatro. Picasso y Neruda con otras personas, en Cannes. 15Chamudes, Marcos. Picasso, arte y libertad. Santiago de Chile, 1980. 82Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 83 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 Hay otras fotos de Picasso en el mencionado opúsculo. En ellas el pintor lee ante unos micrófonos –provisto de quevedianos anteojos– un texto que, según el autor de las fotos, sería el famoso discurso de Wroclaw. Esto signi- ficaría que ¡Picasso no se cambió de ropa desde 1948! Porque no se puede negar que –¿un año después!?– todavía lleva la misma indumentaria. Y, como se puede apreciar, al menos la chaqueta es la misma –¡otro año más tarde!– en la foto del beso en la mejilla (en la que todavía sostiene en sus manos el papel que habría leído, ¡dos años antes!). Salvo mejor opinión, lo cierto ha de ser que se trata de fotografías toma- das en el parisino Palais de la Mutualitè. Otras fotos, procedentes de Polo- nia, aclaran más errores; y permiten también colegir que Picasso pronunció discursos en más de una oportunidad. Picasso en diferentes discursos, una vez en Breslau y la otra en París. 84Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 UN RETRATO DE PABLO NERUDA, POR PABLO PICASSO Para finalizar, un hallazgo que fue posible gracias a casualidades afortuna- das. En el citado número de Cuadernos, cuya contraportada muestra la ins- tantánea del beso de Picasso a Neruda, hay también un artículo titulado “Pintura y poesía (Neruda y los pintores)” con unos cuantos retratos del poeta que, como es natural, inducen a preguntarse: ¿cuál de ellos pintó Picasso? La respuesta es: ninguno de ellos. No es natural, ni mucho menos, que el pintor Picasso, que retrató a todos sus amigos poetas, quizá a unos mejor que a otros, pero a todos, no hubiese hecho ni siquiera una sola cari- catura, como las que hizo de Alberti y otros, de su amigo el poeta Neruda. Picasso pintó al chileno Huidobro, es un retrato que sabemos pasado por las verijas y que apareció en un sello de Correos en Chile. Y, aunque no fuese poetisa, pintó decenas de veces a Eugenia Errázuriz, una dama chilena a quien Neruda también nombra en su última entrevista. Neruda habló de su amigo Picasso, en prosa y verso. Debería pues, haber una retribución de Picasso a su amigo Neruda, a pluma y pincel. Mientras germinaba esta idea, se cumplieron ciento veinte años del nacimiento de Picasso. Esto motivó recordatorios en diversos medios. En uno de ellos, en relación a los dibujos que fechaba cada día, se dijo que –según propia declaración del pintor– eran la escritura de su diario de vida. Se recordó también una frase suya: “Yo no lo digo todo, pero todo lo pinto”. Esta frase y lo anterior, iluminan como la luz del candil de la dama del “Guernica”. La lectura del diario picassiano confirma su declaración: no lo decía todo, pero todo lo pintaba. Y como él, Neruda lo versificó todo. El diario picassiano contiene, como la poesía nerudiana, muchas autorre- ferencias de enorme interés; el nuestro era buscar la página que confirmara la sospecha de que, al pintar su diario de vida, algún día tendría que haber pin- tado un retrato de su amigo Neruda. Picasso retrató a Vallejo; y también a Huidobro. Más motivos debió haber tenido para retratar a Neruda; aunque éste, quizá por lo que una vez dijo del retrato y las partes pudendas de Huidobro, nunca quisiese a posar ante Picasso para un retrato. Por eso –conjeturamos– de existir tal retrato, éste debió haber sido hecho rescatándolo de la memo- ria. En ausencia del retratado y por un motivo muy especial. Al encontrar finalmente la página buscada, se confirmó nuestra creencia de que así debió haber sido. Eugenia Errázuriz, retratada por Picasso. Caricatura de Rafael Alberti, por Picasso. 85 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 PRESENCIA Y AUSENCIA DEL PRINCIPAL INVITADO No es preciso historiar la búsqueda en todo detalle, lo que importa es dejar dicho que el hallazgo del retrato de Neruda en el diario de vida picassiano coincide con un momento de la biografía nerudiana en la que el poeta esta- ba en Chile y, veinte años después de su “Aquí estoy”, se aprestaba a celebrar allí el cumplimiento de sus cincuenta años de edad. Este hecho hace posible que todo encaje en el tiempo y el espacio: Picasso retrató a Neruda el día en que recibió desde Chile una invitación. Y quizá también dos poemas: “Picasso” y “Llegada a Puerto Picasso”, que serían incluidos en el libro Las uvas y el viento, que estaba pronto a editarse en Santiago y haría su aparición en febrero de 1954. Este hecho prueba que en esa etapa de su vida pública y privada, Neruda tenía especialmente presente al genial malagueño. El día 12 de julio Pablo Neruda celebraría su cincuentena e invitaba a Chile a su amigo Pablo Picasso. Deseaba que asistiese a las festividades de celebración de su cumpleaños, lo que –como es fácil colegir al consultar la revista Aurora– tendría también una connotación política de gran enverga- dura, tanta como la que tuvo en aquellos eventos europeos que unos años antes habían contado con la presencia de ambos. Debería, en un país de Hispanoamérica en el que se quería reunir a personalidades de todo el mun- do, tener aún más. Por eso, al país a cuyo puerto principal había arribado un día el Winnipeg, Picasso no debería faltar. Pero el pintor no acudió a la cita. Y puesto que, sin dar explicaciones, Picasso rechazaba invitaciones simila- res desde hacía años, puede que se haya creído que no tuvo ni la deferencia de acusar recibo o dar respuesta a la invitación. Nuestro hallazgo prueba que la dio. Su respuesta a la invitación nerudiana fue dibujada en el diario en el que todo lo pintaba. Retrató a Neruda en la hoja fechada el 17 de enero de 1954, titulándola “Visita en el atelier”, refiriéndose quizá a aquella visita que el poeta llamó “Llegada a Puerto Picasso”. Este retrato ha de haber sido la respuesta y regalo de cumpleaños de Picasso a su amigo Neruda. Si dibujo y mensaje llegaron a destino, no se sabe. Pero sí que este valioso dibujo fue ofrecido en venta por una galería de arte italiana algo más de un año después de la muerte del poeta chileno. Es más agradable pensar que Neruda no conoció este dibujo nunca mencionado por él. Eso es mejor que suponer que al verlo no le gustó por considerar que caricaturizado así, de obeso y calvo poeta cincuentón, era víctima de una broma pablopicassiana que le ridiculizaba inaceptablemente. Si fue así: lamentable. Rafael Alberti, por ejemplo, publicó alegremente el dibujo con el que Picasso lo inmortalizó con bastante más crueldad. El personaje que visita al pintor en su atelier es Neruda. No hay duda. Es el Neruda que quedó archivado en la fotográfica memoria de Picasso el día en que ambos fueron fotografiados en la clara reunión de las banderas. 86Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 “Visita en el taller” de Picasso. 87 Atenea 489I Sem. 2004 BIBLIOGRAFÍA Aguirre, Margarita. 1973. Las vidas de Pablo Neruda. Grijalbo: Buenos Aires, Argen- tina. Cabanne, Pierre. 1982. El siglo de Picasso. Edición del Ministerio de Cultura: Ma- drid, España. Daix, Pierre. 1989. Picasso creador. Ed. Atlántida: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ferrero, Mario. 1988. Neruda, voz y universo. Ediciones Logos: Santiago de Chile. Neruda, Pablo. 1999-2002. Obras completas (O.C., tomos I, II, III, IV y V). Edición de Hernán Loyola con el asesoramiento de Saúl Yurkievich. Galaxia Gutenberg. Círculo de Lectores: Barcelona. O’Brien, Patrick. 1980. Picasso. Ed. Noguer: Barcelona, España. Teitelboim, Volodia. 1984. Neruda. Ediciones Michay. Madrid, España. �� work_2xy4tpegbbc6xmxvx42ixfpqja ---- Microsoft Word - Levy_repetition.doc Art Journal, Spring, 1996 Repetition and the scientific model in art ELLEN K. LEVY This essay explores repetition in the work of artists who use scientific models as a point of departure for their art. The biological and physical sciences provide these artists with exam- ples of processes regularly occurring in nature, and the artists use science as a means of ex- ploring relationships between art and the world. These artists use repetition to depict and evoke nature’s processes, with such actions as duplication, folding, and mirroring. Through comparisons with genetics—a science particularly associated with repetitive phenomena—I offer fresh insights about the functions of repetition in the work of some contemporary art- ists. Just as repetition calls attention to variation within sameness, the artistic use of analytic systems can focus attention on personal vision. When artists specifically use genetics as the scientific model, their repetition suggests generative metaphors. Repetition has several classic functions. It helps defer closure in a work of art by establishing expectations of recurrence while giving pleasure to the viewer. In his early paintings Frank Stella accomplished this effect by internalizing and reiterating the four edges of his paintings and implied that the internally depicted lines could continue out indefinitely past the framing border. Gilles Deleuze points out important distinctions between static and dynamic repetitions. Active repetition in art can evoke evolutionary processes, likening the dynamic repetition to genetic action.1 Used dynamically in art, repetition can go beyond rote articulation to invoke experience and memory, in turn involving reproduction and reflection. When artists repeat visual phrases, they engage time, simultaneously setting up reverbera- tions of prior use (memory) and suggesting the impossibility of their full retrieval (loss). This near-musical cadence is an aspect of work that has recurrent units, such as grids in Agnes Martin’s paintings. Although not generally so regarded, appropriation might be con- sidered a special instance of repetition. A contemporary artist, for example, might repeat a motif from Pablo Picasso, who in turn had borrowed it from a much-earlier and now- inaccessible African source. These applications in the suspension of closure and the marking of time establish a sense of organic continuity and outward growth. Repetition thus can gen- erally suggest biological patterns, while replication, another kind of repetition, can share in this organic association or can imply the opposite, namely industrial standardization. Repetition in art often gains power and fresh content by scientific contextualization. Such artists as Alfred Jensen and Robert Smithson capitalize on their ability to evoke na- ture’s processes through repetitive patterns. Repetition reinforces the already existing scien- tific context in their work, permitting the surfacing of little-explored subject matter. I exam- ine these new functions of repetition in selected artworks after first discussing pertinent as- pects of repetition in genetics. In science repetition is vital to the proof of a successful hypothesis. It also figures in each of three basic genetic processes: replication, transcription, and translation.2 Replication enables the transfer of hereditary information from one DNA molecule to another, transcrip- tion copies the information to RNA, and translation yields the gene product, namely pro- teins. Genetic replication involves the separation of two strands of the double helix and the subsequent synthesis of new strands that complement the originals. In replication the he- lix unwinds, and polymer-forming enzymes known as DNA polymerases subsequently copy the strands. Additional proteins unwind the helix, stabilize it, and permit the DNA polym- erases to build new strands. During transcription sequenced (ordered) bases of DNA are copied into RNA, which program the synthesis of a linear set of amino acids. An enzyme known as RNA po- lymerase copies one strand of the DNA into an RNA molecule and initiates the synthesis. Only one strand of the helix is copied: the coding strand, which contains the genetic infor- mation. The other strand is noncoding and acts as a template during replication. The final process is translation. As there are only four bases each in DNA and RNA but twenty amino acids to be specified in living cells, three bases or triplets are needed to specify one amino acid. If a two-base system were used, for example, it would only yield sixteen (four-squared) coding possibilities. Three bases offer sixty-four (four-cubed) coding possibilities, more than enough to produce twenty amino acids. Subsequently, amino acids link together as a chain to form a protein molecule. The order of amino acids determines the function of a protein just as the order of words determines the meaning of a sentence. Repeti- tive protein folding subsequently generates structures with specific functional properties. Genetics manifests repetition in other ways. Repetitive elements exist within the vast regions of the genome that do not participate in generating the body’s supply of proteins. Called noncoding or “junk DNA,” the long, repetitive sequences of letters differ from the triplet, coding sequences of nucleic acid pairs.3 The so-called junk is widespread and consti- tutes all but roughly 3 percent of the more than three billion bases or building blocks that make up human DNA. A small segment of the scientific community believes that the redundancy of the repetitive noncoding DNA may provide material for evolutionary change. According to this hypothesis new genetic ideas can be “tested” in the regions not engaged in protein produc- tion.4 This cannot be accomplished without possible damage in coding regions that are vi- tally occupied in generating the body’s supply of proteins. In this way the repetitiveness of the junk DNA might provide a source of evolutionary development that augments the sepa- rate genetic process of recombination, where chromosomes exchange segments resulting in a random assortment of recombined chromosomes. There is thus more than one way to pro- vide for genetic change. The structures of genetic processes have analogues in art. First, the two-stranded complementarity of DNA enables duplication of the genetic material and the inheritance of traits. This complementarity can suggest the mirroring that exists in some art. Second, each genetic process provides a linear order in which sequences determine function. This is true during transcription when DNA is copied into RNA and also during translation when the RNA molecule synthesizes strands of amino acids. Specific amino acid sequences are also responsible for folding, introducing another form of repetition. These linear sequences can be related to the sequences and patterns artists use. Finally, the repetitive, pieced-together, modular structure of genetic material allows flexibility. Different genetic products can be assembled into new configurations.5 A corresponding feature in art is the flexibility provided by combinative units like grids and modules. As a model for art, genetics provides for sys- tem, variation, and organic metaphors. In this essay I discuss functions of repetition in certain works, focusing upon one work by each of three artists who, notwithstanding common roots in Minimalism, come from different generations and aesthetic worlds: Jensen, Smithson, and Allan McCollum. I de- scribe and compare their works and draw upon scientific conceptions that inform repetition in their art. I have selected art in which repetition (in the form of grids, recurring modules, and mirroring) functions in a manner that reflects scientific influence. Because repetition can evoke biological processes, the scientific context of the art- ists I discuss is reinforced. In effect, the scientific model functions as a substitute for the model once provided by figurative representation. There is great advantage for artists to con- textualize their work in this manner: the ability to couple abstract processes available in self- reflexive art with an external referent provided by the scientific model. This ability appears at a time when artists often seek to enlarge aesthetic concerns, avoiding strict formalism. Repetition in a scientific context can enhance the appearance of subject matter that is vital, universal, and visually accessible. Each work discussed here embodies a different aspect of repetition. Jensen employs the grid as a source of repetitive units; Smithson, the duplication formed by mirrors; and McCollum, replication via templates and molds. Considered out of chronological order, the artists repeat elements in the two-dimensional space of painting (Jensen), in an object that mediates between two and three dimensions (Smithson), and in fully three-dimensional space (McCollum). In 1977 Jensen painted a three-paneled work titled Seeking to Unravel the Shape of an Enzyme (fig. 1), incorporating signs, symbols, writing, and numbers into grids in combi- nations of color and black and white.6 The paint is thick and juicy, forming a sensuous con- trast to his analytic subject. The painted phrase “The Shape of the ATCase molecule” ap- pears twice in this painting, as a heading on each of the two side panels. One source for Jen- sen’s painting is the action of the enzyme ATCase (aspartate transcarbamoylase) in the bio- synthesis of pyrimidine, one of the bases along with purine essential to the complementarity FIG. 1 Alfred Jensen, Seeking to Unravel the Shape of an Enzyme, 1977, oil on canvas, 3 panels, 86 x 182 inches. PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York. of DNA. The ATCase enzyme might have provided Jensen with a point of departure in this particular work.7 In preparing the painting Jensen had preserved newsclips of the research of Nobel Prize laureate William Lipscomb, who investi- gated properties of ATCase in pyrimidine metabolism. Jensen’s exploration of ATCase is consis- tent with his readings8 about physi- cal systems as presented in J. Needham’s Science and Civiliza- tion in China as well as in theories of Michael Faraday, the nineteenth-century physicist and chemist. In Seeking to Unravel the Shape of an Enzyme, grids help Jensen to establish mir- rored relationships, most noticeably, a symmetrical relationship within the three panels ech- oed by a fragment of text. The phrase “the relationships between structure and function” is positioned on the bottom center panel like a pivot. Because Jensen has given his painting a scientific context, his depicted mirroring could be viewed as suggesting notions of comple- mentarity. In addition to the conceptual framework of enzymatic configurations, Jensen incorporates within his grids other systems, signified by references to male and female dualities and painted phrases and sentences, one of which reads “solar calender 360 day year, 46452 days equal 129 years 12 days.” This phrase provides a taking-off point for inscribed numerical sequences. By merging ancient episte- mologies with references to Western sci- ence, Jensen gains a sense of play and a rich layering of associations. Through repetition Jensen achieves the appearance of near-mystical ineffability. At first view he employs many nearly indistinguishable elements that present an excessive array of num- bers and words. The apparent inter- changeability of numbers leaves the viewer with the impression of repetition itself. The viewer looks at painted words, blurring the distinction between image and text. Jensen appears ultimately in- scrutable. FIG. 2 Robert Smithson, Enantiomorphic Chamber, 1964, painted steel and mirror. John Weber Gallery. New York. FIG. 3 Robert Smithson. Gyrostasis, 1968, flat white paint on folded steel. 73 x 57 x 40 inches, John Weber Gallery, New York. Smithson’s Enantiomorphic Chamber (fig. 2) employs repetition in a way both simi- lar to and different from Jensen’s Seeking to Unravel the Shape of an Enzyme. During the 1960s Smithson often used repetitive modules.9 An example is his spiraling work Gyrostasis (fig. 3), which is based on numerical progressions that diminish away from the base of the sculpture. Enantiomorphic Chamber points to Smithson’s growing involvement with scien- tific systems of transformation. In Enantiomorphic Chamber Smithson’s specific scientific reference is crystallogra- phy, the structural arrangement of atoms or molecules within crystals.10 An enantiomorphic system is a system in which the introduction of heat reverses the normal direction of physical changes.11 The resulting molecules (enantiomers) are identical to each other except for rota- tion about a key atom. A similar situation is the presence in nature of right- and left- handedness. Smithson’s sculpture features two identical but reversed chambers, whose internal mirrors duplicate the symmetry of their side-by-side positioning. Each of Smithson’s mirrors reflects the other half of the sculpture. As a result the mirrors reflect each other in a manner suggestive of complementarity in DNA strands. Using mirrors, Smithson recalls enantiomers (isomers) that are identical except that they are positioned in reverse of each other. The func- tion of such isomers is dependent on their orientation because the mirror-image state can exhibit different properties in nature. Smithson’s mirrors create an illusion of the altered physical form and metaphorically link function with structure. Creative play emerges within Smithson’s system. In Enantiomorphic Chamber mir- rors are framed obliquely by painted steel that gives rise to varied spatial illusions, appearing like frames seen simultaneously from different vantage points. In this way Smithson uses FIG. 4 Allan McCollum, Drawings. 1989/91, over 2,000 framed drawings of pencil on museum board, installation: Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993. geometry to question its own premises of rationality. The numerous reflections in Smith- son’s piece help to offset an otherwise symmetrical arrangement and add a sense of unpre- dictability. McCollum, best known for his endless repeats of minimal paintings, has also created Drawings (fig. 4), where each work is a replica in that it is a variant of a template. His system allows for an enormous expansion with approximate repetition. Repetition is associ- ated here with capitalist production, rather than notions of evolutionary process. Critical of consumerism and interested in the collusion between mass culture and high art, McCollum, like Andy Warhol, exposed in his early work the assumptions built into advertising.12 In re- cent work he has extended these concerns to conditions of museum display, particularly paleontological exhibitions. By replicating fossils, McCollum shifts his works’ associations from industrial standardization to evolutionary themes. McCollum’s exhibition Natural Copies from the Coal Mines of Central Utah (fig. 5) consists of multiple recasts of “natural casts” of dinosaur tracks. McCollum first came upon the natural casts in a museum of prehistory in Utah. He made rubber molds from the fossils, “manufactured” impressions, and displayed them.13 The slight difference in each casting is caused by variable conditions at the time of casting. Photocopies of literature about the tech- niques of casting are available on stands near the sculpture and contribute to the sense of proliferation. FIG. 5 Allan McCollum. Natural Copies from the Coal Mines of Central Utah. 1994-95, enamel on polymer- reinforced gypsum, installation at John Weber Gallery. John Weber Gallery, New York. Other contemporary artists have drawn more consciously on genetic paradigms. In her diptych Untitled (fig. 6), which is a painted and photo-based collage made with a four- color laser copier, Beverly Fishman refers explicitly to genetic replication in her own artistic process. Fishman manipulates imagery appropriated from scientific texts by inverting, color- ing, distorting, and reproducing cellular forms. The duplications in Fishman’s piece mimic generative mechanisms. The sleek, elliptical shapes suggest analogies to cellular structures, which prompt the viewer to recognize that forms that might initially be categorized as non- objective are, in fact, representations of biological subjects and processes. These cells, one imagines, are intended as representations of primal and vital forces. Kinetic Trap (fig. 7), by chemist Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, conflates the ancient ritual of weav- ing with the genetic process of pro- tein production (translation) in DNA. This coupling of women’s crafts with generativity can suggest a femi- nist viewpoint. Holtzer’s works are inspired by protein folding, and her motifs are loosely based on the se- quence of amino acids in a particular protein chain. According to Holtzer, “just as the sequence of amino acids in a protein chain determines its na- tive structure, the specific sequences and interlacements of warp and weft fibers determine the intricate pattern- ing of the narrow woven bands.”14 The repetitive elements that define her weavings also, therefore, imply a genetic process. In his work Joseph Nech- vatal replaces cybernetics for War- hol’s factory model of the social or- der. He refers explicitly to computer FIG. 6 Beverly Fishman, Untitled, 1993, photo-based collage and painting, 24 x 96 inches. Private collection. FIG. 7 Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, Kinetic Trap, 1993, tablet woven in silk, 14 x 14 inches. Courtesy the artist. viruses and their proliferation in viral attaque: amoR foRti (fig. 8). This painting represents one of many possi- ble configurations. Nechvatal intro- duces a computer virus into his com- puter, generating and recording images that infect and multiply, transforming his initial production. His intention is to create excess through technological means. He associates the “viral” inva- sion with biological invasion, suggest- ing that the resultant overloaded art be viewed as a “bodily” defense.15 We have seen repetition in the gridded systems of Jensen, the mirror- ings of Smithson, and the context- sensitive duplications of McCollum, as well as in the techniques of other art- ists. Repetition enables the exploration of scientific subjects previously un- treated in art while emphasizing an abstract, process-oriented method. The repetition artists use generally draws attention not to standardization (War- hol-related work is the exception), but to differences grounded in experience and specificity. Science provides the artists discussed here with a model of a process by which art can be made. At its best, when artists unite scientific analysis with self-expression, they encompass creative metaphor and play, avoiding doctrinaire applications of scientific principles. The rigor of science can also provide a striking counterpoint to artistic freedom. In addition, when artists place repetitive elements of their work within the specific context of genetics rather than in that of science in general, repetition reinforces generative associations. ELLEN K. LEVY is guest editor of this issue of Art Journal. COPYRIGHT 1996 College Art Association COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group FIG. 8 Joseph Nechvatal. viral attaque: amoR foRti, 1994, computer-robotic assisted acrylic on canvas, 39 x 581/2 inches. Courtesy the artist. Notes 1 Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968), 70. 2 Dr. Robert Shapiro has provided a careful reading of this information. 3 Natalie Angier, "Keys Emerge to Mystery of So-called Junk DNA," New York Times, June 28, 1994, C1, C3. 4 Susumu Ohno, Evolution by Gene Duplication (New York: Springer, 1970); Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies (New York: W. W. Norton 1993), 318-20. 5 Roland Saldanha et al., "Group I and Group II Introns," FASEB 7 (January 1, 1993): 15-24. 6 6. Maria Reidelbach, Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Works on Paper, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1985), 8-20. 7 Regina Bogat (artist's widow), telephone conversation with author, July 6, 1995; Lupert Stryer, Bio- chemistry, 4th ed. (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1995), 237-44. 8 See Linda Cathcart and Marcia Tucker, Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Diagrams from the Years 1957-1977, exh. cat. (Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery), 3-24; and Alfred Jensen, The Late Works, exh. cat. (New York: Pace Gallery, 1984). 9 Toby Mussman, "Literalness and the Infinite," in Gregory Battcock, ed., Minimal Art (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1968), 237-50. 10 Lawrence Alloway, Topics in American Art (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), 221-36. 11 Ibid., 223. 12 Craig Owens, Beyond Recognition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), 117-21. 13 This was on view at John Weber Gallery, New York, March 25-April 22, 1995. 14 Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, artist's statement, April 1995; and idem, Weavings, exh. card (Washing- ton: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993). 15 Joseph Nechvatal, "The Art of Excess in the Techno-mediacratic Society," in New Observations 94 (March-April 1993): 19. work_33dhrzsubndb5eojbmpio7ad4u ---- Avant 01/2010 Niestymulująca tradycja Wpływ temperamentu na preferencje w sztuce Joanna Rządkowska, Alicja Paracka, Natalia Frankowska W tekście zostały przedstawione wyniki badań nad wpływem temperamentu na preferencje dotyczące sztuk. Preferencje te zależą od wielu zmiennych osobowościowych. Opisane badanie było powtórzeniem badań prowadzonych w nurcie Teorii Opanowywania Trwogi (TOT), z ujęciem struktur temperamentu jako różnic indywidualnych. Wyniki ujawniły znaczne różnice w preferowaniu sztuki tradycyjnej i nowoczesnej, zależnie od stopnia harmonizacji struktur temperamentalnych. Sangwinicy i melancholicy w warunkach kontrolnych oceniali najwyżej sztukę nowoczesną, zaś w warunkach eksperymentalnych (mających wywołać u badanych poczucie lęku) najwyżej oceniali sztukę tradycyjną. Wyniki potwierdzają wpływ różnic indywidualnych, a także zmiennych sytuacyjnych, na preferencje dotyczące sztuki. Wstęp teoretyczny Psychologowie tacy jak Burt (1933) i Eysenck (1940) jako jedni z pierwszych podjęli się badań nad związkiem osobowości z preferencjami dotyczącymi sztuki. W ostatnich latach ukazały się – między innymi – wyniki badań: Furnham’a i Avison (1997), Furnham’a i Walker’a (2001) Zwiegenhafta (2008), Axelssona (2007), które badają relację osobowości z preferencjami muzycznymi czy plastycznymi (również tymi dotyczącymi fotografii). AVANT 01/2010 | www.avant.umk.pl OPEN ACCESS 328 Niestymulująca tradycja Większość nowoczesnych metod badawczych korzysta z teorii Wielkiej Piątki (ekstrawersja, ugodowość, sumienność, neurotyzm i otwartość na doświadczenia), stosowanej od lat 90-tych ubiegłego wieku (Chamorro- Premuzic, Furnham, Reimers 2007). Badania te unaoczniają, że chęć obcowania ze sztuką jest związana z otwartością na doświadczenie (tamże). Niektóre badania wskazują na związek między poszukiwaniem doznań (thrill and adventure seeking) a preferencją odnoszącą się do sztuki reprezentacyjnej: przedstawiającej głównie klasyczne, charakteryzujące się subtelną symboliką kompozycje (Furnham, Walker 2001). Natomiast inne publikacje próbują udowodnić, że poszukiwanie wrażeń (sensation seeking) jest powiązane z wyborem sztuki surrealistycznej oraz odrzuceniem sztuki reprezentacyjnej (Furnham i Avison 1997). Powyższe stwierdzenia potwierdzają badania terenowe (Mastandrea, Bartoli, Bove 2009), podczas których przy pomocy odpowiedniego kwestionariusza przeanalizowano osobowość gości odwiedzających muzea sztuki starożytnej i nowoczesnej. Okazało się, że wszyscy zwiedzający nie różnili się pod względem otwartości na doświadczenia. Jednakże ludzie zwiedzający muzeum sztuki nowoczesnej osiągnęli wyższe wyniki w skali poszukiwania wrażeń. Sygnalizuje to być może, że otwartość na doświadczenie decyduje o tym, czy w ogóle lubimy sztukę i tym samym będziemy pojawiać się w muzeum, natomiast sam temperament determinuje wybór poszczególnych tendencji artystycznych. Cechy Wielkiej Piątki rzadko uzasadniają więcej niż 10% wariancji (zmienności wyników) (Chamorro-Premuzic, Furnham, Reimers 2007). Cecha „poszukiwanie doznań” tłumaczy najwięcej wariancji: plasuje się ona na dwóch krańcach skali, jeśli chodzi o sztukę nowoczesną i tradycyjną. Warto zwrócić uwagę na zmienne związane z poziomem pożądanej stymulacji, gdy pragniemy wytłumaczyć preferencje odnośnie sztuki. Strelau (2006) pisze, że temperament odnosi się do formalnych i względnie niezmiennych cech osobowości. Zgodnie z Regulacyjną Teorią Niestymulująca tradycja 329 Temperamentu (RTT) składa się on z sześciu elementów składowych: żwawości, perseweratywności, wrażliwości sensorycznej, reaktywności emocjonalnej, wytrzymałości i aktywności (Strelau 1997). Z rozważań tych wynika, że temperament – jako instancja psychiczna regulująca dopływ oraz odporność na stymulacje – może mieć jakiś pośredni wpływ na preferencje bodźców wzrokowych (w tym także i sztuki). Co więcej, autor sugeruje, że na podstawie owych cech można wydzielić dwa typy osobowości: zharmonizowany (umiejący zapewnić sobie optymalną dawkę stymulacji; w typologii Hipokratesa-Galena odpowiadają mu sangwinicy i melancholicy) i niezharmonizowany (niepotrafiący właściwie dozować sobie stymulacji; odpowiednio: cholerycy i flegmatycy). Wielu badaczy sugerowało powiązania między sztuką i różnymi typami emocji oraz nastrojów. Warto omówić ten związek w kontekście teorii RTT, która zawiera istotny komponent emocjonalny: przekonuje ona mianowicie, że emocje mogą być istotnym źródłem stymulacji. Koneĉni (2008) uważa, że najbardziej autentycznymi, choć rzadkimi stanami wywołanymi przez muzykę mogą być: estetyczny podziw, poruszenie lub dreszczyk emocji (aesthetic awe, being moved and thrill). Koresponduje to w jakimś stopniu z wymienioną wcześniej koncepcją Furnhama i Walkera (2001), która sugeruje, że poszukiwanie doznań ( thrill and adventure seeking) może być powiązane z percepcją sztuki czy poszukiwaniem stymulacji. Silvia (2005) poddaje krytyce starsze koncepcje łączące emocje estetyczne z pobudliwością (arousability), przykładowo: odrzuca poglądy Berlyne’a (za: Silvia 2005). Tłumaczy zarazem swoją krytykę tym, iż teorie Berlyne’a opierają się na podłożu psychobiologicznym i uwzględniają tylko dwie emocje: przyjemność oraz awersję (związane z obszarami kar i nagród w mózgu); Berlyne nie bierze w ogóle pod uwagę tematyki indywidualnego odbioru sztuki (Silvia 2005). 330 Niestymulująca tradycja Silvia odwołuje się do teorii oceny (appraisal theory), która postuluje, że złożone lub nieoczekiwane dzieło sztuki nie wystarczy, aby wzbudzić emocjonalną odpowiedź. Powinno ono być uznane przez postrzegającego za złożone, jak również poddane ocenie dotyczącej tego, w jakim stopniu sobie z tą złożonością poradziło (ibid.). Mając na względzie te informacje, przyjmujemy, że każde dzieło sztuki posiada pewien potencjał stymulacyjny. W naszym badaniu będziemy traktować sztukę tradycyjną jako mniej złożoną i stymulującą niż sztuka nowoczesna. Analogicznie do założeń z zakresu teorii opanowywania trwogi oraz „amebowej teorii Ja” (Burris, Rempel 2004; Landau, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, Martens 2006) zakładamy, że osoby, u których wzbudzimy lęk, zmienią swoje preferencje odnośnie dzieł sztuki. Zmiana ta ma być uwarunkowana tym, że ich stymulacyjna dawka będzie większa. Zakładamy również, że lęk może wzbudzić poczucie zagrożenia (Burris, Rempel 2004), które może prowadzić do wyboru bardziej tradycyjnej i „znanej” sztuki. Z drugiej strony brak wzbudzania lęku może zwiększać uznanie dla sztuki nieznanej, złożonej lub „obcej” (Landau, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, Martens 2006). Metoda Przebieg badania i osoby badane Uczestników badania rekrutowano na terenie trójmiejskiej uczelni. Większość to studenci Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Szkoły Wyższej Psychologii Społecznej w Warszawie oddział w Sopocie oraz Politechniki Gdańskiej, ponadto kilku badanych to uczniowie Liceum Ogólnokształcącego w Kartuzach. Łącznie w badaniu wzięło udział 120 osób. Niestymulująca tradycja 331 Zastosowane narzędzia psychometryczne W badaniach dokonano pomiaru cech temperamentalnych, stanu i cech lęku oraz poziomu zainteresowania prezentowanymi dziełami sztuki, co było warunkiem wprowadzenia lub niewprowadzenia badanych w stan lęku oraz zobiektywizowaną ocenę atrakcyjności dzieł sztuki. Do pomiaru cech temperamentalnych zastosowano kwestionariusz FCZ-KT (Formalna Charakterystyka Zachowania – Kwestionariusz Temperamentu) (Strelau i Zawadzki 1997), diagnozujący podstawowe, biologicznie zdeterminowane wymiary osobowości, które opisują formalne aspekty zachowania. Test ten zawiera 6 skal dotyczących: Żwawości, Perseweratywności, Wrażliwości sensorycznej, Reaktywności emocjonalnej, Wytrzymałości oraz Aktywności. Inwentarz stanu i cechy lęku (Sosnowski, Wrześniewski, Jaworowska, Ferenc 2006) służył do rozróżnienia lęku: a) jako chwilowego stanu emocjonalnego (state - anxiety); b) oraz lęku rozumianego jako utrzymująca się, trwała cecha osobowości. Kwestionariusz STAI składa się z dwóch niezależnych części, które zawierają po 20 stwierdzeń każda. Przy pomocy pierwszej części STAI (X-1) można badać poziom lęku traktowanego jako aktualny stan emocjonalny. Do badania oceny atrakcyjności zastosowano przygotowaną do tego ankietę, która obejmuje piętnaście pozycji. Ankieta sondowała poziom atrakcyjności prezentowanych dzieł sztuki na pięciostopniowej skali Likerta. W badaniu zastosowano również dwa filmy krótkometrażowe stworzone przez autorów badania: kontrolny (nie wzbudzający lęku) oraz eksperymentalny (mający wywoływać lęk). Obrazy podlegające ocenie tworzyły trzy kategorie i przedstawiano je losowo w postaci slajdów. Na te kategorie składały się obrazy zgromadzone na podstawie cech wspólnych: tematyki, ogólnej konwencji i stylu. Założono, że każda z podanych kategorii jest źródłem odmiennego rodzaju stymulacji. 332 Niestymulująca tradycja Wykorzystano następujące kategorie i dzieła malarskie: sztuka tradycyjna/konwencjonalna: Pieter Boel, Large Vanitas still Life, Ignacy Henri Theodore-Fantin Latour, The Rosy Wealth of June, Théodore Rousseau, Fontainebleau, Titian, Portrait of the man, Eugene Brudin, Laundresses by a stream; sztuka kubistyczna: Georges Braque, Le Portugais, Juan Gris, Bottles and Knife, Pablo Picasso, Siedząca naga kobieta, Georges Braque, Blue Bird, Philip Absolon, Cassie Thinking About Cubism; oraz sztuka modernistyczna: Gilbert and George, Bloody Mooning, Andy Warhol, Skull, Salvador Dali, Premonition of Civil War, Francis Bacon, Figure with meat, Andy Warhol, Heinz box. Procedura Podstawą wyników opisywanych w tym opracowaniu jest badanie przeprowadzone przez studentki psychologii wiosną 2009 roku (był to projekt realizowany na potrzeby przedmiotu: „Praca Empiryczna I”). Badanie to miało charakter quasi-eksperymentu. Zastosowany pakiet narzędzi diagnostycznych używany był w odpowiedniej i ustalonej kolejności. Przed podaniem kwestionariuszy badani byli przydzielani losowo do grup: kontrolnej oraz eksperymentalnej. Następnie uczestnicy dostali do wypełnienia kwestionariusz FCZ-KT, po czym zostali poproszeni o obejrzenie dwuminutowego filmu: kontrolnego albo wzbudzającego lęk. Projekcję za każdym razem uruchamiał prowadzący, każdy z badanych miał zapewniony identyczny poziom głośności. Kolejnym krokiem było wypełnienie przez badanych części X-1 kwestionariusza STAI. Po wypełnieniu arkusza badani oglądali pokaz slajdów, który składał się z 15 zdjęć dzieł sztuki, a następnie oceniali je w przygotowanej do tej czynności ankiecie. O celu badania informowano jedynie wówczas, gdy badani wyrazili wyraźne zainteresowanie. Odpowiadano, że badanie dotyczy analizy wpływu różnych rodzajów stymulacji na wrażliwość sensoryczną i emocjonalną. Niestymulująca tradycja 333 Wyniki W celu sprawdzenia zależności między zmiennymi przeprowadzono analizę korelacji Pearsona, która wykazała zależność pomiędzy oceną sztuki abstrakcyjnej oraz nowoczesnej na poziomie: r = .25, p < .05. Nie uzyskano natomiast korelacji między zmiennymi: oceną sztuki nowoczesnej oraz oceną sztuki tradycyjnej (p = .281), co oznacza, że skale te są od siebie niezależne. Korelacja potwierdzająca przesłanki teoretyczne to ujemny związek między oceną sztuki nowoczesnej a wynikami STAI (X-1) na poziomie r = .34, p < .001. W celu weryfikacji zakładanych hipotez przeprowadzono wieloczynnikową analizę wariancji w modelu mieszanym. Uzyskano istotne statystyczne efekty interakcji i efekty główne, zarówno dla typów zharmonizowanych i niezharmonizowanych. Dla typów zharmonizowanych istotny okazał się efekt interakcji obu czynników: F (2, 94) = 9.12, p < .001, eta2 = .16, który oznacza, że preferencje w sztuce zależały od warunku eksperymentalnego. Oznacza to, że o ile osoby Ryc 1: Preferencje typów zharmonizowanych wobec rodzajów sztuki. 334 Niestymulująca tradycja o typach zharmonizowanych w warunkach kontrolnych oceniały jednakowo wysoko każdy rodzaj sztuki, to po wzbudzeniu lęku wyraźnie preferowały sztukę tradycyjną M = 18.91, mniej abstrakcyjną M = 15.22, a najmniej nowoczesną M = 11.65, ps < .05 (wyniki przedstawia Ryc. 1). Co ciekawe, typy niezharmonizowane, niezależnie od warunku zawsze preferowały sztukę tradycyjną, zaś abstrakcyjną i nowoczesną oceniały równie nisko (wyniki przedstawia Ryc. 2). Dyskusja Zakładany związek między temperamentem a preferencjami dotyczącymi sztuki okazał się niejednoznaczny i zależny od sytuacji. Wyniki temperamentów niezharmonizowanych (choleryków i flegmatyków) nie różniły się w warunkach eksperymentalnych i kontrolnych, co może być spowodowane nieelastycznością tych typów, charakteryzujących się nieumiejętnością dostarczania sobie właściwej dawki stymulacji (Zawadzki i Strelau 1997). Reakcje typów zharmonizowanych (melancholików oraz Ryc 2: Preferencje typów niezharmonizowanych wobec rodzajów sztuki. Niestymulująca tradycja 335 sangwiników) znacznie różniły się zależnie od sytuacji. W niewzbudzających lęku warunkach kontrolnych nie było różnic między preferencjami rodzajów sztuki, natomiast w warunkach eksperymentalnych (po wywołaniu lęku) rosło uznanie dla sztuki tradycyjnej, zaś spadało dla sztuki nowoczesnej. Może to świadczyć o elastyczności zachowania i umiejętności dostarczania sobie właściwej dawki stymulacji. Zróżnicowanie między sangwinikami i melancholikami nie jest jednoznaczne. Mniejsze zainteresowanie względem sztuki nowoczesnej u melancholików w warunku eksperymentalnym dosyć jednoznacznie świadczy o potrzebie ograniczenia stymulacji. Ale czy wzrost zainteresowania dla sztuki tradycyjnej u sangwiników to odstymulowanie czy dostymulowanie się? Czy sztuka tradycyjna podwyższa, czy może obniża aktywację układu nerwowego? i wreszcie: jeśli podwyższa, to dlaczego ten efekt nie występuje w warunku kontrolnym? W kontekście Teorii Opanowania Trwogi (Landau, Greenberg, Solomon, Pyszczynski, Martens 2006) nie przewidywano wzrostu zainteresowania dla sztuki tradycyjnej, którą jednak odnotowano w naszym badaniu. Badacze promujący TOT odrzucali także aktywację układu nerwowego jako możliwe wytłumaczenie zmian w percepcji sztuki, dowodząc, że to tylko lęk jako taki ( anxiety) – a nie pobudzenie (arousal) – prowadził do zmian w percepcji sztuki. W niniejszym badaniu założono jednak za Strelauem (2006), iż pobudzenie oraz poziom stymulacji w sytuacji eksperymentalnej wpływał na to, w jaki sposób badani reagowali na dzieła sztuki. Aby dowieść, jakie typy stymulacji rzeczywiście wpływają na percepcję sztuki, a jakie nie – należałoby przeprowadzić kolejne badania. Odnośnie tego, co Koneĉni (2008) pisał o różnych emocjach wywoływanych przez muzykę, wydaje się interesujące następujące pytanie: czy lęk zainicjowany filmem i doznania budzone przez dzieła sztuki mogą być pewną klasą emocji, czymś podobnym do poruszenia lub dreszczyku wrażeń (being moved and thrilled)? Uczucia te mogłyby korespondować z poszukiwaniem doznań Zuckerman’a i zostać powiązane z wymiarami temperamentalnymi. Mógłby o tym świadczyć fakt, że oglądanie filmu wywołującego niepokój wpłynęło na sposób, w jaki ludzie postrzegali różne kierunki czy prądy w sztuce. 336 Niestymulująca tradycja Silvia (2005) apelował, odwołując się do teorii oceny, że istotne jest uwzględnienie subiektywnej percepcji sztuki. W teorii RTT Strelaua każdy typ temperamentalny indywidualnie odbiera bodźce i działa w świecie. Wyniki badań potwierdzają tę zależność; badani reagowali na prezentowane im w warunku eksperymentalnym dzieła sztuki rożnie: zależnie od tego, w jaki sposób odebrali film. Z drugiej strony, rezultaty nie współgrają z krytyką Strelaua odnośnie połączenia behawioralnej pobudliwości z emocjami estetycznymi. Unaoczniają one raczej, że możliwy jest między nimi pewien związek lub że czynniki wpływające na poziom aktywacji mogą również wpływać na percepcję sztuki. Mogłoby to sugerować, że sztuka (pomijając jej walory artystyczne), dostarcza nam stymulacji i wpływa na poziom aktywacji. Podział emocji estetycznych na przyjemne oraz awersyjne być może nie pokrywa się z wachlarzem emocji estetycznych, które są doświadczane w warunkach neutralnych, jednak to badanie ukazuje, że emocje awersyjne mogą mieć pewien wpływ na to, jak postrzegamy sztukę. Wyniki naszego badania korespondują bezpośrednio z wynikami uzyskanymi przez Mastandrea, Bartoli i Bove (2009). Dowiedli oni, że odwiedzający muzeum sztuki nowoczesnej mocniej przeżywali lęk i podniecenie od odwiedzających muzeum sztuki starożytnej. Potrafiący dostarczyć sobie odpowiednią dawkę stymulacji badani (czyli typy zharmonizowane), u których wzbudzono lęk za pomocą filmu, mogły zgodnie z własnymi potrzebami gorzej oceniać sztukę nowoczesną, gdyż stanowiła ona dodatkową dawkę lęku, natomiast uznanie dla sztuki tradycyjnej rosło ze względu na jej "niegroźny" charakter. Inny możliwy wniosek, który można wyciągnąć z badania: nie ma czegoś takiego jak stały „smak”, zaś preferencje wykazują zmienność sytuacyjną. Fakt, że inaczej odbieramy sztukę w warunkach neutralnych i lękowych może też mieć pewne implikacje np. dla terapii sztuką. Czy niskie uznanie dla sztuki nowoczesnej wszystkich temperamentów w warunku lękowym, a także negatywna korelacja między sztuką nowoczesną i wynikami w STAI sugerują, że nie warto zapraszać współczesnego artysty do szpitala psychiatrycznego? Niestymulująca tradycja 337 Reasumując, temperament może oddziaływać na zmiany naszych preferencji, kiedy odczuwamy strach lub silne pobudzenie. 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A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 1 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 LA VERGOGNA DELLA CREAZIONE di Fabio Galimberti Leggendo queste pagine, l’uomo di Cro-Magnon farebbe di certo spallucce.1 Abstract L’articolo parte dalla tesi della sublimazione come destituzione della volontà di potenza della pulsione e come possibilità di affrancamento del corpo nell’esperienza estetica. Se la volontà di potenza della pulsione si esercita sul corpo del soggetto, la sublimazione la trasferisce sul corpo dell’opera attraverso un atto di deposizione, liberando così il corpo dalla sua presa. Ho ritrovato tracce di quest’atto di deposizione nella riflessione di scrittori e filosofi (Erri De Luca, Silvia Vizzardelli, Giorgio Agamben). Ho ipotizzato una sua presenza anche nell’attività artistica degli uomini primitivi, proponendo una spiegazione del collocamento insolito delle pitture all’interno delle caverne, in punti oscuri e quasi irraggiungibili, a partire dal sentimento della vergogna e come risposta al trauma della costituzione della realtà psichica. This essay starts from the thesis that sublimation is the destitution of the the will of power of the drive and the possibility of making free the body in the aesthetic experience. If the the will of power of the drive is exercised on the body of the subject, the sublimation transfers it to the body of the work through an act of deposition, so freeing the body from its grip. I found traces of this deposition’act in the reflection of writers and philosophers (Erri De Luca, Silvia Vizzardelli, Giorgio Agamben). I hypothesized his presence also in the artistic activity of primitive men, proposing an explanation of the unusual placement of the paintings inside the caves, in obscure and almost unreachable points, starting from the feeling of shame and as an answer to the trauma of the constitution of psychic reality. Scrivere un libro è provare a capire dove ci si trova, segnalare a che punto si è con una questione, «la richiesta inoltrata dal navigante circa la possibilità di conoscere la propria posizione»2, scrive il poeta Valerio Magrelli. Per restare nella metafora, nelle prossime righe dirò, in forma di brevi annotazioni, cosa è stato proseguire questa navigazione, nell’incontro con altri naviganti e nell’arrivo in altri approdi, che ho sentito in qualche modo familiari. In una pubblicazione recente la mia posizione era segnalata da una tesi sulla sublimazione come messa in opera della verità e del godimento. Era una tesi che, riprendendo quella nota di Heidegger, voleva dar conto di come la libido innervi la creatività, a livello inconscio, sia nel suo versante di desiderio, con il correlato delle fantasie che mette in gioco, sia nel suo versante pulsionale, per come è un trattamento della soddisfazione che tocca le zone erogene del corpo. Questa implicazione del corpo, non contemplata nella 1 A. Leroi-Gourhan, Le religioni della preistoria, Adelphi, Milano 1993, p. 95. 2 V. Magrelli, Poesie (1980-1992) e altre poesie, Einaudi, Torino 1996. Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 2 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 formula heideggeriana, era quella che mi interessava di più e tuttora mi interessa. Perché vedo nella sublimazione un’occasione di sottrarre il corpo al dominio di quel parassita che è il Trieb, un momento di sospensione della sua morsa, un frangente di tregua, provvisorio, instabile, ma salutare, agognato, rinnovabile. La pulsione è la volontà di potenza che usa il corpo, lo sfrutta, lo fa agire, lo fa funzionare a vuoto, senza scopo e senza perché. La pulsione è il fondamento nichilistico del soggetto. Mentre la sublimazione è una destituzione della volontà di potenza della pulsione, è la sua diversione, deviazione, istituzione altrove, concentrazione in un fuori concreto che la addensa e se ne fa carico. Sulla scia di questa idea ho trovato una concordanza straordinaria tra lo sfruttamento pulsionale e quello che realizza la tecnica. La tecnica può essere pensata come un aiuto al corpo, come superamento dei suoi limiti. Ma proprio in questo oltrepassamento, in questo uso estensivo, avviene anche un ulteriore sfruttamento, un renderlo più operativo, più efficiente ancora, più attivo, più eccitato fino al limite dell’esaustione. La tecnica diviene attivazione senza senso e senza scopo, «soppressione di tutti i fini nell’universo dei mezzi»3, assoggettamento del corpo alla legge del puro e cieco funzionamento. Ma se noi sostituiamo a “tecnica” la parola “pulsione” riusciamo a rendere a meraviglia il concetto freudiano di Trieb. Strana concordanza, a prima vista, ma molto comprensibile ad una seconda considerazione. La tecnica è prolungamento, ampliamento della volontà di potenza della pulsione. Pensiamo a come l’occhio possa essere potenziato da tutti gli strumenti tecnologici. Microscopio, telescopio, radiografie, telecamere, risonanze magnetiche: sono tutti mezzi che vanno oltre i limiti fisiologici dell’organo, rendono così l’organo ancora più efficiente, più attivato, più prestante. Non lo lasciano in pace, ma lo spremono, lo magnificano, lo iperstimolano. La tecnica è protesi, altro corpo, non staccato da quello fisico, è altra prateria per il pascolo della pulsione, dalla quale continuiamo così ad essere divorati. A meno che non si offrano nuovi campi e nuova erba da masticare. Anzi, forse si può stabilire un rapporto diretto tra aumento della tecnica e necessità della sublimazione. Erri De Luca rende bene l’elusione del divoramento con l’immagine tratta dal Libro del profeta Amos: come il pastore strappava «dalla bocca del leone due zampe o il lobo di un orecchio», così la sua scrittura dentro la giornata feriale è stata «scippo di rimasugli dalla bocca di un lavoro che sbranava le forze», il tentativo «di consistere in qualcosa, di trattenere un resto per non» darsi «arreso all’usura del giorno»4. La sublimazione è questa sottrazione del corpo al lavorio della pulsione, tempo festivo, vacante, nel quale non tutto di sé è dato in pasto, è la possibilità di salvare la pelle offrendo altro da mangiare, buttando cibo ai piedi di Cerbero. In questo buttar giù, lasciar cadere da sé, sfrondarsi, consiste il gesto della sublimazione. Anche Silvia Vizzardelli, che ha incrociato felicemente estetica e psicoanalisi, valorizza dell’esperienza estetica proprio il lasciarsi andare, l’abbandono di sé, vedendo nel movimento di abbassamento, contrario a quello di elevazione, la possibilità di un distacco da sé che riesce solo «attraverso un gesto rovinoso, una fatale caduta, una deposizione».5 Nel realizzare un’opera si attua questa deposizione, una scorporazione dell’esigenza pulsionale, come una cessione, una colata di sé che va a precipitarsi in un prodotto, in un manufatto o in una performance, che va a condensarsi in qualcosa di materialmente esterno, va a conficcarsi residualmente nell’artefatto. L’opera è deposito libidico. L’artista, il pittore ad esempio, secondo Lacan è chi «dà qualcosa in pasto all’occhio, ma invita colui al quale il quadro è presentato, a deporre lì il proprio sguardo, come si depongono le armi»6. Lo 3 U. Galimberti, Psiche e techne. L’uomo nell’età della tecnica, Feltrinelli, Milano 1999, p. 40. 4 E. De Luca, Non ora, non qui, Feltrinelli, Milano 2012, p. 11. 5 S. Vizzardelli, Io mi lascio cadere. Estetica e psicoanalisi, Quodlibet Studio, Macerata 2014, p. 36. 6 J. Lacan, Il Seminario. Libro XI. I quattro concetti fondamentali della psicoanalisi, Torino 2003, p. 100 (corsivo Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 3 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 sguardo è un’arma che non smette di essere attiva e operante, ma che non fa subire passivamente al corpo del soggetto la sua azione, perché viene deposta e quindi neutralizzata. È una minaccia che la sublimazione riesce a dirigere altrove, una minaccia che non viene sventata in assoluto, ma in relazione a sé, perché, provvisoriamente, per il tempo labile dell’esperienza estetica, viene spostata su qualcosa di diverso dal corpo proprio. Nel caso della pittura viene inoculata nella tela, come un virus capace di contagiarla, di trasferire lì la sua infezione. Non c’è in questa neutralizzazione un modo per intendere quanto Freud affermava con il termine equivoco di desessualizzazione? Ho trovato nella riflessione di Giorgio Agamben sull’inoperosità un punto di incontro prezioso, che dà conto di questa congiuntura di un’azione che continua ad essere esercitata, senza che a subirla sia la carne del soggetto. In un passaggio finale del suo testo, incentrato sulla potenza destituente, Agamben fa riferimento a quelli che i grammatici latini chiamavano verbi deponenti, quei verbi che non si possono dire propriamente né attivi né passivi, tra i quali, ironia della lingua, c’è anche il verbo gaudeo. Si chiede l’autore: «Che cosa ‘depongono’ i verbi medi o deponenti? Essi non esprimono un’operazione, ma la depongono, la neutralizzano e rendono inoperosa e, in questo modo, la espongono»7. Ecco come può essere riformulata l’idea di sublimazione: è una messa inopera della verità e del godimento, un rendere inoperosa la volontà inconscia. Esposizione, scrive l’autore, posizione fuori dell’Es, riscriverei, posizione fuori dell’azione attivante del desiderio e del godimento, suo collocamento ed esercizio nell’opera. Agamben rintraccia nell’inoperosità un fattore metafisico dell’antropogenesi, ciò che libera «il vivente uomo da ogni destino biologico o sociale e da ogni compito predeterminato»8. In effetti, è immediato correlare la creazione estetica, come forma particolare di sublimazione, all’origine dell’uomo. E porsi la questione della nascita dell’arte in termini di nascita dell’uomo, così come ha fatto Georges Bataille, nel suo testo su Lascaux, nel quale enuncia quanto «l’opera d’arte sia intimamente legata alla formazione dell’umanità»9. Lascaux è una delle località in cui sono stati ritrovati esempi straordinari dell’arte paleolitica. Le grotte di Lascaux, in particolare, con le sue raffigurazioni parietali sono state definite la Cappella Sistina del paleolitico. Ma un altro sito così magnificente è ad Altamira, in Spagna. Pablo Picasso, dopo averlo visitato, avrebbe detto: “Dopo Altamira, tutto è decadenza”. Che l’animale uomo ad un certo punto della sua evoluzione abbia d’improvviso avvertito la necessità di creare manufatti o dipingere pareti è qualcosa che desta meraviglia. Non utensili o strumenti tecnici per cavarsela con i bisogni fisiologici (che comunque a partire dalla simbolizzazione avevano già smesso di essere semplicemente tali), ma oggetti artistici, statuette, dipinti, decorazioni. Desta meraviglia che mentre alcuni uomini del Paleolitico imbracciavano le armi per andare a caccia o si preoccupavano di cucinare le prede catturate, altri prendessero ocra e carbone per andare a tracciare sulle pareti di una caverna la sagoma di bisonti, cervi, cavalli, altri animali e altri segni. È talmente meraviglioso che inizialmente gli studiosi non hanno potuto far altro che considerare questa attività finalizzata alla sopravvivenza fisica, non hanno potuto che legarla alla preoccupazione di procurarsi il cibo. Nella loro spiegazione l’arte avrebbe avuto unafinalità utilitaristica, connessa a credenze magico-religiose, avrebbe fatto parte di un rituale praticato all’interno delle caverne e celebrato con lo scopo di ottenere il successo nella caccia e di favorire la riproduzione degli animali. Sarebbe stata magia propiziatoria. Gombrich sostiene che per «capire questi strani inizi dell’arte» dobbiamo scoprire cosa mio). 7 G. Agamben, L’uso dei corpi, Neri Pozza, Vicenza 2014, p. 350. 8 Ibidem, p. 351. 9 G. Bataille, Lascaux. La nascita dell’arte, Mimesis, Milano 2007, p. 17. Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 4 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 spinga questi uomini primitivi «a considerare le immagini non come qualcosa di bello da guardare, ma come oggetti da usare, ricchi di potenza»10. Riecco la volontà di potenza e non la sua destituzione nella creazione artistica. Hauser rinforza l’idea: «Le immagini facevano parte dell’apparato di questa magia; erano la ‘trappola’ in cui la selvaggina doveva cadere, o piuttosto la trappola con l’animale già catturato: perché l’immagine era insieme rappresentazione e cosa rappresentata, desiderio e appagamento. Nell’immagine da lui dipinta il cacciatore paleolitico credeva di possedere la cosa stessa, credeva, riproducendolo, di acquistare un potere sull’oggetto»11. Ancora il potere. Ma con un’immagine suggestiva, quella della trappola con l’animale già catturato. Quale animale? Possiamo rispondere proprio a partire dalle parole di Hauser, andando oltre la sua tesi esplicita. L’animale è libidico, è insieme “desiderio e appagamento”. L’immagine dipinta è una trappola per la pulsione, una “trappola per lo sguardo” afferma Lacan. Che la pittura non avesse questa finalità utilitaristica è dimostrato dalla prevalente non corrispondenza tra il bestiario raffigurato e la fauna consumata. Renne e stambecchi erano la selvaggina cacciata prevalentemente, lo si è dedotto dai resti di cucina e dei pasti ritrovati, dunque avrebbero dovuto essere i più rappresentati sulle pareti delle caverne, mentre i soggetti principali sono cavalli e bisonti, che secondo la ricostruzione di André Leroi-Gourhan, che ha rivoluzionato il modo di intendere l’arte primitiva, rappresentavano il simbolo del maschile e del femminile. Il dualismo sessuale al quale rimandano è confermato anche dalla frequente raffigurazione associata di vulve e falli, con prevalenza dei genitali femminili. Anche in questo caso più selvagina, che selvaggina. Probabilmente Hauser non disponeva di questi dati dietetici. La sua posizione è perentoria e nel ribadirla apre una questione che è della massima importanza: «Ogni altra spiegazione dell’arte paleolitica – ad esempio la sua interpretazione come forma decorativa o espressiva – è insostenibile. Vi si oppone tutta una serie di indizi, e principalmente la posizione dei dipinti nelle caverne, spesso in angoli completamente nascosti, difficilmente accessibili, affatto oscuri, dove non avrebbero mai potuto servire come ‘decorazione’. Tale disposizione indica appunto che i dipinti non furono eseguiti per la gioia degli occhi, ma perseguivano uno scopo per cui importava ch’essi fossero collocati in certe caverne e in certe parti determinate di esse – evidentemente in luoghi particolarmente adatti all’incantesimo. Non è possibile parlare di intento decorativo o di esigenza estetica di espressione e comunicazione, qui dove le pitture venivano piuttosto celate che esposte».12 La questione che Hauser, come altri, apre è quella della stranezza del loro collocamento. È probabile che l’arte parietale primitiva non sia stata praticata soltanto all’interno delle caverne e che, se rimane ai nostri giorni la testimonianza maggiore della creatività degli uomini del Paleolitico, insieme all’arte mobiliare, ciò sia dovuto proprio alle particolari condizioni climatiche e geologiche presenti in quelle cavità, che si sono conservate stabili, in termini di temperatura e umidità, per l’ostruzione delle imboccature prodotte nel tempo dal deposito di detriti. Tanto è vero che il loro stato di conservazione è degenerato con l’invasione dei turisti che ha alterato l’equilibrio atmosferico. Ma quello che Hauser fa notare è il loro posizionamento estremamente riparato, in zone non solo buie, ma impervie, faticosamente raggiungibili, anguste. È un’annotazione cruciale, che pone un interrogativo al quale risponde troppo rapidamente, deducendo che non avessero finalità estetiche, altrimenti sarebbero state in vista, e stabilendo così un’equivalenza tra espressione e comunicazione che non va da sé. Non è la stessa cosa creare e pubblicare. Si può compiere un atto sublimativo senza darne conto ad altri, anzi evitando accuratamente la pubblicità. Quanti scrittori tengono nel cassetto il proprio romanzo? Quante soffitte 10 E. H. Gombrich, La storia dell’arte raccontata da E. H. Gombrich, Einaudi, Torino 1979, p. 27. 11 A. Hauser, Storia sociale dell’arte, Einaudi, Torino 2001, p. 8. 12 A. Hauser, Storia…, cit., p.10. Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 5 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 ospitano i quaderni di poesie dell’adolescenza? Quanti pittori non si separano dai propri quadri? O, per prendere un esempio più quotidiano, quanti cantano disinvoltamente e a squarciagola sotto la doccia, ma sarebbero spaventati dal canticchiare una canzone in mezzo ad altre persone? Quanti si mettono a ballare in casa davanti allo specchio in modo scemo e scatenato, ma in una discoteca rimangono rigidi come un manico di scopa? Espressione e comunicazione sono due fenomeni dell’esperienza estetica che possono essere disgiunti e il cuneo che li può separare è il sentimento della vergogna. L’uomo è «la bestia dalle guance rosse»13, scriveva Nietzsche. Ed è una verità che una psicoanalisi forse più incentrata sul problema etico del senso di colpa ha trascurato. Di che cosa ci vergogniamo? Dei nostri fantasmi, delle bizzarrie che popolano la nostra mente, che animano i nostri desideri più nascosti, delle idee più private, che teniamo al riparo anche dalla nostra coscienza, di quelle che non riveliamo nemmeno a noi stessi. Ci vergogniamo della nostra innere Besudelung scriveva sempre Nietzsche, della nostra macchia interiore. Come non vedere in questa macchia il vero pigmento, la materia prima della pittura? Come non cogliere che era del suo stesso colore che facevano uso gli uomini del Paleolitico per dipingere le pareti delle loro grotte? Che era la loro anima polverizzata, insieme al tuorlo d’uovo e ai minerali sminuzzati, ciò che spalmavano in modo denso sulle viscere della terra? Lo facevano in modo schivo, schermandosi, con discrezione. È questo per me uno dei modi per rispondere alla questione del collocamento delle raffigurazioni all’interno delle caverne, nei punti meno praticabili, più scomodi e appartati. Come fossero le cripte, i sancta sanctorum della loro soggettività, i pozzi della mente. Era per pudore, per un profondo sentimento di ritegno che sceglievano di sottrarre alla vista e di consegnare al buio delle grotte quanto avevano di più intimo. Era una scelta di deflessione, di sottrazione alla luce, di avvolgimento protettivo nella pelle dell’oscurità. Era un modo allora come adesso per sottrarsi alla violenza della richiesta libidica, per farsi discreti e «rinunciare per un momento a qualsiasi volontà di potenza»14, come scrive Pierre Zaoui, in un libro che rinviene nell’arte di scomparire una forma di resistenza politica nell’attualità, che a mio parere anche la sublimazione può portare avanti facendo metaforicamente camminare il soggetto rasente i muri. Il secondo modo per rispondere alla questione del loro strano collocamento è attinente al primo e riprende quella sottrazione alla volontà di potenza della pulsione, che Freud esprimeva parlando della sua «forza d’urto»15. È ovviamente una speculazione, ma quello con cui deve essersi confrontato l’uomo primitivo è stato lo shock della costituzione della realtà psichica, il costituirsi della soggettività, della realtà mentale, l’effrazione dell’organismo da parte del trauma della lingua, la sua penetrazione e fissazione in forma di traccia indelebile. Ad esempio la traccia significante della differenza sessuale e delle immagini identificatorie, effetto dell’alienazione simbolica e immaginaria. Intendo così quella folla di animali e di simboli deposta sulle pareti delle grotte, come quello che l’uomo era al fondo della sua identificazione inconscia e quello che cercava di mettere fuori di sé, per desoggettivarsi nel fare sublimativo, per liberare il corpo dalla prigione dell’anima. Qual è il modo che lo stesso Freud indica come tentativo di risposta al trauma? È la sua riproduzione in forma di gioco, come quello celeberrimo del nipotino Ernst, che lanciando 13 F. Nietzsche, Così parlò Zarathustra, Adelphi, Milano 1991, p. 104. 14 P. Zaoui, L’arte di scomparire. Vivere con discrezione, il Saggiatore, Milano 2015, p. 12. L’autore fa del contravveleno del depotenziamento una forma di dissidenza, “la scommessa politica e attuale della discrezione: imparare a uscire dall’ordine della mostrazione di sé e della sorveglianza generalizzata”, ibidem, p. 15. 15 S. Freud, Pulsioni e loro destini, in Opere, Bollati-Boringhieri, Torino 1990, vol. 7, p. 15. Andrebbe fatto un più esteso lavoro di connessione tra il concetto di urto del Trieb freudiano, lo shock di W. Benjamin (L’opera d’arte nell’era della sua riproducibilità tecnica) e lo Stoss di M. Heidegger (L’origine dell’opera d’arte). Vedi su questo l’interessante Introduzione di C. Pasi, La comunicazione crudele. Da Baudelaire a Beckett, Bollati- Boringhieri, Torino 1998. Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione 6 Data di pubblicazione: 15.12.2017 fuori della culla un rocchetto tenuto per un filo pronunciava il suo espressivo “o-o-o”, che per la madre stessa significava fort (“via”), per poi recuperarlo con un allegro da (“qui”). Freud vede in questo gioco un modo del nipotino per fronteggiare e padroneggiare l’assenza traumatica della madre inscenando la scomparsa e la riapparizione di un oggetto alla sua portata. Ma quello che Freud nota ancora è qualcosa di inaspettato, ossia «che il primo atto, l’andarsene, era inscenato come un giuoco a sé stante, e anzi si verificava incomparabilmente più spesso che non la rappresentazione completa, con il suo piacevole finale»16. Non possiamo vedere in questo solo mettere fuori, in questa interruzione dell’atto completo, in questa rottura del circuito pulsionale nel gioco a sé stante, l’essenza del gesto sublimativo? Non possiamo vedere nella scelta del solo fort, del “via”, dell’atto dell’andarsene, la scelta del distacco da sé che si realizza nell’esperienza estetica? Infine, un’ultima annotazione. La caverna, da Platone in poi, ha un nobile passato filosofico. Qui credo che sia stata voluta non solo come supporto alla rappresentazione, come tela, come superficie pittorica, ma come rappresentazione stessa della soggettività con la quale l’uomo era confrontato traumaticamente. È metafora concreta del contenitore mentale e della contenzione del corpo. I suoi anfratti, le sue zone oscure, i suoi percorsi contorti, con le clandestine iscrizioni significanti sono rappresentazione di quella dimensione altra costituita dalla realtà psichica. La andere Schauplatz, come scriveva Freud, dalla quale nella sublimazione tentiamo di affrancare il corpo, deponendola fuori. 16 S. Freud, Al di là del principio di piacere, pp. 201-202 (corsivo mio). Vedi anche come è ripreso il concetto di coazione a ripetere in Ch. Türcke, La società eccitata. Filosofia della sensazione, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 2012 e in V. Cuomo, Al di là del recinto della sublimazione, Kaiak. A Philosophical Journey, 4 (2017): Sublimazione. work_3evkrwvmenazrkl6fa2zlhoecm ---- The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies International Journal of Social Science Doi number:http://dx.doi.org/10.9761/JASSS7510 Number: 66 , p. 211-222, Spring II 2018 Araştırma Makalesi / Research Article Yayın Süreci / Publication Process Yayın Geliş Tarihi / Article Arrival Date - Yayınlanma Tarihi / The Published Date 19.01.2018 15.04.2018 ŞİDDET VE SANATSAL YARATI VIOLENCE AND ARTISTIC CREATION Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Gökçen Şahmaran Can ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9435-6697 Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Öz Şiddet kavramı sözlüklerde geçen anlamı ile; karşıt görüşte olanlara kaba kuv- vet kullanmak, sert davranmak, sertlik, "şiddet olayları" ise, insanları sindirmek, kor- kutmak için yaratılan olay ya da girişimler olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Şiddeti sanat bağlamında ele aldığımızda, çoğu sosyal hareketlerin ve psikolojik ifadelerin bir uzantısı olarak; baskı altında olanların yaşadıkları iktidarsızlık durumu toplumsal olaylarda patlak verdiği gibi sanatsal çalışmalarda da kendini göstermiştir. Bu çerçevede, bir ekonomik hakimiyet sistemi olarak kapitalizmin insanları tü- ketime zorladığı ve hiçe indirgediği böyle bir ortamdan doğal olarak sanatçılar da etki- lenmişler, modern dünyanın birey üzerinde kurduğu baskı ve şiddet gibi unsurlar sa- natçıların sanatsal ifade biçimlerine yansımıştır. Sanat anlayışının şiddet, yıkıcılık ve di- reniş içeren oluşumu, modern topluma karşı dayatılan estetik yasalara karşı oluşturul- muş özellikler barındırır. Bu bağlamda, estetik kaygılardan çok toplumsal kaygıları ve özellikle şiddeti ön plana alan "Happening", "Fluxus", "Body-art" gibi sanatsal hareketler ortaya çıkmıştır. Böylece sanatçılar, yaşamı tüm yönleriyle ele alarak, baskıya ve özellik- le şiddete karşı kültürel farklılıkların bilinciyle yaşamdaki tüm olumsuzlukları bedenle- rini kullanarak anlatma çabası içerisine girmişlerdir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Şiddet, Sanat, Happening, Fluxus, Gövde Sanatı Abstract Acts of violence are defined as acts or attempts that are created to intimidate and/or oppress people. The opinion that the feeling of being threatened and the reactive violence caused by this feeling are one of the most dangerous violence types is establis- hed in many theoretician’s statements. Another type of this feeling is mentioned as the destructiveness occurring as a result of frustration and tension which arises from opp- ression, that is it occurs in order to grab the power at the end of a period with a lack of a governing authority. Within the context of art when violence is discussed, the predicament in which https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9435-6697 212 Gökçen Şahmaran Can those living under oppression go through a lack of governing authority have appeared in artistic works as well as social events as an extension of many social movements and psychological expressions. In this framework naturally artists have also been affected by the environment in which capitalism, as an economic sovereignty system, forced people into consumption and degraded humanity; such factors as oppression and violence that the modern soci- ety employs on individuals have been reflected on their artistic expression. The sense of art which is shaped by violence, destructiveness and resistance features characteristics that are formed against aesthetical laws, and are imposed upon the modern society. In this context, such artistic movements as “Happening” and “Fluxus”, "Body-art" that con- centrates more on societal concerns and especially violence than the aesthetical focus ha- ve emerged. Thus, artists strive to tell every negativity in life with an awareness of cultu- ral diversity, in defiance of oppression, attacks against sexual orientations, and especi- ally violence by using their bodies. Keywords: Violence, Art, Happening, Fluxus, Body-Art Giriş Etimolojik olarak, dilimize Arapçadan giren "şiddet" sözcüğü, karşıt görüşte olanlara kaba kuvvet kullanmak, sert davranmak, sertlik, "şiddet olayları" ise, insanları sindir- mek, korkutmak için yaratılan olay ya da girişimler olarak tanımlanmaktadır (TDK). Bu genel tanımlamaların dışında şid- det, yalnızca başkalarının fiziksel bütünlüğü- ne saldırı ya da tehdit kavramıyla sınırlandırı- lamaz. Belli bir toplumsal düzene karşı baş- kaldırı ve saldırıyı da içerir. Başkalarına yöne- lik şiddet eylemlerinin dışında bir de intihar gibi, kişinin kendi kendine uyguladığı şiddet fiilleri bulunmaktadır. Baş aktörü kendi olan kişinin kendine yönelttiği özel şiddetin ya- nında, özellikle günümüz dünyasına damga- sını vuran kollektif şiddet de vardır. İç savaş- lar, terör eylemleri, soykırımlar, kanlı gösteri yürüyüşleri gibi. Verilen örneklerin bazıların- da şiddet, örgütlü ve düzenli bir biçimde ger- çekleşirken, önceden hazırlıksız başka bir deyişle "kendiliğinden" oluşan kollektif şiddet örnekleri de söz konusu olabilir. Örneğin, bir protesto eyleminin yakıp yıkma ve yağmaya dönüşmesi gibi (Ünsal, 2005: 29-32). Antropolojik yönlerinin dışında, sos- yolojik yönüyle de araştırılan "şiddet" kavra- mını, teorisyenler, iktidarı ele geçirmek veya onun kanuni olmayan amaçlara hizmet edil- mesi için kullanılması durumu olarak tanım- lamaktadırlar. Ayrıca, iktidar ve şiddeti ay- rılmaz bir bütün olarak görmektedirler. Bu düşünceye göre, sosyal düzenin devam etme- sini sağlayan şiddet ile tahripkar şiddet ara- sında yakın bir ilişki olduğu varsayılmakta- dır. Postmodernizm üzerine incelemeler yapmış olan "Frankfurt Toplumsal Araştırma- lar Enstitüsü" - Frankfurt Okulu - teorisyenle- rinin ve postmodernizmin önemli düşünürle- rinden biri olan Michel Faucoult'nun da araş- tırmaları içerisinde olan kavramlara şöyle açıklık getirilmiştir: Frankfurt Okulu moder- nist düşünürlerinden E. Fromm, Wilhelm Reich ve Adorno ile postmodern düşünürler- den M. Foucault'nun "disipline edici ve ha- pishaneye dönüşmüş modern toplum teorisi" (Keskin, 2005: 117-122) benzerlik taşımaktadır. Bu düşünürlere göre, tabiatın hüküm altına alınması ile baskı altında olan bireyin bir ikti- darsızlık durumu yaşaması yıkıcılığı kaçınıl- maz kılmıştır. Foucault, kişinin günlük yaşantısını planlamak ve sınırlandırmak için bir iktidar mekanizması geliştirmiştir. Amaç, otorite tarafından belirlenen kurallara, düzene uyan bir birey yaratmaktır. İktidarın daha etkili olması için planlanmış bir izlemdir bu. Bu izlemlerin varlık bulması için devletin yasala- rında geliştirilmiştir. Foucault'nun "Bio- İktidar" ismini verdiği bu güç mekanizması iki esas temelde gelişmiştir. Birinci biçimi, insan vücuduna bir makina olarak yaklaşır, buna disiplinci iktidar adı verilir. Gayesi vü- Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı 213 cudu disipline etmek, geliştirmek, yararlı ve yumuşak başlı kılmak ve ekonomik denetim sistemleriyle bütünleştirmektir. İkincisi ise, insan vücuduna doğal bir tür olarak yaklaşır ve popülasyonu tanzim edici bir kontrol üze- rine yoğunlaşır. Kapitalizmin gelişmesinde bio-iktidar elzem bir unsurdur. Çünkü, kapi- talizm bireyin üretim sürecine denetimli bir şekilde girmesini sağlar. Onsekizinci yüzyıl- dan beri gelişen bu durum insan bedenine, aileye, okula, cinselliğe, yayılan iktidar ağları dizisi ortaya çıkarmıştır. İktidar, bu kurum- larda, kişileri kurallara uymaya zorlayarak, normalleştirmeye çalışarak üretim süreçlerine uygun hale getirmeyi amaçlar. Bu durum sonucunda iktidar, insanın baskı altına alın- ması durumunda doğan gerginliğiyle şiddeti karşısına almış olur. Bu baskı ve engellenme- ler sonucunda bir iktidarsızlık durumu yaşa- yan kişi ise iktidarı elde etmek için şiddete başvurur (Keskin, 2005: 117-122). 1. Bir Modern Çağ Pratiği Olarak Şiddet ve Sanat Şiddeti sanatsal anlamda ele aldığı- mızda, birçok sosyal hareketin ve psikolojik ifadenin uzantısı olarak "İktidar, Şiddet ve Yaratıcılık" kavramlarının ayrılmaz bir bütün olarak yol aldığını gözlemliyoruz. Bu kavram- ların sanatla olan bağlarına, Max Scheler, R. May, Otto Rank ve Nietzsche gibi önemli düşünürler şu şekilde açıklık getirmişlerdir: Martin Heidegger'ın felsefesine zemin hazırlayan Avrupa'nın en etkili düşünürle- rinden Max Scheler (1874-1928), şiddeti, "Res- sentiment" (Hınç, Kin) gibi bir Fransızca söz- cükle felsefenin gündemine sokmuştur. Res- sentiment kavramının özünde, kişinin düşün- celere, kurumlara, yapıtlara, genel olarak de- ğerlere ve değer yüklenmiş nesnelere karşı duyduğu haset, kızgınlık vb. gibi negatif duygular yatmaktadır. Ressentiment gibi negatif bir duygunun oluşması için bireyin bir iktidarsızlık durumu yaşaması gerekmekte- dir. Scheler, böyle bir durumun ancak maddi eşitsizliklerin veya siyasal güçsüzlüğün ya- şandığı ortamlarda gelişeceğinden söz eder. Yani, Ressentiment'dan söz edilebilmesi için bir değersizleşme dürtüsünün genelleşmesin- den bahseder. Kapitalizmin üretimdeki etki- sinin bu değersizleştirmedeki rolüne değinir. Ressentiment, kökeni nedeniyle, ağırlıklı ola- rak baskı altında olanları, otoritenin göstermiş olduğu eziyetlere karşı hınç duyanları kapsar (Scheler, 2004). Bu çerçevede, bir ekonomik hakimi- yet sistemi olarak kapitalizmin insanları tüke- time zorladığı ve hiçe indirgediği böyle bir ortamdan doğal olarak sanatçılar da etkilen- mişler, modern dünyanın birey üzerinde kur- duğu baskı ve şiddet gibi unsurlar sanatçıla- rın sanatsal ifade biçimlerinde varlık bulmuş- tur. Ressentiment'ın, şiddetin ve başkaldı- rının yaratıcılığa dönüşen şekline Otto Rank ve Rollo May gibi düşünürler şu şekilde açık- lık getirmişlerdir. Bu düşünürlere göre, çağı- mız modern insanı, gözünü açtığında yaban- cılaşmış bir dünyayla karşılaşıyor ve yabancı- laşmış bir şekilde yaşama uyum sağlama gay- retiyle içindeki boşluğu doldurmaya çalışıyor. Kendine yabancılaşmış modern insan, korku ve endişe içinde doyumsuz bir şekilde yaşı- yor. Yabancılaşma ise insanın insana uygula- dığı şiddet ile ortaya çıkıyor. Rank ve May'in inceledikleri bu şizoid yıkıcılığın toplumsal boyuttaki ifadesinin Nietzsche'de varlık bul- duğudur. Nietzsche'nin Hıristiyanlığı açıkla- mak için kullandığı Ressentiment olgusu, Rank'a göre, bütün inkılaplar için söz konu- sudur. Her inkılap farklılıktan duyulan acı sonucu gelişir, farklı ve güçlü olan bu olum- suzluklarla başetmeye çalışır. Mücadeleyi kazandığında, bu kez kendi farklılığını baskın göstermeye çalışır. Her türlü yaşanan toplum- sal olay sonucu ortaya çıkan akıldışılık, top- lumsal biçim almaya zorlanmıştır ve bu akıl- dışı olguların bireysel biçimlenişi ise sanatta ifadesini bulmuştur (May, 1994). Farklılığın altının çizilmesi, baskı altında olanların yaşa- dıkları iktidarsızlık durumu toplumsal olay- 214 Gökçen Şahmaran Can larda patlak verdiği gibi sanatsal çalışmalarda da kendini göstermiştir. 2. Şiddetin Sanata Yansımaları ve Öne Çıkan Yapıtlar Antik Yunan sanat özelliklerini içinde barındıran sanat anlayışının, şiddet ve direniş içeren oluşumu, modern topluma karşı daya- tılan estetik yasalara karşı oluşturulmuş özel- likler barındırmaktadır. Özellikle I. ve II. Dünya Savaşları'ndan sonra Kant, Lessing, Schiller ve benzerlerinin savunduğu estetik projenin, toplumsal olaylarda meydana gelen çözülmelerle birlikte sanatta da çözülmelere neden olduğuna, baskıcı estetik kuralların estetiği kırma yönünde kışkırttığına tanık oluyoruz. 2.1. Hans Holbein, "Mezarındaki İsa" Resim 1. Hans Holbein, Mezarındaki İsa, 1521 Hans Holbein'ın (1497-1543) "Meza- rındaki İsa" adlı eseri, ince uzun kompozisyo- nuyla oldukça sade ve etkili bir resimdir. Bu eserde, şiddete maruz kalmış bir insan bedeni resmedilmektedir. İnce, uzun ve dar bir mezar içerisinde boylu boyunca uzanmış, deri altın- dan iskeleti görülecek biçimde zayıf, yarı çıp- lak bir ceset betimlenmektedir. Cesedin yü- zündeki ifade ve bedeninde oluşmuş yaralar, öldürülmeden önce şiddetli bir işkenceye maruz kaldığını anlatıyor. Başı tuvali izleyen seyirciye doğru eğik, saçları çarşafın üzerinde dağınık bir biçimdedir. Vücudun, saçlarından ayak uçlarına kadar, sağ yanı olduğu gibi görülüyor. Sağ elinin üstündeki çivi yarasının grimsi tonundan cesedin çürümeye başladığı anlaşılıyor. Elindeki soğuk renk tonunun yü- zünde de tekrarlandığı seçilebiliyor. Göğüs kafesinin tam altında, bir mızrak tarafından açılmış yara izi var. Yarı açık gözlerindeki umutsuzlukla verilen betimleme insanları sarsmış, zihinlerde bir yarık açmıştır (Yılmaz, 2012: 259-260). Resim genel olarak ele alındığında Hans Holbein, insan bedeninin iskelete dö- nüşmesi üzerine yoğunlaşmış, bedenin çürü- mesini sanatsal bir dil ile ifade etmiştir. Bu doğrultuda ölüm, korkunç ve iğrenç bir olgu olarak ele alınmıştır. 2.2. Francisco de Goya, "3 Mayıs" İspanyol resminin ve Romantizm'in en önemli ressamlarından biri olan Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), Barok İspanyol resminin Altın Çağı'nı temsil etmektedir. Goya'nın parlak ve canlı renklerle dolu neşeli yaşam atmosferi içinde olan ilk resimleri yerini za- manla iç karartıcı koyu renklere bırakmıştır. Kompozisyonlarındaki hüzünlü ve romantik atmosfer, yaşadığı toplumsal olayların, hayat- taki zorlukların ve savaşların trajik ve korku dolu bir ifadesidir. Bu ifade zaman zaman hırs ve şiddet doludur. Goya'nın romantizmin doruğa çıktığı "3 Mayıs" adlı eserinde gerçek bir tarihi olay resmedilmiştir. Fransız işgaline karşı ayakla- nan bir grup İspanyol asinin gerçekleştirdiği kanlı eylemler ve bu eylemlerin bastırılmasını konu edinen eser tam bir trajedik ifade ile betimlenmiştir. Ressamın ele aldığı konu, tarihi konuları ele alma eğiliminde olan Ro- mantik anlayışa çok yakındır (Beksaç, 1994: 89-90). Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı 215 Resim 2. Francisco de Goya, 3 Mayıs, 1808 Resmin merkezindeki beyaz gömlekli adam, çapraz ve öfkeli fırça darbeleriyle oluş- turulmuştur. Resim çok hızlı, şiddet içeren bir tarzla spontane gelişmiş gibi durmaktadır. Tuvali aydınlatan tek figür beyaz gömlekli adam ve onu vurmak üzere dizilmiş askerler- den oluşmuş ve gerilimli bir hava ifade edil- miştir. Resimde gerçek bir durumu anlatan birçok detay yer almaktadır. Örneğin, karan- lık ve puslu hava şartları altında bir rahip elleri kenetli, gözünü yere dikmiş ve esirler- den biri yumruğunu sıkmış ölümü beklemek- tedir. "3 Mayıs", o dönem yapılan tarihi resim- lerden oldukça farklıdır. Kompozisyonun büyük bir bölümü boşluktan ibarettir. Cansız, kasvetli, sıkıcı denilebilecek bir boşluk. Resme hareket katmak için sadece renkten faydala- nılmış. Hastalıklı bir dünyayı anlatan resim- lerden biri olarak dünya sanat tarihine geç- miştir. Goya'nın sanatını takip eden pek çık- madı denilebilir, çünkü onun kadar ileri giden olmadı ancak sonrasında birçok sanatçı, özel- likle Picasso Goya'dan etkilendiğini açıklamış- tır. 2.3. Pablo Picasso, "Guernica" Sanat tarihine şiddeti en iyi anlatan resim olarak geçen, İspanyol ressam Pablo Picasso'nun (1881-1973) kübik eseri, sanatçı tarafından 1937 yılında, 56 yaşındayken ya- pılmıştır. Resmin hikayesi şöyledir: İspanya 1936 yılında bir iç savaş yaşar. Milliyetçilerle Cumhuriyetçiler arasında çıkan bu iç savaşta halk kendi kendini yok eder. Biscay bölgesin- de bulunan Guernica kasabası bu savaşta en büyük yarayı alan yerleşim yerlerinden biri- dir. 1937 yılında Milliyetçi kesime dahil olan halk, daha güçlü olmak adına Nazi Almanya- sından ve İtalya'dan yardım alır. Nüfusu 5000'den fazla olan Guernica Kasabası'nda bombardıman sonucu çıkan yangınlarda 1600'den fazla kişi öldü. Bu vahşetin en acı yanı kasabanın erkeklerinin kasaba dışında olmalarından dolayı ölen 1600 kişinin ka- dınlar, yaşlılar ve çocuklar olmasıydı. Bu vahşetin yaşandığı sıralarda İspanyol hükü- meti 1937 yılında bir fuarda sergilenmek üze- re duvar resmi siparişi vermiş ve Guernica'da yaşanan hazin olayın etkisinde kalan sanatçı resmin konusu olarak onu seçmiş, duyguları- nı resme yansıtmıştır. Guernica olarak tanınan resim 3,5 x 7,8 metre ölçülerinde yapılmıştır. Siyah beyaz gazete fotoğraflarına benzer bir biçimde oluşturulan resimde iç savaşın neden olduğu ölü ve cansız hava yansıtılmaya çalı- şılmıştır. Savaşın insanlar üzerinde yarattığı korku ve üzüntüyü ifade eden Picasso, figür- leri bir odada çığlık atarken betimlemiştir. 216 Gökçen Şahmaran Can Resim 3. Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Tuvalin sol tarafında görülen kızgın boğa İspanya'nın gelenekselleşmiş kültürünü simgeleyerek, milliyetçilik kavramının altını çizmiştir. At figürü, insanın insana yaptığı zulme karşılık insanlığın bu durum karşısın- daki çaresizliğini simgelemiştir. Kafasını ka- pıdan içeri uzatan kadının elinde gaz lambası bulunmaktadır. Bu kadının özgürlük anıtını anımsattığı düşünülmektedir. Atın ağzındaki hançer, çığlıkla beraber yenilgiyi simgelemek- tedir. Resmin tepesinde yer alan lamba olay- ların çıplak gözle, açık ve net bir şekilde gö- rüldüğünü anlatmaktadır. Kompozisyondaki bölümlerin gazete parçaları gibi verilmesi ise Guernica'da yaşanan acının tüm dünyada duyulacağına ve insanların buna kayıtsız kalamayacağına dikkat çekmek içindir. 2.4. Anselm Kiefer, "Senin Altın Saç- ların Margarethe" Resim 4. Anselm Kiefer, Senin Altın Saçların Margarethe, 1981 1969 yılında kimliğine bir Alman ola- rak bakmaya başlayan Alman asıllı Anselm Kiefer, Almanya'da gerçekleşen yahudi soykı- rımını anlatan geçmişiyle ilgili resimler yap- maktadır. Alman Nazilerinin baskın olduğu dönemde yaşanan şiddet yüklü eylemleri simgesel malzemelerden oluşan nesnelerle anlatmaya çalışmıştır. İkinci Dünya Sava- şı'nda ırkçı Naziler tarafından yakılarak öl- dürülen yahudileri, yapıtlarında külrengi, Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı 217 gri, ve kahverengi ile simgesel olarak ifade eder. Şiddeti, vahşeti, yanarak ölmeyi, çarpıcı bir şekilde ifade ederek düşünmeye sevkeder. Asemblajlarında teknik olarak kum, saman, hasır ve kurşun gibi malzemeler kullanır. Anselm Kiefer'in "Senin Altın Saçların Margarethe" adlı resim serisi, Nazi toplama kamplarından kurtulmuş fakat tüm ailesini kamplarda yitirmiş olan yahudi Şair Paul'un şiirlerinden esinlenerek oluşturulmuştur. Şairin şiirlerinde yer alan, işlediği her günaha rağmen tanrı tarafından bağışlanan kadın kahraman Margarete ve yahudi umudunun kadın sembolü Sulamith'i simgesel olarak kullanmıştır. Sanatçı, Celan'in şiirlerinden esinlendiği Margerethe ve Sulamit'i resimle- rinde Margerethe'in altın rengi saçlarını sa- manla, yahudi Sulamith'i kömürle simgele- miştir. Toplama kampı fırınlarında yakılan yahudilerin saçları kül olmuştur. Bunun kar- şısında ideal Alman kızının sarı saçları sa- mandandır. Bunun açıklaması samanın kolay- ca yanıp küle dönüşebilecek bir madde olma- sıdır. Kömür ise yansa bile daha kalıcıdır. Bu iki kadın, ayrı bedende bir kadının ikiye bö- lünmüş hali durumundadır. Saman zamanla yok olup gidecektir fakat kömür kalıcıdır. Kiefer, resmi bu şekilde ifade ederek, yahudi soykırımını tuval üzerinde tersine çevirmiştir. Güzel ve iyi gösterilmeye çalışılan tarihi, tüm gerçekliği ile gözler önüne sermiştir. 2.5. Joseph Beuys, "Ben Amerika'yı Seviyorum Amerika Beni" Şiddet eylemi, vahşetin ve şiddetin egemen olduğu ilk çağlardan bu yana sanat yapıtlarında önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Geçmiş zamanlardan beri tiyatrolarda sergi- lenen şiddet kavramı bir özgürlük düşüncesi olarak ele alınmıştır. Şiddet ve vahşetle arınıl- dığı düşünülmüştür. Şiddetin, sanatçının doğal refleksi ile oluştuğu bir antitiyatro bi- çimi "Happening" ise, seyirciye sıradan bir bakış atarak bile karşı konulması güç bir sal- dırı isteği oluşturabilir. Happening; şiddeti pop müzik dehşe- tini kremalı pastalar ve işeme eylemi ile göste- rirken yalnızlığın ve iletişimsizliğin bireyi sürüklediği psikolojik şiddeti surata inen bir şamar, burunda duyulan bir çimdiklenme ile hissettirir. Acımasız bir gülüş, burnundan huniyle su içirme; politikayı kolaylıkla res- medebilir. Boyna ip dolama, ya da bir kukla oynatma, fiziksel şiddetin en tipik örneklerin- dendir. Happening, bugünkü anlayışıyla poptmodernizmin önemli bir sanatsal değeri olarak gösterilmektedir. 1960'lı yılların sonla- rına doğru yerini Body-art ve Performansa bırakmış, günümüzde güncelliğini hala ko- rumaktadır (Tönel, 2005: 364-365). Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), Happening sanatının önemli bir ismi olarak, Amerika ve Avrupa'daki hemen hemen bütün sanatçıları etkisi altına almış, Happening ve Fluxus gibi hareketlerin yaygınlaşmasına neden olmuş- tur. Joseph Beuys, 1972 yılında "Referan- dum Yoluyla Doğrudan Demokrasi" adlı per- formansında bir boks maçı düzenleyerek bu- nun tiyatrol bir gösteriye dönüşmesini sağla- mıştır. Amacı, seçimlerdeki yöntemlerin yeni baştan düzenlenmesi ve Dusseldorf Sanat Akademisi'nde gerçekleştirdiği heykel dersle- rinin parasız olmasıdır. Aynı zamanda ilgisi olan herkesin sınavsız sanat öğrencisi olması gerektiğini savunmasıdır. Dünyada yaşanan şiddet, zulüm, toplumsal baskılar gibi çağın gerçekleri Beuys'un performanslarında ifade edilir (Clark, 2004: 178). 218 Gökçen Şahmaran Can Resim 5. Joseph Beuys, Ben Amerika'yı Seviyorum Amerika Beni, 1974 1974 yılında gerçekleştirdiği "Ben Amerika'yı Seviyorum Amerika Beni" adlı performansında sanatçı, ormanda yakalanmış vahşi bir kurt ile tam beş gün aynı kafeste kalmıştır. Vahşi bir kurtla aynı ortamda kala- rak bunu sanatsal bir protestoya dönüştür- müştür. Tek şartı Amerika'ya geldiğinde Amerika'ya ayak basmayacak ve görmeyecek- ti. Bundan dolayı yüzü kapalı bir şekilde ke- çeye sarıldı. Keçeye sarılmış bir biçimde sed- yeye konularak sergi salonuna getirildi. Sergi salonunda büyük bir kafesin içinde vahşi bir kurtla vakit geçirecekti. Kafes içinde biraz saman, türbinlerin sesinin kaydedildiği bir cihaz ve Wall Street gazetesi vardı. Gazete Amerikan ekonomisinin acımasızlığının sim- gesiydi. Kurt ise Amerika'dan Orta Asya'ya gelen bir kurt cinsini temsil ediyordu. Tam ayağa kalkarken kurdun saldırması "Amerika sizin özgürlüğe geçmenize izin vermez" an- lamına geliyordu. Sanatçıya göre, kurt Ame- rika'dır ve her ne kadar saldırıya geçse de kurt kendisini sevmeye başlamıştır. Bu per- formansın her anı video ve fotoğraf makinesi ile kayıt altına alınmıştır. Performans bittikten sonra aynı şekilde geldiği gibi keçeyle Al- manya'ya dönmüştür. Bu sanatsal eylem ol- dukça ses getirmiş ve vahşi Amerikan emper- yalizmine görsel olarak taşlamalarda bulun- muştur. Sanatsal kaygılardan çok toplumsal kaygıları ve özellikle şiddeti öne çıkaran Fluxus ve Happening gibi hareketler sanatta sınır olmayacağının bir göstergesidir. Bu çer- çevede, sanatta sınırların yok sayılması dü- şüncesi ağır basmaktadır. 2.6. Gina Pane, "Duygusal Aksiyon" Resim 6. Gina Pane, Duygusal Aksiyon, 1973 Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı 219 1970'lerin sonları ve 1980'lerin başla- rında seyirci karşısında kendini yaralayarak, bedenine acı çektirerek her türlü teşhirciliği sergileyen sadomazoşist hareketlerde beden siyasi bir areneya dönüştürülmüştür. Sapkın- lığa varan bu tür gösterilerdeki estetik çar- pıtmalar, genel kabul görmüş sanatsal ve top- lumsal kuralları hiçe saymak için gerçekleşti- rilir. Bu durumda beden, kavramsal bir objeye dönüştürülerek anlaşılmasını istedikleri mesa- jı nakleder. Bedenini sanatsal bir obje olarak kullanan bir başka sanatçı Gina Pane'dir. Fransız body-art sanatçısı Gina Pane (1939-1990), 1970'li yıllara kadar yapıtlarını doğadan esinlenerek oluşturmuştur. Yapıtla- rından birinde üzerinde metal çıkıntılar, çivi- ler olan bir merdivene çıplak ayakla, acısına katlanamayacağı eşiğe gelene kadar tırmanır. Bu yıllarda, sanatına seyirciyi de dahil eder. "Duygusal Aksiyon" (Sentimental Action) adını verdiği performansında, vücudunun belirli bölgelerini jiletle kestiği, gül dikeni batırdığı işlemleri Milano'daki bir galeride seyirci önünde yapar. Seyirciler genellikle kadın izleyicilerden seçilmiştir. Sergilemeyi üst üste iki kez tekrar eder. İlk eylemini elinde kırmızı güllerle, ikinci eylemini beyaz güllerle oluşturur. Gösteriye elinde beyaz güllerle ayakta başlar, kırmızı güllerle fetüs pozisyo- nunda bitirir. Elinde gül demetiyle öne arkaya sallanarak hareketler yapar, sonra gül diken- lerini sırasıyla koluna batırır ve en sonunda elini jiletle keserek performansını sonlandırır. Şiddet içeren bu çalışmasını anne-çocuk ilişki- sinin içsel bir yansıması olarak ifade eder. Bu tür gösterilerle, sanatsal sınırları aşmaya ve sorgulanmayanları sorgulamaya davet eder. 2.7. Marina Abramoviç, "Ritim 10" Yugoslav Marina Abramoviç (1946-), kendine acı çektirerek, kana bulayarak arın- maya (Katarsis) çalışan bir başka eylem sanat- çısıydı. Eylemlerinde, kendi kendini yaralaya- rak acıyı şahsen deneyimlemiştir. Ve bu şekil- de kendini ölüme çok yakın hissetmiştir. Öncesinde resim eğitimi alan Abramoviç, sonrasında gösteri sanatlarına yönelerek, in- sanın bedensel ve zihinsel sınırlarını dene- yimlemeye başlamıştır. Eylemlerini halkın önünde ve gözlerinin içine bakarak yapıyor- du. Batı dışında farklı kültürlerden deneyim- lediği, acı ve ölüm korkusunu yenebilmek adına ve bedenin kişiye yaşattığı sınırlandır- malardan kurtulabilmek adına bedenini fiziki zorlanmalara maruz bırakıyordu. Performans, sanatçı için bir başka boyuta geçme eylemiy- di. Kendi bedenini yeniden oluşturmaya ve sahiplenmeye çalışan Abramoviç'in ayin ha- vasında geçen gösterileri kişinin canını yakar özelliktedir. 220 Gökçen Şahmaran Can Resim 7. Marina Abramoviç, Ritim 10, 1973 Bu gösterilerden biri 1973 yılında ger- çekleştirdiği "Ritim 10" adlı çalışmasıydı. Bu çalışma tam bir saat sürmüştü. Abramoviç, ayinsel havası olan bir mekanda, yere beyaz bir kağıt sererek üzerine on farklı kesici alet yerleştirir. Salonda ses alma cihazları da bu- lunmaktadır. Gösteri başladığında, cihazın kayıt düğmesine basar, sol elinin tırnaklarını ojeyle boyar ve sonrasında parmaklarını ara- layarak beyaz kağıdın üzerine koyar. Bıçağın birini sağ eline alır ve yerdeki sol elinin par- makları arasına hızlı ve ritimli bir biçimde vurmaya başlar. Sırasıyla bütün bıçaklarla aynı işlemi gerçekleştirir. Bu işlemleri gerçek- leştirirken ses alma cihazı sesleri kaydetmek- tedir. İşlem sona erdikten sonra ses alma ciha- zını başa sarıp kaydedilen sesleri sessizce dinler. Dinledikten sonra gösteriyi bir kere daha tekrarlar. Gösteri tamamlandıktan sonra tekrar ses cihazını başa alır, sessizce dinler ve salondan ayrılır (Yılmaz, 2012: 270). 2.8. Chris Burden, "Mıhlanmış" Bir başka örnek, Amerikalı sanatçı Chris Burden'in (1946-2015) yaptığı perfor- manslar bedene acı verme, zarar verme çerçe- vesinde gelişmiştir. Burden, sanatı vasıtasıyla gerçeği sorgulamaktadır. Sapkınlığa varan gösterileriyle, daha yüksek bir gerçekliği olan, farklı boyutta sanat yapmaktadır. Amacı ihti- har etmek değildir. Toplum içinde, istediği her şeyi yapabileceği bir özgürlük alanı oluş- turmak için, sorular soruyor (Antmen, 2016: 234-235). En tanınmış çalışmaları 1971 yılında gerçekleştirdiği "Shoot" (Ateş etme), 1973 yılında gerçekleştirdiği "Trough the Night (Gece Boyunca) ve "Nailed" (Mıhlanmış) adlı performansıdır. Resim 8. Chris Burden, Mıhlanmış, 1974 Burden, 1974 yılında gerçekleştirdiği performansında, evinin garajındaki bir Volkswagen'in arkasına, İsa'nın çarmıha ge- rilme sahnesinde olduğu gibi, arkadaşları tarafından çivilenmiş ve bu şekilde dışarıda arabayla dolaştırılmıştır. İsa figürü insanları uyarmak adına işkenceye katlanan, bu gayede ölen biriydi. Fakat sanatçı ise, acıya katlana- cak kadar yaşadığı dünyaya bağlı biridir. Ellerine çakılan çivileri sonrasında kadifeyle kaplanmış bir taş üstüne yerleştirip New York sanat galerisine satmıştır. Sanatçı bu perfor- mansında "beden"e el koyan, "beden"i yön- lendiren iktidara karşı durmayı acı çekerek öğütlüyor. Söylem ve eylemlerin "beden" üze- rinde dönmesi, toplumda yaşanan bunalımla- rı, sorunları, gizli gerçekleri ortaya çıkarma çabasıyla oluşturuluyor. Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı 221 2.9. Herman Nitsch, "80. Eylem" 1980'lere gelindiğinde 20. yüzyıl sanat oluşumlarının evrilmeye başlandığı dikkat çekmektedir. 1980'li yıllar, gerek toplumda gerek sanatta önemli farklılıkların belli düzey- lerde ön plana çıktığı bir dönem olmuştur. Dönemin, kimlik üzerinde yaşanan farklılıkla- rı su yüzüne çıkarması, sanatsal anlamda yeniliklerin oluşmasına sebep olmuştur. Kim- lik ve fark üzerine yoğunlaşan siyasi oluşum- lar "beden" politikalarıyla anılmaya başlanır. Çünkü, bedene dönük her türlü eylem, yaşa- nılan sistemi eleştirmeye yöneliktir. Bu çerçe- vede, sanatçılar kültürel farklılıkların bilinciy- le, baskı ve özellikle şiddete karşı, yaşamın tüm olumsuzluklarını bedenlerini kullanarak göstermeye çalışmışlardır (Kahraman, 2002: 196-212). Hermann Nitsch ve benzeri sanatçı- ların, kendilerine acı çektiren kanlı eylemleri ile dönüşüme uğrayan bedenleri söylemlerini iletmek için birer plastik nesneye dönüşür. Resim 9. Hermann Nitsch, 80. Eylem, 1984 Avusturalyalı sanatçı Hermann Nitsch bu amaçla bir seri kanlı eylem gerçek- leştirdi. Sanatçıya göre, bu kanlı eylem göste- rileri, mekanlarına sıkışmaya mahkum edilen modern insana bir tür arınma sağlamaktaydı. 1984 yılında düzenlediği "80. Eylem", tipik bir Hermann Nitsch klasiğiydi. Saflığın simgesi olan beyaz kıyafetler içerisindeki sanatçının gözleri yine beyaz bir örtüyle bağlandıktan sonra çarmıha gerilmişti. Asistanları, izleyen- lerin önünde bir danayı kesip iç organlarını çıkarmışlar, dananın kanını çarmıha gerilmiş olan sanatçının üzerine dökmüşlerdi. Bedene yapılan bu taciz uygulamaları üç gün sürerek, izleyicinin rahatsız olması sağlanmıştır. Bu eylemler insanlara yöneltilen bir aynadır (Yılmaz, 2012: 268). Stelarc, Stuart Brisley, J. Koons, Ro- bert Wilson, Oleg Kulig, Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgiois, Yayoi Kusama be- denlerini sanat nesnesi olarak kullanan sanat- çılara örnek olarak verilebilir. SONUÇ Geç kapitalizmin yarattığı olumsuz toplumsal koşullar sonucu gerçekleşen eko- nomik bunalımlar, cinsel hastalıklar (AIDS), şiddet vb. sanatçıların benliğinde tedavisi mümkün olmayan yaralar açmıştır. Çağdaş, modern uygarlığın insanı değersiz birer me- taya dönüştürmesi ile kendine yabancılaşan sanatçı, yerleşmiş, kurumsallaşmış tüm otori- teye karşı tepki vermeye başlar. Bu durum, özellikle, estetik ifadelerde kendini gösterir. Baskı güçlerini temsil eden Klasik es- tetikte, sanatçıya dair izler görülmezdi. Klasik sanatçı, belirlenmiş kurallar çerçevesinde gerçeği yansıtmak için, doğal olanı vermeye çalışırken; kavrama dönük işler yaratmaya çalışan sanatçıda bu özellikler alabildiğine 222 Gökçen Şahmaran Can özgürdür. Bu özgürlük içerisinde, mitik, ta- rihsel, cinsel gerçekliği ve şiddeti, küçüm- senmeyecek bir anlam kaydırmasıyla görsel pratiklere dökerler. 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Şiddet ve Sanatsal Yaratı, Jass Studies-The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies, Doi number:http://dx.doi.org/10.9761/JASSS7510, Number: 66 Spring II 2018, p. 211-222. work_3i2x5r65rfbb5amel53owj7zxq ---- Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018, p. 311-330 DOI Number: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.12801 ISSN: 1308-2140, ANKARA-TURKEY Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Article Info/Makale Bilgisi  Received/Geliş: Aralık 2017 Accepted/Kabul: Mart 2018  Referees/Hakemler: Doç. Dr. Mehmet ÖZKARTAL – Doç. Dr. Emine NAS – Doç. Dr. M. Emin KAYSERİLİ – Doç. Dr. Oğuz DİLMAÇ This article was checked by iThenticate. İSLAM PLASTİK SANATLARINDA SOYUTLAYICI YAKLAŞIMLAR VE BATI SANATI ÜZERİNDEKİ YANSIMALARI* Şemseddin DAĞLI** ÖZET Günümüz çağdaş sanatlar kapsamında farklı görsel örnekler ve sanatçılar örnekleminde ve Çalışmamızda üzerinde durmaya çalıştığımız sorun Geleneksel Türk ve İslam sanatlarının, modern sanatlar dâhilinde müstesna bir yeri yer tutan soyut sanat içerisindeki konumudur. Bu bağlamda, Batı sanatı kapsamında soyut sanat içinde gerçekleşerek, yüzyılımıza damgasını vuran modern sanat akımları arasındaki birtakım benzerlikleri ortaya koymaktır. Bu anlamda batı sanatçısının doğu ve İslam sanatlarından (Henry Matisse, Mark Tobey, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Hans Hartung, başta olmak üzere daha pek çok sanatçının) bu etkileşime örnek olabilecek nitelikte çok sayıda eser ortaya koydukları ve faydalandıkları bilinen bir gerçektir. Bizim amacımız bu etkileşimi belgelemek değildir. Burada üzerinde durduğumuz konu plastik anlamda sanat dediğimiz bu eylemi gerçekleştiren sanatçının bir insan olduğundan hareket ederek insanın temel içgüdüsel yaklaşımlarında farklı coğrafya ve değişik kültürel ortamlarda tarihsel süreç içerisinde benzer tepkisel refleks geliştirerek yine benzeri sanatsal hadiseleri gerçekleştirmiş olduğu gerçeğidir. Felsefi olarak İslam sanatlarının arka yapısı ile düşünsel gerçeği ve çıkış kaynağını yorumlayarak sorgulamak için İslam’daki resim yasağı sorununu ve bu yasağın nedenleri ile birlikte sonuçlarını analiz etmek gerekir. Söz konusu konularda yapılan araştırma ve yorumlamalar ise günümüzde bile kesin olarak herhangi somut bir yargıya ulaşamamıştır. Bu haliyle ele aldığımız konu her bir ele alınışında daha yeni tartışmalar başlatacak sonuçlar doğurmaktadır. Anahtar Kelimeler: İslam, soyut, sanat, resim, modern. * Bu makale, 18-24 Eylül 2017 tarihinde Malaga/ İspanya da düzenlenen USOS Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Kongresi’nde sunulan “İslam Sanatlarında Soyut Yaklaşımlar Ve Batı Resmindeki Yansımaları” isimli tebliğin geliştirilerek yayıma hazırlanmış biçimidir. ** Doç. Dr., Akdeniz Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, El-mek: szdagli@hotmail.com http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3085-2879 312 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 ABSTRACTIVE APPROACHES IN THE ISLAMIC ARTS AND ITS REFLECTION ON WESTERN PAINTING ABSTRACT The question that we attempted to emphasize in our study is the position of Traditional Turkish Arts within the abstract arts included in modern arts. In this context, it reveals some similarities among modern art movements which left its mark on our century by realizing in abstract art within the scope of western art. In this sense, it is known that western artists revealed many works (Henri Matisse, Mark Tobey, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky Van Gogh’ Picasso and many others) gave many examples and made use of this interaction. Our purpose is not to certificate this interaction. What we emphasized here that is based on that the artist who performed the action which we called as art in plastic sense is a human being, it is a fact that human realizes the similar artistic events by reacting similarly within the same historical process in different geographies and different culture mediums in his/her basic instinctual approaches. Philosophically, it is necessary to analyse the problem of painting ban in Islam and the reasons and consequences of this ban in order to inquire by interpreting the background, intellectual truth and its origin of emergence in Islamic arts. Researches and interpretations on these issues concluded in such a manner that each will create newer discussions without ever reaching a definite judgment even today. STRUCTURED ABSTRACT The question that we attempted to emphasize in our study is the position of Traditional Turkish Arts within the abstract arts included in modern arts. In this context, it reveals some similarities among modern art movements which left its mark on our century by realizing in abstract art within the scope of western art. In this sense, it is known that western artists revealed many works (Henri Matisse, Mark Tobey, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky Van Gogh’ Picasso and many others) gave many examples and made use of this interaction. Our purpose is not to certificate this interaction. What we emphasized here that is based on that the artist who performed the action which we called as art in plastic sense is a human being, it is a fact that human realizes the similar artistic events by reacting similarly within the same historical process in different geographies and different culture mediums in his/her basic instinctual approaches. Philosophically, it is necessary to analyse the problem of painting ban in Islam and the reasons and consequences of this ban in order to inquire by interpreting the background, intellectual truth and its origin of emergence in Islamic arts. Researches and interpretations on these issues concluded in such a manner that each will create newer discussions without ever reaching a definite judgment even today. Culture is a sociological phenomenon formed by nurturing with the material and spiritual resources of the way of thinking, thinking and living that is based on the life of a society. It embraces all the aesthetic and scientific fields in the direction of traditions. It is also affected and fed by other cultures and is degenerated by the pressure of other cultures. Art is a universal form. It is a language of emotion. Voices İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 313 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 melodies words pictures figures lines colors forms language tools. People have followed different ways of explaining the formations of the outer world in objects or in everything they designed in their minds. Human thought and art. These two social phenomena cannot jump from one point to another. Each period is a natural consequence of the previous period, but it is the next one. Only in this way is it possible to connect the previous turn to the present. The western artist who is looking for innovation in the past century has created different styles with different searches and descriptions other than what came to that day. A number of western artists who did not stay within themselves during this period of search but turned their faces to the east found the stone stones of eastern Islamic arts in the advent of modernism. From this optic, 20 yr. The fact that art is influenced by eastern art while art is being created is evident in the works and expressions of artists. It is observed that the Western artist imitates eastern arts while imitating his work with a rationalist approach but has a different dimension to form language. The motives of the Eastern Islamic world are in the form of socio-cultural phenomena clad in plastic forms that are appropriate to the needs of Western artists. In most of the contemporary societies, traditional folkloric values and traditional arts appear in different dimensions with new interpretations and conclusions. It is known that artists who produce works with abstract understanding by offering them with examples within the scope of Yeruz are inspired by their approach to this art in this direction. It is possible to see this inspiration in the works of artists such as Picasso, Paul Klee, Hans Hartung, Piette Mondrian and Joan Miro. This is an indication of the formal sense of richness and plasticity of eastern Islamic arts. It is observed that the contemporary western art, which we try to put forth in the texts and pictures, is particularly influenced by the Islamic arts especially when compared to western paintings and eastern Islamic art examples. It is observed that Paul Klee, Piette Mondrian strong representative of surrealism Miro, the important representative of Cubism Pablo Picasso, and the Dutch Escher studies are clearly observed. In Islam, the abstractionist tendencies at the core of Islamic art as a result of the insufficiency of understanding of the picture ban are the Islamic artist's distant from the painting tradition as opposed to the Western artist, and the surrealist narratives beyond the reality, with an intellectual connotation, sometimes poetic, the expression is conveyed to the appearance of the form as text. This composition has been achieved by the Islamic artist, sometimes as a mysterious mystery, and sometimes as a guide to realistic narratives. Keywords: Islam, art, picture, modern. GİRİŞ Sanat dediğimiz sosyal olay tüm canlılar içinde insanoğluna ait uğraşılarından birisi durumundaki bir kavramdır. Bir toplumun duyuş yaşayış biçimi olarak kavradığımız Kültürün sosyal yapısı kapsamı içerisinde ele aldığımız bu olgu tarihsel süreçte toplulukların dinsel siyasal inançları ve sosyolojik yapısı içerisinde şekillenmiştir. Türk ve İslam sanatçıları bulundukları coğrafyadan hareketle diğer kıtalara ve coğrafyaya adım attıklarında da bu kültürel aktarım farklı din inanç ve öğretilerin etkilediği bu coğrafyada kültürden direk beslenen sanatlarında birbirinden etkilenmesi doğaldır. İslam sanat anlayışını kavrayabilmek için kutsal kitabı olan kurana bakmak gerekir. Kuranda belirgin olan soyut duygular İslam sanatçısına başlangıç noktası teşkil etmiştir Kitap 314 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 sanatları diye adlandırabileceğimiz hat tezhip ciltçilik ebru gibi sanatlar İslam dünyasının sanat dünyasına sunduğu estetik kazanımlarıdır. Resim ve heykel gibi boyutlandırılmış sanata karşı özellikle ibadethaneler ve kitaplarda hoş bakmayan İslam sanatı soyut formlarda kendini bulmuştur İslam’da resim yasağının yanlış anlaşılması sonucu soyuta ve farklı biçim arayışlarına yön tutan İslam sanatçıları böyle bir endişe içerisinde bulunmadan salt insansı sezgi ve endişelerini plastik bir ifadeyle her şekilde görünüşe ulaştırmayı hedefleyen batılı sanatçı arasında somut benzerlikler söz konusudur. İslam sanatlarında Tanrıya ulaşma güdüsü içinde tam bir teslimiyet batıl sanatçıda ise çatışmacı bir diyalektik vardır. Sonuçta oluşan iki eylemde her ne kadar farklıysa da sonuç neredeyse aynıdır. Günümüz modern sanatı ve çağdaşlık kavramları dekoratif ve sezgisel anlamlar taşır. Ruhun derinliklerine kısa sürede ulaşarak etki oluşturur. Bu çalışmanın amacı bir ilişkiyi ortaya koymak olmamakla birlikte zaman içinde çağın ve dönemin anlayışları gereği teknolojik ve kültürel yakınlaşmaların yoğun olarak yaşandığı yüz yılımızda sanatsal olarak ortaya çıkan eserlerin biçimsel olmamakla birlikte yaklaşım dâhilinde benzerlikler olarak ortaya çıkmasıdır. Çalışmada bu benzerlikleri dönemler ve eserler bazında ortaya koymaktır. MATERYAL ve YÖNTEM Çalışmada materyal olarak ele aldığımız örnekler İslam sanatçıları tarafından ortaya konulan ve çok değişik alanlarda üretilen eserlerdir. Bunlar İslam yazı sanatı hat diğer kitap sanatlarından birisi olan minyatür özgün dokuma tekniklerinden düz ve havlı dokumalar kilim ve halı ve çini ağırlıklı eserlerdir. Bura da ele alınan eserler ön ve arka yapılarıyla birlikte plastik açıdan analiz edilmiştir. Örnekler belirlenirken alan sınırlaması yapılıp ülkemiz müzelerinden Türk İslam eserleri müzesi, İstanbul şehir müzesi, Topkapı sarayı müzesi, Ankara etnografya müzesinde bulunan yazı resim örnekleri seçilmiştir. Materyaller dönem üslup biçim form vb. açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Avrupa sanatına söz konusu olan eserler ise Hollanda İngiltere, Almanya ve diğer Avrupa müze ve koleksiyonlarından seçilmiş örneklerdir. Çalışmada temel yaklaşım olarak İslam sanatlarının değişik malzemelerle ve tekniklerle sunulmuş örnekleri ve batının modernist resim anlayışları arasındaki plastik benzeşimi anlam bütünlüğü içinde ortaya koymaktır. Veriler Türk İslam sanatının görsel örnekleri olan hat ve dokuma örneklerinden ve batı resim sanatının modern soyut anlayışta eserler üreten sanatçılarından Escher, Fausto Zonaro, Robert Delaunay, George Braque, Paul Klee, Joan Miro Hans Hartung, Vassily Kandinsky seçilmiştir. Çalışmanın yöntemi karşılaştırmalı analiz yöntemidir. Çalışmamıza konu alarak ele aldığımız örnekler dönem üslup ve biçimsel form benzerlikleri dâhilinde ele alınmıştır. Eser incelemeleri batılı resim anlayışı içinde yapılan resimlerle karşılaştırmalı olarak benzerliklere ele alınmıştır. Bu benzerlikler ortaya konulmaya çalışılırken eserler renk biçim espas denge armoni ritm hareket vb. ön yapıyı oluşturan plastik kriterler ışığında arka yapı yani içerik açısından karşılaştırmalı olarak incelenmiştir. İslam sanatı İslam sanatları içinde müstesna bir yeri bulunan geleneksel Türk süsleme sanatlarının tarihsel gelişim süreci içerisinde tanımlamasını yaparken İslam sanat anlayışının doğası içinde var olan soyut yaklaşımlarla batı sanatında yüzyılımıza damgasını vuran soyut sanat arasındaki bazı benzerlikler mevcuttur. Günümüz batı resmine ve sanatına yön veren çağdaş batılı sanatçıların doğu sanatlarından Wincent Van Gogh’un Henri Matisse, Mark Tobey, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky ve daha pek çok sanatçının bu etkileşimin örneklerini verdiği hatta faydalandıkları bilinen bir gerçektir. Bizim ise buradaki amacımız doğu İslam sanatları ve batı sanatının etkileşimi belgelemek değildir. Burada problem olarak baktığımız olay plastik anlamda sanat dediğimiz eylemi gerçekleştiren sanatçı bir insan olduğuna göre insanın temel içgüdüsel yaklaşımlarında farklı coğrafya, farklı kültür İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 315 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 ortamlarında tarihi zaman diliminde aynı reflekslerle tepki vererek benzeri sanatsal olayları gerçekleştirdiği gerçeğidir. Bu yöndeki diğer farklı değerlendirmelere göre ise insanoğlu güzel sanatlardan hiçbir zaman sürecinde ayrılamamıştır. Bundan ötürü medeniyetleri güzel sanatlardan ayrıyeten düşünmekte mümkün olmamaktadır (Kara, 1999,187). Din sanat Sanat ve din bazen birbirlerine baskın olarak sürekli birbirinden etkilenmişlerdir. Din, bilim sanat ve ahlâk gibi fenomenler insanın şuuraltında bir bütün olarak yaşanmaktadır (Coşkun, 2014, 98). Bölgesel ve toplumsal ayrımlara karşı ortak bir dünya görüşü ışığında gelişen İslam inancının içinde bulunduğumuz evreni tanıma yaşama ve günlük hayatı bir uyum içinde bütünleştiren İslam sanatları batı sanatını da etkileyen ve etkilemeye devam eden evrensel özellikler taşımaktadır (Köksal, 1984,31). Batı sanatında, resim, genellikle izleyiciye bir çerçeve ya da pencereden izleniyormuş hissi verirken doğu resmi zihinsel ve kalpte mevcut olan oradan da mekâna yansıtılan bir duruma sahiptir. Batılı sanat, zaman içerisindeki, durdurulmuş bir anlık hareketin resmini yaparken, doğu sanatı, durağan olmayan, hareketli ve sürekli bir durumun resmini yapmaktadır (Coomaraswamy,1995, 32-34). İslam sanatlarının arka yapı elemanlarını yorumlayabilmek içim resim yasağı meselesi ve bu yasağın boyutlarını iyi analiz etmek gerekir. Bu konularda yapılan araştırma ve yorumlamalar kesin bir yasaya ulaşmadan her biri daha yeni tartışmalar başlatacak şekilde sonuçlanmaktadır. Eldeki mevcut örneklere göre, İslam sanatlarının erken dönelerinde bilinçli olarak tasvirden kaçınılmış ve bunu doğal sonucu olarak soyutlamaya girilmiştir (Yakutcan, 1989,2). Kur’ân dilinde yaratma “bara'a”, biçim verme “savvara” aynı anlamda yorumlandığı için, yaratılan varlıkların benzerini tasvir yani resim, Allah’ı taklit sayılmış ve sanatçılar figürleri benzetmeye çalışmaktan kaçınmışlardır. (Buhârî, Libâs 90, 2). “Döneminde henüz oluşum aşamasındaki İslam sanatının Emevi döneminde gözlemlenen resim yasağı ve bu yasağa uymayan bazı kural dışı uygulamalarda halifelerin şahsi davranışları, sanatsal sorun ve coğrafi etkileşmelerle açıklanabilecektir.” (Grabar,1988, 15) (Resim 1). Resim 1. Ürdün'de 6. Emevî Halifesi Velid bin Abdülmelik tarafından yaptırılan kuseyramra sarayında duvar resimleri İslam’da resim yasağı kesin bir yargı olmamakla birlikte, güçlü bir etki alanına sahip olduğu gerçektir. Bunun sonucu olarak İslam toplumlarında hat geleneği güçlenmiş; yazı, resmin yerini doldurma düşüncesinin merkezi olmuştur (Koçan, 1997, 11). İslam dininde resim yapmak yasak sayıldığı için İslâm ülkelerinde yazıları süslemek bir bakıma resmin yerini tutuyordu. Bu nedenle hat 316 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 sanatı ile bugünkü nonfigüratif resim sanatı arasında büyük benzerlik vardır. İslam’ın doğuşu sırasında Araplar 'kufi' denen bir yazı biçimi kullanıyorlardı. Hattat denen yazı ustaları daha sonra değişik biçimde yazılar icat etti. Ondan sonra süsleme sanatları arasında yer alan yazı sanatı bir meslek haline geldi, büyük bir gelişme gösterdi. Türk sanatçıları Arap yazısını güzel sanat haline getirdi (Sabah Gazetesi, Kasım,2014)(Resim 2-3). Resim 2. Hattat Mustafa Rakım Efendiye Ait Celi Sülüs ve Sülüs yazılı Levha TSMK-GY. 324/1) Resim 3.Ahmet Karahisari Müselsel Besmele İslam sanatçısı güzelliğin yaratıcısı değil onu keşfedendir ve asla onu varedenle rekabete kalkışmaz. Sanatını o’nu anlamaya, anlatmaya ve yüceltmeye adar. Sanatçı tüm güzelliklerin kaynağının yaradan olduğunu fark ederek göreceli bir güzellik anlayışından ideal güzelliğe ulaşmak ister. Böylece insanı, hayvanî derekenin bile altına düşürecek olan süfli bağlarından kurtularak, onu meleklerin bile üzerine taşıyacak olan ulvi bir idraki ve derunî bir sezgiyi yakalar; Allah’ın büyüklüğünü, haşmetini ve güzelliğini ifade etmek için gerekli olan düşünceye dalar (Pişkin, 2014,50). İslam sanatçısı eserlerini oluştururken, yaratıcı ile bir yarış halindeymiş gibi algılanmaktan mümkün olduğunca uzak durmaya çalışan, "kendi yaratımı” üzerinde yorumlamaktan ziyade, “Tanrı'nın yarattıklarının keyfi” üzerinde yorumlamayı öne çıkaran bir bakışa sahiptir (Can & Gün, 2012, 164). İslam bir zarafet dinidir. Düzendir intizamdır ve bu manzumelerin hayata geçirilmesini öngörür. İslam’ın peygamberi bir hadislerinde “Allah güzeldir ve güzelliği sever.” Müslim, iman, 147 diyerek “Allah’ın ve dinin ölçüsünün her şeyde zarafet olduğunu öğütlemiştir. Buna ilişkin bir örnekte Hz Peygamberin bir süre sonra kapatılacak olan bir mezarın çukurundaki uyumu bozan yığının düzeltilm esini isteyerek, “esasında bu tür şeyler ölüyü ne sıkar ne de ona rahatlık verir, ama bu iş hayatta olanların gözlerine güzel görünmek içindir” emretmesi, İslâmi sanat anlayışının içeriğini, onun duyurucusunun sanata verdiği önemi göstermektedir. Bu hassasiyet aynı zamanda “o Allah ki, her şeyi güzel yapmış ve ilk başta insanı çamurdan yaratmıştır.” “Sen dağları görürsün de onları yerinde durur sanırsın. Oysa onlar bulutların yürümesi gibi yürümektedirler. Bu her şeyi güzel ve sağlam yapan Allah’ın sanatıdır.” ayetlerinin tefsiri niteliğindedir (Coşkun, 2014, 95). İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 317 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Din ve sanat arasında duyguların ifadesi açısından dapek çok benzerlik bulunmaktadır. Din ahlâkta güzellik ararken, sanat görece güzelliği yansıtmaktadır. Tolstoy ise eserinde sanatın gerçek amacının ahlâkî mükemmellik olduğunu belirtmiştir (Tolstoy, 1996,88). Tüm bu ahlaki söylemlerine rağmen Tolstoy sanat için yapılan yanlışlıklara tepkisini şu şekilde belirtmektedir: “Sanat dünyasının en büyük meselesi, sanatçının yalandan ve kötülükten uzaklaşamaması, insanın kötü duygularının ve şeytanın ortak hareket etmeleridir” (Tolstoy,1996, 62). Din- tarikat- resim Objeleri olduğu gibi resmetmekten imtina eden bir takım sanatçılar (nakkaşlar), nesnel gerçeğe yönelerek, sezginin akıl ve mantık yoluyla görselleşerek vahdet-i vücuda ulaşmak istemişlerdir. Bu anlamda İslâm sanatçısı, üç boyutlu hacimsel anlatım unsurları olan, ışık-gölge ve perspektifi kullanmaktan bilinçli olarak uzak kalmışlardır. Resimlenmek istenen nesneler; içleri renklerle doldurulmuş sade geometrik biçimlerle ifade edilmiştir. Bu sayede İslâm sanatçısına nesnel görsellik yolu kapanmış, soyut ve sonsuzluk yolu açılmıştır(Bingöl, 2015,67).Anadolu’da yazı ve resim ilişkisinin bütünleşmesinde İslam da resim yasağı düşüncesine diğer tarikatlara göre daha hoş görü ile bakan iki tarikatın önemi büyüktür. Mevlevilik ve Bektaşilik (Resim 4). Resim 4. Osman Yumni, Leylek Formunda Yazı-Levha Topkapı Sarayı Minyatür ve Yazma Eserler Salonu H.1309/M.1901 G.Y. 1474. Mevleviler resim sanatı için iyi bir ilham kaynağıdır. Önceleri bir tür soyut resim olan minyatürle başladı. Sonraları klasik veya modern çalışan ressamlar da konuya ilgi gösterdi. Batıdan G. Mandel, Hollandalı Van Mour, İtalyan Zanora'nın Mevlevi resimleri meşhurdur. Bizden 318 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 İbrahim Çallı, Cemal Tollu, Maide Arel ve Aliye Berger "Mevleviler" konulu resimler yaptılar (Demirci 2015) (Resim 5 -6-7). Resim 5. Jean BaptisteVan Mour Galata Mevlevihanesi Resim 6. Fausto Zonaro Neyzen Resim 7. Fausto Zonaro, haykıran dervişler Tasavvufun dışında oluşan düşünce ve anlayışlarda sanat, eşyayı algılamak, eşyaya işlev yüklemek açısından bulunulan şartlara göre değişkenlik arzeder. Sanat anlayışlarında nesne, öznenin kontrolündedir. Sanatçı istediği şekilde nesneyi yorumlayıp biçim verebilmektedirEstetik ve sanat üzerindeçalışma yapanlar, sadece kendi anlayışları paralelinde yorum oluşturmaktadırlar. Bunun için şunu ifade edilmelidir ki, estetik ne psikolojik duyguların ne genel sanat anlayışının ne de bütün bu alanları içeren felsefenin kapsamı dâhilinde değildir. Sanat ve estetik, tüm düşüncelerin inanışların ve dinin kapsamı dâhilindedir. Bu anlamda estetik ve güzellik, “estetik, yalnız felsefî tavır alan bir kimse için bir şey ifade eder” 10 mantığıyla bakan felsefecilerin isavının dışında olan bir realitedir(Teknik, 2014, 497 ). İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 319 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Modern sanat Modern sanatın gelişim sürecinde xx. yüzyıl sanatçısı, sürekli bir hareketlilik içinde soyutanlayışı aramış ona yönelmiştir. Aynı yüzyılda plastik sanatlarda biçimi ve yüzeyi parçalama eğilimi belirmiş eşyanın ana fonksiyonları görerek farklı yorumlarını irdelemişlerdir(Müller, 1972,75). (Resim 8). Resim 8. George Braque, Şişe ve Balıklar,61x75cm,1910 Tate Gallery / Londra - İngiltere Çalışmamıza konu olan modern sanat algısını anlayabilmek için, öncelikle modern- modernizm kavramlarını irdelemek gerekir. Köken olarak “modern” kelimesi Latince “modernus” kelimesinden türetilmiştir. Modern kelimesinin geç Latincedeki şekli olan "modernus", "hemen şimdi, tam, bugüne ait" anlamlarındaki "modo" zarfından türer. Modernus, ilk kez kullanıldığı V. yüzyıldan günümüzde işaret ettiği anlamına kadar farklı anlayışları ya da toplulukları ifade etmiştir. Hıristiyanlar, Romalı ve pagan geçmişten ayrı tutmak üzere kendilerini modernus diye adlandırırlar (Kızılçelik, 1994, 87). Ortak bir dünya görüşü ışığında gelişen İslam inancının içinde bulunduğumuz evreyi tanıma, yaşana günlük hayatı uyumlu kılan İslam sanatları batıyı da açıdan baktığımızda “batı sanatının en büyük özelliği, insanın Allah’a karşı mücadelesidir. Batıda insan yaptıklarıyla Allah’ın altında olmak istemez, o’na karşı adeta savaşır. Sanat da onun yarattığıdır. Batılı ressamlar büyük boyutlarda insan vücutlarını, kasları ve dokularıyla birlikte çizmişlerdir. İslâm’da ise, sanat ibadet gibidir. İnsana, tabiata bakışta Allah ile herhangi bir çatışma yoktur. Müslüman’ın yaratıcı olmak gibi herhangi bir iddiası yoktur’’ (Çetin,43). Gerçek olan şuki, sanatsal değerler ve etkinlikler insan ruhunu yücelterek dinginleştiren kılan, hoşgörü ve sevgiyle yoğuran motive edici bir etkiye sahiptirler. Arseven,1994, 1755-1756; Denilebilir ki sanat, din ile iç içe bir görünüm sergiler. Dinin kendisini anlatma, mesajını iletme yollarından birisi sanattır (Ökten, 2014, 28). İslam soyut sanat İslâm sanatı başlangıcından itibaren soyuta yönelmiştir. Bu nedenle geometrik formları tercih ederek doğadan aldığını bir nevi doğasızlaştırarak ortaya koymuştur. Bu durum yalnızca süsleme sanatına özgü değildir. Minyatür sanatını açıklamak için de bize gerekli olan doneleri sunmaktadır. İslam yazı sanatı hat, arabesk ve minyatür sanatlarının gelişmesini sadece "resim 320 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 yasağı" gibi puta tapmayı önleme amacı güden bir önleme bağlamak yanlıştır. Aslında İslâm dünyasında tasvir, yaygın olmamasına karşın hep var olmuştur. Soyuta yönelişin arkasındaki itici güç, yukarıda temas ettiğimiz tevhit ve tenzih prensipleri olmuştur( Aydın, 1987,237). Bu konuyla ilgili olarak verilebilecek en güzel örneklerden biride Hollandalı sanatçı M.C Escher’dir. M.C Escher 1922 yılındagerçekleştirdiği İspanya ziyareti esnasında gördüğü Alhamra Sarayı'nda alçı ve süslemelerden fazlasıyla etkilenmiş, ileriki dönem sanat hayatındaki baskılarının vazgeçilmez konularından birisi olarak biçimlenmiştir (Resim 9-10-11-12-13-14). Resim 9. Cordoba ulu camii Resim 10.Alhambra çinileri Resim 11,M.C.Escher mimari çizim Resim 10. M.C Escher, metamorfoz -Rotterdam İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 321 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Resim 11 M.CEscher metamorfoz. Escher Museum, roterdam Resim 12. Elhamra Sarayı- Granada II. Dünya savaşının hemen ardından ortaya çıkan soyut sanat akımı, yüzyılın en büyük sanat olayıdır. Düşüncenin gerçekleşmesinden soyutlama yavaş yavaş oluşagelmiştir (Erdem,1963, 18). Soyutlamakonu üzerine eğilen farklı yazarlar tarafından terminolojik anlamda şu şekilde tanımlanmıştır. Bu yazarlardan John Louke’ye göre “soyutlama”, dış dünyaya ilişkin belirli nesnelerden belirli fikirleri alarak onları gerçek varoluştan (zaman, mekân) ayırır. ( genç-sipahioğlu 1990: 180) Soyut sanat olası tüm dış gerçekleri inkâr eden sade renk ve formlarla estetik duygular heyecanlar uyandırmayı hedefleyen bir kavramdır. Soyut sanat zihinsel bir vakadır. Tabiatın taklidi dışındadır. Devam eden bir sanat evriminin 20 yy’da ki görünüşüdür (Kınay 1993: 266.) (Resim 15). Resim 13. Robert Delaunay, Circular Forms (Formescirculaires) Soyut sanat yalnızca bir ressamın keyfi bir anlatım üslubu olmadığı için 20. yüzyılı kültürel, politik açılardan büyüteç altına almakta yarar vardır. Böyle bir ayrıştırmadan sonra bu sanatın dünyadaki sosyal dengesizliklere duyarsız kalamayan sanatçının süper güçlere karşı hiçliğini anlayarak kendi içine kapanması sonucu bakışlarını doğadan uzaklaştırmasını kendi içine çevirmesiyle ortaya çıkmış, bir iç çatışmadır (Büyükişleyen, 1978, 134). Soyut sanat pek çokları için garip üçgenler, kareler, ucubik şekillerden ibarettir. Gerek soyut sanat gerekse ”normal” sanatın ne olduğu, nasıl olması gerektiği konusunda Batıda yapılan tartışmalar asırlardır devam etmektedir. Ancak meselenin özüne inmek isterseniz bütün kavgaların iki noktada yoğunlaştığı görülür. Bunlardan ilki sanat görüneni taklit etmelidir, estetik prensipler kuralınca gerçekleşir. Diğeri ise sanat bir anlam içermez renk, şekil, ses, ritm vs. 322 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 amaç değil araçtır. Batı sanatçısı gerçekçi yaklaşımdan ayrılarak soyuta yönelmeye başlamış bir başka deyimle, soyut sanatçı Paul Klee’nin de söylediği gibi görünmeyeni görünür eylemenin yollarını araştırmıştır (Eti,1977, 28). Modern sanatın pek çok öncüsünün ortaya koydukları eserlerde Doğu ve eski Türk el sanatı örneklerinde olduğu gibi, sadelik, minimuma indirgeme, çoktlukta birlik, belirlginlik içinde belirsizlik gibi ilkelerin ön plana çıkmasıdır. Modern sanat akımlarının böylesine sentez ve deneme yolu ile sonuca gitme uğraşları, duygusal ve anlamlı eserlerin temelinde olması gereken bir özellik ve bir estetik zenginliktir. Bu anlamda resim sanatın gelişim süreçlerinde etkili olduğunu, bu öğelere yakın durarak çok daha yakın bakıp incelemek gerektiği düşünülmektedir (Bayramoğlu, 2016, 353). “Şüphesiz Modern Sanatın geniş çatısı altında, her toplumun kendine haslığını ve kültürel rengini koruyarak farklı seçenekler sunabilmesi olağan bir durumdur.” (Lynton 2004: 52-57). Kültürlerin başka kültürleri ve sanatlarını etkilemek gibi bir başka fonksiyonellikleri de vardır Bu bağlamda sanata baktığımızda modern resim sanatında haklı bir şekilde yer bırakanların halı ve kilimlerimizi görmemiş olduklarından bahsedemeyiz. Halıların daha 13. ve 14. yüzyıllarda Venedikli tüccarlarca Avrupa'ya yayıldığını, ünlü Alman ressam HansHolbein'in de 15. yüzyılda yaptığı resimlerindebir fon elemanı olarak kullandığı bilinmektedir. Sonraki yüzyıllarda batılı sanatçıların halı ve kilimlerle fazlaca ilgilenmişlerdir. Burada söz konusu olan sorun, hangi sanatçının hangi halıdan ya da kilimden nasıl faydalandığından öte modern sanatçıların kullandığı görsel anlatım unsurları veya düzenlemeler ile geleneksel kültürün ürünü Anadolu halı ve kilim örgeleri arasında çok yakın benzerliğe dikkat çekilmesidir ( Bingöl, 2014,72), (Resim 16-17). Resim 14. Afyon yöresi cicim yolluk (Şemseddin Dağlı kolleksiyonu) Resim 15. Paul Klee. Portale di una moschea İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 323 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Resim 16. Afyon yöresi cicim kilim (Şemseddin Dağlı kolleksiyonu) Resim 17. Paul Klee_. Highwayand Byways [Hauptwegund Nebenwege] (1928)Museum Ludwig, Cologne 20. yüzyıl Modern Batı Resim sanatının öncülerinden Paul Klee, Doğu kültürü etkisini eserlerinde yansıtan ressamlardandır. Gençliğinde bir süre resim ve müzik arasında seçim yapmakta kararsız kalan Klee, tavrını resimden yana koyarken akademik resim kurallarına aykırı bir yol izlemiştir. Bu süre içerisinde farklı yönelimler içerisinde çelişkiler yaşayan sanatçının, 1914 yılında yaptığı Tunus seyahati yaşamı ve sanatında dönüm noktası olarak izlenir. Bu gezi sırasında sanatçı, Doğunun saf parlak renkleri ile ritim ve geometri ağırlıklı süslemelerini keşfeder. Ayrıca 1929’da yaptığı Mısır gezisi Klee’nin tüm sanat yaşamında etkili olduğu görülmektedir (Bayramoğlu, 2016,354), (Resim 20-21-22-23). 324 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Resim 18. Paul Klee, Zitronen Resim 19. Paul Klee Castleand sun Sanatçıların özgür duruşlarını sergileyerek öze ulaşma çabalarının arttığı bir dönem olan birinci dünya savası sonrası özellikle Amerikalı sanatçıların ortaya koydukları eserlerde bu etkileşimin izleri görülmektedir. Özellikle halı ve kilimlerimizdeki örge motif dizaynı renk düzenleri bazı sanatçılara ilham vererek kullanılmıştır. İslâm inancına göre; “gerçek güzellik, nesnenin değişen niteliklerinde değil, değişmeyen özündedir. Bu öze ancak nesneyi sadeleştirip temel çizgilerini yakalamakla ulaşılabilir.” Adeta stilizasyonu anlatan bu tavır kültür dünyamızda sanatın, İslâmî inanç sistemi ile nasıl buluşup, beslendiğini açıkça ortaya koymaktadır (Birol, 2016,63). Sembolleşmiş olarak görülen motif-nesne sıralama yöntemi başta Manisa Gördes halıları olmak üzere, Anadolu halı ve kilimlerinde geleneksel olarak çeşitli şekillerde kullanılan bir yöntemdir. Afyon-Bayat yöresinde dokunan Türkmen gelini ile kaynana arasındaki kavgadan ismini alan, “örümcekli” kiliminde, görülen geleneksel motif-nesne sıralama yöntemi yıllardan beri günümüzdede aynı şekilde kullanılmaktadır. Kilimde ardışık bi şekilde tekrarlanan motiflerin içleri sıcak-soğuk renk düzeninde doldurulmuş bu sayede kompozisyona farklı bir hareketlilik kazandırılmıştır. Pop sanatın önde gelen temsilcisi Andy Warhol’un “Marilyn Monroe” adlı yapıtında da motif-nesne sıralama yöntemini benzer bir biçimde kullanıldığı görülmektedir. Soğuk- sıcak renklerle betimlenen Monroe’nun portesi, kilimde olduğu gibi, yan yana dizilerek bir istif düzeni içerisinde oluşturulmuştur. Sanatçı, motif sıralama yöntemini kullanarak, soğuk-sıcak renklerle betimlediği portrelerle, Monroe’nun değişken ruh hali izleyiciye hissettirmektedir (Bingöl,2014,70-71).(Resim 24-25) İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 325 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Resim 22 Kayarevan kufisi Resim 23 Paul Klee in the Style of Kairouan1914. Resim 24Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe, 1967 Resim 20. Afyon yöresi örümcekli kilim Klee resimlerinde, aldığı müzik eğitiminde de etkisi ile İslâm kültüründe tanıdığı nesnel gerçeği aramaya yönelerek müzikte olduğu gibi, resimde sadeleştirilmiş anlatımlara ulaşmak istemiştir. İslâm kültüründe var olan nesnel gerçek düşüncesini arayışa çıkan sadece Klee değildi. Bu sanatçılar arasında Matisse, Delaunay, Vassily, Kandinsky ve daha birçok döneminin ünlü ismi sayılabilir (Turani, 1960). Cezanne’nin (1839 1906), “doğa; küre, koni ve silindirden oluşur.” diyerek, doğayı yalın biçimlerde görmek isteği, daha sonraki kuşak tarafından benimsenip, kübizmde ifadesini bulmuştur. Wasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Paul Klee (1879 1940) bunlarla da yetinmeyip, sanatta gerçeği arama çabasına girmişlerdi.11 nesnelerin görünümlerini resmetmek onlar için yeterli olmuyor, nesnel gerçeği arayarak soyut anlatıma ulaşmak istiyorlardı. Sanatçıların, sanatın kendi ifadesini arayışına yönelmeleri, 19. yüzyılın sonlarında sanatçıları yeni arayışlara yöneltti (Bingöl,2014,69). Soyut resmin önde gelen temsilcilerinden Wassily Kandinsky’nin çalışmalarını ele alacak olursak, her iki sanatta da bir renk uyumu bulunmaktadır Kandinsky’nin resimlerinde, boya lekeleri figüratif bir anlam içermeksizin tuval üzerine rastgele bir şekilde serpilmiştir (Kınay, 1993, 266),(Resim 26). 326 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 Resim 21. Wassily Kandinsky, Transverse Line 1923. Kandinskynin soyut sanatta kuramlar aradığı süreçte Klee’ de doğadaki denge ve ilişkinin armonilerini aramaktadır. Soyut resim sanatının öncülerinden Kandinsky “Doğa kendi biçimini kendi amaçları, sanat da kendi biçimini kendi amaçları için yaratır.” Anlayışı ile soyuta yönelmiştir (Büyük İşleyen, 1978,136). Dönemin bir başka ünlü sanatçısı Picasso Paris’te karşılaştığı Cezayir’li bir hattatın yapmış olduğu hat eserlerini görünce aynen söyle demiştir; “İşte gerçek resim bu.” sanatçı tanıdığı bu hat ustasından bir dönem dersler almış ve hat sanatına olan hayranlığını ileride şu sözlerle ifade etmiştir.” Batı’nın yüzyıllar boyu üzerinde durup peşinden koştuğu soyut ifadeyi hattatlar asırlar önce bularak çağın üstüne çıkmış ve en güzel örneklerini vermişlerdir. Benim varmak istediğim son noktayı, İslam yazısı çoktan bulmuş” (https://indigodergisi.com, 28 Kasım 2014), (Resim 27). Resim 22. Qur'anic Manuscript - Maghribi Burada Picasso’nun doğu hattatlığı diyerek tarif ettiği hattatlık, doğrudan doğruya Türk yazı sanatı olabilir. Çünkü Doğu’da Türkler’den başka hattat olan toplum yoktur. Anlaşılması güç olan İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 327 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 bir gerçekte şudur: hattatlık Picasso’nun zannettiği gibi, sadece nonfigüratif değil, hem figüratif hem de nonfigüratif olan bir sanattır. Türk hattatları batı soyut sanatçıları gibi yalnızca gerçeklerden kaçınmakla kalmamışlar, bu gerçeği anlatmışlardır. Resim sanatının geleceği hakkında sunmaya çalıştığımız örnekler bağlamında Picasso’yu bir diğer örnek olarak görmek olasıdır. Bu ressam, geleneksel Afrika maskelerinden esinlenerek Kübizm akımının temel değerlerini prensiplerini ortaya koyarak 20. asrın başlarında resim sanatında yepyeni bir hava estirmiştir. Georges Braque ile birlikte başlattıkları kübizm akımı sanat tarihinde silinmez derin bir iz bırakmıştır. Bu resim anlayışının temelinde ise bazı doğu etkilerinin yattığı söylenebilir. Bir defasında, Picasso, bir Türk hat sanatı eserini görüp “işte gerçek soyut resim budur” dediği söylenir. Doğu sanat anlayışının kökünde tasavvufun yerini, rolünü ve etkisini kabul etmiş olursak, bu manevi cevherlerle dolu engin deryanın verebileceği ilhamların tükenmeyeceğini diyebilmekteyiz. Tasavvufa dayanan sanatçı, bilgeliğe ermiş bir zat oluverir. Tasavvuf sayesinde yeniliğe olan kapılar hep açık kalacaktır. Vurgulamak istediğim husus, tasavvufun sanatta yol gösterici bir rehber olması için gereken her şeyi içinde barındırmasıdır. Bu ise yalnız sanatta değil, hayatın her sahasında geçerli olmalıdır. Sanatta gerçek avangard olmak bugün artık çok zor. Muhyiddin i Arabi’nin dediği gibi “söylenmemiş söz kalmadı”. Ancak Mevlana diyor ki: “yeni şeyler söylemek lazım”. Sanatta tekrarlamanın “bir âlemi yok”. Sanatımızın geleceğiyle kafa yormak vazgeçilmez bir merakımdır. Yaşatıldığımız tüm bu savaş rüzgârlarına rağmen sanata sarılalım diyorum. Asıl uğraşlara hayatımızı adamak (kaderimiz Picasso ve tasavvuf, Rıfat emin). Son yüzyılın Avrupalı sanatçılarında bir takım izmler akımlar belirginleşmiş ve bunlardan dönem ve üslup açmış Picasso, Miro, Kandinsky, Klee, Hartung gibi bazı dev sanatçıların bizim geleneksel kültürümüzün ürünleri hat minyatür ebru halı kilim gibi plastik ve simgesel boyutu yüksek sanatlarımızı karakterize ederek kullandıkları gözlemlenmektedir (Resim 28, 29). Resim 23. Joan Miro Les Grandes Manoeuvres Resim 24. Hans Hartung, Untitled 1938 Kültürün önemli belirtilerinden olan bazı im ve işaretlerin başka biçimlerde başka sanatlarda plastik ifadeler bulması çağlar boyu sanatçıların ortak güdüsü olmuştur. Burada anlaşılması gerekense bu kültürel alıntıların doğrudan direk değil yorumlanarak kendi anlayışlarına göre işlenmesi sonucudur. Din-Sanat ilişkisi Sanat, özü itibariyle değil ancak yapıtları noktasında 328 Şemseddin DAĞLI Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 psikolojik bir inceleme konusu olabilir. Sanatın özde ne olduğu sorusu psikolojinin alanını aşan bir durumdur. Benzer şekilde din de, esas itibariyle kendi fenomenolojisini oluşturan, kendine özgü coşku ve simgeleriyle öz olarak psikoloji tarafından tam olarak açıklanamayan bir olgudur. En nihayetinde din ve sanat, her ikisi de öz olarak bilim olmadığı gibi ancak kendilerine özgü nesnelerle açıklanabilirler. Sanatçı ile yapıtı arsındaki ilişki sanatçının yetiştiği ortam, şartlar bilinmeden tam olarak anlaşılamaz (Jung, 2006, 308-309). SONUÇ VE ÖNERİLER Geçtiğimiz yüzyılda yenilik arayan batı sanatçısı o güne kadar gelenin dışında farklı arayış ve betimlemelerle farklı üsluplar oluşturmuştur. Bu arayış dönemlerinde kendi içlerinde kalmayıp yüzünü doğuya çeviren bir takım batılı sanatçılar modernizm serüvenindeki mihenk taşlarını doğu İslam sanatlarında bulmuşlardır. Bu optikten bakıldığında 20 yy. sanatı oluşturulurken batının doğu sanatından etkilendiği gerçeği sanatçıların ortaya koyduğu eserler ve anlatımlarında belirgindir. Rasyonalist bir yaklaşımla eserini ortaya koyarken batılı sanatçı doğu sanatlarını taklit etmeden ama form dili bakımından farklı bir boyuta taşıdığı gözlemlenmektedir. Doğu İslam dünyası motifleri batılı sanatçı elinde çağın gereklerine uygun form ve biçimlerde plastiğe bürünmüş sosyokültürel olgular halindedir. Çağdaş toplumların pek çoğunda yöresel folklorik değerler ve geleneksel sanatlar yeni yorumlar ve sonuçlarla farklı boyutlarda görünüşe ulaşır. Konumuz dâhilinde ele aldığımız batılı soyut sanatçıların bu yöndeki sanat anlayışına yönelerek esinlendikleri bilinmektedir. Örnekler içinde yer alan Picasso, Paul Klee, Hans Hartung, Piette Mondrian, Joan Miro gibi sanatçıların eserlerinde bu esinlenmeyi görmek mümkündür. Bu doğu İslam sanatlarının biçimsel ve anlam zenginliğinin plastik bir görünüşünün bir göstergesidir. Çalışmada metinlerde ve resimlerde ortaya koymaya çalıştığımız, günümüz batı sanatı özellikle batılı resimler ve doğu İslam sanatı örneklerine karşılaştırmalı olarak bakıldığında özellikle İslam sanatlarından oldukça etkilenildiği gözlemlenir. Burada soyut sanatın önemli temsilcilerinden Paul Klee ve Piette Mondrian sürrealizmin güçlü temsilcisi Miro, kübizmin önemli temsilcisi Pablo Picasso, Hollandalı Escherin çalışmalarındaki etkileşimleri net bir şekilde gözlemlenmektedir. Yapılan incelememiz sonucunda elde ettiğimiz karşılaştırmalı sonuçlarda İslam yazı sanatının Hurufilik inançları dâhilinde ele alınan ürünleri yazı resimler Gerek ön yapı ( renk biçim form e espas denge vd.) şekilden yön espas kompozisyon vb. açılardan benzerlikler teşkil etmektedir. Bunların yanı sıra bilinç dışı salt hayal ve mistik inanışlar çerçevesinde gelişen gerçeküstü ifadeler ve anlamlar taşıdığı gözlemlenmiştir. Sürrealizmin temel dayanaklarından hayali betimlemeler İslam yazı resimlerinde de farklı boyutlarda ve şekillerde tezahür etmektedir. İslam da resim yasağının yeterince anlaşılamayıp kavranamaması sonucunda İslam sanatının özünde bulunan soyutlayıcı eğilimler Batılı sanatçının aksine pentür geleneğinden uzak duran İslam sanatçısı elindeki malzemeyle gerçeğin ötesindeki sürre el anlatımları düşünsel bir çağrışımla bazen şiirsel, basende tılsımlı bir ifade metni olarak form etrafında görünüşe ulaştırmıştır. Bu kompozisyon düzeni İslam hat sanatçısı tarafından kimi zaman zahiri bir sır kimi zamanda bir yol gösterici olarak düşsel anlatımlara ulaşmıştır. Her ülke sanatçısı kendi mitlerinden kendi doğasından ve kültüründen beslenmektedir. Plastik anlamda ya da diğer sanatlarımızda olsun eserler ve kompozisyonlar oluşturulurken öz değerler ön planda tutulmalı hareket noktası buradan seçilmeli buradan beslenerek çalışmalar yapılmalıdır. Batılı sanatçının tüm değerlerini tüketerek yüzünü bozulmamış doğu ve İslam dünyasına ve kültürüne çevirdiği günümüzde bize düşen kendi içimizden ve benliğimizden hareketle kültürel değerlerimizi çağdaş yorumlamalarla sunmaktır. Çağdaşlaşmak kendinden kopmak değil çağla bütünleşen ama bozulmayan bir yorumu yakalamaktan geçer. İslam Plastik Sanatlarında Soyutlayıcı Yaklaşımlar ve Batı Sanatı Üzerindeki… 329 Turkish Studies Volume 13/2, Winter 2018 KAYNAKÇA Arseven, C.E., (1994). “Sanat Ansiklopedisi”, C. IV, 1755-1756, İstanbul. 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Some features of the site may not work correctly. DOI:10.1037/neu0000303 Corpus ID: 36622486What Paint Can Tell Us: A Fractal Analysis of Neurological Changes in Seven Artists @article{Forsythe2017WhatPC, title={What Paint Can Tell Us: A Fractal Analysis of Neurological Changes in Seven Artists}, author={A. Forsythe and T. Williams and R. Reilly}, journal={Neuropsychology}, year={2017}, volume={31}, pages={1–10} } A. Forsythe, T. Williams, R. Reilly Published 2017 Psychology, Medicine Neuropsychology Objective: The notion that artistic capability increases with dementia is both novel and largely unsupported by available literature. Recent research has suggested an emergence of artistic capabilities to be a by-product of involuntary behaviour seen with dementia, as opposed to a progression in original thinking (de Souza, et al., 2010). 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The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creat iveco mmons .org/publi cdoma in/ zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. Cultural Heritage (CH) represents a fundamental soci- etal, ethical and economical resource, and a driver for education and social inclusion. To grant these benefits, however, CH assets need to be preserved and accessible. In particular, the conservation of modern and contem- porary works of art requires advanced solutions at the cutting edge of modern chemistry and material science. Works from this era often display mixed media and mate- rials derived from the industry that were not conceive to last long, as well as substrates with enhanced sensitive- ness to water and organic solvents. Just to mention few examples, restoring modern/contemporary painted art can prove challenging when it comes to remove soiling deposited on the paint surfaces, especially in the case of works that are not varnished; the canvasses of the paint- ings can also become fragile by oxidative and acid-cata- lyzed degradation reactions; besides, tapes and adhesives on contemporary artifacts are difficult to remove owing to degradation processes and to the intrinsic sensitive- ness of paper, inks and dyes; finally, outdoor sculptures and mural paintings are exposed to the progressively more adverse conditions caused by concerning climate changes. In response to these challenges, the EU funded H2020 NANORESTART project (NANOmaterials for the RES- toration of works of ART) developed nano- and advanced functionalized materials to ensure long-term protection and security of modern/contemporary CH, taking into account environmental and human risks, feasibility and materials costs. The newly developed tools and materials represent a breakthrough in cultural heritage and con- servation science, and focus on: (i) tools for controlled cleaning, such as highly-retentive gels for the confine- ment of cleaning fluids based on “green” surfactants and solvents; (ii) the strengthening and protection of surfaces by using nanocontainers, nanoparticles and supramolec- ular systems/assemblies; (iii) nanostructured substrates and sensors for enhanced molecules detection; (iv) evalu- ation of the environmental impact and the development of security measures for long lasting conservation of cul- tural heritage. Within the project the industrial scalability of the developed materials has been demonstrated. NANORESTART involved 27 partners from 11 coun- tries, between 2015 and 2018. In a holistic approach to conservation, the project gathered centers of excellence in the field of synthesis and characterization of nano- materials, world leading chemical Industries and SMEs operating in R&D, and International and European cent- ers for conservation, education and museums. Such cent- ers assessed the new materials on modern/contemporary artifacts in urgent need of conservation, and dissemi- nated the knowledge and the new nanomaterials among conservators on a worldwide perspective. The new solutions, based on green chemistry, have been used to restore masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Eva Hesse, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Jean Dubuffet, and others. Extensive dissemina- tion and training on the new products were carried out, both in the EU and worldwide, and some of the project products are already available on the market. In this collection we group a selection of ten papers to illustrate the highlights of the projects. The selected papers are mainly related (but not limited) to the conser- vation of easel paintings, as the latter represent one of the most iconic classes of CH objects worldwide. Open Access *Correspondence: piero.baglioni@unifi.it Consorzio Interuniversitario Per Lo Sviluppo Dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase (Center for Colloid and Surface Science), CSGI, and Chemistry Department, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Florence, Italy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1186/s40494-020-00477-x&domain=pdf Page 2 of 5Baglioni et al. Herit Sci (2021) 9:5 An inclusive review article [1] reports on up-to-date advances on oil painting cleaning, discussing models to predict swelling or solubility of varnishes and paints, and proposing a framework for experimental and theoretical investigations into solvent transport in oil paints. Recent developments in solvent- and water-based cleaning for- mulations are also outlined. Three papers [2–4] present then case studies where newly developed cleaning systems, based on retentive hydrogels, were used to remove soiling or detrimen- tal varnishes from the surface of masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Roy Lichtenstein and Eva Hesse. The Picasso case study involved the evaluation of recently developed gels made of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) “twin-chain” poly- mer networks (TC-PNs), which were combined with an oil-in-water (o/w) nanostructured fluid (NSF) for the removal of a non-original varnish and wax layers from the surface of Picasso’s “L’Atelier” (1928, Peggy Guggehn- heim Collection, Venice) [2]. An extensive physico- chemical characterization of the combined TC-PNs-NSF system clarified that the fluid is partially free to diffuse through the network, but also interacts with the gel walls; during the cleaning, the dynamics of the fluid at the gel- artifact interface are controlled by the osmotic balance among the interconnected pores of the gel. These features provided space- and time-controlled cleaning action, allowing the removal of the varnish and wax layers, and restoring the integrity of this masterpiece without risks for the original paints (Fig.  1). Moving to another iconic work, Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! (1963, Tate London) had accrued a layer of soiling deposited over almost 50  years of continuous display, which was affecting the aesthetic look of this masterpiece. The paper by Bartoletti et al. [3] outlines the design and execution of an optimal cleaning strategy for what came in as a highly challeng- ing intervention. Starting with technical and historical investigation on the original artifact’s materials, the pro- cess involved iterative steps following a decision-making approach, which eventually comprised the evaluation of several established and novel cleaning systems tested on representative mock-ups. The optimized cleaning strat- egy included the use of PVA-based TC-PNs uploaded with tailored aqueous solutions, leading to controlled and homogeneous removal of the soiling (Fig.  2), and marked the first successful treatment in the history of this Lichtenstein painting. A similar systematic approach and iterative evaluation was followed for the cleaning of Eva Hesse’s sculpture Addendum (1967, Tate Collection Fig. 1 Pablo Picasso, The Studio (“L’Atelier”), 1928, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York), before (left) and after (right) the cleaning carried out with TC-PN hydrogels loaded with the o/w NSF. ©Succession Picasso, by SIAE 2020 Page 3 of 5Baglioni et al. Herit Sci (2021) 9:5 T02394) [4]. After extensive testing, the surface of the artifact’s top papier mâché was cleaned applying an aque- ous solution with cosmetic sponges, while the sculpture ropes were cleaned using tailored formulations of hydro- gels based on networks of PVA semi-interpenetrated with polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), so as to obtain low-risk and effective recovery of the artifact’s aesthetics (Fig. 3). The conservation of the supports of painted artifacts is also addressed, as illustrated by three papers included in the selection [5–7]. The first paper reports on the devel- opment and evaluation of sustainable treatments for the consolidation of canvasses in modern and contemporary art [5]. Namely, both polar and nonpolar formulations were developed by mixing deacidification agents (sub- µm-particles of calcium carbonate or magnesium oxide) with either polar (hydroxyethyl methyl cellulose and nanocrystalline cellulose) or nonpolar components (syli- lated cellulose), and using water or heptane as dispers- ing media. The application of these products to aged and degraded canvas showed good increase of breaking force with only low mass uptake and slight optical changes. The deacidification results in the deposition of an alka- line reserve that prevents recurring degradation. The second paper evaluates consolidants and deacidifying agents based on different nanoparticles (silica, calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide, cellulose nanofibrils and cellulose nanocrystals) as compared to traditional prod- ucts, monitoring color, gloss and pH changes [6]. The best performing novel formulations were those based on calcium carbonate, magnesium oxide and cellulose nanocrystals. Cellulose nanofibrils are also promising consolidants given their physico-chemical compatibility with painting canvasses. The authors of the third paper carried out the systematic mechanical assessment of consolidants for canvas reinforcement under controlled environment [7]. The newly developed consolidant based on nanofibrillated cellulose (CNF) was compared to com- monly used natural and synthetic adhesives, checking the visual appearance, consolidation effect, and response of the mechanical properties of the treated canvases to programmed changes in relative humidity (RH). The consolidants form bridges between the cotton fibers, whereas the CNF treatment formed a visible continuous and dense surface coating. No significant color change was observed. Treatment with CNF produced a higher value of Young’s modulus than the traditional products. Besides, the dynamic mode mechanical testing showed that the nanofibrillated cellulose treatment led to the highest variation in storage (or elastic) modulus meas- ured at the end of RH plateaux (20 and 80% RH). These results candidate CNF as a promising material for the consolidation of canvasses. Moving to different types of artistic substrates, a paper by Mirabile et  al. provides a critical overview and expansion on the use of two novel methodologies for the removal of pressure sensitive tapes (PSTs), which employ different cleaning fluids loaded into retentive gels [8]. Essentially, hydrogels loaded with an o/w NSF and organogels loaded with a green alkyl carbonate solvent represent two complementary approaches that altogether allow the removal of different classes of tapes from sen- sitive paper artworks. Thanks to the retentiveness of the Fig. 2 Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! during cleaning. The difference between the left (cleaned) and right (yet to be cleaned) panels is evident. Photo ©Tate 2017; ©The estate of Roy Lichtenstein Page 4 of 5Baglioni et al. Herit Sci (2021) 9:5 gels, both methods permit selective PST removal without uncontrolled inks bleeding or matter transport through the paper matrix. An inclusive assessment was carried out on four completely different paper artworks, where the new formulations proved to be versatile tools to either remove aged PSTs or re-adhere detackified tapes that were part of the original artwork. The protection of metal surfaces is addressed in a paper by da Conceicão et  al., which evaluated the potential of a hybrid system made by an imidazolium salt (as an anticorrosion additive) and chitosan-based coatings for the protection of copper-based alloys [9]. The best per- formances under accelerated corrosion conditions were exhibited by a combination of the imidazolium salt with benzotriazole (whose toxicity is decreased by confine- ment into the chitosan matrix), which granted optimal protective efficacy of the bronze surface without chang- ing the metal appearance. Finally, advanced detection tools for the analy- sis of modern artworks are discussed in a paper by Aylami et  al. [10]. Surface Enhanced Raman Scatter- ing (SERS) is a powerful tool for the identification of dyes, but its application in real case studies is limited by its inherent invasiveness and the need of extract- ing samples. Instead, the paper proposes non-invasive transparent SERS probes fabricated by self-assembly of Ag nanoparticles into glass and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surfaces. SERS measurements can be carried out directly on selected surfaces using these probes, which are then removed with no contamination of the surfaces. Identification of dyes on a ballpoint drawing and a Japanese woodblock print confirmed the poten- tial of this diagnostic methodology. Overall, the selection of papers demonstrates a pal- ette of new exciting and sustainable tools for the res- toration and analysis of modern and contemporary artifacts, opening new perspectives and setting new standards in the field of CH preservation. Acknowledgements All NANORESTART partners are gratefully acknowledged for their contribution to the project results. The European Union Horizon 2020 project NANORE- START (Nanomaterials for the Restoration of Works of Art), under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Grant Agreement 646063, is grate- fully acknowledged for the financial support. The authors also acknowledge Richard Brereton and Matthew Smyllie for their support and assistance during the editing and production of this issue. Fig. 3 Eva Hesse’s Addendum after cleaning and on display at Tate Modern. Photo Tate, July 2018 © The estate of Eva Hesse, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Page 5 of 5Baglioni et al. Herit Sci (2021) 9:5 Authors’ contributions All authors contributed equally to the writing of this manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Funding The research carried out in NANORESTART (Nanomaterials for the Restoration of Works of Art) has received funding from the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme Grant Agreement 646063. Availability of data and materials Not applicable. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Received: 15 December 2020 Accepted: 18 December 2020 References 1. Baij L, Hermans J, Ormsby B, Noble P, Iedema P, Keune K. A review of solvent action on oil paint. Herit Sci. 2020;8:43. 2. Pensabene Buemi L, Petruzzellis ML, Chelazzi D, Baglioni M, Mastrangelo R, Giorgi R, Baglioni P. Twin-chain polymer networs loaded with nano- structured fluids for the removal of a non-original varnish from Picasso’s “L’Atelier” at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Venice Herit Sci. 2020;8:77. 3. Bartoletti A, Barker R, Chelazzi D, Bonelli N, Baglioni P, Lee J, Angelova LV, Ormsby B. Reviving WHAAM! a comparative evaluation of cleaning sys- tems for the conservation treatment of Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic painting. Herit Sci. 2020;8:9. 4. Bartoletti A, Maor T, Chelazzi D, Bonelli N, Baglioni P, Angelova LV, Ormsby B. 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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile plizama@uc.cl En el texto se analizan las cartas escritas en 1922 en París por Wanda Morla relevancia de la carta como documento y discurso amoroso, y se profundiza en el “encuentro fortuito” de estos jóvenes en París, en cómo Wanda Morla se reconstruye alejándose del modelo de mujer vigente en la elite chilena de la época y en su experiencia de la modernidad en el campo cultural francés, en particular el musical, entre 1921 y 1922. Palabras clave: Carta, azar, predestinación, reconstrucción mujer, modernidad, campo musical francés. The letters written in Paris in 1822 by Wanda Morla to Domingo Santa Cruz –then residing in Madrid– are analy- zed in terms of the pertinence of the letter both as a document and a statement of love. The “fortuitous encounter” in Paris of these two youngsters is studied in depth, along with the process of selfconsciousness of Wanda Morla as a person different from the feminine stereotype then current among the Chilean elite. Besides her experience of the cultural modernity in France between 1921 and 1922, in particular as pertains to music, is discussed. Keywords: Letter, chance, predestination, feminine selfconsciousness, modernity, French musical field. El libro Pájaro libre como soy. Cartas de Wanda Morla Lynch, es un valioso epistolario que edita Wenceslao Díaz y que publica Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile1. Las cartas, ciento noventa y ocho en total, son de Wanda Morla quien desde París le escribe a sus hermanas en Santiago, y luego a Domingo Santa Cruz quien reside en Madrid. Él inicia en esta ciudad su carrera diplomática como segundo Secretario de la Legación de Chile e ingresa al Real Conservatorio Superior para realizar estudios de composición con el violista y compositor Conrado del Campo. El libro contiene una breve nota inicial escrita por Pedro Lastra y luego una introducción de Wenceslao Díaz que explicita las trayectorias de Wanda y Domingo, caracteriza a otras mujeres chilenas –Luisa Lynch, madre de Wanda, Eugenia Huici, amiga de Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky y otros actores centrales de la vanguardia de la época–, y revela la manera en que encontró las cartas2. 1 Una primera versión de este texto fue leída al presentar el libro de Wenceslao Díaz en diciembre de 2013. Para su publicación en RMCh, se realizaron algunos cambios. 2 Luisa Lynch fue una mujer destacada en el campo cultural de principios de siglo XX en Chile y pertenece al llamado feminismo aristocrático. Eugenia Huici, casada con el pintor José Tomás Revista Musical Chilena, Año LXX, julio-diciembre, 2016, Nº 226, pp. 74-84 75 Wanda Morla en París de los años veinte: una experiencia… / Revista Musical Chilena La búsqueda y recopilación de este valioso material se suma a los anteriores libros publicados por Díaz. El primero, Juan Francisco González: cartas y otros documentos de su época, permite conocer los viajes de este pintor a Europa, sus disputas plásticas a comienzos del siglo XX y la relevancia de sus clases y de su práctica artística, tareas que lo convierten en un referente para la generación que dará origen al Grupo Montparnasse y a la renovación plástica a partir de 1923. El segundo, Bohemios en París – Epistolario de artistas chilenos en Europa, 1900-1940, revela los viajes de pintores de distintas generaciones y tendencias al viejo continente, muestra cómo ellos se enfrentaron a las nuevas corrientes del arte en Europa, a veces ignorándolas, otras veces modificando sus creencias aprendidas en Chile, y retrata con nitidez la compleja trama de instituciones, actores y polémicas del campo pictórico chileno de inicios del siglo XX. Destacaremos algunos de los aspectos más significativos de esta nueva publicación de Díaz. LA CARTA: DOCUMENTO HISTÓRICO Y DISCURSO AMOROSO La carta, comunicación escrita que siempre es diferida en el tiempo entre espacios distintos, constituye en este libro un valioso documento histórico. Conocemos entretelones de la vida diplomática y de la elite chilena en Francia, en especial los relativos a Carlos Morla Lynch, hermano de Wanda que más tarde trabajó en la embajada de Chile en Madrid durante la guerra civil española3. Nos informamos con gran detalle y juicio crítico de la pintura, el ballet y el teatro que Wanda ve en París, pero el arte que ella comenta con mayor ampli- tud es la música, la clásica y la moderna. De este modo el epistolario ofrece una mirada exhaustiva del campo musical francés de los años veinte. Wanda toma clases de piano con Madeleine de Valmalète, asiste a ensayos y conciertos al antiguo conservatorio, a la Salle Gaveau, aprecia la música del pasado, sus intérpretes, sus escenarios, sus profesores, así como también las nuevas propuestas del presente que surgen en particular entre los inmigrantes rusos a quienes ella conoce. La carta es al mismo tiempo una comunicación que tiene lugar para compensar la ausencia y, en este sentido, informa sobre el remitente y su receptor de múltiples formas. En esta correspondencia se entreabre el universo privado de dos jóvenes y se percibe la intimidad de la experiencia amorosa, la cual muestra el anverso y el reverso que suponen los viajes y las distancias entre los amantes. Surgen así las paradojas que articulan a la carta amorosa: presencia/ausencia; proximidad/distancia; imaginario/real. Domingo y Wanda se conocen en Santiago, se reencuentran por casualidad en París en febrero de 1922, comien- zan a escribirse con frecuencia e inician la relación sentimental cuando ella viaja a Madrid en mayo de 1922, pero luego se distancian pues la joven regresa a París y él permanece en la capital española dedicado a su trabajo y a sus estudios musicales. Cuando Wanda y Domingo inician su relación, el epistolario, sin excluir la referencia a los acontecimientos artísticos, da cuenta del amor de la pareja, de los planes que desarrollan para casarse y concluye con el matrimonio celebrado en enero de 1923 en París. Por último, se agregan algunas cartas de Luisa Lynch a su hija Wanda quien empieza su nueva vida en Madrid. Errázuriz, se separó de él y permaneció en Francia donde se convirtió en amiga y mecenas de varios artistas fundamentales de la vanguardia contemporánea. 3 Ver Morla Lynch 1958. Revista Musical Chilena / Patricio Lizama A. 76 EL ENCUENTRO EN PARÍS: AZAR Y PREDESTINACIÓN Wanda y Domingo se juntan en forma casual en París en febrero de 1922. París era una fiesta como dice Ernest Hemingway, época de “los años locos”, y, para estos dos jóvenes chilenos, 1922 también será una fiesta. El encuentro entre Wanda y Domingo se vincula al azar y surge en un momento crítico en la vida de la joven Morla, pues ella viaja con su madre a Europa en enero de 1921 para superar el quiebre de su primer amor en Chile. Instalada desde junio de 1921 en París, un día de febrero del año siguiente asiste con su madre a un concierto de órgano en el Conservatorio y en la puerta ven a Santa Cruz que desea entrar, pero no tiene invitación. Luisa Lynch le dice al portero que él es su hijo y ese día, Domingo ingresa al concierto, a la vida de Wanda y a la familia Morla. El encuentro fortuito como sostienen los surrealistas, está mediado por predestina- ciones y sincronías. La posibilidad de hallar un amor se la habían anunciado a Wanda en enero de 1921 en Los Andes, antes de abordar el Ferrocarril Transandino que las llevaría a Buenos Aires y de allí a Europa, cuando su hermana Carmen le ve las cartas y le confiesa: “Te casarás con quien tú quieras” (45)4. Wanda recuerda ese episodio unos pocos días después en enero de 1921 en Buenos Aires y le escribe a Carmen: “No sé qué diera por obtener lo que deseo. He recordado mucho tu consoladora frase en Los Andes” (45). Agreguemos que las hermanas Morla se distinguen por sus prácticas espiritistas y por sus conocimientos ocultistas, de modo que la revelación recibida no era un hecho menor para Wanda. La música es lo que une a los jóvenes y Domingo subraya cómo esta primera expe- riencia en el conservatorio resulta el fundamento que acerca para siempre a la pareja: “Fui admitido de inmediato [al concierto] y, por primera vez, con Wanda ¡nos sentamos a escuchar la música que debía unirnos para siempre!”(25). Por su parte, Wanda le escribe a su hermana Ximena días después del encuentro, cuando Domingo todavía permanece en París: “Oh milagros de la vida europea –en París, ciudad inmensa donde el individuo se pierde, Wanda Morla y Domingo Santa Cruz caminando a tomar el Métro y después sentados en un banco frente a un altar muy sobrio con solo una cruz de argento y una gran Biblia abierta, mientras arriba el órgano, la orquesta y las voces elevaban hacia el cielo las más tiernas demostraciones” (63). El lugar donde se encuentran también es significativo pues el conservatorio parisino se ubica en el número 14 de la calle Madrid, capital donde vive y desde donde viaja Santa Cruz. La sincronía descubierta por Wanda relacionada con la proximidad de las fechas de celebración de los nombres propios Domingo y Nieve, es otra sorprendente manifestación del azar. En carta del 31 de marzo, ella le confiesa a Domingo (116): “Leyendo en La Légende Dorée sobre el santo de su nombre Saint Dominique confesseur, he visto con alegría que nuestros nombres de pila son como hermanos; pues usted ha de saber que me llamo Wanda Nieve y si Santo Domingo se honra el 4 de agosto, el día 5 del mismo mes se glorifica el nombre de nuestra Señora de las Nieves. Cuando chica esa fecha era toda mi ilusión y la víspera (el día 4) era el día más luminoso de la espera. Esa coincidencia me parece digna de serle con- tada ¿no encuentra?”. Inevitable es añadir que el día que se reúnen en el conservatorio cae nieve, lo mismo que sucede el día que se casan en París. Y en ambas ocasiones lo que escuchan son obras para órgano de Johann Sebastian Bach. La joven Morla, por último, hace una lectura religiosa del episodio que los une. Le escribe a Domingo en marzo de 1922 y afirma: “yo también creo que es Dios que ha querido 4 Los números entre paréntesis hacen referencia a la página en Morla 2013. 77 Wanda Morla en París de los años veinte: una experiencia… / Revista Musical Chilena este encuentro en un momento tan propicio, seguramente si nos hubiéramos visto en Chile con más frecuencia y en años anteriores no habría sido lo mismo” (84). En junio de 1922, cuando ya son pareja, le señala que al leer El corazón secreto de Pierre Aguétant, se interesó por los “Nada infinitos” y comprende que un “Nada” de su vida es “nuestro encuentro simpático en el Conservatorio”. Estos “nada”, según Aguétant, tienen en el amor “una im- portancia excepcional. Ocultos en la sombra, esperan la ocasión propicia para iluminarnos, encantarnos o traicionarnos”. Wanda agrega: “este “nada” … había sido escrito por Dios” y concluye: “soy como predestinada” (216). Sincronía del azar mediada por el arte, predestinación interpretada desde la fe y anti- cipada en el tarot, son realidades que están en la base de este epistolario y que configuran la original identidad de Wanda. WANDA FUERA DE LUGAR: LA RECONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA JOVEN DE ELITE EN PARÍS En el epistolario advertimos rasgos de la formación y los modos de comportamiento de la elite chilena, creencias y conductas que Wanda enjuicia y de las cuales se distancia con nitidez. En Chile a los 17 años, ella se sabe inestable y admite que atraviesa un periodo de cambio, proceso que percibe como transitorio. A su hermana Carmen le comenta “que la complejidad de los sentimientos que experimento solo depende de la transición en que me encuentro” (43). Agrega: “hay momentos de feminidad y otros en que me siento totalmente niña; es suficiente para probar que puedo sentir como si tuviera dos corazones” (44). Años más tarde, confiesa a Domingo que “al venirme a Europa era yo todavía una chiquilla, sin carácter definido … y sin dirección estable”. Añade que tenía “muchas aspiraciones para ser buena y unos ideales forjados por intuición formaban todo mi ser íntimo, pero era todo mal definido, inquieto y sin contornos” (84). Lo único seguro era su deseo de tener una familia, profundizar su formación artística, mantener su vínculo con la bailarina rusa Ana Pavlova, su “madre espiritual” conocida en Santiago y que visita en París, y otorgarle una proyección trascendente a su vida. En la capital francesa, Wanda define sus anhelos y afirma su autonomía pues se aleja del horizonte existencial inscrito en su familia. Su independencia la experimenta “a los 19 años, cuando empecé a ser una persona pensante, cuando empecé a ver más claro mi propia personalidad e inclinaciones” (147). Ella rechaza la vida diplomática y la vida mundana de compromisos sociales y recepciones, de fiestas y salones con personas que se “las dan de elegantes” y que son muy superficiales. A la vez, reniega de quienes asumen a París como el lugar donde esta vida mundana se vive con mayor distinción, pues sostiene que este mundo “chic” es artificial, vacío y lleno de vanidad. Le escribe a su hermana Carmen en 1921 (58): “París es una ciudad de la tierra, en ella no hay hadas ni genios como en los bosques encantados; hay simplemente hombres de todas castas, de todas clases, de todas razas, ideas y religiones. Hay lujo e inconsciencia; hay medios distinguidos donde se ven mujeres bien vestidas, bien pintadas, bien falsas … Hay falta de dignidad, cancans de malas lenguas y la vanidad pasea por los salones mientras la moral, sujetando por las alas al amor, llora en el umbral de las puertas. Ese es el mundo chic que solo conocemos de referencia”. A su hermana Ximena que cree a Wanda y a su madre “en medio del mundo chic”, le pregunta: “El mundo chic ¿dónde está? Esas mujeres que llevan trajes de 3.000 frs., que van a bailar o a cenar a los restaurantes; que bailan el Shimmy como muñecas epilépticas, que se dan aires y coquetean. ¿A eso te refieres?” Concluye: “Cada día siento la mentira en todo esto” (56). En octubre de 1922, le escribe a Domingo y reitera su desacomodo (356): Revista Musical Chilena / Patricio Lizama A. 78 “Más que nunca creo que la vida social y la mundana son hermanas y que en ellas solo se sienten bien los seres que necesitan remudar de casa y de pensamientos, los que les gusta el flirt (pongo esa palabra tan antipática por necesidad de expresión), el bailoteo y las diversiones de poco vuelo espiritual. No tengo carácter para ella, soy como vieja, me daba hoy una flojera terrible de hablar y me pasé mirando a todos como si fueran cajitas mecánicas con forma de muñecos, y con mi alma puesta en ti. ¡Qué falta me haces, mi hijito! Contigo no me sentiría fuera de centro en ninguna parte pues siempre tendríamos algo que comentar o considerar”. La misma incomodidad le genera el mundo femenino preocupado de la ropa y de la moda, del vestido de fiesta y de las visitas a las modistas. Debido a su austeridad, ella tiene un juicio ético-moral acerca de estas vivencias (108): “…me puedo familiarizar con esos lujos y le aseguro que no quiero porque considero simplemen- te inmoral el pagar por un trapo, por precioso que sea, lo que equivale al sueldo de cualquier modesto empleado de comercio. Cuando voy a esas partes es tal la rebelión de sentimientos que se levantan contra mí misma al verme tentada por algo que, dentro del presupuesto que me he marcado con mi conciencia, pasa a ser demasiado, que más bien se vuelve la tal ida un momento desagradable. ¿Comprende ahora que prefiera evitar esas tardes perdidas en los salones de costura? … Me vienen todo el tiempo los pensamientos familiares y me encuentro muy fuera de lugar”. La vanidad y el vacío de estas preocupaciones son también juzgadas con claridad: “Sería muy agradable ser elegante si no se fuera vaciando el interior poco a poco por ocuparse de los trapos que solo duran una estación del año y deja, entre una satisfacción de los primeros días, un dejo de decepción cuando se tiene un poco de conciencia” (96). La independencia de Wanda se expresa respecto al modelo de mujer impuesto por la sociedad patriarcal que impulsa a la mujer a casarse, tener hijos y depender del hombre. Ella cuestiona la ideología de la domesticidad dominante y el papel femenino subalterno, busca liberarse de restricciones y prácticas enraizadas y define un marco discursivo propio con otras perspectivas, que le permiten construir otros sujetos femeninos y proponer sub- jetividades alternativas, aunque siempre inmersas en la tensión de la cultura donde está inserta. A Ximena le dice en 1921 (53): “No pienses que soy pretenciosa, esto no es orgullo, es dignidad, y es lo que me aleja cada vez más de la idea de casarme por lo que se casa la gente en general, para no quedarse sola y ser inútil en la vida. Siento en mi destino de mujer una gran misión; si no encuentro a una persona que la comprenda como yo para cumplir la que Dios señaló, desde la creación del mundo, al hombre y a la mujer, de unirse para dar a la Tierra seres fuertes y dignos, si no encuentro un compañero que me ayude… sé que todo este sentimiento de desahogo maternal que tengo no se perderá”. Al saberse distinta y con mayor madurez, declara con energía: “sé muy bien lo que quiero” y agrega que tiene “derecho para pensar como yo quiero y creo justo” (320). Su diferencia le provoca un retraimiento y un “estado de acritud” que no es aceptado ni comprendido en su familia. Su madre la critica y le hace observaciones; su hermano diplomático la contradice y la tilda de beata y Wanda siente “el muro y … el abismo que me separa de los seres que son de mi sangre” (320). Ella es una extraña en el mundo, una exiliada del ámbito familiar y su necesidad de autoafirmación la lleva, al igual que los artistas de los relatos de Rubén Darío, a buscar un refugio: “Prefiero por mucho, estar en mi cuartito azul de Rue Lisbonne, donde tantas cosas me respetan” (108). Wanda soluciona lo denunciado por Virginia Woolf porque la mujer en este caso tiene “un cuarto propio”: ella convierte “su buhardilla, en un reino”. La capacidad crítica y autorreflexiva de Wanda le brindan un acabado conocimiento de sí misma de modo que al conocer a Domingo, entiende de inmediato que con él puede 79 Wanda Morla en París de los años veinte: una experiencia… / Revista Musical Chilena terminar de articularse una identidad con un origen y un destino nuevos. Ella comparte con el joven Santa Cruz el amor por la música, el arte “más sublime”, y a la vez el amor por Dios porque para Wanda la música es también el arte “más cerca de Dios” y el que le permite evangelizar y “aportar algo bueno y más elevado a una sociedad” (107). De este modo, en la visión de Wanda el amor humano y la música están imbricados y constituyen dos mediaciones para acceder a la divinidad. Por esto es que al pensar el regreso a Chile, se imagina casada con una vida sencilla orientada a difundir “día a día en todos los círculos, algo verdaderamente bueno –con base– escogido, sin otro fin que el de acercar por medio de grandiosos conciertos espirituales, muchas almas buenas a Dios” (107). Al mismo tiempo, se construye un origen alternativo que también pasa por el vínculo entre el arte y la fe. En Santiago, la joven Morla halla una “madre espiritual” en la bailarina Anna Pavlova: “la venero con adoración mística”, a quien llama “Ella” y “Madame”; en París la ve de nuevo porque “es la única, el único ser que me volvió a dar por unos días el perdido sentimiento de felicidad” (54). En esta misma capital encuentra en Johann Sebastian Bach un “padre” porque para ella, la obra de este compositor la conduce a la trascendencia. Con toda convicción, Wanda afirma: “… es que Bach, Domingo, es más que música, es toda una obra de fe y de amor a Dios” (111). En otra carta, Wanda sostiene: “Bach para mí es algo más que un genio en la música, es un santo que hace sentir a Dios” (87). Agrega que “siento por él una veneración y lo tomo para mi vida… como un bienhechor espiritual” (87). Como a Domingo el músico alemán le provoca una experiencia muy semejante, ella le dice: Es “Nuestro Padre” (152), y también “nuestro venerado Padre y mediador” (194). Su proyecto existencial lo define como una misión, una vida protegida y encaminada hacia la divinidad: ella se “acerca a Dios por los caminos más altos”. Esta propuesta no satisfa- ce a la familia Morla, pues Wanda comenta a Domingo que su madre “me estaba rebatiendo mis ideas diciendo que con ellas no iba a ser nuestra vida sino algo muy bohemia” (147). A esta resistencia se agrega la de la familia Santa Cruz que es incluso más explícita, ya que la madre y las hermanas de Domingo no comparten las ideas de este hermano menor, las que les parecen egoístas e inadecuadas. Pero no hay nada que haga retroceder a Wanda, porque ella ha visto que “la familia en Europa que se constituye sobre base seria y no pide lujo ni inconsciencia sino un bienestar y tranquilidad seguros, es el tipo de la familia feliz en toda tierra” (147). Wanda va más allá del territorio adjudicado y aprendido en su entorno. Los límites que derriba y los espacios que conquista no la convierten en alguien que rompa con su clase ni con los roles otorgados por la sociedad a las jóvenes de la elite, pero sí en una mujer capaz de definir una vida que incluye trabajar de acuerdo a sus capacidades e intereses y equilibrar lo público y lo privado. En esta línea le dice a Domingo: “usted no se haga ilusiones, no tendrá en mí mujer célebre, intelectual y oradora. Tendrá ante todo su mujer en su hogar. Su amiga en su vida y su compañera de trabajo” (277). PARÍS: LA CIUDAD MODERNA La modernidad plural y heterogénea en continua transformación y desintegración, genera en el sujeto un sentimiento de ambigüedad y angustia, pues la realidad es vivida como oportunidad y amenaza. Ser modernos es “encontrarnos en un entorno que nos promete aventuras, poder, alegría, crecimiento, transformación de nosotros y del mundo y que, al mismo tiempo, amenaza con destruir todo lo que tenemos, todo lo que sabemos, todo lo que somos” (Berman 1988: 1). El desarrollo y la hegemonía de los “saberes triunfantes” basados en una objetividad científico-racional, junto a la autonomía y la dominación que convierten al hombre en “amo y señor de la naturaleza”, gestan una cultura secularizada que expulsa a Dios. Al prescindir Revista Musical Chilena / Patricio Lizama A. 80 de lo sagrado, la modernidad libera al sujeto de todo relato que impida “construir su propia visión de mundo; pero sumerge a ese mismo sujeto en la orfandad que dicha libertad supone” (Hopenhayn 1997: 13). La joven chilena vive estas experiencias de la modernidad, pues Europa es para ella un espacio que le pone a prueba sus convicciones y a la vez le ofrece oportunidades de enri- quecimiento. Wanda percibe en Europa la crisis del fundamento religioso porque observa un continente donde declina la fe; por ello en los templos “no hay indicios de ceremonias. [Hay] iglesias frías, sin velas, sin flores, sin fieles, sin Sacramento” (85). Por otra parte, en el viejo mundo encuentra una civilización científico-técnica con “maquinarias, ingeniería, edificaciones, cirugía, rascacielos, metropolitanos subterráneos, aeroplanos y telégrafo sin hilos” (50), realidades nuevas que imprimen “grandes velocidades” a la vida y a las comu- nicaciones y que son valoradas por Wanda. Por último, la dimensión de la modernidad europea que ella más aprecia es “la Europa artística”, que le resulta “interesante, sabia y llena de grandes inquietudes” (308). Revisemos algunas de estas últimas experiencias ligadas al arte en París. París es la ciudad moderna y cosmopolita de las multitudes donde halla “hombres de todas las castas, de todas clases, de todas razas, ideas y religiones” (58). Con lucidez, Wanda comprende que esta cultura de la mezcla ha contribuido a formar el arte galo y que este campo cultural acoge y exhibe las nuevas tendencias, pero al mismo tiempo resguarda y enseña la memoria de la tradición, dualidad que le otorga un espesor único a la capital francesa. París es también la ciudad que le cuestiona sus convicciones plásticas y luego le permite apreciar “la tradición de la ruptura”. Distanciada de su cultura de origen, esta urbe europea es para Wanda una ciudad compleja, abierta, móvil, con un campo cultural autóno- mo y “libertades excepcionales de expresión”, que le resulta un espectáculo deslumbrante y lleno de posibilidades. Ella se da cuenta que “conociendo más la gran ciudad he reconocido en ella mis gustos, y mi carácter teniendo un campo vasto se ha desarrollado mucho más libre, con mayor libertad que lo que hubiera conseguido desarrollarse en otra parte” (98). Al mismo tiempo, París le resulta una pesadilla que cuestiona sus creencias artístico- culturales aprendidas en Chile. A Pablo Picasso lo rechaza al llegar a París. En 1921 confiesa que es el “creador de la pintura más incomprensible”, de “la pintura más fea que se ha visto”(51). Eugenia Huici tiene en su casa el “Retrato de un hombre afirmado en una mesa” del pintor español. Wanda dice que lo ha “mirado con buena voluntad”, pero agrega: “inútil; cerrando un ojo, abriendo los dos, de lejos, de cerca, de pie y de cabeza, y todo ha sido inútil” (51). Formada en los parámetros de la mímesis realista que valora la representación figurativa, le pregunta a Eugenia si en el cuadro “ve el hombre, le ruego que me dé un derrotero, que me inicie en la ciencia” (51). A pesar de este desencuentro inicial, Wanda con el tiempo modifica sus ideas porque asiste a exposiciones, lee libros y revistas hasta que logra entender el cubismo. Después de ver la exposición “Cien años de pintura francesa”, concluye: “el espíritu que no es porfia- do puede entrar fácilmente en la comprensión modernista” (104)5. Como prueba de ello sostiene que en el presente le producen horror las “obras de academia demasiado hechas y de una realidad sin interés”. En cambio, le atraen los pintores más contemporáneos: “el gusto que sentí frente a un Cézanne, a un Matisse, a un Manet y otros aún más avanzados” (104). Su enriquecimiento plástico le lleva a aceptar ser retratada por su gran amiga Sara Malvar, chilena que vive en París y que comprende muy bien el conjunto de las vanguardias y las interrelaciones del arte moderno. Sara, señala Wanda, “pinta a la témpera un retrato 5 La exposición “Cien años de pintura francesa” incluyó obras desde Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres a Georges Braque y fue organizada por André Lhote y Jacques Émile Blanche con catálogo del primero. 81 Wanda Morla en París de los años veinte: una experiencia… / Revista Musical Chilena mío que a todos horroriza porque es de colores violentos y con una composición muy osada, un cuello largo de gacela a lo Modigliani y unos ojos turquesa de iniciada” (278)6. La música es lo que Wanda conoce bien, de modo que ella refiere la riqueza de lo antiguo y lo nuevo que se presenta en París. Al llegar a Francia señala: “tengo hambre de oír un Bach bien clásico, un Beethoven sereno, mi Schumann genial y los Debussy trans- parentes” (49). Toca piano en su departamento, “los estudios de Krebs, de Puchna, un concierto sencillísimo de Beethoven, Mendels[s]ohn y Scarlatti, todo desfiló por el teclado, insípido” (117), adquiere la guía de conciertos, asiste a una iglesia protestante para escuchar audiciones de oratorios, corales y cantatas de Bach, a ensayos de los precursores de Bach y de Cesar Franck en las iglesias de L’Etoile y San Eustache, a otros ensayos privados de Gustave Bret, y a conciertos de piano y orquesta de Ferruccio Busoni en el antiguo conservatorio. Además va a conferencias y diálogos, conoce a Abel Decaux, profesor de órgano y organista del Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre, toma clases con el organista Marcel Dupré y sus apuntes y notas los comenta por carta con Domingo (243): “Te contaré que Dupré hoy nos tocó tres Grandes Preludios y Fugas y entre ellas una que llaman de Los Maestros Cantores, pues tiene una frase que es la que continuamente sale en relieve entretejida con todas, que es igual a una del Preludio de Wagner:” “Tocó también al final la Gran Fantasía en sol menor (Preludio y Fuga) en una forma maravi- llosa y para afirmar lo que me había dicho M. Decaux, repitió que solo en Francia era donde se conservaba la verdadera tradición organística de Bach, pues Maestros belgas habían ido a beber en la fuente misma, y a su vez los organistas franceses habían ido donde los belgas; así Widor y Guilmant pasaron cada cual dos años junto a Lemenz, quien a su vez había pasado años recogiendo la tradición sagrada de manos de Hesse, organista de una ciudad de Alemania”. La música contemporánea también le atrae y explica con detalle. El 23 de marzo de 1922 va al concierto ruso en El Trocadero. Se “ejecutó Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve y una parte de la Kovantchina, ópera de Mussorgsky, Schérézadé de Rimsky-Korsakov, y Petrushka de Stravinsky, esto último me pareció extraordinario, lleno de vida, si se puede decir; lleno de electricidad. Mussorgsky quedaba muy musical, pero al paso lento de los fiacres de hace cincuenta años” (104). Igor Stravinsky le parece que es un compositor no “para piano, es demasiada riqueza de timbres, solo la orquesta le sirve y en Petrushka Stravinsky introduce un piano de gran cola en el conjunto orquestal, lo que es de gran efecto” (104). Le escribe a Domingo el 2 de junio de 1922: “Mañana en la Ópera hay una premiére de Stravinsky: Mâvra, ballet ruso, además darán Le Sacre du Printemps y Petrushka. Iremos y llevaré mi partitura nueva del Sacre. Será interesantísimo” (189). Al día siguiente le da sus impresiones (191): “Le Sacre me resultó confuso; como fue lo primero, me desorientó, nunca lo había oído en orquesta, además la partitura no sirvió sino para embrollarme pues estaba oscurísimo y no podía leer … Debe de oírse mucho la música de Stravinsky para gustar de ella; al principio, el tacto auditivo falla, no se abarca nada en claro y todo se oye borroneado. Así me sucedió también con Mâvra, ópera cómica en un acto de orquestación modernista pero tallada ‘sur un fond de robe 1890’”. “Una ópera sentimental, alegre, fresca, con giros en el canto italiano, de Rossini −o de algo así−, muy lejos de la música moderna o rusa, acompañados por unas voces de instrumentos perfectamente 6 Sara Malvar fue pintora, vivió en Madrid y en 1920 se trasladó a París. Casada con el pintor chileno José Backhaus, al quedar viuda en París en 1922, regresó a Chile en 1923 y escribió excelentes crónicas en las Notas de Arte de Juan Emar. Ver Lizama 2003. Revista Musical Chilena / Patricio Lizama A. 82 armónicos pero en tonos disonantes, a veces desvariante, como si todos los músicos estuvieran afiebrados, incluso los cantantes”. El 14 de junio va de nuevo a ver a Igor Stravinsky y el comentario es distinto pues al igual que le ocurre con la pintura, la continua frecuentación de lo nuevo le permite mo- dificar sus creencias: “Ahora sí que entendí la música y [pude] apreciar el conjunto. La Consagración de la Primavera, a pesar de tener como sous-titre: (Scènes de la Russie Païenne), me hizo el efecto de una cosa abstracta como idea, ni féerica ni humana, ni pagana ni mitológica” (240). Agrega (240): “Se inicia con un preludio que llama la atención por su adormecida expresión, algo que hace sentir la quietud de las siestas que duermen las serpientes al sol mientras una cigarra de lejos chirría. Interesante te resultará ver la partitura, que te mandaré mañana con la explicación que le da su autor. Te explicaré la acción coreográfica muy extraña y desorientadora y eso quedará en tus manos para cuando la quieras ver … ¿sabes que Mâvra me gustó mucho? Tiene un encanto de ópera italiana, ingenua, fresca en ambiente ruso y expresión musical modernísima. Es curioso cómo un conjunto así resulte gracioso”. Los ballets rusos de Diaghilev son otras expresiones artísticas que ella ve con entusias- mo en el teatro de La Ópera y después en el Teatro Mogador donde se instala más tarde la compañía. Le cuenta a Domingo el 17 de junio de 1922: “En el programa está, además de Petrushka, La belle au bois dormant (Tchaikovsky) –Scheherezade (Rimsky-Korsakov), Les Sylphides (Chopin), Le Spectre de la Rose (sur L’invitation a la valse), de Weber, Le Carnaval (de Schumann), Le prince Igor (de Borodin). Como te estaba contando de los ballets, además de todo el repertorio ya explicado tienen (y lo he dejado al último de la enumeración por ser más interesante) Le Chout ou Le Bouffon, de Prokofiev. Les Contes Ruses, de Liadow. L’Aprés midi d’un Faune, de Debussy y Les femmes de bonne humeur, de Scarlatti. Esto último debe de tener olor a Mâvra” (250-251). Las reflexiones de Wanda sobre los orígenes y los vínculos de la música con la mo- dernidad, aportan una última dimensión. La base de la música nueva según ella tiene “la influencia oriental aportada por Borodin. Se ve clara la influencia morisca venida de España, se ve en muchas composiciones las formas de Bach; la fuga, la polifonía, y es de todas estas influencias que nace la música moderna francesa, que a mi parecer está en su ciclo de desarrollo” (55). La velocidad y la dinámica de la vida moderna son para la joven Morla expresiones que explican el porqué de los ritmos musicales emergentes. Stravinsky, dice Wanda, “con un ritmo sostenido se muestra digno contemporáneo de las grandes velocidades como ser autos, taxis, Metropolitain, aeroplanos y telégrafos sin hilo” (104). En otra ocasión insiste y expande este orden de relaciones: “en este siglo donde el triunfo de las máquinas y la velocidad es manifiesta, donde todo corre vertiginosamente, donde todo lo que se dice se grita, donde triunfan los Jazz-Bands de negros americanos, es de cajón que la música tome ritmos locos y saque timbres estridentes. Ese es el efecto que me hizo uno de los momentos animados de Petrushka” (111-112). PALABRAS FINALES Wanda y Domingo se casan el 18 de enero de 1923 en París. En abril de 1923, desde Madrid, Wanda le escribe a su madre que está en Chile y la llama a no dejar “que se borre de tu mente toda la luminaria intelectual y artística de Europa”. Le dice (525): “No pierdas el hilo y conserva ese ambiente que teníamos en París en nuestros rincones queridos de Rue Lisbonne o de Rue Bayard. Recuerda las sesiones de pintura con Pepe y Sara, el terremoto 83 Wanda Morla en París de los años veinte: una experiencia… / Revista Musical Chilena de Hernández, los tés en que se devoraba pan con mantequilla discutiendo con Celia Castro en presencia de Eugenia tartamuda de emoción… Recuerda los cursos de Dupré en el órgano de la Salle Gaveau y nuestras tocatas nocturnas, de los Preludios y Fugas de Bach, las idas al teatro Champs-Elysées, en pleno invierno, amenazando nieve o lluvia a oír a Zacconi o a Stanislavski; los conciertos de Wiener o Stravinsky. Todo eso mamacita es la vida intensamente vivida y vale lo que no se puede pagar con nada, pues es el recuerdo único de los tiempos que pasamos tan juntas … Esa época al fin, en que pasaba madurando en mi corazón el ideal de felicidad que ahora he realizado, tendrá para mí el encanto de la época más vibrante de mi vida”. La publicación del libro de cartas impide que se borre “la vida intensamente vivida” de Wanda Morla Lynch y saca a la luz una época esencial del arte contemporáneo vista a través de una testigo privilegiada para apreciarla. El epistolario representa además un material de gran valor para el conocimiento e investigación de la música universal y chilena, junto con ofrecer nuevas imágenes acerca de Domingo Santa Cruz Wilson, uno de sus fundadores. En este sentido, un estudio que aborde las cartas de Wanda junto a los comentarios referidos a ella y a su vida en conjunto que aporta Santa Cruz en Mi vida en la música, no solo puede contribuir a enriquecer la mirada sobre la actividad artística de esos años, sino que también permitiría develar una faceta de este músico ligada a su vida afectiva, dimen- sión que contrasta con el perfil más conocido del hombre ejecutivo, fuerte y decidido que figura en sus escritos histórico-musicales. Asimismo, y al igual que Mi vida en la música, que es el libro de memorias de Santa Cruz, Pájaro libre como soy es un registro que semejante a un diario de vida, nos abre al espacio reflexivo y a la conciencia íntima de quienes experimentaron el tránsito entre dos formas de vivir la modernidad, en una época en que las diferencias en el amor, el arte, la cultura y la vida urbana eran ostensibles. Por último, es una historia amorosa que permite conocer cómo un encuentro fortuito les cambió la vida a dos jóvenes chilenos en Europa. OBRAS CITADAS Berman, Marshall 1991 Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire. Cuarta edición. Madrid: Siglo XXI. Díaz, Wenceslao 2004 Juan Francisco González: cartas y otros documentos de su época. Santiago: Ril Editores. 2010 Bohemios en París: epistolario de artistas chilenos en Europa. 1900-1940. Santiago: Ril Editores. Lizama, Patricio 2003 Notas de Arte. Jean Emar en La Nación (1923-1927). 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Santiago: Gobierno de Chile, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura, Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile. work_3z72acm7rfejdhsqoszi5krx5i ---- I recognize your face but I can’t remember your name: Further evidence on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon Memory & Cognition 1973, VoI.1,No. 3,287·290 I recognize your face but I can't remember your name: Further evidence on the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon* A. DANIEL YARMEY University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Fifty faces of "famous" persons were used as stimuli to precipitate the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) experience. Results showed that Ss in TOT states searched for target's name by locating first his profession, where he was most often seen, and how recently. Ss also had accurate knowledge of the initial letters of target names, initial letters of similar sounding names, and numbers of syllables in target names. It was concluded that TOT states for to-be-remembered names are retrieved from semantic and episodic memory systems on.the basis of verbal and imaginal encodings. William James (1893) first drew attention to the peculiar experiences involved in trying to recall a forgotten name, knowing and feeling how close we are, being aware of improper matches, but vainly groping in our inability to retrieve. Brown and McNeill (1966) called this phenomenon "tip-of-the-tongue" (TOT) behavior. They demonstrated that words are frequently available in memory but, at least temporarily, not accessible. When Ss are in the TOT state, they are able to identify a number of characteristics of target words with a high degree of accuracy such as the number of syllables and the initial letter: The closer S is to recall, the more accurate is his knowledge. Although some of the words that Ss found, as they searched their memory, could be classed as similar in meaning to the target, the majority of words were similar in sound. Other writers (e.g., Norman, 1969; Dale & McGlaughlin, 1971) have pointed out, however, that the nature of Brown and McNeill's questionnaire may have biased Ss to generate primarily acoustically related words. Brown and McNeill's (1966) theoretical interests, however, are consistent with the Ebbinghaus-Watson tradition in which memory' is considered only in terms of a verbal memory system involving components such as phonetic, phonemic, syllabic, and semantic word properties. In the last 10 years, however, other memory systems, particularly nonverbal imagery, have been rediscovered and shown to be equally important in memory tasks (see Paivio , 1971; Richardson, 1969: Segal, 1971: Sheehan, 1972). Although the TOT state involves an inability to recall a word, it is quite likely that both verbal and nonverbal imagery codes are involved. Brown & McNeill reported that for several months they watched the TOT state in themselves. Interestingly, when they attempted to recall the name of a particular street, the only associates they reported coming to mind were verbal. For several years, I have *This research was supported by a grant from the National Research Council of Canada (APA 288). The author wishes to thank Jean Ann Woodhouse for her assistance in tabulating the data and Howard R. Pollio for his discussion and comments on preliminary drafts. noticed that when I try to recall the names of people, introspective experiences such as images and affect and verbal descriptions are easily aroused. This suggests that TOT experiences may involve both verbal and nonverbal imagery processes which serve to mediate this state. The purpose of this investigation was to explore further the TOT phenomenon. The general procedures employed by Brown and McNeill were followed with one major change. Whereas Brown and McNeill precipitated TOT states by reading definitions of English words of low frequency, in the present study visual presentations of "famous" persons were given and Ss were asked to try to recall their names, Whenever S was unable to think of the target's name but felt sure that he knew it and that it was on the verge of coming back, he was considered to be in the TOT state. It was expected that Ss in TOT states would elicit both imagery and verbal mediators as well as phonetic information concerning the target's name. Although verbal and imagery symbolic processes are viewed as alternative coding systems, it is also assumed that chains of verbal associates and images of events can and do occur (paivio, 1971). No attempt was made in this study to tease apart verbal and imagery representations. METHOD Subjects Fifty-three undergraduates participated in one of two sessions; each session was 2 h long. The Ss were volunteers from two psychology courses. Stimulus Materials The list consisted of 10 female and 40 male faces of "public" persons. Each stimulus was a black-and-white full-face photograph taker. from popular magazines. Thirty-five personalities came from the entertainment field (e.g., Cary Grant and Carol Burnett) and 15 came from other fields (e.g.. Spiro Agnew and Pablo Picasso). Each face was cut beneath the chin and around the hairline. All stimuli were photographed and made into 35-mm slides. 287 288 YARMEY Table I Frequency Selection in Completion of Categories Selections Categories First Second Third Fourth Fifth Profession 242 144 30 9 1 Places 208 175 12 11 1 Recency 3 21 103 16 7 Initial Letter of First and Last Names 19 37 26 22 6 Syllables in First and Last Names 46 13 29 20 12 Names of Similar Sound IS 17 38 16 6 Response Sheet The response sheet included all but one of the categories used by Brown and McNeill (1966) plus three other response categories. The vertical columns were headed as follows: intended word (+ one I was thinking 00 (- not); number of syllables in first name; number of syllables in last name; initial letter of first name; initial letter of second name; names of similar sound (1. closest in sound) (2. middle) (3. farthest in sound); person's profession(s) or field(s) of importance; place(s) where you most often see this person; how recently? the name you were seeking if it is now available but is not the target name. Procedure A modified form of the instructions used by Brown and McNeill (1966) was employed. Since these instructions are quite lengthy, they will not be repeated here. The following changes were made. Whenever Brown and McNeill referred to "definitions and words," the. terms "faces and names" were substituted. Instead of asking Ss to write down "words of similar meaning," Ss were instructed to try to recall the person's profession or field of importance, the place(s) where they most often saw this person, e.g., newspapers, television, movies, theatre, magazines, etc., and finally, how recently they had seen this person, e.g., within the last week, last month, last year, or more than a year ago? The Ss were told that they were not required to fill in the columns in a left-to-right sequence. Rather they were free to complete the columns in their own preferred order. Ss were instructed to number each column serially as they started to complete it. In summary, the procedure consisted of presenting slides of facial photographs of "public" persons. Those Ss who were in a TOT state for a particular stimulus face completed a questionnaire designed to describe their TOT experience. RESULTS General Information The total number of reported TOT instances across all faces and all Ss was 623. Three hundred and sixty-four of these reports were positive TOTs and 259 were negative TOTs. "A positive TOT is one for which the target name is known and consequently, one for which the data obtained can be scored as accurate or inaccurate. In those cases where the target name was not the name intended but some other name which S finally recalled and wrote in the right most column his data was checked against that name as his effective target. A negative TOT is one for which the S judged the name read out not to have been his target and, in addition, one in which S proved unable to recall his own functional target [Brown & McNeill, 1966, p. 327]." Brown and McNeill (1966) pointed out that the general nature of TOT data violates most assumptions that underlie statistical tests of significance. For example, all stimuli did not reliably evoke TOT states; two of the faces failed to precipitate any TOTs, while the range was from 1 success to 28. The largest number of TOT states in one S was 26, the greatest frequency of positive TOTs in one S was 18, and the highest number of negative TOTs in one S was 12. Five Ss signaled 0-5 TOTs, 17 reported 6·10 TOTs, 28 claimed 11-20 TOTs, and 3 Ss had over 20 TOT states. The Ss made actual targets of 68 names not on the original list, and all but 7 of these were sought by one S only. Some faces were clearly more easily confused than others. For example, one movie star (Ann-Margaret) was mistaken by different Ss for Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Tuesday Weld, Lana Turner, and Angie Dickinson. Brown and McNeill refer to this type of data as fragmentary data and suggest that in spite of the limitations they be reported as fully as possible. Selection Order of Categories The reported order of searching memory stores for categorical information about target names is shown in Table 1. Although 623 TOTs were reported, 90 TOT instances lacked information on the sequence of category completions. Because of the relatively few guesses of the number of syllables in both first and last names and guesses of the initial letter of both names, the data in these two categories have been combined. The table suggests that in trying to remember a person's name, or at least a famous person's name, Ss first try to locate his profession and then try to remember where they most likely have seen this person. Ss then attempt to recall when they last saw this person. Other information, such as phonemic information, is available but is much less likely to be utilized early in the search. The table indicates that Ss attempted to first guess the initial letter of the names, followed closely by guesses of the number of syllables, and finally by similar sounding names. Phonemic Information Initial Letters TIP-OF-THE-TONGUE PHENOMEON 289 Table 2 Frequency Scores of Specificity of Information on Target's Profession, Place, and Recency Specificity specificity. Table 2 shows the frequency scores of specificity classifications on the target's profession, place most often seen, and how recently. Ss' knowledge about the target's profession, reportedly, is highly specific, while knowledge of where the target is most often seen is moderately specific. Since these targets were "famous" persons, Ss' reports of having seen these persons more frequently in the last year rather than in the last month, for example, seems to have face validity. Proximity to the Target and Quality of Information Brown and McNeill (1966) made a distinction among three types of positive TOT states that is relevant also in this investigation: " ... (I) Cases in which S recognized the name read by E as the name he had been seeking; (2) Cases in which S recalled the intended name before it was read out; (3) Cases in which S recalled the name he had been seeking before E read the intended name and the recalled name was not the same as the name read... [po 331]." Brown and McNeill state that since Ss in a Type 2 or Type 3 state found the target name before it was read and Ss in a Type 1 state did not, the TOTs of Type 1 may be considered further away from the target than Type 2 and Type 3 TOTs. The prediction is made, therefore, that Ss in Type 2 and Type 3 TOTs would have more accurate information (recall) about the target than Ss in Type 1 TOTs (recognition). The hypothesis was tested on the guesses of the targets' professions or fields of importance and places where the targets are most frequently seen. Ss in the Type 1 TOT state were correct on 91.9% (113 out of 123) of their guesses of the targets' profession and 94.9% (111 out of 117) correct on "place" guesses. Type 2 TOT states yielded 98.7% (153 out of 156) correct guesses for "professions" and 98.6% (141 out of 143) correct guesses for "location." For Ss in Type 3 TOT states, 93.8% (30 out of 32) of "profession" guesses were correct and 97% (32 out of 33) of "place" guesses were correct. Although these percentage scores are greater, as predicted for Type 2 and Type 3 TOTss, than for Type 1 TOTs, the only statistically significant difference occurred between Types 1 and 2 regarding professions (X 2 = 5.96, df = 1, p < .02). The differences between TOT states for Types 1 and 2 regarding locations fell just short of significance (X2 =3.00, df = 1, .05> p < .10). The Ss in positive TOT states were correct on 68% of their guesses of the initial letter of first names and on 59% of guesses of the initial letter of last names. An analysis of the initial letters of names of similar sound to the target names revealed that 83% of first names and 77% of last names matched. It is difficult to estimate the chance level of success in guessing the first letter of names, but since 14 different letters of the alphabet were used for the first names and 16 different letters as-· guesses, the chance level of successful matching must be low. Number of Syllables Over all positive TOTs, the number of syllables of the name S was seeking was correct on 73% (57 out of 79) guesses for first names and 79% (53 out of 67) for last names. These results must be qualified by the fact that the average number of syllables in first and last names was only 1.7 and 1.8, respectively. Consequently, the chance level of successful guessing must be high. The number of syllables in similar sounding first and last names as the target was guessed correctly 83% (25 out of 30) and 77%(17 out of 22) of the time, respectively, for both cases. Although Ss were asked to rank order the names of similar sound in terms of the degree of their seeming resemblance to the target, this was done by only one S. This particular S "knew" who Liza Minelli was and tried to find her name by writing out (1) Monetti, (2) Mona, (3) Magetti, (4) Spaghetti, (5) Bogette. Symbolic Representations The data for both positive and negative TOTs were combined and analyzed in terms of their specificity of S's information about the target's professions or fields of importance and those places (e.g., movies, television, book or particular magazines, theatre, etc.) where the target is most often seen and how recently. Specificity was defined as: (1) High -S was exact in describing the professions and places and gave precise examples, e.g., for the target "Elliot Gould" one S reported, "He is a movie star, latest film was Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice." (2) Moderate-S gave a good but not exact description, e.g., for the target "Glen Campbell" one S reported, "T.V. specials, on Smothers Brothers." (3) General-S had some knowledge but was vague, e.g., for the target "Ernie Ford" one S reported "comic in movies." And (4) Low-S was very vague, e.g., for the target "Arthur Godfrey" one S reported he was "in show business and is seen in newspapers." If S claimed to have seen this person within the last week, his statement was classified as highly specific: within the last month, moderate: within the last year. general: and over a year ago, low in Profession Place Recency High 197 14 8 Moderate 71 254 32 General 24 4 93 Low 15 1 31 290 YARMEY DISCUSSION These results add support to Brown and McNeill's (1966) "generic" recall interpretation of memory, i.e., partial recall of letters, syllables, affix, word class, and abstract recall, such as placement of primary stress. In this study, phonemic information of to-be-remembered names was available and consistently accurate. Ss were able to guess correctly initial letters of target names, initial letters of similar sounding names, and numbers of syllables in target names. Similar to words, names of people obey certain sequential and syntactical letter and syllabic constraints as well as phonetic generalizations. Although retrieval from generic memory is important in searching for target names, it is secondary to retrieval from other memory stores such as verbal and imagery representations. Ss' descriptions of their memory search during TOT states clearly involved both imagery and verbal mediators. While these reports do not prove a causal relationship, they are descriptive of subjective associative experiences. The predominant encoding strategy of "person information" was in a spatial form, i.e., Ss were highly specific in describing the target's profession, they were able to describe accurately where they most often saw the target, and finally, they were able to give temporal-spatial relationships to this experience. Since the majority of these public persons, reportedly, were last seen between 1 and 12 months ago, the long-term retention Of this information must be stable and highly consolidated. These temporal-spatial organizations of TOT states appear to be related to Tulving's (1972) hypothesis of episodic memory. Tulving does not explicitly refer to imagery processes, but rather describes episodic memory in terms of autobiographical events which are stored in terms of temporally dated episodes and temporal-spatial relationships among these events. 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We apply a hedonic regression analysis to a new data set of over one million auction transactions of paintings and works on paper. Based on the resulting price index, we conclude that art has appreciated in value by a moderate 3.97% per year, in real U.S. dollar terms, between 1957 and 2007. This is a performance similar to that of corporate bonds – at much higher risk. A repeat-sales regression on a subset of the data demonstrates the robustness of our index. Next, quantile regressions document larger price appreciations in higher price brackets. We also find variation in historical returns across mediums and movements. Finally, we show that both high-income consumer confidence and art market sentiment forecast art price trends. Key words: art; auctions; hedonic regressions; investments; repeat-sales regressions; sentiment. * Luc Renneboog (luc.renneboog@uvt.nl) is Professor of Corporate Finance, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Christophe Spaenjers (spaenjers@hec.fr) is Assistant Professor of Finance, HEC Paris, France. The authors would like to thank Sofiane Aboura, Richard Agnello, David Bellingham, Fabio Braggion, Michael Brennan, Peter Carpreau, Geraldo Cerqueiro, Gilles Chemla, Mark Clatworthy, Craig Clunas, Peter De Goeij, Neil De Marchi, Alberta Di Guili, Elroy Dimson, Kevin Evans, Julian Franks, Rik Frehen, Edith Ginglinger, Victor Ginsburgh, Marc Goergen, William Goetzmann, Tom Gretton, Duncan Hislop, Noah Horowitz, Jonathan Ingersoll, Martin Kemp, Marius Kwint, Geraldine Johnson, Benjamin Mandel, David Marginson, Bill Megginson, Allison Morehead, Thierry Morel, Michael Moses, Kim Oosterlinck, Liang Peng, Rachel Pownall, Clara C. Raposo, Catarina Reis, Keith Robson, Frans de Roon, Geert Rouwenhorst, Ahti Salo, Sofia Santos, Marie Shushka, Mick Silver, Myron Slovin, Cindy Soo, Matthew Spiegel, Darius Spieth, Peter Szilagyi, Nick Taylor, Svetlana Taylor, Radomir Todorov, Hans Van Miegroet, Joost Vanden Auwera, Stephen Walker, Jason Xiao, Roberto Zanola, and participants at seminars and workshops at Antwerp University, Cambridge University, Cardiff Business School, Duke University, ISCTE Business School, London Business School, Manchester Business School, Paris-Dauphine University, Tilburg University, UCL-Core, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Yale University, the 2009 FMA Meetings, the 2009 LBS Annual Art Investment Conference, and the 2009 Multinational Finance Conference for valuable comments and suggestions. Spaenjers would like to thank the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for financial support, and London Business School for its hospitality. 2 I. Introduction Stories about the baffling amounts of money paid for first-tier art frequently entertain newspaper readers around the world. Yet, high prices do not necessarily imply high returns. Consider, for example, Claude Monet’s “Dans la Prairie”, the star lot of the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale at Christie’s London in February 2009. The canvas changed owners for the substantial sum of 10 million British Pound (GBP), and was the top seller in an auction that, according to the Wall Street Journal (2009), “showed that there's plenty of life” in the Impressionist and Modern sector. However, the same painting had been sold twice before in recent history – in June 1988 at Sotheby’s London for 14.3 million GBP, and in November 1999 at Sotheby’s New York for 15.4 million U.S. dollars (USD). By any standard, the rate of return on the Monet was dismal. Nevertheless, the growth in the number of multi-million dollar sales, the expansion of the global population of high-net-worth individuals, and the increasing need for portfolio diversification have all brought increased attention to art as an investment in recent years. In turn, the belief in art as a viable alternative asset class has led to the creation of several art funds – not all very successful (Horowitz, 2011) – and art market advisory services which cater to affluent individuals who consider investing in art. The Wall Street Journal (2010) recently reported that almost 8% of total wealth is held in so-called “passion investments”: art, musical instruments, wine, jewelry, antiques, etc. Of all such luxury assets, art is the most likely to be acquired for its potential appreciation in value (Capgemini, 2010). There is a growing academic literature on art investments, but previous studies have utilized relatively small data sets of sales (pairs) at the high end of the market. The resulting indices are prone to a number of estimation issues and selection biases (cf. Section II). The current paper therefore uses a comprehensive new data set of nearly 1.1 million auction sales to re-examine the price formation and returns in the art market, over a period from 1957 to 2007. We perform a hedonic regression analysis which relates transaction prices to a wide range of value- determining characteristics and year effects. Our results show that artist reputation, attribution, signs of authenticity, medium, size, topic, and the timing and location of the sale are significantly correlated with price levels. Based on the regression coefficients on the year dummies in our model, we can build a price index that controls for time variation in the composition of the market (and corrects for changes in price dispersion). We find that constant-quality art prices increased by a moderate 3.97% in real USD terms on a yearly basis over the 1957-2007 period. Between 1982 and 2007, the geometric average annual real return is 5.19%. For the second half of the twentieth century, our estimates are substantially below those reported by Goetzmann (1993) and Mei and Moses (2002). Our baseline hedonic index proves robust to alternative specifications and estimation methods. For example, allowing for time variation in the hedonic coefficients does not materially affect our results. 3 Importantly, also applying a repeat-sales regression to a subset of our sample leads to nearly identical return estimates for the 1982-2007 period. Quantile regressions over the same time frame show that historical rates of appreciation vary across the price distribution; the annualized real return at the 95th percentile is almost 5 percentage points higher than the return at the 5th percentile. In line with this finding, but in contrast to previous research (and to what the Monet example may suggest), we do not find that portfolios of masterpieces underperform the rest of the market. Moreover, a “value” strategy, in which one focuses on important but relatively less expensive artists, has outperformed our baseline index by 1.6 percentage points on an annualized basis. Next, we show that oil paintings and post-war movements have outperformed other art over the last few decades. Overall, the risk-return profile of art has been inferior to that of financial assets, even before transaction costs, especially in the second half of our time frame. However, art has outperformed other physical assets, such as gold, commodities, and real estate. While we find a low correlation between changes in the art price index and same-year equity returns, the correlation with lagged equity returns is substantially higher. Finally, we examine the determinants of art market returns. We find evidence that (lagged) equity market returns and changes in high-income consumer confidence predict art returns, highlighting the importance of luxury consumption demand. However, we document that also a novel art buyer sentiment measure (based on volume and buy-in rates at high-profile auctions, and on media reports) forecasts price changes. This suggests that time-varying optimism about the potential of ‘art as an investment’ can partially explain the existence of art market cycles. II. Literature on art returns Researchers have used different methodologies to calculate the financial returns on art investments, starting from public auction records.1 Stein (1977) considers the auctioned objects in each year as a random sample of the underlying stock of art (by deceased artists), and constructs an index based on the yearly average transaction price. Baumol (1986) and Frey and Pommerehne (1989) calculate the geometric mean return on works that sold at least twice during the considered time frame. Unfortunately, however, these simple methods do not enable the construction of a price index that adjusts for variations in quality. Most recent studies have therefore used either repeat-sales regressions or hedonic regressions to measure the price movements of art and other infrequently traded assets (e.g., real estate). Repeat-sales regressions (RSR) explicitly control for differences in quality between works by only considering items that have been sold at least twice. The method uses purchase and sale price pairs to 1 Art is not only sold at auction, but also privately, for example through dealers. Total turnover in the art and antiques market is roughly split equally between the two transaction types (McAndrew, 2010). However, it is generally accepted that auction prices set a benchmark also used in the private market. 4 estimate the average return of a portfolio of assets in each time period. Pesando (1993), Goetzmann (1993), Mei and Moses (2002), and Pesando and Shum (2008), among others, have applied the methodology to art investments. There are three problems with existing RSR studies. First, since art objects trade very infrequently (and resales can be hard to identify), only considering repeated transactions decimates any data set to a relatively small number of observations. For example, Mei and Moses (2002) include 4,896 sales pairs over a period of 125 years; Goetzmann et al. (2011) use even fewer sales pairs, although their focus is not on the resulting price index itself. Meese and Wallace (1997) show that the use of such small databases renders RSR estimators sensitive to influential observations. Second, most repeat-sales studies suffer from selection issues. For example, the sample used by Mei and Moses (2002) includes sales pairs with a first transaction anywhere in the world, but a resale at Sotheby’s or Christie’s New York – arguably the most expensive sales rooms in the world. Moreover, the initial purchase is identified using the provenance entries in the New York sales catalogues; this information could be more likely to be included when a high price is expected. An index estimated based upon such a sample may thus be biased upwards. Other studies, including Goetzmann (1993), have utilized repeat-sales information from the so-called “Reitlinger data” – books with auction price data until the 1960s – of which is well known that they are incomplete and focus disproportionately on famous artists (Guerzoni, 1995). Third, even abstracting from the issues just outlined, items which trade twice may in general not be representative for the overall population of art works. Hedonic regressions control for quality changes in the transacted goods by attributing implicit prices to their “utility-bearing characteristics” (Rosen, 1974). In the often-used time-dummy variant of the hedonic pricing methodology, all available transaction data are pooled, and prices are regressed on a set of value- determining attributes and one or more time dummies. Under the assumption that all omitted characteristics are orthogonal to those included (Meese and Wallace, 1997),2 the coefficients on the time dummies account for constant-quality price trends over the sample period. Since no information is thrown away prior to the estimation, hedonic regressions make efficient use of available data, and may therefore give more reliable estimates of price indices than RSR. Not surprisingly, one of the key difficulties is the choice of hedonic characteristics (Ashenfelter and Graddy, 2003). Observable and easily quantifiable features such as size, medium, and the location of sale are frequently used (Anderson, 1974; Buelens and Ginsburgh, 1993; Chanel et al., 1996; Agnello and Pierce, 1996), but the number of hedonic variables often remains relatively limited. The literature has failed to systematically include variables that measure reputation or the strength of attribution, an important price-determining factor for Old Masters (Robertson, 2005). Also, just like in studies using RSR, the utilized samples have been relatively small and selective. Research has been based 2 Although there are omitted variables in every model, hedonic pricing is particularly suitable for luxury consumption goods markets, in which a limited number of key characteristics often determine the willingness to pay for an item (e.g., the 4 Cs of a diamond). In any case, Butler (1982) argues that the omitted variable bias is often negligible; “approximate correctness can be achieved with significantly fewer characteristics than is generally supposed”. 5 either on the problematic (and old) Reitlinger data mentioned before (Buelens and Ginsburgh, 1993; Chanel et al., 1996), or on samples of art from one country (Agnello and Pierce, 1996; Renneboog and Van Houtte, 2002; Higgs and Worthington, 2005). The estimated returns on art vary with data, methodology, and the time period under consideration (Ashenfelter and Graddy, 2003). With respect to paintings, the two most influential repeat-sales studies report relatively high real returns over the second half of the twentieth century. Goetzmann (1993) calculates an average annual real appreciation of 3.8% between 1850 and 1986, but with a “long and strong” bull market, in which annualized returns average around 15%, since 1940. Mei and Moses (2002) reports a real return of 4.9% over the period 1875-1999, but a higher annualized return estimate of 8.2% after 1950. (For prints, Pesando and Shum (2008) report much lower returns over the period 1977-2004.) In general, studies that use hedonic regressions have found somewhat lower returns, but to date no exhaustive hedonic analysis has been undertaken. III. Data and methodology In this paper, we construct a price index for art using the hedonic regression methodology. As outlined before, the main advantage of this approach is that information on all observed transactions can be taken into account. Our model relates the natural logs of real USD prices to year dummies, while controlling for a wide range of hedonic characteristics: ∑ ∑ = = +++= M m T t ktkttmktmkt DXP 1 1 ln εγβα (1), where Pkt represents the price of art object k at time t, Xmkt is the value of characteristic m of item k at time t, and Dkt is a time dummy variable that takes the value one if object k is sold in period t (and zero otherwise). The coefficients βm reflect the attribution of a relative shadow price to each of the m characteristics, while the antilogs of the coefficients γt can be used to construct an art price index that controls for time variation in the quality of art sold. The value of the hedonic index in year t is: 100*)exp( tt γ≡Π (2), with γ0 set equal to 0 for the initial, left-out period. The return in year t is then: 1 1 − Π Π ≡ −t t tr (3). However, a subtle (and often neglected) point is that such an index will track the geometric – not the arithmetic – mean of prices over time, due to the log transformation prior to the estimation. This is especially important for our estimation of returns if there is time variation in the heterogeneity-controlled dispersion in prices, i.e., the hedonic regression residuals (Silver and Heravi, 2007). If we assume that the 6 residuals of our hedonic regression are normally distributed in each period, with variance 2tσ in period t, then we can correct for this transformation bias by defining the corrected index values as follows (Triplett, 2004; Silver and Heravi, 2007): 100*)( 2 1 exp 20 2*     −+≡Π σσγ ttt (4). The corrected return in year t, can then be defined as follows: 1 * 1 * * − Π Π ≡ −t t tr (5). We describe our data in subsection A. The hedonic variables that will be used in the estimation of Eq. (1) are presented in subsection B. A. Data We focus on the market for oil paintings and works on paper (i.e., watercolors and drawings), which account for a substantial proportion of all transactions – and about 85% of total turnover – in the art market (Artprice, 2006). We start by compiling a list of artists. This selection of artists has to be as exhaustive as possible, so as not to have a bias towards artists that are popular today, and therefore we consult several authoritative art history resources from different time periods. Our artist selection procedure, of which details can be found in Appendix A, culminates in a list of 10,442 artists. We classify 4,490 of those artists in at least one of the following art movements: Medieval & Renaissance; Baroque; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Realism; Impressionism & Symbolism; Fauvism & Expressionism; Cubism, Futurism & Constructivism; Dada & Surrealism; Abstract Expressionism; Pop; Minimalism & Contemporary. We then collect data on all relevant sales by matching our list of names with all artists in the online database Art Sales Index [http://www.artinfo.com/artsalesindex]. This resource contains auction records for different types of art. Prices are hammer prices, exclusive of transaction costs. Historically, the Art Sales Index, just like many other databases, has not included buy-ins (i.e., items that do not reach the reserve price and remain unsold). Although the first sales in the Art Sales Index date from the beginning of the 1920s, data are unavailable or sparse in many years until the second half of the 1950s. Therefore, we start our analysis in 1957, the first year for which we have more than 1,000 observations. (Unfortunately, however, for 1963 the data coverage is limited, with only some of the highest priced sales included.) The Art Sales Index only includes London sales until the late 1960s, but it has an exhaustive worldwide coverage afterwards. The most recent auction records available for this study are from the autumn auctions of 2007. Our final data set consists of 1,088,709 sales; about 60% of these transactions concern oil paintings, with the remainder split roughly evenly between watercolors and drawings. The artist with the highest 7 numbers of sales (5,405) is Pablo Picasso. The magnitude of our database enables us to draw a complete picture of the price formation and the returns in the art market, in contrast to most previous studies which are based on more selective samples. We translate all nominal prices in our data set to prices in year 2007 USD, using the CPI as a measure of inflation. In real terms, the most expensive transaction is ‘Portrait du Dr. Gachet’ by Vincent van Gogh, which sold for 75 million USD in May 1990 at Christie's New York. (In nominal prices, it is ‘Garçon à la Pipe’ by Pablo Picasso, which was auctioned off for 93 million USD in May 2004 at Sotheby's New York.) While such high-profile sales attract ample attention, the average price level is much lower. The mean (resp. median) sales price over all observations for 2007 is 159,354 USD (resp. 14,775 USD). Goetzmann (1996) argues that survivorship could cause upward bias in the estimation of art returns, since artists who “fall from fashion” are typically not traded. The impact of this bias on our results may be rather small. First, as Goetzmann (1996) points out himself, the rate of artist obsolescence is relatively low. Second, in contrast to previous work, we do not require a work of art to trade twice and/or to sell at a large auction house. Our sample thus also includes many sales of less popular artists at smaller auction houses at any point in time (especially after 1970). Finally, pieces that are donated to museums after a substantial increase in an artist’s fame – or items that are sold through private transactions in the early part of artists’ careers – are not observed at auction either (Goetzmann, 1993; Mei and Moses, 2002), partially offsetting the upward bias. Nevertheless, our return estimate should probably still be considered as an upper bound on the rate of return (before transaction costs) realized by art investors over our time frame. B. Variables Our hedonic regressions include a number of variables that capture the characteristics of the artist, of the work, and of the sale. The descriptive statistics for these hedonic variables are presented in Table 1. [Insert Table 1 about here] First, in addition to artist dummies capturing each artist’s uniqueness, we consider the following exogenous reputational measure: Textbook dummy. We manually check which of our artists were included in several editions of the classic art history textbook ‘Gardner’s Art Through the Ages’ (1926, 1959, 1980, 1996, and 2004). In total, 652 of our artists are listed in at least one edition. The dummy variable TEXTBOOK equals one if the artist was featured in the edition of – or the last edition prior to – the year of sale. Two other characteristics related to the artist’s career are included in the late-twentieth-century movement- specific models (cf. Section IV.E), but not in our general models, as they could potentially pick up price differences between various eras or movements: 8 Exhibition dummy. The variable EXHIBITION equals one once the artist has been represented at Documenta in Kassel. Inclusion in this prestigious exhibition evidences an artist’s rise to fame. In total, 680 of our artists were represented at one of the eleven exhibitions between 1955 and 2002. Dead artist dummy. It is often assumed that prices for art works increase after the death of an artist. The dummy variable DECEASED, which equals one if the sale occurs subsequent to the artist’s death, should capture this effect. Second, we also consider a range of price-determining variables that capture the attribution and authenticity, the medium, the size, and the subject matter of the work of art: Attribution dummies. Attribution can be an important factor influencing the price of art objects, especially of older works. Different levels of attribution are used in the auction world: ATTRIBUTED (to), STUDIO (of), CIRCLE (of), SCHOOL (of), AFTER, and (in the) STYLE (of). About 12% of the observations in our sample carry such an attribution. Authenticity dummies. More than half of the art works is SIGNED, while about one third is DATED. Medium dummies. We introduce dummies for the different medium categories: OIL, WATERCOLOR (including gouaches), and DRAWING. Size. The height and width in inches are represented by HEIGHT and WIDTH (with squared values HEIGHT_2 and WIDTH_2). The average work has a height and a width of about 20 inches (51 cm). Topic dummies. The subject matter can significantly affect the aesthetic appreciation of art objects. We therefore categorize the works in different topic groups based on the first word(s) of the title. We create eleven categories, based on the search strings listed in Appendix B: ABSTRACT, ANIMALS, LANDSCAPE, NUDE, PEOPLE, PORTRAIT, RELIGION, SELF-PORTRAIT, STILL_LIFE, UNTITLED, and URBAN. Furthermore, we create a dummy STUDY that equals one if the title contains the words “study” or “etude”. The largest categories are portraits and landscapes. Third, we include dummies that indicate the timing of the sale, and the reputation and location of the auction house: Month dummies. Since important sales are often clustered in time, we include month dummies. The busiest months are May, June, November, and December. Auction house dummies. We make a distinction between different fine art auction houses that have been important throughout our sample period. For Sotheby’s and Christie’s, we introduce dummy variables for their London, New York, and other sales (e.g., SOTH_LONDON, SOTH_NY, and SOTH_OTHER). Together, these two institutions are responsible for about half of all sales in our sample. For two other big British auction houses, Bonhams and Phillips, we make a distinction between their London sales rooms and other activities (e.g., BON_LONDON and BON_OTHER). 9 We also create two dummies to account for the sales by important European and American auction houses (AUCTION_EUROPEAN and AUCTION_AMERICAN) – see Appendix C. IV. The returns on art A. Baseline indices Table 2 shows the parameter estimates of the hedonic variables for our baseline model. Eq. (1) is estimated using ordinary least squares (OLS) and the dependent variable is the natural log of the real price in USD. For 1,078,482 sales we have complete information on all hedonic characteristics presented in the previous section. Because of the very large number of observations, nearly all coefficients are statistically highly significant. Hence, we focus on economic significance as well: Table 2 shows the “price impact” of each hedonic variable, which can be proxied by taking the exponent of the coefficient, and subtracting one. It is important to note that the variables are in most cases picking up otherwise unobservable differences in quality, and that the regression coefficients thus reflect correlation instead of causality. For example, works sold at Sotheby’s or Christie’s mainly catch higher prices because of their high attractiveness, not necessarily because of auction house certification. [Insert Table 2 about here] Table 2 reveals that works are on average priced 13.5% higher after the inclusion of the artist in an important art history reference book. Also the strength of the attribution has an important effect on the price of an art object. Whenever an attribution dummy comes into play, the price level drops by more than 50%. Not surprisingly, larger discounts are recorded for works that are “in the style of” or “after” a master than for “attributed” or “studio” works. We also observe that signed and dated works carry higher prices: a signature increases the price by as much as 31% on average, while a date adds almost 19% in value. Works on paper are priced lower than oil paintings, and drawings are less valuable than watercolors. Furthermore, prices increase with size, up to the point that the work becomes too large, as indicated by the negative coefficients on the squared terms. Regarding the topic dummies, there are significant discounts associated with studies and portraits, while self-portraits trade at a premium. The coefficients on our month-of-the- year dummies confirm that the most expensive auctions are clustered at the ends of the spring and the autumn. Finally, the highest prices are paid at the main offices of Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Based on the coefficients on the time dummies and the variance of residuals in each period, we construct both an uncorrected art price index Π, and a price index Π* that corrects for log transformation bias. The results are reported in Table 3; the price levels in 1957 are standardized to 100. As mentioned before, the coverage of the data is very selective for the year 1963, so we geometrically interpolate index values for that year. (Previous studies showed very small price movements in 1963.) Table 3 indicates that the index values have high statistical precision. In most cases, the standard deviation on the regression coefficient is 10 around 0.03, which implies tight confidence intervals around each index value. Figure 1 graphically depicts the evolution of the indices over our time frame, and compares them to the evolution of deflated average and median prices in our data set. [Insert Table 3 and Figure 1 about here] The corrected price index in Figure 1 illustrates that, in boom periods, prices can increase very fast: they more than tripled in real terms between 1982 and 1990. The yearly increase in prices between 1985 and 1990 exceeded 23%. However, prices also rapidly decreased after 1990, and no large changes in price levels occurred between the mid-1990s and the first years of the 2000s. In the most recent art boom period of 2002-2007, the annual real price appreciation averaged 13.65%. The figure documents that an index based on average or median prices would overestimate the volatility of prices, because of the lack of control for quality differences over time. Indeed, a key contribution of this paper is to disentangle changes in market composition from those in heterogeneity-controlled price levels. At the same time, however, the average and median series serve as a check on the order of magnitude of the overall price appreciation (at least over the last two-three decades, when the coverage of the data set is no longer expanding notably). Figure 1 also illustrates the quantitative importance of the correction for the log transformation; while the end-of-period index values are very similar, we observe marked deviations between Π and Π* over some periods. Annualized (i.e., geometric average) returns are reported in Panel A of Table 4. We focus on the corrected price index. On average, art has appreciated at a yearly real rate of 3.97% between 1957 and 2007. Over the last 25 years, the geometric mean real return is somewhat higher (5.19%). The nominal equivalents (not reported), obtained by correcting the index for the year-to-year changes in the CPI series, are 8.21% (1957-2007) and 8.47% (1982-2007). These numbers are substantially below the return estimates reported in Goetzmann (1993) or Mei and Moses (2002) for the periods in common. For example, over the period 1957-1999, Mei and Moses (2002) report an annualized nominal return of 12.81%, while our index appreciated by 7.59% on an annual basis – a difference of over 5%. [Insert Table 4 about here] Table 4 also reports standard deviations of the time series of annual returns. For our corrected index, the standard deviation over the full time frame is slightly above 15%. However, we will later note that this number still underestimates the true riskiness of art investments (cf. Section V). B. Robustness checks We now check the quantitative robustness of our baseline results. First, we repeat our analysis using a number of different set-ups: (i) excluding the topic dummies (as these may capture the subject matter rather imprecisely), (ii) excluding the more than 5,000 artists with fewer than 100 sales (as these artists are less 11 liquid), and (iii) excluding Minimalism & Contemporary art (as selection and survivorship issues may be more of a concern for more recent artists). Panel B of Table 4 shows the uncorrected real return estimates for 1957-2007 and 1982-2007, which can be compared to the performance of price index Π, as shown in Panel A. Our estimates do not change substantially, with annualized price appreciations over the period 1957-2007 that differ by less than 0.05% from those reported earlier. Second, a potential problem with the hedonic approach is that coefficients are constrained to be stable across the whole sample window. This is a strong assumption as shadow prices of hedonic characteristics (i.e., tastes) may change over time. An adjacent-period model can mitigate this problem: by dividing the sample in subperiods, it enables the hedonic coefficients to fluctuate (Triplett, 2004). We apply this method to our data set by performing a separate hedonic regression for every two consecutive years since 1982 (and then chain-linking our returns). We restrict our analysis to the second half of our time frame, because the methodology would underestimate the returns over the full time frame due to the expansion of coverage by the database over the first 20-25 years. The adjacent-year model generates an uncorrected return estimate (4.60%) that is very similar to the one we obtained from the pooled data, lending further support to our benchmark index. Third, the main advantage of RSR is that is controls for the uniqueness of each work. Also, in contrast to a hedonic price index, it can be thought of as an investable index, at least in theory. Unfortunately, our data set does not uniquely identify each artwork – let alone each repeated sale. Yet, we aim to identify multiple transactions of the same item indirectly. We consider two items as being identical if they are from the same artist (not from a pupil or follower), have the same dimensions, carry the same title (but not “Untitled” or “Composition”), are of the same medium, and do not differ with respect to the presence of a signature or date. Strikingly, this reduces the data set from 1.1 million individual transactions to 30,611 ‘repeat sales’ with a holding period of at least a year. For similar reasons as before – an RSR over the full sample would underestimate average returns because of the focus on higher-priced items in the first half of our time frame – we look at the 21,846 transactions between 1982 and 2007. (This number compares favorably to the size of the databases used in previous repeat-sales studies.) In line with Goetzmann (1993) and Mei and Moses (2002), we apply a three-stage estimation procedure on our sample of repeat sales, based on Case and Shiller (1987). In a first step, we regress returns on a matrix (containing a row for each item and a column for each time period) with dummy variables indicating the holding period of each item, using OLS. In a second stage, we regress the squared residuals from the first step on an intercept and the time between sales. In a third step, we redo the RSR, using weighted least squares, with the fitted squared residuals as weights. The last line of Panel B of Table 4 shows that, over the time frame under consideration, the RSR implies an average annual increase in the geometric mean price of 4.56%, compared to 4.55% for the (uncorrected) 12 hedonic regression index.3 The standard deviation is only slightly higher than before. The correlation between the repeat-sales returns and the hedonic returns (not reported) is 0.98. C. Quantile regressions Despite some work on the “masterpiece effect” – which examines the question whether more expensive art out- or underperforms the overall market (e.g., Pesando, 1993; Mei and Moses, 2002) – prior literature has not systematically explored the potential variation of returns across price brackets. This is surprising, given that the art market is likely to be segmented for a number of reasons. First, art is indivisible, and therefore small investors are generally not able to invest in higher-end works. Second, wealthy individuals may be less tempted to buy in the lower-end of the market, where works do not signal the same social status (Mandel, 2009). Third, the more expensive parts of the market may be more prone to speculation. The distribution of returns may thus be skewed over and above a potential masterpiece effect. In such a setting, quantile regressions may be particularly useful (Zietz et al., 2008; Scorcu and Zanola, 2011). While OLS regressions provide estimates for the conditional means only, non-linear quantile regressions can characterize the entire distribution of the dependent variable (Koenker and Hallock, 2001). We estimate price trends for the percentiles 0.95, 0.75, 0.50, 0.25, and 0.05, using the adjacent-year set- up outlined before. (We split our sample in subperiods to avoid that the hedonic coefficients measure variation in premiums or discounts across time rather than across price brackets). We denote the price indices by Q95, Q75, etc. We show the results, again since 1982, in Panel C of Table 4 and in Figure 2. An interesting pattern emerges. The low performance of Q05 is particularly striking: it has an annual growth rate of only 1.35%, compared with 4.91% for Q50 (i.e., the constant-quality median price level). Over the last 25 years, prices have gone up more in the higher price brackets. For example, for Q95, we record an annualized return of 6.32%. Paired-sample t-tests on the return series (not reported) show that the difference in (arithmetic) average return between Q05 and any of the other quantile series is statistically significant at the 0.05 level. The outperformance of the higher quantiles is mainly due to strong price rises in times of increasing demand for art. This finding seems in line with “superstar economics”.4 The higher 3 As with the hedonic regression, the RSR implies an index that is related to the geometric mean price in each period. Goetzmann (1992) proposes to correct for log transformation bias by adding half of the cross-sectional variance of the returns in each period to the estimated coefficient, where this variance is estimated in the second step of the Case- Shiller method. However, Goetzmann and Peng (2002) argue that the nature of the bias due to the log transformation is generally not uniform through time. There is also a danger of misspecification of the error structure (Meese and Wallace, 1997) which may lead to an overestimation of the relevant correction term. Since we are mainly interested in testing the robustness of our baseline index to a change in methodology, we compare the pre-correction indices to each other; they should give similar results. 4 In Rosen (1981), a small number of superstars earn large amounts of money, and increases in demand make the earnings distribution ever more skewed. A condition is that there is “imperfect substitution among quality 13 average growth and higher volatility of the upper price range can also be associated with increases in both income inequality (Goetzmann et al., 2011) and the income cyclicality of high-income households (Parker and Vissing-Jorgensen, 2010), although we do not formally test these hypotheses in this paper (because of lack of a sufficiently long time series). In contrast, at first sight, the results seem at odds with the finding of Mei and Moses (2002) that masterpieces underperform – an issue that we turn to next. [Insert Figure 2 about here] D. The performance of “masterpiece” and “value” portfolios The quantile regression results shows that prices have generally gone up more for high-value items. To further examine the profitability and riskiness of buying high-end art, we estimate the historical performance of two different investment strategies, based on our repeat-sales data. First, we consider a “masterpiece” strategy: we ‘buy’ in year t all auctioned works by the 100 artists that were most expensive over years t-1 and t-2 (as measured by an adjacent-period hedonic regression model over those years). This strategy comes close to how other authors have examined the masterpiece effect, although we do not select works endogenously on realized transaction prices. Second, we implement a “value” strategy: we buy in year t all observed works by the 100 least expensive artists over t-1 and t-2 that were nevertheless included in the art history textbook described earlier at the start of year t-2. Such a strategy could exploit fluctuations in taste, or a lag in appreciation by the market relative to the recognition of the artist’s art-historical significance. (Of course, the items included in this portfolio are in general still expensive compared to the overall sales distribution.) In both cases, we apply the RSR methodology to estimate returns; in other words, we ‘sell’ whenever the owner sold in practice. The results are shown in Panel D of Table 4, and compared to our earlier constructed RSR index in Figure 3. [Insert Figure 3 about here] We find no evidence of underperformance of a “masterpiece” strategy, which is not inconsistent with our quantile regressions, but stands in contrast to Mei and Moses (2002).5 The described strategy yields an annualized growth in price levels of 4.81%, compared to 4.56% for our earlier constructed RSR index. The differentiated goods”. This is certainly the case in the art market: ten mediocre works do not add up to a single masterpiece. In a recent paper, Gyourko et al. (2006) rely on superstar economics to rationalize why the gap in house prices between “superstar cities” and less attractive locations keeps increasing over time; the authors note that “living in a superstar city is like owning a luxury good”. 5 Mei and Moses (2002) and Ashenfelter and Graddy (2003) argue that idiosyncratic overbidding and mean reversion could be one explanation for the seemingly negative effect in studies that identify masterpieces based on transaction prices. Goetzmann (1996) provides an alternative explanation: if only larger auction houses are taken into account, expensive items that drop in value are more likely to be included in the sample than lesser-quality works that underperform. Of course, the relative performance of masterpieces may also vary over time, for example if it depends on evolutions in aggregate demand or the income distribution (cf. supra). 14 “masterpiece” strategy realized strikingly high returns in the boom in the late 1980s (when indeed “blue chip” art was very much in favor), but lost much in the subsequent bust. For the “value” strategy, we record an annualized return of 6.16%; it has performed notably well since the mid-2000s. Both high-end strategies thus have end-of-period index values above those for the overall sample, although the outperformance is not statistically significant at the traditional levels. The (unreported) p-value of a t-test on the difference between the “value” returns and the benchmark returns is 0.14. E. Indices per medium and per movement We now return to our baseline hedonic model and repeat the hedonic regression analysis on three complementary subsamples of our data set: oil paintings, watercolors, and drawings. The coefficients on the hedonic variables (not reported) are in line with the previous results. Although the trends are similar across the different types of art, we find faster price increases for oil paintings. In real terms, watercolors and drawings were on average still priced lower in 2007 than in 1989 and 1990. Panel E of Table 4 reports the (corrected) returns over the different time frames. Over the last half century, prices for oil paintings have appreciated at a yearly average real rate of 4.63%, while watercolors and drawings have increased by 3.67% and 2.51% annually. Oil paintings have strongly and significantly outperformed works on paper in the second half of our time frame – a finding that is related to the discrepancies in returns between price categories reported before. The lower performance of art items other than paintings is also consistent with Pesando and Shum (2008), who find an average real return on prints of 1.51% between 1977 and 2004. Finally, we run a separate hedonic regression for each movement, based on the classification of each artist. We add the variables EXHIBITION and DECEASED to the models for the three most recent art movements (Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimalism & Contemporary). Most artists of these movements have been active over our time frame, which will enable a correct measurement of exhibition and death effects. We find that EXHIBITION is significantly positive in the Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism & Contemporary set-ups; in the latter model we also observe a clearly positive death effect (not reported). In general, the results on the other hedonic characteristics are in line with the earlier findings, although there is some variation in the coefficients on the topic dummies (e.g., a premium is paid for nudes only in Pop) and on the auction house dummies (e.g., auctions at the large continental European houses generate premiums for the earliest art movements). The average yearly real returns for the different art movements since 1957 and since 1982 are also reported in Panel E of Table 4. Since 1957, the indices have increased by between 2.57% and 6.32% on average per year. Between 1982 and 2007, only the post- war art movements Abstract Expressionism, Pop, and Minimalism & Contemporary have shown real price appreciations of more than 7% per annum, on average. However, the standard deviations show that these movements have also been the more volatile ones. Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism & Symbolism, 15 and Fauvism & Expressionism record mean appreciations of less than 5% over the same time frame. The indices for three art movements from different time periods (Rococo; Cubism, Futurism & Constructivism; and Pop) are plotted in Figure 4 from 1982 onwards. The figure confirms that a post-war art movement like Pop has been more profitable – the outperformance is statistically significant at the 0.05 level – but is also more risky. [Insert Figure 4 about here] V. Comparison of investment performance and correlation with other asset classes We want to compare the performance of art investments to that of other assets. However, we first need to address the underestimation of risk by our hedonic indices. Since our methodology aggregates sales information per calendar year, our returns will suffer from spurious first-order autocorrelation and have understated standard deviations. We can unsmooth our baseline index Π*, a technique originated in the real estate literature, but later also applied to collectibles (e.g., Campbell, 2008; Dimson and Spaenjers, 2011). Based on Working (1960), we can calculate that taking a yearly average of daily prices induces spurious first-order serial correlation in the hedonic coefficients of about 0.25. We therefore re-estimate our standard deviations, removing this spurious autocorrelation from the return series. Over the period 1957-2007, the standard deviation of our desmoothed art index is now equal to 19.05% (instead of 15.21%). Over the second quarter century, the standard deviation rises less sharply, from 15.31% to 18.04%.6 We collect data from Global Financial Data on indices measuring total returns on U.S. T-bills, 10-year U.S. government bonds, Dow Jones corporate bonds, the GFD global index for government bonds, S&P 500 stocks, the GFD world index for equity, gold prices, and the CRB commodity price index. We borrow data on residential real estate prices in the U.S. from Shiller (2009); unfortunately, commercial real estate price indices have only been available for shorter time periods. Panel A of Table 5 shows the average yearly real returns and volatilities calculated over the periods 1957-2007 and 1982-2007. The same table also presents the ex-post (arithmetic) Sharpe ratios, using the returns on T-bills as the risk-free rate. [Insert Table 5 about here] Over the longer time frame, the art index clearly underperforms stocks. The S&P 500 and the GFD global equity index have appreciated at average real rates of 6.63% and 6.34%, respectively, while our art index increased by 3.97% annually over the same period. The reward-to-variability, as measured by the Sharpe ratio, is higher for stocks and corporate bonds than for art. The art index has a higher average return 6 Even these new numbers are still a lower estimate of the true riskiness of art investments, for two reasons. First, the standard deviations reported here refer to the aggregate art market; Panel D of Table 4 made clear that the volatility of most art portfolios is likely to be higher. Second, our analysis does not take into account buy-ins. If reserve prices in the art market follow recent sales prices, this implies a return measurement bias when the market reverses (Goetzmann and Peng, 2006): returns may be underestimated (resp. overestimated) in boom (resp. bust) periods. 16 since 1957 than both government bond indices, but the Sharpe ratios only surpasses that of U.S. government bonds. Nevertheless, compared to the other tangible assets in Table 5 (gold, commodities, and real estate), art does relatively well. Over the shorter time frame (since 1982), the risk-return profile of art only compares favorably to that of other real asset classes. Our comparison does not take into account differences in transaction costs, which are high for art investments. For most of our time frame, auction houses charged buyer’s premiums and seller’s commissions of around 10% (Pesando, 1993; Ashenfelter and Graddy, 2003). However, in recent years, while important consignors have sometimes been able to obtain lower commission rates, the buyer’s premium has grown to around 25% for many smaller purchases. The large transaction costs emphasize the need for long holding periods in collectibles markets (Dimson and Spaenjers, 2011). Moreover, art buyers have to take into account storage and insurance costs. We now turn to the correlations between the asset categories. Panel B of Table 5 shows the correlation matrix of real returns for the 1957-2007 time frame. The correlations between our art index on the one hand and the gold, commodity, and real estate price indices on the other are 0.30 or higher. In contrast, we find very little comovement between art and financial assets. Yet, additional (unreported) analysis shows correlations of art returns with lagged equity returns of 0.34 (S&P stocks) and 0.55 (global stocks). This suggests that wealth effects may drive art prices – something we examine in more depth in the next section. VI. Explaining the returns on art Art is ultimately a durable luxury consumption good, and consumption indeed seems to dominate the art purchase decision for a representative agent (Mandel, 2010). The fundamental value of a work of art can thus be thought of as the present value of all future flows of consumption services. Since supply is inelastic, the market price of these consumption flows will be determined by the strength of demand in each period. The importance of investment income for wealthy households, together with the discretionary nature of luxury consumption, may then induce positive correlation between art prices and financial asset values (Aït-Sahalia et al., 2004). Previous literature (e.g., Hiraki et al., 2009; Goetzmann et al., 2011) has indeed found a strong relation between stock prices and art prices. In line with this work, in column (1) of Table 6, we regress our art returns on same-year and lagged global stock market returns over the period 1981-2007. Below each coefficient, we report Newey-West standard errors that control for heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation up to two lags. Adjusted R-squareds are reported at the bottom. The results confirm that stock returns significantly affect art price growth rates.7 7 In unreported analysis, we also control for changes in top incomes (using updated U.S. data from Piketty and Saez (2003), available from Emmanuel Saez’ webpage), real interest rates, and equity market sentiment (Baker and Wurgler, 2006), but this does not materially change our results. 17 [Insert Table 6 about here] To further examine the role of consumer demand, we add in column (2) a variable that measures whether high-income (upper third) consumers think it is a good time to purchase “major household items”. (Ludvigson (2004) notes that “there is some evidence that consumer confidence surveys reflect expectations of income and non-stock market wealth growth”.) The information is taken from the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers, and we use the data for December of the previous year. The measure has been standardized to have zero mean and unit variance. We find that consumer sentiment strongly significantly affects art returns. We also see an increase in adjusted R-squared from 0.33 to 0.49. The results in columns (1) and (2) of Table 6 highlight the importance of consumption demand. However, they cannot fully explain the pattern of art markets booms and busts that we have witnessed over the last decades. This may be because the fundamental value of art, as defined before, is hard to grasp. Combined with the impossibility of short-selling, this uncertainty implies a potential role for art buyer sentiment, which could be defined as unjustified optimism (or pessimism) about future resale values. Furthermore, because auctions are held infrequently, sentiment may only slowly exert pressure on observed aggregate price levels. We thus expect high sentiment to be followed by price appreciations – at least in the short run – rather than by low returns as is the case in more liquid financial asset markets (Baker and Wurgler, 2006). We propose three proxies for art buyer sentiment which can be measured by the end of each year (so that they can be related to price levels in the year starting immediately after). A first factor is the year-on- year change in fourth-quarter sales volume at Sotheby’s and Christie’s (London). Baker and Stein (2004) argue that in markets with short-sale constraints liquidity can proxy for sentiment. Moreover, they suggest that the “liquidity-as-sentiment approach” is particularly relevant for “real” asset markets. Our second variable equals the rate of items sold (and thus not bought in) at the Impressionist and/or Modern art evening auctions in the Fall of each year (since 1980) in New York. These high-profile auctions are considered a barometer for the market, and buy-ins at these sales are widely commented upon in the press. We proxy for the sales rates by dividing the number of observed transactions by the maximum lot number for each auction. For our third proxy, we turn to the historical archives of The Economist. We look up all articles dated between 1980 and 2006 which mention “art market”, “art prices”, or “art auctions”. We read each article to verify that it is indeed about the state of the art market, or about art investment. We then analyze the content of each of the 56 selected articles using a software package called General Inquirer. General Inquirer counts the number of words belonging to certain categories in a text, and is also used by Tetlock (2007) in his analysis of Wall Street Journal columns. In each year, our measure of sentiment is the relative use of “positive outlook” versus “negative outlook” words in the latest article of the year, using the built-in dictionaries of the software. 18 Our main sentiment measure is then the first principal component of these three sentiment proxies (which have positive pairwise correlations of between 0.3 and 0.4). Applying a principal components procedure reduces the idiosyncratic noise in each individual measure (Baker and Wurgler, 2006). We show the evolution of our standardized sentiment measure since 1980 in Figure 5. Sentiment was negative in the early 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, and generally positive in the second half of the 1980s and the mid-2000s. [Insert Figure 5 about here] In column (3) of Table 6, we regress the returns on art on the lagged sentiment measure, controlling for same-year and lagged global equity returns and the lagged consumer confidence measure, over the period 1981-2007. The lagged stock return variable is still positive but loses significance at the traditional levels. In line with expectations, we find a positive impact of art market sentiment that is statistically significant at the 0.05 level. This strongly suggests that time-varying optimism about art investment impacts art pricing. Unreported analysis shows that Pop and Minimalism & Contemporary art, which may be harder to value, are more sensitive to changes in art buyer sentiment. VII. Conclusion Many collectors are acutely attuned to the financial value of their assets (Burton and Jacobsen, 1999). Moreover, investors are increasingly turning to collectibles markets to diversify their portfolios. This underlines the importance of an accurate measure of the financial returns to art. Therefore, in this paper, we have investigated the price determinants and historical investment performance of art, by applying an extensive hedonic regression framework to a data set of more than one million paintings and works on paper. Our hedonic art price index indicates that art prices have increased by a moderate 3.97%, annually, in real USD terms between 1957 and 2007. This return estimate is lower than that reported in previous papers that used smaller samples of high-quality paintings sold at top auction houses. During art market booms, however, prices can skyrocket. For example, between 2002 and 2007, our index shows a real return of 13.65% per year. We also document larger price appreciations at the upper end of the market, and variation in average returns across mediums and movements. In general, art’s risk-return profile is much less attractive than that of financial assets, even before transaction costs. Finally, regression results show that art price cycles are determined by both luxury consumption demand and variation in art market sentiment. Appendix A – Compilation of list of artists We start by consulting Grove Art Online [http://www.oxfordartonline.com], a database published by Oxford University Press that contains all articles of the 34-volume ‘The Dictionary of Art’ (1996) as well as ‘The Oxford Companion to Western Art’ (2001). We select all 9,775 individual artists from the categories ‘graphic arts’, ‘painting and drawing’, and ‘printmaking’. We subsequently expand our set of artists by means of another online database, Artcyclopedia [http://www.artcyclopedia.com]. This raises the number of artists to 10,211. 19 We then compose a list of thirteen art movements: Medieval & Renaissance; Baroque; Rococo; Neoclassicism; Romanticism; Realism; Impressionism & Symbolism; Fauvism & Expressionism; Cubism, Futurism & Constructivism; Dada & Surrealism; Abstract Expressionism; Pop; and Minimalism & Contemporary. When possible, we classify our artists into one of these categories, based on the ‘Styles and Cultures’ from Grove Art Online and ‘Art Movements’ of Artcyclopedia. We can put 4,132 artists into at least one art movement. Next, we expand our data set in two more ways, to correct for the possible underrepresentation of modern and contemporary art. We compare the index of the influential book ‘Modern Art’ (Britt, 1989) to our data set and add 62 modern artists to our list (with classification). The book also enables us to assign another 87 artists not yet classified to a specific art movement. Next, in order to have a representative and up-to-date sample of contemporary artists, we consult Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_contemporary_artists] in April 2008. We can add 169 artists, bringing our list to 10,442 artists in total; 40 other artists can now be classified in Minimalism & Contemporary. Finally, we check for pseudonyms and different spellings of all artists’ names. Appendix B – Titles and topics We use the first word(s) of the title to classify works in topic categories. Most titles in our database are in English, but we also include French keywords in our analysis. We avoid search strings that can be used in different contexts. Sometimes we only search for titles no longer than one word or in which the word is followed by a space (e.g., “cat_”) to avoid misclassifications due to longer words with identical first characters (e.g., “catholic”). These are the topic categories, along with their search strings: ABSTRACT (“abstract”, “composition”), ANIMALS (“horse”, “cheval”, “chevaux”, “cow_”, “cows”, “vache”, “cattle”, “cat_”, “cats”, “chat_ “, “dog_”, “dogs”, “chien”, “sheep”, “mouton”, “bird”, “oiseau”), LANDSCAPE (“landscape”, “country landscape”, “coastal landscape”, “paysage”, “seascape”, “sea_”, “mer_”, “mountain”, “river”, “riviere”, “lake”, “lac_”, “valley”, “vallee”), NUDE (“nude”, “nu_”, “nue_”), PEOPLE (“people”, “personnage”, “family”, “famille”, “boy”, “garcon”, “girl”, “fille”, “man_”, “men_”, “homme”, “woman”, “women”, “femme”, “child”, “enfant”, “couple”, “mother”, “mere_”, “father”, “pere_”, “lady”, “dame”), PORTRAIT (“portrait”), RELIGION (“jesus”, “christ_”, “apostle”, “ange_”, “angel”, “saint_”, “madonna”, “holy_”, “mary magdalene”, “annunciation”, “annonciation”, “adoration”, “adam and eve”, “adam et eve”, “crucifixion”, “last supper”), SELF-PORTRAIT (“self-portrait”, “self portrait”, “auto-portrait”, “autoportrait”), STILL_LIFE (“still life”, “nature morte”, “bouquet”), UNTITLED (“untitled”, “sans titre”), URBAN (“city”, “ville”, “town”, “village”, “street”, “rue”, “market”, “marche”, “harbour”, “port_”, “paris”, “london”, “londres”, “new york”, “amsterdam”, “rome_”, “venice”, “venise”). 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DECEASED equals one in case the artist is dead at the time of the sale. The attribution dummies ATTRIBUTED, STUDIO, CIRCLE, SCHOOL, AFTER, and STYLE equal one if the auction catalogue identifies the work as being “attributed to” the artist, from the “studio” of that artist, from the “circle” of the artist, from the artist’s “school”, “after” the artist, or “in the style of” the artist, respectively. The authenticity dummies SIGNED and DATED take the value of one if the work carries a signature of the artist or is dated, respectively. The medium dummies OIL, WATERCOLOR, and DRAWING indicate whether the work is an oil painting, a watercolor (or a gouache), or another work on paper. The variables HEIGHT and WIDTH measure the height and the width of the work in inches. The topic dummies are based on the first word(s) of the title of the work (cf. Appendix B). The month dummies indicate the month of the sale. The auction house dummies SOTH_LONDON, SOTH_NY, SOTH_OTHER, CHR_LONDON, CHR_NY, CHR_OTHER, BON_LONDON, BON_OTHER, PHIL_LONDON, and PHIL_OTHER equal one if the sale takes place at Sotheby’s London, Sotheby’s New York, another branch of Sotheby’s, Christie’s London, Christie’s New York, another branch of Christie’s, Bonhams London, another office of Bonhams, Phillips London, or another sales room of Phillips, respectively. AUCTION_EUROPEAN and AUCTION_AMERICAN are dummy variables that equal one if the sale takes place at a large Continental European or a large American auction house, respectively (cf. Appendix C). For each variable, we report the number of observations (N), the mean, and the standard deviation (S.D.). For dummy variables, we also show the number of zeros and ones. N Mean S.D. 0 1 Artist characteristics TEXTBOOK 1,088,709 0.1218 0.3271 956,096 132,613 EXHIBITION 1,088,709 0.2118 0.4086 858,118 230,591 DECEASED 1,088,709 0.8810 0.3238 992,796 95,913 Work characteristics Attribution dummies ATTRIBUTED 1,088,709 0.0435 0.2040 1,041,361 47,348 STUDIO 1,088,709 0.0051 0.0716 1,083,104 5,605 CIRCLE 1,088,709 0.0229 0.1496 1,063,778 24,931 SCHOOL 1,088,709 0.0065 0.0802 1,081,663 7,046 AFTER 1,088,709 0.0101 0.1002 1,077,668 11,041 STYLE 1,088,709 0.0288 0.1671 1,057,407 31,302 Authenticity dummies SIGNED 1,088,709 0.5900 0.4918 446,375 642,334 DATED 1,088,709 0.3292 0.4699 730,275 358,434 Medium dummies OIL 1,088,709 0.6025 0.4894 432,813 655,896 WATERCOLOR 1,088,709 0.1739 0.3790 899,358 189,351 DRAWING 1,088,709 0.2236 0.4167 845,247 243,462 Size variables HEIGHT 1,078,702 20.6597 14.8467 WIDTH 1,078,549 21.5984 15.8748 Topic dummies STUDY 1,088,709 0.0152 0.1225 1,072,127 16,582 ABSTRACT 1,088,709 0.0255 0.1576 1,060,960 27,749 ANIMALS 1,088,709 0.0108 0.1033 1,076,970 11,739 LANDSCAPE 1,088,709 0.0430 0.2028 1,041,934 46,775 NUDE 1,088,709 0.0082 0.0903 1,079,757 8,952 PEOPLE 1,088,709 0.0377 0.1906 1,047,628 41,081 PORTRAIT 1,088,709 0.0619 0.2410 1,021,273 67,436 23 RELIGION 1,088,709 0.0161 0.1257 1,071,234 17,475 SELF-PORTRAIT 1,088,709 0.0030 0.0544 1,085,479 3,230 STILL_LIFE 1,088,709 0.0244 0.1543 1,062,130 26,579 UNTITLED 1,088,709 0.0287 0.1670 1,057,438 31,271 URBAN 1,088,709 0.0137 0.1164 1,073,761 14,948 Sale characteristics Month dummies JANUARY 1,088,709 0.0287 0.1670 1,057,438 31,271 FEBRUARY 1,088,709 0.0450 0.2074 1,039,667 49,042 MARCH 1,088,709 0.0916 0.2884 989,021 99,688 APRIL 1,088,709 0.0862 0.2807 994,864 93,845 MAY 1,088,709 0.1358 0.3426 940,857 147,852 JUNE 1,088,709 0.1389 0.3459 937,442 151,267 JULY 1,088,709 0.0547 0.2275 1,029,109 59,600 AUGUST 1,088,709 0.0132 0.1141 1,074,345 14,364 SEPTEMBER 1,088,709 0.0325 0.1773 1,053,329 35,380 OCTOBER 1,088,709 0.0904 0.2868 990,270 98,439 NOVEMBER 1,088,709 0.1674 0.3733 906,483 182,226 DECEMBER 1,088,709 0.1155 0.3196 962,974 125,735 Auction house dummies SOTH_LONDON 1,088,709 0.1220 0.3273 955,868 132,841 SOTH_NY 1,088,709 0.0868 0.2816 994,167 94,542 SOTH_OTHER 1,088,709 0.0553 0.2285 1,028,541 60,168 CHR_LONDON 1,088,709 0.0945 0.2925 985,848 102,861 CHR_NY 1,088,709 0.0621 0.2413 1,021,149 67,560 CHR_OTHER 1,088,709 0.0711 0.2570 1,011,321 77,388 BON_LONDON 1,088,709 0.0106 0.1023 1,077,189 11,520 BON_OTHER 1,088,709 0.0058 0.0759 1,082,400 6,309 PHIL_LONDON 1,088,709 0.0151 0.1220 1,072,251 16,458 PHIL_OTHER 1,088,709 0.0093 0.0960 1,078,571 10,138 AUCTION_EUROPEAN 1,088,709 0.1364 0.3432 940,173 148,536 AUCTION_AMERICAN 1,088,709 0.0189 0.1361 1,068,160 20,549 24 Table 2 – Baseline hedonic regression results Table 2 presents the baseline hedonic regression results. Eq. (1) is estimated using OLS. The dependent variable is the natural log of the price in year 2007 USD. The descriptive statistics for the independent variables are shown in Table 1. For each variable, we report the coefficient (β), the standard deviation (S.D.), and the price impact (i.e., the exponent of the coefficient minus one). The number of observations (N) and the R-squared (R2) are presented at the bottom of the table. β S.D. exp(β) - 1 Year dummies [included] Artist characteristics Artist dummies [included] TEXTBOOK 0.1263 0.0065 13.46% Work characteristics Attribution dummies ATTRIBUTED -0.7365 0.0050 -52.12% STUDIO -0.7977 0.0134 -54.96% CIRCLE -1.0490 0.0068 -64.97% SCHOOL -1.4152 0.0120 -75.71% AFTER -1.8850 0.0104 -84.82% STYLE -1.5688 0.0064 -79.17% Authenticity dummies SIGNED 0.2703 0.0027 31.04% DATED 0.1706 0.0026 18.60% Medium dummies OIL [left out] WATERCOLOR -0.7144 0.0033 -51.05% DRAWING -1.1005 0.0030 -66.73% Size variables HEIGHT 0.0205 0.0002 2.07% WIDTH 0.0250 0.0002 2.53% HEIGHT_2 -0.0001 0.0000 -0.01% WIDTH_2 -0.0001 0.0000 -0.01% Topic dummies STUDY -0.2049 0.0078 -18.53% ABSTRACT -0.0780 0.0068 -7.50% ANIMALS -0.1703 0.0094 -15.66% LANDSCAPE -0.1320 0.0048 -12.37% NUDE -0.1645 0.0105 -15.17% PEOPLE -0.0372 0.0050 -3.65% PORTRAIT -0.2278 0.0050 -20.37% RELIGION -0.1114 0.0082 -10.54% SELF-PORTRAIT 0.1202 0.0171 12.77% STILL_LIFE 0.0410 0.0067 4.18% UNTITLED -0.1639 0.0065 -15.12% URBAN 0.0409 0.0081 4.17% Sale characteristics Month dummies JANUARY [left out] FEBRUARY -0.1209 0.0072 -11.39% MARCH 0.0318 0.0065 3.23% APRIL 0.0859 0.0065 8.97% MAY 0.1325 0.0062 14.16% JUNE 0.1430 0.0063 15.37% JULY 0.0843 0.0070 8.80% AUGUST -0.0629 0.0101 -6.09% SEPTEMBER -0.1599 0.0077 -14.78% 25 OCTOBER 0.0007 0.0065 0.07% NOVEMBER 0.1821 0.0061 19.98% DECEMBER 0.1517 0.0064 16.38% Auction house dummies SOTH_LONDON 0.6324 0.0037 88.22% SOTH_NY 0.7195 0.0041 105.35% SOTH_OTHER 0.3107 0.0046 36.44% CHR_LONDON 0.6468 0.0039 90.94% CHR_NY 0.6685 0.0046 95.12% CHR_OTHER 0.1540 0.0042 16.65% BON_LONDON 0.1180 0.0094 12.52% BON_OTHER -0.1193 0.0125 -11.24% PHIL_LONDON 0.2170 0.0079 24.23% PHIL_OTHER 0.1164 0.0099 12.35% AUCTION_EUROPEAN 0.1308 0.0033 13.98% AUCTION_AMERICAN -0.0968 0.0074 -9.22% N 1,078,482 R2 0.6411 26 Table 3 – Baseline art price indices and art returns Table 3 presents the art price indices and returns for the baseline hedonic regression model detailed in Table 2. For each year, we report the dummy coefficient (γ), the standard deviation (S.D.), the variance of the residuals (σ2), the uncorrected price index and return (Π and r), and the price index and return that are corrected for changes in price dispersion over time (Π* and r*) (cf. Section III). Index values for 1963 are geometrically interpolated. Year γ S.D. σ2 Π r Π* r* 1957 1.1789 100.00 100.00 1958 -0.0817 0.0402 1.1144 92.16 -7.84% 89.23 -10.77% 1959 0.2102 0.0384 1.2183 123.39 33.89% 125.85 41.03% 1960 0.2275 0.0380 1.1131 125.55 1.75% 121.48 -3.47% 1961 0.3014 0.0382 1.1805 135.18 7.67% 135.28 11.36% 1962 0.3327 0.0353 1.1744 139.47 3.18% 139.16 2.86% 1963 - - - 140.72 0.89% 140.61 1.04% 1964 0.3505 0.0355 1.1803 141.97 0.89% 142.07 1.04% 1965 0.5273 0.0338 1.1770 169.44 19.35% 169.27 19.15% 1966 0.6390 0.0345 0.9487 189.45 11.81% 168.85 -0.25% 1967 0.7044 0.0347 0.9466 202.26 6.76% 180.07 6.65% 1968 0.8423 0.0334 1.0564 232.17 14.79% 218.37 21.27% 1969 0.8716 0.0335 1.0208 239.08 2.98% 220.90 1.16% 1970 0.7773 0.0325 0.9335 217.57 -9.00% 192.44 -12.88% 1971 0.9410 0.0312 0.9100 256.25 17.78% 224.01 16.40% 1972 1.1224 0.0308 1.0856 307.22 19.89% 293.22 30.89% 1973 1.3932 0.0304 0.9249 402.77 31.10% 354.73 20.98% 1974 1.2909 0.0303 0.9030 363.61 -9.72% 316.75 -10.71% 1975 1.0670 0.0304 0.8847 290.66 -20.06% 250.89 -20.79% 1976 0.9606 0.0301 0.8685 261.31 -10.10% 223.75 -10.82% 1977 0.9581 0.0300 0.8779 260.68 -0.24% 224.25 0.22% 1978 1.0943 0.0300 0.8710 298.69 14.58% 256.07 14.19% 1979 1.1720 0.0299 0.8397 322.86 8.09% 272.49 6.41% 1980 1.1763 0.0299 0.8148 324.22 0.42% 270.26 -0.82% 1981 1.0436 0.0299 0.8329 283.94 -12.43% 238.83 -11.63% 1982 0.8652 0.0300 0.8095 237.56 -16.34% 197.49 -17.31% 1983 0.8888 0.0299 0.8137 243.21 2.38% 202.62 2.60% 1984 0.9058 0.0298 0.8711 247.40 1.72% 212.10 4.68% 1985 0.9976 0.0298 0.8566 271.17 9.61% 230.80 8.82% 1986 1.2319 0.0298 0.8567 342.76 26.40% 291.75 26.40% 1987 1.5505 0.0297 0.8845 471.38 37.53% 406.86 39.46% 1988 1.7498 0.0297 0.8662 575.35 22.06% 492.07 20.94% 1989 1.9651 0.0296 0.9220 713.58 24.03% 627.57 27.54% 1990 2.0252 0.0297 0.9227 757.79 6.20% 666.68 6.23% 1991 1.6356 0.0298 0.7791 513.24 -32.27% 420.25 -36.96% 1992 1.5304 0.0298 0.7576 462.02 -9.98% 374.26 -10.95% 1993 1.3661 0.0298 0.7699 392.01 -15.15% 319.51 -14.63% 1994 1.3595 0.0297 0.8066 389.41 -0.66% 323.27 1.18% 1995 1.3727 0.0297 0.8103 394.58 1.33% 328.17 1.52% 1996 1.3678 0.0297 0.7994 392.66 -0.49% 324.78 -1.03% 1997 1.3676 0.0297 0.8437 392.60 -0.02% 332.02 2.23% 1998 1.3954 0.0297 0.8626 403.65 2.82% 344.60 3.79% 1999 1.4458 0.0297 0.8745 424.54 5.17% 364.60 5.80% 2000 1.4157 0.0297 0.9165 411.94 -2.97% 361.28 -0.91% 2001 1.3539 0.0297 0.9354 387.26 -5.99% 342.86 -5.10% 2002 1.4276 0.0297 0.9354 416.88 7.65% 369.08 7.65% 2003 1.5405 0.0297 0.8974 466.69 11.95% 405.40 9.84% 2004 1.6462 0.0297 0.9214 518.74 11.15% 456.07 12.50% 2005 1.6691 0.0296 0.9769 530.76 2.32% 479.76 5.19% 2006 1.7724 0.0296 1.0711 588.51 10.88% 557.62 16.23% 2007 1.9786 0.0299 1.1133 723.27 22.90% 699.91 25.52% 27 Table 4 – Annualized returns for baseline indices, robustness checks, and extensions Panel A of Table 4 presents the annualized (i.e., geometric average) returns and standard deviations (S.D.) over the periods 1957-2007 and 1982-2007 for the baseline art price indices detailed in Table 3. It also shows the number of observations (N) included in the estimation. Panel B shows the results for a number of robustness checks (cf. Section IV.B). Panel C repeats the adjacent-period hedonic model using quantile regressions (cf. Section IV.C). Panel D presents the RSR results for two different trading strategies (cf. Section IV.D). Panel E shows the return estimates (corrected for changes in price dispersion over time) for the different mediums and movements considered in this study (cf. Section IV.E). N Real returns 1957-2007 1982-2007 Mean S.D. Mean S.D. Panel A: Baseline indices Art price index Π 1,078,482 4.04% 16.68% 4.55% 14.39% Art price index Π* 1,078,482 3.97% 15.21% 5.19% 15.31% Panel B: Robustness checks (compare to Π) Drop topic dummies 1,078,482 4.02% 14.05% 4.53% 14.39% Exclude artists < 100 sales 935,736 4.04% 14.26% 4.57% 14.69% Exclude Min. & Cont. 1,059,010 4.00% 13.95% 4.48% 14.26% Adjacent-period model - - - 4.60% 13.62% Repeat-sales regression (RSR) 21,846 (x2) - - 4.56% 15.79% Panel C: Quantile regressions Q95 862,290 - - 6.32% 18.99% Q75 862,290 - - 5.77% 16.54% Q50 862,290 - - 4.91% 15.11% Q25 862,290 - - 3.89% 13.84% Q05 862,290 - - 1.35% 12.57% Panel D: Trading strategies (compare to RSR) “Masterpiece” strategy 1,467 (x2) - - 4.81% 22.08% “Value” strategy 727 (x2) - - 6.16% 20.99% Panel E: Indices per medium and per movement Oil 650,563 4.63% 14.69% 5.73% 15.39% Watercolor 187,612 3.67% 16.38% 3.96% 14.79% Drawing 240,307 2.51% 20.64% 4.37% 15.22% Medieval & Renaissance 30,806 3.01% 27.13% 6.44% 19.59% Baroque 124,617 4.76% 17.69% 5.82% 12.57% Rococo 30,292 3.69% 25.42% 5.03% 12.15% Neoclassicism 12,601 6.32% 45.93% 5.36% 22.45% Romanticism 41,897 4.28% 17.34% 4.79% 15.24% Realism 60,820 2.57% 21.42% 4.16% 15.46% Impressionism & Symbolism 95,829 4.10% 24.01% 4.55% 16.70% Fauvism & Expressionism 73,543 3.72% 22.84% 4.90% 18.36% Cubism, Futurism & Constr. 49,056 5.53% 22.40% 6.01% 20.55% Dada & Surrealism 49,697 5.85% 32.32% 5.58% 19.42% Abstract Expressionism 35,960 - - 7.78% 21.91% Pop 18,924 - - 10.35% 29.33% Minimalism & Contemporary 19,472 - - 7.07% 23.68% 28 Table 5 – Art versus other assets Panel A of Table 5 displays the geometric mean real returns on art and other assets since 1957 and since 1982. The real returns on art are based on our corrected price index Π*, and are shown in Table 3. The return data for the financial assets, gold, and commodities come from Global Financial data. Data for U.S. real estate come from Shiller (2009). The panel also includes the standard deviation (S.D.) of the returns, and the arithmetic Sharpe ratio (i.e., the arithmetic average excess return divided by its standard deviation). The standard deviations for art are based on a desmoothed return series (cf. Section V). The return on T-bills is used as a proxy for the risk-free rate. Panel B shows the pairwise correlations between the returns since 1957. Correlation coefficients that are significantly different from zero at the 0.05 level are displayed in bold. Panel A: Comparison of investment performance Real returns 1957-2007 1982-2007 Mean S.D. Sharpe Mean S.D. Sharpe Art 3.97% 19.05% 0.2000 5.19% 18.04% 0.2725 T-bills 1.39% 2.11% N.A. 1.99% 1.88% N.A. U.S. government bonds 2.68% 10.56% 0.1853 5.77% 9.87% 0.4503 DJ corporate bonds 3.97% 9.74% 0.3443 6.81% 7.69% 0.7256 Global government bonds 3.07% 8.19% 0.2641 5.98% 7.53% 0.5717 S&P 500 stocks 6.63% 16.54% 0.4106 9.33% 15.34% 0.5707 Global stocks 6.34% 16.16% 0.3953 8.91% 16.76% 0.5039 Gold 2.35% 24.19% 0.1285 -0.89% 14.80% -0.1171 Commodities 3.03% 11.40% 0.1780 2.06% 10.28% 0.0511 U.S. real estate 1.06% 4.06% -0.0548 2.41% 4.73% 0.0902 Panel B: Correlations of returns A rt T -b ill s U .S . g ov er nm en t b on ds D J co rp or at e bo nd s G lo ba l g ov er nm en t b on ds S& P 50 0 st oc ks G lo ba l s to ck s G ol d C om m od iti es U .S . r ea l e st at e Art 1.00 T-bills 0.01 1.00 U.S. government bonds -0.20 0.56 1.00 DJ corporate bonds -0.17 0.58 0.90 1.00 Global government bonds -0.10 0.46 0.88 0.89 1.00 S&P 500 stocks -0.03 0.34 0.27 0.39 0.33 1.00 Global stocks 0.20 0.28 0.18 0.32 0.33 0.88 1.00 Gold 0.30 -0.54 -0.18 -0.28 -0.13 -0.28 -0.15 1.00 Commodities 0.44 -0.41 -0.26 -0.25 -0.25 -0.15 -0.07 0.55 1.00 U.S. real estate 0.39 -0.24 -0.13 -0.13 -0.07 -0.15 0.02 0.24 0.16 1.00 29 Table 6 – Explaining the returns on art Table 6 presents the results of a linear regression of art returns on a number of independent variables, over the period 1981-2007. Below each coefficient, we report Newey-West standard errors that control for heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation up to two lags. The real returns on art are based on our corrected price index Π*, and are shown in Table 3. Model (1) only includes same-year and lagged global stock returns, from Global Financial Data, as independent variables. Column (2) adds (lagged and standardized) data from the University of Michigan’s Survey of Consumers on the attitude of high-income (upper third) consumers with respect to the purchase of “major household items”. Model (3) adds a newly constructed (lagged and standardized) art market sentiment measure, based on volume and buy-in rates at high-profile auctions, and on media reports (cf. Section VI). The number of observations (N) and the adjusted R-squared (R2) are presented at the bottom of the table. (1) (2) (3) Dependent variable: real returns on art Same-year global stock returns 0.1751 0.1325 0.1184 (0.1050) (0.0901) (0.0987) Previous-year global stock returns 0.5396 ** 0.4012 * 0.2976 (0.2534) (0.1941) (0.2066) High-income consumer confidence 0.0677 *** 0.0554 ** (0.0226) (0.0231) Art market sentiment 0.0425 ** (0.0175) N 27 27 27 Adjusted R2 0.33 0.49 0.52 30 Figure 1 – Hedonic price indices Figure 1 presents the baseline art price indices detailed in Table 3. Π is the uncorrected price index, while Π* corrects for changes in price dispersion over time. The figure also includes the average and median real price for each year in our data set. Figure 2 – Quantile regressions Figure 2 presents the art price indices that result from repeating the adjacent-period hedonic model using quantile regressions (cf. Section IV.C). 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 19 57 19 59 19 61 19 63 19 65 19 67 19 69 19 71 19 73 19 75 19 77 19 79 19 81 19 83 19 85 19 87 19 89 19 91 19 93 19 95 19 97 19 99 20 01 20 03 20 05 20 07 Π (uncorrected) Π* (corrected) Average real price Median real price 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 19 82 19 83 19 84 19 85 19 86 19 87 19 88 19 89 19 90 19 91 19 92 19 93 19 94 19 95 19 96 19 97 19 98 19 99 20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04 20 05 20 06 20 07 Q95 Q75 Q50 Q25 Q05 31 Figure 3 – Trading strategies Figure 3 presents the index that results from applying an RSR to all item pairs that are considered to be repeated transactions (cf. Section IV.B), and the art price indices for a “masterpieces” and a “value” trading strategy (cf. Section IV.D). Figure 4 – Indices per movement Figure 4 presents the (corrected) art price indices for three different movements: Rococo; Cubism, Futurism & Constructivism; and Pop (cf. Section IV.E). 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 19 82 19 83 19 84 19 85 19 86 19 87 19 88 19 89 19 90 19 91 19 92 19 93 19 94 19 95 19 96 19 97 19 98 19 99 20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04 20 05 20 06 20 07 RSR Masterpiece Value 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 19 82 19 83 19 84 19 85 19 86 19 87 19 88 19 89 19 90 19 91 19 92 19 93 19 94 19 95 19 96 19 97 19 98 19 99 20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04 20 05 20 06 20 07 Rococo Cubism, Futurism & Constructivism Pop 32 Figure 5 – Art market sentiment Figure 5 presents the end-of-year values for the art market sentiment measure used in this study. It is based on volume and buy-in rates at high-profile auctions, and on media reports (cf. Section VI). 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Bakst and Mrs. Garrett became friends in early-twentieth- century Paris, where she acquired a number of his works of art. He eventually visited the United States under the auspices of Alice Garrett, and designed and decorated a series of interiors within the Garretts’ Baltimore, Maryland residence, Evergreen House—today open to the public as Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library. KEYWORDS L�eon Bakst, Alice Warder Garrett, John Work Garrett, Ballets Russes, Russian, interior design, costume design, theater, theatre, Johns Hopkins University, Evergreen Museum & Library The Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library in Baltimore, Maryland is among a small and unique group of American historic houses with important concentrations on Russian art and design. The house itself is counted as one of the Monument City’s rare treasures—a modern interpretation of the great Renaissance cabinet of curiosities, richly assembled and layered by two generations of the philanthropic Garrett family, most often associated with the powerful Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Robert Garrett and Sons investment house. Unique and unrivaled, Evergreen’s Russian holdings date from the second generation of Garrett occupancy. Largely, they were not acquired as historical artifacts, but, instead, commissioned as contemporary additions to the collections and the house itself. They are works by émigré Léon Bakst (born Lev Address correspondence to James Archer Abbott, MA, Director and Curator, Evergreen Museum & Library, Johns Hopkins University, 4545 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA. E-mail: james.abbott@jhu.edu Slavic & East European Information Resources, 11: 246–264, 2010 Copyright � Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 1522-8886 print/1522-9041 online DOI: 10.1080/15228881003795504 246 FIGURE 1 Theatre Lobby, North Wing, Evergreen Museum & Library. Completed 1922. Stenciled and painted plaster, wood and textiles. Collection of The Johns Hopkins University. Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 247 Samoilovich Rosenberg, 1866–1924), the highly influential painter and designer best known for his awe-inspiring modernist designs for Serge Diaghilev (1872– 1929) and his early twentieth-century Ballets Russes. They include: whole rooms; stage sets; designs for same as well as for costumes, textiles, and other decorative elements; and portraits. The origin of Evergreen as a backdrop for collecting began in the late 1850s, soon after the merchant Broadbent family completed construction of what was then a country house. A melding of both the historic, Jefferson- espoused Greek revival and the more romantic and then-current Italianate design vocabularies, Evergreen was no doubt intended to impress. From the beginning, the house’s vast interior was envisioned as a type of reliquary for treasures—fine paintings, sculpture, and other objets d’art representative of FIGURE 2 “Costume Design for Arabian Prince with Pageboy” for La Belle au Bois Dormant. Signed Upper Right: Bakst 1916. Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper. EH1952.1.402. Evergreen House Foundation, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD. 248 J. A. Abbott extensive travel, great knowledge, as well as significant financial and social standing. An American interpretation of the great European country house or villa, Evergreen was, from its beginning, a beacon of taste for Baltimore. But it was not until 1878 when one-time Baltimore & Ohio president John Work Garrett (1820–1884) acquired the estate for his son Thomas (1848–1888) and his young family that Evergreen became associated with true connoisseur- ship. Building upon his father’s own model of expanding a gentleman’s personal understanding of the world through collecting, Thomas became an active appre- ciator of German and Asian porcelains, rare treatises, and historical coins; for his literary interests he built the first two of five libraries that still exist within the house. His collecting passions were vast, and, as is often the case, subsequently passed to his three sons, and most fervently continued by his eldest, John Work Garrett (1872–1942) who dedicated his life to diplomatic service. Eventually the inheritor of Evergreen, Ambassador Garrett married the astute and always theatrical Alice Warder (1877–1952; see Figure 3) in Washington, D.C., in December 1908. 1 Together, they redefined Evergreen as an even more diverse and eclectic repository of art. To the historical collec- tions assembled by John’s father, they added Modern art by artists such as Amadeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), and Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). But perhaps the most celebrated contemporary acquisitions were those Alice commissioned from Léon Bakst. Bakst and Mrs. Garrett met in Paris in 1914 while John Work Garrett was serving among the United States’ diplomatic delegation to France during World War I. 2 While her husband was busy with his duties, Mrs. Garrett assisted friends Edith Wharton and Walter Berry with the American Hostels Committee, an organization aiding refugees with both housing and other urgent needs. She also actively invested time and interest in the art scene of war-dominated Paris, becoming acquainted with artists like Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) and Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), and often dining with and subsequently falling under the temporary tutelage of master art historian Bernard Berenson (1865–1959). Standing in sharp contrast to the historically- tied Berenson, the innovative and very modern Bakst became a frequent companion of Mrs. Garrett’s at this time, as the artist’s name appears frequently in her still extant day books. They regularly took mid-day tea together, while also attending opera and ballet performances in the evenings. By August 1915, when Bakst was painting Alice Garrett’s portrait, in which she wears a dress he had designed specifically for her, his importance in her life proved to have no rival: “I go almost every day to pose for Bakst. . .[he has] such reverence for his art and great will power and concentration on his work.” 3 Alice Garrett became a patron of the renowned Ballets Russes during this period, no doubt in part as a demonstration of her loyalties to Bakst.4 She attended performances of the company’s various ballets at the famous Théâtre du Châtelet, including the Bakst-designed Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur (1917). Mrs. Garrett presumably aided her friend in his planning of an American tour for the company, Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 249 which included the Garretts’ home city of Baltimore. She also celebrated his independent design work for Russian ballerinas Ida Rubinstein (1885–1960) and Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), as well as producer and satirist George Thenon. After John Work Garrett’s reassignment as America’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in September 1917, his wife continued to visit Paris, dedicating hours to the company of Bakst. She organized an exhibition of over eighty of the artist’s watercolors in The Hague in the spring of 1919, from which she presumably added to her already sizable collection of Bakst’s drawings and paintings. Of this, Bakst wrote to his patroness: “You cannot possibly realize how moved and touched I was by the interest you brought to my exhibition. . .for me. . .my Art. . .absorbs all my being and always keeps me in a state of energy and enthusiasm.” 5 FIGURE 3 Alice Warder Garrett, ca. 1921. Evergreen House Foundation, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD. 250 J. A. Abbott Upon the couple’s return to the United States in the summer of 1919, Mrs. Garrett took on the official role of representing her friend’s art. She organized an exhibition of Bakst’s work at Manhattan’s M. Knoedler & Company in April 1920, as well as another exhibition that traveled to Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Denver, and Chicago. (A second Garrett-organized Knoedler exhibition was held in December 1922.) With each venue, she wired monies from various sales to the sometimes struggling artist’s Paris account. Still another exhibition of Bakst’s paintings and drawings was held at the Maryland Institute School of Fine and Practical Arts (today the Maryland Institute College of Art) in early 1921. This led to Bakst’s actual arrival in Baltimore, and his subsequent involvement in the transformation of Evergreen, which had recently been inherited by Ambassador Garrett. “Bakst is here,” Alice Garrett wrote in 1922 to socialite and Legion of Honor recipient Beatrice Astor Chanler (1886–1944), “and you can’t imagine what won- derful things he is doing in the theatre. It is going to be a perfect jewel.” 6 What had been nothing more than a dark, utilitarian gymnasium for her husband and his brothers during their adolescent years soon became a strikingly modern theater with colorfully stenciled walls, ceiling, and lighting fixtures inspired by Russian folk art motifs. It was an ideal, somewhat whimsical backdrop for the occasional intimate performances given by the stage-loving Mrs. Garrett. Bakst also designed costumes and completed three sets for her performances: Chansons Orientales; Seville Street Scene; and The Rustic Mill or The Irish Barnyard. 7 According to historian Cindy Kelly, Bakst’s decoration was “reminiscent of his earliest design work for the Ballets Russes,” simplistic in its general composition and bright, near primary palette.8 However, it was also reflective of the Russian-born avant-garde that heralded a new artistic beginning in the West, a particularly relevant selection for the house of a statesman actively involved in the formulation of a new world order following the end of global war. Beyond Alice Garrett’s recitals, East Coast society was treated to concerts by the Musical Art Quartet, a chamber ensemble affiliated with the preceding incarnation of today’s Julliard School of Music. It was in reference to such mesmerizing evenings in this Bakst-designed confection that interior decorator Billy Baldwin (1903–1983) later recalled: “There I was surrounded by the best art and music. . .I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.” 9 Léon Bakst subsequently redesigned Evergreen’s dining room, creating an electric Chinese scheme that included acidic yellow walls, a series of red and gold nineteenth-century Chinese scrolls, and sharp, contrasting white enameled woodwork that emulated the succinctly drawn lines of the artist. Though surely far from alarming by today’s sophisticated palette, this room no doubt chal- lenged the sedate calm of 1920s Colonial revivalism. Where most other society gatherings were resigned to gray, off-white, or other safely hued backdrops, Garrett dinners would demonstrate no such complacency. Their dinner parties were “alive” before the first course was even served, as Bakst no doubt intended. Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 251 Upon his last visit to Evergreen before his 1924 death, the artist redesigned a retired bowling alley, making it, through partnership with regional architect Laurence Hall Fowler (1876–1971), a vibrant gallery of mainly Japanese applied arts. This sophisticated burgundy, pink, and ivory interior with lighted cases made of former windows and converted medicine cabinets still revels in a spontaneity and energy befitting its era—the Jazz Age. Though Bakst did not live to see the gallery’s completion, it—like the theater, dining room, and other works by the artist cherished by Alice Garrett—honored his unique imagination and creativity. The important Bakst holdings contained at Evergreen are listed below. Upon Ambassador Garrett’s 1942 death, the physical rooms created by the artist were included in the gift of the mansion to The Johns Hopkins University— made on behalf of “lovers of music, art, and beautiful things.” 10 Dying ten years after her husband, Alice Garrett gave her art collection—including textile and costume designs as well as other works by Bakst—to a newly created entity, the Evergreen House Foundation (EHF), the partial purpose of which she saw as the encouragement of new artists and designers like those she had aided in her lifetime—artists like Léon Bakst. FIGURE 4 “Farm Scene,” Theater Stage Set, ca. 1922–23. Canvas, cardboard, wood, paint, stone, rope. EH1952.1.1201a-g. Evergreen House Foundation, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD. 252 J. A. Abbott Together, the University and EHF maintain and celebrate the art of the great Bakst. Demonstrating the foundation’s commitment to the celebration of Bakst and his art is the 2009 acquisition of a yet-to-be identified rendering for another private theater by the artist. Undated, the work is based on the excavated and heavily restored Throne Room in the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete (c. 2000–1700 B.C.). Incorporating griffin and dolphin-adorned murals similar to the famous frescoes at Knossos, Bakst’s more modern scheme also includes stylized columns and wall treatments reminiscent of Viennese and Russian design vocabularies of the years just prior to and following the First World War. The highly rhythmic patterning included in this newly acquired work affords an interesting comparison to the equally energized Constructivist vocabulary of Evergreen’s iconic theater. Evergreen Museum & Library is one of two museums owned and operated by The Johns Hopkins University, and it is open for public tours as well as through special programming and events Tuesday through Sunday, throughout the year. 11 For more information please visit http://www.museums.jhu.edu/. FIGURE 5 Léon Bakst, ca. 1915. Evergreen House Foundation, Evergreen Museum & Library, Baltimore, MD. Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 253 List of Works by Léon Bakst in the Collections of the Evergreen Museum & Library and the Evergreen House Foundation (Prepared by Edward Heimiller, 2009 Graduate Intern) Black Painted Wooden Lamps with Parchment Shade ca. 1922–23 EH1952.1.344.9a-b – 12a-b Drapery Panels Four panels with floral and rooster patterning* ca. 1922 Silk brocade with metallic threads EH1952.1.905 *A three-piece Louis XV-style parlor suite and two English Georgian armchairs also relate to these panels—they all have upholstery of the same material as the draperies. Alice Garrett apparently utilized this Bakst-designed textile—assumed to be not a special commission, but an already in-production textile—for the decoration of a number of Evergreen’s primary reception rooms in the 1920s. Drawing “THE PATTERN REPEATS HERE” (Stage curtain design for Evergreen Theatre) ca. 1922 Graphite on paper EH (not numbered) Drawing “Judith of Bethulia with the head of Holofernes” Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1919–20 Graphite, India ink on paper EH1952.1.126 Drawing “Sultane Norie,” African Woman Wearing a Turban Signed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite, charcoal, gouache on paper EH1952.1.128 Drawing Costume for Alice Work Garrett Inscribed Upper Right: Corsage de La roba espagnole Pour Mme Garratte ca. 1922–23 Graphite, watercolor, charcoal on paper EH1952.1.131 254 J. A. Abbott Drawing Costume Design, Baroness in Scene 3 for La Belle au Bois Dormant ca. 1916 Graphite, watercolor, gouache, silver paint on paper EH1952.1.132 Drawing Nude Woman Unsigned Ink on paper EH1952.1.144 Drawing Portrait of Linda Cole Porter Signed Lower Right: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.147 Drawing Nature Study, Branch with Leaves and Fruit Signed Upper Right: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151a Drawing Nature Study, Study of Branch of Leaves Signed Upper Right: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151b Drawing Nature Study, Study of Leaves Signed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151c Drawing Nature Study, Botanical Study Signed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151d Drawing Nature Study, Study of Ivy Signed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151e Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 255 Drawing Nature Study, Study of Branch of Fruit Signed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151f Drawing Nature Study, Study of Ivy Signed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151g Drawing Nature Study, Fruit on Branch Singed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151h Drawing Nature Study, Fruit or Gourds on Branch Unsigned Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151i Drawing Nature Study, Fruit on Branch Signed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151j Drawing Nature Study/Set Design, Study of Ruins Signed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151k Drawing Nature Study, Branch of Leaves Signed Upper Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151l Drawing Nature Study/Set Design, Mountain Landscape Inscribed: Undecipherable Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151m 256 J. A. Abbott Drawing Nature Study/Set Design, Landscape with Aqueduct Signed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151n Drawing Nature Study/Set Design, Scene of a Cottage with Fence Singed Lower Left: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151o Drawing Nature Study/Set Design, Valley Landscape with Road Signed Lower Right: Bakst Graphite on paper EH1952.1.151p Drawing Design for Chansons Orientales backdrop Signed Lower Right: Bakst 23, 0—10 Scale ca. 1923 Watercolor, gold paint on paper EH1952.1.389 Drawing Design for Seville Street Scene backdrop (Two Houses on a Narrow Street) Unsigned ca. 1923 Watercolor EH1952.1.390 Drawing Winged Figures Design for Columns of Evergreen Theatre Unsigned ca. 1922 Graphite, watercolor on paper EH1952.1.392 Drawing Triangle Design for Columns of Evergreen Theatre Signed Lower Right: Bakst 1922 ca. 1922 Graphite, watercolor on paper EH1952.1.393 Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 257 Drawing Rooster Design for Ceiling of Evergreen Theatre Signed Lower Right: Bakst 22 ca. 1922 Watercolor on paper EH1952.1.394 Drawing Fish Design for Proscenium Arch and Hanging Lights of Evergreen Theatre Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1922–23 Watercolor Stencil EH1952.1.395 Drawing Maze Design for Carpet for Evergreen Theatre Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1922–23 Graphite, watercolor on paper EH1952.1.396 Drawing Design for Evergreen Theatre Windowpanes Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1922–23 Watercolor, gold paint on paper EH1952.1.397 Drawing Bird or Rooster Design for Evergreen Theatre Walls Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1922–23 Watercolor EH1952.1.398 Drawing Costume Design for Alice W. Garrett Unsigned ca. 1922–23 Graphite on paper EH1952.1.399 Drawing “Monteau” Costume Design for Alice W. Garrett Inscribed Lower Right: Original Drawing by Bakst for Alice Garrett; Upper Left: Monteau from Madame Garrett ten tuffen ca. 1922–23 258 J. A. Abbott Graphite on paper EH1952.1.400 Drawing Mendiant/Beggar Costume Design for Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur Signed Lower Right: Bakst; Upper Right: Mendiant 1917 Indian ink on paper EH1952.1.401 Drawing “Costume Design for Arabian Prince with Pageboy” for La Belle au Bois Dormant Signed Upper Right: Bakst 1916 Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH1952.1.402 Drawing “Mariccua” Costume Design for Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur Signed Lower Left: Bakst 1916; Upper Right: Mariccua Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH1952.1.403 Drawing “Battista” Costume Design for Les Femmes de Bonne Humeur Signed Lower Right: Bakst; Upper Left: Batissta ca. 1916 Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH1952.1.404 Drawing “A Boyar” Costume Design for Sadko Signed Lower Left: Bakst 1917 Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH1952.1.405 Drawing Design for the Forest Scene in Act II of La Belle au Bois Dormant Unsigned ca. 1916 Watercolor on paper EH1952.1.406 Drawing Design for the Prologue of Act I for La Belle au Bois Dormant Signed Lower Right: Bakst ca. 1916 Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH1952.1.407 Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 259 Drawing Design for the Enchanted Castle in Act II, Scene 2, for La Belle au Bois Dormant ca. 1916 Signed Lower Right: Bakst Watercolor on paper EH1952.1.408 Drawing “Fantastic Bird,” Preparatory Drawing for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Graphite, crayon on paper EH1952.1.751 Drawing Preparatory Design for Rooster Motif for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Graphite, watercolor on paper EH1952.1.753a Drawing Farm Scene Inscribed Lower Right: Bakst for scenery Evergreen Theatre (Alice Garrett’s handwriting) ca. 1923 Indian ink on paper EH1952.1.756 Drawing Head of a Young Man Unsigned Charcoal on paper EH1952.1.878 Drawing Alice W. Garrett in Costume Signed Lower Left: Bakst / 1915 ca. 1915 Graphite, watercolor on paper EH1975.196.1 on extended loan from the collection of Mrs. George Rublee III Drawing Textile Design for Chauve Souris: Motif of Roosters, People, Horses, and Lions Signed Lower Right: Leon Bakst ca. 1922–24 Graphite, watercolor, gold paint on paper EH1991.11.1 260 J. A. Abbott Drawing Unidentified Theater Design Based on the Throne Room in the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete Signed Lower Left: Bakst ca. 1920 Graphite, watercolor, gouache on paper EH2009.1 Fabric Panels Painted Burlap, with dark green field and gold ring patterning ca. 1922–23 EH1952.1.669 a-g Letter Certificate of Beauty and Grace with Wax Seal ca. 1916 Ink, wax on paper EH1952.1.418 Pink Painted Wooden Lamps with Parchment Shade ca. 1922–23 EH1952.1.344.1a-b – 8a-b Side Tables Moderne, Black Painted Side with Rectangular Top ca. 1922–23 Wood and paint EH1952.1.1206a-k Sign “YOU ARE ONE/OF THE 102/MILLION ‘ARTISTS’/IN THE U.S.A./YOU ARE LIVING/IN ONE/THE 18 MILLION/DWELLINGS/YOU ARE/A MEMBER/OF ONE/OF THE/22 MILLION/FAMILIES” [Uncompleted version of “IF YOU ARE LATE. . .” theater sign (EH1952.1.885), with standing man interrupting seated patrons during a performance, on reverse] ca. 1922–23 Ink on paper; ink and watercolor (drawing on reverse) EH1952.1.758 Sign “THE NATION’S MOST/VALUABLE RESOURCE/IS ITS FUND OF/HUMAN ENERGY” [Accompanied by a pie-chart defining: “SLEEP/8 HOURS/ CONSUMPTION”; “RECREATION/8 HOURS/CONSUMPTION”; “WORK/8 HOURS/PRODUCTION”] Unsigned ca. 1922–23 Ink on paper EH1952.1.759 Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 261 Sign “IF YOU ARE LATE PLEASE WAIT HERE UNTIL THE MUSIC PAUSES” [Accompanied by a drawing with standing man interrupting seated patrons during a performance.] Signed Lower Right: Léon Bakst ca. 1923 Watercolor on paper EH1952.1.885 Stage Curtain ca. 1922–23 Painted canvas EH1952.1.1185 Stencils Fantastic Bird for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Paint on varnished paper EH1952.1.748a-b Stencils Triangular Patterning, Column Decoration for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Varnished paper EH1952.1.750a-b Stencils Fantastic Bird in Diamond Stencil (or Triangle Stencil with Spotted Bird) for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Varnished paper EH1952.a.752a-b Stencils Fragment of Rooster Motif for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Varnished paper EH1952.1.753b-n Stencil Triangular Patterning with Square or Key Motif for Evergreen Theatre ca. 1922–23 Varnished paper EH1952.1.754 Studies for Fans or Lamp Shades ca. 1922–23 262 J. A. Abbott Paint on varnished paper EH1952.1.749 Textile Floral Motif Design on Silk 1924 Manufactured by: Robinson Silk Company for Clingen and Selig (American, New York, New York); printed by United Piece Dye Works. EH1952.1.409 Textile Lion Motif Design on Silk EH1952.1.410 Textile Triangle Pattern Design on Silk 1924 Manufactured by: Robinson Silk Company for Clingen and Selig (American, New York, New York); printed by United Piece Dye Works. EH1952.1.411 Textile Floral Spray Design on Silk 1924 Manufactured by: Robinson Silk Company for Clingen and Selig (American, New York, New York); printed by United Piece Dye Works. EH1952.1.412 Textile Rooster Motif Design on Silk EH1952.1.413 Theater Stage Set “Farm Scene” ca. 1922–23 Canvas, cardboard, wood, paint, stone, rope EH1952.1.1201a-g Theater Stage Set “Seville Street Scene” ca. 1923 Canvas, wood, netting, paint EH1952.1.1139a-d Theater Stage Set “Chansons Orientale” Russian Art & Design in the Evergreen Museum & Library 263 ca. 1922–23 Canvas, wood, paint EH1952.1.1202a-i Rooms at Evergreen House Designed or Remodeled by Léon Bakst Theatre (former gymnasium), North Wing Originally built 1885; remodeled by Bakst, 1922 Stenciled and painted plaster, wood, paper, and textiles Collection of The Johns Hopkins University Theatre Lobby, North Wing 1922 Stenciled and painted plaster, wood and textiles Collection of The Johns Hopkins University Dining Room, Main House Originally built, 1857; remodeled by Bakst, 1922 Painted plaster and wood Collection of The Johns Hopkins University Far East Room (former bowling alley), North Wing [In collaboration with architect Laurence Hall Fowler (1876–1971)] Originally built, 1885; remodeled by Bakst and Fowler, 1924 Painted wood Collection of The Johns Hopkins University NOTES 1. John Work Garrett inherited Evergreen upon the 1920 death of his mother, Alice Whitridge Garrett (1851–1920). 2. John Work Garrett was serving as the Department of State’s special agent in charge of civilian prisoners of war, initially assigned to the staff of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick (1854–1929). 3. Cindy Kelly, L�eon Bakst at Evergreen (Baltimore, MD: Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, 2004), 11. 4. For the 1917 season, Mrs. Garrett is recorded as a “Dame Patronnesse” of the ballet company. 5. Léon Bakst to Alice Warder Garrett, May 18, 1919. Evergreen Museum & Library. Evergreen House Foundation. 6. Alice Warder Garrett to Beatrice Astor Chanler, 1922, transcription in the archive of Evergreen Museum & Library. 7. Surviving examples of the Bakst-designed costumes for Mrs. Garrett are now included in the Costume Institute within the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 8. Kelly, L�eon Bakst, 27. 9. Billy Baldwin, Billy Baldwin Remembers (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 25. 10. Will of the Honorable John Work Garrett, Collection of the Evergreen House Foundation. 11. The other museum of Johns Hopkins University is Homewood Museum—a restored Carroll family- affiliated, Federal-era mansion on the main campus of the university. 264 J. A. Abbott work_4djqugl6ojga7ajykijkegfwca ---- Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 1997 March 1996–February 1997 Siehr, Kurt DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739197000222 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-154389 Journal Article Published Version Originally published at: Siehr, Kurt (1997). March 1996–February 1997. International Journal of Cultural Property, 6(1):161-168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739197000222 Chronicles March 1996-February 1997 Kurt Siehr* The French Cour de Cassation held that the authenticity of a piece March 1996 of art may be questioned even if the artist's heir had certified that the object was a genuine product of the artist: Le journal des arts, September 1996, p. 61. The French Court of Appeals in Metz awarded to the receiver of 22 May 1996 bankrupt enterprise Schlumpf 25 million francs as compensation for the devaluation of a collection of motorcars (exhibited in a museum in Alsace) which had been classified as unmerchantable French "monuments historiques": Le journal des arts, September 1996, p. 61. French decree no. 96-541 changes the French statute of 1913 on 14 June 1996 historical monuments in order to decentralize certain procedures for the protection of cultural property: Recueil Dalloz Sirey 1996, Le- gislation, p. 279 and 370. Publication of the EC Proposal for a European Parliament and Coun- 21 June 1996 cil Directive on the resale right for the benefit of the author of an original work of art. This instrument proposes to harmonize the law on a "droit de suite" in Europe: Official Gazette of the EC, No. C 178 p. 16. Kinshasa "Regional Seminar on Illicit Traffic in Cultural Property". 26—28 June 1996 See report by Etienne Clement, supra at 139—41. In Saint-Malo (Brittany, France) an exhibition opened with unsigned 2 July 1996 works of Vincent van Gogh, promoted as newly discovered works but in reality being clumsy fakes. The visitors had to pay for en- trance. Three weeks later the police shut down the exhibition: ART- newsletter, vol. XXII, no. 3 of 8 October 1996, p. 7. The Paris Court of Appeals found that certain art objects of the royal 3 July 1996 family of Orleans (Count of Paris) do not qualify as "souvenirs de famille" and therefore can be sold as part of an estate to be divided among the heirs of the deceased person: La Semaine juridique, Juris- classeur periodique, 1996, II, 22703. See infra 14/15 December 1996. Royal Assent to the English Treasure Act 1996 (1996 c. L4): New 4 July 1996 Law Journal 1996, p. 1346. * Professor of Law, University of Zurich. 161 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles 23 July 1996 The Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Looting of Nigerian Cultural Property. Information by Prof. Folarin Shyllon of Ibadan University. 23 July 1996 The bill of an Italian statute implementing the EC Directive no. 93/ 7 of 15 March 1993 on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State was introduced in the Italian Senate: II giornale dell'arte, vol. XIV, no. 150 of December 1996, p. 35 (text) and 33 (article by F. Lemme). 24 July 1996 The mayor of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) issued a decree concerning art objects and collections of documents of historical, literary or artistic interest, owned or held by public enterprises or being under public administration in order to be privatized, which should be classified as cultural property under Article 5 of City Law No. 166 and not be scattered. A list of those items will be prepared. Decree No. 14.998: ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 1 of 10 September 1996, p. 5. 31 July 1996 The European Convention of 16 January 1992 on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (European Treaty Series No. 143) en- tered into force in Poland: Dziennik Ustaw No. 120, 9 October 1996, Pos. 564 and 565. July 1996 A New York court, confronted with a suit in rem against an Artemis statue stolen in 1988 from the Convent of Maria Immaculata in Poz- zuoli (Naples), applied for the first time the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the return of illegally exported cultural objects and or- dered the return of the statue: The Art Newspaper, January 1997, p. 25. The International Law Association (ILA) held its 67th Conference in Helsinki (Finland). The ILA Committee on Cultural Heritage drafted a resolution which was adopted by the ILA plenary session on 17 August 1996. See report by K. Siehr, supra at 142—43. The Australian business magnate Alan Bond was convicted in Perth (West Australia) of charges of fraud and deception and was sen- tenced to three years in jail. In November 1987 Bond purchased Vincent van Gogh's "Irises" for $ 53.9 million at Sotheby's and partially paid by proceeds from the sale of Eduard Manet's "La promenade": ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 1 of 9 September 1996, p. 7. August 1996 Austrian President of State Klestil announced that on his forthcom- ing visit to Mexico he may take with him as a present the "crown of Montezuma" exhibited for a long time in the Vienna Volkerkun- demuseum (Museum of Ethnology). This announcement aroused an outcry of Austrian museum people: ART, September 1996, p. 9. August 1996 A Johannesburg court of South Africa held that an auctioneer may reopen the bidding at his discretion if he missed a bid and that there- fore the hammer went down too early: ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 2 of 24 September 1996, p. 8. 1 2 - 1 7 August 1996 16 August 1996 162 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles An agreement between the Russian Federation and the Principality of Liechtenstein on the exchange of archives has been signed in Vaduz. Russia returns the archives of the royal house of Liech- tenstein taken by Russian troops as booty in 1945 after the occupa- tion of Austria. The Principality of Liechtenstein provides docu- ments on the execution of Tsar Nicholas II recently bought at auction in London: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 7/8 September 1996, p. 9. On a visit of the German Chancellor Kohl to the Ukraine both States agreed to return cultural objects displaced during or after World War II: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 September 1996, p. 1; supra at 134-36. Opening of the Berlin exhibition devoted to the collection Heinz Berggruen in the Sriilerbau (opposite the Charlottenburg Castle). The collection of paintings of Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and especially of Pablo Picasso will stay in Berlin for the next ten years: ARTnews, January 1997, p. 54. Celebration of the Day of Cultural Heritage, initiated by the Council of Europe. See Swiss publication "Tag der Kulturgiiter". Polish Statute on the Inspection of Monuments (pos. 496 of 1996) was passed: Dziennik Ustaw. Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Nr. 106, 30 September 1996, p. 2346. The International Association of Legal Science (Paris) organized the Conference on the protection of cultural property in Rabat (Mo- rocco). See report by R. K. Paterson and K. Siehr, supra at 144-50. Conference was held in Venice (Italy) on the question of the authen- ticity of the Ludovisi Throne (Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome) and the Boston Throne (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The Thrones were exhibited in the Palazzo Grassi (Venice) in the exhibition "Magna Graeca": Minerva 7 (no. 6/1996), p. 33 et seq. (article by J. M. Eisenberg). Treaty between Italy and the Episcopalian Conference of Italy on the protection of cultural property of religious interest owned by church institutions: II giornale dell'arte, October 1996, p. 5. Ninth session of the Intergovernmental UNESCO Committee for promoting the return of cultural property to its countries of origin or its restitution in case of illicit appropriation. See report by Jan Hladik, supra at 151-53. The library of Linkoeping (Sweden) has been set on fire. About 300.000 books have been destroyed: La Repubblica, 22 September 1996, p. 16. Itar-Tass of Moscow reported that a very precious book was stolen from the Moscow State Library. The book of 1564 is supposed to be the oldest printed book in the Russian language: The Art Newspaper, November 1996, p. 1. 3 September 1996 3 September 1996 6 September 1996 7 September 1996 8 September 1996 11-12 September 1996 12 September 1996 13 September 1996 16-19 September 1996 20 September 1996 24 September 1996 163 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles 26 September 1996 September 1996 13 October 1996 22 October 1996 28 October 1996 29/30 October 1996 29 October 1996 30 October 1996 30 October 1996 The Art-Law Centre of Geneva organized an international sympo- sium on "Patronage of the Arts" in Lausanne. See report by Q. Byrne-Sutton and M.-A. Renold, supra at 154—55. The Swiss National Council voted unanimously to set up a special commission to investigate what happened to Nazi art loot brought to Switzerland before and during World War II: ARTnewspaper, vol. XXII, no. 4 of 22 October 1996, p. 2. Henri Nannen, publisher (i. a. of the weekly "Der Stern"), art enthu- siast and founder of a museum in Emden (Germany), passed away: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 October 1996, p. 45. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsyl- vania entered a judgment in favor of the defendants in the civil action Crisoty v. Rizik. The plaintiffs purchased in 1989 a painting by Corrado Giaquinto stolen more than three decades earlier from the defendants' parents' home. The plaintiffs, who had delivered the painting to the defendants after having been informed about the theft, asked for recovery of their expenses for restoration of the painting. The court denied an unjust enrichment claim against the defendants. Unpublished decision No. 93 — 6215. Belgium passed the statute implementing the EC Directive 93/7/ EEC of 15 March 1993 on the return of cultural property unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State: Moniteur beige of 21 December 1996, No. 245, p. 31865. Christie's of Vienna sold at auction the Mauerbach treasures which were items seized by the National Socialists and stored since 1945 in Austria, finally in the Mauerbach cloisters. This Mauerbach auc- tion for the benefit of the victims of the Holocaust comprised more than 1.000 items (paintings, drawings, sculptures and other works of art) and produced about $ 14 mill., i. e. five times more than ex- pected: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 November 1996, p. 33; Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 2/3 November 1996, p. 47; The Art Newspa- per, December 1996, p. 35; ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 6 of 19 November 1996, p. 2. ARTnews, December 1996, p. 91. The Institute of Art and Law (Leicester) held a conference in London on "Transacting in Art — the Legal Pitfalls": The Art Newspaper, October 1996, p. 26. In the State Library of Berlin the Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia returned to Germany 100.000 books taken from German libraries after World War II and deposited later in Georgia. This was done according to Art. 16 of the German-Georgian Treaty of 25 June 1993 on Cultural Cooperation: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 October 1996, p. 6; 31 October 1996, p. 8 and 37 (article by W. Fiedler); Die Zeit, 8 November 1996, p. 52 (article by K. Garbo). The French Tribunal de grande instance de Paris declined to annul the sale of a painting sold as a piece of the "atelier de Poussin" but 164 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles which later turned out to be a painting of the master himself: // giornale dell 'arte, December 1996, p. 81. The criminal court of Sherman (Texas) dismissed criminal charges against the heirs of Jack Meador who looted the Quedlinburg trea- sure reacquired by Germany in 1990 (see Int'l J. Cult. Prop. 1992, p. 215). The US attorney had filed the indictment too late. Yet the heirs may face an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 October 1996, p. 37; The Art Newspaper, December 1996, p. 7. Treasures of the Wettin dynasty of Saxony, buried at the end of World War II in Moritzburg (Germany), have been discovered and excavated: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 October 1996, p. 44. Part of a Giorgione fresco from the Venetian palace "Fondaco dei Tedeschi" has been discovered in England (Saltwood Castle). As to this fresco, see Jaynie Anderson, Giorgione. Peintre de la "Brievete Poetique". Catalogue Raisonne. Paris: Lagune 1996, p. 279 no. 169, pp. 261-263, 280-284; ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 5 of 5 No- vember 1996, p. 2. The French archaeologist Franck Goddio presented the results of his underwater explorations in the harbour of Alexandria (Egypt) and told that he may have located the royal palaces of the Ptolemean kingdom: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 8 November 1996, p. 20; Frank- furter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 November 1996, p. 4. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs Herve de Charette returned to Antoinette Carvailho the painting "Les Glaneuses" of Leon Augustin Lhermitte (1844—1925). This art object had been taken by the Ger- man occupation army in 1940, remained in East Germany and in 1994 was returned to France after the German reunification: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 18 December 1996, p. 42; Museart, January 1997, p. 30. The Hungarian Minister of Culture and Education published the De- cree No. 14/1996 on the Procedure Declaring Private Records with Permanent Value as Legally Protected. This Decree is based on the Hungarian Statute No. LXVI of 1995 in Public Records, Public Ar- chives and Protection of Private Archives: Magyar Kozlony 1996 No. 95 of 7 November 1996, p. 5456; 1995 No. 56 of 30 June 1995, p. 3018. England restored the "Stone of Scone" to Scotland. This stone placed in the coronation chair in Westminster Abbey had been brought to London in 1296 and is supposed to be a symbol used since 840 in Scone for the ceremony of the coronation of Scottish kings: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 November 1996, p. 3. Conference of the "Direction des Musees de France" on "Pillage and Restitution - what became of works of art removed from France October 1996 October 1996 October 1996 3 November 1996 6 November 1996 7 November 1996 15 November 1996 17 November 1996 165 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles 23 November 1996 November 1996 November 1996 November 1996 1 December 1996 3 December 1996 6 December 1996 5—6 December 1996 10 December 1996 during World War II." See report by Veronique Parisot, supra at 156-57. The ashes of Andre Malraux (1901-1976), former French minister of cultural affairs (1959 — 1969), adventurer (Angkor) and "hommes des lettres" and "art historian" (Musee imaginaire), were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 25 November 1996, p. 3; The Art Newspaper, December 1996, p. 7; Journal des Arts, November 1996, p. 1. Turkey declared the site of Troy as "Historical National Park Troy and Vicinity — Park of Peace" and is expecting the listing of the site as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO: Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 7 November 1996, p. 20; see Int'l J. Cult. Prop. 1996, p. 315. The Tribunal de la Seine decided that the former owner of the Pous- sin painting "La fuite en Egypte" has no claim for return of the painting or for compensation against the auctioneer because the attri- bution of the painting to Poussin was doubtful at the time of auction: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 November 1996, p. 41. The Sternburg family created a foundation of its art collection exhib- ited in the Leipzig Art Gallery in favour of this institution which will get a new building in some years: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- tung, 18 November 1996, p. 35. In the United Kingdom the law implementing the EC Directive on copyright of unpublished materials came into force: The Art Newspa- per, January 1997, p. 12. The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia) opens until 30 March 1997 the fourth Russian exhibition of art objects taken from Germany under the title "Masterpieces of Western European Draw- ings from Private German Collections": Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- tung, 3 December 1996, p. 4 and 7 December 1996, p. 35; Die Zeit, 6 December 1996, p. 54; ARTnewsletter, vol. XXII, no. 9 of 31 De- cember 1996, p. 7; The Art Newspaper, December 1996, p. 7. The Institute of the International Chamber of Commerce organized a conference on "Cultural Aspects of International Trade in Goods and Services: Are there any Exceptions": La Semaine juridique 1996, no. 47, Echos et opinions. Conference on "International Protection of Cultural Property - New Law on the Protection of Cultural Property" organized by the Lud- wig Boltzmann Institute of European Law, Vienna. Van Gogh's painting "Jardin a Auvers," formerly owned by Jean- Jacques Walter (he received in court 145 million French Francs as compensation for not being allowed to export the painting), was put at auction by the Paris auction house Jacques Tajan in the name of the estate of Jean-Marc Vernes (he bought the painting in 1992 for 166 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:42:03, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of Chronicles 55 million French Francs) — and was not sold because only 32 mil- lion French Francs ($ 6.1 million) were offered: Frankfurter Allgem- eine Zeitung, 14 December 1996, p. 41; ARTnewsletter vol. XXII, no. 9 of 31 December 1996, p. 2. The Italian Ministry of Cultural Property quashed the notification of 22 November 1995 by which the Ministry prohibited the export of a Bellotto painting temporarily imported from England for an exhibi- tion in Milano (see Int'l J. Cult. Prop. 1996, p. 208): // Giomale dell'arte, January 1997, p. 1. Sotheby's of Monte Carlo sold at auction the collection of the Count and Countess of Paris. This collection had been the subject matter of several court proceedings (supra 3 July 1996): // giornale dell'arte, December 1996, p. 85. A new agreement on the financial support of the Foundation Prus- sian Cultural Heritage, holding the biggest European museum unit consisting of 16 museums in Berlin, several libraries, archives and research institutes, has been concluded between the German federal government and the German states and entered into force. Neue Ju- ristische Wochenschrift, Wochenspiegel, 1997, no. 4, p. XXXIX. German Chancellor Kohl and Russian President Yeltsin met in the vicinity of Moscow. They agreed that the open question of return of German cultural objects must be solved in 1997: Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung 6 January 1997, p. 2 and 25. France ratified the UNESCO Convention of 17 November 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung, 1 February 1997, p. 41; II giornale dell'arte, Febru- ary 1997, p. 4 The painting "Lady Elizabeth Vervey with Pigeon in her Arms" by Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750—1812), stolen in Weimar (Germany) in 1945 and about to be auctioned with Sotheby's in New York, is returned to the Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar: Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 2 February 1997, p. 19; Neue Zurcher Zeitung 8/9 Febrruary 1997, p. 47. Sotheby's of London suspended two senior staff members in Milan and London because they are suspected of having smuggled a paint- ing by the Italian painter Giuseppe Nogari form Italy to London: The Times 6 February 1997, pp. 1 and 14, 15. 12 December 1996 14/15 December 1996 1 January 1997 4 January 1997 7 January 1997 4 February 1997 5 February 1997 167 use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739197000222 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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These stories are not just a means of telling but also an attempt to understand. Stories are performed and performative; they do not leave us unchanged but can in fact motivate us to act. They are not merely about things that have happened, but are about significant events that change us. Through our stories we demonstrate that we have not only had experiences but that those experiences have become part of one’s knowledge. In this essay O’ Neill will explore the potential of objects to tell a story, the object that is both the subject of the story and the form of telling. Two ephemeral art works will be considered: Domain of Formlessness (2006) by British artist Alec Shepley and Time and Mrs Tiber (1977) by Canadian artist Liz Magor. Both works embody the process of decay and tell a story of existence overshadowed by the knowledge of certain death and the telling of the story as a means of confronting that knowledge. The ephemeral art object tells a story in circumstances when there are no words, when we have nothing left to say. Résumé: La persistance de la forme narrative, mais aussi notre compulsion narrative, nous signalent que raconter une histoire n'est pas un simple divertissement, un supplément plus ou moins superflu qu'on pourrait laisser de côté si on le voulait, mais un aspect fondamental de notre vie. Nous racontons des histoires pour construire et sauvegarder notre univers. Lorsque des expériences traumatisantes ont entamé notre sens du réel, nous essayons de rétablir notre contact avec le monde en multipliant les récits. Le but de ces récits n'est pas seulement de raconter, mais aussi de comprendre. Un récit est donc un acte, il nous change et il peut nous pousser à l'action. Un récit ne parle pas uniquement de ce qui s'est passé, il parle des choses importantes qui ont eu lieu et qui nous ont transformés. Par le biais de nos récits, nous montrons que nous avons fait davantage qu'accumuler des expériences et que celles-ci se sont intégrées à ce que nous avons appris et à ce que nous savons. Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 52 Le présent article explore le potentiel narratif des objets. L'objet y apparaît à la fois comme ce dont il est question dans le récit et ce qui structure la narration, comme on le voit dans les deux œuvres d'art éphémères qu'analyse l'auteur: Domain of Formlessness (2006) de l'artiste britannique Alec Shepley et Time and Mrs Tiber (1977) de l'artiste canadienne Liz Magor. Ces deux œuvres mettent en forme un processus de déchéance et racontent l'histoire d'une vie placée sous le signe de la conscience d'une mort certaine, mais aussi de la narration comme une manière de faire face à cette conscience. L'objet d'art éphémère raconte une historie dans des circonstances privées de mots, où nous n'avons plus rien à dire. Key words: ephemeral art, (Liz) Magor, (Alex) Shapley, storytelling, trauma [The story] . . . achieves an amplitude that information lacks. (Benjamin 89) In this essay I explore the stories told by two ephemeral art works, Time and Mrs Tiber (1977) by Canadian artist Liz Magor, and Domain of Formlessness (2006) by British artist Alec Shepley. These works tell a story of existence overshadowed by the knowledge of certain death. Through their emphemerality they embody both the process of decay and disappearance; the telling of the story is used as a means of confronting this knowledge. The ephemeral art object can tell a story in circumstances where the traditional myth of art, as something that endures into an indefinite future and opens a doorway to immortality, will no longer serve. Western art has traditionally been concerned with power and authority, of the church, state or wealth. It has been conceived of as permanent and monumental, concerned with what is to come, a form of propaganda that will survive us and represents us to future generations, and ensure our immortality through the survival of our reputations and the great achievements of our culture (O'Neill 89). The works of Magor and Shepley are ephemeral in the sense that they are not only transient, but contain within them the seeds of their own demise. They have broken with tradition and are concerned with the past and how that past is experienced in the present, at the moment of looking. They are flawed works that allude to mourning and offer the possibility of an alternative to the Freudian triumvirate of remembering, repeating and working-through (Freud 147-156). In these works, remembering and repeating is evident – the original loss is repeated, which on the face of it could suggest that they are trapped in the repeating stage. However, rather than the closure that working- through promises, these works suggest an alternative – they form an accommodation with Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 53 their trauma, and offer a new aesthetic, a new story, in which the fleeting, the discarded and the transitory acquires a significance which Western traditions of art denies. Some of our stories, those that deal with traumatic experience, are an attempt to communicate, but they may also be an attempt to understand. Experiences that are difficult to comprehend need to be remembered and the means of this remembering may be the story of what happened, which we tell again and again in slightly different versions. The association between storytelling and the management of traumatic experience is well known and is indeed the basis of forms of therapy. For example, psychoanalysis involves freeing ourselves from the unconscious stories which we are compelled to relive by telling them over and over again to an attentive listener who reflects back what we are really saying. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) facilitates the altering of our stories that have become unhelpful or debilitating by working directly with the conscious voices in our heads to change their story. The definition of trauma has taken on a political and legal dimension in recent years particularly in relation to the recognition of, and status given to, sufferers of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) amongst military veterans. PTSD was first officially recognised in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSMIII) of the American Psychiatric Association in 1987, where it is defined as the result of an event “outside the normal range of human experience” (236). PTSD often leads, in the words of Cathy Caruth a leading scholar of trauma, to a reaction that involves “the unwitting re-enactment of an event that one cannot simply leave behind.” (Caruth 2). Domain of Formlessness The bleak existentialism of Ernest Becker, as outlined in his Pulitzer Prize winning book The Denial of Death, identifies the making and collecting of art as one of the means through which we create illusions of immortality as a defence against the knowledge of death that would annihilate us (171 - 174). In his discussion of the challenge facing the artist Becker states “there is something in his life experience that makes him take on the world as a problem: as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.” (171) The production of an artwork is described by Becker as “the artist’s attempt to justify his heroism objectively, in the concrete creation” (172). However the ephemeral work of art rejects both the possibility of the heroic artist and the “concrete creation” (172). It affords an encounter with the demise of the myth of the consolation of art, as well as the vicarious immortality it offers, and suggests a possibility beyond the psychic devastation described by Becker. Here a new narrative, a new form of meaning, whereby the ephemeral is seen as valuable and more precious precisely because it is fleeting, replaces the narrative of immortality. Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 54 Domain of Formlessness is a series of short films, each a single scene no more than 2 minutes long that play in a loop. The scenes take place in what looks like a cardboard box turned on its side (fig. 1). It begins with a single object, carefully placed in the box, followed by various other objects that are added at an increasing speed and with an increased suggestion of carelessness until the curtain falls, or in some cases fails to fall and has to be nudged closed with a stick (fig. 5). The objects refer to art history and other works by Shepley – bits of drawings, maquettes for sculptures, a traditional artist’s palette complete with blobs of paint, the odds and ends that one would find around an artist’s studio. There are also more domestic objects, a small doll’s house, a bird box, a model boat and a shoe. The differing scales of the objects means that they bear little relation to each other – a frigate leans against a table on which a house has been pushed aside to accommodate a bird box, the entrance of which is piled high with armchairs. In the box Shepley creates a miniature world, a theatre/doll’s house in which order is created and destroyed in endless succession. It is the world of dreams and stories in which scale is a matter of experience and importance rather than a physical characteristic. The films are manipulated by the addition of scratches and dust and have the amateurish quality of home Fig. 1: still from Domain of Formlessness (2006), Alec Shepley Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 55 Fig. 2: still from Domain of Formlessness (2006), Alec Shepley movies before the advent of digital technology. The pathos is accentuated by the sound track, a piece by jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, which reinforces the connection with a more innocent viewing experience of the past. In my interview with Shepley he described the work as an acceptance of the ultimate failure of an artwork and, to an extent, a celebration of life’s minor triumphs because these "are all there is". The demise of the work becomes the goal and, in letting go of the ego and notions of success, the damaged goods and the discarded become valuable. Shepley uses the word “avalanche” to describe what takes place within each vignette. The characteristics of avalanches are that they are sudden and overwhelming but not unexpected. These metaphorical avalanches happen again and again, but despite this the artist continues to construct scenes with the potential to escape the fate of the previous episodes. He describes how the film will play and play until the CD or the computer gives up and then it is over, not finished, just over. In the cinematic story form that this work utilises, as in other forms of storytelling, there is a physical rhythm. The listener settles into the story, can be lulled by the rhythm of telling, a heartbeat can quicken at a climactic moment and relax with the relief of the resolution, the 'happy ever after' followed by the closing of the book, or 'The End' screen of a film. The looping of Shepley’s film suggests a lack of resolution in the telling of the story Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 56 and we are deprived of the sense of completeness that the traditional form of story offers. Domain of Formlessness has qualities of a pastiche, a folly echoing the style of remembered Saturday afternoon films where fallible characters such as Abbott and Costello, Buster Keaton or Jacques Tati amused us by exaggerating our incompetence, our failures. The scenes provide a contained miniature world where an initial short-lived sense of order quickly descends into chaos and each scenario ends not because something has been achieved but because the curtain closes and it is over. But rather than being a folly which attempts to create a fake work it is a ruin in which we see the vestige of what once was, or, more importantly, Fig. 3: still from Domain of Formlessness (2006), Alec Shepley Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 57 Fig. 4: still from Domain of Formlessness (2006), Alec Shepley might have been but was not good enough. Like these short films by Shepley the phrase ‘telling stories’ is deceptively simple; it conjures up thoughts of childhood tales of fabulous beasts, magical lands and dream-like existences. It is associated with ‘in the beginning’ and ‘happily ever after’. We are familiar with the structure, the beginning, middle and end, in which we experience a temporal unfolding. While this unfolding happens in one direction in time for the listener it happens backwards in time for the teller (Ricoeur 42-43). Stories are inextricably linked to memory, not only the privileged view of the teller who knows the outcome, but also the listener's experience of previous stories. The listener’s trust in the telling of a story is that there will be a dénouement, where motivations will be made clear and secrets revealed. However the great power of stories, the endurance of the form and the compulsion to tell them suggests that telling stories is not merely an entertainment, an optional extra which we can choose to Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 58 Fig. 5: still from Domain of Formlessness (2006), Alec Shepley engage with or not, but a fundamental aspect of being. We tell stories to construct, maintain and repair our reality. When we were conceived, when the sperm met the egg, we were not there, but there is a second self-conception, which is our own. We conceive ourselves in our minds and then, through the speech act of our stories, we are born. The telling of stories is more than an individual process; through our stories we form relationships, our family stories bind us to those with whom we have shared experiences and our collective stories become our tribal, regional or national identity. These stories are performed and performative; they do not leave us unchanged but can in fact motivate us to act, to fight and be willing to die for an ideal or a belief. The stories we tell are not merely about things that have happened, but are about significant events that have changed us. They are not general but specific; what happened and to whom. Through our stories we demonstrate that we not only have had experiences but that those experiences have become part of our knowledge. The etymology of the term experience suggests that it is a form of authority based on trial, experiment and observation, which is opposed to theory (Jay 10). In telling stories then it is possible that we combine experience and observation and move beyond theory to achieve a new form of authority. Stories are a contract and their existence requires another, a listener, to complete the event that is telling, Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 59 even if that listener is oneself or an imagined other. In the face of some life experience or societal changes our traditional stories may prove inadequate and we must construct and tell ourselves new stories. These stories can represent a rupture with the safety of the past when we were sure ‘everything would turn out alright’. One such life event is the experience of bereavement unconsoled by religious belief. When we can no longer rely on traditional religious rites to offer comfort through the promise of another life beyond this, new stories are required to perform the act of memorialisation. This can vary from the inclusion of songs in a funeral service which represent the fullness of the life lived to the creation of an entire ritual process which can act as a surrogate life to fill the time that one would have devoted to the deceased – for example, creating and maintaining a roadside memorial. Time and Mrs. Tiber Time and Mrs. Tiber is an early work by Liz Magor consisting of 53 jars of preserves, some of which were found on the abandoned farm of homesteaders Mr and Mrs Tiber on Cortes Island; a remote and inaccessible spot in British Columbia, 80 miles or four days by sailboat, northwest of Vancouver. The artist prepared 27 jars in 1977, which she added to the original preserves found on Cortes Island, dating from the 1950s. The jars along with the others made by Magor were displayed on open wooden shelves with other kitchen items, recipe cards and utensils. Magor, speaking of the work in an unpublished interview in 1976, states: They were self-sufficient, and now they are dead. In her house I found a shelf full of preserves that Mrs Tiber had put up. She was working against time. She was trying to keep the fruit preserved for next year. The preserved fruit remains, but she and her husband are dead. The piece also included excerpts from The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann which refer to mortality and the passage of time1 1 The artist does not provide reference information for these quotes. This is usual in a work of art as they do not follow academic conventions. The references I have provided are not from the same edition used by the artist and therefore there are variations in the translation. . Considered Mann’s most overtly philosophical work, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanatorium where a young man, Hans Castrop, has gone to recuperate. Initially intending to spend only a short time, he eventually remains for seven years. The following excerpt from the book appears on a recipe card with the heading “DATE BREAD” which Magor features in Time and Mrs Tiber: Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 60 “Dissolution, putrefaction,” said Hans Castrop. “They are the same thing as combustion: combination with oxygen – am I right?” “To a T. Oxidisation.” “And life?” “Oxidisation too. The same. Yes young man, life too is principally oxidisation of the cellular albumen, which gives us that beautiful animal warmth, of which we sometimes have more than we need. Tut, living consists in dying, no use mincing the matter – une destruction organique, as some Frenchman with his native levity has called it. It smells like that, too. If we don’t think so our judgment is corrupted.” (Mann 266) Time and Mrs Tiber is no longer exhibitable and now sits dismantled in the stores of the National Gallery of Canada. Magor’s work was the subject of a protracted correspondence between the artist, the gallery conservators and various experts called upon to discuss the state of a work that was deteriorating. The blackened jars of fruit are stored in a metal cabinet and they no longer have the qualities that the jars of fruit had when Magor first came upon them on the remote Cortes Island. My interest in this piece is not confined to the work itself as it was first shown but in the entirety of the piece as it has become, which includes the correspondence and the relationships between the work and the various people who have become responsible for it over time. The story told by the original work has become more complicated than the artist originally intended and is infinitely more complicated than Mrs Tiber could have foreseen when she first put the jars into storage. In this work we are presented by two sets of direct intent. Mrs Tiber clearly communicates her wish that the fruits of summer should survive to be eaten in the dark cold days of winter, when luscious golden fruits could be the difference between life and death. This act, as Magor identified in a 1977 interview (unpublished), is a desire to defy time. It is also an act of hopefulness and promise, that one will survive another year. The jars as they are at present contain sinister black liquid and greenish lumps and are more reminiscent of something from the dark depths than anything that ripened in the summer sun and they no longer offer the possibility of nourishment. This does not mean that Mrs Tiber has failed but shows what Magor describes (in the same interview) as our helplessness in the face of the destruction of time. Magor, by removing the jars from Cortes Island, created a monument to the industry of Mrs Tiber and her skill, which has proved one of the ephemeral aspects of this work. Mrs Tiber’s preserved fruits survived more successfully than any made by Magor or the Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 61 conservators who attempted to replicate the process. Magor also refers to the quietness of the jars, which had survived by not drawing attention to themselves. In the ruined house on Cortes Island they survived their maker. However, by bringing them to the gallery and attempting to prolong their lives as art, rather than being either consumed as food or rotting away naturally, Magor drew attention to them and accelerated their decay. Like a mythical hero of another story, whose immortality rests on staying in one place, their leaving is a form of sacrifice, as it involves becoming human and frail. This is the fate of Joachim, another character in The Magic Mountain, whose curiosity about the wider world induces him to leave the sanatorium only to return after a short time to die. The dilapidated house on Cortes Island had proved to be the perfect environment for storing preserves. It was a cool and dark place, which contrasted sharply with the environment of the gallery. The rapid deterioration was unwittingly caused by the gallery, the very environment that we associate with conservation and preservation. Some of the early interventions undertaken with the intention of preservation had the direct, opposite effect. Ironically this parallels Mann's personal experience of the sanatorium, where he developed an upper respiratory tract infection while visiting his wife. This event is recreated in The Magic Mountain (Humphreys 151). On another recipe card Magor again quotes from The Magic Mountain: And Hans says “Hermetics, hermetics! I really love that word, it reminds me of my grandmother’s jams and jellies. I used to walk into the pantry and see all these beautiful jams and jellies and I thought, there they are, all sealed away, locked up forever, not changing,” (Mann 511) Throughout the correspondence about the work preserved in the gallery, Magor’s sense of responsibility for the jars is evident both explicitly and in the tone of her writing. Equally, the mimetic quality of this work, Magor’s sense of identification with it, represents a Wildean relationship between the artist and the piece. Time and Mrs Tiber is a form of portrait in the attic, but rather than deteriorating while the artist remains youthful, Magor refers, in her 1977 interview, several times to her desire that the work should last as long as she herself does (see also Keyser 2). Thus this work acts as a mirror in which Magor had hoped to see her own ageing process reflected. Under these circumstances, the unexpectedly rapid decay of the preserves threatens this relationship. Magor is pulled between conflicting desires to acknowledge the ephemerality of the work and the desire to maintain it. In a review of Magor’s work Ann Rosenberg states: “Liz’s art poses philosophical questions and offers some intelligent answers.” (22) Time and Mrs Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 62 Tiber may no longer possess the visual qualities it once had; however, this does not mean that it is now mute and no longer asks philosophical questions. This was the work of a young artist, just six years out of art school. Her youth at the time of making the work does not suggest that this is not a thoughtful piece, clearly conceptualised and articulated. However, it does show that during our life our relationship with time can change, and that an artist whose works deal with time may well have a changing relationship with their work as they age. These shifting relationships do not reflect muddled thinking or a conceptual flaw in the work, rather growth and development of ideas that are themselves about something shifting and dynamic. The young Magor offered a specific set of direct intentions, which shaped the work and which she communicated in conversations, correspondence and interviews. The correspondence from the older Magor demonstrates that nothing is fixed, that for some, being older may well mean being wiser. Time and Mrs Tiber may have lost visual qualities, to the extent of it no longer being exhibitable, but I would suggest that it is older and wiser, still asking philosophical questions and still providing intelligent answers. These answers may not be as fixed and sure as they were in 1977 but their very uncertainty may be the wisdom they offer. There is still the original knowledge of time and our efforts to defy it, and there is also new knowledge. This knowledge resides both in the work, which embodies our inability to defy time, and in the documentation in the National Gallery of Canada. This documentation gives us an insight into the development of thinking, both about this work and the broader philosophical issues concerning de-accessioning of work from gallery collections. The documentation also shows how the relationship between the artist, conservator and curators can be an enriching and thought provoking one in which all three parties learn in tandem for the benefit of the work. It shows the ephemerality of intentions and the effort involved in letting go of both ideals and a work of art. Trauma, Art and Transubstantiation: a Conclusion In the twentieth century there has been a wealth of visual art that deals with evidence of a wounded mind or body, from George Grosz to Pablo Picasso to Doris Salcedo. These depictions of trauma may be so literal, as in the case of artists like Kathe Kollwitz, whose powerful drawings depict harrowing scenes of pain, misery and wretchedness, that they require little interpretation, or are abject as described by Hal Foster in Return of the Real (127- 70). Foster outlines two possibilities for the traumatic work: either it probes the wound by presenting the “obscene object-gaze of the real” or represents “the condition of abjection in order to provoke its operation” (157). However, the works of Magor and Shepley provide Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 63 insight into the experience of mourning and a site through which it is performed, without the violent confrontation described by Foster. The gentleness of these works allows the viewer to engage without the possibility of disgust or repulsion, which are so often the responses to the works described by Foster. In Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, Caruth discusses the tale of Tancred and Freud’s reference to it in Beyond the Pleasure Principle: . . . Tancred, unwittingly kills his beloved Clorinda in a duel while she is disguised in the armour of an enemy knight. After her burial he makes his way into the strange magic forest which strikes the Crusaders’ army with terror. He slashes with his sword at a tall tree: but blood streams from the cut and the voice of Clorinda, whose soul is imprisoned in the tree, is heard complaining that he has wounded his beloved once again. (Caruth 2) Freud’s interest in this narrative is the repetition of the traumatic event, while Caruth focuses on the “sorrowful voice” (2) that emanates from the tree. The story can be read in other ways however. My interest is in both the magical resurrection that takes place and the terrifying place in which this occurs. The deceased Clorinda lives again in the form of another, as if in an act of transubstantiation. This transformation allows an object to move beyond being a reminder of a lost loved one and to become the lost other. Works of art made when the deceased is still present frequently take the form of photographs of the dead, for example in the Morgue (1992) series by Andres Serrano, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s Conversation (2002), AA Bronson's Felix 5 June 1994 (1994/99), or Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta's Life Before Death (2004). These works are powerful mementos of the dead. However, when the actual body is no longer available as the site of mourning a new presence is required and is created. Magor and Shepley have appropriated commonplace objects; for example, jars of preserved fruit and scraps of paper become the “tall tree” (Caruth 2) of the Tancred story and the world of art becomes “the strange magic forest” (Caruth 2) where the dead live, only to die again and again. Here the flimsy physicality of the works and, more importantly, their lack of permanence take on a new significance. Through their ephemerality the original loss is constantly in a state of being repeated – not in Freudian terms of compulsion but with acceptance. Both of these works tell a powerful story of love and loss. Their fragile and elusive existence echoes the tentative connection with the world that is often the experience of those living with a painful loss. They allude to and appropriate old stories that are deeply embedded in our collective experience of the world but they also offer new insights. Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 64 Work Cited American Psychiatric Association (APA). Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSMIII). Washington, D.C.: APA, 1987. Print. Becker, Ernest. The Denial of Death. New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997. Print. Benjamin, Walter. The Storyteller: Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov. London: Fontana, 1992. Print. Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experiences: Trauma, Narrative and History. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 1996. Print. Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real. Cambridge Mass: The MIT Press, 1996. Print Freud, Sigmund. “Remembering, repeating and working through.” The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Vol. XII. Ed. J. Strachey. London: Hogarth Press, 1956-74. 147-56. Print. ---. 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Vol. XVIII. Ed. J. Strachey. London: Hogarth Press, 1956-74. 1953-74. Print. Humphreys, P. “The Magic Mountain - A Time Capsule of Tuberculosis Treatment in the Early Twentieth Century.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 6 (1989): 147-63. Print. Jay, M. Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme. California: University of California Press, 2005. Print. Keyser, B. Restoration & Conservation Laboratory, Special Report. [Ottawa]: National Gallery of Canada, 1980. Print. Magor, Liz. Excerpts from unpublished taped interview. National Gallery of Canada Collection. Dec. 1976. ---. Unpublished taped interview. National Gallery of Canada Collection. May 1977. Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. London: Penguin, 1960. Print. O'Neill, Mary. “Ephemeral Art: Mourning and Loss.” (Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time. Ed. J. Schachter & S. Brockmann. Pittsburgh: Centre for the Arts in Society, 2008. 149-62. Print. Ricoeur, Paul. Time and Narrative: Volume 1. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. Print Rosenberg, A. “The four voices of four places.” Artmagazine May/June (1977): 21-23. Print. Shepley, Alec. Personal Interview. 4 June 2010. Image & Narrative, Vol 12, No 3 (2011) 65 Dr. Mary O’Neill is currently Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies at the University of Lincoln and a Higher Education Academy: Art Design Media National Teaching Fellow. Her current research interests span a variety of disciplines and fields and include loss, failure, boredom, ephemerality, disappearance and sorrow as well as the methodology of communicating these subjects. O’Neill has published widely on these subjects both in the academic arena and, more recently, in the form of short stories. moneill@lincoln.ac.uk mailto:moneill@lincoln.ac.uk� work_4g7zetwrizfqtahkklqmkewdhe ---- CULTURE IN THE MEDIA… 171 UDC 316.72:316.774 CULTURE IN THE MEDIA: THE REPRESENTATION OF CULTURE IN JUTARNJI LIST Marko Pavlovski University of Zagreb, Croatia Abstract: In today's picture of the widely circulated print media a famous assertion is that culture as a subject is decreasing in relevancy, as seen by the amount of pages dedicated to the cultural section and informations on cultural events, especially those of international importance, in the entire content of the most widely read newspapers. The aim of this paper is to show the presence of cultural themes in one of the most popular daily newspaper published in the Republic of Croatia, Jutarnji list. The research will cover the content of this daily for a period of one year (January 1st 2013 to 1st January 2014), to show the presence of cultural themes in it. I suppose, because of a prior knowledge of the materials, that notifications on events in culture at home and abroad will reside outside pages dedicated to the cultural section, so it will be necessary to examine the contents of whole numbers. Furthermore, I will compare the representation of various artistic genres, the presence of film art compared to the amount of articles devoted to literature, and I will devote particular attention to the content dedicated to the non-commercial aspects of a particular genre, for example the amount of information about events in the poetry scene, promotions or group exhibitions of young filmmakers at home and abroad. Keywords: Jutarnji list, culture, representation, media, cultural section I. INTRODUCTION In today's picture of the widely circulated print media a famous assertion is that culture as a subject is decreasing in relevancy, as seen by the amount of pages dedicated to the cultural section and informations on cultural events, especially those of international importance, in the entire content of the most widely read newspapers. The aim of this paper is to show the presence of cultural themes in one of the most popular daily newspaper published in the Republic of Croatia, Jutarnji list. The average circulation of Jutarnji list in 2012 was 60 000 copies per day, while the average circulation of Jutarnji list in 2013 was 50 000 copies per day. We can assert a diminished circulation of average copies sold by day, but this trend is also visible with the other two most successful newspapers in Croatia, 24sata and Večernji list. The newspaper 24sata, for example, had an average circulation of 130 000 copies sold per day in 2012, and an average circulation of 110 000 copies sold per day in 2013. Večernji list had an average circulation of 65 000 copies per day in 2012, and an average circulation of 60 000 copies per day in 2012. According to those numbers, Jutarnji list is third КУЛТУРА / CULTURE, 11/ 2015 172 in average circulation of copies sold per day in Croatia. Interesting to note, however, is the fact that the newspaper is second in popularity on Facebook, with 480, 279 likes on the official Facebook page, compared to 24sata's 906, 294 and Večernji list's 243,185. All three are notorious by their lack of culture sections,which is a sentiment condivided by a wide range of commentators, from Facebook fans to journalists that work in these newspapers. Writer Miljenko Jergović, a famous columnist of Jutarnji list, wrote in one of his essays: ‘’... (croatian newspapers) on their pages do not normally deal with literature, and more recently none from the metropolis have a culture section, while culture, quite exceptionally, appears only as a tenant in other sections, ...’’ (Jergović, 2010: 385) As shown, even a columnist of the third newspaper by average daily circulation in Croatia shares the opinion that culture not only is lowly represented in croatian newspapers, but even that it doesn't have a section of its own. The research will cover the content of this daily for a period of one year (January 1st 2013 to 1st January 2014), to show the presence of cultural themes in it. I suppose, because of a prior knowledge of the materials, that notifications on events in culture at home and abroad will reside outside pages dedicated to the cultural section, so it will be necessary to examine the contents of whole numbers. Furthermore, I will compare the representation of various artistic genres, the presence of film art compared to the amount of articles devoted to literature, and I will devote particular attention to the content dedicated to the non- commercial aspects of a particular genre, for example the amount of information about events in the poetry scene, promotions or group exhibitions of young filmmakers at home and abroad. II. METHODOLOGY According to the Croatian dictionary (Anić), culture is the totality of material and spiritual, ethical and social values, made by humanity. Cultural sections of the newspaper follow art, which is defined as a creative activity founded on sensibility and expressed by speech or writing, voice, line, color, movement, plastic shapes, structures, etc. According to Baran, „Culture serves a purpose. It helps us categorize and classify our experiences; it helps define us, our world, and our place in it.“ (Baran, 2009: 10) Following the aesthetic principles of contemporary art, we decided: a) not to include the contents of the 'spectacles' section, which is often referred to workers in culture, especially musicians and actors, in a manner unrelated to their creativity; b) to research cultural articles in the strictest sense of art, divided into basic categories (literature, film, theater, music, exhibitions) and articles on literary exhibitions, film and theater festivals, etc. Furthermore, we will note on which pages articles on culture appear and the number of times per month when they are announced on the front page. After counting the articles on cultural themes in Jutarnji list in 2013,we decided to divide them in two categories: primary and secondary. Primary categories group the most present artistic genres in the articles of mostly the cultural section of Jutarnji list, while the secondary categories include groups that were also represented, but in minor numbers. CULTURE IN THE MEDIA… 173 III. RESULTS A. Primary Categories J F M A M J J A S O N D L 59 49 56 59 63 72 56 51 74 88 74 77 F 64 73 47 48 58 50 59 53 45 79 47 48 T 22 19 27 29 22 18 44 28 30 34 38 20 M 27 48 66 57 66 52 69 53 33 58 69 73 E 40 25 28 29 25 29 38 33 36 37 30 35 I 7 1 4 2 0 5 5 8 14 8 10 9 Table 1. As shown in Table 1., we divided the primary categories of cultural reviews in Jutarnji list in the following six groups: Literature, Film, Theater, Music, Exhibitions and Interviews. Of the six, Literature was unexpectedly the highest ranking, with most articles dedicated to it per month, and the highest number of articles per single month – 88 articles in October. Those number are affected by the fact that Jutarnji list in 2013 had a special issue of the cultural section, thematizing the Festival svjetske književnosti (Festival of World Literature), held in Zagreb in September of 2013. Participants of the Festival of World Literature were,among others, Péter Nádas, Claudio Magris, Jaume Cabre, Goce Smilevski, Ivan Lovrenović , Goran Vojnović... Furthermore, writers of literature articles and reviews are quite numerous in the culture section, notably the literary critics Jagna Pogačnik and Adriana Piteša, while Miljenko Jergović in his columns often reviews writers and books unknown to the wider literary audience, sometimes even publications that are not translated in Croatian, but are available in Serbian. Second in articles published by month in the culture section of Jutarnji list in 2013, is the category of Film. This category has a special subsection in the culture section, were two prominent film critics, Nenad Polimac and Jurica Pavičić, assign votes to movies, from the latest movies playing in theaters, new movies available on DVD, to reviews of classics of the genre. Articles on films often cover the topic of famous directors and actors. These articles were also included in our table because they are centred on the work and career of the presented artists over their private lives and various affairs that are not relevant to the aim of our research. The highest number of articles about Film were published in October of 79. Jutarnji list also covers various film festivals held in Croatia during the year, among others Pula Film Festival, Motovun Film Festival, Zagreb Film Festival, Subversive Festival, Zagreb Jewish Film Festival – Festival of Tolerance ecc. The newspaper's film critics also attend the most important and worldwide known international film festivals, The Cannes International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, etc. Music was the hardest category to evaluate correctly. The adoperated methodology eliminated various non- cultural and non-artistic news, articles and reviews about the private life of musicians. Notably the most prominent author in this subsection of Jutarnji list's culture section is the music critic Aleksandar Dragaš who, by himself, covers a wide range of topic about the musical culture: reviews of the latest published musical records, concerts, festivals, new and interesting performers and bands, but also essays on trends in modern music, such as the effect of pop-music on the younger audiences and its perspectives in influencing future musicians ecc. Dragaš is a rock critic, and we can КУЛТУРА / CULTURE, 11/ 2015 174 explicitly see rock music as the most represented genre of music in the cultural section of the newspaper, but there are also reviews of classical and jazz concerts by other authors. For example,on the 9th of December Dragan Lisac wrote on his experience during the season premiere of the opera La Traviata at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Theater had an unexpectedly high number of articles per month. Articles about theater in the culture section of Jutarnji list usually include brief assertions of the monthly programme of various theaters in Croatia and recensions by theatre critics, most notably reviews by the theatre critic Tomislav Čadež. Articles on theatre in the first half of 2013 however, were characterised by the success of the play Fine mrtve djevojke by director Dalibor Matanić and dramatist Mate Matišić, followed by the cultural scandal of the year – the banning of the poster for the show by the mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić. This act was followed by many controversies and reactions, of which most notable was perhaps that of director Oliver Frljić, who disbanded all collaborations with Gavella, the theatre in which the censored Fine mrtve djevojke was on the programme. Jutarnji list followed the scandal, even dedicating it a first page article on 18th January 2013. The highest number of articles on theatre by month was reached in July, mostly because of a special on the 13th season of Ulysses Theatre (Kazalište Ulysses) on the island group of Brijuni. Unexpectedly, the group Exhibitions rose to the table of primary categories, as it is covered in great detail in the articles of the culture section of Jutarnji list. The most prominent author of reviews on art exhibitions is Patricia Kiš, art critic for Jutarnji list. The year 2013 was characterised by two important events: the exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso, held in Klovićevi Dvori Gallery in Zagreb from 23rd March to the 7th of July, and the presentation of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, held between the 5th June and 31st August in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, allowed by the Italian Republic as a kind of gift for Croatia's entry in the European Union on the 1st of July 2013. Another unexpected group that rose to the table of primary categories was Interviews. By the term Interview we mean interviews with artists conducted mostly by Dobroslav Silobrčić, a journalist of Jutarnji list who leads an interview section in the newspaper. We counted only the interviews made with artists and other various workers in culture, as the section covers a wide range of professions of the persons being interviewed. We decided to enlist this category in the primary categories because of the space physically dedicated to the section and because of the relevance in Croatia, and sometimes even international relevance, of the artists being interviewed. B. Secondary Categories J F M A M J J A S O N D Arc 3 x 2 1 1 x x x x x x 1 Phot 4 1 1 2 x x x x x x x x A (v) 3 6 4 8 3 1 2 5 4 2 7 11 Str 2 3 1 1 1 x x 4 2 4 3 4 Mon 1 1 x 1 x x x x x x 1 1 Ser 1 2 x 4 1 1 3 5 7 4 3 2 Sclp x x x 3 3 3 3 x x 1 2 2 A (p) x x x x x x x x x x 1 1 Table 2. CULTURE IN THE MEDIA… 175 We divided those articles on culture in Jutarnji list, that were not in one of the six primary categories, in eight secondary categories. The term secondary is used here only to describe the presence of this categories in the newspaper's articles, andnot based on their actual importance. We considered to add Poetry as a secondary category, based on its low presence, but we concluded that it belonged in the Literature primary category. We decided, however, to differentiate the series secondary category from the Film primary category. As shown in Table 2., the eight secondary categories are Architecture, Photography, Arts (visual), Strip, Monograph, Series, Sculpture and Art (performative). We decided Strip as a self-standing category, differentiating the genre of graphic novels from the primary category Literature. Of the eight categories decided, Arts (visual) was the most covered, with 11 articles in the month of December, but most articles of the category through 2013 were reviews and brief news on discoveries of lost paintings and highly successful Art auctions. C. Dedicated Pages Table 3. As seen in Table 3, Jutarnji list dedicates its frontlines to articles on cultural themes quite often. In January cultural themes were on the frontline 7 times, in February also, in March 4 times, in April 5 times, in May 6 times, in June 10 times, in July 4 times, in August 8 times, in September 5 times, in October 5 times, in November 3 times and in December 4 times. In total, articles in Jutarnji list covering cultural themes, and that were highlighted on the frontpage of the newspaper amount to a sum of 68 articles in 2013. The presented data demonstrates a presence of cultural themes on the front pages of the newspaper, contrary to the popular opinion that daily newspapers in Croatia do not evaluate culture in an adequate manner. Some of the headlines included the Fine mrtve djevojke scandal in January, around the banning, by part of censors, of a poster for the play, that purportedly offended some citizens of Zagreb and members of the Christian Church on the basis of its controversial raffiguration of the Virgin Mary; in the same month the front pages were indicating an in- depth review of the year's Academy Awards ceremony. On the 30th of May, on the other hand, a part of the front page was dedicated to the arriving of Caravaggio's Supper in Emmaus at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, while on the 11th October the newspaper was proclaiming Alice Munro as the recipient of that year's Nobel Prize in Literature. It's important to note, however, that the newspaper had special editions about cultural events, and that should also be noted. For example, on the 17th of April there was a special cultural supplement on the Gavella theatre and its programme, on the 4th of September there was a special cultural supplement about the Festival svjetske književnosti, the Festival of world literature, and on the 21st of December a special supplement with recommendations about the year's best cultural events was found, based on the choice of authors from Jutarnji list. Month J F M A M J J A S O N D Front pages 7 7 4 5 6 10 4 8 5 5 3 4 КУЛТУРА / CULTURE, 11/ 2015 176 On average, the culture section of Jutarnji list in 2013 was found between pages 26-28 or 32-34 of the newspaper from Monday to Friday. On Saturday, pages 72-73 were the most common. The Sunday edition of Jutarnji list does not have a culture section. Summarizing, pages dedicated to culture in Jutarnji list were as follows:  Mon-Fri: 26-28, 32-34  Saturday: 72-73  On Sundays there is no culture section IV. CONCLUSION In conclusion, we can confirm that Jutarnji list has indeed a culture section, which is published in the newspaper every day except Sunday. Usually two pages on average of the newspaper are dedicated to the culture section, sometimes even more. The articles in the culture section can be divided in six primary categories, that are the following: Literature, Film, Theater, Music, Exhibitions and Interviews. In our research on the presence of articles on culture in Jutarnji list in 2013, we counted a total of 778 articles dedicated to Literature, a total of 671 articles dedicated to Film, a total of 331 articles dedicated to Theater, a total of 671 articles dedicated to Music, a total of 385 articles dedicated to Exhibitions and a total of 73 interviews with artists in the Interviews category, for a sum of 1,907 articles that we classified in the six primary categories. Unexpectedly, Exhibitions arose as as a primary category, with thoroughly writeen articles often accompanied by a portrait of the exhibiting artist(s). Unexpected was also the number of interviews with artists (actors, directors, writets, painters etc.), and we decided to include it in the six primary categories because of the relevance of the artists being interviewed. Articles on cultural themes that didn't belong to one of the six primary categories were divided in eight secondary categories,which were Architecture, Photography, Arts (visual), Strip, Monograph, Series, Sculpture, Art (performative). In our research on the presence of articles on culture in Jutarnji list in 2013, we counted the following number of articles in the secondary categories. There was a total of 8 articles dedicated to Architecture, a total of 8 articles dedicated to Photography, a total of 56 articles dedicated to Arts (visual), a total of 25 articles dedicated to Strip, a total of 5 articles dedicated to Monograph, a total of 33 articles dedicated to Series, a total of 17 articles dedicated to Sculpture and a total of 2 articles dedicated to Arts (performative). We differentiated the secondary category Series from the primary category Film, but decided to exclude Poetry as a secondary category, merging it in the primary category Literature instead. Despite expectations, the articles on the subject of culture are mostly contained in the culture section (except in the case of Miljenko Jergović’s column Saturday matinee, Subotnja matineja, in which the author often writes about writers and other artists, which is located in the Saturday supplement Magazin). Our presumption on the dispersion of articles on cultural themes throughout the newspaper's pages was proven wrong, with the exception of interviews with artists, that are found in the differentiated interview special section. In total, articles in Jutarnji list covering cultural themes, and that were highlighted on the frontpage of the newspaper amount to a sum of 68 articles in 2013. The presented data CULTURE IN THE MEDIA… 177 demonstrates a presence of cultural themes on the front pages of the newspaper, contrary to the popular opinion that daily newspapers in Croatia do not evaluate culture in an adequate manner. Some of the headlines included the Fine mrtve djevojke scandal in January, around the banning, by part of censors, of a poster for the play, that purportedly offended some citizens of Zagreb and members of the Christian Church; in the same month the front pages were indicating an in-depth review of the year's Academy Awards ceremony. On the 30th of May, on the other hand, a part of the front page was dedicated to the arriving of Caravaggio's Supper in Emmaus at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, while on the 11th October the newspaper was proclaiming Alice Munro as the recipient of that year's Nobel Prize in Literature.Besides the presence of articles thematising cultural topics on the front pages of Jutarnji list, in the newspaper were present through the year various special cultural supplements. Some of these were the following: on the 17th of April there was a special cultural supplement on the Gavella theatre and its programme, on the 4th of September there was a special cultural supplement about the Festival svjetske književnosti, the Festival of world literature, and on the 21st of December a special supplement with recommendations about the year's best cultural events was found, based on the choice of authors from Jutarnji list. Notable is the presence of authors-columnists that cover cultural topics (Aleksandar Dragaš covering music, Miljenko Jergović, Adriana Piteša and Jagna Pogačnik literature, Patricia Kiš exhibitions and art in general, Jurica Pavičić and Nenad Polimac film, Tomislav Čadež theatre). This phenomenon may warrant further research, as it seems that culture themed articles in Jutarnji list are mostly written by a specific group of authors, of which some are relevant experts in their corresponding fields or well-known art, literary or theatre critics. REFERENCES [1] M. Jergović, Pamti li svijet Oscara Schmidta. Zagreb: Naklada Ljevak, 2010. [2] S. J. Baran, Introduction to mass communication: media literacy and culture, 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. [3] Jutarnji list. 1st January – 31st December 2013. Zagreb: EPH Media, 2013. КУЛТУРА / CULTURE, 11/ 2015 178 work_4hwlwlat5vbnvbhtvt5vniqzwa ---- Total Intravenous Anaesthesia: N. L. Padfield (ed.), Butterworth Heinemann: Oxford, UK, 2000, 306, pp; indexed, illustrated, ISBN: 0-7506-4171-1; Price £35.00 Book Reviews European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2003; 20: 993–995 © 2003 European Academy of Anaesthesiology ISSN 0265-0215 Total Intravenous Anaesthesia N. L. Padfield (ed) Butterworth Heinemann: Oxford, UK, 2000, 306 pp; indexed, illustrated ISBN: 0-7506-4171-1; Price £35.00 The book provides an excellent introduction to total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA). The editor has used a total of 15 contributors, including several leading authorities on the subject, and the text is fully refer- enced. As the foreword points out, the introduction of propofol has revolutionized the practice of TIVA and this is reflected in the book. Although other agents are considered, the emphasis is on the use of propofol, short-acting opioids and target-controlled infusions. The book is split into three parts, the first of which provides a general overview of TIVA, including chap- ters on its history, pharmacology and basic clinical application. The chapter on pharmacokinetics man- ages to deal with a complex subject, reasonably, suc- cinctly and the use of diagrams in this chapter helps considerably. The last chapter in this section, on administration of TIVA, has some particularly help- ful clinical scenarios. The second part of the book deals with related issues, specifically postoperative nausea and vomiting and awareness. The bulk of the book, however, is contained in the third part and this deals with the application of TIVA to a variety of subspecialties. There are chapters devoted to its use not only in day case surgery, but also to cardiotho- racic, neurosurgical, plastic/ear, nose and throat and endocrine surgery. These chapters highlight areas where the use of TIVA is becoming the technique of choice rather than a useful alternative. In all, the editor has managed to produce a fully comprehensive but accessible text with a ‘hands on’ feel to it. I have few criticisms as I think this book achieves exactly what it sets out to do, i.e. to provide an excellent starting point for those wishing to familiarize themselves with the technique of TIVA. It would also serve as a useful reference book for those preparing for examinations and it certainly deserves a place in every departmental library. M. A. M. Gillies London, UK Being the author of a technical manual carries with it a great responsibility. The text must be easy to understand with no ambiguity. Similarly, diagrams and photographs must be of a high standard with clear labelling. Unfortunately, relatively few manuals of technique reach this high standard. Therese O’Connor and Stephen Abram appear to have tried to achieve a text of excellence by focusing on a relatively small number of basic techniques. Their approach has been to cover the methodology in a systematic manner. Unfortunately, this gamble does not appear to have paid off. This has resulted in introductions that are too brief and descriptions of technique that are repetitive. Important variations in technique are lost in the text because of the pre- sentation and, as a result, there is a risk of making a Atlas of Pain Injection Techniques T. O’Connor, S. Abram Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh, UK, 2003, 141 pp; indexed, illustrated ISBN: 0-443-06380-X; Price £49.99 2012-10.qxd 12/Nov/03 10:21 AM Page 993 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:41:01, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 https://www.cambridge.org/core 994 Book Reviews © 2003 European Academy of Anaesthesiology, European Journal of Anaesthesiology 20: 993–995 mistake. When I compared their description of some techniques to other texts that are available, I usually found the other books easier to follow! There was no justification of the approach used in their book over any other and the text is not supported by references. O’Connor and Abram certainly have some very nice line diagrams, but labelling was poor and Figure legends hidden in the text. It is much easier to read the legend close to the diagram and not as a part of the text! Many of the diagrams appeared to be an over simplification and some simple line diagrams were repeated on numerous occasions. The quality of the radiograph and computerized tomography reprints was low by today’s standard. Whereas I accept that there will always be a per- sonal touch to procedures, I was disappointed by the approach that they used for certain techniques. For instance, I was surprised to see radiographs being used, as opposed to continuous imaging, to confirm needle placement for facet joint injections. Also, I wonder about the use of Esmarch bandages, presum- ably for patients with complex regional pain syn- drome, in their description of intravenous regional sympathetic blocks. I doubt that my patients would tolerate this. This book needs a better introduction on general principles and the chapters on drugs used need to be expanded. In addition, a chapter on block needles and nerve stimulators needs to be considered. Unfortunately, this book will sit on my shelf and be rarely used by trainees or myself. A. Baranowski London, UK The fascination of medical topics and illness for artists through the ages mirrors the fascination of the gen- eral population. In Medicine and Art, Professor Emery and his wife have collected a series of illustrations portraying medicine and medical practice from anti- quity; from an Egyptian statue and a Greek amphora to a collage of the twenty-first century. Each painting or drawing is accompanied by a brief but compre- hensive description of medicine and medical practice during the period at the time of the creation of the artwork and a brief outline of the artist and his career. In many instances, the artists are either accredited masters themselves or pupils of artists who had a sig- nificant influence on the development of art through the ages. For instance, Pietro Lorenzetti (active 1320–1348 – St Humility Healing a Sick Nun (circa. 1341)) was a Sienese painter who was directly influenced by Giotto (1266–1337). The Dutch genre painter Gerrit Dou (1613–1764 – The Quack Doctor (1650) and The Physician (1653)) had a linear style that contrasts with the painterly style of his teacher Rembrandt. The subtle humour of both William Hogarth (1697–1764 – Marriage a la mode: the Inspection (1743)) and Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827 – The Consul- tation or Last Hope (1808)) is well demonstrated in the chosen pictures. In the latter, the problems of gross obesity are graphically illustrated! The paintings of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890 – The Hospital at Aries (1890)), Edvard Munch (1863–1944 – Death in the Sick Room (1893)), Stephen Conroy (1964 – Healing of a Lunatic Boy (1986)) and Sergi Chepik (1953 – The Madhouse (1987)) portray an aspect of psy- chiatry, both personal and environmental. The paint- ing by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973 – Science and Charity (1897)) is from a period of his career with which many of us are unfamiliar and demonstrates his immense early talent. Other paintings by Henry Tonks, Stanley Spencer, Andrew Wyeth and L. S. Lowry all contri- bute to a fascinating collection of art related to the medical world, which provide a source of stimulus to the enquiring reader. N. M. Breach London, UK Medicine and Art Alan Emery, Marcia Emery Royal Society of Medicine Press: London, UK, 2003, 111pp; illustrated ISBN: 1-85315-501-2; Price £40.00 (hbk) 2012-10.qxd 12/Nov/03 10:21 AM Page 994 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:41:01, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 https://www.cambridge.org/core Book Reviews 995 © 2003 European Academy of Anaesthesiology, European Journal of Anaesthesiology 20: 993–995 ERRATUM: Rowbotham DJ. COX-2-selective inhibitors: clinical relevance in surgical and acute pain. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2002; 19 (Suppl. 25): 11–20. The chemical structure for rofecoxib is incorrectly shown as a sulphonamide when it should be a methyl sulphone. Thus –NH2 should be replaced by –CH3. 2012-10.qxd 12/Nov/03 10:21 AM Page 995 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:41:01, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265021503241600 https://www.cambridge.org/core work_4jhqdkodsjckxizg53wwrgacfe ---- No Job Name CHRONICLES 2010 January 1, 2010–December 31, 2010 Kurt Siehr* 1 JANUARY 2010 The Unidroit Convention of 24 June 1995 on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cul- tural Objects entered into force for Greece. 1 JANUARY 2010 Essen, Germany, Istanbul, Turkey, and Pécs, Hungary, were chosen Cultural Cap- itals of Europe in 2010. Le Journal des Arts, 7–20 January 2011, p. 6; The Art Newspaper, September 2010, p. 28, and December 2010, p. 31; Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 10; Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 9; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 January 2010, p. 33; Die Zeit, 19 August 2010, p. 61; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 November 2009, p. Z4, and 29 May 2010, p. Z3. 1 JANUARY 2010 The introduction of zero estate tax in the United States would have negative im- plications for donations to art museums and charities. The Art Newspaper, March 2010, p. 7. 4 JANUARY 2010 50 years ago the French poet Albert Camus (1913–1960) passed away. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 31 December 2009, p. 27; Die Zeit, 30 December 2009, p. 72. *University of Zürich Faculty of Law, Max-Plank-Institute, Hamburg. Email: siehr@mpipriv.de International Journal of Cultural Property (2011) 18:493–548. Printed in the USA. Copyright © 2011 International Cultural Property Society doi:10.1017/S0940739111000294 493 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 4 JANUARY 2010 In Dubai the highest building (800 meters), built by SOM architects, was finished and inaugurated. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 5 January 2010, p. 14; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 January 2010, p. 7. 5 JANUARY 2010 In 1875 the Paris Opera, called the Garnier-Opera, was inaugurated and at the occasion of this event and in memory of the architect Charles Garnier (1825– 1898) an exhibition was later opened in Paris. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13 December 2010, p. 12; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 3 January 2011, p. 20. 6 JANUARY 2010 The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided the case Grosz v. Museum of Modern Art. It granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss because of the bar by the statute of limitations and the museum still held the paintings Herrmann-Neisse with Cognac, Self-portrait with Model, and Republican Automations by George Grosz (1893–1959). Case 9 Civ. 3706 (CM)(THK); The Art Newspaper, November 2009, p. 13. 10 JANUARY 2010 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened the exhibition The Draw- ing of Bronzino. Bronzino (1503–1572) was an excellent master of mannerism. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 February 2010, p. 34; ARTnews, February 2010, p. 92. 12 JANUARY 2010 An earthquake of 7.0 magnitude destroyed almost the whole city of Port-au- Prince, Haiti, and also damaged art centers and museums. The Art Newspaper, January 2011, p. 1, and March 2010, p. 1; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 Jan- uary 2010, p. 1. 13 JANUARY 2010 Denmark published the bill for ratification and implementation of the Unidroit Convention of 1995. Forslag til Lov om tilbagelevering og overførelse af stjålne eller ulovligt udførte kulturgenstande. 494 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 15 JANUARY 2010 Berlin and Paris exchanged their art galleries and were present for one week in the other capital. Le Journal des Arts, 8 January 2010, p. 1; The Art Newspaper, January 2010, p. 59; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 January 2010, p. 37; Süd- deutsche Zeitung, 16–17 January 2010, p. 20. 15 JANUARY 2010 In the Tribunale di Pesaro, Italy, the Getty Foundation was accused of having bought the bronze of an athlete (supposed to be of Lisippos, ca. 340 bce) in bad faith. The Art Newspaper, February 2010, p. 18, and March 2010, p. 13; Il Giornale dell’Arte, January 2010, p. 10; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13–14 February 2010, p. 13. 19 JANUARY 2010 The Family Court in Tel Aviv decided that the safes in Tel Aviv containing writing by Max Brod (1884–1968) may be opened. Die Zeit, 21 January 2010, p. 42. The District Court, however, stopped the opening. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 January 2010, p. 31, and 29 January 2010, p. 31. 21 JANUARY 2010 The Minister of Science and Culture of the German state Hessen returned to the Ambassador of Iraq 22 antique pieces of art that had been attached in Germany as looted and imported in violation of the UN Resolution 1483/2003. http:// cms.Frankfurt-live.com/front_content.php?ideat-21&printldeat-7 (of 22 January 2010). 23 JANUARY 2010 300 years ago in Meissen, Germany, the first European porcelain was manufac- tured in Saxony and has since then been collected by lovers of porcelain. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 23 November 2010, p. 14; Frankfurter All- gemeine Zeitung, 12 December 2010, p. 63; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23–27 December 2009, p. 22. 23 JANUARY 2010 The Indian Ministry of Law and Justice, Legislative Department, issued “The An- cient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Val- idation) Ordinance 2010.” 50 Indian Journal of International Law 119ff. (2010). CHRONICLES 495 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 26 JANUARY 2010 The painting The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer (1632–1675) was once owned by Count Czernin, who sold this treasure to Adolf Hitler for 1.65 million German marks, a price said to be undervalued. The Kunsthistorische Museum, which re- fused to return it to the Czernin family, was now exhibiting this treasure. Il Gior- nale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 51. 27 JANUARY 2010 In Istanbul the Hagia Sophia opened again after six years of restoration as a mu- seum. Once the biggest Christian church, it was changed into a mosque and later into a museum. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 February 2010, p. 25. 28 JANUARY 2010 At the auction Important Old Master Paintings of Sotheby’s in New York, the so- called American Leonardo of the Hahn family (see Hahn v. Duveen, 234 N.Y.Supp. 185 [Sup.Ct. 1929] ) was sold for $ 1.3 million to an unknown purchaser. The painting was sold as Follower of Leonardo Da Vinci, probably before 1750. Sotheby’s Auction Catalogue, 28 January 2010, pp. 102–105; Carol Vogel, International Her- ald Tribune, 13 January 2010, p. 9; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 January 2010, p. 36; Kurt Siehr, Bulletin Kunst und Recht, no. 1, June 2010, p. 13; Le Journal des Arts, 19 February–4 March 2010, p. 24. 28 JANUARY 2010 The Kammergericht (Court of Appeals of Berlin) decided that two posters of the Sack collection did not have to be returned to the son of the collector. Kunst und Recht, 2010, p. 17; Kunstrechtsspiegel, no. 01/2010, p. 12; Götz Schulze, Kunstrechts- spiegel, 01/2010, p. 9; Zeitschrift für offene Vermögensfragen, 2010, p. 87; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 February 2010, p. 35. 29 JANUARY 2010 The Ethnological Museum Zürich opened an exhibition, Fakes, about fake art mass- produced in China to be sold as copies and fakes. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Interna- tionale Ausgabe, 4 February 2010, p. 23. 30 JANUARY 2010 The Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany opened its new building designed by the architect David Chipperfield and sponsored by the Krupp Foundation. In 1932 496 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Paul J. Sachs of the Museum of Modern Art called it “the most beautiful museum of the world.” Kunstforum, 2000, p. 10 (January–February 2010); Neue Zürcher Zei- tung, Internationale Ausgabe, 8 February 2010, p. 19; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 4 De- cember 2009, p. 13; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 January 2010, p. Z6. JANUARY 2010 During excavations for the subway in Berlin 13 statues of so-called degenerate art were discovered and restored. It is still not certain how these statues were bur- ied and who did it. It is likely that the sculptures were in a hidden deposit of the former ministry of propaganda. They were exhibited in the Neue Museum (Mu- seum für Vor und Frühgeschichte) on Museum Island in Berlin MuseumsJournal, 2011, April–June, pp. 20–22; Der Berliner Skulpturenfund, 2nd. ed., Berlin, 2011; The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 9. JANUARY 2010 In Tunis the Center for Christian-Muslim Studies, including its library, was de- stroyed by fire. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 19 March 2010, p. 18. 1 FEBRUARY 2010 Swiss Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter and the Columbian foreign minister signed a bilateral agreement on the mutual protection of cultural property nec- essary under the Swiss Cultural Property Transfer Act, implementing the 1970 UNESCO Convention. Nike Bulletin, 2010, no. 3, p. 25. 3 FEBRUARY 2010 The Stuttgart County Court (Landgericht Stuttgart) convicted three persons of having faked sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966). ARTnews, December 2010, p. 101; Il Giornale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 76. 3 FEBRUARY 2010 The French Cour de cassation decided that the lex rei sitae governs the transfer of title and title presumption with respect to wall paintings transferred from New York to Paris. Kunstrechtsspiegel, 02/2010, p. 96. 3 FEBRUARY 2010 Sotheby’s of London sold the sculpture L’homme qui marche I by Alberto Gia- cometti (1901–1966) at auction for Y74 million. The sculpture was owned by the Dresdner Bank, taken over by the Commerzbank, and was sold to a private col- CHRONICLES 497 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core lector. Agenda News, 2010, p. 116; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 5 February 2010, p. 16; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 February 2010, p. 31; The Art Newspaper, March 2010, p. 59; Die Zeit, 11 February 2010, p. 41; International Herald Tribune, 5 February 2010, p. 10; Le Journal des Arts, 19 February–4 March 2020, p. 25. At the same auction the painting Kirche in Sassone by Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was sold for £27 million. It was stolen during the Nazi period of Vienna and later bought in good faith by a private collector. The former owner, Amalie Redlich, and the present owner agreed to sell the painting at auction and to divide the proceeds equally. Marie-Therese Posawetz, Bulletin Kunst und Recht, no. 1, June 2010, p. 28. 4 FEBRUARY 2010 The Berlin County Court (Landgericht) decided that a victim of a terrorist at- tack in Berlin in 1983 (Maison de France, Berlin-Charlottenburg) has no right to have the property, exhibited in Stuttgart, seized to be sold for him in satisfaction for the terrorist attack committed by the state who owns the seized property. Kunst und Recht, vol. 12, 2010, p. 130. 10 FEBRUARY 2010 The painting Chouette sur un arbre, by an anonymous painter of the nineteenth century and with an estimated value of Y100, was sold at auction in Cannes (Azur Auctions) for Y350,000 and was later discovered as a painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) worth Y3 million. Le Journal des Arts, 19 March–1 April 2010, p. 36. 12 FEBRUARY 2010 The Dresden State Art Collection and the von Lehndorff family settled their dis- pute concerning the return of art objects (i.e., seven paintings, library) that had been left with the estate of the family in Steinort, East Prussia, and found their way to the Dresden State Art Collection. Kunstrechtsspiegel, 1/2010, p. 48; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 February 2010, p. 33. 12 FEBRUARY 2010 The Collection Bührle in Zürich, which was the victim of theft in 2008, left the old gallery building and integrated into the Kunsthaus Zürich. The collection will be exhibited in a temporary form. The Art Newspaper, December 2009, p. 18; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 23 February 2010, p. 13, and 24 March 2010, p. 25. 498 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Kunst und Recht, vol. 12, 2010, p. 123, with a note by Leonhard Reis on p. 121. 18 FEBRUARY 2010 The Brandenburg Court of Appeal decided that the Foundation of State Castles and Gardens (Stiftung Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten) is not allowed to prohibit taking pictures of the premises to be commercialized by the defendant. Kunst- rechtsspiegel, 02/2010, p. 81; MultiMedia und Recht, 2010, p. 706. 20 FEBRUARY 2010 The Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome exhibited an almost complete selection of the work of Caravaggio (1571/72–1610) to celebrate the 400th anniversary of his death. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 February 2010, p. 33. 24 FEBRUARY 2010 The German Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court for Civil and Criminal Cases) decided that a public auction (whereby also stolen goods may be acquired bona fide) need not be directed by an auctioneer admitted by public authority. Kunstrechtsspiegel 02/2010, p. 90. 24 FEBRUARY 2010 The bust of Brutus once taken by Napoleon from Rome to Paris left Rome for the first time since 1815 and was exhibited in Berlin. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 March 2010, p. 37. CHRONICLES 499 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 25 FEBRUARY 2010 The Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cul- tural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict entered into force for Germany. Bundesgesetzblatt, 2011, part II, p. 486. 25 FEBRUARY 2010 The well-known art dealer of Basel, Ernst Beyeler (1921–2010), passed away in Riehen, Basel, where he had exhibited his art collection in a magnificent house. Il Giornale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 73; Le Journal des Arts, 5–18 March 2010, pp. 2 and 36; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 27 February 2001, p. 20, and 2 March 2010, p. 24; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27–28 February 2010, p. 16. FEBRUARY 2010 Matthias Dietel, son of the collector Heinz Dietel, tried in vain to recover the col- lection of his father from the Museum in Erfurt, Germany. The collection had been taken during the time of the DDR (Democratic Republic of Germany; East Germany) for fictitious tax debts. Die Welt, 10 February 2010, p. 25. 1 MARCH 2010 Two hundred years ago the Polish composer Frederic Chopin (1810–1849) was born. Concerts, exhibitions, and seminars were given and held at this occasion. During his lifetime Chopin was the object of many paintings and statues. Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung, 30 December 2010, p. 32; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Aus- gabe, 27 November 2010, p. 23. 2 MARCH 2010 Orkin, a relative of Margarete Mauthner, initiated a lawsuit against Switzerland in New York because Switzerland refused to return an allegedly Nazi-looted drawing Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer by Vincent van Gogh. Mauthner had to sell the paint- ing in 1933, and Oskar Reinhart bought it under value and added it to the Mu- seum Am Stadtgarten in Winterthur, which later passed to Switzerland. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 26. 4 MARCH 2010 The Armory Show 2010 took place in New York and attracted many collectors. The show explored art restitution in Austria. Kunstrechtsspiegel 02/2010, p. 75. 500 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 5 MARCH 2010 Paolo Giorgio Ferri, the retired attorney general of Italy in the proceedings against Marion True, Giacomo Medici, Robert Emanuel Hecht, and others, gave an inter- view to The Art Newspaper about his experience as prosecutor. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 58. 5 MARCH 2010 The Capitoline Museum in Rome showed the exhibition L’Eta della Conquista: Il fascino dell’arte greca a Roma (The Time of Conquering: The Charm of Greek Art in Rome). The show described the looting of Greece and the takeover of Greek art in Rome. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 13–14 March 2010, p. 15; Il Giornale dell’Arte, March 2010, p. 58. 6 MARCH 2010 In 1810 Queen Luise of Prussia (born 1776), wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III, passed away. She was and still is very popular in Northern Germany. On the an- niversary of her death, an exhibition was opened in Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin called Luise: Life and Myth of a Queen. MuseumsJournal 2010, no. 1, pp. 14– 17; no. 3, p. 37; The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 59; Die Zeit, 15 June 2010, p. 43; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 March 2010, p. 33; Die Welt, 19 July 2010, p. 22. 6 MARCH 2010 The Victoria and Albert Museum in London incorporated the legendary Straw- berry Hill Collection of Horace Walpole (1717–1797), a collection of frivolities and trivialities. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 June 2010, p. 31; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 7 June 2010, p. 18. 7 MARCH 2010 The Kunstsammlungen Dresden celebrated 450 years (the collection was founded in 1560). The first exhibition, the famous Turkish Chamber (Türkische Cam- mer), was opened and showed the important pieces of oriental art collected by the Kings of Saxony. art, April 2010, p. 4; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 March 2010, p. 31; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6–7 March 2010, p. 13, and 17–18 April 2010, p. 15. CHRONICLES 501 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 9 MARCH 2010 The Commission of the European Union published a proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union ac- tion for the European Heritage Label. Brussels SEC(2010) 197. 9 MARCH 2010 The Art-Loss-Register made accessible the register of about 40,000 stolen art works. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 13 March 2010, p. 19. 11 MARCH 2010 The Neue Galerie in New York opened the exhibition on Otto Dix (1891–1969). The New York Review of Books, 19 August 2010, p. 39. 11 MARCH 2010 The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, Aix-La-Chapelle, exhibited the work of Hans von Aachen (1552–1615), the European court artist (that of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague) of his time. The exhibition was scheduled to be shown later in Prague and Vienna. Arsprototo, 2010, no. 1, p. 64; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- tung, 29 March 2010, p. 28; The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 65; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 17 April 2010, p. 17; Die Zeit, 25 March 2010, p. 61. 12 MARCH 2010 The European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) was held in Maastricht, Netherlands. Le Jour- nal des Arts, 2–15 April 2010, p. 24; Il Giornale dell’Arte, March 2010, p. 40; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 March 2010, pp. 13 and 37; Süddeutsche Zei- tung, 13–14 March 2010, p. 20; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 13 March 2010, p. 19. 15 MARCH 2010 IFAR (International Foundation for Art Research) Evening on “Twenty Years and Counting: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft” told the story of the theft on 18 March 1990 and the attempts to catch the thieves and to recover the stolen paintings. IFAR Journal, 12, no. 1, 2010, pp. 33–45; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 21 March 2010, p. 57. 502 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 16 MARCH 2010 The 250th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss painter Johann Heinrich Meyer (1760–1832), the “Kunschtmeyer” and Goethe’s friend and art expert, in Stäfa, Lake Zürich. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 30 March 2010, p. 19; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 April 2010, p. 36. 17 MARCH 2010 The Islamic art collection of Aga Khan IV was exhibited in the Gropius Building in Berlin. This famous collection will be permanently exhibited in Toronto in 2013. MuseumsJournal, no. 2, 2010, pp. 66–67. 17 MARCH 2010 In Dubai the Art Fair Dubai began and caused incidents of censorship. Le Journal des Arts, 2–15 April 2010, p. 25. 18 MARCH 2010 The Germanische Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg, Germany, was completely ren- ovated and reopened with the exhibition Renaissance, Barock, Aufklärung (Renais- sance, Baroque, Enlightenment). Arsprototo, no. 1, 2010, p. 58; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 13 April 2010, p. 16. 18–19 MARCH 2010 A conference was held, entitled Cultural Patrimony in France and Italy: Defining— Protecting—Managing, in Florence organized by the University of Florence and the University of Paris South 11. Roccella, JUS 2010, p. 563. 20 MARCH 2010 The Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, launched its first major exhibition after having moved to a new building. It exhibited the art collection formerly owned by the museum, but was later sold as “degenerate art” under the Nazis. Agenda News, 2010, p. 21; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 March 2010, p. 29; Museums- Journal, no. 3, 2010, p. 4; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 10–11 April 2010, p. 14; Die Zeit, 18 March 2010, p. 88. 24 MARCH 2010 The Museum of Modern Art in Freiburg, Germany, made restitution and bought back the painting Portrait of Max John by Otto Dix (1891–1969) for Y370,000, CHRONICLES 503 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core with financial support from the Siemens Foundation and others. MuseumsJour- nal, April–June 2011, pp. 34–35. 26 MARCH 2010 Jennifer Anglim Kreder moderated a discussion on a proposed U.S. State Depart- ment Committee on Nazi Looted Art. Cultural Heritage & Arts Review 1, 2010, pp. 6–7. 27 MARCH 2010 In Compiègne, France, the exposition 1810, La politique de l’amour: Napoléon 1er et Marie-Louise à Compiègne opened and reminded the visitor of the mar- riage between Napoléon (1769–1821) and Marie-Louise of Austria (1791–1847), a political marriage that ended factually in 1815 and was dissolved in 1821 (death of Napoléon) when Marie-Louse was already Duchess of Parma. Le Journal des Arts, 11–24 June 2010, p. 8; The Art Newspaper, March 2010, p. 68. 30 MARCH 2010 U.S. Federal District Judge Colleen McMahon in New York ordered that a lender could take possession immediately of all of Berry-Hill Galleries art, which had been used as collateral for a loan. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 64. 30 MARCH 2010 The Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York, County of Nassau, decided that an ancient golden tablet, stolen during World War II from a deposit of a Berlin museum (Vorderasiatisches Museum) cannot be recovered because the museum was too late to ask for recovery. Because of laches the claim was dismissed. Kunst und Recht, vol. 12, 2010, p. 66. 31 MARCH 2010 The Board of the Society of German Art Historians wrote an open letter with respect of the destruction of Stuttgart Main Station. The Board emphasized that the Main Station was a monument designed by Paul Bonatz (1877–1956) and should be preserved and not destroyed for a new underground station and new tracks. Kunstchronik, 63, May 2010, p. 235. 504 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core MARCH 2010 New York art dealer Larry Salander pleaded guilty in a trial held in New York charging him with conversion, theft, and fraud of his customers by using their art objects for his own gain. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 March 2010, p. 35. MARCH 2010 Miami collector Craig Robins sued the Chelsea dealer David Zwirner for breach of confidentiality with respect to paintings by the South African painter Marlene Dumas. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, pp. 1 and 33. 6 APRIL 2010 One year ago an earthquake destroyed L’Aquila in the Abruzzi mountains of Italy. Since then, not all monuments have been restored. Many of them are still in ruins. Il Giornale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 14. 7 APRIL 2010 190 years ago, on 7 April 1820, the Editto Pacca was passed by the Vatican State in Italy as a reaction of the “art theft” by Napoleon in Italy. With this Editto, modern legislation against export without governmental decision began. Il Giornale dell’Arte, June 20120, p. 85. 9 APRIL 2010 The exhibition of the icon collection of Mikhail Elizavetin at the Pushkin Mu- seum in Moscow was cancelled because the heirs of Elizavetin claimed to be the owners of the icons. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 24. 9 APRIL 2010 In Paris at the Drouot, the painting L’Incendie de l’Opéra vu d’une croisée de l’Académie de peinture, place du Louvre by Hubert Robert (1733–1808) was sold for Y1.5 million. Le Journal des Arts, 30 April–13 May 2010, p. 22. 13 APRIL 2010 The Patterson Collection, consisting of pre-Columbian art, was seized in Ger- many at the request of Guatemala in 2008. The collection came from Spain, where it had been exhibited in Santiago de Compostela since 1997. In 2009 Gua- temala asked for return of 369 art objects of the Patterson Collection. A return claim of Guatemala based on the German implementation act of the 1970 CHRONICLES 505 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core UNESCO Convention failed because Guatemala was late in listing the objects as national treasures of Guatemala, according to a decision of the Bayerische Ver- waltungsgerichtshof (Bavarian Court for Administrative Matters). Kunst und Recht, 12, 2010, p. 125; confirmation on 16 July 2010, Bulletin Kunst und Recht, no. 02/ 2010, p. 52; Kunstrechtsspiegel 03/2010, p. 132; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17–18 April 2010, p. 18. 15 APRIL 2010 The European Court of Justice decided that the French statute implementing the EEC (European Economic Community) Directive 2001/84/EC of 27 September 2001 on “droit de suite” is valid. The French statute provides that the droit de suite can only be exercised by statutory heirs and not by legacies as, for example, the Foundation Salvador Dali and its collecting society. Bulletin Kunst und Recht no. 1, June 2010, p. 37. 15 APRIL 2010 The Italian minister Bondi, opening the Italian Week of Culture, announced that Pompei should be run and administered by a privately organized Trust (Fondazi- one). Il Giornale dell’Arte, May 2010, p. 12. See also infra 6 November 2010. 17 APRIL 2010 The Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, which exhibited the famous Collection Bührle until 16 May 2010, celebrated its 100th anniversary. Magazin des Kunsthauses Zürich, November 2009, p. 3; January 2010, p. 30; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Interna- tionale Ausgabe,31 March 2010, p. 35, and special edition of 17–18 April 2010. 17 APRIL 2010 Burglars stole porcelain from the porcelain room of Sutton Park, near York, En- gland, and continued a series of porcelain burglaries in English historic houses. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 1. 18 APRIL 2010 The German Free State of Saxony and the City of Dresden celebrated 450 years of history of the State Collection of Dresden. Electorate Prince August I of Saxony started his collection and the establishment of a Wunderkammer in 1560, which ultimately became the State Collection of Dresden, including the Green Vault of Turkish treasures. Kunstforum, 203, July–September 2010, p. 8. 506 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 19 APRIL 2010 450 years ago Philipp Melanchton (1498–1560), the reformer, professor in Wit- tenberg, scholar of Greek language, and colleague of Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam, passed away in Wittenberg, and today this was celebrated in many places. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 April 2010, p. 4. 20 APRIL 2010 The U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Susan E. Rice, announced at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues that the United States has decided to review the U.S. position on the Declaration, which the U.S. voted against in 2007. The American Journal of International Law, 104, 528, 2010. 20 APRIL 2010 An oil spill posed a threat to the environment in the Gulf of Mexico and to the states with shores to the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill started at a drilling of BP in the Gulf and drove BP into financial difficulties. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Interna- tionale Ausgabe, 10 September 2010, p. 3, and 17 December 2010, p. 3; Die Welt, 17 December 2010, p. 11; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 January 2011, pp. 1 and 20, National Geographic, 218, No. 4, October 2010, pp. 28ff; New York Review of Books, 29 September 2011, p. 38; Die Zeit, 17 June 2010, p. 24. 20 APRIL 2010 The Cour d’appel d’Aix-en-Provence decided that the Fondation Vincent van Gogh d’Arles had to return the painting Hommage à van Gogh, etude d’après van Gogh pour l’exposition van Gogh en Arles, 1985 by Francis Bacon (1909–1992) to the heirs of John Edwards, the executor of Francis Bacon. Le Journal des Arts, 30 April–13 May 2010, p. 2. 21 APRIL 2010 The research group, Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art), of the Free University of Berlin opened the website http://entartetekunst.geschkult.fu-berlin.de in which art objects are collected that had been removed during the Nazi period as “degen- erate art.” Süddeutsche Zeitung, 21 April 2010, p. 1; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 April 2010, p. 34. CHRONICLES 507 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 21 APRIL 2010 At the Dorotheum in Vienna a painting of Frans Francken II (1581–1642) was auc- tioned and sold for Y7.02million, the highest amount on record at the Dorotheum. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 24 April 2010, p. 20; Frankfurter Al- lgemeine Zeitung, 24 April 2010, p. 39. 23 APRIL 2010 Giuseppe Panza di Biumo (1923–2010), the great Italian collector of modern and contemporary American art, passed away. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 38; Il Giornale dell’Arte, May 2010, p. 14; Le Journal des Arts, 14–27 May 2010, p. 3. 23 APRIL 2010 The Retrospective of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) opened at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main and gave a splendid overview of his work done in Dresden, Berlin, and Davos. His paintings were also prohibited during the Nazi period as “degenerate.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 April 2010, 35; art, April 2010, p. 76; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 24 April 2010, p. 23; Die Zeit, 29 April 2010, p. 58, and 1 July 2010, p. 57. 23 APRIL 2010 The Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Münster, Westfalia, Ger- many, repurchased a painting of Carl Eduard Blechen (1798–1840) which was ear- lier restituted to the heirs of the Jewish collector Julius Freund. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 24–25 April 2010, p. 17. 23 APRIL 2010 The European Centre of Tourism (Centro Europeo per il Tourismo) opened in the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome after 30 years of cultural activity the exhibition SOS: Arte dall’Abruzzo, una mostra per non dimenticare, which was designed to recall the earthquake of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 24. On the situation in L’Aquila 18 months after the earthquake, see Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 14. 24 APRIL 2010 The Armenians still deplore the persecution and extinction of more than a mil- lion Armenians by the Turkish army in 1915, which almost extinguished Arme- nian culture as well. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 April 2010, p. 38. 508 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 24 APRIL 2010 The Fondazione Cini in Venice (Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore) exhibited the art- ist Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734), a long-forgotten artist of Venice. Frankfurter All- gemeine Zeitung, 19 June 2010, p. 38. 26 APRIL 2010 IFAR Evening with Robert M. Edsel on “The Invisible Heroes: The Monuments Men.” IFAR Journal, 12, no.1, pp. 16–28 (2010). 27 APRIL 2010 The European Commission published a Green Paper “Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries.” Brussels COM(2010)183 final. APRIL 2010 Zahi Hawass, the head of Egyptian Antiquities Authority, convened the Confer- ence on Stolen Antiquities in Cairo and Libya asked from the UK the return of a Roman statue of Apollo found in Cyrene, Libya. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 13. 1 MAY 2010 The World Expo opened in Shanghai, China, touted as China’s largest event in history. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 9. 2 MAY 2010 150 years ago Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was born and is still remembered as the spiritual founder of Israel. His dream of a place for Jews in Palestine became true with the re-creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30 April, 1–2 May 2010, p. VI/6. 3 MAY 2010 The Swiss collector Jeanne Marchig filed a lawsuit against Christie’s for breach of warranty and breach of fiduciary duty regarding a drawing that she consigned to the auction house in 1997 and which, she says, Christie’s negligently misattrib- uted to an early nineteenth-century artist of the German School and sold for $21,850. It is now attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Lisa Duffy-Zeballos and Shima Majidi, IFAR Journal, 12, no. 1, pp. 6–11; The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 77; ARTnews, October 2010, p. 52. CHRONICLES 509 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 4 MAY 2010 Pablo Picasso’s Nude. Green Leaves and Bust sold for Y84 million at Christie’s in New York. Il Giornale dell’Arte, February 2011, p. 17. Flag by Jasper Johns (born 1930) sold for $28.6 million. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 61, and June 2010, p. 88; Le Journal des Arts, 14–27 May 2010, p. 27, and 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 19; Il Giornale dell’Arte, May 2010, p. 67, and June 2010, p. 1; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 6 May 2010, p. 18. 6 MAY 2010 In Prague, Czech Republic, the exhibition Neoclassicism and Biedermeier opened with art objects of the Prince of Liechtenstein collection. The exhibition could not take place last year because of controversies over property of the prince, but was possible now. The Art Newspaper, June 20120, p. 22; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 May 2010, p. 33. 6 MAY 2010 The U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee met for a State Department pub- lic hearing to review a proposal to extend the Memorandum of Understanding with Italy that imposes import restrictions of Italian antiquities to the United States. The proposal concerned extending loans with terms of 10 to 20 years, and loans to all museums and liberalizations with respect to coins. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 4. 7 MAY 2010 The Kunstmuseum Berne exhibited the work of Albert Anker (1831–1910) on the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 31 May 2010, p. 17. 7 MAY 2010 The definitive exhibition Topography of Terror opened in Berlin. Die Welt, 7 May 2010, p. 23. 8 MAY 2010 With the exhibition Triumph of the Blue Swords: Meissen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie 1710–1815, the Meissen porcelain manufactory celebrated its 300th anniversary at the Dresden Japanisches Palais. The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2010, p. 55. 510 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 12 MAY 2010 In Rotterdam at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and in The Hague Mau- ritshuis, the exhibition Van Meegeren’s Fake Vermeers opened and attracted many visitors interested in the work of forger Han von Meegeren (1889–1947). ART- news, June 2010, p. 48; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 22 July 2010, pp. 1 and 19. 12 MAY 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened the Museum Centre Pompidou-Metz in Metz, France, as part of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. This is a kind of decen- tralization of French cultural politics. Y69 Million were spent for the new mu- seum. 203 Kunstforum, July–September 2010, p. 9; The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 18; Le Journal des Arts, 30 April–13 May 2010, pp. 15 and 19; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 14 May 2010, p. 17. 12 MAY 2010 The Bavarian State Galleries announced that four paintings had been returned to the heir of the Jewish art historian August Liebmann Mayer (1885–1944). The art objects were confiscated by the Nazis. Kunstrechtsspiegel 02/2010, p. 98. 16 MAY 2010 By decree, the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay were combined in Paris and the Musée de l’Orangerie became part of the Musée d’Orsay. Le Journal des Arts, 11–24 June 2010, p. 3. 18 MAY 2010 The French parliament passed Law no. 2010–501 authorizing the French Repub- lic to return the Maori heads to New Zealand. These heads were the subject of court proceedings previously. Journal official, 19 May 2010, p. 9210; Le Journal des Arts, 10 July–3 September 2010, p. 6. 19–20 MAY 2010 Theft of valuable paintings in the Musée d’art moderne in Paris. IFAR Journal, 11, no. 3/4, 2010, p. 12; IFAR Journal, 12, no. 1, 2010, p. 57; The Art Newspaper, July–August 2010, p. 16; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 May 2010, p. 8; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 21 May 2010, p. 16, and 22 May 2010, p. 18. CHRONICLES 511 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 84. 27 MAY 2010 The MAXXI, the Italian National Museum of Art of the XXI Century, designed by the architect Zaha Hadid, was inaugurated in Rome and opened for the pub- lic. Il Giornale dell’Arte, May 2010, p. 49; Le Journal des Arts, 28 May–10 June 2010, p. 4; The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 13, and July–August 2010, p. 11; art, August 2010, p. 96; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 29 May 2010, p. 20. 28 MAY 2010 The Decreto-legge 85/2010 was passed in Italy, providing for the transfer of mon- uments to the provinces (federalismo demaniale). Will these monuments now better maintained? Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 6. MAY 2010 Germany returned about 500 books to Belorussia, acquired by the Library of the Botanical Garden, Berlin, in 1943–44. It was discovered that the books had been looted during World War II and were given back to the State Library of Minsk. MuseumsJournal 4/2011, p. 11. MAY 2010 In May 1990 the painting Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was sold the Japanese industrialist Saito for $82.5 million. Since then, it must have been sold several times but nobody knows who the owner of the painting is or and where it is located. Die Zeit, 2 September 2010, p. 57. 512 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core MAY 2010 The Whitney Museum in New York decided that a new building by Renzo Piano will replace the old building. Le Journal des Arts, 24 September–7 October 2010, p. 7. 1 JUNE 2010 Jeffrey Deitch took over as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contem- porary Art. Le Journal des Arts, 22 January–4 February 2010, p. 3. 2 JUNE 2010 The Administrative Court in Frankfurt am Main ruled that three bronze bowls seized by the police and allegedly looted in Turkey had to be given back to an art dealer because it could not be proven that the allegation was true. Frankfurter All- gemeine Zeitung, 28 July 2010, p. 3. 3 JUNE 2010 100 years ago Eduard Arnhold bought a piece of land in Rome and had a Swiss architect to build houses on this piece of land: This became the Villa Massimo, the cultural center of German artists and poets in Rome. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 June 2010, p. 36. 4 JUNE 2010 Italy and Germany concluded a treaty about the rebuilding and restoration of the church San Pietro Apostolo in Onna of the City of L’Aquila damaged by the earth- quake of 6 April 2009. This treaty is a sign of cross-border assistance in caring for cultural property in Europe. Bundesgesetzblatt, part II, 2010, p. 1398. 7 JUNE 2010 Christie’s sold in the Kunsthaus Zürich the painting “Genfer See mit Jura” by Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) for SFr. 2.6 million. Kunstforum, 203, 22, July– September 2010. 7 JUNE 2010 The German Federal Ministry of Finance announced that four paintings held by the Federal Republic of Germany have been returned to the heirs of Martin and Florence Flersheim. The paintings are by Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Trübner, Carl Spitzweg, and Fritz von Uhde. Kunstrechtsspiegel, 02/2010, p. 103. CHRONICLES 513 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Kirchmaier, Kunst und Recht, 12, 2010, p. 134. 16 JUNE 2010 The Art Basel opened its 41st annual art fair in Basel for almost a week until 20 June 2010. Kunstforum, 203, July–September 2010, pp. 368–373; on the confer- ence Art and Law in Basel on 18 June 2010. See also Weller, Kunstrechtsspiegel, 02/2010, p. 77; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 June 2010, p. 39; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Sonderausgabe, 12 June 2010. 16 JUNE 2010 The London gallery Colnaghi (sold to Konrad Bernheimer and Katrin Bellinger) celebrated its 250th anniversary with the exhibition Colnaghi: 250 Years of Deal- ing in Art. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 17; Jeremy Howard (ed.), Colnaghi. Established 1760: The History (London 2010). 18 JUNE 2010 The conference Protection of Monuments in Europe—The Past, Present and the Future was held in Vienna under the auspices of the Austrian Research Society Art and Law, presided by Professor Gerte Reichelt. Kunstrechtsspiegel 02/2010, p. 81. 514 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Museum of Modern Art with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. Document No. No. 10–257-cv. 23 JUNE 2010 Christie’s in London sold the painting Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto by Pablo Picasso to an unidentified buyer for $42 million. The painting once was owned by Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy of Berlin, was illegally confiscated by the Nazis, and was later the object of a settlement between the heirs of the former owner and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the present owner. Majidi and Flescher, IFAR Journal, 12, no. 1, 2010, pp. 12–13; The Art Newspaper, July/August 2010, p. 48, and June 2010, p. 10; Le Journal des Arts, 9 July–9 September 2010, p. 28; Il Giornale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 67, and July/August 2010, p. 53; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internation- ale Ausgabe, 26 June 2010, p. 20; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 26 June 2010, p. 43. 23 JUNE 2010 The Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid opened the exhibition Ghirland- aio [c. 1448–1494] and the Renaissance in Florence showing famous portraits of the renaissance period. Il Giornale dell’Arte, June 2010, p. 26. 24 JUNE 2010 Ten paintings, lost during World War II and recovered in recent times, were ex- hibited in Picture Gallery of Castle Sanssouci in Potsdam, Germany. Museum- sJournal, January–March 2011, pp. 34–37. CHRONICLES 515 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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IFAR Journal, 12, no.1, 2010, p. 63; Kunstrechtsspie- gel, 02/2010, p. 102. 29 JUNE 2010 The collector Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010), the former owner of a vast collection of modern Austrian paintings (Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and others) passed away in Vienna. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 6; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 June 2010, p. 33. 29 JUNE 2010 The Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin exhibited Teotihuacan—Mexico’s Mysterious City of Pyramids. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2 July 2010, p. 12; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 5 July 2010, p. 29, Die Welt, 5 July 2010, p. 21. 30 JUNE 2010 With the exhibition Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries, the cu- rators and conservation department of the National Gallery London united the investigate the physical nature of paintings supported by the Engineering and Phys- ical Science Research Council. The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2010, p. 63; The Art Newspaper, June 2010, pp. 4 and 6; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 3–4 July 2010, p. 11. 30 JUNE 2010 The highest court of Austria, the Oberste Gerichtshof in Vienna, decided that a Chinese export prohibition concerning a small ceramic model Big Carriage with 516 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core Horse” does not have to be taken into account when dealing with the validity of a contract of sale of this model to a buyer. Kunst und Recht, 2011, p. 119, with crit- ical comment by Leonhard Reis in Kunst und Recht, 2011, p. 112. JUNE 2010 The sculpture The Sowing Man by Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), given back to the heirs of Otto Krebs, was reacquired by the Foundation of the Prussian Cul- tural Heritage and placed in the Court of Colonnades close to the Old National Gallery in Berlin. MuseumsJournal, October–December 2010, p. 46. JUNE 2010 The OMC (Open Method of Coordination of the EU) Expert Working Group on the Mobility of Collections published its Final Draft and Recommendations to the Cultural Affairs Committee on improving the means of increasing the mobil- ity of collections. http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-policy-development. The Art Newspaper, February 2011, p. 11. JUNE 2010 Max Warburg discussed the financial problems of the Warburg Institute, Lon- don, which may lose its essential nature by being incorporated into the University of London. The Art Newspaper, July/August 2010, p. 29. 1 JULY 2010 The Italian professor of urban planning Francesco Bandarin of Venice took over UNESCO’S entire cultural programme and is now assistant director-general for culture. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 32. 2–4 JULY 2010 The 12th Seminar on Art and Law for European doctorate candidates was held in Munich. This seminar was organized by Kurt Siehr for young scholars who pre- pare a thesis on any subject concerning art and law. Kirchmaier, Kunst und Recht, 12, 2010, p. 136. 5 JULY 2010 The website www.kulturgutschutz-deutschland.de was launched in Magdeburg, Germany, to inform the public about German national treasures that many CHRONICLES 517 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 48–49; Andrew Wilton, “Impressions of the Past,” Minerva, January/ February 2011, p. 22; Turner sale deferred: The Art Newspaper, July/August 2010, p. 1, 6, and December 2010, p. 7; Kunstforum, January/February 2011, p. 13; Il Giornale dell’Arte, June 2010, p. 14, and September 2010, p. 82; Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung, 10 July 2010, p. 36, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7–8 August 2010, p. 17, International Herald Tribune, 5–6 June 2010, p. 12; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Interna- tionale Ausgabe. 17 July 2010, p. 19. 13 JULY 2010 Bonhams of London sold a lithograph of Edvard Munch Madonna for £ 1.1 mil- lion at auction. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 July 2010, p. 35. 14 JULY 2010 Christie’s in Paris sold at auction Tête by Amedeo Modigliani for Y38.5 Million (Y43.2 Million). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 19 July 2010, p. 39. 15 JULY 2010 In Moscow the Grabar National Art and Science Restoration Center was ac- cidently set on fire and caused damage. The Art Newspaper, September 2010, p. 25. 15 JULY 2010 Werner Schmidt (1930–2010), the former director of the State Art Collections of Dresden, passed away in Dresden. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 July 2010, p. 34; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17–18 July 2010, p. 15. 518 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 16 JULY 2010 Inside the Colosseum in Rome were exhibited 337 looted archaeological objects seized by the Italian Carabinieri del Nucleo Tutela Patrimonio Culturale, the Ital- ian branch of police protecting cultural objects. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 75. 18 JULY 2010 The exhibition Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917 opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, focusing on the invention of cubism and its influence on his artist friends, such as Pablo Picasso. Il Giornale dell’Arte, July/August 2010, p. 11. 18 JULY 2010 Several exhibitions celebrated the 400th anniversary of the death of Caravaggio (1571/2–1610). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 January 2010, p. 32; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17/1 July 2010, p. 18; Le Journal des Arts, 11 December 2009–7 January 2010, p. 7. 19 JULY 2010 Settlement of the Portrait of Wally case between the heirs of Lea Bondi-Jaray and the Collection Leopold in Vienna. The Collection Leopold paid $19 million to the heirs, and the heirs recognized title of the collection and returned the painting to Vienna where it is now exhibited with information about the former owners and the recovery of the painting. Bulletin Kunst and Recht 2/2010, p. 15; Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 6; The Art Newspaper, September 2010, p. 4; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 July 2010, p. 29. 21 JULY 2010 The “Union des commissionaires de l’hôtel des ventes” (UCHV) were examined about the charge of having stolen or diverted art objects during their work at the Hôtel Drouot auction house in Paris. Le Journal des Arts, 4–17 February 2011, p. 25. 22 JULY 2010 Opening of the exhibition History of Reconstruction: Construction of History in the Museum of Architecture in Munich. The exhibit showed the modern trend to reconstruct destroyed monuments and buildings instead of designing new build- CHRONICLES 519 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 November 2010, p. 32. 27 JULY 2010 Holocaust victims of Budapest filed a lawsuit against the City of Budapest in the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, asking for the return of several paintings looted during World War II and still in the Art Museum of Budapest. Die Welt, 7 August 2010, p. W4. 28 JULY 2010 A bust of Heinrich Heine (1779–1856) was placed into the Walhalla (close to Regensburg, Donau), a structure built by order of King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786– 1868) to immortalize famous Germans. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 July 2010, p. 9, and 29 July 2010, p. 29. 29 JULY 2010 The Deutsche Kunstarchiv digitalized and made public the archives of the an- cient gallery David Heinemann of Munich, which, between 1872 and 1939, sold many pictures of the Bavarian school and also of many French painters. Il Gior- nale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 84. 30 JULY 2010 The Italian Law n. 122 as passed and converted the Law Decree no. 78 of 31 May 2010, providing that there will not be spent more than 20% of the amount spent in 2009 for cultural institutions and activities. Il Giornale dell’Arte, January 2011, 1 and 26. 520 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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JULY 2010 The heirs of the art dealer Alfred Flechtheim (1878–1937), whose collection was seized by the Nazis and who fled from Germany to London, wanted to recover the paintings of the former dealer. Kunst und Recht, 2010, p, 102. JULY 2010 The Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board (AWAB) found that some 100 Brillo Boxes, supposed to be original boxes of Andy Warhol, were actually fakes and produced later by Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), the late director of the Centre Pom- pidou. Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 1; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internatio- nale Ausgabe, 27 November 2010, p. 20. 2 AUGUST 2010 In London the gallery Hue Williams in Battersea filed a lawsuit against the artist James Turrell for failing to supply what are known as “grey books,” documents that include instructions for Turrell’s works and establish their authenticity. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 75. 6 AUGUST 2010 In Palermo, Sicily, a contract was signed between the Italian Province Sicilia and the Catholic Church for the improvement of protection of cultural objects of re- ligious interest. Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 4. 12 AUGUST 2010 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain and Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation dismissed the appeal of CHRONICLES 521 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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IFAR Journal, 12, no. 1, 2010, p. 14. 28 AUGUST 2010 The Fondazione Cini on the Venetian island of San Giorgio opened the exhibi- tion Carceri d’invenzione about Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) and his fantasies. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 37; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- tung, 1 September 2010, p. 31; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 9 October 2010, p. 23. 29 AUGUST 2010 Three famous paintings of Giorgione (1477–1510) were exhibited in the Palazzo Grimani of Venice: La Vecchia, La Tempesta, and La Nuda. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 28. 29 AUGUST 2010 In 1910, exactly 100 years ago, Japan conquered Korea and damaged Korea and Korean culture heavily. Japan begged pardon for the invasion. Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung, 11 August 2010, p. 5; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 28 August 2010, p. 23; Die Zeit, 19 August 2010, p. 18. AUGUST 2010 The so-called Collection Jaeger is discovered to consist of fakes of modern paint- ings by professional forgers, attributed to modern masters by famous experts and 522 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core sold by auction houses of good standing. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Aus- gabe, 13 November 2010, p. 22; 21 December 2010, p. 15; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 September 2010, p. 35; 11 September 2010, p. 41; 18 September 2010, p. 39; 18 December 2010, p. 17: The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 65; Le Jour- nal des Arts, 3–16 December 2010, pp. 1 and 5; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 16–17 Octo- ber 2010, p. 3; art, September 2010, p. 122; AUGUST 2010 The Mauritshuis Museum in The Hague decided to lend the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Jan Vermeer (1632–1675) to the Museum in Kobe, Japan, in 2012 in order to raise money for the expansion of the Mauritshuis. The transporting of the painting was considered quite problematic and the stay in Kobe rather dubi- ous because of the environmental conditions in the Japanese museum. The Art Newspaper, September 2010, p. 11. 4 SEPTEMBER 2010 At the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin opening of the exhibition Gabriel Metsu: A Master Rediscovered in the Dutch Golden Age. The exhibition will be shown later in Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) and in Washington, DC (National Gallery). Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 35; The Art Newspaper. September 2010, p. 63. 8 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Vatican loaned Raphael’s four finest tapestries, the Miraculous Draught of Fishes, to the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show entitled Raphael Car- toons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 16, and September 2010, p. 66; Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 30; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 September 2010, p. 6, and 25 September 2010, p. 35. 8 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Jewish Museum in Frankfurt showed an exhibition of the drawings of Else Lasker-Schüler. Die Welt, 20 September 2010, p. 26; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Inter- nationale Ausgabe,29 September 2010, p. 20. 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 The U.S. Ambassador in Germany gave back to the German city of Pirmasens 11 paintings that had been stolen by a U.S. soldier during World War II. The paint- ings had been inherited by the thief ’s niece, who agreed to return the stolen art pieces. Kunstrechtsspiegel, 03/2010, p. 139. CHRONICLES 523 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 Picasso’s electrician, Pierre Le Guennec, of Southern France revealed a cache of 271 unknown works of Pablo Picasso donated to him by the master or his wife. The works were confiscated by France’s art theft unit. IFAR Journal, 12, no. 2, 2011, p. 14; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 December 2010, p. 33; Die Welt, 1 Decem- ber 2010, p. 23; International Herald Tribune, 30 November 2010, pp. 1 and 4; Il Giornale dell’Arte, January 2011, p. 6; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Aus- gabe, 30 November 2010, p. 14. 11 SEPTEMBER 2010 The auction house Lempertz of Cologne organized an auction at Brussels selling pre-Columbian art of high quality. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 91. 11 SEPTEMBER 2010 In Łód-z, Poland, the Polish biennale took place and was funded by the City of Łód-z. The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 10. 11 SEPTEMBER 2010 1100 years ago, circa 910, the French Cloisters of Cluny were founded and be- came very influential in medieval culture, religion, and life. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11–12 September 2010, p. 11; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 29 September 2010, p. 22. 12 SEPTEMBER 2010 The restored altar piece of San Corbinian by Friedrich Pacher (1435–1508) was returned to the church of Assling in Tirol. The altar has quite a history. It was removed in 1850, sold to Jacques Goudstikker in 1936, taken by Hermann Göring in 1940, returned to the heirs of Goudstikker in 2006, and sold by Christie’s one year later. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 78; The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 27. 12 SEPTEMBER 2010 In Teheran the Cyrus Cylinder, lent by the British Museum, was unveiled by Pres- ident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Cyrus Cylinder will be in Teheran until 12 Jan- uary 2011. However, one fragment of the Cylinder owned by Yale University and on loan in London was missing because it is kept in London because of fears that it would fall afoul of U.S. sanctions against Iran. The Art Newspaper, March 2010, 524 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core p. 5; July/August 2010, p. 7; October 2010, pp. 1 and 7; Il Giornale dell’Arte, April 2010, p. 50. 14 SEPTEMBER 2010 200 years of the Berlin Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde) with its 30 million objects is celebrated in Berlin. MuseumsJournal, 4/2010, p. 72; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 22 September 2010, p. 19. 14–17 SEPTEMBER 2010 During its Asia Week, Christie’s of London sold at auction a 12th–11th century bce Chinese wine vessel from the Shang Dynasty for $ 3.3 million. The Art News- paper, October 2010, p. 71; Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 2. 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 The French Biennale des Antiquaires opened in Paris. Hervé Aaron as president of the Syndicat National des Antiquaires expressed high expectations. The Art News- paper, September 2010, p. 59; Le Journal des Arts, 24 September–7 October 2010, p. 24; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 18 September 2010, p. 21. 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Oberlandesgericht (Court of Appeals) Celle, Germany, decided that the paint- ing Miracolo di Sant’Antonio by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) had to be returned to its previous owner in Paris because it had been stolen in Paris in 1979 and not been acquired in good faith by the present holder, the Niedersächsische Landesmuseum in Hannover, Germany. The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 20; Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 55; Die Welt, 3 September 2010, p. 38. 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Louvre in Paris acquired a medieval tapestry of circa 1430 for the Louvre Collection of medieval art. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 September 2010, p. Z4. 20 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Vatican Library reopened after three years of restoration. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 77; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 3 July 2010, p. Z3. CHRONICLES 525 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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The Art Newspaper, September 2010, p. 35. 22 SEPTEMBER 2010 The exhibition Peace and Freedom in the Albertina in Vienna showed works of art of Pablo Picasso and his devotion to peace, revolution, and communism. The show was designed with the Tate Gallery of London and will later move to the Danish Louisiana Museum of Modern Art close to Copenhagen. Die Welt, 22 Sep- tember 2010, p. 21. 22 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Musée d’art et histoire du Judaisme in Paris discovered the German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum (1904–1944) and devoted an exhibition to him. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 December 2010, p. 33. 23 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Egyptian President Mubarak and the Italian prime minister Berlusconi in- augurated the Museo della rinnovata Accademia Egiziana di Roma. Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 67. 23 SEPTEMBER 2010 In the Paris Musée d’Orsay and the Grand Palais two exhibitions of Claude Monet (1840–1926) were shown. ARTnews, December 2010, p. 52; International Herald Tribune, 25–26 September 2010, p. 20; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Aus- 526 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core gabe, 21 October 2010, p. 17; Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 26; The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 1. 24 SEPTEMBER 2010 The U.S. dealer Richard Gray of Chicago and New York donated nine drawings of his collection of French and Italian drawings to the Art Institute of Chicago and opened the exhibition Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Master Drawings. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 26. 24 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris opened the exhibition Rubens, Poussin and the Painters of the XVIIth Century, where the influence of Rubens and Poussin on other painters was clearly shown. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 32. 24 SEPTEMBER 2010 In the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, opened the exhibition Bronzino [1503– 1572]: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici showing the artist’s works of early realism. Almost two-thirds of his masterpieces were shown. International Herald Tribune, 16 November 2010, p. 13; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 24 November 2010, p. 21; Die Welt, 17 December 2010, p. 23; art, September 2010, p. 34; The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 73, and September 2010, p. 63; Die Zeit, 7 October 2010, p. 58; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 October 2010, p. 36; Süd- deutsche Zeitung, 25–26 September 2010, p. 13. 25 SEPTEMBER 2010 Sotheby’s of New York sold at auction the art collection of Lehman Brothers after this bank went bankrupt on 15 September 2008. Die Welt, 25 September 2010, p. W5. 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Landgericht Düsseldorf decided that the Museum Schloss Moyland with the vast collection of works of Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) violated the copyright of the Beuys estate because the museum exhibited 19 photographs taken by the late Manfred Tischer of a Beuys happening in 1964. This decision was heavily criti- cized. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 13. CHRONICLES 527 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 The auction house Chopin de Janvry & Associés in Paris sold at auction the painting Madame de Florian by Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) for Y1.7 million. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 October 2010, p. 41. 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 The Tate Modern in London opened an exhibition of works of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), focusing on his interpretations of the myths and legends of the South- ern areas where he lived for several years. Le Journal des Arts, 22 October–4 No- vember 2010, p. 8; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 6 November 2010, p. 19. 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 The National Gallery of Australia dedicated a new wing to indigenous artists. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 26. SEPTEMBER 2010 Giuseppe Eskenazi (born 1939) celebrated the 50th anniversary of dealing with Chinese art and artefacts in London where his father established the art gallery. It had been founded in 1923 with headquarters in Milan. The Art Newspaper, Octo- ber 2010, p. 68. SEPTEMBER 2010 The privately owned Weserburg Museum in Bremen deaccessioned two paintings of Gerhard Richter and Franz Gertsch in order raise money for repairs and ren- ovation. The German Museum Association was concerned about it. The Art News- paper, November 2010, p. 22; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 19 November 2010, p. 13; Die Zeit, 23 September 2010, p. 59; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 September 2010, p. 33. SEPTEMBER 2010 A mysterious donor donated fakes to American museums for almost 20 years. This was discovered and the museums warned by e-mail on the Museum Security Network and the American Association of Museum Registrar’s Committee list serv- ers. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, pp. 1 and 4. 528 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core SEPTEMBER 2010 The auction place Hôtel Drouot, Paris, terminated the contract with the Union des commissionaires de l’Hôtel Drouot, the union charged with theft and conver- sion. Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 88. SEPTEMBER 2010 Russian legislation prohibits that art works formerly in churches and now in pub- lic museums be given back to churches. However, this policy is not always re- spected. Famous icons are lent to local churches, especially in regions of well-to-do people. For example, in the colony of millionaires called Princes See, close to Moscow, the icon St. Mary of Toropez was lent by the Russian Museum to the Alexander-Newski-Church. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 July 2010, p. 38, and 28 September 2010, p. 31. 1 OCTOBER 2010 The Biennale Internazionale di Antiquariato al Palazzo Venezia in Rome opened and ran until 10 October. Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 86, and No- vember 2010, p. 79; Gazzetta Antiquaria, nuova serie, n. 58-II/2010, p. 14. 1–2 OCTOBER 2010 IVth Heidelberg Day of Art and Law. This year’s Art Day was concerned with the law of theatre and with traveling artworks. The papers given will be published in 2011. Kunst und Recht, 12, 2010, p. 137. 3 OCTOBER 2010 The Museum of Modern Art in New York opened the exhibition Abstract Expres- sionist New York: The Big Picture, exhibiting works of Mark Rothko, Jackson Pol- lock, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman Robert Rauschenberg, and others. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 12 November 2010, p. 19. 4 OCTOBER 2010 The Russian curator Andrej Jerofejew was sentenced in Moscow, charged with exhibiting modern art. The verdict has been approved by the court of appeals. Die Zeit, 1 July 2010, p. 50. CHRONICLES 529 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 5 OCTOBER 2010 Opening of the exhibition Man, Myth and Sensual Pleasures, Jan Gossart’s Renais- sance in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Dutch painter Jan Gossart (c.1478–1532) was rediscovered as a master of the Northern renaissance. IFAR Journal, no. 3, 2011, pp. 26–31; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 December 2010, p. 35. 6 OCTOBER 2010 The famous Main Station of Stuttgart, Germany, was torn down, and more of it was scheduled to be destroyed to make room for a new station that was to be located underground. The architect Paul Bonatz (1877–1956) designed the Main Station, built in 1914–1928. The heir of Paul Bonatz brought a lawsuit in Stuttgart and applied for an order to stop tearing down the station and the reconstruction of those parts that had already been torn down. The county court dismissed the copyright claim and the court of appeal confirmed. Weighing the interests of the owner and the plaintiff, the court gave priority to the defendant owner. Ober- landesgericht Stuttgart, Kunst und Recht, 2010, p. 195, with note by Lucas Elmen- horst on pp. 180–183; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 September 2010, p. 37, and 24 January 2011, p. 27. 6 OCTOBER 2010 In the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris opened the exhibition France 1500 showing 200 works of art created around 1500 and brought together from the Musée de Cluny, the Louvre, and several foreign museums. Le Journal des Arts, 24 September–7 October 2010, p. 16. 6 OCTOBER 2010 The Madrid parliament declined a motion to have the Spanish bullfight be de- clared a national heritage. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 October 2010, p. 9. 8 OCTOBER 2010 Opening of the exhibition Michelangelo as a Draughtsman in the Albertina, Vi- enna, with more than 100 masterpieces from the largest graphic art collections in the world. The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2010, p. 91; Die Zeit, 14 Octo- ber 2010, p. 63; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12 November 2010, p. 33; Le Journal des Arts, 19 November–2 December 2010, p. 9; Il Giornale dell’Arte, Oc- tober 2010, p. 38; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 26 November 2010, p. 19. 530 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 8 OCTOBER 2010 The National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, opened the exhibition Dynastic Renaissance with loans from mainland China and started exchange relationships with China, The Art Newspaper, January 2011, p. 22. 9 OCTOBER 2010 The eighth edition of the roving European biennial Manifesta opened to the pub- lic in the neighboring Spanish cities of Murcia and Cartagena on the Costa Brava. The Manifesta is deliberately nomadic to avoid building “institutional structures similar to Venice or São Paolo.” It was, until now, shown in Rotterdam, Luxem- bourg, Ljubljana, Frankfurt, San Sebastian, Nicosia, and Trentino-South Tyrol. The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 81. 13 OCTOBER 2010 The National Gallery in London opened the exhibition Venice. Canaletto and his Rivals. Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697–1768), painted the Venice of his time in order to sell his works of art to travelers on their Grand Tour. He had, of course, rivals such as Luca Carlevarijs (1663–1730), Gaspare Vanvitelli (1652/ 53–1736), and his nephew Bernardo Bellotto (1722–1780). Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 2 December 2010, p. 17; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 December 2010, p. 34; Le Journal des Arts, 22 October–4 November 2010, p. 9; Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 41; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17–18 October 2010, p. 17. 13 OCTOBER 2010 Final judgment of acquittal of Marion True, former antiquities curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Rome, after a trial that started on 16 November 2005. ARTnews, December 2010, p. 54; The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 7, and January 2011, pp. 8 and 9; Le Journal des Arts, 22 October–4 November 2010, p. 3; Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 6; Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 Feb- ruary 2011, p. 9. 13–14 OCTOBER 2010 Session of the committee Comitati Privati per la salvaguardia di Venezia. The president for 24 years, Alvise Zorzi, resigned because of age, and his successor was Umberto Marcello del Majno of an old Venetian aristocratic family. Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 74. CHRONICLES 531 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Zürich bought one of the paintings, Gui- tare sur un guéridon. Kunsthaus Zürich, Magazin, 3, August 2010, p. 10; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 15 October 2010, p. 19; 19 October 2010, p. 21; 27 December 2010, p. 19; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 December 2010, p. 29. 15 OCTOBER 2010 The Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt am Main opened an exhibition on Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), the realistic French artist who despised academic painting and painted landscapes, simple people, and subjects that were indecent and rad- ical at the time. Courbet was famous for the marketing, networking, and publicity of his paintings, including scandals. The exhibition is sponsored by France (Nico- las Sarkozy as French president). Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 16 December 2010, p. 17; The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 89; Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 28; Die Zeit, 21 October 2010, p. 40; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 10 October 2010, p. B1. 17 OCTOBER 2010 At the High Museum of Art in Atlanta two masterpieces by Titian (1480/5–1576), part of the exhibition Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting, started a tour of various cities in the United States (Minnesota, Houston, etc.). The paintings were then with the National Galleries of Scotland and have been acquired (or will be ac- quired) from the Duke of Sutherland: Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto. 532 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core The New York Review of Books, December 2010, no. 20, p. 16; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 16 October 2010, p. 35. 17 OCTOBER 2010 The exhibition Chardin: Il pittore del silenzio (Chardin: The painter of the silence) opened in Ferrara, Italy, curated by Pierre Rosenberg, the former director of the Louvre. The Chardin (1699–1779) exhibition will later be shown in Madrid at the Prado. Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 25. 18 OCTOBER 2010 The website www.errproject.org/jeudepaume opened. The sited allows Holocaust survivors, their relatives, and others to search the records of more than 20,000 art objects stolen in Nazi-occupied France and Belgium between 1940 to 1944. In- ternational Herald Tribune, 19 October 2010, p. 2; Robin Cembalest, “Claims Con- flict,” ARTnews, October 2010, p. 50. 19 OCTOBER 2010 In Prague the tomb of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was opened in the Teyn-Church (Altstädter Ring) order to find out how much quicksilver could be found in his body and who might have been the murderer of Brahe, the Danish astronomer. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 November 2010, p. 35. 19 OCTOBER 2010 The Prado in Madrid opened an exhibition of the collection of Renoir paintings bought a several years ago by Robert Sterling Clark (1877–1956) in Paris. The collection is now located at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Will- iamstown, MA. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 November 2010, p. 31. 19 OCTOBER 2010 Opening of the exhibition Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904): L’Histoire en spectacle in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Gérôme was for a long time regarded as “salon painter.” This was the first comprehensive exhibition that revealed Gérôme’s in- terest in photography, in traveling (especially to Egypt), and his masterly knowl- edge of spectacular scenery favored by his clients, also in the United States. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 December 2010, p. 29; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 12 December 2010, p. 31; Le Journal des Arts, 5–18 November 2010, p. 9; Il Giornale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 28. CHRONICLES 533 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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He was a great artist and strongly influenced French and Dutch impressionist painters. art, January 2010, p. 32; MuseumsJournal, 4/2011, p. 4. 21 OCTOBER 2010 UNESCO issued decision UN 185EX/Sr.9 and raised concern about Israel’s policy to restore monuments in the occupied West Bank territories, namely, the tomb of King Herod and Rachel’s tomb. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 25; Feb- ruary 2011, p. 3; and May 2011, p. 47. 21–24 OCTOBER 2010 The Foire international d’art contemporain (FIAC) opened in Paris. Le Journal des Arts, 8–21 October 2010, p. 19. 22 OCTOBER 2010 In the Cathedral of Magdeburg, Germany, the bones of Queen Editha (910–946), wife of Emperor Otto I (936–973), were buried again after they had been discov- ered recently by an English-German research team. The remains were determined to be the bones of the daughter of the English King Edward (871–924). Süd- deutsche Zeitung, 23–24 October 2010, p. 12. 23–24 OCTOBER 2010 The auction house Hauswedell & Nolte in Hamburg sold at auction a correspon- dence of Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) an important person of Berlin and else- where. The correspondence was bought by the Kulturstiftung der Länder for the Fontane Archive in Potsdam. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 November 2010, p. 39; arsprototo, no. 3, 2011, p. 27. 534 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 November 2010, p. 38. 28 OCTOBER 2010 The book Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik (The Office and the Past, German Diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic), by Eckart Conze, Norbert Frey, Peter Hayes, and Moshe Zimmermann, was officially presented to the German Foreign Office and got considerable attention in Germany. The German diplomats were not innocent during the Nazi period and not at all opposed to the Hitler regime. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 17 December 2010, p. 20; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 24 October 2010, p. 33, and 28 November 2010, p. 29; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 28 October 2010, p. 31, and 30 October 2010, p. 33. 31 OCTOBER 2010 The Collection Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz in Winterthur, Switzerland, opened after a long period of renovation. Le Journal des Arts, 22 October–4 November 2010, p. 11. OCTOBER 2010 The Spanish culture minister announced that the newly discovered painting The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1524/30–1569) was ac- quired by the Prado for Y7 million and would remain in Spain. ARTnews, Decem- ber 2010, p. 48. CHRONICLES 535 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core OCTOBER 2010 The National Gallery in Berlin revealed that the museum bought back two art- works restituted to their former owners: the statue Sowing Man by Constantin Meunier (1831–1905) and the painting Evening in Potsdam by Lotte Laserstein (1898–1987). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 October 2010, p. 29. OCTOBER 2010 Italy was concerned about mass tourism in the Vatican where millions of visitors to the Sistine Chapel bring dust and moisture inside the Chapel. Venice is also complaining about the many posters and advertisements covering palaces and buildings all over the city. Le Journal des Arts. 22 October–4 November 2010, p. 5; The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 37, and November 2010, p. 7; Il Gior- nale dell’Arte, October 2010, p. 1. Venice will increase a tourist tax and have the 17.5 million tourists to pay an extra charge. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 1. OCTOBER 2010 Germany returned to the City Museum in Gdansk, Poland, six paintings that had been stolen in Gdansk during World War II and had been discovered in Berlin. Germany was still waiting for the return of the Berlinka collection of the State Library in Berlin still kept by Poland in Krakow. Il Giornale dell’Arte, January 2011, p. 11. OCTOBER 2010 Opening of the expansion of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. The ex- pansion, costing $18 million, was made possible thanks to the generosity of Ran- dolph Schoenberg, who represented Maria Altmann in her case against Austria regarding Klimt’s painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer. The Art Newspaper, Sep- tember 2010, p. 14. OCTOBER 2010 Greece celebrated the 2500-year anniversary of the victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 bce. Minerva, January/February 2011, p. 5. OCTOBER 2010 The Dutch advisory committee on restitution recommended that the Rijksmu- seum should return the painting Winter Landscape by Jan van de Velde II (1593– 536 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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The sale was stipulated beforehand. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 30–31 October 2010, pp. 18, and 13–14 November 2010, p. 16; Le Journal des Arts, 19 November–2 December 2010, p. 25; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 6 November 2010, p. 21; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 October 2010, p. 37. 4 NOVEMBER 2010 The British Museum’s exhibition Journey Through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead attracted many visitors who wanted to know more about faith and belief in ancient Egypt. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 30 De- cember 2010, p. 15; Murray Eiland, “Preparing the Dead,” Minerva, January/ February 2011, p. 14. 4 NOVEMBER 2010 Sotheby’s of New York sold the painting Ritratto di Giovinetta Errazuriz by Gio- vanni Boldini (1842–1931) for Y4.6 million, the highest price ever paid for a Bol- dini. Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 80. 5 NOVEMBER 2010 The Ancient Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland, opened and tried to make good busi- ness. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 6–7 November 2010, p. 19; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 November 2010, p. 38. CHRONICLES 537 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 6 NOVEMBER 2010 In Pompeii, Italy, several walls of the ancient excavated ruins collapsed, showing the deplorable maintenance of ancient sites in Italy. International Herald Tribune, 15 December 2010, p. 2; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 8 Novem- ber 2010, p. 16, and 19 November 2010, p. 18; 3 December 2010, p. 33; and 4 December 2010, p. 11; Il Giornale dell’Arte, September 2010, p. 14; November 2010, p. 8; December 2010, pp. 1 and 12; January 2011, pp. 1, 6, and 34; February 2011, p. 12. Funding will be provided in 2011. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 29; February 2011, p. 7; September 2011, p. 6; Le Journal des Arts, 7–20 January 2011, p. 8; Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, “The Collapse of Pompeii?” Minerva, March/April 2011, p. 26; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 14 November 2010, p. 75; 28 November 2010, p. 47. 7 NOVEMBER 2010 An exhibition at the Château de Fontainebleau, France, on King Henri IV (1553– 1610) revealed one aspect of the famous King, his commission of arts. Le Journal des Arts, 7–20 January 2011, p. 9. 7 NOVEMBER 2010 Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the Basilica Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, built by Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926) and still unfinished, as a real place of worship. Süd- deutsche Zeitung, 6–7 November 2010, p. 11; Die Zeit, 4 November 2010, p. 71; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 November 2010, p. 9; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, In- ternationale Ausgabe, 8 November 2010, p. 3. 8 NOVEMBER 2010 Birthday party in the London National Gallery for Sir Denis Mahon (born 1910) to celebrate his 100th birthday. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 7. 9 NOVEMBER 2010 The Geneva-based Foundation for Art Law organized a colloquium on Restitu- tion of Human Remains. News 21 of the Fondation pour le droit de l’art, February 2011, p. 4. 9 NOVEMBER 2010 Until today Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s The Procession to Calvary was on dis- play. The owner of the painting, Lord St. Oswald, wanted to sell it, and the Her- 538 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Minerva, January/February 2011, p. 4; Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 19; Il Giornale dell’Arte, Decem- ber 2010, p. 80. 12–13 NOVEMBER 2010 Yearly conference of the Swiss Ethnological Society discussed the Swiss imple- mentation of the UNESCO Convention of the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Nike, 4/2010, p. 11. 12–20 NOVEMBER 2010 The Italian Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence opened its fair and promised to protect cultural objects. Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 81. 15 NOVEMBER 2010 Joe Simon-Whelan withdrew his claim in New York against the Andy Warhol Foun- dation because of fraud, collusion, and manipulation. The Art Newspaper, Decem- ber 2010, p. 4. CHRONICLES 539 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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The Art Newspaper, January 2011, p. 57. 17 NOVEMBER 2010 UNESCO at its session in Nairobi accepted Repas gastronomique des Français to be put in the list of protected intangible cultural heritage. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 November 2010, p. 33. Also the Spanish Flamenco and other regional traditions were recognized as part of the list of protected traditions. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 November 2010, p. 9. 19 NOVEMBER 2010 The Duma of Moscow passed a statute allowing the return of about 11,000 ob- jects to religious institutions and organizations. Museums objected to this law and articulated concern with respect to the collections of public museums. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 22 November 2010, p. 4. 19 NOVEMBER 2010 In the Prado, Madrid, the paintings Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer (1471– 1528) were returned from their restoration. The couple was a gift to King Philippe IV of Spain (1621–1665) by Christina of Sweden (1632–1654 abdicated, death 1689 in Rome). She did not like the paintings. Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 72. 540 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 20 NOVEMBER 2010 100 years ago Count Lev Nikolajewitch Tolstoi (1828–1910), author of War and Peace (1868–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–1877) passed away in Russia. He died as a simple man, pacifist, prophet, ecologist, and reformer and is buried on his farm of refuge Jasnaja Poljana, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 November 2010, pp. Z3 and Z5; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20–21 November 2010, p. 17; Die Zeit, 23 September 2010, p. 65, and 18 November 2010, pp. 63–65; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 28 September 2010, p. 19, and 20 November 2010, p. 23. 20 NOVEMBER 2010 In Völklingen, Germany, the exhibition The Celts: Druids, Princes and Warriors presented a show of Celtic art objects. It was said to be the biggest show devoted to these ancient peoples, dating from 500 bce. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 November 2010, p. 27. 21 NOVEMBER 2010 The Detroit Institute of Art showed the exhibition Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries drawing on the public interest on forgeries of art objects. The Art Newspaper, “What’s On,” November 2010, p. 3. 21 NOVEMBER 2010 The Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten in Winterthur, Switzerland, opened the exhibition of the Swiss painter Albert Anker (1831–1910), famous for his genre paintings of Swiss peasants and peasant life. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 January 2011, p. 34; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 27 November 2010, p. 27. 23 NOVEMBER 2010 Yale’s President Richard Levin signed an agreement with Peru’s President Alan Garcia, under which all the objects removed by Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) from Machu Picchu and other places of Peru will be returned to Peru. IFAR Journal, 12, no. 2, 2011, p. 2; Minerva, January/February 2011, p. 9. 26 NOVEMBER 2010 Opening of the exhibition devoted to sculptor Reinhold Begas (1831–1911) on the occasion of his 100th anniversary of his death in the German Historical Mu- CHRONICLES 541 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core seum in Berlin. MuseumsJournal 4/2010, p. 68; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 December 2010, p. 27. 26 NOVEMBER 2010 At the auction by Villa Grisebach, Berlin, paintings of Lesser Ury (1861–1931) achieved tremendous prices as compared with prices in former times. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 4 December 2010, p. 21. 27 NOVEMBER 2010 The attorney general of Stade, Germany, seized a painting that was about to be sold at auction in Buxtehude, Germany, because the painting Jewish Woman with Oranges by Alexander Gierymski (1849–1901) was supposed to have been looted in Poland during World War II. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 30 December 2010, p. 22. 27 NOVEMBER 2010 The State Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany exhibited Grey Passion by Hans Holbein the Elder (1460/65–1533) after a its restoration after acquisition from the Prince of Fürstenberg in 2003. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, 2010, pp. 31 and 35; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 28 November 2010, p. 26; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 13 January 2011, p. 17; art, November 2010, p. 58; Il Giornale dell’Arte, November 2010, p. 32; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 July 2010, p. Z4. 28 NOVEMBER 2010 Irene Ludwig (1927–2010), wife of the collector and patron Peter Ludwig (1925– 1996), and herself a collector and patron, passed away in Aachen, Germany. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1 December 2010, p. 8. Before she died, she do- nated many works of art to museums on Cologne, Germany. Frankfurter Allge- meine Zeitung, 31 March 2011, p. 29. NOVEMBER 2010 A small notice in the paper Wiener Wirtschaftsblatt reads: “Insolvency Opened: Kadenza GmbH, Formerly Machold Rare Violins Trading Company mbH.” The famous violin trader Dietmar Machold of Vienna had financial problems. David Schoenbaum, Das Griechenland der Musikwelt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 December 2010, p. 33. 542 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 January 2011, p. 31. 2 DECEMBER 2010 At the Convention Center in Miami Beach the Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 opened, one of the most important art fairs for contemporary art. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 December 2010, p. 37; Süddeutsche Zeitung, 4–5 December 2010, p. 19. 3 DECEMBER 2010 Opening of an exhibition in Berlin on Carl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), the archaeologist and specialist in Egyptian art. The exhibition is designed to com- memorate the 200th birthday of Lepsius. MuseumsJournal 4/2010, p. 62. 3 DECEMBER 2010 The Tribunal de grande instance de Paris decided that Pierre Coulibeuf violated the work of Marina Abramovic (born 1946) by using her work for his movie The Star and awarded damages of Y50.000. Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 36. 3 DECEMBER 2010 A trove of ancient silver stolen years ago from Morgantina ago was returned to Aidone, Sicily, after having been on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. http://www.nytimes.com, visited on 10 December 2010. CHRONICLES 543 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core 3 DECEMBER 2010 For the first time Dutch group portraits of famous painters of the Dutch Golden Age were shown outside of The Netherlands and exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 4–5 December 2010, p. 16. 3 DECEMBER 2010 Opening of an exhibition on the painter Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) in the Kunsthalle Hamburg. Runge was an artist of the Romantic School and was very diligent, but sold no paintings and was subsidized by his brother who was a mer- chant. Die Welt, 15 December 2010, p. 24; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 4 De- cember 2010, p. 35; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 5 December 2010, p. 26; Die Zeit, 2 December 2010, p. 65; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 10 January 2011, p. 17; art, December 2010, p. 40; The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 75; Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 31. 6 DECEMBER 2010 At Sotheby’s of London the book Birds of America by John James Audubon was sold for £7.3 million. It is one of the most expensive printed books. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 9 December 2010, p. 14. 6 DECEMBER 2010 In Milan the Museo del Novecento opened with masterworks of the twentieth century, such as Bocconi, Morandi, Sironi, and DeChirico e Fontana. Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 12. 7–9 DECEMBER 2010 Auctions by Sotheby’s and Christie’s in New York fetched high prices for classical antiquities because the sale guaranteed that the items were removed from the coun- tries of origin before 1970, the crucial date for the 1970 UNESCO Convention. International Herald Tribune, 18 December 2010, p. 14; Jerome M. Eisenberg, in 22 Minerva no. 2, 2011, p. 50; Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 83, and January 2011, p. 59; The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 7, and December 2010, p. 79; Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 19. 9 DECEMBER 2010 A portrait of Philippe le Bon was returned to Schloss Friedenstein after it had been stolen or hidden after World War II, commissioned for auction by Christie’s, 544 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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MuseumsJournal, January–March 2011, p. 50–53; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 January 2011, p. 34. 13 DECEMBER 2010 A state trial court in Brooklyn denied summary judgment in the case of Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol’s principal assistant, against John Chamberlain who is sus- pected to have sold a work of art as a work by Andy Warhol (1928–1987). IFAR Journal, 12, 2/2011, p. 5. 16 DECEMBER 2010 The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened the exhibition Gabriel Metsu, who lived from 1626 to 1667, around the time as Jan Vermeer (1632–1675). At a certain time, works of Metsu sold better than those of Vermeer. The exhibition showed 35 of the Dutch master lent from several countries. Die Zeit, 20 January 2011, p. 52. 17 DECEMBER 2010 In the Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn the exhibition Napoleon and Europe: Dream and Trauma opened; it was scheduled to go to Paris next year. The Art Newspaper. The Year Ahead 2010, p. 105; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 December 2011, p. 32; Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 2 Jan- uary 2011, p. 24; Die Zeit, 22 December 2010, p. 21; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Inter- nationale Ausgabe, 15 January 2011, p. 17. 17 DECEMBER 2010 In the Palazzo Farnese in Rome (now the French Embassy to Italy) the exhibi- tion From the Collection of Renaissance to the French Embassy opened. Dalu Jones, Minerva, March/April 2011, p. 30; Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 24 January 2011, p. 17; The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 74. CHRONICLES 545 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 December 2010, p. 29. 27 DECEMBER 2010 An Italian court in Rome declared that the archive of Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) could be sold by the owner Giovanni Festari (died on 17 October 2009) for Y150 million to a Russian investor. The sale to a Russian investment company ROSS seemed to be a fake sale in order to cause the Republic of Italy to exercise the right of redemption. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11 January 2011, p. 4; Der Stan- dard, 27 January 2011, p. 27. 30 DECEMBER 2010 Opening of a new museum, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, in Qatar with 6000 paintings, drawings, and sculptures from mostly Islamic countries of Africa and Asia. ARTnews, December 2010, p. 56. 30 DECEMBER 2010 The thieves of the sign “Arbeit macht frei” at the entrance of the Auschwitz con- centration camp were sentenced to two and a half years in prison, decided a Pol- ish court. Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31 December 2010, p. 8. 31 DECEMBER 2010 The Venus of Morgantina, Sicily, left Los Angeles (formerly owned by the Getty Museum) and headed for Sicily where it would be expected to arrive in 2011 and 546 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core be exhibited. Le Journal des Arts, 21 January–3 February 2011, p. 9; Il Giornale dell’Arte, December 2010, p. 20. DECEMBER 2010 The Brooklyn Museum was preparing to return about 4500 pre-Columbian arti- facts taken from Costa Rica a century ago. International Herald Tribune,4 January 2011, pp. 8–9. DECEMBER 2010 Vittorio Sgabri was appointed superintendent for the museums of Venice, includ- ing the Galleria dell’Accademia. The Art Newspaper, January 2011, p. 18. DECEMBER 2010 The financial crisis could be felt everywhere. France was afraid that there would be fewer patrons subsidizing art and culture. Le Journal des Arts, 22 October–4 November 2010, p. 16 and 17. Opposition against Sarkozy’s cultural reforms. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 6. In Hamburg, Germany, museums got less money from the city government and were about to be closed. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- tung, 19 May 2010, p. 33; The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 20, and July/August 2010, p. 16, and September 2010, p, 16. Government grants no longer cover costs of Kunstvereine. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 7. Less money for libraries. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 November 2010, p. N5. Greek cultural institu- tions, because of cuts and closures, were on strike. The Art Newspaper, June 2010, p. 15; Irish and Scottish museums would get less public money next year. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 15. In Italy the conductor Daniel Barenboim, be- fore starting to conduct Rheingold in the Scala of Milan, read the Italian Consti- tution, which obliges the Republic to care for art, culture, and research. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9 December 2010, p. 29. “The Horror Story of Venice’s Civic Museums,” The Art Newspaper, October 2010, p. 8. The exhibition La scultura a Roma nel Quattrocento had to be reduced from 90 to 35 objects. Il Giornale dell’Arte, May 2010, p. 21. Museums in Turin, Naples, and Bologna suffered steep drops in financial and political support. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 20. In the Netherlands there were also shortfalls. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 8 July 2011, p. 33. In Switzerland less government money was scheduled for subsidizing his- torical monuments. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 27 January 2011, p. 25. The United Kingdom announced 15% cuts for national museums. The Art Newspaper, November 2010, p. 9; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21 September 2010, p. 13. In the United States the Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Fran- cisco was facing bankruptcy. The Art Newspaper, January 2011, p. 16. Cutbacks in the Chicago Art Institute. The Art Newspaper, May 2010, p. 22. But the art trade CHRONICLES 547 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core seemed to recover. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Internationale Ausgabe, 30 December 2010, p. 11. DECEMBER 2010 Italy and China made an agreement providing China exhibition space in Rome (Palazzo Venezia) and providing space for Italy in the National Museum of China in Beijing. The Art Newspaper, December 2010, p. 13. DECEMBER 2010 Another German-Russian dialog on libraries took place in Moscow. However, there was no success concerning the restitution of German books to German libraries. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 22 December 2010, p. N4. DECEMBER 2010 Scientists of France and England identified the head of King Henry IV of France (reigned 1589–1610). Henry IV was murdered, and his corpse was buried in Saint- Denis in Paris. In 1793, at the time of the French Revolution, his grave was looted and his head disappeared. It was auctioned in 1919 to the antiquarian Joseph Bour- dais and in 1955 sold to Jacques Bellanger. Now scientists have identified the head of Henry IV by revealing personal distinguishing attributes of his head (pierced ear for an earring, wound of the upper jaw because of an injury; red and white hair), Die Welt, 17 December 2010, p. 22; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 De- cember 2010, p. 8. 548 KURT SIEHR https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. University of Basel Library, on 11 Jul 2017 at 14:32:16, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739111000294 https:/www.cambridge.org/core work_4oo2jpu4dncpxn7wbspnukonge ---- Ratio Mathematica ISSN: 1592-7415 Vol. 35, 2018, pp. 87- 99 eISSN: 2282-8214 87 Preparation and Application of Mind Maps in Mathematics Teaching and Analysis of their Advantages in Relation to Classical Teaching Methods Andrej Vanko* Received: 04-08-2018 Accepted: 30-11-2018 Published: 31-12-2018 doi: 10.23755/rm.v35i0.428 ©Andrej Vanko Abstract In this article, we are dealing with mind maps and describing the experiment with the application of mind maps in teaching mathematics at secondary schools. The experiment is aiming at comparing classical teaching and learning with mind maps. In the past, we created two groups of students (25 students per group), an experimental and a control group. We have set up a pre-test consisting of tasks not related to the subject that will be taken through mind maps. By the end of the experiment, we apply a post-test with tasks directly focused on the subject that we will teach through mind maps. We will then evaluate the individual tests and then we will evaluate the effectiveness of the mind maps in the teaching process compared to the traditional methods. Keywords: mind maps, experiment, mathematics, application, pre- test, post-test, comparing * Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Trieda A. Hlinku 1, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic; Email: andrej.vanko@ukf.sk. Andrej Vanko 88 1. Mind Maps Mind maps are diagrams that express essential relationships between terms in the form of claims. The statements are represented by briefly characterized combinations of terms that describe relationship information and describe the interrelation of concepts. The mind map illustrates the structure, hierarchy, and the relationship between the terms. It enhances the learning process efficiency and promotes creativity. They are very economical in expressing a very complex content, helpful to memorize, allowing a view of the same thing from multiple angles, allowing see the relationships between ideas in a complex way [8]. They also help to see paradoxes and opposites, which motivates students to ask new questions. It is very important to determine the central idea, from which lead the main and the secondary branches, which gradually form certain relations. We use different colors, shortcuts, diagrams, symbols, equations, and images in the map. Mind maps as a schematic expression of thoughts, ideas or notes are not inventions of the 21st century. In addition, the use of learning methods built on the creation and presentation, which are logically arranged and the links of the conjugated terms are not the discovery of current educational trends. In the past, teachers structured the learned curriculum by using key concepts placed on a magnetic board, notice board, or complemented the prepared schemes with cutout images and characters. Many important artists and geniuses, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Edison, Galileo, Marie Curie and others, brought certain schemes into their own ideas in the past. They tried to highlight their ideas, not just linear, using lines and words, but also with a strong language of images, drawings, schemes, codes, symbols, and graphs [1]. In current professional, as well as popular-learning literature, we can encounter several names of the linear and nonlinear layout of concepts, data and main themes in graphically integrated structures. The authors present conceptual maps, mental maps, thought maps, cognitive maps, semantic maps, knowledge maps, webs, mind maps, and so on. Some of these terms do not distinguish individually and call their collectively mental maps or cognitive schemes [2]. J. D. Novak [3] considered as a founder of conceptual map theories and their construction speaks of mind maps as a hierarchically arranged, graphical representation of relations between selected concepts. There are general terms at the top of the map that are associated with terms that are more specific in the lower tree level. From the central concept, the "branches" are connecting with the Preparation and application of mind maps 89 concept in the lower parts of the map, from which the "branches" are connecting again with the concept at the lower levels of the map. Psychologists Veselský [4] and Stewart [5] talk about conceptual maps as graphical imaging systems, whose basic building unit are concepts. They are represented by frames with inscribed notional names and the relationships are expressed by marked orientated lines linking the respective conceptual expressions. Focus on the non-linear abstract representation of the structure of the subject and notes an opposite to the written, printed, projected, or otherwise presented text followed by the sentences one after the other [6], stresses Mareš. According to him, it is based on the idea of organizing the best and the most transparent key concepts and relationships by "visualizing" them and creating a sketch, a schematic of an easily accessible abstract "outer" memory. Although a learner learns to organize the key elements of the curriculum on paper first. He has to begin with organizing them in the head. Thus, he is forced to consciously construct and reconstruct a network of concepts and relationships in his "mental space" [7]. It follows from the above that there is no terminological unity and consensus among the experts in understanding the different concepts of capturing concept ideas in the graphical structure of related concepts with the designation of relationships and links between them. The Fisher’s definition of mind maps is probably the most precise according to them. A conceptual, thought-based, or otherwise called mental map is a diagram that illustrates the context and relationship between knowledge, serves to organize them. We understand the conceptual, mental or idea map as synonyms. We do this in particular because some of the used conceptual maps do not have a typical structure of mental maps, they consist of several levels, and there are significant links ̶ relationships between some terms [2]. 2. Preparation, Application and Evaluation of the Pre-Test If we wanted to compare the two different teaching methods, we needed to have the experimental and control groups at the same level of knowledge before the comparisons began. To test knowledge of these groups, we created a pre-test that tested both groups before applying the mind maps. Students in both groups wrote this pre-test on the same day. The pre-test included three tasks from the previous non-geometry related lesson. Tasks aimed at adjusting the fractions, creating, and Andrej Vanko 90 solving the equation. In each assignment, we identified several characters, which we took into consideration during the evaluation and allowed us to compare the two groups of students more objectively. Pre-test, Task 1: Determine when the expression is meaningful and adjust it to the simplest form. 𝑎 + 𝑏 𝑎 − 𝑏 − 𝑎 − 𝑏 𝑎 + 𝑏 1 − 𝑎2 + 𝑏2 𝑎2 − 𝑏2 ∶ 1 𝑏2 − 2 𝑏 + 1 2 − 1 + 𝑏2 𝑏 Rated characters in task # 1: • a ≠ b • b ≠ 0,1 • transcription for multiplication • common denominator • modifying a fraction • cutting fractions • excluding -1 from the second fraction • result Pre-test, Task 2: If we enlarge one side of the square by 4 units and at the same time reduce the other side by 2 units; we create a rectangle whose content is 12% larger than the square. Specify the square size of the square. Rated characters in task # 2: • picture • content of a square • rectangle content • increase content by 12% • equality of contents • edit quadratic equation • result Pre-test, Task 3: If we increase the unknown number by 7 and if we create the square root of this enlarged number, we get a number that is by 5 smaller than the original number. Specify an unknown number. Rated characters in task # 3: • enlarged number • root • reduced number • equality • squaring • writing of quadratic equation • modification of quadratic equation • writing results Preparation and application of mind maps 91 The selected characters represented the various conditions within the given task, important for its solvability, mathematical operations, mathematical entries, various comparisons, adjustments of equations, fractions and results of individual tasks. The choice of characters within the assignments helped us evaluate the solution of these tasks objectively without any external influence. Picture 1: Selected sample of students in pre-test, experimental group, Task 1 Picture 2: Selected sample of students in pre-test, experimental group, Task 2 Picture 3: Selected sample of students in pre-test, experimental group, Task 3 Picture 4: Selected sample of students in pre-test, control group, Task 1 Picture 5: Selected sample of students in pre-test, control group, Task 2 Picture 6: Selected sample of students in pre-test, control group, Task 3 a ≠ b b ≠ 0,1 transcription for multiplication common denominator modifying a fraction cutting fractions excluding -1 from the second fraction result N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y N N N N N N Y Y N N N N picture content of a square rectangle content increase content by 12% equality of contents edit quadratic equation result Y N Y N N N N N N N N N N N Y Y Y N N N N Y Y Y N N N N enlarged number root reuced number equality squaring writting of quadratic equation modification of quadratic equation writting results Y Y Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N Y Y N Y N N N N a ≠ b b ≠ 0,1 transcription for multiplication common denominator modifying a fraction cutting fractions excluding -1 from the second fraction result N Y N N N N N N N N Y Y N N N N N N Y Y N N N N N N N N N N N N picture content of a square rectangle content increase content by 12% equality of contents edit quadratic equation result N Y Y N N Y N Y N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N enlarged number root reuced number equality squaring writting of quadratic equation modification of quadratic equation writting results Y Y Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Y N N N N N N N N N N N N Andrej Vanko 92 We evaluated the pre-test as the ratio of the characters in the resolution (Y means, that character was in resolution, N means, that character was missing in solution) from all students within the given task to the total number of characters within the given task. In Table 1 there is shown percentage of students’ success rate in each group in a particular task. Table 1: Comparison of pre-test results in experimental and control groups (%) Task / Group Experimental Control Task 1 10.2 5.7 Task 2 14.3 15.6 Task 3 33 34 Even though the students did not properly calculate the tasks, it was clear from the pre-test that both groups of students were about the same level of knowledge, what was essential for our experiment and we could move to the next stage, the application of mind maps in the teaching process. 3. Application of Conceptual Maps in the Teaching Process in the Subject of Mathematics After agreement with the mathematics teacher in the experimental group, we had three lessons available, during which we presented the curriculum of geometry dealing with the mutual positions of lines and planes. We used a computer and a projector for this activity. The curriculum was processed using conceptual maps and inserted into the presentation. We divided the curriculum for lessons into individual groups as follows: 1st lesson: Mutual position of lines (parallel, parallel identical, concurrent), 2nd lesson: Mutual position of lines (skew), mutual position of lines and planes (parallel, parallel identical), 3rd lesson: Mutual position of lines and planes (concurrent), mutual position of planes (parallel, parallel identical, concurrent). Preparation and application of mind maps 93 We informed students about the content for next three lessons. Picture 7: Introductory division of the curriculum Picture 8: Detailed division of the mutual positions of the two lines In Picture 8, we have explored in more detail the possible mutual positions of the two lines. Picture 9: Detailed division of the parallel positions of the two lines Picture 9 focused on the case of two parallel lines and the possible representation of these lines. Andrej Vanko 94 Picture 10: Detailed parametric representation of mutual parallel positions of two lines In Picture 10 there is an illustrative and detailed description of a branch of parametric representation. Picture 11: An example of the mutual position of two parallel lines in parametric representation In Picture 11 there is task, which the students were trying to solve after the theoretical part was completed. On the map there were marked intermediate results that served to students for check. Preparation and application of mind maps 95 As can be seen in Picture 7 ̶ 11, the principles of the mind map were retained. The deeper we got into the mind map, the more specific terms were in that part. Our task was to explain these concepts to the students so they can join these concepts together alone and can apply them in solving different problems. After these three lessons, during which we were teaching using mind maps, we moved into the final phase of our experiment. This part consisted of the post-test we gave to the students. The post-test consisted of tasks that focused directly on the subject discussed at our three lessons. 4. Preparation, Application and Evaluation of the Post-Test After completing the pre-test, which showed us that the students are about the same level of knowledge, following the use of mind maps in three teaching lessons, we have reached the final stage of our experiment. This final phase consisted of two phases: application of post-test and evaluation of results from post-test. The tasks in the post-test were, this time, directly focused on the mutual positions of planes and lines, in order to compare the effectiveness of this method in the experimental group against the classical way of teaching in the control group. In the given tasks, we have re-selected the characters that represented the key elements in the solving of the task. Post-test, Task 1: Show that the planes α and β are concurrent and write the parametric representation of the intersection of these planes. α: 5x – 3y + 2z – 5 = 0 β: 2x – y – z – 1 = 0 Rated characters in task # 1: • normal vector p • normal vector q • vector products • parameter at point P • parametric representation of intersection Andrej Vanko 96 Post-test, Task 2: Determine the mutual position of plane β and line p. β: x – 5y + 4z – 6 = 0 p: x = 2 – t, y = 3t, z = 3 + 4t, t ∈ R Rated characters in task # 2: • placing p to β, scalar product • place P into equation β • adjusting equation after placing P into β • determine final position Post-test, Task 3: Determine the mutual positions of p, q. If p = (𝑨𝑩) ⃡ , q = (𝑪𝑫) ⃡ A = [7, 6] B = [6, 8] C = [6, -5] D = [4, -1] Rated characters in task # 3: • line p • line q • expression of p • expression of q • vector comparison • computation and comparison of parameters • result Picture 12: Selected sample of students in post-test, experimental group, Task 1 Picture 13: Selected sample of students in post-test, experimental group, Task 2 Picture 14: Selected sample of students in post-test, experimental group, Task 3 normal vector p normal vector q vector products parameter at point P parametric expression of intersection Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N placing p to β, scalar product placing p to β, scalar product adjusting equation after placing P into β determine final position Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y line p line q expression of p expression of q vector comparison computation and comparison of parameters result Y Y N N Y N N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Preparation and application of mind maps 97 Picture 15: Selected sample of students in post-test, control group, Task 1 Picture 16: Selected sample of students in post-test, control group, Task 2 Picture 17: Selected sample of students in post-test, control group, Task 3 The post-test was evaluated in the same way as the pre-test and the results from both tests were subsequently recorded in Table 2 Table 2: Comparison of the results of the post-test in the experimental and control group (%) Task / Group Experimental Control Task 1 88.3 78.3 Task 2 91.7 68.8 Task 3 82.1 53.6 As we can see from Table 2, the results compared to the pre-test are much better. The students were able to apply the acquired knowledge in solving of the given tasks. For our experiment is much more important that the results achieved in the experimental group, in the group where we were teaching with the help of mind maps, are obviously better than in the control group where the classic teaching methods were used. normal vector p normal vector q vector products parameter at point P parametric expression of intersection Y Y N N N Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Y Y placing p to β, scalar product placing p to β, scalar product adjusting equation after placing P into β determine final position Y N N N N N N N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y line p line q expression of p expression of q vector comparison computation and comparison of parameters result Y Y N N Y N N Y N N N N N N Y Y N N Y N N Y N N N Y N N Andrej Vanko 98 5. Conclusion This article was focused on the application of mind maps in the teaching process and the comparison of the mind map's effectiveness with the classical way of teaching. This comparison consisted of three important steps: 1st Pre-test and evaluation 2nd Application of conceptual maps in the teaching process 3rd Post-test and evaluation In both tests, pre-test and post-test, we chose the rated characters which we were looking for during the correction of students’ tests. We subsequently evaluated and compared these rated characters. The students wrote the tests on the same day to prevent the possible influence and improvement of the results in one or the other group. In the first step, we gave the students a pre-test, in which the balance or imbalance of students’ knowledge in the experimental and control group should be demonstrated. The results of the pre-test showed that the students were about the same level of knowledge. In the next step, we had three lessons from the geometry. Subject of these lessons was the mutual positioning of the lines and the planes. During these lessons we were using mind maps. In the last step, the students wrote a post-test with tasks related to the mutual positions of the lines and planes. The post-test was then evaluated and the results from both groups were compared in Table 2. According to the values, we can see that success in solving problems is higher in the experimental group. These results are better in the range of 10% to almost 30% compared to the control group, which is not negligible. Only for comparison, the results of the pre-test in both groups varied from 1% to less than 5%. At the end, we can conclude that the mind maps in our presentation with our teaching are more effective compared to the traditional classical teaching method. Preparation and application of mind maps 99 References 1. MIND MAPPING BLOG. 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Vol 27 (2014), ISSN 2282-8214. p. 49-59 work_4r4bfhb4dngefilqgf2rxvbkym ---- Hindrances to Internal Creative Thinking and Thinking Styles of Malaysian Teacher Trainees in the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 1877–0428 © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.406 Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 p WCES-2011 Hindrances to Internal Creative Thinking and Thinking Styles of Malaysian Teacher Trainees in the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute Chua Yan Piaw University of Malaya, Institute of Principalship Studies, Level 2, Block C, Complex City Campus UM, Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract The aim of this study is to identify hindrances to internal creative thinking and thinking styles of a group of Malaysian teacher trainees from the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute (N = 232). Three psychological tests were used administrated to the subjects. The result indicates that the ability to think creatively for the majority of subjects (87.50%) is hindered seriously by one of the hindrances to internal creative thinking, that is, stimulus fixity. The finding implies that lecturers of this group of teacher trainees should guide them to overcome this internal barrier before trying to encourage them to think creatively. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Internal creative thinking, thinking style, teacher trainees, stimulus fixity, functional fixity 1. Background Human beings react differently to ambiguous situations, situations which cause an individual to experience stress and make him unable to think creatively. Several authors and researchers (Chua, 2010a, Almeida, Prieto, Ferrando, Oliveira, & Ferrándiz, 2008; Carson, Peterson, & Higgins, 2003; Daniels, 1998; Torrance, 1984; Sarnoff & Cole, 1983) are of the opinion that the ability to think freely with an open mind when facing ambiguous situations is an indicator of creative thinking. Hindrances to creative thinking can be divided into two types: hindrances to external creative thinking and hindrances to internal creative thinking. According to Dacey (1989), two kinds of hindrances to internal creative thinking which prevent people from continuing to think freely and openly when faced with ambiguous situations are stimulus fixity and functional fixity. Dacey defined stimulus fixity as a condition of an individual who, when faced with a specific stimulus, can only think about the stimulus such that he is unable to open his mind creatively to think about something else other than the stimulus. It is this hindrance that causes an individual to lose his creative thinking ability when faced with ambiguous situations. In addition, Dacey’s 1989 study conducted on a group of secondary school students showed that nearly 75% (n = 900) of them possess rigid thinking and are unable to think creatively because of stimulus fixity. He commented that the students’ ability of thinking is limited to the stimuli in front of them until they cannot think creatively about any other thing. Torrance, Ball & Safter (1984) labelled this condition as premature closure, that is, one of the Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 4014 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 hindrances where a person cannot open up or free his thinking to think of something else other than the stimulus in front of him. Functional fixity on the other hand is defined as the condition where a person is unable to open his mind to think beyond the function of a specific object. According to Dacey, life is a process of growing functional fixity – the more a person learns about how things work, the more he tends to accept the patterns of unalterable. Nevertheless, functional fixity interferes with problem solving at all levels of thinking. Only imaginative people could resist being functional fixity, and think freely for functions other than usual purposes. Dacey (1989) reported that the majority of his research subjects (secondary school students) are less creative because of functional fixity. Several authors and researchers (Koh, 2009; Norrizan, 2000) are of the opinion that the teaching methodology and the Malaysian school curriculum at this point in time place more emphasis on teaching, learning and evaluation methods which are left-brain oriented and which promote rote learning, convergent thinking and submission to the authority of teachers. According to Torrance and Sato (1979), the left and right hemispheres of the human brain function together to process information and both are required for creative problem-solving. William (1983) stated that man have two hemispheres in his brain but sometimes the education system operates such that we are made to use only one hemisphere and this indirectly hinders our ability to think creatively. Chua (2004) compared creative thinking among students in Asia and the United States and reported that the standard mean score for the creative thinking index of a group of Malaysian secondary school students is lower than the standard mean score for a similar age group in the United States. However, the factor that accounted for the difference was not identified. In relation to this, this study aims to explore and identify the hindrances to creative thinking and thinking styles of a group of teacher trainees in the teacher training institute in order to provide more information to educators, especially those who are directly involved in creative education. 2. Research objectives The objectives of this study are to identify: 1) hindrances to internal creative thinking in teacher trainees from the perspectives of stimulus fixity and functional fixity; and 2) thinking styles of a group of teacher trainees. 3. Methods The data of this descriptive survey was collected using three paper-pencil questionnaires. 3.1. Research subjects The subjects of this study comprised 232 semester three teacher trainees (Average age: 19.6 years old) of the Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute, Kuala Lumpur. The subjects enrolled in a Bachelor of Teaching programme, offered by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia. 3.2. Research instruments Three instruments were used in this study. The first instrument was the Story-writing Test (Dacey, 1989). This is a paper-pencil test using a picture of a cat looking at a rectangle. The subjects were asked to write a short story, which is interesting and unusual, a story that no one else would think of. This instrument is used to collect information about a hindrance to internal creative thinking, that is, stimulus fixity. The second instrument used was the Two-string Test (Dacey, 1989). This instrument is a paper-pencil test showing a picture of a young man. One of his hands is tied with a string to the ceiling of a room (string A) while the other hand is trying to reach for the string which is far from him (Dacey, 1989: 24). Research subjects were asked to help the young man solve his problem using a mouse trap. This instrument is used to gather information about functional fixity, another hindrance to internal creative thinking. Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 4015 The third instrument was the Thinking Style (YBRAINS, Chua, 2010b) which is used for collecting quantitative information about thinking styles. The test items were built based on research findings about brain hemisphericity. It is a paper-pencil test with 25 items. Each item contains choices related to left-brain, right-brain and whole brain thinking. The items of the YBRAINS instrument were developed based on research evidences of split brain experiments including the blood flow technique (Lassen & Ingvar, 1972), dichotic listening technique (Bethmann, Tempelmann, De Bleser, Scheich, & Brechmann, 2007; Kimura, 1961), and electroencephalogram or electrical brain writing technique (Galin & Ornstein, 1972). Besides that, in building the test, findings regarding the functions of the left brain and right brain from psychological tests such as the literal preference test (Porch & Coren, 1981) and the street gestalt completion test (Bogen, 1975) were also referred to. [The computer-based YBRAINS test was awarded a gold medal at the 21th International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition, ITEX ’10, on 14 - 16 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre] A left-brained thinker tends to be more logical and analytical in thinking. He evaluates materials in a rational way, works in a systematic manner, follows rules, processes information sequentially or step by step, is a conforming person, is emotionally inhibited, prefers structured assignments, takes life seriously and is proficient in language and verbal activities. Jobs best suited for this kind of person are those that require systematic, logical thinking and decision-making skills. Meanwhile, the right brained person is creative, generates good spatial relationships, has a highly adventurous and inventive mind, solves problem intuitively, is a non-confirming person, responds with emotions and feelings, prefers open-ended assignments, has a good sense of humour, faces everyday life with an open mind, responds to music and art and possesses innate musical and artistic talent. The right-brained person is suitable for jobs that require the forming of spatial relationships, creative expressions (such as the aesthetics value of cubism painting of Pablo Picasso) and those that involve idea generation. To be considered whole brained, a person must have a balanced thinking style, possesses the thinking abilities and other characteristics of left-brained and right-brained thinkers. The whole brained thinker is most suited for jobs that need right-brain and left-brain skills. Test-retest reliability of the YBRAINS was conducted in a pilot study on a group of 35 students of a teacher training programme at the Kuala Lumpur Specialist Teachers’ Training Institute. The same students were retested three months later. The average age of the respondents in the reliability test (average age: 19.4 years old) was similar to the average age of the respondents in the study. The product-moment correlation coefficients were positively significant for the brain styles [left-brain style: r = .93, p< .05; right-brain style: r = .84, p< .05; whole- brain style: r = .87, p< .05]. 3.3. Research procedure The research subjects individually answered questions from the three research instruments in a classroom setting under the supervision of lecturers who were teaching the classes concerned. The time allocated for the first and second instruments was 8 minutes each, while 30 minutes were allocated for the third instrument. 3.4. Data analysis Since this is a descriptive research, data for hindrances to internal creative thinking (stimulus fixity and functional fixity) is tabulated in frequency and percentage. The data is also analysed qualitatively, that is the students’ answers are interpreted based on the definitions of stimulus fixity and functional fixity. For thinking styles (left, right and whole brain thinking styles), the data is tabulated in terms of frequency and percentage. 4. Results 4.1. Hindrances to internal creative thinking The frequency and percentage for hindrances to internal creative thinking of the subjects are shown in Table 1. 4016 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 Table 1. Frequency and percentage of the hindrances to internal creative thinking ability of the subjects (N = 232) Test Hindrances to creative thinking Stimulus fixity Functional fixity Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage The story-writing test 203 87.50 – – The two-string test – – 34 14.66 The results show that 87.50% (n = 203) of the subjects experience stimulus fixity and 14.66% (n = 34) experience functional fixity. The results indicate that stimulus fixity is the hindrance to creative thinking experienced by the majority of the subjects. Only a small number of the subjects experience the problem of functional fixity. 4.1.1. Stimulus fixity When the short stories of the subjects were analysed quantitatively, it was found that most of the subjects could only write stories centred on the rectangle in the picture given. The following are some of the extracts from the short stories written by this group of subjects: “In the box, there was food. A cat smelled the fried fish and tried to go near the box. Unfortunately the cat could not open the box.” (Subject 22) “The cat ran very fast, looking all around. It saw a box in front. The cat opened the box and saw a rat sleeping in the box.” (Subject 25) “One day a cat saw a hole in the wall of its master’s house. The cat wanted to see what was in the hole. So it waited in front of the hole and observed. Suddenly a rat jumped out.” (Subject 8) “A cat wanted to look for its friend who had gone missing for a long time. While it was walking, looking for its missing friend, it saw a very big box. It tried to open it, but could not because the box was too heavy.” (Subject 117) The research data clearly shows that the ability of the above subjects to think openly and freely when faced with an ambiguous situation is low. This weakness (thinking was restricted by the rectangle in the picture which represents an ambiguous situation) hinders them from thinking creatively and producing unique ideas. Extracts from the short stories written by the second group of subjects, who are free from stimulus fixity, are as follows: “One quiet night, I felt tired and slept on the bed. I had a strange dream. In my dream, there was a hungry cat with yellow fur. It was looking for food all around its master’s house and finally saw a fish on the table. When the cat was going to eat the fish, it saw another cat which was sick and hungry. It remembered its mother who was kind and always helped other cats who needed help.” (Subject 34) “Kamal is an artist. One day Kamal drew a pretty picture (picture of a cat, like in the picture above). He coloured it using pretty colours. He wanted to sell his picture to the owner of a restaurant, but the restaurant owner did not want to buy the picture because he could not understand it. Kamal explained that the picture would bring luck to the restaurant owner because the cat in the picture represented the customers who were very interested in the restaurant’s food, and if the picture were hung on the wall of the restaurant, the business would increase.” (Subject 77) The difference between the two types of stories above is that the first group composed the stories as if they were instructed to focus their stories on the rectangle in the picture. In this situation their thinking was restricted and they were unable to compose unique and unusual stories. Their stories were almost always constrained by the lines that surround the picture. However the stories of the second group were not restricted by the rectangle in the picture; they used the whole picture or elements in the picture as the basis to develop stories which were freer and unique. Their thinking was not hindered by stimulus fixity. 4.1.2. Functional fixity The research data in Table 1 clearly shows that only a small group (n = 34; 14.66%) of teacher trainees could not solve the problem (when faced with an ambiguous situation) creatively because they could not imagine how the Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 4017 mouse trap could be used for purposes other than its original one. Some of the teacher trainees suggested that the mouse trap be used to catch a mouse and the mouse be used to help the young man reach for the two strings. However, the majority of the subjects could think logically and rationally, and suggested using the concept of gravitational pull (weight of the mouse trap) to swing the trap which was tied to string B to reach string A. 4.2. Thinking style The frequency and percentage of each thinking style of the students are shown in Table 2. It was found that most of the students tend to use the left brain to think (left brain 66.81%, right brain 27.16% and whole brain 6.03%). Table 2. Thinking styles of the subjects (N = 232) Thinking style Frequency Percentage Left 155 66.81 Right 63 27.16 Whole brain 14 6.03 5. Discussion The study results show that most (n = 203; 87.50%) of the teacher trainees experience the problem of stimulus fixity. They tend to focus their attention on the stimulus alone when faced with ambiguous situations. These teacher trainees are stimulus-bound; they follow rules religiously and are unable to bend the rules to suit their needs. They assume that rules exist when the situation is ambiguous (Slahova, Savvina, Cacka, & Volonte, 2007; Getzels & Taylor, 1975; Torrance, 1979). They are likely to assume non-existent directions in order to alleviate the fear of being wrong, and the fear is undoubtedly one of the most effective inhibitors of creative thinking. This behaviour served as a hindrance to internal creative thinking. A creative personality dares to engage in uncertain and ambiguous situations, find new aspects in something that is congenial and familiar and create new experiences, always eagerly searching for new styles and manners and proceeding with various stages of the creative process (Slahova, Savvina, Cacka, & Volonte, 2007, Chua, 2009). Obviously, from the results of the study, this creative personality is lacking in the teacher trainees. This may be due to the school education system which directly or indirectly stresses thinking which is “systematic, logical and structured” in order to achieve high score in examinations (some subjects in the curriculum do emphasise the significance of enhancing thinking skills in students. This is however, due to the tough competition among schools for academic achievement and “excellent school” and “cluster school” status). Students are taught to follow instructions step by step and to think logically as soon as they enter school (Hart, 1983). This emphasis indirectly will train them to centre and view each stimulus from only one perspective. Such a focus only increases the ability to think logically while weakening the ability to think creatively. The findings of this study are supported by the research data about functional fixity, where the majority of teacher trainees could think logically, as illustrated by their use of the gravity concept to solve the problem in the Two-string Test. They could see the mouse trap functioning as a weight, but other unusual functions were not immediately obvious to them. The research results are also supported by the data in Table 2 which shows that most of the teacher trainees tend to use their left brain, which is oriented towards logical, systematic and rational thinking. However, the results about functional fixity are not in line with the findings of Dacey (1989). The contradictions in the two research findings may be explained by the results of Chua’s research (2002), which showed that the standard mean score index for creative thinking in Malaysian students is lower when compared to the mean score index for American students of the same age. Nevertheless, to compare data of two studies which were conducted 10 years apart does not make sense. More bilateral or multilateral studies should be conducted to clarify this result. 4018 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4013–4018 6. Implications and suggestions The results imply that the teacher trainees in this research experience problems in stimulus fixity when they are faced with ambiguous situations. To free them from this hindrance to creative thinking, it is suggested that lecturers help their students to become aware of this problem and explain to them the natural process of creative thinking while at the same time prepare an environment which will allow them to think creatively. This will awaken them to their innate powers of mind and enable them to reclaim their ability to think creatively. References Almeida, L.S., Prieto, L.P., Ferrando, M., Oliveira, E., & Ferrándiz, C. (2008). 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TTCT streamlined (revised) manual including norm and direction for administrating and scoring Figural A and B. Lexington: Personal Press/Ginn & Company. Torrance, E.P., & Sato, S. (1979). Difference in Japanese and United States’ styles of thinking. Creative Child and Adult Quarterly, 4, 145–151. Williams, L.V. (1983). A guide to right/left brain education: Teaching for the two sides mind. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. . work_4vghkspkyjg73ei2l35dzsylqm ---- Adresa autora: Emil Vlajić, Svetozara Markovića 36/25, Zaječar, Srbija. E-mail: vemil@mts.rs Rad primljen: 6. 4. 2015. Rad prihvaćen: 31. 5. 2015. Elektronska verzija objavljena: 21. 8. 2015. www.tmg.org.rs 97 Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 Originalni rad UDK 75.049:61 ISSN 0350-2899. - Vol. 40, br. 2 (2015), str. 97-105. COBISS.SR-ID 216886028 DOKTORI U OČIMA UMETNIKA PHYSICIANS IN THE EYES OF ARTISTS Emil Vlajić ZDRAVSTVENI CETNAR ZAJEČAR, ZAJEČAR Sažetak: Lekarska profesija se nalazi na vetrometini istorijskih zbivanja. Često je odraz opštih istorijskih i društvenih dešavanja. Vetrovi istorije kroz socijalne turbulencije menjaju poziciju doktora, ali i njegovo viđenje od strane ljudi koji nisu doktori. Posebno viđenje imaju oni koji od lekara očekuju pomoć – lekar svakako izgleda drugačije u njihovim očima. Međutim, samo umetnici imaju tu moć da kroz svoju veštinu prikažu svu kompleksnost odnosa lekara i pacijenta. Kroz slike umetnika vidimo kompleksnost i višeslojnost tog odnosa. U tom odnosu upravo emotivni naboj izbija u prvi plan i veličina umetnika se prepoznaje po stepenu emocija koje nas preplavljuju dok posmatramo njihova dela. U ovom radu je analizirano sedam slika, sedam umetnika, gde se prikazuje upravo odnos lekara i pacijenta. Svaka od ovih slika ima svoju priču, odražava istorijsko okruženje, prikazuje različite vrste pacijenata i na različite načine prikazuje doktore. Svima je jedinstveno to da u centar dešavanja stavljaju lekara i njegov odnos prema pacijentu. Kroz oči umetnika možemo da doživimo lekarsku profesiju na novi način i kroz novu dimenziju spoznamo odnos lekara i pacijenta. Ključne reči: Umetnost i medicina, doctor i pacijent, medicina, umetnost. Abstract: The medical profession has always been a very important part of history. Very often it is the reflection of general historical and social events. The winds of history and social turbulences change the doctor’s role in society as well as the way people who aren’t doctors see them. People who expect doctor’s help certainly view this person very differently and he holds a special place in their lives. However, not all people have the skill and the talent to present the complexity of this doctor-patient relationship to the world. Artists have the ability to present to the world what they see and what they feel through their art and tell the story about the doctor and the patient and multiple layers of their relationship. The emotional aspect of this relationship is one of the most important ones and we can measure an artist and their art by the amount of emotions we feel when we are looking at an art piece. In this article seven artworks by seven authors will be analyzed all of which represent the doctor-patient relationship. Each of these paintings has its own story, it represents the social and historical environment of the time period in which it was created and it shows different types of patients and presents doctors in different ways. The thing all of these artworks have in common is the central motif – the doctor and the patient and their relationship. The artist gives us an opportunity to observe and to experience medical practice and to witness the doctor-patient relationship in a different way. Key words: Medicine and art, Doctor and patient, Medicine, Art UVOD Istorija lečenja duga je koliko i ljudska istorija. Svest o bolestima dovodi do pojave prvih pokušaja lečenja i istovremeno do ljudi koji su se bavili ovakvim poslom. I ubrzo, istorijski gledano, pored pojmova o zdravlju i bolesti i pojave prvih „lekara” izgrađuje se i sam odnos između bolesnika i „lečitelja”. Kroz čitavu ljudsku istoriju, ovaj odnos je trajao i opstajao, često je bio u drugom planu, nekada neprimetan i skriven, ali uvek prisutan. Savremeno doba, sa eksplozivnim širenjem i razvojem medicinske nauke, uz svu šarolikost tehničkih pomagala, na neki način odnos pacijenta i doktora ostavlja u pozadini. Ovaj odnos time ne gubi od svog značaja. Za razliku od medicine, koja se razvija nepojmljivom brzinom, odnos lekar–pacijent konstanto je prisutan i održava svoj značaj. Lekari često svoj odnos prema pacijentu, oslobođen same medicine, olako shvataju, računaju da se podrazumeva, ne pridaju mu veliki značaj, dozvoljavaju da se spontano razvija. Malo lekara o njemu 98 Originalni rad Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 www.tmg.org.rs intenzivno razmišlja i svesno ulaže trud u poboljšanje ovog odnosa. Kvalitet samog lekara se, pored medicinskog znanja, može ceniti i kvalitetom odnosa prema pacijentu. Tek retki doktori ovaj, rekli bismo „nemedicinski” aspekt svoje profesije, znaju da ispolje na pravi način. Pacijenti to prepoznaju, nekako su osetljiviji, i pridaju veliki značaj upravo ovom odnosu. Oni lakše razumeju postojanje dobrog odnosa sa lekarom, nego stručne pojmove koje medicina nosi, a lekari koriste. Iskusni lekari znaju koliku snagu i pomoć u procesu lečenja ima dobar odnos sa pacijentom. Umetnici mogu svojim senzibilitetom za prepoznavanje finih međuljudskih odnosa, koristeći izražajna sredstva umetničke profesije, da iskažu sve nijanse specifičnog odnosa doktor– pacijent. Sledi devet umetnika i njihovih dela koja oslikavaju ovaj odnos. Svako od ovih dela nosi specifičnost autora, ali oslikava i okruženje, stanje društva određene epohe. Svaka slika nosi svoju specifičnost odnosa lekara sa pacijentom, ali i fluid emocija koje su čvrsto vezane za temu slike. Svaka slika ima svoju priču, koja je duboka, ljudska, na neki način, nosi suštinu ljudskog postojanja. Vincent van Gog, Portret dr Gašea, 1890. Vincent van Gogh, “Portrait of Dr Gachet”, 1890. Dr Pol Gaše (1828–1909) je bio strastveni ljubitelj umetnosti i lično je poznavao mnoge umetnike tog vremena. Brinuo je o Van Gogu u poslednjim mesecima umetnikovog života. Van Gog je u pismu svome bratu napisao svoj prvi utisak o dr Gašeu: „Bolesniji je od mene, ili bar koliko i ja”, ali je kasnije promenio mišljenje i naveo da su postali dobri prijatelji [1]. Tokom trajanja njihovog poznanstva, Van Gog je načinio dva poretreta doktora Gašea. Prvi se nalazi u privatnoj kolekciji, a drugi je izložen u muzeju Orsej u Parzu. Oba portreta prikazuju doktora Gašea kako sedi za stolom sa glavom naslonjenom na desnu ruku. Dr Gaše gleda u daljinu melanholičnim pogledom. Njegove oči, ispunjene tugom, deluju kao da odsutno traže nešto u daljini. Oslonio je glavu na ruku, dok mu druga ruka miruje na stolu. Male crtice boja oko i kroz samog dr Gašea su, gotovo sve, usmerene ka gornjem levom uglu slike. Usred nemira njihove boje i energije, doktor deluje odsutno i nezainteresovano za sopstveno mentalno zdravlje. Na crvenom stolu nalaze se dve knjige, čiji su autori braća koja su 99 Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 Originalni rad www.tmg.org.rs ih zajednički napisali. Asocijacije idu u prilog Van Gogovog simboličnog i tragičnog, a ipak bliskog odnosa sa sopstvenim bratom Teom. U čaši na stolu naslikan je cvet zubaca, biljke iz koje se dobija digitalis. Stavljanjem lekovite biljke u prvi plan, umetnik portretu doktora pridaje medicinski značaj. Dr Gaše i Van Gog su odnos doktor–pacijent prevazišli i postali su prijatelji. Van Gog je bio posebno naklonjen svom doktoru u zajedničkoj borbi protiv depresije i naglašava činjenicu da i doktori mogu biti pacijenti, da mogu biti bolesni od istih bolesti od kojih leče svoje pacijente, tj. da i sami mogu biti sa druge strane odnosa doktor– pacijent [2]. Frida Kalo, Autoportret sa portretom doktora Farila, 1951. Frida Kahlo, “Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill”, 1951. Doktor Huan Faril je operisao Fridu Kalo 1951. godine 7 puta pošto se njena bolest značajno pogoršala. Po delimičnom oporavku, koji je bio u tom stepenu da može da slika (mada je Frida često slikala i u bolničkom krevetu, koristeći specijalno konstruisane stalke za to), stvoreno je ovo delo. Slika je bila posvećena doktoru Farilu. Kompozicija slike ima elemente naivnog slikarstva Meksika, tzv. ex-voto i retablo stila, gde se umetnik (najčešće je to naivni umetnik skromnih sposobnosti) zahvaljuje nekom svecu ili zaštitniku koji ga je spasao ili mu pomogao da prebrodi neku tešku situaciju. Ambijent ove slike je krajnje jednostavan, soba sa zidom u beloj i plavoj boji i daščanim podom, u blatno braon tonu, oslikava jednostavnost meksičke kuće. Na slici je prikazano platno sa slikom doktora Farila na slikarskom stalku i Frida koja sedi u invalidskim kolicima. Platno koje je prikazano na slici u stvarnosti ne postoji. Naslikan je doktor Faril, u odelu, sa kravatom, ozbiljnog izraza lica, pogleda uprtog naviše. Pošto je nameravala da se slikom zahvali doktoru, Frida je mogla da jednostavno naslika sam portret, kao što je prikazan na njenoj slici, ali se umetnica odlučila da snažnu, odlučnu figuru doktora dopuni sopstvenim prisustvom i na taj način dodatno iskaže svoje poštovanje, divljenje i zahvalnost lekaru koji je bio tako istrajan u pokušajima da joj olakša život. S druge strane, izdvojila ga je iz svoje realnosti, jer pored nje, koja je u invalidskim kolicima, doktor je na platnu, u svetu koji nije u istom nivou, nalazi se na nekom uzvišenom mestu. Tako ga je i predstavila, doktor je naslikan kao da ga posmatrač vidi odozdo, kao što se često prikazuju sveci i uzvišene ličnosti. Doktorov portret je gotovo monohromatski, a sebe je umetnica prikazala u krajnje jednostavnoj odeći, u tradicionalnoj meksičkoj bluzi sa jedva primetnim ukrasnim detaljem, u još jednostavnijoj suknji koja je naborana i spušta se do poda, potpuno joj prekrivajući noge. Lice umetnice je prepoznatljivo. Odlučnog pogleda uprtog direktno u posmatrača, sa obrvama koje su naglašene i karakteristične za Fridu. Najmarkantniji detalj i fokus čitave slike jeste njen slikarski pribor koji drži u rukama. Paleta ima oblik otvorenog ljudskog srca, sa 100 Originalni rad Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 www.tmg.org.rs prepoznatljivim konturama komora i pretkomora, aortama i pramenovima Hisovog snopa. Paleta, ili bolje je reći otvoreno srce, koje Frida drži u ruci pred portretom svog doktora, je crvene boje, boje krvi. U desnoj ruci Frida drži snop slikarskih četkica čiji su vrhovi uredno sređeni i imaju oblik vrhova kopalja. Četkice su uglavnom crvene, sa njih kaplje upravo ta, crvena boja. Elementi simbolike na ovom platnu su jasni. Frida, koja je u invalidskim kolicima, znači nemoćna i slaba, iskazuje svoju unutrašnju snagu izrazom lica, odlučnim pogledom i čvrstinom kojom drži četkice, otvara svoje srce i na taj način potpuno izlaže svoje najosetljivije delove tela i najosetljivije delove svoje duše očima lekara u koga ima potpuno poverenje i kome je beskrajno zahvalna [3]. Ova slika je Fridin poslednji potpisani autoportret. Tri godine kasnije, na samrti, zabeležene su njene reči: "I hope the exit is joyful - and I hope never to return" [4]. Francisko Goja, Autoportret sa doktorom Arietom, 1820. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes “Self-portrait with Doctor Arrieta”, 1820. Bez obzira na to što se umetnički rad španskog slikara Franciska Goje svrstava u romantizam, on je izgradio sopstveni prepoznatljivi, „neuglačan, a ipak suptilan, ciničan i nežan” stil. Kritičnost i nepoverljivost prema tadašnjem društvu samo pojačavaju turbulentne političke prilike u državi i prate njegov umetnički rad. Kao zahvalnost za uspešno lečenje, Goja je posvetio sliku Autoportret sa doktorom Arietom svom doktoru Euhenio Garsia Arietai. To je dupli portret sa elementima ex-voto stila. U podnožju slike stoji objašnjenje „Zahvalni Goja svom prijatelju Arijeti: za umešnost i brigu kojom je uspeo da sačuva život tokom kratke i teške bolesti pred kraj 1819. godine, u 73. godini života. Naslikao 1820.” Na slici je prikazan bolesnik, Goja, kako sedi u postelji obučen u bledi sivomaslinasti kućni kaput. Deluje kao da je na samrti, krajnje je iscrpljen i poslednjim snagama, grčevito gužvajući čaršav rukama, pokušava da se održi u sedećem položaju. Njegovo lice je bledo, a glava deluje preteško, pada na stranu; oči su 101 Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 Originalni rad www.tmg.org.rs polusklopljene, kao da se pacijent prepušta neizbežnoj sudbini i miri se sa bliskim krajem, hvata poslednji dah. Dr Arijeta je prikazan kao lekar koji zaista brine o svom pacijentu. On sedi na krevetu, pridržavajući pacijenta u sedećem položaju svojim telom i sa obe ruke, levim ramenom daje oslonac za mlitavu bolesnikovu glavu. Odlučni izrazi lica, pogleda uprtog u medikament, svojim čitavim stavom dr Arijeta odaje pozitivnog, altruističnog i odanog čoveka. Ako izuzmemo medicinske preporuke, celokupni stav doktora, sa bliskim kontaktom i pouzdanim osloncem za pacijenta, odlučnim i samopouzdanim pokretom kojim daje lek, bliskim odnosom njihove dve glave, pokazuje koliko ovaj doktor brine o svom pacijentu: klasičan prikaz divnog, humanog doktora. Svedoci smo intimnog, gotovo svetog momenta koji daje nadu [5]. Ne treba zaboraviti da je upravo taj pacijent, koji je bio na samrti, naslikao sve to. Da, Goja se oporavio, i sa neverovatnom preciznošću i umetničkim darom prikazao ne samo izgled ove situacije, već je uspeo da dočara i bespomoćnost bolesnog čoveka i mogućnost vraćanja iz mrtvih uz pomoć doktora koji iz te perspektive dobija nadljudske moći. Malo je umetnika koji su spremni da sebe prikažu u tako intimnom bespomoćnom stanju, kao što je Goja. Kete Kolvic, Kod doktora, 1920. Käthe Kollwitz, “Beim Arzt”, 1920. Kete Kolvic jedna je od najznačajnijih nemačkih umetnica dvadesetog veka, izuzetna žena koja je stvorila vanvremenska umetnička dela u uslovima teškog života i oskudice. Njena dela reflektuju socijalne uslove tog doba i tokom 1920-tih godina. Ona je stvorila seriju slika koja se tiču rata, siromaštva, života radničke klase i života običnih žena. Njen suprug je bio lekar u siromašnom delu Berlina koji je nudio besplatno lečenje siromašnima, tako da je Kete Kolvic imala prilike da se svakodnevno sreće sa gradskom sirotinjom i seljacima, njihovim patnjama, bolestima i strahovima. Svakodnevna životna iskustva su direktno uticala na njen rad, koji je prikazivao očaj miliona tokom perioda depresije, masovne nezaposlenosti i nezadržive inflacije. Imala je urođen osećaj za socijalnu nepravdu i saosećanje sa patnjama siromašnih. Krupne izolovane figure u njenim radovima prikazuju patnju, tugu, bespomoćnost ili tegobna preispitivanja. Tema Pijete, mrtvog Hrista u majčinim rukama, progoni Kolvicovu kroz celu njenu karijeru. Mnogi njeni radovi prikazuju upravo ovu, najtragičniju od svih pozicija, majku sa svojim mrtvim detetom na rukama. Sasvim razumljivo ako imamo na umu da je izgubila svog 18-godišnjeg sina na zapadnom frontu u privim mesecima Velikog rata [6]. Tokom nacističkog perioda izgubila je svoje mesto profesora i zabranjeno joj je da izlaže. Godine 1936. njena dela su povučena iz muzeja i galerija pošto je njen rad svrstan u „degenerisanu umetnost”. Na slici Kod doktora vidi se kako ozbiljan, proćelav doktor sa bradom i naočarima postavlja stetoskop na gola leđa dečaka i koncentrisano osluškuje disajne šumove. Njegovo lice deluje ozbiljno, čak zabrinuto, sa naglašenim naboranim čelom. Oslanjajući se levom rukom o koleno, nagnut unapred, svu svoju koncentraciju upućuje na ono što se čuje 102 Originalni rad Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 www.tmg.org.rs preko stetoskopa iz dečakovih pluća. A to što se čuje svakako nije utešno, jer na doktorovom licu se očitava krajnja zabrinutost, sa izraženim borama na čelu i stisnutim usnama izgubljenim u bradatom licu. Oči su mu sklopljene od koncentracije. Mršava, zabrinuta žena sedi naspram njih oslanjajući glavu na svoju šaku. Dečak očito boluje od tuberkuloze, koja je u to vreme bila neizlečiva. Majka očekuje od doktora smrtnu presudu ne samo za svog sina, već verovatno i za sebe i za svoju ostalu decu. Malo je ko u istoriji umetnosti prikazao emocije očaja i bespomoćnosti kao što je to kroz svoje radove izrazila Kete Kolvic. Pikaso, Nauka i milosrđe, 1897. Pablo Picasso, „Science and Charity“, 1897. Pikaso je ovu sliku načinio kada je imao 15 godina i ona odlično pokazuje njegov ogroman talenat koji će dominirati u umetnosti 20. veka. Zadivljuje perfektna tehnika koju je osvojio u ovom ranom uzrastu. Godinu dana pre nastanka ove slike, njegova omiljena sestra Končita je umrla od difterije, kada je imala samo 7 godina i svakako je to bio jedan od razloga zašto je Pikaso izabrao ovako depresivnu temu. U tom uzrastu, Pikaso se sve više opirao autoritetu oca i njegovoj želji da karijeru stvara kroz izložbe, nagrade, prihvatanje i priznavanje od strane akademskih autoriteta u umetnosti. Odbacuje i religijske poglede na svet i kreće putem originalnog izražavanja. Ovo je poslednje njegovo delo kojim dominiraju elementi klasičnog stila. Na ovoj slici Pikaso nas upoznaje sa humanističkom stranom medicine kasnog 19. veka u Španiji, pre no što je medicina koristila razna snimanja i laboratorijske pretrage. Vidimo mladu ženu koja je na samrti. Sama bolest nam ostaje nepoznata, ali boja njene desne ruke nam jasno ukazuje da se radi o nečem vrlo ozbiljnom. Izraz lica pacijentkinje je zabrinut, pogled s mukom usmeren naviše. Može se reći da se bolesnica predala neminovnom bliskom kraju, a da jedina briga koje njeno lice izražava jeste usmereno ka detetu. Majku pregleda doktor, koji je upravo shvatio da gubi pacijenta. Levu ruku je ispružio ka bolesnoj ženi, opipava puls na njenom ručnom zglobu. Položaj doktorove ruke izražava brigu i odgovornost prema pacijentu, i sadrži istovremeno toplinu i ohrabrenje. Samim svojim izgledom, kao i ozbiljnim izrazom lica, doktor deluje umirujuće na prisutne u sobi. Pogled mu je uprt u džepni sat, jedini deo tehnologije koji služi medicini u sobi. S druge strane kreveta bolesne žene stoji sestra sa malim detetom, u jednoj ruci, i sa šoljom leka, u drugoj. Lek očito ne može biti uzet zbog ozbiljnog stanja bolesnice. Malo dete posmatra majku iz ruku medicinske sestre, nesvesno ozbiljnosti situacije i teškog perioda koji ga očekuje [7]. U vreme kada je slika nastala lekari su bili visoko cenjeni stubovi društva. Pored znanja, pored nauke, imali su moć da olakšaju bol, da budu uzdanica i nada, da razumeju i podrže i u najtežim situacijama. Bez obzira na nedostatak pratećih medicinskih instrumenata, ovom slikom Pikaso nas podseća na najjače oružje lekarske profesije, brigu za pacijenta i poverenje koje su pacijenti imali u lekare. 103 Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 Originalni rad www.tmg.org.rs Luke Fildes, Doktor, 1891. Sir Luke Fildes, “The Doctor”, 1891. Ser Henri Tejt je 1890. godine od umetnika Luke Fildsa naručio sliku po njegovom nahođenju. Umetnik je pri stvaranju ovog dela imao na umu tragičan događaj iz sopstvenog života – smrt svoga sina u uzrastu od godinu dana. Bez obzira na tragediju, Fildes je bio impresioniran predanošću i zalaganjem doktora koga je tada imao prilike da gleda očima oca bolesnog deteta. Ali slika o kojoj je reč prikazuje „doktora tog vremena”, kroz lik doktora prikazuje samu suštinu lekarske profesije, a ne neku konkretnu ličnost [8]. U vreme nastajanja slike u umetnosti je bio je popularan socijalni realizam koji je prikazivao težinu života radničke klase. Na slici Doktor prikazan je skromno namešten ribarski dom sa posuđem od kalaja, sa otrcanim tepihom na kamenom podu, sa iznošenom odećom roditelja. Scena na slici je komponovana u dve grupe koje razdvaja centralna figura deteta koje bolesno leži na improvizovanom krevetu od dve kuhinjske stolice. U pozadini, otac deteta stoji, sa jednom rukom na ramenu svoje žene koja daje nemu podršku, nepomičnog pogleda uprtog u doktora. Majka deteta, iscrpljena nepodnošljivom brigom, skrivenog lica, ruke drži sklopljene za molitvu. Svako od njih, na svoj način, očekuje bilo kakav znak od strane doktora. Doktor sedi pored bolesnog deteta u napetom položaju, zaleđen između spremnosti da reaguje (oslonjena ruka na koleno) i odlučnosti da istraje (brada oslonjena na drugu ruku). Njegov položaj i pogled uprt u bolesno dete odražava svu predanost ne samo svojoj profesiji, već pacijentu. Lečenje, tj. medicina je prisutna u ovoj prostoriji, na stolu je poluprazna bočica sa lekom, tu je i lavor i bokal sa vodom za spuštanje temperature, na podu je recept. Ali, napetost cele kompozicije, emotivni naboj koji zrači iz prikazane situacije, ukazuju na suštinu odnosa doktora prema malom pacijentu čiji je život u njegovim rukama. Nagoveštaj olakšanja vidi se u slabom svetlu koje se probija kroz prozor iza roditelja, nagoveštavajući da je najgori deo noći prošao i da zora, koja simbolizuje olakšanje, upravo stiže. Tihi heroizam običnog doktora ukazuje da heroji nisu oni koji čine neverovatne, velike stvari, već oni koji, predano radeći svoj svakodnevni posao, čine ono za šta su se spremali da čine [9]. 104 Originalni rad Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 www.tmg.org.rs Onore Domije, Dva doktora i smrt, 1869. Honoré Daumier, Les Deux medecines et la Mort, c. 1869. Onore Domije, koga su nazivali „Mikelanđelo karikature,” bio je slikar, štampar, skulptor i karikaturista. Tokom svog radnog veka načinio je više od 4000 litografija koje su poznate po specifičnoj satiri u kojima su glavni likovi bili političari. U svojim karikaturama naglašavao je političku situaciju svog vremena, oslikavajući korupciju u sudstvu, greške birokratije i nekompetentnost vlade. Zbog oštrog pera bio je i u zatvoru. Lekarska profesija nije bila pošteđena u njegovim radovima. Nisu bili pošteđeni ni pacijenti. Imao je oštro oko da u odnosu lekara prama pacijentu vidi dublju pozadinu okruženja čitavog tadašnjeg društva. Slika Dva doktora i smrt ima jasnu satiričnu komponentu, usmerena je na jednu osobinu koja često prati lekare: gordost. Dva lekara, obučena u odeću koja ukazuje na visok naučni rang, sa debelim knjigama, koje bi trebalo da nas ubede u njihovu kompetentnost, raspravljaju žučno o bolesti pacijenta. Toliko su zaokupljeni diskusijom, zastupajući svako svoje mišljenje o bolesti, od kog očigledno ni jedan ne misli da odustane, da sam pacijent ostaje daleko u pozadini. I zaista, u drugom planu je pacijent o kome se sa mnogo više uspešnosti brine poseban „doktor,” sama smrt. Visoka naučna diskusija između doktora je u jednom planu, daleko od pacijenta, tako da doktori jednostavno ne primećuju najznačajniju promenu kod svog pacijenta, odlazak u svet mrtvih. Na vrlo instruktivan način Onore Domije skreće pažnju tadašnje javnosti, a i doktorima svih epoha, da ispred sopstvene taštine ima nešto što je važnije – sam bolesnik. ZAKLJUČAK Pored drugih velikih tema i medicina je inspirisala umetnike. Oni su na svoj način znali da predstave bolest i smrt, lečenje i zdravlje, doktore i bolesnike. Kroz oči umetnika se nekada saznaju skrivene stvari koje profesionalcima često izmiču u svakodnevnom radu. Treba pažljivo pogledati radove umetnika koji imaju nešto da kažu o profesijama kojim se bavimo. Tu se često mogu pronaći fine, jedva opipljive stvari koje se često tiču suštine medicinske profesije i ulaze u srž samog postojanja. LITERATURA 1. Van Gog: Pisma bratu, Sluzbeni glasnik; Beograd, 2008. 2. Jeffrey K Aronson, Manoj Ramachandran, The diagnosis of art: melancholy and the Portrait of Dr Gachet, J R Soc Med. 2006 Jul; 99 (7): 373–374. 3. Park MP, Park RHR: The fine art of patient-doctor relationships, BMJ 2004; 329; 1475–1480. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo 5. Polyxeni Potter, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828). Self-portrait with Doctor Arrieta (1820). Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 May; 10 (5): 974. 105 Vol. 40 (2015) br. 2 Originalni rad www.tmg.org.rs 6. http://artvemil.blogspot.com/2015/01/kathe-kollwitz- and-her-hands.html 7. Rodriguez del Pozo P, Fins JJ. Medicine and the arts. Science and charity: by Pablo Picasso. Acad Med. 2013 Apr;88 (4): 466–7. 8. Simon Wilson, Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion, London 1997, p. 90. 9. Jane Moore, What Sir Luke Fildes’ 1887 painting The Doctor can teach us about the practice of medicine today, British Journal of General Practice, March 2008. work_4wm36y6rcnhuzaczthak4gmcmu ---- A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered Jack Carlson∗ An ingenious derivation for the La Tène dagger with anthropoid hilt shows how craftsmen gave an agreeable character to a working weapon. The dagger remained every bit as effective, but the splayed person on the hilt added a touch of playful luxury to the serious business of stabbing. By way of a modern anthropoid corkscrew, the author lures us away from an obsession with symbolism and encourages us to look for a more down-to-earth ‘psychological functionality’ in decorated objects. Keywords: Europe, Iron Age, La Tène, dagger, anthropoid ornament Introduction In 1873, while digging for gravel near his home, a Mr Guyot of Salon, France, discovered a human skeleton and associated burial objects (Morel 1898: 145). Among these artefacts was a dagger with an anthropomorphic hilt (Figures 1 & 2), now in the British Museum’s Morel Collection (London, British Museum: Morel Collection ML.1669; Megaw 1970: no. 228; Stead & Rigby 1999: no. 1669). The dagger is iron, 460mm long including a 345mm-long blade, while the hilt is bronze-coated iron. The hilt, formed from two pieces, is in the shape of a saltire, or X, with each branch of the X terminating in a round knob and forming the limb of a human model. The width across the arms of this anthropoid hilt is 45mm. The human figure’s ‘head’, sunken between the outstretched arms, features eyebrows and oval eyes, a nose, moustache and downturned mouth, a high hairline and a ponytail. But why was this dagger’s hilt shaped like a man and decorated with human features? Current research on this and other anthropoid weapons has not addressed this question, although it is clearly of great consequence to our understanding of La Tène ritual, art, social and military hierarchy and warrior culture. Similar daggers, all dated to the La Tène period — fourth to first centuries BC — have been found as far afield as Hungary and western Ireland: the number of discovered examples is unknown, although estimates have ranged from 40 to 70 (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 205; Zeller 1980: 119–20; Drilhon & Duval 1985: 308; Pleiner 1993: 49, 69; Fitzpatrick 1996: 376). While scholarship related to these weapons has concentrated almost exclusively on typology, there remains much confusion ∗ Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, UK (Email: john.carlson@arch.ox.ac.uk) Received: 15 February 2011; Accepted: 4 April 2011; Revised: 18 April 2011 ANTIQUITY 85 (2011): 1312–1324 http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/085/ant0851312.htm 1312 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson Figure 1. Anthropoid-hilt dagger from Salon, Aube, France. La Tène II, second century BC. British Museum Morel Collection ML.1669. Iron blade; bronze-coated iron hilt ( c© The Trustees of the British Museum). about their functionality (Clarke & Hawkes 1955; Petres 1979: 176; Drilhon & Duval 1985: 185; Pleiner 1993: 49–51, 166; Megaw 2002: 408–411; Stead 2006: 72). The idea that such daggers must have been symbols of chiefs or other high ranks and offices is pervasive (Bulard 1980: 49; Pleiner 1993: 49–51; Fitzpatrick 1996: 388; Cunliffe 1997: 233; Megaw 2002: 411) but it fails to consider context and comparanda. Traditionally, false dilemmas have been presented between the function- ality of the anthropoid handle — as a religious, symbolic or funerary object — and the functionality of the dagger as a weapon, and between “art for art’s sake” (Megaw & Megaw 1995: 345; Cunliffe 1997: 112; see also Aldhouse-Green 2004: xvi, 6) and a meaning related to rank or ritual (cf. Freedberg 1989: xxi–ii). No ornament is insignificant. Owner- ship of an object as eye-catching as the Salon dagger, not to mention the ability to create it, surely begets a degree of prestige and respect. At the same time, the social and political functions of the anthropoid deco- ration are far from explicit. There is nothing to indicate that the weapon was the definite indicator of a certain rank or status (indeed there is evidence to the contrary), just as there is nothing to suggest that the Salon dagger was not a real weapon. In the broader typology of Hallstatt and La Tène weapons, anthropoid examples like the Salon dagger developed from pseudo-anthropoid weapons and antenna-daggers. Context and comparison with other objects — old and new — reveal that it is both a La Tène custom and a human impulse to create such representations on utilitarian objects, especially when those objects already resemble humans or animals. In turn, a reassessment which looks beyond 1313 A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered Figure 2. Anthropoid-hilt dagger from Salon, Aube, France. La Tène II, second century BC. British Museum Morel Collection ML.1669. Bronze-coated iron handle (illustration by R. Pengelly & M. Moores from Stead & Rigby 1999: fig.146; c© The Trustees of the British Museum). conventional categories (symbol, ornament, talisman, implement) may inform the ways in which anthropoid embellishment more generally is deconstructed and understood. To argue that anthropomorphic or zoomorphic decoration on functional objects of the La Tène period is more than mere ornament, is to state the obvious (Cunliffe 1997: 111–12). The anthropomorphic hilt served some purpose, but to take the Salon dagger as a specific emblem of rank or as a primarily symbolic object is to go a step too far. As Alfred Gell (1998: 74) has argued, the function of an object’s decoration and the function of the object 1314 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson are not mutually exclusive. Gell’s theory on the relationship between decoration and “the psychological functionality of artefacts” must also be considered as an alternative to hitherto unchallenged rank-related explanations for anthropoid decoration. The Salon dagger is a functional dagger and its functionality was enhanced — though not dominated — by the anthropoid hilt. The false dilemma Ruth and Vincent Megaw (2001: 19) introduce their book, Celtic Art, by stating that a “minimal working definition of Celtic art is that it encompasses elements of decoration beyond those necessary for functional utility”. The construction ‘functional utility’ is somewhat contrived, perhaps because it is clear that elements of decoration may also possess utility. But the role of decoration on the Salon dagger and on La Tène objects in general has been presented as a false choice between mere ornament and specific symbolic meaning. Barry Cunliffe’s discussion of the Celtic fire-dog, a wrought-iron hearth device, is a typical example (1997: 111–12): “the simple functional fire-dog[’s] projecting ends were frequently decorated with enormous skill to create the spirited essence of horned bulls’ heads. . .. The quintessential bovine head on the fire-dog is a symbol, but of what?. . . [W]e reject ‘art for art’s sake’ as a starting point (and with it the even less acceptable ‘art for art historians’ sake)”. Why must it be a symbol? Zoomorphic decoration on fire-dogs was a common feature, as Cunliffe indicates; a relatively banal choice of embellishment given that the shape of the object already suggested a bovine head and, in many cases, would have required relatively little extra effort on the part of the craftsman (the highly ornate Capel Garmon fire-dog, mentioned by Aldhouse-Green [2002: 11] is exceptional). If it is granted that the bulls’ heads probably made the piece more expensive, more interesting, perhaps more pleasing to use and more prestigious to display, it still seems a stretch to reach the following line of enquiry: the “bovine head on the fire-dog is a symbol, but of what?” (Cunliffe 1997: 111–12). The same thinking has been applied to La Tène period weapons with anthropoid hilts. Cunliffe himself has speculated that “such [anthropoid] swords . . . may have been an emblem of a particular social class” (1997: 233). Elsewhere, Radomı́r Pleiner (1993: 49– 51) has described the daggers, including the Salon example, as “emblem[s] of rank among warriors, commanders, or chiefs”, “symbols of rank” and “denot[ing] warriors of special . . . rank” (see also Megaw 2002: 408, 411). Others have ascribed apotropaic or talismanic significance to the daggers, and A.P. Fitzpatrick has taken them as wholly symbolic priestly objects (Petres 1979: 176; Fitzpatrick 1996: 373, 388; Megaw & Megaw 2001: 164; Megaw 2002: 411). The premise that such weapons must have been specific symbols, related to rank or ritual, has not accounted for the anthropoid hilts’ more general social or psychological functionality. One wonders if such theories have not been influenced — directly or indirectly — by the rank-related dress daggers worn by certain officers in some modern militaries. Symbolic and apotropaic interpretations have even discounted the functionality of the Salon dagger as a weapon. While “distinguishing warriors or commanders of a certain rank” Pleiner (1993: 69) writes, “this type of sword [sic] . . . could hardly have been used for fighting on the field of battle” given its small size (compared to long, slashing swords). Fitzpatrick (1996: 376) agrees that these daggers were purely symbolic. 1315 A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered It is surprising that such views have gone unchallenged for so long. The approach that has been taken to the anthropoid decoration on these weapons is very different from the model proposed by Alfred Gell about the agency of decoration. While Gell (1998: 74) emphasises that there is no such thing as “‘mere’ decoration” and that “decoration is intrinsically functional”, he does not advocate that decoration should automatically be taken as symbols or emblems. With a more mature approach, Gell gives examples: a child may be more inclined to go to bed if his sheets and pillowcases are embellished with spaceships or dinosaurs; the spaceships and dinosaurs are not symbols, but the decoration enhances the bedding’s functionality. Likewise, decoration on lime containers from Iatmul, New Guinea, served a general social function, enhancing the owners’ prestige, but was not pegged to a specific rank or station. These sheets and lime containers are, of course, also able to “do duty” as sheets and as lime containers and certainly are not solely symbolic objects (Gell 1998: 74). It is clear that a richer model than the binary view of function — mere decoration or emblem — may be applied to the Salon dagger. Given this theoretical background, what do the development and contexts of anthropoid-hilted weapons suggest about the Salon dagger’s functionality? Development and context The Salon weapon was associated with a Middle La Tène non-anthropoid long sword which is now lost, and an iron scabbard (for the dagger) about which little is known except that it was entirely broken on discovery (Morel 1898: 145; Stead & Rigby 1999: no. 1669). Based on what is known, this was not a richly furnished burial by any standard. Comparanda may give a better sense of the burial objects with which this type of weapon was associated and, perhaps, of the people who were likely to have owned them. In their 1955 article on a La Tène anthropoid sword from Shouldham, Norfolk, UK, R.R. Clarke and C.F.C. Hawkes proposed a typology for anthropoid swords. The Salon piece has several parallels in this typology: these hilts (Clarke & Hawkes, type E) are distinguished by the sunken head, the strongly profiled grip and median ring moulding and they have been found in Hungary, Bohemia and the Italian Alps (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 209–211). The only other one of this type with a known provenance comes from an assemblage which is rather different from the Salon burial: “a cremation grave at Malnate, Varese, in northern Italy near Lake Como where it was found with an iron chain belt and part of a glass armlet, characteristic of later Middle La Tène graves” (Megaw 1970: no. 228). In fact there is wide variation in the contexts and burial goods associated with La Tène anthropoid-hilt weapons in general. Pleiner (1993: 49–51), who has taken these weapons as rank “emblems”, has focused on those contexts he deems to “deserve special attention”. Those are ones in which anthropoid daggers are accompanied by ornamental boar tusks, and a boat-coffin burial which included such a weapon at Chatenay-Macheron (Chaumont). Other anthropoid daggers, however, were found in relatively poorly furnished burials (Vidal 1983: 383); in some cases the weapons were not even accompanied by long swords (Stead 2006: 72). Éva f. Petres (1979: 176), writing on the Hungarian examples from the same period, notes that “in the case of [anthropoid-hilt weapons] found in cemeteries and single 1316 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson graves, the other grave-goods do not demonstrate any outstanding luxuriance”. Pleiner himself (1993: 59) has commented that in this period, swords were “no longer reserved for the top men in society, but had become spread throughout the bulk of the population”, and that to “distinguish between [sic] different classes of leader among the Celts . . . on the basis of archaeological evidence is almost impossible in the Middle La Tène period.” Why, then, should we suppose that this, of all objects, is a symbol of a certain class of leader? A consideration of this dagger’s context and that of related weapons resists such a classification and encourages new, more broad-minded readings to answer the question of why this little man was crafted on the hilt. An understanding of the way in which these anthropoid hilts developed also suggests a more nuanced concept of functionality. For the human figure that adorned the Salon dagger was an adaptation of earlier antenna hilts and of earlier and coeval pseudo-anthropoid weapons. As decoration, an anthropomorphic hilt is fundamentally different from, for example, the lunar and solar images that are emblazoned on some La Tène period weapons (and to which Pleiner [1993: 49–51] compared the anthropoid motif ). Not only is the anthropoid hilt different in terms of imagery, but it is different in that the choice to turn the handle into a little man was based on the fact that the shape of La Tène dagger handles was already suggestive of a human figure. The decoration, therefore, is more closely tied to the pure functionality of the dagger as a dagger; the little man is the hilt. Moreover, there was less creativity and additional effort required, and less freedom of choice involved in turning a pseudo-anthropoid hilt into an anthropoid hilt than, for example, in embellishing a sword with images of dragons or moons. Late Hallstatt period (sixth to fifth centuries BC) daggers and swords from Central Europe have similar X-shaped hilts, often with a knob between the arms at the pommel end of the X (Sievers 1982; Figure 3). It is surely from these weapons that the later anthropoid dagger hilts developed, even if the fourth-century missing link weapons with pseudo-anthropoid hilts (i.e. without facial features) — a dagger from Ay (Senden), Bavaria (Figure 4) and a long sword (840mm) from Kyšice, Plzeň in the Czech Republic — cited by R.R. Clarke and C.F.C. Hawkes (1955: 204–205) may be less clearly datable to the fourth century than has previously been suggested (Sankot 1995: 413–15). There is, of course, an abundance of La Tène pseudo-anthropoid daggers, the hilts of which were functionally and technologically the same as their Hallstatt counterparts. As daggers came to incorporate facial features on their pommel knobs, pseudo-anthropoid daggers also continued to be produced and in many cases they are exactly the same except for the lack of facial features. This development, often taken for granted, is far from trivial because the human figure was not expressly chosen to badge the objects, but rather the anthropoid hilts were a variation on those which were already felt to resemble human forms (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 204–205); in the same way, perhaps, that artist Pablo Picasso felt his bicycle seat to resemble the shape of a bull’s head (Walton 1990: 276–7). The final step — which in many cases, including the Salon case, only involved the addition of human features on the knob — it must be said, would not have required a large amount of extra effort on the part of the object’s creator, and no additional metal. Robert Bagley (1987: 40) reminds us that in “antiquity . . . in East and West alike”, metal was relatively expensive and labour relatively cheap. 1317 A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered Figure 3. Antenna dagger from Hallstatt, Upper Austria, sixth–fifth centuries BC. Iron; c. 550mm long; blade c. 420mm long (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: fig. 1.3; after Déchelette 1913: fig. 282.1; courtesy of the Prehistoric Society). The Kyšice anthropoid-hilted long sword (fifth to fourth centuries BC; Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 204–205; Sankot 1995: 413–15) also provides an important clue about the functionality of X-shaped, pseudo-anthropoid and anthropoid-hilt designs. What was the purpose of such a hilt shape? The gory truth is that it effectively enabled the warrior to stab and then draw the blade back out again; the warrior would push against the hilt figure’s legs to stab, and then pull against the figure’s arms to retract. The weapons to which these hilts were affixed were, of course, stabbing weapons, not — or at least not solely — slashing weapons. It is for this reason that almost all anthropoid hilts are attached to daggers and not long swords. Only early long swords, which were lighter, shorter and more sharply pointed than their later counterparts, would have use for this type of hilt (in addition to the Kyšice example, there are earlier Hallstatt pseudo- anthropoid swords; Sievers 1982: 57–9). In the Middle and Late La Tène period, the long sword was modified for “slashing only” (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 204–205). In fact, it is probably the development of the slashing only sword which required warriors to carry an additional weapon for stabbing. Stead (2006: 72) notes briefly that anthropoid-hilt weapons may have been “subsidiary weapons” hence the presence at the Salon burial of both the Salon dagger and an accompanying long sword. Part of the confusion, perhaps, about the functionality of the Salon dagger and other La Tène anthropoid daggers relates to a matter of vocabulary. Traditionally, these daggers have been referred to as swords or short swords (Smith 1925; Clarke & Hawkes 1955; Megaw 1970: no. 228; Petres 1979: 176; Pleiner 1993: 49–51; Fitzpatrick 1996; Cunliffe 1997: 233; Stead 1318 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson Figure 4. Pseudo-anthropoid hilt from Ay (Senden), Bavaria, fourth-century BC. Iron; hilt c. 100mm long; c. 60mm across the ‘arms’ (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: pl. 24.4; courtesy of the Prehistoric Society). & Rigby 1999: no. 1669; Jope 2000: 101; Megaw & Megaw 2001: 164; Stead 2006: 71; see also Megaw 2002: 408). If only subconsciously, surely this word choice has impacted the ways in which scholars have conceived the weapons. While most authors, presumably working from convention, do not discuss their choice to refer to these objects as swords, A.P. Fitzpatrick (1996: 373) actually gives his rationale: “most of the weapons. . .are approximately 300mm or more in length”. But surely the question of slashing weapon or stabbing weapon is more relevant than what seems to be an arbitrary measurement. Ironically, the most careful discussion about the difficulties of such measurement-based distinctions is presented in relation to earlier, Hallstatt weaponry (Sievers 1982: 57–9). Megaw (2002: 408) justly remarks that it is “strictly incorrect to call many of [these] weapons ‘swords’ [when] the average length of La Tène swords is 700mm”, using instead “poignards” as a loanword or, less neatly, “short swords”. I.M. Stead (2006: 5), in his catalogue on British Iron Age weapons, recognises that the difference between a dagger and a short sword is the difference between stabbing and slashing weapons, but nevertheless sets “arbitrary limits” of 305mm for the longest dagger blade and 320mm for the blade of the “shortest short sword”; these parameters would place the Salon dagger (with a blade length of 345mm) just inside the sword category. As slashing swords, however, these objects would be fairly useless and Pleiner (1993: 69) concludes that “this type of sword [sic]. . .could hardly have been used for fighting”. As daggers, however, they would have been fully functional thanks, in part, to the design of their grips, some of which are worn “by use” (Smith 1925: 59–60). Considerations of context and development confirm that the anthropoid shape of the Salon dagger’s hilt had much to do with the weapon’s stabbing efficacy and little to do with the specific symbolic functionality of a human figure. But why make the anthropomorphism of these dagger hilts explicit by adding human facial features? 1319 A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered Psychological functionality Alfred Gell (1998: 74) contended that “the world is filled with decorated objects because decoration is often essential to the psychological functionality of artefacts, which cannot be dissociated from the other types of functionality they possess”. But just as the anthropoid hilt was, as mentioned above, a fundamentally different sort of decoration from inlaid astral images on La Tène weapons it is, of course, also different from Gell’s ‘psychological functionality’ examples: decorated Iatmul lime-containers and children’s bedsheets embellished with dinosaurs or spaceships. If, many centuries from now, an archaeologist discovers early twenty-first-century children’s bedding, she might rightly wonder why images of dinosaurs and spaceships, of all things, were chosen to adorn the textile. But we need not even ask such questions about the Salon hilt: why a human? Why did the designers of this object choose this motif? Why are his arms and legs outstretched? It is a symbol, but what does it mean? The grip was made into a model human with outstretched limbs because that is what effective dagger handles looked like anyway. This was the most obvious, straightforward way of making the La Tène dagger fancier; more obvious, certainly, than the other methods of embellishment — chagrinage; engraved combatant dragons on the blade; plant motifs — employed by those “major creators of Celtic art” (Megaw & Megaw 2001: 126), the iron- and bronzesmiths. One very simple rationale for at least part of the Salon dagger’s functionality, and yet one which has scarcely been mentioned, if at all, in scholarship on anthropoid weapons, is that it was a luxury object. Many warriors owned daggers, but not all daggers were created equal. We need not search more deeply to understand the anthropoid hilt than we do to understand decorated Iatmul lime-containers. The anthropoid hilt was an adaptation of a relatively commonplace object, and it was modified such that its increased complexity was clear to the observer. Like any luxury item, it enhanced its owner’s prestige in a general way and, in turn, was likely to have had a psychological impact on the owner or bearer of the dagger, whether the owner lived in Salon, in Ireland or in the Carpathian Basin, and whether the owner’s burial was rich or sparse. While still related to social standing, this notion is clearly very different from the rank symbol interpretations. One modern example of a functional object for which an anthropoid luxury version exists is the wing corkscrew (Figure 5). I remember thinking, as a child, that these devices looked like little men; one could make their arms flap by moving their heads up and down. I am not, of course, the only person to have thought so; since 1994, one of Italian utensil company Alessi’s best-selling products has been an explicitly anthropoid version of the wing corkscrew, designed by Alessandro Mendini (Figure 6). One might also compare the anthropomorphic hilts to pouring spouts decorated as birds’ mouths — a global phenomenon in both the ancient and modern world. As these objects demonstrate, there is a universal impulse to see anthropomorphic and zoomorphic shapes in objects, and to make that zoo- or anthropomorphism explicit. The Alessi corkscrew is a luxury item and surely these objects are sometimes conversation- starters at parties, while at other times guests may simply take note of the owner’s tastes and of the affluence which ownership of such an object implies. But ownership of the Alessi corkscrew is not strictly limited to any certain group of people. And, most clearly, Anna G., 1320 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson Figure 5. A household wing corkscrew, twentieth century, chrome ( c© iStockPhoto.com/Nikolay Titov). as the anthropoid corkscrew has cheerfully been christened by its designer, is not a symbol or emblem of anything at all. If, rather than adding facial features and hair to a conventional corkscrew design — to make the corkscrew truly anthropomorphic — the creators of this object had instead emblazoned the device with an heraldic badge, a moon or a dragon, or fashioned the head of the corkscrew in the shape of a cross or a fleur-de-lis, then many more questions would need asking and answering. Needless to say, the anthropoid version of the corkscrew is also a working corkscrew: if it were not, how could it function as an index of taste or wealth? It would also lose its psychological functionality if it could not work as a corkscrew. Any pleasure derived from using, holding or displaying the corkscrew, or from seeing it in action, must also be considered as part of the utensil’s functionality. While it is true that we need not search too deeply for the meaning of the figure on the Salon hilt (just as we do not in the case of the Alessi corkscrew), it surely had other psychological effects beyond the social esteem associated with owning, wearing and bearing 1321 A symbol — but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered Figure 6. An anthropoid household wing corkscrew designed by Alessandro Mendini and produced by Alessi S.p.A., twentieth century, chrome-plated zamak (courtesy of Urban Attitude). 1322 R es ea rc h Jack Carlson such a weapon. This is not to say that the anthropoid hilt made the act of stabbing enjoyable in the same way that the Alessi corkscrew may well be a source of pleasure for its owners. When one is relying on an object to be able to save one’s life, one wants to know that the object is as finely crafted as possible and the inclusion of human features would have clearly reflected the smith’s attention to detail. In the same way that a warrior might derive a psychological benefit by entering battle with well-polished armour, boots or weaponry, so too might the Salon warrior have benefited from fighting with a showy dagger. A similar comparison may be made between the Salon dagger and modern military aircraft, bombs and missiles decorated with a shark’s face motif on their noses. If, in battle, our Salon man found himself engaged in “the ancient and European tradition of dagger fighting” (Clarke & Hawkes 1955: 204), the warrior with the fancy, anthropoid hilt may have had a psychological edge. Such theories are not far-fetched and, in a complete consideration of the daggers’ functionality, must be taken into account; by way of comparison: in a recent psychological study, it was proven that the fighter wearing red benefits from a psychological advantage and has a significantly greater chance of winning in boxing and other combat sports (Hill & Barton 2005: 293). The possibility that the anthropomorphic nature of these hilts may have helped La Tène warriors connect with their weapons must also be considered. As Kendall Walton (1990: 11, 51, 276–7) describes, representations, including toys, paintings, plays and the bull’s head Picasso made from a bicycle seat, inevitably invite their viewers and users into a game of make believe. Modern US marines and soldiers name their rifles which, of course, are not even anthropomorphic so it is not such a stretch to imagine warriors of the La Tène period naming their anthropoid daggers. We may never know if they did, but this is the type of rich consideration of functionality which comparison is often able to bring to light and which the Salon dagger and other anthropoid weapons deserve. Anthropoid objects have been created and used in civilisations ancient and modern. They provoke a range of responses and associations: they are whimsical, dazzling and uncanny (unheimlich) and they resist classification as art, symbol or implement. This reconsideration of the Salon hilt — as a form inspired by function and, inexorably, possessing a dynamic social and psychological functionality of its own — may find application in our interpretations not only of other La Tène objects, but of archaeological artefacts more broadly. There is a temptation among archaeologists to declare that ancient objects which the modern world has long treated as art were more significant — often symbolically significant — than mere ornament in the societies which created them. This is at once a truism and a misleading assumption. Anthropoid hilts very likely came about not because of some mysterious political or religious semiotics on which we can only speculate, but because earlier dagger hilts, in order to function properly, happened to look a little like men with outstretched limbs. But decoration, especially when it is representational, intrinsically affects the ways in which useful objects are useful (Walton 1990: 51; Gell 1998: 74). Interpretations of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic embellishment — whether that embellishment occurs on Iron Age weapons and fire-dogs or on twenty-first-century corkscrews — must begin with this understanding and not with the straw man proposition that such images are art for art’s sake. 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Salzburg: Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung, Kulturabteilung. 1324 work_4xbni7w5cjdppgb4ahdjj25klm ---- untitled SSaalloonn: a gathering of stimulating peo- ple under the roof of an inspiring host- ess, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and reading (Wikipedia). W elcome to CMAJ Salon, an exchange of lateral think- ing about health that as- pires to feed the culture of curiosity and nurture the intellect, both in print and online. Salons began in Renaissance Italy and France but gained prominence for stimulating lively intellectual conversa- tion in 17th-century France. Initially, sa- lons were concerned with the fields of arts and literature, but later they ex- panded to include music, philosophy and politics. Now, CMAJ’s Salon intro- duces health as the overarching topic of discourse. Health, in this context, will be interpreted in the widest manner possible with potential subjects ranging from an ode to your favourite body part to shrinking our environmental foot- print, from an exposition on the stetho- scope to innovative cognitive theories. CMAJ’s Salon will be an exploration of a nascent idea or hypothesis that is fu- elled by fact and driven by passion. The thoughts of scientists, researchers and other health-related experts will fre- quently grace these pages, but Salon will also lure contributors who are not always part of the world of health and medicine, people such as an eco-farmer or a yoga master, who can make a worthwhile contribution to the discourse on health in the spirit of our transdisciplinary world. The aim is to introduce novel ideas into health and medicine. This page will offer a lively mélange of thoughtful and sometimes quirky ideas that will ignite sparks of insight and stimulate thought and discussion. Our hope is that the conversational nar- ratives in CMAJ Salon will become fod- der for engaging stories that one offers at parties or in staff rooms. One churlish definition contends that salons are a combination of a wa- tering hole plus bookish thugs. Sadly, we cannot offer the former, but we hope to avoid the latter. Off the printed page, the heart of the salon experience — the interchange of ideas — will be- gin in earnest at cmaj.ca, where readers can post their thoughts on the articles. This intellectual e-exchange, open to all in an atmosphere of politeness and respect for others, will provide a way out of the cul de sac of elitism associ- ated with salons. Historically, salons were hosted by titled or wealthy women and later, in the 20th century, by gifted, intelligent women with a facility for stimulating conversation. I will endeavour to fulfill the role as a quiet, behind-the-scenes editor and, perhaps, in the best-case scenario, muse. I have big shoes to fill. G e r t r u d e S t e i n h o s t e d S a t u r d a y evening salons in Paris beginning in 1907 for luminaries such as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Henri Ma- tisse and Guillame Apollinaire. Host- ing is a serious business and not al- ways risk free: Madame Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, a well-known host- ess of a philosophy-based salon in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was exiled from Paris by Napoleon Bona- parte. I don’t particularly aspire to life in the wilds of Renfrew County, but then again an e-letter from Stephen Harper would be amusing. Above all else, as readers, writers or e-participants, CMAJ Salon is your page. Welcome, and as Stein report- edly said when greeting callers at her salon, “Entrez-vous.” Barbara Sibbald BJ CMAJ Deputy Editor, News and Humanities D O I: 10 .1 5 0 3 /c m aj .0 7 0 7 0 5 Salon CMAJ’s Salon: lateral thinking about health Contributors are encouraged to send their discourse (700 words maximum, F r e n c h o r E n g l i s h l a n g u a g e ) t o s a l o n @ c m a . c a . S e e c o n t r i b u t o r s guidelines at cmaj.ca. CMAJ • July 3, 2007 • 177(1) © 2007 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 111122 The author wishes to thank the journalists and editors, in particular Dr. Dorian Deshauer, who helped develop the CMAJ Salon concept. St u ar t K in m on d work_4zhhjnhvgzc7hil6njyeq6ma7y ---- 1035–1044_NEU190885 I knew Ted Kurze initially from the vantage point of Yale University in New Haven, CT, where, as a resident, I saw him as one of the iconic figures who estab- lished the operating microscope as a neu- rosurgical tool, opening a new era in the field. Later, he offered me an opportunity that would prove to be my longstanding and only academic position for more than a generation. That opportunity was in the magnificent setting of the immense, cathe- dral-like Los Angeles County Hospital at the University of Southern California Medical Center. It was there that I made the turbulent emergence from resident to neurosurgeon in a challenging, rich, and largely unforgiving environment. Ted was an engaging and charismatic man, truly complex and eclectic—as at home at the helm of an ocean racing sailboat or on a tennis court as in the operating room or when engaged in intimate conversations related to philosophy, metaphysics, his- tory, music, geography, psychology, reli- gion, or the assessment of human nature. He was a primary mentor to me, and for this I will be forever grateful. —Michael L.J. Apuzzo, Chicago, 2008 In the spirit of Ted Kurze (Fig. 1B), this articlewill touch on diverse topics with a numberof common themes. It is configured in 3 sec- tions; in the first section, the power of ideas and their role in initiating change and progress are assessed. This potential cascade effect will be illustrated by an enumeration of the move- ment of Modernism in art. In the next section, the immense scope and capabilities of “mod- ern” scientific endeavors are discussed. And in the final section, the realities and philosophies of modern neurosurgical attitudes are defined in hopeful and theoretical terms. Alchemy, Ideas, and Modernism In the history of science, alchemy was a chemical discipline and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of base metals into gold, to find a universal cure for dis- eases, and to discover a means of indefinitely prolonging life. Fundamentally, it was the NEUROSURGERY VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 | 1035 SPECIAL ARTICLE THE ALCHEMY OF IDEAS THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS an assessment of the power of ideas and their role in initiat- ing change and progress. The enormous potential cascade effect is illustrated by exam- ining the movement of Modernism in the arts. Next, the immense scope and capabili- ties of the modern scientific endeavor—with robotic space exploration at the scale of 109 meters at one extreme and the wonders of nanoscience at the scale of 10�9 m at the other—are examined. The attitudes and philosophies of neurological surgery are related to those involved in the Modernist movement and placed on the defined scale of contemporary scientific activity. KEY WORDS: Creativity, Ideas, Modernism, Nanoneurosurgery, Nanotechnology, Neurological surgery, Progress, Space, Stardust Neurosurgery 63:1035–1044, 2008 DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000335789.61773.C5 www.neurosurgery-online.com Michael L.J. Apuzzo, M.D. Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California James B. Elder, M.D. Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Rodrick Faccio, B.S. Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Charles Y. Liu, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, and Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Reprint requests: Michael L.J. Apuzzo, M.D., 1420 San Pablo Street, PMB A-106, Los Angeles, CA 90033. Email: neurosurgery- journal@hsc.usc.edu Received, July 16, 2008. Accepted, August 19, 2008. Acknowledgment Presented in part as the Theodore Kurze Lecture at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 30, 2008. FIGURE 1. Left, Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center; Center, Theodore Kurze; Right, Michael L.J. Apuzzo. 1036 | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 www.neurosurgery-online.com APUZZO ET AL. power or process of transforming something common into something special. An idea can be a transforming or transmuting agent capable, in its most potent form, of initiating a cascade of influence and change; indeed, it can be a catalyst for transmutation and change from the ordinary to the elevated. An example of the cascade effect in operation is evident in an examination of the genesis and development of the Modernist movement in the arts. Fueled and instigated by the emergence of industrialism and the railroad, “modern” cities such as Paris and London became lodestones that attracted artists and they provided an immense picture gallery where modern artists could properly read from the “immense dictionary of modern life” (10). For more than 100 years, Paris was “ground zero” for the Modernist movement in art, architecture, music, dance, design, literature, and poetry. Beginning around 1860, the idea of “change” began to emerge and was met with resistance, particularly from the bourgeois. However, the idea held sway, and those drawn by what art historian Peter Gay has termed the “lure of heresy” pressed forward, creating what was considered the birth of the Modernist movement in 1910, according to Virginia Woolf. The fundamental idiom of the idea base, as defined by Ezra Pound in 1935, was, “Make it new.” Hallmarks of the spirit of the Modernist movement were its generally utopian nature, the attitude that progress in all things was assumed, the acceptance of the inevitability of scientific and social process, and the premium placed on innovation and discovery. Those engaged felt pressure to reinvent themselves, to divest themselves from the past, and to be astonished with the future (10). The cascade effect is readily appreciated with reflection on and recollection of the works of iconic Modernist figures, which include, for example: In painting: Claude Monet: the father of French Impressionism, who cham- pioned the idea of the artist expressing his perceptions of a subject (Fig. 2). Pablo Picasso: whose excursion into Cubism expressed decon- struction and reconstruction of the subject in geometric forms, presented in monochrome brown and neutral colors. Wassily Kandinsky: creator of the first modern abstract work based on geometric progressivism, color symbolism, and psychology (Fig. 3). Mark Rothko: who used broad patterns of monotone color for psychological effect (Fig. 4). Jackson Pollock: purveyor of a chaos of paint in color and disor- der over broad surfaces. In architecture: Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris: who, at age 33, reinvented him- self as “Le Corbusier” to champion aesthetic spareness and the “machine aesthetic” as an urbanist (Fig. 5). FIGURE 2. Arrival of the Normandy Train, The Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, by Claude Monet, National Gallery, London. FIGURE 3. Composition 8, July 1923, by Wassily Kandinsky, Guggenheim Museum, New York. FIGURE 4. Mark Rothko, Orange and Yellow, 1956, oil on canvas, unframed: 91 � 71� (231.14 � 180.34 cm.), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1956. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. NEUROSURGERY VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 | 1037 THE ALCHEMY OF IDEAS Frank Lloyd Wright: the master of personal reinvention, who, over a 60-year career, introduced concepts of “organic” architecture and robust modernity through novel employ- ment of cement (Fig. 6). Mies van der Rohe: the self-educated son of a stonecutter from Aachen, Germany, who sought to represent the modern age through extreme clarity, with “skin and bones” minimalist employment of steel and glass. Frank Gehry: the Romantic Modernist, who presents sensual geometry in titanium “jackets” (Fig. 7). Consider the recent performance of Philip Glass’ 1979 Modernist opera Satyagraha at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (Fig. 8). Given its form and content, would this have been cre- ated or accepted 100, 75, or even 50 years ago? Scope and Scale of Modern Science One of the Modernist denizens of Paris was Diego Rivera, a young Mexican artist from Guanajuato. He had dabbled in Cubism and became enamored with the concept of fresco paint- ing, traveling to Italy to study the 2000-year history of that art form. He went on to become the world’s most accomplished muralist. As the final stages of construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan were under way in 1932, he was invited to create a massive mural to commemorate the spirit of the times (Fig. 9). His creation, however, incorporated an image of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and was rejected. His fresco, with some variations, was ultimately completed at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. It was titled Man, Controller of the Universe. The center of the piece depicted man at the controls of the Universe Machine and looking into the heavens with a sense of confi- dence and power (Fig. 10). This idea of comprehension and con- trol of the environment has led to mankind’s quest for thou- sands of years, from the Egyptians to the Mayans to today, to grasp the details of the skies above. The concept of comprehen- sion of the stars has created a cascade effect of activities. The Cosmic Scale In 1965, Penzias and Wilson at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, discovered that, beyond the simple visual apprecia- tion of the heavens, an invisible cosmic microwave back- ground radiation could be detected. This phenomenon was later found to have variations, called anisotropy, which could FIGURE 8. Satyagraha, Act III Metropolitan Opera New York, com- posed by Philip Glass, April 2008. FIGURE 5. Villa Savoie, Poissy, France, designed by Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (Le Corbusier), 1929. FIGURE 6. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1959. FIGURE 7. Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, designed by Frank Gehry, 2003. 1038 | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 www.neurosurgery-online.com APUZZO ET AL. be measured, thus giving a calculated depiction of the after- glow of the Big Bang—the creation of our universe 13.6 billion years ago. In 1980, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was launched to give a detailed rendering of the skies, and it provided a “baby picture” of the universe (Fig. 11). This proj- ect, which is ongoing, has provided enormous insight into the composition and time of creation of the universe, its stars and galaxies, and our solar system. It is estimated that our solar system’s age is 4.6 billion years (Fig. 12). The composition of the universe has been a topic of great interest. According to the periodic table, the atoms that we comprehend comprise only 4% of the universe and are termed “ordinary matter.” Twenty- three percent of the universe is unknown “dark matter.” The remainder, nearly 73%, is composed of a strange “dark energy,” which is believed to be an antigravity force that is cre- ating an ongoing expansion of the universe and will cause its demise millions of years hence. During the formation of the solar system, some of the prod- ucts were the comets, which course in regions beyond Neptune (1). Comets, which are comprised of a nucleus of carbon, dust, FIGURE 9. Man at the Crossroads with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future (study for the destroyed mural at the Radio Corporation of America Building, Rockefeller Center), New York, by Diego Rivera, 1934. From Rochfort D: Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siequeros. San Francisco, Chronicle Books LLC, 1998. FIGURE 10. Man, Controller of the Universe, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City (detail), by Diego Rivera, 1934. Photograph by Bob Schalkwijk. FIGURE 11. Image of the infant universe illustrating 13.7 billion-year-old temperature fluctuations (color differences) that correspond to the cosmic materials that developed to become the galaxies. (Courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]/ Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe [WMAP] Science Team[http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/ 080997/080997_5yrFullSky_WMAP_4096W.tif].) NEUROSURGERY VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 | 1039 THE ALCHEMY OF IDEAS and ice, develop what is called a “tail,” made of dust, ice, and water, as they begin to change configuration on the basis of their proximity to the sun and the impact of solar winds. This tail was considered by astronomers and astrophysicists to con- tain clues to the composition and formation of the planets and our universe in general. An idea was formulated to access a comet’s tail! Investigators at the California Institute of Tech- nology, Lockheed Martin, and the University of Washington then conceived the elements of practicality of the project. The comet Wild 2 was identified as being accessible by modern spacecraft. A material called aerogel (13) was created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories by Peter Hsu. This spun silicon, the world’s lightest solid, would be used as a catchment substance to gently retrieve materials during the encounter. It was incor- porated into a detector grid that was deployed by the space- craft as it was carefully angulated, at a speed of 13,000 miles per hour, through the comet’s tail (Figs. 13 and 14). On February 7, 1999, a Delta II rocket carrying the 849-pound, solar-powered spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. The successful encounter occurred on January 2, 2004, and the capsule containing the detector grid was returned to the Utah desert on January 15, 2006, completing a 7-year journey of 2.9 billion miles (500 � 109 m). More than 1000 particles meas- uring 5 to 300 μm were retrieved, and the samples are currently undergoing analysis in multiple laboratories throughout the world. These were the first rock samples returned to earth from any place beyond the moon—a fantastic achievement of mod- ern science at an extreme scale (Figs. 15 and 16). The Medical Universe and Neurological Surgery Medicine exists in a global, social, economic, political, and sci- entific universe driven by forces of national economic vitality, popular attitudes and demands, emerging intellectual, affec- tual, and economic buoyancy, parallel progress in transferable technical and biological areas, and crisis situations, real and perceived. Perhaps most importantly, the principal catalyst for progress is the seminal idea. The innovative notion has been particularly operative in neurological surgery, in which, over the past generation, the concept of progressive minimalism has fueled a cascade of progress with new dimensions in the field. The continuum has been progressive—microsurgery, stereotaxy, navigated endoscopy, radiosurgery, endovascular techniques, and cellular and molecular adjuvants. What area of endeavor will follow molecular biology as a seminal innovative concept? An idea conceived at the California Institute of Technology by Nobel Laureate and Professor of Theoretical Physics Richard Feynman has proved remarkably prescient. In December 1959, he delivered a keynote lecture to the American Physical Society in which he described a concept of “manipulating and controlling things on a small scale” and stated that there exists “a staggeringly FIGURE 12. Illustration depicting the time course and evolution of events during the formation of the universe. During the 13.7 billion years since the Big Bang, stars and planets were formed, while the universe has continued to expand. (Courtesy of the NASA/WMAP Science Team [http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/060915/060915_CMB_Timeline150.jpg].) FIGURE 13. A, aerogel molded into individual blocks and configured into a collector grid. (Courtesy of NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL]-California Institute of Technology [CIT] [http://stardust.jpl. nasa.gov/photo/spacecraft.html#ksc].) B, NASA’s Stardust spacecraft is lowered before deploying panels for lighting tests. The length of the Stardust main bus is 1.7 m (5.5 ft). The spacecraft weighs 385 kg (849 lb). (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CIT [http://stardust.jpl.nasa. gov/photo/ksc990111.html].) B A 1040 | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 www.neurosurgery-online.com APUZZO ET AL. small world that is below” and “there is plenty of room at the bottom.” This was the conceptual birth of what we now term “nanotechnology.” Nanotechnology A nanometer is a billionth of a meter (10�9) and spans ap- proximately 10 atomic diameters. Nanotechnology encompasses the design, fabrication, and application of nanoscale systems, or nanosystems, and is a synthesis of multiple disciplines including electrical engineering, biotechnology, chemistry, and physics. In addition, nanotechnology has been defined by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as “the creation of func- tional materials, devices, and systems through control of matter on the nanometer length scale (1–100 nm) and exploitation o f n o v e l p h e n o m e n a a n d properties (physical, chemi- cal, biological, mechanical, electrical . . . ) at that length scale.” Molecular nanotech- nology is the 3-dimensional control of atoms and molecu- lar structures to create materi- als and devices with molecu- lar precision. Since the introduction of the concept in 1959, there has been a progressive escalation of activity, highlighted by in- novative concepts and Nobel Laureate discoveries. Thou- sands of sophisticated labora- tories involved in nanotechnology research have heralded the “nanotechnology gold rush” that is changing the way man- kind approaches its everyday life on our planet. We are cur- rently involved in the definition of nanoscience, with its con- cepts and principles being defined and applied in mesoscale (1000+ nm) (17). We now have elements and building blocks for the creation of products in the nanoworld: nanoparticles, nanowires (12), nan- otubes (19), and the 60-carbon construct “fullerene” (Fig. 17), originally discovered in spectral analyses of cosmic dust by Nobel Laureate and Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics and Astronomy Richard Smalley and his associates at Rice University in Houston. We have tools and methods for manipulation and investigation in nanoscale dimensions. Most importantly, nanotechnology has yielded new concepts in computer science that are essential for the field’s development. The silicon microchip, which has been an essential feature in the development of all modern science, has been moving toward the end of its refinement capabilities. We need to apply nanoscale manufacturing methods for further minimalization. Additionally, fundamental limitations of binary logic exist. Therefore, new methods of computing, namely, quan- tum computing and molecular computing, are being developed by the use of novel methods of fabrication, such as the self- assembly principles demonstrated in Mark Reed’s laboratory at Yale as part of so-called bottom-up methodology. Current large- scale microprocessor production uses top-down manufacturing methods, which employ a technique termed electron beam lithography to fabricate objects in single-crystal silicon. New technologies in imaging allow nanoscale observations and have the advantage of compatibility with living tissue. These instruments are part of the scanning probe microscope group, which includes the scanning tunneling microscope, the scanning capacitance microscope, and the atomic force microscope. With the use of these nanowire probe-oriented devices, both visualiza- tion and manipulation at the atomic level have been realized (Fig. 18). Another tool for manipulation is termed optical tweez- ers (4), which use a stream of photons to effect movement and FIGURE 14. Illustration depicting the rendezvous of Stardust with Wild 2. As the spacecraft flies through Wild 2’s coma, it deploys its tennis racket-shaped collector grid to capture cometary particles. Traveling at 13 000 miles per hour, the solar-powered spacecraft makes its way safely through the coma as its bumper shields protect the spacecraft from damage by larger pieces of the comet. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CIT [http://stardust. jpl.nasa.gov/photo/artist.html#row7].) FIGURE 16. Photograph of the comet Wild 2 taken by the approach- ing Stardust spacecraft before col- lection of comet debris. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CIT [http://stardust. jpl.nasa.gov/photo/cometwild2.ht ml#row2].) FIGURE 15. A, side view of the aerogel collector grid, showing particles from the comet’s tail as well as the tracks left by these particles as they entered the aerogel. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CIT [http://stardust.jpl.nasa. gov/photo/aerogel.html#row5].) B, microscopic image of cometary particle in compressed aerogel. (Courtesy of NASA/JPL-CIT [http://stardust. jpl.nasa.gov/news/news113.html].) A B NEUROSURGERY VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 | 1041 THE ALCHEMY OF IDEAS desired fabrication at the atomic level (17). Amazingly, a bio- molecular motor powered by F1-adenosine triphosphatase has been created as a nanoelectromechanical device (Fig. 19). Nanomedicine Today Nanomedicine encompasses medical diagnosis, monitoring, or treatment at the atomic and single-molecule level. It is cur- rently being applied to areas of imaging, diagnosis, and ther- apy (6, 7, 13). In imaging, quantum dots (9, 11), magnetic nanoparticles, and cross-linked iron oxide nanoparticles are elements of active research, the latter two as contrast agents, and quantum dots as flu- orescent labels for live cells, receptors, and neoplasms (Fig. 20) (9, 11). Quantum dots are particularly interesting. They fluoresce with- out quenching throughout the usual visual spectrum and offer striking markers of cellular components and cell constructs in vivo (Fig. 21). They also offer the capability for delineating the extent and location of neoplastic bur- den (Fig. 22). Nanoconstructs are currently valuable in the detection of deoxyribonucleic acid and pro- teins—a boon to medical diag- nostics (5). These constructs include gold nanoparticles, sil- ica nanoparticles, gold nano- shells, nanotubes, nanowires, nanoarrays, nanofluidics, nano- electromechanical systems, and nanocantilevers (Fig. 23). Nanoconstructs have been used therapeutically for drug delivery and gene therapy; these include nanoshells, liposomes, hydrogels, fullerenes, polymeric nanoparticles, polymeric mi- celles, dendrimers, implantable constructs, and “smart” sur- faces. A major advantage of nanoscale delivery appears to be enhanced membrane penetra- tion. Additionally, targeted nan- otherapy offers improved safety and compliance, increased effi- cacy, reduction of secondary effects, and, importantly, target- specific drug release. Potential nanosurgery devices include the ultra-efficient fem- tosecond laser system, nanonee- dles, nanotube nanotweezers, and optical tweezers (Fig. 24) (4). Quantum dot localization (9, 11) and hemostatic effects of self- assembled nanoparticles (12) have also been demonstrated. Nanoneurosurgery is the application of nanotechnology to the spectrum of nervous system disease. It will ultimately employ elements, principles, and capabilities of nanotechnol- ogy to diagnose and treat potential or existing central and peripheral nervous system diseases. The Future Molecular nanotechnology is the 3-dimensional positional control of atomic and molecular structures to create materials and devices with molecular precision (16). Ultimately, nanomed- icine will involve designing and fabricating molecular devices and then using them in patients to establish and maintain health. Mature nanomedicine will require the ability to build these devices with atomic precision. Molecular nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing will be the key to enabling technolo- gies for nanomedicine. FIGURE 17. A, images of nanopar- ticles. Left, transmission electron microscopy of indium metal oxide nanoparticles; center, photomicro- graph of multiple polymeric nanopar- ticles loaded with deoxyribonucleic acid; right, individual polymeric nanoparticle. B, scanning electron micrographs demonstrating variations in crystalline SiC nanowire structure and stages of synthesis using principles of self-assembly. a, numerous grain boundaries on copper foil film; b, faceted nanocrystals deposited on the film; c, nanocrystals coalescing along the grain boundaries; d, array of verti- cally aligned nanowires; e, multitude of nanowires growing radially with bush-like structure; f, flat nanowire tips; g and h, close view of tips with various diameters shows numerous nanowires contained within hollow wires; i, nanowires after being cut with a “scalpel”; inset, cross sectional view. C, scanning electron microscopic image of highly ordered carbon nanotube arrays. D, illustration of a C60 Buckminster-fullerene (buckyball) molecule made up of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a series of interlocking hexagonal shapes. (Image copyright � Dr. Robert C. Wagner, University of Delaware.) A B C D 1042 | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 www.neurosurgery-online.com APUZZO ET AL. Consider that we have now entered the early stages of creating novel drug delivery devices, bioprosthetics, new biomaterials, engineered tissues, engineered “organs,” and robotic devices (8). Later, we will see an ever-decreasing scale of operation and the ability to recapitulate every function. Through process engineer- ing, we will create genetic content, gene expression, protein prod- ucts, cell structure and function, and thus, organ structure and function. Largely, these capabilities will offer the re-creation of the human being. There is, indeed, “plenty of room at the bottom” in medicine and for us in neurological surgery as we consider these concepts to be realities and future capabilities (7, 14, 15). Neurosurgical Modernism Over the past generation, we have reinvented neurological surgery through a culmination of scientific, social, and economic events (2, 3). We all want to be modern; however, at times, there is a feeling of insecurity related to this movement and the rush of new ideas and methods. Consider the statement in 1927 from FIGURE 18. Atomic force microscopy used to manip- ulate single selected silicon atoms. A–C, sequential mechanical extraction of 2 single silicon atoms (marked with circles in A and B) from a silicon surface. D, removal of the silicon atom circled in A; E, the created cavity; F, the atom was then replaced. FIGURE 19. Series of images demonstrating nanopropellers being rotated anticlockwise at 8.3 rps (A) and 7.7 rps (B) by an F1-adenosine triphos- phatase biomolecular motor. From Soong RK, Backand GD, Neves HP, Olkhovets AG, Craighead HG, Montemagno CD: Powering an inorganic nanodevice with a biomolecular motor. Science 290: 1555–1558, 2000. FIGURE 21. Illustration showing potential targets for quantum dots of varying dimensions within a cell. Varying the composition and physical dimensions of quantum dots allows control over the color of light emitted. A B C D E F A B FIGURE 20. Illustration showing that quantum dots fluoresce at different wavelengths depending on their physical properties and composition. From Ilic B, Yang Y, Craighead HG: Virus detection using nanodectromechani- cal devices. Appl Phys Lett 85:2604–2606, 2004; Rasi NR, Markin CA: Nanostructures in biodiagnostics. Chem Rev 105:1547–1562, 2005. NEUROSURGERY VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 6 | DECEMBER 2008 | 1043 THE ALCHEMY OF IDEAS the foreward by Le Corbusier (Fig. 25) to his classic, im- passioned “manifesto of the modern,” Towards a New Architecture: “Man’s stock of tools marks out the stages of civilization, the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age. Tools are the result of successive improvement; the effort of all generations is embodied in them. The tool is the direct and immediate expression of progress; it gives man essential assistance and essential freedom, also. We throw the out-of-date tool on the scrap-heap; the carbine, the culverin, the growler and the old locomotive. This action is a manifestation of health, of moral health, of morale also; it is not right that we should produce bad things because of a bad tool; nor is it right that we should waste our energy, our health, and our courage because of a bad tool; it must be thrown away and replaced.” We, during our time, have the scope and capability of activity that span a realm from 109 to 10�9 meters—an incredible thought! With the reinvention of neurolog- ical surgery, we, in many ways, will and must rein- vent ourselves both in spirit and in practical realities. 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They accomplish this by focusing on the broad effect that the Modernist movement has had on European thought and the specific role that individual Modernists have had on developing our society’s acceptance of the inevitability of inno- vation and discovery. As the field of neurosurgery and individual neu- rosurgeons move to reinvent themselves in response to today’s scien- tific, social, and economic events, it is particularly useful to be aware of our Modernist roots. Understanding the roots of the passion we share for bettering the lives of our patients will undoubtedly allow us to move more gracefully, with fewer missteps. E. Sander Connolly, Jr. New York, New York It is often instructive to step back and reflect on the realm of sciencein our lives. This article explores the subject, ranging from the immensity of a universe beyond comprehension to the nanometer world beyond perception. It is inspirational as well as humbling. One of the major attractions of neurosurgery is the capacity to use the same concepts that help us understand the laws of physics, biochem- istry, and molecular biology to devise novel methods for treating neu- rological disease. In some ways, a career in neurosurgery also is the most inspiring and humbling of any career I can imagine. The future of our discipline will depend on incorporating some of the concepts and themes in this article into new treatment methods. Our willing- ness to collaborate with other disciplines in science is necessary to make this happen. Joseph M. Piepmeier New Haven, Connecticut This special article was presented at the 2008 meeting of theAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons in Chicago, IL, as part of the Theodore Kurze Lecture. Dr. Michael L.J. Apuzzo, former colleague of Ted Kurze, delivered the original presentation. The senior author is a well-known master surgeon, teacher, and innovator of numerous technologies in both surgery and radiation oncology. In his characteristic style, he skillfully examines the power of ideas, the move- ment of Modernism in the arts, and their role in sculpting the future of neurosurgical practice. This all-embracing essay is organized into 3 parts: an assessment of the power of ideas in initiating change and progress, the capabilities of “modern” scientific endeavors, and the realities of modern neurosurgical attitudes. In the first part, “Alchemy, Ideas, and Modernism,” the authors illus- trate, through art, architecture, and music, how an idea is capable of influencing both scientific and humanistic thought. Provocative and influential works of Modernist figures are cited: Wassily Kandinsky’s Composition 8, 1923; Villa Savoie, designed by Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, “Le Corbusier”; Frank Gehry’s “jackets” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. These works reflect the cascade effect and how artistic thought eventually progresses to innovative diagnostic tech- niques and surgical approaches. The authors begin the second part, “Scope and Scale of Modern Science,” with Diego Rivera’s 1934 mural Man, Controller of the Universe, which depicts man in control of the universe machine (resembling a sur- geon behind a DaVinci robotic apparatus). The image serves as a sym- bol of where neurosurgery has ventured in the past (microsurgery, stereotaxy, endoscopy, radiosurgery, endovascular techniques) and per- haps will go in the future: nanotechnology. The authors assert that nan- otechnology, the 3-dimensional control of atomic structures, may expand the field of neurosurgery to include anatomic engineering with nanoneedles, nanotubes, nanotweezers, and femtosecond laser systems. The third part, “Neurosurgical Modernism,” summarizes the scope of neurosurgery and spans from the cosmos (a scale of 109 m) to nanoscience (a scale of 10–9 m). Parallels are drawn between the Modernist movement in arts and architecture with true practitioners of medicine today. The ultimate outcome of this push for “the new” will inevitably result in improved neurosurgical capabilities. Traditionally, the goal of the Theodore Kurze Lecture has been the integration of neurosurgical scientific endeavors with those of the humanities. Dr. Kurze’s legacy and intellectual spirit are proudly dis- played in this exceptional essay. John J. 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O R G Editorial w i t h t h e f o u n dat i o n o f i b by , the Inter- national Youth Library, and Bookbird, Jella Lepman concretized the idea put forth by French critic Paul Hazard that children’s literature can portray both what makes every culture unique and what is uni- versal: our “humanity.” In consequence, by reading books in other languages and from culture rather than our own, we can gain an understanding of oth- er cultures, as well as realize our common humanity, and this can bring us closer to each other. Ultimately, reading is a peace project—hence IBBY’s stated mission “to promote international understanding through children’s books” (mission statement, IBBY homepage). As editor of Bookbird, I naturally see it as my ambition to promote a better understanding of children’s literature. With the global reach of Book- bird, I also recognize that we are excellently placed to promote not just understanding but international understanding of and through children’s literature. We attempt this with every issue in our choice of ar- ticles, reviews, exhibitions, and interviews. However, sometimes a topic or theme comes up that partic- ularly well “promotes international understanding through children’s books.” The special feature of this issue, “translation and transmedia,” is ideal for this purpose. Translation is fundamental to IBBY’s mission. Without books in translation, we are locked in our own language ghettos. This is true even of large languages, like English, where the percentage of translated books is often very low. Transmedia is another rewriting process by which works of literature are adapted to new purposes, media forms, and genres. Through such adaptation work, books are given new lease of life and can continue to “promote understanding” of different times, cultures, and languages. The process of “translation” can be rather intricate and take unexpected turns. The cover of this issue of Bookbird is a case in point. The image is from Svjetlan Junakovic’s Great Book of Animal Portraits (2007) and represents a murdered chicken in a bathtub. One can regard it as a translation or reinterpretation of Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting The Death of Marat, which depicts the murder of Jean-Paul Marat by Charlotte Corday the same year. It is one of the most famous images of and from the French Revolution and has been com- pared to Michelangelo’s Pietà and Caravaggio’s The Entombment of Christ. It has inspired later painters— like Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, who made their own versions of The Death of Marat—and is also frequently alluded to in popular culture (film, PC games, etc.). What Junakovic does with his version could be seen as mere subversion, but I think it cuts deeper than parody. On the one hand, Junakovic’s can be seen as an anthropomorphic dead chicken, that is, an animal (bird) cast as a human being. Since anthropomorphism is heavily featured in children’s literature and culture—from Aesop to Zootropolis— the painting (and the whole collection of animal portraits) thus invites a children’s literature read- ing. In other words, Junakovic’s act of translation questions the child-adult boundary by humorously repackaging serious art as children’s literature. On the other hand, the original painting, The Death of I B B Y. O R G 3 5 6 . 1 – 2 0 1 8 BJÖRN SUNDMARK is Professor of English Literature in the Faculty of Education, Malmö University, Sweden. He has published numerous articles on children’s literature, and is the author of the study Alice in the Oral-Literary Continuum (1999) and co-editor of The Nation in Children’s Literature (Routledge 2013). He is editor of Bookbird–Journal of International Children’s Literature. Marat, is so well-known, looms so large, and its style of painting has been so meticulously copied that it is still in a sense visible through Junakovic’s “translation.” If so, one could argue that Marat is still there, but turned chicken—through a process of zoomorphism (turning men into beasts), which is the opposite of anthropomorphism. However, with Junakovic’s painting it is impossible to say if the animal has turned man or the man turned animal. Thus, Junakovic subtly calls the human-animal divide into question, something that is very much part of a contemporary discourse on posthumanism, animal rights, and the like. And that is just the cover! For a more extensive commentary on the theme, I refer you to Anna Kerchy, who presents the featured articles, in her critical introduction to the study of translation and transmedia. Finally, having prepared this issue, and seen the potential in the material, I have come to recognize how well it fits the mission of IBBY. 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The article indicates, from a handwriting expert viewpoint, which properties of signatures are significant to their identification, and which are not, and therefore, that in some cases, despite the corres- pondence of signature with the exemplars, conclusion about its authenticity is invalid. Keywords: painters’ signature, authenticity of paintings, art forgery, fake painting, handwriting identification, authenticity of the signature, art market DOI: https://doi.org/10.3176/tr.2017.4.07 1. Introduction The painter’s signature, defined as the mark made by the artist’s hand on his/her painting, takes a variety of forms. It may be a full name signature, an abbreviated signature, a monogram, as well as a symbol used as an identifying mark of the artist (e.g. a geometric or animal shape). Sometimes the signatures are more complex and contain not only the name or its equivalent but also the date, title, place of creation, or other authorial information. While signatures had already been used in antiquity, they began gaining importance from the 15th century (Matthew 1998:624). As the social prestige of the painter’s profession grew, signing paintings became an increasingly popular custom. In the 19th century there was an enormous development of the art market. The establishment of new art galleries and more and more numerous private collections resulted in a great demand both for the works of contemporary art and paintings of the old masters (see for example data presented by Worthington and Anna Koziczak 404 Higgs 2004:258). In consequence, the counterfeiting of paintings and signatures developed on a scale unheard of before. 2. The significance of signatures for the assessment of the authenticity of paintings Signatures are believed to be of particular importance for the attribution of a work of art. Therefore, signature analysis is (in addition to physico-chemical tests, the analysis of technology, painting techniques, and style) one of the most important methods for investigating the authenticity of a painting. However, when discussing the role of signature in determining the authorship of a work of art, we should take into consideration that the authenticity of a signature does not mean that the painting on which it was placed is authentic or, conversely, the inauthenticity of a signature is not tantamount to the inauthenticity of the work. This means that there are four possible combinations for the painting-signature pair: (a) authentic painting + authentic signature, (b) fake painting + fake signature, (c) authentic painting + fake signature, (d) fake painting + authentic signature (Widla 1980:8). The first combination is obvious and self-explanatory. The presence of the three remaining painting-signature combinations on the art market is due to the fact that the prices of signed paintings are usually much higher than those reached by unsigned ones. This is why signing fake paintings with forged signatures, while reprehensible, is understandable. Due to the value of signed paintings, even genuine paintings which have not been signed by their authors are sometimes given signatures by other people, for example members of the artists’ families. There are frequent cases of renowned artists signing their signatures on other people’s paint- ings (as Corot and Pablo Picasso used to do) or in blanco, on an empty foundation (for example Salvador Dali), as a peculiar form of providing financial support. Finally, many artists, including Rembrandt, signed the works of their students to confirm that the works met the requirements of the workshop (Arnau 1960:122). In this case, the signatures of the masters served as quality labels. Regardless of the possible relationships between a painting and the signature on it, it is obvious that the signature serves as the attribution indicator for the painting only when its authenticity can be assured (Bensimon 1996:29). Naturally, this statement leads to the question when such an assurance can be had or, more precisely, if and in which way it depends on the form of the signature. 3. Form of signature and the scope of examination The assessment of the authenticity of signatures can be based on two kinds of tests:  the examination of the technical layer of the signature allows, among other things, detecting later interferences with the structure of the work (analysis The form of painter’s signature 405 of the foundation, covering material, and the way the latter was applied onto it; the UV and IR radiation examination; stratigraphic analysis, or examining individual covering material layers),  the examination of graphic features of a signature. Sometimes the examination includes the linguistic features of a signature and involves checking it for spelling, grammar, and logical errors (the former, like using a sobriquet the artist received posthumously in a signature, may give grounds for excluding the authenticity of the signature). 3.1. Examination of the technical layer The range of tests which can be carried out is only slightly dependent on the form of the signature. This relationship occurs only when focusing the analysis on the manner in which the covering material was applied to the foundation, particularly the artist’s (or the forger’s) manner of wielding the brush or other tool used to place the signature. In this kind of examination, the odds of drawing conclusions regarding the authenticity of signatures are greater if the examined signatures are longer and the complexity of their design is greater. The remaining tests of the technical layer do not depend on the form of the signature; therefore, they can be carried out to the same extent regardless of the length, design, or any other properties composing the form of signatures. 3.2. Examination of the graphical layer It is completely different when examining the graphical layer of a signature: these tests are related to the form of the signature directly and significantly. The scope of tests which can be performed on a given signature (and thus also the conclusions as to its authenticity) is greatly influenced by three formal properties: (a) length, (b) degree of complexity, (c) dynamics of performing the signature. 3.2.1. Signature length The longer the signature, the more graphical features there are in it, which can be subjected to analysis. This relationship is essential to the examination of the painter’s signature, since (similarly to the signatures on traditional documents) in order to categorically state that the signature was placed by a specific person, the expert has to find in it a unique, individual set of graphical features. Which, in turn, is only possible when there is a sufficient number of analysed features (Koppenhaver 2007:260). As the signature shortens, the number of graphical features it contains also decreases, down to the level below where it is impossible to indicate the maker of a signature due to the lack of sufficient data. If the examined signature is short and the number of features in it scarce, two factors should be taken into account. First, the consistency of the features of a signature with exemplar signatures from a given artist does not necessarily attest to the authenticity of the signature, Anna Koziczak 406 as the high degree of similarity of short samples can be due to imitation (Hilton 1939:571) and, in extraordinary cases, even pure coincidence. Second, the inconsistency between the features of a signature and the artist’s comparative material does not have to prove the inauthenticity of the signature (Slyter 1995:46). The graphism of handwriting of every human (including signatures) changes in time as well as due to various internal and external factors, long-term and temporary, such as the whim of a moment, feeling unwell, haste, or intentional change of specimen signature (Huber and Headrick 1999:51, Naftali 1965:530, Osborn 1910:196, Tomilin 1974:161), This natural variability of graphism varies for different people (Ellen 1997:21); however there is no grounds to assume that painters’ signatures are more stable than traditional ones. Consider- ing the above-average sensitivity of artists, a painter’s signatures may yet turn out to be entities of lower stability in general (the author has not found any detailed studies on this subject). To simplify the issue of signature length, it can be said that the expert “needs to have something to examine”. Expert opinions on short signatures can generally result only in a non-categorical conclusion, such as there are no grounds to ques- tion the authenticity of the signature. Categorical positive conclusions, that are confirming the authenticity of a signature, drawn in such circumstances should be considered ungrounded, which means that they must be incorrect in at least half of the cases (see the numerous examples presented by Arnau or Spencer 2004). The odds of drawing a categorical conclusion denying the authenticity of a signature are slightly better; such conclusions can be based, for example, on the signature showing features clearly contrary to the writing habits of the given artist. In the case of short signatures, the strongest grounds for the categorical negative con- clusions are given by the traces of forgery found in the technical layer. 3.2.2. Degree of signature complexity The degree of signature complexity depends on the technique in which it was made. Some techniques limit the freedom of stroke so much that they force the use of simple graphical solutions in signatures (e.g. using block letters, composed of separate, unconnected sections). The degree of signature complexity is also partially tied to its length. Short signatures are usually not complicated, whereas the design complexity of long signatures may be either high or low. The dependence between the degree of signature complexity and the ability to determine its authenticity is clear: the more complex the signature, the easier it is to confirm or exclude its authenticity (Fig. 1). Signatures of complex design are more difficult to imitate, and the likelihood of a similar graphical structure being repeated by another person is lower. Such signatures, compared to those of simple design, contain a greater number of graphical features valuable in terms of identification. Thus, the greater the complexity of a signature, the more useful it is in evaluating the authenticity of a painting. A contrario, as a categorical confirmation of the authenticity of a very simple signature is generally impossible, The form of painter’s signature 407 signatures of this kind cannot be deemed useful in evaluating the authenticity of the work as a whole. Figure 1. A long signature, with a large number of graphic features – possible categorical con- clusions about its authenticity (photo: A. Koziczak) 3.2.3. Dynamics of performing the signature Examining the authenticity of a signature also depends on the dynamics (freedom and surety) of its making. The measures of dynamics of making a signature include, above all, the pace (speed) of drawing, the pressure of the writing tool on the foundation, and the degree of connections between individual letters (Morris 2000:67). A fast speed of drawing, fluently drawn lines (particularly in curves and loops), rhythmic changes of pressure, and high degree of connection attest to the signature having been drawn leisurely and naturally. Imitating signatures drawn like this and of sufficient length, is extremely difficult. Therefore, high dynamics of drawing provides a solid ground for drawing conclusions as to the authenticity of a signature (Fig. 2). This is not the case for signatures drawn at a slow pace, using a constant pressure of the tool on the foundation, where every letter, or even individual parts of letters, are drawn separately and not connected to others (Fig. 3). Imitating such signatures, resembling pictographs rather than writing, is easy, particularly for art forgers, who are often gifted artists and have the necessary skills (Kelly and Lindblom 2006:98). In the case of signatures with low dynamics, especially the short ones (Fig. 4), even high consistency with the com- parative material of a given artist cannot give grounds to categorically confirm their authenticity. Figure 2. High dynamics of signature provides solid ground for conclusions as to the authenticity of a signature (photo: A. Koziczak). Anna Koziczak 408 Figure 3. The low dynamics of the signature significantly impedes the determination of whether the signature is authentic or not (photo: D. Markowski). Fig. 4. Very short and simple form of signature with low dynamics – no basis to confirm or exclude authenticity (photo: Rijksmuseum. Available online at . Accessed on October 27, 2017). 3.3. Summary The above observations are nothing new for the experts in the identification of handwriting and traditional signatures. They know that all inscriptions without freedom of drawing, and on top of that short and simple in design, are research materials of the highest risk category; therefore all conclusions about the origin of such inscriptions must be drawn with utmost care. Thus, when examining a signature for authenticity, it is not enough to verify whether its features are consistent with the comparative material of this artist, or not (Widla 2016:201). Instead, it is necessary to analyse in detail the common features and differences between the studied samples, the identification value of both and the possible reasons why they occur (Mathyer 1961:130), and, above all, if the signature form allows to draw conclusions on its origin. The form of painter’s signature 409 The relationships presented above are rarely taken into account by art historians and museum professionals (as shown by the opinions they provide), yet the expert opinions on the authenticity of signatures are usually provided by them rather than by experts in handwriting analysis. Limiting the testing to the com- parison of the graphical features alone must lead to errors, particularly because high quality painter’s signatures, that is both complex and drawn with freedom, confidence, and speed, are relatively rare. Much more often paintings are marked with signatures of dubious quality: short, simple, without connections between letters, and drawn rather slowly. To a large extent, it is justified by the particular conditions of making signatures (an unusual writing position, foundation, and writing tool, which is difficult to use fluently, not the least because the paint on the brush runs out fast). These circumstances make drawing a painter’s signature more difficult than a traditional one. As a result, the quality of many signatures is low. For that reason, painters’ signatures serve the purpose of identification less often than traditional ones. 4. Conclusions 1. A signature can be a significant determinant of the authenticity of the work of art on which it was placed only when the authenticity of the former is certain. 2. The possibility to assess the authenticity of a signature depends on its form. A conclusive confirmation of authenticity of a signature is only possible for signatures of appropriate quality. 3. The analysis of long, complex, and freely and dynamically drawn signatures gives the best odds of drawing proper categorical conclusions. The shorter and simpler the examined signature, and the less dynamically it was drawn, the smaller are the odds of an unambiguous assessment of its authenticity. In the case when the examined signature is very short and simple, without connections, and slowly drawn, there is no basis to confirm its authenticity even if its features are con- sistent with the exemplars. Therefore, signatures of this kind have no practical value in evaluating a work of art for authenticity. 4. As expert opinions on the authenticity of works of art are generally costly, it is worth to evaluate the quality of signature before commissioning the examina- tion. If the work of art is marked with a signature of little identification value, it is advisable to begin identifying its attribution with the tests which yield better odds of categorical conclusions. Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the Rijksmuseum and Professor Dariusz Markowski for their support and granting permission for using the photographs of signatures presented in the article. 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Accessed on October 27, 2017. work_5ouska6aqjhjrjynq5zfw5jr6q ---- <303730365FB4D9C2F7BCF6C1A45FB9CCB1B9C7D02033342D312E687770> An East/West Pas De Deux: The Ballets Russes and the Orient in the Modern Western Imagination Robert Myers OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;1) The opening couplet of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of East and West,” first published in 1889, is one of Kipling’s well-worn tautologies and all too obviously fallacious truths that seem simply to confirm his position as the most egregious of Victorian Orientalists. These verses appear, at first glance, to assert that the Orient and the Occident are not only essential spaces but eternal antinomies. In that sense, of course, Kipling’s words can be seen as prefiguring much of the recent rhetoric about East and West (‘Clash of Civilizations,’ ‘War on Terror,’ ‘Islamofascism,’ ‘Islamism,’ etc.) that has been repeated ad nauseam and, as such, has achieved a sort of naturalized, self-evident status in spite of its obvious vacuity. “Kipling,” as 1) Rudyard Kipling, “The Ballad of East and West,” in Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1940), 234. George Orwell writes, “is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting.”2) But as Orwell also observes in the same essay, Kipling is a paradoxical writer, and not simply because he is “a good bad writer,” who coined such memorable phrases as “the White man’s burden,” “somewhere East of Suez,” and “what do they know of England who only England know.”3) Upon closer inspection in fact in the very next couplet: “But there is neither East nor West, nor Breed nor Birth / When two strong men stand face to face tho’ they come from the ends of the earth” Kipling makes precisely the opposite point from the one the opening lines had suggested. The ballad recounts a story set in the Khyber Pass near the Afghan border in what the contemporary American media glibly refer to as the “tribal region” of Pakistan about a standoff between a Western soldier and his Eastern adversary. The tale ends when the Easterner, who has stolen the soldier’s father’s horse, offers to send his own son to guard the soldier as he returns the horse to its rightful owner. As such, Kipling’s ballad is a very good bad poem about how human solidarity can transcend the most intractable borders of race, culture and geography. One hint of how overly-optimistic Kipling was can be seen a century later, at least in the military realm, in the cover story of the November 20, 2010 Independent newspaper, which recounts the story of the death of the hundredth British soldier in the current Afghan war. In this essay I will discuss the permeability of borders between 2) George Orwell, “Rudyard Kipling,” originally published in Horizon (1942), reproduced on The Orwell Prize website, accessed May 23, 2011, http:// theorwellprize.co.uk/george-orwell/by-orwell/essays-and-other-works/rudyard-kipling/. 3) Ibid. East and West in another sphere, the arts, in an earlier era the beginning of aesthetic modernism, with respect to the fine arts, in Europe and North America and the attendant paradoxes and ironies of cultural transmission, which, I hope, will call into question the very notion of such facile phrases as ‘Western culture,’ ‘Western civilization,’ ‘the Muslim world,’ and ‘radical Islam and the East,’ as well as the supposedly inherent world-views and innate antagonisms that ostensibly exist between these clearly delineated spheres. Like any aesthetic movement, especially one defined by a radical break with the past, European modernism has many beginnings. A number of art and cultural historians, for example, locate its beginning with the 1907 retrospective show at the Salon d’Automne in Paris of the work of Paul Cezanne, who died the year before. Cezanne, who asserted that “[p]ainting stands for no other end than itself it is simply a pretext for line and colour, nothing more,” laid the groundwork for Cubism and abstraction, and Picasso famously referred to him as “the father of us all.”4) I will assert, however, that it is just as, if not more, logical to locate that beginning two years later with the arrival in Paris from St. Petersburg of the Ballets Russes in 1909. Certainly modernism, if it means anything, means rupture to “make it new” in the phrase of Ezra Pound, who writes, although somewhat ironically, in the 1913 poem “Les Millwin” about the young artists from the Slade School who attended a 1910 production of Cléopâtre in London “with forearms / Crossed in great 4) Qtd. in Rosemary Bailey, “See France through Artists’ Eyes,” The Guardian, May 17, 2009, accessed May 23, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/ 17/ provence-cezannne-picasso-france-travel. futuristic x’s” and certainly no one in Paris had seen anything before remotely like those first productions of the Ballets Russes.5) As John MacKenzie, Lynn Garafola and others have written, ballet was essentially an ossified, nearly moribund, art form, when the group’s producer Serge Diaghilev, designer Leon Bakst, choreographer Mikhail Fokine and a troupe that included performers such as Ana Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein and Vaslav Nijinsky arrived in Paris.6) Not only did the subject matter unbridled and orgiastic female desire, inverted sexuality, masturbatory delight, sado-masochism, homoeroticism and the link between eroticism and death create shock, another indispensable element in the creation of a modernist aesthetic, the forms of the pieces produced by the Ballets Russes transcended the simply novel. They radically and permanently altered notions of what constitutes dance and of the relationships both between dance and ballet and between performance and painting. The body, gestures, clothing and their relationship to notions of what we now refer to as gender were interrogated most particularly in the performances of Rubinstein and Nijinsky. But the group’s investigation of form was not limited to movement and the body. The works themselves were radically re-imagined. For example, Schèhèrazade (1910) based on The 1001 Nights was reduced from an epic, never-ending narrative to a half-hour, non-narrative based on the outer frame tale, in which King Shahryar returns unexpectedly from a hunting trip to discover that his wife, Zobeida, is in the midst of an orgy with the slaves in 5) Laura Marcus and Peter Nichols (eds.), The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Literature (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004), 111. 6) John Mackenzie, Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1995), 197. the seraglio; he then proceeds to slaughter the slaves and his wife.7) As many modernist writers would later do for example, Joyce, in Ulysses, published in 1922, compressed the epic of the Odyssey into a single day in modern Dublin Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes transformed the languid, always delayed eroticism of 1001 Nights into the sexual frenzy of Sheherazade. The Ballets Russes also radically redefined gender by repeatedly dramatizing powerful females such as Cleopatra, Thamar and Zobeida as insatiable and sadistic sexual devourers and by for the first time in the history of ballet foregrounding the male body as erotic object. The troupe’s founder, Diaghilev, was an inveterate collector, curator and impresario, whose genius lay in a combination of showmanship and the ability to create novel and shocking aesthetic synergies. The designers, composers, choreographers and performers of the Ballet Russes also redefined genre by creating one-of-a-kind gesamtkunstwerks i.e. total works of art such as L’Aprés Midi d’un Faune (Afternoon of a Faun), Le Spectre de la Rose (The Specter of the Rose), Daphnis et Chloé (Daphnis and Chloe), Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), and the troupe’s lesser-known but equally innovative works with more overtly Eastern themes. These pieces incorporated innovative, sometimes disjunctive and, at times, almost atonal scores with harmonies and scales from the East by composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel and Satie that completely eschewed the hackneyed 7) In 1001 Nights, Shahryar, traumatized by this infidelity, goes on to murder every woman with whom he sleeps afterwards until he meets Sheherazade, who avoids the fate of her predecessors by telling him riveting tales many, not unsurprisingly, about infidelity, chicanery and brutality every night, which she interrupts as dawn approaches. style of German symphonic music based on Wagnerian leitmotifs. The sets for the pieces were designed by designers such as Leon Bakst, who saturated the stage with ostensibly dissonant colors such as green and blue; by Natalia Goncharov, whose designs for L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) and Le Coq D’or (The Golden Cockerel) are manifestations of her belief that “the East means the creation of new forms, and extending of the problems of color;”8) and by Pablo Picasso, who transported the Cubist lines of his paintings onto the stage. The costumes were created by Bakst, Matisse and others using draping Asian lines, splotches of color and elaborate embroidery heretofore unseen on European stages. These juxtapositions of jarringly new sounds, costumes and scenic designs not only created new theatrical universes, they resonated in the realms of fashion design in the clothing of Paul Poiret and Coco Chanel, both of whom worked with the dance troupe, and in Bakst and Poiret’s influential interior designs. As Peter Wollen writes, “The huge success of Scheherazade was the pre-condition for Poiret’s Oriental fashion The Russian Ballet launched orientalism, Poiret popularized it, Matisse channeled it into painting and fine art.”9) One further element that is essential to consider in assessing the breadth and complexity of the achievement of the Ballet Russes is the influence they have had and continue to have on both “high” and “popular” culture. In addition to the artists mentioned above who collaborated with them directly, Jean Cocteau worked closely with the 8) John E. Bowlt, “Léon Bakst, Natalia Goncharova and Pablo Picasso,” in Jane Pritchard, ed., Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 (London: Victoria & Albert Publishing, 2010). 9) Peter Wollen, “Fashion/Orientalism/The Body,” New Formations 1 (1987): 12. troupe and wrote librettos for several operatic pieces. They also had close links to Juan Gris, Rodin, Marinetti, Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant and others in the Bloomsbury Circle, and they spawned dozens of imitators on American vaudeville stages in the 1910s during the period the group toured there.10) The Ballet Russes defined ballet in the 20 century through the work of Diaghilev’s last choreographer, George Balanchine, and his collaborator Lincoln Kirstein, the founder of the New York City Ballet, who consciously modeled his career on Diaghilev’s, and through the work of the two greatest male dancers of the second half of the twentieth-century Rudolph Nuryev and Mikhail Baryshnikov, both of whom acknowledged their debt to Nijinsky, just as Balanchine acknowledged his to the troupe’s other choreographers, Michel Fokine, Leonide Massine, and Nijinsky. The group’s aesthetic migrated directly into modern American experimental dance in the figure of one of the troupe’s principal dancers, Adolph Bolm, into Hollywood cinema through the figure of Theodore Kosloff who left the Ballet Russes after the first season in Paris and in the 1920s and became an “actor, dancer, choreographer, technical director and unofficial advisor” to Cecile B. DeMille,11) and the group’s costumes and designs were revived in the 1970s in the fashion designs of Yves St. Laurent. The aesthetic also continues in exhibitions like the major autumn 2010 exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes,1909-1927,” attesting to the lasting influence of the troupe’s 10) Judith Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs. John Maynard Keynes (London: Weidenfeld &Nicolson, 2008). 11) Lynn Garafola and Nancy Van Norman Baer, The Ballets Russes and Its World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999), 9. work in many spheres of art and culture.12) Here, I would like to briefly focus on three aspects of the history and aesthetic of the Ballet Russes. First, it seems significant that so many of the group’s earliest works were based on Arab and Islamic motifs. The first two productions presented in Paris, in 1909, the year before Scheherazade was presented, were Cleopatra and Thamar. Cleopatra, based on Pushkin’s Egyptian Nights, portrays a sexually voracious monarch who indulges her passion at will and then kills her prey after she is sexually satisfied. Nijinsky danced the role of a slave who begs for a night with Cleopatra, knowing the price for his pleasure will be death. Ida Rubinstein, a tall exceedingly slender dancer, who played the role of the Arab femme fatale, is carried onstage “on the shoulders of six slaves, in a sarcophagus which, when opened, revealed her swathed from head to foot like a mummy.”13) Cocteau describes the scene as follows: Each of the veils unwound itself in a fashion of its own; one demanded a host of subtle touches, another the deliberation required in peeling a walnut, the third the airy detachment of the petals of a rose, and the eleventh, most difficult of all, came away in one piece like the bark of the eucalyptus tree.14) 12) The Yves St. Laurent collection was part of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibit. See, for example: Jenna Rossi-Camus, “Exhibition Review: Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes at the V&A,” Worn Through: Apparel from an Academic Perspective, October 28, 2010, http://www. wornthrough.com/2010/10/28/exhibition-review-diaghilev-and-the-golden-age- of-the- ballet-r/. 13) Wollen, “Fashion/Orientalism/The Body,” 19. 14) Ibid. Thamar, produced two years after Scheherazade and based on a narrative poem by Lermontov, dramatizes the story of a Georgian princess who lures a male passerby into her castle then “plunges a dagger into the heart of her captive lover”.15) Not coincidentally, all three ballets link slavery or captivity, female sexuality, violence and death, motifs which recur with frequency in the troupe’s oeuvre in the 1910s and which prefigure preoccupations of post-war European aesthetics and the 1917 Russian Revolution. In spite of their lurid subject matter, their basis in literary works from the East emphasizes the fact that, beyond their obvious shock value, Diaghilev, who was notoriously high-brow and evinced virtually no interest in the burgeoning cinema industry, expected that these new forms of ballet would be taken seriously as works of art. Many of the pieces performed in the first ten years of the troupe’s existence are overtly linked to the Arab and Islamic East Salome (1913); The Polovtsian Dances (1909), based on Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, featuring a metatheatrical scene in which Uzbeki slaves entertain the captive Christian Prince Igor, who is offered his choice of dancers by his Uzbeki counterpart; Les Orientales (The Orientals) (1910), a revue of Eastern dances, which featured “The Saracens’ Dance,” “The Assyrians’ Dance,” and “The Oriental Dance” and the “Djinn’s Dance,” both choreographed and performed by Nijinsky; and The Golden Cockerel (1914), a “fable with sets more like Persian carpets or painted peasant furniture than backdrops for dancing”.16) Numerous other ballets, such as Le Dieu Bleu (The Blue God) (1912), with a 15) Garafola and Baer, The Ballets Russes and Its World, 250. 16) John E. Bowlt, “Léon Bakst, Natalia Goncharova and Pablo Picasso,” 107. libretto co-written by Jean Cocteau and based on a Hindu legend, and, of course, the ballets with Russian themes, are also set in the East. Other pieces not based on Eastern source material nevertheless feature motifs inspired by Asia or the East, such as Le Chant de Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) (1925), based on a Stravinsky opera after a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale and containing Tibetan-style costumes designed by Matisse, and Parade (1917), with music by Eric Satie and costumes, curtain and scenery by Picasso and containing a character called the Chinese Conjuror, who first introduces Cubist design into the theatre. Perhaps most importantly, other works by the Ballets Russes allow us to perceive the ways in which artistic creation in, what Howard Goodall calls “a collaborative hothouse of an unprecedented order,”17) reconfigures facile political and ideological geographies. For example, when one looks at Bakst’s designs in the book Bakst in Greece, by Charles Spencer, and analyzes the profound influence that ancient Greece had on the Bakst’s designs one can’t help but see what a thin line separates the supposedly Western nymphs and shepherdesses in Narcisse and Afternoon of the Faun from the Eastern pilgrims and potentates in The Blue God and Scheherazade. And that insight prompts a second look at the costume and set of Le Tricorne (1919) based on Alarcon’s novel The Three-Cornered Hat which were designed by Picasso, who was, after all, born in Malaga, from where on a clear day one can see the North African coast and which for eight centuries was part of the Islamic world. His Sevillan 17) Howard Goodall, “Music and the Ballets Russes,” in Jane Pritchard, ed., Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 177. dancer, with her stacked, pagoda-like headdress, suddenly resembles Bakst’s design for the child’s headdress in The Blue God, which was “inspired by details from Angkor Thom in Cambodia,”18) and his set for a Spanish town looks indistinguishable from an Arab town in the Maghreb right across the Mediterranean. The other two aspects I would like to focus on are, first, the many profound paradoxes one encounters in the history and aesthetic of the Ballets Russes and, finally, several crucial aspects of the troupe’s relationship to American culture. Of course the reason these paradoxes are so significant is that they very rapidly undermine the facile antinomies so often attributed to the East (femininity, passivity, dissimulation, excessive ornamentation, unbridled sexuality, etc.) and the West (masculinity, functionality, straightforwardness, clean engineering, productive repression, etc.). The most obvious paradox concerning the Ballet Russes as the vessel of what might be termed a neo-Orientalist aesthetic, which profoundly altered Western modernist art is, of course, the fact that the company, its producer, choreographers, performers and many of its designers were Russian. Less obvious, but equally ironic is the fact that the principal designer of this visual universe that theatrically came to represent the Arab and Islamic universe in the West was Leon Bakst, who was a Russian Jew i.e. an outsider who was not, according to law, allowed to live in St. Petersburg without a permit. Although most of Bakst’s collaborators were not Jewish, the troupe’s varied oeuvre obviously forces us to reconsider whether Russia’s position as simultaneously 18) Jane Pritchard, “The Transformation of Ballet,” in Jane Pritchard, ed., Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 78. an Eastern and Western country makes it a singular hybrid or simply the most potent example of an increasingly widespread phenomenon, which at a given historical moment created an environment that produced some of the modern world’s most innovative artists. Another paradox essential to understanding the group’s aesthetic is the fact that not only did the principal choreographer Michel Fokine, Diaghilev and, of course, Nijinsky, transform ballet from a long narrative to a short non-narrative form, they shifted the focus from female to male more specifically the eroticized, androgynous male body. This radical shift appears all the more amazing when one considers that Fokine, Diaghilev and most of the members of the troupe were products of the seemingly stodgy Imperial Ballet School, which was wholly subsidized by the Czar and his court.19) It is, however, important to remember that St. Petersburg was the most cosmopolitan and Westernized city in Russia. In fact, Diaghilev and many of his contemporaries considered themselves Decadents and prided themselves on owning copies of the works of Baudelaire and Huysmanns, which were banned in Russia. Not only were Diaghilev and these Russian aesthetes influenced by Western Decadents, they read 19 -century Russian literature, some of which, like the works of Lermontov, portrayed the Caucasus and other Islamic regions of Russia, and Diaghilev curated an exhibition of over 300 paintings from throughout the Russian empire.20) At least three other significant Western figures influenced the 19) Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina, 15-34. 20) Sjeng Scheijen, “Diaghilev the Man,” in Jane Pritchard, ed., Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes. development of the Ballets Russes. The American modern dancer Isadora Duncan championed a more “natural” style of dance that she associated with ancient Greece and in which, for example, she eschewed toe shoes in favor of bare feet and flowing clothes; she performed in St. Petersburg in 1906 and profoundly influenced the choreographer Michel Fokine and other members of the Ballets Russes. Conversely, Peter Wollen suggests that the use of loose-fitting harem pants in several of the productions by the Ballets Russes in Paris created an enormous vogue which was actively promoted and exploited by the fashion designer Paul Poiret that was responsible for freeing Western women from the confines of the tight-fitting corset that they had worn until the troupe’s arrival.21) The second significant Western figure is Claude Debussy, whose approach to musical composition, particularly his treatment of harmony, had been profoundly altered by hearing “the complex resonances of the Javanese gamelan at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle.” Goodall explains that “by transplanting the exotic clash of sonorities of Eastern music into the Western palette, [Debussy] radically challenged the established ‘rules’ of nineteenth century music.”22) Of the “handful of visionary musicians” who grasped “the enormity of Debussy’s approac h was Igor Stravinsky.”23) The Firedbird, Petrushka and the Rite of Spring, are, Goodall contends, a result of the collision of Stravinsky’s classic training under the tutelage of Rimsky-Korsakov and his fascination with Debussy. It is difficult to imagine a more complex 21) Wollen, “Fashion/Orientalism/The Body,” 8-10. 22) Goodall, “Music and the Ballets Russes,” 173. 23) Ibid., 174. and fitting allegory of cultural transmission between East and West than the exchange between Debussy and Stravinsky, both of whom composed for the Ballets Russes. The other significant Western figure was Oscar Wilde. Ida Rubinstein, who appeared in some of the earliest productions in Paris, approached Fokine in St. Petersburg in 1907, two years before the troupe’s departure for Paris, about performing Wilde’s Salomé. According to some versions of the story, the performance was planned and ultimately cancelled because there was a rumor that when she removed the final veil in the notorious “Dance of the Seven Veils” she would appear in the nude.24) Like Wilde, Diaghilev, Nijinsky and many other members of the troupe, Rubinstein was gay, and she eventually became a significant figure in a circle of lesbians in Paris that included Natalie Barney and the painter Romaine Brooks.25) It is hardly surprising that another border that the troupe’s members transgressed was the one between the forbidden sexuality manifested on stage and similarly proscribed sexuality offstage. Diaghilev, for instance, famously fired his lover, Nijinsky, when news arrived in Paris in 1914 that the dancer had suddenly married a Hungarian aristocrat.26) In 1909, Fokine approached Diaghilev and suggested that he cast Bernstein, who was an actor, not a dancer, in the version of Cleopatra produced the same year in Paris. It seems apparent that Fokine simply transplanted Wilde’s “Dance of the Seven Veils” into 24) Charles Spencer, Bakst in Greece (Athens, Greece: GEMA Publications, 2009), 42. 25) Ibid., 81. 26) Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina, 91. the Cleopatra the Ballets Russes presented.27) This example is but one of many of how designers, choreographers and dancers sought out Eastern and Western raw materials, stylized them and imported them into the ballets. For example, for his designs in Le Chant du Rossignol, Matisse used robes from the Tibet-China border that he had seen in the Buddhist gallery at the Musée Guimet in Paris;28) for costumes in the The Polovtsian Dancers, the designer Roerich purchased Uzbeki fabrics from the market in St. Petersburg; and for his role in Afternoon of a Faun Nijinsky studied figures on Greek vases and the movements of a mechanical toy duck. As John Mackenzie writes, “With the Ballets Russes the Orientalist thesis of Edward Said seems at one level superficially confirmed and at another irretrievably disrupted” (199).29) I would like to close with several observations about the Ballets Russes in America. In 1916, the group toured the U.S. for the first time, where it was both reviled and revered. The Kansas City police chief, having been forewarned about the risqué subject matter of the troupe assured his citizens that he had instructed “Dogleaf,” as he referred to Diaghilev, that theirs was a “strictly moral town” and he would not tolerate any “high brow immorality.”30) The mayor of Boston “gave instructions that the Russians were permitted to bare only their toes,” and when Adolph Bolm performed the Golden Slave in Schèhèrazade in New York, his body blackened with paint, one critic remarked that such a disturbing portrayal of cross-racial 27) Wollen, “Fashion/Orientalism/The Body,” 19. 28) Jane Pritchard, “The Transformation of Ballet,” 78. 29) John M. MacKenzie, Orientalism: History, Theory, and the Arts, 199. 30) Qtd. in Judith Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina, 94. eroticism would be impossible in the segregated South, and the Catholic Theatre Movement called for an outright ban of the piece.31) Nonetheless, when Nijinsky re-joined the troupe and danced in The Specter of the Rose in New York, rose petals rained down on him, and the Herald wrote that he was “probably the greatest [artist] that the present generation has seen here.”32) Because of Diaghilev’s aversion to the cinema, there are no films of the Ballet Russes, but Hollywood did produce one film, The Thief of Baghdad, in 1924, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. that, in some respects, captures the aesthetic of the group. As Garafola and Baer write, the more natural style of Fokine’s choreography coincides “with the requirements of silent screen acting.”33) And The Thief of Baghdad, writes Gaylyn Studlar, is a “gesamkunstwerk driven by dance aesthetics at every level” that utilizes its “Leon Bakst-influenced production design” to create “scenic décor as ‘dance space.’”34) Fairbanks was the precursor of the Hollywood Western “he-man” embodied two decades later by John Wayne. In films such as The Mask of Zorro, Fairbanks had developed a persona as a virile man of action in the mould of the ardent imperialist Theodore Roosevelt, whose achievements as president included the brutal suppression of Phillippine nationalism in colonial war fueled by ferocious anti-Asian racism. It was thus ironic that Fairbanks should, 31) Ibid. 32) Qtd. in Mackrell, Bloomsbury Ballerina, 105. 33) Garafola and Baer, 4. 34) Gaylyn Studlar, “Douglas Fairbanks: Thief of the Ballets Russes,” in Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance, ed. Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995), 109. as Studlar writes, emulate “the orientalized and feminized male body of the Ballets Russes danseur,” and more specifically Nijinsky in Schèhèrazade.35) Although in the film Fairbanks adopts the role of a cultural other an Arab thief and his “movements often have the look of postclassical ballet techniques,”36) his performance is un-done because, unlike the aesthetic form from which he borrows androgynous costumes, scenic opulence and oriental excess represented in Bakst, Nijinsky and the Ballets Russes he ultimately asserts a non-virtuosic and clumsy masculine certitude, what Studlar calls “all-American stomping.”37) As Gary Wills has written, John Wayne’s signature manly swagger was actually in part the result of ballet lessons, but of course those were always off-screen. In spite of pursuing the profoundly liberating possibilities of an aesthetic that continually redefines genre, geography and gender, Fairbanks like most Americans and like Kipling’s “two strong men” continues to refuse to cross certain borders, perhaps because crossing them inevitably leads into territories in which we must acknowledge the extent to which “so-called” others reside in us.38) 35) Ibid., 115. 36) Ibid., 117. 37) Ibid. 38) Gary Wills, “John Wayne’s Body,” New Yorker, August 19, 1996, 38. Bailey, Rosemary. “See France through Artists’ Eyes.” The Guardian, May 17, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/17/provence-cezannne-picasso- france-travel. Bernstein, Matthew, and Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. London: I.B.Tauris and Co Ltd, 1997. Bowlt, John E. “Léon Bakst, Natalia Goncharova and Pablo Picasso.” In Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909-1929 edited by Jane Pritchard, 103-128. 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Athens, Greece: GEMA Publications, 2009. Studlar, Gaylyn, “Douglas Fairbanks: Thief of the Ballets Russes.” In Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance, edited by Ellen W. Goellner and Jacqueline Shea Murphy. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. Wills, Gary. “John Wayne’s Body.” New Yorker, August 19, 1996, 38. Wollen, Peter. “Fashion/Orientalism/The Body.” New Formations 1 (1987): 12-19. An East/West Pas De Deux: The Ballets Russes and the Orient in the Modern Western Imagination Using the case of the Ballets Russes, this paper continues an interrogation of the viability of applying Edward Said’s definitions of Orientalism to the sphere of the arts. Although in his original study, Orientalism, Said explicitly asserts that his study is a delimited analysis focused principally on British and French 18th- and 19th-century academic Orientalism and that he is not analyzing so-called Orientalist painting and literary artists such as Flaubert, his followers, and later Said himself, extended his theoretical framework to include studies of literature and the arts. By examining the profundity of the rupture caused in the aesthetic sphere by the arrival of the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, this study simultaneously repositions the works of the Russian ballet troupe to the center and the very beginning of European modernism and attempts to show how its radically subversive works undermine the notion of such facile categories as “East” and “West” or “Oriental” and “Occidental.” In addition to examining the paradoxes of cultural transmission inherent in the group’s works, which belie the existence of rigid civilizational borders in the arts, the study also proposes a reconsideration of European modernism by re-examining the place of ballet in the modernist movement; the significance of the work of the group’s producer Serge Diaghilev, designers Leon Bakst and Natalia Goncharov, choreographer Mikhail Fokine, composer Igor Stravinsky and performers such as Ana Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein and Vaslav Nijinsky; and of the work produced in collaboration with the Ballets Russes by European artists, composers and designers such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Coco Chanel. 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Works made available under a Creative Commons license can be used according to the terms and conditions of said license. Use of all other works requires consent of the right holder (author or publisher) if not exempted from copyright protection by the applicable law. Availability: This is a pre print version of the following article: This version is available http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1578514 since 2017-12-04T09:32:41Z Exploring cultural heritage repositories with creative intelligence. The Labyrinth 3D system. Rossana Damiano1,1, Vincenzo Lombardo1,1, Antonio Lieto1 a Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino b CIRMA, Università di Torino Abstract In cultural heritage, the use of ontologies makes the description of artworks clearer and self-explanatory, with advantages in terms of interoperability. The current shift towards semantic encoding opens the way to the creation of in- terfaces that allow the users to build personal paths in heritage collections by exploiting the relations over the artworks. In the attempt to leverage this multiplicity of paths, we designed and imple- mented a system, called Labyrinth 3D, which integrates the semantic annotation of cultural objects with the interaction style of 3D games. The system immerses the user into a virtual 3D labyrinth, where turning points and paths represent the semantic relations over cultural objects, with the goal of engaging the user in the exploration of the collection. Keywords: 3D visualization, cultural heritage, computational ontologies 1. Introduction In the last decade, the advent of connected, portable devices, and the evo- lution of the Web towards a participatory model have prompted cultural insti- tutions to pursue new communication strategies that leverage the Web [1, 2]. Cultural institutions have rushed to publish their collections online, with the goal of innovating their interaction with the audience through the help of per- sonalization and social media [3, 4]. In parallel with this trend, digital archives have moved towards semantic annotation, a paradigm where the items in the archive are described with refer- ence to a computational ontology. The use of ontologies, implemented through logic-based languages [5], makes the description of artworks clearer and un- ambiguous, with advantages in terms of interoperability among systems [6, 7]. Semantically annotated collections, then, lend themselves to personalization [4] and cross media integration of data sources, following the paradigm of Linked Open Data [8, 9]. Despite the potential of the semantic representation, however, the search in heritage archives is still largely based on keywords and/or tags, through which users can filter the archive contents to find what they need. As exemplified Preprint submitted to Entertainment Computing June 30, 2016 by the well known Europeana initiative, which provides a unified interface to a set of national digital collections [10], the search typically returns a list of items (books, pictures, videos, etc.) accompanied with personalized recommendations, but it does not contain an explicit representation of meaning relations over them. In contrast with this approach, [11] argues that, in order to meet the needs of the general audience, tools for supporting exploratory search are needed besides the traditional keyword–based interfaces. In cultural heritage, search interfaces are typically based on the metaphor of the “archive”, which mirrors the actual fruition of the physical cultural objects (see, for example, the web interface of the above mentioned Europeana system), although the trend of the 3D “visit” has emerged in online museum collections, as demonstrated by the well known Google Art Project.1 In this paper, we address the access to digital collections by proposing an approach that leverages semantic annotation to create a 3D environment where the user can explore the semantic relations over the items in a visual environ- ment. Our approach combines the use of the 3D language, typical of new media – and video games in particular –, with the capability of semantic annotation to connect entities that are distant in space and time but share some common features at the cultural level. The use of 3D for the interface is motivated by the goal of attaining a user experience characterized by high level of engagement and a sense of immersion [12]. As shown by an established line of research in information visualization [13], in fact, visual metaphors can convey a conceptual model in an immediate and engaging way. The system we describe in this paper is part of a larger project, called Labyrinth2, aimed at the dissemination of cultural heritage archives to the gen- eral audience. In order to mediate between the point of view of the user and the heterogeneity of the items in heritage repositories, which usually di↵er by features such as media type, age and purpose but share some narrative features like stories and characters, the project relies on the notion of “archetypes” of narrative nature. Mainly inspired by the research in iconology and narratology [14, 15], the term “archetype” is employed in Labyrinth to refer to a conceptual core set at the intersection of narrative motifs, iconological themes and classical mythology (the system itself is named after a well–known archetype). The plan of the paper is the following: after describing the background of the project and discussing its motivations (Section 2), in Section 3 we provide a brief overview of the live system with a navigation example. Section 4 de- scribes the components of the systems, namely the ontology (Section 4.1), the 3D environment (Section 4.2) and the core component of the system, i.e., the mapping of the ontology onto the 3D environment (Section 4.3). The system architecture, which combines these elements to create newer and newer paths through the repository, is described in Section 5. Discussion and conclusion end the paper. 1https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/art-project 2http://app.labyrinth-project.it:8080/LabyrinthTest/ 2 2. Background In the last decade, the use of ontologies for the access to cultural heritage collections has been investigated by several projects. A pioneering contribution was given by the Finnish Culture Sampo project [16]. In this project, a number of domain ontologies provide the background against which cultural objects (in- cluding artworks, artists, traditional practices, etc.), encoded in di↵erent media formats (e.g., images and videos), can be explored, tracking the underlying rela- tions over them. In CultureSampo, once a certain artifact (e.g., a painting) has been retrieved, it is possible to explore the relations over the objects (and char- acters) represented therein. The system has recently evolved towards a linked data approach with the release of a new application, War Sampo, focused on the Second World War [9]. The Agora system [17] frames the exploration of a digital collection into historically relevant episodes, supported by a semantic account of the notion of event [18]. For example, the user can choose a historical episode (e.g., “German occupation of Poland in the Second World War”) and navigate among the cultural objects related to this event. A line of research in ontology-based systems has specifically explored the use of narrative models in cultural heritage dissemination. Stories not only repre- sent an e↵ective way to convey information in a compact format, as argued by [19], but, according to the research in cognitive psychology, they are a primary means for the conceptualization of reality [20]. In cultural heritage, many art- works have, by and large, some type of narrative content. In visual arts, for example, paintings often display story episodes while statues immortalize char- acters; even non representational artworks often refer to narrative elements, despite the abstract nature of their visual content. Stories are narrated by tex- tual media such as tales and novels, but also – though in nonverbal terms – by di↵erent kinds of musical works, from operas to symphonic poems. Narrative is the focus of the Bletchley Park Text system [21], a semantic system designed with the goal of supporting the users in the exploration of online museum col- lections. Designed with the notion of the “guided visit” in mind, the system encompasses an ontology of story, taken from the Story Fountain project [22]. The stories represented in the system are employed in a web interface to create relations over entities in online collections; based on this knowledge, the user can ask the system to find a narrative connection between di↵erent entities. More recently, the Decypher EU project leverages stories to addresses the curatorial side of cultural heritage dissemination [23]. In Decipher, a story ontology is the basis of a system that supports the creation of story-based collections by museum curators. Finally, Europeana also uses some simple narrative features to describe the items they contain. In Europeana, it is possible, for example, to navigate among the artifacts representing a given action or displaying a cer- tain character, across a large number of indexed objects; the system does not provide, however, a story–level navigation. The Labyrinth project extends the approaches described above by integrat- ing the use of a narrative model to connect the items in a collection with the use of a visual environment for the exploration of these connections. The system re- 3 lies on an ontology of narrative archetypes to describe the items in the collection; the 3D interface of system is inspired to a well known narrative archetype, the “labyrinth”. The notion of labyrinth is not only deeply rooted in the Western Culture, dating back to Greek Myths and witnessed by several archaeological locations across Europe [24], but also, thanks to the graph like nature of the notion of labyrinth [25], it lends itself well to representing the many-to-many relations among artworks encoded in the ontology. The goal of the visual design of the 3D interface is two-fold: on the one side, it is aimed at engaging the users to explore the repository though an immersive experience; on the other side, it is aimed at making the system usable by the large majority of uses by integrating information giving and entertainment in a familiar environment. The labyrinth, or maze, is a genre of video games most users are familiar with, thanks to classic 2D games such as Atari’s Pacman3 and recent 3D titles such as Imangi’s Temple Run4 or PlayFirst’s Dream Chronicles5. In cultural heritage, the use of 3D visualization is normally intended as a support for study and dissemination activities. 3D projects in cultural heritage can be roughly divided into two types: virtual equivalents of physically exist- ing locations, such as museums and historical buildings, and reconstructions of physical environments that have disappeared, such as archaeological locations or temporary art works. Google Art Project6 and Arounder7 are examples of the first type, where 3D is often obtained through PMVR techniques that integrate high definition images of artworks in the 3D environments. Rome Reborn [26], the 3D reconstruction of Rome as it appeared in the IV century, is an example of the second type. In this project, the use of 3D is integrated with animated characters of ancient Romans, who interact with the users. A similar approach is proposed by [27], who present a framework for 3D real time applications in web browsers, employed to develop virtual reconstructions of Rome (Virtual Rome project) and other Italian locations [28]. Labyrinth di↵erentiates from these approaches since the 3D representation is not employed to reconstruct real environments or to create virtual ones, but as a tool to convey semantic relations through a visual environment. For this reason, the system does not encompass a semantic model of the 3D environment: rather, it maps a semantic representation of the domain onto the 3D environment, as part of the interaction design process. 3. Live System The Labyrinth project encompasses both a standard web based interface [29] and a 3D application [30]. Both interfaces allow the user to navigate a repository of cultural objects with the guidance of a set of archetypes of narrative nature. 3https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man 4http://www.imangistudios.com 5http://www.playfirst.com/games/view/dream-chronicles 6www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project 7www.arounder.com 4 Figure 1: A screenshot of the web interface of the system (in Italian). The archetypes are contained in an ontology that describes each archetype in terms of its related stories, characters, objects, events, and locations, and stores the connections that relate these categories with the items in the repository. In both the hypertextual and the 3D interfaces, the interaction with the user starts with the selection of an archetype. In the hypertextual interface, the users continues by refining her/his search based on the inner articulation of the selected archetype into more specific categories (namely, stories, characters, objects, events, locations and epochs), then into single elements within the category (single story, character, etc.), by following a top-down strategy that ends with the selection of a specific artifact (for a detailed description, see [31]). Fig. 1 shows a screenshot of the interface (in Italian): after selecting the archetype of the labyrinth, the user has decided to explore the category of “stories”, then the specific story entitled “Theseus kills the Minotaur”. As a result, the interface shows a record of the story (upper part of the main box, “Teseo uccide il Minotauro”), which includes the related stories, the characters and objects featured by the story, and the locations and epochs in which the story takes place. The user can click on them to navigate from the currently selected story to another, or to move to a di↵erent category of the archetype (for example, “characters” or “locations”). Below (bottom of Figure 1), the interface shows the thumbnails of the artifacts (or, better, of their digital copy) that refer to the currently selected element (here, the story “Theseus kills the Minotaur”); each thumbnail can be clicked on to get a record of the artifact. 5 Figure 2: 3D interface: selection of the archetype (left) and assignment of initial and target artworks (right, labeled as “current” and “target”). Figure 3: First step of the navigation: the initial artwork, Minotauromachia (left); right: some of the doors available from the initial artwork (same character and same story). A slide show of the thumbnails is positioned on the left of the story record to provide a quick glance on the available contents for the current selection. Di↵erently from the hypertextual interface, the 3D interface is characterized by a bottom-up approach: here, the user navigates from artifact to artifact on the basis of the relations over them represented in the ontology, building her/his own personal path through the repository. The user is situated in a virtual maze where the artworks are located in the clearings and connected by pathways that represent the relations over the artworks. Immersed in the virtual maze in a first person perspective, the user is encouraged to explore the repository in the same way as the visitor of a hedge maze explores the turns and twists of the maze on her/his way to the exit. In order to exemplify the user experience in the 3D labyrinth, we will describe a navigation example extracted from the system log, illustrated through the screenshots of the steps that compose it (Figures 4, 5, 6). After choosing the archetype of the “labyrinth” (Fig. 2, left), the user is assigned a start and a target artwork (Fig. 2, right), randomly extracted from the repository: in the example, they are, respectively, the “Minotauromachia” (a painting) and a novel, “Il labirinto greco”. When the user clicks on the Start button posited below the start and target nodes, she/he is brought to the 3D environment 6 Figure 4: Second step of the navigation: a pathway (left) to the subsequent artwork; second artwork (right), with doors leading to the other artworks in the “same character” relation. Figure 5: Third step of the navigation: a Greek vase representing Thesues killing the Minotaur (left); doors leading to the artworks referring to the same story (right). (Fig. 3, left). The first location is the node containing the start artwork, the painting entitled “Minotauromachia” by Pablo Picasso, which shows the Greek hero Theseus fighting with a Minotaur. Fig. 3 (left) shows how the artwork (here, a picture of the painting) is displayed to the user in a 2D layer temporarily superimposed to the 3D scene; the artwork is accompanied by the information about its author, the place where it is hosted and the creation date. A longer description can be obtained by clicking on “description”, below the image; by clicking on “close”, the layer disappears. Figure 3 (right) shows some of the connections available from the node, represented by the two doors labeled as “agent” and “story” (other doors are out of the view): the first door leads to artworks that feature the same character (named “agent” in the system) as the current artwork, the second door leads to artworks that relate to the same story. By choosing the door labeled as “agent”, the user is led through a path- way (Fig. 4, left) to an empty node (Fig. 4, right) that contains doors for the artworks that display the same character as the previous artwork, The- seus; the titles of the artworks are written above the doors, from left to right: “Monete rivenute a Cnosso” (“Coins found in Knossos”), “Teseo uccide il Mino- tauro” (“Theseus kills the Minotaur”), “A↵reschi della villa imperiale a Pompei” (“Frescos, Villa Imperiale in Pompei”). The user selects the middle door, and 7 Figure 6: Left: fourth step of the navigation, a statue of Ariadne (same story relation); a di↵erent artwork (right), reachable by backtracking to the previous step (a Roman fresco representing the myth of the Minotaur in Pompei). is led to a node that contains a Greek vase displaying the Theseus in the act of killing the Minotaur (Fig. 5, left). Notice that the console posited in the bottom part of the interface contains, besides the controls for getting help, stopping the sound and exiting the application, a progress bar displaying the artworks visited by the user so far: by selecting a previously visited artwork, the user is brought back to the node containing it. After the Greek vase, the user follows the same story relation by clicking on the door labeled as “story” (not shown), and is brought to an empty node with doors for the artworks that refer to the same story: “Arianna dormiente” (“Sleeping Ariadne”) and “A↵reschi della villa im- periale a Pompei” (“Frescos, Villa Imperiale in Pompei”: notice that, like in a true labyrinth, the same artwork can be gained by following di↵erent paths). By choosing the first door, “Arianna dormiente” (“Sleeping Ariadne”), the user will reach a node containing a Roman statue of Ariadne, the female character of the myth of the Minotaur (Fig. 6, left); from there, by backtracking to the previous node, the user may select the second door, “A↵reschi della villa impe- riale a Pompei” (“Frescos, Villa Imperiale in Pompei”), which leads to a node containing a painting that illustrates the myth of the Minotaur, located in a Roman villa in archaeological site of Pompei (Fig. 6, right). 4. The tripartite core of Labyrinth Given a collection of cultural objects, commonly represented by the digital resources that constitute the “digital equivalents” of the actual physical objects [32], the access to the collection in an ontology based system such as Labyrinth 3D is the result of the interplay of three elements, namely the information about the objects, or metadata, contained in the ontology (Section 4.1), by which the objects are indexed, the visualization interface (Section 4.2), driven by the project specific goals (dissemination, presentation, study, etc.), and the mapping of the objects onto the visualization interface (Section 4.3). Thanks to this tripartite relation, the system translates the information about the cultural objects into a visual representation where the semantic relations over the objects contained in the ontology are mapped onto the elements of a 3D environment. 8 4.1. The Archetype Ontology The description of the artworks encoded in the metadata typically includes features such as date, authorship and title of the items, normally expressed ac- cording to standard vocabularies, such as ISO 8601 for dates8 or ULAN (Union List of Artists Names) for names.9 Beside authorship and editorial informa- tion, metadata usually contain also information about the management and preservation of cultural objects, such as responsibility for the preservation, dig- italization standards, etc. In the last decade, metadata have evolved towards semantic encodings describing the content of the artworks, with categories such as iconography, event types, etc.[33, 34]. An example of semantic description is provided by the Europeana Semantic Model (ESM)10. As exemplified by the navigation example provided in the previous section, the semantic annotation of the artworks in Labyrinth is mainly oriented to the representation of their content, and narrative content in particular. The narra- tive content of the artworks is expressed through a set of archetypes that char- acterize Western culture through the ages, heritage of the Greek and Roman tradition [35]. The core of the Labyrinth system is the Archetype Ontology (AO), described in detail in [31]. The AO contains a number of archetypes (the journey, the labirinth, the hero) and describes how the artworks relate to them via the representation of stories, characters, objects, events, locations and epochs. The AO contains 8 top classes: the Archetype class contains the archetypes; the Artifact class contains the artworks, organized according to the FRBR model [36]; Entity contains the characters and objects represented in artifacts; Story represents a collection of stories related with the archetypes; the Description Templates class contains a role-based schema for describ- ing events and states that can be filled by characters and objects; the Format class encodes the format and type of media resources; Geographical Place and Temporal Collocation, finally, encode, respectively, the spatial and tem- poral information related to artifacts, stories and archetypes. The Archetype Ontology was manually built based on an extensive survey of the notion of archetype, spanning from Warburg’s Bilder Atlas [14] to folkloric studies [15] and contemporary accounts of tropes in media.11 The ontology was aligned with the conceptual reference model established by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the CRM-FRBR model [36], a standard in the description of cultural heritage. In the Labyrinth system, the editing phase is conducted through a back-end web interface through which items can be added to the repository. The descrip- tion of the items is accomplished through form filling and it follows the Dublin Core initiative [37], a metadata element schema that has become a standard de 8http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/iso8601.htm 9http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/ 10http://pro.europeana.eu/ese-documentation 11http://tvtropes.org 9 facto in digital archives12. When a new item is added to the repository, the system imports the description of the item in the ontology through a built–in procedure that converts the input data into the ontology format (a set of RDF13 triples). First, the internalization phase (described in details in [29]) translates the metadata of the resource (creator, date, etc. ) into the language of the ontology. Then, a mapping procedure matches the imported description with the available archetypes. Both steps are achieved via if-then rules encoded in SWRL14, the rule language designed for ontologies. As an example of how the mapping is accomplished, consider the rule that examines the “title” metadata element of an artwork in order to find a connection with the archetype of the “Labyrinth”: if words like “labyrinth” or “maze” are found in the title, the rule will add to the ontology the assertion that the artwork evokes the archetype of the labyrinth. Finally, after the new item has been internalized in the system and mapped onto the ontology, a specific set of rules add the narrative features to the artworks (narrative mapping). For example, if an artwork represents a set of characters performing some action, the system searches for a story in which the same characters perform that action (see [29] for a detailed description of how the narrative properties are added to the representation of the items). For instance, an artwork representing Ariadne in the act of giving the ball of thread to Theseus (a focal event in the myth of the Minotaur) would be recognized as having the myth of the Minotaur as a narrative component. In order to illustrate how the items in the repository are represented in the ontology as a result of the internalization process, we will resort to an exam- ple. Fig. 7 illustrates the description of the painting “Minotauromachia” by Pablo Picasso (the first step of the navigation example in Section 4.1), serial- ized in the XML/RDF format. Notice that each line represents an RDF triple, composed of a subject (all triples in this fragment have the same subject, i.e., the named individual “Minotauromachia” in line 2), a predicate (for example, hasResourceType, line 4) describing a property of the subject or a relation with another entity, and an object (here, the resource type, Image) which constitutes the value of the property – or the second term of the relation. All resources are characterized by a prefix given by the URI of the ontology. Fig. 7 outlines the role of each phase of the procedure described above. The annotation is divided into two groups of assertions: the first group contains the assertions extracted from the artwork metadata by the internalization procedure; the second group contains the properties added by the mapping procedure, which connects the artwork with the archetypes: this group contains specific annotations concerning the narrative relations among the artworks. Lines 3 to 6 are created by the internalization procedure and correspond to the artwork metadata, such as type, creator, etc. The hasResourceType prop- erty (line 4) describes the media type of the resource, i.e., image; the hasCreator 12https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:15836:ed-2:v1:en 13https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/ 14https://www.w3.org/Submission/SWRL/ 10 Properties added by the internalization phase: 1 2 3 4 5 6 After the mapping phase: 7 8 10 After the narrative reasoning: 11 12 Figure 7: The description of the artwork “Minotauromachia” by Pablo Picasso in the AO ontology. The sections show the properties added by each phase of the internalization and mapping procedures. property (line 5) connects the painting with its author, “Pablo Picasso”; the hasGeographicalLocation property (line 6) describes the location of the artwork. Lines 7 to 11 describe the relation of the artwork with the archetype: the prop- erty evokes (line 7) relates the painting with the archetype of the “Labyrinth”, while a set of specific properties describe the relation with the archetype in greater detail, focusing on its narrative aspects: displays (lines 8-9) refers to the characters which appear in it, i.e., Theseus and the Minotaur; describesAction (line 10) refers to the event type it depicts (“killing”). Finally, the property has- Part (line 11) states that the painting contains, as part of its narrative content, the Minotaur Story. Given this description, several relations can be detected with other artworks. Besides the standard relations based on author or resource type, the archetype of the labyrinth connects the artwork with other artworks that display the same characters (Theseus or the Minotaur), depict the same action type (killing), or refer to the same story (the myth of the Minotaur) and other related stories (e.g., Ariadne and the Thread). 4.2. Designing the 3D environment The design of the 3D environment is inspired by the metaphor of the labyrinth. This metaphor was chosen for its ability to convey the graph–like nature of the relations over the artworks in a cultural heritage collection, and for its imme- diacy of use, since it provides an intuitive mapping for artworks (nodes of the 11 labyrinth) and relations over them (connections among the nodes). The interac- tion metaphor underlying the navigation is “finding one’s way”: here, however, the user does not simply gain the exit, but the creation of a personal path in artworks’ meaning, represented by a virtual “red thread”. In order to make the experience more engaging, when the session begins, the user is given a target node. When the user reaches the target node, or when the user decides to exit from the labyrinth, the session ends and the user is shown the statistics about her/his own path: number of visited nodes, elapsed time, backtrackings, etc. The visual design of the labyrinth is inspired to the classical hedge maze, with architectural elements that are intended to remind of some distant but indefinite past; this choice was primarily due to the constraint posed by the heterogeneity of the contents assumed by the project. The floor is partly tiled, partly covered with grass, and the mood is inspired by a dark, Gothic style. The maze contains two types of nodes: some nodes (artwork nodes) contain artworks, some nodes (relation nodes) are empty and only serve the function of connecting the artwork nodes, as exemplified in the navigation example provided in Section 3. The presence of an artwork in a node is signaled by a low circular balustrade in the middle, open in several points, that are intended as a↵ordances inviting the user to step into the inner part of the node [38]. The entrance to pathways is marked by doors; each door corresponds to a semantic connection (e.g., same story), and is surmounted by the name of the type of connection (e.g., “story”). Each node has a fixed number of doors/pathways: depending of the number of semantic relations that connect the node with other nodes, some doors may be closed, or hidden by greenery. If the connection leads straight to a single artwork, the title of the artwork is posited above the door. Pathways di↵er in length and form: some are short, some are longer and they bend, so that their end is not visible, in order add some thrill to the experience. The navigation in the system is inspired to the paradigm of constrained navigation [39], with the aim of making it usable also for non expert users of 3D applications. The user moves by clicking on small circles of light posited on the floor, in front of the doors of the nodes and along the pathways. Circles of the same type also mark the presence of an artwork in the middle of artwork nodes and must be clicked to get information about the artwork. Smaller circles of light appear inside the circles when they are clicked, so that they eventually form a sort of “red thread” that marks the path made by the user so far. The metaphor of the red thread, aimed at improving self orientation, is enforced also by the console posited in the lower part of the screen, that shows the list the nodes visited by the user. By clicking on a node in the list, the user is brought back to that node. The console also contains buttons for ending the session and turning o↵ the sound. The user is free to explore the labyrinth, going back to previous locations and clicking on the control posited in artwork nodes to receive information and experience them via the appropriate plugins: depending of the media type of the resource associated with the artwork, an image is displayed, a video is played, etc. A short description of the artwork, with title, date and creator, is always provided, as exemplified in Fig. 3 (Sect. 3). 12 The 3D environment was implemented with the Unity 3D15 real time engine, which supports several platforms and mobile conditions. Unity 3D o↵ers first person gameplay default assets, both concerning camera motion control and mouse tracking motion control. In order to optimize the production time and cost of the 3D assets, a single model of the labyrinth node, with a predefined set of exits, was created: at run time, it is dynamically adapted to the semantic relations connecting the current artwork with the others by closing or opening the corresponding number of doors. To achieve our goals, we built an indexed database of 3D objects to be promptly displayed in real time by the 3D Engine. Thus, we were able to produce several theme variations exponentially explod- ing the number of possible combinations. The standard 3D objects are: the octagonal square (3 variants, actually), the open door (3 variants), the closed door (2 variants), the textual artwork viewer (1 variant), the pictorial artwork viewer (1 variant), the movie viewer (1 variant). The pathways are a 3D ob- ject category on their own: they vary in shape in accordance to their length, which is measured in steps (2-3-4 steps, each in three variants). Joined together, steps compose asymmetrical paths, which can also be used backwards, therefore multiplying the possible combinations of subsequent pathways. So, the maze, determined through the user choices, is perceived as never being the same. 4.3. Mapping the ontology onto the 3D The mapping of the semantic relations onto the visual environment poses some problems that need to be faced as part of the system design, and constrain the architecture of the system. Formally, the labyrinth is an undirected graph [25], where vertices have a variable degree.16 The nodes correspond to the graph vertices, the pathways to the edges. Notice that, as in a real maze, there are also nodes with only one incident edge, i.e. dead ends where the user has to backtrack. The direct transposition of the graph-like structure of the relationships over the artworks from the ontology to the 3D labyrinth, however, would lead to a proliferation of the edges that would be confusing for the user. Take, for example, the similarity relation “displaying the same character” among artworks. Representing this relation as artwork to artwork relations implies that, for each artwork, an edge should be added from the artwork to every other artwork that displays the same character (and this should be done for each semantic relation). In order to alleviate this problem, in Labyrinth, we decided to represent the semantic relations such as “displaying the same character” through special nodes that represent the relation itself, thus obtaining a more compact representation. These nodes do not correspond to artworks, but simply distribute the semantic relation over the pairs of artworks that are in the given relation. 15https://unity3d.com 16For usability reasons, the maximum number of edges per vertex has been limited to the arbitrary threshold of 7, given the well known limitations of short term memory first shown by Miller [40]. 13 Reasoner Triple store Archetype ontology Media storage Resource descrip6on 3D Labyrinth Web interface Seman6c naviga6on Ontology-to-3D API ONTOLOGY SERVER WEB SERVICES VISUALIZATION CLIENTS DC RDF/ XML Client side Server side DB SWRL RULES mapping internaliza6on MEDIA REPOSITORY Figure 8: The architecture of the Labyrinth system. As a result of the constraint described above, there are two types of nodes (with di↵erent iconic elements) in the labyrinth, connected by the pathways: artwork nodes and relation nodes. Artwork nodes are connected with both relation nodes and artwork nodes. Relation nodes are connected only with artwork nodes. The user navigation starts from an artwork node: the user has to choose one of the pathways exiting from the node, labeled either with the name of a di↵erent artwork (in this case, the pathway, leads directly to an artwork node) or with the name of a semantic relation (in this case, the pathway leads to a relation node, that in turn leads to a set of di↵erent artwork nodes). Since the semantic relations are symmetric, pathways can be walked both ways. 5. The Labyrinth system In this section, we describe the architecture of the labyrinth system, which constructs the 3D environment as long as the interaction with the user pro- gresses. 5.1. System architecture The architecture of the Labyrinth system is structured according a client– server schema. The ontology is stored in an ontology server; the information it 14 contains is dynamically extracted from the ontology and made available to the visualization client, which manages the user interface. The system encompasses four main modules (see Fig. 8): • the Ontology Server (Fig. 8, top) stores the AO ontology – where the cultural heritage objects are described – and provides the reasoning ser- vices that allow the system to establish the relations of each object with the archetypes, as exemplified in Section 4.1 (for example, inferring the relation between an artifact and a story given the characters displayed in the artifact). In the current implementation, the ontology server is pro- vided by Owlim.17 The ontology server also supports the SWRL rule sets that implement the internalization and mapping procedures described in Section 4.1, by which new items are ingested in the system. The ontology server provides also the SPARQL18 endpoint for querying the ontology, necessary to extract from the ontology the data that will be visualized in the interface (i.e., the semantic relations over the artifacts, such as the same character or the same story relations exemplified in the navigation example in Sect. 3). Notice that this module is independent of the vi- sualization type and it serves both the web-based interface and the 3D environment. • the Media Repository (Fig. 8, right) stores the media objects (the digital equivalents of the artworks) which constitute the repository of the system and is indexed by a relational database (a mySql database); • a set of Web Services (Fig. 8, left) implement the Application Pro- gramming Interface specific to each visualization client. This component extracts the data from the ontology in response to the requests of the clients. The web services, written in Java, are called by the visualization clients to respond to the actions of the user, and return the data in XML format. For example, in the 3D environment, when the user clicks on a door leading to a given artwork, the visualization client calls the API com- mand that fetches the information about the artwork, needed to generate the node with the artwork in the 3D maze. • the Visualization Clients (Fig. 8, bottom) support the interaction with the user through 3D navigation, as standalone application (for the 3D system) or embedded in a web browser (for the web interface). The core of the system consists of the APIs that fetch the data from the ontology to the visualization clients. The interplay among these components realizes the mapping of the objects and relations encoded in the ontology onto the environments where they can be visualized by the user. In the following, we describe in detail the interaction between the Ontology-to-3D API and the 3D 17http://www.ontotext.com/products/ontotext-graphdb-owlim-new-2/ 18https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/ 15 visualization client. The interaction between these two components achieves the computational creativity that the user can enjoy by navigating the repository in the virtual maze. 5.2. The system at work The topology of the maze is computed locally as the user progresses in her/his path. This choice is partly related with the user experience design and partly related with optimization issues. Concerning the user experience, the step by step generation of the maze provides room for the adaptive personal- ization of the navigation experience, which can be tailored to the typology and behavior of the user given the available relations over the artworks. Currently, the variability of the navigation is provided by a basic random mechanism. Since the system does not pose any constraints on the number of related artworks, the available relations over them may exceed the number of doors, set to 6 in the current implementation, when necessary, 6 artworks are randomly extracted. As a result, in di↵erent navigation sessions, di↵erent artworks may be extracted, thus generating slight variations in the user experience.19 Concerning the op- timization issues, the step by step generation of the topology guarantees that the computation needed to generate the maze is not a↵ected by the size and the connectivity degree of the repository (which only a↵ect the execution of the queries).20 Moreover, if the repository changes, no initialization is needed. Notice also that this solution is made possible by the fact that the 3D envi- ronment does not encompass a top down, map-like visualization of the maze, with the consequence that the user can only experience a subjective view of the environment. This choice, although debatable for the lack of orientation it may provoke in the user, is consistent with the actual experience of the real hedge maze by which the design of the 3D system is inspired. Basically, the maze is generated on the fly as follows: when the navigation begins, the system retrieves from the ontology the information about the first artwork, and generates only the portion of the maze which describes this artwork and its connections with the others, namely a node containing the artwork and the pathways which represent its semantic relations with the others. Each pathway represents a relation type (e.g., story, location or agent/character), as illustrated by Figure 3 (right), where the doors leading to the pathways for “story” and “agent” are visible. When the user makes the next choice by selecting the pathway she/he wants to take, the next portion of the maze is created. If the selected pathway leads to a group of artworks (i.e., the relation it represents contains multiple artworks), the system creates an empty node whose function is to redirect the user to the single artworks, each placed in a di↵erent node (see the example in Fig. 4, right, with doors for the single 19Notice that, if the user backtracks in the same session, the nodes that have been already visited are not generated from scratch, to let the user orientate her/himself. 20The prototype ontology currently contains 1211 triples, but a wholly functioning system would be much larger. 16 Figure 9: The interplay between the ontology server (left) and the interaction with the user (right) operated by the Ontology-to-3D API. artworks). A direct pathway is generated only if the selected pathway leads to a single artwork. The rationale behind this strategy is to enforce the 1 : 1 mapping between artworks and nodes, so that a node always contains a single artwork. In the following, we describe the algorithm executed by the 3D visualization module to manage the interaction with the user, supported by the ontology- to-3D API (see Figure 9). The visualization client (3D Labyrinth, bottom of figure) queries the ontology (top of the figure) through the ontology-to-3D API (see Section 5.1). The generation of the 3D labyrinth is accomplished through the following steps: Initialization. The session begins when the user starts the application on the client device. • Session start. First, the 3D client queries the ontology server to get the list of the available archetypes through the startLabyrinth3D() command (Fig. 2, left). • Archetype selection. When user chooses one of the available archetypes, the client sends the selected archetype to the server (setArchetype()). 17 • Navigation initialization. The client invokes an initialization command (initialize()) that selects a random pair of artworks: they provide, respec- tively, the initial and target nodes (Fig. 2, right). When the user clicks on the “start” command in the interface, the navigation begins. Node generation At this point, the next node is generated, until either the user reaches the target node or she/he exits the labyrinth (by clicking the exit button posited in the navigation console). This loop is repeated each time the user selects the next artwork. 1. Retrieval of relations. The client queries the ontology to get the informa- tion about the chosen artwork (or the initial artwork at the beginning of the navigation) through the command getNodeInfo(). This command is the key to the mapping of the semantic relations encoded in the ontology onto the 3D labyrinth: given an artwork, it returns the identifier of the digital resource that represents the artwork in the media repository, its metadata (the information about its creator, title, etc.) and the list of its semantic relations (character-based, story-based, location-based relations, and so on) with the other artworks. The client employs the information about the artwork’s relations with the other artworks to build the node that will contain the artwork and stores the digital resource and the infor- mation about the artwork to generate the 2D panel describing the artwork in case the user requires it (as exemplified in Fig. 3, left, Fig. 5, left, and Fig. 6). To retrieve these data from the ontology, getNodeInfo() executes a set of SPARQL queries on the ontology, one for each possible type of semantic relations. For example, the following query extracts from the ontology the set of artworks ?a that are evocative of the archetype of the labyrinth (: evokes) and display the character of Theseus (displays): SELECT ?a WHERE{ ?a :evokes :Labyrinth ?a :displays :Theseus } By executing similar queries for all the semantic relations embedded in the system (namely, story, character, event, location, epoch and object), the system collects all the available relations connecting the selected artwork with the rest of the repository. 2. Computation of topology. The method getNodeInfo() returns an XML fragment describing the selected artwork and its related artworks; in prac- tice, the XML contains a section for each semantic relation type (agent, story, etc.). For example, consider the following fragment, returned by invoking the command getNodeInfo() on the artifact displayed in Fig. 5 (left), a Greek vase of the 5th century b.c. displaying Theseus killing the Minotaur: 18 Minotauromachia_Picasso ... Ariadne_and_the_Thread Sleeping_Ariadne ... VillaImperiale_Pompei The response contains the set of artworks (or artifacts, as artworks are generically termed in AO) related to the input artwork, indexed by re- lation types: the example shows the story relation (artworks tagged as rartifactstory) and character relation (artworks tagged as rartifactagent). The example response contains (among other artifacts not listed in the ex- ample) two story-related paintings, “Minotauromachia” by Pablo Picasso and “Ariadne and the Thread” by the Italian painter Palagio Pelagi, and two character-related artworks, namely an anonymous statue representing a sleeping Ariadne (situated at the Vatican Museums) and the frescoes depicting the myth of the Minotaur situated at the “Villa Imperiale” in Pompei. Notice that the latter two artworks are displayed in Fig 5 (right) as available alternatives after the user has chosen the story relation from the node containing the Greek vase (Fig 5, left): in the figure, they are termed, respectively “Arianna dormiente” (“Sleeping Ariadne”) and “Af- freschi della Villa Imperiale” (“Frescoes, Villa Imperiale”). At this point, the topology of the labyrinth is computed. For each semantic relation (in the example response: and ): – if the relation contains a single artifact, an artwork node is created to represent it and a pathway is added from the chosen node to the new artwork node; – if the relation contains multiple artifacts (as in the standard case), a relation node is created and a pathway is added from the chosen node to the relation node; for each artifact, then, an artwork node is created and a pathway is added from the relation node to each of the new artwork nodes (see Fig. 3, right). 3. Generation of the labyrinth. Based on the topology computed above, the next node of the 3D labyrinth is created and added to the 3D environment, 19 together with its exiting pathways. When the user chooses a new artwork (either directly connected to the current one or indirectly, via a relation node), the loop is repeated. End of session. When the user either reaches the target node or clicks on the exit button, the client executes the endLabyrinth() command to visualize the statistics of the session (time elapsed, visited nodes, etc.) and closes the session. 6. Lesson learned We carried out an evaluation of the 3D interface of the system, in order to gather information about the users’ liking of the system and their expectations about its use. The evaluation took place in a scientific fair, with some users taking part to participated demos and some other user freely interacting with the system. The experimentation is described in detail [41]: here, we only summarize the most important results, which are relevant for discussing the potential and the possible applications of Labyrinth 3D. 41 testers took part in the evaluation, males and females, with ages ranging from 10 to 67 years old. The system was very well welcomed by the visitors of the fair, in particular by students and teachers, who were enthusiastic about its potential for education and dissemination. The ethnographic observation of the testers who interacted directly with the system showed that the navigation was generally easy, with some problems in clicking the navigation controls when they were located far away along the pathways, because the distant controls tend to be small due to the perspective. Users were sometimes bewildered at finding themselves in a node they had already visited, but were ready to accept the explanation that this is typical of labyrinths. The users tended to read carefully the information displayed about the single items, reasoning aloud about their connection with the archetype and with the previously visited nodes. A questionnaire was given to the users to assess their liking of the system and their preferences about the use contexts. The questions about the use of the system revealed that the users would prefer the PC and the tablet for using the system, a finding that is in line with the goal of the project of creating an immersive experience. When asked about the similar media, the users selected the video game and the encyclopedia, also in line with the design goal of creating a tool for cultural dissemination. In particular, a group of 6 questions were aimed at investigating the general acceptance of the system: by using Likert scales (with 5 points from �2 to +2, mapped onto values from 1 (�2) to 5 (+2) in the subsequent data analysis), we asked testers to what degree the system was: i.intuitive, ii.interesting, iii.engaging, iv.useful, v.appealing, vi. straightforward to use. The average value of the answers to the questions concerning the acceptance was 4.5, with “interesting” as the highest average value (4.7) and “straightforward” as the lowest average value (4.32), indicating that the application was appealing but that its use was not entirely clear to some users. The values are illustrated in Table 1. As it can be noticed, the standard deviation is not high, meaning that the testers generally agreed on a positive evaluation. 20 Table 1: Average values for the questions about perceived properties of the system, on a 5 point Likert scale. subquestion SYSTEM PROPERTY AVERAGE VALUE ST. DEV. i intuitive 4.35 0.72 ii interesting 4.7 0.57 iii engaging 4, 41 0.74 iv useful 4.48 0.61 v appealing 4.5 0.74 vi straightforward 4.32 0.68 The results of the evaluation suggest that the proposed approach works and open the way to a re-use of the architecture of the system for applications that leverage the creativity intrinsic to a cultural heritage archive to generate per- sonalized paths in a 3D environment. A precondition to the reuse the approach of the Labyrinth project is to abstract the experience in the design and imple- mentation of the system into a pipeline for creating similar applications. Given our experience in the design and implementation of Labyrinth 3D, we propose the following pipeline, divided into three phases: visual design, software de- velopment and editing, each characterized by specific professional roles. We skip the conceptual modeling phase, assuming that an annotated repository of cultural heritage objects is already available (for example, as part of some an- notation project or as a by product of a digitalization initiative). It is possible, however, that, for specific projects, an ad hoc ontology is developed to satisfy this requirement: if this is the case, an ontology engineer and a domain ex- pert cooperate to design the ontology that will constitute the backbone of the system. The visual design phase is aimed at bridging the gap between the concep- tualization of heritage objects (the archetypes in Labyrinth 3D) and the users through the use of visual and spatial metaphors (the maze in Labyrinth 3D). As argued by [13], the choice of the metaphor is crucial to communicating the conceptual model. This phase should be conducted with the help of a sample repository where a few objects have been inserted to support the design process and the subsequent development phase. Given the annotated repository, the interaction designer, in cooperation with a visual designer, i) devises a suitable metaphor for conveying the description of the objects in the repository through the 3D environment (by mapping of the object properties and their relations onto the features of the environment), ii) designs the interaction flow (speci- fying how the user can interact with the 3D environment and what responses he/she should get in each phase of the interaction) and iii) establishes the visual properties of the 3D, such as its mood and appearance. A game designer may be involved in this phase to insert elements of playability into the interaction. As shown by [42], in fact, the use of game in tandem with visual metaphors increases the levels of learning. 21 The software development phase translates the interaction design into 3D assets, staged and manipulated by a 3D engine. Once the interaction metaphor has been established, the 3D models that constitute the environment are cre- ated and arranged in a set of layouts by a 3D production team, together with animations and camera movements (in case the navigation is achieved by con- straining the user to predefined movements, as in Labyrinth 3D). In parallel, the semantic web developer implements the queries that extract the object de- scriptions from the ontology (previously uploaded onto an ontology server) and makes them available by programming a web service available though an API. Finally, the 3D developer programs the 3D environment so that it implements the interaction flow established in the interaction design phase. In the editing phase, the cultural heritage objects are collected and anno- tated with the semantic metadata required by the conceptual model encoded in the ontology before adding them to the repository. Metadata may include, for example, the relations of heritage objects with locations, artists, historical events, etc. Although professional annotators are preferred, metadata may be also contributed by amateurs through crowd sourcing, as recently proposed by [43]. 7. Conclusion In this paper, we described Labyrinth 3D, a system where the user can explore the semantic relations over a repository of cultural objects through a virtual maze where the objects are connected by pathways representing the meaning relations over them. The approach of Labyrinth 3D leverages a system- atic mapping of the conceptual model underlying the repository onto a virtual, 3D environment, to create an immersive and engaging experience for the user. Designed to provide an alternative to the standard approaches to archive navi- gation, Labyrinth 3D relies on the users’ curiosity to create personal paths in a cultural domain. In the next years, thanks to the advent of the paradigm of Linked Open Data [44], semantically encoded information about cultural heritage, including events, performances, collections, etc. will be available on the web from di↵erent sources, enabling the experimentation of new paradigms in the presentation and dissemination of cultural heritage. By applying the approach of Labyrinth 3D to the design of new applications, it will possible to refine and improve the approach described in this paper through practical case studies. The ultimate goal of this research is to take full advantage of the whole range of the new media languages, such as 3D, to develop creative and innovative applications in the field of cultural heritage. As a future work, we envisage the adoption of the software pipeline of Labyrinth 3D in educational projects. 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Berners-Lee, Linked data-the story so far, Inter- national journal on semantic web and information systems 5 (3) (2009) 1–22. 26 work_5t3fcd4q7rbdbalywgezqd3bqm ---- 73 DOI: 10.22559/folkloredebiyat.2017.69 folklor/edebiyat, cilt:24, sayı:93, 2018/1 REFRAMING PABLO PICASSO AND DORA MAAR IN GRACE NICHOLS’S “WEEPING WOMAN” GRACE NICHOLS’IN “WEEPING WOMAN” ADLI ŞİİRİNDE PABLO PICASSO VE DORA MAAR İLIŞKİSİNE YENİDEN BAKIŞ” Özlem Uzundemir* ABstrACt The Guyanese poet Grace Nichols’s ekphrastic poem “Weeping Woman” in her Picasso, I Want My Face Back challenges Pablo Picasso’s iconic status in twentieth-century art. Written in the form of a dramatic monologue, the poem gives voice to Picasso’s model, muse and lover, Dora Maar, who was a Surrealist photographer before she had an affair with Picasso. Unlike traditional ekphrastic poems which involve the description of a fixed, silenced and gazed beautiful image through a male persona who is also a gazer of that image in poetry, Nichols transforms Maar’s objectified position in Picasso’s painting into a subject by voicing her critique of the artist’s cubist art, his use of colors as well as his geometric figures, and of his maltreatment of her. Through this ekphrastic stance, Maar reconstructs her identity as a photographer and rids herself from the artist’s domination over her in his art and personal life. Hence, the aim of this article is to discuss in what ways Nichols’s poem problematizes the privileged status of the male artist over his silenced female model and acknowledges the artistic talent of the woman through the use of ekphrasis. Keywords: Grace Nichols; Dora Maar; Pablo Picasso; ekphrasis *Doç.Dr. Çankaya Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili ve Ed. Bölümü. ozlemuzundemir@cankaya.edu.tr folklor / edebiyat 74 ÖZEt Guyana asıllı İngiliz şair Grace Nichols’ın 2009 yılında yayımlanan Picasso, I Want My Face Back (Picasso, Yüzümü Geri İstiyorum) adlı şiir kitabında yer alan ilk şiiri “Weeping Woman” (Ağlayan Kadın) çağdaş resimbetim (ekfrasis) örneklerindendir. Pablo Picasso’nun aynı adlı resmini betimleyen şiir, Picasso’nun yirminci-yüzyıl sanatındaki eşsiz rolünü bir dönem sevgilisi olmuş ve resimlerine modellik yapmış olan Dora Maar’ın ağzından sorgular. Maar aslında Picasso ile tanışmadan önce Sürrealist akıma dahil olmuş bir fotoğraf sanatçısıdır, ancak Picasso ile yaşadığı çalkantılı aşk süresince kendi sanatçı kimliğini bir kenara bırakır. Sessiz, durağan ve bakılan güzel sanat nesnesinin bir erkek konuşmacı tarafından betimlendiği geleneksel resimbetimsel şiirlerin aksine, Nichols şiirinde Dora Maar’ı Picasso’nun resmindeki nesne konumundan çıkartarak ona ressamın sanatını eleştirme hakkı verir. Maar Picasso’nun Kübist stilini, geometrik figürlerini ve kullandığı renkleri eleştirmekle kalmaz, ilişki boyunca ressamın üzerinde kurduğu hakimiyetten de yakınır. Maar ressamın sanatı ve kişisel ilişkisindeki baskın kişiliğinden kurtulduktan sonra kendi sanatçı kimliğini yeniden oluşturma sürecine girer. Bu makalenin amacı, Nichols’ın şiirinde erkek ressamın dişil imge üzerinde kurduğu hakimiyetin ne şekilde sorunsallaştırıldığını ve kadın sanatçının kendi kimliğini yeniden kurgulama çabalarını resimbetim çerçevesinde ele almaktır. Anahtar Sözcükler: Grace Nichols; Dora Maar; Pablo Picasso; resimbetim “Weeping Woman,” featured in the Guyanese poet Grace Nichols’s Picasso, I Want My Face Back, takes the form of a dramatic monologue in the voice of Picasso’s model, muse and lover, Dora Maar. The poem is an example of ekphrasis, which involves the representation of a visual artwork in literature, and in this case Picasso’s eponymous painting is described by the persona. Unlike traditional ekphrastic poems, such as Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess”, where the Duke of Ferrara shows an agent his silenced dead wife’s portrait and discloses his domineering and possessive personality, in Nichols’s poem the female object/image in the painting is transformed into a subject and an onlooker, who criticises Picasso’s art. Through this critical subversion, Maar reconstructs her identity as a photographer in order to escape what she perceives as the artist’s domination over her in his art as well as his personal life. In this sense, considered within the framework of ekphrasis, this study aims to discuss how the interaction between the verbal and visual arts in Nichols’ “Weeping Woman” is used for two purposes: first to challenge the privileged status of the male artist over his silenced female model and then to acknowledge the artistic talent of the woman. At the beginning of her book Paint Me a Poem, which includes poems by Grace Nichols as well as children with whom she works on several paintings at the Tate Gallery, she claims: “I’d always been intrigued by painting and how poetry and painting have inspired each other. For me, there is a close relationship between the two art forms. In the compositional balance of a painting, one can almost speak of a certain colour ‘rhyming’ with a similar colour” (Nichols, 2004, p. 5). Nichols underlines the interaction between visual and verbal art forms by using the diction specific to each, namely color and rhyme, and shows how, for her, these art forms are closely interconnected and should cooperate folklor / edebiyat 75 with one another. Therefore, before analyzing Nichols’s ”Weeping Woman”, I would like to discuss briefly the characteristics of ekphrasis by referring to various prominent critics throughout the ages. Discussion on the sister arts, namely visual and verbal arts, until the twentieth century, is highly paragonal. Since Leonardo da Vinci considers the eye as “the nobler sense” in relation to the ear as “the second, acquiring nobility through the recounting of things which the eye has seen,” (2001, p. 20) painting, for him, is privileged over poetry. Moreover, unlike poetry, which is composed of words, in other words arbitrary signs, painting is a natural sign as it represents things in nature truthfully (da Vinci, 2001, p. 21). Taking da Vinci’s distinction into consideration, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing dwells on the juxtaposition between the spatiality, silence and fixity of the image as opposed to the temporal dimension of literature with an emphasis on action and eloquence (1984, p. 78). Within the frame of the contemporary discussions on ekphrasis, W. J. T. Mitchell in his seminal book Picture Theory names the steps of polarity in ekphrasis as: “(1) the conversion of the visual representation into a verbal representation, either by description or ventriloquism; (2) the reconversion of the verbal representation back into the visual object in the reception of the reader” (Mitchell, 1994, p. 160). In other words, the literary work describes an art object or allows the image to speak and in this way, another visual image is formed in the reader’s mind. He talks about how this dialectical relationship between the visual and verbal arts is unavoidably gendered: a male viewing subject in poetry describes an art object depicting a fixed and silent female image. In his Iconology, Mitchell claims, “Paintings, like women, are ideally silent, beautiful creatures designed for the gratification of the eye, in contrast to the sublime eloquence proper to the manly art of poetry” (Mitchell, 1986, p. 110). The gaze, as Mitchell underlines, is a crucial issue in discussions on ekphrasis, as the narrator or the character in literature, who describes the artwork, is also a beholder. Simon Goldhill, in his article on ekphrastic epigrams in the Hellenistic period, asserts that the act of looking is “a practice of interpreting, of reading – a way of seeing meaning,” (2007, p. 2). And, as such, Goldhill contends, “ekphrasis is designed to produce a viewing subject” (2007, p. 2). In Nichols’s poem, then, the viewed object in Picasso’s painting becomes the viewing subject with a voice to critique his art. Since in “Weeping Woman” Grace Nichols mainly focuses on Picasso’s well- renowned eponymous painting, the poem asks for a transreferential act of reading: in other words, the poem and the painting supplement each other in the sense that appreciation of the poem necessitates the reader to view Picasso’s painting, and afterwards, the female image in the painting cannot be viewed without Maar’s story in mind. As the poet asserts in the Preface of the book, “The painting with its haggard fractured features and clash of colours (executed in Picasso’s famous cubist style) made me want to give that face a voice” (Nichols, 2009, p. 8). The woman in the painting is Picasso’s lover Dora Maar, who was a photographer and known to be a member of the Surrealist Movement in Paris. As Julie L’Enfant asserts, “some of Maar’s photographs are considered central documents of Surrealism” (L’Enfant, 1996-1997, p. 15). While married to Marie- Thérèse Walter, Picasso saw Maar at the Café des Deux Magots in Paris in 1936, and folklor / edebiyat 76 was immediately fascinated by her seductive and masochistic behaviour, playing with a knife between her fingers and staining her gloves with blood. During their affair between 1936 and 1945, Picasso continuously “humiliat[ed] this once proud and independent woman” (L’Enfant, 1996-1997, p. 18). For instance, one day Picasso gave her “a very distorted portrait of her, inscribed For Dora Maar, Great Painter (Lord, 1993, p. 238) to make fun of her artistic talent. After Picasso left her for a younger woman, Maar suffered a nervous breakdown followed by a long therapy period with the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Nichols gives voice to Maar in the form of a dramatic monologue and defies the characteristics of traditional ekphrasis, where the female image stays silent and fixed within the frame. The poem opens with Dora Maar’s outcry of pain severely denouncing Picasso’s Cubist style of using fractured figures. She says: They say that instead of a brush he used a knife on me – a savage geometry. But I say, look again, this is the closest anyone has got to the pain. (Nichols, 2009, p. 9) In line with Goldhill’s argument that ekphrasis creates a “viewing subject”, Maar is transformed from a silent, gazed object of aesthetic beauty in Picasso’s painting into a gazing subject who speaks in Nichols’s monologue. She denounces not only Picasso’s art as “a savage geometry” because of her deformed depiction in the painting, but also his maltreatment by using two symbols suggestive of male power, brush and knife. It is with the details of the image, her red hat “twisted mouth / and gnashing teeth, / my fingers fat and clumsy” (Nichols, 2009, p. 9) that Maar rejects such ugly depiction of herself, as she is known to be a very attractive woman with beautiful hands and long fingers. Moreover, she condemns the distasteful colours he used in this painting: for instance, green is “not the green of new shoots / but the ghastly green of gangrene” (Nichols, 2009, p. 9). Maar compares Picasso’s abuse of her body to that of a conqueror invading a land: she calls him a “Conquistador / of the flesh” (Nichols, 2009, p. 12) exploiting her body “with the sperm / of [his] colours” (Nichols, 2009, p. 12). The sperm and colors refer to Picasso’s maltreatment in both his actual life and his art respectively. Apart from his objectification of her, Maar also resists Piccaso’s act of silencing her through his art, by giving voice to her cry which is depicted in the picture: “I hear / ... / my own stiffled scream” (Nichols, 2009, p. 9). This voicing of the cry, which is an aspect of ekphrasis mentioned before, in fact, shows the distance between Maar the image and Maar the beholder. Through this offensive image of a weeping woman in a group of paintings, Picasso displays on the one hand his abhorrence of war, and on the other hand his view of women as “suffering machines” (Nichols, 2009, p. 11). However, Nichols’s critique of Picasso’s painting through Maar’s monologue displays the poet’s aspiration to subvert the characteristics of traditional ekphrasis in which static, silent female figure is framed in art. Maar’s condemnation is intensified with her reproval of Picasso’s reputation and fortune by comparing him to the mythological figure, Midas: “Everything he touches,” folklor / edebiyat 77 she says “with his Midas hands / turns, of course, into a fortune. / One still-life can buy a house” (Nichols, 2009, p. 11). Ironically, while the persona of Maar underlines in this way the fact that fame brings fortune to the male artist, in person she could only hope that future generations would appreciate her surrealist art. In his Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir, James Lord touches upon this expectation, noting that “Several times she remarked that she was absolutely sure of herself so far as the future was concerned: it would recognize the enduring quality and unique accomplishment of her work” (Lord, 1993, p. 325-6). Grace Nichols seems to have recognized Maar’s talent, and tries to give credit to the woman artist with her poem. The ekphrastic critique of Picasso’s art – the geometric depiction of figures, the use of colours, and the image of the woman in pain - is superseded by another form of ekphrasis in which Maar’s focus is directed towards her own art. To underline her accomplishment in art, then, she needs to reconsider her personal relationship with the artist; that is to say, how his treatment and view of her shifted “from goddess to doormat” (Nichols, 2009, p. 11). Before becoming a devoted lover, striving to meet his needs, however, Maar had been a member of the Surrealist Movement, “wearing her camera / like a medallion against her heart” (Nichols, 2009, p. 11). After she hears “whispers of a new mistress” (Nichols, 2009, p. 13), and sees the pitying looks of the people, she articulates her perplexity: she is well aware that although depicted as very ugly and suffering, she has been immortalized through his art, and that the painting has become “an icon / of twentieth-century grief” (Nichols, 2009, p. 10). The painter once confessed that he tried several times to depict Maar cheerfully, but he could not do so, saying: “I just couldn’t get a portrait of her while she was laughing ... for years I painted her with tortured shapes.” (as cited in Caws, 2000, p. 5) In order to reconstruct her identity, Maar has to break apart the iconic status of Picasso in her mind and distance herself from her past identity as the painter’s beloved muse. She describes how she is relieved of her painful experience during the therapy period, and as a result demands Picasso to give her her “face back” (Nichols, 2009, p. 16). Despite the demands of the public that she should give credit to Picasso for her fame, she asserts her identity by bitterly disclaiming that she is not a parasite: I am no moth flitting around his wick. He might be a genius but he’s also a prick – Medusa, Cleopatra, help me find my inner bitch, wasn’t I christened Henriette Theodora Markovitch? (Nichols, 2009, p. 16) In this passage, though she recognizes Picasso’s talent (“a genius”), she also thinks that he is repulsive (“a prick”) in his treatment of women. Maar takes as her own muses dazzling women from mythology and history who will give her courage to resist the damage Picasso has done on her personality, and by mentioning her full name, she asserts her own identity against what she sees as Picasso’s erasure of it. As a result of this recovery period, she starts working as a photographer again, taking pictures with her camera and “turn[ing] my negatives into positives. / my floating foetuses into life” (Nichols, 2009, p. 17). The process of photographic printing is also very suggestive of her transformation, from a psychological breakdown after Picasso’s folklor / edebiyat 78 betrayal of her, to a state where she can refabricate her identity. If the critical gaze of her silenced objectified self in Picasso’s art is one part of Maar’s issue in her monologue, then the other is how as a viewing subject she highlights her photography by using the trope of the eye: she calls her instrument to observe and reflect the world as “my one- eye” (Nichols, 2009, p. 17), and “my third-eye” (Nichols, 2009, p. 17), and resembles herself to Polyphemus, the man-eating cyclops to suggest how she tries to survive through her art of photography. Underlining her persona’s artistic contributions in an ekphrastic fashion, Nichols names some surrealist works by Maar; the “floating foetus” alludes to her famous Portrait of Pere Ubu; other references include Maar’s photograph of “A blind man sitting / with his white cane in the sun,” (Nichols, 2009, p. 17) and her photographs of Picasso in his studio painting his Guernica. With the metaphor of a butterfly having “still imperfect wings,” (Nichols, 2009, p. 17) Maar finally suggests that she has liberated herself from being “a battered muse” (Nichols, 2009, p. 16) in his consuming love. As part of the art of painting, colours, then, gain importance in her life: black suggests her strength and freedom from male oppression, white her innocence, green faith in the future, yellow her awakening, red her passion, and blue the support of her soul (Nichols, 2009, p. 18). After she becomes independent of his influence and finds her true self, as underlined by Maar in the poem, she starts appreciating Picasso’s art but she still refuses her effect on his art: “‘Picasso’s art is Picasso’s art. / Not one is Dora Maar’” (Nichols, 2009, p. 19)*. She realizes that there are many women abused by men: “There will always be a weeping woman. / Although I’ve left, she remains, / weeping her Hiroshima of tears” (Nichols, 2009, p. 20). This is an attempt by Maar to sympathize with other women who suffer for similar reasons. What Gabrielle Griffin argues in terms of Nichols’s poems on a fat African female figure is very pertinent in this context as well. Griffin suggests that the female persona in Nichols’s poems “uses her body, her voice, her song to maintain her sense of selfhood, to support others and to subvert the structures that oppress her” (Griffin, 1993, p. 28). To reconstruct her identity and to refashion her career as an artist, Maar first needs to subvert Picasso’s repression on her, free herself from the boundaries of the frame of art and gain her voice. Nichols’s “Weeping Woman” demonstrates how the act of writing or creating for women can become “a political act of breaking silence” (Wiskers, 1993, p. 3). By challenging the characteristics of traditional ekphrasis, discussed before, in which the female image remains a silenced object, the poet takes Dora Maar out of the frame of Picasso’s painting, where she is depicted with a weeping visage, and gives voice, autonomy and freedom to the silenced and fixed female image. Such an alternative to traditional ekphrasis, suggests subverting the dichotomy that privileges the male artist over the female, and attributing equal value to the woman’s accomplishments through an emphasis on her persona’s painstaking efforts to reconstruct her identity as an independent artist. 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Wisker, G. (1993). Introduction. G. Wisker (Ed.). Black women’s writing (pp.1-18). Hampshire and London: Macmillan. work_5witzl4u4reflgbcgze3py2ika ---- “Susana y los viejos” en la pintura barroca y su resignificación desde una perspectiva de género en las expresiones artísticas de los siglos XX y XXI Florencia Martini RESUMEN El artículo indaga las representaciones de género en la cultura, específicamente en la pintura barroca (s. XVI-XVII), a través del análisis de la obra “Susana y los viejos” de Tintoretto (1560/65), Artemisia Gentileschi (1610) y Guercino (1617), pinturas que representan una escena del Antiguo Testamento (Daniel 13), para luego examinar las resignificaciones producidas en los siglos XX y XXI, que invierten las representaciones sociales de los siglos XVI-XVII, en la obra de Pablo Picasso (1955), la performance “Ablutions” (1972) -llevada a cabo por Suzanne Lacy, Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel, Jan Laster y Aviva Rahmani- y, finalmente, en la obra inédita de un artista local, Pablo Martini (2012). Palabras clave​: representaciones de género – mito bíblico – siglos XVI y XVII – siglos XX y XXI. ABSTRACT The article focuses on gender representations in the field of culture, specifically in baroque painting (16​th and 17​th centuries), through the analysis of “Susanna and the Elders” by Tintoretto (1560/65), Artemisia Gentileschi (1610) and Guercino (1617), three paintings that represent a scene from the Old Testament (Daniel 13), to then examine the resignifications produced in the 20th and 21st centuries —that invert the social representations of the 16th and 17th centuries— in a work by Pablo Picasso (1955), the performance “Ablutions” (1972) —by Suzanne Lacy, Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel, Jan Laster and Aviva Rahmani— and, finally, in the work of a local artist, Pablo Martini (2012). Keywords​: gender representations – Biblical myth - 16​th​ and 17​th​ centuries- 20​th​ and 21​st​ centuries Florencia Martini «​“​Susana y los viejos” en la pintura barroca…» Esta obra está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial – Sin Obra Derivada 4.0 Internacional. Introducción En este artículo aspiro a indagar las representaciones de género en la cultura, específicamente en la pintura barroca (siglos XVI-XVII), analizando para ello la obra “Susana y los viejos” de Tintoretto (1560/65), Artemisia Gentileschi (1610) y Guercino (1617), representación de una escena del Antiguo Testamento (Daniel 13), para luego examinar las resignificaciones de la obra en los siglos XX y XXI, que invierten el sentido sociocultural de la escena, y dotan de cierta agencia a las mujeres, quienes dejan de ser objetos inertes subalternizados por la mirada masculina y la norma jurídica patriarcal. En tal sentido, abordo la obra de Picasso (1955), la performance “Ablutions” (1972), llevada a cabo por Suzanne Lacy, Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel, Jan Laster y Aviva Rahmani y, finalmente, la obra inédita de un artista local, Pablo Martini (2012). Susana y los viejos en el Antiguo Testamento El tema representado es narrado en el Antiguo Testamento (Daniel 13): Arquián y Sedequía eran dos ancianos jueces que acudían asiduamente a casa de Joaquín, judío de Babilonia, próspero y respetado, esposo de Susana. Un día, al encontrarse Susana bañándose en una de las fuentes del jardín, los ancianos, que se habían escondido para observarla, trataron de abusar sexualmente de ella y, ante la resistencia de Susana, la acusaron de adulterio (afirmando que la habían observado con un joven en los jardines). Susana es condenada a muerte por lapidación y es entonces cuando interviene el joven profeta Daniel. Este interroga a los viejos por separado y advierte contradicciones en sus relatos por lo que concluye que han mentido. Ante ello se revoca la condena de Susana, quien es absuelta, y los ancianos jueces, condenados por falso testimonio. La historia fue muy frecuentada por los artistas de los siglos XVI y XVII, porque les brindaba la oportunidad de abordar una escena cargada de erotismo al tiempo que cumplía una función religiosa moralizante. El arte barroco y la Iglesia católica ​La Reforma católica o Contrarreforma es la respuesta de la Iglesia católica dada a la Reforma protestante de Martín Lutero. Denota el período de resurgimiento católico desde el Concilio de Trento en 1545 y el pontificado del papa Pío IV en 1560 hasta el fin de la guerra de los Treinta Años. El franciscano Sixto V representó la etapa final de la Contrarreforma católica al convertir Roma y el barroco en la representación visual del catolicismo. El arte barroco, ​principalmente en pintura y escultura, tuvo como función difundir el credo católico entre la gente común. Su intención fue introducir al fiel a los misterios de la fe a través de los sentidos y mostrarle la gloria celestial a la cual podía aspirar. La pintura barroca utiliza el cuerpo desnudo de la mujer como elemento pregnante de la mirada de los espectadores (varones), paradójicamente, para introducir un mensaje religioso moralizante que se detiene en las fronteras del mundo de la vida masculina. El cuerpo desnudo de las mujeres se constituye en instrumento de captación de la mirada masculina al solo efecto de introyectar la doctrina religiosa católica, como embate a la reforma protestante. En las pinturas barrocas y manieristas, el cuerpo blanco, erótico, listo para la mirada queda plasmado en este instante en que la mujer se descubre observada, profanada. La mujer aparece como “carnada” que focaliza la mirada pública (de los varones) en vistas a restaurar los valores católicos. Nada protege el cuerpo de Susana de la mirada de los jueces, ni los portones cerrados ni los umbrales o cercas de su jardín, no hay límites que impidan la visión. Los muros se hacen transparentes para permitir la máxima visibilidad. La mirada comparece en este relato como pura violación. Susana es penetrada por los ojos, que rozan su piel y la desnudan, pretenden macular a la azucena. El hecho de que sean dos los viejos de la historia, multiplica la intensidad de este acto voyerista. Cuatro ojos o una mirada más. Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas​- Volumen 9, año 2019 Si analizamos el versículo del Antiguo Testamento que da cuenta de la historia, se advierte que trata el mundo de los varones. Desde una perspectiva jurídica contemporánea, llama la atención que lo único que se pone en juego es la “palabra” de los varones. La mujer no tiene voz, no tiene logos . A pesar de que se observa el método de averiguación de la verdad propio del proceso penal 1 contemporáneo (verificación a partir de pruebas, entre las cuales cobra protagonismo el testimonio), la mujer no es “testigo” en tanto no figura como sujeto portador de una voz legítima para la reconstrucción del mundo. La mujer aparece como un objeto más dentro de la esfera de custodia del varón. El discurso jurídico está modelado ​sobre la base de un sujeto “hombre” que incluye a la mujer, un sujeto universal falsamente indiferenciado desde el punto de vista del género, ya que es producido en realidad como un sujeto masculino trabajando representaciones del mundo orientadas a sí mismo (Chaneton, 66). Es por lo que Susana aparece más como una espectadora que protagonista del proceso penal en el que es juzgada como adúltera. Como lo sostiene Chaneton, el género es el campo primario en el cual se articula el poder, una manera de expresar el poder en occidente en las tradiciones judeocristianas e islámicas. Como tal, se encuentra involucrado en la construcción del poder, como poder de establecer el significado legítimo. Distinciones como femenino/masculino reciben, entonces, una significación jerarquizada y codificada por la dominante que, luego, se presenta como natural. El significado legítimo, en última instancia, lo impone el joven profeta Daniel, legitimando en definitiva el sistema de justicia, al provocar la condena por falso testimonio de los ancianos jueces de Babilonia. Desde una perspectiva jurídica contemporánea, tanto mujeres como varones son susceptibles de ser sujetos pasivos de un delito, esto significa que mujeres y varones son protegidos por la ley penal. Por tanto, la situación fáctica que describe el versículo de Daniel debería focalizarse, probada la mendacidad de los ancianos jueces, en la tentativa de abuso sexual de Susana, al colocarla como víctima de un delito, circunstancia que no acontece en la historia. La lesión a bienes sociales de la mujer (en este caso la integridad sexual de Susana) no ingresa en la consideración del asunto sometido a juicio. No emerge de la historia que se haya oído a Susana en alguna instancia del proceso. Se encuentran en juego los bienes jurídicos que protegen a los varones y a la cosa pública, incluida la autoridad religiosa, fijando al varón como centro natural del espacio público. Se protege el estado civil (delito de adulterio), la honra del varón poseedor de la esposa y el falso testimonio (de los ancianos jueces), que protege la correcta 2 administración de justicia. 1 En la obra publicada en 1983 (​El diferendo​) Jean Francois Lyotard define el diferendo como ​“el caso en que el querellante se ve despojado de los medios de argumentar y se convierte, por ese motivo, en una víctima (…) un caso de diferendo, tiene lugar cuando la “resolución del conflicto que opone dos partes civiles se hace en el idioma de una de ellas mientras que la injusticia sufrida por la otra no se significa en ese idioma”, citado por Scavino (1999:112). En el mismo sentido, Jaques Rancière (1996), sostiene que la injusticia no puede resolverse bajo la forma de un acuerdo entre partes porque los sujetos que la injusticia política pone en juego no son entidades a las cuales tal o cual injusticia les ocurriría por accidente, sino sujetos cuya existencia misma es el modo de manifestación de la injusticia. Rancière llama la atención sobre esta constante en el pensamiento occidental desde la época de los griegos: los esclavos son esclavos porque no pueden hablar de igual a igual con los amos, porque no comparten el mismo ​logos (palabra o razón) de la ciudad, citado por Scavino (115-116). 2 No ha de perderse de vista que el delito de adulterio se configuraba en una época en la que las mujeres no tenían derechos. A partir del casamiento, el esposo asumía la “representación” legal de la mujer para todos los actos civiles de la vida cotidiana. Incluso el régimen legal en Argentina era disímil para varones y mujeres. El varón cometía adulterio solo si tenía una “manceba” (relación estable) mientras que, para que la mujer cometiera el delito, bastaba un solo contacto sexual. Florencia Martini «​“​Susana y los viejos” en la pintura barroca…» El mito bíblico exhibe el quebrantamiento de la pureza de la mujer (sea como virgen -propiedad de Dios- o como fiel esposa- propiedad del marido) estereotipada por el imaginario religioso y social de la época . 3 Tintoretto, 1560-1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viena, Austria) 4 Tintoretto eligió representar no el momento dramático en el que los dos viejos se manifiestan abiertamente ante Susana, sino el momento en que la protagonista se mira en un espejo en el interior de un jardín idílico, concentrándose así en el contenido erótico de la escena. Aunque ocupe la mitad derecha del cuadro, el personaje de Susana es el centro de atención, con una blancura deslumbrante bañada de luz. A la izquierda, hay un seto de rosas, a cuyos extremos se encuentran los viejos. Entre Susana y ese seto aparece toda una serie de objetos y joyas (el espejo en el que Susana se mira, el paño de seda blanco para secarse y un frasco de perfume de porcelana). Susana luce plácida, gozando de su imagen reflejada en el espejo. Asume el papel de mujer sumisa que disfruta el estatus social que le otorga su marido, de buena posición social y económica. En este cuadro Susana aparece como una pertenencia más del jardín privado de Joaquín y, su cuerpo bañado de luz como un lugar sagrado, asociado a la pureza y a la procreación. Artemisia Gentileschi, 1610 (Castillo de Wiessenstein de Pommersfelden, Alemania) 5 Gentileschi realiza esta obra con tan solo diecisiete años. En la composición los dos hombres unidos componen un gran ojo ávido, famélico, hipérbole de la mirada. Artemisia optó por pintar a Susana como una joven vulnerable, asustada, que rechazaba a esos dos hombres pecaminosos. Enfatiza plásticamente a Susana a través de la iluminación que contrasta ante la gran masa oscura de lo masculino amenazador. Resulta interesante el enfoque particular que Gentileschi le da a esta obra (entre otras en el mismo sentido), porque pone en evidencia una resistencia a la dominación masculina que evidencian las obras de la época. Un año después (1611) la artista es violada por Agostino Tassi, un artista amigo de su padre, a quien, luego de un año, decide denunciar. Su testimonio fue puesto en duda y, si bien Tassi fue finalmente declarado culpable, no fue condenado a la pena de prisión, sino al castigo menor del exilio (de Roma) . 6 Gentileschi fue la primera mujer en conseguir entrar en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Florencia, la misma institución por la que pasó Miguel Ángel​. ​Padeció la indiferencia y el rechazo del mundo artístico de su época por el hecho de ser mujer y la humillación de que muchos de sus cuadros fueran atribuidos a su padre o a otros artistas varones. Durante siglos fue considerada una mera curiosidad, una rareza tan exótica como menor dentro de la historia del arte, tal como nos lo recuerda Irene Hernández Velasco (8/1/17, ​BBC El Mundo​) . 7 3 El estereotipo constituye un esquema vinculado al imaginario social bajo la influencia del medio social, que determina formas de pensar, sentir, actuar, generando creencias sobre clases de individuos (Amossy y Herschberg Pierrot), en este caso la mujer pura, casta, fiel, sumisa a los mandatos de Dios y del marido, representada por estos, quienes en definitiva poseen las riendas de su vida cotidiana. 4 https://elpoderdelarte1.blogspot.com/2018/05/susana-y-los-viejos-obra-de-tintoretto.html 5 https://www.culturabizarra.com/artemisia-gentileschi-susana-los-viejos/ 6 En 1613, Gentileschi ​pinta “Judith decapitando a Holofernes” en la que narra la seducción, embriaguez y asesinato del líder del ejército babilónico, que acomete Judith al liberar a su pueblo. Esta pintura es considerada un grito desesperado de odio y repulsión frente a la violación padecida. 7 Después de la sentencia y de todo el escándalo suscitado con el proceso, Orazio Gentileschi organizó un matrimonio para Artemisia que le permitiese recuperar a ojos de la sociedad la dignidad perdida. Así, el 29 de noviembre, solo dos días después de la condena contra Tassi​, ​la joven se casó con el pintor florentino Pierantonio Stiattesi​ ​y juntos se trasladaron a Florencia. Para entonces Artemisia ya había comenzado a plasmar en sus lienzos a mujeres fuertes y a sufridas, a heroínas, víctimas, suicidas, guerreras, a personajes femeninos procedentes tanto de la Biblia como de la mitología; y adopta una perspectiva nueva: la de una mujer. No le faltaba razón al filósofo francés Roland Barthes cuando sentenciaba que la fuerza de Artemisia Gentileschi radica en su capacidad de dar la vuelta a los papeles Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas​- Volumen 9, año 2019 Guercino, 1617 (Museo del Prado, Madrid, España) 8 En su pintura, Guercino muestra a los viejos acechándola, en el momento de mayor tensión física y psicológica de la historia, tensión que se manifiesta también en la composición. La pintura está dividida en dos partes: a la izquierda predomina la representación naturalista de los viejos, subrayada por un dramático claroscuro que acentúa la violencia de los afectos recalcado por la disparidad cromática de sus vestidos. Todo ello contrasta con el cuerpo clásico y monocromático de Susana, quien inmersa en un golpe de luz frente a los hombres arrojados en la penumbra convoca la mirada del espectador, como si se tratase de un anciano más. Guercino nos hace partícipes de ese momento pecaminoso, situándonos al amparo de la misma sombra que cobija a los ancianos. Todos, ancianos y espectadores, observamos a voluntad el desnudo de Susana. Picasso, 1955 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, España) 9 El capítulo 13 de Daniel describe la posesión por Joaquín de un jardín cerrado con una fuente, en el cual paseaba Susana al mediodía: Vivía en Babilonia un hombre llamado Joaquín (13, 1), tenía un jardín junto a su casa y los judíos acudían a él porque gozaba de gran estima (13, 4). Cuando al mediodía ya todos se habían retirado, Susana salía a pasear por el jardín de su marido (13, 7). Susana dijo a sus criadas: traigan jabón y perfume y cierren las puertas del jardín que quiero bañarme (13, 17), los dos ancianos se levantaron y fueron corriendo hacia ella (13, 19) y le dijeron: “las puertas del jardín están cerradas y nadie nos ve. Nosotros estamos llenos de pasión por ti, consiente y entrégate a nosotros” (13, 20). La fuente (portadora del agua) ha sido interpretada como espacio de purificación, mientras que el jardín, en el suceso concreto descripto por Daniel, representa el territorio (espacio de dominación) de Joaquín, esposo de Susana. Las fronteras del jardín fijan los límites de la propiedad de Joaquín y Susana se mueve dentro de ellos, como una posesión más de su marido (tal como ha sido analizado en la obra de Tintoretto). Picasso deconstruye la representación social de la mujer pura y nívea, lugar sagrado de vida, vigente en la pintura barroca exhibiendo una mujer que domina el acontecimiento erótico al tiempo que arroja a los viejos a la impotencia de un plano exterior a la escena. Prescinde de la fuente y del jardín, la pinta dentro de una habitación, su espacio de autonomía. “Ablutions”, 1974 (Nueva York) 10 La obra es una producción colectiva llevada a cabo por Suzanne Lacy, Judy Chicago, Sandra Orgel y Aviva Rahamani, con la colaboración de docentes y estudiantes. Se gesta a partir de las exploraciones de violación que realizan Lacy y Rahamani en sus diferentes prácticas. El público ingresa a un gran estudio de arte abierto donde se encuentran con tres tinas de metal galvanizado en el piso de concreto llenas con huevos, sangre y arcilla respectivamente. Alrededor de las tinas se observan cáscaras de huevo, cuerdas, cadenas y riñones reales. Mientras tanto, una banda sonora reproduce experiencias de mujeres que han sido violadas. Una mujer desnuda es lentamente atada de pies a cabeza con vendas de gasa mientras otras se bañan en las tinas. Al salir de ellas, sus cuerpos exhiben riachuelos de sangre en la arcilla tradicionales, alentando "una nueva ideología que nosotros modernos leemos claramente: la reivindicación femenina", citado por Irene Hernández Velasco (2017). 8 https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/susana-y-los-viejos/9c9b3611-5c80-457d-a99a-e5580f3074e6 9 https://www.hoyesarte.com/evento/38-picassos-de-la-familia-picasso/attachment/picasso-7/ 10 suzannelacy.com Florencia Martini «​“​Susana y los viejos” en la pintura barroca…» agrietada. A lo largo de la presentación, Suzanne Lacy fue clavando cincuenta riñones de ternera en la pared, envolviendo la habitación como una columna vertebral rodeada por sus órganos. Hacia el final de la performance Suzanne Lacy y Jan Lester envuelven el escenario con cuerdas hasta que este se transforma en una telaraña de atrapamiento. “Ablutions” (ablución) representa la purificación ritual por medio del agua. Hace referencia al baño de Susana en la fuente del jardín de Joaquín. El jardín es reemplazado por un estudio de piso de concreto; la fuente, por una tina de metal; y el agua, por sustancias viscosas. La instalación invierte el sentido de las miradas. Los cuerpos atrapados por sustancias, vendajes y telarañas laceran las miradas, infestando a los espectadores. La mirada voyerista es cegada por la violencia de los cuerpos vulnerados. Las voces que reproducen los detalles de las violaciones suscitan la adhesión a partir de una manera de decir que es también una manera de ser. El destinatario participa en el mundo configurado por la enunciación y accede él mismo a una identidad encarnada. La adhesión del destinatario se produce mediante un apuntalamiento recíproco de la escena de enunciación, de cuyo ethos​ participa, y del contenido manifiesto (Maingueneau). Butler sostiene que el género es instituido en el tiempo por medio de una repetición estilizada de actos constitutivos y en las diferentes formas de repetición estriba la posibilidad de transformar el género (citado por Chaneton 87). Es en este sentido en que “Ablutions” repite en un contexto diferente los actos constitutivos de la obra. Esta rompe con la hegemonía discursiva (que forma parte de la hegemonía cultural que la incluye y sobredetermina globalmente lo enunciable), proveyendo el acceso a los medios de enunciación de lo todavía por decirse: el indecible político de género. Los cuerpos actúan y reaccionan. Generan lo que es nuevo, sorprendente, impredecible (Chaneton 143). La significación social puede pensarse en términos de transformación porque se conciben márgenes relativamente abiertos siempre móviles que son propios de la hegemonía como juego de incertidumbre o significación suspendida del futuro (148); el cuerpo se presenta como un producto psicosocial sujeto a constantes resignificaciones, “sólo hay cuerpos históricos, concretos, plurales, específicos en localizaciones dadas y en esos contextos situados, los cuerpos son hablados por las significaciones de género/clase/generación dominantes en el marco de la hegemonía cultural” (153). La significación social atribuida por los sujetos al acontecimiento se encuentra ligada a la experiencia y lo vivido (conciencia práctica para Gramsci), a un reconocimiento en el nivel de la conciencia teórica y al ​habitus como conjunto de disposiciones y expectativas sociales históricamente construidas como creencias encarnadas en los cuerpos sexuados (Chaneton 160). Pablo Martini, 2012 (Córdoba, Argentina) 11 Las miradas de los viejos multiplicados alrededor de Susana, alongadas por especie de narices punzantes, se proyectan sobre el cuerpo femenino como lanzas vaticinando el martirio de Susana, que aparece como una figura dislocada, enclavada en el centro de la composición, contenida por un cubo virtual (al estilo de los espacios que contienen a los protagonistas de las pinturas de Bacon), replica una fuente que se presenta como una fosa abismal. La composición radial configurada con los entes al acecho genera una fuerza centrípeta que produce una mayor oclusión. La multiplicación de los viejos alrededor de Susana expresa la propagación de las miradas producidas por efecto de la reproducción técnica de las imágenes y los medios de comunicación masiva de nuestros días, y evidencian el voyerismo de las sociedades contemporáneas. El brazo de Susana culmina con un gesto de resistencia, mientras que al lado opuesto emerge una pierna femenina vistiendo liga y sensuales zapatos: estereotipos contemporáneos de la mujer-objeto (del consumo masculino). 11 https://pabloemartini.blogspot.com/2019/02/blog-post.html Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas​- Volumen 9, año 2019 La obra en la pintura barroca y en el arte contemporáneo Mientras que en las obras barrocas, con sus diferentes matices, aparece el tópico de la desnudez de la mujer como morada sagrada que concentra la luz como expresión estereotípica de 12 la pureza (frente a la negritud de los viejos que representan la idea común de pecaminosidad que impone la autoridad religiosa ), canalizando de este modo el claroscuro característico de la pintura 13 barroca, en el arte de los siglos XX-XXI. Susana se libera (en el caso de Picasso) o evidencia (en el caso de “Ablutions” y Martini) el yugo masculino (tanto del esposo, propietario del jardín que encierra a Susana en los límites de su territorio, como de los viejos que, a partir de la invitación del propio esposo, aprovechan la ocasión para invadir la intimidad de Susana y vulnerar su cuerpo no solo con la mirada, sino también con sus cuerpos). La blancura del cuerpo de Susana se desvanece para recobrar los matices de su autonomía (Picasso), dislocándose el cuerpo-mercancía/objeto estético (Martini) y cubriéndose de texturas pringosas que denuncian la violencia de los cuerpos vulnerados (“Ablutions”). Estas obras denuncian el estereotipo femenino que encauza la dominación masculina, permitiendo abrir paso a una nueva identidad de género , desarraigada de 14 las estructuras androcéntricas tradicionales . Al hacerlo, colocan en la agenda de la comunidad una 15 representación social alternativa. 16 Como lo sostiene July Chaneton, el drama de las mujeres como colectivo consiste en que ellas deben elegirse libertad y autonomía en un mundo en el que el sujeto masculino le impone que se asuma como el otro. A lo largo de la filosofía occidental, en la literatura, las costumbres, los mitos, las religiones, la política y la doxa del “eterno femenino”, la “humanidad” es macho y el hombre define a la mujer no en sí, sino respecto de él (33). No resulta casual que en la historia bíblica sea un hombre quien asume la defensa en juicio de Susana frente a los viejos. Susana no puede defenderse por sí misma, porque no es sujeto de la ley. Nunca más ajustada la frase de Poullai de la Barre, en el ​Tratado de la Igualdad de los Sexos​, cuando afirma que “todo lo que se ha dicho sobre las mujeres lo han dicho los hombres. Las mujeres en la historia no han hablado, hay que hablar con las mujeres” (citado por Chaneton 65). Bibliografía Amossy, Ruth y Herschberg Pierrot, Anne. ​Enciclopedia semiológica, Estereotipos y Clichés​. Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2001. Campos Rodríguez, Vanessa Brasil. “El relato de Susana y los viejos: su representación en la pintura y sus resonancias en el cine de Hitchcock”. ​VI Congreso Internacional de Análisis Textual, 15 al 17 de abril del 2010​, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Jurídicas y de la Comunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia. 12 Entre la obra y el mundo del que procede, se inscriben estereotipos como mediadores entre individuos y la sociedad que como tal constituyen rastros de lo social (Amossy y Herschberg Pierrot 54). 13 Las ideas comunes, a diferencia de los lugares comunes, no están asociadas a la noción de trivialidad sino a una relación con la autoridad política y social que las sustenta. Constituyen prejuicios relacionados con la moral social, pensamientos y acciones prefabricadas prescriptas por el discurso social (Amossy y Herschberg Pierrot). 14 Joan Scott define género como una manera primaria, recurrente y persistente de significar relaciones de poder en occidente en las tradiciones judeocristianas e islámicas (Chaneton 26) 15 El androcentrismo es la primacía de un sentido único que tiende a subsumir en él otros sentidos que son diferentes o alternativos. Implica el predominio de las significaciones culturales, estilos de vida, imágenes y relatos, cuyas características resultan funcionales a los intereses propios de un punto de vista del que puede decirse que (co)responde, en el sentido de ofrecer soporte a intereses, deseos y expectativas específicas a la producción social de subjetividad masculina (Chaneton). 16 Las representaciones sociales son imágenes del mundo presentes en una comunidad lingüística. Imagen mental acerca de alguna cosa, prototípica, que implica una creencia, base del significado que adquiere cada nuevo estímulo relacionado con esa cosa. Las representaciones completan el mundo, interactúan y pueden formar nuevas imágenes hasta convertirse en colectivas (Raiter). Florencia Martini «​“​Susana y los viejos” en la pintura barroca…» Chaneton, July. “Género, poder y discursos sociales en la Argentina de fin de Siglo XX”. Tesis. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2004. Impreso. Hernández Velasco, Irene. “Artemisia Gentileschi, la pintora que fue violada y se vengó haciendo arte feminista en el siglo XVII”. ​BBC Mundo,​ ​8/1/17.​ Web. 4 de marzo de 2018. Lacy, S.​; Chicago, J.; Orgel, S. y Rahamani, A. “Ablutions” (1972) suzannelacy.com Web. 1 de marzo de 2018. Lyotard, Jean Francois. ​El diferendo​. Barcelona: Gedisa, 1983. Maingueneau, Dominique. ​El enunciador encarnado. La problemática del Ethos. ​Madrid: UAM, 2010. Rancière, Jacques.​ El desacuerdo​. Buenos Aires: Nueva Visión, 1996. Raiter, Alejandro. ​Representaciones sociales​. Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2001. Walther, Ingo F. (editor).​ Los maestros de la pintura occidental.​ Colonia: Taschen, 2005. Scavino, Dardo. ​La filosofía actual. Pensar sin certezas.​ Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1999. Fecha de recepción: 15/04/2018 Fecha de aceptación: 01/03/2019 work_64mefivdsnd2fdcupis3z7bt3a ---- Literatura y Lingüística N° 34 419 ISSN 0716 - 5811 / pp. 419 - 430 sara malvar: una ProPuesta de Poema en Prosa* Patricio Lizama A** Resumen En este trabajo analizamos,de manera breve,la comprensión que tiene Sara Malvar de la poesía moderna y de las problemáticas artístico-culturales del creador en la modernidad periférica. Luego, en el núcleo del trabajo, estudiamos su texto llamado “Tennis” el cual es definido como poema en prosa y leído en relación con la arquitectura moderna y con una concepción ocultista del universo. Palabras clave: Poesía moderna, poema en prosa, arquitectura moderna, ocultismo. sara malvar: a ProPosed Prose Poem Abstract In this work we analyze, briefly, Sara Malvar's understanding of modern poetry and the creator artistic and cultural issues in peripheral modernity. Then, in the core of the work we study the text called "Tennis," which is defined as a prose poem and read in relationship to modern architecture and with an occultist conception of the universe. Keywords: Modern Poetry, prose poem, modern architecture, occultism. Recibido: 18-03-2016 Aceptado: 16-06-2016 * El presente trabajo es parte del proyecto Fondecyt Regular Nº 1150535 “Poema en prosa y modernidad en Chile: 1888-1945”, del cual soy investigador responsable. Una versión más completa acerca del aporte de Sara Malvar será desarrollada en un libro que preparo. ** Chileno. PhD. Profesor Titular de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. plizama@ puc.cl 420 Sara Malvar: una propuesta de poema en prosa / Patricio Lizama A. Sara Malvar es poco conocida en Chile. Artista plástica formada en la academia, se casa con el pintor chileno José Backhaus y viaja a España en 1917. Viven en Ávila, luego en Madrid, capital donde exponen en julio de 1920. Al año siguiente se trasladan a París, conocen a Eugenia Huici, y a través de ella, entre otros, a Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Robert y Sonia Delaunay. Al mismo tiempo visitan a Wanda Morla, Vicente Huidobro, Jean Emar y a varios pintores chilenos quienes también residen en la capital francesa. En octubre de 1922, Sara vive una profunda crisis originada por la repentina muerte de su esposo en París , y a fines del año siguiente regresa a Chile. La acabada comprensión del arte moderno que Malvar articula en París, le permite participar en 1924 y 1925 en el proyecto de las “Notas de Arte”dirigido por Jean Emar en La Nación, página en la que ella escribe con gran lucidez acerca de Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Vicente Huidobro, Amadeo Modigliani, Henri Rousseau, Le Corbusier, Erik Satie, y traduce un fragmento del manifiesto del surrealismo. Su aporte también lo encontramos en sus adelantadas propuestas acerca de los problemáticas artísticas y culturales que enfrenta el creador de la vanguardia hispanoamericana. En 1924, ella los llama a abandonar el color local y a acoger “la tradición humana, que no sabe de razas ni de épocas” (Emar 186), planteamientos presentes en algunos manifiestos latinoamericanos y que una década más tarde desarrollarán Alfonso Reyes y Borges. Asimismo, los invita a replantearse la búsqueda de la originalidad al concebir la creación como un trabajo intertextual, pues sostiene que “la historia de la pintura no es sino una cadena ininterrumpida de influencias” surgidas del “choque, la fusión de corrientes diversas o contrarias” y concluye: “los grandes artistas ‘han imitado, han copiado, y[…]han sido siempre ellos mismos’” (Emar186). Por último, anima a los artistas chilenos a viajar a Europa porque percibe la poca autonomía, la carencia de estímulos y el inevitable tedio en el campo plástico nacional. Afirma que “el ambiente y las condiciones actuales, [son] más propicias al parecer para anquilosar cualquier organismo que para ayudar a cambiar un estado de cosas” (Emar186). Literatura y Lingüística N° 34 421 Sara Malvar y la poesía moderna En las Notas de Arte, Emar escribe sobre la “razón de ser” de la pintura moderna y Malvar hace lo mismo respecto a la poesía moderna; para explicitar la génesis y evolución de la nueva lírica, utiliza las categorías de Le Corbusier referidas a la arquitectura y distingue a los “constructores” de los “precursores”. Señala que Rimbaud es un precursor, ya que se aleja de la representación mimética y la escritura descriptiva, explora lo desconocido, revela lo indecible y expresa el inconsciente a través de una continua búsqueda experimental. Agrega que en la base de su obra existe una percepción visionaria capaz de aprehender “todas las relaciones y el infinito continuo” y plasmar “un mundo alucinado de imágenes y analogías donde todo se corresponde y cambia” (Emar112). Entre los constructores, señala a Apollinaire y,a partir del impacto de la pintura en su poesía, destaca sus versos fragmentarios y discontinuos, sin puntuación, y la variada tipografía que permite construir relaciones poéticas originales y constelaciones de imágenes sugerentes en el espacio de la página. Huidobro es el otro constructor porque, en la imagen creacionista, aproxima realidades lejanas, establece relaciones secretas e imprevistas y genera una belleza “subterránea”, planteos que dialogan con las propuestas de Reverdy y más tarde con la visión de la imagen que tienen los surrealistas (Emar174). Junto con mostrar la “razón de ser” de la poesía contemporánea, Malvar define el texto poético y lo hace con una mirada transversal, ya que los elementos y procesos que ella distingue–pensamiento nuevo, trabajo de composición, imágenes condensadas, síntesis, participación del lector–son también esenciales en otras manifestaciones artísticas como la pintura, la arquitectura y el cine. Con gran lucidez para la época, ella señala en junio de 1924, rasgos esenciales de la lírica emergente: Todo poema moderno en que los pensamientos se esquematizan hasta el último límite, en que la descripción se reduce a uno o dos términos justos, precisos, en que las imágenes son como concentraciones de pensamientos, exige del lector un trabajo complementario de reconstrucción, de sensibilidad casi paralelos al autor. (Emar 116) 422 Sara Malvar: una propuesta de poema en prosa / Patricio Lizama A. Sara Malvar y el poema en prosa Los planteamientos anteriores y esta definición de la poesía de Malvar, los encontramos realizados en un texto escrito por ella llamado “Tennis” que aparece en las “Notas de Arte” de octubre de 1924 y que evidencia su fascinación por la vida moderna. Leamos: En el campo geométrico del court, los jugadores, cuatro puntos blancos. Movientes formas en equilibrio. –He visto jugar a los Torralba, a los Robson, Boyd y Zumelzú –juego neto, preciso, lleno de juventud, nervioso y controlado a un tiempo. A veces, gestos, movimientos de pura belleza. Parecían obedecer al llamado imperioso de las fuerzas multiplicadas, del ritmo que acelera y renueva la vida (Emar140). El texto,construido con una voluntad consciente de organizar el discurso en forma poética, lo entendemos como un poema en prosa, “género poético breve de ideación moderna” modelado por Aloysius Bertrand y reformulado por Baudelaire al intentar un nuevo modo de percibir y representar la vida en la modernidad (Aullón de Haro 22). Lejos de la intención moralizante, didáctica u oratoria, el poema en prosa está construido con una estética de lo fragmentario y discontinuo que transgrede la oposición entre verso y prosa y el proceso mismo de la escritura. Su articulación fundada en la intensidad lírica, en “la brevedad y la concentración temática” (Fernández 32), carece de una forma fija y de los mecanismos tradicionales de la poeticidad como el verso, el ritmo y la rima –fuerzas destructoras– pero contiene un juego de repeticiones, antítesis, paradojas, estructuras paralelísticas y simétricas que le otorga estabilidad –fuerzas constructoras– y logra encerrar al lector en sus límites, pues su objetivo “es el de cercar en todo lo posible el acto de mirar” (Tenreiro 68). Los contrastes, contradicciones y desgarramientos establecen una dualidad en la estructura temática y en la composición, y permiten entender al poema en prosa como un texto en tensión de base oximorónica que se define como una “asociación de opósitos” porque subraya el encuentro de los contrarios. La confrontación e integración de contrarios Literatura y Lingüística N° 34 423 da origen a un universo altamente organizado que se funda en la analogía universal, el trabajo de las correspondencias y el principio de semejanza. “Tennis”: síntesis, fragmento y discontinuidad El espacio –“campo geométrico”–, los jugadores –“cuatro puntos blancos”, “movientes formas”–, el juego –nervioso, controlado– y las acciones –gestos, movimientos–, son caracterizados con una estética del sugerimiento basada en una cuidadosa síntesis y una gran economía de medios. La brevedad, la condensación y la sugerencia se explican porque la artista chilena no desea narrar una historia ni hacer una descripción extensa; al contrario, y de acuerdo a su concepto del poema moderno, ella usa “uno o dos términos justos, precisos” (Emar 116) porque hace la “guerra a la anécdota” como diría Huidobro, proceso que también se manifiesta en la plástica –“guerra a la literatura en la pintura”–, en la arquitectura –despojo del adorno y del ornamento– y en la literatura como es el caso del microrrelato. Asimismo, Malvar utiliza una estética de lo fragmentario y lo discontinuo, la cual define la experiencia esencial del sujeto en la modernidad y tiene su raíz en lo sostenido por Baudelaire. La escritura elíptica, semejante a la del cine, reduce la longitud de los segmentos, condensa la información y la expresividad en los sustantivos, no en los verbos, y elimina los nexos y la coordinación explícita de las oraciones. Ella,con párrafos muy breves,rompe el desarrollo lineal, pues construye una cadencia entrecortada, una secuencia discontinuada de fragmentos a base de cortas y delimitadas repeticiones cuya unión surge del encuentro de imágenes yuxtapuestas encadenadas en forma secreta. Esta relación de eslabones convergentes obliga al lector a desarrollar una capacidad asociativa y revela un ritmo de vida ligado a la agilidad y a la instantaneidad. Malvar concibe un texto que no crece hacia afuera, sino hacia dentro (Anson 29). “Tennis”: objeto moderno, asociación de contrarios y estructura simétrica Malvar, alejada del color local y de la naturaleza como fuente del arte, es seducida por un objeto moderno, el juego de tenis, percepción que la transforma en una máquina de ver, en un “espectáculo de orden” que 424 Sara Malvar: una propuesta de poema en prosa / Patricio Lizama A. destruye la visión ilusionista y anecdótica del objeto. Ella “mira desde arriba” con una percepción que borra las distancias normales y aplasta la tierra en una superficie de modo que ve la cancha de tenis como una planta arquitectónica tal como se vería “a vuelo de pájaro”.2 El juego, universo ordenado, es una “confrontación de contrarios”. El tenis enfrenta a pares de participantes, su desarrollo alterna reposo y movimiento, y supone obligaciones e invenciones, disciplina e improvisación, norma y libertad. Los desplazamientos que exigen gran rapidez y precisión son cortos y largos, hacia adelante y hacia atrás, a derecha e izquierda y ocurren dentro y fuera de los límites de la cancha. Los “gestos y movimientos de pura belleza”configuran una epifanía de formas que surge de modo sorprendente, que aparece y desaparece, y genera en el espectador una fascinación que lo captura y le provoca una intensa concentración.3 El juego es “una conjunción de opuestos” según Huizinga, al igual que el poema en prosa. El tenis tiene su origen en el mundo francés, luego se extiende al anglosajón–espacio donde lo renombran Tennis y establecen las reglas–y después se universaliza (Cavalla 46). En el poema, los jugadores enfrentados son de dos países, los hermanos Luis y Domingo Torralba son de Chile y Guillermo Robson, Ronald Boyd y Adolfo Zumelzú son de Argentina. Todos son latinoamericanos, pero algunos tienen orígenes hispanos y otros anglosajones, dualidad que también se advierte en el texto entre el título “Tennis”, término en inglés, y los párrafos escritos en español.Esta tensión se extiende a una polaridad mayor entre el lado de allá, la modernidad central que inventa y codifica el juego, y el lado de acá, modernidad periférica, que lo apropia y le introduce variantes.4 El tenis, como el poema en prosa, es“una asociación de opósitos” (Moga 38). El terreno de juego para Malvar es un “campo geométrico” que ella sustrae de su realidad de uso, lo convierte en un “objeto encontrado” al margen del arte oficial y de la industria al que le otorga valor plástico,y 2 Nuestro concepto del objeto, señala Le Corbusier, se basa en su conocimiento total: sentidos, materia, volúmenes, perfil, propiedades. Ver Juan Carlos Sancho, El sentido… 3 Ver Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Elogio de la belleza atlética. Buenos Aires: Katz, 2006. 4 William Cox, naturalista y explorador de origen británico, es el primero en instalar una cancha de tenis en el país, acontecimiento que ocurre en Valparaíso en 1882. La cancha no es de pasto pues la hace con “la tierra arcillosa mezclada con maicillo”. Más tarde aparecerán en el país canchas de ripio, líneas demarcadas por tablones sujetos con zunchos”, canchas de baldosas. Ver Mario Cavalla, Historia… Literatura y Lingüística N° 34 425 lo entiende desde una perspectiva arquitectónica presidida por la geometría y el pensamiento purista de Ozenfant y Jeanneret. La cancha es una composición ortogonal de rectángulos cuadrados sin diagonales ni curvas, construida a base de rectas y ángulos rectos y donde se advierte una simetría rectangular perfecta respecto a la red. Las líneas verticales y horizontales existentes a los dos lados de la cancha conforman una trama de paralelas y perpendiculares que se refuerza con la igualdad de los pares de rectángulos y cuadrados a cada lado del court. El tejido de paralelismos que caracteriza a la cancha configura un equilibrio estático y una estructura simétrica que posee ritmo y cadencia, porque la semejanza es factor relevante del ritmo. La simetría se convierte en “aguda percepción del orden” y no en “operación mimética” (Sancho 74). El court nace del cálculo, la síntesis y la claridad, y revela las virtudes de la belleza valorada por el purismo: rigor, proporción y geometría. “Tennis”: juego, equilibrio, simetría El juego es una totalidad cerrada que crea su propio mundo ajeno al curso habitual de la vida, pues propone un orden, un espacio y un tiempo otros donde se despliegan acciones ligadas a la alternancia, la tensión antitética, la armonía y el ritmo. Estas acciones dan lugar a movimientos y a una infinita variedad de disposiciones y principios. Malvar contempla a los jugadores de tenis como “movientes formas en equilibrio”, cuerpos en relación que estallan hacia todas las direcciones y vínculo de contrarios que por medio de giros y traslaciones introducen una dispersión en el espacio. El movimiento de los “cuatro puntos blancos” plasma una continua metamorfosis y una multiplicidad que originan una perturbación de la simetría y revelan un nuevo ritmo, una forma singular de sucederse y alternar de los desplazamientos: crean figuras de gran belleza.Esta armonía, como la del universo donde existen realidades que parecen no conciliarse, “no es ausencia de contrastes, sino equilibrio” porque los contrarios no se anulan sino que viven en una tensión continua (Eco 72). El equilibrio ahora es dinámico, supone otro ritmo y tiene su correlato en la concepción de simetría de Le Corbusier, quien afirma que la 426 Sara Malvar: una propuesta de poema en prosa / Patricio Lizama A. correspondencia exacta en forma, tamaño y posición de las partes de un todo, es una “falsa acepción de igualdad mantenida por un academicismo siempre vivaz”. Él propone, en cambio, “situar el término [simetría] en su plano original que es el del equilibrio de los contrarios” pues “expresa una relación ilimitada, tensa, entre dos términos” (Sancho 109). El juego del tenis, cancha y jugadores actualiza equilibrios, repetición, simetrías, modulacióny ritmos enfrentados que se armonizan, dualismo y confrontación, movimiento, equilibrio de contrarios, encuentro de este en la confrontación, rasgos que están en la base del poema en prosa. “Tennis: ritmo, universo y poeta El poema en prosa se organiza desde el interior y encuentra “allí su propio centro de gravedad, su propio foco de energía, su propia e íntima profundidad de comprensión” (Fernández 32)5. La cancha de tenis es para Malvar una ordenación visual del mundo entendida en su belleza y perfección formal, objeto estético. A la vez, es un centro de convergencia e irradiación de fuerzas universales, objeto mágico. La cancha es un espacio ilimitado, pero finito (Cirlot 68). El movimiento en equilibrio de los tenistas es visto por Malvar en correspondencia con las fuerzas y el ritmo de las leyes de la naturaleza, lo que revela una concepción rítmica y ocultista del universo. Esta nueva “asociación de opósitos”vincula el mundo visible y terrenal con el invisible, celestial, a través de sutiles y misteriosos lazos porque todo rima, se llama y se responde. A la vez,la conexión de estos dos mundos devela la presencia del principio esotérico, “lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba, y lo que está arriba es como lo que está abajo”.6 A partir de estos planteamientos, las figuras y formas construidas por los jugadores son un microcosmos en interacción constante con los movimientos y ritmos del macrocosmos. Las correspondencias se nutren de este contacto y, por ello, si Darío ve en la danza de Isadora Duncan la concentración y encarnación del ritmo cósmico, Malvar lo ve en el 5 Fernández cita a Mary Ann Caws, “The Self Defining Prose Poem: on its edge”. The prose poem in France. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. 180. 6 http://eruizf.com/martinismo/kibalion/el_kibalion_05.html Literatura y Lingüística N° 34 427 movimiento de los jugadores de tenis, deporte moderno que también es otra danza con sus propios ritmos. Por último, si el universo “está compuesto por contrarios que se unen y se separan conforme a cierto ritmo secreto” (Paz Busqueda 43), si de las discordias surge una armonía oculta ligada a tensiones opuestas que dejan de ser percibidas en forma contradictoria,el mundo parece un complicado tejido de acontecimientos en el que toda suerte de conexiones se alternan, se superponen o se combinan y, de este modo, determinan la textura del conjunto. Malvar, en este poema en prosa, advierte simetrías entre dos mundos, correspondencias que se mantienen ocultas y están superpuestas no en transparencia sino en opacidad. Ella intuye una totalidad, vislumbra un modo de conocimiento y cumple la función esencial del poeta. En palabras de Baudelaire,“¿qué es un poeta sino un traductor, descifrador?” (Paz Hijos 108); en palabras de Poe, “el mundo material está lleno de analogías rigurosas con el mundo inmaterial” (Azcuy 27). Malvar descifra y revela una analogía.El conocimiento poético –la imaginación, la facultad productora de imágenes en cuyo seno los contrarios se reconcilian– nos deja vislumbrar la analogía cósmica (Paz Las peras 149). Palabras finales Baudelaire, con ecos platónicos, señala: “El mortal instinto de lo bello [es] el que nos hace considerar la tierra y sus espectáculos como una correspondencia del cielo” (Rella 17). La artista chilena ve el tenis como una analogía del universo y sus leyes, capacidad que surge de una clarividencia que la define como vidente.Ella posee una segunda vista, una imaginación más aguda y un sentido más allá del tiempo y el espacio, conciencia abierta y visión superior capaz de descubrir correspondencias y revelar analogías del mundo habitado por el hombre. A través de un proceso de abstracción, Malvar realiza un “viaje inmóvil” que territorializa y desterritorializa. La artista, con ilimitada expansión de la mirada y del rango de perspectivas con que mira, es un “caleidoscopio dotado de conciencia” con sensibilidad hacia “lo transitorio, lo fugitivo, lo contingente”, pensamiento que define la experiencia de la modernidad y que está en la base del poema en prosa. Ella captura “imágenes momentáneas”, “fragmentos fortuitos de 428 Sara Malvar: una propuesta de poema en prosa / Patricio Lizama A. realidad” en los que busca las sugerencias de eternidad en el presente que pasa, busca la dimensión intensiva del instante pues se trata de “imprimirle a la contingencia una infinita reverberancia”.(Hopenhayn 133) Los movimientos de los cuerpos en relación se pueden entender como desplazamientos eurítmicos que expresan lo suprasensible. Para Steiner, la euritmia es un arte que, a través del lenguaje plástico del movimiento humano, busca expresar el ser eterno y el aspecto divino-espiritual contenido en el hombre. Lo anímico espiritual se manifiesta en lo físico corporal y la euritmia puede poner “al ser humano en consonancia con el universo” (65). Asimismo, se pueden entender como un yo místico, alma del mundo que se une a las energías armoniosas, identificación mística que procede de “la intuición que forma la base de los ocultismos de todas las razas: el de la identidad del hombre integral –con el desarrollo de todas sus facultades humanas y divinas– y el universo, con todas sus fuerzas en acción” (Cirlot 68). Malvar, ya en los años veinte, se abre el patrimonio universal y se siente con pleno derecho a usar y transformar este legado. Ella acude a la tradición con una mirada selectiva y reelabora un género, el poema en prosa. 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Author(s): MIKE SAVAGE, DAVID WRIGHT, MODESTO GAYO-CAL Article Title: Cosmopolitan nationalism and the cultural reach of the white British Year of publication: 2010 Link to published article: http:dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2010.00449.x Publisher statement: The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap 1 Cosmopolitan nationalism and the cultural reach of the White British Mike Savage, David Wright and Modesto-Gayo-Cal. Corresponding Author: Dr. David Wright, Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. e-mail: D.Wright.3@warwick.ac.uk Biographical Notes Professor Mike Savage is Director of the ESRC’s Centre for Research into Socio- Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. His recent works include the co- authored Globalisation and Belonging and The politics of method: identities and social change in Britain since 1940. David Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick with interests in the sociological study of taste, cultural consumption and cultural policy. He was a Research Fellow on the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion project, based at the Open University. Modesto Gayo-Cal is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago (Chile). He was a Research Fellow on the Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion project at Manchester University. His areas of interest are theories of nationalism, political behaviour, middle-classes and cultural consumption. Along with Savage and Wright, he is a co-author of the book Culture, Class, Distinction (Routledge, 2009). mailto:D.Wright.3@warwick.ac.uk 2 Cosmopolitan nationalism and the cultural reach of the White British Abstract In recent years, strong claims have been made for the breakdown of national boundaries and the re-formation of national identities in an increasingly interconnected global world – driven in large part by the possibilities and limitations that emerge from an increasingly global media world. It has been argued that new post-national, cosmopolitan subjectivities accompany, enable and feed-off globally oriented forms of cultural consumption. This paper examines these claims in the light of unusually comprehensive data on the tastes of the white British population collected in a large national sample survey, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. By identifying and analysing the geographical spread of the cultural referents of the tastes of the white British we make an empirical assessment of the claims for cosmopolitan identities. We argue that, if white British identities are being reformed by processes of globalisation it is, paradoxically, in an increasingly Anglophone direction. Key Words: Cosmopolitanism, culture, national identity, taste. Word-count: 7,949 3 Introduction: Cultural contact, cosmopolitanism and the ‘national’ imagination. During the 1990s the analysis of nationalism pitched those who emphasised the modernity of nationalism, linked to the role of state building and modern forms of print communication, against those who emphasised the long term historical bases of national identities emerging out of complex webs of ethnic affiliations and cultural tensions (e.g. Anderson 2006; Breuilly 1993, Smith 1995, 1986). Recently, there has been increasing recognition that globalisation, mobility and migration have somewhat altered the stakes of these debates. These developments demand a somewhat different analytical approach, focusing on everyday practices and the cultural meanings of national belonging in hybrid conditions (Billig 1995; Hearn 2007; Smith 2008), and relating contemporary nationalism to cosmopolitanism (Calhoun 2007, 2008) as the dominant form of apparently ‘post-national’ identity. In Nick Stevenson’s words cosmopolitanism tends to be conceptualised as ‘a way of viewing the world that among other things dispenses with national exclusivity. …. Arguably cosmopolitan thinking is concerned with the transgression of boundaries and markers and the development of a genuinely inclusive cultural democracy and citizenship for an information age’ (Stevenson 2003: 332) In this paper, by contrast, we argue, on the basis of significant empirical evidence on the geographical spread of cultural tastes, that cosmopolitanism does not necessarily mark a break from distinctly national cultures, as much as a complex reworking of 4 them. We follow here in the footsteps of Calhoun (2003) who famously defines cosmopolitanism as complicit with the world view of corporate executive ‘frequent travellers’, who have the ability to (reworking Simmel’s famous phrase about the ‘stranger’) ‘come today and leave the day after tomorrow’. In this perspective cosmopolitanism is not only linked to the privileged classes but is also central to the hold of ethnic and religious divisions characterised by the (so called) ‘War on Terror’ and what Huntington (1996) identifies as the ‘Clash of Civilisations’. Thus Calhoun (2007) underlines the ambiguity of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, in societies and in a world where cultural diversity is a norm, it is easier or more feasible people for people to live together in egalitarian terms. However, on the other hand, taking into account that inter-personal solidarities come from particularistic, specific or local social interrelations, a locally disembedded orientation damages social solidarity. Drawing on these perspectives, we can see how cosmopolitan identities can be central to the reworking of white, Christian, Eurocentric and Anglophone identities. Our position emphasises the need to understand the relationships between cosmopolitanism and nationalism as a part of a broader global process, which is attentive to how cultural signifiers from different parts of the globe are configured into a distinctively national formation. Here there is an important difference from the 1990s debate on nationalism which pitched modernists, who emphasised ‘‘the invention of nationalism’, in which the nation is seen as a cultural artefact or ‘imagined community’ (Anderson 2006) against primordialists who emphasised the nation as durable ‘historic deposit’ (Smith 1986). Both accounts differently analysed what might be termed the ‘internal formation of nations’ - for instance the development of transport networks, schooling systems, citizenship entitlements, and the existence of key symbolic referents 5 of the nation which were appreciated by the national population. By emphasising the role of ‘cosmopolitan nationalism’, however, we can focus on how constructions of the nation are also bound up with global flows and movements. This involves criticising the view that contemporary forms of cultural production and circulation, and consumption shatter national boundaries and permit new fluidities in the movement of people, signs, artefacts and identities in the way proposed by sociologists such as Albrow (1996), Castells (1996) and Robertson (1995). We argue, in contrast, that national cultures can be remade through contemporary cultural flows (see more generally, Calhoun 2007, 2008) whilst also recognising that, following Smith (1986) the so-called ‘hybridization’ or ‘fragmentation’ of national identities are phenomena that run in parallel with the maintenance of the privileged political or symbolical positions by ethnicities which were dominant in the first place. We therefore part company from sociological arguments that flows promote new kinds of homogeneous spaces, or what Augé (1995) famously called ‘non-places’. The world of shopping malls and motorway interchanges, airport lounges, waterfront developments and suburban estates seemed to evoke new kinds of global spaces which could be found in all nations. Instead we emphasise that, in the wake of intensified geo- political tensions, global cultural flows involve the proliferation of diverse cultural signifiers and global connections that can generate new kinds of national identity (Gilroy 1993; Ong 1999; Kalra et al. 2005; Papastergiadis 2000). Appadurai’s emphasis on the proliferating flows of different ‘scapes’ has been influential in pointing to the way that distinct identities are constructed through mobilising specific imaginaries (Appadurai 1996). New forms of cultural mobility lend themselves to the re-working of national cultures. In this paper we therefore pursue the argument that cosmopolitanism 6 allows the reformation of white British identities in an environment which is both multi- cultural and shaped by global cultural flows. The British case is a particularly interesting one to consider here, having been identified by Calhoun (2008: 431) as the central location for cosmopolitan discourse i . British identities have historically been closely linked to empire and trade (Kumar 2005; Cohen 1997) so that it is highly germane to consider how global cultural flows might be remaking Britain’s national cultural referents. The complex relations between the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish have themselves made British national identities (as well as those of its constituent nations) historically fraught and uncertain. This is one reason why British notions of ‘high culture’ have often looked outwards, for instance to European cultural referents, notably European classical music and literature. This is linked to the relative historical weakness of explicit cultural conceptions of ‘Englishness’ until the recent past (see Kumar 2005 and Hutchinson et al 2007). Post war changes including de-colonisation and the decline of empire, immigration into the UK, as well as the incorporation of the UK into the European Union pose powerful challenges to British culture which draw on motifs of Eurocentric whiteness and Empire. Although interest in ‘whiteness’ and ‘Britishness’ or ‘Englishness’ as an object of sociological study has risen in recent years (e.g. Jacobson 1997; McCrone 1997; Langlands 1999) there remain relatively few empirical case studies of how this is understood ‘on the ground’. Savage et al. (2005) draw on 182 in-depth interviews with predominantly white middle class residents near Manchester to argue that, although many people have considerable global connections with their kinship networks, friendships and life experiences often ranging well beyond UK boundaries, their 7 salience rarely stretches beyond the Anglophone boundaries of the former British Empire. To address this limitation, this paper examines in detail the geography of the symbolic imagination of the white British population as it is revealed by their cultural tastes to reflect on their relationship to contemporary national identity. We draw on the unprecedented range and quality of the data collected as part of the ESRC funded ‘Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion’ ii project on cultural taste, participation and knowledge in the UK in 2003-2006 (see Bennett et al 2009). This project involved three components. Firstly, we conducted 25 focus groups with groups from different age groups, geographical locations within the UK, sexualities, occupational groups, and ethnicities. 17 were with ‘white British’ focus groups. Secondly, we carried out a national sample survey of 1564 respondents (along with a boost survey of 227 respondents drawn from three minority ethnic groups: Pakistani, Indian, and Afro- Caribbeans). This survey contains an unusually varied number of questions on a range of cultural preferences and practices. A particular feature of these questions is that they do not just ask about people’s interests for genres but also ask people to identify which named artists, or specific works they know of and like. Because these named artists were deliberately derived from a variety of global locations, we have an unusual means of assessing how our respondents were able to connect with cultural signifiers with different origins. Finally, we also conducted in-depth interviews with respondents to the survey and, where appropriate and possible, their partners. This amounted to a further 44 interviews selected according to a theoretical sample designed to capture a range of social positions (see Silva 2005). Thirty-one of these were with white respondents. 8 The paper here uses both quantitative and qualitative data. In the second part we deploy our quantitative data, to assess how common it is for respondents to identify artists or art works from different geographical origins. We show here that it is British, and to a lesser extent, American referents which massively predominate amongst our national sample in general and our white British sample in particular. Moreover we show that both continental European and especially Asian, African, and South American sources are largely invisible. The absence of European contacts, traditionally those which have been lauded as the predominant focus for high culture, is especially important for the younger age groups. In the third part of the paper, we use our qualitative material to explore in greater depth how cultural contacts outside the UK were referred to. Our interest here is, in the spirit of Walter Benjamin (1973), in unpicking the auratic hold of different geographic locations in the minds of our respondents to reveal the kinds of excitements and fascination associated with different locations and to explore how respondents deal with the collapse of distance. In the fourth part of our paper we examine the theme of ‘escape’ in the qualitative data, and show the distinctive appeal of American cultural forms to the white British and in particular the power of either ‘quirky’ American culture or cultural forms which evoke a nostalgically ‘re-imagined’ British national space. Alongside this we see a tendency for younger sections of the white British population to distance themselves from cultural forms which might more obviously represent the contemporary nation. Together these four substantive points contribute to the debates between ‘cultural’ and historic or ethnic accounts of national identities by revealing the extent to which the global flows of contemporary culture serve to accentuate an imagined Britishness for White Britons. 2: The geography of cultural connections: survey evidence. 9 Our project was concerned to examine whether Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital (1984) could be applied in the British context (see Bennett et al 2009 for an overview). The use of a survey combined with a qualitative phase to examine British tastes allowed us to engage with Bourdieu empirically and theoretically. The survey is sociology’s technology for knowing ‘nations’ (Savage and Burrows 2007), and Distinction was ineluctably a national study, a fact which has garnered criticism about both its ignorance of the ethnic complexity of 60s France and about the limited transferability of its insight to other places (Bennett et al. 2009; Holt 1997). Our survey’s deliberate engagements with both questions of ethnicity and with global culture, then, are two significant refinements to Bourdieu’s approach. It is interesting in this context to note that the concept of cultural capital, uneasily straddles national and European frames of reference, to the general exclusion of those from either the Americas or from various post-imperial landscapes. Embodied ‘high’ culture in the UK has historically been continental European in its definition and scope. This is true whether one focuses on the aristocratic, leisured culture of the ‘Grand Tour’ or that of the intellectual modernist ‘avant-garde’. In the former case, the cultural canon was identified with the ‘classical’ civilisations of Greece and Rome, channelled through the Renaissance which was centred in Italy, and then diffusing in the Enlightenment in the 18 th and 19 th centuries into France, Germany and other parts of northern Europe through classical music and the romantic novel. In the latter case, the central modernist cities (apart from London) were Paris (above all), Berlin and Vienna, with lesser venues such as Trieste, Turin, Barcelona and Moscow. The exception to this Eurocentric modernist is embrace is New York (perhaps construed as the United States’ honorary 10 European city) which was the only major modernist city to be located outside Europe. From within this framing, American culture has traditionally been identified, often disparagingly as ‘mass’ culture (Hoggart 1957), which lowers standards and spreads commercial values, whilst cultural forms from other parts of the world, though selectively incorporated through the ‘cosmopolitan’ experiences of the merchant classes, have historically been simultaneously marginalised and exoticised through ‘Orientalism’ (Said, 2003). In any case, cultural resources and their geographical spread are entwined with narratives of national identity and the symbolic imaginaries of nationhood. Given these historical patterns, what does our survey data indicate about the salience of different geographical markers in the cultural repertoire of the British today? 11 Table 1: Popularity of named artists/ art works, broken down by region. Named artist or art work Regional location Haven’t heard of (%) Like (%) Film Directors (would make a point of watching) Steven Spielberg US 4 44 Alfred Hitchcock US/UK 5 34 Pedro Almodovar E 92 3 Ingmar Bergman E 43 7 Jane Campion ‘Other-World’ 83 2 Mani Rathnam ‘Other-World’ 94 1 Books Haven’t heard of (have read) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling) UK 4 21 Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen) UK 7 38 Solace of Sin (Cathryn Cookson) UK 48 8 I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou) US 80 4 The Firm (John Grisham) US 35 17 Madame Bovary (Flaubert) E 60 7 Musical works Haven’t heard of (listened to it and liked it) Wonderwall (Oasis) UK 26 49 Einstein on the Beach (Phillip Glass) US 84 3 Symphony No 5 (Mahler) E 53 19 Kind of Blue (Miles Davis) US 69 13 Oops I did it again (Britney Spears) US 22 26 Chicago (Frank Sinatra) US 8 65 Stan (Eminem) US 31 35 Four Seasons (Vivaldi) E 21 56 Visual Arts Haven’t heard of (seen works by and liked) Vincent Van Gogh E 6 67 Pablo Picasso E 6 49 Frida Kahlo ‘Other World’ 88 4 JMW Turner UK 27 51 Tracey Emin UK 72 3 Andy Warhol US 26 22 LS Lowry UK 23 55 12 Source: CCSE data, weighted We begin with a simple listing of the popularity of named film directors, books, musical works and artists in our national sample. Clearly, our findings are only valid for the items we examine here, although these are much more wide ranging than for other surveys. Table 1 reports on the proportion of the sample who like, or alternatively have not heard of, the various specific artistic works or artists that we inquired about in our research, which we break down by four global locations: British, American, continental European and ‘other world’. We should note that our British category includes English and Scottish artists, and American only includes works or artists from the United States. We do not have the data which allows us to readily tease out the relationship between national identities within the UK (on which see Condor et al 2006). We can see considerable specificity by cultural field in the salience of different regions of origin. In films, American directors massively predominate (though we should note Hitchcock’s hybridity as an English director who made his career in Hollywood). Even though we chose relatively popular European directors, and those from other parts of the world, they have very little general salience amongst our sample. In the field of literature, by contrast, the most popular novelists were British (Jane Austen and JK Rowling), though the American thriller writer John Grisham also has a good standing, and outpaces the British romance writer, Catherine Cookson, whose work is strongly associated with North Eastern England. By contrast Gustave Flaubert, as an exemplar of the European tradition of high-culture has few devotees. iii Music appears to travel easiest, insofar as European, American and British musicians enjoy high recognition, and levels of popularity appear more easily explained by their genre than by any other factor, with Phillip Glass, and to a lesser extent Mahler and Miles Davis having least 13 popularity. The same is true in the visual arts, where we see van Gogh, closely followed by LS Lowry, JMW Turner and Pablo Picasso enjoying most popularity, but Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo being largely unknown and even more unappreciated. A few general conclusions can be derived from these findings. Firstly, figures from outside Europe, the US and UK do not command significant knowledge. The most strikingly unknown were the films of the Tamil Indian Mani Rathnam and the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo who was unknown by 88% of the sample. Secondly, the appeal of European influence was largely confined to the worlds of visual art and music, and there is a pattern that the older the figure is, the more popular they are (Vivaldi is more popular than Mahler, Van Gogh than Picasso, Bergman than Almodavar). American influences enjoy hegemony with respect to film directors and music. We might thus summarise our findings that cultural forms demanding linguistic competence are entirely skewed towards Anglophone referents, and although there is greater openness to European influences in music and the visual arts, this Euro-centrality may be a residue from older formations. Of course the cultural items we chose in our survey are largely arbitrary – and there are significant and important reasons, other than those of geography or global flows which enable or allow for an artist or item to be known or otherwise (note the 72% of the sample who hadn’t heard of the artist Tracey Emin, ubiquitous in the British art world and media circles). We will shortly use our qualitative material to provide other evidence on the geographical range of the white population. Before we do this, we can usefully examine how far different social and ethnic groups vary in their likelihood of appreciating art works and artists from different regions of the world. 14 We constructed a scale for cultural appreciation for artists and art works in each of four regions: British, European, American, and ‘Other World’. Respondents who had heard of the artist or art work obtained one point, which became two points if they also liked the artist or work. In addition to the questions listed in Table 1 (which indicates how each work or artist was coded to a region), we also used questions on favourite TV programmes. To give an example, respondents who appreciated every British artist and art works could obtain a maximum score of 19; those who had not heard of any would get 0. Each of the four scales has a different maximum because of the different number of questions focusing on artists or works from different regions. We can see that the ‘Other World’ score only has a maximum score of 5, and for this reason this scale is not readily interpretable. For the purposes of comparison Table 2 reports the score of each group as a percentage of the total possible score, to allow for comparison between the four scales and the various social groups. What is interesting to note here is the extent to which the scores vary by social group, so that we can explore variation in pre-dispositions to artists or works from different regions. Here we see some interesting patterns, with those for different age groups being the most noteworthy. Amongst 18-24 year olds the percentage on the American scale was 44% of items known and liked, whilst for European it was 25% and for ‘Other World’ it was only 8%. Amongst the over 65s, the relationship between British, American and European tastes is reversed, with British tastes dominating and the percentage on the scale for American tastes falling behind that of continental Europe. The percentage on the ‘Other world’ scale was lower, at 4%. We see here, then, two very different generations in terms of their cultural connections: an 15 older group where British, American and European references compete, but where one can detect British references dominating. This is very different from the younger group where American contacts dominate over others. Our findings are interesting in view of the arguments put forward by Back (1996) and Tyler (2004) which claim that younger whites are more questioning of national categories, and more able to borrow from ‘other’ ethnicities. Our findings suggest that, whilst, they do indeed score less highly in their valuing of British artists and works, and they look predominantly to American sources. Table 2: Percentage scores on scales by socio-economic, ethnic and age-groups. British American European ‘Other’ world professionals 56,8 41,3 44,3 8,0 Intermediate 54,2 37,9 34,3 6,0 Working class 45,8 34,2 24,3 4,0 Male 46,3 37,5 31,4 4,0 Female 53,7 35,8 39,3 8,0 White English 52,6 37,5 33,6 6,0 White British 49,5 35,8 28,6 6,0 White other 41,6 40,8 40,7 12,0 Ethnic minority 30,5 29,2 20,0 12,0 18-24 35,3 44,2 25,0 8,0 25-34 43,2 43,8 30,0 6,0 35-44 50,0 37,5 32,1 6,0 45-54 53,7 37,5 32,1 6,0 55-64 59,5 34,6 37,9 6,0 65-74 55,8 27,9 32,1 4,0 75+ 52,6 23,8 30,0 4,0 No educ qualifications 48.8 30.5 22.1 3.6 GCSE, CSE, O- level, NVQ/SVQ Level 1or 2 49.8 37 29.5 4.4 RSA/OCR Higher Diploma, City & Guilds Full T 53.1 39.8 31.8 3.8 GCE A-level, Scottish Higher Grades, ONC 50.5 38.8 31.1 7 Univer/CNAA Bachelor Degr, 57.4 42.1 45.3 10 16 Master Deg/Ph.D./D.Phil Indian boost 30,0 29,2 19,3 20,0 Pakistani boost 27,4 25,0 14,3 12,0 Afro-Carribbean 30,5 37,9 21,4 12,0 Source: CCSE data, weighted Although class differences in attitudes to cultural diversity are often emphasised, here they prove to be relatively muted. In fact the professionals score higher on every scale than the working class, and by a similar ratio. This includes references to American work and artists, so indicating that American culture is no longer (insofar as it ever was) predominantly mass, working class, culture. The slight exception to this point is that the score for European contacts is almost double amongst the professionals compared to the working class. This pattern recurs for data on education, where the university educated outscore those with lower levels of education and with a particular jump in the university educated towards familiarity with both ‘Other-world’ and European referents. Both these findings suggest that cosmopolitan tastes are bound up, as Bourdieu might suggest, with struggles for social status. Those who identify as White British gain high scores for British items, and demonstrate more recognition for American than European items with, again, items from the ‘Other world’ being marginal. The ‘white other’ scale, which includes Irish and other forms of European and migrants from former colonies shows an intriguing pattern, with British, American and European items all equally recognised, and with twice as many familiar ‘Other world’ items on average than their White British counterparts. Minority ethnic groups score lower on all the scales (apart from ‘Other world’), and especially on the European and British scales. The last three rows of Table 2 unpack these scores further by using our boost sample to distinguish three different ethnic minorities: here Pakistanis score lowest on all scores, followed by 17 Indians, whereas Afro-Carribeans obtain the highest scores especially on the American scale (so indicating the pull of the ‘Black Atlantic’, Gilroy, 1993). This data offers an important perspective to contemporary accounts of national identity, especially those concerned with the challenge to apparently settled identities wrought by emerging cultural flows. The identification, sampling and measuring of the cultural choices and preferences of white British population provides important empirical weight for theorising in this area – though, these findings need to be treated carefully. They are valuable in giving some indications of the cultural reach of different groups amongst a national random sample, but are too broad brush to allow us to tease out how ethnicity and geographical location interact and are articulated in the identities of our respondents. The most important finding, which indicates the striking decline in the salience of Eurocentric attachments amongst the national affiliations of the young, is one which we explore further in the next section. 3: Breaking the hold of continental Europe? There is considerable interest in the extent to which the British are ‘reluctant Europeans’ in terms of their attitudes to the European union and more generally the ‘European project’ (Cinnarella 1997; Cinnarella and Hamilton 2007). Cram (2009), for instance wonders how far there is a process of ‘banal Europeanism’ by which at a mundane level European practices are becoming more established. We are able to address this in telling ways by looking at British cultural tastes and preferences. One of the advantages of our focus group material is that participants introduced their own references in the course of their conversations, and did not simply respond to our prompts. This more ‘naturally occurring’ data, therefore, gives a more powerful way of 18 assessing the kinds of geographical range that these groups used. Considering this evidence, across the entire social range of the white focus groups, the absence of European referents in literature and film is remarkable. There were 53 references to specific books: none of these was to any named continental European author. The one exception, the autobiography of the German Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, is perhaps revealing since the author is not first and foremost a writer. Of the 91 references to a named film, only 1 was to a European film (the French Delicatessen). Of the 16 references to film directors, only 2 were to Europeans (the Spaniard Pedro Almodovar and the Dane Lars von Trier). Of 65 references to actors, only 1 was to a figure of continental European origin. This was the Austrian-American Arnold Schwarzenegger, currently Governor of California, whose film career is closely associated with – in fact entirely located in - Hollywood. Even in the world of music, where our survey shows greater appreciation and recognition of Europeans, only seven out of the 167 references are to continental Europeans (Mozart 3; Bach 2; Beethoven; Vivaldi). Whereas contemporary British and American musicians generate intense feelings and excitements, this invariably does not extend to continental Europe. We can also use our in-depth interviews with white respondents to consider the kind of art works and artists that individuals conjured up as being personally meaningful to them. The general pattern is similar. Out of 96 references to writers, only 4 were European (one of which is to the biography of Ingrid Bergman). Of 96 specific films that were named by our respondents, only one, Fanny and Alexander directed by Ingmar Bergman, was from continental Europe. Out of 111 references to musicians, there was only one reference to ‘Europop’ (to Abba, who famously and initially 19 controversially, sang only in English), and there were only 10 (all contained in 3 out of 44 interviews) references to European composers. Rather than being sources of fascination or interest, it appears that European references are marginal, even to the lives of the professionals for whom Table 2 indicates have the greatest European reference points. Insofar as such references are salient, this is nearly always for deeply old, classical, genres, which may be valued as historical resources but are not seen as having much contemporary purchase. What our qualitative interviews further reveal, though, is that when European or classical forms of culture are identified, they are usually treated in disparaging ways. Maria – a modern language teacher from the north of England, was an enthusiast for many artists, but she drew the line at the French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Maria Yeah, well I’m thinking of people like Sartre, I think sometimes they try to be so convoluted that they just end up going up their own backsides to be honest. Ronald – a legal secretary from the English Midlands who was unusual in being a genuine devotee of classical music, reflects a persistent ‘trace’ of the classical, European canon of high art and literature but one he shrinks away from in favour of his ‘not too heavy’ brand of English classical literature. In talking about his favourite literature, he shies guiltily away from ‘classical’ literature as he describes his preferences, 20 Ronald Well modern literature. I tend to read both classic otherwise, and modern literature. So it can be any of those. Interviewer Classics like what? Ronald Well, you’ve got, nothing ridiculously heavy, you know the true old English novels, Jane Austen, Hardy, those sort of things, but I’ve got Herodotus to read at the moment, I haven’t started it, it’s on the bookshelf looking appealing at me but I haven’t started it yet. The articulation of preferences provided by our qualitative material deepens our understanding of the complex relationship between cultural preferences and national identity. The evidence of these exchanges in particular is that European reference points are no longer (insofar as they ever were) central to British cultural geography. They are not, in Benjamin’s terms ‘auratic’. They are familiar, ‘tired’, a sign of a lost world, which, like Ronald’s unopened Herodotus, hang-around as half welcome guests from the distant past. If they do not constitute points of cultural excitement or fascination in the cultural construction of contemporary British identity, the next section begins to explore where these points might lie. 4: Sources of cultural fascination. In many of our qualitative interviews, we see a strong motif which celebrates ‘escape’. Such a notion is hardly a discovery – indeed it has been central in various ways to sociological and cultural studies accounts of the relationships between popular culture and everyday life. Of particular interest here, however, is the ways this escape seeks to 21 put Britain at a distance. It does so through an appeal to a non fixed space, yet at the same time, we can see it as under-girded by a cultural geography which involves features of difference and familiarity. This focuses either on an English fantasy past, or to the Anglophone parts of the world, reflecting what Gilroy (2004) has identified as a nostalgia for an imagined national past and a dissatisfaction or melancholy with a particular interpretation of the national present. Irene, a retired factory worker from the Midlands describes her preference for the American drama series of the 1980s in terms of their distance from her own life -experiences Irene Well I think we used to like Dallas and The Colbys and all that kind of thing, because it was glamorous and you know it took you out of the world, what it is today with all the beautiful clothes and you know the richness of all the oil fields. Maria (the Sartre disliking language teacher mentioned above) contrasts her ‘anti- Europeanism with two forms of decidedly British literary texts. On the one hand the altered Britain of the sci-fi parodist Terry Pratchett, which she describes thus, Maria For me the sci-fi part of it, it’s more fantasy than sci-fi , I’m thinking of Terry Pratchett, because it’s just so incredibly funny and it’s drawing parallels with our world but it’s set, it’s - his Discworld it’s a different world completely but there are parallels to our world jumbled up periods in time as well. A lot of it is sort of set with the decor being Tudor or Mediaeval but there’ll be modern concepts or a particular thing that happened in history would be reflected in his books. And he’s basically parodying it, very funny how they’re written. Nearly 22 every single sentence he writes is a reference to something else and the normal person just wouldn’t understand half of them. This altered, re-imagined Britain, with a quirkiness beyond the ken of ‘the normal person’ serves to distance Marie from parochial concerns and can be interpreted as a symbolic distancing from the reality of the national social space, though also allows the comfort of the familiarity of intertextuality. On the other hand she also describes her preference for historical detective fiction with decidedly British settings Maria I can give you for example there’s the Cadfael ones, although I do find her writing style a little bit heavy going at times. Susannah Gregory, she does, her series are based on Matthew Bartholomew, physician, a lecturer at Cambridge in the 15th century. Her books are especially good because they sort of bring the whole world to life. Michael Jecks’ books, he’s set in 14th century Devon. Candice Robb, she’s set in York in the 15th century and it’s the whole Mediaeval period. I love history and to have something that makes you think set in that period and books that do actually bring it to life, for me it’s just perfect. Popular tastes for reading are bound up with narratives of national identity in 21 st century Britain. Wright (2007), for example, considers national nostalgia as one element of the BBC’s 2003 search for ‘the nation’s favourite book’, The Big Read. In her study of the cultural meanings and referents of the Harry Potter literary franchise Cecire (2009) notes the tendency for fantasy literature to entail a ‘re-imagining’ of an idealised Anglicised history and landscape as a means of negotiating changed conceptions of Britishness. We see this re-imagined British landscape clearly here. Such texts, which 23 offer escape from Britain through parodising it, or either historical or futuristic referents, might be further contemporary manifestations of what Aldridge (1995), in his study of the success of the Peter Mayle book series on Provence refers to as literary ‘myths’ for the English which offer the means for readers to negotiate with and ironise the altered position of the UK in the broader European, post-imperial, global context. The tension between similarity and difference they exhibit also explains the appeal of American culture. Another respondent, Cherie, a professional in the heritage industry from the North of England similarly articulates her taste in detective novels, distinguishing between the ‘Miss Marple, in the library kind of thing’ – a definitively English kind of text which evokes an early twentieth century imaginary of imperial but genteel forms of national life – and what she views as more sophisticated American crime fiction. This casting of American literature as sophisticated is echoed by Amy, a doctoral student and focus group participant. We can contrast her preference for the American novelist Ann Tyler’s parabolic novels about ‘quirky, odd people’, with her hatred of the British TV drama series Bad Girls, which she describes as ‘the pittance. It’s crap TV’ We have seen in Section 3 that the white middle classes score highly on the American scale, as well as the British and European scales. Our qualitative findings do suggest a complex process of the ‘gentrification’ of American culture. A central feature here is the possibility of appropriating popular culture: or reclaiming what was sometimes called by our participants, ‘crap TV’. Especially in the focus groups of the younger white middle classes, a central theme became that of delineating ‘rubbish’ and the conditions under which such ‘crap’ could legitimately be consumed. By identifying certain programmes as ‘crap’, and hence showing that one knows the rules of the game of taste, 24 In Bourdieu’s terms, it becomes possible to watch them, in an ironic way. The noteworthy thing here, from our perspective, is that amongst the white British focus group discussants, ‘crap’ was consistently associated with British texts and forms. Focus groups, notably those held with younger professionals, made revealing comments about their ability to reflexively define and name their viewing patterns as a means of demonstrating the sophistication of their cultural palettes whilst disavowing forms of snobbery – a narrative of ‘I know it is crap and therefore I can watch it’ exemplified by Geena, a Trades Union officer recruited into a focus group organised with lesbians (a group consisting entirely of young, educated professional women). Here she refers to her recent viewing of a reality TV show set in the package holiday industry, Geena I watched something like ‘Club Reps: The Workers’ iv the other week and it was fantastic What was fantastic about it? Geena Because it could not have been further removed from my life in terms of the sort of age, orientation and geographical location and it’s completely unchallenging and yeah it demands nothing of me. By contrast, American popular culture is especially liable for positive appropriation. Sean, a young academic who took part in a focus group organised around young professionals remarks in relation to his own TV viewing Sean It involves constant moving between programmes, none of which I particularly enjoy! There’s this wonderful moment where something like the 25 West Wing really is on but, the rest of the time it’s so often just watching crap till one in the morning because I really can’t be bothered to go to bed. Zara, a marketing officer for a midlands arts gallery recruited to a group of professionals working in the culture industries similarly refers to contemporary American drama series as essential viewing, Zara There are programmes that I absolutely can’t miss otherwise somebody dies. Things like Twenty Four and Six Feet Under and the West Wing which I absolutely have to see British popular culture, though, is less likely to be appropriated in this way. When asked to describe the term ‘trashy TV’, participants in a focus group organised with cultural professionals produce the following exchange Tina: Big Brother, unfortunately for me it’s my trash soaps Zara Eastenders, oh Tina oh, it’s a load of crap Zara: every time you turn the telly on it’s on and you just - I don’t, you know if I’m in I’ll watch it, if I’m not in it doesn’t bother me but - I do feel myself drawn to it and I hate it, I hate myself for it ‘cos it’s rubbish The evidence here is that contemporary claims to cultural distinction appear to draw on a rendering of ‘quirky’ American/ Anglophone cultural forms. A fascination with TV programmes such as Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, or the West Wing; or the writing of 26 Ann Tyler or Terry Pratchett, is symptomatic of an emergent form of cultural cosmopolitanism which at one level seeks out the ‘other’, though it is essentially an ‘other’ which is congenial to the world views of the white, educated middle classes. This is especially important to understanding the cultural identities of these apparently cosmopolitan groups. For white Britons these almost-familiar referents reflect a taste- formation which re-embeds established, imperial, connections, whilst claiming a certain distance from parochial Britishness. Conclusions In this paper we have argued, on the basis of unusually wide ranging and detailed data on the cultural tastes and practices of a representative sample of the white British population, that we can see a re-making of British national cultural preferences. There is no simple cosmopolitanisation of cultural referents. Although we can identify various kinds of ‘scapes’ and ‘cultural mobilities’ which cross national boundaries, in our view, these largely serve to intensify white Anglophone identities, especially amongst the white, educated, middle classes. In the light of this evidence we propose three substantive concluding points. Firstly, proponents of globalisation such as Roland Robertson may well be correct in claiming that people are aware of the relativity of national cultures, and the fact that their cultural forms are particularistic and exemplify certain cultural limits and boundaries. However, this awareness is in large part still premised on the mundane centrality of national cultural forms, and is hence dependent on the continued power of national cultural referents – though the strategies of distancing oneself from these 27 referents was important, especially to younger cohorts. What we also see is that in seeking a certain critical distance from this national culture, large numbers of white Britons are drawn to historical or futuristic parodies, or utopic settings set in places which are both distant from, and yet utterly familiar to, the British setting. It is this which explains the attraction of the ‘imaginary landscape’ of those former colonies of the British Empire which have significant numbers of white settlers. This is the cultural imaginary of the (post-) colonial white British. Secondly, we have detected the weakening hold of European cultural referents. Although English language and culture historically emerged out of the European arena, and notwithstanding the UK’s membership of the European Community, and the considerable amount of tourism to selected European venues, European culture - where it is referred to at all - is seen as a historical residue, not an active area of contemporary cultural engagement. No contemporary continental European figures were identified in either our focus groups or in-depth interviews as ones that conveyed cultural fascination or interest. Although canonical Europeans from the past were known, especially in the visual arts and music, these did not convey excitement or intensity. We see this as the weakening of a Eurocentric white identity and its replacement with a more Atlanticist, Anglophone version. Finally, we need to note the sheer invisibility of cultural referents from vast areas of the world. China - and Asia in general, Africa, and South America, not to mention Eastern Europe, are ‘terra incognita’. Whilst these places might be increasingly culturally visible at the level of the global academy, the random post-code sample and the broad range of focus group participants reported here suggested they have little purchase in 28 the white British imagination more generally. Notwithstanding Edward Said’s arguments about the way that Orientalism involves the exoticised visibility of the ‘other’ our data indicates the mundane invisibility of the other. Our qualitative data indicate no references to, or interest in, non-Christian cultures. What we need to recognise, therefore, is that the proliferation of cultural flows is highly uneven across the globe, and tends to be based on the well known principle of ‘homophily’, that is to say they connect territories which are seen as being populated by ‘people like us’. In our view, therefore, we need to be attentive to the way that global flows and diasporic identities, far from encouraging utopic, liberal cosmopolitan identities, actually facilitate new kinds of particularistic ethnic and national identities. i Britain was a center of the 1990s boom in talk of cosmopolitanism. Reference to ‘cosmopolitan Britain’ became standard speech, as in: ‘Cosmopolitan Britain has emerged as one of the world’s most diverse and innovative food and drink markets’ It evoked sophisticated, metropolitan culture versus the non- cosmopolitan hinterlands; this was a period of renewal in the cultural and financial life of British cities with yuppies, art galleries, and startling improvement in restaurants’ (Calhoun 2008: 431) ii This paper draws on data produced by the research team for the ESRC project Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: A Critical Investigation (Award no R000239801). The team comprised Tony Bennett (Principal Applicant), Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde (Co-Applicants), David Wright and Modesto Gayo-Cal (Research Fellows). The applicants were jointly responsible for the design of the national survey and the focus groups and household interviews that generated the quantitative and qualitative date for the project. Elizabeth Silva, assisted by David Wright, co-ordinated the analyses of the qualitative data from the focus groups and household interviews. Mike Savage and Alan Warde, assisted by Modesto Gayo-Cal, co-ordinated the analyses of the quantitative data produced by the survey. Tony Bennett was responsible for the overall direction and co-ordination of the project. iii The BBCs 2003 of the ‘nation’s favourite’ book, The Big Read, revealed a similar Anglophone dominance. Of the 100 books finally placed only 8 were written in a language other than English. Three of these were from South or Latin America (Two books by the Columbian Gabriel Garcia Marquez and one by the Brazilian Paulo Coelho) and only one by a contemporary European writer, the German novelist Patrick Suskind). iv A British documentary series following the exploits of a team of travel reps working for a package holiday company catering for British holiday makers in Greece and Gran Canaria. 29 References Albrow, Martin, 1996. 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International Journal of the Book 4 (4): 19-26. http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/cultural-capital-and-social-exclusion/project-summary http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/cultural-capital-and-social-exclusion/project-summary work_67ccld5oc5fplkqnncgdr72b4a ---- Representations of Blindness in Picasso's Blue Period Representations of Blindness in Picasso’s Blue Period James G. Ravin, MD; Jonathan Perkins, PhD T he Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was the most important artist of the 20th century. It is impossible to consider the development of modern art without him. A unique, highly productive artist who created more than 20 000 works in more than 75 years of activity, Picasso was the most frequently exhibited and critiqued artist of the last century. Best known as a painter, he also worked in sculpture, prints, ceramics, and theater design. Blindness was a theme that played an important role in the artist’s first distinctive style, known as the Blue Period. Picasso’s earliest work was done in a natu- ralistic manner and gives few hints of the future direction his art would take. While still a teenager, Picasso made several vis- its to Paris, the capital of the artistic world, where he exhibited paintings and draw- ings at the gallery of Ambrose Vollard, who represented postimpressionists and younger members of the French avant- garde. The exhibition was a modest finan- cial success and brought him further com- missions. One art critic saw in this show the debut of a “brilliant newcomer,” but wrote that “Picasso’s passionate surge for- wards has not yet left him the leisure to forge a personal style.”1 During his early years Picasso developed a strong person- ality and envisioned himself a sort of artist- hero, akin to a Nietzschean superman. He had encountered philosophy and art theory a few years earlier but remained a studio artist and never considered abstract think- ing important to the way he worked. He found this type of discussion irrelevant and distracting, and even used the word “blind- ing”2 to describe such activity. In late 1901 his work took a dra- matic turn when he developed his first dis- tinctive style, the nearly monochromatic works of the Blue Period (1901-1904). These works are instantly recognizable by their overwhelming use of blue colors and melancholy figures. Several oil paintings and a print from this period have blind- ness as a theme. The sad, brooding mood of these works may have been a reaction to the suicide of his close friend and fel- low artist, Carlos Casagemas (1880- 1901), which followed a failed romance. Images of blindness may be traced back to Greek antiquity, where the blind poet Homer is a familiar figure. In Span- ish art and literature, the blind poet evolved into the blind guitarist. Blind beggars were a common sight on the streets of Spain for centuries. Francisco Goya (1746-1828) created several paintings and prints of this subject. Picasso painted and engraved works based on the theme of blindness sev- eral times during his Blue Period. Occa- sionally he returned to images of the blind later in his career, such as his depictions from the 1930s of a blind minotaur, an an- cient Greek mythological figure who had the head of a bull and the body of a man. Pervasive use of blue pigment was not invented by Picasso, for there is a long his- tory of working this way. His immediate predecessors in this manner were symbol- ist painters of Spain and France, who used blue to emphasize the emotional sensa- tions of sadness and despair. Many works in the Art Nouveau style created toward the end of the 19th century also have an overwhelming blue tone, with one good example being Emile Galle’s work in glass entitled Blue Melancholia.3(p216) Through- out his career Picasso incorporated the methods of other artists into his work. Oth- From the Section of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo (Dr Ravin); and the Visual Arts Program, University of Illinois at Springfield (Dr Perkins). SPECIAL ARTICLE (REPRINTED) ARCH OPHTHALMOL / VOL 122, APR 2004 WWW.ARCHOPHTHALMOL.COM 636 ©2004 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Downloaded From: https://jamanetwork.com/ by a Carnegie Mellon University User on 04/05/2021 ers have put it more sharply—he stole from everyone, from the old masters to his contemporaries. According to Francoise Gilot, one of his many mis- tresses, Picasso said, “When there’s anything to steal, I steal.”4 The blue works show a particular debt to El Greco which is evident in the elon- gated hands and faces. He found working in blue highly compatible with his subject matter—the poor, disabled, and downtrodden. Some have suggested the pov- erty-stricken subjects reflect his life- style at the time. Picasso was cer- tainly not as rich then as he was to become later, but he was not greatly different financially from the rest of his artistic and literary circle. He had financial support from home and had exhibited successfully by this time. Some have suggested he used blue primarily because he could only af- ford cobalt blue paint. This is incor- rect. He could certainly afford to pur- chase whatever paints he wanted. He was still in his youth, testing a tech- nique that proved to be effective for him and that had been explored pre- viously by others.5 Perhaps Picasso identified with the unfortunate in- dividuals he painted. His ambiva- lent comments about Paris are evi- dent in a letter he wrote that same year to his friend, the poet and art- ist, Max Jacob: My dear old Max, I think about the room on the boulevard Voltaire and the om- elets, the beans, and the brie and the fried potatoes. But I also think about those days of misery and that’s very sad. And I remember the Spaniards from the rue de Seine with disgust.6 If Picasso ever told anyone pre- cisely why blindness was impor- tant to him, we have not been able to find a description. We do know that his father’s vision was deterio- rating from an unknown cause at this time. Inevitably, psychoana- lytic approaches have been at- tempted. The psychiatrist Carl Jung saw “incipient psychic dissocia- tion” and even schizophrenia in Pi- casso’s paintings.7 Blindness is a most serious problem for a painter. In a recent, highly acclaimed biography of Picasso, Richardson noted that Pi- casso was at home in Barcelona with his parents when he painted some of the blind figures from his Blue Pe- riod, and that by depicting “the pros- pect of what he most feared in life, was not this a way of protecting him- self against it?”3(p279) The closest Pi- casso came to discussing blindness is this cryptic quotation from the mid 1930s: “There is in fact only love that matters. Whatever it may be. And they should put out the eyes of paint- ers as they do to goldfinches to make them sing better.”8 Roland Pen- rose, who recorded these words, also wrote “The allegory of the blind man pursued Picasso throughout life as though reproaching him for his unique gift of vision.”9 These quo- tations give a hint that Picasso was confronting and naming his fears but do not clarify the meaning of his por- traits of the blind. Picasso’s depictions of the blind are too stylized for us to diagnose precisely the diseases being delin- eated. Although the name of the model for La Celestine (Figure 1) is known, we do not know what c a u s e d h e r c o r n e a t o b e c o m e opaque. Her white eye contrasts markedly with the blue that domi- nates the rest of this painting. She is the one-eyed procuress de- scribed in the drama of the same name written by Fernando de Ro- jas (first known edition, 1499) that is considered second in impor- tance in Spanish literature only to Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Picasso knew Rojas’s story from his adoles- cent years, if not earlier.3(p288) The cause of the atrophic orbit of The Old Guitarist (Figure 2) also remains obscure. Picasso engulfed the region of the eye in a dark blue shadow in his paintings of the blind, a characteristic that can be considered an archetypical Figure l. Pablo Picasso. La Celestine, 1903, Spanish. Oil on canvas, 81.0 � 60.0 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris, France, 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso. (REPRINTED) ARCH OPHTHALMOL / VOL 122, APR 2004 WWW.ARCHOPHTHALMOL.COM 637 ©2004 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Downloaded From: https://jamanetwork.com/ by a Carnegie Mellon University User on 04/05/2021 stylistic feature of the Blue Period. Similarly, we cannot identify a cause for the poor vision of the fig- u r e i n T h e B l i n d M a n ’ s M e a l (Figure 3). Picasso described what he was creating in this work succinctly in a letter: “I am painting a blind man at a table. He holds some bread in his left hand and gropes with his right for a jug of wine.”1 0 This is one of his few remarks about works made at the time, but reveals nothing. Picasso did not depict figures in great detail, but tended to ideal- ize them in these Blue Period works. He took the elongated arms, hands, torsos, and heads of El Greco and placed them in an early 20th century setting. Some critics have seen a “spiritual inner vision” in the blind figures Picasso created in this way.11 The figures are isolated and do not interact well. Other observers have felt this is a reflection of Picasso’s own iso- lation at that time.12 Despite nearly a century of critical comment on these works, the full meaning is still unclear. The artist himself did not offer any help in deciphering them. When asked, he responded dismissively, terming the Blue and Rose Period works as pure senti- ment.4 But we would argue that the blind characters in the Blue Period paintings were not created simply to make the viewer feel sorry for them. Picasso found an intensity of other senses in his depiction of the blind. In The Old Guitarist and The Blind Man’s Meal different senses appear to be enhanced as compared with the lack of sight. The fact that the fig- ures are blind might, in and of it- self, indicate that other senses are more acute, but Picasso empha- sized other senses by elongating forms and was influenced by El Greco. In particular, the long, thin hands of the figures in both these works are fundamental to an en- hancement of the senses because they are direct actors in creating mu- sic in the case of The Old Guitarist, and in touching the food in The Blind Man’s Meal. Picasso explored the “power” of blindness in La Celes- tine. By depicting an eye with an opaque cornea next to an appar- ently normal eye, Picasso juxta- posed vision and blindness. Para- doxically, it is the blind eye that draws the gaze of the viewer. The fact that the opaque cornea blocks vi- sion is the very element that at- tracts vision on the part of the viewer. The style of the Blue Period may be thought of as a kind of meditation on blindness, or at least impaired vision. In these works the artist explores the expressive possi- bilities of a radical reduction of color. Picasso surrounded the envi- ronment with a dark blue veil and used flat, simplified backgrounds that threaten to disappear alto- gether. An obscuring of traditional vision is the fundamental expres- sive component of these works. In investigating blindness Picasso chose a style that deemphasizes objective sight in favor of a deeper vision. The figures are recognizable as people, which is more than can be said for some paintings from his Cubist period. The fractured cubist portraits, which depict individuals from a multitude of directions, con- fuse many museum goers. The pub- lic is interested in the Blue Period paintings from his youth because of what he created later. Early Picasso is not as pleasurable to view as Im- pressionism, to cite just one ex- ample. Some of the reverence for these works comes from the fact that Figure 2. Pablo Picasso. The Old Guitarist, 1903/1904, Spanish. Oil on panel. 122.9 � 82.6 cm. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Figure 3. Pablo Picasso, The Blind Man’s Meal, 1903, Spanish. Oil on canvas. 95.3 � 94.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Mr and Mrs Ira Haupt Gift, 1950. (REPRINTED) ARCH OPHTHALMOL / VOL 122, APR 2004 WWW.ARCHOPHTHALMOL.COM 638 ©2004 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Downloaded From: https://jamanetwork.com/ by a Carnegie Mellon University User on 04/05/2021 experts say they should be seen, en- joyed, and respected for what Pi- casso was to become, the epitome of modernism. The most important art may be difficult to understand, even disturbing, while art that is super- ficially appealing may be overly sac- charine, lack any meaning after the first glance, and remain totally un- important. Picasso made evaluating his work difficult. He treated with scorn attempts at analysis and said he just painted what he saw, the things that moved him: When I paint, my object is to show what I have found and not what I am looking for. . . . What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing. . . . There are no concrete or ab- stract forms but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.13 He denied any evolution in his style even if others separated his work into radically different phases: “When- ever I had something to say, I have said it in a manner in which I have felt it ought to have been said . . . ” since different motives inevitably require dif- ferent methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress, but an adaptation of the idea one wants to express and the means to express that idea.13 These statements reaffirm the com- mon observation that an artist is in- herently biased when it comes to evaluating and interpreting his own work. Picasso actually admitted as much in saying, “The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.”14 Picasso’s colors and subject mat- ter brightened by the end of 1904 as he entered the next major phase of his art, the Rose Period (1905-1906). The change to warmer colors and more pleasant themes is linked to the happiness he shared with his first long-term liaison, Fernande Ol- ivier. The works of the Blue and Rose Periods have certainly achieved criti- cal acceptance, but if Picasso had stopped painting at this point, he would be remembered as a second- or third-rank artist who had not reached full artistic maturity. The next phases of his career, particu- larly cubism (1906-1915) brought Pi- casso fame on the international level and made him the single most im- portant figure in 20th century art. Accepted for publication October 14, 2003. Corresponding author and re- prints: James G. Ravin, MD, 3000 Re- gency Ct, Toledo, OH 43623 (e-mail: jamesravin@aol.com). REFERENCES 1. McQuillan M. Picasso. Dictionary of Art. Vol 24. 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Janson AF: History of Art. 5th ed. New York, NY: Harry N Abrams Inc; 1995:744. 13. Francis HS. Picasso’s “La Vie.” Cleveland Mu- seum Art Bull. 1945;32:93. 14. Peter LJ. Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time. New York, NY: Bantam Books; 1980:377. (REPRINTED) ARCH OPHTHALMOL / VOL 122, APR 2004 WWW.ARCHOPHTHALMOL.COM 639 ©2004 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Downloaded From: https://jamanetwork.com/ by a Carnegie Mellon University User on 04/05/2021 work_6a5zhocbxzfk7nv7e6iop27vb4 ---- Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images: Albert and Carl Einstein, Leiden and Berlin, Relativity and Revolution Jeroen van Dongen* Albert Einstein accepted a ‘‘special’’ visiting professorship at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in February 1920. Although his appointment should have been a mere for- mality, it took until October of that year before Einstein could occupy his special chair. Why the delay? The explanation involves a case of mistaken identity with Carl Einstein, Dadaist art, and a particular Dutch fear of revolutions. But what revolutions was one afraid of? The story of Einstein’s Leiden chair throws new light on the reception of relativity and its creator in the Netherlands and in Germany. Key words: Albert Einstein; Carl Einstein; Anton Pannekoek; Hendrik Antoon Lorentz; Cornelis van Vollenhoven; Ernst Gehrcke; Paul Weyland; George Grosz; Johannes Theodoor de Visser; Pieter Jelles Troelstra; University of Leiden; Dada, Cubism; November Revolution; Brussels’ Soldiers Council; anti-Relativity; history of relativity. Introduction: Preparations in Leiden On December 21, 1919, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz offered Albert Einstein a special position: He was asked if he would like to join the University of Leiden as a bijzonder hoogleraar or, in Lorentz’s words, as a ‘‘let’s say ‘special professor.’’’ The Leiden University Fund (LUF), a private fund supported by donations from alumni and students, would endow the chair, and Einstein would be expected to travel to Leiden only once or twice a year; to hold classes or seminars would be appreciated, but not required. 1 Einstein liked Lorentz’s proposal very much, as he informed his close friend Paul Ehrenfest, who would be his colleague in Leiden. Ehrenfest, in turn, was as ‘‘excited as a child’’ about the ‘‘Einstein present’’ that the Leiden professors were preparing for themselves. Einstein soon started thinking about his inaugural lec- ture: It would have to be a lecture on the ether, since Lorentz had asked him to * Jeroen van Dongen is University Docent at Utrecht University and Editor and Visiting Associate with the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology. Phys. Perspect. 14 (2012) 126–177 � 2012 The Author(s). This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com 1422-6944/12/020126-52 DOI 10.1007/s00016-012-0084-y Physics in Perspective 126 discuss publicly his latest views on its existence. In kind consideration of Lorentz’s ideas, but also as a reflection of his latest reassessment of the Mach principle, Einstein now found that all along, instead of claiming the nonexistence of the ether,* he only should have argued for the ‘‘non-reality of the ether velocity.’’2 In any case, Einstein wrote to Lorentz on January 12, 1920, that he would gladly accept the appointment, as he had been presented with a truly ‘‘fairytale-like’’ offer.3 Leiden’s University Council, that is, the LUF’s Board, consisting of a large group of alumni,4 formally approved the position on February 9, so the only remaining step was an official authorization by the Dutch government. But that, Lorentz assured Einstein, was to be expected ‘‘in a few weeks,’’ and could be ‘‘solidly counted on.’’ 5 However, only after a long and halting process would Einstein’s position be confirmed by the Dutch government—on September 21, 1920, well over seven months later. Only then would Queen Wilhelmina finally sign the decree that appointed Einstein to his Leiden chair. Why was there such an unexpected and long delay? What were the particular circumstances and concerns that led the Dutch government to take more than seven months to carry through on something that was, by all appearances, a trivial formality? I reconstruct below the factors that led to this delay, 6 and I discuss the broader political and sociocultural contexts and concerns that motivated Einstein’s appointment and undergirded the com- plications it encountered. It is a story with unusual twists and turns that shed light on the broader perception of Albert Einstein and of the reception of relativity, both in the Netherlands and in Germany. Why Einstein? The Internationalist Perspective Paul Ehrenfest and Hendrik Lorentz first met Einstein a little less than a decade before Lorentz offered him the special Leiden chair. Ever since then, both felt a close personal bond with Einstein. This clearly was one of the reasons why they wanted to tie Einstein to Leiden. Lorentz and Einstein (figure 1) liked each other enormously, and were in awe of each other’s scientific achievements; Lorentz was as a fatherly friend to Einstein, even if some physical distance seems to have been a necessary condition for their relationship. 7 Ehrenfest (figure 2) had a strong need to have Einstein near him. Both were German-speaking Jews of the same age, and their personalities, temperaments, and scientific interests resonated strongly. An intimate friendship, which included the families of both, had been * In his inaugural lecture, Einstein discussed the metric field as a kind of ether, acting on, and being acted upon by matter; a definite state of motion, however, could not be ascribed to it. In deference to Lorentz, he even said that ‘‘the ether of the general theory of relativity is the outcome of the Lorentzian ether, through relativization’’; see Einstein, Äther (ref. 2), p. 13; 178. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 127 Fig. 1. Albert Einstein (1879–1955) and Hendrik A. Lorentz (1853–1928) in front of Ehrenfest’s house in Leiden in 1921; photograph by Paul Ehrenfest. Credit: Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. Fig. 2. Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Pavlik (Paul) Ehrenfest, Jr., and Albert Einstein (1879–1955) in Ehrenfest’s home, 1920. Credit: Photograph by Willem J. Luyten, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden; courtesy of American Institute of Physics Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. 128 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. gradually cemented after they first met in 1912. As Einstein wrote to Ehrenfest, ‘‘I have well learned to feel you as a part of me, and myself as a part of you.’’8 Having Einstein join the Leiden faculty, even if only as a part-time ‘‘special’’ professor, obviously would also greatly benefit physics there, and in the Neth- erlands in general, as Lorentz expressed.9 In particular, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes very much looked forward to the opportunity to regularly discuss with Einstein the problems he faced in his cryogenic laboratory.10 Kamerlingh Onnes had been less enthusiastic about the prospect of attracting Peter Debye, whose name had also circulated recently for a theoretical professorship in Leiden: Given Debye’s stronger experimental interests, Kamerlingh Onnes had feared the loss of his uncontested stewardship of his laboratory. Ehrenfest had initially lobbied for an offer to Debye, being afraid that he himself would not be capable of maintaining the high quality of Leiden’s theoretical physics; his efforts to tie Einstein to Leiden were inspired just as much by his sense of his own insufficiency.11 Einstein had been proposed for professorships in Leiden earlier. He had been offered Lorentz’s chair in 1912, but at that time he had already committed himself to the Federal Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) in Zurich; he also had been too intimidated by the prospect of having to follow in Lorentz’s footsteps to accept.12 Paul Ehrenfest eventually succeeded Lorentz, and Einstein, after a period in Zurich, moved to Berlin in 1914, where he combined a position at the Prussian Academy with the directorship of the newly- established Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics and a professorship at the Uni- versity of Berlin. With the offer of a special chair in 1920, the Leiden physicists were careful to point out that they did not intend to lure Einstein away from Berlin, where life had become difficult after the Great War. Earlier, in September 1919, Einstein had turned down yet another suggestion to join Leiden for a full professorship; on that occasion he had promised Max Planck that he would ‘‘not turn my back on Berlin, unless conditions prevail that would make such a move natural and correct.’’13 Einstein, however, was in dire financial straits as he had to support his first wife Mileva Marić and their two children who were living in expensive Switzerland at a time when the German mark was quickly losing value. He had made clear to Ehrenfest that great sacrifices were being made to keep him in Germany, sacrifices he felt should not be snubbed by an ungrateful departure. Furthermore, his political wishes, entailing a parliamentary democracy and an end to the Wilhel- minian ‘‘religion of power,’’ had at last been realized following the collapse of the Imperial order. In view of these circumstances, Einstein believed that leaving Germany would be disloyal.14 The offer of a special, part-time professorship, however, he could accept. For Einstein, the most important reason for welding a formal tie to Leiden was his close friendship with Ehrenfest and Lorentz. He obviously also might have appreciated that the position came with a salary that, at 2000 guilders per year (the Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 129 maximum annual salary of a full professor was 7500 guilders), was both substantial and was paid in a hard currency.15 A further great attraction was that physics in Leiden was first-rate. Indeed, as Ehrenfest had already pointed out in September 1919: ‘‘Imagine what human-scientific environment you would have here: Lorentz, De Sitter, Onnes …, Kuenen, me and my wife, Droste, de Haas and his wife, Burgers, Zeeman, and all the time excellent young people, for example, Burgers and Kramers.’’16 Exciting guests, such as Gunnar Nordström or Niels Bohr,* regularly passed through, and would often stay at the Ehrenfest home. Indeed, Einstein had only one reservation: he was concerned that any lectures he might give would add too little to the program already presented by the Leiden faculty. Yet, in January 1920 Einstein gratefully agreed to the appointment. 17 Thus, there were abundant personal and scientific reasons for establishing a tie between Einstein and Leiden. Einstein would feel strongly at home in Holland, as may be evident from the expressive declaration he issued after the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940: Holland has enriched humanity by its accomplishments of the mind and the arts, and it has contributed to the inner and political liberation of the individual by its struggle for justice. One is gratified by Holland’s humane atmosphere as it brings together tolerance, broad understanding, humour and true helpfulness.18 The tenor of Einstein’s declaration reflected both his outrage over the German invasion and his broader appreciation of Dutch culture in the interwar years (likely augmented by Einstein’s sympathy for Spinoza and his era). A large part of his appreciation undoubtedly was due to the political ideals and efforts of some of Leiden’s academic elite—who had been involved in securing Einstein’s special chair. The creation of Einstein’s special chair followed closely after the conclusion of the Great War. Einstein also had been greatly offended by the outbreak of that war, which, in fact, had turned him into a committed pacifist. He had joined the ‘‘New Fatherland Association’’ in Berlin, a society that labored for peace during the conflict, and after the war he immediately sought to improve relations between the formerly warring nations. He wanted to reestablish ties between European intellectuals, and undertook multiple efforts to further this goal.19 For instance, he welcomed French pacifist Paul Colin in Berlin, joined a private German * Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1853–1928); Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926); Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), Professor of Astronomy; Johannes P. Kuenen (1866–1922), Professor of Physics; Johannes Droste (1886–1963), Lecturer in Mathematics; Wander de Haas (1878–1960), Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Delft; Geertruida de Haas- Lorentz (1885–1973); Johannes Burgers (1895–1981), Professor of Aerodynamics and Hydrodynamics in Delft; Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943), Professor of Physics at the University of Amsterdam; Hendrik A. Kramers (1894–1952), Assistant to Niels Bohr at the University of Copenhagen; Gunnar Nordström (1881–1923), Professor of Mechanics in Helsinki, and Niels Bohr (1885–1962), Professor of Physics at the University of Copenhagen. 130 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. committee to research war crimes committed in Lille and, in 1922, made a highly publicized visit to Paris. Such efforts would resonate strongly with the ideals and actions of his Leiden colleagues. Of central importance for organizing Einstein’s position were Lorentz and Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874–1933, figure 3), Professor of Dutch East Indian Law and a prominent member of the LUF Board. Lorentz and van Vol- lenhoven also were leading figures in the Dutch Academy of Sciences: Lorentz as Secretary of its Section of the Sciences and van Vollenhoven, after 1920, as Sec- retary of its Section of the Humanities. Together they would spearhead Dutch efforts aimed at international reconciliation in the academic world.20 Appointing Einstein would fit in well with these efforts or, as Paul Ehrenfest put it to him: In fact I believe that you, by spending a few weeks here, will contribute enormously, in an undemonstrative but therefore all the more powerful way, to the reestablishment of many disrupted scientific relations.21 Facilitating and negotiating international reconciliation was a core element of the professional identity of both Lorentz and van Vollenhoven; in the case of the latter, it also was an essential part of his scholarship. Van Vollenhoven saw a need to reorganize and systematize what he saw as the confusing patchwork of inter- national law: Already in 1910, he was convinced that the Netherlands, as a small Fig. 3. Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874–1933). Credit: Van Vollenhoven Institute, University of Leiden. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 131 nation with an internationalist outlook, should take a prominent leading role in efforts to establish international peace. This, he believed, also would provide an opportunity to further the country’s own plight and position.22 He was convinced that progress toward international peace would be possible only if a supervisory and regulatory supranational police force were created to enforce the authority of an appropriate international court.* A second essential aspect of van Vollenho- ven’s role in Leiden was his great affection for its university, which he would serve as Rector and, among many other functions, as Secretary of the LUF. Under his stewardship, the LUF’s endowment would grow substantially. 23 On July 28, 1919, the International Research Council (IRC) and, a few months earlier, the Union Académique de Recherches et de Publications, its sister organ- ization for the humanities, were created. Both organizations had barred from their memberships the academies of the former Central Power countries.24 The neutral Dutch had committed themselves to lobby for the admission of the excluded countries; when asked to become a member of the IRC, the Dutch Academy, after heated internal debate, had decided to join but reserved for itself and its members the right to continue to collaborate with scientists from Germany and its former allies. Furthermore, it stipulated that its expectation was that united efforts eventually would be directed at reconciliation and the admission of the excluded parties to the IRC. Just as the French IRC representative Émile Picard had feared, the Dutch Academy, under the stewardship of Lorentz and van Vollenhoven, soon began to act as an international mediator after joining the IRC.25 For Lorentz such a role was a continuation of his efforts during the war, inspired by van Vollenhoven’s ideas. His efforts were mirrored by those of Einstein, even if they were grounded in different ideals: Lorentz saw science as a national institution, and his attempts at international reconciliation were part of attempts to further the standing of Dutch science, while Einstein longed for the recovery of an international community of scholars that would serve as an inspiration against pernicious nationalist sentiments.26 It thus seems clear that Lorentz and van Vollenhoven would see Einstein’s appointment as an opportunity to assist their reconciliation efforts. When the procedure finally came to a close in October 1920, Einstein attended a small workshop in Leiden on the properties of paramagnets at low temperatures and the physics of superconductivity that had been organized by Ehrenfest and Kamer- lingh Onnes, and was held under the auspices of the Institut International du Froid, with which the latter had close ties.27 Based in Paris, the Institut aimed to promote * Van Vollenhoven perhaps influenced Einstein’s thinking on international peace and disarmament, as van Vollenhoven’s ideas seem to be reflected in Einstein’s later positions during the Cold War; see, for example, Einstein’s fall 1945 interview, ‘‘On the Atomic Bomb,’’ in Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics (ref. 14), pp. 373–378, and Paul Doty, ‘‘Einstein and International Security,’’ in Gerald Holton and Yehuda Elkana, ed., Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives: The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 347–367. 132 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. research at low temperatures and to facilitate international collaborations; Axis countries, however, again had been excluded from membership. Einstein’s par- ticipation thus carried strong symbolic value, in particular because the Magnetwoche was also attended by Frenchmen Pierre Weiss and Paul Langevin.28 A picture taken at the event (figure 4) suggests cordial and productive discussions, regardless of nationality; Leiden and the Netherlands could once more be seen as facilitating the exchange of ideas and the reestablishment of personal relation- ships. In fact, Ehrenfest, earlier in 1919, when expressing his excitement about Einstein’s future Leiden position, already had told Einstein that he thought the international position of Kamerlingh Onnes’s cryogenic laboratory offered excellent opportunities in this regard, since visitors from abroad spent both long and short periods there for experimentation.29 Why were so many Dutch intellectuals keen to present themselves as interna- tional peace brokers? What motivated this peculiarly Dutch position? The Netherlands had maintained a policy of strict neutrality throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it was, after all, a small nation hemmed in between the great European powers with substantial but vulnerable colonial interests. 30 German unification, and in particular Prussian dominance in the Empire, had led some Fig. 4. Magnetwoche in Leiden, 1920. (left to right) Albert Einstein (1879–1955), Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), Paul Langevin (1872–1946), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), and Pierre Weiss (1865–1940) discussing the physics of paramagnets and superconductivity at Kamerlingh Onnes’s home in Leiden. Credit: Alfred A. Knopf; courtesy of the American Institute of Physics Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 133 late-nineteenth-century Dutch scholars to fear for their cultural and intellectual independence: They were afraid of an unduly large influence on the literature, practice, and institutions of Dutch science from an oversized neighbor to the east; in some disciplines (medicine in particular), there already were clear signs of such an undesirable dominance. Historians Willem Otterspeer and Joke Schuller tot Peur- sum-Meijer have observed that many Dutch academics, to allay their fears, began to emphasize a cosmopolitan spirit: fears of German dominance would be unfounded so long as the Netherlands retained its role as a mediator between the dominant cultures of Europe.31 Seen in this light, the wake of the Great War actually presented an opportunity for Dutch scholars: By taking care of the international plight of German science, the Dutch could assert their desired independence. Appointing Einstein at this point in time then would confirm Dutch academics in their self- chosen role, and assure them of their international relevance. Einstein and the Politics of Dutch Appointment Practices On March 10, 1920, a month after its submittal, Paul Ehrenfest reported to Einstein that his appointment was still ‘‘crawling around in government offices.’’ Never- theless, Ehrenfest expected a quick resolution of the matter. He proposed to Einstein that he travel to Holland in the second half of April and hold his inaugural lecture on May 5. Einstein therefore finished work on his lecture in early April and scheduled a trip to Leiden for around May 1. To save money, at the urging of Ehrenfest, he had decided to have his lecture printed in Germany instead of the Netherlands. Einstein was not sure how to compose its title page, however, nor did he know how to include the customary dedications to the chair’s curators and other faculty members. He wrote that he felt like a child that was about to experience its first day in school; he was particularly uncertain concerning the correct pronunci- ation of Ik heb gezegt (he spelled it incorrectly–it should be gezegd), which simply means ‘‘I have said’’ and is the traditional closing of Dutch inaugural lectures.32 Ehrenfest replied in mid-April with detailed instructions for the title page (‘‘The Dutch title will necessarily have to be as follows: Down with the ether superstition!!—Lecture delivered at the assumption of the duties of special pro- fessor at the University of Leiden by A. Einstein’’), and for the customary and elaborate acknowledgments. He decided for Einstein that he should pronounce Dixi instead of Ik heb gezegd, undoubtedly to Einstein’s relief. But Ehrenfest still complained about the slow pace with which the appointment was being treated by the Dutch bureaucracy.33 The delays were not due to officials in Leiden: Immediately after the formal approval of the chair by the Leiden University Fund, van Vollenhoven approached the Queen, who ultimately held the proper authority to establish a chair and appoint Einstein. Her cabinet forwarded the request to the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Sciences, which in turn consulted its Board of Supervision (‘‘Commissie van Toezicht, bedoeld in art. 201 der H.O. wet’’). The Board saw no objections to 134 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. allow the LUF to create a chair in physics. But it did raise a concern regarding the prospect of having Albert Einstein occupy that chair: objections possibly might be raised against his appointment ‘‘in view of his political principles.’’ 34 To justify its concern, the Board referred the Minister of Education, Johannes Theodoor de Visser (1857–1932), to a recent newspaper article in the liberal Nieuwe Courant entitled ‘‘Berlin University Life.’’35 This article described the general hostility toward the immediate postwar Ger- man Revolution of November 1918 that prevailed among Berlin university students. They had resumed their old nationalist traditions, which had been suspended when they first tested the waters after the revolution; now, however, the ‘‘nationalist- reactionary spirit dominated again,’’ and no opportunity to hold a nationalist protest went unobserved. The Berlin professors, too, had not learned anything from recent events. Still, the Nieuwe Courant’s correspondent noted, a minority did understand and appreciate the events of November 1918, among whom was Einstein. Reactionary Berlin students and professors especially singled out pacifists against whom they vented their anger: Recently, the Dutch paper informed its readers, Georg Nicolai’s lectures had been so severely disrupted that he had been forced to suspend them. Nicolai was Extraordinary Professor (ausserordentlicher Professor) of Medicine and Physiology, who within days after the infamous mili- taristic ‘‘Manifesto of the 93’’ was issued in October 1914 had drafted a counter ‘‘Manifesto to the Europeans’’; a little later he had fled Germany owing to the condemnation of his publications. Now, in 1920, after the disruptions of his classes, he was declared unfit for teaching altogether, since a university senate committee had found him guilty of committing treason during the war. Einstein circulated a statement in support of Nicolai,36 only to find his own lecture disrupted three weeks later: ‘‘instead of appreciation for the fact that the famous man of the theory of relativity teaches at their university, [rightist students] try to make his classes impossible by obstruction,’’ the Nieuwe Courant reported. Apparently unknown to the Dutch correspondent was that the obstruction of Einstein’s lecture had been motivated in part by his opening up of his classes essentially to anyone who wished to attend. Tuition-paying students objected, and had successfully protested Einstein’s open-door policy to the university authori- ties. Einstein initially demurred, and preferred to refund all student fees. This action was taken, but only after the tumultuous lecture had taken place. Another context, however, was also relevant to this story: Some Berlin newspaper reports claimed that anti-Semitic catcalls had been made during the disruptions. Einstein and the Rector of the University denied this. Yet, it would be quite imaginable: By opening up his lectures, Einstein had wished to accommodate a large group of immigrant students that consisted mostly of poor Jews who had fled pogroms in Eastern Europe. In the end, however, he decided against his own initiative, believing that these students would be better served by classes at some institution other than the University of Berlin.37 The Dutch authorities in The Hague were obviously unaware of these developments. In any case, they already had become Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 135 alarmed by the article in the Nieuwe Courant: they decided that Einstein merited a more thorough look before a decision on his Leiden chair could be reached. The Dutch government at the time consisted of a coalition of three popular confessional parties: the Roman Catholic State Party, the Christian Historical Union, and the protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party (whose name primarily reflected its opposition to the values of the French Revolution). The government had just created a new Ministry of Education, headed by de Visser, a former clergyman, and he and his Ministry were now dealing mostly with Einstein’s case. Officially, professorial searches in the Netherlands would not consider a can- didate’s political positions or religious beliefs; in reality, however, things worked differently. 38 Ever since a reform of higher education in 1815, university professors were regarded as such senior civil servants that their appointments required royal approval. After a major constitutional redraft in 1848 that limited the monarch’s actual powers, this in effect meant that these appointments were reviewed by the central government in The Hague, which also decided on the memberships of the governing boards of the universities; these ‘‘curators’’ often were seasoned administrators who themselves had served in The Hague. In the end, this entailed that, formally, local professors had little clout in the choice of their future col- leagues. Nevertheless, both professors and administrators usually had the same elitist background: religiously, they belonged to the well-established Dutch Reformed Church, and politically they were liberal; candidates proposed by the sitting faculty usually would have few problems being approved. The popular confessional parties, the same parties that were in the coalition government that would review Einstein’s appointment in 1920, wanted to change this status quo. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the protestant Anti- Revolutionary Party (ARP), whose constituents were members of the breakaway neo-Calvinist Reformed Church in the Netherlands, had labored to create special professorships at Dutch state universities. The ARP’s goal was to enable private societies and foundations to endow chairs and to have them filled by candidates who were not members of the traditional elite; of course, the ARP wished to have its own constituency’s candidates appointed to such special chairs, in particular in the humanities and law, and most definitely in theology. Leiden initially opposed this development, even if it offered the possibility to create chairs that were motivated primarily by scientific interests, or to broaden the curriculum offered to students. 39 Eventually, however, Leiden used the LUF to create special profes- sorships, like Einstein’s, for exactly these reasons.* * The LUF generally would spend its funds on improving education, for instance by awarding student and faculty scholarships. In 1918 it would endow a first special chair in public finances, held by Anton van Gijn, a former Minister of Finance; in 1920, along with Einstein’s chair, the LUF funded a special chair in tropical medicine; see Otterspeer, Een welbestierd budget (ref. 4), p. 58. It was van Vollenhoven’s idea for the LUF to endow special chairs; see de Kanter-Van Hettinga Tromp and Eyffinger, Cornelis van Vollenhoven (ref. 22), p. 31; idem, ‘‘Cornelis van Vollenhoven’’ (ref. 22), p. 315. 136 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. The new Ministry of Education was headed by Christian party politicians from 1918 until 1933. It actively considered the religious denomination of professorial candidates, much to the dismay of the sitting faculty. Its goal was to achieve more diversity, reflecting the religious diversity of Dutch society at large. Nonetheless, socialists—who were regarded as too extreme and a liability—and women still would not be considered for positions at Dutch state universities. Objections also could be raised in regard to German candidates:40 local talent should be favored, since German chairholders often had chosen to return to Germany when oppor- tunities arose, and, as noted earlier, Dutch academics generally were fearful of being overrun by the dominant culture next door. Thus, in the end, the official policy of not considering a candidate’s personal background was regularly sidestepped in backroom dealings. Nevertheless, the majority of appointees were still of familiar liberal pedigree, and the issue actually was considered to be of immediate relevance only if a chair in the humanities was involved, in particular a professorship in theology.41 Given these circumstances, was it to be expected that Einstein would be considered a problematic candidate in The Hague? He was left-leaning and politically active: this would have raised discomfort and could prompt inquiries, as it indeed did following the article in the Nieuwe Courant. That Einstein was Jewish, should it have come up, would not have helped, nor that he could be seen as German. But there also were mitigating circumstances: In Einstein’s case, the Ministry of Education was dealing with a safe chair in physics, and only a special chair at that, funded by a private organ- ization. Thus, in the end, the Dutch civil service need not have been alarmed by a fear of inevitable and heated debates in parliament—yet, it soon would be alarmed, very much alarmed. Why? What Went Wrong in The Hague? ‘‘Why is the confirmation of your appointment being held up for so long?’’ Paul Ehrenfest asked Einstein in a letter of April 13, 1920, two months after the LUF had sent its request to the Ministry of Education, and a full month after its Board had referred the Minister to the article in the Nieuwe Courant. Ehrenfest still expected the matter to be resolved promptly, however, and remained convinced that it was an excellent idea for Einstein to travel to Holland two weeks later. Einstein arrived in Leiden on May 7. After a few days he reported home that his appointment was still running into ‘‘difficulties.’’ He also indicated that the ground for those difficulties was his ‘‘hot political reputation,’’ which would have made the Dutch authorities wary.42 His wife, Elsa Einstein-Löwenthal, was unhappy about these tidings: So everywhere people have it in for you because of your socialist beliefs! Even in Holland! Do me a favor and don’t act like such a furious Socialist; you are not one any more so than Ehrenfest and many others! Please finally put an end Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 137 to this stupid talk; at last, you are regarded everywhere as a raging revolu- tionary…. It is already bad enough that you won’t get the Nobel Prize because of this, and it should not go any further. A critical mind like you is not a communist!43 Elsa, of course, was right: Einstein was not a communist. He thought the Bol- sheviks do ‘‘not seem so bad,’’ but found their theories ‘‘ridiculous.’’ He was a democrat first, although at this time he was not convinced of the benefits of a welfare state; all in all, he seems not yet to have given too much thought to issues in political economy.44 It is therefore surprising that his wife said that he had the reputation of a ‘‘raging revolutionary.’’ Clearly, his reputation was much sharper than his actual positions warranted. In any case, Einstein still could not deliver his much-anticipated inaugural lecture in May, because the approval of his chair had not yet materialized. When some weeks later he set out to return to Berlin without the appointment to his new special chair, his wife scolded: ‘‘Now where is the appointment to the Dutch professorship? You have been put in a ridiculous position.’’ Elsa reminded him of the hurrying she had to impose on the staff at the Springer publishing house, which had printed Einstein’s inaugural lecture, and she worried about who was going to pick up the bill for it now that it could not be circulated.45 Instead of delivering his inaugural lecture, Einstein spoke to the Leiden Society for Scientific Lectures in the Academiegebouw (figure 5) with a number of dignitaries in attendance, and was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam.46 Fig. 5. The central hall (Academiegebouw) of the University of Leiden in the early twentieth century. Credit: Beeldbank, Nationaal Archief, The Hague. 138 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Despite these festive occasions, however, Einstein’s Leiden colleagues were ‘‘greatly embarrassed.’’47 As Lorentz informed him: ‘‘if it had been in our power, the whole matter would have been ready on 10 February,’’ 48 but even a last-minute attempt at intervention in The Hague by Kamerlingh Onnes yielded no result. The Dutch authorities were indeed quite apprehensive about appointing Ein- stein. On March 26, 1920, more than a month before Einstein would travel to Holland, Minister of Education de Visser had invited LUF Board member van Vollenhoven and N.C. de Gijselaar, Mayor of Leiden and President-Curator of the University of Leiden, for a private consultation.49 After the article in the Nieuwe Courant had appeared, some very disturbing notices had been brought to the attention of the Ministry of Education: the office of the Attorney General had informed Minister de Visser that a year earlier it had received information from the Justice Department that: [A] certain dr. Eisenstein [sic, Einstein was meant] would be sent to the Netherlands from the revolutionary side in Germany, to start up a propaganda service in this country. He would come here with a passport that would appear to be in order, but is presumably false, and made in Berlin.50 That was not all: Eisenstein’s (Einstein’s) partner, a countess named ‘‘von der Hagen,’’ had turned up in France to participate in ‘‘bolshevist propaganda activi- ties’’; she too was suspected of traveling on a false passport.51 The Attorney General further referred Minister de Visser to a distressing secret memorandum that had been drafted on June 18, 1919, by a military intelligence officer for the benefit of a regional command center in Breda, close to the Dutch-Belgian border: I was informed yesterday that Dr. Einstein [not Eisenstein] and Countess Olga von Hagen [not von der Hagen] live in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Uhlandstrasse. As I have pointed out to you earlier, both have lived in Brussels during the occu- pation of Belgium, where Dr. Einstein has repeatedly attempted to promote a revolution among the Belgians, and Olga von Hagen often published under the pen name ‘‘The Red Countess.’’ Her writings also intended to bring the Belgian population to revolt against the government. From receipts that I have seen lately, it seems to me that they maintained quite an extravagant lifestyle in Brussels. Both persons are closely watched and their departure for the Neth- erlands will certainly be reported in time.52 Minister de Visser (figure 6) must have been truly alarmed: this Einstein appeared to be a most undesirable character indeed, and certainly not someone he would like to appoint to a Leiden professorship, even if it was only a ‘‘special’’ chair. But de Visser did not dismiss the LUF request outright; as noted, he had called in van Vollenhoven and de Gijselaar for consultation. The former reported back to de Visser the day after their meeting: Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 139 It is with great pleasure that I can confirm to you that we are dealing with a case of mistaken identity. Professor Einstein has never lived at the address that you mentioned, is married to a little Jewess that has the same name as he does, does not consort with countesses, and has not lived in or spent time in Brussels during the war….53 Van Vollenhoven pointed out that there are many Einsteins living in Berlin (among them Alfred Einstein, the well-known musicologist) and that ‘‘our Albert E.’’ was a pacifist and an opponent of Prussian warmongers, but that could hardly be held against him. He again urged Minister de Visser to expedite the confir- mation of Einstein’s appointment, so that he could deliver his inaugural lecture shortly after the Easter break, sometime in April. As we know, Einstein’s appointment was not expedited. It appears that Min- ister de Visser and his staff simply did not do anything for another six weeks, until Einstein was about to arrive in Holland in early May. Then, instead of approving Einstein’s appointment, de Visser called in another authority for assistance: He sent a request to his colleague, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, asking him if no objection could be raised against the appointment of Albert Einstein (and not ‘‘the musician Alfred Einstein’’);54 additional reassurances from the physicists that Einstein ‘‘finds communism a stupidity’’ had been no help.55 Fig. 6. Johannes Theodoor de Visser (1857–1932), Minister of Education, Arts, and Sciences from 1918–1925 in 1918. Credit: Beeldbank, Nationaal Archief, The Hague. 140 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs took two weeks to reply: on May 20, it reported to Minister of Education de Visser: An inquiry, conducted by Her Majesty’s ambassador in Berlin, [has established that] Professor Alfred [sic] Einstein is part of the far left wing of the democratic party. The notion that he would be connected to revolutionary circles could not be confirmed to Baron Gevers. The problems that the named Professor had some time ago with his students would not have been the consequence of his political views, but should be seen entirely as a result of the wish of the students to protest against the decision of Professor Einstein to allow the general public admission to his lectures. He would have been brought to this decision owing to his great vanity.56 So Baron Willem A.F. Gevers, the Dutch Ambassador in Berlin, established that even if this Alfred or Albert Einstein was not the safest of choices, he certainly was no Bolshevik rabble-rouser. De Visser, finally reassured, then dutifully passed on his approval of the LUF’s request to create a special chair in physics in Leiden to the full Council of Ministers and the Cabinet of the Queen. The Queen’s officials replied on June 9, confirming the approval of the creation of the special chair.57 But by this time, of course, Einstein had already left the country. However, even if Einstein had stayed in the Netherlands a little longer, there still would not have been enough time for him to accept the chair. Pushing papers from one high office to another took another couple of weeks, and only on June 25 did Queen Wilhelmina actually sign the official decree that allowed the LUF to create the chair.58 Nonetheless, Einstein at this point still could not be appointed to his special chair. Yet another obstacle had arisen: Einstein did not hold a Dutch doctorate. His appointment therefore needed one more full round of ministerial approvals and royal confirmations. The LUF thus again turned to Minister de Visser on July 26, 1920, and humbly submitted Einstein’s curriculum vitae for the perusal of his officials.59 De Visser again dutifully passed the request on to his Board of Supervision, once more seeking approval of the candidate Albert Einstein. This time the Board could ‘‘advise favorably,’’60 but only on the condition that de Visser was absolutely sure that: [All] doubts have been eradicated regarding the identity of the appointed professor and Dr. Einstein, who during 1919 has been observed as decidedly committed to the communist principles. To erase any lingering doubts, to be absolutely certain, once and for all, and to inform Minister de Visser as best it could, the Board included a physical description of ‘‘the communist Dr. Einstein’’: [R]ound head; robust physical appearance; 1.72 m[eters] tall; baldness at the temples, and advancing beyond the middle of the forehead; sideburns halfway along the ears; no moustache or beard; straight nose; big mouth; eyes stand apart from each other and are of an indefinable grey; wears a lorgnette or Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 141 glasses with horn rims, sometimes also a monocle; on his right hand a ring with a blue gem. This indeed would clear up all possible confusion, once and for all, since Albert Einstein obviously did not fit this description. Thus, on September 16, 1920, Minister de Visser finally requested Queen Wilhelmina to issue a decree that appointed Einstein to the newly-created special chair in Leiden. She did, five days later: Einstein now at last could hold his inaugural lecture on the ‘‘Ether and the Theory of Relativity’’ at 2 P.M. on October 27 in the large auditorium of the University of Leiden. Troubles in Berlin The almost five months between Einstein’s departure from Leiden at the end of May 1920 and his return on October 21 had been quite difficult for him—but his difficulties did not have much to do with the Dutch delays: Berlin had seen a full- blown anti-Einstein campaign kicked off by a certain Paul Weyland (1888–1972, figure 7).61 Weyland’s campaign constituted the first apogee of what has become known as the anti-relativity movement. Although Weyland’s actions appear to be unrelated to the Dutch delays, understanding the latter will nevertheless assist us in opening up a new perspective on the anti-relativists, as we shall see. On August 6, 1920, Weyland published an aggressive newspaper article claiming that Einstein, among other things, had plagiarized the work of others when he had formulated the theory of relativity. The article further contained thinly veiled anti-Semitic allusions and concluded that ‘‘German Science’’ had to close ranks and ‘‘settle scores.’’62 A few days later, Weyland announced a series of lectures that would reveal the truth about Einstein, who had unduly captivated the public’s imagination ever since the announcement of the eclipse results in 1919. Now, however, twenty lectures, to take place in Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall and organized by the Working Society of German Scientists for the Preservation of Pure Science, were going to break that spell. In all likelihood, the Working Society had only one member who had no sci- entific qualifications whatsoever: Weyland himself.63 Nevertheless, owing to the hubbub he had created, the large auditorium of the Berlin Philharmonic was filled to capacity on August 21, 1920. There were two speakers: Weyland and Ernst Gehrcke,64 an experimental physicist who had publicly resisted relativity as early as 1911. Gehrcke reportedly presented his arguments with some calm, but Wey- land ranted and raved like a demagogue.65 Meine Damen und Herren! Hardly ever in science has a scientific system been set up with such a display of propaganda as the general principle of relativity, which on closer inspection turns out to be in the greatest need of proof!66 Weyland claimed that Einstein had resorted to propaganda tactics because he had been unable to counter his academic critics in any other way. His charge of 142 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. propaganda and media hyping was a familiar strategy among Berlin anti-Semites, fueled by the circumstance that some newspapers, for instance, the liberal and widely circulated Berliner Tageblatt, were owned or edited by Jews. 67 Paul Weyland was an obscure product of postwar Berlin, and following his action against Einstein (which he would exploit for a number of years) he grad- ually faded into the margins again.68 Einstein, like Weyland himself, initially believed that the latter had the support of a fair number of physicists and phi- losophers—these, like Nobelist and prominent anti-relativist Philipp Lenard, however, quickly melted away owing to the controversy that the Berlin event produced. After Weyland’s and Gehrcke’s lectures, only one other lecture in the announced series actually took place, and many anti-relativists soon distanced themselves from Weyland. Nevertheless, they would continue their—often highly vocal—opposition to the theory of relativity for many years. Weyland appears to have been motivated by an opportunistic desire for the limelight. His criticism, however, was inspired foremost by the many rightist political frustrations he bore. He was an active member of the Deutschnationale Volkspartei,69 a nationalist-conservative party that strongly opposed the Revolu- tion of November 1918 and the Weimar Republic. Culturally, he resisted modernist developments, and in an increasingly vehement manner he defended deutsch-völkisch values against perceived onslaughts from Poles and Jews.70 Fig. 7. Paul Weyland (1888–1972). Credit: Andreas Kleinert, private copy. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 143 According to Weyland’s assessment, which he presented to his audience at the Philharmonic, Germany was suffering from intellectual and moral decay that had attracted ‘‘all kinds of adventurers, not only in politics, but also in art and science.’’ He claimed that the theory of relativity was being ‘‘thrown to the masses’’ in exactly the same way that the leftist ‘‘Dadaist gentlemen’’ promoted their prod- ucts. These, too, had nothing to do with observation of nature, as little as had the theory of relativity. Now, finally, a movement had arisen that was going to fight this ‘‘scientific Dadaism.’’71 Einstein was in the audience during Weyland’s and Gehrcke’s lectures. He wrote a reply in the Berliner Tageblatt a few days later. Upset and angry, he was convinced that his opponents were primarily politically motivated (‘‘if I were a German nationalist with or without a swastika instead of a Jew with liberal international views, then …’’).72 Einstein deemed the speakers in the Philharmonic ‘‘not worthy of an answer from my pen,’’ and found that Lenard, even if he had done valuable experimental work, had ‘‘not produced anything’’ of lasting value as a theorist. The Dutch press, like the German press, closely covered the events in Berlin,73 which was how Paul Ehrenfest learned of them: He immediately wrote to Einstein, imploring him not to allow himself to be dragged down into the dirt by his opponents. He also assured Einstein that, should he wish to leave Germany (as newspapers were reporting) Leiden undoubtedly would be able to accommodate him with a full position, even if initially it could commit itself formally for only a few years.74 When Einstein replied to Ehrenfest’s letter, he had calmed down consider- ably: He was already convinced that the ‘‘anti-relativity company is pretty much broke,’’ and that he would not have to leave Berlin.75 Lorentz meanwhile had informed Einstein that the special professorship would now finally be fully approved, and that he could expect to hold his inaugural lecture at the end of October.76 Before Einstein could leave Berlin for Leiden again, however, he first had to attend the meeting of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (Society of German Scientists and Physicians) in the resort town of Bad Nauheim. A public discussion on relativity had been scheduled there for Sep- tember 23, and everyone, including Germany’s newspapers, expected a standoff between Einstein and his opponents. Indeed, the audience, which had turned up in a substantial number, was treated to an intense yet factual exchange between Einstein and Lenard; Einstein would describe it as a ‘‘cockfight.’’ 77 Both came away from the debate feeling frayed; in fact, Einstein’s wife Elsa had fallen ill in Bad Nauheim, in part owing to the nervous and tense atmo- sphere surrounding the debate.78 Einstein surely would have been glad that following the event, after a comforting sojourn with Elsa and his children to her hometown of Hechingen, he finally could travel once again to Holland to deliver his inaugural lecture. 144 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. What Dr. Einstein? But who was the mysterious ‘‘Dr. Einstein,’’ with ‘‘baldness at the temples,’’ ‘‘sideburns’’ but ‘‘no moustache or beard,’’ ‘‘straight nose,’’ ‘‘big mouth,’’ eyes that ‘‘stand apart from each other and are of an indefinable grey,’’ who ‘‘wears a lor- gnette or glasses with horn rims,’’ and most disturbing of all, was ‘‘committed to the communist principles’’? Was there a communist Einstein in Berlin or elsewhere who actually fit this description? Indeed there was. The railway police in Bamberg, Bavaria, reported on June 22, 1919, that they had ‘‘apprehended [a] person, presumably Einstein, … about 165 cm tall …; without beard, with sideburns, glasses, dark hair, bald on his forehead and the back of his head.’’ He also had ‘‘a deep scar from surgery behind his right ear’’ and ‘‘speaks slowly, calmly, and without an accent.’’79 He had been stopped on June 14 at the Bavarian border while traveling on a train from Berlin to Nürnberg, and had identified himself with a false passport–a military identifi- cation card in the name of a certain Paul Karl Körcher, which had greatly alarmed the police officers; they believed they were facing none other than Max Levien, the fugitive leader of the Munich branch of the German Communist Party. 80 Levien had been a prominent foreman of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic (April 7—May 2–3, 1919), and widely-circulated wanted posters had offered a reward of 30,000 marks for aid in his arrest. Levien’s fellow Bavarian communist leaders had already been either killed or arrested. Nonetheless, neither Levien nor Paul Körcher had been apprehended; the railway police had indeed arrested Einstein– not Albert but Carl Einstein, author, avant-garde art critic, and radical revolutionary. Carl Einstein also was the person the Dutch authorities had confused with Albert Einstein: Carl Einstein did live in Berlin on Uhlandstrasse (at number 32, actually only a few blocks away from Albert Einstein at Haberlandstrasse 5), and he indeed was ‘‘consorting’’ with a countess, Aga von Hagen. But why would the Dutch authorities confuse a Berlin communist with the world’s most famous physicist? The neutral Dutch had followed developments during the war in nearby Brussels closely, but what exactly had happened there that would have made them apprehensive about Einstein, Carl or Albert? What role did Carl Einstein play in the communist movement? Were there other occasions in which the two Einsteins were confused? By answering these questions, we will gain new insight into the wider reception of Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity. Carl Einstein (figure 8) was born in Neuwied, near Koblenz, in 1885. He grew up in Karlsruhe, where his father became the principal of a school. His parents were Reform Jews; his family was unrelated to Albert Einstein’s.81 Carl, like Albert, had dropped out of high school (Gymnasium). In 1904 he went to Berlin to study; he enrolled in courses in philosophy, art history, history, and classical lan- guages. As a young man, he shared with Albert a fascination for Ernst Mach’s ideas; Carl was particularly impressed by Mach’s notion of an ‘‘element of Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 145 sensation’’—he later would argue that the Cubists had captured particularly well a Mach-like sense of observation, just as he himself would try to capture this in his own literary writings. 82 He ended his university studies in 1908 without graduating (so he actually was not a ‘‘Dr.’’), and set out to make a living for himself as an author and critic. His experimental novel, Bebuquin oder die Dilettanten des Wunders (Bebuquin or the Dilettantes of Wonder), which appeared in various installments beginning in 1908 and as a book in 1912,83 quickly made him distinctly noted in the literary world. In 1913 he married Maria Ramm; their marriage would be dissolved in the early 1920s. Carl Einstein began his career as an expressionist: He belonged to the group of authors and artists who wished to revolt against the bourgeois values and culture of Wilhelminian Germany, and did so by presenting new, antinaturalist forms. 84 Art had to resist the unfree aristocratic world and the state’s rationalizing forces: Everyone should aspire to a free and communal society, and many expressionists, himself included, would feel at home with anarchist views. He considered himself to be a radical revolutionary, but before 1915 his desired revolution was primarily cultural and ethical, rather than concretely political. According to Carl Einstein, most post-Impressionist painting had become too decorative and aspired too little to an objective ideal. To arrive at true art and a true philosophy, he demanded that the usual way of representation be destroyed, and that a new representation be formed from the perspective of idealistic aes- thetic interpretations. He would demand a similar interaction—a continual tearing down and building up, a permanent struggle through crisis and dialectic criticism— Fig. 8. Carl Einstein (1885–1940) as sketched by Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) in 1913. Credit: Ludwig Meidner Archive, Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt am Main. 146 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. for his own writing and for his own life, even for his daily life; Carl Einstein was engaging, provocative, full of unrest, and characterized by a jerky intensity.85 He had the personality of a revolutionary, and wished to produce and promote rev- olutionary art. After the publication of Bebuquin, he wanted to write in a still ‘‘more radical’’ way ‘‘to create a completely new mind for this age.’’ There could be no compromise: ‘‘I have to be unbearably fanatic, almost impossible to put up with. Otherwise I consider my work a failure.’’ 86 Carl Einstein was an early and strong supporter of Cubist art (figure 9). In his opinion, it was the perfect starting point from which painting could move beyond the decorative: Cubism opposed the stylized and scientific ‘‘forgery’’ that was the norm, and instead managed to capture experiential reality with its suggestions of spatial and temporal extension.87 He would regularly travel to Paris and there met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. They, and the circles to which they belonged, had begun to appreciate sub-Saharan African art, even though Euro- pean art criticism until then had largely dismissed African sculpture as primitive. Carl Einstein would be one of the earliest critics to discuss it in the context of Western aesthetic norms in his book, Negerplastik,88 which at the same time outlined a wider programmatic view for Cubism. Its publication in 1915 estab- lished his reputation as an art critic. Fig. 9. Le Guitariste by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Credit: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, � Pablo Picasso, Le Guitariste, 1910 c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2011. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 147 Negerplastik came out while Carl Einstein was serving in the German army. He had enlisted as a volunteer, inspired by the euphoric ‘‘Spirit of 1914’’ that had swept through Germany at the outbreak of the Great War. His enthusiasm was not exceptional among expressionists: the war was welcomed by many of them as the much-desired sharp break with an odious and complacent peace.89 After serving in the Alsace region, he was ordered to Brussels in 1916, the center of the German administration on the Western front. He worked there in a subordinate position in the colonial department of the German civil administration. Soon his revolu- tionary spirit turned, however, to concrete political action:90 He became one of the prominent figures in the Soldiers’ Council of Brussels, the Soviet of German sol- diers who revolted against their former commanders and ruled the city for a short and turbulent period in November 1918. The Soldiers’ Council marked the end of the German occupation of Belgium. By August 1918, after an often brutal occupation, it had become clear that Ger- many stood in a lost position; it began to withdraw its troops in mid-October. The troops then turned against their commanding officers, as in Germany itself, and on November 9, 1918, the day on which the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II was announced, the Soldiers’ Council took over the civil administration in Brussels.91 For a few days, the Council attempted to be the city’s central authority and directed the withdrawal of troops; Carl Einstein (figure 10) was its press officer. He also would function as its representative in consultations with Belgian officials Fig. 10. Carl Einstein (1885–1940) as sketched by Rudolf Grossmann (1882–1941) in 1921. Below the middle image, Carl Einstein had written, ‘‘Et quand même c’est moi qui a fait la révolution en Belgique!’’ Source: Carl Einstein, Werke (ref. 118), inside front cover. 148 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. and emissaries from neutral countries.92 He thus was one of the key figures in the operation of the Soldiers’ Council. The Council’s revolutionary character was exhibited in the way in which Carl Einstein dealt with his former superiors in the deliberations on the withdrawal of German troops. On the first day of its operation, neutral diplomatic representa- tives of the Netherlands and Spain, the president of the Belgian national relief committee, and the former leaders of the German civil government—the last were now stripped of their uniforms and regalia—were assembled for a meeting with the Soldiers’ Council. Local city officials who were present recalled the unusual event: After a little while a door swung open, and someone in civilian clothes, wearing a monocle and with half of his skull wrapped in bandages, walked up. This strange fellow was called Einstein; he had been an art critic in Paris and, just until yesterday, he was a small-time junior employee in the German adminis- tration of Wallonia in Namur, under the command of Governor Haniel…. ‘‘I am,’’ he said [without looking at the German officers]…, ‘‘a member of the Council of Soldiers and Workers…. [Von] der Lancken [chief of the political department of the German administration] (who Einstein indicated by pointing his finger at him, while omitting his title of baron) … told me that I could find everyone here….’’ After this preamble, Einstein straightened himself. While walking around, looking angrily at Moltke, Rantzau and the others [members of the local German command], he said in a loud voice: ‘‘This abysmal imperial regime has come to an end. As of today, the Council of Soldiers and Workers intends to succeed the oppression and tyranny that has weighed on Belgium for so long with a humane and loyal regime. The German soldiers don’t want anything except to leave Belgium as quickly as possible. Let’s allow them to leave and try, from all sides, to avoid any conflicts! I have been commissioned by my comrades of the Council to see if there is any measure that we can take in the interest of resupplying Belgium during the period of the evacuation.’’ 93 At this, the Spanish envoy indicated that the Belgian national relief committee had organized the provisioning of the country, and that it would be most helpful if its workers would not be hindered in any way. Einstein turned to Count von Moltke: ‘‘Off to the telephone! Call up the general in charge of waterways and tell him that I give orders that things should happen as has just been said!’’ He added, with his gaze fixed on his compatriots: ‘‘The Council of Soldiers and Workers at present calls the shots, and that implies that its orders are to be followed up on the spot! The odious oppression that this population has had to suffer has to stop. All Belgian civilians who have been arrested and jailed during the occupation have been released on my order.’’94 Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 149 The relief committee’s leader concurred with the suggestion of the Spanish emissary, but also complained that some of his supplies had been requisitioned by the occupying forces. Einstein reacted furiously: Einstein, in a menacing manner, turned to the Governor of Wallonia, Haniel, to whom he had been quite subordinate only yesterday. Shaking his fist, he yelled at him: ‘‘Sir, I am very surprised by what the president of the National Committee has just said. Why are you not acting in line with my orders? Take note of those I am giving you right now!’’ While the gang of barons and counts listened without uttering a word, ex- Governor Haniel humbly took a notebook from his pocket and meekly wrote Einstein’s directions down.95 Three days later, on November 13, Carl Einstein was still excited about the latest developments, in particular about rumors that the troops at the front were fra- ternizing. Later that day, however, he seemed worn out and dejected, and advised a friend to leave Belgium as quickly as possible.96 The Council’s rule soon collapsed. Sybille Penkert, in her most useful, early study on Carl Einstein, has suggested that he and the Council played a constructive role toward a more or less orderly evacuation of Brussels.97 Yet, some who had direct dealings with Einstein have painted a different picture: The Dutch Ambassador, M.W.R. van Vollenhoven (yes, another namesake), for example, wrote in his memoirs that Carl Einstein, ‘‘not knowing anymore how to get out of trouble,’’ at one point had asked him and the Spanish ambassador to mediate between the Soldiers’ Council and the Belgian authorities—thus, in effect, disqualifying Einstein’s own role. Various factions in the German army had begun fighting each other, and the Soldiers’ Council kept issuing conflicting orders, while the German troops fired on the Belgian popula- tion; Einstein, as an excuse to van Vollenhoven for their assault, suggested that the Belgian citizens had turned on the German soldiers. By now, however, the Dutch ambassador had seen enough of the chaos, and he promptly sought a transfer of power from the Germans to local Belgian authorities, as indeed was effected on November 13. One of the Belgians’ first measures was to rearrest some of the criminals whom Carl Einstein had released.98 Thus, the events in Brussels that were contained in the Dutch intelligence report are now clarified. But what about ‘‘the Red Countess Olga von Hagen’’? Her actual name was Agathe von Hagen (ca. 1872–1949), and she was indeed a countess. She and Carl Einstein had met through Gottfried Benn, the expressionist author and close acquaintance of Einstein who also was in Brussels. Von Hagen was employed as a social worker by the German authorities and became Einstein’s partner for more than a decade; an acquaintance called her ‘‘sympathetic and humane,’’ and Benn found her ‘‘royal’’ and ‘‘wonderful.’’99 She was well connected: when Carl was apprehended by the police in Bamberg, he gave her name, along 150 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. with that of the National Minister of Internal Affairs (Reichsminister des Innern) Eduard David, as references for identification purposes; David was a close friend of von Hagen. 100 She and Carl Einstein made an odd couple; they have been characterized as the personification of the contradictions between charitableness and criticism. Whereas the excitable Einstein could be ‘‘uncouth,’’ Countess von Hagen appeared ‘‘calm,’’ even during the German collapse and revolutionary storm that swept through Brussels.101 We can safely conclude that Dutch officials in The Hague had confused Albert Einstein with Carl Einstein. The latter would have been in their files, since in nearby Brussels he had evolved into a communist revolutionary leader. The rebellion that led to the Soldiers’ Council in Brussels should be seen as an integral part of the German Revolution of November 1918. Its leaders were also strongly inspired by the Russian Revolution of the preceding year; they had adopted both its vocabulary and its Soviet ideology. Carl Einstein left Brussels both with the conviction that political action inspired by that ideology could be successful, and with the will to put this conviction into practice. After the collapse of the Soldiers’ Council in Brussels, he quickly departed for Berlin in the middle of November,102 filled with an urgent desire for revolutionary political action. Dutch Revolutionary Fears and Professorial Appointments On Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, Carl Einstein had opened the ‘‘official’’ meeting of the Central Soldiers’ Council in Brussels.103 That same day, only 140 kilometers to the north in Rotterdam, the leader of the Dutch Social Dem- ocratic Labor Party (SDAP), Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860–1930, figure 11), had proclaimed at a party meeting that ‘‘the working class in the Netherlands at this moment seizes political power. It will have to constitute itself as a revolutionary power,’’ and he had repeated his proclamation the next day in parliament.104 Despite the Dutch government’s best efforts, the revolutionary fever had not been contained to Brussels or to Berlin, but also had arrived in the Netherlands. There were substantial differences, however, and by the end of the week it was clear that a Dutch revolution had failed; in fact, it had never really got off the ground. The majority of the SDAP and union leadership had not been in favor of Troelstra’s move, and did not follow suit. The country had held its first general election just a few months earlier, and only twenty-five percent of the vote had gone to the socialists; in these circumstances, a revolution could hardly expect broad popular support. Troelsta, however, closely following events in Germany, was afraid that the SDAP would lose the revolutionary momentum to communists and anarchists. His proclamations created quite an upheaval, but he soon had to admit that he had been ‘‘mistaken.’’ The SDAP subsequently passed a motion stating that it would remain a legal and democratic party, and would only join any revolution if the majority of the Dutch working class supported it; this, however, was unlikely to transpire because of its large membership in confessional groups. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 151 Unions associated with these groups also had rallied to resist the revolution, and what became known as ‘‘Troelstra’s mistake’’ soured political relations between socialists and other political parties for a long time. Still, regardless of Troelstra’s failure, the Dutch Cabinet, in which Minister of Education de Visser served, had been jolted by it, and had become deadly afraid of revolutionary councils and their leaders, such as Carl Einstein: Reports that Russian Bolsheviks had allocated extensive reserves for bankrolling ‘‘propaganda’’ services in Western Europe further fueled anxieties, and some Dutch Cabinet members feared a renewed effort by Troelstra in the near future.105 Many of the Dutch government’s social policies were directed at heading off such revolutionary attempts. Christian politics usually worked toward this end by co-optation: By promoting the organization of labor movements under a Christian banner, and by piecemeal improving the social plight of the working classes through legislation, one tried to keep the working poor inside the various churches and their affiliated organizations. Minister de Visser himself, earlier in his career when still a clergyman, had formed a local chapter of a Christian labor organi- zation that aspired to gradual social change; his belief had been that only the Christian faith held the promise of harmonious coexistence of the proprietary and working classes.106 Obviously, the leaders of the Christian people’s parties, including de Visser, thus very much would wish to keep revolutionary agitators out of professorial chairs. Fig. 11. Pieter Jelles Troelstra (1860–1930), Dutch socialist leader. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. 152 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Albert Einstein’s difficult appointment procedure was not the only example. In April 1920, Ehrenfest informed Einstein of his hunches as to why Einstein’s appointment was being held up: Probably, the Minister [de Visser], owing to the Bolshevik actions (as leaders and propagandists) of some professors here in this country, is having confirmed in Berlin that you are not another bolshevism-propagandist. The more famous you are, the more care he needs to take that you are not possibly some agitator, before pressing you to his breast!107 A particular case that Ehrenfest would have had in mind would have been the failed appointment in Leiden of the astronomer Antonie Pannekoek (1873–1960, figure 12), which fell through in the spring of 1919, less than a year before Ein- stein’s appointment came up. The case of Pannekoek is revealing, as historian David Baneke has shown,108 in particular owing to the heightened sensitivities as a consequence of Troelstra’s actions. Pannekoek was both a prominent astronomer and a prominent theorist of socialism, and he insisted that the two parts of his intellectual persona were strictly separate. In astronomy he was known, for example, for his work on the detailed structure of the Milky Way; as a socialist, he stood to the left of Troelstra’s SDAP: In his view, the revolution had to arise directly out of the people, and he opposed strict party discipline. His contributions to socialist theory were greatly appreci- ated: In 1906 the German Social Democratic Party had invited him to become a Fig. 12. Astronomer and socialist Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), ca. 1906–1910. Credit: University Library, University of Amsterdam. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 153 lecturer at its party school in Berlin, and Lenin, for example, had been an admirer of his work.109 Pannekoek would work as an ideologue in Germany until 1914 when, at the outbreak of the Great War, he returned to Holland and took up a teaching post in a secondary school, along with a position as an unpaid lecturer (Privaatdocent) at the Leiden Observatory. On March 3, 1918, Ernst Frederik van de Sande Bakhuysen, the elderly director of the Leiden Observatory, died. Local administrators proposed Willem de Sitter (1872–1934) as his successor, who insisted that two adjuncts also should be appointed: the Dane Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873–1967), who would head the Observatory’s astrophysical department, and Pannekoek, who would head its Meridian Department. In October 1918, Minister de Visser accepted de Sitter’s proposal—just a few weeks before ‘‘Troelstra’s mistake’’—but delayed its execu- tion until further notice. Then, early in 1919, articles began to appear in the Dutch press on Pannekoek’s communist connections: some alleged that he had received funds from Russia for propaganda purposes in Holland, and that he would have been elected as honorary president of a revolutionary Soviet Council in Hungary, where Béla Kun’s revolution was underway. There was no basis of truth to the first story, but there was some substance to the second—even if Pannekoek had had no hand in his honorary Hungarian election. De Sitter lost his patience: ‘‘What are you really,’’ he asked Pannekoek, ‘‘a communist or an astronomer’’? Pannekoek explained that he had not been politically active since his return to the Netherlands. He had completely ‘‘returned to science’’; it was not his fault if the Dutch government wished to sacrifice science to political interests.110 The appearance of another newspaper report, pointing out that a known communist was about to be appointed to a prestigious post in the Leiden Oberservatory, sealed his fate: The next day, on May 3, 1919, de Visser announced that ‘‘under no conditions’’ would he appoint Pannekoek, ‘‘in view of the national interest.’’111 Meanwhile, de Visser had accepted de Sitter. Leiden’s curators subsequently dropped their lobby on Pannekoek’s behalf; de Visser’s refusal in The Hague had been too categorical, and could not be expected to be overturned, in particular in light of Troelstra’s failed revolution. The Chairman of the Curators, de Gijselaar, summed up the sentiment regarding Pannekoek: ‘‘those red gentlemen never keep their word,’’ since at the slightest sign of unrest ‘‘they become unhinged.’’112 Socialists in parliament raised the turn of events with de Visser: They charged that he was conducting a ‘‘political inquisition in higher education,’’ and besides, Pannekoek could hardly be expected to ‘‘raise havoc with the stars.’’113 De Visser would not budge: this candidate supported the overthrow of the State, and thus was patently unfit as an educator—certainly at times when ‘‘every foundation is shaking.’’114 A motion of disapproval of de Visser’s actions did not get a majority. Pannekoek soon became lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, which as a city institution did not need de Visser’s approval to appoint its faculty; furthermore, 154 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Amsterdam’s city council had a solid contingent of communist and socialist members.* In the case of Pannekoek’s proposed appointment at Leiden, it appears that all parties involved were more or less informed about his communist background from the outset. It thus may seem surprising that de Visser initially agreed to it. However, this of course was a chair in the uncontroversial subject of astronomy, and Pannekoek had retired from publishing on political subjects. In any case, Pannekoek himself had feared all along that approval of his appointment would fall through in the end,115 and indeed, in the wake of the Troelstra affair, the Dutch government threw out his candidacy when newspapers began to report on it. This course of events strongly suggests that the Dutch government may have feared adverse public opinion at least as much as any actual revolutionary threat that Pannekoek may have presented. In either case, after Troelstra’s actions both the Dutch government and the public at large would not and did not accept the appointment of a communist at Leiden. Thus, given their fresh experience with Pannekoek, it is not surprising that Dutch authorities subjected Albert Einstein to such an elaborate and meticulous appointment procedure, and that he ran into similar problems, particularly since they initially believed that they were dealing with a far more dangerous person than a retired theorist of socialism. Only after it had been spelled out and con- firmed again and again that this Einstein was a different sort of revolutionary than the other Einstein, could the former Einstein be appointed to a special chair in Leiden. The ‘‘Communist Einstein’’ At the end of the Great War, while Carl Einstein hastily departed from Belgium, Albert Einstein’s name was circulating in the Berlin press in relation to various democratic initiatives in Germany. On November 13, 1918, he gave a lecture at a public meeting that was attended by more than a thousand people and was prominently reported on. He spoke out in support of the November Revolution, but he strongly warned against a violent and undemocratic ‘‘tyranny of the * The willingness of Amsterdam’s City Council to appoint ‘‘red’’ professors was already in evidence when it made Gerrit Manoury (1867–1956) Professor of Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1918. In 1920, de Visser requested that the University of Amsterdam’s curators investigate the recent political activity of Manoury and Pannekoek (rumors were circulating that they had attended a meeting of the Comintern). The Uni- versity’s curators replied that they saw no need for such a step: Neither one had misbehaved or neglected their duties, nor had they been engaged in propaganda activities; see Knegt- mans, ‘‘Politiek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten’’ (ref. 41), p. 114; for the City Council’s stewardship of the Amsterdam Physics Department in this period, see A.J.P. Maas, Atom- isme en individualisme. De Amsterdamse natuurkunde tussen 1877 en 1940 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2001), chapters 3–4, pp. 89–158. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 155 Left.’’116 Albert Einstein thus stepped forward as a prominent voice in the political arena, but not as an anarchist revolutionary. Did only Dutch officials confuse Albert and Carl Einstein? Or were there other times and places where they could be or in fact were mixed up? Albert thought so: in an interview in December 1919 for the Neues Wiener Journal, he stated that, ‘‘In various newspapers I am portrayed as an emphatic Communist and anarchist, obviously due to confusion with someone who has a similar name. Nothing is farther from my mind than anarchist ideas.’’117 As we will see, Carl Einstein’s continued and visible role in a number of revolutionary efforts would produce ample opportunities to tangle up the two. On his return to Berlin in the middle of November 1918, Carl Einstein immediately entered the revolutionary fray. He published communist appeals, for example, ‘‘To the intellectuals–One thing remains to be done: to make a com- munist society a reality,’’118 and he was involved in the violence that took place in the Berlin newspaper quarter (Zeitungsviertel) during the Spartacist uprising.119 At its conclusion, on January 16, 1919, a day after communist leaders Rosa Lux- emburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered, the leftist paper Freiheit prominently reported on its front page the arrest of ‘‘the author Carl Einstein,’’ and claimed that it had taken place without any probable cause. 120 Later, Carl was part of Berlin’s brutal March battles (Märzkämpfe) that followed a general strike and involved summary executions by government-backed paramilitaries; after- wards he had to live as a fugitive, ‘‘fleeing from house to house,’’ in the words of artist George Grosz (figure 13).121 Carl Einstein’s name surfaced again in the press in April and May of 1919 as he lectured at the second Congress of Soviets in Berlin (figure 14). In the following month, just before he traveled to Bavaria, newspapers reported that Rosa Lux- emburg’s corpse had been recovered from a Berlin canal. Carl was one of six speakers at the ceremony commemorating her passing—a ceremony at which thousands were present. According to one account in the daily 8-Uhr-Abendblatt, many Spartacists had spoken in an inflammatory manner at the event. The paper particularly singled out ‘‘the communist Einstein’’ (note: identified without his first name), who would have tried to incite the crowd to ‘‘pick up by surprise and kill,’’ not only those responsible for Luxemburg’s murder, but also those who had silently condoned it.122 Denials soon appeared in Republik and Freiheit from attendees, and from Carl Einstein himself: The 8-Uhr-Abendblatt had given an entirely false representation of what had transpired; the faulty report had been due, according to Einstein, to an attempt to slander his name and that of other communists.123 The events at the commemoration of Luxemburg resurfaced in a Munich newspaper that recounted the police apprehension of the ‘‘communist Einstein’’ (note: identified again without his first name) near Bamberg. Carl Einstein had been on his way to Nürnberg to lecture at a political rally, but on June 18, 1919, after his arrest and after the local police received confirmation of his identity, he 156 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. was directed to return to Berlin. 124 The Berlin press, in their accounts of his arrest, added to the story new twists (‘‘Einstein would have loaned his passport to Le- vien’’) and turns (there would have been a ‘‘campaign against Einstein’’). Most surprising was a new claim that Carl Einstein’s supposed incitement at Luxem- burg’s graveside had been fabricated by press officers of a paramilitary Freikorps that, in fact, was under the command of those responsible for her murder.125 Relevant for our purposes is that with the repeated mention of a Berlin com- munist Einstein in the press (at times with the omission of a first name), it could be expected that Albert Einstein would indeed appear to some as a leftist radical, or could be completely confused with Carl Einstein, as in The Hague. His unfounded reputation as a communist, which to the chagrin of his wife accompanied Albert Einstein in the early years of the Weimar Republic,* seems attributable, at least in part, to Carl Einstein’s public presence. Fig. 13. George Grosz (1893–1959), cover of Die Pleite (April 1919). The caption reads: ‘‘Cheers Noske—the proletariat has been disarmed!’’ Gustav Noske (1868–1946), Social Democratic Minister of Defense, was ultimately responsible for the violent quelling of the communist revolts in early 1919. Die Pleite was a leftist magazine to which both Grosz and Carl Einstein contributed. Courtesy of: University of Iowa, Dada digital collection, � 2011, ProLitteris, Zürich. * Albert Einstein’s ‘‘red’’ reputation would stay with him, even after his permanent departure for the United States in 1933; see Fred Jerome, The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002). Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 157 After the most turbulent months of the Revolution of November 1918 had passed, Carl Einstein remained a prominent communist activist; at times, however, he would suspend his political agenda or revise his positions. He quickly became disappointed with developments in Germany, but persisted in a personal and artistic rebellion. His alter ego, Bebuquin, expressed in a sequel his frustrations with the outcome of events in 1919: [The] atmosphere of the Berlin revolution … consists of a lack of leadership; careerism of socialists; salonbolsheviks; aristos etc. against the university, against the Nazis with their paid professional revolutionaries, faced on the other side by communist functionaries.126 Carl Einstein’s disenchantment with Weimar politics strengthened his renewed immersion in art;127 his iconoclasm in the arts, of course, in turn also remained as a way to continue his resistance to bourgeois values. In July 1921, Carl’s work, Die schlimme Botschaft (The Bad News), 128 was published. In it Jesus Christ was crucified again, but this time in the acerbic Fig. 14. Max Beckmann (1884–1950), Die Ideologen (1919). Litograph number six in a portfolio of eleven called The Hell, documenting Beckmann’s Dantesque journey through postwar Berlin. Heinrich Mann (1871–1950) is lecturing at this leftist salon while below him Max Beckmann, hand over mouth, closes his eyes in disgusted despondency. Carl Einstein (1885–1940) stands behind Mann, stoically, and Agathe von Hagen (ca. 1872–1949) gazes upward, crossing her arms. Credit: National Galleries of Scotland. 158 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. atmosphere of postwar Germany. The work initially appeared to fall flat, but it eventually drew the attention of rightist circles, which led to a spectacular blas- phemy trial. Carl Einstein was convicted, and, by now very publically visible, he was attacked as a Jew and socialist.129 This event marked the end of his literary career. He continued as an ever-more-prominent art critic, however, and returned to Paris in 1928. He did not terminate his political engagement, even if his involvement with elitist art seemed to contradict his role as an intellectual who stood on the extreme left. In 1936 he joined the Spanish Civil War and fought on the side of the anarcho-syndicalists against Franco. After their defeat, he returned to France, where at the outbreak of the Second World War he was placed, as a German, in an internment camp. Upon his release during the German invasion, Carl Einstein (figure 15) fled to the Pyrenees where in the end, in 1940, he took his own life. Mirror Images We have seen a number of possible and actual occasions in which Albert Einstein and Carl Einstein were misidentified. This has shown, among other things, why Albert Einstein’s Leiden chair was so much delayed, and how it could be that many saw him as politically much more radically leftist than he actually was. This public misconception likely would have been reinforced by the circumstance that Fig. 15. Carl Einstein (1885–1940) in 1939. Credit: Bibliothek der Freien, Berlin. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 159 both Einsteins were perceived as modernist intellectuals.130 In many ways, Albert and Carl were not just namesakes, but also each other’s mirror image. Albert, too, was labeled a ‘‘revolutionary,’’ even if he himself may not have chosen that title. 131 His revolution was in science, not in politics or art, and it succeeded, while many of the attempts of Carl, who unlike Albert strenuously sought the revolutionary epithet, failed. By 1918 Albert played the role of revolutionary reluctantly—yet his revolution was eventually as much in the public eye as those Carl pursued. This suggests that we could learn more by a further comparison of the two, which I now will undertake. My emphasis will be on what it can teach us about the reception of relativity. Let us first return to Paul Weyland and his very vocal opposition to relativity in the summer of 1920. The metaphor of mirror images suggests itself in his case directly—so much so that one wonders whether Weyland in fact did confuse Albert and Carl, or rather chose to play on their possible confusion. For example, a year earlier, in May 1919, Carl lectured at the Berlin Philharmonic on the ‘‘political responsibility of the intellectual’’ in a series organized by the Soviet newspaper, Räte Zeitung, that was to mark the founding of a Soviet Society (Räte Bund); the Society’s goal was to promote and deepen Soviet ideology.132 Carl was one of two speakers that night. These coincidental similarities with Weyland’s event actually may not have been coincidental: Weyland’s later Philharmonic event and his Working Society look like a mirror image of Carl’s event, even if political events at the Berlin Philharmonic were not uncommon. Did Weyland perhaps choose the location and format of his evening on purpose, as tacit ref- erence to Carl’s appearance? We also saw that Weyland drew explicit parallels between an alleged marketing of relativity and Dadaists’ practices. Did Carl Einstein also have any Dadaist credentials? Carl Einstein is not usually identified as a member of the Dada movement: He did not participate in Dada events, nor did he publish in Dada periodicals. Nonetheless, during 1919 and 1920 he collaborated intensively with George Grosz and the brothers Wieland and Helmut Herzfeld (the latter used the pen name John Heartfield), all of whom were prominent members of the Berlin Dada group. Carl Einstein shared his desire for political revolution and antipathy to bourgeois culture with them, even if they differed on what political and social role art ought to play.133 He contributed articles to the Herzfelds’ politically-oriented periodical Die Pleite (see figure 13 above), and together with Grosz he composed the satirical magazine Der blutige Ernst (figure 16). Grosz and Carl Einstein declared that their magazine ‘‘pinpoints Europe’s sicknesses, catalogs the total collapse of the conti- nent, combats the deadly ideologies and institutions that caused the war, and confirms the bankruptcy of Western culture’’—in its pages the tone and themes of George Grosz’s artwork and Carl Einstein’s writing complemented each other naturally.134 Even if Der blutige Ernst was not a Dada publication, Grosz was already well known as one of Dada’s leading Berlin representatives; some of that reputation would easily have rubbed off on Carl Einstein. 160 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Der blutige Ernst ceased publication in February 1920, and Carl Einstein, despite his collaboration, appears not to have warmed much to Dadaist art and its typical photomontage technique. The Dada group, in turn, seems to have had a lukewarm opinion of Carl Einstein’s views on art.135 In a photomontage entitled Pablo Picasso: La vie heureuse. Dr. Karl Einstein gewidmet (Pablo Picasso: The Happy Life. Dedicated to Dr. Karl Einstein, figure 17), which was included in the first International Dada Fair, Grosz and Heartfield pasted together a Picasso reproduction and the eyes of a bourgeois resembling Carl Einstein, along with a Freikorps officer and the word ‘‘Noske,’’ the name of the reviled social democrat who was held accountable for much of the government’s violence of the preceding year. The composition rendered Carl Einstein’s Cubist fixations as an expression of odious establishment tastes. The Dada fair generated wide media attention, as intended. Rightist dailies were outraged by its artworks, and the exhibition was subjected to a lawsuit for defamation of the German army.136 It was held in the center of Berlin, close to the Philharmonic, and took place from June 30 to August 25, 1920. Weyland thus had scheduled his anti-relativity event exactly on the eve of the end of the Dada fair. Carl was not the only Einstein depicted at the fair; also on display was Hannah Höch’s collage, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser. Dada durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands (Cut with a Kitchen Knife. Dada through the Fig. 16. George Grosz (1893–1959) and Carl Einstein (1885–1940), advertising pamphlet for Der blutige Ernst (1919). Courtesy of: University of Iowa, Dada digital collection, � 2011, ProLitteris, Zürich. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 161 Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, figure 18). In it a front-page photograph of Albert Einstein from the Berliner Illustrirter Zeitung figured prominently, together with pictures of, among others, Kaiser Wilhelm II, rightist Putschist Wolfgang Kapp, artist Käthe Kollwitz, and Karl Marx. Those whom Höch viewed favorably—those who opposed conservative values and reactionary politics—were placed close to the word ‘‘Dada,’’ as was Albert Einstein, despite his own somewhat traditional tastes in art;137 those whom Höch disliked, like the Kaiser, were placed next to the word ‘‘anti-Dada.’’ The artwork represented cur- rent artistic and political revolutions; it particularly drew attention to women’s right to vote, and how this would alter Germany’s ‘‘beer-belly culture.’’ Almost entirely composed of newspaper clippings, it also captured the hyped atmosphere of Berlin’s daily press, and its images of high-rise buildings and factory machinery depicted the modernist spirit that many conservatives found deeply objectionable.138 The names and images of both Einsteins thus circulated at the Dada fair, and they appear as an entangled reflection of each other: as bourgeois and Fig. 17. A reproduction of George Grosz and John Heartfield’s La vie heureuse (dr. Karl Einstein gewidmet), 1920, was contained in the Erste internationale Dada-Messe: Katalog (Berlin: Kunsthandlung Dr. Otto Burchard, 1920), p. 2. The original of the photomontage is believed to be lost, the only known image is this one. Credit: University of Iowa, Dada digital collection. 162 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. antibourgeois, and revolutionary vanquisher and sellout. In the end, whether Weyland actually had jumbled up Albert and Carl Einstein is not of immediate relevance; their dual roles, given the uproar that both relativity and Dada were generating, serve to illustrate a larger context. Deliberately or not, Weyland saw an interest in portraying Albert as a kind of Carl Einstein; he chose to smear Albert Einstein (figure 19) with the scandalous reputation of Dadaist art. The tactic worked: Max von Laue, present at the Philharmonic event, summed up Weyland’s rhetoric in a letter to Arnold Sommerfeld as follows: ‘‘Einstein would be a plagiarist, supporters of relativity publicity makers, and the theory itself Dadaism (that word was really put forward!)’’139 Fig. 18. This collage by Hannah Höch (1889–1978), Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser (full title in text), was featured in the first International Dada Fair, held in art dealer Otto Burchard’s gallery in downtown Berlin, from June 30 to August 25, 1920. The collage featured not only Albert Einstein (1879–1955), but many other public figures, including the first president of the Weimar Republic, Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), the reactionary Putschist Wolfgang Kapp (1858–1922), Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859–1941), socialists, Dadaists, Karl Marx (1818–1883), and Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924). Credit: Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 163 Weyland thus not only played on anti-Semitic sentiments in his demagogic rant, he also attempted to capitalize on the negative reaction that the revolutions in art and politics precipitated—revolutions of which Carl Einstein, speaker at Rosa Luxem- burg’s graveside and coeditor with George Grosz, formed the vanguard. Weyland wished to mobilize these negative sentiments against another onslaught on cherished values, namely, the revolution that wished to topple established scientific knowledge, driven by yet another revolutionary Jew, Albert Einstein. Weyland’s phantom Working Society thus was supposed to labor for the ‘‘Preservation of Pure Science.’’ In turn, by co-opting the anti-relativist stance, he also intended to enlist support for his larger desires: to resist the Revolution of November 1918 and modernist culture. Weyland’s whipping up of anti-relativistic sentiments thus was a natural complement to a broader politically and culturally reactionary agenda. All in all, the above suggests that part of the German resistance to relativity should be seen as resistance to the revolutionary spirit of the postwar years. For Weyland, at least, it was only a small step from anti-revolutionary to anti-relativist, and his opposition to relativity brought science into an unfamiliarly shrill anti-revolutionary discourse. Weyland, of course, was far from the only opponent of relativity. ‘‘Anti-rela- tivists,’’ as they are known collectively in the literature, can hardly be identified as a unified group with a single agenda. The identification applies to a rightist experimental physicist like Philipp Lenard, to the philosopher and converted Jew Fig. 19. Albert Einstein (1879–1955) in 1921, photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer. Credit: Bildarchiv, Austrian National Library, Vienna. 164 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Oskar Kraus, and to amateur scholars like the engineers Rudolf Mewes and Hermann Fricke who wished to defend their own private solutions to the riddles of the universe. Historian Milena Wazeck, in her recent insightful study of the phenomenon, has pointed out a particular feature that helps to explain the vehement character of some of the opposition that Einstein encountered: Many, if not all of these opponents of Einstein fought against their marginalization by the specialization and professionalization pressures of established science. Relativity, as the most visible representative of these pressures, was an obvious target for dissent.140 Wazeck’s analysis thus differs from the earlier literature, which mostly pointed to the political dimension of the opposition to Einstein.141 However, this weakening of explicit sociopolitical factors also seems to reduce the possibility of understanding the actions of German anti-relativists in their Weimar context. It may be argued further that Wazeck’s point of view too easily follows anti-rela- tivists in their self-fashioning as unpolitisch or apolitical: Anti-relativists often wished to present themselves as scholars who were interested exclusively in matter-of-fact discussions on the merits of Einstein’s theory, far from the political fray. This self-qualification sounds dishonest, however, since it conflicts with the vehemence of their criticisms, and the political overtones of many of their statements. 142 In 1905 Einstein regarded his light–quantum hypothesis as revolutionary, not his theory of relativity,143 which could be viewed as a reformulation of Lorentz’s familiar electrodynamics. Nevertheless, relativity was soon widely seen as a rev- olutionary theory in the early history of its reception. This perception deepened and spread throughout society at large after the extensive press coverage of the eclipse results of 1919 that confirmed Einstein’s predictions.144 Along with the theory’s contentions about space and time, this perception can hardly seem sur- prising, given the particular historical moment in which the eclipse results exploded onto the world scene: Their dramatic presentation came at a time when there were political revolutions in many European nations. At the same time, modernist perspectives were revolutionizing the arts.145 In such an atmosphere, scholars as well as the public at large would be more prone to view Einstein’s theory of relativity as ‘‘revolutionary,’’ rather than as a reinterpretation of Lo- rentzian electrodynamics: in revolutionary times, one expects revolutions. Albert Einstein’s personal background—Jew, democrat, and pacifist—would have aided that identification, particularly in Germany, whether or not he was being confused with Carl. From this perspective, it thus should not be surprising, for example, that the Berliner Illustrirter Zeitung chose to caption Einstein’s image with the claim that his work ‘‘signifies a complete revolution of our understanding of Nature.’’146 When tabloids announce yet another revolution, anti-revolutionaries find a new cause. Anti-relativist Ernst Gehrcke (figure 20) complained about a ‘‘revolution- ary wave in the sciences,’’ and he expressed the hope that ‘‘also in the development of the sciences, the thought of evolution’’ would regain the momentum.147 He believed that: Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 165 [After] the end of the war, and in Germany the successful political overthrow of the State, the psychological moment for revolutions also in art and science seemed to have arrived, and first cautiously, then increasingly more forcefully, the full propaganda campaign for the theory of relativity was rolled out in the daily press [figure 21].148 Fig. 21. Cartoon from Le Journal (March 29, 1922). In the caption, a modernist artist says to a bewildered spectator whose high hat is on the floor: ‘‘That is the bending of light.... Mr. Einstein will understand very well....’’ Source: Reproduced in Gehrcke, Massensuggestion (ref. 148), p. 77. Fig. 20. Ernst Gehrcke (1878–1960). Credit: American Institute of Physics, Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, W.F. Meggers Collection. 166 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. The connotations of Gehrcke’s words were not lost on his readers on the extreme right: The charge of propaganda was a clear code for them to pick up that relativity was to be spinned as yet another plot played out by yet another revo- lutionary Jew.149 Although Gehrcke liked to present his position as apolitical, the words he chose and his analysis suggest otherwise—as does his repeated and unqualified identification of Albert Einstein as an Independent Socialist (as a supporter of the breakaway Unabhängige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutsch- lands), that is, as a leftist radical.150 What was true for Weyland and Gehrcke was not true for all German anti- relativists: Wazeck is correct in identifying as a common denominator of the larger group’s opposition the need to resist a perceived marginalization in current sci- ence. Yet, the above indicates that some of the most visible anti-relativists also feared marginalization of their social and political positions and conservative cultural values,151 owing to modernist forces, the November Revolution, and the more radical pressures that loomed beyond. In this perspective, the angst and actions of the anti-relativists in the late 1910s and early 1920s were as much an expression of their resistance to threatening changes in broader social domains as to those in the sciences, or in physics proper; they served, in particular, as a reaction to the democratic left and modernist culture that seemed to dominate in the early years of the Weimar Republic. Both Albert and Carl had warmly welcomed the collapse of Wilhelmine Ger- many. Albert saw his wishes come true with the creation of a parliamentary democracy, whereas Carl wished for and labored toward a true Soviet republic. Both Albert and Carl were equally offensive to those who wished to see neither come to pass; to obstruct Albert’s theory most effectively anti-relativists such as Weyland and Gehrcke chose to portray him as much as possible as someone resembling Carl. In turn, the venomous opposition to relativity theory itself was due, at least in part, to the fear that ‘‘revolutionary’’ political ideals, communist or democratic, and modernist values, expressed most clearly in the arts, were gaining the ascendancy. Conclusion: Relativity and Revolution The history of Einstein’s Leiden professorship is revealing in several respects. Appointing Einstein should not be seen as separate from the local political context of the Netherlands, just as it has suggested a new angle—the dual perspective of Albert and Carl Einstein—from which to reconsider the negative reception of relativity in some German circles; here, too, the political context was responsible for perceptions of Albert Einstein. In Holland, for Leiden’s academic elite Ein- stein was a particularly attractive candidate owing to his internationalist positions, which resonated strongly with their own efforts toward international reconciliation as inspired by van Vollenhoven’s ideals and nationalist aspirations. Further, Lei- den, as a neutral meeting ground, offered to Einstein the opportunity to act on his Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 167 internationalist beliefs—along, of course, with the opportunity to interact with a group of first-rate physicists. That, however, never actually matured into a really longstanding, hands-on collaboration: Einstein never became a full-fledged participating member of the Leiden faculty. He would of course visit Leiden a fair number of times over the years, coauthor a few short papers with Ehrenfest, occasionally contribute to academic developments in Holland, and maintain a steady correspondence with Lorentz and Ehrenfest, which included many elaborate discussions on physics. Yet, by 1927 the Leiden University Fund had commuted Einstein’s special pro- fessorship into a visiting professorship without any obligation to actually spend any time in Leiden. The remuneration would be set aside for any possible future visits of Einstein, but otherwise it would be spent on the education of young local physicists. This change in the terms of the professorship had been made at Ein- stein’s request: the obligation to visit Leiden periodically had come to weigh too heavily on him, undoubtedly after many planned trips had been cancelled.152 Einstein’s special chair remained largely dormant until September 1952, when it finally was ‘‘retracted.’’153 The Dutch government had gone to great lengths to remain neutral in the Great War, and in its aftermath it very much feared to be drawn into the next maelstrom: it wished to keep out the revolutionary fever that was raging throughout Europe. Communists, especially following Troelstra’s actions, there- fore could not be appointed at Dutch state universities. Einstein, mistaken for his namesake, thus experienced an unusual delay in obtaining his special chair, since Carl Einstein was exactly the kind of radical that Dutch officials were most keen on keeping out of the Netherlands. Albert’s confusion with Carl also helps to account for his broader reputation as a leftist radical, while his actual positions and persona were considerably more moderate. These need not have produced insu- perable problems in Holland; indeed, in the end, they did not obstruct his appointment at Leiden. Einstein’s actual positions did produce problems in Germany. His difficulties in the new Weimar Republic were not with officials (he even would have easy access to some of its leading representatives), but with those who resisted relativity as revolutionary science. The confusion between and comparison of Albert and Carl Einstein has clearly shown that the resistance to relativity has to be seen, at least for some, as resistance to the November Revolution, the Weimar Republic, and in general the toppling of existing cultural and social values. For anti-relativists such as Paul Weyland and Ernst Gehrcke, both the old social order and what they regarded as proper scientific knowledge seemed to be at stake. Indeed, the vehemence of Einstein’s opponents should be explained by their desire to resist marginalization—yet, they perceived their marginalization as taking place in the social realm at least as much as in the scientific realm. The result was that for Einstein’s angry conservative opponents his revolution was just as unacceptable as Carl’s. 168 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. In the midst of the German anti-relativity actions in the summer of 1920, Einstein told his friend and former collaborator, Marcel Grossmann, that: This world is a strange madhouse. Currently, every coachman and every waiter is debating whether relativity theory is correct. Belief in this matter depends on political party affiliation.154 When putting physics circa 1920 in perspective, we see that the history of the reception of relativity was strongly colored by the broader political and cultural contexts of the postwar period; in some circles, and not least in the public at large, it was almost entirely determined by these contexts. In particular, the history of the Leiden chair, and the confusions surrounding it, have shown that fears of revolution in the cultural as much as in the political domain, colored the initial perceptions of Albert Einstein, just as the confusions with Carl Einstein have made clear that the broad reception of relativity cannot be seen as separate from the revolutionary discourse that dominated Europe in the early years of the postwar period. Acknowledgments For insightful comments, I am grateful to David Baneke, A.J. Kox, Willem Otterspeer, Ze’ev Rosenkranz, and Milena Wazeck. I presented the earliest version of this article at a conference on Editing Centenary Scientific Manuscripts that was organized by Scott Walter of the Poincaré Archives in 2007 at the University of Nancy 2; I am grateful to Scott for inviting me to this conference. I am further indebted to my fellow editors of Volume 10 of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein for a most rewarding collaboration, and to Ms. Toontje Jolles of the National Archive in The Hague for assistance. Finally, I thank Roger H. Stuewer for his meticulous and thoughtful editorial work on my paper. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ori- ginal author(s) and the source are credited. References* 1 Lorentz to Einstein, December 21, 1919, in Diana Kormos Buchwald, Robert Schulmann, József Illy, Daniel J. Kennefick, Tilman Sauer, Virginia Iris Holmes, A.J. Kox, and Ze’ev Rosenkranz, ed., The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 9. The Berlin Years: Correspondence, January 1919-April 1920 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), Doc. 229, pp. 320-321; translated by Ann Hentschel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), Doc. 229, pp. 194-195; hereafter cited as CPAE 9. * Translations from the German in Einstein’s Collected Papers are mine. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 169 2 Einstein to Ehrenfest, January 12, 1920; Ehrenfest to Einstein, December 9, 1919; Einstein to Lor- entz, November 15, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 254, pp. 352-354; 212-213; Doc. 203, pp. 286-289; 173-175; Doc. 165, pp. 232-234; 138-139. For his inaugural lecture, see Albert Einstein, Äther und Relativitätstheorie. Rede gehalten am 5. Mai 1920 an der Reichs-Universität zu Leiden (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1920); reprinted in Michel Janssen, Robert Schulmann, József Illy, Christoph Lehner, Diana Kormos Buchwald, Daniel Kennefick, A.J. 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For more on Einstein’s reassessment of Mach principle, see Michel Janssen, ‘‘Of pots and holes: Einstein’s bumpy road to general relativity,’’ Annalen der Physik 14 Supplement (2005), 58-85. 3 Einstein to Lorentz, January 12, 1920; Einstein to Ehrenfest, February 2, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 256, pp. 355-356; 214-215; Doc. 294, pp. 402-404; 246-247. 4 Willem Otterspeer, Een welbestierd budget: Honderd jaar Leids Universiteits-Fonds 1890-1990 (Leiden: Leids Universiteits-Fonds, 1990), esp. p. 54. 5 Lorentz to Einstein, February 11, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 308, pp. 421-422; 257-258. 6 Part of this reconstruction has appeared in an abbreviated form in the ‘‘Introduction’’ (Section III, pp. xliii-xlvi) to Diana Kormos Buchwald, Tilman Sauer, Ze’ev Rosenkranz, József Illy, Virginia Iris Holmes, Jeroen van Dongen, Daniel J. Kennefick, and A.J. Kox, ed., The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 10. The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920 and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006); here- after cited as CPAE 10; this part is based on an archival find of the author in the National Archive, The Hague (see also note 34). 7 A.J. Kox, ‘‘Einstein and Lorentz: More than Just Good Colleagues,’’ Science in Context 6 (1993), 43-56. For the Einstein-Lorentz correspondence between March 30, 1909, and September 13, 1927, see A.J. Kox, ed., The Scientific Correspondence of H.A. Lorentz. Vol. 1 (New York: Springer, 2008), pp. 265-659. 8 Einstein to Ehrenfest, November 8, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 160, pp. 227-228; 135-136, on 227; 136; see also Martin J. Klein, Paul Ehrenfest. Vol. 1. The Making of a Theoretical Physicist (Amster- dam and London: North-Holland and New York: American Elsevier, 1970), pp. 293-323; Martin J. Klein, ‘‘Paul Ehrenfest, Niels Bohr, and Albert Einstein: Colleagues and Friends,’’ Physics in Perspective 12 (2010), 307-337; Jeroen van Dongen, ‘‘Einstein’s Methodology, Semivectors and the Unification of Electrons and Protons,’’ Archive for History of Exact Sciences 58 (2004), 219-254, on 224-229; Jeroen van Dongen, Einstein’s Unification (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 96-103. 9 Lorentz to Einstein, December 21, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 229, pp. 320-321; 194-195. 10 Tilman Sauer, ‘‘Einstein and the Early Theory of Superconductivity, 1919-1922,’’ Arch. Hist. Ex. Sci. 61 (2007), 159-211, esp. 162-163; Kamerlingh Onnes to Einstein, February 8, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 304, pp. 417-418; 254-255. 11 Marijn Hollestelle, ‘‘Paul Ehrenfests internationalisme: Bloei en verval van de Leidse theo- retische fysica,’’ in L.J. Dorsman and P.J. Knegtmans, ed., Over de grens: Internationale contacten aan Nederlandse universiteiten sedert 1876 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009), pp. 69-87; see also Marijn Johannes Hollestelle, Paul Ehrenfest: Worstelingen met de moderne wetenschap, 1912-1933 (Lei- den: Leiden University Press, 2011), chapters 6 and 7, pp. 204-283. 12 Kox, ‘‘Einstein and Lorentz’’ (ref. 7), pp. 53-54. 13 As Einstein reported to Ehrenfest, September 12, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 103, pp. 154-155; 86-87. 14 On his democratic beliefs, see Albert Einstein, ‘‘On the need for a National Assembly,’’ CPAE 7, Doc. 14, pp. 123-125; 76-77; see also David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann, ed., Einstein on 170 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 3, 82-83. 15 Lorentz to Einstein, December 21, 1919, and January 16, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 229, pp. 320-321; 194-195, and Doc. 264, pp. 362-363; 219-220. 16 Ehrenfest to Einstein, September 2 and 8, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 98, pp. 145-146; 81-82, and Doc 101, pp. 150-151; 83-84; on p. 150; 84. 17 Einstein to Lorentz, January 12, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 256, pp. 355-356; 214-215. 18 Albert Einstein Archives, Jerusalem, Doc. No. 28 524; hereafter cited as EA; available at the website \http://www.alberteinstein.info/[. 19 See, for example, Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics (ref. 14), pp. 85-92. 20 W. Otterspeer and J. Schuller tot Peursum-Meijer, Wetenschap en wereldvrede: De Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen en het herstel van de internationale wetenschap tijdens het Inter- bellum (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1997). 21 Ehrenfest to Einstein, December 9, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 203, pp. 286-289; 173-175; on p. 286; 173. 22 B.J.A. de Kanter-Van Hettinga Tromp and A. Eyffinger, Cornelis van Vollenhoven (1874— 1933) (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Institute, 1992); idem, ‘‘Cornelius van Vollenhoven (1874-1933),’’ in Gerard J. Tanja, ed., The Moulding of International Law: Ten Dutch Proponents (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Institute, 1995), pp. 285-334; C. van Vollenhoven, ‘‘Roeping van Holland,’’ De Gids. Vierde Serie 74, (1910), 185-204. 23 Otterspeer, Een welbestierd budget (ref. 4), pp. 54-56. 24 Daniel J. Kevles, ‘‘‘Into hostile camps’: The Reorganization of International Science in World War I,’’ Isis 62 (1971), 47-60. 25 Otterspeer and Schuller tot Peersum-Meijer, Wetenschap en wereldvrede (ref. 20), pp. 119-125. 26 For a similar qualification of the difference in Lorentz’s and Ehrenfest’s perspectives, see Frans van Lunteren, ‘‘Wissenschaft internationalisieren: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Paul Ehrenfest und ihre Arbeit für die internationale Wissenschafts-Community,’’ in Arne Claussen, ed., Dokumentation. Einstein und Europa–Dimensionen moderner Forschung (Düsseldorf: Wissenschaftszentrum Nord- rhein-Westfalen, 2006), pp. 25-35, on p. 26. 27 On those ties, see Dirk van Delft, ‘‘Koude drukte: Het laboratorium van Heike Kamerlingh Onnes als internationaal centrum van lagetemperaturenonderzoek,’’ in Dorsman and Knegtmans, Over de grens (ref. 11), pp. 31-52. 28 On the physics discussed at the event, see Sauer, ‘‘Einstein’’ (ref. 10), pp. 170-187. 29 Ehrenfest to Einstein, December 9, 1919, CPAE 9, Doc. 203, pp. 286-289; 173-175. 30 J.J.C. Voorhoeve, Peace, Profits and Principles. A Study of Dutch Foreign Policy (The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979), esp. pp. 3-41. 31 Otterspeer and Schuller tot Peersum-Meijer, Wetenschap en wereldvrede (ref. 20), pp. 205-214. 32 Einstein to Ehrenfest, April 7, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 371, pp. 497-499; 307-308, on p. 498; 307; Ehrenfest to Einstein, March 10, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 347, pp. 468-472; 288-291. 33 Ehrenfest to Einstein, April 13, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 373, pp. 500-505; 309-313, on p. 501; 310. 34 Commissie van Toezicht to Minister of Education, Arts and Sciences, March 5, 1920; Univer- siteitsraad van het Leids Universiteits-Fonds to Queen Wilhelmina, February 10, 1920, Bestand Albert Einstein, Dossiers Rijkspersoneel Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, geboortejaren voor 1903, toegang 2.14.17 inventarisnummer 13, National Archive, The Hague; hereafter cited as NA. I located these documents in February 2005 while working on the editorial Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 171 http://www.alberteinstein.info/ team that was preparing the publication of CPAE 10 and first reported my find in a newspaper interview; see Martijn van Calmthout, ‘‘Moet die rooie onruststoker Einstein hier prof worden?’’ De Volkskrant (May 14, 2005). 35 ‘‘Berlijnsch universiteitsleven,’’ Nieuwe Courant (March 2, 1920), Morning Edition. 36 Wolf Zuelzer, The Nicolai Case (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), p. 285. Only Einstein and the astronomer Wilhelm Förster also signed the counter ‘‘Manifesto to the Euro- peans’’ (‘‘Aufuf an die Europäer’’), in A.J. Kox, Martin J. Klein, and Robert Schulmann, ed., The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 6. The Berlin Years: Writings 1914-1917 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), Doc. 8, pp. 69-71; translated by Alfred Engel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), Doc. 8, pp. 28-29; hereafter cited as CPAE 6. For Einstein’s statement on the disruptions of Nicolai’s classes, see ‘‘In support of Georg Nicolai,’’ CPAE 7, Doc. 32, pp. 282-283; 151. 37 ‘‘Tumultszenen bei einer Einstein-Vorlesung’’ (‘‘Uproar in the Lecture Hall’’), 8-Uhr-Abe- ndblatt (February 13, 1920), CPAE 7, Doc. 33, pp. 284-288; 152. 38 Otto J. de Jong, Benoemingsbeleid aan de Rijksuniversiteiten (1876-1931): Rede bij de viering van de 364ste Dies Natalis der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht op 19 Maart 1982 in de Janskerk (Utrecht: Utrecht University, 1982). 39 Ibid., p. 19. 40 For an example see Peter Jan Knegtmans, ‘‘Professor Ernst Laqueur en de grenzen aan het internationalisme in de wetenschap in het interbellum,’’ in Dorsman and Knegtmans, Over de grens (ref. 11), pp. 89-100. 41 Peter Jan Knegtmans, ‘‘Politiek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten sedert 1876,’’ in L.J. Dors- man and P.J. Knegtmans, ed., Stille wijkplaatsen? Politiek aan de Nederlandse universiteiten sedert 1876 (Hilversum: Verloren, 2006), pp. 107-118, esp. pp. 109-110. 42 Einstein to Elsa Einstein, May 9, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 9, pp. 252-253; 156. 43 Elsa Einstein to Einstein, after May 9, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 10, pp. 253-255; 157-158, on 254; 157. 44 Quoted from a letter to Hedwig and Max Born, January 27, 1920, in Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics (ref. 14), p. 410; see also pp. 406-408. 45 Elsa Einstein to Einstein, May 24, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 30, pp. 275-276; 171-172. 46 Einstein to Elsa Einstein May 20, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 22, pp. 267-277; 166. 47 Einstein to Elsa Einstein, May 27, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 32, pp. 277-278; 173, on p. 277; 173. 48 Lorentz to Einstein, May 27, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 35, p. 280; 174. 49 De Visser to de Gijselaar and van Vollenhoven, March 22, 1920, NA. 50 Parket van de Procureur Generaal to de Visser, March 19, 1920, NA. 51 Ibid. 52 Opperwachtmeester, Detachementscentrum, Koninklijke Marine, 1e Divisie to the Districts- Commandant in Breda, June 18, 1919, NA. 53 Van Vollenhoven to de Visser, March 27, 1920, NA. 54 De Visser to Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, May 4, 1920, NA. 55 Kamerlingh Onnes to de Visser, May 10, 1920, NA. 56 Secretaris Generaal, Buitenlandse Zaken to de Visser, May 20, 1920, NA. 57 De Visser to Raad van Ministers, cc. to Kabinet der Koningin, May 26, 1920, NA. 58 Decree No. 42, June 24, 1920, ‘‘Wij Wilhelmina, etc.,’’ NA. 172 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. 59 Van Vollenhoven to de Visser, July 26, 1920; van Vollenhoven to Wilhelmina, July 12, 1920, NA. 60 Commissie van Toezicht bedoeld in art. 201 der H.O. wet to de Visser, September 8, 1920, NA. 61 Jeroen van Dongen, ‘‘Reactionaries and Einstein’s Fame: ‘German Scientists for the Preser- vation of Pure Science’, Relativity and the Bad Nauheim Meeting,’’ Phys. in Perspec. 9 (2007), 212-230; see also Hubert Goenner, ‘‘The Reaction to Relativity Theory I: The Anti-Einstein Campaign in Germany in 1920,’’ Science in Context 6 (1993), 107-133; David E. Rowe, ‘‘Einstein’s Allies and Enemies: Debating Relativity in Germany, 1916–1920,’’ in Vincent F. Hendricks, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, Jesper Lützen, and Stig Andur Pedersen, ed., Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860–1930 [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 251] (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006), pp. 231–279. 62 Paul Weyland, ‘‘Einsteins Relativitätstheorie. Eine wissenschaftliche Massensuggestion,’’ Tägliche Rundschau (August 6, 1920), Evening Editon. 63 Andreas Kleinert, ‘‘Paul Weyland, der Berliner Einstein-Töter,’’ in Albrecht Helmuth, ed., Naturwissenschaft und Technik in der Geschichte. 25 Jahre Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Natur- wissenschaften und Technik am Historischen Institut der Universität Stuttgart (Stuttgart: Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik, 1993), pp. 198-232. 64 Paul Weyland, Betrachtungen über Einsteins Relativitätstheorie und die Art ihrer Einführung (Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Naturforscher zur Erhaltung reiner Wissenschaft e.V., 1920); E. Gehrcke, Die Relativitätstheorie eine Wissenschaftliche Massensuggestion (Berlin: Ar- beitsgemeinschaft deutscher Naturforscher zur Erhaltung reiner Wissenschaft e.V., 1920). 65 ‘‘Einstein’s Encounters with German Anti-Relativists,’’ CPAE 7, pp. 101-113, on p. 106; see also ‘‘Introduction,’’ CPAE 10, Section II, pp. xxxviii-xlii. 66 Weyland, Betrachtungen (ref. 64), pp. 10-11. 67 Van Dongen, ‘‘Reactionaries and Einstein’s Fame’’ (ref. 61), pp. 213-214. 68 Kleinert, ‘‘Paul Weyland’’ (ref. 63), pp. 206-232. 69 Goenner, ‘‘Reaction to Relativity Theory’’ (ref. 61), pp. 120-123. 70 Kleinert, ‘‘Paul Weyland’’ (ref. 63), pp. 201-208. 71 Weyland, Betrachtungen (ref. 64), pp. 19-20. 72 Albert Einstein, ‘‘Meine Antwort. Ueber die anti-relativistische G.m.b.H.,’’ Berliner Tageblatt (August 27, 1920), Morning Edition, pp. 1-2, in CPAE 7, Doc. 45, pp. 345-347; 197-199, on 345; 197. 73 ‘‘Einstein wil Berlijn verlaten,’’ Algemeen Handelsblad (August 27, 1920), Evening Edition; ‘‘Prof. dr. Einstein,’’ Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (August 27, 1920), Evening Edition. 74 Ehrenfest to Einstein, August 28, 1920, and September 2, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 114, pp. 389- 390; 244-245, and Doc. 127, pp. 403-405; 254-255. 75 Einstein to Ehrenfest, before September 9, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 139, pp. 417-419; 264-265. 76 Lorentz to Einstein, September 10, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 144, pp. 423-424; 268. 77 Einstein to Ehrenfest, October 7, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 163, pp. 444-445; 280, on p. 444; 280. For more on the Bad Nauheim debate, see van Dongen, ‘‘Reactionaries and Einstein’s Fame’’ (ref. 61), pp. 221-225; see also Paul Forman, ‘‘Die Naturforscherversammlung in Nauheim im September 1920: Eine Einführung in der Weimarer Republik,’’ in Dieter Hoffmann and Mark Walker, ed., Physiker zwischen Autonomie und Anpassung (Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2007), pp. 29-58. 78 Einstein to Ilse and Margot Einstein, September 24, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 154, pp. 435-436; 275; for more on the Bad Nauheim debate see the extensive annotation on p. 436. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 173 79 ‘‘Abschrift,’’ drafted by the Bamberg police department June 22, 1919, cited in Dirk Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Verhaftung: Materialien zum Scheitern eines revolutionären Programms in Berlin und Bayern 1919,’’ Archiv für Geschichte des Widerstandes und der Arbeit 12 (1992), 41-77, on 56. 80 Ibid., pp. 49-52. 81 Sibylle Penkert, Carl Einstein: Beiträge zu einer Monographie (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969), p. 25, n. 1. 82 Ibid., pp. 47, 55; on Albert Einstein’s relation to Mach, see Gerald Holton, ‘‘Mach, Einstein, and the Search for Reality,’’ in Gerald Holton, Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein. Revised Edition (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 237-277, esp. pp. 241-244. 83 Carl Einstein, Bebuquin oder die Dilettanten des Wunders: Ein Roman (Berlin-Wilmersdorf: Verlag der Wochenschrift DIE AKTION (Franz Pfemfert),1912). 84 Christoph Braun, Carl Einstein: Zwischen Ästhetik und Anarchismus: Zu Leben und Werk eines expressionistischen Schriftstellers (Munich: Iudicium, 1987). 85 Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), pp. 52, 57; Braun, Carl Einstein (ref. 84), p. 183. 86 Carl Einstein to Maria Ramm, June 30, 1915, cited in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 78. 87 Braun, Carl Einstein (ref. 84), p. 185. 88 Carl Einstein, Negerplastik (Leipzig: Verlag der Weisen Bücher, 1915). 89 Braun, Carl Einstein (ref. 84), pp. 10-11, 166. 90 Penkert (ref. 81), p. 81, where Penkert claims that Carl Einstein quickly became acquainted with pacifist circles in Brussels, and was greatly excited by the Russian revolution. Klaus H. Kiefer believes, however, that there were no obvious triggers for Carl Einstein’s turn to revolutionary politics, but that there was a gradual inclusion of politics in his revolutionary discourse; see Klaus H. Kiefer, ‘‘Carl Einstein and the Revolutionary Soldiers’ Councils in Brussels,’’ in Rainer Rumold and O.K. Werckmeister, ed., The Ideological Crisis of Expressionism. The Literary and Artistic German War Colony in Belgium 1914-1918 (Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1990), pp. 97-112. 91 Sophie de Schaepdrijver, De Groote Oorlog: Het koninkrijk België tijdens de Eerste Werel- doorlog (Amsterdam and Antwerp: Uitgeverij Atlas, 1997), pp. 240-254. 92 Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), pp. 81-82. 93 Louis Gilles, Alphonse Doms, and Paul Delandsheere, cited in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 83; see also M.W.R. van Vollenhoven, Memoires: Beschouwingen, belevenissen, reizen en an- ecdoten (Amsterdam and Brussels: Elsevier, 1948), pp. 366-368. 94 Carl Einstein, cited by Louis Gilles, Alphonse Doms, and Paul Delandsheere in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 83. 95 Ibid., p. 84. 96 Ibid., p. 83. 97 Ibid., pp. 82, 84. 98 Van Vollenhoven, Memoires (ref. 93), pp. 366-378; his account of poor governance by Carl Einstein and the Soldiers’ Council is similar to that of the chief of staff of the Mayor’s office in Brussels; see Auguste Vierset, Mes souvenirs sur l’occupation allemande en Belgique (Paris: Li- brairie Plon, 1932), pp. 486-493. 99 Thea Sternheim, quoted in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 80; Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Ver- haftung’’ (ref. 79), p. 59. 100 Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Verhaftung’’ (ref. 79), pp. 59-60. 174 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. 101 Thea Sternheim, quoted in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 81; Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Ver- haftung’’ (ref. 79), p. 59. 102 Kiefer, ‘‘Carl Einstein’’ (ref. 90), pp. 104-106. Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Verhaftung’’ (ref. 79), p. 44. Jutta Bohnke-Kollwitz, based on an entry that Käthe Kollwitz made in her diary on November 16, expressed surprise that Carl Einstein took part in a meeting with Walther Rathenau and Gerhart Hauptmann that day, only three days after the collapse of the Brussels’ Council; see Jutta Bohnke- Kollwitz, ed., Käthe Kollwitz: Die Tagebücher (Berlin: Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag, 1989), pp. 382- 383. However, not Carl, but Albert Einstein had been invited to this meeting; see Robert Schulmann, A.J. Kox, Michel Janssen, József Illy, and Karl von Meyenn, ed., The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Vol. 8. The Berlin Years: Correspondence 1914-1918. Part B. 1918 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 1029-1030; hereafter cited as CPAE 8. Furthermore, Vierset believed that Carl Einstein met on November 16 in Sint-Truiden with Adolphe Max, Mayor of Brussels, who was returning to the city from captivity in Germany; see Vierset, Mes souvenirs (ref. 98), pp. 491-492. 103 Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), pp. 135-136. 104 Troelstra, quoted in J.J. Woltjer, Recent verleden: Nederland in de twintigste eeuw (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans, 2005), p. 147; on the SDAP, see pp. 146-160. 105 The Dutch Cabinet’s immediate responses, and its fear of Russian interventions, are well documented in the diaries of its Minister for Labor, P.J.M. Aalberse; see ‘‘Dagboek VI’’ and ‘‘Dagboek VII,’’ available at the website of the Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, \http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/Aalberse/Dagboeken[. 106 J. de Bruijn, ‘‘Johannes Theodoor de Visser (1857-1932): Predikant, politicus en onderwijshervor- mer,’’ in Paul E. Werkman and Rolf E. van der Woude, ed., Wie in de politiek gaat, is weg? Protestantse politici en de christelijk-sociale beweging (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009), pp. 93-122, on pp. 101-102. 107 Ehrenfest to Einstein, April 13, 1920, CPAE 9, Doc. 373, pp. 500-505; 309-313, on p. 503; 312. 108 David Baneke, ‘‘‘Hij kan toch moeilijk de sterren in de war schoppen.’ De afwijzing van Pannekoek als adjunct-direkteur van de Leidse Sterrewacht in 1919,’’ Gewina. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Techniek 27 (2004), 1-13; see also David Baneke, ‘‘Teach and Travel: Leiden Observatory and the Renaissance of Dutch Astronomy in the Interwar Years,’’ Journal for the History of Astronomy 41 (2010), 167-198, esp. 170-173. 109 E.P.J. van den Heuvel, ‘‘Antonie Pannekoek (1873-1960). Socialist en sterrenkundige,’’ in J.C.H. Blom, P.H.D. Leupen, P. de Rooy, T.J. Veen, and L. Kooijmans, ed., Een brandpunt van geleerdheid in de hoofdstad: De Universiteit van Amsterdam rond 1900 in vijftien portretten (Hil- versum and Amsterdam: Uitgever Verloren/Amsterdam University Press, 1992), pp. 229-245. For completeness, it should be noted that Lenin wrote a pamphlet against Pannekoek’s views, after Pannekoek had distanced himself from Lenin’s revolution. 110 De Sitter and Pannekoek, cited in Baneke ‘‘‘Hij kan toch moeilijk de sterren’’’ (ref. 108), p. 9. 111 De Visser to the curators of Leiden University, May 3, 1919, cited in ibid., p. 9. 112 De Gijselaar to de Sitter, May 16, 1919, cited in ibid., p. 10. 113 Motions of the Tweede Kamer, cited in ibid., p. 11. 114 De Visser, in the Motions of the Eerste Kamer, cited in ibid., p. 11. 115 Ibid., p. 12. De Sitter and Pannekoek believed that the latter’s appointment was most forcefully opposed by Prime Minister C. Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (Baneke, private communication, May 10, 2011). 116 Albert Einstein, ‘‘On the Need for a National Assembly,’’ CPAE 7, Doc. 14, pp. 123-125; 76-77, on p. 123; 76; on Einstein’s appearance in the press on November 16, see CPAE 8, pp. 1029-1030. Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 175 http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/Aalberse/Dagboeken 117 Kurt Joel, ‘‘Unterredung mit Albert Einstein,’’ Neues Wiener Journal (December 25, 1919), quoted in Rowe and Schulmann, Einstein on Politics (ref. 14), p. 84; see also CPAE 7, pp. 124-125, n. 7. 118 Carl Einstein, ‘‘An die Geistigen,’’ Die Pleite, Nr. 1 (Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1919); reprinted in Carl Einstein, Werke. Band 2. 1919-1928, ed. Marion Schmid (Berlin: Medusa, 1981), p. 16. 119 Kiefer, ‘‘Carl Einstein’’ (ref. 90), pp. 107-108. 120 Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Verhaftung’’ (ref. 79), p. 44. 121 George Grosz to Harry Graf Kessler, March 16, 1919, cited in ibid.,p. 46. 122 8-Uhr-Abendblatt (June 13, 1919), cited in ibid., p. 53. 123 Carl Einstein, Freiheit (June 14, 1919), cited in ibid., p. 54. 124 ‘‘Abschrift. Graf Soden, Staatsministerium des Innern, Polizei-Abteiling,’’ June 22, 1919, cited in ibid., pp. 55-59. 125 Ibid., pp. 62-64. 126 Carl Einstein, cited in ibid., p. 66. 127 Nico Rost, in Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), p. 86. 128 Carl Einstein, Die schlimme Botschaft: Zwanzig Szenen (Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1921). 129 Penkert, Carl Einstein (ref. 81), pp. 89-91. 130 Carl Einstein scholar Klaus H. Kiefer has also put Carl and Albert in a comparative perspective; see his ‘‘Einstein & Einstein: Wechselseitige Erhellung der Künste und Wissenschaften um 1915,’’ Kom- paratistische Hefte 5/6 (1982), 181-194; later, however, he expressed skepticism about his article; see Klaus H. Kiefer, Diskurswandel im Werk Carl Einsteins. Ein Beitrag zur Theorie und Geschichte der europäischen Avantgarde (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1994), p. 515. 131 On Einstein as a ‘‘revolutionary’’ see, for example, Lewis S. Feuer, Einstein and the Genera- tions of Science (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 61-66. 132 ‘‘Räte Bund,’’ Räte Zeitung (May 10, 1919), reproduced in Heisserer, ‘‘Einsteins Verhaftung’’ (ref. 79), p. 48. 133 Charles W. Haxthausen, ‘‘Bloody Serious: Two Texts by Carl Einstein,’’ October 105 (Summer 2003), 105-118. 134 Ibid., p. 108 (includes translation). 135 Ibid., p. 117. 136 Ludger Derenthal, ‘‘Dada, die Toten und die Überlebenden des Ersten Weltkriegs,’’ Zeit- enblicke 3, No. 1 (June 9, 2004), website http://zeitenblicke.historicum.net/2004/01/derenthal/ index.html, sections \6[-\14[. 137 Hubert Goenner, Einstein in Berlin 1914-1933 (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2005), pp. 272-276. 138 For identifications in Höch’s artwork, see Gertrud Julia Dech, Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser: Dada durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands: Untersuchungen zur Foto- montage bei Hannah Höch (Münster: Lit Verlag, 1981), esp. pp. 63-102, plates V-IX; see also Maria Makela, ‘‘By Design. The Early Work of Hannah Höch in Context,’’ in Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, and Carolyn Lanchner, ed., The Photomontages of Hannah Höch (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1996), pp. 49-79, on pp. 62-64, and Eric D. Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp. 287-289. 139 Von Laue to Sommerfeld, August 25, 1920, Archive of the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Sommerfeld Nachlass, 1977-28/A,197/5. 140 Milena Wazeck, Einsteins Gegner. Die öffentliche Kontroverse um die Relativitätstheorie in den 1920er Jahren (Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 2009). 176 Jeroen van Dongen Phys. Perspect. http://zeitenblicke.historicum.net/2004/01/derenthal/index.html http://zeitenblicke.historicum.net/2004/01/derenthal/index.html 141 Van Dongen, ‘‘Reactionaries and Einstein’s Fame’’ (ref. 61); Goenner, ‘‘Reaction to Relativity Theory’’ (ref. 61); Rowe, ‘‘Einstein’s Allies and Enemies’’ (ref. 61). 142 Jeroen van Dongen, ‘‘On Einstein’s opponents, and other crackpots,’’ Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 41 (2010), 78-80. 143 John Stachel, ed. and transl., Einstein’s Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 13-14. 144 Klaus Hentschel, Interpretationen und Fehlinterpretationen der speziellen und der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie durch Zeitgenossen Albert Einsteins (Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1990), pp. 106-121. 145 On historical parallels between the introduction of relativity and modernism in the arts, see Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook, Inside Modernism: Relativity Theory, Cubism, Narrative (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999); for the influence of relativity and Ein- stein’s persona on modern art, see Linda Dalrymple Henderson, ‘‘Einstein and 20th-Century Art: A Romance of Many Dimensions,’’ in Peter L. Galison, Gerald Holton, and Silvan S. Schweber, ed., Einstein for the 21 st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 101-129. 146 Berliner Illustrirter Zeitung (December 14, 1919), front page. 147 Ernst Gehrcke, ‘‘Geleitwort,’’ in Melchior Palágyi, Zur Weltmechanik: Beiträge zur Metaphysik der Physik (Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1925), p. VI. 148 E. Gehrcke, Die Massensuggestion der Relativitätstheorie: Kulturhistorisch-psychologische Dokumente (Berlin: Verlag von Hermann Meusser, 1924), p. 5. 149 For examples, see Wazeck, Einsteins Gegner (ref. 140), p. 278. 150 Gehrcke, Massensuggestion (ref. 148), pp. 8, 12. 151 For beyond Germany, see Thomas F. Glick, ‘‘Cultural issues in the reception of relativity,’’ in Thomas F. Glick, ed., The Comparative Reception of Relativity [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 103] (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Tokyo: D. Reidel, 1987), pp. 381-400, esp. pp. 394-395; for the German case, see Rowe, ‘‘Einstein’s allies and enemies’’ (ref. 61), pp. 265-266; for the French case, see Astrid van Kimmenade, ‘‘Resistance, Resentment and Relativity: A comparative analysis of French and German critics of the theory of relativity,’’ Masters Thesis, Utrecht University, 2010. 152 Leidsch Universiteits-Fonds to Einstein, February 10, 1927, EA 29 308; Ehrenfest to Einstein, January 8, 1927, EA 10 151; Einstein to Ehrenfest, January 11, 1927, EA 10 153. 153 ‘‘De intrekking van deze bijzondere leerstoel heeft plaatsgevonden bij het Koninklijk Besluit van 23 September 1952, No. 9. (H.O.W. 2855542),’’ NA. 154 Einstein to Marcel Grossmann, September 12, 1920, CPAE 10, Doc. 148, pp. 428-430; 271-272, on 428; 271. Institute for History and Foundations of Science and Descartes Centre Utrecht University P.O. Box 89910 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands e-mail: j.a.e.f.vandongen@uu.nl Einstein Papers Project California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Vol. 14 (2012) Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images 177 Mistaken Identity and Mirror Images: Albert and Carl Einstein, Leiden and Berlin, Relativity and Revolution Abstract Introduction: Preparations in Leiden Why Einstein? The Internationalist Perspective Einstein and the Politics of Dutch Appointment Practices What Went Wrong in The Hague? Troubles in Berlin What Dr. Einstein? Dutch Revolutionary Fears and Professorial Appointments The ‘‘Communist Einstein’’ Mirror Images Conclusion: Relativity and Revolution Acknowledgments ReferencesTranslations from the German in Einstein’s Collected Papers are mine. work_6az73qbhh5bo7bkurfgeispjrm ---- Journal of the Korean Institute of Interior Design http://dx.doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2016.25.3.112 Vol.25 No.3 Serial No.116 _ 2016. 06 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06112 러진테럽터스의 뉴 장르 공공미술에 나타난 환경색채 연구 * A Study on the Environmental Color of New Genre Public Art in Luzinterruptus’ Work Author 김선 Kim, Sun-Young / 정회원, 수원과학 학교 실내건축디자인학과 조교수, 건축학박사 Abstract The purpose of the thesis is to explore ways of improving the quality of urban life by analyzing the Luzinterruptus’s work looking for a new perspective on the relationship between environmental color and society. The street artist Luzinterruptus was born in Spain, is a leader in the field of New Genre Public Art brush on a canvas of light in the night. They should seek the views of other common color system and color environments. The method of research is urban design, we consider the concept of the public good understanding, and New Genre Public Art. It also analyzes the environmental color of Luzinterruptus to take advantage of the phenomenology by David Katz color classification. The scope of the thesis is focused on the analysis of the works featured in their website and webzine. Then select a sculpture installation information is stated on the environmental color of their work. The role of environmental color in their work is not an aesthetic experience of harmonious urban landscape was seeking Public Art. The citizens of the area and the installation work themselves. Also it listed as demolition after the exhibition to realize the difference with other people and take advantage to environmental color. Therefore, they the contemporary agenda in many part of narrative takes in the garbage or disposables that you can easily look at our surroundings, In addition, citizens are directly experiencing the fantastic custom-made lights and colors and objects of the oversize as a potential recalls memories. Thus, the use of environmental color comfortable life there is horizontal participation and communication of the ‘citizens’ critical perspective of the 21st century cumulative cities. Keywords 러진테럽터스, 뉴 장르 공공미술, 환경색채 Luzinterruptus, New Genre Public Art, Environmental Color 1. 서론 1.1. 연구의 배경과 목 산업 명 이후 본격 으로 개된 도시는 사회 경제구 조와 함께 자유주의를 실 하 다. 장 자크 루소에 따르 면 이처럼 지나치게 도시가 비 해지면서 인간의 삶은 도시 권력에 매몰되어 마치 인류가 뱉어 낸 가래침처럼 변했다고 한다. 이러한 문제를 르겐 하버마스는 「의사소통 행 이 론」에서 ‘공공 역(public sphere)’으로 해답을 찾는다. 이 공공 역은 사 역의 응물이 아니라 사 역의 한 부분으로 이해해야 한다. 1) 즉 재의 도시 모습과는 다른, 인류의 시작과 함께 사회·문화의 장으로서 삶을 �������������������������������������������������������������� * 이 논문은 2014년도 정부(교육부)의 재원으로 한국연구재단의 지원 을 받아 수행된 연구임. (NRF-2014S1A5A8013732) 하는 도시 안의 ‘도시민’을 염두에 두어야 한다.1) 20세기 이후 도시는 특수성과 지역성에 몰두하 다. 그러나 이제 무분별한 도시개발을 멈추고 무형의 인 라 스트럭처의 도시재생(urban regeneration)을 지향하고 있 다. 이 시민과의 상호소통을 요하게 여겨 교량, 터 , 도로, 건축 등 문 이고 공학 기술이 요구되는 분야보다는 비 문 업이 비교 쉬운 공공미술 분야 에서 활발한 움직임을 보인다. 특히 뉴 장르 공공미술은 퍼포먼스, 이벤트, 해 닝, 설치, 비디오 등 뉴미디어 아 트의 화로 시간성(temporality)을 추구하고, 컴퓨터를 기반으로 인터랙티 아트의 시간완충장치(suspension of time)를 가능 하는 이 이 있다. 한 도시-장 기존속의 고 도 거 도시-에서 나와 타자의 차이를 깨 1) Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action, Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Beacon Press, 1985, p.17 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06 113 닫고 서로 얽히어(intertwining) 사회 계가 층층이 쌓이면서 충돌하게 된다.2) 이러한 추세에 입각한 스페인 출신의 거리 술가들로 구성된 러진테럽터스는 보다 신 으로 도시의 문제에 근하여 도시민의 참여를 독려하고 있다. 특히 그들은 ‘밤이라는 캔버스에 빛이라는 붓’으로 뉴 장르 공공미술 을 피력한다. 그들은 표색계(color system)에서 출발하는 기존의 환경색채와는 분명히 다른 을 내포한다. 도시 거리의 막한 밤과 조되는 제작조명으로 이루 어진 그들의 작품을 분석한다. 이는 정량 근의 배색 과 조화, 정성 근의 색채형용사 뉘앙스 등 보편 색채 조사에서 탈피하여, 다른 이면해석에 이바지 하리라 믿는다. 특히 공공 역에서 이루어지는 시민들의 극 참여와 소통의 과정은 작가들의 기 아이디어와 의 간극에서 나와 타자의 차이를 깨닫는 계기가 된다. 이는 도시가 지향하는 쾌 한 삶의 질과 맞닿아 있 으리라 견하며, 뉴 장르 공공미술에서 차지하는 환경 색채의 상을 찾는데 도움이 되리라 믿는다. 본고는 색 채에서 다루지 않았던 뉴 장르 공공미술의 환경색채를 탐색하여, 시각 술의 본질인 이미지 표 에 따른 조형 성, 시 조류와 략의 내러티 를 형성하는 시간성, 다양한 분야와 업에 의한 콜라주 확장성 등 환경색 채 요소를 도출하여 도시의 환경색채에서 실제로 다루어 야 하는 가치를 재고하는데 목 이 있다. 1.2. 연구 방법 범 본고는 도시민의 삶의 질을 높이기 해 다양한 방법 을 모색하는 도시 략가들에게 뉴 장르 공공미술에서 환경색채 의의를 찾고, 몸의 충돌에서 비롯한 사회 계를 환경색채로 표 하는 러진테럽터스의 작품을 분석 한다. 연구 방법은 도시 디자인과 공공성의 이해로 뉴 장르 공공미술을 고찰한다. 색상·명도·채도 등 물리 구 분에서 색채지각 3요소의 개념을 환기시켜, 데이비드 카 츠의 색 분류를 토 로 그들이 지향하는 환경색채의 근 경로를 마련한다. 즉 표색계 조사나 뉘앙스에서 벗 어나 그들이 선호하는 공간색과 원색을 심으로 분석 하여 기존의 환경색채 분석과 차별시킨다. 연구 범 는 결과보다 과정을 시하는 그들의 뉴 장르 공공미술 가 운데 도시민과 업한 설치 조형물로 선정하되, 그들의 홈페이지와 Dezeen 웹진에 소개된 목록 에서 비교 환경색채와 연계가 뚜렷한 작품을 선정한다. 특히 기 단계부터 설치물의 색채 아이디어와 조명 선택 등이 컨 셉 스 치에서 설명된 작품을 우선한다. 2) Johann Heinrich Lambert, Neues Organon, University of Michigan Library, 1764, p.79 2. 도시와 환경색채 2.1. 도시 디자인과 공공성 도시 디자인은 인간 내면의 자아와 외부세계를 보다 폭넓게 만드는 실체 지역과 가치를 창출해야 한다. 거 주 생활 기반을 조율하는 기능과 더불어, 도시민 삶 의 질과 도시발 에 기여하는 총제 인 맥락이어야 한 다. 이 때 공공성은 사회·문화·정치·철학 안에서 인간의 활동 인 삶(vita activa)을 근본으로 타자와의 사이 (in-between)를 인정하는 요소이다. 공공성의 뜻은 무엇인가. 우선 인민(공공)에서 생된 라틴어 ‘푸블리쿠스 (pūblicus)’의 사 의미는 ‘국가의, 공식의’와 ‘공개의, 개방의’로 나뉜다. 한 공공은 정치지배체제를 한 공 공간에서 출발하 으며, 로마 공화국은 최 로 공공 역을 실화하 다.3) 17세기에 이르러 ‘공공복지(salus publica)’의 ‘공동의(gemein)’에서 ‘공정복리, 공 이익, 공 질서’를 포 한다. 기술문명의 발달로 18세기부터 정치 행 는 경제활동 아래로 도되어 국가와 시민을 상호 결합하는 간 역으로 정치·경제·사회문화를 수반한다. 이처럼 공공성은 시 의 헤게모니를 작동시켜 공 역 에서 사 권리를 지킨다. ‘공공(public)’이 ‘공개, 개방, ’을 의미하듯 도시 디자인의 공공성은 사회문화 권 력의 역학 계에서 벗어나야 한다. 공공을 다루는 도시 디자인이 공공공간, 공공시설물, 공공건축물, 공공시각매 체로 변되는 국내 실에서 공공을 실 하기 해 환 경을 장식, 리하는 료 행정에서 벗어나야 한다. 한 사 개인을 공 심으로 확 한 공개 소통이 발 생한다.4) 이는 ‘사이에 존재(inter-esse/self-interest)’로 공통 심사를 둘러싸고 이루어지므로, 공공 역은 경계 구분을 떠나 도시민을 한 무장소성(non-places)이어야 한다. 그러므로 무엇보다 공공 역에 사람들이 더 자주 오고 더 많은 활동으로 외부환경에 머무르는 시간이 길 어지도록 도시를 계획해야 한다. 2.2. 색과 색채 색의 연구 분야는 다양하지만 색은 빛을 발하는 원 (light source), 빛의 반사 상(object), 이 결과를 찰 하는 찰자(observer)의 ‘색채지각 3요소’에서 출발한다. 일반 으로 색지각 요소에 따라 햇빛, 조명, LED, 스크 린의 디스 이 등 발 체에서 빛을 직 보는 원색, 빛의 반사로 이루어진 물체의 색인 물체색(표면색), 색유 리나 셀로 지처럼 빛이 상을 통과하여 보여주는 투과 3) Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958, pp.58-60 4) 齋藤純一, 公共性の政治理論, ナカニシヤ出版, 2010, p.14 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06114 <그림 1> 매스색채와 볼륨색채 <그림 2> Necker Cube 색으로 구분한다.5) 색은 가시 선의 명암과 분 조성에 따라 색각을 느끼는 빛의 주 수이며 스펙트럼의 조상 차다. 그러니까 엄 히 말하면, 색은 념이라 상을 만 날 때 실재하므로 색과 색채는 다르다. 『괴 겐(Göttingen)실험 상학 』인 에드문트 후설 (Edmund Husserl)에게 향을 받아 상학 으로 색을 구분한 데이비드 카츠(David Katz)는 순수한 색만 있고 음 은 없는 면색(film color), 물체 표면에서 빛의 작용 인 표면색(surface color), 특정한 장이 강한 반사로 지 각되는 속색(metal color), 색유리나 셀로 지처럼 빛 을 투과하는 투과색(transparent color), 거울에 비춰진 상인 경 색(mirrored color), 비눗방울처럼 외부에 간섭 으로 내부에 빛이 갇힌 간섭색(interference color), 물체 표면 뿐 아니라 투명한 용 안에서도 지각되는 공간색 (bulky color), 발 자체인 원색(illuminant color)으로 나 었다. 본고에서는 면색, 표면색, 속색, 경 색 등 텍스추어와 택의 표피색채(epidermic color), 투과색, 간섭색처럼 주변 환경에 향을 받는 여러 겹들의 표층 색채(layered color), 시-공간(time-space) 개념인 공간색, 원색은 인터랙션색채(interaction color)로 구분한다. 한 시-공간의 색채는 여러 시 으로 상을 표 하는 동 시성, 상호작용과 부유 입의 연속성, 속도와 움직임 의 과정성이 있는 색채 6)로 시간의 개념이 포함된 색채 로 이해한다. 구분 표피색채 (EC: epidermic color): 면색, 표면색, 속색, 경 색 표층색채 (LC: layered color): 투과색, 간섭색 인터랙션색채 (IC: interaction color): 공간색, 원색 <표 1> 색채유형 2.3. 도시의 환경색채 개념 환경색채는 인간-환경 계에서 인간 생존과 안 에 직결되고 미 가치를 지키는데 필요 요소로 사회·문화 차원에서 색채사용과 련한 환경문제이다. 특히 도시에 서 환경색채는 한 균형과 쾌 한 안정을 한 미 체험 뿐 아니라, 효과 인 정보 달로 인간 삶을 지원 하는 요 장치이다.7) 즉 환경색채는 각 지역의 정체성 수립과 진 개발에 시각 편안함과 심미 조화로 서, 도시경 친화에 목 이 있다. 그러므로 도시의 환경 5) 김선 , 빛 번짐을 용한 블러색채의 특성 연구, 한국색채학회논 문집 제28권 1호, 2014, p.6 6) 김선 , 건축의 시-공간 색채체계 연구1, 한국색채학회논문 집 제30권 1호, 2016, p.13 7) 김홍기, 환경색채계획론. 이화여자 학교 출 부, 2011, p.21 색채는 다양한 상호작용의 계이다. 컨 자연의 숲 속에 있는 붉은 건물은 상색채일 확률이 높은 반 면, 도시의 붉은 건물은 반드시 그 지 않다. 보행로 주변의 식재나 공공디자인, 혹은 인간행태가 상색채일 수 있다. 즉 시각디자인이나 산업디자인, 그리고 패션디 자인에서 색채는 매스(mass)이다. 즉 상색채만 존재한 다. 그러나 휴먼스 일보다 큰 도시의 환경색채는 매스 와 볼륨(volume)이다. 즉 상색채와 배경색채가 존재한 다. 바로 이러한 지 이 새롭게 환경색채를 논의해야 하 는 목이다. 의 좌측 그림은 시각디자인, 산업디자인, 패션디자인 의 매스색채를 표 한 것이고, 우측 그림은 도시디자인 의 볼륨색채를 표 한 것이다. 매스색채란 체 으로 인간의 치수보다 작거나 비슷하기 때문에 상색채만 존 재한다. 이때 매스색채가 표층색채(LC)일 경우에는 부분 으로 볼륨색채로 인식하기도 하지만 어반스 일(urban scale)아니므로, 엄 히 말하면 볼륨색채는 아니다. 볼륨 색채는 반드시 주변의 배경색채와 상색채가 계를 맺 어 환경색채의 톤과 질료의 재질감이 지속 으로 변화해 야하기 때문이다. <그림 2>를 몇 간 응시하면 처음에는 흰색의 사각 형이 돌출되어 보이다가 다시 회색이 튀어나와 보이고, 을 흐릿하게 하면 여러 겹의 사각형이 무작 로 보 인다. 이는 2차원 공간에서 3차원 공간 이상의 지각 습 이 용되기 때문이다. 즉 2차원 정보는 망막 에서 다양한 시각자극이 발생한다. 8) 이러한 원리로 상색채와 배경색채의 경계가 처음에 8) 김선 , 마크 로드코의 색면추상에 표 된 색의 확장성 연구, 한국 실내디자인학회논문집 제22권 1호, p.243 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06 115 는 각각 구분되지만, 시간이 지나면 찰자가 선택하는 색채에만 집 한다. 한 일정 시간이 지나면 상색채 와 배경색채는 동시에 지각된다. 이 때 지각 거리의 깊 이에서 톤의 변화가 일어나고, 이동 속도의 간격에서 톤 의 재배치가 진행된다. 즉 도시의 환경색채는 표색계로 논하는 색채로만 이해할 수 없다. 3. 뉴 장르 공공미술과 환경색채 3.1. 뉴 장르 공공미술의 개 술은 공공의 기원과 유희를 담고 있으므로 인류의 삶과 동시에 시작했다. 물론 모더니즘 태동과 아방가르 드 정신에 입각한 순수미술의 추구는 조각, 회화, 건축의 업을 와해시키기도 했다. 그러나 재 공공미술은 사 회·문화 변화와 갤러리들의 노력으로 참여와 소통의 술로 발 하 다. 이 듯 공공미술은 시 의 흐름과 유 형에 따라 가변 으로 변화하고 있다. 공공미술이라는 용어는 리의 「68 명」이 일어나기 직 유럽의 지식인들 사이에서 공동체의 가치를 찾기 해 존 렛이 처음 사용한다. 그는 술품을 직 구 매하는 소수의 사람들뿐 아니라 람자들의 동참을 한 공공미술 개념을 공식화하고,「공공미술 자문 원」구성 을 정부에 제안한다. 이후 공공미술이라기보다 건축물의 미 가치를 제고하는 럽 아트(plop art)에 가깝다는 비난을 받는다.9) 1960년 후반부터 공공미술은 규모 상권이 형성된 도시에 투입되고, 무미건조한 도시환경에 흥미와 즐거움 을 주어 시민정서를 반 하는 콘텐츠의 기능을 한다. 한 마천루, 공원, 장에 작품을 설치하여 어반 스 일에 서 느껴지던 화감을 완화시켜 쾌 한 보행로로 과 거리를 좁힌다. 1970년 이르러 술가와 비평가는 미술과 공간 계 에 문제제기로 Street Paving, Street Furniture, Art Rail, Wall Painting Art에서 기 제를 도입한 도시계획 으로 람자를 사용자로 변화시킨다. 1990년 이후 비로소 ‘행동하는 문화와 심미 감수 성이 제된 사회·정치 성향의 미술활동’을 뉴 장르 공 공미술로 명명한다. 모든 매체를 활용하며 도시인의 삶 과 직 연 된 이슈와 소통하여 물리 장소에서 사회 이슈를 분석·비 하는 맥락으로 옮겨진다. 9) John Willett, Art in A City, Liverpool University Press, 2007, p.37 구분 특징 건축 속의 미술 Art in Architecture � 미술작품을 통한 정부 건물의 미 가치 제고 � 랑스 1%법(1951년), 미국 연방정부 공공시설청 ‘건 축 속의 미술 로그램’(1963년) � 순수미술 주 공공장소 속의 미술 Art in Public Places � 공원, 장 같은 지역의 공공장소 활성화 � NEA‘공공장소 속의 미술 로그램’(1967년) � 순수미술 주에서 공공장소의 콘텍스트에 합한 공공미술의 독특한 정체성 형성 도시계획 속의 미술 Art in Urban Design � 도시계획의 요 요소로 공공미술 활용 � 기 제(pooling systme)가 도입됨 � 라 데팡스, 바르셀로나, 필라델피아, 러스, 로스앤 젤 스 등에서 시행하여 문화 인 도시환경 조성에 큰 성과 뉴 장르 공공미술 New Genre Public Art � 미술을 통한 시민간의 커뮤니 이션 확 와 시민문 화공동체 형성을 해 결과보다는 과정 시 � 비디오 제작, 퍼포먼스, 미술공방 운 , 정원꾸미기 등 하드웨어 심에서 소 트웨어 심으로 변화, 장 르도 시각 술의 역을 넘어서 화, 비디오, 공연 등 확장 <표 2> 공공미술의 변화(문화 부, 2005) 3.2. 피겨-그라운드(Figur-Grund)의 환경색채 2장에서 고찰하 듯, 환경색채는 상색채(F)와 배경 색채(G)로 구분한다. 배경색채는 식재와 토양으로 부 분의 식재는 계 변화에서 공통된 순환의 질서를 보인 다. R-B사이의 고유색은 꽃에서만 지각되고, 식재는 Y 계열이 포함되어 B-G사이의 고유색은 실제 자연색채에 존재하지 않는다. 한 식재는 YR계열에서 시작하여 YR계열로 끝난다.10) 반면 도시는 지역별 지, 하늘, 기후 등의 풍토색(風 土色)에서 비롯한 지역색(地域色) 개념에서 벗어나야 한 다. 왜냐하면 재 도시의 지는 차로와 보행로이며, 하늘은 마천루에 가깝고, 시설물과 보행자는 지역색을 무색하게 한다. 특히 조명과 뉴미디어는 빛의 변수를 극 화하여 환경색채의 흐름을 재편성한다. 이러한 환경색채는 ‘피겨-그라운드(Figur-Grund)’ 으로 근하고자 한다. 이는 에드가 루빈이 「게슈탈 트 심리학(Gestalt psychology)」의 시각 지각에서 최 응용했다. 게슈탈트라는 용어는 크리스티안 폰 에 펠스(Christian von Ehrenfels)가 에른스트 마흐(Ernst Mach)의 『감각의 분석(Die Analyse der Empfindungen, 1886)』에서 감을 받은 이후 그라츠 학 (Grazer Schule)에게 인계된 ‘Gestaltqualität’에 유래 한다. 즉 막스 베르트하이머(Max Wertheimer)가 기차 여행에서 구입한 스트로보스코 (stroboscope)11)의 가 10) Karin Fridell Anter, Nature’s colour palette. Inherent colours of vegetation, stones and ground. Stockholm, Scandinavian Colour Institute, 1996, pp.66-69 11) 주기 으로 변화하는 조명을 기 으로 발생시켜, 회 혹은 진동 하는 물체를 측하거나 회 속도, 진동 주 수 혹은 유사한 주기 량을 측정하는 계기. 회 체의 회 주기와 조명의 명멸 주기가 일치하면 회 체는 정지한 듯이 보인다. 따라서 조명의 명멸을 가 감하여 회 체의 회 수(진동체의 진동수)를 측정할 수 있다. 두산 백과사 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06116 <그림 3> Rubin's vase effect 구분 유형 속성 A. G-G 표층색채(LC) 선택 지각의 동시성 B. F-F 표피색채(EC) 치 불변의 성 C. F-G 표피색채(EC), 표층색채(LC), 인터랙션색채(IC) 속도와 이동의 유동성 <표 3> F-G의 환경색채 구분 특징 세부 요소 조형성: FO (formativeness) 시각 술의 본질인 이미지(image) 표 심미, 장식, 명시, 시인, 유목 시간성: TE (temporality) 시 조류와 략의 내러티 (narrative) 형성 참여, 소통, 과정 확장성: EX (expandability) 다양한 분야의 콜라주(college)화 흥미, 체화, 기억, 환상 <표 4> 뉴 장르 공공미술의 환경색채 속성 운동(apparent movement)과 선택 지각(selective perception)12)과 비슷한 원리이다. 의 그림에서 A.는 앙의 꽃병(F)과 마주보는 두 얼 굴(G)의 실루엣이 명확치 않은 F-F, G-G의 구조이다. 반면 B.는 F가 꽃병이며 C.는 얼굴의 측면이 F이다. 이 를 환경색채와 연 하여 해석하면 아래와 같다. “A.”는 G-G의 구조다. F와 G를 각각 동시 지각하되, 학습이나 심에 따라 순차 으로 색채를 인식한다. 컨 보행자가 가로등, 표지 , 버스 베이 등에 주목할 경우 순서 로 인식한다. 이 때 F와 G는 서로 뒤바 기 도 한다. 즉 선택 지각에 따른 표층색채(LC)의 동시성을 지각한다. 재 부분의 색채 연구인 공간은 있되 시간 은 없는 찰자 의 경 색채이다. “B.”는 F-F의 구조다. 찰자의 거리와 사용자의 이동 을 배제한 제품디자인의 색채 분석에서 주로 활용하므로 정지된 화면의 균질한 측색인 표피색채(EC)이다. “C.”는 F-G의 구조다. Necker Cube처럼 여러 겹의 F 와 G가 무작 로 첩되어 여러 겹들(F)의 합인 G와 하 나의 F는 서로 계한다. 학계에서 환경색채를 인공색채 와 자연색채로 구분하지만, 녹지율을 고려하더라도 도 시에서는 인공색채는 70%정도이므로 G는 인공색채들의 합으로 이해하는 게 옳다. 속도와 이동의 유동성에 의해 표피색채(EC)-표층색채(LC)-인터랙션색채(IC)를 모두 지각한다. 이처럼 피겨-그라운드의 환경색채는 기 로서 선택지각의 동시성, 치 불변의 성, 속도와 이동의 유동성 등의 속성을 지닌다. 12) 여러 개의 자극이 있을 경우 객 으로 정보의 모든 것을 지각하 지 않고 자극을 선택하여 지각하는 것이다. 3.3. 뉴 장르 공공미술에서 환경색채 요소 본 논문의 2.3 에서 고찰한 바 환경색채는 인간의 생 존과 안 에 직결된다. 도시 디자인에서 환경색채는 미 체험 뿐 아니라 효과 인 정보 달로서 인간의 삶을 지원하는 장치이기도 하다. 그 다면 작품을 매개로 시 민의 참여와 소통으로 상호작용하는 뉴 장르 공공미술의 환경색채는 어떠한지 알아보자. 첫째, 뉴 장르 공공미술은 물질로서 술을 부정하는 비물질 경향은 있으나, 시각 술의 본질을 기본으로 한다.13) 환경색채는 작품이 추구하는 이미지(image)를 직 표 하는 ‘조형성(formativeness)’이 있으며, 심미, 장식, 명시, 시인, 유목의 세부요소가 있다. 둘째, 뉴 장르 공공미술은 술가의 아이디어에서 출 발하지만 도시 정책에 기반을 둔 정부, 련 기 , 시민 단체와 업한다.14) 작품은 더 이상 술가들의 자율 역이 아니며, 시민들과 계하는 삶의 일부로 내러티 (narrative)의 ‘시간성(temporality)’이다. 즉 술가-정 부-시민의 참여와 소통의 과정이 존재한다. 셋째, 뉴 장르 공공미술은 비디오 제작, 퍼포먼스, 미 술공방 운 , 정원꾸미기 등 하드웨어에서 소 트웨어로 변화한다. 이제 사 내부인 갤러리에서 공 외부인 거 리로 나와 화, 비디오, 공연 등 다양한 분야와 수평 으로 융합한다.15) 한 공공미술에서 사용하지 않는 재 료를 사용하거나, 기후·생태·환경·인종·종교·젠더 등 사 회문화 동시 의 담론과 조류를 형 비례나 사실 스 일에서 벗어나 기술한다. 이러한 환경색채는 거 크 기(over-scale)의 언캐니(uncanny) 호기심을 자극하거 나 환상 체화로 잠재된 기억을 끄집어내는 감각의 콜 라주(collage)화로 ‘확장성(expandability)’이 있다. 흥미, 체화, 기억, 환상 등의 세부요소가 있다. 13) http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-genre-public-art 14) Lacy, Suzanne, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Newyork Thames and Hudson, 1991, p.56 15) Thomas H. Sander, Social Capital and New Urbanism: Leaind a Civic Horse to Water, National Civic Review, vol..91, No.3, 2002, pp.213-234 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06 117 NO. 이미지 유형 속성 EC LC IC FO TE EX 1 표 면 색 투 과 색 원 색 빛 이 없 는 어 두 운 거 리 와 야 조 명 의 명시 시 민 과 실 시 간 의 소통 붐 비 는 거 리 에 언 캐 니 한 공 화 장 실 설 치 로 흥미 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 밤에는 매우 시끄럽고 혼 잡한 지역에 병원에서 사용하는 남성용 소변기 80개의 설치로 주변을 환기 ⦁디자인 방법: 의료용 소변기 안에 노랑 물을 담고 LED 조명의 매입 2 투 과 색 공 간 색 나 트 륨 조 명 의 시인 성 짧 은 퍼 포 먼 스 소통 떠 있 는 새 장 의 환 상 체험 ⦁디자인 컨셉: Les Folies 2009 Festival 에 나흘 동안 시로 자연 회기 달 ⦁디자인 방법: 새장 하부에 나트륨 조명 을 매입 3 표 면 색 공 간 색 원 색 어 두 운 밤 에 검 정 강 물 에 하 얀 설 치 물 로 명시 설 치 와 해 체 시 강 을 오 염 시 키 지 않 는 과정 강 주 변 의 물 고 기 , 오리, 어 린 이 용 욕조, 시 민 등 과 체험 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 화와 음악의 Rizoma Film Festival에 작은 마을의 강에 부유시 켜 실주의 설치 ⦁디자인 방법: 총을 맞아 쓰러진 군인 형상의 80개의 부유물의 뉘앙스에 조명 을 매입 <표 6> 작품 분석 4. 러진테럽터스의 작품 분석 4.1. 러진테럽터스의 작품 세계 란시스코 고야(Francisco Jose de Goya), 에두아르 마네(Edouard Manet), 블로 피카소(Pablo Picasso)의 작품에서 보듯 화가의 붓은 때로 군인의 총보다 더 강력 하다. 러진테럽터스는 바로 이러한 힘을 시사한다. 러진 테럽터스(Luzinterruptus)의 의미가 interrupted light에서 비롯되었듯 그들은 ‘빛’과 ‘어둠’으로 환경색채를 기술하 며 원색을 기반으로 투과색, 간섭색, 공간색 등을 선호 한다. 한 시민들과 함께 도시의 밤거리를 캔버스로 빛 을 붓으로 설치한다. 분석 상은 그들의 홈페이지나 페 이스 북, 인터뷰 등에서 환경색채의 아이디어를 언 하 되, 동일한 재료로 비슷한 설치를 할 경우 보다 많이 이 슈화된 작품을 선정한다. NO. 분석 상 년도 1 Public Toilet Intervention, San Ildefonsoof Spain 2009 2 Fishing Light, Maubeuge of France 3 Floating Presences, Molinicos of Spain 2010 4 Malignant Shadows, Madrid of Spain 5 Radioactive Control, Hamburg of Germany 2011 6 Pharmacy Herbs, Madrid of Spain 7 Plastic Garbage Guarding the museum, Geserber Museum of Switzerland 2012 8 Pool on a background of Field of Barley, La Latina of Madrid 9 Literature Versus Traffic, Melbourne of Australia 10 Fishing in Light, Rivas Vaciamadrid of Spain 2013 11 Labyrinth of Plastic Waste, Katowice of Poland 2014 12 Plastic Island, Lumiere of London 2015 13 Rain Interactive, Brentford of London <표 5> 작품 목록 4.2. 러진테럽터스의 사례 조사 본 은 도시의 문제 에 근하되, 도시민의 참여를 독려하는 러진테럽터스의 환경색채를 분석한다. 그들이 빛과 어둠의 계에서 주로 활용하는 인터랙션색채의 을 언 한 작품을 선정하 다. 분석항목은 작품의 개 요를 논한 후 EC, LC, IC의 색채유형을 분석하고, FO, TE, EX의 뉴 장르 공공미술의 환경색채 요소를 분석하 다. 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06118 NO. 이미지 유형 속성 EC LC IC FO TE EX 4 표 면 색 가 로 등 이 없 는 거 리 에 조 명 필 요 성 의 명시 보 행 자 와 조 용 한 소통 움 직 이 는 그 늘 + 그 림 자 로 흥 미 유발 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 인종·젠더·폭력·섹슈얼리 티를 그림자 화가인 카라 워커(Kara Waler)의 회화처럼 검정 마분지와 10개의 와이어 모빌을 이용하여 그림, 화와 다 른 이미지 구 ⦁디자인 방법: 램 로 보행로의 어두운 벽면에 그늘+ 그림자 형성 5 표 면 색 공 간 색 원 색 인 간 크 기 의 오 제 로 유목 병 원 자 원 사 자 와 5 일 동 안 설 치 로 참여 천 으 로 을 가 리 고 테 이 로 입 을 막 는 언 캐 니 밸 리 체화 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 시 가 당면한 최 과제 인 방사능과 원자력 발 소 험성과 공 포의 시각화를 특수보호장비를 한 인간 크기의 오 제 활용으로 30일간 Dockville Festiva에 설치 ⦁디자인 방법: 백개의 LED와 일루미네 이트 6 공 간 색 원 색 거 리 를 록 색 으 로 변 화 시 키 는 심미, 장식 Cris 와 Alex 의 도 움 으 로 설 치 해 체 참여 형 막 기 의 잡 체험 ⦁은하와 별을 볼 수 없는 빛 공해에서 착안하여 잡 (형 막 기)를 약국표지 으로 활용, 이 막 는 인공조명을 합 성으로 성장 ⦁디자인 방법: 록 색조의 형 막 기 는 풀을 형상화 7 표 면 색 투 과 색 공 간 색 원 색 거 조 명 의 유목 재 료 기 부 로 참여 풍 선 조 명 의 체화 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 박물 에 버린 비닐, 물 병과 시민이 기부한 쓰 기 안에 조명, 헬륨을 주입 후 끈으로 연결하여 Oh, Plastiksacki Exhibition에 4개월간 풍선조 명 설치 ⦁디자인 방법: 오천 개의 색색 비닐 안 에 조명 매입 NO. 이미지 유형 속성 EC LC IC FO TE EX 8 투 과 색 간 섭 색 공 간 색 원 색 랑 조 명 으 로 시인 성 어 린 이 들 과 부 모 들 의 공 동 설 치 참 여 소통 흥 미 와 체 험 의 유발 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 빈부격차 없이 즐길 수 있는 문화센터 리모델링이 럭셔리 쇼핑 몰 사업으로 변한 곳에 보리밭을 깔고 그 에 6×4m 공공수 장 조성 ⦁디자인 방법: 2천 개의 유리컵, 병 안 에 랑색 물과 조명 매입 9 원 색 어 두 운 계 단 과 거 리 에 서 시인 무 슨 일 이 벌 어 지 는 지 물 어 가 며 실 시 간 동 참 과 소통 체 화 와 낯 선 환상 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 공공도서 에서 페기 처 분한 만권의 책으로 사 공지 없이 게릴 라성 설치로 바쁜 도시인들에게 독 서의 가치 달과 책-사람, 어둠-빛, 문 학-정체성 ⦁디자인 방법: 책 한권에 각각 2개씩의 LED 조명 활용 10 투 과 색 간 섭 색 원 색 색 색 의 유목 용 기 를 직 설치, 반 환 하 는 참여 직 인 공 물 고 기 를 잡 는 흥미, 기억, 체화 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 다양한 모양, 색상의 라스틱 인공호수에 인공물고기를 가득 채워 환경 이슈화 ⦁디자인 방법: 라스틱 안에 담긴 물에 굴 , 증폭 11 투 과 색 간 섭 색 공 간 색 원 색 거 조 명 의 유목 직 시 민 의 설 치 와 해 체 로 재 활 용 의 체험, 소통, 참여 빛 의 미 로 체험 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 하루 소비되는 육천 개 물병, 비닐, 라스틱 등 재활용 가능한 제품을 7×5m 속모듈 안에 미로 형태로 Katowice Street Art Festival 설치 25명 이상 시민들이 시간 별로 규칙 설치 후, 3일 동안 해체 ⦁디자인 방법: 주조색인 neon-blue, light-green로 조율 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 통권116호 _ 2016.06 119 NO. 이미지 유형 속성 EC LC IC FO TE EX 12 표 면 색 투 과 색 어 두 운 바 다 에 조 명 으 로 유목 열 흘 동 안 시 민 참여 물 에 떠 다 니 는 쓰 기 기억 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 4만 톤의 라스틱 병으 로 10×15m의 직사각형 형에 5천개 조 명 설치로 여덟 번째 륙을 생성하여 해양생물의 죽음과 생태계 괴 방지 달 ⦁디자인 방법: 라스틱 병에 다른 작품 에 비해서는 조도가 낮은 루미네이트 활 용 13 투 과 색 간 섭 색 원 색 거 인 보 우 조 명 의 유목 시 민 들 과 함 께 설치 언 캐 니 한 체화 ⦁디자인 컨셉: 3천개의 콘돔 안에 랑 잉크와 조명을 담아 삶의 원천 표 ⦁디자인 방법: neon-blue를 임에 매 달아 조형성 확 4.3. 소결 2008년부터 인간의 삶과 근 한 일회용품과 직 제작 한 조명을 활용하여 도시환경과 사회문화 반에 문제제 기를 주도하는 러진테럽터스는 도시에서 직 시민들과 함께 설치한다. 이 정크 아트(junk art)는 일반인들이 뉴 장르 공공미술에 쉽게 근하고 참여하는 과정에서 다양 한 분야의 사람들과 소통하고 체험하면서 체화되고 잠재 된 기억의 콜라주화가 일어난다. 「Public Toilet Intervention」,「Fishing Light」에서 알 수 있듯 기에는 외부의 도움 없이 내부 으로 작업 을 진행한다.「Floating Presences」부터 주변 환경을 극 으로 활용하며, 「Radioactive Control」에서 본격 으로 러진테럽터스의 술가 집단 외의 사람들에게 도움 을 받는다. 컨 「Labyrinth of Plastic Waste」, 「Plastic Island」,「Rain Interactive」은 지역 주민들이 직 물병을 기부하고「Plastic Garbage Guarding the museum」에서는 실제 생활 쓰 기와 기부 받은 일회용 품으로 거 풍선을 만들고,「Rain Interactive」는 콘돔 을 활용한 삶의 원천을 언 한다. 「Pool on a background of Field of Barley」부터 작품설치 시 시민 들의 도움을 극 으로 받아 도시재생의 새로운 소 트 웨어를 연출한다. 이처럼 도시재생은 작가의 아이디어를 기반으로 하지만, 그 외의 콘텐츠는 일반인들과 업하 는 특징이 있다. 기에는 EL, LC의 환경색채 유형이 두드러지나 2011 년부터 IC를 극 으로 활용한다. 국내는 공공미술품조 차도 명도, 채도의 색조를 비롯한 모노톤을 지향하 여 주변경 과 비슷한 톤의 미술품을 설치하도록 일 처리하는 반면, 러진테럽터스는 고명도, 명도, 고채도 를 극 으로 활용하고 있다. 분석에 따르면 그들의 색 채가 고명도, 명도, 고채도가 주를 이루어도 주변경 에 해되지 않는 이유는 바로 투과색과 간섭색을 활용 한 매스색채의 이해가 기 에 깔려있기 때문이다. 한 각기 다른 형태가 무작 로 군집을 이룬 거 한 조명으 로 피겨-그라운드를 용한 빛과 그림자의 톤과 셰이드 를 활용하기 때문이다. 그들의 작품은 직 참여하여 체 화하므로 이미지의 조형성, 당 의 시간성, 업에 의한 확장성 등이 존재한다. 5. 결론 러진테럽터스의 뉴 장르 공공미술에서 환경색채의 역 할은 일반 인 공공미술이 추구하는 미 체험이나 조화 로운 도시경 의 연출이 아니다. 그들은 기 환경색채 아이디어를 제외하면, 설치부터 철거까지 시민들이 몸소 참여하여 나와 타자의 차이를 깨닫는데 을 맞춘다. 이러한 과정은 작품이 추구하는 문제의식을 상기시는 주 요 가치이다. 따라서 동시 의 아젠다를 주변에서 쉽게 볼 수 있는 일회용품이나 생활쓰 기에서 착안하여, 상 징 인 오 제로 연출하는 내러티 를 모색한다. 그 기 때문에 그들은 시각 술의 기 인 조형성을 조명과 색채 로 환원시키되, 시민들의 참여와 소통을 존 한다. 시민 들에게 개방된 설치 작품은 공통의 심사를 보이는 사 람들 뿐 아니라, 거리를 지나는 도시민들에게 환상 인 빛과 오버스 일의 오 제로 낯선 흥미를 유발시켜 잠재 된 기억을 상기시킨다. 수많은「색채가이드라인」과 지자체별로 「 표색」이 각축을 벌이고 있는 재, 도시의 올바른 팰럼시스 트(palimpsest) 방향은 수직 정책과 사업진행이 아님 을 본고를 통해 알 수 있었다. 한 공공 역은 사 역의 응물이 아니라 사 역의 부분으로 이해하고 체 화한 도시민을 포함해야 하는 것도 알 수 있었다. 이를 반 하듯 국내의 도시재생 사업에서 환경색채에 심은 높은 반면, 찰자 심의 경 색채에만 머무르는 한계 가 있다. 하드웨어에서 소 트웨어로 진화하는 뉴 장르 공공미 술은 무형의 인 라스트럭쳐로 창조도시를 한 안 하나가 될 가능성이 높다. 따라서 도시 정책과 략 수 한국실내디자인학회논문집 제25권 3호 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Newyork Thames and Hudson, 1991 19. http://www.echelman.com/ 20. http://practicalandrogyny.com/2011/06/25/the-necker-cube-symbol-for-androgyny/ 21. http://www.dezeen.com/ 22. http://www.luzinterruptus.com/ [논문 수 : 2016. 04. 20] [1차 심사 : 2016. 05. 20] [2차 심사 : 2016. 05. 25] [게재확정 : 2016. 06. 10] work_6deeimjrfve7bpjcc77u45bode ---- Establishing a Brain Styles Test: The YBRAINS Test Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 1877–0428 © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.407 Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 WCES-2011 Establishing a Brain Styles Test: The YBRAINS Test Chua Yan Piawa * a University of Malaya, Institute of Principalship Studies, Level 2, Block C, Complex City Campus UM, Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Abstract Teaching with knowledge of students’ thinking and learning styles increases its effectiveness. The YBRAINS test is developed to help school teachers to understand the thinking and learning readiness levels of their students in the process of providing effective teaching and learning activities. The test was established based on theories and brain experiment research evidences. This article reports the rationale of establishing the test and its validity and reliability. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Keywords: Brain style, thinking and learning, YBRAINS, validity and reliability 1. Background One of the major goals of the Malaysian National Mission in producing first class human resources, as has been documented in the Malaysian Education Master Plan 2006-2010, is to produce “first class minded” students. Specifically, it aims to equip students with science, technology, innovative, creative and all-round soft and hard skills (core element 2, Ministry of Education Malaysia, 2007, pp13). As a consequence, educational transformation has been initiated, and teaching and learning strategies that focus on enhancing the “human mind”, emphasis on all- round skills in enhancing critical thinking left brain the and creative thinking right brain across school subjects have been introduced at all levels in schools (Suresh, 2009). However, it was observed that the teaching and learning strategies are implemented in schools without considering students’ thinking and learning styles. Teaching with knowledge of students’ thinking and learning styles increases its effectiveness. It’s difficult for a school teacher to provide teaching activities and materials that best accommodate students’ thinking and learning styles without knowing students’ thinking and learning styles (Chua, 2009). According to some scholars, matching teaching styles to thinking and learning styles will increase academic achievement and make the teaching and learning process an enjoyable experience (Naimie, Siraj, Chua, Shaghoi & Ahmad Abuzaid, 2010; Chua, 2010). Therefore, an attempt has been initiated to build a test of thinking and learning style. It was developed to help school teachers to understand their students’ thinking and learning styles. The instrument named YBRAINS, consists of 25 items, was developed based on theories and evidences of brain researches. 2. Theories and evidences of brain styles People naturally learn and think in different ways. Split brain experiments’ evidences have indicated that both human brain, i.e. the left and the right brain think and learn, or process information differently. Several scholars (Springer and Deutsch, 1993; Torrance, 1982; Bogen, 1975) suggested that when people are thinking or learning, they tend to rely on either the left or the right brain. The tendency for a person to rely either the left or the right Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 4020 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 brain in processing information is called brain hemisphericity (Torrance, 1988). Based on experiences and research findings, educational psychologists (Osborn, 1963; Ornstein, 1977; Bamber, 1983 and Ibrahim, 1998) argued that an educational practice is one of the factors of brain hemisphericity. For ages, many educational psychologists have recognised the distinctly different roles of both hemispheres of the human brain. Traditionally, the left hemisphere has been referred to as the dominant hemisphere, which has more functions in thinking and learning process, and the right hemisphere as the minor hemisphere. However, it is now believed that both of the hemispheres are important in thinking and learning processes. Bogen (1975) was the first person who uses the word “brain hemisphericity” or “brain thinking and learning style”. In his “parallel ways of knowing model”, Bogen believed that there are two distinct ways of knowing, which are opposite one and the other. The first way of knowing is related to intuition, divergent, imaginative, holistic and subjective ways of thinking (right brain functions). In contrast, the second way of knowing is related to Intellect, logical, convergent, rational, sequential, analytic and objective ways of thinking (left brain functions). Another scholar, Munzert (1991) in his effort to develop an IQ test asserted that the differences between left and right hemispheres’ functions are qualified by the mental activities, which are processed in each half of the brain. His theory of “Intelligent creativity-creative intelligent” asserted that the left brain is the “intelligence creativity” side, and it is the control centre for such intellectual functions, such as time, memory, numbers, language, speech, logic, analysis, sequence, classification, computation, and seriation. These functions encompass the abilities necessary for academic success. While the right brain is the “creative intelligence” side, and it is the control centre for the mental functions involved space, intuition, attitudes, emotions, extrasensory, rhythm, music, dance, synthesis, fine arts, mechanics, physical coordination, and visual-spatial. Similarly, Torrance, Reynolds, Riegel and Ball (1977), in their efforts to establish a brain style test (i.e. the Your Style of Learning and Thinking Test) listed the functions of the left and right brain. The functions of the left brain included recognising and remembering names, responding to verbal instructions, systematic and controlled in experimenting, dependent upon words for meaning, produced logical ideas, processes verbal stimuli, objective processing of information, serious, systematic in solving problems, receptive, abstract thinking, dislike improving, not psychic, little use of metaphor and analogies, responsive to logical, verbal appeals, deal with one problem at a time, sequentially, critical and analytical in reading, logical in solving problems, gives instructions verbally, uses language in remembering, and grasps certain and established truth. On the other hand, The functions of the right brain included recognising and remembering faces, responding to visual and kinaesthetic instructions, playful and loose in experimenting, responds with emotion and feeling, interprets body language, produces humorous ideas, process kinaesthetic stimuli, subjective processing of information, playful in solving problems, self acting; concrete thinking, likes improving; highly psychic, high use of metaphor and analogies, responsive to emotional appeals, deal simultaneously with several problem at same time, creative, synthesising, associating in reading, intuitive in solving problems, gives instructions through movement and gesture, uses images in remembering, and grasps uncertain truth. Empirical evidences of the functions of the left and right hemispheres were basically based on the observation on brain damage patients and split brain experiment studies (Gazzaniga, 2002; Springer and Deutsch, 2001; and Sperry, 1975). According to the split brain theory, derived from findings of the split brain experiments, the left brain involves with verbal, logical, sequentially-order, rational, realistic, evaluation, critical reasoning, and convergent tasks, while the right brain processes visual, non-verbal, intuition, non-linear, spatial, artistic, musical, holistic, imaginative and creative information (Szirony, Burgin, & Pearson, 2008; Weinberger, 2004; McManus, 2002; Saleh and Iran-Nejab, 1995; Shiflett, 1989; Ibrahim and Davis, 1989; Carol, 1989; Yarlott, 1986; Dombrower, Favero, King, Dombrower & Michael, 1982; Torrance, 1982; Herrmann, 1981; Sperry, 1975). 3. Indicators of brain styles Besides referring the above mentioned theory and models, the items of the YBRAINS test were developed based on research evidences of split brain experiments including the blood flow technique (Lassen, 1972), dichotic listening technique (Bethmann, Tempelmann, De Bleser, Scheich & Brechmann, 2005; Kimura, 1961), electroencephalogram or electrical brain writing technique (Galin and Ornstein, 1972), and hemispheric functions on visual stimuli study (Levy & Trevarthen, 1976). In additions, findings of the left brain and right brain functions Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 4021 derived from psychological tests such as the literal preference test (Porch and Coren, 1981) and the street gestalt completion test (Bogen, 1975) were also be referred. 3.1. Left brain style The indicators of left brain thinking and learning style included: Good in logical, rational and analytical thinking, evaluate materials in rational way, works in a systematic manner, follows rules, processes information sequentially, or step by step, inhibited in responding emotionally, prefer structured activities, proficient in language and verbal activities, prefer science and mathematics subjects, suitable for works which need the skills of systematic, logical thinking and decision making, prefer words over picture or images when reading, prefer using right side of the body for physical activities (the left brain controls right side of the body), emotion is hardly influent by the people, dislike nonsense and less logic idea, prefer learning language subjects, like to tell real stories, realistic in thinking, like to work in a serious, structured, and office-like environment, like routine and repetitious works, tend to match visual stimuli with its function (derived from the laterality study for hemispheric functions on visual stimuli), and less ability in right brain functions. 3.2. Right brain style The indicators of right brain thinking and learning style include: Creative, imaginative in thinking, like to produce original ideas, good in spatial relationship, has a highly adventurous and inventive mind, solves problem intuitively, act spontaneously, response with emotion and feeling, prefers open-ended assignment, has a good sense of humour, has an open mind in everyday life, prefer using left side of the body in physical activities like to response to music and art, or innate musical and artistic talent, suitable for works that need the skills of spatial relationships, understand creative expressions in paintings (the aesthetics values of impressionism, surrealism and cubism art works, such as the aesthetics values in Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso’ paintings), emotion influent by others, good at recall image, like to tell humorous jokes, like to work in a playful environment, inventive in thinking, like non-structured works, tend to match visual stimuli with its appearance, and less ability in left brain functions. 3.3. Whole brain style The indicators of whole brain thinking and learning style include: Has a balanced thinking style, i.e. presents a mixed style of abilities and characteristics of the left brain and right brain styles, works better with task that needs the skills of both the right and left brain. Besides the three brain styles, the test is also measuring the level of openness in thinking. Openness is viewed as associated with the right brain functions, such as appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas and imagination (Runco & Pritzker, 1999). In the test, the openness levels (open style, mixed style and closed style) are identified based on the following openness indicators: generous in sharing idea with others; like to communicate ideas freely; have positive emotion; extraversion; practicing active listening, and listening with understanding; open to what others are saying; not being unreceptive to other ideas and opinions; and receptive to new experience and changes. It is important for an instructor to identify the openness level of a learner before preparing a lesson because teaching is less effective if the student’s mind is closed for learning. 4. Establishing the YBRAINS test Treffinger (1986) pointed out that there is no single, uniformly accepted theory of thinking, and there is also no single assessment instrument of thinking that is and will be universally accepted. Pertaining to brain style, Torrance (1988) stated that if information about the specialized functioning of the two cerebral hemispheres is to become useful to educators, educational psychologists must invent a variety of instruments and recalibrate many existing instruments, while Starko (2004) asserted that the use of a typical thinking instrument is depended on the need and the purpose of its developer, and varying theories and definitions will support differing types of assessment. 4022 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 According to some well-known educational test developers (Torrance, 1984; Watson-Glaser, 1980; Taylor and Getzels, 1975), the general criteria for selecting specific thinking test are: (1) It must have relevance to thinking theory, (2) It must have relevance to thinking behaviour in the real world, (3) it must simply a different aspect of thinking behaviour, (4) it must be attractive to the respondent, (5) it must be built so that a person can respond in terms of his/her experiences whatever these may have been, (6) it must yield data that can be scored reliably for meaningful aspects of thinking, and finally, (7) the testing materials, instructions for administration, time limits, and scoring procedures must be clearly and relevantly stated. The items of the YBRAINS test were developed based the general criteria suggested by the test developers mentioned above. Besides that, the items were also built on the rationale that thinking and learning styles can be identified, quantified, and represented by scores (Starko, 2004). The YBRAINS test consists of 25 items. The items are used to collect data concerning brain styles (left brain, right brain of whole brain style) and openness level (open style, mixed style or closed style) of a respondent. Each item provides respondent with multiple choices – each choice representing a specialised function of the left brain, or a parallel function of the right brain. The respondent is asked to indicate which of the specific brain functions best describes his/her own typical behaviours (not the statement that is correct to most people). The responses are then calculated to obtain a brain style score (divide the total point scored by the number of responses made by the respondent). The brain style score is then categorised into three thinking and learning styles based on a 9-point index which was divided into three sections: left brain style (section 1): 1.0 – 4.5 points; whole brain style (section 2): 4.6 - 5.4 points; and right brain style (section 3): 5.5 –9.0 points. For the openness level, the scoring is similar to provide a three sections’ openness styles: open thinking style (section 1): 1.0 – 4.5 points; mixed thinking style (section 2): 4.6 - 5.4 points; and closed thinking style (section 3): 5.5 –9.0 points (Figure 1). The whole brain and mixed thinking are set at a narrow range of 4.6 - 5.4 point (a 10% of the 9-point scale) because for a person to be balanced in brain style, the maximum range of difference between the scores of the two hemispheres is 10%. The three brain styles and thinking styles is then arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, to create a typology diagram (Figure 1). The typology diagram presents a new model: the Brain Style Model. BRAIN STYLE THINKING STYLE Open Mixed Closed Left Brain Whole Brain Right Brain Brain style score: 1.0-4.5 Openness score: 1.0-4.5 LEFT BRAIN-OPEN THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 1.0-4.5 Openness score: 4.6-5.4 LEFT BRAIN-MIXED THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 1.0-4.5 Openness score: 5.5-9.0 LEFT BRAIN-CLOSED THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 4.6-5.4 Openness score: 1.0-4.5 WHOLE BRAIN-OPEN THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 4.6-5.4 Openness score: 4.6-5.4 WHOLE BRAIN-MIXED THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 4.6-5.4 Openness score: 5.5-9.0 WHOLE BRAIN-CLOSED THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 5.5-9.0 Openness score: 1.0-4.5 RIGHT BRAIN-OPEN THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 5.5-9.0 Openness score: 4.6-5.4 RIGHT BRAIN-MIXED THINKING STYLE Brain style score: 5.5-9.0 Openness score: 5.5-9.0 RIGHT BRAIN-CLOSED THINKING STYLE Figure 1: Typology diagram of the brain style model generated from the YBRAINS test The YBRAINS test is developed in a computer-based system by using a visual basics programme. When a respondent responds to the test items, his learning and thinking styles (left, right or whole brain style, and open, mixed or closed thinking style), as well as the strengths, weaknesses and some suggestion to his style will be presented instantly by the computer programme. Besides that, the test uses a nature friendly background to stimulate Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 4023 respondent’s thinking when he responds to the test items. Figure 2 indicates an example item and the results of the test in graphical form (The test has won two gold medals in innovation expo, including the 21st International invention, innovation & Technology Exhibition, 2010). Figure 2: An example of test items and the results of the test in graphical form 5. Reliability and validity of the YBRAINS test The items of the YBRAINS test were established on the assumptions that thinking and learning styles can be identified, quantified, and represented by scores. In order for these assumptions to be met, instrument used for measurement must meet the test of validity and reliability (Starko, 2004). 5.1. Reliability Test-retest reliability of the YBRAINS was conducted in two studies. The first study tested 224 student teachers (103 males, 121 females; average age: 19.1 years old) of a undergraduate teacher training programme at the Kuala Lumpur Specialist Teacher Training Institute, and retested the same students three months later. The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were positively significant for both of the thinking and learning styles (left brain style: r= .87, p< .05; right brain style: r= .84, p< .05). The second test was conducted on 127 sixth-form students (54 males, 73 females; average age: 18.0 years old) of the Seri Serdang Secondary School in a range of five months in 2008. The product-moment correlation coefficients were also positively significant for both of the thinking and learning styles (left brain style: r= .89, p< .05; right brain style: r= .82, p< .05). Ling (2010) in a study (on a group of 85 secondary school principals: 45 males and 40 females; average age: 45.1 years old) reported that the internal consistency reliabilities (Cronbach’s alpha values) of the left, right, open and closed style are .74, .72, .76, and .84. 5.2. Validity The validity of the YBRAINS test will be presented in terms of content, concurrent, construct and predictive validity. 5.2.1. Content validity The items of the YBRAINS test were constructed by attempting to transform theories and research findings regarding the functions of the left brain and right brain into a multiple-choice test format, with each choice representing either a left brain style or a right brain style, and either an open or closed thinking style. 5.2.2. Concurrent validity 4024 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 Concurrent validity examines whether an instrument correlates with current measures. The concurrent validity study for the YBRAINS test was conducted on a group of 223 students (102 males, 121 females; average age: 19.1 years old) undergraduate student teachers from the Kuala Lumpur Specialist Teacher Training Institute. The study identified correlation between the YBRAINS test and two thinking and learning styles instruments. The two instruments are: (1) The Styles of Learning and Thinking Test or SOLAT (Torrance, 1988). The SOLAT test (youth form) consists of 28 items. Each item of the test provides two choices – one representing a specialised function of the left brain, and the other representing a specialised function of the right brain. A respondent is asked to indicate which of the two specific learning and thinking styles best describes his own typical behaviour. (2) The Brain Works (Synergistic Learning Incorporated, 2006) test. The Brain Works test is a 20 items, triple-choice, computer operated self-assessment instrument. The three choices of each item represented the left brain, the right brain, and the mixed brain dominant thinking and learning styles. The results of the two concurrent validity studies are presented in Table 1. As shown in Table 1, the scores of left brain style of the YBRAINS were positively and significantly correlate with the left brain style of the SOLAT (r= .75, p< .01) and the Brain Works (r= .66, p< .05). On the other hand, the scores of right brain style of the YBRAINS were positively and significantly correlated with the right brain style of the SOLAT (r= .73, p< .01) and the Brain Works (r= .56, p< .05). Table 1. Correlation between the scores of the YBRAINS with the scores of the SOLAT and the Brain Works Correlation Left Brain Style Right Brain Style Styles of Thinking and Learning (SOLAT) - YBRAINS .75** .73** Brain Works - YBRAINS .66* . 56* Note: *significant at p< .05; **significant at p< .01 5.2.3. Construct validity Construct validity asks whether the task on an instrument match generally accepted characteristics of the construct being measured. In determining construct validity, test developer examines scores on instruments attempting to measure the same variable as well as scores on measures of different but related variables (Starko, 2004). In this case, according to the Split Brain Theory derived from the split brain experiment evidences (Sperry, 1975), critical reasoning abilities are functions of the left brain. On the other hand, creative thinking abilities are the functions of the right brain. The instruments are: (1) The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal or WGCTA (Watson & Glaser, 1980). The WGCTA test is one of the most prominent critical thinking tests (Fulton, 1989). It was used to measure critical thinking skills of the subjects. It consisted of 80 items. The items are scored for five components of critical thinking based on the Watson and Glaser’ critical thinking definition. The five components of critical thinking are (1) inference, (2) recognition of assumptions, (3) deduction, (4) interpretation, and (5) evaluation of arguments. (2) The Torrance Test of Creative Thinking or TTCT test, figural form (Torrance, 1984). The TTCT test is the most well known creative thinking test. It has been translated and used in more than 25 different languages (Khatena, 1982: 244). It was used to measure creative thinking skills of the subjects. It consisted of 3 sub-tests: Picture Construction, Picture Completion and Lines Activity. These sub-tests are scored for five components of creative thinking based on Torrance’s definition of creative thinking. The five components are (1) fluency, (2) originality, (3) elaboration, (4) abstractness of titles, and (5) resistance to premature closure. The subjects were 292 form four students (135 males, 157 females; age: 16.0 years old) from the Seri Serdang Secondary School. It was hypothesised that if the instruments reliably measure similar thinking element, one would expects positive relationship, despite the different contents and responses required. The results of the Pearson correlations in Table 2 clearly indicate certain trends. It indicates that the YBRAINS scores of left brain style were positively and significantly correlated with the WGCTA critical thinking index (r= .61, p< .05) and its four components (inference: r=.68, p< .05; deduction: r=.71, p< .01; interpretation: r=.55, p< .05; and evaluation of arguments: r=.63, p< .05). On the other hand, the YBRAINS scores of right brain style were positively and significantly correlated with the TTCT creative thinking index (r= .59, p< .05) and its four components (fluency: r=.55, p< .05; originality: r=.76, p< .05; elaboration: r=.63, p< .05; and resistance to premature closure: r=.44, p< .05). Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 4025 Table 2. Correlations between the scores of the YBRAINS with the scores of the TTCT and the WGCTA tests Correlation YBRAINS WATSON-GLASER CRITICAL THINKING APPRAISAL (WGCTA) Left Brain Style Inference .68* Recognition of Assumptions .27 Deduction .71** Interpretation .55* Evaluation of Arguments .63* Critical Thinking Index .61* TORRANCE TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING (TTCT) Right Brain Style Fluency .55* Originality .76* Elaboration .63* Abstractness of Titles .21 Resistance to Premature Closure .44* Creative Thinking Index .59* Note: *significant at p< .05; **significant at p< .01 However, the relative low and insignificant correlation between the Recognition of Assumptions score of the WGCTA and the left brain style score of the YBRAINS (r= .27, p> .05) suggests that the two tests measuring different aspects of critical thinking Similarly, the relative low correlation between the Abstractness of Titles score of the TTCT and the right brain style score of the YBRAINS (r= .21, p> .05) suggests that the two tests assess different components of creative thinking via different test contents and from different perspectives. (YBRAINS measures thinking and learning styles while TTCT and WGCTA measure thinking skills). The results suggest that the left brain style and right brain style of the YBRAINS reliably measure certain similar critical and creative thinking, as measured by the WGCTA and the TTCT tests, and these results are inline with the evidences of the split brain theory, that creative thinking is one of the functions of the right brain while critical thinking is one of the functions of the left brain. 5.2.4. Predictive validity Predictive validity examines whether scores on a measure predicts its traits or performance at a later time. It asks not how a measure correlates with other measures today but how they may relate to activities tomorrow (Starko, 2004). Based on the split brain theory (Springer & Deutsch, 1993), it seemed reasonable to predict that arts major and music major subjects will score higher on the right brain style of the YBRAINS test. On the contrary, mathematics major and science major subjects will score higher on the left brain style. Table 3 depicts the results of a predictive study. The subjects of the study were 52 mathematics major, 45 music major, 48 science major and 49 fine arts major student teachers (final year undergraduates; 81 males, 113 females; average age: 22.3 years old) from the Kuala Lumpur Specialist Teacher Training Institute. The data in Table 3 indicate that the music major and fine arts major students scored higher on the right brain style (music major: left brain style, M=14.21; right brain style, M=19.10; fine arts major: left brain style, M =14.33; right brain style, M=20.64). On the other hand, the mathematics major and science major subjects scored higher on the left brain style (mathematics major: left brain style, M =18.74; right brain style, M=15.45; science major: left brain style, M =19.50; right brain style, M=14.11). The results show the ability of the scores of the YBRAINS test in predicting the thinking and learning styles. Moreover, referring to the YBRAINS typography diagram (Figure 1), mathematics major and science major students demonstrated left brain style (YBARINS score: mathematics major = 3.61; science major score=4.11), while on the other hand, the music and fine arts students demonstrated right brain style (YBARINS score: music major = 6.31 ; fine arts =6.76). Table 3: Mean and standard deviation scores of the four academic majors on the YBRAINS test YBRAINS Mathematics Major (n=52) Music Major (n=45) Science Major (n=48) Fine Arts Major (n=49) Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD 4026 Chua Yan Piaw / Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011) 4019–4027 Left Brain Style 18.74 3.15 14.21 3.86 19.50 3.18 14.33 4.10 Right Brain Style 15.45 4.37 19.10 4.12 14.11 3.25 20.64 3.74 YBRAINS Score 3.61 0.93 6.31 0.89 4.11 0.81 6.76 0.69 In another study, Ling (2010) reviewed literature and found that Malaysian secondary school principals are working in a highly structured, systematic, rational, convergent thinking environment, and they are predicted as critical in thinking. Hence she hypothesised that the Malaysian school principals possess a left brain style. Her study on a group of school principals (n=85, aged 39 - 54) showed that 50.59% (n=43) of the respondents are left brain style thinkers, 48.24% (n=41) are whole brain style thinkers, and only one respondent possesses a right brain style (Table 4). The three predictive validity studies’ results show that to some extent, the YBRAINS test is able to predict the brain style of its respondent. 6. Conclusion The reliability and validity studies that have been presented above indicate the ability of the YBRAINS scores to represent the brain styles of its respondents. The instrument could be used as an alternative measure to other thinking and learning style tests to understand human behaviours from a slightly different perspective. Since human thinking is a universal behaviour, the usage of the test might not limited only to the Malaysian secondary school students, however, reliability studies should be carried out before it could be widely used. 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The application of symmetry transformations developed from the origin of perspective through the centuries to the present day. The single vanishing point could be moved (translated), and even doubled, developments that made it possible to represent an object from different points of view. In the twentieth century, the application of topological symmetry combined with similitude resulted in new ways of seeing, new tools for artists such as cubists and futurists. A Brief History of the Concept of Symmetry The meaning of the intriguing term ‘symmetry’ has undergone considerable transformation in its use throughout the centuries. The proper translation of the Greek term symmetria ( ) is ‘common measure’, from the prefix sym ( ), common, and the noun metros ( ), measure. The Greeks interpreted this word to mean the harmony between the different parts of an object, the good proportions between its constituent parts. Later this meaning was applied to such things as the rhythm of poems, of music, and even the cosmos (“well-ordered system of the universe, in contrast with chaos”). Up until the Renaissance, Latin and the emerging modern European languages translated “symmetry” as harmony or proportion. In a wider sense, the terms balance and equilibrium also belonged to this family of synonyms. It is not too difficult to deduce that in many ways symmetry was always related to beauty, truth and the good. These related meanings determined its application in the arts, the sciences, and ethics respectively. Symmetry was not only related to such positive values, it even became a symbol of the search for perfection, as in the writings of Plato. The earliest surviving description of symmetry was given by the first century B.C.E. Roman architect Vitruvius, in his Ten Books on Architecture, which laid the foundations for the particular meaning of the notion. His usage suggests symmetry is a general term related to the meaning of words such as harmony, proportion, rhythm, etc. It was not by chance that the humanists of the quattrocento rediscovered Vitruvius’s treatise for themselves. With the publication of several translations, the term “symmetry” replaced earlier translated versions of the word, and took its place within modern European 10 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation languages, first in volgare [Italian: simmetria], later in German [Symmetrie]. It was also not by chance that this adoption of the Greek term took place in parallel with the growing self-consciousness of the arts, the development of art theory, the appearance and application of perspective, and geometry in the visual arts in general. A number of written works contributed to establishing the contemporary meaning of the term symmetry in the fifteenth century.1 Thus, after the Golden Age of Greece (fifth century B.C.E.), the paths of science and the arts crossed again in the Renaissance, only to divide once again—for centuries—and then to meet for a third time in the cultural melting pot of the twentieth century. This has provided fertile ground for the application of symmetry in both spheres, art and science, of human creativity, to products of two opposite cerebral hemispheres. Manifestations of Symmetry If one were to ask general readers what is meant by symmetry, most are likely to answer that it is something like reflection. Indeed, reflection, also called bilateral symmetry, is a very frequent (although not the most frequent) manifestation of symmetry. Take a shape in the plane, and a straight line in the same plane. We can reflect all points of this shape through the straight line, and we will obtain the mirror- shape of the original. We call the two shapes symmetrical because the mirror-shape preserves many properties of the original. The length of the lines between their corresponding points, the distance of the individual points from the reflecting straight line, the angles of intersecting straight lines connecting the corresponding points, and the form of the shape do not change. There are other properties as well that do not change, such as colour, etc. At the same time, however, the direction moving around it, and the left and right sides change. We can describe what has happened thus: first, we have taken a geometric object; second, we have made a geometric transformation (reflection through the straight line), which changed some properties; third, we found that certain other geometric properties remain invariant under the given transformation. After two reflections in respect of the same straight line, we return to the original object. Similar observations can be made when reflecting three-dimensional objects (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. Reflection. Drawing by the author A considerable proportion of readers may mention rotation, another frequent manifestation of symmetry. Take a shape in the plane and a straight line—this time perpendicular to the plane—as the axis of rotation. If we rotate all points of the shape by some (equal) angle of our choice around the axis, the rotated shape will preserve its properties; only its placement in the plane and orientation will change. Again, first, we took a geometric object; second, we made a geometric transformation (rotation around NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 11 the straight line), which changed certain properties; third, we found that other properties did not change under the given transformation. If we choose an angle of rotation that is an integer (n) divisor of 360°, we return to the original object after n transformations (rotations). In these cases we speak of n-fold symmetry. Similar observations can be made when rotating three-dimensional objects (Fig. 2). Fig. 2. Rotation. Drawing by the author Fewer readers will mention the most frequent manifestation of symmetry: translation. Take an object, a direction, and a distance. Move the object in the fixed direction by the given distance, repeating this transformation any number of times, in principle ad infinitum. We will never get back to the original, but we generate a series of copies of the original object. The object preserves all its properties, except for its location in the plane (in space). What happened? Again, first, we took a geometric object; second, we made a geometrical transformation (translation in a set direction by a given distance), which changed the object’s location; third, we found, that its geometrical properties remain invariant under the given transformation. The same object can be translated in several directions. The decorative arts often make use of translation-symmetric motifs, as in frieze patterns, mosaics, window patterns on a building, or crystals in the sciences. Any repetition can represent a symmetry, such as rhythm in poetry and in music, or all periodic phenomena, like periodicity in the celestial mechanics or in the calendar (Fig. 3). Fig. 3. Translation. Drawing by the author The conservation of other geometric properties may serve as the basis for other types of symmetry, such as similitude, affine projection and topological symmetry. Similitude is a symmetry transformation whereby the distances between the corresponding points of two objects change, but the ratios between the lengths and the angles are preserved; thus the shape of the object remains similar to the original (Fig. 4). Fig. 4. Similtude. Drawing by the author 12 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation Affine projection is a symmetry transformation in which straight lines are transformed into other straight lines but angles are not conserved in this transformation (Fig. 5). Fig. 5. Affine projection. Drawing by the author Topological symmetry is a symmetry transformation in which the neighborhood relations between the points of the object are left intact, the distances between them as well as the angles between the lines connecting them are altered. Straight lines do not necessarily remain straight. A good example of topological symmetry is the lattice of the points of a squashed sponge (Fig. 6). Fig. 6. Topological Symmetry. Drawing by the author Generalisation of the Concept of Symmetry All the symmetry types mentioned are geometrical symmetries. What they have in common is that in all cases we perform a certain geometric operation, a transformation. During this transformation one (or more) geometric properties of this geometric object remain unaltered. We say that this property is invariant under the given transformation. To generalise the concept of symmetry, first, replace the geometric transformation with any kind of transformation; second, apply such transformations not only to geometric objects, but to any kind of object; third, investigate not only their geometric properties, but consider any kind of property of the objects. NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 13 In other words, in a generalised interpretation of its meaning, we can speak of symmetry if under any (not necessarily geometric) transformation (operation) at least one (not necessarily geometric) property of the (not necessarily geometric) object is invariant. Thus we make a generalization in respect of three things: any transformation, any object, and any of its properties. This generalized conception of symmetry makes it possible for us to apply symmetry to the materialised objects of the physical and organic world, as well as to products of the mind. In addition to geometrical (morphological) symmetries, we can now discuss functional symmetries and asymmetries (such as may occur in the human brain, for example); gauge symmetries in physical phenomena; and properties like color, tone, light and shadow, weight, in objects of art. Perfection And Symmetry With this expansion of the meaning of symmetry — which opens the door to the consideration of a wide range of different phenomena as symmetries — one might ask the question: can everything around us, therefore, be considered symmetric? Before answering this in the negative, it would be wise to remind ourselves that symmetry is never perfect. Objects can be invariant in respect of certain transformations, but never under all; certain properties of objects can be invariant under a particular transformation, but not all properties. The tendency towards symmetry does not mean it is achieved perfectly everywhere or in everything. Fig. 7. Dissymmetry in an arabesque fragment from the Alhambra. Photograph by the author Dissymmetry. Symmetry often manifests itself in combined and generalized forms, especially in the arts. Here we should emphasize the role of dissymmetry, an expression denoting a property of objects showing symmetry in their general features, albeit slightly distorted. For example, a door is generally a mirror-symmetric object, but the asymmetrical handle distorts its bilateral symmetry. The patterns of windows on the 14 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation facade of a building may show symmetry, but the curtains in the windows may be pleated in different folds in each of the symmetrically-placed windows; the windows themselves may be open or closed; the window sills may be decorated with different potted plants. This dissymmetry lends a certain liveliness to an otherwise inanimate structure. Motifs on an arabesque follow symmetrical shapes, but individual leaves may differ from their symmetrically-placed pair, and tendrils spin around each other, distorting perfect mirror symmetry. Nevertheless, we find dissymmetry beautiful; usually more beautiful than absolutely perfect symmetry (Fig. 7). Over a hundred years ago Pierre Curie, the great physicist and crystallographer, claimed, “Dissymmetry makes the phenomenon.” What could he have meant? For a scientist, the subject of study should be sought where symmetry is distorted; what is there to study in a “perfect” object? Indeed, the dislocations of matter provide the most interesting phenomena for crystallographers. They provide one of the most interesting examples of dissymmetry: modern-day semiconductors, without which most of our devices would not work. The epoch-making discovery that allowed their manufacture was that very, very small amounts of contamination (that is, very small distortions of a once-perfect crystal) can completely change the electrical conductivity. While jewellers look for perfect gem crystals and never find them, scientists produce (almost) perfect artificial crystals and “distort” them, because they have learned how to exploit the advantages of this kind of “dis-perfection.” The history of particle physics in the recent half-century can be considered as a discovery of symmetry-breaking. Combined symmetries. Returning to the geometric manifestations of symmetry, we say that combined symmetries occur when we perform two or more symmetry transformations on the same object and one or more properties remain invariant. For example, take an object, translate (glide) it in a particular direction for a certain distance, and then reflect it through a straight line parallel with the direction of the glide, then repeat this couple of transformations any number of times. This operation is called glide reflection, and is frequently applied in frieze patterns (Fig. 8). Fig. 8 (above) Glide Reflection. Drawing by the author. Fig. 9 (left) Double helix by Watson and Crick NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 15 Other geometric symmetry transformations can also be combined. To give but one example, a helix can be obtained by combining translation and rotation about the axis (Fig. 9). Perspective And Symmetry In the perspective of artists2 we find a combination of the symmetry transformations affine projection and similitude. Were perspective not a symmetry transformation preserving certain features, we would not be able to recognise the original from the picture (Figs. 10 and 11).3 An example from the Renaissance is Raphael’s School of Athens. Fig. 10. Similitude and affine projection. From “Calculating Diminishing Size in Linear Perspective” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann Fig. 11. One vanishing point. From “Exteriors in 1-Point Perspective” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann Similarly, we may think of aerial perspective as combining similitude and colour change (Fig. 12). Fig. 12. Aerial perspective. From “Atmospheric or Aerial Perspective” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann 16 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation Developing perspective in the arts. The application of symmetry transformations has undergone an evolution from the origin of perspective down through the centuries. For example, the single vanishing point could be doubled, and even moved (translated). Developments made it possible to represent an object from different points of view (Figs. 13, 14, and 15). Fig. 13. Two vanishing points. From “Exteriors in 2-Point Perspective” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann Fig. 14. Three vanishing points, worm’s eye view. From “Exteriors in 3-Point Perspective” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann Fig. 15. More vanishing points; shadow and light vanishing points. From “The Perspective of Shadows” © 1995, Ralph Murrell Larmann NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 17 In the twentieth century, such developments were taken further, as can be seen in the work of cubists like Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, and futurists such as Umberto Boccioni. The application of topological symmetry combined with similitude resulted in new ways of seeing, and new tools for artists. Thus they were able to give up the straight lines and fixed direction demanded by the affine projection, and replace this by a topology, making it possible for them to stress certain important features of the represented object. An example of this would be M.C. Escher’s Ascending and Descending. The use of two or more centres of projection, or even the dissolution altogether of fixed centers, liberated the painter from central perspective and opened up new vistas for artists to provide the spectator with multiple-sided representations of the delineated object.4 We ought to note that pictures liberated from central perspective and other constraints, appear at first not to be symmetrical at all. In the old-fashioned, everyday, meaning of the term which restricts symmetry operations to reflection, rotation, translation, and perhaps similitude and affine projection, the naive spectator would be right in assuming there is no symmetry. Having admitted combined symmetries and topological symmetry, however, our concept of symmetry has been expanded, making it possible for us to understand the view of artists who broke with conservative traditions and allowing us to find the beauty (via symmetry, that is, the harmony of details and balance between the parts) in artworks that dare to go beyond traditional composition. To validate this approach, and go even further, we should adopt the generalisation of the concept of symmetry described above. Fig. 16. Pablo Picasso, Nude on a Beach, 1929 18 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation There were at least two transitional phases in which the change of the traditional perspective concept appeared in early twentieth-century art. The first step was the multiplication of the viewpoints of the artist, while the vanishing point(s) were fixed. That is, the artist would see the individual details of his or her object from different directions. An example of this is Picasso’s Nude on a Beach (1929). In Fig. 16 I have added colored straight lines to help recognize three different directions of view for the nude’s face, and dotted lines to mark how one sees her breasts under equal angles from each of the three directions. The next phase was when both the vanishing points and the artist’s viewpoints moved. For example, in Picasso’s Portrait of Marie-Thérèse (1937) (Fig. 17), one can easily recognize the different viewpoints of the artist on the face of the woman; in addition, I have added dotted lines along the edges to help recognize the moved vanishing points in the “distorted” (!) perspective of the room. The symmetry in these kinds of perspective is one where the represented object does not change, although its appearance is not that to which we are accustomed in traditional perspective artistic representation. Fig. 17. Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Marie-Thérèse, 1937 These transformations appear multiplied in several cases. Multiple perspective is used by cubists in horizontal perspective, as in Braque’s Girl with mandolin (1910) and Picasso’s Man with clarinet (1911-12); futurists used multiple perspective in vertical perspective, as in Boccioni’s Simultaneous visions (1911). The roles of the horizontal and the vertical directions in our view, and therefore in perspective representation, are not identical. We perceive the length of straight lines of equal length as different depending on whether they are horizontal or vertical. Imagine a tree 10 meters high at a distance of about 300 meters in front of you; you perceive (see) NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 19 the tree as being much longer (higher), than a 10 meter long (horizontal) fence at the same distance. Since their roles in the view cannot be interchanged, we say that their roles are not symmetrical; that is, not invariant under this change. Thus the perspective will be different if we look at our object horizontally or in a vertical direction from above. The latter, vertical, view is characteristic of futurists works such as Boccioni’s painting,Simultaneous visions. Disregarding this difference in the horizontal and vertical views, however, the multiple-vanishing-points perspective appears in a similar manner in both cubist and futurist works. This is apparent in the similarities between the portrait by the futurist Boccioni, Materia (1911-12) and that by the cubist Picasso, Portrait of D- H. Kahnweiler (1910). Fig. 18. Dissymmetry on a Sumerian picture (H. Weyl, Symmetry, fig. 4) Reflecting Reality How far are the images of art produced using symmetry transformations true and proper mirrors of reality (at least in generalized terms)? Any expectations the reader may entertain about a perfect and symmetrical world must now be challenged. The perfection of even the simplest mirror-images can be cast into doubt. For example, if you were to place a life-sized photograph of yourself next to a looking glass, and then were to stand first before the one and then before the other, you would find that both images would look like your perfect double. But the mirror reflection is different from the photograph. If you tried to shake hands with the photograph, your hand would cross the vertical axis between the two “bodies”; you and your photograph would form a rotational symmetric pair around this axis, your right hand would be across on the left on your photograph; the mole on the right side of your face would appear on the left side in the photograph. And what about the looking glass? Offering your right hand to the looking glass, the reflection’s left hand, but to your right, would approach the mirror plane; that mole would be on the right on your image in the looking glass: you would find that your image in the looking glass (in contrast with your photograph) would be your mirror symmetric pair. If you now compared the two images, you would realize that the mirror image and the photograph are “mirror symmetric” of each other. Which is your real image? Which of the two represents your appearance more perfectly? Does a perfect symmetrical image exist at all? In an ancient Sumerian picture previously analyzed by H. Weyl in 1952 and reproduced here in Fig. 18, the two figures stand almost symmetrically face to face. This symmetry is distorted, however, for both 20 GYÖRGY DARVAS – Perspective as a Symmetry Transformation lift up their right hands, and the left figure’s right hand is closer to us, while the right figure’s right hand is further from us. Would the image be more symmetrical if one drew the picture again, changing the right figure only so that it lifts the hand closest to us? Graphically yes, by all means. However, we could say that the two figures are asymmetrical again, because one of them lifts its right hand, and the other its left. This scene, therefore, cannot be drawn in a perfectly symmetrical manner. What are we to believe about the perfection of our world’s symmetry? The facts do not demonstrate that our world lacks symmetry, but only that its symmetry is never perfect. If you look around you, you cannot fail to find many symmetrical objects, both natural and man-made. As the discussion above shows, there is symmetry, harmony and beauty in our environment. The world is almost perfect; there exist some distortions, admittedly, but it retains its dissymetry, which is still, above all, symmetry. Symmetry is quite natural. Human beings are almsot symmetrical (who sees that our heart beats on one side, or that our motions are co-ordinated from the left hemisphere of our brain?). Flowers are symmetrical, butterflies even more so. Not perfectly, but practically symmetrical. It seems quite natural to us that a tennis court is symmetrical. It must be symmetrical on two accounts: in geometrical terms, and in moral terms, since both the physical conditions and the rules of the game for the two players should be identical, that is, symmetrical. Nevertheless, these conditions and rules were not always so self-evident. In the sixteenth century, when this game originated, Henry VIII played it in his Hampton Court palace in an asymmetrical room, which together with the partial rules provided an advantage for the king. The self-evident and natural qualities of symmetry may depend on local and temporary, physical and social conditions. Something similar may be said of the acceptance of artistic trends, i.e., the changes in the perception of beauty, harmony, and symmetry. Objects and phenomena around us show signs both of symmetry and its lack at the same time. In reality, a thing is symmetrical in one or more aspects. In other words, it conserves one or more of its properties under a particular transformation, (such as a reflection or a rotation), while it is asymmetrical in other aspects: that is, its other properties are not conserved. There is no perfect symmetry (when all properties are preserved) and no perfect asymmetry (when no single property is preserved). A very asymmetrical world would be ugly, while a very symmetrical world would be boring. This concerns not only our physical environment, but also its artistic representations. Perspective as a symmetry operation that conserves properties during the process of artistic representation, helps us to preserve this beauty in all its classical and modern forms. Therefore we should also accept the sophisticated forms of combined symmetries that appear in modern art, and which are products of a long development in multiplying and NEXUS NETWORK JOURNAL – VOL. 5, NO. 1, 2003 21 transforming the vanishing points and the artist’s viewpoints, as manifestations of perspective representation. Accept it, as it is! Notes 1. Among these we may mention Lorenzo Ghiberti (I Commentarii); Leon Battista Alberti (De pictura, Della pittura); Piero della Francesca (De prospectiva pingendi); Luca Pacioli (Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportionalita; De divina proportione); Leonardo da Vinci; and Albrecht Dürer (Undeweysung und Messung, Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion). 2. See the Math Forum webpage on perspective drawing: http://mathforum.org/sum95/math_and/perspective/perspect.html. 3. See “Art Studio Chalkboard: The Perspective of Shadows”: http://www.saumag.edu/art/studio/chalkboard/lp-shadow.html and also “Art Studio Chalkboard: Drawing Subjects”: http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/draw.html 4. Multiple-sidedness is meant here first in geometric terms, and secondly figuratively. References DARVAS, G. 2001. Symmetry and asymmetry in our surroundings: Aspects of symmetry in the phenomena of nature, physical laws, and human perception. Pp. 136-140 in Peter Weibel, ed., Olafur Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded, Essays on Space and Science. Karlsruhe: ZKM, Center for Arts and Media. PETERNÁK, M., N. EROSS, A. EISENSTEIN, and L. BEKE, eds. 2000-2001. Perspective. Budapest: C3, Foundation and Palace of Arts. WEYL, H. 1952. Symmetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press. WILLIAMS, K. 1999. Symmetry in architecture. Symmetry: Culture and Science 10, 3-4: 269-281. Also in VisMath: http://members.tripod.com/vismath/kim/ About the Author György Darvas (1948) http://www.mtakszi.iif.hu/darvas.htm is a physicist and philosopher, specialized in symmetry studies. He took his university and scientific degrees at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. He is a senior research fellow in a research institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, gives lectures at the Faculty of Sciences of the Eötvös University, and he serves as the director and was to be one of the founders of the Symmetrion (http://us.geocities.com/symmetrion/). Also, he was one of the founders of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry) in 1989, and served as its secretary general between 1989 and 2001. He is one of the founding editors of the journal Symmetry: Culture and Science (1990). He is author of about 150 publications, was an invited lecturer at several institutions from Japan to the US, and has delivered lectures at many world- wide conferences, as well as organizing a series of international meetings and exhibitions in the field of science-art relations and on the applications of symmetry. << /ASCII85EncodePages false /AllowTransparency false /AutoPositionEPSFiles true /AutoRotatePages /All /Binding /Left /CalGrayProfile (Dot Gain 20%) /CalRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CalCMYKProfile (U.S. Web Coated \050SWOP\051 v2) /sRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CannotEmbedFontPolicy /Warning /CompatibilityLevel 1.4 /CompressObjects /Tags /CompressPages true /ConvertImagesToIndexed true /PassThroughJPEGImages true /CreateJDFFile false /CreateJobTicket false /DefaultRenderingIntent /Default /DetectBlends true /ColorConversionStrategy /LeaveColorUnchanged /DoThumbnails false /EmbedAllFonts true /EmbedJobOptions true /DSCReportingLevel 0 /EmitDSCWarnings false /EndPage -1 /ImageMemory 1048576 /LockDistillerParams false /MaxSubsetPct 100 /Optimize true /OPM 1 /ParseDSCComments true /ParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo true /PreserveCopyPage true /PreserveEPSInfo true /PreserveHalftoneInfo false /PreserveOPIComments false /PreserveOverprintSettings true /StartPage 1 /SubsetFonts true /TransferFunctionInfo /Apply /UCRandBGInfo /Preserve /UsePrologue false /ColorSettingsFile () /AlwaysEmbed [ true ] /NeverEmbed [ true ] /AntiAliasColorImages false /DownsampleColorImages true /ColorImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /ColorImageResolution 300 /ColorImageDepth -1 /ColorImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeColorImages true /ColorImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterColorImages true /ColorImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /ColorACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /ColorImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /JPEG2000ColorACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000ColorImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasGrayImages false /DownsampleGrayImages true /GrayImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /GrayImageResolution 300 /GrayImageDepth -1 /GrayImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeGrayImages true /GrayImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterGrayImages true /GrayImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /GrayACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /GrayImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /JPEG2000GrayACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000GrayImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasMonoImages false /DownsampleMonoImages true /MonoImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /MonoImageResolution 1200 /MonoImageDepth -1 /MonoImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeMonoImages true /MonoImageFilter /CCITTFaxEncode /MonoImageDict << /K -1 >> /AllowPSXObjects false /PDFX1aCheck false /PDFX3Check false /PDFXCompliantPDFOnly false /PDFXNoTrimBoxError true /PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXSetBleedBoxToMediaBox true /PDFXBleedBoxToTrimBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXOutputIntentProfile () /PDFXOutputCondition () /PDFXRegistryName (http://www.color.org) /PDFXTrapped /Unknown /Description << /FRA /ENU (Use these settings to create PDF documents with higher image resolution for improved printing quality. The PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Reader 5.0 and later.) /JPN /DEU /PTB /DAN /NLD /ESP /SUO /ITA /NOR /SVE >> >> setdistillerparams << /HWResolution [2400 2400] /PageSize [612.000 792.000] >> setpagedevice work_6srpggk7v5ctjhtlystxgu6xey ---- ÔThese are not ordinary timesÕ: Political Persecution in Cold War America “A blot upon liberty”: McCarthyism, Dr Barsky and the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee* Phillip Deery On 4 May 1949, Dr Edward K. Barsky received some reassuring news. His reappointment as surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital in New York City, where he had worked since 1923, was confirmed for another two years. Twelve months later, the news he received shocked him, and it changed his life. He was informed by the Supreme Court of the United States that he was to commence serving a six month sentence in a Federal penitentiary. Accordingly, he became Prisoner No. 18907. Upon his release, he received further disturbing news. His licence to practise medicine would be revoked. These misfortunes had nothing to do with medical malpractice or professional incompetence. On the contrary, he was widely respected and trusted by patients, colleagues and hospital administrators. Instead, Barsky was paying the heavy price for a political decision he made in 1945 – that, as chairman of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC), he would not cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). It was a fateful decision whose consequences could not be foreseen. He did not know it then, but for Edward Barsky, the domestic Cold War had started. The aim of this paper is to use the assault on the JAFRC, and Barsky’s individual story within that, to illuminate the mechanisms of political repression during the early Cold War. The JAFRC was the first to be subpoenaed by HUAC, the first to challenge its legitimacy, and the first to set the pattern for Cold War inquisitions. In 1950, after three years of unsuccessful legal appeals, the Committee’s entire Executive Board was jailed. Barsky received the most severe sentence. It was the biggest single incarceration of political prisoners in America during the early Cold War. Upon release, Barsky lost his right to practise medicine. By early 1955, the JAFRC had dissolved: like Barsky’s career, it had been crippled by McCarthyism. Despite widespread contemporaneous coverage in both the mainstream and Left press, the political repression of the JAFRC has escaped any systematic analysis by historians. This is surprising given Ellen Schrecker’s comments about the Barsky v. United States case, which was a culminating point in the JAFRC’s fight for political survival. This case, according to Schrecker, constituted a “landmark” decision in that it upheld HUAC’s power to require individuals to disclose their Communist Party affiliations and thereby permitted HUAC investigators to trample on witnesses’ constitutional rights. It represented, she argued, “a serious setback for political freedom”.[1] What little attention historians have given to the JAFRC is usually in connection with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, from which the JAFRC sprang, rather than to the onset of the Cold War, which oversaw its demise.[2] In contrast to the paucity of historical studies, the JAFRC has received more generous attention from the legal profession. This extends from contemporaneous case studies and Supreme Court opinions to jurisprudential scholarly works.[3] This paper, therefore, seeks to redress this historiographical oversight. The main concern, however, is to examine the institutional processes – that ‘bureaucratic rationality of McCarthyism’[4] – by which a once-flourishing medical career was thwarted and a once-viable organisation was destroyed. Although Barsky was but one individual and the JAFRC was but one of many left wing organisations targeted by HUAC and the FBI, they epitomise the assault on the Left by American cold war warriors. In the context of McCarthyism, both were perceived threats to national security. Barsky was a communist and the JAFRC was a communist “front”.[5] But this paper demonstrates that their punishment did not fit their “crime”, and this, perhaps, holds contemporary lessons for those who conduct the domestic “war on terror”. The paper also demonstrates that such an assault, contrary to received interpretations, commenced very early in the post-war period; for Barsky and the JAFRC the Cold War commenced in 1945, not 1947 or 1948. It should be remembered, of course, that such a bureaucratic blitz was part of a long historical trajectory. Political intolerance, the crushing of dissent, security service surveillance, deportations and imprisonment were all familiar to radical activists in the Labor movement since the 19th Century. Even HUAC, established for the first time as a standing committee through a Congressional vote[6] on 3 January 1945, had an earlier incarnation: the Dies Committee, formed in May 1938. And there is a legion of historians who have catalogued the history of anti- communist repression by the State.[7] However, the actions against Barsky and the JAFRC were an historical marker. They signalled the first flexing of political muscle by HUAC, which saw the JAFRC’s confrontation with it as a litmus test of its legitimacy. As its chairman, John S. Wood (D., Georgia) pointedly stated: “It is the purpose of our Committee to determine, once and for all, whether an organization such as the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee has the authority to defy Congress of the United States…”.[8] Because HUAC, not the JAFRC, triumphed, the framework was established for future Congressional inquisitions that were to become such an emblematic feature of McCarthyism. But first, who was Barsky and what was the JAFRC? “Eddie” Barsky was born in New York in 1897, attended Townsend High School and graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1919. He undertook postgraduate training in Europe and, on return, commenced an internship in 1921 at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, where he became Associate Surgeon in 1931, and where he established a flourishing practice.[9] In 1935, Barsky, a Jew, joined the American Communist Party, which shaped his outlook on developments in Europe. Fascism was then ascendant, but in Spain there was hope. When the generals arose against the elected Republican government in July 1936, Barsky realised, like Orwell, that this was a state of affairs worth fighting for. As he told a reporter, “I came to [Spain] for very simple reasons. Nothing complicated. As an American I could not stand by and see a fellow-democracy kicked around by Mussolini and Hitler…I wanted to help Republican Spain. I did. Is it simple or complex?”[10] As casualties mounted, and as a “powerful antifascist coalition” developed in New York,[11] Barsky acted. On “one October night” in 1936, he founded, in a friend’s home, the American Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy.[12] After frantically fund-raising and then collecting, storing and loading provisions to equip an entire hospital in Spain, Barsky – along with sixteen doctors, nurse and ambulance drivers – sailed on 16 January 1937. This was just three weeks after the first American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade had departed. He assumed control of the medical service within the International Brigade, established and headed seven front line, evacuation and base hospitals, and refined the operating techniques of medical surgery under fire. He also pioneered a surgical procedure for removing bullets and shrapnel from chest wounds, and helped create the mobile surgical hospital that became a model for the American Army in World War II. On at least one leading International Brigadier, Steve Nelson, Barsky made “a terrific impression”.[13] In July 1937 he took brief leave from the frontlines – to return to New York to raise funds for more medical aid.[14] He addressed, in mufti, 20,000 at a rally in Madison Square Garden; a photograph of him reveals the intensity of his commitment.[15] When he returned - and he stayed until October 1938 - he was made an honorary major in the Spanish Republican Army. In 1944 he wrote the autobiographical, 302-page “The Surgeon Goes to War”, which captures his profound empathy with the Spanish cause. When the celebrated author of Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast, first met Barsky in late 1945, he found him “a lean, hawklike man, handsome, commanding, evocative in appearance of Humphrey Bogart, a heroic figure who was already a legend”.[16] In 1950, when HUAC found him subversive, Ernest Hemingway found him saintlike: “Eddie is a saint. That’s where we put our saints in this country - in jail”.[17] From various organizations (United American Spanish Aid Committee, American Committee to Save Refugees and American Rescue Ship Mission) and individuals (especially veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) that supported the Spanish Republic during the civil war, the JAFRC was born on 11 March 1942.[18] The driving force was Barsky. With the Loyalists’ defeat in 1939, a massive exodus of over 500,000 Republican Spanish refugees spilled over the Pyrenees into France. Most congregated in overcrowded refugee camps and then, from 1940 after the German occupation, were conscripted as labourers or sent to concentration camps. Thousands died in the Mauthausen camp. 30,000 were interned in North Africa. Approximately 18,000 who escaped incarceration fought alongside the French Resistance (as well as De Gaulle’s Free French in Algeria) and suffered disproportionately at the hands of the Gestapo. To remain in Franco’s Spain, as many former Republicans soon discovered, invited imprisonment or death.[19] Despite this some remnants stayed on, in hiding. Others escaped to Spanish-speaking countries: Portugal, Mexico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. They lived the rest of their lives in that strange world of exile, some in a “limbo of expectation”; others sadly “locked in a sterile polemic about responsibility for their defeat”.[20] In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Barsky – with his direct experience behind him but his visceral attachment to Spain intact – became preoccupied with the plight of these Spanish refugees. This preoccupation led directly to the establishment of the JAFRC, and the refugees were its raison d’être. Under Barsky’s indefatigable leadership, the JAFRC acquired legitimacy during World War II. Licensed to provide aid by Roosevelt’s War Relief Control Board, it was granted tax-exempt status by the Treasury Department. The Committee raised funds, formed sixteen chapters (or branches) in major American cities, established orphanages, and strenuously opposed Franco’s regime.[21] As Barsky told dinner guests at the opening of the Spanish Refugee Appeal, which sought to raise $750,000, in March 1945: Our program consists of relief, rehabilitation, medical care, transportation and associated welfare services, in many parts of the world…Who will help [the refugees]? We! We are the only people to help them. We help them or they die.[22] It sent thousands of dollars and tons of food, clothing and medicines to Spanish refugees in both France and North Africa. The Unitarian Service Committee and the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, distributed this relief. [23] Its work, as one report later noted, “was a work of mercy; it sheltered the homeless, fed the hungry, healed the sick”.[24] Material and legal support was given to other refugees to emigrate to one of the few countries that welcomed them – Mexico. There, a school for refugee children was built and the Edward K. Barsky sanatorium was opened when the JAFRC collected $50,000 after a national fundraising campaign in January 1945.[25] Eleven months later, HUAC pounced. On 10 December it subpoenaed Barsky and the JAFRC’s administrative secretary, Helen Reid Bryan, to appear before it at 10am on 19 December 1945 in Washington (this was postponed until 23 January 1946). They were to “produce all books, ledgers, records, and papers relating to the receipt and disbursement of money” by the JAFRC, together with “all correspondence and memoranda of communications by any means whatsoever with persons in foreign countries”.[26] The Executive Board held a special meeting on 14 December and unanimously adopted a resolution “to protect the rights of this Committee and its supporters” from HUAC. It would not surrender its records. It also declared that HUAC’s demands infringed democratic rights and were “unwarranted and unjustified”. It invoked HUAC’s own terms of reference by stating that the JAFRC “is truly American in every sense of the word and can, by no stretch of the imagination, be considered un-American, subversive, or an attack upon the principles of our form of government”.[27] In early January 1946, Barsky wrote to all contributors explaining the position of the JAFRC Executive Board. He cited a recent speech by Congressman Ellis Patterson, who called for the dissolution of HUAC, which he described as a “sham” that “violated every concept of American democracy”. That a showdown with HUAC loomed was implied by Barsky’s concluding paragraph: the JAFRC was “determined to continue its humanitarian and relief work” and would “let nothing stand in the way of providing this aid”.[28] Equally, HUAC was just as determined, as we have seen, that its authority would not be defied by the JAFRC. Why did HUAC target the JAFRC? According to J. Parnell Thomas (R., New Jersey), the trigger was an attack by the “Red Fascist”, Harold J. Laski, on the Catholic Church in Spain at a JAFRC- sponsored rally of 17,000 in Madison Square Garden on 24 September 1945. As a result, said Thomas, HUAC received “over 8,000 complaints” against Laski, the JAFRC and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and HUAC “decided to investigate the charges”.[29] (In fact the popular actor and Catholic, Frank Fay, organised a post-card campaign.[30]) For HUAC’s chief legal counsel, Ernie Adamson, the basis for investigating the JAFRC and its subsidiary Spanish Refugee Appeal was that “they both seem to be engaged in political propaganda, not relief”.[31] HUAC had jurisdiction over the “extent, character and objects of un-American propaganda activities” and JAFRC propaganda, according to HUAC chairman John S. Wood, was “of a subversive character”.[32] Opposing Franco, moreover, in which the JAFRC was engaged, was considered especially un-American and dangerous to the US by Roman Catholic red-hunters such as the “Senator from Madrid”, Pat McGarran (D., Nevada), and J. Parnell Thomas, who had close ties to the Franco regime.[33] Both subscribed to a particularly virulent form of Catholic anti- communism that stretched back to Father Coughlin in the 1930s and that now embraced powerful Catholic organizations (Knights of Columbus and Catholic War Veterans) and prelates (Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop Richard Cushing and Monsignor Fulton Sheen).[34] The long-term hatred of communism by American Catholics – fuelled by the treatment of Catholic priests both in Spain during the civil war and in “Iron Curtain” countries in the immediate post-war years – found a ready outlet in the JAFRC. But hostility to the JAFRC went even deeper than this. Congressman Karl Mundt (R., South Dakota) argued the JAFRC was engaged not merely in disseminating un-American, anti-Franco propaganda but also in “secret and nefarious activities”.[35] What were these activities? Newly- released FBI files (discussed below) confirm – and by late 1945, they were thick - that its director, J. Edgar Hoover, believed by 1944 that the JAFRC was actually subversive. He was convinced, by two different “confidential” sources, that veterans of the closely associated Abraham Lincoln Brigade, who had been trained in military warfare, would “lead the vanguard of the revolution in this country.”[36] Funds raised by the JAFRC, ostensibly for Spaniards’ relief, would assist that goal.[37] Given the symbiotic relationship between the FBI and HUAC,[38] it is arguable that underpinning HUAC’s post-war harassment of the JAFRC was Hoover’s long-term anti- communist crusade. The first JAFRC member to travel to Washington and confront the Committee was its administrative secretary, Helen Bryan. She did not travel alone: a delegation of more than 200 supporters accompanied her on the overnight train from New York. When she was inside HUAC’s chambers on 23 and 24 January 1946, they were lobbying seventy Congressmen.[39] Bryan, a Quaker, was a highly courageous woman. She was variously described as “saintly”; imbued with “integrity”, “loyalty” and a “high-minded sensitivity”; and devoted to a “lifetime service to humanity”.[40] As the nominal custodian of the records she willingly assumed full responsibility for the Board’s refusal to surrender them. This tactic sought to insulate the rest of the Board from prosecution. According to Fast, it was a defensive maneuver, but legally sound. However, “if we had had any premonition that imprisonment would result from this, not one of us would have allowed Helen Bryan to take the fall”.[41] Nevertheless, she took “a course of action that involved risk to herself rather than risk to others”.[42] The price she paid was three months in Alderston jail. Again and again the House Committee (John Wood, the chairman; J. Parnell Thomas and Karl Mundt, both Dies Committee alumni; John Rankin; and five others) interrogated the stubborn Bryan about the whereabouts of the records. Each time she refused. They were not interested in the workings of the JAFRC. Repeatedly she attempted to read an explnatory statement. Each time she was denied, to be met with “I demand that you answer the question ‘yes’ or ‘no’”. Eventually Bryan stated: “How can our organization, created to provide relief for Spanish Republican refugees and their families… in good conscience endanger the lives of people by turning names over to your committee?”[43] She then stated she had not brought the books and records and, as a result, was cited for contempt of Congress on 24 January 1946. The reasons, which HUAC members neither heard nor wished to hear, for Bryan’s refusal to relinquish JAFRC records were threefold. First, JAFRC records were already available to the US government. As the Committee’s defence attorney and former US assistant attorney general, O. John Rogge, repeatedly pointed out, both the President’s War Relief Control Board and the Treasury Department had full access to JAFRC reports and records and its investigators had examined them “for a substantial period of time”.[44] It would open its books to any “authoritative, impartial committee, but simply not to “this unconstitutional House committee” that was not entitled to them.[45] Second, the JAFRC questioned the constitutionality of HUAC and the scope of its jurisdiction. This was not unusual in 1945-48.[46] Then, a great many American liberals, including Congressmen, challenged the legitimacy of HUAC.[47] Even President Harry Truman criticised the purposefulness of HUAC hearings.[48] Former Vice- President Henry Wallace certainly did.[49] Finally, and most important, the financial records contained two politically volatile lists: one was a list of 30,000 American names who contributed to relief aid; the other was a list of Republican Spaniards who were receiving relief aid, including those inside Franco’s Spain. Barsky, Bryan and the other JAFRC members were convinced that, if these names were disclosed to HUAC and, presumably, the FBI, the liberties of each group would be imperilled. The Board felt a strong sense of obligation to protect both domestic donors from retaliation and Spanish recipients from persecution. To do otherwise, as a Board member later recalled, would be a “heinous and totally dishonourable action”.[50] A meeting of nineteen members of the Executive Board on 1 February – one of the best-attended – unanimously endorsed Bryan’s non-cooperation with HUAC.[51] Without knowing it, they, too, were soon to have similar experiences. Ten days later they instructed its National Chairman, Barsky, not to produce any records or documents when it was his turn to face HUAC on 13 February.[52] The closed, executive session of HUAC that interrogated Barsky was administratively a shambles. The transcript reveals a distinct lack of unanimity about the procedures to be followed or the degree of latitude afforded to this witness.[53] Barsky was twice asked to step outside so that members could decide on procedure. In one instance they even took a private vote. The hearing was punctuated by interruptions to HUAC’s own legal counsel (seeking preliminary information on the workings of the JAFRC) from Rankin demanding an immediate “Yes” or “No” answer from Barsky regarding the records. Three members (Gerald Landis, J.W. Robinson and the Chair) favoured permitting Barsky to read his prepared statement; others (Mundt, Rankin and Thomas) did not. There was also dispute over whether or not the statement, if not read, could be incorporated into the record. Rankin’s demand – “Give it to the Chairman. We will decide later whether it goes into the record or not” – prevailed. Barsky reluctantly handed over his statement, neither read nor tabled. Barsky remained circumspect and, throughout, retained his dignity.[54] Some HUAC members did not. Even at a distance of sixty-three years, their rudeness, intimidation, capriciousness and sheer bullying during these closed Congressional hearings has the capacity to astonish and shock. The standoff between JAFRC and HUAC began to achieve public attention. In addition to the radical press, editorials and articles appeared in the Los Angeles Examiner, Nation, New York Post, New York Times, Washington Post and World Telegram.[55] The newly-formed “Citizens to Safeguard the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee”, with such notables as Albert Deutsch, Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, inserted full-page advertisements in three daily newspapers, pressured the Democratic National Committee, contacted trade unions, chapters, sponsors and contributors urging action and donations, and organised a fund-raising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria on 18 March. Two well-attended press conferences were organised. In addition Barsky personally undertook a major task: he wrote individually signed letters to every Congressmen, and he did this twice, on 18 February and 8 March.[56] J. Parnell Thomas was not daunted. Indeed, reactions by Barsky and JAFRC leaders emboldened him and confirmed their guilt. I have been on this committee from its very inception. I was on the Dies committee from the beginning to end…whenever we were attacked we [knew] we had struck pay dirt. Now we have struck pay dirt on this Barsky matter. Barsky is doing everything he possibly can…They are getting in touch with members of Congress, telling them that this is an un- American committee. They have used those words. After labelling the JAFRC as “the leading Communist-front organization today,” Thomas told the House that HUAC would be “going right to the bottom” of the JAFRC and would “thoroughly” investigate its leaders. He declared, “You can count on it that when we make our report to this Congress it will astound you all”.[57] Such bravado would prove hollow. There was no more “pay dirt” yielded, no exposé of the JAFRC leaders’ clandestine communist activities, no revelation that would “astound” Congress. In fact J. Parnell Thomas would precede those leaders into jail. Although he chaired HUAC’s inquisition of the Hollywood Ten the following year, in August 1948 his past fraudulent salary practices were exposed and, soon after, was indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government, tried, convicted, fined $10,000 and sentenced to eighteen months in Danbury federal penitentiary.[58] One piece of information that Barsky provided to HUAC, upon request, was the names and addresses of all Executive Board members. This enabled the next round in the Congressional committee’s offensive against the JAFRC. Notwithstanding the “personal opinion” of Benedict Wolf, the JAFRC’s legal counsel, that it would be “very difficult” and “absurd” for Congress cite seventeen people,[59] this is precisely what happened. On 16 March 1946 every member of the Executive Board (in additional to Bryan and Barsky) was cited for contempt. This was hasty, precipitous action. Astonishingly, none of these individuals had been subpoenaed, none had appeared before HUAC, and none had been given any opportunity to answer any questions, even contemptuously. This over-reaching was so blatant that, when the HUAC chairman sought Congressional confirmation on 28 March, he quickly struck out their names when challenged by the radical American Labor Party Congressman, Vito Marcantonio (Ind., New York) and, more efficaciously, by “no better friend” of HUAC than the conservative Eugene Cox (D., Georgia).[60] But it was a pyrrhic victory for those supporting the JAFRC. Members of HUAC immediately went on the attack. To Mundt, the JAFRC was “honeycombed” with communists, was “bringing foreigners to America” and was “trying to destroy the things for which our flag stands”; to Thomas, the JAFRC was “a vehicle used by the Communist Party and the world Communist movement to force political, diplomatic, and economic disunity.” Rankin hoped that the House would “support the committee and let the world know that we are going to protect this country from destruction at the hands of the enemies within our gates”. The House complied. All the strenuous efforts of the JAFRC “pressure campaign” were in vain. The vote was a massive 339 to 4 in favour of citing Barsky for contempt of Congress.[61] That night a naïve or ignorant Benedict Wolf told the Executive Board: “Possibly it won’t go any further than the District Court because of the fact that the books and records were not in the custody of Dr. Barsky”.[62] The following day, it did go further. On 29 March, all remaining sixteen Executive Board members were served with subpoenas. All appeared before HUAC and, ritualistically, all refused one by one to hand over any books and records. All were cited.[63] None was permitted legal representation. Once again, proceedings became aggressive. Recalcitrance would be met with truculence. When, for example, Professor Lyman Bradley attempted to answer a question by reading a prepared statement, a HUAC member told the chair to “just call up the marshall and send him to jail”.[64] One ritual that recurred in numerous subsequent hearing and trials – “taking the Fifth” – was noticeably absent in these hearings. The fact that none invoked the Constitutional right of protection against self-incrimination, which may have saved them in 1946[65] (before “guilt by suspicion” became so ubiquitous) was sharply criticised by Howard Fast, one of those cited. Fast directed blame squarely at the JAFRC attorney, Benedict Wolf. He judged Wolf as “an unimaginative, plodding man”, who, “either by intent or by his poverty of invention…failed to advise us on the use of the Fifth”. According to Fast, he was responsible for the overall “woeful mismanagement” of the case, and his actions “never ceased to mystify me”.[66] But Wolf genuinely believed that those cited would be cleared by the courts, that talk of jail sentences was fanciful, and that HUAC’s investigatory methods (demanding financial records as opposed to “un- American propaganda”) would be declared unconstitutional.[67] It was not until 1 March 1947 that O. John Rogge took over.[68] In retrospect, by then it was too late. The Congressional confirmation of this mass contempt citation was distinguished by passionate debate for, as Helen Douglas (D., California) presciently commented, the vote “will directly affect the lives of 17 people, directly and indirectly, to the end of their days”.[69] The response of the red-hunting hard-liners was predictable: “Is Congress going to be subjected to contempt by an element in this country that is plotting day and night for the overthrow of this Government?”[70] Less predictable was this plea from Emmanuel Celler (D., NY), who had not previously voted against the citation of Barsky: Mr. Speaker, we are making history, regrettable history, in finding innocent people guilty of contempt without trial, without jury and without the benefit of counsel. I believe we are turning our backs upon our glorious past if we pass this resolution…I predict our action will come back to plague us.[71] However, Congress made its “regrettable history” and voted 292 in favour, 56 against and 82 abstentions.[72] Notwithstanding these Damoclean swords, the JAFRC attempted to continue its work. Its monthly Executive Board meetings for the remainder of 1946 recorded activities such as the Women’s Division Luncheon, a hootenanny, distribution of “Street Solicitation Cans”, theatre parties, preparations for a Madison Square Garden rally, and the Christmas auction at the Waldorf- Astoria. The longest meeting, which finished at 11pm, was the 21 November meeting, and it dealt with only one item: Gerhardt Eisler. This well-known German communist and recipient of JAFRC aid was a FBI bête noir. Eisler used various pseudonyms – Hans Berger, “Edwards”, Julius Eisman and Samuel Liptzen – which contributed to the FBI’s conviction that he was previously a senior Comintern agent and now a figure of “paramount importance” and “unlimited authority” within the American Communist Party.[73] He had entered the United States in 1941 en route to Mexico but instead was interned. After the war, he tried again to leave, and was arrested and jailed. Hoover’s long report on Eisler was read into HUAC testimony when Eisler appeared before it in early 1947. It described Eisler as a “Kremlin terrorist” and the “Soviet mastermind in the United States” and included specific reference to checks for $150 each signed by the JAFRC Treasurer, Lyman Bradley, regularly collected by Eisler at the JAFRC offices but endorsed by “Julius Eisman”.[74] Something shady and nefarious, if not downright conspiratorial, it seemed, was clearly afoot. It reinforced the FBI’s and, thus, HUAC’s, view of the JAFRC as subversive. But there was a more innocuous explanation: Eisler, who had been imprisoned in 1940 in a French concentration camp with other Spanish refugees, was the conduit between the JAFRC and German-born veterans of the Spanish Civil War who had become refugees during the Second World War. Twelve of these refugees named Eisler as a trustee of a fund that provided them with aid, derived from the $150 monthly checks. That fund was established in the name of a German killed in the Spanish civil war – Julius Eisman.[75] Correctly anticipating further incarceration (following a perjury charge from 1942 and a contempt citation from 1946), Eisler illegally fled the United States on a Polish ship, Batory, after buying a 25 cent visitor’s pass and hiding on board until it sailed.[76] While he hid, the Executive Board waited. Twelve months passed before the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, on 31 March 1947, indicted the JAFRC Board for contempt of Congress. The indictments charged the group with “having conspired to defraud the United States by preventing the Congressional Committee from obtaining the records”.[77] It was, in short, a conspiracy indictment. This changed a misdemeanour into a felony and thereby jeopardised the licence to practise of doctors and lawyers (who were well represented on the JAFRC Board). When appealing for funds to cover immediate legal expenses, estimated at $17,000,[78] Barsky wrote that “This case against us is a potential threat to the civil liberties of all Americans”.[79] On 16 June 1947, the eighteen Executive Board members of the JAFRC were brought to trial in the Federal District Court of Washington. The trial, which was to last ten days, had been delayed because Rogge charged that Justice Alexander Holtzoff was “guilty of bias and prejudice”. Indeed he was. Holtzoff had been assigned by the Department of Justice to advise the FBI when the JAFRC was first being investigated by the FBI in 1944-45. When Holtzoff refused to remove himself he made legal history: for the first time the US Court of Appeals issued a writ of prohibition against a Federal judge.[80] There was an unreliable witness as well as a prejudiced judge. At the trial, a key government witness, Robert Alexander from the Visa Division of the State Department, branded the JAFRC “subversive”. Twelve months later he was being investigated, at the request of the Secretary of State, on charges of “misconduct and dereliction of duty”.[81] Yet, to the JAFRC, this mattered little. On 27 June 1947, after adjourning for only one hour, four men and eight women of the Federal court jury convicted all eighteen Board members of contempt.[82] Immediately after the guilty verdict, five of the sixteen members got cold feet. They “purged” their contempt by recanting and resigning from the JAFRC Board. Their sentences were suspended.[83] The remaining eleven, except Barsky, were sentenced to jail for three months and fined $500 each; Barsky received a six-month sentence. He also received hundreds of letters of support, from Pablo Picasso in France to this unknown woman in Milwaukee: “My heart is sad by your suffering. I only wish I could give more. All the money I have to give is in this envelope. I gladly give my widow’s mite. God bless your work is my prayer”.[84] Coming before the Hollywood Ten trial and the Smith Act prosecutions, this mass political incarceration was the first since the Palmer Raids nearly thirty years before and the biggest during the McCarthy era. The eleven convicted JAFRC members served notices of appeal and were released on bond. Appeals cost money. Simply bringing one case to the Court of Appeals would cost $4000, so much time at JAFRC meetings was focused on fund raising, not for Spanish refugees but for self- defence: “A fund raising event, possibly in the Golden Gate Ballroom in Harlem, might be planned. Outstanding Negro and white talent could be secured. A counter proposal was made that such an event might be planned by which a larger income could be secured”.[85] In its capacity to raise funds to aid refugees, meanwhile, the increasingly besieged JAFRC suffered two body blows. First, the Committee was listed as a “subversive” organization in the first of the Attorney General’s Lists of Subversive Organizations, published on 4 December 1947.[86] The American Council of Civil Liberties, on behalf of the JAFRC, challenged procedural aspects of the List,[87] but to be on the list was tantamount to a kiss of death as far as broader community support was concerned. As I.F. Stone noted, many contributors and supporters were “frightened” to link themselves to a “disloyal” organization. [88] Until then, support had remained steadfast; a total of only two from the large list of JAFRC sponsors had resigned. Second, on 23 January 1948, the Internal Revenue Bureau informed the JAFRC that its tax-exempt status (granted on 8 February 1943) was revoked. This meant that donations could no longer be tax deductible and income tax returns since the inception of the JAFRC in 1942 must be submitted. It was little wonder that Barsky, in appealing to supporters for yet another financial contribution to support a legal challenge, felt that “we are now faced with one of the gravest crises in the history of our organization”.[89] Curiously, perhaps, recognition of this crisis could not be discerned in any of the addresses or reports heard by delegates to the two-day National Conference of the JAFRC in August. Indeed, an inverse relationship between vulnerability of position and defiance of tone pervaded discussions and resolutions.[90] But its nemesis awaited. For the next three years following the convictions, a series of complicated but ultimately unsuccessful appeals and petitions for re-hearings were conducted.[91] The many arguments presented to the appellate courts and to the Supreme Court, mainly by Rogge, and the judgements of the various courts, will not be summarised here.[92] Suffice it to say that both the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (5-2) and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2-1) held that HUAC was not exceeding constitutional powers or acting in violation of First Amendment, in questioning witnesses about Communist Party membership or associations. In other words, HUAC had the right interrogate individuals about their Communist Party affiliations. In his blistering dissenting opinion, Circuit Judge Henry Edgerton wrote that the HUAC inquiry stigmatised unpopular views, abridged freedom of speech and inflicted punishment without trial.[93] Ten years later Edgerton was vindicated, but too late for the JAFRC.[94] Rogge stated, “We are concerned here with the basic democratic right to be free from intimidation with reference to one’s personal beliefs”.[95] At a JAFRC-sponsored dinner at the Astor Hotel, Rogge let fly. HUAC, he proclaimed, was “an unconstitutional body acting in an unconstitutional manner and more concerned with advancing the political fortunes of its members than in protecting American ideals”.[96] At another meeting, recorded by the FBI, he went even further. The assault on the JAFRC, he claimed, was “plainly part of the first step towards Fascism”.[97] On 29 May 1950 the US Supreme Court refused, for the second time, to review two appeals filed by Rogge.[98] That decision opened the gates to the federal penitentiary. On the day the eleven commenced their incarceration, 7 June 1950, a solitary line of about fifty veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade paraded outside the White House. Their placards read “No Jail for Franco’s Foes” and “Franco was Hitler’s Pal”.[99] A more “respectable” protest to the President was made by Francis Fisher Kane, an “old member of the Philadelphia Bar” and US Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson. He “earnestly” requested Truman to commute the sentences imposed, since imprisonment was “a denial of justice and a blot upon American liberty”.[100] Washington prison authorities, meanwhile, were itemising the clothes of their new inmates; in Barsky’s case, a green hat, blue shirt, grey and yellow necktie, and brown pants and coat.[101] He became Prisoner 18907. The eleven prisoners (Helen Bryan and Ernestina Fleischman were imprisoned separately, on 13 November 1950, after a final, unsuccessful legal appeal[102]) were drawn from a range of backgrounds – academic, legal, literary, medical, labor union and business. In addition to Barsky, the most notable members were the head of the German Department at New York University and Modern Language Association treasurer, Professor Lyman Bradley and the well-known essayist and historical novelist, Howard Fast.[103] Initially, Barsky and the other male JAFRC detainees were confined to the District of Columbia prison in Washington. The women Board members (Marjorie Chodorov, Ruth Leider and Charlotte Stern) were sent to Federal Penitentiary for Women at Alderston, West Virginia.[104] According to one commentator, “In the normal course of events [these individuals] wouldn’t see the inside of a jail, or even a courtroom, during their whole lifetime…But these are not ordinary times and these are not ordinary events.”[105] They were treated, however, very ordinarily and no different from the “common” criminal: handcuffed, stripped, processed naked, fingerprinted twice, showered, given faded blue uniforms and locked in a shared cell five by seven feet in a towering cell block. After nine days, the men were deliberately scattered.[106] Dr Jacob Auslander, a physician, joined J. Parnell Thomas, the criminal, in Danbury federal penitentiary in Connecticut; Bradley and Fast were relocated 300 miles away in the mountains of West Virginia, to a prison camp called Mill Point;[107] James Lustig, a trade unionist, went to Ashland, Kentucky; three others were remanded at the Federal Detention House in NYC. Barsky was sent to the Federal Reformatory in Petersburg, Virginia, 400 miles from New York. There, he lost 25 lbs in weight, suffered from ulcers, was permitted only two visiting hours per month from his wife only, and was not permitted to do any medical work, only menial work. Coupled with the psychological strain of the past four years of criminal and civil litigations and appeals, his months in this remote jail must have tested his resilience. He would also have been concerned by the financial effects on his dependant wife, Vita, and two-year-old daughter, Angela, of his prolonged cessation of income.[108] A heart-felt, hand-written, two-page letter was sent to him from a dentist and acquaintance (“I don’t know if you remember me”), Samuel Anderman. The letter is worth noting because it illustrates how the persecution of the JAFRC touched a great many Americans beyond the normal reach of JAFRC or communist “front” activity. After telling Barsky that his jailing had a “profound effect” on him, Anderman continued: “There are many people like myself around, who are not sleeping easily while you and other patriotic Americans are being jailed…Be of good cheer. This period is a severe trial but every great man has had to suffer for his convictions. Your suffering is not in vain…”. This letter was returned as the sender was not listed as one of Barsky’s correspondents.[109] Barsky was freed from Petersburg prison on 7 November. Either “good behaviour” or the numerous letters from the medical fraternity to the Federal Parole Board[110] earned him one month’s reprieve. He was just in time to greet and farewell his loyal, steadfast secretary, Helen Bryan. She began her three month sentence on 13 November. The night before, 200 friends, including Barsky, attended her farewell party at Fairfax Hall, NYC. According to one present, “it was a welcome, heart-warming occasion to see this man moving freely again, among his friends”. [111] It was the final function he attended as JAFRC Chairman. Due to “the demands of my present situation”, he resigned as officer, director and member of the JAFRC in January 1951.[112] It would have not been easy for Barsky to relinquish the organization he founded nearly a decade earlier. It was pivotal to his existence. According to a JAFRC staffer, “We never saw anybody with such single-mindedness. His entire life is wrapped up in the work of helping the refuges, in helping Spain”.[113] He himself told a reporter: “Best committee in America. No committee in America has this tradition”. The reporter noted that it was near-impossible to get Barsky off the subject of the work of the JAFRC, about which he slipped into “lyricism”.[114] So what were these “present demands”? If he thought deprivation of freedom would end upon his release from jail, he was wrong. Another round of persecution commenced; another fight to resist it became necessary. It concerned not his political or humanitarian activities for the JAFRC, although these continued to stalk him, but his right to practise medicine. And it did not end until 1955, by which time the JAFRC announced its own dissolution. During his time in Petersburg penitentiary, Barsky’s medical licence was revoked. Upon his release, he was obliged to re-apply. To that end, the Executive Director of Beth Israel Hospital, with the approval of the Medical Board and the Hospital’s Board of Trustees, wrote to the Board of Regents of the New York State Department of Education, the body responsible for issuing – and revoking – medical licences. The letter outlined the history and length of Barsky’s appointments at the Hospital and the type of service he rendered. It continued: Dr. Barsky is a skillful surgeon, whose medical ethics and conduct have always been beyond reproach. He is an ethical physician, imbued with the traditional Hippocratic sense of responsibility to his patients and services in their behalf. The patients at the Hospital are well served by him.[115] The expectation, presumably, was that restoration of his licence would be a formality. But by the winter of late 1950 and early 1951, the American political landscape had permafrosted and paranoia about communism was intense. In January 1951, the immensely powerful Board of Regents informed Barsky that it was reviewing his case and a subcommittee would decide whether a further penalty (from mere censure to revocation of licence) was to be imposed. Immediately, Barsky went on the offensive and wrote to numerous doctors, academics and Quakers requesting, if effect, character references to be posted to the Medical Grievance Committee prior to its closed hearing on 15 February. They obliged.[116] Before the hearing, Barsky’s attorney, Abraham Fishbein, mounted (what seems to the historian) a compelling and superbly crafted case revolving around five separate arguments and amounting to thirteen pages.[117] At the hearing Fishbein spoke with much passion: “This man has paid the full penalty…To treat him now as a felon who commits abortions or who deals in narcotics and place him on that level, gentlemen, is too low…I beg of you, gentlemen, don’t let’s stoop that low to hit this man…[who has] paid in full…To do more to this man is to wreak vengeance and not to do justice”.[118] On the other hand, the Assistant Attorney General of the State of New York, Sidney Tartikoff, for the Board of Regents, focused on the activities of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the contempt of Congress citation, the constitutionality of HUAC and, especially, the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations. Considerable evidentiary weight was placed by Tartikoff on the JAFRC being listed as subversive and un- American; unfortunately for Barsky this hearing was precisely two months before the Supreme Court invalidated such listing by the Attorney General.[119] None of these issues, for which Barsky had endured five months in prison and five years of litigation, was relevant to medical competence. None of these issues involved “moral turpitude”, the customary concern of the Committee. None of the dozens of testimonials counted. Barsky was found guilty of nothing, other than his failure to produce records subpoenaed by a congressional committee, which the Discipline Committee itself acknowledged was “the only method by which legal objections to [HUAC] could be judicially determined”. Even Tartikoff informed the Grievance Committee “candidly and honestly” that he could find “no real evidence” that JAFRC activities were “Communistic”. [120] And, as we know, Barsky was now no longer a member of the JAFRC. All this was to no avail. The Board of Regents’ Medical Grievance Committee revoked Edward Barsky’s medical registration, first issued in 1919, for a period of six months. No reasons were given. In a re-run of the legal challenges to his conviction that lasted from 1947 to 1950, Barsky launched appeals against this decision. The case was next heard by the Regents’ Committee on Discipline, which overturned the suspension of Barsky’s licence – there being no moral turpitude, no impeachment by evidence and therefore “no valid basis for discipline.”[121] However, this decision was repudiated by the full Board, which upheld the original ruling. Barsky then sought review in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, which affirmed the order of the Board of Regents despite noting that the Board “ignored weighty considerations and acted on matters not proper for consideration”.[122] One improper matter was that List of Subversive Organizations. Barsky’s last legal recourse was the Supreme Court. His lawyer prepared a detailed Petitioner’s Brief (which included the plea, “this petitioner has suffered more than enough”). On 26 April 1954 – just three weeks before its historic School Segregation case[123] – the Supreme Court decided (6-3) on technical grounds not to interfere with the determinations of the Board of Regents. The dissenting judgements of Justices Black, Douglas and Frankfurter make fascinating reading and, presumably, must have fortified Barsky. Justice William O. Douglas did not mince words: “nothing in a man’s political beliefs disables him from setting bones or removing appendixes…When a doctor cannot save lives in America because he is opposed to Franco in Spain, it is time to call a halt and look critically at the neurosis that has possessed us”.[124] In a final, desperate act, Barsky wrote to the Board of Regents and appealed for clemency. Barsky was a self-effacing man, not given to effusive displays or the grand gesture. To an interviewer he did not display “the slightest hint of sentimentality”.[125] To his daughter, he was “very private, a shy man who did not toot his own horn”.[126] So writing the following soul- bearing letter would not have been easy. The letter also points, in a microcosmic way, to the damage inflicted on individuals who held political views contrary to the mainstream during the heyday of McCarthyism. I have been in practice for 35 years and never once during this time have I been in any difficulty. Not a single patient could or has ever accused me of…any lack of sympathy or understanding…[and] no medical colleague who has had any contact with me, either directly or indirectly, could point to any improper actions on my part…I am not a young man and my family, a wife and young child, are completely dependent upon my earnings. I am not wealthy, and being deprived of six months income would almost completely wipe out what little savings I have. To pick up the threads of a practice after a lapse of six months would be fraught with the greatest of difficulties and obstacles…I am sure that you gentlemen can understand what havoc a six months suspension could do to a professional career.[127] The Board was not swayed. In fact its legal counsel wrote to “caution” him on his office procedure: under the suspension order not only was he required to “desist from practice”, but his office secretary was forbidden from leaving any impression that “you are still in practice”.[128] Four days later, on 25 June 1954, the suspension of Barsky’s medical licence took effect. In 1955, Barsky did “pick up the threads” of his practice.[129] But there was yet another act of “undiluted vindictiveness” that was committed, yet another battle he had to fight.[130] When his medical licence was revoked, unbeknown to Barsky, so too was his registration with the Workmen’s Compensation Board, which he gained in July 1935. He learnt this only when insurance companies refused to honor his invoices from workers’ compensation cases, which comprised much of his surgical work.[131] He judged the damage to his reputation and earning capacity as “extremely great”.[132] He applied for renewal of his registration, which, with a surgeon of his longevity, qualifications and unimpeachable record, would normally have been a routine formality.[133] Not so with Barsky, for Barsky was a communist. He was “amazed” by the request to appear before the Medical Practice Committee but did so, on 24 May 1955, in the hope of “expediting this matter in an amicable way”.[134] Further amazement awaited him. He was obliged to take the oath, was questioned by an attorney (who was not a member of the Committee), and the questions related to his associations with communists, not his professional capacities. Barsky had not been informed beforehand of these unprecedented procedures, nor had he recourse to legal counsel. So he stopped answering questions. On 22 July he was informed that, because he “refused to answer certain questions which the Committee considered material and relevant”, his application for registration was rejected.[135] In what by now was a familiar route, Barsky formally appealed to the Medical Appeals Unit, informally appealed to the chairman of the Workmen’s Compensation Board (“to grant an exception so that patients operated upon by me would receive sickness disability benefits”), and enlisted the support of the “Provisional Committee of 1000 Physicians Against Imposition of ‘Loyalty’ Oaths”.[136] There is no extant record of the outcome of these appeals. It was in this same year, 1955, that the JAFRC officially disbanded. Its death throes were punctuated by further assaults. In 1952, the Treasury Department demanded payment of the crippling sum of $315,000 in back taxes after its tax-exempt status was revoked. In 1954, the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) ordered the National Committee to register the JAFRC as a Communist Party “front” organisation. It refused and faced further punitive sanctions. In early 1955, it faced investigation by the New York Joint Legislative Committee on Charitable and Philanthropic Agencies and Organizations, which was attempting, unsuccessfully, to locate and serve a subpoena on the new JAFRC chairman. Another JAFRC appeal to its beleaguered supporters could not save it. In a brief public statement the Executive Board disclosed that it had voted on 14 February in favour of its own dissolution. It cited “harassments, persecutions and prosecutions” by HUAC, SACB and the Treasury Department. These activities made it “impossible” to continue the “good and necessary relief work that we have carried on since our inception”.[137] This statement did not mention the role of the FBI, whose records detailing its ten-year vendetta against the JAFRC have remained classified, until now. It is to this role that we shall finally turn. Nearly 1200 pages of its confidential files on the JAFRC were requested and obtained by the writer in five batches between 2007 and 2009. Those who have researched the records of security organisations in other countries will find much that is familiar: infinite details of meetings, speakers, amounts raised, membership lists, publications, correspondence, telephone conversations, mail interceptions, travel itineraries, photographs of officials, lists of financial contributors, identities of donors, patrons and benefactors, and extensive deletions. These previously untapped files constitute a case study of political repression in the modern age. That repression is an index of the cost of defiance and the strength of the forces arraigned against the JAFRC, and the JAFRC was but one of dozens, perhaps hundreds, of left wing organizations destroyed during the McCarthyist era. Put simply, the sides were not evenly matched. The FBI’s relentless pursuit of the JAFRC commenced before World War II had ended and well before the Cold War had started. Three examples suggest the flavour of the hunt. First, on 18 January 1945, FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, contacted the head of the State Department’s Division of Foreign Activity. Hoover made this official aware of a plan by the JAFRC to bring Pablo Picasso to the US and, more ominously, that Picasso had recently joined the French Communist Party. The source – “confidential and reliable” – was an FBI informant inside the JAFRC; he or she was joined by dozens of other informants throughout the next ten years, and the intelligence they provided was voluminous. Second, on 21 February 1945, Hoover disseminated to senior FBI officers information received from the Military Intelligence Division of the US Army concerning the activities of Spanish communists inside France. In particular it emphasised the National Union of Spanish Republicans, formed in Vichy France in November 1942 and identified members of its Central Committee, with whom the JAFRC was in contact. Third, on 7 March 1945, the Director of the Office of Censorship, Byron Price, forwarded to Hoover a copy of a cable sent from Dorothy Parker in New York to Lillian Hellman in London requesting the latter to attend a JAFRC dinner in her honor. Referring to this cable (and implying that it was based in part on illegally obtained evidence), the document stated that “the attached information was taken from private communications and its extremely confidential character must be preserved”. From this sample we are able to get some sense of how various arms of the state – the FBI, the State Department, the US Army and the Office of Censorship – worked together to counter apparent threats to national security. Embodying such a threat was a national organiser of the JAFRC, Felix Kusman. Born in Estonia in imperial Russia on 25 March 1909, Kusman immigrated to the US in 1920 and served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. There, he met Edward Barsky and, subsequently, worked with him to establish the JAFRC. Suspicions commenced the following year, when a letter to Kusman, dated 24 February 1943, was intercepted; it thanked him for sending monthly checks to Mexico that helped establish a “Latin American Committee of Free Germans”.[138] The FBI was convinced there was foul play; that there was “something more to the transaction [of money] than a mere rescue of Anti-Fascist refugees”.[139] To find out, Kusman must be very closely monitored. And he was. When Kusman visited Seattle in early 1945, the FBI established a “Central Coordinating Committee” to monitor his movements and activities. It made extensive and effective use of “technical equipment” (microphone installation in his Roosevelt Hotel room and recording of all incoming and outgoing telephone calls) in addition to physical and photographic surveillance, which “completely covered” the subject. This surveillance was most successful in obtaining information of value regarding KUSMAN’s conversations and purposes of his visit to Seattle, and although KUSMAN had the reputation of being a “whirling dervish”, a man extremely hard to tail, he was never lost. With this technical coverage it was easy not only to follow KUSMAN, but to anticipate his movements by knowing the identity and time of his appointments.[140] The use of such microphones and wiretaps was probably illegal.[141] The theft by Los Angeles FBI agents of a duplicate set of Kusman’s keys was definitely illegal. They were stolen when his hotel room was entered and his personal belongings searched.[142] Surveillance was a labour- intensive activity. A report on Kusman’s activities for just one day, 15 February 1945 – from 10.40am, when he emerged from his hotel room, until the “time of the subject’s retiring”, at 11.10pm – runs to seven closely-typed pages. Kusman’s reputation as a “whirling dervish” had some basis: much to the chagrin of the FBI, which only found out after the event, Kusman illegally exited the US, illegally entered Portugal and illegally re-entered the US.[143] The final FBI reference to Kusman, hundreds of pages later, reveals that on 22 June 1953, he was detained on Ellis Island after being arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) under a deportation warrant. The FBI confirmed that the INS had “no objection” to the Bureau re- interviewing Kusman “to see if he might not now be receptive to persuasion to testify as a Government witness”.[144] The cooperation of former members of the JAFRC or disaffected communists who were prepared – and sometimes eager – to provide testimony that incriminated their former comrades. They could “openly” produce admissible exhibits and information that had been obtained through clandestine means by informants or through “black bag jobs”, or burglaries. Seduced by, inter alia, a generous FBI stipend, former communists became professional anti-communists. Two who gave evidence against the JAFRC were the serial testifier, Louis Budenz, the ex-editor of the Daily Worker, and the serial liar, Harvey Matusow.[145] A less notorious apostate, John Janowitz, identified JAFRC member, Ruth Davidow, as a member of the Communist Party’s Tom Paine Club in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1945.[146] Janowitz had been an official of the Party’s Cleveland branch from 1943 until 1950. He was assessed as “a good witness for the Government in 1949” (the Smith Act prosecutions) and “available and willing to testify” in 1953.[147] This was central to the FBI’s modus operandi: to find witnesses who could confirm the communist domination of the JAFRC. Once “proven”, the organisation was obliged, under the draconian McCarran (Internal Security) Act of 1950, to register with the Subversive Activities Control Board as a communist “front” and surrender its membership and financial records. Its modus operandi is also revealed through its assessments of witnesses who testified against the JAFRC. Stephen A. Wereb, for instance, was not a member of the JAFRC “until contacted by a representative of this [Los Angeles] office”. During the period he worked for the FBI, from 1944 until 1948, “he was a regularly paid informant”.[148] As an “individual of known reliability”, he then testified against the JAFRC. So in its war on “front” organizations, the FBI used Wereb, and innumerable others, for two consecutive roles: first, as an undercover informant and second, as a public witness. Indeed, some of the last FBI files released on the JAFRC concern the location, availability and assessment of these informants/witnesses to testify before the SACB, which, with FBI help, was about to commence its 1954 investigation of JAFRC. [149] The irony is that, by this time, the JAFRC was barely functioning. Unlike the organisation he founded and to which he was so devoted, Barsky survived. And he continued to support progressive causes.[150] He was involved in a strike at Beth Israel Hospital in 1962, organised by Local 1199, over recognition of hospital employees. Two years later, he helped establish the Medical Committee for Human Rights. It provided doctors and medical staff for civil rights activists who went to Mississippi in the violent “Freedom summer” of 1964.[151] He remained active in this Committee as well as the anti-Vietnam war movement. He died at the age of 78 on 11 February 1975. In an echo of the Spanish civil war, seven ambulances were sent from the US to Nicaragua in support of the Sandinistas in 1985. They were named in honour of Edward K. Barsky. This article has shown how one left-wing organization was destroyed in the early Cold War. The manner of its destruction demonstrated the “bureaucratic rationality of McCarthyism”, alluded to earlier. There was no single persecutor but rather a range of government agencies whose combined force was formidable. The agencies identified in this article were the Attorney General’s Department, the Board of Regents of the New York State Department of Education, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Bureau, the Treasury Department, the Subversive Activities Control Board and the State Department. They were not necessarily working in unison nor were their different roles and activities coordinated. The absence of overarching coordination should not, however, imply an absence of a bureaucratic consensus and operational framework. Whilst there was no outward conspiracy, the various arms of the State complemented each other through their pursuit of a shared goal: the elimination of any activity deemed “un-American”. Against this, the JAFRC, its leader, Edward Barsky, and its legion of supporters, were no match. ------------------------------------ * I wish to thank Julie Kimber, Laurence Maher, Ellen Schrecker and the staff of the Tamiment Library for their assistance in the preparation of this article. [1] Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 128. [2] See Richard Bermack, The Front Lines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2005), 57; Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994), 285-6; Peter Carroll and James Fernandez (eds.), Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War (New York: Museum of the City of New York, 2007); Sebastiaan Faber, Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Intellectuals in Mexico 1939-1975 (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), 153-9; Karl Geiser, Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Westport, Connecticut: Lawrence Hill, 1986); Martin F. Shapiro, “Medical Aid to the Spanish Republic During the Civil War”, Annals of Internal Medicine, 97:1, (1982), 121-2; Lise Vogel, “Sidney Vogel: Spanish Civil War Surgeon”, American Journal of Public Health, 98:12 (December 2008): 2146-9. For specific, if brief, references to the JAFRC during the Cold War, see Robert Carr, The House Committee on Un-American Activities 1945-1950 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952), 32-5; Phillip Deery, “‘A Divided Soul’? The Cold War Odyssey of O. John Rogge”, Cold War History, 6: 2 (2006), 182; Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998), 322. Typifying the historiographical lacunae, Robert Justin Goldstein’s comprehensive Political Repression in Modern America: From 1870 to 1976 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001) completely bypasses the political repression of the JAFRC. [3] O. John Rogge, Our Vanishing Civil Liberties (New York: Gaer Associates, 1949), 44-53; New York Court of Appeals, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath 341 US 123, 104 (1951); Carl Beck, Contempt of Congress. A Study of the Prosecutions Initiated by the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1945-1957 (New Orleans: Hauser Press, 1959), 25-33; Telford Taylor, Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations (New York: Simon & Schuster [nd]), 148-9; C. Herman Pritchett, Civil Liberties and the Vinson Court (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954), 98. [4] Ellen Schrecker, foreword to David R. Holmes, Stalking the Academic Communist: Intellectual Freedom and the Firing of Alex Novikoff (Hanover & London: University Press of New England, 1989), p. viii. [5] However, as a catch-all concept, “communist ‘front’” is problematic not axiomatic. There were degrees of control and autonomy. Some organizations, such as the Jefferson School of Social Science, were instruments of Communist Party policy far more than others. In the case of the JAFRC, its single-minded devotion to the cause of Spanish refugees was consistent with, but not rigidly determined by the doctrinres of Party leaders in New York or Moscow. To allege that the JAFRC was a “favorite fund-raising project of the party” which cynically and “with elaborate virtuosity” played upon public sympathy, significantly under-estimates the agency of the JAFRC. Herbert Arthur Philbrick, I Led Three Lives: Citizen-“Communist”-Counterspy (New York: McGraw Hill, 1952), 251. [6] The vote was 207 to 186 with 40, including Lyndon B. Johnson, remaining neutral. The mover, John E. Rankin (D., Mississippi), rejoiced: “I caught ’em flat-footed and flat-headed”. Cited in Walter Goodman, The Committee (London: Secker & Warburg, 1969), 169. Similarly Robert Carr described the re-creation of HUAC as “one of the most remarkable coups in modern Congressional history”. Carr ,The House Committee on Un-American Activities 1945-1950, 19. [7] Two examples are Goldstein, Political Repression in Modern America; William Preston, Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 (Chicago: University Of Illinois Press, 1995). [8] “Statement issued by Honorable John S. Wood, of Georgia, Chairman, House Committee on Un-American Activities”, 24 January 1946, in Charlotte Todes Stern Papers, 1925-1956, #70, Box 2, Folder 1, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, New York University (henceforth Stern Papers). [9] Medicine was in the marrow: his father was also a surgeon at Beth Israel and his two brothers, George and Arthur, also became doctors. (Arthur was a pioneering plastic surgeon who treated Vietnamese children during the Vietnam War.) Barsky’s private practice focused on industrial injuries (that is, workers’ compensation cases) that required surgery. [10] Joseph North, “A Case for the Doctor”, New Masses, 19 August 1947. [11] Peter N. Carroll, “Introduction”, in Peter N. Carroll & James D. Fernandez (eds.), Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War (Museum of the City of New York and New York Uni Press, 2007), 15-16. [12] Edward Barsky, “The Surgeon Goes to War”, 12-13 (from chapter 1 “Someone Had to Help”), undated and unpublished manuscript, Edward K. Barsky Papers, 1936-1970, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives #125, Box 5, Folder 4, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, New York University (henceforth Barsky Papers). [13] See Nelson’s eulogistic recollections of Barsky in Spain in New Masses, 19 August 1947. [14] Barsky, “The Surgeon Goes to War”, 214-5, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 4; New York Journal, 19 July 1937; New York Post, 19 July 1937: New York World-Telegram, 19 July 1937 (clippings in Barsky Papers, Box 2, Folder 13). [15] See James Neugass, War is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War (New York: The New Press, 2008), frontispiece; this book is dedicated to Barsky. The 1937 tour allegedly raised “hundreds of thousands of dollars” for more medical equipment: New York Times, 13 February 1975 (obituary). [16] Howard Fast, Being Red: A Memoir (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), 143. In 1945, too, a reporter described him as “a tall, leaning, youngish-looking man of not quite fifty, with thick dark straight hair and a clipped, greying moustache”. Mary Braggiotti, “For a Forgotten People”, New York Post, 13 March 1945. Group photos confirm his height and apparent charisma. [17] Ernest Hemingway to Milton Wolff, 7 May 1950, cited in Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994), 316; New York Times, 13 February 1975. (Hemingway met Barsky in Spain; Wolf was the last commander of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.) By 1950 Fast was resorting to hyperbole, and transfigured Barsky into “a giant of a man, tempered out of steel, yet quiet and humble”. Howard Fast, “Why We Were Sent to Prison”, New Times, No. 26, 1950, 10. For glowing character references from JAFRC staff, see Joseph North, “A Case for the Doctor”, New Masses, 19 August 1947. [18] See VALB Records, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives #19, Box 10, Folders 15 & 25, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives, New York University. [19] The British Consul in Madrid conservatively estimated that that 10,000 Republicans were shot in the first five months after the war; the killings continued well into the 1940s. Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986), 167-8. [20] Faber, Exile and Cultural Hegemony, 154; Preston, The Spanish Civil War, 167. [21] For a detailed report of its operations and finances for its first two years, see “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee”, May 1944, in Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 31. By then, it had raised $295,000, 25% of which came from trade unions and 75% from 75,000 individual contributions. [22] Typescript of address given by Barsky [1, 5], 21 April 1945, Barsky Papers, Box 3, Folder 3. At this dinner at the Hotel Astor, NYC, Lillian Hellman was the guest of honor. A far larger audience attended the huge JAFRC- sponsored rally at Madison Square Garden, the brainchild of Helen Bryan, on 24 September 1945. Its slogan was “Break off Relations With Franco” and its goal was to inaugurate the “Fall drive” to raise $300,000 for the rest of the year. The transcript of Barsky’s stirring speech is located in Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 13. The fact that the rally was supported by the CPUSA and advertised in the Daily Worker, was regarded as prima facie evidence of the JAFRC being a “front” for the Communist Party. See Congressional Record–House, 28 March 1946, 2802. [23] On behalf of the Unitarian Service Committee, Walter Rosenblum photographed these refugees in one of the main camps at Toulouse, France, and captured their stoicism rather than despondency. See http://www.rosenblumphoto.org/gallery_spanish.html# It was because of the parlous conditions at this camp that the Unitarian Service Committee requested additional funds from the JAFRC; see Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 31 January 1945, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [24] New York Compass, 7 June 1950, 3. [25] The total amount raised in 1945 was $318,293. This dropped to $306,695 in 1946 and $254,430 IN 1947. Financial Statement, National Office, JAFRC, attached to correspondence, 27 February 1948, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation files [henceforth FBI files], “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee” (FOIPA No. 1056236). [26] Already, on 1 December, HUAC had requested the President’s War Control Board to cancel the JAFRC’s licence to collect and distribute funds for the relief of Spanish refugees in Europe. [27] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 14 December 1945, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. A copy of the 14 December resolution was sent to all JAFRC sponsors. Barsky also invoked HUAC’s charter (concerning overthrow of the United States government, subversive and/or un-American activities) when he testified before it; see HUAC, Executive Session, Testimony of Dr Edward K. Barsky, 13 February 1946, 161. [28] Letter, Barsky to Contributors, 2 January 1946, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [29] Congressional Record. Proceedings and Debates of the 79th Congress, second session, 28 March 1946, 2801-2 (henceforth Congressional Record–House). Professor Harold Laski, Professor of Political Science at the LSE, was in 1945 chairman of the British Labour Party. He was a Fabian Socialist who opposed the overtures to the Labour Party by the Communist Party; see his The Secret Battalion: An Examination of the Communist Attitude to the Labour Party(London: 1946). Such political subtleties would have eluded the ideologically myopic Thomas. [30] Eric Bentley, Thirty Years of treason: Excerpts from hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 (New York: Viking, 1971), 413. [31] New York Times, 28 December 1945. In fact, Adamson personally wrote to various contributors in January 1946, advising them that they were “misinformed” about the true nature of the JAFRC. See copies of correspondence in Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 28. [32] Congressional Record–House, 28 March 1946, 2801. Wood became chairman in July 1945 [33] Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 268-9; Carroll and Fernandez, Facing Fascism, 182, n.7. See also Kenneth O’Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans: The FBI, HUAC and the Red Menace (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), 119. [34] Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 91-6.; David Caute, The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978), 108-10. [35] Congressional Record–House, 16 April 1946, 3840. [36] J. Edgar Hoover, Memorandum for the Attorney General, 27 January 1938, reprinted in Science & Society, vol. 68, no.3, Fall 2004, 363. [37] Correspondence, J.T. Bissell, Colonel, General Staff, Military Intelligence Service, Washington, to J. Edgar Hoover, 14 April 1944, No. 5918/R. [38] In February 1946, a conference of senior FBI officials decided to provide covert support to HUAC; O’Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans, 76, 98. By 1947, assisting HUAC became “an FBI priority”. Athan Theoharis, Chasing Spies (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), 161. See also Schrecker, Many are the Crimes, 214-5. [39] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 1 February 1946, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [40] Fast, Being Red, 144; Henry Cadbury, “Introduction”, Helen Bryan, Inside (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), ix- x; Lily Kingsley, “She Wouldn’t Let Them Down”, PM, 1 July 1947. This remarkable woman awaits a scholarly study. There is a brief obituary in the New York Times, 11 September 1976, a fleeting discussion of her role in establishing Swarthmore College in Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008), 219-20, and her own lengthy (305 pages) but unrevealing account, Inside, about her three months in the Alderston’s Federal Penitentiary for Women in 1950, but nothing else. The release of her FBI file is currently pending. [41] Fast, Being Red, 144, 151. [42] Cadbury, “Introduction”, ix. [43] Executive Session, HUAC, 24 January 1946, Testimony of Helen R. Bryan. Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, HRG-1946-UAH-0020: 601-05. See also her similar testimony to an Open Session on 4 April 1946 in Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. Executive Board Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. HUAC Hearings, 79th Congress, 2nd session, 4 April 1946, 96-103. [44] New York Times, 22 July 1947. In fact in the summer of 1946 Treasury Department investigators spent more than two weeks in the JAFRC office examining financial records. Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 20 June 1946, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [45] “Statement with regards to the present investigation of the [JAFRC] by [HUAC]”, nd [1946], Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 28. [46] The JAFRC’s legal counsel also advised Bryan that the subpoena itself was invalid; see the unread “Statement made by Helen R. Bryan to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1/23/46”, 3, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. It was subsequently incorporated into “Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. Executive Board Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee”. HUAC Hearings, 79th Congress, 2nd session, 4 April 1946, 103-5. [47] For example, Henry Steele Commager, “Who is Loyal to America?”, Harper’s Magazine, 9 September 1947. (Commager was Professor of History at Columbia University.) For the sheer volume of protests and petitions against HUAC for just October-November 1947, see M. Stanton Evans, “The Campaign Against HUAC”, in William F. Buckley Jr.(ed), The Committee and its Critics (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1962), 212-3. [48] Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2006), 175. [49] Civil Rights Congress, America’s “Thought Police”: Record of the Un-American Activities Committee (New York, October 1947), i-ii (foreword by Wallace entitled “Strike Back”). [50] Howard Fast, Being Red (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990), 148. [51] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 1 February 1946, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [52] Minutes, Executive Board special meeting, 11 February 1946, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [53] See Executive Session, HUAC, 13 February 1946, Testimony of Dr Edward K. Barsky, Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, HRG-1946-UAH-0020: 776-808. For the edited (and sanitised) version, see HUAC, Report. Proceeding Against Dr. Edward K. Barsky and Others, 28 March 1946, 79th Congress, 2nd Session, Report No. 1829, 1-4. [54] Barsky, of course, was no fool whom HUAC could easily intimidate. Dressed in his “impeccably-clad double- breasted suit”, and with his “business-like manner”, there was a “sureness…about his manner, his talk, his gestures”. New Masses, 19 August 1947. [55] The Nation (19 January 1946) editorialized that HUAC was on “a fishing expedition in the hope of finding something that looks like evidence to back the verdict it has already reached”. There was some truth to this. [56] Such activities were intensified and widened in scope, evidenced by the regular “Developments on Pressure Campaign” reports to the Executive Board meetings throughout 1946. [57] Congressional Record–House, 27 February 1946, 1763. What he may have had in mind was this: on 28 March Thomas reported that an “intensive” investigation had revealed that Gusavo Duran, who had been a major in the Spanish Republican Army during the civil war and a communist, arrived in the US in 1940 and worked (1943-5) as an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, Spruille Braden, in the US State Department. According to Thomas, Duran was an NKVD agent and “the directing genius” behind the JAFRC. Congressional Record–House, 28 March 1946, 2802. On 14 March 1950, Duran, now a UN employee, was one of the first targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy; after five hearings before the Tydings Subcommittee and the Loyalty Board, he was finally cleared of all charges in January 1955. Caute, The Great Fear, 331-38. [58] Goodman, The Committee, 269-70. He was joined in Danbury by two of the Hollywood Ten and one JAFRC member (Dr Jacob Auslander). [59] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 8 March 1946, 2, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [60] Congressional Record–House, 28 March 1946, 2085. [61] Ibid., 2803,2806,2808.The four opponents were Marcantonio, Adam Clayton Powell Jr (New York), Edward Izac (California) and Matthew Neely (West Virginia). A copy of this citation can be found in the Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [62] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 28 March 1946, Stern papers, Box 2, Folder 1. Self-delusion must have been infectious: at the same meeting members were “in full agreement” that “one of the most effective ways” of fighting the Wood-Rankin Committee was to “raise larger funds for the Spanish republican exiles than have been raised in the past”. [63] Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. Executive Board Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee. HUAC Hearings, 79th Congress, 2nd session, 4 April 1946, 1-105; House Report No. 1936- Proceedings Against the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, April 16, 1946. [64] Ibid., 10. [65] See Samuel H. Hofstadter, The Fifth Amendment and the Immunity Act of 1954 (New York: np, nd [1956]), 26- 30 (“Immunity in Congressional Investigation”). [66] Fast, Being Red, 149, 176. But see Schrecker, Many are the Crimes, 323, for the perceived risks of “taking the Fifth” in 1947. [67] In fact five constitutional challenges were made against HUAC between December 1947 and April 1950; three emanated from HUAC’s investigation of the JAFRC. For Rogge’s sanguine challenges to HUAC and his repeated (33 times) “We are going to show…” gauntlet-throwing, see his fifteen-page draft statement to the Federal District Court, 16 June 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [68] Rogge was experienced, high profile and a committed civil libertarian. Formerly assistant to the US Attorney General and soon New York State chairman, Wallace for President Committee (elected 4 April 1949), Rogge authored Our Vanishing Civil Liberties (New York: Gaer, 1949) that was serialized in the left-wing Daily Compass. See Deery, “‘A Divided Soul’?” 177-204. [69] Congressional Record-House, 16 April 1946, 3844. [70] Ibid., 3848. [71] Ibid., 3939. [72] See New York Times report, “17 Foes of Franco Voted in Contempt”, 17 April 1946. For a fuller discussion of this debate, see Beck, Contempt of Congress, 29-31. [73] Herbert Romerstein and Stanislav Levchenko, The KGB Against the “Main Enemy”: How the Soviet Intelligence Service Operates against the United States (Lexington & Toronto: Lexington Books, 1989), 238-9. The FBI’s demonisation of Eisler relied in part on the testimony of an ex-communist apostate who described Eisler as “Stalin’s chief agent here”. Louis Francis Budenz, Men Without Faces: The Communist Conspiracy in the USA (New York: Harper & Bros., 1948), 4. [74] House Committee on Un-American Activities, Hearings on Gerhardt Eisler: Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States, 6 February 1947, 11-12. Bradley’s future wife, Ruth Leider, a JAFRC Executive Board member, was also linked to Eisler through her signature on Eisler’s application for an “alien departure permit” in January 1942. Report, “Ruth Leider”, 13 April 1951, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, Headquarters Files 100-HQ-340005 and 100-HQ-260819, Lyman R. Bradley (FOIPA No. 115281-000). [75] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 21 November 1946, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. Schrecker’s account of Eisler also counters the conspiratorial interpretation of Eisler’s post-war activities in the United States; Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes, 122-30. [76] He was cited on 18 February 1947 and convicted by the Court of Appeals, 170 F. 2d 273 (1948). For the consequences of his action, see Ellen Schrecker, “Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations During the McCarthy Era”, Science & Society, 60:4 (Winter 1996-67), 409-10. [77] “Memorandum of Legal Procedure and Legal Status” [nd April 1947], Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 28; New York Times, 4 April 1947. [78] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 9 April 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. On 16 April, Barsky requested Executive Board members to raise $900 each for their own expenses within fifteen days (Letter, Barsky to Charlotte Stern, 16 April 1947; Minutes, 30 April 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1). There was neither “Moscow gold”, nor free legal representation: Rogge, the chief defense attorney, did not work pro bono. [79] Correspondence, Edward K. Barsky to Charlotte Stern, 16 April 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [80] Washington Post, 12 June 1947. [81] New York Times, 9 September 1948. [82] Fast was again critical: “instead of arguing the legality of the charge, Rogge was engaging in a political attack against [HUAC]. It left me bewildered…”. Fast, Being Red, 176. [83] The five were Leverett Gleason (publisher of Reader’s Scope and the comic, Crime Does Not Pay), Louise Kamsley, Herman Shumlin ( a theatrical producer), Jesse Tolmach and Bobbie Weinstein. It is not known what the others thought of this five. No discussion of this action was recorded in the JAFRC minutes when, in absentia, their resignations were formally accepted. Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 15 September 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. Efforts were made to secure additional Executive Board members, but none was successful. In February 1949, Dr Louis Miller, in whose home Barsky first formed the American Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy in 1936, also resigned; but his was accepted with “real regret”. Minutes, Executive Board Meeting, 18 February 1948. [84] Cited in New Masses, 19 August 1947. [85] Minutes, Executive Board meeting, 15 September 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. Vincent Sheehan, the chairman of the “Citizens to Safeguard the JAFRC”, sent a letter on 30 September 1947 appealing for financial contributions to help “bear the costs of another trial” – that of Helen Bryan, on 27 October. It was accompanied by a Howard Fast brochure, “Three Names for Anti-Fascists”, of which 100,000 were printed to sell at one cent each. A major fund-raising “Court of Public Opinion Dinner” at the Astor Roof, was held on 30 October 1947 and raised $29,055 in cash and pledges. Letter, Helen Bryan to Executive Board members, 6 November 1947, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 2. [86] Robert Justin Goldstein, American Blacklist: The Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2008), 62. [87] Samuel Walker, In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 179. However, the ACLU did not seek the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the List, which remained until 1974. [88] New Masses, 11 February 1948. Indicative was this FBI report: “Edward L. Parsons, Episcopal Bishop of Northern California, has formally resigned as Honorary Chairman of the JAFRC in SF [San Francisco]. Bishop Parsons has indicated that because the JAFRC has been designated as a subversive organisation he can no longer ask his friends and supporters to support the JAFRC. This has caused a financial crisis with the local chapter of the JAFRC…and is considering discontinuing maintenance of offices in SF”. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation files [henceforth FBI files], “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee”, Telex, “Whelan” to J. Edgar Hoover, 7 October 1953 (FOIPA No. 1056236). [89] Letter, Barsky to “Dear Friend”, 3 February 1948, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. At the December 1948 meeting Helen Bryan reported the “serious decline” in funds and noted that neither projected monetary aid was sent to Mexico nor outstanding legal bills were met. Minutes, Executive Board Meeting, 17 December 1948, 2-3, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [90] [Reports and Proceedings], National Conference of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, 27-28 August 1948 [1-21], Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [91] United States v. Barsky, 72 F. Supp. 165 (1947); Barsky v. the United States, 167 F. 2d 241 (1948); Barsky v. the United States, 334 U.S. 843 (1948); Bryan v. United States, 174 F. 2d 525 (1949); United States v. Bryan, 339 U.S. 323 (1949); Bryan v. United States, 183 F. 2d 996 (1950); Bryan v. United States, 340 U.S. 866 (1950). The full text of Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, United States Court of Appeals, Barsky et al, v. United States of America, No. 9602, Vol. 1 (1-288) & Vol. 2 (289-631), is located in Barsky Papers, Box 3, Folder 1. [92] Nor will the myriad of public relations and fund raising activities undertaken by the JAFRC in 1948-49 be discussed. These are outlined in the Executive Board Minutes; it is remarkable that Barsky had any time or energy left for surgery. [93] Barsky v. the United States, 164 F. 2d 241 (1948), 254; New York Times, 19 March 1948. [94] The right of witnesses to refuse to testify before Congressional committees and state agencies was upheld by the Supreme Court in the late 1950s; see Slochower v. Board of Higher Education, 350 U.S. 551 (1956); Watkins v United States, 354 U.S. 178 (1957); Sweezy v. State of New Hampshire, 354 U.S. 234 (1957). [95] Press release, 18 March 1948, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 4. [96] “US ‘Gestapo’ Forseen”, New York Times, 31 October 1947. [97] FBI file, “O. John Rogge”, Report of meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 8 December 1948 in Memorandum, D.M. Ladd to J. Edgar Hoover, 23 December 1948 (FOIPA Request No. 1035916, “O. John Rogge”). An earlier FBI report in the same file (29 December 1947) noted that Rogge had stated: “We are almost exactly following the Nazi blueprint, and the threat to Democracy from Fascism is greater now than at any time since 1932”. [98] See Rogge’s article, “Courts Contradictory In Contempt Case”, Daily Compass, 17 November 1949. [99] New York Times, 8 June 1950; JAFRC, Campaign Bulletin, 3, 16 June 1950, 1, Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 16. [100] Copy of letter, Kane to Truman, 26 June 1950, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 16. At a more organised level the battered remnants of the JAFRC still mobilised over 3000 letter-writers urging the President to use his executive power to free the JAFRC Board members. JAFRC, Campaign Bulletin, 3, 16 June 1950, 1, Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 16; letter from Dorothy Parker to Charlotte Stern, 5 July 1950, Stern Papers, Box 2, Folder 1. [101] Prison Records, Receipt of Property, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 3. [102] United States v. Bryan, 339 U.S. 323 (1950); Bryan v. United States, 340 U.S. 866 (1950). Justices Black and Frankfurter dissented. [103] As a result of his conviction in 1947, Bradley was dismissed by NYU in 1951. Fast resigned from the Communist Party in the wake of Krushchev’s “secret speech” in February 1956; see Howard Fast, “On Leaving the Communist Party”, The Saturday review, 16 November 1957. [104] “Three Anti-Franco Women at West Virginia Prison”, Daily Worker, 20 June 1950. It was claimed that they were “America’s first three women political prisoners”. [105] Leon Edel, ‘“Premature Anti-Fascists’ Go to Jail Today”, New York Compass, 7 June 1950. [106] According to Professor Arad Riggs, who served as a legal counsel for New York University during Bradley’s dismissal, “I don’t want to talk too much about it, but I might say that I had a conversation with the United States District Attorney and I am told that when they had this group of eleven serving in the Washington jail, they were afraid they might take over the jail and decided to scatter them”. Transcript, “Hearing on Charges against Professor Lyman R. Bradley” [5 January 1951], 308, Records of the Lyman R. Bradley Academic Freedom Case 1947-1961, RG 19.2, Box 3, Folder 4, New York University Archives. [107] See Fast’s highly evocative account of their three months in jail in Being Red, 247-68. [108] According to his lawyer, they “suffered extreme hardship during the five months of his incarceration”. Abraham Fishbein to Committee on Licences of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, 18 June 1954, 2, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 8. During that five months he had to maintain his office and secretary to prevent his practice collapsing, imposing a further a financial burden on the family’s resources. Because of his regular and substantial donations to the Spanish Refugee Appeal (which operated under the JAFRC rubric), Barsky had no reservoir of savings on which to draw. [109] Anderman to Barsky, 23 June 1950; C.C. Nicholson (Warden, Petersburg Penitentiary) to Anderman, 3 July 1950. The original was then sent to Vita Barsky. Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 16. The same occurred with the letter to Barsky, 25 August 1950, from Dave and Ester Greene, whose “outrage at your forced confinement hasn’t abated a single bit”. [110] Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 16. [111] JAFRC, Campaign Bulletin, [no. 12], 1 December 1950, 2, Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 16. [112] Circular, “New Officers of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee” [nd], Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 32. The new chairman was another physician, Dr Mark Strauss. Bryan was also replaced; the new executive secretary was Milton Kaufman. [113] New Masses, 19 August 1947. [114] Ibid. [115] Maxwell Frank to Board of Regents, State of New York, 27 November 1950, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [116] Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 12. [117] Petitioner’s Brief to New York State Department of Education, Committee on Grievances, February 1951, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 2. [118] New York State Department of Education, Committee on Grievances. Minutes of Formal Hearing, 15 February 1951, 463, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 1. [119] Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath, 341 U.S. 123 (1951); Goldstein, American Blacklist, 158- 161. [120] New York State Department of Education, Committee on Grievances. Minutes of Formal Hearing, 15 February 1951, 457, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 1. [121] New York State Department of Education, Report of the Regents’ Committee on Discipline, 31 July 1951, 28, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 3. Its detailed report was later praised by the Supreme Court (majority opinion) for its “high degree of unbiased objectivity”. Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442 (1954), 455. [122] Re Barsky, 305 N.Y. 89, 111 N.E. 2d. [123] Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). [124] Barsky v. Board of Regents, 347 U.S. 442 (1954), 69–Dissent (A), 4. Without such dissenting opinions, there may been a little truth in I.F. Stone’s comment that “the Cold War hysteria has now completely enveloped the judiciary”. Daily Compass, 30 May 1950, 3. [125] New Masses, 19 August 1947, 7. [126] Correspondence, Angela Barksy Mortarotti, to writer, 18 March 2009. [127] Barsky to Committee on Licences, Board of Regents, 12 June 1954, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 9. Barsky did not write alone. Also appealing for clemency on his behalf were 621 New York physicians who petitioned the Board to mitigate its disciplinary action. Letter, 14 June 1954, signatories to Board of Regents, Barsky Papers Box 4, Folder 8. [128] Charles A. Brind, to Barsky, 21 June 1954, Barsky Papers, Box 4, Folder 10. [129] On 11 February 1955, he was “qualified” by the Surgeons’ Qualifying Board of New York County Medical Society. [130] This phrase was used to describe the jailing of Helen Bryan but is also applicable here. Campaign Bulletin, no. 10, 2 November 1950, Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 16. [131] “Many of my patients are of moderate to poor circumstances…” Barsky to Angela Parisi, Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Board, 28 August 1955, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [132] Barsky to Parisi, 28 April 1955, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [133] This was the case with Dr Jacob Auslander, one of the JAFRC eleven jailed in 1950. [134] Barsky to Chester L. Davidson, Medical Practice Committee, 31 May 1955, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [135] Catherine C. Hafele, Executive Secretary, Medical Registration Office, to Barsky, 22 July 1955, Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [136] Barsky to Medical Appeals Unit, 16 August 1955; Barsky to Parisi, 24 August 1955; Haven Emerson (“Provisional Committee”) to Parisi [nd], Barsky Papers, Box 5, Folder 1. [137] New York Times, 16 February 1955. See also undated [fall, 1954?] correspondence to “Friends” of the JAFRC from Mark Strauss (chairman), Ralph H. Gundlach (chairman, Citizens to Defend JAFRC), and Karen Morley (on behalf of the treasurer, Citizens to Defend JAFRC), Barsky Papers, Box 1, Folder 19. [138] Correspondence, J.T. Bissell, Colonel, General Staff, Military Intelligence Service, Washington, to J. Edgar Hoover, 16 March 1943. The fact that Kusman was a close friend of Gerhart Eisler, whom we have already met, intensified suspicion. [139] Correspondence, 14 April 1944, No. 5918/R. [140] Personal and Confidential Memorandum to Director, “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee - use of technical equipment on surveillance of Felix Kusman in Seattle Field Division”, 26 February 1945. [141] Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes, 226-7. In its anti-communist zeal, the FBI engaged in various forms of law- breaking, including burglaries. [142] Kusman’s keys were sent by courier to the FBI’s New York office; if they were his office keys they were possibly used for further illegal activity. [143] He managed this through his contacts in the National Maritime Union, The FBI learnt of his six-week absence in Lisbon through its bugging of Louise Bransten’s San Francisco home: “Louise: No! Felix. FELIX! I didn’t know you were out of the country Felix! KUSMAN: Nobody knew.” SAC NJL Pieper to Hoover, 17 February 1945, with Attachment, “Conversation between Felix Kusman and Louise Bransten at Latter’s Home - February 11, 1945” [Emphasis in original transcript]. [144] Confidential Security Information, Warren Olney III (Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division) to Director, FBI, 6 July 1953, (file100-7061). Kusman had been interviewed by the FBI on three previous occasions under the Toplev Program. It was noted that “[u]ndoubtedly Kusman could furnish information of interest to the U.S. Government if he would cooperate”. No details of the final interview, on 10 July 1953, were located, but in a memo to Hoover concerning another matter, dated 12 October 1953, it was noted that Kusman had “declined to cooperate”. Not contained in the FBI-JAFRC files but in the FBI-Kusman file (FOIPA 0975848) in ALBA #178, Box 1, Folder 3, is 36-page Report on Kusman, dated 1 February 1954. It throws no further light on this issue. [145] For revealing portraits of both, see John E. Haynes, Red Scare or Red Menace? American Communism and Anticommunism in the Cold War Era (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996), 180-3. [146] Ruth Davidow subsequently featured in the 1983 documentary film The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. [147] FBI Report, Cleveland (file 100-11805), 16 February 1953, “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee: Internal Security Act, 1950”, Section V: Appendix-Witnesses, 10. Evidence of overlapping membership was the main subject of a detailed 23-page file, “Interrelationship of CPA and JAFRC” compiled by the San Francisco Bureau (file 100- 10486). What an historian might think dubious, the FBI judged damning: “the CPA [Communist Party of America] has often helped the JAFRC by distributing much of the JAFRC literature through the medium of their various clubs.” (5) [148] FBI Report, Los Angeles (file 100-3514), 2 June 1953, “Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee - Prosecutive Summary Report”, 9. [149] See, for example, FBI Report, San Francisco (100-10486), 30 October 1953, “Section IV: General Activities”, 4- 11. [150] See, for example, memoranda dated 11 May, 26 May, 4 June 1953 (file 100-7061). [151] I am indebted to Angela Barksy Mortarotti for the following information (correspondence, 18 March 2009). [152] See John Dittmer, The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care (London: Bloomsbury, 2009). work_6usyt4f6c5cmfa6tctfemo6bwy ---- Microsoft Word - Cover_Art_Style_Final_4.docx Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 27 Montage and Assemblage: an Aesthetic Shock Dominique Berthet Abstract The notions of montage and assemblage applied to the field of art can appropriately be applied to collage. At the beginning of the twentieth century, cubism, Italian and Russian futurism, dadaism, and surrealism, each with distinct aesthetic objectives, practiced collage; this was in order, for example, to deconstruct object and space or for political and ideological purposes, with the aim of impacting social reality. The practice of collage 'exploded' the classical aesthetic based on mimesis. In an unpredictable diversity of practices, collage allows for the creation of gaps, giving access to a multitude of possibilities and opening on unsuspected artistic horizons. Collages, montages, and assemblages have been so widely represented in the artistic practices of the twentieth century that they appear inseparable from artistic modernity. However, these practices are not limited to Western art - they can also be observed in other cultures, with different objectives. As contemporary art can be seen as an extension and deepening of modern art and as its realization1, the practices of the twentieth century were prolonged into, and developed at, the beginning of the twenty-first century, even as other concepts were introduced and new practices emerged. Christ Dominique Berthet, “Montage and Assemblage: an Aesthetic Shock,” Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine, no. 4 (December 12, 2019): 27-38, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4161741 Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 28 Montage and Cinema Excerpts from Glumov's Diary is Eisenstein's first film, 1923. Screenshot by Christiane Wagner. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Montage (editing), in general, is associated with cinema. Anne Souriau indicates that in cinema, montage is, “a material operation [allowing one] to adjust together strips made separately, to form the final band [...]. Montage is essential to the cinematographic aesthetic, since it is this that regulates the sequences, the effects determined by the passage from one scene to another, the rhythms, and the correspondences between image and sound.”2 Montage is, therefore, the organizing of different shots to form sequences. Dominique Chateau, in 'Contribution à l'histoire du concept de montage' (Contribution to the History of the Concept of Montage)3 tried to show how montage (editing) has transitioned from concept to concept; in the writings of young Soviet filmmakers, who themselves produced a theory of cinema, montage (editing) becomes one of the essential concepts of film theory. The book reminds us that it is Lev Kuleshov to whom we owe, from around 1917, revival of the French word montage; this he appropriates and transforms into a concept (the concept of film montage), that is to say, that it loads of rich theoretical content. The montage praised by Chateau is related to cinema both in technique and concept. It is defined by Kuleshov in 1918, in his article 'The art of photography,' as the thing that characterizes cinema4. In 1917, Kuleshov presented montage in the following way: "The essence of cinematographic art [...] rests entirely on the composition. To make a film, the director must combine different filmed, unordered, and unrelated fragments into a whole and juxtapose the different moments in the most advantageous, the most coherent and the best rhythmic order [...]"5. Montage thus comes from the collage, according to a certain order, of filmed fragments. The sequence of these fragments contributes to producing Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 29 an artistic impression. What is interesting to observe is that behind this reflection on montage and assemblage of fragments, there is a political approach, a militant slogan. For Kuleshov, the function of cinema was to “break through the gaps."6 There is in montage court (short editing) a search for narrative efficiency. With montage, everything becomes possible. Dominique Chateau (2019) explains that by the method of montage, we can create a semblance of heterogeneous elements of reality; the efficiency of this mode of composing is the fact that the spectator "sees what the montage suggests."7 Montage is thus strategic. Fragments are not elements derived from a kind of database, but must be created from the perspective of their assemblage. This is equivalent to saying: "the filming of fragments anticipates the whole [...]."8 Cinema is not reality but produces the illusion of reality. It creates a simulation of reality. Effective montage gives the impression that what in reality is feasible and achievable is improbable and impracticable: “What characterizes cinema is not the restitution of reality, but its production,"9 states Dominique Chateau (2019). The montage, as presented by Kuleshov, makes it possible to assemble “parallel and simultaneous actions"10 and to interweave them, to create what exists nowhere else. In the words of Dominique Chateau, Kuleshov, through montage, is a “creator of the world".11 It should be noted that the contradictory debates between Kuleshov, Pudovkin, Vertov, and Eisenstein on the subject of montage must be seen in the context in which they were born - that is, the Soviet Union of 1917-1940. Montage assumes the selection of fragments, their combination (approximation), and the construction of a set. It makes it possible to join what is disjointed, to build a whole from disparate fragments. Thus, it supposes the discontinuity of elements and aims at an internal continuity. Montage reduces gaps and produces rhythms. It breaks with the mere recording of raw reality. Excerpts from Glumov's Diary is Eisenstein's first film, 1923. Screenshot by Christiane Wagner. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 30 Excerpts from Glumov's Diary is Eisenstein's first film, 1923. Screenshot by Christiane Wagner. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). Dziga Vertov, an author of a documentary, and an experimental, militant form of cinema sees the camera as a "cine-eye”(Kino-Eye) - more sophisticated than the human eye, that requires emancipation from the habit of servile reproduction: "Now we release the camera and run it in the opposite direction, away from the copy,"12 he writes. It is for him to create a "new perception of the world. This is why I am deciphering, in a new way, a world that is unknown to you."13 For Vertov, cinema was an instrument of knowledge. After his report and documentary, he embarked on creating a poetic form of cinema, moving from the idea of randomness through a montage of film pieces into control of the image sequence, developing a theory of intervals in an analogy with music. The intervals are presented as "passages from one movement to another" that "lead to action as kinetic outcome;"14 in addition to movement, the intervals are also concerned with time and space, as well as "all kinds of visual parameters."15 Dominique Chateau indicates that the notion of the interval "is at the same time gap, correlation, and transition, that is to say, work on images which, based on their fragmentation, seeks to establish between them semantic-visual links inscribed in the overall dynamics of the work."16 In what Vertov calls the "battle of montage," this is about playing on the gap between two images to create a link between them.17 For him, it is the binding of fragments. Montage is an addition, an aggregation of fragments in response to particular modalities and objectives. The various theoretical differences between Soviet filmmakers all indicate the aim of reception, on the part of the spectator, of a particular purpose and Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 31 effectiveness in the goal. Eisenstein, speaking of the "montage of attractions,"18 declared: "You must not create a work; you must mount it with ready-made pieces, like a machine. Montage is a beautiful word: it means putting together pieces that are there ready"19. However, this montage of pieces must be made according to a certain method and a certain objective, according to the filmmakers. Thus, we find ourselves at the heart of the debate on the form- content relationship. Montage, in general, is the active appropriation of fragments, in combinations producing dynamic oppositions, stimulating contrasts, and fertile disjunctions. Sometimes unexpected links are created between heterogeneous elements that were not intended to meet. Contacts are formed, and new relationships occur. Montage makes it possible to organize chaos, to invent new relationships, to shape "augmented realities" - to increase. From a technical point of view, the linking of two or more elements, either of the same nature or alien to each other, produces effects not present in the original items. Eisenstein said of montage that it is an "idea born of the clash between two independent fragments."20 In this space of shocks and tensions, filmmakers can create anachronistic links. Montage allows approximations, joinings, connections. This process opens on a multiplicity of possibilities and an infinity of results. Excerpts from Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin (1934). Screenshot by Christiane Wagner. Public domain. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 32 Excerpt from Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin (1934). Screenshot by Christiane Wagner. Public domain. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 33 Montage: an aesthetic and political challenge If montage is in general associated with cinema, it naturally concerns other fields such as painting, collage, photomontage, installation, happenings, theater, dance, poetry, literature, music, and so on. In the past, the question of montage has given rise to quarrels between authors in the Marxist sphere, such as Georg Lukács, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Theodor W. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse. In the twentieth century, Jean-Marc Lachaud, in ‘Collages, montages, assemblages’21, analyzed these divergent conceptions. Lukács, for example, considers montage as 'foreign' fragments, "torn from their context,"22 assembled together. In his opinion, it is a technical subterfuge inadequate to the task of showing objective reality.” Avant-garde works are, in his eyes, incapable of representing real social relations. His taste for tradition and deep sense of the futility of the artistic avant-garde show his inability to grasp the importance and value of new technology in undermining the foundations of capitalist society. He even considers these novelties as an expression of literary and artistic decadence. While Lukács condemns innovative works as being antirealist, Brecht, in contrast, defends innovative practices because they "favor the transformations of the social function of art that the triumphant revolution will concretize,"23 writes Jean- Marc Lachaud. Brecht's position on realism is radically different from that of Lukács. The dramaturge thinks that realism must be "cleaned up before use, as old notions, many of which have already been used and abused for too many and diverse purposes."24 Brecht favored a theatrical novelty, and new form, considering the installation a challenge to the idea of a harmonious and closed form. The old forms are no longer of interest because they are no longer effective. We must innovate and experiment with new forms. Adorno, in 'Aesthetic Theory', and especially in the pages concerning "the crisis of the senses," also deals with the issue of montage. First, it is worth recalling an advanced idea at the beginning of the book, that "If art is opposed to empirical reality by the time of the art form - and the mediation of form and content cannot be understood without their distinction - this mediation must be [...] sought in the fact that the aesthetic form is sedimented content."25 This idea is fundamental, notably in being opposed to other Marxist positions, in which the form must be at the service of the idea, the (revolutionary) content. Here, in contrast, the process of formatting asserts itself as an opposition to established reality, and Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 34 art, by its very existence, is critical vis-à-vis existing reality, manifesting itself as a resistance to, and negation of, this reality. It is the manifestation of freedom. Adorno saw in less realistic works (less realistic socialist works), or those less accessible and less explicit, the mark of the most effective critical power. Its enigmatic aspect makes the work irreducible to a closed interpretation; as such, it resists what tries to define it, or to recover it for ideologically integration. Modernist works show the "signs of dislocation." "Works of art that negate meaning are also necessarily dislocated in their unity," writes Adorno. On the function of montage, he goes on: "… just as it disavows unity by the apparent disparity of the parties, [it] contributes as a formal principle to its restoration."26 Montage is thereby both the disavowal of the unit and the reconstruction of it. Thus, Adorno saw the artist of modernity grappling with a kind of oscillation, between a desire to put in crisis unity and sense, while working for their reconstruction. For the author, even that which stands against the cohesion of meaning nevertheless produces meaning.27 Adorno distinguished "authentic art, which takes care of the crisis of meaning," and the art of "resignation," in which the negation of meaning "adapts to contingencies."28 The author goes on to say: "the principle of montage, as an action directed against organic unity obtained surreptitiously, was based on shock."29 When the shock dulls or disappears, the interest of the montage is neutralized. Adorno thinks of the work of art as a process, as a phenomenon in the making, "essentially concerning the parties at all."30 For him, a work of art is neither "stable" nor "definitive" but "in motion." The parties are not; they are neither inert or dynamic. They are "centers of forces tending to totality."31 Montage, Modernity, Assemblage Anne Souriau defines montage as: “the action of assemblage, or the way in which are assembled, to form a whole, parts first made up separately. [...] In general, and in all fields, a montage is an aesthetic fact, since one is an editor of an overall form and influences the aspects that the different parts adopt to each other's elements."32 Montage, therefore, consists of putting together heterogeneous elements of various origins, to obtain a particular result, employing adapted techniques. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 35 Moreover, as already discussed, montage is based on the shock of fragments, themselves linked to artistic modernity, which is the manifestation. Adorno stated that, "according to its microstructure, all new art should be called montage"33 insofar as it uses the montage process, Jean-Paul Olive writes: "any modern work can only be conceived if in response to the shock phenomena characteristic of the modern era. To the exploded experience of modernity [...], to this experience of flying, corresponds an art that breaks, and can no longer - and no doubt no longer wants to - resolve to a unified appearance."34 Assemblage, for its part, supposes a non-homogeneity of the work, an interruption of the spatial continuity. It involves the juxtaposition, the superposition, the simultaneity of various structures and materials. It also affirms a break with the illusionist conception of art. It disrupts traditional artistic codes, ignores conventions, and produces displacements, disturbances, the unpredictable, the unexpected, the strange. It is in total rupture with the partitioning intrinsic to classical aesthetics. It is a work of construction that passes through choices and which refers to the intention of the artist who relates heterogeneous elements. It is about creating relationships and encounters, producing echoes, shocks, tensions. The artwork is constructed as and when dialogue is established between the fragments. Through assemblage, the artist explores areas of coexistence and encounter, organizing the heteroclite, arranging the varied, bringing together fragments to produce connections. In short, it is part of a poetics of encounter and relationship. The artist is thus reshaping the boundaries of art by creating new geographies. In these fortuitous, unexpected encounters, in these outbursts of unexpectedness, in these impulses that invent a whole, the gaps are reduced and ever new universes arise. Assemblage allows for displacements, permanent changes, combinations ever fruitful for the artist and unpredictable for the spectator. The assemblage of the various gives a place to open works, which also belong to an aesthetic of meeting. Through montage and assemblage, art breaks with the obligation to represent, to represent reality. In 'Still Life with Chair Caning' (1912), Pablo Picasso revealed that the artist no longer represents the real. However, artists present art through a collage of oilcloth pieces in painting compositions and a piece of rope forming a kind of frame. The cubist collages, Dadaist and Surrealist photomontages, assemblies (combined paintings) of Rauschenberg, Tinguely, and many others, offer diversions, deviations. These gaps and ruptures open up new horizons to new possibilities, new realities. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 36 The Fragment It is naturally impossible to speak of montage and assemblage without evoking the mounted and assembled elements that are the fragments. Montage and assemblage use various fragments, pieces of the world, of reality, that the artist then combines, associates, and organizes to evoke surprise, astonishment, the unknown. The purpose of these processes is to bring out the unusual, the unexpected. These combined fragments are, in the eyes of the defenders of classical aesthetics, a symbol of impurity, regrettable intrusion, discrepancy, and dislocation; they are therefore the antithesis of harmony, unity, coherence, and everything they defend. The assembly of fragments is thus the mark of refusal and emancipation vis-à-vis representation, déjà-vu, of the established order. The fragment appeals to a particular thought - that of the diverse, the exploded, of discontinuity, loss, tension. It announces the irruption of the unexpected, of uncertainty, of instability. It is a rebellion against totality, harmony, unity. The fragment is the result of dislocation, bursting, fracture, tearing, breaking, cutting. It symbolizes violence. It is a break with continuity, the disappearance of everything, the defection of coherence and annihilation of a whole. The separation of the fragment leads to the destruction of the totality. It is indicative of a crisis of unity. The fragment also suggests the absence - what is missing. It is what is missing that gives rise to the sense of no more unity; hence the feeling of incompleteness. It refers to incompleteness, but the fragment is fundamentally ambiguous. In its incompleteness, it can be self-sufficient and establish itself as a homogeneous whole. This is how the German Romantics of the School of Jena envisioned seeing the fragment as a totality. As Alain Brunn says, the fragment “is both unfinished completeness and finished incompleteness."35 The fragment is not inert or frozen. In work, articulated with other fragments, it imposes itself by its dynamism. It is also the germ of work to come. It has its energy detached. It throbs with internal dynamism. Besides, fragments interact together in their implementation and create a dynamic in their relationship with other elements. In the space of the work, the fragments are put in tension, create echoes, friction, articulations, dialogues. The gathering and organization of fragments that pass through the work of montage and assemblage allow for constitution of a new whole. The fragment no longer appears as a reminder of a lost unit, as the debris of the world, as a residue of the real, but as part of a new whole. The association of heterogeneous fragments contributes to the development of a homogeneous whole. Fragments appear as moments before possible encounters. In the context Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 37 of the work, they are at once lonely and in solidarity. Assembled, they have a strength, a form, producing meaning. Brutal connections, tensions, telescoping between fragments, surprise the viewer. These assemblages can confuse, disturb, disrupt, destabilize. The assemblage produces transgressions. Montage and assemblage are at the origin of an art form which reveals other realities, ferments of possible. Jean-Marc Lachaud brings together these practices of collagists, “montagists,” and “assemblagists” under the term “aesthetics of non- coherence”, having “to do with a concrete utopia, thus with the prospect of emancipation (individual and collective)." 36 This aesthetics of non-coherence, which is also an aesthetic of the encounter, is part of what Adorno called a “frightening process” of the arts. In July 1966, he began his speech at the Berlin Academy of Arts with the following words: “In the most recent evolution, the boundaries between artistic genres flow into each other, or more precisely: their lines of demarcation are frightening."37 The process that Adorno was already observing in cubists was seen to develop throughout the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, contemporary art has been characterized by a limitless hybridization of artistic practices, with extra- artistic domains as varied and unusual as genetics, robotics, and computer science, offering works that question, sometimes fascinate or discourage, but do not leave indifferent. Author Biography Dominique Berthet is a University Professor, he teaches aesthetics and art criticism at the University of the French Antilles (UA). Founder and head of CEREAP (Center for Studies and Research in Aesthetic and Plastic Arts). Founder and director of the magazine Recherches en Esthétique (Research in Aesthetics). Member of CRILLASH (Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Literature, Languages, Arts, and Humanities, EA 4095). Associate Researcher at ACTE Institute (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Art critic, member of AICA-France (International Association of Art Critics). Exhibition curator. His research focuses on contemporary and comparative aesthetics, contemporary art, Caribbean art, and Surrealism. He has directed more than 50 volumes, published more than 110 articles and ten books among which: Hélénon, “Lieux de peinture” (Monograph), (preface Édouard Glissant), HC Éditions, 2006; André Breton, l’éloge de la rencontre. Antilles, Amérique, Océanie, HC Éditions, 2008; Ernest Breleur (Monograph), HC Éditions, 2008; Pour une critique d’art engagée, L’Harmattan, 2013. Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine ______ ______ 38 Notes 1. Catherine Millet in French: “L’art […] est devenu contemporain quand il a commencé, d’une certaine façon à réaliser le projet moderne au sens où l’entendait Baudelaire” and “J’ai suggéré d’entrée que l’art contemporain était une réalisation de la modernité. Plus exactement, il réalise le programme de la modernité”, in “L’art contemporain. Histoire et géographie” (Paris, Flammarion, coll. “Champs arts” 2006), 32 and 159. 2. Anne Souriau (dir.), in Étienne Souriau, “Vocabulaire d’esthétique” (Paris, PUF, coll. Quadrige, 1999), 1025. 3. Dominique Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage. Kouléchov, Poudovkine, Vertov et Eisenstein (Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. Champs visuels, 2019). 4. In French: “Le mot “montage” a été utilisé ici depuis les premiers jours de l’existence du cinéma russe. On ne sait pas qui l’a prononcé le premier – évidemment un des opérateurs français qui vinrent en Russie. Mais c’est moi qui ai défini le “montage” comme une propriété spécifique du cinéma dans mes articles et dans le livre L’Art du cinema”, interview by Lev Kuleshov with “Film Culture au printemps 1967, in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 29. 5. Kuleshov, in French: “L’essence de l’art cinématographique […] repose entièrement sur la composition. Pour faire un film, le réalisateur doit combiner différents fragments filmés, non ordonnés et non reliés en un tout, et juxtaposer les différents moments dans l’ordre le plus avantageux, le plus cohérent et le mieux rythmé […]”, in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 30. 6. Kuleshov, in French: “percer une brèche dans les esprits”, in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 41. 7. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 53. 8. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 55. 9. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 72. 10. Kuleshov in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 42. 11. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage,22. 12. Dziga Vertov in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 83. 13. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 84. 14. Vertov in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 94. 15. Vertov in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 95. 16. Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 97. 17. In French “L’intervalle, c’est l’utilisation de l’écart sur le plan du référent entre deux images pour constituer un lien sémantico-visuel entre elles sur la base d’un ou de plusieurs paramètres visuels et en vue de participer à la dynamique du discours qu’ils actualisent ponctuellement”, Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 113-114. 18. Sergueï Mikhaïlovitch Eisenstein in Chateau, Contribution à l’histoire du concept de montage, 118. 19. Eisenstein in Aumont, “Montage Eisenstein” (Paris, Images modernes, 2005), 211. 20. Jacques Aumont and Alain Bergala, Esthétique du film (Paris, Nathan, coll. Arts Université, 1990), 60. 21. Jean-Marc Lachaud, Collages, montages, assemblages au XXe siècle, vol. 1 L’art du choc ; vol. 2 Le fragment à l’œuvre (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2018). 22. Lukács in Lachaud, “Collages, montages, assemblages”, vol. 2, 250. 23. Lachaud, “Collages, montages, assemblages”, vol. 2, 258. 24. Bertolt Brecht, “Popularité et réalisme.” In Écrits sur la littérature et l’art 2, trans. A. Gisselbrecht (Paris, L’Arche, 1970), 116. 25. Theodor W. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, trans. Marc Jimenez (Paris, Klincksieck, 1974), 14. 26. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 207. 27. In French: “[…] il est impossible de penser une œuvre d’art qui, tout en intégrant en soi l’hétérogène et en se tournant contre la cohésion propre de son sens, ne produise pas malgré tout du sens.” Theodor W. Adorno, L’art et les arts, trans. Jean Lauxerois (Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, coll. Arts et esthétique, 2002), 71. 28. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 206. 29. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 208. 30. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 237. 31. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 237. 32. Anne Souriau, “Vocabulaire d’esthétique”, 1025. 33. Adorno, Théorie esthétique, 208. 34. Jean-Paul Olive, “Fragments épars, fragments dynamiques”, in Amey and Olive (dir.), “Fragment, montage-démontage, collage-décollage, la défection de l’œuvre ?”, coll. Arts 8 (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2004), 11. 35. Alain Brunn, “Fragment”, “Dictionnaire des notions” (Paris, Encyclopædia Universalis, 2005), 500. 36. Lachaud, Collages, montages, assemblages, vol. 2, 339. 37. Adorno, L’art et les arts, 43. work_6xj45dxwavcbjj3xxyyi2vkmny ---- Extensão rural e desenvolvimento com sustentabilidade cultural: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) Rural extension and development with cultural sustentability: the point of the culture on the arid and remote interior of Pernambuco (Brazil) L’extension rurale et le développement avec la sustentabilité culturelle: le point de culture dans le désert de Pernambuco (Brésil) Extensión rural y desarrollo con sostenimiento cultural: el Punto de Cultura en Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) Camila Loureiro* Angelo Brás F. Callou** Recebido em 20/12/2006; revisado e aprovado em 29/3/2007; aceito em 20/7/2007 Resumo: Analisa-se no presente artigo as contribuições do Projeto Estação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano, selecionado pelo Programa Cultura Viva, do Governo Federal para o desenvolvimento local de Arcoverde, em Pernambuco. Especificamente, pretende-se observar as possibilidades de “sustentabilidade cultural”, a partir da implantação da Estação da Cultura nesta cidade. Neste trabalho, ressalta-se a importância de centralizar a sustentabilidade cultural como premissa para o desenvolvimento local, vislumbrando nas pessoas dessas comunidades como principais atores nesse processo. Palavras-chave: extensão rural; desenvolvimento local; sustentabilidade cultural. Abstract:. In this essay we analise the contributions of the “Projeto Estação da Cultura : o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano”, selected by “Programa Cultura Viva”, from Federal Government for the local development of Arcoverde, in Pernambuco. Specifically, we intend to observe the possibilities of “Cultural supports”, starting from the Estação Cultura implementation at the city. In this work, it is spotted the importance of to centralize the “cultural supports” as basis for the local development, looking to the people of these towns as the stars of these process. Key words: rural extention; local development; cultural support. Résumé: Cet article analyse les contribuitions du Projet de la Station de la Culture dans le désert du Pernambuco, sélectionné par le Programme Cultura Viva (Culture Vive) , du Governement Fédéral pour le développement local de Arcoverde, à Pernambuco. Notamment, on espére étudier les possibilités de sustentabilité culturelle, à partir de l’implantation de la Station de la Culture dans cette ville. On accentue l’importance de centraliser la sustentabilité culturelle comme prémisse pour le développement local. Alors, les habitants de ces communautés sont primordiaux dans ce procès. Mots-clés: extension rurale; développement local; sustentabilité culturelle. Resumen: Se analiza en el presente artículo las contribuciones del Proyecto Estación de la Cultura: el Punto de Cultura en Sertão Pernambucano, seleccionado por el Programa Cultura Viva, del Gobierno Federal para el desarrollo local de Arcoverde, en Pernambuco. Específicamente, se pretende observar las posibilidades de “sostenimiento cultural”, a partir de la implantación de la Estación de Cultura en esta ciudad. En este trabajo, sobresale la importancia de centralizar el sostenimiento cultural como premisa para el desarrollo local, vislumbrando en las personas de esas comunidades como principales actores en ese proceso. Palabras clave : extensión rural; desarrollo local; sostenimiento cultural. INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, p. 213-221, Set. 2007. * Mestre em Extensão Rural e Desenvolvimento Local pela Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, amiaaa@hotmail.com. ** Professor Titular da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, peixes@elogica.com.br. Introdução A temática da comunicação e cultura e do desenvolvimento local nos estudos de Extensão Rural surge a partir dos anos 90. Expande-se, assim, com o advento dos pro- cessos de globalização, da degradação am- biental, dos avanços tecnológicos emergen- tes, dos estudos de recepção latino-america- nos (desenvolvidos a partir do cultural studies ingleses) e das novas concepções sobre o ru- ral brasileiro (CALLOU, 2002). Esse assun- to é abordado pela primeira vez no artigo Desafios da Comunicação Rural em Tempo de Desenvolvimento Local, em 1995 (CALLOU; TAUK SANTOS, 1995). A partir daí, as an- tigas abordagens de Extensão Rural, que os- cilavam entre o paradigma funcionalista modernizador e as teorias de participação paulofreirianas, “não servem mais para ex- plicar o velho objeto” (TAUK SANTOS, 2000, p. 299). Contemporaneizar a Exten- INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. Camila Loureiro; Angelo Brás F. Callou214 são Rural significa, para Tauk Santos (2000), enfocar o desenvolvimento local numa ten- tativa de promover mudanças em prol das culturas populares. Os estudos culturais latino-americanos da comunicação, sobretudo, pela via dos es- tudos de recepção, propostos por Jesús Martín-Barbero e Néstor García Canclini, trouxeram novos aspectos teóricos para ins- trumentalizar a Extensão Rural na sua rela- ção com o desenvolvimento local (CALLOU, 2004). Isso ocorre particularmente a partir da tese de doutoramento de Tauk Santos (1994) sobre a participação de pequenos pro- dutores no Programa de Desenvolvimento Rural do Serviço de Tecnologias Alternativas (SERTA). Se, até então, os estudos de recep- ção, ainda que escassos, estavam voltados majoritariamente para a recepção de produ- tos midiáticos, a partir de agora, abriam-se também para revelar e reconhecer as apro- priações e ressignificações que as culturas po- pulares, na sua singularidade e criativida- de, fazem das propostas de desenvolvimen- to de organizações governamentais e não- governamentais (TAUK SANTOS, 2000). As culturas populares, compreendidas a partir dos estudos de recepção de Martín- Barbero, não são conceituadas por sua au- tenticidade ou beleza, “mas sim por sua re- presentatividade sociocultural, sua capaci- dade de materializar e expressar o modo de viver e pensar das classes subalternas [...]” (MARTÍN-BARBERO, 1997, p.105). Este en- tendimento assume na pesquisa de Extensão Rural em sua relação com o desenvolvimen- to local, um foco relevante de interesse neste trabalho. Isso porque a dimensão cultural é considerada, por alguns autores, dentro de um complexo multidimensional do desenvol- vimento local, isto é, econômico, social, am- biental e político. Jara (1998), por exemplo, traduz essa multidimensionalidade em vá- rias preocupações com: o presente e o futu- ro; a produção e o consumo de bens e servi- ços; a necessidade básica de subsistência; os recursos naturais e o equilíbrio ecossistêmico; as práticas decisórias e a distribuirão de po- der. Ao tratar da dimensão cultural no de- senvolvimento, o autor ressalta que se “deve combinar os interesses com os valores cultu- rais e as decisões com crenças para ativar os processos de inovação” (JARA, 2002, p. 109). Por sua vez, a noção de sustentabili- dade cultural na área do desenvolvimento aparece de modo explícito e chamativo no último parágrafo do livro de Benjamin (2004), Folkcomunicação na Sociedade Contem- porânea. Apesar de esta concepção ser ain- da pouco explorada nos estudos de desen- volvimento local, salta-se aos olhos como um aspecto significativo no campo da Extensão Rural. O Programa Cultura Viva do Governo Federal, no incentivo e apoio ao Projeto Es- tação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano torna-se campo-chave de aná- lise, por reconhecer “a centralidade da di- mensão cultural no impulso do desenvolvi- mento sustentável” (BRASIL, 2004, p. 10), ao auxiliar na formação de jovens agentes culturais, em Arcoverde e nas suas comuni- dades circunvizinhas. Nesse sentido, para a Estação da Cul- tura (2004, p. 4), “Arcoverde é um ponto de encontro”, por ser passagem para as comu- nidades indígenas e remanescentes a quilom- bolas, estando estrategicamente situada no centro do estado de Pernambuco. Contudo, o poder executivo arcoverdense apóia-se na idéia que essa cidade é de forasteiros, sendo esquecidos os negros e índios, primeiros habi- tantes dessas localidades, bem como, das co- munidades periféricas e rurais. Por isso, o próprio projeto almeja ser o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão pernambucano, numa tentativa de “preservar o patrimônio histórico, ambiental e cultural dessa região” (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004, p.4). O esforço analítico desse trabalho al- meja produzir conhecimento sobre a impor- tância da cultura no desenvolvimento local pretendido pela Extensão Rural contempo- rânea. Isto é, uma proposta de desenvolvi- mento em bases extensionistas com susten- tabilidade cultural. Tem-se, portanto, uma preocupação em construir uma base meto- dológica, com o objetivo de analisar as pos- sibilidades de sustentabilidade cultural do projeto da Estação da Cultura, vislumbran- do nesses agentes culturais como propulso- res/extensionistas do desenvolvimento local para Arcoverde. Em Pernambuco, foram indicados 26 Pontos de Cultura pelo Programa Cultura Viva. Assim, tem-se como objeto de estudo o Projeto Estação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cultura 215Extensão rural e desenvolvimento com sustentabilidade cultural: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. no Sertão Pernambucano, em Arcoverde, ini- cialmente, por ser o primeiro convênio do Ponto de Cultura, assinado no Brasil. No de- correr da pesquisa, outras qualificações da Associação Estação da Cultura foram deter- minantes: priorizar a idéia de formar agen- tes culturais, em parceria com a rede escolar, e atuar em comunidades rurais, indígenas e remanescestes de quilombolas; preservar seu espaço físico (um dos poucos locais de Arco- verde com arquitetura conservada, tomba- da como patrimônio histórico e cultural do estado), e, por fim, agir ativamente no cená- rio social e político arcoverdense, evidencia- do na ocupação da Estação da Cultura, para defender os bens materiais e simbólicos de sua região (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004). Tal afirmação é demonstrada, quan- do um grupo de atores de teatro decidiu ocu- par o prédio da antiga estação ferroviária, em 17 de novembro de 2001, com a inten- ção de garantir um espaço físico para pro- dução de arte e cultura. Estes atores ainda almejavam preservar seu patrimônio histó- rico, antes “abandonado e deteriorado”. Mas pretendiam, sobretudo, formar lideranças sociopolíticas no Sertão pernambucano: os agentes culturais. Assim, numa atmosfera de conflito e resistência, fundou-se a Associa- ção Estação da Cultura, por meio da união de forças de artistas e pesquisadores, para contrapor as práticas assistencialistas do poder político arcoverdense (ASSOCIA- ÇÃO, 2004). A partir da análise do projeto da Esta- ção da Cultura, optou-se por um estudo de caso, além da escolha de instrumentos espe- cíficos para coleta de dados. Para isso, são utilizadas as seguintes técnicas: a) levanta- mento bibliográfico; b) análise documental do projeto original Estação da Cultura: o Pon- to de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano, apro- vado pelo Ministério da Cultura; c) realiza- ção de roteiros de entrevistas semi-estrutu- radas, com os agentes culturais articulado- res das oficinas artísticas e com os dois mem- bros da Comissão Executiva da Estação da Cultura; e d) observação não participante. 1 Desenvolvimento local e sustentabili- dade cultural: uma aproximação teórica Dentre as concepções sobre desenvol- vimento local que contemplam a noção de sustentabilidade, a mais difundida refere-se ao não esgotamento dos recursos naturais que poderão ser necessários a gerações atuais e vindouras. Nesse sentido, o conceito de sustentabilidade relaciona-se com a idéia de preservação e de conservação de recursos naturais limitados e não renováveis, ou seja, aqueles gastos sem uma devida racionaliza- ção e podendo escassear numa perspectiva futura. No entanto, pensa-se como Franco (1998), que tal concepção torna-se reducio- nista, por restringir a noção de sustentabili- dade apenas à questão ambiental e ecológica. A partir desse ponto de vista, o autor afirma que uma organização de um sistema é sustentável, conforme demonstrado na definição do problema de pesquisa, quando se mantém ao longo do tempo, por ter ad- quirido algumas “características que lhe con- ferem capacidades autocriativas” (FRAN- CO, 1998, p.22). Ele ainda afirma que não se pode confundir sustentabilidade com du- rabilidade. Ressalta que um processo inde- pendentemente de ser “econômico, social, cultural, político, institucional ou físico-ter- ritorial é sustentável quando se mantém pro- longadamente no tempo”. Segundo Franco (1998, p. 22) “se um sistema é sustentável, então ele é durável, porque é capaz de se auto-organizar, de se reproduzir, enfim, de autocriar condições para sua continuidade”. Numa discussão sobre ecodesenvolvi- mento, Sachs (1992) também compreende que a noção de sustentabilidade não se limita ape- nas à problemática ecológica e ambiental. Tan- to que subdivide a idéia de sustentabilidade em cinco dimensões: social, econômica, políti- ca, espacial e cultural. Para o autor, a susten- tabilidade cultural deve ser analisada no pla- nejamento do desenvolvimento sustentá- vel, por representar um novo paradigma da sustentabilidade. Assegura que seus referen- ciais metodológicos possibilitam à sociedade acompanhar o ritmo da capacidade dos re- cursos naturais, com a finalidade de atingir a harmonia entre seres humanos e a natureza. Para isso, constata que a operacionalização da sustentabilidade cultural deve nortear-se na: INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. Camila Loureiro; Angelo Brás F. Callou216 Busca de raízes endógenas dos modelos de modernização e dos sistemas rurais integra- dos de produção, privilegiando processos de mudança no seio da continuidade cultu- ral e traduzindo o conceito normativo de eco- desenvolvimento em pluralidade de solu- ções particulares, que respeitem as espe- cificidades de cada ecossistema, de cada cultura, de cada local. (SACHS, 1992, p. 8) Nesse sentido, o autor parece conside- rar fundamental, tanto a dimensão cultural no desenvolvimento local sustentável (ao caracterizá-la pela valorização das diferen- ças, valores e saberes locais de cada popula- ção), quanto a ecológica, no seu aspecto ime- diato e/ou futuro. Ao definir desenvolvimen- to sustentável, Costabeber e Caporal (2006), pesquisadores em agroecologia, igualmente classificam em dimensões sociais, culturais e econômicas de uma sociedade, em sinto- nia com o meio ambiente e com os valores éticos e políticos. A sustentabilidade, para esses autores, deve ser estudada como uma busca incessante de pontos de equilíbrio numa perspectiva multidimensional de uma pirâmide constituída pelas seguintes bases: ecológica, econômica, social (primeiro nível); cultural, política (segundo nível) e ética (ter- ceiro nível). Na ênfase à dimensão cultural, são consideradas as atitudes respeitosas para com a cultura local (os valores, os conheci- mentos, os saberes), e ressaltam que esta di- mensão deve ser analisada como ponto de partida nos projetos de desenvolvimento. Apesar da importância da dimensão cultural no desenvolvimento local sustentá- vel, Martinell (2003) diz haver uma carên- cia de pesquisa evidencie a importância e a valorização da dimensão cultural, tanto dos aspectos quantitativos, quanto dos qualita- tivos. Segundo ele, existe uma dificuldade em atribuir um valor ao retorno das políticas culturais, ou seja, “calcular a rentabilidade social da cultura”, enfatizando a necessida- de de aferir os benefícios intangíveis das po- líticas culturais (MARTINELL, 2003, p.97). Deve ser nesse sentido que Canclini (2003, p.37) chama atenção para a necessidade de promover o capital cultural de nossas socie- dades, embora diga que “não se trata de acreditar que vamos nos salvar pela cultu- ra. Mas, talvez, nos ocupando das questões culturais consigamos demonstrar que nem tudo depende das dívidas”. Enfatiza-se, ainda, a importância da sustentabilidade cultural, pois na agenda po- lítica da maioria dos países, a ação cultural assume o caráter de medida marginal e su- plementar, com investimentos precários. Se- gundo ainda Martinell (2003), a valorização da cultura no setor público é imprescindível para consolidação da democracia, conse- qüentemente, promoção do desenvolvimen- to local. Para o autor, os neoliberais costu- mam defender que o Estado não deve intervir na cultura, atribuindo-lhe falta de competên- cia. Ainda assegura a necessidade da inter- cessão do poder executivo, afirmando que ao “deixar a cultura nas mãos do mercado 60% ou 70% das formas expressivas desa- pareceriam” (MARTINELL, 2003, p. 95). No entanto, Benjamin (2004, p. 139) observa que os próprios órgãos do governo apropriam-se das celebrações tradicionais, sob o patrocínio de grandes empresas, trans- formando os eventos em espetáculos de mas- sa, definindo como uma “espetacularização da cultura”. Do mesmo modo, tal concep- ção exploradora é denominada por Canclini (1983) de “tecnocratismo desenvolvimentis- ta”. O autor explica que a cultura popular é emoldurada aos hábitos estéticos e recreati- vos do turismo, transformando-a em verda- deiros espetáculos de massas ou em bailes modernos. Afirma que a burguesia comer- cial insiste em conservar essas festas para ex- pandir seu capital. E, por fim, proporcionar ao homem do campo uma fonte complemen- tar e aos turistas, atrações exóticas. Dentro desse contexto, Ayala e Ayala (1995) defendem que uma manifestação cul- tural passa a ser institucional, quando seus produtores são dependentes de patrocínios de uma identidade pública ou privada. Para eles, há uma necessidade de os produtores culturais possuírem poder de decisão, tanto nos componentes estéticos do evento (na dança: coreografia, instrumentária, músicas, versos, falas), quanto nas formas de atua- ção dos produtores diretos (quem participa, exercendo quais funções). E isso deve ocor- rer, não só na apresentação central, mas tam- bém, em todas as manifestações adjacentes. Concordamos com Sousa Santos (2002, p. 49) que, no domínio cultural, os neolibe- rais são muito seletivos, pois “os fenômenos culturais só lhe interessam na medida em 217Extensão rural e desenvolvimento com sustentabilidade cultural: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. que se tornam mercadorias que como tal devem seguir os trilhos da globalização eco- nômica”. Para o autor, a resistência mais eficaz contra a globalização hegemônica é a “localização”, que reside na promoção das economias locais e comunitárias, diversifica- das e auto-sustentáveis e ligadas a forças transnacionais, mas independentes delas. Ainda assegura que, numa cultura cada vez mais desterritorializada, a resposta contra os seus malefícios, seria a descoberta do senti- do de lugar e de comunidade. Desse modo, mencionamos Sousa San- tos (2002) por pronunciar a idéia de “globali- zação contra-hegemônica” na construção de um multiculturalismo emancipatório, basea- da no reconhecimento entre identidades e culturas distintas, conforme ele ressalta: Este reconhecimento pode resultar em múl- tiplas formas de partilha – tais como, identi- dades duais, identidades híbridas, interidentidades e transidentidades –mas todas elas devem orientar-se pela seguinte pauta transidentitária e transcultural: temos o direito de sermos iguais quando a diferen- ça nos inferioriza e ser diferentes quando a igualdade nos descaracteriza. (SOUSA SANTOS, 2002 p. 72) Pensa-se, portanto, que as manifesta- ções culturais não devem estar subordinadas aos ditames de uma elite hegemônica, para evitar justamente uma possível “espetacula- rização da cultura” ou um desenvolvimento meramente tecnocrático. Nesse sentido, atri- bui-se a idéia de sustentabilidade como uma questão que faz parte da multidimensionali- dade no desenvolvimento local, distante, portanto, do reducionismo econômico no de- senvolvimento, bem como, ecológico e am- biental na sustentabilidade. Assim sendo, acredita-se que a sustentabilidade cultural assume um grau de importância na valori- zação da tradição, dos conhecimentos e dos saberes de uma localidade, mas enfatizan- do a preocupação com o respeito à diversi- dade e ao pluralismo cultural, em prol das gerações presentes e futuras. Dentro dessas preocupações, o Projeto da Estação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano, selecionado pelo Pro- grama Cultura Viva do Governo Federal, re- vela-se fecundo, pois parece assimilar o sen- tido de sustentabilidade cultural, ao deslo- car a cultura de uma posição subalterna para estratégica no desenvolvimento, a partir do seu entendimento como usina de símbolos, direito/cidadania e economia. E ainda apre- senta-se como “um programa flexível que não será o que o governante pensa ser o cer- to ou o adequado, mas o que o cidadão con- segue tocar adiante”(BRASIL, 2004, p.9). Como também, acolhe a idéia de desenvol- vimento sustentável, quando considera que as interações entre o global e o local devem respeitar as ações desenvolvidas em cada Ponto de Cultura. De modo que ganhem musculatura e estrutura óssea, conquistan- do sua sustentabilidade e emancipação. O Programa Cultura Viva definiu esse modo de pactuar com a sociedade como “Gestão Compartilhada e Transformadora e envolve os conceitos de empoderamento, autonomia e protagonismo” (BRASIL, 2004, p.20). O Programa enfatiza, assim, a neces- sidade da ausência de hierarquia na relação entre o Estado e a sociedade civil, conside- rando-se como uma proposta de construção de uma nova política pública para cultura. 2 O Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernam- bucano: desenvolvimento com sustenta- bilidade cultural No seu primeiro edital, publicado no Diário Oficial da União em 16 de julho de 2004, o Ministério da Cultura do Governo Federal, através do Programa Cultura Viva, selecionou 262 projetos e instalações, já exis- tentes no Brasil urbano e rural, para estabe- lecer seus Pontos de Cultura, com a inten- ção de ajudar a impulsionar as atividades desses movimentos socioculturais. Para isso, o programa sugeriu algumas idéias, através de cinco ações: Cultura Digital, Agente Cul- tura Viva, Escola Viva e Griôs, para que os Pontos de Cultura pudessem moldar, ade- quar ou transfigurar de acordo com sua rea- lidade, disponibilizando ainda equipamen- tos e recursos (BRASIL, 2004). No referido projeto, o Ponto de Cultu- ra é o espaço físico da Associação Estação da Cultura, localizada na antiga Estação Ferroviária (RFSA), em Arcoverde. Cada Ponto de Cultura recebeu um total de R$ 183.493,95, subdivididos em cinco parcelas. Nesse local, de acordo com os idealizadores do programa Cultura Viva, se deu a articu- INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. Camila Loureiro; Angelo Brás F. Callou218 lação entre o Estado e o Ponto da Estação da Cultura (BRASIL, 2004). Na justificativa do Projeto Estação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cul- tura no Sertão Pernambucano, essa associação define-se “como uma esfera pública que mantém uma relação indissolúvel com as questões de poder e de democracia”. Isto se evidencia no seu objetivo geral, aprovado pelo Ministério da Cultura, que é “formar o corpo de agentes culturais aptos para com- por a coordenação do Ponto de Cultura e influenciar na proposição das políticas pú- blicas para cultura no Sertão pernambuca- no” (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004). Na Associação Estação da Cultura, há aproximadamente 120 agentes culturais em processo de qualificação nos Núcleos: Comu- nicação, Artes Plásticas, Música, Dança/ Capoeira, Teatro, Educação e Pesquisa. Des- se total, apenas 33 agentes culturais foram escolhidos para receberem as bolsas da ação “Agente Cultura Viva” do Programa Cultu- ra Viva. O critério de seleção desses jovens deu-se pela idade, entre 16 e 24 anos, e pelo tempo de vínculo com a Estação da Cultu- ra. Tais agentes culturais distribuem-se em 12, no Núcleo de Música, na Rua 18; conhe- cida como alameda do lixão, periferia de Arcoverde, na Casa da Música; um em Dan- ça/ Capoeira; nove em Teatro, com traba- lhos com o Povo indígena Xukuru; quatro em Artes Plásticas, com oficinas na sede da Estação; e sete em Educação e Pesquisa, atu- ando nos sítios rurais Açudinho e Olho D’água (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004). O Núcleo de Teatro, antes denominado de Artes Cênicas, desenvolve experiências pedagógicas no processo de formação dos agentes culturais, trabalhando com crianças e jovens das comunidades vizinhas da Esta- ção da Cultura, como também, com oficinas com o Povo Xukuru e com Comunidade do Osso, áreas circunvizinhas a Arcoverde. Isto se trata de uma tentativa de estimular a sen- sibilidade das artes teatrais nesses atores so- ciais. Seus fundadores ainda consideram o teatro como o pai e mãe da Estação da Cul- tura (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004). No Núcleo de Teatro, encontram-se os trabalhos de maior proeminência da Estação da Cultura, como a oficina Agente Construindo, para qualifica- ção profissional de atores, tendo oito agen- tes culturais em processo de formação, en- t r e 1 5 a 24 anos. Há também o grupo Troupernas de Pau e Teatro, oficina perma- nente de equilíbrio e mobilidade em pernas- de-pau para montagem da peça “Quadrilha: um romance sertanejo”, de Romualdo Freitas. Outro espetáculo em destaque é “Carmem De La Zone”, de Sérgio Vieira Cardoso. A partir do desmembramento do nú- cleo de Artes Cênicas, também surgiu o Nú- cleo de Dança, com 11 agentes culturais (de 16 a 24 anos). Seus principais objetivos são fomentar a dança popular em Arcoverde; qualificar bailarinos através da prática e te- oria; resgatar a forma autêntica da dança popular da comunidade (Cavalo Marinho, Caboclinhos de Aldeia e os Cocos do Ser- tão). Essa formação é feita a partir de diver- sas leituras: Carlos da Fonte, Antonio Nóbrega, Ariano Suassuna, Carlos Milton Junior, como também do conhecimento po- pular dos mais velhos e ainda de textos ex- traídos da internet. Tal pesquisa resultou na apresentação da coreografia do Bumba meu Boi do Maranhão. Por sua vez, o Núcleo de Dança seg- menta-se na oficina de Capoeira, com 19 agentes culturais, entre 9 e 23 anos. Os lo- cais das oficinas de capoeira são, além da Estação da Cultura, na aldeia do Povo Xukuru, em Pesqueira, e na Escola Nunes Ferraz, em Arcoverde. Segundo Aldemir (22 anos), articulador da oficina de capoeira, suas pesquisas são fundamentadas “em tex- tos da internet, mas realizamos também en- trevistas com capoeiristas de Arcoverde e Juazeiro”. Para ele os principais objetivos desta oficina são: Repassar as técnicas de capoeira para os agentes culturais, com a intenção de que eles multipliquem esse conhecimento para sua comunidade; desmistificar a idéia precon- ceituosa sobre o conceito de capoeira; for- mar o agente cultural para vida, através do diálogo e da amizade. Esse depoimento revela um compro- metimento do agente cultural em preservar a fluidez e a agilidade da capoeira, como uma tradição cultural. Observa-se que, através dessas oficinas, pesquisas e entrevistas sobre a capoeira, esses agentes culturais multipli- cadores, além de proporcionarem a auto-esti- ma coletiva, poderão possibilitar a continui- dade, ou seja, a sustentabilidade cultural de 219Extensão rural e desenvolvimento com sustentabilidade cultural: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. uma dança popular que, durante muito tem- po, esteve à margem da sociedade. Com ênfase na musicalidade arcover- dense, o Núcleo de Música, com 11 agentes culturais de 8 a 22 anos, atuando na Casa da Música da Rua 18, periferia de Arco- verde. Esse conhecimento é aproveitado para confecção de instrumentos musicais, como: zabumbas, alfaias, surdos, pífanos e caixas, para serem comercializados. Para Renata (20 anos) e Aldemir (22 anos), articuladores dessas oficinas, o Núcleo de Música tem como objetivos cruciais: Pesquisar os ritmos locais de Arcoverde; combinar o ritmo erudito com o popular, buscando uma musicalidade original; res- gatar a música local, buscando uma visibili- dade para sociedade; gerar renda, através da confecção de instrumentos musicais de percussão; integrar música e educação, atra- vés de oficinas. No Núcleo de Música, notamos uma preocupação dos agentes culturais em mes- clar os ritmos populares arcoverdenses com a música erudita, numa tentativa de recriar uma musicalidade própria. Na formação desses agentes culturais, parece haver a as- similação da idéia de promoção, preserva- ção e recriação de sua cultura musical, en- quanto expressão de uma representação sim- bólica, além de ressaltar o aspecto econômi- co, através da comercialização dos instru- mentos musicais. O Núcleo de Artes Plásticas tem como proposta, através de oficinas, a adequação das técnicas das artes plásticas para o públi- co infantil, tendo 16 agentes culturais, entre 10 e 19 anos. O articulador dessas oficinas artísticas, Claudiney Mendes (19 anos), diz que sua finalidade era “constituir um grupo que atuasse e se identificasse com o sentimen- to da Estação da Cultura”. Para isso, almeja “aprimorar o dom artístico de cada agente cultural, descobrindo suas qualidades indi- viduais, para enriquecer com as técnicas das artes plásticas”. E ainda pretende “revelar para os agentes culturais o mundo das artes plásticas, para depois apresentar o produto final dessas oficinas para a comunidade”. Dentre as exposições já exibidas para socie- dade arcoverdense, ele menciona que: Em 2005, realizamos as exposições Caras e Cores (17 quadros com imagens da Estação da Cultura), Cubando e Expressando o Sertão (10 quadros retratando o Sertão nordestino, através das técnicas de Picasso do cubismo e expressionismo), e mais 10 quadros com temas livres, sugerido pelos próprios agen- tes culturais... Em 2006, criamos 20 másca- ras de carnaval, nos inspirado num estudo da origem carnavalesca até aos dias atuais. No mesmo ano, no período das festas de São João, os agentes culturais realizaram uma pesquisa teórica de temas juninos univer- sais. Decidimos, então, retratar algo de acor- do com a realidade local deles, criando 20 esculturas de personagens do espetáculo Quadrilha: um Romance Sertanejo, uma tradi- ção da Estação da Cultura e de Arcoverde. A partir desse depoimento, nota-se no Núcleo de Artes Plásticas uma preocupação em potencializar as energias sociais, dando vazão à identificação dos agentes culturais com a própria comunidade arcoverdense. Acredita-se que a exploração da pesquisa da linguagem artística na sua expressão lúdi- ca, além de desenvolver um modo diferencia- do de aprendizado, também pode criar um espaço para reflexão crítica sobre a realida- de em que o jovem está inserido. Numa tentativa de discutir a democra- tização dos meios de comunicação predomi- nantes na região, fundou-se o Núcleo de Co- municação na Estação da Cultura. Suas arti- culadoras, Emanuelle (17 anos) e Jéssica (16 anos), ressaltam que esse Núcleo tem como objetivos: “informar o público interno da Estação da Cultura, por meio da comunica- ção interna (mural, panfletos, e-mails e boca a boca)... Atingir o máximo de ouvintes, atra- vés dos seus veículos de comunicação”. Para isso, o Núcleo de Comunicação desenvolve um programa de rádio semanal sobre a Es- tação da Cultura, aos sábados de 13 às 14h, na Rádio Aliança, em Arcoverde, em que foram abordados temas como: Movimento Calango (movimento cultural que ocorreu na década de 80 e 90), no seu primeiro programa no dia 06 de maio de 2006; Povo Negro (13/05); Movimento indigenis- ta, especialmente sobre a morte do Cacique Xicão do Povo Xukuru (20/05); Educação, enfatizando Paulo Freire (27/05); Direito e Segurança (03/06); Universo Feminino (20/ 06); Teatro Popular (17/06); Terra: uma ques- tão fundiária (01/07); Rock (08/07); Sexua- lidade (15/07); e Religiões (22/07). Um outro veículo do Núcleo de Comu- nicação é o jornal mensal Coeviacá. Esta INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. Camila Loureiro; Angelo Brás F. Callou220 expressão é oriunda de uma colagem de vá- rios contos indígenas dos povos do alto Xingu: a Lenda do Píui, cuja história conta a façanha de um índio guerreiro encantado que periodicamente visitava as aldeias atean- do fogo nas suas cabanas, com a intenção de reunir as pessoas para sua reconstrução (ASSOCIAÇÃO, 2004). No início da publi- cação do Coeviacá (já com 8 edições, tendo Teresa Padilha como a jornalista responsá- vel pela sua edição), segundo Emanuelle e Jéssica, os temas desse jornal eram muito centrados nas ideologias e atividades da Es- tação da Cultura. Assim, elas notaram que esses conteúdos estavam “muitos fechados na Estação”. Desde então, decidiram abran- ger as matérias para temas de interesse da comunidade, especialmente, nas áreas de artes, cultura e política da região. Segundo Raphaela, articuladora das oficinas artísticas, o Núcleo de Educação e Pesquisa “surgiu após o diagnóstico que no processo de qualificação do agente cultural, há uma necessidade, além da prática, um embasamento teórico, como complementa- ção dessa formação”. Desde a ocupação da Estação, as ações em todos os núcleos sem- pre foram precedidas pela pesquisa, “tanto que para iniciar uma oficina de arte a pes- soa precisa se conhecer, por este motivo a primeira ação de um agente cultural é fazer sua história de vida”. A importância desse núcleo se revela, na medida em que ele per- passa por todos os núcleos da Estação da Cultura, conforme ela explica: Em Teatro existe hoje, Encontros Teóricos que acontecem uma vez por mês, onde os atores e atrizes fazem leituras de textos e debatem sobre o que foi pesquisado individualmente dentro de cada temática.... No Núcleo de Artes Plásticas, antes de iniciar qualquer módulo faz-se primeiramente um estudo, por exemplo, antes de aprender as técnicas cubistas, os agentes procuram saber o que é o cubismo, como surgiu e quem foi Pablo Picasso, e assim por diante... Em Dança tam- bém não é diferente, como se trabalha prin- cipalmente com dança popular é preciso não só aprender os passos, mas saber suas ori- gens... Os capoeiristas estão sempre procu- rando saber mais, já realizaram pesquisas sobre a história da capoeira além de diver- sas entrevistas com mestres, instrutores e adeptos desse jogo... A Comunicação é es- sencialmente educação e pesquisa; desde a relação entre comunicador/a educador/a até a constante busca por novas informa- ções.. O programa de rádio e o jornal exigem a prática cotidiana da pesquisa... Esse longo depoimento dá sinais evi- dentes de que o Núcleo de Educação e Pes- quisa é eixo motriz das diversas atividades artísticas, aspecto observado, ao longo da apresentação dos Núcleos da Estação da Cultura. Tal núcleo, ainda, é responsável pela manutenção da Biblioteca Paulo Freire, localizada na Estação da Cultura, aberta à comunidade de toda a região. Outra ação deste núcleo é o trabalho dos agentes cultu- rais na Casa da Memória da Vó Chiquinha: eles realizam oficinas de arte e leitura para crianças e desenvolvem pesquisas sobre plan- tas medicinais, banda de pífano local, bem como, estudos sobre a história da vó Chiquinha e dos objetos desse museu popu- lar. Pensa-se, portanto, que o Projeto Estação da Cultura: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Per- nambucano, enquanto projeto de intervenção no âmbito da Extensão Rural, pode contri- buir para o desenvolvimento com sustentabi- lidade cultural de Arcoverde. Ao acreditar que as atividades culturais e linguagens ar- tísticas levadas a cabo nessa intervenção, além de exercer um papel fundamental na reintegração social e na reflexão crítica, tam- bém são capazes de recuperar a auto-esti- ma e o sentimento de pertencimento comu- nitário dos habitantes dessas comunidades. Considerações finais Compreende-se, nas questões aqui apresentadas, a importância de centralizar a sustentabilidade cultural no campo da Extensão Rural para o desenvolvimento lo- cal. Nesse contexto, compreendemos que a sustentabilidade cultural é uma questão ine- rente ao complexo multidimensional no de- senvolvimento local. Por isso, a idéia do reducionismo econômico, nas teorias desen- volvimentista, bem como ecológico e ambi- ental, nas concepções sobre sustentabilidade, tornam-se incipientes. Nesse contexto, a no- ção de sustentabilidade cultural assume um grau de importância na valorização da tra- dição, dos conhecimentos e dos saberes de uma localidade, ressaltando a preocupação com respeito à diversidade e ao pluralismo 221Extensão rural e desenvolvimento com sustentabilidade cultural: o Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano (Brasil) INTERAÇÕES Revista Internacional de Desenvolvimento Local. Vol. 8, N. 2, Set. 2007. cultural, em benefício das gerações presen- tes e vindouras. O Programa Cultura Viva, através do financiamento do projeto Ponto de Cultura no Sertão Pernambucano, reconheceu as ações da Estação da Cultura, possibilitando, assim, a continuidade na formação dos agentes culturais, em comunidades circundantes à Arcoverde: periféricas, rurais e indígenas. Nessa perspectiva, considera-se a Estação da Cultura, em Arcoverde, como o Ponto am- plificador das concepções e ações do projeto da Estação da Cultura, pois sua atuação se expande territorialmente para áreas rurais, como o povoado indígena Xukuru, a comu- nidade do Osso, em Pesqueira, bem como, os sítios Açudinho e Olhos D´água, em Arcoverde. De um modo geral, acredita-se que os investimentos do Governo Federal contribu- íram para o incremento do Ponto de Cultura da Estação da Cultura. Pois, não se restringiu, apenas, na formação dos agentes culturais, das oficinas Artes Plásticas, Teatro, Dança, Música, Educação e Pesquisa e Comunica- ção, mas, também, essas oficinas resultaram em produtos para os diversos Núcleos da Estação da Cultura. Pensa-se, portanto, que o grande desa- fio do Projeto Estação da Cultura foi designar escassos recursos financeiros e, sobretudo, humanos, para atender a uma extensa área: Arcoverde, o Povo Xukuru, Comunidade do Osso e os sítios Açudinho e Olhos D´água. Dos recursos humanos, apenas duas pesso- as adultas, ambas da Comissão Executiva da Estação da Cultura, são as responsáveis por coordenarem e acompanharem a qualifica- ção desses jovens agentes culturais. Essas reflexões ressaltam a necessidade de centralizar a sustentabilidade cultural, co- mo premissa para o desenvolvimento local. Todavia, mais do que aos agentes culturais importa às comunidades reconhecerem a re- levância da dimensão cultural e apropria- rem-se dessa noção, com o objetivo de se tor- narem protagonistas principais do seu pró- prio processo de desenvolvimento local. 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Revista Signo, João Pessoa, ano 2, n. 3, set. 1995. work_6zmwsbf2ofgqzj4o3nh3gp6vce ---- untitled Distributed aggregation of heterogeneous Web-based Fine Art Information: enabling multi-source accessibility and curation FRANCES BUCHANAN1, NICCOLO CAPANNI1 and HORACIO GONZÁLEZ-VÉLEZ2 1School of Computing, Robert Gordon University, St Andrew Street, Aberdeen AB25 1HG, UK; e-mail: fabuchanan@lumison.co.uk; n.capanni1@rgu.ac.uk; 2Cloud Competency Centre, National College of Ireland, Mayor Street-IFSC, Dublin 1, Ireland; e-mail: horacio@ncirl.ie Abstract The sources of information on the Web relating to Fine Art and in particular to Fine Artists are numerous, heterogeneous and distributed. Data relating to the biographies of an artist, images of their artworks, location of the artworks and exhibition reviews invariably reside in distinct and seemingly unrelated, or at least unlinked, sources. While communication and exchange exists, there is a great deal of independence between major repositories, such as museum, often owing to their ownership or heritage. This increases the individuality in the repository’s own processes and dissemination. It is currently necessary to browse through numerous different websites to obtain information about any one artist, and at this time there is little aggregation of Fine Art Information. This is in contrast to the domain of books and music, where the aggregation and re-grouping of information (usually by author or artist/band name) has become the norm. A Museum API (Application Programming Interface), how- ever, is a tool that can facilitate a similar information service for the domain of Fine Art, by allowing the retrieval and aggregation of Web-based Fine Art Information, whilst at the same time increasing public access to the content of a museum’s collection. In this paper, we present the case for a pragmatic solution to the problems of heterogeneity and distribution of Fine Art Data and this is the first step towards the comprehensive re-presentation of Fine Art Information in a more ‘artist-centric’ way, via accessible Web applications. This paper examines the domain of Fine Art Information on the Web, putting forward the case for more Web services such as generic Museum APIs, highlighting this via a prototype Web application known as the ArtBridge. The generic Museum API is the standardisation mechanism to enable interfacing with specific Museum APIs. 1 Introduction A huge proportion of the adult population in the world now has access to digital technology and the Internet. This access brings with it the power to not only consume information but also the ability to publish it. Individuals, referred to by Shirky (2010: 64) as the ‘people formerly known as the audience’, have gone from merely consuming information in front of a television to actively contributing, creating and sharing all forms of digital media content. The current population has grown up with the Web and is adapting to its changes. Each new generation grows up familiar with the Web as it is in their time so that the growing interactivity becomes second nature. The infrastructure that facilitates this is the World Wide Web, commonly designated ‘the Web’. Although this was initially a repository of interlinked hypertext documents written by a small proportion of the Web population, the majority of Web users had only passive access to browse or read. This has changed considerably, and in respect of this paper, in three important ways. The Knowledge Engineering Review, Vol. 30:2, 220–236. © Cambridge University Press, 2015 doi:10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core First, hypertext has been enhanced with images, videos, multimedia applications and documents in various formats. Second, the introduction of Web applications has enabled information contribution on the same scale as information browsing; and third, Web services have opened up previously repository-centric data in a way that encourages others to analyse and augment that data. This change of approach to the Web is often referred to as ‘Web 2.0’ and in human terms is akin to a library being transformed into a community of authors (O’Reilly, 2007). A key component to the developing Web is users’ awareness of each other. Previously, a user browsing a Web resource would be unaware of any other users (see Figure 1). As participation increased so did awareness, through time filtered posting up to ‘instant’ communication, as shown in Figure 2. The tools of this new community range from the semi-individualist blogs, file hosting/sharing services ‘torrents’, through to highly interactive media sharing sites, multi-purpose Web applications, and the more com- munal wikis, mashups and social networks (see Figure 3). These tools create multiple sources of data, its associated meta-data as well as interpretations, contradiction and outright conflict in relation to the original materials. Crucial to permitting contribution is that anyone with access to the Internet is able to publish and distribute digital information for minimal effort and cost. Typically referred to as open data, the open source style contribution to Web data where access is (largely) without restrictions from licensing, patents or copyright has resulted in natural virtual groupings of individuals with the most diverse commonalities. Websites are taking on a more two-way conversa- tional and interactive role, facilitating the sharing of information, the establishment of communities of people with similar interests, and the creation of opportunities to comment and contribute. Such a culture of openness of information and data is spreading. There is a growing list of organisations that are opening up their previously repository-centric art-related data with a view to increasing transparency and dissemination, whilst encouraging others to analyse and add to that data. The list includes government agencies, the BBC, New York Times, The Guardian, and several universities, museums and archives. Of singular importance to this paper are the Web services providing Fine Art open data. The provision of programmable Web access to a museum’s archive of information is seen by these organisations as a new means of increasing the exposure of their collections whilst creating a digital dialogue with developers and the wider community. In the context of the present paper, it is seen as an opportunity to aggregate Fine Art Information in a more ‘artist-centric’, and therefore user-friendly, way. This paper seeks to examine the place of a Museum API (Application Program Interface) in the trend towards a more comprehensive aggregation of Fine Art Information. It begins, in Section 2, by taking a general look at the current state of Fine Art Information, highlighting the problems inherent therein, and describes the contributions of this project. It significantly extends our initial work (Buchanan et al., 2011) by reporting the introduction of the carefully designed user interface for ArtBridge as well as providing a holistic analysis of the application of large-scale Web-based systems to Fine Art. Section 3 discusses the method by which a solution can be provided, examining the issues limiting a centralised approach and favouring an open data approach. It then examines the transition from data to information via a review of a number of different Web applications that have been created using open data sources. In particular it highlights the way in which technology has improved the accessibility and quality of information currently available in the book and music domains. Examples from book and music domains can give valuable lessons in usability. Figure 1 Users are unaware of any other users Towards a generic Museum API 221 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core Section 4 presents ArtBridge, a Web application built using open data obtained via a number of Museum APIs. In Section 5, the technical implementation of ArtBridge is given and the case is made for the further aggregation of Fine Art Information and therefore the need for the provision of more Museum APIs. Finally, Section 7 adduces the findings for our research to validate our data-centric hypothesis for the design of Web-based Fine Art repositories and APIs. 2 Background Provenance is well understood in Fine Art and curators have typically got a well-established set of processes to determine the origins of a given artwork. However, such processes are not necessarily transferable, particularly when it comes to determine the necessary ‘meta-data’ to define electronic cata- logues and collections in distinct museums. Crawlers and search engines rely on the integrity of the data they are retrieving. Some progress has been made on this with the introduction of trust-based applications such as the ‘Web of trust’ (Artz & Gil, 2007), which is a community-based tool that offers feedback from user reviews and rating to increase the confidence in good data sources and reject ones that are poorly managed or actively destructive. This Web relies on human activity, after all there are millions of participants. It is open to abuse but the community contribution acts as a self-correcting mechanism. An alternative approach is to introduce Artificial Intelligence in the form of machine learning to improve the relevance of the information retrieved (Snásel et al., 2009). The Web is continually growing in data content and old data is often amended, replaced or deleted. The result is that the semi-intelligent software agents, which feed the search engines, usually referred to as Web crawlers, have an increasingly difficult task in gathering new data and confirming the relevance of previously indexed data. In short the Web is growing and changing faster than the indexing systems can keep up. Web crawlers and related approaches are currently incapable of full information gathering on the Web (Baeza-Yates, 2003) and building efficient meta-search engines remains a colossal endeavour (Meng et al., 2002). Crawler technology is of course also improving but there are restrictions on them from the Web hosters’ point of view. Anti intrusion, to prevent illegal access to resources, and subscription only data mean that a portion of the Web will remain out of crawler reach for the foreseeable future (Henzinger, 2001). Figure 2 Users are semi-aware through time-filtered posting up to ‘instant’ communications Figure 3 Interactive users through communal wikis, mashups and social networks F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z222 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core Hence, provenance-based retrieval of electronic data remains an open problem in computer science (Moreau et al., 2008). While semantic search tools (Uren et al., 2007) and ontology-based retrieval (Mayfield, 2002) have long been considered a suitable alternative, the indexing systems that currently dominate Web information retrieval are the generic search engines. These try to be all things to all surfers. Within the museographic domain, generic search engines are often used to implement an institute’s own search facilities. Although this allows specific tailoring of the indexing system, it has two drawbacks. First, the tailoring is customised to the specific institute, so inter-institute online cataloguing, curation and, in general, cooperation are tied to bilateral agreements. Second, the data indexed is restricted to the implementing institute so it does not allow the indexing of cross-institute data. The problem is akin to every museum independently building a catalogue system and API. The Dublin Core (Weibel, 1997) has long been considered a suitable alternative to homogenise meta- data and associated schemas to enable mapping of disparate cataloguing sources, without the requirement for a centralised data store. In theory, data can be widely dispersed across the Web in both location and format. Nevertheless, the result of the different mechanism for information retrieval is that specific rather than general APIs are being constructed for different organisations to index the same type of data. The BBC (Kobilarov et al., 2009), both curate data sets from external sources and allow access to their own content via an API. This data is now subject to the schema of the BBC API and this may result in incompatibility to indexing with other APIs that follow a different scheme to the BBC. A small number of specialised collaborative projects have specifically been funded that begin to demonstrate the possibilities for the aggregation of Fine Art Information. For example, the Google Art Project www.googleartproject.com is a website that brings together selected data from 17 different public galleries (Proskine, 2006). Each of those galleries has released high-resolution images of a selected group of artworks as a means to publicise both the content of their collections, and their physical gallery spaces (using the Google StreetView technology). It is not possible, however, to search this site by artist’s name—rather the main purpose of the site appears to be to provide highlights from each gallery’s col- lection. The information is gallery centric rather than artist centric, and indeed it includes only a small proportion of the artworks in each institution. Then there is Culture24 www.culture24.org.uk, a community aimed at supporting the cultural sector online. It aims to provide the ‘Latest news, exhibition reviews, links, event listings and education resources from thousands of UK museums, galleries, archives and libraries, all in one place’. Again this is not artist centric, this site’s data is more event related but it does provide a number of Web feeds that allow its data to be automatically included in other websites. The Europeana project goes a stage further in relation to aggregation of Fine Art Information (Haslhofer et al., 2010). Europeana was launched in 2008, with the aim of ‘making Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public’. The portal http://europeana.eu/portal gives access to different types of content from various cultural institutions throughout Europe, and is funded by the European Commission. The information presented via this portal is in fact artist centric in that it ‘makes it possible to bring together the works of a painter with, for example, relevant archival documents and books written about the artist’s life’. It is also greater in extent and coverage given the large number of institutions which have taken part by allowing the inclusion of their digital content. Each of these projects has been made possible as a result of the positive collaboration of the institutions, galleries and libraries involved. The information presented via each of these websites has been carefully selected and curated by the institutions that have ‘opted-in’ to the projects. With the exception of Culture24, it is not yet possible to programmatically retrieve the data available via each of these websites, for re-use. The data behind each of these websites is ‘open’ in the sense that the participating institutions have made it available for non-commercial use, but it is not freely available for programmatic consumption at large via an API or other form of Web service. This is in contrast to the domain of Books and Music where data is made available in machine readable formats, thereby lending itself to the creation of near-comprehensive Web catalogues of information. MusicBrainz.org, for example, is a site that acts as ‘a community music meta-database that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site’, and which provides data about music to many other Towards a generic Museum API 223 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at www.googleartproject.com www.culture24.org.uk http://europeana.eu/portal https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core websites and applications. The data which is aggregated on this site is then utilised by companies such as The Guardian and last.fm for their own music-related Web pages, and is augmented with additional and related data. This level of online data aggregation ultimately provides the Internet user with accurate, informative and high-quality information about music and sets a standard of online information provision that has become the expected norm in this domain. A similar situation has arisen in relation to the domain of books, largely as a result of Amazon’s book API. It is now possible, on many different websites, to view the complete catalogue of works by a particular author, related book reviews and other relevant data. Sites such as Librarything.com provide a near-comprehensive information service by combining open data from Amazon as well as hundreds of public libraries. Users can browse online the extensive book catalogues and can search by author’s name, book genre, titles, subject-matter and even on the basis of ‘most popular’. It is clear that the online user experience in relation to browsing Fine Art Data cannot currently match that experienced within these two domains, given that the information remains largely distributed; and the reason for this is the very particular set of problems presented by the nine distinguishing features of Fine Art Information, as identified above. 2.1 Contribution The aims of this project are based on the portion of the Web which is constructed from hyperlinked pages of visual information, text and images. Given that the original Web was for text-based document sharing, this is a considerable amount. These pages are either viewed online via HTML or word processor-based presentations, or can be downloaded in many formats. The retrieval of this Web information retrieval relies on the viewer being able to find it, usually through hyperlinked indexing systems. The challenge presented to information retrieval systems is to produce a reduced set of data from a larger collection to satisfy a user’s information need. Some institutions have tackled this directly, as reported by Cahill (2009). This may result in excellent institute systems but it is unlikely to be a global or even portable solution. There is a need for an indexing model based on the content users and purpose. Various virtual museum approaches have been addressed and implemented. Some are highly specific and based on a single institute as considered in Hertzum (1998) or institute groups as examined by Schweibenz (1998). Both these lead to individual efficiency and give valuable insight to the construction of a virtual museum. However, these approaches do not separate the institute from the data and therefore the portability of such models is limited to institutes with similar characteristics. An approach that is more compatible with the resources in question and more likely to remain viable with the ever growing and changing Web is one with a contextually broader view. It should be concerned with what it is indexing more than who holds the data. It must still examine the general needs of the relevant institutes, predict their future needs. All this must consider what is being indexed from a content perspective as discussed by Dyson and Moran (2000). Our proposal consists of an API that requires an index of documents to be assembled using standard Web crawlers or by using available APIs. Knowledge of the structure of Web documents, which are reliant on HTML or related languages, allows their content to be automatically indexed. The API must also be able to review previous content owing to the changing nature of the data, as previously mentioned. This paper reviews the available approaches, discusses the prototype Museum API ‘ArtBridge’ and presents the case for a generic Museum API. This gives the framework for interaction between indepen- dent Museum APIs that adhere to the generic one. 3 Motivation The Web as a source of reliable information has already become unwieldy and at times unreliable; it is the sheer scale of this resource that presents the biggest challenges for individuals, businesses, organisations and developers alike. Visiting individual web pages to look for information is an inefficient use of time and energy, and although search engines can speed up the process, there is a growing need for the intelligent aggregation of topic-related information. It is Web technology that is not only driving and facilitating the increasing culture of open data, but also enabling us to make sense of it via applications that combine and F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z224 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core enrich data from different sources including websites, databases, Web/news feeds and spreadsheets, thereby creating new digital content in the form of ‘mashups’ (Merrill, 2006). In essence, these applications transform raw data into understandable information by presenting it in a way that explains or visually maps out the story behind those facts or figures. Or as Rusbridger (2009) states, ‘The web has given us easy access to billions of statistics on every matter. And with it are tools to visualise that information, mashing it up with different datasets to tell stories that could never have been told before’. The domain of Fine Art Information, however, appears to have been neglected. Whilst it is relatively easy to find sites that aggregate event information related to exhibitions and what’s currently on in the art world, it is less easy to locate information about a particular artist and his or her work. Information about Fine Art itself is widely distributed, and difficult to find without very specific targeted searching. For example, how do we begin to answer questions such as ‘Where can I see artworks by the Scottish Artist Joan Eardley?’. A keyword search on Google for the name ‘Joan Eardley’ returns 293 000 results, including the following: 1. Aberdeen Art Gallery’s online collection has 162 images of paintings and drawings by the artist; 2. Google Images contained 5740 results—only the first 10 pages contained relevant information; 3. the BBC portal features the town ‘Catterline’ on the programme ‘Coast’, and referred to Joan Eardley having painted there; 4. Wikipedia—information about the village of Catterline and it’s ‘notable inhabitants’, which included Joan Eardley; 5. a Wikipedia biography of the artist; 6. Amazon.co.uk—a book about Joan Eardley by Cordelia Oliver; 7. the Scotsman newspaper published an article dated 2007 about the artist; and 8. the Press and Journal, a regional UK newspaper, published a newspaper article about the recent sale of an Eardley painting. This exercise demonstrates that to find the information required about this artist, it is necessary to browse at least eight different websites. The information is there, and exists on the Web, but is spread throughout distributed sources. This problem becomes more pronounced as the Artist’s notoriety increases: a keyword search in Google for the name ‘Pablo Picasso’ returns 21 200 000 results as of December 2011. This raises the question as to how to bring all of this information together to make it accessible from one place. (Ayers & Watt, 2005: 4–5) have aptly summed up this situation as follows—‘Most of us live in homes where water comes to us, rather than us having to travel to the water. It makes a lot of sense that information, too, should flow to us. It avoids the repetitive actions of going to visit individual Web sites and, if done well, achieves easier, more efficient and more effective access to information’. At the moment, information about visual artists and their work is held in separate sources such as in the proprietary archives of public galleries or museums, or in private galleries. These sources are distributed, heterogeneous and often unrelated (in the sense of not being linked together) (Baca, 2002). Some galleries only represent a handful of artists, whilst some artists exhibit their artworks at numerous galleries, spread throughout the world. There is no pooling of resources to provide a more comprehensive presentation of information in relation to: 1. the bibliography of the artist; 2. the images of the artists’ artworks; 3. the exhibitions in which the artist has taken part (and the artworks included in those exhibitions); 4. news articles of relevance to, or about, the artist or their exhibitions; 5. reviews of artists and exhibitions; and 6. information about the places that relate to the artist or the artwork. Fine Art Information is not ‘artist centric’ when taken as a whole. Although it is possible to search specific collections for artworks by a particular artist, it is not possible to find any one source that lists all of the artworks associated with a particular artist’s name, and where it currently resides. This is in contrast to Towards a generic Museum API 225 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core the domain of books, for example, where numerous online catalogues provide the means to search by author to find a full list of their works, related book reviews and even book-cover images. Librarything. com is one such catalogue—this not only brings together information from hundreds of distinct library catalogues, but also creates an online community of book lovers. The principal distinguishing feature between this domain and that of Fine Art is the ISBN number. This enables books to be uniquely identified and catalogued, and at the same time facilitates aggregation of related information. Whilst museums and galleries do catalogue artworks according to certain minimum standards, there is no ubiquitous standardised method of identifying a particular artwork that would be equivalent to the ISBN number (Baca, 2008). There are accordingly huge variations from gallery to gallery in terms of the quality and completeness of the data recorded. There are also problems associated with both differing formats of data and different languages. Whilst collaborative attempts have been made to specify a schema to support data interchange between public galleries, such as that devised by the Getty Institute1, but these schema are not universally adopted. Overall, Fine Art Information can be characterised by a number of distinguishing features, which, taken together, present a unique set of challenges in so far as ingathering and organising that information using traditional retrieval techniques is concerned. The information is characterised by: 1. its dispersed and distributed nature; 2. a huge variation in quality and quantity, depending on the artist’s notoriety and the source of the information; 3. transience, particularly in relation to contemporary art and living artists; 4. heterogeneous formats; 5. the restrictive nature of repositories or archives (i.e. the information is not freely available for re-use); 6. a lack of uniformity in relation to the classification of images and art terms; 7. the fact that words (usually the artist’s name and subject) are used in a non-standardised way to identify and search for images (Baca, 2002; Manning et al., 2009: 178); 8. incomplete or inconsistent data; and 9. restrictions related to copyright and re-distribution of images of artworks. In view of these difficulties, Art Information remains heterogeneous, distributed and difficult to aggregate except in relation to event information: for example, New York Art Beat (NYArtBeat.com) is a site devoted to listing all art and design events in New York, and claims to be a ‘Smart data organisation with events sorted by media, schedules, and location, as well as event lists like Closing soon, Most popular, Open late, and Free’. It aggregates relevant art reviews and operates an intelligent tagging system that permits users to search easily for events of interest to them. In the true spirit of open data, it also provides an API2 that permits the inclusion of its information in other websites. Given the above set of problems inherent in Fine Art Information, it is not possible as matters currently stand to aggregate it with the same ease with which event information is brought together. The question arises, then, as to how the problems of heterogeneity and distribution might be overcome in this domain, withstanding the inherent difficulties. It would not be desirable or practical to seek to create a comprehensive centralised database of Fine Art Information by its very nature, Fine Art Information is constantly changing. Every day artworks are created, purchased, sold, loaned and even discovered; news stories or reviews of exhibitions are constantly being published; Fine Art Information is not a static data set and as such does not lend itself to a permanent amalgamation. It takes time to put together a data set from a large public collection and often by the time that data set is established, it is already out of date. To carry out this task manually for each of the public galleries in the world would be a task without end. There are also issues related to copyright that would prevent the centralised storing of images without express permission from each copyright owner. 1 Available at http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic-publications/ cdwa/cdwalite.html 2 Available at http://www.nyartbeat.com/resources/doc/api F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z226 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic-publications/cdwa/cdwalite.html http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic-publications/cdwa/cdwalite.html http://www.nyartbeat.com/resources/doc/api https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core 3.1 From data to information via Web technology It has been said that good data visualisation starts with asking questions about what story the data can tell, and what is interesting about it (Fry, 2007: 4). If it can communicate the story told by the relative data, then the visualisation is considered to be a success. In the present case the aim would be to aggregate Fine Art Information in a more ‘artist-centric’ way, and therefore the question that needs to be answered is ‘where can I see artworks by’ a particular artist. This is the story that needs to be told by Fine Art Data if it is to be given the same online treatment as the domains of books and music. To demonstrate how Fine Art Data retrieved from museum APIs might be utilised, it is useful to examine the way in which other websites have aggregated open data in other domains, to tell a particular story. It is clear that visualisation can be much more than just a graphic representation of a static set of facts and figures—when one data set is combined with and enriched by another, with this newly combined information then being translated into a dynamic graphical format, the resulting application becomes a powerful communication tool capable of providing instant answers to the user’s specific query. The best way to highlight this is by way of example: the website mysociety.org is run by a charitable organisation that seeks to build websites to promote openness and democracy in public life. One of their most popular projects is TheyWorkForYou.com—this website takes the current list of Members of the British Parliament and maps that data to the UK postcode data set, allowing users to enter their own postcode to search for details of their parliamentary representatives. From there, users can see whether their MP has been present at a particular parliamentary debate and view details of what that MP has actually said in debates, this information being derived directly from Hansard, the official archive of daily Parliamentary debates. Users of the site can even choose to be alerted by e-mail whenever a particular MP speaks in Parliament and can e-mail the MP directly. The website also combines two further data sets—the Register of Members’ Interests and Expenses data—both of which can be searched at the click of a button. In bringing all of this public infor- mation together in a simple user-friendly interface, this website makes it easy for constituents to keep tabs on their Parliamentary representatives and, in doing so, increases their representatives’ accountability. This is a good example of Web technology being used to bring together publicly available data in a way that transforms it into a consumable story, and presents it in a more user-friendly way. As David Whiteland from mysociety.org said very succinctly during the writer’s discussions with him (in London in July 2010) technology changes ‘data to information’3. Data in isolation is just data, but data linked to other related data that is presented in a user-friendly way becomes useful information or knowledge. When that knowledge is made available via the Web, its potential audience is almost global. There are many different ways to present information via a Web interface, and a review of relevant websites suggests that there are four different levels of dynamism of data applications that range from simple graphical illustrations, to fully interactive websites. The four levels are as follows. First, there is the simple unchanging graphical representation of a static set of facts—the subway map being a good example of this. That simple image presents a very refined view of geographical information, station locations and routes in a way that makes it easy to plan a journey. The data set upon which this visualisation is based is relatively static over time (unless of course a rail line is extended or a new station built) as is the visualisation itself. An example of a Web-based visualisation at this level might be the Linked Open Data Cloud that is an interactive visualisation of all the linked data sets that exist at a certain point in time. This can be accessed online (at lod-cloud.net) and when clicking on any of the circles containing the name of a data set, the user is taken directly to the source of that data set. A simple yet highly effective visualisation of a large data set. The second level is a more dynamic graphical representation of a static set of facts. An example of this can be found on the website wheredoesmymoneygo.org. This website seeks to ‘promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending’. Via its ‘Dashboard’4 application (see Figure 4), this website provides a stylish visual record, built using 3 In conversation in London, July 2010 at The Guardian offices, Kings Place, London. 4 The Dashboard can be found at www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/grand- total--2010- Towards a generic Museum API 227 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/grand-total--2010- www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/grand-total--2010- www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/grand-total--2010- www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/bubbletree-map.html#/~/grand-total--2010- https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core Flash, of where public money has been spent, by year. The data upon which the visualisation is based is historic in nature (i.e. unchanging) and ordinarily this set of financial figures would make for very dull reading to the majority of people. However, here we see the power of dynamic interactive graphics—the apparent simplicity of the coloured circles communicates a complex set of statistics that is capable of being understood by non-statisticians. It provides a timeline allowing for an easy visual comparison of spending by year, from 2003 to date, and allows users to click on each area of expenditure (such as Health) for a further breakdown of the spend involved that year. This is a very good example of technology and design working together to communicate the story being told by an otherwise overwhelming set of public data. The third level of visualisation is similar to the second in that it involves a relatively static data set, but with the addition of a further layer of interactivity that allows the user to modify the view of the infor- mation by entering search criteria, or choosing a refinement of the data from a list. An example of this would be the website nukeometer.com built by Adam Charnock that uses JQuery, Google Maps API and a data set comprising the locations of all nuclear warheads in the world, derived from a news article in The Guardian (Rogers, 2009). It provides a very simple interface into which the user enters their current city and country. From there the application lists the number and location of the warheads within range of that city on a deceptively simple screen which displays quite a shocking message. The fourth level of visualisation involves two distinguishing features—a non-static data set, that is, a set of facts or information that is constantly changing and which requires regular dynamic updates; and second, the participation of and contribution by the user (see Figure 3). Such applications are complex, often involving many different features and/or data sources, and even the creation of a community of interests or social network. They invariably involve writing scripts to dynamically update the appropriate web page, either directly from Web resources or from a database into which the information has previously been stored. This type of application or service has two main features—the ever-changing data set and user participation. One website which demonstrates such dynamism is LibraryThing.com, previously referred to. This is, in the writer’s view, a site that exemplifies what can be done using intelligent Web technologies—it brings Figure 4 The ‘where does my money go’ dashboard (screenshot from www.wheredoesmymoneygo. org) F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z228 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core together publicly available data about books whilst creating a community of people sharing a common interest in reading. At the same time it facilitates the creation of a comprehensive catalogue of book information that is constantly being augmented by the input of millions of users. This site makes use of data from Amazon’s book API, plus book catalogues from the Library of Congress in the United States and, according to the website, ‘690 other world libraries’5. In essence, this website is both a cataloguing facility and a social network for book lovers, requiring users to log in to their own profile page. It makes use of the constantly updating data stored by each of the source libraries, but enriches that data by linking them to other books, reviews, users, tags and images, thereby creating an enhanced database of books in addition to a social network of readers. It also provides recommendation services based upon other users’ reviews and even their conversations, in addition to a ‘zeitgeist’ recommendation feature that collates site statistics, using them as the basis for dynamic listings such as ‘most read’, ‘most reviewed’ and ‘top author’. With over one million users adding content to the site, and around 50 million books in its system, the data upon which LibraryThing is based, is constantly being augmented and updated. This website demonstrates how open data can be used in a very creative and dynamic way by bringing together disparate library catalogues of books, transforming them into a more comprehensive and updating repository of book and book-related information with a vibrant community of users. It has recently been argued that while catalogue records will continue to be the kernel of bibliography, thoughtful reviews will assume greater importance (Wagner & Weibel, 2005). Thus, applications that combine both data and social interaction can serve not only to present that data in a consumable form, but they can become platforms through which the data can be enriched by user interaction, thereby ‘acting as collective intelligence gatherers’ (Bell, 2009: 5). Such a situation is only made possible by Web technologies that permit both the dynamic aggregation and dynamic searching of vast and increasing amounts of open data. LibraryThing.com has access to a large array of online and trusted data sources relating to literature of all kinds, which enables it to provide a near-comprehensive online cataloguing facility in relation to books. If a similar volume of programmable Fine Art Data was made available online, there would be no barrier to providing a similar aggregation and cataloguing facility in relation to the works of art created by the artists of the world. This would ultimately improve the experience of those searching for Fine Art Information on the Web whilst at the same time would increase the accessibility of many museums’ online collections. 4 A possible solution: the Museum API It is the writer’s view that in order for the aggregation of Web-based Fine Art Information to be feasible, it is necessary to have a greater degree of machine capabilities of Fine Art Data. Most public and private art galleries have a publicly accessible website displaying digitised images of their artworks. The data is already in a format that would lend itself to inclusion in the world of open data. However, the means to automate the accurate processing and aggregation of this information is lacking. As previously indicated, the creation of a centralised repository of all Fine Art Information is neither feasible nor desirable given the fluidity of the data itself. A more pragmatic and dynamic solution is required, and it is the writer’s view that this could be provided by the creation of APIs to each digital repository of Fine Art Information, whether it is a public collection of art objects or a private commercial gallery. The provision of an API to a museum collection, or indeed to a commercial gallery, has a number of useful features for both the museum and the developer alike, which can be summarised as follows. First, the terms of use of the data are made clear from the outset by the institution providing the Web service. The images of artworks in respect of which public distribution is prohibited, are generally excluded from the API, or included with very low-resolution files. Further, there are limits on the purposes for which the data can be utilised, limits on the number of calls to the API that can be made per day, and terms requiring that specific permission be obtained in certain circumstances, for example, where the institution’s logo is to be used in an application. 5 http://www.librarything.com/ Towards a generic Museum API 229 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at http://www.librarything.com/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core Second, once a museum has carried out the work to set up the API, it need not spend any further time dealing with requests for, or putting together, specific datasets given that the information can then be obtained programmatically (and in the desired format) using appropriately constructed URLs. A very efficient use of resources all round, and a pragmatic means to overcome the hurdles posed by the lack of homogeneous formats. Third, as far as the developer is concerned, using carefully constructed URLs it is possible to retrieve only the data that is required, in the knowledge that as it comes from a trusted source, it is likely to be highly relevant and of reliable quality. There is the added advantage that where a Web service utilises persistent URLs, the resource at that specific address will always be up to date so long as the API is properly managed. And finally, for relatively minimal effort, the museum can automatically expose its collection to a greater audience on the Web by making its data available to enthusiastic Web developers as well as museography specialists. The result will invariably by a plethora of interesting and novel Web applications, each of which publicises (for no effort or cost to the institution) the content of the museum’s collection. It is only necessary to look at websites such as programmableweb.com to see this in practice—as at July 2011, this site indicated that there were 2243 Web applications utilising the Google Map API (available at code.google.com/ apis/maps/index.html). These figures speak for themselves. 5 Implementation: ArtBridge A simple example of what might be achieved in the domain of Fine Art is provided by the Web application ArtBridge (see Figure 6), a project of the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen (available at www.comp. rgu.ac.uk/ArtBridge). The system has been deployed using the MAMP 1.9 (Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP http://www. mamp.info/) software stack under the Mac OS X 10.5 operating system. Our system has abstracted the connections to various Web resources to retrieve the results related to that search term, decoupling the logic of the query from the real infrastructure dependencies. The system processes the information, organising it into an artist-centric file containing relevant URLs that point to Web resources relevant to that artist. When a name is input via the Web interface, the system retrieves the file of relevant URLs and obtains the resources from those links, re-presenting them on the web page for that particular artist. In this way, the system aggregates relevant information in relation to artists and provides access to that information from each of the distinct sources, in one place. This application, written in Java, retrieves information from mainstream Fine Art sources: 1. New York’s Brooklyn Museum API; 2. London’s Victoria & Albert Museum API; 3. The Guardian’s Open-Platform; and 4. Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum. It analyses the relevance of the data retrieved from each resource, and stores the URLs for the relevant resources in a separate XML file for each particular artist. The ArtBridge system allows the user to choose the name of a particular artist, and from there a Web application, written in ActionScript 3.0, then displays the relevant data retrieved from each of these four Web sources using the previously stored URLs. Each item of data is stored in a separate box within the display, and includes images from each of the Museums’ digital repositories, and relevant news articles from The Guardian’s Web service. All of these resources are retrieved dynamically from the URLs and therefore display the current information available at that particular URL. It is, however, designed in such a way that additional sources and formats of information can be incorporated in the system, without difficulty. The main application can be run from a simple GUI. Each option is managed by the StartApp class, which contains the main method. This class retrieves the input search terms from either the GUI or command line, and creates a new StartSearch object which is the kernel applicative object through which F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z230 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/ArtBridge www.comp.rgu.ac.uk/ArtBridge http://www.mamp.info/ http://www.mamp.info/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core all of the information in the system flows. It creates the ‘BuildXXXSearch’ objects which manage the construction of the URLs for each API, and manages the XML output. This is illustrated in Figure 5. The system is designed so that a ‘BuildXXXSearch’ object is instantiated for each API (Guardian, Brooklyn, Victoria & Albert Museum, etc.), with its own class design being dependent upon the idiosyncrasies of each of the repository APIs but with common attributes being inherited. In this way the details of the construction of specific URLs for each API are encapsulated within separate classes, and it also means that the system can be easily extended to cope with additional APIs simply by creating a new ‘BuildXXXSearch’ derived class for that API, for example: ‘BuildGuardianSearch(String key, String artistName)’. Where key represents the authentication parametric values for a given API (in the above example, The Guardian’s) and artistName is a string which is then parsed and converted into a searchable artist entry (typically formed as a first–last name pairing). A correct parsing is crucial because otherwise a seemingly straightforward query on ‘Vincent Van Gogh’ could include details of all artists with a first or middle name of ‘Vincent’ or ‘Van’ as well as personalities with ‘Gogh’ as a surname (e.g. Theo Van Gogh). Furthermore, open non-qualified search terms can often return a number of seemingly random artist’s names (e.g. ‘La Oreja de Van Gogh’, a Spanish pop band). When the search term has been processed in this way, the BuildXXXSearch object then puts together a specific URL String to enable the system to query the API. It is noted that the relatively large number of string variables reflects the complexity of queries that can be made to the API of the different information repositories. Query refinement is API dependent and therefore the BuildXXXSearch objects must contemplate the subtleties of the repositories. For example, for The Guardian’s API, we could change the newspaper section in which the data might appear. In the present case we are interested in ‘artanddesign’ or ‘culture’, but there are over 50 different sections that could be queried. A typical query URL looks like: content.guardianapis.com/search? q=pablo+picasso§ion=artanddesign& format=xml Located immediately after the question mark, the tags part of the URL corresponds to The Guardian’s classification of news content. There are literally thousands of different tags by which queries can be Figure 5 Simple block diagram of the ArtBridge system Towards a generic Museum API 231 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at content.guardianapis.com/search? q=pablo+picasso&section=artanddesign&format=xml content.guardianapis.com/search? q=pablo+picasso&section=artanddesign&format=xml https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core refined. In the present case, the hard-coded query is for articles, reviews or news but not obituaries, but this could be changed to look for only reviews in a particular section, for example. The URL String is therefore assembled and from that, a new URL object is created. The public method getUrl() of the BuildGuardianSearch class returns the URL object in question to the calling StartSearch object. The BuildBrooklynSearch and BuildVnASearch classes operate in a similar way. The information returned by each API is then parsed, with the relevant segments of data being stored in custom data objects. What the data objects will be storing, in effect, is a list of URLs that point to resources relevant to the particular artist. Some of those URLs will be known in advance, such as the links to biographies and links to galleries with which the artist has an association. Others will be retrieved from searches to the relative APIs. The object is not to acquire and store the actual images or text in a centralised database, but rather the URLs that point to these resources. The reason for this is threefold. First, there are complex copyright issues attached to the storing of images of artwork; second, it is not usually permitted (in the applicable terms of use) to store or cache data retrieved via an API for longer than 24 hours; and third, given that information on the Web is capable of changing rapidly, it is necessary to ensure that any data displayed via the application is up to date and relevant. It would therefore be desirable, in view of these constraints, to access the resources dynamically as required to ensure that the information displayed is always up to date. Finally, after the information is retrieved from the given repository the information is then rendered as a Web interface that provides a degree of interactivity and manipulation of the views of the data in question. The user is able to choose an artist’s name from a list and view the relevant information. Consideration required to be given as to how that interface was to be built, what scripting languages were to be used, and how those were to be deployed and tested. Ultimately, the chosen method has to use XSLT/CSS stylesheets, applied to the appropriate XML document selected using PHP as the scripting language. 6 Evaluation It is important in this particular project to work with real data from the relevant APIs in order to obtain accurate feedback from the content of the results returned. Open data from a select group of artists has been used to test the operation of the system and indeed in the final evaluation of the overall system. The artists are Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Tracey Emin, Vincent Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock, Claude Monet, David Hockney and Andy Warhol, all of whom have data in at least one of the APIs used in the system. To evaluate the actual functioning of the system, each artist’s name has been input via the system GUI, and automatic searches were then carried out consecutively in the three APIs (The Guardian, Brooklyn Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum). For each artist, the results were output to the console so that an immediate assessment of the results could be made. As summarised in Table 1, the number of URLs are highly focused and relevant reporting actual references to the artwork and life of a given fine artist, as opposed to an assorted collection of loosely related pages. As an illustration, a simple Google search on Vincent Van Gogh on The Guardian site (guardian.co.uk) produces over 3000 results in stark contrast to the seven URLs reported. From the main display of information illustrated in Figure 8, the user can instantly see which of these three museums hold artworks by the particular artist chosen, and can view images of them if available. It is also possible to read relevant art reviews or news articles of relevance to that artist. A screenshot of the data relating to Henri Matisse as presented by ArtBridge user interface appears in Figure 8. Each image block, when hovered over by the mouse, displays the title of the artwork, and the city and name of the museum to which it belongs as shown in Figure 9. Clicking on the image displays either the full-sized image or the full news article. The information being brought together from these four distributed resources is re-organised in an artist-centric way, and avoids the need on the part of the user to separately visit these four different websites. However, given that the application is making calls to the relative APIs each time that an artist’s name is selected, it is increasing Web traffic to that Web service, whilst at the same time increasing public access to the content of each institution’s online digital collection. It also demonstrates a possible answer to such questions as F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z232 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core ‘where can I see artworks by Henri Matisse?’ and in doing so highlights the potential benefits of increasing the aggregation of Fine Art Data. 6.1 Discussion At the moment, the scope of the application is limited by the number of online data sources available, although it is designed so as to be capable of the modular addition of many more. As the number of data sources increases, so too will the quality, accessibility and usability of the Fine Art Information provided online (see Figure 7). If a project such as Europeana was to provide an API allowing for online access to its million-plus digitised items (and this is mentioned as a possibility on their website), the effectiveness and utility of applications such as ArtBridge would increase exponentially. Further, if every public museum or gallery in each of our major cities were to allow access to their online data via an API then it would be possible to imagine a situation where the Web of Fine Art Data is aggregated to such an extent that a near- comprehensive catalogue of many artist’s works could be viewed, reviewed and augmented at a single location rather than the thousands of websites over which it is currently distributed. These are big, but not inconceivable, ‘ifs’, which if realised would bring the quality of online infor- mation in this domain up to the standard currently enjoyed in the book and music domains. The Web technology needed to effect this transformation already exists but is under-utilised in this area of Fine Art Data. It is the writer’s view that the museum API can act as a knowledge bridge between the distributed online digital repositories of Fine Art Data by providing for programmatic access to that data, and in doing so it Table 1 System evaluation results using a set of eight Fine Artists with The Guardian, Brooklyn and Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) Application Programming Interface The Guardian Brooklyn V&A Pablo Picasso 25 10 3 Henri Matisse 8 0 4 Tracey Emin 11 1 1 Vincent Van Gogh 7 2 0 Jackson Pollock 1 0 0 Claude Monet 4 5 0 David Hockney 8 0 11 Andy Warhol 11 10 2 Figure 6 A representation of ArtBridge and the Museum API (Application Programming Interface) Towards a generic Museum API 233 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core can facilitate its aggregation and contribute to the improvement of the online experience in this domain. It provides a pragmatic solution to the problems inherent in this domain, whilst at the same time increasing the online accessibility of each of the sources of digital Fine Art Information. 7 Conclusions In this paper we have been concerned with the specific context of highly independent, heterogeneous and distributed sources of Web information on Fine Art and Fine Artists. The problems addressed were those Figure 8 ArtBridge user interface—Henri Matisse example Figure 7 Generic museum standardisation for interactive APIs (Application Programming Interface) Figure 9 ArtBridge image block F . B U C H A N A N , N . C A P A N N I A N D H . G O N Z Á L E Z - V É L E Z234 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core of large-scale information indexing and retrieval. The domain data occurs in various types; long term/static such as biographies and artworks, transient such as art collections and time specific such as exhibitions. The independence of the data naturally results in a heterogeneous organisation and structure so that separate data repositories cannot freely interact. This often creates duplication and contradiction in data. Contradiction is especially true when time dependence affects the relevance of the data. We established that the data is not the problem. The problem relates to different methods for infor- mation retrieval which result in specific, and non-interactive, APIs being created for the same type of data. Problem examples are shown through the need to source and filter data independently from multiple sites to obtain the required information. The paper established the continuity of data organisation in other domains, relating to pre-Web orga- nisation such as library systems. It highlighted distinguishing features such as ISBN and showed the contrast in universally accepted techniques within Fine Art cataloguing. In contrast to long-established methods, the rise Web participation in numbers and interaction is shown to be fundamental to data retrieval. We presented a proposal for the development of a solution in terms of the Museum API. This examined the Fine Art domain, presented the argument for a generic API and offered a prototype ‘ArtBridge’ that supports the aim of the Dublin Core to enable mapping of disparate data sources. This is supported by a review of different Web applications, which have been created using open data sources. A possible solution, The Museum API, is examined in terms of the current state of Fine Art Information, highlighting the problems. Support for our proposal ideas is currently observable through a small number of specialist, collaborative, aggregation projects. From the previous work, the requirements of the Museum API are established. Having already estab- lished that the data is not a problem, this shows that the data format is also not a problem; the means to aggregate is a central problem and a solution relies on automating an accurate process. The proposal is against a centralisation approach, which would be an impossible, never-ending task and would also require a top-down authority throughout the Fine Art domain. Instead, it supports a pragmatic solution of an API that encourages community participation and open source development. This approach allows the independent creation of APIs that can interact with each other. We obtained four solution steps from the requirements and these are; clarity of data and data use, API robustness (maintenance free), establishing trust in sources to validate the URL feeds, and automation of process to minimise the individual effort required for individual institutes to participate. Finally, the power of data visualisation, which will be obtained via such an API, is presented with examples in several different domains. This leads directly to our prototype solution, where we present ArtBridge as a Web app built using several Museum APIs. 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 01:40:57, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1008839 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/apr/06/north-korea-nuclear-weapons http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/apr/06/north-korea-nuclear-weapons www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/mar/10�/�1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269888914000319 https://www.cambridge.org/core Distributed aggregation of heterogeneous Web-based Fine Art Information: enabling multi-source accessibility and curation 1Introduction Figure 1Users are unaware of any other�users 2Background Figure 2Users are semi-aware through time-filtered posting up to ‘instant’ communications Figure 3Interactive users through communal wikis, mashups and social networks 2.1Contribution 3Motivation 3.1From data to information via Web technology Figure 4The ‘where does my money go’ dashboard (screenshot from www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org) 4A possible solution: the Museum API 5Implementation: ArtBridge Figure 5Simple block diagram of the ArtBridge�system 6Evaluation 6.1Discussion Table 1System evaluation results using a set of eight Fine Artists with The Guardian, Brooklyn and Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) Application Programming Interface Figure 6A representation of ArtBridge and the Museum API (Application Programming Interface) 7Conclusions Figure 8ArtBridge user interface—Henri Matisse example Figure 7Generic museum standardisation for interactive APIs (Application Programming Interface) Figure 9ArtBridge image�block Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS References work_6ztm3ktxi5aazbuuov4mo2k2ty ---- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. | 4 intellectual property law .. - Jan 01 1970 02:00:00 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_001.pdf 897KB May 17 2018 08:54:06 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_002.pdf 567KB May 17 2018 08:54:06 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_003.pdf 752KB May 17 2018 08:54:06 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_004.pdf 737KB May 17 2018 08:54:06 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_005.pdf 850KB May 17 2018 08:54:07 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_006.pdf 868KB May 17 2018 08:54:07 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_007.pdf 619KB May 17 2018 08:54:07 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_008.pdf 489KB May 17 2018 08:54:07 AM CKS_2018_intellectual_ property_law_009.pdf 1248KB May 17 2018 08:54:07 AM work_77b2fbbsl5abdno4o2bg2jzyiq ---- Magy-Tud-19-7.indd © 2019 Akadémiai Kiadó Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7, 988–996 DOI: 10.1556/2065.180.2019.7.6 VIZUÁLIS METAFORÁK É S KOGNÍCIÓ – A NEMFOGALMI ÚJRAGONDOLÁSA1 VISUAL METAPHORS AND COGNITION: REVISITING THE NON-CONCEPTUAL Michalle Gal senior lecturer Culture Studies and Master Program, Shenkar College, Ramat Gan, Israel michalle.gal@shenkar.ac.il ÖSSZEFOGLALÁS Írásomban a metaforák vizuális aspektusait elemzem, és új metaforaelméletre teszek javas- latot, amelyben lényegi jellemzők a szintaktikai struktúra, a tárgyi kompozíció és a vizualitás. E célból bemutatom, hogy egyfelől a metaforikus alkotás vagy átváltoztatás, másfelől a befoga- dás, valamely dolognak egy másik, különböző dologként történő értelmezése vizuális képesség. Nemkonvencionális kompozíciók készítése révén, vagyis kompozíciós vagy akár esztétikai esz- közökkel történő predikáció. Szándékom szerint ez a meghatározás alkalmazható mindennemű metaforára: a fogalmi, nyelvi, képi és tárgyi metaforákra egyaránt. Következésképp szemben áll azzal a metaforadefinícióval, amely szerint a metafora eredendően fogalmi vagy nyelvi jelen- ség, és annak szemantikai folyamatára, tágabb értelmére és kognitív értékére épül. ABSTRACT The paper analyses the visual aspect of metaphors, offering a new theory of metaphor that char- acterizes its syntactic structure, material composition and visuality as its essence. It will according- ly present the metaphorical creating or transfiguring, as well as conceiving or understanding, of one thing as a different one, as a visual ability. It is a predication by means of producing non- conventional compositions – i.e., by compositional, or even aesthetic, means. This definition is aimed to apply to the various kinds of metaphors: conceptual, linguistic, visual, and material. It will thus challenge the prevailing conceptualist and linguistic theories of metaphor that define metaphor as based on its semantic mechanism, broad concepts, and cognitive value. Kulcsszavak: metaforaelmélet, formalista, nonkognitivista, nonkonceptualista, nemfogalmi, kompozíció, vizualitás, tárgyiság Keywords: theory of metaphor, formalist, non-cognitivist, non-conceptualist, non-conceptual, composition, visuality, materiality 1 Fordította: Szalai Éva VIZUÁLIS METAFORÁK ÉS KOGNÍCIÓ – A NEMFOGALMI ÚJRAGONDOLÁSA 989 Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 1. A KIHÍVÁS Vessünk egy pillantást Pablo Picasso 1943-ban készült, Bikafej című szobrára (URL1) – a vizuális metafora szép példája. „Metaforának” minősíthetjük, mert struktúrája maga a predikátum, kifejezi „bika voltát”: a forrástartományból, az állattól egy másik, külső tartományba visz, amelyet majd egy célhoz rende- lünk, ez esetben egy kerékpár nyergéhez és kormányához, hogy újra felépítsük struktúráját. A nyereg és a kormány bikát alkotnak, még akkor is, ha az csak metaforikus értelemben bika. Vizuális metaforával nyitottam, mert inkább a vizuális metaforát tekintem paradigmatikusnak, mint a fogalmi vagy a nyelvi metaforákat. Hamarosan az utóbbiakról is szólok, hogy rámutassak: szintén vi- zualitásra épülnek. A „cél” és a „forrás” terminusok George Lakoff és Mark Johnson 1980-ban kiadott, Hétköznapi metaforáink (Metaphors We Live By) című, hagyományte- remtő könyvének hatására váltak elfogadottá a metaforák tárgyalásában.2 A szer- zők „fókusz” (vagy tenor) helyett forrástartományról, „keret” (vagy vehiculum) helyett céltartományról beszélnek, ezek ma már gyakorta használt kifejezések a szakirodalomban. Közismert, hogy Lakoff és Johnson fogalmi-kognitivista meta- foraelméletet fogalmaznak meg, amelyben a metafora nem pusztán a fogalomal- kotó elme szüleménye, hanem maga is teljes egészében konceptuális. A szerzők épp a „struktúra” szóval írják le a metaforikus gondolkodás képességét. Például az általuk „fogalmi metaforának” minősített kifejezés elem- zésekor leszögezik: „nem csak beszélünk arról, hogy az érvelés olyan, mint a há- ború. A vitában valóban győzhetünk vagy veszíthetünk érveinkkel. […] Részben a háború fogalma alakítja a struktúráját sok mindennek, amit az érvelés során teszünk” (Lakoff–Johnson, 2003, 4–5.). A metaforával kapcsolatban kifejtik, hogy „az ’épület’ fogalom azon részei, amelyek segítségé- vel felépíthetjük az ’elmélet’ fogalmat, alapként és vázként szolgálnak” (Lakoff– Johnson, 2003, 47., 53.). Lakoff és Johnson számára azonban maga a metafora is a kognitív episztemológiai réteghez tartozik, a köznapi nyelvben, tapasztalatban vagy valóságban csak a tükörképe jelenik meg. Meghatározásuk szerint a metafo- ra lényege inkább „egy bizonyos dolognak egy másik dolog terminusain keresztül történő megértése és megtapasztalása”, vagyis nem nyelvi, még kevésbé vizuális vagy tárgyi egység. Ezzel szemben az alábbiakban a kompozíció, a vizualitás és a tárgyiság felől közelítve formalista, nonkognitivista és nonkonceptualista elméletet vázolok. Kifejtem, hogy a metaforák a vizuális-ontologikus szférába tartoznak. Onnan 2 A „forrástartomány” és „céltartomány” kifejezéseket először George Lakoff és Kövecses Zol- tán írták le tanulmányukban (Lakoff–Kövecses, 1983), később pedig Lakoff és Johnson könyvük második kiadásában (Lakoff–Johnson, 2003) fejtették ki e terminusokat. 990 TEMATIKUS ÖSSZEÁLLÍTÁS • A VIZUÁLIS TANULÁS PERSPEKTÍVÁI Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 erednek, és ott alakul ki struktúrájuk. Épp a vizuális szféra adta kompozíció- kat és strukturális lehetőségeket kihasználva érthetünk meg egy fogalmat egy másik fogalom segítségével: például az épületek vizualitása révén, amelyek tu- lajdonságait az elméletekre alkalmazzuk. Ezeket predikátumként használva az alapjaitól építhetjük fel az „elméletet” – például ezek adják az elmélet alapját és szerkezeti vázát, amelyek meglétekor szilárd és jól megalapozott lehet, hiá- nyukban pedig összeomolhat, széteshet. Az „elmélet” így az épületek kategória (periferikus vagy kissé rendhagyó, mégis) elfogadott tagjává válik, és létrejön a metafora. Lakoff és Johnson a „struktúra” szóval írják le azt, amit én két metaforikus szakasznak látok: azt állítják, hogy „az ember fogalmi rendszere metaforikusan strukturálódik”, továbbá „fogalmaink strukturálják, hogy mit észlelünk, és ho- gyan tájékozódunk a világban” (Lakoff–Johnson, 2003, 6., 4.). A szó első előfor- dulásában furcsa módon azt sugallja, hogy van valamiféle episztemológiai réteg, amely megelőzi a fogalmi rendszert. Ez nem illeszkedik a szerzők konceptualista elméleti keretrendszerébe. Még fontosabb, hogy a szó második előfordulásában épp ellentétes értelmű: a metafora valójában struktúra. De inkább külső-vizuá- lis metaforikus kompozíciók segítik az „elmélet-épület” és „érvelés-háború” fo- galmak létrejöttét – ha egyáltalán létrejöhetnek –, mint fordítva. E kompozíciók megváltoztatják az elmélet és az érvelés kapcsolódásait, és az épület, illetve a háború fogalmával kapcsolják össze őket. Ezt a rendet akaratlanul maga a La- koff–Johnson-modell teszi logikailag szükségszerűvé. Jellemző, hogy más kultú- rában lehetséges (inkább, mint háború) metafora – a résztvevők előadóművészek, akiknek a célja a vitában inkább az egyensúlyteremtés, mint a győzelem. Ha pedig a metaforák társadalmilag, konvencionálisan vagy fizikailag kötöttek, akkor a metafora megértése vagy konceptualizálása másodlagossá vá- lik, az első helyre a metaforikus külső-vizuális struktúra, vagyis maga a metafora kerül. Ezért bár igaz, hogy a metaforák vizuális voltára vonatkozó érvelésemben a fogalmi metaforák jelenthetik a legnagyobb kihívást, talán a jelen esetben nem kell ettől tartanom. 2. METAFORÁK ÉS NONKONCEPTUALIZMUS Ha az elmúlt két évtizedben Christopher Peacocke és Sean Kelly által megte- remtett terminológiából és érvekből indulunk ki, akkor a fenti tételt valamivel tovább vihetjük: nemcsak arról van itt szó, hogy a metaforák nem egy belső fogalmi rendszerre épülnek, hanem azt sem lehet fogalmilag megragadni, ami Picasso vizuális metaforájában a kerékpár részeit bikafejjé (a forrástartomány- nyá) teszik. Ez kompozíció: az a mód, ahogyan a művész elhelyezte (a metafora céltartományát alkotó) nyerget és kormányt. Továbbá ez a kompozíció magában VIZUÁLIS METAFORÁK ÉS KOGNÍCIÓ – A NEMFOGALMI ÚJRAGONDOLÁSA 991 Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 hordozza azt is, amit Nelson Goodman találóan „szintaktikus sűrűségnek” vagy „telítettségnek” nevez az esztétikai szimbólumok funkcióját ecsetelve – ebben a szimbólum minden egyes jellemzője számít: a helyzet, a vonal és vastagsága, az alak stb. (Goodman, 1978, 67–68.). Nézetem szerint a telítettség és a sűrűség a tapasztalati valóság általános finomabban tagolt struktúrájának és reprezen- tációs tartalmának alkategóriái. Peacocke kijelenti, hogy ezek meghaladják a fogalmi tartalmat. Megállapításai közül itt az a legfontosabb, hogy hangsúlyoz- za: a finomszerkezeti fenomenológia leírásában „szükségünk van a tapasztalat fogalmára, amely dolgokat vagy eseményeket, helyeket vagy időket reprezentál, meghatározott módon, illetve bizonyos tulajdonságokkal bír vagy bizonyos kap- csolatokban áll, szintén meghatározott módon”. Ernst Mach kocka példáját idézi, miszerint – attól függően, hogy honnan és hogyan szemléljük – ugyanazt az alakzatot „vagy négyzetnek, vagy szabályos gyémántnak is láthatjuk” (Peacocke, 2001, 240–241.). Kelly hozzáteszi, hogy a nemfogalmi perceptuális tartalom fő vonásai „az észlelt tárgy függése a perceptuális kontextustól, amelyben észlel- jük, illetve az észlelt tulajdonság függése a tárgytól, amelynek tulajdonságaként észleljük” (Kelly, 2001, 602.). Ezzel szemben – Lakoff és Johnson gondolatmenetét követve – az olyan ki- emelkedő konceptualisták, mint John McDowell és John Searle azt állítják, hogy fogalmi mentális tartalommal bír minden reprezentációs tartalmú tapasztalat, amelynek tartalma tehát valamely külső dolog érzetét reprezentálja (McDowell, 1994a, 1994b). Számukra valamely dolog percepciója attól függ, hogy ismerjük-e a fogalmát. Így ismét oda jutunk, hogy az esztétikai ontológia és percepció, de különösen a metaforák jellemzésekor nyilvánvaló, hogy a konceptualista megkö- zelítés nem elégséges. Tehát a konceptualisták azt állítják, hogy a tapasztalat reprezentációs tartal- ma mindig fogalmi, a nonkonceptualisták viszont azt, hogy van olyan tartalom, amely nem ragadható meg fogalmakkal, ugyanakkor mégis reprezentációs, in- tencionális és konkrét jellegű. Ez a nonkonceptualista terminológia hasznos, sőt, talán szükséges az esztétikai ontológia és percepció tárgyalása szempontjából. A nemfogalmi tartalom jellemzői épp azok, amelyek ontológiai származásukhoz kapcsolódnak, nevezetesen az esztétikai kompozíciók és az a képességük, hogy egy konkrét érzetüket tudják kelteni. Ez kétségtelenül igaz az olyan jelenség ese- tében, amilyen a vizuális metafora. A Bikafej kompozíciós elemei a percepció függésláncolatát példázzák: a nye- reg és a kormány rekonstruálása perceptuális kontextusuktól függ. Az alak és forma láttatni kívánt tulajdonságai – a goodmani „példázott tulajdonságok” – az őket hordozó tárgytól és annak helyzetétől függnek. Mindez valamiféle bikafej- ben kulminál, valamiben, amit ekként klasszifikálhatunk. Bár a bikafej kategó- riában periferikus, mégis akként strukturálódik, és annak érzékeljük. Bikafej, ugyanakkor mégsem az. Ezt a dialektikus predikátumtulajdonítást, dialektikus 992 TEMATIKUS ÖSSZEÁLLÍTÁS • A VIZUÁLIS TANULÁS PERSPEKTÍVÁI Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 konstrukciót, amelyet a szemlélő esztétikai tapasztalata kísér, nem lehet teljes mértékben konceptualizálni mindaddig, amíg élő a metafora. Tulajdonképpen ár- tok azzal, hogy megpróbálom szavakba foglalni, hiszen így nyelvi vagy fogalmi rendet erőltetek a vizuálisra, ami a nemfogalmi élő és működő vizuális metaforát fogalmiságba dermeszti, végső soron holt metaforává teszi. 3. A (KÜLÖNFÉLE) METAFORÁK VIZUALITÁSA A metaforák e vizuális aspektusát elemezve olyan metaforaelméletet fogalma- zok meg, amely lényegeként jellemzi a vizualitást. A metaforikus szerkesztés, alkotás vagy átváltoztatás éppúgy, mint a metaforikus felfogás vagy megértés, egy dolog meglátása egy másikban, vizuális képesség. A metaforikus folyamat predikáció – egy predikátum valamely tárgyhoz rendelése – nemkonvencionális struktúrák vagy kompozíciók előállításával, vagyis kompozíciós, sőt, akár esz- tétikai eszközökkel. Itt azzal érvelek, hogy az újszerű predikációnak ez a folya- mata eredendően ontologikus, mert a dolog átváltozását eredményezi, egy újabb kategóriának rendeli alá. Következésképp a metafora dialektikus jelenség ebben a vonatkozásban: bár megbontja az ontologikus kategóriák rendjét, struktúrája ezt a törést harmonikusnak ábrázolja, legalábbis helytállónak tulajdonítja. Arra épül, hogy a kompozíció egyszerre rendhagyó és helytálló. Maga a metaforame- chanizmus inkább vizuális-tárgyi, mint fogalmi jellegű. A szintaktikus struktúra, formák és tárgyi kompozíció mechanizmusa, amely együtt jár a struktúrák és kompozíciók percepciójával. Ez a meghatározás a különféle metaforákra egyformán alkalmazható: a vizuális és tárgyi metaforákra, amilyenek Picasso szobrai, a Bikafej (URL1) vagy a Pávián és kölyke (URL2), Claes Oldenburg Óriás lágy dobok (URL3) vagy Sült krumpli és ketchup (URL4) című, mindennapi tárgyainkat óriási- ra nagyító alkotásai, Alessandro Martorelli borsóhüvelyt formázó jégtartója (URL5); a nyelvi metaforákra, amilyen Natan Alterman izraeli költő „hever az ősz halálos ágyán, elgyötört / vigasztalan ősz” sora (A harmadik anya, 1938) vagy Max Black példája, „az elnök vaskézzel vezette a vitát” (Black, 1954, 274.); és a fogalmi metaforákra, amelyekre Lakoff és Johnson utaltak (AZ ÉR- VELÉS HÁBORÚ, A BOLDOGSÁG FELFELÉ IRÁNYULTSÁG, AZ ELMÉLETEK ÉPÜLETEK). A Pávián és kölyke és a Bikafej két, különböző kategóriákból származó alko- tórészt foglalnak egy entitásba. Oldenburg Sült krumpli és ketchup vagy Óriás lágy dobok című szobrai nem entitásokat, hanem különféle témákat, méreteket és anyagokat egyesítenek. A játékautó (céltartomány) a pávián feje (forrástarto- mány), és néha fordítva is igaz: a fej valójában autó. A krumpli óriási és műanyag- ból készült, a dobok viszont párnákból. Ezek a struktúrák magasabb szintre eme- VIZUÁLIS METAFORÁK ÉS KOGNÍCIÓ – A NEMFOGALMI ÚJRAGONDOLÁSA 993 Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 lik a pávián, krumpli, dob és párna kategóriákat éppúgy, mint a predikátumok bővítményeit. A vizuális metaforák szinte minden vizuális művészetben megtalálhatók. Ernst Gombrich már 1960–63 táján megállapította, hogy minden vizuális művészet percepciója metaforikus, a szemlélők metaforikus-perceptuális irányultságára épül. Gombrich, akit érdekes módon nem tartanak metafora-teoretikusnak, az elsők között terjesztette ki a metaforavitát tárgyakra és képekre, így azt onto- lógiai aspektussal is gazdagította. Kijelenti, hogy a metafora valamely funkció rávetítése egy dologra, amellyel az átváltozik valami más dologgá: a botból lehet vesszőparipa, a hóemberből képmás, vagy Édouard Manet színes festékfoltjai átváltozhatnak lovakká (Gombrich, 1985, 10.). Goodman, akinek ontológiájára nyilvánvalóan hatott Gombriché, ezt bontotta ki a bármilyen – fogalmi, nyelvi vagy vizuális – jelenséghez hozzárendelhető metaforikus-expresszív tulajdonsá- gok ontológiai elméletében. Ezt a gondolatmenetet folytatta Arthur Danto onto- logikus esztétikai elméletével: A közhely színeváltozása című könyvében (1981) a metaforákat a stílus felől jellemzi, amely a világ-látás alkotó módjából ered. Noël Carroll Vizuális metafora című tanulmányában az egyterűséget határozza meg a vizuális metaforák feltételeként: egyazon térben, sőt, valójában egyazon körül- határolt fizikai entitáson belül különféle elemek léteznek. Carroll állítása szerint ezek az elemek különböző kategóriákat vagy fogalmakat juttatnak eszünkbe, amelyeket úgy kapcsolunk össze és aktiválunk, hogy a valamely kategóriával társított dolog egy részét megfeleltetjük egy másiknak, vagyis „a vizuális meta- forák olyan képi vagy másként vizuális eszközöket használnak, amelyek azonos- ságukra utalva segítik a szemlélőt, hogy a metaforikus összefüggést felismerje” (Carroll, 1994, 190.). Megállapíthatjuk, hogy számos elméletben elfogadott bizonyos képek vagy tárgyak metaforaként történő osztályozása. Ezek azonban többnyire inkább a konceptuális vagy kognitív irányzathoz tartoznak, mint a vizuálishoz. Vagyis főként a metaforikus jelentéssel foglalkoznak, a fogalmi vagy a nyelvi metafora definícióját alkalmazzák a vizuális metaforára is. Carroll például kifejti, hogy a vizuális metaforák „ugyanúgy működnek, mint a verbális metaforák, értelmüket a szemlélő többé-kevésbé úgy azonosítja, ahogyan az olvasó vagy a hallgató azo- nosítja a verbális metafora értelmét” (Carroll, 1994, 189.). Ebből kiindulva felteszi a kérdést: vajon a vizuális metaforák valójában vizualitásba burkolózott nyelvi metaforák? Az én válaszom erre az, hogy épp az ellenkezője igaz: a verbális me- tafora struktúrája és szintaktikai sűrűsége révén nyeri el metaforikus jellegét. A Carroll kérdésfelvetésére adott válasz hasznos a vizuális metafora nemnyelvi természetének jellemzésében is, megnyitja az utat a metafora általános definíció- ja felé. A vizuális metafora egy kép vagy tárgy materiális konstrukciója. Nem érthetjük meg Picasso alkotását pusztán azáltal, hogy visszavezetjük a ’bicikli’ vagy ’bika’ szavakra. Ez a metafora független a nyelvtől. Kizárólag a bikafejjé 994 TEMATIKUS ÖSSZEÁLLÍTÁS • A VIZUÁLIS TANULÁS PERSPEKTÍVÁI Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 átváltoztatott nyereg és kormány vizuális jellemzőire épül, ugyanakkor részben megőrzi eredeti formális azonosságukat. A metaforák vizualitásának érve tehát szemben áll azokkal az elméletekkel, amelyek a metaforát – szemantikai mecha- nizmusára, tágabb értelmére és kognitív értékére alapozva – eredendően nyelvi vagy fogalmi jelenségként határozzák meg. Ezek az elméletek a 20. század má- sodik fele óta – a nyelvfilozófia, később pedig a kognitív tudományok hatására – meghatározó szerepet játszanak a filozófiai vitában. Érvelésemben addig merészkedem, hogy megfogalmazok még két állítást. Az első: míg a vizuális metafora nem verbális eredetű, a verbális metaforáról elmond- hatjuk, hogy vizuális eredetű – vizuális-verbális egység (amelyet „vizuális verbali- tás” jellemez). A második állítás: a metaforikus fogalmiság kivonására tett verbális kísérletek valójában vagy nem is tudják megragadni, vagy szó szerint értelmezett megnyilatkozásba dermesztik a metaforát. Ez mindennemű metaforára érvényes, a verbálisra is. Nem az a kérdés, hogy a metafora fogalmakból vagy képekből ered-e. A metaforát megfelelő jellemzéséhez először is a formalista filozófia nézőpontjá- ból kell vizsgálnunk, amely megmutatja, hogy a jelenségek lényege a struktúra. Reményeim szerint ez az érv magyarázó erejű: segít feltárni a metafora esztétikai jellegét, amitől aktív, produktív és hatásos lesz, amíg csak eleven. Ha a metafora lényegeként a vizualitását határozzuk meg, akkor elfogadhatjuk, hogy a vizuális metafora a paradigmatikus fajta, ennek mechanizmusát veszik át a különféle metaforák. A metaforikus folyamat alapja inkább a megfelelő forma, konfiguráció, szintaktikai elrendezés vagy tárgyi kompozíció, mint az, hogy egy dolgot egy másik dolog segítségével értelmezünk. Bár nem nyilvánvaló, azért ezeket a terminusokat választottam, hogy rámutassak a metafora alapját képező kvalitatív jellemzőire: a megjelenésére, magára a metaforikus közegre. Még a fogalmi metafora is függ a strukturális kategorizálástól, attól, hogy egy fogalmat valami másnak látunk, ezt pedig a vizuális közeg kínálta strukturális lehetőségek segítik elő. Lakoff és Johnson fogalmi metaforája, A BOLDOGSÁG FELFELÉ IR ÁNYULTSÁG kompozíció, egy érzelem vagy hangulat rekonstrukciója, amit a külső fizikai jegyek felhasználásával érhetünk el. Ugyanez érvényes Alterman „elgyötört / vigasztalan ősz” szóképére: az ősz átváltozik – de mivé? Talán… végtelenül szomorú évszak lesz belőle? Nem lehet fogalmakkal vagy szavakkal megragadni a lényegét. Így még világosabb a szintaxis szerepe a nyelvi metafora – ahol a metafora azonosítását a mondatszerkezet határozza meg – és a vizuális metafora esetében egyaránt. Tehát a metafora a köznapi nyelv esztétikai rétege – a metszéspont, ahol a nyelv és a művészet találkoznak. A metafora paradigmatikus módon magában foglalja a vizuális tartomány és a köznapi nyelv, pontosabban a képek és a sza- vak viszonyát. A vizuális metafora többféleképpen is paradigmatikus: a metafora, pontosabban a metafora újonnan konstruált céltartományának ontologikus vonat- kozását mutatja. A metafora kompozíciós percepcióját példázza. Vagyis annak a VIZUÁLIS METAFORÁK ÉS KOGNÍCIÓ – A NEMFOGALMI ÚJRAGONDOLÁSA 995 Magyar Tudomány 180(2019)7 megnyilvánulása, hogy a metafora percepciója inkább a vizualitására épül, mint- sem fogalmi megértésére vagy kogníciójára. A metaforikus folyamat predikációja több kategóriát átfogó struktúrákon, nemkonvencionális kompozíciókon alapszik. A képletes nyelv maga is attól függ, hogy képesek vagyunk-e az efféle struktú- rákat a maguk valójában látni, vagy új kompozícióként az elménkben létrehozni. Tágabb értelemben az újszerű kompozíció felfogása vizuális, sőt, esztétikai ké- pesség: hogy ne csak Pablo Picasso Pávián és kölyke című szobrát lássuk, hanem a magunk számára elképzeljük és egyben megalkossuk a meleg és hideg színeket, a palack „száját” vagy a fabot lovat, hogy felfogjuk – képet alkotva megértsük – a vaskezű elnök vagy az elmélet-épület fogalmát. Ha feltárjuk a metaforák vizualitását, az maga után vonhatja azt is, hogy a kul- turális haladást és szellemiséget inkább esztétikai, mint fogalmi irányultságúként jellemezhetjük. Gombrich szépen magyarázza a metafora ontológiáját és percep- cióját egyaránt: „Egy autó két fényszóróját érzékelhetjük egy izzó szempárnak; még el is nevezhetjük így. A művész pedig felhasználhatja ezt a hasonlóságot arra, hogy kidolgozza az átalakulás csodáját. Éppen ezt csinálta Picasso, amikor megalkotta a páviánnak és kölykének csodálatos bronzszobrát. Vett egy játékau- tót, talán éppen gyerekeinek a szobájából, és ebből lett a pávián feje. 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DOI: 10.2307/2678383 URL1: Pablo Picasso: Head of a Bull [Bikafej], 1943. https://www.pablopicasso.org/bull-head.jsp URL2: Pablo Picasso: Baboon and Young [Pávián és kölyke], 1951. https://www.pablopicasso.org/ baboon-and-young.jsp URL3: Claes Oldenburg: Giant Soft Drum Set [Óriás lágy dobok], 1967. http://www.artnetweb. com/oldenburg/musicale.html URL4: Claes Oldenburg: French Fries and Ketchup [Sült krumpli és ketchup], 1963. https://whit- ney.org/Exhibitions/Oldenburg URL5: Alessandro Martorelli: Frozen Peas [Borsóhüvely-jégtartó], 2014. https://cargocollective. com/alessandromartorellidesign/frozen-peas work_7b6553qcubbwrotiug55rlunuq ---- 61 For four centuries, the pan-European art school has been built on the phased development of mas- tery, a curriculum which includes drawing classical plaster casts. Art historians and memoirists repeat- edly recall the initial stages of the biographies of many contemporary (in the broadest sense of the definition, as it is accepted today - starting almost from impressionists) artists who deny and, moreo- ver, reject this occupation as being a “meaningless” and “harmful” formation of artistic thinking. Mean- while, truly famous names, whose biographies para- Nina V. Getashvili Professor. Dean of the Faculty of Art History, Head of the Department of History of Art Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecturee-mail:ninagallery@yandex.ru Russia, Moscow ORCID 0000-0003-0113-3203 DOI:10.36340/2071-6818-2020-16-3-61-70 ALEXANDER BURGANOV. IN THE DEPTHS ABOVE REALITY. (ANTIQUE MOTIFS IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATIVE WORK) Summary: For decades, images of antiquity have ap- peared in the creative work of academician Alexander Burganov. The sculptor declaratively emphasizes his focus on the cultural tradition which evolved from the cradle of Antiquity and which is, therefore, understandable to an- yone who shares its humanistic ideals. The article refers to his personal exhibitions and events of the last decades: “Dreams Within Us. A Magic Crystal” at the Moscow Central House of Artists in 1987, “Magic Realism” in Germany in 1993, “Antique Motifs in Modern Sculpture” in the Burganov House Museum at which he presented his “legends and myths of Ancient Greece” in 2017, and the exhibition held in the Antique Hall in the Museum of Archeology of the Westphalian Wilhelm Uni- versity of Münster in 2013. Works and cycles, never directly illustrating ancient mythology but unconsciously translating the archetypal, the transcendental through personal experience, a sen- sory reaction, are considered. The frequent presence of Burganov’s works of art in an “intermediate” state, in the process of transformation, which makes it easy to de- tect the surreal component, is their feature. Burganov’s “antique” sculptures organically exist not only in exhibition halls but also outside them - be it the courtyard of the Burganov House Museum or the square in Brussels where the sculptures in the window display of the Burganov House at the Grand Place are no less eye-catching than the monument in the same square. Noble restraint (with clearly readable spectac- ularity), bearing in itself, within itself, dreams and pas- sions, reality and mysticism, gives Burganov’s “antique” images-metaphors a special feature that requires com- prehension of the slow, at the same time the reasonable and the emotional in order to be able to penetrate the limits of the immanent artist’s impermeability. Keywords: Alexander Burganov, antiquity, sculpture, surrealism, archetype, metaphor doxically indicate an inverse attitude, can be named. For example, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Giorgio de Chirico. Moreover, these masters, whose involve- ment in “modernity” cannot be doubted, interpret- ed their own, private mythology through the images of antiquity; often, they persistently included imag- es of ancient sculptural monuments, fragments of plaster casts in their compositions. Zadkine, Modi- gliani, Matisse can be included in a considerable list of masters of the European twentieth century in whose works antique motifs became noticeable and 62 63 important outside the space of neoclassicism. Over many decades of their stay in the Soviet space, art- ists of Russia show only rare examples (in my opin- ion, the creative work of S.Romanovich is the most striking one) of devotion to “European childhood”. Alexander Burganov’s appeal to mythological characters does not at all seem a speculative re- minder of “eternal images”. In today’s slang, this is a personal story. As evidenced not only by antique artifacts in the collection of his museum; and not only the exhibition-events of the last decade: “An- cient Motifs in Modern Sculpture” (the Burganov House Museum) at which he presented his “leg- ends and myths of Ancient Greece” in 2017 and a personal exhibition held in the Antique Hall of the Museum of Archeology of the Westphalian Wilhelm University in ancient Münster. Or one of the main exhibition spaces in the Burganov House is called Pegasus (I recall that the white Pegasus, a symbol of free creativity, on a high pedestal, in fact, reigns in the courtyard of the Burganov House). It is very important to realize that images of an- tiquity have been born for more than one decade in the creative work of Burganov who declarative- ly emphasizes his focus on the commonality of the cultural tradition that evolved from the cradle of Antiquity and which is, therefore, understandable to anyone who shares its high humanistic ideals 1. However, consanguinity with the European be- ginning is visible through the prism of other cultur- al kinship ties. Many of the artifacts he has created (the way how weightily and vividly Burganov’s sculp- tures present themselves to the viewer make it pos- sible to choose this definition without reference to the common word meaning and to speak of “the fact of art”) often shine with whiteness, highlight- ing the classic ideal surface of a generalized form. Their outline is melodious and flowing even when they appear in “fragments” as, for example, in The Fall of Icarus or in Ancient Dreams (Nymph Arethu- sa, Battle of the Amazons, Marathon). Burganov can be called a master in whose work it is difficult to distinguish the opus magnum, the work which makes you want to compare it with an integral novelistic form covering all periods of the master’s life. 1. Cit. by: Burganova M. “Experience of Exhibiting Modern Sculpture” // The Art of Sculpture in the 20th-21st Centuries: Masters, Trends, Problems. Moscow: BuksMArt, 2018. P.72. Alexander Burganov. Sphinx. Bronze The Trojan War. Clay, metal. 2013. The composition was created specifically for Alexander Burganov’s personal exhibition at the Wilhelm Museum of Archeology of the University of Westphalia in Münster. 2013  64 In most works, intrigue is preserved, visual im- ages do not allow the audience’s consciousness to be adequately realized in the commentary word, in the detailed determination. “Life situation”, “psy- chopathology of everyday life”, or, more impressive, - “national idea”... - Burganov creates in another dimension. Invisible concepts, containing deeper meanings, are embodied in reality. And Burganov’s “legends and myths of Ancient Greece” are by no means illustrations of such; they are rather very per- sonal experiences, a sensory reaction to the sub- consciously archetypal. The choice of such (from the multitude) is, in fact, an artistic message and it forms the basis for understanding the nature and mentality of our sculptor. A Bouquet - Daphne without tragedy. A short-term and unforgettable, literally, flowering of youth. Bur- ganov’s muses are the sculptor’s own improvisations. As a cultural phenomenon, Ovid’s Metamorpho- ses can be called the first experience of surrealism for which the transformation of familiar forms has be- come one of the main signs of the style. The specific- ity of the text encourages the reader to make efforts in order to imagine the moments of the intermedi- ate stages of reincarnation. Burganov demonstrates those for anyone to see firsthand. It becomes clear why Pierre Cardin recognized a surreal component in Burganov. (Since then, all of the completely valid at- tempts made before both by the artist and art critics to define the original, once a recognizable language, intonation, and meanings of his work, markings such as “magical realism”, “new romanticism” had been re- placed and “surrealism” became a universal tool for interpretation. Meanwhile, let’s ask a professional question: how far is, for example, Ernst Fuchs’s “mag- ical realism” from the surrealistic basis? May I remind you of some facts and events in the biography of our master: personal exhibitions “Dreams Within Us. A Magic Crystal” in the Moscow Central House of Art- ists in 1987, “Magic Realism” in Germany in 1993 and in MMoMA in 2016, participation in the general ex- hibition “Sleep Reveals the Nature of Things” at the State Tretyakov Gallery in 1993, allowing both to ask and confidently answer the question posed.) Consciousness and subconsciousness, the Apol- lonian and the Dionysian turn out to be alpha and omega in the interpretation of Burganov’s gallery of images. However, the environment of his Moscow Alexander Burganov. Medusa. 2008. Red wood 65 Alexander Burganov. Wind. Paper, ink 66 House-Museum, in which the layout of the halls was thought of as an analogy of a “labyrinth”, is easily associated in memory with the creation of his eldest contemporary, the Salvador Dali Theater-Museum in Figueres, which means with the whole range of cultural codes chosen from antiquity to discover- ies of the twentieth century. The variants of Chimera, not only the chthonic character of ancient myths but also one of the fa- vorite images of sur-reality, are an example of the Dionysian. Is it worth mentioning the relevance of chimeras in modern realities? As a rule, with all the artistry and elegant invention, lightweight carnival overtones do not sound in Burganov’s plastic in- tonation, the intonation is born from deep origins. On canvases enclosed in frames, and in graph- ics, sheets with margins, surreal dream paradoxes usually appear as if on screens outside the profane, conscious location of the viewer. The sculptural vari- ations, presenting themselves in the 3D dimension, Alexander Burganov. Medusa. 2008. Red wood even in distance affect directly, becoming a fact of the audience’s own participation in the “happening”. Charged with dense energy, expressive and ele- gant, Burganov’s sculptures organically exist not only in the exhibition halls but also outside them. They lit- erally burst into space, giving it structure and mate- riality be it the Moscow courtyard or in the Belgian capital where, in fact, sculptures in the window display of the Burganov House at the Grand Place are no less eye-catching than the monument in the same square. Perhaps the artist himself intuitively feels their foreign activity in the “proposed circumstances”, and, therefore, tactfully creates frames-limitations as if forming and fixing a zone of their own emanation, aura. (Such an intention is not articulated. In a ratio- nal, programmatic explanation of the idea of such a motive, he is not only a “frame” but also a “cage”, a tragic symbol of suffering and lack of freedom). In these structures, plastic motifs, even filled with bacchic frenzy, seem to resign, distance themselves from their surroundings, and make it easier for the viewer to read the “storyboard” of the composition, giving rise to a paradox: the fragmentation of com- positions in no way deprives the images of integrity. The art of the Russian sculptor with his inter- national recognition and, so to speak, adaptation by the international audience, nevertheless, in my opinion, is seen in an undeniable connection with the Moscow historical environment - the propor- tions and rhythms of the old quarters, the mysteri- ous romanticism, white empire columns, restrained expressiveness. 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В ГЛУБИНЕ НАД РЕАЛЬНОСТЬЮ. (АНТИЧНЫЕ МОТИВЫ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ТВОРЧЕСТВА) Аннотация: Образы античности на протяжении не одного десятилетия рождаются в творчестве академи- ка Александра Бурганова. Скульптор декларативно подчеркивает свой ориен- тир на культурную традицию, выросшую из колыбели Античности и поэтому понятную всем, кто разделяет ее гуманистические идеалы. В статье упоминаются персональные выставки-со- бытия последних десятилетий, на которых демонстри- ровались его работы: 1987 года в московском ЦДХ «Сновидение внутри нас. Магический кристалл», 1993 года – «Магический реализм» в Германии, 2017 года – «Античные мотивы в современной скульптуре» (Дом-му- зей А.Н. Бурганова), на которой он выступил со своими «легендами и мифами Древней Греции», и прошедшая в 2013 году в античном зале Музея археологии Вестфаль- ского университете им. Вильгельма (WWU – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) в Мюнстере. Рассматриваются работы и циклы, никогда напрямую не иллюстрирующие античную мифологию, но через личное переживание, чувственную реакцию транслиру- ющие подсознательно архетипическое, трансцендент- ное. Особенностью художественных творений Бурганова является их частое пребывание в «промежуточном» со- стоянии, в процессе транс-формации, что позволяет легко обнаружить сюрреалистическую составляющую. Бургановские «античные» скульптуры органично су- ществуют не только в выставочных залах, но и за стенами таковых, будь это «московский дворик» собственного Дома-музея или площадь в Брюсселе, где скульптура в «витрине» Дома Бурганова на Гранд пляс притягива- ет взгляд с не меньшей властностью, чем монумент на той же площади. Благородная сдержанность (при явно считываемой зрелищности), несущая в себе, внутри себя, сны и страсти, реальность и мистику, придает бур- гановским «античным» образам-метафорам особость, требующую постижения медленного, одновременно разумного и эмоционального, чтобы суметь проник- нуть в пределы имманентной авторской герметичности. Ключевые слова: Александр Бурганов, античность, скульптура, сюрреализм, архетип, метафора Общеевропейская художественная школа че- тыре столетия строится на поэтапном освоении мастерства, учебной программы, включившей ри- сунок с «античных гипсов». Историки искусств и мемуаристы не раз вспоминают начальные этапы биографий многих современных (в самом широ- ком смысле этого определения, как это сегодня принято, – чуть ли не с импрессионистов) худож- ников, которые отрицают, более того отторгают это «бессмысленное» и «вредное» для формиро- вания художественного мышления занятие. А меж- ду тем можно назвать поистине звездные имена, биографии носителей которых парадоксально сви- детельствуют об обратном отношении. Например, – Пабло Пикассо, Сальвадор Дали, Джорджо де Кирико. Более того, эти мастера, в причастности к «современности» которых не приходится сомне- ваться, через образы античности интерпретирова- ли собственную, частную, мифологию, настойчиво и часто включали изображения античных скуль- птурных памятников, фрагменты гипсов в свои композиции. Цадкина, Модильяни, Матисса можно ввести в немалый список мастеров европейского ХХ века, в творчестве которых античные мотивы стали заметными и важными вне пространства неоклассики. Художники России же за долгие де- сятилетия пребывания в советском пространстве демонстрируют лишь редкие образцы (один из них, наиболее яркий, на мой взгляд, – творчество С.М. Романовича) преданности «европейскому детству». Обращение Александра Бурганова к мифологи- ческим персонажам вовсе не кажется умозритель- 69 ным напоминанием о «вечных образах». Говоря сегодняшним сленгом, это – личная история. О чем свидетельствуют не только античные артефакты в коллекции его музея; не только выставки-события последнего десятилетия: 2017 года – «Античные мо- тивы в современной скульптуре» (Дом-музей А.Н. Бурганова), на которой он выступил со своими «ле- гендами и мифами Древней Греции», и – персональ- ная, прошедшая в 2013 году в античном зале Музея археологии Вестфальского университете им. Виль- гельма (WWU – Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität) в древнем Мюнстере. Или – название одного из глав- ных выставочных пространств в «Доме Бургано- ва» – «Пегас» (напомню, что белый Пегас, символ свободного творчества, на высоком пьедестале, по сути, царит во дворе Дома Бурганова). Очень важно осознать, что образы античности на протяжении не одного десятилетия рождают- ся в творчестве Бурганова, который декларативно подчеркивает свой ориентир на общность куль- турной традиций, выросшей из колыбели Антич- ности, и поэтому понятны всем, кто разделяет ее высокие гуманистические идеалы 1. Кровное родство с европейскими истоками, впрочем, просматривается через призму других культурных родственных связей. Многие сотворен- ные им артефакты (то, как весомо и ярко скульптуры Бурганова предъявляют себя зрителю, позволяет избрать это определение без ссылки на общесло- варное значение, а говорить о – «факте искусства») часто сияют белизной, отсвечивая классицистиче- ской идеальной поверхностью обобщенной формы. Их абрис певуч и плавен, даже когда они оказыва- ются показанными во «фрагментах», как в «Паде- нии Икара», или в «Античных сновидениях (Нимфа Аретуза, Битва амазонок, Марафон)», например. Бурганова можно назвать мастером, в творчестве которого трудно выделить опус магнум, и которое хочется сравнить с цельной романной формой, ох- ватывающей все периоды жизни мастера. В большинстве работ сохраняется интрига, визуальные образы не позволяют зрительско- му сознанию адекватно осуществляться в ком- ментаторском слове, в детальной детерминации. «Жизненная ситуация», «психопатология обыден- ной жизни», или, внушительней, – «национальная идея»… – Бурганов творит в другом измерении. В реальности воплощаются невидимые понятия, 1. Цит. по: Бурганова М. Опыт экспонирования скульптуры но- вейшего времени //Искусство скульптуры в XX–XXI веках: ма- стера, тенденции, проблемы. М.: БуксМАрт, 2018. С. 72. содержащие более глубинные смыслы. И «леген- ды и мифы Древней Греции» у Бурганова отнюдь не иллюстрации таковых, скорее – очень личное переживание, чувственная реакция на подсозна- тельно архетипическое. Выбор такового (из всего множества), по сути, являет художественное по- слание и ложится в основу понимания характера и ментальности нашего скульптора. «Букет» – Дафна без трагизма. Кратковремен- ное и незабываемое, в буквальном смысле, цве- тение юности. Музы Бурганова также оказываются авторскими импровизациями. Овидиевские «Метаморфозы» как культурный феномен можно назвать первым опытом сюрре- ализма, для которого трансформация привычных форм стала одним из главных признаков стилевой принадлежности. Специфика текста побуждает чи- тателя совершать усилия, дабы представить себе моменты промежуточных стадий перевоплоще- ний. Бурганов же демонстрирует таковые воочию. Становится понятным, почему Пьер Карден рас- познал у Бурганова сюрреалистическую состав- ляющую. (С тех пор все до этого вполне валидные попытки, и самого автора, и искусствоведов-кри- тиков, определения самобытного, на раз узнавае- мого языка, интонации и смыслов его творчества, маркировки, как, например, – «магический реа- лизм», «новый романтизм», оказались вытеснен- ными, а «сюрреализм» сделался универсальным инструментом для интерпретаций. Между тем, за- дадимся профессиональным вопросом: насколько «магический реализм» Эрнста Фукса, например, удален от сюрреалистической основы? Напом- ню некоторые факты-события в биографии наше- го мастера: персональные выставки – 1987 года в московском ЦДХ «Сновидение внутри нас. Ма- гический кристалл», 1993 года – «Магический ре- ализм» в Германии и 2016 в ММоМА, участие в общей 1993 года в ГТГ экспозиции «Сон раскры- вает природу вещей», позволяющие и вопрошать и уверенно отвечать на поставленный вопрос.) Сознание и подсознание, аполлоническое и дионисийское оказываются альфой и омегой в толковании бургановской галереи образов. Но и среда его московского Дома-музея, в котором планировка залов мыслилась как аналогия «лаби- ринта», легко ассоциируется в памяти с творени- ем его старшего современника – Театром-музеем Сальвадора Дали в Фигерасе, значит, и со всем из- бранным рядом культурных кодов от античности до открытий ХХ столетия. 70 Примером «дионисийского» – варианты «Хи- меры», не только хтонического персонажа древ- них мифов, но и одного из излюбленных образов сюр-реальности. Стоит ли упоминать об актуаль- ности химер в современных реалиях? При всем артистизме и изящном изобретательстве, как пра- вило, легковесные карнавальные обертоны не зву- чат в бургановской пластической интонации, она рождается из глубинных истоков. На холстах, заключенных в рамы, и в графике, с полями листов, сюрреалистические сновидческие парадоксы предстают обычно как на экранах, за пределами профанной, осознаваемой локации зри- теля. Скульптурные же вариации, предъявляющие таковые в 3D-измерении, даже на дистанции воз- действуют непосредственно, становясь фактом соб- ственного зрительского участия в «происходящем». Заряженные плотной энергией, экспрессивные и элегантные бургановские скульптуры органич- но существуют не только в выставочных залах, но и за стенами таковых. Они буквально врываются в пространство, придавая ему структуру и мате- риальность, будь это «московский дворик» или в бельгийской столице, где скульптура, по сути, в витрине Дома Бурганова на Гранд пляс притяги- вает взгляд с не меньшей властностью, чем мо- нумент на той же площади. Пожалуй, и сам автор интуитивно чувствует их инородную активность в «предлагаемых об- стоятельствах», а потому тактично создает ра- мы-ограничения, словно образуя и фиксируя зону собственной их эманации, ауры. (Такое на- мерение не артикулируется. В рациональном, про- граммном объяснении идеи подобного мотива он не только – «рама», но и – «клетка», трагический символ страдания и несвободы.) В этих структурах пластические мотивы, даже исполненные вакхи- ческой исступленностью, словно смиряются, дис- танцируются от окружения и позволяют зрителю легче вчитываться в «раскадровку» композиции, рождая парадокс: фрагментарность композиций ни в коем случае не лишает образы цельности. Искусство русского скульптора, с его междуна- родным признанием и, если можно так выразиться, адаптацией интернациональным зрителем, тем не менее, на мой взгляд, видится в несомненной связи именно с московским историческим окружением – пропорциями и ритмами старинных кварталов, таинственным романтизмом, белыми ампирными колоннами, сдержанной выразительности. 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DOI: 10.31696/2618-7043-2019- 2-2-457-471. 10. Турчин В.С. Бургановские мотивы: атака образов, действующих в пространстве. Диалог с хаосом // Научно-аналитический журнал «Дом Бурганова. Пространство культуры». – 2015. – № 1. – С. 236–259. work_7c2ri3cecverld743zahbx5obe ---- Homer Simpson as Outsider Artist, or How I Learned to Accept Ambivalence (Maybe) Homer Simpson as Outsider Artist, or How I Learned to Accept Ambivalence (Maybe) Author(s): Reva Wolf Reviewed work(s): Source: Art Journal, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall, 2006), pp. 100-111 Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20068484 . Accessed: 23/02/2012 13:08 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. College Art Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Art Journal. http://www.jstor.org http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=caa http://www.jstor.org/stable/20068484?origin=JSTOR-pdf http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp 3 Homer creates art in the "Mom and Pop Art" episode of The Simpsons on Fox. (The Simpsons &? I999TCFFC.AII rights reserved. ? Fox Broadcasting) Homer Simpson purchases a build-it-yourself barbecue pit and, with the help of his daughter Lisa, starts to assemble it. Not surprisingly (for anyone who knows Homer), he makes a mess of the project. Unsuccessful in his attempt to return the now-mangled item to the store, he tries to get rid of it in other ways, in vain. As he then drives down the street with the object tethered to the back fender of his car, it dislodges and crashes into a car behind him. When the driver of this car later shows up at his house, he is certain she is there to sue. Instead, she explains that she owns an art gallery where she would like to exhibit his object. These early scenes in a spring 1999 episode of the The Feature Simpsons, entitled "Mom and Pop Art," written by Al Jean and directed by Steven Moore, introduce the twin questions that reverberate throughout the episode: What is art? Who is an artist?' These old, seemingly worn-out Reva Wolf Homer Simpson as Outsider Artist, or How I Learned to Accept Ambivalence (Maybe) questions go back to Marcel Duchamp's readymades of the 191 os but are infused with new energy and meaning on The Simpsons. The incisive wit we encounter here punctures our staid judgments about art and artists, thereby releasing the latent ambivalence and confusion that we ought to welcome, confront, and enjoy. The ambivalence and confusion about the what and who of art first enter the picture when Homer responds to the gallery owner's enthusiastic labeling of his failed barbecue pit as art. "You mean this hunk o' junk?" he asks. "This isn't art; it's a barbecue pit that pushed me over the edge." His wife, Marge, agrees: "You? An artist?" For habitual viewers of The Simpsons, Marge s exclamation of disbelief is rich in association. We know Marge is perennially annoyed by Homer's aversion to any cultural activities that might be deemed "high art." We know, too, from the episode "Brush with Greatness" of exactly eight years earlier (to the day), that as a high school student Marge herself had aspired to be an artist, and had sent Ringo Starr a portrait she had painted of him.2 Marge's por traits stand for conventional artistic skill, while Homer's contraption represents an unintended alternative to convention. Yet Homer as a character does not fit the alternative bill. This incongruity, by disorienting us, contributes significantly to our confusion, since we are unable to fit the idea of "Homer the artist" neatly into our existing categories and stereotypes. Homer's initial disagreement with the art dealer's determination that his ruined barbecue pit is art sets the stage for a scene toward the end of the episode, in which Homer and Marge pay a visit to the local art museum. I will reveal a bit later what occasions this museum visit. For the present, I will zoom in on Homer's discovery, at the museum, of the comic-strip characters Akbar and Jeff, drawn by none other than the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening. Homer, 3 I presented an earlier version of this paper at the College Art Association Annual Conference ses sion "Comic Art," New York, February 20, 2003, chaired by Benjamin Binstock and Benjamin Lapp. Other versions of the paper were given at the Philosophy Club lecture series of the State University of New York, New Paltz (April 2003). and at the National Graduate Seminar of the Photography Institute, Columbia University (June 2004). Kristine Harris and Robert Polito provided numerous beneficial comments, and Eugene Heath prodded me to articulate what in an earlier draft I only hinted at. Steve Martits and Susan DeMaio generously assisted me with some unusual technological needs. Thanks to Alfred Bie and Andy Bandit for kindly offering their time and expertise in the area of reproductions and permissions. A United University Professions Professional Development Grant provided impor tant support for this project. I received the best assistance with my research from a Web site, Marge and Homer in the "Mom and Pop Art" episode of The Simpsons on Fox. (The Simpsons &? I999TCFFC.AII rights reserved. ? Fox Broadcasting) as an aficionado of popular culture, immediately recognizes the author of this drawing and is stunned. "Matt Groening!" he shouts, "What's he doing in a museum? He can barely draw!"This judgment parallels Homer's own gut response when the art dealer declares, on his doorstep, that Homer has made a work of art. An implication of this parallel is that neither Homer's nor Groening's productions qualify as art. (It is worth pointing out, at this juncture, that the M formed by Homer's hair, when viewed from the side, and the one formed by his open shirt collar are very likely synecdoches for "Matt"; Groening himself has said that he identifies with Homer.)3 Homer's judgment of Groening's work, however, is not merely an indirect reference to the cartoonist's identification with his character. This judgment also operates to convey the opinion that comic-strip drawings (and, by extension, cartoons) are not art (which happens to be Groening's own viewpoint).4 Homer's judgment is also consistent with his character. For example, in the 1991 episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," he tells Marge that "cartoons don't have any deep meaning. They're just stupid drawings that give you a cheap laugh."5 As the poet Robert Pinsky and other Simpsons fans have observed, the program regularly makes fun of, while simultaneously praising, its own genre.6 It does this with a striking economy of means?through a single sentence or a simple drawing. The economical drawing of Akbar and Jeff intimates that the label "art" constitutes a form of acceptance. Look carefully at the text in this drawing: "Wow. You Do Love Me." While we can take the recipient of these words to be either Akbar or Jeff?the two are identical?the recipient also may be you or me, in which case these words might signify that the comic strip is loved suffi ciendy to hang on the museum's walls. This association of art with love and acceptance is an important theme in the "Mom and Pop Art" episode of The Simpsons. Homer will go to great lengths, as the narrative progresses, to gain the love and acceptance that society lavishes on the successful artist. His actions pro voke our dormant ambivalence, as we ponder the implications of construing love and acceptance as criteria for defining art. We are able to experience this ambivalence because the episode itself refrains from presenting any clear judg ment or argument about these criteria. This generously nondogmatic approach provides ample room for our ambivalence and confusion to roam freely. It is the art dealer who first gives Homer a glimpse of how good it feels to have the love and acceptance of the "art world"?and how bad it feels to lose them. Who is this art dealer? Played by Isabella Rosellini, her name is Astrid Weller, which is an anagram for "sell weird art."7 Such anagrams have a vener able history in The Simpsons. The name of Homer's son, Bart, is an anagram for "brat." But Astrid Weller's name is more complex and has a pun embedded in it, beyond and at the same time about the anagram. This pun is in the surname "Weiler," which refers to the "wellerism," a figure of speech typical of the "The Simpsons Archive" (www.snpp.com)?a site that still makes me puzzle over whether a line really separates the scholar from the fan. Without the enthusiasm of a particular Simpsons fan, my nephew Marc Hartzman, this essay would not exist; I dedicate the essay to Marc. 1. "Mom and Pop Art," The Simpsons, originally aired on Fox Network, April 11, 1999. 2. Brian K. Roberts (writer) and Jim Reardon (director), "Brush with Greatness," The Simpsons, originally aired on Fox Network, April II, 1991. 3. Annemarie Wyley, "The Simpsons' Creator Groening Grows Up" (interview with Matt Groening), Reuters, September 3, 1999, available online at www.snpp.com/other/interviews/ groening99b.html. The schematic M of Homer's collar and hair (as well as Bart's hairdo) resem bles, in addition, the zig-zag pattern on the shirt of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic-strip character Charlie Brown, and Groening has acknowledged the influence of Peanuts on his work; see Doug Sadownick, "Groening against the Grain: Maverick Cartoonist Matt Groening Draws in Readers with Gay Characters Akbar and Jeff" (interview with Matt Groening), Advocate 571 (February 26, 1991 ): 30-35, also available online at www.snpp. com/other/interviews/groening91 .html. Else where, Groening has commented that the charac ters in Peanuts are based primarily on "variations on hairdos"; quoted in Erik H. Bergman, "Prime Time Is Heaven for 'Life in Hell' Artist," TV Host, December 16, 1989, as transcribed by Bruce Gomes and available online at www.snpp. com/ other/interviews/groening89.html. 4. Groening has stated, for example, "I always think it's a mistake for cartoonists to demand car toons be treated as art. Cartoons are cartoons"; Brian Doherty, "The Mother Jones Interview: Matt Groening," Mother Jones, March-April 1999, available online at www.motherjones.com/arts/ 9a/1999/03/groening.html. 5. George Meyer (writer) and Wes Archer (direc tor), "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington," originally aired on Fox Network, September 26, 1991. 6. Robert Pinsky, "My Favorite Show," New York Times Magazine, September 20, 1998, 55. 7.1 credit this observation to Haynes Lee (www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF 15). 3 3 eponymous character Sam Weller of Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers (1836-37). The wellerism is distinguished by its use of irony, often in the form of a pun.8 Astrids designation of Homer's object as "outsider art" is a wellerism since her name embodies the anagram "sell weird art." The title of the episode is a meaningful, multilayered pun as well. The "mom" and "pop" of "Mom and Pop Art" refer to Homer and Marge in their distinct artistic careers. The title also contains the label "Pop art," alluding, appro priately, to the art movement of the 1960s that took some of its imagery from the comics and, according to one critic, rescued the comics from extinction.9 "Mom and pop," in addition, refers to the name of the hardware store at which Homer purchases the barbecue pit that will soon lead him to outsider-artist stardom. It's called "Mom & Pop Hardware," but the name is disingenuous, since the store is "a subsidiary of Global Dynamics" (it clearly is meant to resemble a Home Depot). Finally, "mom and pop" has a down-to-earth, folksy tenor that is contra dicted by Homer and Marge's artistic ambitions. None of these allusions, puns, and paradoxes is gratuitous; each one (and there are more still to come) is a miniature of and contributes to the complexity of the overall structure and sto ryline of the episode.lo It is a complexity that ultimately allows us to scrutinize our own judgments and distinctions, and that affords us the unusual experience of welcoming the ambivalence likely to result from such scrutiny. This complexity is especially clear when the episode turns its focus to the concept of "outsider artist." It is hard to imagine a more ideal outsider artist than Homer Simpson. He certainly is self-taught. And everything in his demeanor and dress is antithetical to the stereotypical art-world insider. Still, the paradox of the term "outsider art"?which as a label, a commodity, and a subject of intellectual inquiry is the creation of insiders?comes into full view as the episode unfolds and Astrid Weller includes Homer's barbecue pit in an exhibition of outsider art she holds at her gallery. " There, a sign in the storefront reads, "Inside, Outsider Art" (underneath which is added, "Louvre: American Style").12 Similarly, once we enter the gallery, this insider-outsider distinction seems to exist only so that we may question it. For example, at the exhibition opening, when Homer's sculpture is, sold, Weiler says, "Congratulations, Homer. You're now a professional artist." Being a professional, of course, is incompatible with being an outsider. To offer another example, at this same opening we find Homer?the outsider? doing what he does everywhere, namely, consuming as much food as possible, but we also spot the artist Jasper Johns filling his jacket pockets with refresh ments! The dialogue plays up the comparison of Simpson to Johns. When Lisa, trying to monitor her father's behavior, tells him that by chewing with his mouth open he will lose his "mystique," Homer replies, "Lisa, all great artists love free food. Check out Jasper Johns." In fact, Johns (the character's voice was recorded by the artist himself) is 3 8. The best-known example of a wellerism in The Pickwick Papers is Sam Weller's comment, "What the devil do you want with me, as the man said wen he see the ghost?" For more on the weller ism, see A Dictionary of Wellerisms, ed. Wolfgang Mieder and Stewart A. Kingsbury (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). 9. Adam Gopnik, "Comics," in High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, ed. Adam Gopnik and Kirk Varnedoe (New York: Museum of Modern Art and Abrams, 1990), 208. 10. Two insightful discussions of the use of allu sion in The Simpsons are William Irwin and J. R. Lombardo, "The Simpsons and Allusion: 'Worst Essay Ever,'" in The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer, ed. William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble (Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2001), 81-92, and Carl Matheson, "The Simpsons, Hyper-Irony, and the Meaning of Life," in The Simpsons and Philosophy, 112-13. 11. The term "outsider art" is considered to have originated with art critic Roger Cardinal's book Outsider Art (London: Studio Vista; New York: Praeger, 1972). Cardinal credits an editor at Studio Vista for coining the term; see Roger Cardinal, "Toward an Outsider Aesthetic," in The Outsider Artist Geativity and the Boundaries of Culture, ed. Michael D. Hall and Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), 39, n. 2. 12. There is a growing literature about the "insid er" dimension of "outsider" art, and the use of these two terms (or comparable ones) in essay titles to highlight the paradox of the concept of outsider art is common. A few examples are: Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr., "From Domination to Desire: Insiders and Outsider Art," in The Outsider Artist, 213-27, and, from the pages of the present periodical, Mary-Beth Shine, "Us and Them, or, I'd Never Belong to a Club that Would Have Me as a Member" (review of the exhibition catalogue Self Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century), Art Journal 57, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 99-101. 3 made out to be a petty thief in other ways, too?a weakness also shared by Homer (as we know from several previous Simpsons' episodes).'3 We catch Johns stealing a light bulb from the gallery, an obvious allusion to Johns's own early sculptures, such as Light Bulb I, of 1958.The light bulb, like the barbecue pit, started out as an everyday object and ended up elevated to the status of art. Both the overt and the implied comparisons of the reserved, cerebral Johns to the loud, impulsive Simpson are absurd, yet the absurdity, in its hilarity, succeeds in disorienting and confusing us. The confusions about fine art and popular culture, and about insider and outsider, that awaken our ambivalence as we watch this episode of The Simpsons involve artistic identity, as we have just seen in the parallels drawn between Homer Simpson and Johns, or those drawn between Simpson and Groening. Fueled by his triumph at Weller's gallery, Homer soon takes on the artistic identity closest at hand that best suits his purposes. Listen to this discussion he has with his wife, Marge: Marge: Homie, I'm really happy you sold your sculpture, but don't you think it may have been a fluke? Homer: Hey, I've always had an interest in art, dating back to my schoolgirl days when I painted portrait after portrait of Ringo Starr. Marge: That's my life you're describing. Homer: I think I remember my own life, Marge! From this conversation, as Homer confuses himself with Marge, we realize that, in spite of the vagueness and ambiguities of art and artists, it actually is meaningful to draw distinctions. We see that the show makes fun not only of distinctions that may seem vague or arbitrary (about art and artists), but also of the inability to properly make distinctions, whether between people, as in the present case, or between types of objects. To discern differences, or not: either approach has its pitfalls and limitations. (For instance, if Homer decides Matt Groening's Akbar and Jeff drawing is not art because he thinks Groening cannot draw, then Homer is applying some criterion according to which an object may hang on the museum wall; yet the application of this criterion may limit his range of aesthetic experience.) It is with good reason that writers of divergent political stripes and wide-ranging professional backgrounds have called attention to how, on The Simpsons, all sides of an argument are scrutinized and laughed at. The New York Times film critic A. O. Scott has called the show "gleeful in its assault on every imaginable'piety."'4The conservative syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg, writing in the National Review, has stated that "its satire spares nothing and no one." '5 Carl Matheson, a professor of philosophy, has observed in his 13. A conspicuous example is the episode, "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment," by Steve Pepoon (writer) and Rich Moore (director), originally aired on Fox Network, February 7, 1991. 14. A. O. Scott, "How The Simpsons' Survives," New York Times Magazine, November 4, 2001, available online at www.nytimes.com/2001 / I l/04/magazine/04SIMPSONS.html. 15. Jonah Goldberg, "Homer Never Nods: The Importance of The Simpsons," National Review, May 1, 2000, available online at www.nationalre view.com/01 may00/goldbergprint050100.html. contribution to a collection of essays entided The Simpsons and Philosophy that "its humor works by putting forward positions only in order to undercut them.... It treats nearly everything as a target, every stereotypical character, every foible, and every institution."'6 In the "Mom and Pop Art" episode, Homer eventually manages to slip back into his own identity. He is led back there by what is most familiar to him: failure. The failure comes when Astrid Weiler, inspired by the sale of Homer's barbecue-pit sculpture, holds a one-person exhibition of his work at her gallery. Homer is thrilled. He has put all his energy into the production of a series of sculptures that resemble the barbecue-pit piece, thinking this is the sort of object his audience wants (it worked the first time around, after all), and he tides these sculptures accordingly (Botched Hibachi, Failed Shelving Unit with Stupid Stuck Chainsaw and Applesauce, and Attempted Birdhouse I). When the exhibition opens and his new objects are scorned by all present, poor Homer feels deeply dejected. He has lost the approval and love that he had gained, if only by accident, with his first sculpture. His strong desire to regain this approval and love lead him, finally, back to his own identity, which, in a new layer of confusion, is also that of a successful artist. To understand his paradoxical journey back to himself, we need to examine just where Homer failed, and then, how he found a way to overcome his failure. Astrid diagnoses the problem: "Homer, I'm afraid they only love what's new and shocking. These pieces are just like your earlier work." Apparently no longer judged by outsider-art standards, Homer is now expected to be avant-garde. Marge elaborates on Astrids diagnosis: "Homer [...] all of your ... things were kind of the same. [...] The point is, great artists are always trying new things, like Michelangelo or Shaquille O'Neal." (Not coincidentally, Marge had admired Michelangelo's David when it traveled to the Springsonian Museum in an earlier episode of the Simpsons.)'7 O'Neal, an NBA star, is always trying new things: in addition to basketball, he has taken up rap music, acting, writing, the restaurant business, law enforcement, and more. Because of these varied activities, he has sometimes been called a "renaissance man."l8 Perhaps this moniker is what Marge has in mind when she puts him in the same category as Michelangelo. Despite her own interest in "high" culture, Marge, like Homer, has a penchant for using categories in ways that mix up the accepted notions of art and popular culture. More mix-ups of this order occur when Homer, desperate to find some thing new to make, allows Marge to take him to the Springsonian Museum to seek inspiration. They look at paintings by Pablo Picasso and Joseph Turner. They see an abstraction by Piet Mondrian and a Campbell's Soup can by Andy Warhol, the latter distracting Homer from the subject of art and refocusing him on a sub ject he thinks about more often: food. "Mmm ... split pea ... [gasp] with ham! [drool]."'9 It is on this museum trip that Homer spots Groening's drawing of 3 16. Matheson, 120. Matheson argues that the undercutting of the viewpoints it puts forth is the basis for the humor of The Simpsons, and he calls this technique "hyper-ironism" (118). For a critical assessment of this aspect of the humor of The Simpsons, see James M. Wallace, "A (Karl, not Groucho) Marxist in Springfield," in The Simpsons and Philosophy, 235-51. 17. John Swartzwelder (writer) and Jim Reardon (director), "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge," origi nally aired on Fox Network, December 20, 1990. 18. For example, the biographical sketch of O'Neal on Celebopedia describes him as "truly a Renaissance man for the modern age" (www.cele bopedia.com/oneal/). Moreover, O'Neal has even referred to himself as a renaissance man; see Kevin Merida, "Shaq O'Neal, On the Ball," Washington Post, August 6, 1998, available online atwww.wpyellowpages.com/wp-srv/style/daily/ shaq.htm. Another detail of O'Neal's life that makes him an especially suitable reference on The Simpsons is his strong identification with a comic strip character (Superman); concerning this identi fication, see Rebecca Mead, "A Man-Child in Lotusland: Inside the Big World of Shaquille O'Neal." New Yorker, May 20 2002,48. 19. Earlier in the episode, a Mondrian painting is featured on the cover of an issue of Art in America that contains an advertisement for Homer's one person exhibition. Perhaps it is not a coincidence, then, that a real issue of Art in America includes an essay about Mondrian's interest in the Walt Disney cartoon Snow White. See Els Hoek, "Mondrian in Disneyland," Art in America 77 (February 1989): 137-43, 181. e S I ?1 Akbar and Jeff. As we know already, Homer objects to the presence of Groening's work in the museum. This is one instance in which he does make a judgment and in the process raises a distinction between art and comics. Yet as soon as Homer applies a distinction to Groening's drawing, he is unable to see one?this time between art and reality?in the next object he encounters, an enormous sculpture of a pencil by Claes Oldenburg. As the eraser end of the pencil approaches his head, Homer is convinced that he is about to be obliterated. "Oh no! I'm being erased!" he screams. Homer's fear is an allusion to Daffy Duck in the famous cartoon Duck Amuck (1953), in which Daffy's animator (later revealed to be Bugs Bunny) incessantly pesters him, including by erasing him.20 Suddenly, as far as Homer is concerned, everything has become a cartoon. The museum exhausts Homer, and he goes to sleep. In his dreams, he is attacked by art. Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of human proportions punches him; Picasso's three musicians shoot him with machine guns; a Salvador Dal? clock drips on him; Warhol throws soup cans at him. The dream represents for Homer the rejection he had felt after the failure of his one-person exhibition. Upon waking, he asks Marge, "Why does art hate me? I never did anything to art." (His question might be explained as Homer's response to an elitist disdain for unrefined types such as him.) Marge's quest to inspire Homer at the museum seems to have backfired. However, Turner's painting of the canals of Venice gives him an idea. Before seeing what Homer's idea entails, let's pause to look at the sign posted outside the museum. There, we read that the Springsonian Museum is "Where the Elite Meet Magritte." These words express bluntly what Homer's question ("Why does art hate me?") suggests: that there is a vexed connection between social class and art. This connection, a source of professional ambivalence for many artists, critics, and art historians, is a fascinating subtext of "Mom and Pop Art." Visual props, as well as narrative, are used to elaborate this subtext. Take, for example, the cars driven by Astrid Weller, by the so-called Euro-trash who fre quent her gallery, and by Homer Simpson. Weiler and the Euro-trash drive fancy, expensive European cars (a black BMW and a green Jaguar, respectively), while Simpson drives a pink, but otherwise generic, Detroit-made vehicle that's been around for some years (the bumper sticker on it reads, "Single 'n' Sassy," indicat ing he has owned the car since before he was married). The symbolism of these cars is obvious. No confusion exists about the particular socioeconomic position of each character, as it does with the categories insider-outsider or art-popular culture. Aesthetic distinctions are befuddling and difficult to get a handle on, whereas class distinctions are not. But how we interpret class distinctions is another matter, as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu observes in his study of the intricate connections between taste and class; in fact, "Mom and Pop Art" is in many ways analogous to Bourdieu's analysis.2' 20. Michael Maltese (writer) and Chuck Jones (director), Duck Amuck, Warner Brothers, 1953. 21. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Gitique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984). Worth highlighting here, for its fascinating connections to Homer's food consumption at the art gallery and his drooling before Warhol's Campbell's Soup can painting, is Bourdieu's dis cussion of the ramifications of the fact that the word "taste" applies to food as well as to culture (99-225). Bourdieu's exposure of how intellec tuals are implicated in the creation of taste and therefore of class equates with the ambivalence I wish to articulate in the present essay. The Simpsons takes up the issue of social class directly in the episode entitled "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield," written by Jennifer Crittenden, directed by Susie Dietter, and first aired on Fox Network, February 4, 1996. Elzie Segar, Thimble Theatre, 1930 (? King Features Syndicate) The association of social class with artistic judgment has a long history in the comics and even in the past had been used by comic-strip creators to set their work against "fine art" while at the same time leaving the distinction open to question. An especially appealing example is an early Popeye strip, of 1930, in which Olive Oyl and her brother Castor, in an attempt to refine and polish the rough Popeye (not unlike Marge's attempts to refine Homer), take him to the home of a socialite, one Mrs. DeHotsy. When DeHotsy proudly shows them her new acquisition, a painting of a female nude, Popeye is dumbfounded, and informs DeHotsy that the figure is so bad that "they wouldn't print that in a funny paper." He then takes it upon himself to show her "a real piece of art": the tattoo of a woman emblazoned on his back. He explains that "it only cost five sinkers to get 'er stuck on there, too?an' mine's got a bathin' suit on which makes it more fitten to look at." Popeye responds to the painting in terms of the subject matter only, just as Homer does, initially, when looking at the Warhol soup can. But in the end Homer does recognize the originality of Warhol's pic ture; in the museum, he moans to Marge (in a brilliant ironical snippet) that Warhol was a "genius," and that he?Homer?could never come up with some thing like a soup can.22 We can attribute this difference between Homer and Popeye to the increasing popularization of fine art in the decades since the Popeye cartoon was written. To put it simply, since Popeye's day, art has gained a widespread appreciation (although its growing popularity has eliminated neither its elitist patina nor debates about what it is). Homer even dabbles in conceptual art, a contrivance to win back the love and affection of his audience, and the route that leads him back to his own iden tity. When he returns home from the museum more depressed than before, the precocious Lisa comes to his aid. She proposes that, since the museum didn't inspire him, he might "do something really radical, like Christo." She instructs her father on Christo 's wrapped Reichstag and Umbrellas project, even noting the accidental deaths caused by The Umbrellas. This unfortunate detail gets Homer's creative juices flowing, as he concocts a work of art that weds Christo 's environ mental projects with Turner's portrayal of the Venetian canals. Enlisting the help of Bart (and now behaving like the Homer Simpson we all know and ... love?), he steals all the doormats in town, uses them to cover up the street drains, and then opens all the fire hydrants. Soon the entire town of Springfield is flooded. All this makes even Bart a little nervous; he asks his dad, "Are you sure this is art and not vandalism?" A new spin on artistic judgment is introduced at this point, as Homer replies, "That's for the courts to decide, son." Homer's destructive impulse has kicked in as his best bet for reacquiring the attention he so craves, and in this he seems to be even more of a brat than Bart. If cartoons in some sense never grow up, as has sometimes been proposed (Homer may be an adult, but he is not grown up), neither do artists, at least in 3 22. Warhol's Campbell's Soup can paintings, like several other details in this episode of The Simpsons, also had made an appearance in "Brush with Greatness": here, one of the paintings on display at a school art fair is of a Campbell's Soup can. More extraordinary, though, is the existence of a collage-drawing of a Campbell's Tomato Soup can in an illustrated book of 1929 by the outsider artist Adolf W?lfli; see John Maizels, Raw Geation: Outsider Art and Beyond, intro. Roger Cardinal (London: Phaidon, 1996), 23. _ Thimble Theatre _^^ IPCPLfE.IF?O0U*MTMt) / VJLT&??6T0 6WC I I 8C NICE - OON T >fh X IH OTOLR VJOftObl [>?*U..?fcjOW M? 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( P0PE7E1 ?^ ?^stertrT^^^Sv^?^"- v>ii?*?*!?7 A*jssJ i- i < ̂rfi^s \ r^rt ,U*JGI| hwwww 'V^i> I i^' /jH " II ^-*? #-??-'-^ uS^sT^^I Matt Groening's view, as we see not only on The Simpsons but also in his comic strip Life in Hell.23 In a 1990 drawing from Life in Hell, he has portrayed the cover of a fictitious magazine called Annoying Performance Artist.24 The cover shows Binky, one of Groening's stock comic-strip characters, covering his body with red ants, while surrounding him are titles of the stories within the magazine, such as "How to Form Dramatic Flecks of Spittle in the Corners ofYour Mouth" and "How to Get Back at Your Parents for the Rest ofYour Life." In both Life in Hell and The Simpsons, the motivation to create as well as the form the creation takes have more than a little of the childish in them. Groening exposes us for who we are. Once exposed, we are left wondering how to judge what appears in front of us. If immaturity is a source of both big trouble and great creativity, do we give up creativity in order to eliminate immaturity? Once again, we are provided with ambivalent feelings rather than with an answer to the question. When Marge discovers the flooded Springfield and is mortified, Homer explains, "It's conceptual art. 'The Grand Canals of Springfield,' just like Venice." Marge remains unconvinced. Even when the art-world luminaries Astrid Weller and Jasper Johns love Homer's creation, Marge still hesitates and cautions Homer that "they're in the business. Real people might not be so understanding." The "real people," of course, are all the characters of Springfield that regular viewers know well, such as Bart's teacher, Edna Krabappel, and his school principal, Seymour Skinner. As it turns out, Edna, Seymour, and all the other "real people" rejoice at Homer's masterpiece. Where does this leave us? On the surface, it would seem that we are not the "real people," since we, like Weiler and Johns, are "in the business," and after all, the "real people," in this case, are cartoon characters.25 However, another answer can be found, I believe, in Groening's Akbar and Jeff drawing that hangs in the Springsonian Museum. I pointed out earlier that Akbar and Jeff are identical. Groening has stated that what appeals to him about these two is that "when they criticize each other, it's like when somebody exactly the same as you criticizes you. It's hilarious, like you don't see the mirror."26 In effect, Akbar and Jeff function in the same way as the opening sequence to each episode of The Simpsons, in which the family members, arriving home at the end of the day, make a beeline to the sofa to watch television. We watch this sequence from our sofas and on our TVs. The Simpsons are reflections of us. Our identification with them, as has been noted often, is central to our ability to enjoy this program.27They are like us, but different.The difference assists us to reflect more clearly on ourselves in ways we otherwise might not. When we can't help but worry about all the water damage Homer has inflicted on his town (a problem the citizens of Springfield do not seem the least bit concerned about), suddenly a door opens that allows us to understand, or at least appreciate, why some people resist art such as Christo 's. If we can ask whether it is worth the 3 23. See, for example, Yasco Horsman, "Will Comics Ever Grow Up?" paper in the session "Comic Art" of the 2003 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 20, 2003. Even though Groening does not write the individual episodes of The Simpsons, which are collaborations involving many individuals, he over sees the program, and it is fully in his spirit. 24. "Annoying Performance Artist" is reproduced in Matt Groening, The Huge Book of Hell (New York: Penguin, 1979), 15. 25. For an attempt to tackle the difficult topic of realism on The Simpsons, see Jason Mittell, "Cartoon Realism: Genre Mixing and the Cultural Life of The Simpsons," The Velvet Light Trap 47 (Spring 2001): 15-28. 26. Quoted in Sadownick interview. 27. For example, Gilbert Adair proposes that we view Homer as "gross" but we nonetheless iden tify with him, in "Ecce Homer," The Independent (UK), June 21, 2000, as transcribed by Richard Copping and available online at www.snpp.com/ other/articles/eccehomer.html. The comic artist Scott McCloud offers an interesting "explanation" of why we identify with comic-strip and cartoon characters in his book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (New York: HarperPerennial, 1994), 30-32. For a different perspective on audience identification with television characters, see David Joselit, "The Video Public Sphere," in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002), 451-57. expense and destruction to create a flood, we also can ask whether it is worth the expense and destruction to install giant umbrellas in the landscape. Through this and many other implied and seemingly absurd comparisons, The Simpsons gives us the liberty to laugh at ourselves. The laughter, in turn, opens us to receive perspectives other than the ones we might think we should have or were trained to embrace.28 It can expand us in this way and, in the process, allow us to accept our ambivalence about who we are, precisely because it is a cartoon and we are not (just as Homer's life isn't Marge's). Each pun, contradiction, and paradox in The Simpsons stands on its own as a funny detail, and all, taken together in their totality, give us a complexity that approximates?but is not equal to? life. This cartoon complexity reminds us that we need our distinctions, but that we must recognize their limitations and dangers, too. The muddling of distinc tions in "Mom and Pop Art" has the potential to create a mental environment where our own confusion and ambivalence can wander with some degree of comfort?even if it is easier, and seems entirely more acceptable, to be crystal clear about our judgments. Reva Wolf is the author of Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s (University of Chicago, 1997) and Goya and the Satirical Print (Godine, 1991 ). She is an associate professor of art history at the State University of New York, New Paltz. 3 28. As philosophy professor Jennifer L McMahon observes, "By displacing certain anxieties and dis abling habitual resistances, comedy can bring to light things that might otherwise be too comfort able to acknowledge." "The Function of Fiction: The Heuristic Value of Homer," in The Simpsons and Philosophy, 230. Article Contents p. [100] p. 101 p. 102 p. 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Moscow: Progress. ______ 1984. The manifesto of the Communist party. In Marx-Engels collected works, vol. 6, 476� 519. Moscow: Progress. DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2011.605286 A New Avant-Garde? Gerald Keaney Many artists who identify as politically committed are suspicious of art due to the Situationist argument that revolutionary art is impossible. If right, the argument also rules out a future artistic avant-garde. I believe that, by concentrating on the truth- telling possibilities of art, we can meet the Situationist argument. To do so, it is necessary to change the relationship art has to everyday life. We can then speculate on the form of a future avant-garde. Key Words: Avant-Garde, Everyday Life, Truth, Situationist International, Surrealism Art is dead, long live the new machine art of Tatlin! *George Grosz and James Heartfield Avant-gardes have refreshed society in the past, and the promise lingers that they may do so again. The Surrealists, for instance, reinvigorated cinema, produced much emulated poets like Paul Eluard, and even gave us Elsa Schiaparelli’s shocking pink. Aficionados grasp hopefully at the excitement of avant-garde status for their favored forms, as we find (perhaps not unjustifiably) with Julien Temple’s (2000) treatment of punk. If such a remembrance is nostalgic, it is also ‘‘nostalgia for an age yet to come,’’ as the Buzzcocks sang in ‘‘Nostalgia.’’ A Dada intuition is that all art is conservative of the existing social order, and the Situationist International (1957� 71) argued that revolutionary art is a contradictio in adjecto. Yet, without such revolutionary possibility, the ambitious sense in which something can be avant-garde remains elusive. Hope for more seems the prerogative of a time when intuitions about art had yet to calcify into sober assessment. Avant-gardes react against existing formality (Burger 1974; Ades et al. 1993). It is then useful to follow a Kripkean strategy. At least this would allow anything with the right origins to count as art and permit an ‘open’ idea of art. Staged enactments of the everyday (Rasmussen 2009, 36) could be art as could an artifact like a urinal. I will assume that ‘revolutionary art’, if possible, uses art to encourage social revolution by telling otherwise obscured truths, much as left-wing realism has attempted to be revolutionary and Marxism itself claims to be objective. The ‘avant-garde’ adds 556 KEANEY D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 systematic formal innovation.1 We can identify a strong lineage of twentieth-century artists. Dada, especially Berlin Dada, constructivism, surrealism, and then several smaller attempts lead up to the Situationist International. Though the Situationists themselves gave us systematic formal innovation (espe- cially détournement), they think of themselves as the last avant-garde and then only as theorists.2 If it is impossible to apply ‘avant-garde’ to politically ambivalent artists in anything but a faddish manner, as Dada intuition about revolutionary art congeals into Situationist theory, the avant-garde seems impossible. And, perhaps as influenced by Marx, and yet quickly commodified, the avant-garde itself becomes the last Dada suicide. Certainly, after the Situationists, artists seeking radical social change through art can waver between art and its supposed antithesis: revolution.3 I will begin by arguing that the avant-garde requires art to be truthful about the possibilities of everyday living. Finally, this becomes an extension of the truth-telling required for revolutionary art, and art must be honest about its own relationship to these possibilities. To repeal the Situationists’ verdict, I will argue that art can be truth-telling in the right way. This is in part because the avant-garde is not curtailed by realism (‘‘correspondence’’), and partly because it can negate denials of everyday possibility. The discussion permits speculation about a future avant-garde. The first section examines the Situationists’ argument for why revolutionary art is a contradiction. The second argues that leeway around the traditional correspondence idea of truth, suitable to an open idea of art, means that neither truth nor propositional content is problematic for the Situationist critique. The third section argues that what is problematic for the critique is that the failure of art to tell the relevant truths can be remedied. Revolutionary art is not a contradiction. This provides the departure point for speculation about future transformative art. Art is a pharmaceutical product for imbeciles. *Francis Picabia Chatty treatments of the Situationists (Marcus 1989; Winterbottom 2002) are unattractive, given recently circulated source material.4 There the message is clear: capitalism is the society of ‘The Spectacle,’ fetishizing the point of purchase. Parading as no more than a thing, a fetish obscures the nature of the relations that 1. This raises the problem of conservative movements, such as Italian and British futurists who formally and systematically introduced movement into static media. For my purposes they would be neither revolutionary art nor avant-garde, but ‘‘group innovators in the area of form.’’ 2. I will return to the problems with using the term ‘avant-garde’ for theory. 3. See Davidson (2009) for an example of this. Influenced by the avant-garde, the publication containing Davidson’s piece, Rivet, is riddled with the same tension. Art should be reclaimed as useful in radical political struggle, but at the same time is inextricably linked with conservative institutions. One soon begins to wonder what the artists associated with Rivet think they can achieve. 4. The recently available sources include an expanded edition of important Situationist documents (Knabb 2006). Also Keehan’s (2003) excellent on-line resource preserves the modified mass-media material that illustrated Internationale situationniste. REMARX 557 D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 produced it as well as the possibility of the transformation of those relations. People are then passive consumers, conditioned in boring urban surroundings and sold pseudo innovations. The alternative is that, by controlling the entirety of the productive process, the people could make creative use of the productive means to live lives of their own invention. The Spectacle falsely conveys the idea that ‘There Is No Alternative’ to passive consumption. The Situationists considered propositions such as ‘‘a superior society in which all of life was under the creative control of the livers is possible’’ to be true. Equally, central falsities include the Spectacular idea that consumerism is a satisfying practice, and that cities can enjoyably house passive consumers. Even aleatory mass media images could then be assessed as proclaiming falsehoods. An analysis of the mode of production also yields true propositions about the function of these images (Debord 1977). This contrasts with thinkers like Baudrillard or Lyotard who believe such images to be transparently playful (Plant 1992). Yet the Situationists did not always care for rigorous argument or contest specific propositions. Art was one area in which they did (Rasmussen 2009, 35; Plant 1990). They argued that to make art is to falsely make an utterance to the effect that creativity is a specialization and cannot be the entirety of social life. This denies the truth that joie de vivre can be found only in generalized creativity. So-called revolutionary art is nothing more than a best-selling fetish wherein rebellion is itself commodified. Supposedly revolutionary art will then be adduced in support of false Spectacular claims (see the material on art throughout the sources already mentioned: Knabb 2006; Keehan 2003). To arrive at the idea that revolutionary art is a contradiction in terms, let us first consider how the Situationists thought art was doomed to be untruthful. The earlier avant-garde was already dedicated to remaking daily life creatively. Though paradigmatically modernist, their formal innovations attempted to push the boundaries of creativity into daily life (Burger 1974; Vaneigem 2001). The Surrealists, for instance, believed that art could utter truths about preconscious potential in the cause of rendering daily life dreamy (Breton 1998a; Wollen 1989). The Dadas thought that art failed to tell it like it was, about the trenches as much as about the restrictive inanity of workaday society and daily life. From the Situationist perspective, both Dada and surrealism enjoyed a heroic phase when they refused to be silenced by art institutions. These institutions also eventually recuperated both movements, and the Situationists believed such recuperation was inevitable. Any genuine insights that previous movements had about the transforma- tion of daily life were pretheoretic or early attempts at theorizing. Converted into art, these insights were implicitly addended with false propositions: it was ‘‘older art,’’ not passive consumption, that was the problem;5 creative fulfillment within the Spectacle is available to the ‘‘hip.’’ The problem here is not just the ill-fitting airs of revolutionary art. All art represents itself as a specialization in creativity outside the everyday, and all art can be commodified even if at a later date. We can then isolate a 5. This propositional view of art will be further discussed in the next section since it certainly would be strange to reduce art to true or false propositions. I am assuming that propositions are truth bearers; propositions are what can be true or false. 558 KEANEY D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 proposition 1, both conjuncts of which are false by Marxist lights, and which the Situationists believed all art effectively uttered: 1: Creativity must take a commodified and specialized form. Thus, the Situationists thought of themselves as ending the avant-garde and such specialization (see especially the material on art in Keehan 2003 passim). For the Situationists, the link between falsity and art was stronger than for their predeces- sors. In particular, the surrealists thought it possible for art to tell the uncomfortable truth. They believed they produced a revolutionary art, or, as painter Max Ernst subtitled one of his works, a ‘‘revolution by night.’’ The Situationists thought that as a crucial part of Spectacular falsehood, art is systematically false. Art is a lie that brings us closer to the truth. *Pablo Picasso It could be objected that truth seeking is not the way to understand the avant-garde. Traditionally truth has been thought to be a correspondence relation. This requires structural similarity between the truth bearer and the world (Glanzberg 2006, sec. 1.1, pt. 2). Wittgenstein (1922) used pre-modern art to provide us with a picture theory of how this worked. Representational artworks become paradigmatic truth bearers or ‘‘mirrors of nature.’’ These works also come to seem paradigmatically true. Yet, for the avant-garde, endless depictions of bucolic scenes and polite society gave us a distorted view and the very realism the works espoused was inadequate. But rejecting correspondence and traditional realism does not mean rejecting truth. In fact, the form of the rejection adopted by the avant-garde can ground the Situationist arguments presented so far. Pre-modern art attempted to instantiate a correspondence relation (Reid 1964, 321� 2; Casey 1970, 352), but there are problems with thinking of correspondence in these pictorial terms. Correspondence does not require resemblance. In Morse code, beeps correspond to letters without the beeps sounding or looking like the letters. Resemblance is also a symmetrical relation since things resemble each other. Yet only a truth bearer can be or fail to be truthful, not that to which the truth bearer refers, so truthfulness is asymmetric (Casey 1970, 352� 3). Where art furnished Wittgenstein with a striking image of correspondence in action, resemblance between art and the life it supposedly imitates epitomizes difficulties with the correspondence theory of truth. Philosophers have tried to rehabilitate correspondence. Equations may ‘‘correctly’’ describe physical laws, being structurally similar to those laws without resemblance (353� 4). However, a ‘‘third man’’ regress looms as the correspondence relation needs itself to be correct. We need a ‘‘correct’’ standard to determine if we have rightly assigned correctness to the correspondence (354); this must be correct and so on. Further, it is unclear how any correspondence clarifies or adds the formal model of truth as p is true iff p (Tarsky 1944; Horwich 1998). This is an adequacy condition for any theory of truth (Fox 2008; Glanzberg 2006, sec. 2, pt. 2 ff.). Instead of further REMARX 559 D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 attempts at rehabilitating correspondence, philosophers have sought an alternative account of truth. Any of these (see Blackburn 1999 for an overview) might be more compatible with art than correctness, since scientific equations are paradigmatic for correctness. Hegel’s historicism and Heidegger’s existentialism are well known (Campbell 1992, chaps. 13� 4). Althusser’s attempt to ground truth in a relationship to class struggle is still influential (Editors 2010). The pragmatists believe that truth is what is useful. Epistemic accounts of truth hold that truth is what ideal knowers would believe (Fox 2008). The minimum account denies that attributions of truth and falsity have any metaphysical substance, deflating ‘‘true’’ and ‘‘false’’ to semantic values enabling inference (Horwich 1998; Galnzberg 2006, 5.2� 5.3). So art can be true or false in a number of ways instead of just by virtue of resemblance (Reid 1964, 323; Casey 1970, 355; Roskill and Carrier 1983). Even a realistic medium could provide true or false propositions about, for instance, who was present at some event (Rosekill and Carrier 1983, ix� x; Malinas 1996)*true without necessary recourse to correspondence theory.6 The different theories of truth could be referenced by revolutionary artists to claim that propositions are true or false given Marxist theory. Roskill and Carrier take a Heartfield photomontage with Hitler depicted receiving cash from industrialists via one of his salutes to be ‘‘a truthful statement about Hitler’s backers’’ (1983, xi). Equally, they examine a Watteau in which the artificial and hence false view of society is paramount. These can be taken as examples of ‘‘framing’’ with respect to Marxism, which ‘‘turns the concern of the relativist, that each period be considered in its own terms, back upon itself. How each culture and society articulates its sense of truth is to be seen reflected in its images in the form of forces that are at work there to uphold the status quo or that struggle emergently against it’’ (iix). Without correspondence, art is no longer the ideal illustrative proposition of Wittgenstein’s picture theory. This creates an initial problem if we want to attribute propositions like 1 to artworks. How, then, is art propositional? Reducing art to propositions like those in critical thinking texts would certainly discount the important ‘surface’ of the artwork. Barbara Kruger explicitly uses propositions, yet her work is also medium-driven.7 Beside unusual work like Kruger’s, propositions are explicit only in literature (Casey 1970, 356) and even then problematically so.8 Fortunately, in following the avant-garde course detailed here, to be implicit is enough, and it is not necessary to reduce art to propositional content (359). Art can be taken at least to be uttering some truth-bearing propositions as well as furnishing surface experiences. As an example of how we can isolate implicit 6. Pragmatism, for instance, could suffice if it is defensible. Breton believed that James’s ideas could underwrite such surrealist escapades as the ‘‘contemporary myth’’ of invisible, undetectable beings (1998b). Arguably, since this myth is not of the right kind, a Heideggerian account of truth, for instance, might not be compatible with it. In any case it is tempting to simply opt for the minimum account. The arguments for it are strong, and it would equally underwrite the way various forms of art might tell the truth, avoiding unhelpful complications. 7. For example, Kruger uses contrasts to portray the proposition Your Body Is a Battleground (collage, 1989). 8. If fiction, propositions can be true as well as false only under interpretation (Ellis 1974). 560 KEANEY D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 propositions, the Situationists determined 1 is present in art by critiquing the Spectacle. For the Situationists, the surface experiences of art were real enough, but the sensual mechanisms involved could and should (to avoid 1) be used in recreation of the entirety of the social space. The results would be the Constructed Situations after which the group was named (Debord 2006). So it is unnecessary to give an exhaustive analysis of truth in art or to rule out the surface effects for the avant-garde approach. There are no semantic reasons to doubt that art utters 1, but there may be reasons to doubt it has to. Revolution by Negation This doubt causes problems for the Situationist critique of art. Consider how, on an open idea of art, artwork seems ineluctable. Even a humble urinal was elevated to art status in the company of the avant-garde. Flamboyant Situationist tracts and détournement, including cut-up city maps, all have the right kind of origins to be regarded as art. This gives us an idea how we might rethink the Situationist accusation that all art effectively utters 1. In their tracts, the Situationists not only utter 1 but deny it is true, so they preface 1 with a negation sign. Any art aspiring to be revolutionary could do the same. No doubt so long as the Spectacle exists, art will be fending off a double negation of 1 accomplished by, for instance, placing art that utters �1 in a trendy gallery (giving ��1). But even so, there is no assurance that at any point in time informed art will fail to utter �1. What we could have is more like a Hegelian struggle for truth involving the negation of previous negations.9 The approach makes sense of Situationist interventions. Michele Bernstein mass circulated her straightforwardly anti-Spectacle potboiler (Bernstein 2008). Malcolm McClaren claimed Debord had rung him and thanked him for getting the Sex Pistols song ‘‘God Save the Queen’’ to number one (Agiugah and Tschudin 2000). Granted the do-it-yourself context of the song, implicitly ‘‘God Save the Queen’’ might be taken to be uttering �1.10 The Dadas knew that conservative institutions dictate what artists produce, and thought it was difficult for art to tell the truth. But no, even in commercial contexts, more than the pressures exerted by the Spectacle does this mean art must fail to utter �1. Social realism may no longer be enough to be 9. Initially we would have a dialectic where art utters 1, the antithetical Situationist response is no art and no utterance, and the synthesis is art uttering �1. This dialectic would then form the starting point for another in which the synthesis was the negation of the difference between art and life. Woollen shows how this is the prime attraction of Hegel for the avant-garde (1989). See Hegel (1977) for how such dialectic pans out more broadly. 10. We should note that, as the single rocketed up the charts, The Sex Pistols signed to a multinational record company rather than engaging in do-it-yourself praxis. However, the broader context of the band included groups of people involved in do-it-yourself creativity such as the Bromley Contingent, initially, at least, creating their own fashions, dances, and publications, while the Sex Pistols mocked and attempted to swindle companies such as Virgin and EMI. Marcus (1989) has some details. REMARX 561 D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 revolutionary, but art does not have to mislead us about the possibilities of everyday life. Conclusion: The Next Avant-Garde? So there can be revolutionary art, and we can now undertake some concluding speculations about the form of a new avant-garde. Concrete examples are hard to come by since this avant-garde is yet to exist, but there can be a new avant-garde if revolutionary art includes systematic formal innovation. Consider a short recent intervention on the subject of a new humanities by Paul Magee. He begins with climate change, noting that metaphors of economic growth suffer by contrast with the scientific facts of ecological destruction. His diagnosis: ‘‘poststructuralist arguments based on the idea ‘that facts are made up, that there is no such thing as objective truth, that we are always prisoners of language, that we always speak from a particular standpoint . . .’ as . . . attacks upon objective truth concern scientific truth-claims . . . [are] embarrassing’’ (2009, 455). The debate over whether creationism should be taught further justifies Magee’s contention. Yet it is awkward to apply ‘‘avant-garde’’ to theorizing. Formal innovation does not have an obvious corollary in theory. The lack of creativity in daily life might be redressed directly by innovation (e.g., more exploratory punk fashion and graffiti art are attempts). At best, theorizing would reflect, owl-like, on the redress. But granted the avant-garde is truth-seeking, it must agree with Magee. Poststructuralism could not inform a new artistic avant-garde, as influential as it has been since Warhol. There are two ways to utter �1 and so satisfy the precondition of being revolutionary: explicitly or implicitly. If artists took up the explicit option, self- reference would be mandatory. Neoism is an indicator of how this might work, a movement interested in the editorial presentation of propositions of which could include �1.11 Implicitly, a Brechtian alienation effect is promising. Films along the lines of Being John Malkovich or The Truman Show could be at least revolutionary art if truth telling about society and �1 replaced any relativist ideas. The films could be avant-garde if part of a concerted exploration of form. Do-it-yourself rebellion could be either explicitly or implicitly truthful (hence revolutionary), and it suffers few formal constraints (hence avant-garde). The best of punk are preliminary indicators of how this might work*perhaps Nick Cave’s humorous self-deprecation (sometimes explicitly �1) or Jordan’s over the top fashion (implicitly �1). Zines may be better indicators still (Black 1994).12 11. Use of propositions and argument may be one thing physicist David Bohm has in mind when he advocates that art move away from symbolism (1998). 12. Black argues that zines have more content and that underground artists have more room to be both truthful and formally investigative than ‘‘alternative’’ figures in the entertainment industry. Findlay’s (2009) documentation of some unrecognized Australian do-it-yourself performance groups (e.g., Splinters Theatre of the Spectacle) suggests dramatic and innovative on-the-street statements of �1. 562 KEANEY D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 Again, though, the new avant-garde does not yet exist. Indeed, we find content is often lacking in Neoism.13 This problem could be remedied by concentrating not just on �1 but on the importance of argument, an advance on the declamations of détournement. The aestheticization of formal logic would be a natural addition to the Neoist arsenal. Do-it-yourself is also often unreflective. This problem could be addressed if DIY as a learning process (see Keaney and Keaney 2007) aimed to be revolutionary and then avant-garde. There is no reason Marxist framing has to exclude other truth-seeking framings, such as a Darwinist one.14 Julie Rrap, for instance, already uses computer- manipulated graphics to contest the overuse of neo-Darwinism. She does not seem interested in �1, so could fail to be revolutionary. Even so, truth-seeking artists like her are not doomed to failure. 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DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2011.605288 564 KEANEY D ow nl oa de d by [ U ni ve rs it y of I ow a L ib ra ri es ] at 1 1: 44 1 9 A pr il 2 01 3 work_7l3qfqdo5ze2zlbrkyy723wyo4 ---- Microsoft Word - Dnb-28_4_92.doc 343 Psychiatria Danubina, 2016; Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 343–348 View point article © Medicinska naklada - Zagreb, Croatia ARTS, BRAIN AND COGNITION Vida Demarin1, Marina Roje Bedeković2, Marijana Bosnar Puretić2 & Marija Bošnjak Pašić3,4 1Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia 2University Department of Neurology, University Hospital Centre "Sestre milosrdnice", Zagreb, Croatia 3Department of Neurology, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia 4Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia received: 5.5.2016; revised: 8.8.2016; accepted: 9.9.2016 SUMMARY Art is a product of human creativity; it is a superior skill that can be learned by study, practice and observation. Modern neuroscience and neuroimaging enable study of the processes during artistic performance. Creative people have less marked hemispheric dominance. It was found that the right hemisphere is specialized for metaphoric thinking, playfulness, solution finding and synthesizing, it is the center of visualization, imagination and conceptualization, but the left hemisphere is still needed for artistic work to achieve balance. A specific functional organization of brain areas was found during visual art activities. Marked hemispheric dominance and area specialization is also very prominent for music perception. Brain is capable of making new connections, activating new pathways and unmasking secondary roads, it is “plastic”. Music is a strong stimulus for neuroplasticity. fMRI studies have shown reorganization of motor and auditory cortex in professional musicians. Other studies showed the changes in neurotransmitter and hormone serum levels in correlation to music. The most prominent connection between music and enhancement of performance or changing of neuropsychological activity was shown by studies involving Mozart’s music from which the theory of “The Mozart Effect” was derived. Results of numerous studies showed that listening to music can improve cognition, motor skills and recovery after brain injury. In the field of visual art, brain lesion can lead to the visuospatial neglect, loss of details and significant impairment of artistic work while the lesions affecting the left hemisphere reveal new artistic dimensions, disinhibit the right hemisphere, work is more spontaneous and emotional with the gain of artistic quality. All kinds of arts (music, painting, dancing...) stimulate the brain. They should be part of treatment processes. Work of many artists is an excellent example for the interweaving the neurology and arts. Key words: arts – brain – creativity - music therapy - neuroplasticity * * * * * BRAIN FUNCTIONS, CREATIVITY AND ART Art is a product of human creativity. It is a superior skill that can be learned by study, practice and obser- vation. By means of art it is possible to record or describe objects, events and moments, but it is also possible to express feelings, opinions and attitudes. The Swiss painter Paul Klee said: “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes the invisible, visible.” (Giedion-Welcker 1998). Modern neuroscience has the privilege to investigate the processes of artistic perfor- mance in a healthy brain by means of modern techno- logy techniques such as functional neuroimaging. Not so long ago scientists could only speculate what brain functions are involved in artistic processes by observing neurological patients. In the process of explaining the secret of creativity, a simplified theory starts with the known fact of cerebral hemisphere dominance; uncrea- tive people have marked hemispheric dominance and creative people have less marked hemispheric domi- nance (Katz 1978, York 2004). The right hemisphere is specialized, among other functions, for metaphoric thinking, for playfulness, solution finding and synthesi- zing. It is the center of visualization, imagination and conceptualization, but the left hemisphere is still needed for artistic work to achieve balance by partly suppressing creative states of the right hemisphere and for the exe- cutive part of a creative process (Hoppe 1998). Nume- rous studies investigating the brain function during the visual art activities have shown a very specific func- tional organization of brain areas. Different parts of visual cortex were activated, depending on the type of picture viewed (colors, objects, faces, position of objects in space, motion or static pictures) (Zeki 1991, 1998, 2004). Marked hemispheric dominance and area specialization is also very prominent for music percep- tion. Both brain hemispheres are needed for complete music experience, while frontal cortex has a significant role in rhythm and melody perception. The centers for perceiving pitch and certain aspects of melody and harmony and rhythm are identified in the right hemisphere. Left hemisphere is important for processing rapid changes in frequency and intensity of tune. Several brain imaging studies have reported activation of many other cortical areas beside auditory cortex during listening to music, which can explain the impact of listening to music on emotions, cognitive and motor processes (Tramo 2001, 2002, Janata & Grafton 2003). Where it comes from is crucial for some product to become a piece of art: the creativity arising from artist’s brain is necessary. But it is also interesting to establish Vida Demarin, Marina Roje Bedeković, Marijana Bosnar Puretić & Marija Bošnjak Pašić: ARTS, BRAIN AND COGNITION Psychiatria Danubina, 2016; Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 343–348 344 why a great number of people find a particular piece of art, music, dance or a poem beautiful. The saying “The beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is known from ancient times. Recently, T. Ishizu and S. Zeki conducted a study the results of which have revealed that a beauty experience is indeed in the beholder, though not in the eye, but in the brain. The study included 21 subjects in which brain fMRI scanning was performed during looking at something beautiful or listening to something that the subject liked. The results have shown that during these actions activation of medial orbitofrontal cortex occurred and it is assumed that also other stimuli that person finds beautiful would activate the same area (Ishizu & Zeki 2011). An another experiment from Zeki and Kawabata was aimed at finding the neural correlates of desire; fMRI of the brain was performed while subjects were watching three categories of pictures: events, objects and persons and they had to classify their impressions as desirable, indifferent or undesirable. Each category produced an activity in a distinct part of the visual brain, the superior orbito-frontal, the mid- cingulate, and the anterior cingulate cortex, reflecting its functional specialization. The conjunction analysis of the contrast “desirable – undesirable” revealed an activity in the superior orbito-frontal cortex, with a positive linear relationship to the declared level of desirability. The conjunction analysis of the contrast “desirable – indifferent” revealed an activity in the mid- cingulate cortex and in the anterior cingulate cortex. In the former, the activity was greater for desirable and undesirable stimuli than for stimuli categorized as indifferent (Kawabata & Zeki 2008). As well as for the art experience, Zeki pointed out in his book „A Vision of the Brain“ that all human experience is mediated through the brain and is not solely the product of the outside world. He says “The more important the expe- rience, the more it can reveal about the fundamental properties of the brain.” (Zeki 1993). THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC AND ART ON BRAIN, HEALTH AND COGNITION The connection between music and brain functioning is not a modern idea. An ancient Chinese book, I Ching: “The Book of Changes/Wisdom”, that dates back to approximately 3000 years B.C. contains a saying: “Music has the power to ease the tension within the heart and to lessen and loosen obscure emotions.” In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras was analyzing pleasant tunes and found that they represented particular mathematical relations which he recognized as harmony and he supported using this harmonic music in an attempt to achieve harmony of bodily functions. His followers prescribed specific tunes and dances as a cure for mood disorders (Karamanides 2006). Using modern technology in science, as was already pointed out, allows an almost direct insight into the changes that music makes in human brain. Music stimulates specific regions of the brain and it affects processes responsible for memory, motor control, timing and language. fMRI studies have shown reorganization of motor and auditory cortex in professional musicians. There are other studies that analyze the changes in neurotransmitter and hormone serum levels in correlation to music. Based on experience and on results of numerous studies, it is easier to understand that music is biologically a part of human life and not just aesthetically (Bever & Chiarello 1974, Otto 2000, Antić 2008, Jensen). Brain plasticity was mentioned for the first time over one hundred years ago by William James and Ramon y Cajal. ”Every man can, if he so desires, become a sculptor of his own brain.” (James 1840, Y Cayal 1955). After a long time, during the “Decade of the brain” scientists’ interest in brain plasticity rose again and a lot of experiments have shown that brain is capable of making new connections, activating new pathways and unmasking secondary roads. Brain is understandably adaptable during development, but neuroplasticity shows that an adult brain is also adaptable, as a response to new and persistent stimuli or to a lesion (Kaas 1991, Johansson 2004). Music is one of the most frequently investigated stimuli for neuroplasticity and undeniably very strong connection between them exists. A lot of data speak in favor of the exposure of pregnant women and neonates to music promoting the development of the brain and the inner ear of child. The exposure to musical training in early life reorganizes the brain connections with consequently improved coordination and other motor skills (Partanen et al. 2013, Schlaug 2015). Evidences of neuroplastic capacity of adult brain were again provided by music related studies that showed alteration of the auditory cortex after attentive listening to music for three hours a day for a longer period, superior spatial tuning in conductors and changes in motor cortical areas in adult musical learners. It was also found in injured brain (Johansson 2006, Demarin 2014). The most prominent connection between music and enhancement of performance or changing of neuropsychological activity was shown by studies involving Mozart’s music from which the theory of The Mozart Effect was derived. The basis of The Mozart Effect lies at the superorganization of the cerebral cortex that may resonate with the superior architecture of Mozart’s music (Campbell 2009). Other type of music, described as “brain music” that uses frequency, amplitude and duration of musical sound similar to Chopin music is able to move the brain from an anxious state to a more relaxed state and has positive effect on insomnia and fatigue (www.dhs.gov). The use of music as a cure showed its success in depressive patients after stroke. Sarkamo and colleagues conducted a study involving after stroke patients with mood dis- orders; one group selected for listening to self- elected Vida Demarin, Marina Roje Bedeković, Marijana Bosnar Puretić & Marija Bošnjak Pašić: ARTS, BRAIN AND COGNITION Psychiatria Danubina, 2016; Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 343–348 345 music one hour daily, one listening to language on audio books and control group without listening material. After two months in the group of the music listeners a significantly lower depression rate was registered, as well as lower irritability, inertia and fewer confusion states (Sarkamo 2008). The rehabilitation of stroke patients can be improved by incorporation of music listening in the therapy; the studies show that music stimulation increases blood flow in patients suffering from acute ischemic stroke and therefore enhances the post-stroke recovery (Antić 2012). Music is beneficial not only if listened to, but also if created, especially due to the lack of boundaries such as speech, language, psychological state or motor skills (Spintge & Droh 1992). The prospective study performed on hobby singers has shown the changes of physiologic markers of happiness during singing; the serotonin, nore- pinephrine and ß – endorphin levels were significantly higher after than before singing and stress hormone epinephrine was reduced by singing. (Biegl 2004). Neuroplasticity of the brain is crucial for rehabilitation of the patients after brain injury and it can be prompted by activity, but also by imaging of activity. In the experiment of Pascal-Leone and co-workers one group of subjects played the piano and the other one had to just imagine that they were playing piano, with their hands being still on the table. Transmagnetic stimulation presented that the active part of the brain was becoming larger with practice and on the fifth day in both groups the activation was similar (Pascal-Leone 2005). A fMRI study presented that watching of dance movement stimulates activation of motor and other brain areas of all after-stroke patients, but in larger extent in patients with dancing experience (ballet or capoeira dancers) (Calvo-Merino 2005). There is growing evidence that artistic training im- proves attention and cognition. These insights arise from numerous studies with both children and adults participating and are based beyond simplified understanding that improvement can be expected just from periodical exposure to arts (www.dana.org, Schellenberg 2004). The key point is again activity- dependent neuroplasticity; the focused training in any of the arts, music, dance or drama activates attention networks that are a crucial part in learning and memory process. The attention networks are easier to activate with the type of arts that person is really interested in. Music has a superior effect on brain plasticity, active music training in children for a longer period of time revealed significantly better results on general measures of intelligence, in reading fluency and in performance in the geometry skills compared to results of children that didn’t receive training (Hyde 2009, Posner 2009). Practicing some skill increases efficiency of attention networks what besides pure cognitive improvement can enhance the executive attention skills (emotion control, empathy, impulse control…) which are necessary for a successful learning process (Neville 2008). INTERWEAVING OF THE NEUROLOGICAL ILLNESSES AND THE ART When a person suffers a stroke, the symptoms de- pend on the site of injury. If there is right hemisphere lesion, impairment of spatial tasks, left-sided visuos- patial neglect, impaired facial recognition and spatial organization and perspective impairment are present. In painting style compensatory changes develop with the creation of the wider scenery of landscapes and larger figural compositions (Bäzner & Hennerici 2007). The German painter Anton Räderscheidt suffered the right hemisphere stroke after which a substantial change in his painting style is evident; noticeable is left sided hemianopia and neglect, and previously very realis- tically painted figures and persons after stroke are usually deformed, intense and in bright colors (www.raederscheidt.com). Federico Fellini, an Italian film director, painter and cartoonist suffered a stroke at the age of 73 in the right middle cerebral artery territory with the severe left - sided motor and sensory deficits, left inferior quadrantopia, but without anosognosia, pro- sopagnosia or cognitive deficits. These deficits manifes- ted on his sketches after stroke with the neglect of the left side of drawing area, but after two months the good recovery or compensation of vision is apparent in new drawings with equal amount of details on both sides of the area (Cantagallo & Sala 1998, Dieguez 2007). In the left hemisphere stroke patient aphasia, right sided hemiparesis and loss of executive functions are present. After starting to use nondominant hand, artistic work of many artists becomes disinhibited, more impres- sionist or more intense and expressive. Katherine Sher- wood, an American painter suffered a severe dominant hemisphere stroke at the age of 44. From then she paints with her left hand and these new paintings differ signi- ficantly from pre-stroke work, she herself claims that her early work was constricted, tripped up by conscious intent and recent work unburdened, flows freely from her subconscious, uninhibited by consciousness. She even achieved rather more acclaim and financial success after the stroke (Waldman 2000, Sherwood 2012). After a left hemisphere stroke the Swedish painter and sculptor Carl Fredrik Reutersward also experienced a more disinhibited work, which manifested as the use of brighter colors and „softer“ shapes. So, the effect of stroke on artistic performance depends on the site of the lesion; the right hemisphere lesion leads to the left sided visuospatial neglect, loss of details and significant impairment of artistic work while the left hemisphere lesions reveal new artistic dimensions, disinhibit the right hemisphere, work is more spontaneous and emotional with the gain of artistic quality. In patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as frontotemporal dementia some cases of emergence of creativity and talent are still possible, despite of frontal and temporal lobe atrophy and cognitive impairment Vida Demarin, Marina Roje Bedeković, Marijana Bosnar Puretić & Marija Bošnjak Pašić: ARTS, BRAIN AND COGNITION Psychiatria Danubina, 2016; Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 343–348 346 (Miller 1998). The preservation of the frontal and parietal lobes allows planning and execution of the work and patient’s art arises from the undamaged parietal and occipital lobes when freed from the inhibition of the anterior temporal lobes; paintings became freer and more original (Miller 1996). Some painters suffering corticobasal degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease sho- wed more creative artistic work during their illness, but due to visuoconstructive deficits, spatial errors, changes of color perception and cognitive deterioration, de- mentia often leads to loss of artistic skills, especially visible in self – portraits, like in William Utermohlen pictures (Blanke 2007). Louis Wain, an English artist, illustrator of children's books suffered from schizo- phrenia and dementia and during illness his earlier gentle and joyful artistic expression disappeared; shapes became disintegrated and ornament-like (Greicius 2009). With the support of other people some dementia patients can preserve their creative capacity for a longer time and use it as a sort of therapy, especially to alleviate neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression, agitation, sleep impairment (Chancellor 2014). Willem de Kooning, Dutch abstract expressionist was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s dementia at the age of 66 years. Before illness his paintings were usually characterized by womanly curves with multiple dissonant color combinations, but after the first sign of Alzheimer’s disease he lost the interest in painting. Eight years after, with the great support of his wife, he started painting again and despite severe cognitive and semantic deficits, and incapacity to perform any of daily living activities, he created abstract compositions and transferred them to canvas (Espinel 1996). These paintings are classified among the most beautiful, sensual, and exuberant abstract work by any modern painter (De Kooning 1995). Other neurological conditions can also be found in artistic work. Epileptic and migraine aura, scotoma scintillans, splitting of image and zig-zag lines in visual field are elements that are continously present in paintings of several artists suggesting their own experiences. Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter the founder of the ‘scuola metafisica’ art movement suffered from migraine and used some of his morbid manifestations, scotoma scintillas and photophobia as a source of his inspiration for his painting. Some scientists were assuming that this is predominantly the result of his migraine and others advocated more for temporal epilepsy theory (Blanke 2003, Bogousslavsky 2003). Hildegard of Bingen was German Benedictine abbess who suffered from migraine and she presented her visual migraine aura in her miniatures (www.relieve-migraine-headache.com). Because of his pictures with splitting faces and specific perception of female faces, it was speculated that Pablo Picasso was suffering from migraine also. Since no data to support this headache theory were found, it was concluded that this way of painting was just the introduction of new painting style, the Cubist movement (Ferrari & Haan 2000, Haan 2009). Francisco de Goya after developing auto-immune disorder, Vogt-Koyanagi syndrome, affecting inner ear and the uveal tract changed the way of painting. Instead to create portraits he started to paint pictures with motives as a shipwreck, prison, lunatic asylum or a fire at night (library.thinkquest.org). Vincent Willem van Gogh, a Dutch postimpressionist artist suffered from several illnesses. Many hypotheses have been put forward including epilepsy, bipolar disorder, sunstroke, acute intermittent porphyria, lead poisoning and Méni?re's disease. In 1928 the temporal epilepsy theory was introduced and it was assumed that a number of the motives in his pictures described epi- leptic aura (in Der Beeck 1982, Carota2005). One theory explains his famous preference for yellow by use of large amount of absinthe and by digitalis used for epilepsy treatment in 19th century; the overuse of digitalis leads to retinal dysfunction, xanthopsia (“yellow vision”) and absinthe contains chemical thujone, which is toxic for nervous system (Wolf 2005). He most likely suffered from the bipolar disorder with symptoms aggravated by alcohol and absinth abuse and he committed suicide in 1890 (Carota 2005). Sometimes brain and neurological illnesses itself can be an inspiration for art work. In his book „Brainy Drawings” the Croatian artist Ivan Šarić rises awareness of the brain complexity, neurological conditions and importance of prevention and the right treatment of brain disorders through numerous witty yet engaged sketches of the brain. CONCLUSION In the field of visual art it is obvious and encoura- ging that a disease is not an inevitably debilitating con- dition. On one side, an illness can seriously restrain living activities, but on the other, the creative side gives new opportunities for something that the conscious mind is not aware of. The connection between brain and music is strong and bidirectional. As Oliver Sacks, a professor of neuro- logy and a writer who extensively studied the effect of music on human health wrote: “We turn to the music, we need it, because of its ability to move us, to induce feelings and moods, states of mind.” (Sacks 2006). Acknowledgements: None. Conflict of interest: None to declare. Contribution of individual authors: The work is a product of the whole team; all members have contributed to the conception of the work. Vida Demarin and Marijana Bosnar Puretić were writing and drafting the work for intellectual content. Marina Roje Bedeković and Marija Bošnjak Pašić made literature search. All authors gave final approval of the version to be published. 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Araştırma nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden eylem araştırması biçiminde desenlenmiştir. Araştırma sekiz hafta süresince yürütülmüştür. Araştırmanın verileri, öğrenci günlükleri ve öğrencilerin uygulama öncesi, uygulama sırası ve uygulama sonrası yaptıkları resimler, DPA (Dereceli Puanlama Anahtarı, rubric) ile ölçülerek toplanmış ve değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırmada, öğrencilerin kolaj tekniğiyle yaptıkları resimlerin DPA değerlendirmeleri sonucunda modern resmi düşünsel ve biçimsel yönden yansıtma açısından gelişme kaydettikleri ortaya çıkmış ve nitel verilerin betimsel çözümlemesi sonucunda öğrencilerin modern resmin düşünsel ve biçimsel temelleri ile kolaj tekniği hakkında farkındalıklarının arttığı bulgusuna ulaşılmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda öğrencilerin çalışmalarında modern resmi ifade etme beceri düzeylerinde artış gözlemlenmiş ve öğrenciler modern resmin ve kolaj tekniğinin biçimsel, düşünsel yapısına yönelik farkındalıklarının özgünlük, eleştirellik ve yaratıcılık çerçevesinde arttığı belirlenmiştir. Anahtar Sözcükler: Kolaj tekniği, modern resim, asamblaj Use of Collage Technique in Modern Art Perceptions of Visual Arts Teacher Candidates: Action Research Abstract The purpose of the research is to demonstrate the contribution of the collage technique to modern art perceptions of visual arts teacher candidates. Research has been designed in the form of an action research from qualitative research methods. The study was conducted for eight weeks. The data of the study, the student journals and the pictures of the students before, during and after the application were collected and evaluated by rubric. In the study, it was found that students 'pictures of rubbing their images with rubbing techniques developed as a result of modern formal intellectual and formative reflection and as a result of the descriptive analysis of qualitative data, students' awareness of modern visual intellectual and formal foundations and collage technique increased. As a result of the research, the level of skill of expressing modern formal expression was observed in the students' work and it was determined that the awareness of students about the formal and intellectual structure of modern picture and collage technique increased in the frame of originality, criticism and creativity. Key words: Collage technique, modern painting, assemblage * Bu çalışma, Görkem Utku Alparslan’ın Prof. Dr. Ümran Bulut danışmanlığında yürüttüğü “Görsel Sanatlarda Anlatım Yöntemi Olarak Kolaj Tekniğinin Modern Resim Uygulamalarına Etkisi” başlıklı doktora tezinden alınmıştır. Bu çalışma, 28 Eylül – 01 Ekim 2017 tarihleri arasında CEAD 2. Uluslararası Çağdaş Eğitim Araştırmaları Kongresi’nde sunulmuştur. ** Arş. Gör., Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi, Denizli. E-Posta: gorkemutku@gmail.com *** Prof. Dr., Marmara Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi. İstanbul, E-Posta: umranbulut@gmail.com IS SN 1 30 1- 00 85 P ri n t / 13 09 -0 27 5 O n lin e © P am u kk al e Ü n iv er si te si E ğ it im F ak ü lt es i h tt p :/ /d x. d o i.o rg /1 0. 97 79 /P U JE 72 5 PAU Egit Fak Derg, 2018 (43): 77-91 Gönderme Tarihi: 09.11.2017 Kabul Tarihi: 20.12.2017 Araştırma Makalesi/ Research Article t Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)78 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut Giriş Modern resim ile kolaj tekniği arasındaki düşünsel ve biçimsel ilişkiyi ortaya koymadan önce modernlik kavramını tanımlamamız gerekmektedir. Samir Amin’e göre modernlik en temel anlamda “gelenekten kopuş” anlamına gelir ve “insanların bireysel ve kolektif olarak kendi tarihlerini yaptıkları ilkesine dayanır” (Amin’den aktaran Helvacıoğlu, 2017, s. 10). Bu bağlamda; modern resmin “gelenekten kopuş” ilkesi temelinde bilimsel veriler ışığında gerçekliği yansıtma ilkesi çerçevesinde biçimlendiği söylenebilir. Modern resim özünde varlığın özünün araştırılması ve görselleştirilmesi çabası vardır. İki ana akıma ayrılır: olgucu akımlar ve dışavurumcu akımlar. Olguculuktan etkilenen en bilinen resim akımı izlenimciliktir. İzlenimcilik varlığı duyumlar bireşimi olarak görür. Dışavurumcu akımlar ise fizikötesidir; soyutlayıcı akımlar ve gerçeküstücü akımlar olmak üzere kendi içinde ikiye ayrılır. Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) ile başlayan görüngüden kurtulma hareketi kübizm akımında nihai ereğine ulaşır: varlığın mantıksal özüne inme. Soyutlayıcı akımlar, varlığı geometrik - mantıksal biçimler olarak görürler. Usdışı akımlar ise – gerçeküstücülük gibi – varlığı saçma, usdışı biçimlerde ararlar (Tunalı, 2010). Bu ifadelerden sonra tek tek düşünürlerin modern resme etkileri incelenebilir. Modern resmi düşünsel açıdan etkileyen birçok düşünür vardır. Bunların önde gelenleri David Hume (1711 -1776), Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) ve Paul Cezanne (1839 – 1906) olarak sıralanabilir. David Hume, deneyimciliğin yol açtığı güçlük ya da sorunsallarla uğraşmak suretiyle modern düşün dünyasına çok önemli katkılarda bulunmuş İngiliz düşünürüdür (Cevizci, 2015, s. 214). Olgucu felsefenin oluşmasında önemli bir yeri olan “izlenim” kavramını felsefi alan yazına etkili bir biçimde kazandıran İskoç filozof David Hume’un bilgi bilimsel bu görüşleri; kendisinden sonra ortaya çıkacak olan izlenimcilik akımını derinden etkilemiştir. İzlenim (impression) kavramı, felsefede ilk olarak David Hume ile önem kazanmıştır. Hume, izlenim kavramını, bilgimizin en temel ve en özgün taşıyıcısı olarak anlamaktadır. Bilincimizi ve tasavvurlarımızı izlenimlerimiz, duyumlarımız oluşturur. Ancak bu duyumlar salt duyu organlarımız ile duyumsadıklarımız değil; aynı zamanda iç duyumuz yani psikolojik içeriklerimizdir (Tunalı, 2008). Bu bağlamda Hume’un temel düşüncesi olan; “gerçekliğe ancak ve ancak duyumlarla varılabilir” düşüncesi modern resmi izlenimcilik akımı bağlamında etkilemiştir diyebiliriz. Modern dönem ressamları, izlenimcilik akımından sonra düşün dünyalarına dönüş eğilimi göstermişlerdir. Bu eğilimin, Sanayi Devrimi sonrası ortaya çıkan üretim ilişkileri ve savaşların sonucunda, insanların ve özellikle ressamların düşün dünyasına yönlenmeleri biçiminde ortaya çıktığı söylenebilir. Bu dönemin resim dünyasını derinden etkileyen düşünce akımı Alman idealizmidir. Düşünce tarihinin en önemli figürlerinden olan Alman idealist filozof Kant, düşün dizgesinde ağırlıkla bilgi ve ahlak konuları üzerine eğilmiştir. Ona göre bilgimizin nesnelere uymasıyla ilgili geleneksel kabul geçersizdir: Nesneler bilgimize ya da zihinsel yapımıza uymak zorundadırlar. Kant kavramın deneyim ve bilginin önkoşulu olduğunu savunmuştur (Cevizci, 2015). Kavramın deneyim ve bilginin ön koşulu olma ilkesi, modern sanat yapıtlarının önemli bir bölümünün özünü oluşturur: kavram ressamlığı. Kavram ressamlığı dediğimiz şey, nesnelerin dış görünüşünü değil, özünü, değişmeyen yapısını yansıtmaktır (İpşiroğlu, 2009). Bu biçemin düşünsel temeli Kant felsefesinde yatmaktadır. Kant felsefesinden etkilenen kübizm, modern sanatta gerçek bir kırılma yaratmıştır. Bilinen doğa-nesne taklitçiliği parçalanmıştır. Kübizm bu parçalanmanın en önemli aşamasıdır. Kübizm akımında imge; sanatçı tarafından, düşünce temelli, yeniden oluşturulmuştur. Analitik kübizm imgeyi parçalarken, sentetik kübizm parçalardan yeni bir bütün oluşturur. Sentetik kübizm akımının başlıca resim tekniklerinden olan kolaj tekniği çeşitli kağıt ya da gazete parçalarının bir araya getirilerek yeni bir biçim oluşturma anlayışıdır. Öncüleri Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1963) ve Georges Braque’dır (1882 – 1963) (Antmen, 2010). Kübist ressamların Alman idealist düşünceden 79Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması etkilendiğini gösteren önemli bir yapıt, Georges Braque’ın (1882 – 1963) 1909 – 1910 tarihleri arasında yaptığı Mandora adlı çalışmadır. Çalışmada yapılan çalgı, birçok açıdan resmedilmiştir. Bu anlayışın temeli, duyuların yanıltıcı olduğu, bu bağlamda duyularla algıladığımız dünyanın gerçekliği yansıtmadığı düşüncesidir. Söz konusu çalgı da duyuların algıladığı çerçevede değil, zihnin algıladığı çerçevede bilinen perspektif kuralları aşılarak, tek bakış açısı kırılarak, yansıtılmıştır. Resim 1: Georges Braque, Mandora, 1909 - 1910. Tuval Üzerine Yağlıboya, 71,1 x 55,9 cm. Modern ressamlara yeni ufuklar açan bir diğer kişi, Fransız ressam Paul Cezanne’dır (1839 – 1906). Cezanne, ürettikleri ile Modern Sanat’ı derinden etkilemiştir. Öğrencisi Emile Bernard’a yazdığı “Doğayı, silindir, koni ve küre gibi ele al ve bütünü öyle doğru bir perspektif içine koy ki, bir nesnenin, bir düzlemin her yanı bir merkez noktasına götürsün” sözleri yapıtlarında doğanın duyumsallıktan düşünselliğe doğru bir yol aldığını bize göstermektedir. Artık doğa duyusal değil, kurgusal – düşünseldir. Yapıtlara doğanın anlamı yansır. Bu anlam düşüncede somutlaşır. Böyle bir anlamın varlığı haline gelen sanat da duyusal doğanın karşıtı bir konuma yerleşir. Cezanne’ın sarf ettiği şu anıtsal söz modern resme ve kübist resme derinden işlemiştir: “Sanat doğaya koşut olan bir armonidir” (Tunalı, 2008, s. 123 – 124). Cezanne’ın bu görüşleri modern resmin kavram ressamlığına giden yolda önemli bir kilometre taşıdır denilebilir. Modern resmi düşünsel açıdan genel anlamda değerlendirdiğimizde; Sanayi Devrimi’nin de etkisiyle ve bilimin gelişmesiyle kavramsallığı ve gerçekliği; bilimi de kullanarak, özgür ifade olanaklarıyla yansıtmış, resim bilinen resim kavramını aşmıştır. Kolaj tekniği de bu bağlamda modern resmin önemli ifade yöntemlerindendir. Kolaj, bir resmin bünyesine uygun olarak yapıştırılan çeşitli kâğıt parçaları ya da buna benzer gereçlerle yapılan yapıttır. Çeşitli çağlardan kalan iki yapının birbirlerine uygun biçimde bir araya getirilmesi olarak tanımlanır (Turani, 1995). Günümüzde kolaj tekniği, elde bulunan her tür basılı, çizili ya da fotografik malzemeyi, bir yüzey üzerine (veya üç boyutlu bir şekilde) yeni bir kompozisyon oluşturacak şekilde yapıştırılması anlamına gelmektedir (Eroğlu’ndan aktaran Kaplanoğlu, 2008, s. 97). Kolaj tekniği eski bir teknik olmasına karşın, sanatsal anlamda ilk olarak kübistler tarafından kullanılmıştır. Kolaj tekniği, modern resmin özsel anlamda yansıtılmasında düşünsel ve biçimsel açıdan önem taşımaktadır. Şair Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918) modern bir kent insanının yaşantısını anlatmak için kolajın önemli bir teknik olduğu görüşündedir. Özellikle Picasso’nun kolaj tekniği hem düşünsel açıdan hem de biçimsel açıdan sade bir biçimde modern resmin büyük oranda özelliklerini taşımaktadır. Düşünsel açıdan kolaj tekniği zihinsel dünya tasarımı olarak, biçimsel açıdan ise biçimsel yapının kavramı ve gerçekliği güçlendirmeye hizmet etmektedir. Picasso, kübist kolaj tekniği ile yaptığı 1912 – 13 tarihli Şişe, Bardak ve Keman adlı yapıtındaki kemanın bir bölümü, bir gazete parçasına ve resmin yüzeyi olan bir kağıda karakalemle çizilmiş, öteki bölümü de ahşap görünümlü bir biçimle yapıştırılarak oluşturulmuştur. Onun hemen yanında keman çizgilerini belirten başka bir gazete parçasının üzerinde bardak işareti vardır. Solda bulunan şişe ise bir gazeteden kesilmiş, “JOURNAL” sözcüğünün harfleri de ayrıca resme yapıştırılmıştır (Lynton, 2009). Bu bağlamda kolaj tekniği ile oluşturulan bu resimde sezinleme yoluyla da olsa fizik bilimi ile ilişki kurulduğu görülebilir. Şöyle ki; atomun parçalanması ve genel görelilik kuramı dünyanın gördüğümüz anlamda olmadığını bizlere göstermektedir. Böylelikle kolaj tekniği ile oluşturulan bireşimci kübist resimler sezgi ile de olsa modern fizikten etkilendiği düşünülmektedir. Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)80 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut Resim 2: Pablo Picasso, Şişe, Bardak ve Keman, 1912 - 13, Kolaj ve Karakalem, 47 x 62 cm, Modern Müze, Stockholm. Kolaj tekniğinin önemli uygulayıcılarından Kurt Schwitters (1887 – 1948), modern akımın en önemli yenilikçilerindendi. Buluşu olan “merzyapısı” resimden ve yontudan ayrı olan yeni bir sanat kategorisine doğru atılmış önemli bir adım olarak ifade edilebilir. Söz konusu “merzyapıları” uzamsal yanılsama olarak ifade edilen resim ile formların boşluk içinde kapladığı yerle ifade edilen yontudan ayrık olarak cisimlerin öz yapılarından gelen özelliklerle ilgili bir ifadedir. Merz, bu bağlamda yeni formları yeni biçimlendirme yöntemleriyle bir araya getirme olarak belirtilebilir (Thompson, 2014). Bu bağlamda dada içine de sokulabilen Schwitters, kolaj tekniğini öncü anlayışı için araç olarak kullandığı söylenebilir. Ressam, yapıtı ile bilinen resim anlayışını yıkarak, tepkisel olarak, gerçekliği karmaşa olarak yansıtmakta ve bilinen resmin gerçekliği yansıtmada eksik kalacağını vurgulamaktadır. Resim 3: Kurt Schwitters, Merz, Resim 12b, Aşk Planı, 1919 - 23, Kağıt Üzerine Karışık Teknik, 43 x 32,5 cm, Metropolitan Sanat Müzesi, New York. Max Ernst’in (1891 – 1976) kolaj tekniği, bir resim ya da bir çizime yapıştırılmış fotografik öğe, bir fotoğrafın üzerine eklenen resim ya da çizim öğesi, kesilip başka bir tabloya ya da resme yerleştirilmiş bir resim ve fotoğraf yoluyla anlaşılmaz kılınmış nesnelerden oluşmuş bir düzenlemenin yalın ve katıksız fotoğrafına dayanmaktadır (Aragon, 2015). Ernst, resim – romanlarında bilinen resme karşı savaş açarak yeni bir kurgusal dil oluşturuyordu. Bu bağlamda Ernst’in kolajlarının bilinçaltı kaynaklı bir gerçeklik peşinde olduğu söylenebilir. Modern resmin tüm bu bilgiler ışığında “gerçekliği yansıtma çabası güden ve bu çabası bağlamında düşünceyi güçlendirmek adına yeni malzemeler kullanan resim üretme etkinliği” olduğu ifade edilebilir. Kolaj tekniği de bu çabanın en göze çarpan yanıdır ve bu araştırmada da kullanılan temel modern sanat tekniğidir. Araştırmanın amacı, görsel sanatlar öğretmen adaylarının modern resmi algılamalarında, kolaj tekniğinin katkısını ortaya koymaktır. Araştırmanın alt problemleri şöyledir: 1. Etkinliğin, öğrencilerin modern resimden yararlanan çalışmalar üretmelerine etkisi ne olmuştur? 2. Etkinliğin, modern resim ile ilgili öğrencilerin farkındalık düzeylerine katkısı ne olmuştur? 3. Etkinliğin öğrencilerin kolaj tekniği ile ilgili farkındalıklarına katkısı ne olmuştur? Araştırmanın sınırlılıkları; zaman açısından, 2016 – 2017 eğitim – öğretim yılı ile, konu açısından çalışma grubunun Picasso’nun kolaj tekniği üzerine modern resim uygulamalarıyla, çalışma grubu açısından, Denizli ili, Pamukkale Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Resim – İş Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı anasanat atölye 3. sınıf 11 sayısı ile sınırlıdır. Yöntem Görsel sanatlar öğretmen adaylarının modern resmi algılamalarında, kolaj tekniğinin katkısını ortaya koymayı amaçlayan araştırma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden eylem araştırması biçiminde desenlenmiştir. Eylem Araştırması, bir program, örgüt ve topluluktaki özel 81Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması sorunsalları çözmeyi amaç edinir (Patton, 2014). Bu amaç ışığında eylem araştırması, bir okulda çalışan öğretmen, yönetici, eğitim uzmanı ya da başka kurumlarda çalışan mühendis, yönetici, planlamacı ve insan kaynakları uzmanı gibi bizzat uygulamanın içinde olan uygulayıcının doğrudan kendisinin ya da bir araştırmacı ile birlikte uygulama sürecine ilişkin sorunların ortaya çıkarılması ya da mevcut bulunan bir sorunu anlama ve çözüm bulmaya yönelik sistematik veri toplamayı ve analiz etmeyi içeren bir araştırma türüdür (Yıldırım ve Şimşek, 2013). Bu çalışmada eylem araştırmasının uygulanmasının nedeni öğrencilerle birebir etkileşim içinde olmak ve her ders sonunda onlardan dönüt almaktır. Çalışma Grubu Araştırma Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Resim – İş Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı’nda 2016 – 2017 Eğitim – Öğretim Yılı Bahar Dönemi 3.sınıf resim anasanat atölye dersinde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Resim anasanat atölye, Resim – İş Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı’nda anasanat atölye seçimleri sonunda yerleşen öğrencilerin 2., 3. ve 4. sınıflarda almak zorunda oldukları bir derstir. 3. sınıfta 2 saat kuramsal ve 4 saat uygulama olmak üzere toplam haftada 6 saat işlenen Resim anasanat atölye 4 kredilik bir derstir. Çalışmada, amaçlı örnekleme türlerinden durum örneklemesi kullanılmıştır. Bu örnekleme yöntemi araştırmaya hız kazandırmaktadır. Çünkü bu yöntemde araştırmacı erişilmesi kolay durumu seçer (Yıldırım ve Şimşek, 2013, s. 141). Çalışma grubu belirlenirken, her öğrencinin adları yerine kodlar kullanılmıştır. Bu kodlama, öğrencinin ilk üç harfi “ÖĞR” ile 1’den 11’e kadar olan sayıların birleştirilmesi biçiminde belirlenmiştir. Öğrencilerin, birinci öğrenciden on birinci öğrenciye kadar olan kodlamalarının örneği şöyledir: ÖĞR01, ÖĞR02, vb. Bu araştırmanın çalışma grubunu, 2016 – 2017 Eğitim Öğretim Yılı, 3. Sınıfta görülen anasanat atölye dersini alacak olan Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Resim – İş Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı öğrencileri oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmada öğrenciler arasında on bir kişiden oluşan gönüllü bir grup oluşturulmuş ve öğrenci günlükleri ve program değerlendirme formu yöntemleriyle bu öğrencilerden veri alınmıştır. Veri Toplama Araçları Nitel veri toplama araçları; öğrenci günlüğü, görüşme, çalışma grubunun tasarım uygulamalarını değerlendirme formu, program değerlendirme formu olarak belirlenmiştir. Öğrenci günlükleri, ders sonunda öğrencilere gönderilen bazı sorulara öğrencilerin verdikleri yanıtlardan oluşmaktadır. Görüşme, yapılandırılmış görüşme tekniği ile yürütülmüştür. Yapılandırılmış görüşme, araştırmacı tarafından belirlenmiş soruların ilgili kişiye kısa bir zaman içinde sorulmasıdır (Sönmez ve Alacapınar, 2013). Çalışma grubunun tasarım uygulamalarını değerlendirme formu (DPA), araştırmacı tarafından uzman görüşü alınarak oluşturulmuştur. DPA, öğrenci durumunun belirlenmesinde ve izlenmesinde kullanılan puanlama kılavuzu olarak tanımlanır (Goodrich’ten aktaran Parlak ve Doğan, 2014, s. 190). Program değerlendirme formu ise öğrencilere etkinlikle ilgili sorulan sorulardan oluşmaktadır. Verilerin Toplanması Tablo 1’de görüleceği üzere; uygulama sekiz hafta ile sınırlıdır. Uygulama 3.sınıf anasanat atölye VI dersinde atölye ortamında yürütülmüştür. Uygulama ortamı soldan ışık almaktadır. Atölyedeki şövaleler halka biçiminde dizilmiştir. Ayrıca atölyede yansıtım cihazı mevcuttur. Uygulama sonunda öğrencilerden, modern sanatı ifade edebilen yapıtlar ortaya koyabilmeleri beklenilmiştir. Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)82 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut Tablo: 1. Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Kolaj Tekniği Aracılığıyla Modern Resmi İfade Becerilerine Yönelik Olan Etkinlik Programı ETKİNLİK PROGRAMI DERSİN UYGULANACAĞI ÖĞRENCİ GRUBU Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü Resim – İş Öğretmenliği Anabilim Dalı Resim ASA 3. Sınıf Öğrencileri UYGULAMA SÜRESİ 8 Hafta HAFTALIK DERS UYGULAMA SÜRESİ Haftada 3 Ders Saati (İlk 6 hafta, haftada 3 saat kuramsal, son 2 hafta uygulamalı) DERSİN GENEL AMACI Öğrencilerin modern sanata, kolaj tekniği aracılığıyla düşünsel ve biçimsel olarak öykünmelerini sağlamak DERSİN GENEL ÖĞRENİM ÇIKTILARI Öğrenciler kolaj tekniği aracılığıyla modern sanatı yansıtan yapıtlar ortaya koyabileceklerdir. DERSİN YÖNTEMİ Kuramsal ve Uygulamalı UYGULAMA YÖNTEMİ Eylem araştırması yöntemlerine uygun olarak esnek, öğrenci performansı verileri doğrultusunda yenilenebilir haftalık çalışma dilimlerinin eğitsel düzenlemesi gerçek- leştirilecektir. Sekiz haftalık etkinlik programında öğrencilere ilk altı hafta sunu yoluyla kuramsal bilgi verilmiştir. Anlatılan kuramsal bilgiler modern sanatın düşünsel ve biçimsel temelleri, kolaj tekniğinin düşünsel ve biçimsel temelleri ve Picasso’nun kolaj tekniği ile modern resmin ilişkisi üzerinedir. Her ders sonunda öğrenciler öğrenci günlüklerini doldurmuşlardır. Dördüncü hafta işlenen ders sonunda bir “uygulama içi” çalışma ödevi yapmışlardır. Yedinci hafta “aydınlanma” konulu uygulama sonrası çalışması için eskiz çalışmadı yapmışlar, sekizinci hafta da uygulama sonu çalışmalarını yapmışlardır. Atrıca, sekizinci haftada program değerlendirme formunu doldurmuşlardır. Bunların yanında öğrencilerin uygulama öncesi, uygulama içi (4. Hafta) ve uygulama sonu ortaya koydukları aydınlanma konulu kolaj çalışmaları dereceli puanlama anahtarı ile değerlendirilmiştir. Geçerlikler, Lawshe Tekniği ile incelenmiştir. Lawshe Tekniği, altı aşamadan oluşmaktadır: alan uzmanlarının belirlenmesi, DPA formlarının hazırlanması, uzman görüşlerinin alınması, maddelere ilişkin kapsam geçerlik oranlarının ortaya konması, ölçeğe ilişkin kapsam geçerlik dizinlerinin elde edilmesi, kapsam geçerlik oranları dizini ölçütlerine göre gerçek formun oluşturulması (Lawshe’den aktaran, Yurdugül, 2005, s. 2). Tablo 2. Dereceli Puanlama Anahtarı (DPA) Güvenilirlik Sonuçları Uzman Araştırmacı Kendall’stau_b Uzman r 1,000 ,572** p . ,000 N 33 33 Araştırmacı r ,572** 1,000 p ,000 . N 33 33 Tablo 2 incelendiğinde dereceli puanlama anahtarı uzman ve araştırmacı değerlendir- mesine göre iki uygulayıcı arasındaki uyum katsayısı görülmektedir. bu doğrultuda iki uy- gulayıcı arasındaki uyum katsayısı .57 şeklinde belirlenmiştir. 83Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması Tablo 3. DPA Geçerlik Hesaplaması GEREKLİ YARARLI/YETERSİZ GEREKSİZ KAPSAM GEÇERLİK ORANI 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 5 1,00 3.Madde 5 1,00 4.Madde 5 1,00 5.Madde 5 1,00 6.Madde 5 1,00 7.Madde 5 1,00 8.Madde 5 1,00 9.Madde 5 1,00 10.Madde 5 1,00 Uzman Sayısı 5 Kapsam Geçerlik Dizini 1,00 Tablo 3 incelendiğinde dereceli puanlama anahtarının kapsam geçerlilik hesaplamaları görülecektir. Bu bağlamda toplam 5 uzmandan elde edilen kapsam geçerlilik dizini 1,00 şeklinde belirlenmiştir. Tablo 4. Öğrenci Günlüğü Geçerlik Hesaplaması KAZANIMLAR GEREKLİ YARARLI/YETERSİZ GEREKSİZ KAPSAM GEÇERLİK ORANI 1.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 4 1 0,60 2.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 5 1,00 3.Madde 5 1,00 4.Madde 5 1,00 5.Madde 5 1,00 3.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 4 1 0,60 4.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 4 1 0,60 5.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 4 1 0,60 6.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 7.Hafta 1.Madde 4 1 0,60 8.Hafta 1.Madde 5 1,00 1.Madde 4 1 0,60 Uzman Sayısı 5 Kapsam Geçerlik Dizini 0,80 Tablo 4 incelendiğinde öğrenci günlüklerinin kapsam geçerlilik değerinin ise 5 uzman doğrultusunda 0,8 şeklinde olduğunu söylemek mümkündür. Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)84 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut Tablo 5. Program Değerlendirme Formu Geçerlik Hesaplaması SORULAR GEREKLİ YARARLI/YETERSİZ GEREKSİZ KAPSAM GEÇERLİK ORANI 1.Madde 5 1,00 2.Madde 5 1,00 3.Madde 5 1,00 4.Madde 5 1,00 5.Madde 5 1,00 6.Madde 5 1,00 7.Madde 5 1,00 Uzman Sayısı 5 Kapsam Geçerlik Dizini 1,00 Tablo 5 incelendiğinde program değerlendirme formunun kapsam geçerliliğinim 1,00 olduğunu söylenebilir. Araştırmacı, uygulama sürecinin doğrudan yürütücüsü konumundadır. Uygulama ortamını düzenleme, sunu yöntemiyle kuramsal bilgi verme ve resim uygulamalarını araştırmacı doğrudan yürütmüştür. Verilerin Analizi Veriler çözümlenirken araştırmacı ve bir uzman, ayrı ayrı verileri çözümlemişlerdir. Öğrenci günlüğü ve program değerlendirme formunda araştırmacı ve bir uzmanın ortak betimsel analizleri yazılmıştır. DPA değerlendirmelerinde de yine aynı şekilde araştırmacı ve bir uzman öğrencilerin çalışmalarını değerlendirmiş ve iki değerlendirme tutarlı çıkmıştır. Bulgular Sekiz haftalık ders programı süresince öğrenci günlüklerinden edinilen veriler ışığında öğrencilerin modern resmin düşünsel ve biçimsel temelleri ve kolaj tekniği hakkında farkındalık edindikleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Edindikleri bu farkındalık yaptıkları resim çalışmalarına da yansımıştır. Etkinliğin Öğrencilerin Modernizmden Etkilenerek Resim Üretmelerine Etkisi Çalışma grubuna sekiz haftalık ders anlatımı öncesi, sırasında ve sonrasında “aydınlanma” konulu, Picasso’ya öykünecekleri biçimde kolaj çalışmaları yaptırılmıştır. Tablo 7’te de görüleceği gibi öğrencilerin UÖ (Uygulama Öncesi) zamanındaki çalışmalarının tamamı “BAŞARISIZ” iken, ÖĞR03 dışında diğer öğrencilerin Uİ (Uygulama İçi) ve US (Uygulama Sonrası) zamanlarındaki çalışmaları “BAŞARILI”dır. Söz konusu DPA sonuçları kolaj tekniği temelli ders programının öğrencilerin modern sanata öykünen çalışmalar ortaya koymalarında yararlı olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Uygulamadan altı ay sonra yapılan kalıcılık uygulaması sonucunda da ortaya konulan yapıtların yapılan DPA değerlendirmesi sonucunda kalıcı bir biçimde modern resmi ifade eden yapıtlar olduğu ortaya konulmuştur. Tablo 6. DPA Sonuçlarının Sınıflandırılması BAŞARISIZ VASAT BAŞARILI 0 – 0,99 1 – 1,99 2 – 3.00 Tablo 6’da görüleceği üzere DPA sonuçları “Başarısız”, “Vasat” ve “Başarılı” şeklinde sınıflandırılmıştır. 85Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması Tablo 7. Çalışma Grubunun Kolaj Uygulamalarını Değerlendirme Sonuçları ÖĞRENCİ KODU UYGULAMA ZAMANI PUANI BAŞARI DERECESİ ÖĞR01 UÖ 0,1 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR01 Uİ 2,5 BAŞARILI ÖĞR01 US 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR02 UÖ 0,0 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR02 Uİ 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR02 US 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR03 UÖ 0,0 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR03 Uİ 1,2 VASAT ÖĞR03 US 1,5 VASAT ÖĞR04 UÖ 0,0 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR04 Uİ 2,3 BAŞARILI ÖĞR04 US 2,4 BAŞARILI ÖĞR05 UÖ 0,6 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR05 Uİ 2,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR05 US 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR06 UÖ 0,1 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR06 Uİ 2,8 BAŞARILI ÖĞR06 US 2,8 BAŞARILI ÖĞR07 UÖ 0,7 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR07 Uİ 2,9 BAŞARILI ÖĞR07 US 2,8 BAŞARILI ÖĞR08 UÖ 0,0 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR08 Uİ 2,6 BAŞARILI ÖĞR08 US 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR09 UÖ 0,0 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR09 Uİ 2,9 BAŞARILI ÖĞR09 US 2,9 BAŞARILI ÖĞR10 UÖ 0,6 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR10 Uİ 2,5 BAŞARILI ÖĞR10 US 3,0 BAŞARILI ÖĞR11 UÖ 0,5 BAŞARISIZ ÖĞR11 Uİ 2,9 BAŞARILI ÖĞR11 US 2,9 BAŞARILI DPA ölçümünün yanında bu çalışmada öğ- renci günlükleri ve program değerlendirme formu de kullanılmıştır. Öğrencilerin günlük- lere verdikleri yanıtlar “kolaj tekniği öğretim etkinliğinin onların bakış açılarını, imgelem güçlerini, eleştirel becerilerini geliştirdiği ve yaratıcılıklarını arttırdığı yönündedir. Etkinliğin Modern Resmin Biçimsel ve Dü- şünsel Yapısına Yönelik Farkındalığa Katkısı Modern resmin düşünsel ve biçimsel yapı- sı temasına bağlı olarak öğrencilere günlük formlarında 20.02.2017 tarihinde “İşlenen dersin modern sanatın düşünsel temellerine yönelik olarak farkındalığınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?”, 27.02.2017 tarihinde “İşlenen ders, modern sanat ile klasik sanat arasındaki biçimsel farklılığa yönelik farkındalığınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?” ve yine aynı ta- rihte “İşlenen ders, modern sanat ile klasik Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)86 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut sanat arasındaki biçimsel farklılığa yönelik farkındalığınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?” sorusu sorulmuştur. Öğrencilerin verdikleri yanıtlardan vurgulu olanlar seçilmiş ve aşağıda sıralanmıştır. Alıntı 1: ÖĞR04, 20.02.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR04 kodlu öğrenci, modern sanat ve felsefenin iç içe olduğunun ayırtına vardığını ifade etmiştir. Bu bağlamda modern resmin felsefe ile derin ilişkisinin önemini kavradığı ifade edilebilir. Alıntı 2: ÖĞR04, 27.02.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR04 kodlu öğrenci, modern sanatın klasik sanattan farklı olarak düşünce-kavram ressamlığı olduğunun ayırtına vardığını ifade etmiştir. Bu bağlamda ÖĞR04 kodlu öğrencinin modern resmin düşünsel ve biçimsel yapısı hakkında belirli bir farkındalığa vardığını ifade edebiliriz. Alıntı 3: ÖĞR07, 27.02.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR07 kodlu öğrenci, modern sanatın biçimsel yapısını “doğanın kavram-düşünce” hizmetinde olduğunu ifade ederek biçimsel yapı hakkında farkındalığını ifade etmiştir. Öğrencilerin 10.04.2017 tarihinde bireysel görüşmelerdeki “Gördüğünüz derslerin Modern sanatın düşünsel ve biçimsel yapısına yönelik farkındalığınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?” sorusuna verdikleri yanıtlar aşağıdaki gibidir. Daha yaratıcı düşünmemi sağladı. Özgünlüğüme katkı sağladı. Alıntı 4: ÖĞR03, 10.04.2017, Bireysel Görüşme ÖĞR03 kodlu öğrenci söz konusu derslerin yaratıcılığına ve özgünlüğüne katkı sağladığını ifade etmiştir. Daha farklı düşünmemi sağladı. Bence modern sanatın bi- çimsel yapısı daha düşündürücü, yorumlamaya daha çok açık. Düşünsel yapısı düşünceyi yansıtmaya yönelik. Alıntı 5: ÖĞR07, 10.04.2017, Bireysel Görüşme ÖĞR07 kodlu öğrenci, modern sanata daha farklı bakmaya başladığını ve düşünsel yapısının zihinselliği yansıtma çerçevesinde olduğunun ayırtına vardığını ifade etmiştir. 87Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması Evet oldu diyebilirim. Çünkü bir resme baktığımda onu o şekilde incelemiyordum. Direk bana ne hissettirdiğini bakıyordum. Hisset- tirmiyorsa “ya bu ne?” diyebiliyordum. Ama artık biçimsel olarak da teknik ve malzeme hakkında farkındalığım arttı. Alıntı 6: ÖĞR11, 10.04.2017, Bireysel Görüşme ÖĞR11 kodlu öğrenci, modern resmin malzeme kullanımı ve düşünsel yapısı hakkındaki farkındalığının arttığını ifade etmiştir. Etkinliğin Kolaj Tekniğine Yönelik Farkındalığa Katkısı Picasso’nun kolaj tekniği ve imgelem gücü temasına bağlı olarak öğrencilere günlük formunda 20.03.2017 tarihinde “İşlenen dersin Picasso’nun kolaj anlayışına yönelik farkındalığınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?” sorusu sorulmuştur. Bu soruya günlük formlarında verilen yanıtlardan seçilenler aşağıdaki gibidir. Alıntı 6: ÖĞR01, 20.03.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR01 kodlu öğrenci kolaj tekniğinin düşünce ve içsellik yansıtımı olduğunu ifade etmiştir. Bunun yanında kolaj tekniğinin düşünceyi yansıtmada önemli bir araç olduğunun ayırtında olduğu verdiği yanıtlardan anlaşılmaktadır. Alıntı 7: ÖĞR02, 20.03.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR02 kodlu öğrenci 20.03.2017 tarihli etkin- lik programında, Picasso’nun kolaj anlayışını etkinlik programından sonra daha iyi kavradı- ğını ifade etmiştir. Alıntı: 8. ÖĞR03, 20.03.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü Pamukkale University Journal of Education, Number 43 (January 2018/I)88 Görkem Utku Alparslan, Ümran Bulut ÖĞR03 kodlu öğrenci, 20.03.2017 tarihli etkinlik programında Picasso’nun kolaj tekniğini öğrendiğini ve bu öğrendiklerinin kendisinin resim yapma etkinliğini etkilediğini ifade etmiştir. Alıntı 9: ÖĞR07, 20.03.2017, Öğrenci Günlüğü ÖĞR07 kodlu öğrenci, Picasso’nun kolaj tekniğinin imgelem gücünü zenginleştiren bir araç olduğunu ifade etmiştir. Öğrencilere program değerlendirme formunda 10.04.2017 tarihinde “Programın sizlerin modern sanatı biçimsel ve düşünsel açıdan kavramanıza etkisi olmuş mudur? Neden?” ve aynı tarihte “Programın modern sanata yönelik eleştirel bakışınıza ne gibi bir etkisi olmuştur?” soruları sorulmuştur. Eleştirellik, yaratıcılık ve özgünlük temalarına bağlı olarak verilen yanıtlardan seçilenler aşağıdaki gibidir. Alıntı 10: ÖĞR04, 10.04.2017, Program Değerlendirme Formu ÖĞR04 kodlu öğrenci, düşünsel açıdan daha eleştirel ve özgün yapıtlar yapmaya başladığını ifade etmiştir. Alıntı 11: ÖĞR05, 10.04.2017, Program Değerlendirme Formu ÖĞR05 kodlu öğrenci, etkinlik programının eleştirel bakışını geliştirdiğini ifade etmiştir. Yukarıdaki ifadeler göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, öğrencilerin modern resmin biçimsel ve düşünsel yapısına yönelik farkındalıkları artmıştır. Öğrenciler Picasso’nun kolaj tekniğine yönelik artan farkındalıklarının imgelem güçlerini arttırdığını ifade etmişler, bunların yanında işlenen derslerin, eleştirel, yaratıcı ve özgünlük yönlerine katkı sağladığını belirtmişlerdir. Tartışma Araştırmanın amacı, görsel sanatlar öğretmen adaylarının modern resmi algılamalarında, kolaj tekniğinin katkısını ortaya koymaktır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda yapılan çalışmada, kolaj tekniği temelli atölye etkinliğinin; öğrencilerin eleştirellik, yaratıcılık ve özgünlük yönlerini geliştirdiği yönünde dönütler alınmıştır. Araştırmanın birinci amaç sorusuna yönelik bulgularda öğrencilerin etkinlik sonunda, modern resme yönelik algılama ve yansıtma becerileri kazandıkları ortaya çıkmıştır. Araştırmanın ikinci amaç sorusuna ilişkin bulgulardan çıkan sonuç, öğrencilerin modern resmin düşünsel ve biçimsel boyutlarına yönelik farkındalığın arttığına yöneliktir. Araştırmanın üçüncü amaç sorusuna ilişkin bulgulardan çıkan sonuç ise öğrencilerin kolaj tekniği ile ilgili farkındalıklarının arttığı yönündedir. Bunların yanında işlenen derslerin genel olarak; imgelem güçlerine, yaratıcılıklarına ve eleştirel becerilerine katkı sağladığını ifade etmişlerdir. 89Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması Kolaj tekniği ve modern resim konusunda alan yazın incelemesi yaptığımızda Erdoğan’ın (2007) ve Yaşar’ın (2014) çalışmaları dikkat çekmektedir. Erdoğan, ilköğretim okullarında kolaj tekniğinin eğitime katkısını araştırdığı çalışmasında kolaj tekniğinin yaratıcılığa ve özgünlüğe katkı sağladığını savunmuştur. Bu çalışma, Erdoğan’ın çalışmasıyla bu açıdan örtüşmektedir. Yaşar ise çalışmasında görsel sanatlarda anlatım biçimi olarak kolaj tekniğinin Yunan mitolojisinden Musalara öykünmeye etkisini araştırmıştır. Çalışmasında kolaj tekniğinin anlatımı güçlendirici etkisi olduğunu ortaya koymuştur. Bu çalışma da Yaşar’ın çalışmasında olduğu gibi, modern anlatımı güçlendirici bir araç olarak kolaj tekniğini görmektedir. Modern resim, sanatın geçirdiği evrimin bir sonucudur. Bu evrimin toplumsal, felsefi, bilimsel vb. kaynakları vardır. Söz konusu evrim, sanat tekniklerinde de evrime yol açmıştır. Kolaj tekniği de bu evrimin sonucudur. Bu teknik ile yapılan resimler modern resmin kavranmasına yardımcı olmaktadır. Bu bağlamda modern resmi özgürleşen ifade yoluyla gerçekliği yansıtma çabası olarak ifade edebilir, kolaj tekniğini bu yansıtma çabasının önemli bir aracı olarak ele alabiliriz. Kolaj tekniği ve modern resim arasındaki düşünsel ve biçimsel bağ hakkında kapsamlı bir çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Yalnızca modern resim ya da yalnızca kolaj tekniği üzerine çalışmalar bulunmaktadır. Bir sanat çağı olan modernizm ile bir teknik olan kolajın aralarındaki önemli bağlar bulunmaktadır. Bu bağların sanat eğitimine katkısı önemsenmesi gereken bir olgudur. Bu araştırma söz konusu durumu ortaya çıkarmaya çalışmıştır. Söz konusu çalışma; kolaj tekniğinin, öğrencilerin eleştirel becerilerini geliştirdiği gibi, özgünlüklerine, hayal güçlerine ve yaratıcılıklarına katkı sağlamakta olduğunu göstermektedir. Bunun yanında uygulama etkinliğinin, öğrencilerin modern resmi ifade etmelerine önemli katkı sağladığı ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu katkı DPA ile ortaya konmuştur. Sonuç olarak kolaj tekniği temelli Anasanat Atölye öğretiminin öğrencilerin modern resme öykünen yapıtlar ortaya koymasında etkin olduğu görülmektedir. Ayrıca kolaj tekniğinin, çalışma grubunun eleştirel bakış ve imgelem gücü gibi becerilerine olumlu katkı sağladığı izlenmiştir. Modern resim ile kolaj tekniği arasındaki sağlam ilişki, modern resme sanat eğitimi gören öğrencilerin öykünmesini sağlamada dikkate alınması gereken bir olgudur. Bu bağlamda lisans öğrenimini gören öğretmen adaylarının anasanat atölye derslerinde kolaj tekniğinden yararlanmaları önem arz etmektedir. 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Ölçek geliştirme çalışmalarında kapsam geçerliği için kapsam geçerlik indekslerinin kullanılması. XIV. Ulusal Eğitim Bilimleri Kongresi. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi. Denizli. Summary Introduction The XIX and XX Centuries became a century of great change and transformations in science, philosophy, production relations, and social structures. These changes and transformations also seriously affected the art. This transformation demolished the classical concept of art, revealing a whole new form of understanding. This formal understanding is, of course, not independent of thought. Intellectual storms in the world led to serious breaks in art. A period of thought and concept painting in the art has begun. Cubism has created a real break in modern art. Known natural object imitation is fragmented. Cubism is the most important phase of this fragmentation. In Cubism, the image is reconstructed by the artist, based on thought. While analytic Cubism shreds the image, synthetic cubism creates a new whole from the pieces. The collage technique, one of the main artistic techniques of the synthetic cubism movement, is an understanding of creating a new form by combining various pieces of paper or newspaper. Its predecessors are Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1963) and Georges Braque (1882 - 1963). From 1912 Picasso started to print fabrics and paper on his paintings. The fact that collage becomes so active in XX.th century is the widespread use of mass cultural products such as newspapers, posters, postcards. The technique of collage is a technique that is like a quotation from the point of view of modern painting and intellectual and formal. It is expressed by Louis Aragon, who reflects the modern image of the collage. Therefore, this technique is important for students who are studying arts to adopt modern art. Methodology The research aimed to measure the “effect of the collage technique in improving the skills of the students in painting education to improve modern picture-painting skills” was designed in the form of research on action from qualitative research methods. Research T.R. Pamukkale University Faculty of Education, Fine Arts Education Department of Art Education Department in 2016 - 2017 Academic Year, 3rd Year Painting Workshop was held on the course. The study group of 91Pamukkale Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, Sayı 43 (Ocak 2018/I) Görsel Sanatlar Öğretmen Adaylarının Modern Resmi Algılamalarında Kolaj Tekniğinden Yararlanılması: Eylem Araştırması this research is composed of students from Pamukkale University Fine Arts Education Department Painting Education Department who will take the “Art Workshop” course seen in the 2016 - 2017 Education Year, 3rd Class. In the study, a group of eleven volunteers was formed and data were collected from these students by the method of student diaries. Findings The study group was given collage work on “enlightenment” before, during and after the eight-week lecture in a way that would emulate Picasso. As can be seen in Table 3, all of the students’ “Pre-Practice” time-outs are “FAILED”, while the other students in the “In-Practice” and “Post-Practice” times are “SUCCESSFULL”. The rubric results suggest that collage technique based course observation is useful for students to demonstrate empirical studies on modern art. In addition to rubric measurement, qualitative data collection tools such as student logs and weekly course evaluation form were also used in this study. The responses of the students to the diary; the collage technique has developed their gaze, imagination, critical skills, and creativity. Discussion The work of Erdoğan (2007) and Yaşar (2014) is remarkable when we examine the literature in the field of collage technique and modern painting. Erdoğan argued that collage technique contributed to creativity and originality in his study of primary education schools in the educational contribution of collage technique. This study overlaps with Erdoğan’s work in this respect. Yaşar investigated the effect of collage technique as a form of narration in visual arts in his work on fictional emulation of Greek mythology. In his work, he revealed that the collage technique is the empowering effect of narration. This work sees the collage technique as a means of reinforcing modern expression, as it is in Yaşar’s work. As a result, it is seen that the mainstream workshop based on the collage technique is effective for the students to reveal the emulate modern paintings. It has also been observed that the collage technique contributes positively to the working group such as critical vision and imagination. In addition to this, it is determined by the fact that this technique is written by the students in the diary, which makes it beneficial for the creativity and access to the material of the students. Thus, this is the technique that will contribute to the creativity of low income students. work_7o5vcdq4frblpbcmzvgvtuh5nq ---- DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 263 www.ulakbilge.com 20. YÜZYIL RESİM VE HEYKELLERİNİN YUNAN MİTOLOJİSİ VE İKİCİLİK KAVRAMI AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİNE YÖNELİK BİR ARAŞTIRMA Gül ERBAY ASLITÜRK1, Ecem KÜÇÜKGÜNEY2 ÖZ Mitoloji düşünüldüğünde, akla ilk gelen Yunan mitolojisidir. Yunan mitolojisi ile ilgili konular; tuvalde ve heykelde yüzlerce yıllık bir geçmişe sahiptir. Bu anlamda literatür tarandığında; Yunan mitolojisi içeriğine sahip resim ve heykellerin, zihin felsefesinin alt kollarından biri olan ikicilik (dualizm) kavramı yönünden incelenmediği görülmüştür. Bu yüzden çalışmada; Yunan mitolojisinin betimlendiği resim ve heykeller, 20. yüzyıl ile sınırlandırılarak, ikicilikleri yönünden ele alınmıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı; 20. yüzyıl resim ve heykel sanatında, Yunan mitolojisi kahramanlarının yer aldığı eserleri inceleyerek, ikiciliğin olduğu eserleri değerlendirmektir. Çalışma yöntemi olarak; ikicilik kavramı, mitoloji ve Yunan mitolojisi ile ilgili doküman incelemesi ve literatür taraması yapılmıştır. Yunan mitolojisi içerikli resim ve heykeller, müze koleksiyonlarından ve özel koleksiyonlardan araştırılarak deskripsiyonları hakkında bilgi toplanmıştır. Envanter çalışması yapılarak eserler kronolojik sıralandırılmıştır. Çalışmada altı heykel, on tablo ve bir de duvar freski olmak üzere toplam onyedi eser irdelenmiştir. Bu eserlerde ikiciliğin varlığı analiz edilerek, çalışma; resim ve heykele konu olan ikiciliğin, insan yaşamının bir parçası olduğunun vurgulanmasıyla sonlandırılmıştır. Anahtar kelimeler: Yunan mitolojisi, 20. yüzyıl resim ve heykel sanatı, ikicilik 1Yrd. Doç. Dr. Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Turizm Fakültesi, Aydın, gerbay(at)adu.edu.tr 2Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Turizm İşletmeciliği Anabilim Dalı Yüksek Lisans öğrencisi, gnyecem(at)gmail.com Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 264 AN INVESTIGATION ON DUALISM IN 20TH CENTURY PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY ABSTRACT When considering mythology, Greek mythology is the first that comes into mind. The history of Greek mythology is written on sculptures and canvas for hundreds of years. A literature review on paintings and sculptures of Greek mythology reveals absence of mind dualism, a sub-branch of Greek phylosophy. This study concentrates on the dualism aspect of the 20th century paintings and sculptures about Greek mythology. Specifically, works of art which include heroes of Greek mythology were examined in respect to dualism. As working method; document analysis and review of the literature were conducted about dualism, mythology and Greek mythology. Greek mythology paintings and sculptures from museum and private collections were investigated and their description were gathered. An inventory of the works were made in which they were listed chronologically. As a result of this study, seventeen art works were examined: six sculptures, ten paintings and a wall fresco. These works were analyzed for the presence of dualism. This study concluded with emphasis that dualism as described in paintings and sculptures are part of human life. Keywords: Greek mythology, 20th century painting and sculpture art, dualism Erbay Aslıtürk, Gül. Küçükgüney, Ecem.“20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma”. ulakbilge 4. 8 (2016): 263-298. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 265 www.ulakbilge.com Giriş Mitoloji sözcüğü ‘myth’ ve ‘logia’ sözcüklerinin bir araya gelmesiyle oluşmuştur. Mtyh; söylenen söz, anlatılan hikâye anlamlarına gelirken, logos; bilim ve akıl anlamındadır (Tökel, 2000:5-6). Mitoloji ise ‘’mitoslar bilgisi, mitosların sistemli bir şekilde toplamı’’ demektir (Necatigil,1973:7). Mitoloji, bilimin henüz olmadığı zamanlarda, olayları açıklayamayan toplumların gerçek ile hayali harmanlayarak yarattıkları, evrenin yaradılışı ve sonu, tanrılar ve insanlarla ilgili olağandışı tüm öyküleri inceleyen bilim dalı şeklinde tanımlanmaktadır (Kaya, 2003:19). Mitolojilerdeki kişiler, doğaüstü varlıklardır ve temsil ettikleri nitelikleri ile tanınırlar. Mitoloji; insanların, etrafındaki olayların sebebini araştırmaya sevk eden içgüdüsel bir ihtiyaçtan doğmuştur. Yaşanılan bir geçmişin betimlenmesi ile ortaya çıkmaktadır (Köktan, 2014:262). Şefik Can’a göre her milletin kendine göre bir mitolojisi vardır. Bunlar Türk, Mısır, Hint, İran, Yunan vb. şeklinde örneklendirilebilir. Bu sayılan ulusların içerisinde, en çok incelenmiş ve üzerinde en çok fikir yorulan, Yunan mitolojisidir (Can, 2015:17). Yunan Mitolojisi, Eski Yunan’da oluşmuş mit ve öykülerden meydana gelen, tanrılar, tanrıçalar ve kahramanlar hakkındaki hikâyelerden oluşan, sözlü edebiyatla destanlaştırılmış ve yaygınlaşmış mitoloji şeklinde tanımlanmaktadır. Çalışmada, Yunan mitolojisi içeriği taşıyan 20. Yüzyıl resimleri ve heykelleri, ikicilik ile değerlendirilmiştir. Zihin felsefesinin inceleme alanlarından biri olan ikiciliği açıklamadan önce, zihin felsefesini tanımlamak gerekmektedir. Zihin felsefesi; zihin, zihinsel olaylar, zihinsel işlevler, zihinsel özellikler, bilinç ve bunların fiziksel beden ile özellikle de beyin ile ilişkisini inceleyen felsefenin alt araştırma koludur. Bedenin zihinle ilişkisi bakımından zihin-beden sorunu, zihnin doğası ve onun fiziksel bedenle ilişkili olup olmadığı gibi başka sorunlara rağmen, zihin felsefesinin odağında yer alan bir sorun olarak görülmektedir. İkicilik (dualizm) ve tekçilik (monizm) zihin-beden sorununun çözümüne yönelik ortaya çıkan iki büyük düşünce akımıdır (Schaffer, 2005’den akt. Beyaz, 2014:3). Zihin felsefesinin çözümüne yönelik akımlar içinde yer alan ikicilik; Hançerlioğlu’na göre, herhangi bir alanda birbirlerine indirgenemeyen iki karşıt ilkenin varlığını ileri sürmektir (Hançerlioğlu, 1985:32). Bayraktar’a göre ise ikicilik; birbirinden bağımsız, birbirinden farklı, birbirine dönüştürülemeyen, yan yana ya da birbirinin karşısında olan iki ilkeden bahseden, felsefi görüş olarak tanımlanmaktadır (Bayraktar, 2003:30). Hançerlioğlu; ikiciliğin, temelde tanrılık yer (Öte dünya) ile insanlık yer (Dünya) ayrımından oluşan, dinsel ikicilikten yansımış olduğunu ileri sürmektedir (Hançerlioğlu, 1985:38). İkicilik ile ilgili olan temel çalışma alanları teoloji (tanrıbilim) ve felsefedir. Dinsel alanda ikicilik, güçlüler ve güçsüzler yanında iyilik ve kötülük karşıtlığına http://www.mitolojitarihi.com/2014/01/mit-nedir.html https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahraman Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 266 dayanmaktadır. Ölümsüz ruh inancıda ikicilik ile uyum içerisindedir (Beyaz, 2014:19). Hançerlioğlu, Sümerlerin yer ve gök tanrılarını, Eski Mısır’ın iyilikçi ve kötülükçü tanrılarını, İran’ın aydınlık ve karanlık ilkelerini bu karşıt ikiliklerin dile getirilmesi şeklinde ifade etmiştir (Hançerlioğlu, 1985:38). Hıristiyanlıkta, monofizit ve diofizit olarak görüş ayrılığına giden kiliselerden, diofizit görüşü savunanlar ikicilik kavramı içinde yer almaktadır. Çünkü diofizitler, monofizitlerin İsa’nın tek tabiatta birleştiği görüşünü reddeder. Onlara göre İsa, hem tanrı hem de insandır. Felsefede ikicilik; bilginin kaynağını ve doğasını tartışan bir dal olarak değerlendirilmektedir. Felsefe alanında ilk ikici, antik çağ Yunan düşünürü Anaxagaros (M.Ö 500- 428)’tur. Anaxagaros (M.Ö 500-428), varlık ile ruhu birbirinden ayırmış ve sonsuza kadar da birbirlerinden ayrı olarak kalacaklarını ifade etmiştir (Hançerlioğlu, 1985:38). Efesli Heraklitus (M.Ö 535-475)’a göre karşıtların savaşı, var olmak için zorunludur ve bu da tek koşuldur. Ona göre evren zıt elementlerden oluşmaktadır. Leicippus (M.Ö 450 civarında)’a göre her şey zorunlu olarak bir sebeple meydana gelmiştir. Varlık olduğu gibi yokluk da vardır. Yokluk, varlığın kaçınılmaz olan şartıdır. Sokrates (M.Ö 469-399), iyi ve kötü kavramları ile ilgili söylemler oluşturmuştur. Bu kavramların ruhta olduğunu savunmuştur. Platon (M.Ö 427-347) ruh ve beden ayrılığına temel oluşturmuştur. Platon (M.Ö 427-347)’a göre bedene karşıt olarak ortaya atılan ruh ölümsüzdür ve idealar dünyasından gelmektedir; bedene hapsolan ruh ölümle birlikte bedenden ayrılıp tekrar idealar dünyasına dönecektir. Aristoteles (M.Ö 384-322) ruh ve beden ikilisiyle ilgili, ruhun form, bedenin ise madde olduğunu söylemiştir (Kuriş, 2008:5). Aristoteles’den sonra bir süre duraklamaya giren felsefi gelişim, 17. yüzyıla kadar Plotinus (M.S 204-270), St. Augustinus (M.S 354-430) ve St. Thomas (1225-1274)’ın ruh ve beden hakkında düşünceleri ile devam etmiştir (Kuriş, 2008:6). 17. yüzyıla gelindiğinde Fransız düşünürü Descartes (1596-1650), karşımıza çıkar (Cevizci, 2001:41). Ona göre evrendeki bütün gerçekler, birbirine indirgenemeyen zihin - beden veya ruh - madde ikiliğinde toplamıştır (Altuner, 2013:58). Descartes (1596-1650)’ın ortaya koyduğu şekliyle ruh, bedenden tamamıyla ayrıdır ve beden var olmasa dahi ruh var olmaya devam eder. Leibniz (1646-1716) de ruh-beden ilişkisine katılarak dualist bir tutum sergilemiştir. Leibniz (1646-1716)’in ikiciliği, Descartes (1596-1650)’ın ikiciliğinden farklı olarak ruh ve beden arasındaki etkileşime değil, ruh ve beden paralelliğine dayanmaktadır. Düşüncelerini ikicilik üzerine oluşturmuş diğer bir filozof Henri Bergson (1859-1941)’dur (Aslıtürk, 2013). Bergson (1859-1941)’a göre ruhsal olgularla fiziksel olgular arasında, her basamakta karşılıklı bir ilişki bulunur (Timuçin, 2000:133). Katmanlı bir yapı ile ruh anlayışını dile getiren Bergson (1859- 1941)’un bu yaklaşımında, madde ve ruh birbirine indirgenemez gerçeklerdir. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 267 www.ulakbilge.com İkiciler; dualiteyi akıl ve bedenle sınırlandırmışlardır (Robinson, 1935’den akt. Aslıtürk, 2013). Maddenin karşısında birde ruhsal yapı olduğunu kabul ederler, bu yüzden ikicilerin tümü düşüncecidir yani idealisttir (Hançerlioğlu, 1985:38). İkicilik Çerçevesinde Ele Alınan Resim ve Heykeller 20. yüzyıl resim ve heykel sanatında Yunan mitolojisi içeriği taşıyan eserler, kronolojik sıra ile yer almaktadır. Eserlerin, mitolojik öyküleri anlatılarak, ikicilikleri yönünden değerlendirmeleri yapılmıştır. Eros ve Psyche Eros ve Psyche, Yunan mitolojisinin aşk kahramanlarıdır. Eros (aşk), Aphrodite’in oğludur. Taşıdığı oklarla ve sırtında kanatlarıyla tasvir edilir. Oklarını atarak tanrıların ve insanların kalbinde aşk ateşini yakar. Psyche (ruh) ise güzelliği ile Aphrodite’e benzetilen bir ölümlüdür. Onun güzelliğini duyan Aphrodite, oğlunu çağırarak: - Eros, oğlum, yapılacak bazı şeylerim var, bana yardım edeceğinden eminim. Bazı erkekler, benim güzelliğimle ölümlü bir kızın güzelliğini karşılaştırıyorlar. Oğlum, git; güzellikte bana eş saydıkları o kızın kalbini yarala ve onu dünyanın en çirkin erkeğine âşık et, der. Eros, annesinin isteği üzerine Psyche’nin yanına gider, kalbini yaralamak için okunu atmak üzere iken, onun güzelliğine hayran olur. Psyche’yi başkasına âşık etmek isterken kendisi âşık olur. Eros, Psyche’yi çok güzel ve ıssız bir saraya götürür. Geceleri sevgilisinin yanına gelerek hoş zamanlar geçirir. Psyche, sevgilisinin yüzünü aydınlıkta göremediği için tedirgindir. Eros’dan yüzünü göstermesini ister. Eros ona: - Aşkımızın sırrını kalbinde sakladığın sürece mutlu olacaksın; beni görmeyi aklından bile geçirme, benim kim olduğumu öğrenme. Bilmeden sev beni. Senden gizlenen şeyleri öğrenmeye çalışarak kendini ıstırap ateşi ile yakma, mutluluğunu bozma, diyerek cevap verir. Fakat Psyche bir gün kız kardeşlerinin söylemlerinden etkilenerek, sevgilisinin yüzünü görmeye karar verir. Eros, gece geldiğinde onun uyumasını bekler. Eros uyuyunca, sakladığı lambayı alarak onun yüzüne doğru tutar. Tarif edilemeyecek derecede güzel olan sevgilisini görünce, aşkı daha da alevlenir ve onu öpmek ister. Eğilirken elindeki lamba kayarak, içinden akan yağ Eros’un omzuna damlar. Eros, uyanır uyanmaz oradan kaybolur. Pscyhe gözyaşlarına boğulur. Tekrar bulurum umuduyla dünyayı dolaşmaya başlar. Bitkin halde, Eros’u kendisine göstereceğini sanarak Aphrodite’nin sarayına gider. Fırsatı değerlendiren Aphrodite onu kölesi yapar. Psyche her şeye katlanır. Eros kendisine bu derece bağlı sevgilisini kurtarmak için Olympos’a giderek baştanrı Zeus’a yalvarır. Psyche’nin kendisine eş olarak verilmesini ister. Zeus bu isteği kabul Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 268 ederek Psyche’nin Olympos dağına getirilmesini emreder. Olympos dağına gelen Pscyce ve sevgilisi Eros, tanrılar huzurunda evlenirler (Kozanoğlu, 1992:26-28). Eros ve Psyche tablosu, dışavurumculuk akımının en önemli temsilcilerinden olan, Norveçli Ressam Edvard Munch (1863-1944) tarafından, 1907 yılında yapılmıştır. Resim 1: Edvard Munch (1863-1944), Eros ve Psyche, 1907 Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway 119,5 x 99 cm, Tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.edvard-munch.com/gallery/love/amor&psyche.htm Yunan mitolojisinin aşk kahramanları Eros (aşk) ve Psyche (ruh), Edvard Munch (1863-1944)’ın eserine konu olmuştur. Eser, renkli çizgisel dokunuşların, kadın ve erkek figürlerini ortaya çıkarmasıyla oluşturulmuştur. Hikâyede Eros, kanatlı olarak betimlenmektedir. Fakat resimde, kanatlı haliyle görülmemektedir. Böylece eserde, fiziksel özelliklere vurgu yapılmadığını söyleyebiliriz. Eserde göze çarpan tek nokta, bakışlarla hissettirilen sevgidir. Sevgiyi yansıtan kadın ve erkek, resimdeki ikiciliği meydana getirmektedir. Hikâyeye göre; Psyche’nin, Eros’un yüzünü görmesiyle ayrılan âşıklar bir zaman sonra tekrar kavuşurlar. Böylece aşk, ruhun sonsuza kadar yoldaşı olur. Ayrılığın meydana getirdiği hüzün, kavuşmanın meydana getirdiği mutluluk, hikâyedeki ikicilik kurgusuna atıf oluşturmaktadır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 269 www.ulakbilge.com Hera Kronos ve Rheia’nın üç kız (Hestia, Demeter, Hera), üç erkek (Hades, Poseidon, Zeus) olmak üzere, altı tane çocuğu olur. Kronos’un büyük kızı ve Zeus’un kız kardeşi olan Hera aynı zamanda Zeus’un da karısıdır. Zeus ıssız bir yerde dolaşan Hera’yı, guguk kuşu şekline girerek kendisiyle evlenmeye razı eder. Bu evlilik, iki kardeş ve iki tanrısal varlığın birleşmesidir. Hera, kocasının kölesi olmaz. İlahi otoriteyi kocasıyla birlikte sağlar. O, Olympos’ta oturan bütün tanrıçaların en güzeli, en hürmet gösterileni ve en büyüğüdür. Onun hiddeti, kocası Zeus’un hiddeti gibi korkunçtur. Sinirlendiği zaman bütün Olympos’u titretir. Zeus’un çapkınlıklarına rağmen Hera, hiddet ve kıskançlıktan deliye dönse de kocasına hep sadık kalmıştır. Bu yönüyle tanrıça Hera; evlilik tanrıçası, evli kadınların ve evlilik bağının temsilcisidir (Agızza, 2006:36). Hera, 1929 yılında Dadaizm’in ve Sürrealizm’in en önemli temsilcilerinden sayılan Fransız ressam, heykeltıraş, grafik sanatçısı ve yazar Francis Picabia (1879- 1953) tarafından yapılmış bir tablodur. Resim2: Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Hera, 1929 Özel Koleksiyon, Paris 103,4 x 74,9 cm, mukavva üzerine yağlı boya, guaş boya, karakalem Kaynak:http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/francis-picabia-hera-5532312- details.aspx Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 270 Francis Picabia (1879-1953)’nın tablosu Hera, şeffaf olarak betimlenen figürlerden oluşmaktadır. Tek bir sanat eseri yaratılması için üç ayrı görüntü ve farklı duygu ifadeleri kullanılmıştır. Hera’nın; hem tanrıça, hem Zeus’un eşi, hem de Zeus’un kız kardeşi olması üç ayrı yüz ifadesini açıklıyor olabilir. Şeffaf ve ışık geçirgen olarak resmedilen Hera görüntüleri dışında görülen erkek figürünün de, Zeus olduğunu söyleyebiliriz. Yüzlerin arkasında görülen sırtı dönük çıplak kadın bedeni ve dokunma hissi veren eller, iç arzuları yansıtır niteliktedir. Mavi, yeşil ve mor renklerin kullanımının, resme hüzün kazandırdığı görülmektedir. Resmin temasını oluşturan kadın ve erkek figürleriyle, eril - dişil ikiciliği vurgulanmaktadır. Hikâyeye göre; baştanrı Zeus, karısı Hera’yı defalarca aldatmıştır. Buna rağmen Hera kocasına sadık kalmayı bilmiştir. Zeus ve Hera arasındaki sadakat ve sadakatsizlik ilişkisi ikiciliğin varlığını kanıtlar niteliktedir. Hera ve Zeus’un hem kardeş hem de eş olması ikiciliğin bir başka göstergesidir. Prometheus Titan İapetos ve Klymene’nin dört oğlu olur (Atlas, Menoitos, Prometheus, Epimetheus). Oğullarından Prometheus; bir Titan oğlu olduğu halde, Titanların isyanları sırasında kurnazlığını kullanarak Zeus’a başkaldıranlar arasında yer almaz. Zeus Prometheus’u ölmezler arasına, yani tanrıların yaşadığı Olympos dağına kabul eder. Fakat Prometheus, kendi ırkını mahveden Zeus ve çevresine kin beslemektedir. İnsanı yaratarak öcünü almayı düşünür. Prometheus ilk insanı, kendi gözyaşı ile kardığı balçıktan yaratır. Prometheus’un biçimlendirdiği insana, Athena’nın ruh vermesi sonucu, insan evrende varlığını sürdürmeye başlar. Bir gün tanrılar ve insanlar Mekone’de, kurbanın paylaşılıp yenmesi için toplanırlar. Prometheus kesilen kurbanı ikiye böler, bir tarafa kurbanın etini koyup gösterişsiz olsun diye üzerini deri ile örter. Diğer tarafa da kemikleri koyup dikkat çeksin diye üzerini yağ ile örter. Zeus, yağlı görülen kısımdan alıp kemiği yiyince öfkelenir ve insanlardan ateşi alarak onları cezalandırır. İnsan güçsüz, çıplak ve aciz kalır. Yarattığı insana acıyan Prometheus, onlara ateşi yeniden vermeyi düşünür. Hephaistos’un ocağına giderek kıvılcım çalar. İnsanlar tekrar ateşe kavuşmuştur. Bunu gören Zeus sinirlenir ve Prometheus’u zincirle kayalara bağlatarak karaciğerini kartala yedirtir. Kartal yedikçe karaciğer yeniden çıkar. Prometheus’un bu işkencesi otuz sene sürer. Daha sonra Zeus, Prometheus’a acır ve onu tekrar ölmezler arasına alır (Can, 2015:26-27 ve Grimal, 1953:40). Prometheus duvar freski, Meksikalı Ressam Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) tarafından, 1930 yılında yapılmıştır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 271 www.ulakbilge.com Resim 3: Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), Prometheus, 1930 Pomona College, Frary Hall, Claremont, California, USA (Merkez Panel) 610 x 869 cm, duvar freski Kaynak:https://www.pomona.edu/museum/collections/jos%C3%A9-clemente-orozcos-prometheus Yunan mitoloji kahramanı Prometheus’un hikâyesi, Orozco’nun duvar freskine konu olmuştur. Bu freskte Prometheus, insanlığa getirmek istediği ateşe uzanırken gösterilmiştir. Prometheus’un ellerinin ateş ile birleştiği yerde ortaya çıkan kırmızılığın ateş izlenimini vermesi, ateşin etrafındaki ölümlülerde şaşkınlık, kargaşa, ayaklanma, çatışma, çileli haller, dua eder gibi ellerini kavuşturan kadınlar, kucaklaşmalar freskte diğer kısımları oluşturmaktadır. Siyah, kül rengi, ateş rengi ve toprak tonlarının kullanılması, eserin kurgusunda tamamlayıcı rolleri üstlenir. Mitos’a göre; Zeus, insanlardan ateşi mahrum etmişti, fakat Prometheus ateşi insanlara tekrar verdi. Yasak olan bir şeyden faydalanılması karşıtlıkların ikiciliğine yapılan bir atıftır. İnsanlığa verilen ateş hem iyilik ve aydınlanma, hem de bir lanettir. Çünkü aydınlanmaya ve iyiliğe sebep olan ateş, aynı zamanda felaketlere de sebep olabilir. Bu da iyi - kötü ikiciliğini vurgulamaktadır. Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs Evrenin yaradılışında önemli rol oynayan Gaia (yer), doğurduğu her çocuğunun, kocası Uranos (gök) tarafından yerin dibine gönderilmesine dayanamayarak, öcünü almaya karar verir. Göğsünde taşıdığı çeliği çıkartarak, ondan keskin bir tırpan yapar. Çocuklarını da haberdar ederek yardım etmelerini ister. Sadece, en son doğan oğlu Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 272 Kronos annesine yardım edeceğini söyler. Akşam olduğunda Uranos uykuya dalar. Annesi tarafından çağrılan Kronos gelir, babasını tırpanla biçer ve et parçalarını denize atar. Dalgalar nedeniyle çalkalanan et parçalarından, deniz yüzeyinde beyaz köpükler meydana gelir. Bu beyaz köpüklerden güzel bir tanrıça doğar. Çok güzel olan bu tanrıçaya, denizköpüklerinden doğduğu için Yunanca Aphrodite, Latince Venüs denilmektedir. Doğar doğmaz Aphrodite’i, dalgalar bir deniz kabuğu içinde çiçeklerle süsleyerek Kıbrıs adasına götürürler. Ölümsüzlerin en güzeli Aphrodite; aşk, güzellik ve bereket tanrıçasıdır (Erhat, 1996:42ve Kozanoğlu, 1992: 22-23). Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs, Fransız Ressam, Heykeltıraş Henri Matisse (1869-1954) tarafından 1930 yılında yapılmış bir heykeldir. Aphrodite; heykelde, deniz kabuğu içinden çıkışı ile tasvir edilmiştir. Resim 4: Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs, 1931 The Museum of Modern Art, New York 31 x 18,3 x 20,6 cm, bronz Kaynak:http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81451?locale=en DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 273 www.ulakbilge.com Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs heykeli, Yunanca adıyla Aphrodite’nin doğuşunu tasvir eder. Efsaneye göre Aphrodite, köpüklerden doğar ve deniz kabuğu içinde götürülür. Bu heykelde Venüs, deniz kabuğu içindeki haliyle betimlenmiştir. Heykelde tek başına kadın betimlendiği için, biçimsel olarak ikicilikten söz edemeyiz. Fakat hikâyeye baktığımızda; Uranos oğlu tarafından öldürülmüş ve et parçaları denize atılmıştır. Çalkalanan et parçalarından meydana gelen köpükler, Venüs’ün doğmasına sebep olmuştur. Ölüm ve doğumun aynı anda yaşandığı bu hikâye, ikiciliğin göstergesidir. Minotaure Minotaure; Yunanca ‘Minos’un boğası’ anlamına gelen, baş kısmı boğa, gövde kısmı insan biçiminde olan, Yunan mitolojisi yaratığıdır. Efsaneye göre; Girit’te hüküm süren kral Minos, Helios ve Crete’in kızı olan Pasiphae ile evlidir. Bu evlilikten de dört kız, dört erkek çocukları olur. Kral Minos bir gün denizler tanrısı Poseidon’dan, kurban etmek üzere kendisine bir boğa vermesini ister. Poseidon, kral Minos’a beyaz bir boğa gönderir. Boğa Minos’un hoşuna gidince, Minos boğayı kurban etmekten vazgeçer. Onun yerine, başka bir boğayı kurban eder. Poseidon bunu anlayınca sinirlenir ve Minos’un karısı Pasiphae’yi boğaya âşık eder. Minos’un karısı Pasiphae, boğa ile birlikte olunca boğa başlı, insan bedenli Minotaure doğar. Minotaure başlangıçta diğer çocuklarla birlikte büyür. Zaman geçtikçe vahşileşerek insan eti ile beslenmeye başlayınca babası Minos, içinden çıkılması imkansız bir labirent inşa ettirir ve Minotaure’ı oraya kapattırır (Erhat, 1996:201 ve Ergüven, 2010:178). Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Minotaure maketini, 1933 yılında kolaj olarak hazırlamıştır. Picasso (1881-1973) bu maketini, yapmış olduğu diğer Minotaure resimlerini toplayacağı kitabının kapağı için tasarlamıştır. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 274 Resim 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Minotaure, 1933 (Minotaure kapağı için maket) The Museum of Modern Art, New York 48,5 x 41 cm, kolaj Kâğıt üzerine kalem, ipek kurdele, duvar kâğıdı, oluklu kâğıt, sararmış yapraklar, gümüş Kaynak:http://www.moma.org/collection/works/34095?locale=en Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), yapmış olduğu bütün Minotaure resimlerini toplayacağı kitabı için bir kapak tasarlar. Kolaj olarak hazırlanan kapağın temasını, kağıt üzerine çizilen minyatür Minotaure oluşturmaktadır (Resim 5). Minotaure, fiziksel özelliği ile hem hikâyede hem resimde ikiciliği oluşturur. Ölümlü olan annesinin boğa ile birleşmesi, bu birleşme sonucunda insan gövdesine, boğa başına ve kuyruğuna sahip efsanevi bir varlığın doğması, hikâyedeki ikiciliğe atıf yapmaktadır. Resimde Minotaure, aynen hikâyede anlatıldığı gibi boğa başı ve kuyruğu ile betimlenmiştir. Eserde ki Minotaure figürünün yanında, ipek kurdele, gümüş, duvar kâğıdı, oluklu kâğıt ve sararmış yaprakların kullanılması, hayatı karmakarışık olan Minotaure’u simgeler niteliktedir. Başka bir ifadeyle, fiziksel özelliği ile dışlanmış ve izole edilmiş olan korkutucu Minotaure, birbirinden değişik nesneler arasında betimlenerek, güzel gösterilmek isteniyor olabilir. Güzelliklerin, çirkinliğin etrafını sarması, resimdeki biçimsel ikiciliğin göstergesidir. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 275 www.ulakbilge.com Narcissus’un Metamorfozu Narcissus, çok yakışıklı bir avcıdır. Kendisine âşık olanlara aldırmaz ve onların aşklarını karşılıksız bırakır. Peri Ekho bir gün dağlarda dolaşırken geyiklerin peşinde koşan bir avcı görür. Bu avcı Narcissus’dur. Ekho, avcıya ilk görüşte âşık olur. Ancak Narcissus bu sevgiye karşılık vermez. Ekho, bu durum karşısında günden güne eriyerek ölür. Kendisinden geriye kemikleri ve sesi kalır. Vücudundan kalan kemikleri kayalara, sesi ise kayalarda ‘eko’ olarak bilinen yankılara dönüşür. Bu durum Olimpos dağındaki tanrıları kızdırır. Tanrılar Narcissus’u cezalandırmaya karar verirler. Narcissus bir gün susamış halde nehir kenarına gelir. Buradan su içmek için eğildiğinde, suda yansıyan kendi yüzünün ve vücudunun güzelliğini görür. Daha önceden fark etmediği kendi güzelliği karşısında büyülenir ve kendine âşık olur. Nehir kenarında, yerinden kalkamaz bir halde günden güne erimeye başlar. Sadece kendini seyrederek ömrünü tüketir. Öldükten sonra da vücudu nergis çiçeklerine dönüşür (Soylu, 2014). Narcissus’un Metamorfozu, Katalan sürrealist Ressam Salvador Dali (1904- 1989)tarafından 1937 yılında yapılmış resimdir. Resim 6: Salvador Dali (1904-1989),Narcisus’un Metamorfozu, 1937 Tate Museum, Londra 51,2 x 78,1 cm, tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-metamorphosis-of-narcissus- t02343 Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 276 Narcissus’un Metamorfozu, yakışıklı genç Narcissus’un nergis çiçeğine dönüşmesinin, Dali (1904-1989) tarafından yorumlandığı eserdir. Tabloda, bir grup insan topluluğu, satranç tablasında bir erkek heykeli ve el figürleri görülmektedir. Ana figürler, diğer objelerden soyutlanarak daha belirgin bir şekilde, ön plana çıkarılmıştır. Eserin asıl kurgusu, ön plana çıkarılan figürler üzerine oluşturulmuştur. Resimde, karlı dağların ve kaya parçalarının arasında, su birikintisi yanına diz çöken Narcissus, kafasını dizine dayamış şekliyle tasvir edilmiştir. Narcissus’un bükülmüş görüntüsü çaresizliği ve ölümü anımsatır. Çünkü Narcissus, suda kendini görüp hayran olmuş ve yerinden kalkamaz halde, kendi güzelliğini seyrederek eriyip gitmiştir. Öldükten sonra, nergis çiçeğine dönüşmüştür. Narcissus’un karşısında betimlenen, taştan bir elin tuttuğu yumurtadan çıkan nergis, hikâyeyi vurgular niteliktedir. Dikkatle bakıldığında bu el, aslında Narcissus’un yansıması şeklindedir. Gerçek ve yansımanın aynı anda kullanılması, resimdeki ikiciliği oluşturmaktadır. Narcissus’un öldükten sonra nergise dönüşerek hayat bulması da hikâyedeki ikiciliğin göstergesidir. Pgymalion Pygmalion, Kıbrıs adasında bulunan Karpasia kentinin kurucusudur ve bir heykeltıraştır. Mermerden heykeller yaparak vaktini bu heykeller arasında geçirir, canlı insanlardan, özellikle de kadınlardan nefret ederdi. Kadınların bulunduğu yerden hep kaçardı. Hayalindeki ideal kadını beklerdi. Bir gün mermerden hayalindeki kadının heykelini yaptı. Bu heykel o kadar güzel olmuştu ki, Pygmalion yaptığı heykele âşık oldu ve her geçen gün heykele olan aşkı büyüdü. Ona çiçekler, deniz kabukları, değerli taşlar hediye etti. Pygmalion, bir gün cansız ve soğuk bedenli heykelini kolları arasında sıkar ve öperken, Aphrodite bu garip aşığın durumuna üzülerek, ıstırabına son vermek istedi ve Pygmalion’un heykeline can verdi. Pygmalion, heykelinin sevgi dolu gözlerle ona baktığını gördü ve beyaz tenli kadınına ‘beyaz’ anlamına gelen Galatha adını verdi. Sevdiğine kavuşan Pygmalion, Galatha ile evlendi (Milbourne&Stowell, 2011:286 ve Can, 2015: 120). Pygmalion tablosu 1939 tarihinde, Belçikalı gerçeküstücü ressam Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) tarafından yapılmıştır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 277 www.ulakbilge.com Resim 7: Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) , Pygmalion,1939 Royal Museums Of Fine Art s Of Belgium, Brüksel 117 x 148 cm, ahşap üzerine yağlıboya Kaynak:https://www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/la-collection/paul-delvaux-pygmalion Pygmalion, Yunan mitolojisinde yer alan bir heykeltıraştır. Yaptığı kadın heykelinin canlanması, ressam Delvaux (1897-1994)’un tablosuna konu olmuştur. Eserde, hikâyenin aksi yönüne yapılan betimleme dikkat çekmektedir. Hikâyeye göre; kadınların yaptıklarından nefret eden Pgymalion, onlarla birlikte olmamış ve hep hayalindeki kadını beklemiştir. Hikâyede ki Pgymalion’a göre kadınlar kötü iken, Delvaux (1897-1994)’un tablosundaki yorumuna göre hayal edilmesi gereken kişi erkektir. Sanatçı, cinsiyetleri yer değiştirerek, resme kendi yorumunu katmıştır. Hikâyenin tersine yapılan bu atıf, ikiciliği vurgulamaktadır. Tablonun ana temasını oluşturan erkek heykel figürü ve ona sarılmış olan kadın ile birlikte, arkası dönük başka bir erkek ve bitkilerle betimlenmiş başka bir kadın ile eril - dişil ikiciliği oluşturulmuştur. Arkada yer alan küçük kulübe içinde masa ve lambanın görülmesi ile iç - dış, gökyüzü ve üzerinde küçük taşların var olduğu zemin ile yer - gök kurgusu, ikiciliği oluşturan diğer betimlemelerdir. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 278 Aphrodite II Aphrodite efsanesi daha önceki eser tanıtımında anlatılmıştır (bkz. Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs). Anlatılan efsaneye ek olarak Aphrodite; yunus, ayna, deniz kabuğu ve güvercin ile sembolize edilmiştir (Ergüven, 2010:142). Aphrodite II heykeli, İngiliz Heykeltıraş Sir Charles Wheeler (1892-1974), tarafından 1943 yılında yapılmıştır. Heykelde Aphrodite; ayakucunda, sembolize edildiği hayvanlardan olan yunus ile görülmektedir. Resim 8: Sir Charles Wheeler (1892-1974), Aphrodite II, 1943 131,5 x 38,5 x 26,5 cm, Portland taş The Tate Gallery, London Kaynak:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wheeler-aphrodite-ii-n05559 DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 279 www.ulakbilge.com Sir Charles Wheeler (1892-1974)’ın eserine konu olan Aphrodite; heykelde, sembolize edildiği hayvanlardan biri olan yunus ile tasvir edilmiştir (Resim 8). Yunus, Yunan mitolojisinde doğurganlığı simgelemektedir. Yunus için ‘ana rahmi’ anlamına gelen Yunanca ‘Delphys’ sözcüğü kullanılmaktadır. Aphrodite doğumun bir parçası olarak düşünüldüğünden yunus ile ilişkilendirilmiştir. Güzelliğin, asaletin ve doğurganlığın simgesi olarak, ayakta betimlenen Aphrodite, biçimsel ikiciliği oluşturmamaktadır. Fakat ölüm ve doğumun aynı anda yaşandığı Aphrodite’nin Yunan mitolojisindeki hikâyesi, ikiciliğe bir atıftır. Çünkü Aphrodite, ölen Uronos’un, et parçalarının meydana getirdiği köpüklerden doğmuştur. Odysseus ve Kalypso Kalypso, Odysseus destanında adı geçen peridir. Yunanca ‘gizlemek’ anlamına gelen Kalypso, görenleri büyüleyecek kadar güzeldir. Odysseus ise Troia savaşı kahramanlarındandır. Evine ve karısı Penolope’ye kavuşmak için Troia savaşı sonunda eve dönüş yolculuğuna başlar. Bu yolculuk sırasında felaketler Odysseus’un peşini bırakmaz. Gemisi batar ve yanındaki tüm arkadaşlarını kaybeder. Odysseus bir süre denizde sürüklendikten sonra, kendini Kalypso’nun adasının kıyılarında bulur. Bir gün Kalypso, denizi seyrederken kıyıda Odysseus’u görür ve onu mağarasına götürür. Kalypso hemen ateş yaktırır ve yiyecek bir şeyler hazırlattırır. Odysseus, yemek yerken başından geçenleri anlatmaya başlar. Kahramanın ses tonuna hayran olan Kalypso’nun kalbinde büyük bir sevgi başlar. Odysseus’da, Kalypso’nun güzel kokan saçlarına ve büyüleyici bakışlarına hayran olmuştur. Odysseus ve Kalypso, kendilerini yedi yıl sürecek olan aşk macerasının içinde bulurlar. Fakat Odysseus yedinci yılın sonunda Kalypso’nun güzelliğinden bıkar. Gözyaşları dökerek karısını düşünmeye başlar. Tanrılar Odysseus’un haline acırlar ve Kalypso’ya, onu yurduna göndermesi için emir verirler. Kalypso’da tanrıların emrine boyun eğmek zorunda kalır. Odysseus’a sal yapması için yardım eder. Odysseus’un salını tamamlamasıyla Kalypso, gözyaşlarıyla yedi yıl geçirdiği misafirini uğurlar (Kahl, 2008:2 ve Can, 2015:390-392). Alman ressam, çizer, heykeltıraş ve aynı zamanda da yazar Max Beckmann (1884-1950), 1943 yılında Odysseus ve Calypso resmini yapmıştır. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 280 Resim 9:Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Odysseus ve Calypso, 1943 Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle 150 x 115,5 cm, tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.wikiart.org/en/max-beckmann/odysseus-and-calypso-1943 Odysseus ve Kalypso, Yunan mitolojisinde yolları tesadüfen kesişen aşk kahramanlarıdır. Max Becmann (1884-1950)’ın tablosuna konu olmuşlardır (Resim 9). Resimde Kalypso; bilezik, halhal ve tüylerden yapılan kolyesi, siyah saçları, pürüzsüz bedeni ile çıplak olarak resmedilmiştir. Odysseus’un önünde çıplak şekilde oturur durumdadır. Odysseus, kollarını başında birleştirmiş, arkasında duran kalkanına ve kılıcına yaslanmıştır. Kafasında miğfer, bacaklarında ise koruyucu parçalar vardır. Tabloda, Odysseus ve Kalypso dışında üç hayvan figürü dikkati çekmektedir. Odysseus, mürettebatını ve gemisini kaybedip denizde sürüklendikten sonra, Kalypso’nun adasına çıkar ve misafirliği karışık bir aşk esaretine dönüşür. Yılan, Odysseus’un bacağına dolanarak karışık olan ilişkilerini simgelemektedir. Yunan mitolojisinde perilere eşlik eden kuşlar olduğu söylenir. Efsaneye göre; Odysseus, Kalypso’yu ilk gördüğünde kendisiyle uyum içinde olan bir kuş, kafasının üstünde durmaktaydı. Resimde, kuşun gagası ve Odysseus’un sakalı aynı renkte betimlenmiştir. Resmin diğer figürünü oluşturan bu kuş, Odysseus’un esaretten kurtulmak istemesini simgeler niteliktedir (Kahl 2008:4). Kedi, nankörlük ile bağdaştırılmıştır. Çünkü Odysseus, çıkarı için yıllar süren esarete katlanmıştır. Hikâye DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 281 www.ulakbilge.com ile paralel olarak resmedilen eserin ana kahramanları Odysseus ve Kalypso, eril - dişil kurgusu bakımından ikiciliği vurgulamaktadır. Uyuyan Venüs Yunanca adıyla Aphrodite’in, Latince adıyla Venüs’ün hikâyesi daha önceki eser tanıtımında anlatılmıştır (bkz. Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs). Uyuyan Venüs, 1944 yılında, Belçikalı gerçeküstücü ressam Paul Delvaux (1897- 1994) tarafından yapılmış resimdir. Delvaux (1897-1994)’un en ünlü tablosu olarak nitelendirilmektedir. Resim 10: Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Uyuyan Venüs, 1944 The Tate Gallery, London 199 x 173 cm, tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/delvaux-sleeping-venus-t00134 Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 282 Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) Uyuyan Venüs adlı eserinde, gözleri kapalı ve çıplak şekilde uzanırken, kâbus gören Venüs’ü betimlemektedir. Eserde; Venüs’ünde içinde yer aldığı altı çıplak kadın, modern giyimli bir kadın ve ölümü simgelediği düşünülen iskelet figürü yer almaktadır. Dikkati çeken nokta; Antik Roma mimarisinin varlığı ve yarım ay görüntüsüyle sezdirilen gecedir. Delvaux, resmi hakkında şöyle demiştir(Wilson, 1982:23’den akt. İşman,2007:72): İnancıma göre, belki de bilinçaltından gelen bir dürtüyle, bu temanın içine gizemli ve elle tutulamayan bir huzursuzluk koydum. Tapınakları ay ışığı ile aydınlanmış klasik bir kent, at başları olan garip bir bina (Brüksel’deki eski Kraliyet Sirki’nden esinlendim), bir iskelet ve bir terzi mankeninin izlediği sakince uyuyan Venüs... Venüs’ün ruh hali, etrafındaki huzursuz figürlerle çelişki içindedir. Bu resimde, karşıtlık ve gizem yaratmaya çalıştım. O dönemin psikolojisinin, çok sıra dışı, dramatik ve acılı olduğunu da eklemeliyim. Delvaux’un bu söyleminden yola çıkarak; Venüs’ün uyurken betimlendiği sakin haline karşılık, etrafındaki kadın figürlerinin telaşlı halleri biçimsel ikiciliğe yapılan bir atıftır. Ayrıca eserdeki canlılık hissi veren kadın figürleri ve ölümü hissettiren iskelet figürü, yaşam - ölüm ikiciliğinin göstergesidir. Leda Leda, Aetolia kralı Thestios'un kızı ve Sparta Kralı Tyndareos'un eşidir. Baş tanrı Zeus bir gece Olympos’dan çıkarak, gönül verdiği kız için Taygetos dağına iner. Karısı Hera’nın kıskançlığından korunmak için de bir kuğu şekline dönüşür. Leda’nın yanına geldiğinde kız uyumaktadır. Kuğu kanatlarını birbirine çırparak etrafa güzel kokular yayar. Bu sırada Leda uyanır, beyaz renkli ve parlayan kuğuyu görür. Kuğu, Leda’ya ‘’hiç bir şeyden korkma ben aydınlık tanrısıyım ve istiyorum ki, sen birbirinin eşi olan iki çocuğumun annesi ol’’ der. Kuğu şeklindeki Zeus ve Leda birlikte olurlar. Aynı gece Leda kocasıyla da birlikte olduğu için iki tane yumurta yumurtlar. Troia savaşına neden olacak olan, dünyanın en güzel kızı Helen ve Pollux’un babaları Zeus iken, Kastor ve Klytaimnestra’nın babaları Tyndareos’tur (Ergüven, 2010:123, Erhat, 1996:188 ve Can,2015:51). Leda, Belçikalı gerçeküstücü ressam Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)tarafından, 1948 yılında yapılmış resimdir. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 283 www.ulakbilge.com Resim 11:Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), Leda, 1948 The Tate Gallery, London 152,7 x 95 cm, tahta üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/delvaux-leda-t03361 Leda adlı resim, Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) tarafından yapılmıştır. Resimde çıplak kadın olarak betimlenen Leda, beyaz bir kuğuya sarılmaktadır. Elektrik telleri ve fabrikayı andıran bacalar, modern kent yaşamını anımsatmaktadır. Yüzyıllar önce yazılmış bir hikâyenin modern görünüm ile birleştirilmesi, eski - yeni arasındaki Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 284 ikiciliği meydana getirmiştir. Tabloda; Leda ve kuğunun üzerinde durduğu yüzey, bacaların yükseldiği ve bulutlarla da netleştirilen gökyüzü, yer - gök ikiciliğine bir atıf oluşturmaktadır. Aynı zamanda Leda’nın ve kuğunun üzerinde durduğu kareli yüzey, siyah - beyaz renkleriyle ikiciliği oluşturmuştur. Hikâye düşünüldüğünde, kuğunun kılık değiştirmiş baştanrı Zeus olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Kuğu şeklindeki Zeus ve ona sarılan Leda, hikâyedeki eril - dişil ikiciliğinin göstergesidir. Hektor ve Andromache’nin Kucaklaşması Andromache, Mysia bölgesindeki Thebai şehrinin kralı olan Eetion’un kızıdır. Troia kralı Priamos ve kraliçe Hekabe’nin en büyük oğlu olan Hektor ise, Troia savaşı kahramanlarındandır. Andromache ve Hektor evlidir. Onların bir oğlu olur, adını ‘şehrin efendisi’ anlamına gelen Astyanaks koyarlar. Efsaneye göre, Hektor’un kardeşi Paris, baştanrı Zeus’un emri ile Aphrodite, Athena ve Hera arasındaki güzellik yarışmasına jüri olur. Üzerinde ‘en güzele’ yazılı olan elmayı üç güzelden birine vererek en güzel olanı seçecektir. Paris elmayı, kendisine dünyanın en güzel kadınını vermeyi vadeden Aphrodite’e verir. En güzel olarak Aphrodite’i seçer. Aphrodite’de bunun üzerine dünyanın en güzel kadını olan Helen aşkını Paris’in gönlüne koyar. Paris, hiç görmediği Helena’yı bulmak için Sparta şehrine doğru yola koyulur. Helena, Sparta kralı Menelaus ile evlidir. Paris, Helena’yı bulur ve kaçırır. Bunun üzerine Menelaus, Troia’ya savaş açar. Troia ordusunun başına Hektor geçecektir. Andromache kocasının bu savaşta yer almasını istemez, çünkü onun öleceğinden korkar. Hektor, karısı ile vedalaşmaya geldiğinde Andromache gözyaşlarıyla kocasının ellerine sarılarak: - Hektor, bu cesaretin seni benden alacak. Bana acı ve çocuğunu düşün. Ne olur kendini tehlikeye atma. Beni yalnız, çocuğunu da yetim bırakmak istemiyorsan bu surlardan dışarıya çıkma, der. Hektor karısının bu sözlerinden sonra ona: - Karıcığım, korkak gibi savaştan kaçarsam, içine düşeceğim durumu düşünmek bile beni korkutuyor. Korkak gibi yaşamaktansa ölmeyi tercih ederim, diyerek cevap verir. Hektor oğlunu kucağına alır, onu öper ve ona sarılır. Andromache gözleri yaşlı, kocasına bakar ve gülümser. Karısının bu hali Hektor’u üzer. Andromache’yi okşar, elini tutar ve ona: - Andromache, kendini böyle kederlere kaptırma. Ecelim gelmeden önce beni kimse mezara sokamaz. Hiç kimse olacakların önüne geçemez. Güzel karıcığım şimdi sen beni düşünme, her gün yaptığın işlerinle uğraş ve hizmetçilerine emirler ver. Savaşın acılarını bırak erkekler çeksin, der. Hektor bunları söyleyerek karısının yanından ayrılır ve savaş meydanına doğru yol alır (Can, 2015:306). Hektor ve Andromache’nın Kucaklaşması heykeli; Yunanlı sürrealist ressam Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) tarafından, 1966 yılında yapılmıştır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 285 www.ulakbilge.com Resim 12: Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978), Hektor ve Andromache’nın Kucaklaşması, 1966 Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome 40 x 16 x 21 cm, bronz Kaynak:http://www.fondazionedechirico.org/collezione/sculture/?lang=en Chirico (1888-1978)’nun eserine konu olan Hektor ve Andromache, Yunan mitolojisinin hüzünlü aşk kahramanlarıdır. Chirico (1888-1978)’nun heykeli, kahramanların hikâyeleri ile örtüşmektedir. Eserde; yansıtılmak istenen hüzün, izleyiciye açıkça gösterilmektedir. Savaşa katılmak isteyen Hektor ve kocasının ölmesinden korktuğu için, onun gitmesini istemeyen Andromache; hikâyedeki veda anlarıyla eserde yer almaktadır. Hikâyedeki ikicilik, gitme ve kalma duygusu ile ön plana çıkmaktadır. Heykelde ise; kadın ve erkek figürünün varlığı, Andromache’nin Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 286 hüznünü yansıtan başı eğik duruşuna karşılık, Hektor’un dik ve kuvvetli duruşu ikiciliğin göstergesidir. Halüsinasyon Gören Toreador İspanyolca Toreador, Türkçe adıyla ‘boğa güreşçisi’ olarak bilinir. Dali (1904- 1989) bir gün sanat merkezi için alışveriş yaparken Venüs marka kalem kutusu satın alır. Kalem kutusunda gölgelerin içindeki Venüs’ü görür. Kalem kutusu, Dali (1904- 1989)’ye ilham kaynağı olmuştur (Salvador Dali Museum, 2016). Dali (1904-1989), Venüs heykellerine yer verdiği resminde, Türkçe adıyla ‘boğa güreşçisi’ olarak bilinen Toreador’u kullanarak, yaşadığı ülke İspanya’ya da atıf yapar. Birden çok özelliği kullanarak karmaşık tablolarından birinin oluşmasını sağlar. Halüsinasyon Gören Toreador, Katalan sürrealist ressam Salvador Dali (1904- 1989) tarafından 1968 yılında yapılmış resimdir. Resim 13: Slavador Dali (1904-1989), Halüsinasyon Gören Toredor, 1968 Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida 398,8 x 299,7 cm, tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://thedali.org/exhibit/hallucinogenic-toreador/ DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 287 www.ulakbilge.com Halüsinasyon Gören Toreador, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) tarafından yapılan karışık bir tablodur. Eserini, sol üstte portresi bulunan eşi Gala’ya ithaf etmiştir. Eser sağ altta bulunan küçük çocuğun bakış açısını yansıtır nitelikte ele alınmıştır. Küçük çocuğun Dali olduğu düşünülmektedir. Resmin üst tarafında yer alan sahne, sarı kırmızı renkler ile ele alınmıştır. Bu renkler İspanyol bayrağını oluşturmaktadır. Sol altta, ölen bir boğanın başı betimlenmiştir. Boğanın ağzından akan kanlar; minik, sarı insan figürünün de girebildiği bir koy meydana getirmiştir. Boğanın üzerinde, Dali’nin İspanya’da yaşadığı yerleşim yerinden, bir dağ manzarası yer almaktadır. Resmin sağ tarafında dağ figürü tekrar ele alınmıştır. Buradaki dağ, Dali’nin çalışma stüdyosunun yakınındaki dağ ile benzerlik taşımaktadır. Eserde; kalem kutusundan esinlenerek yaptığı yirmi sekiz tane Venüs heykeli yer almaktadır. İkinci Venüs heykelinin vücudu; Toreador’un yüzünü, ikinci ve üçüncü Venüs heykelinin eteği; Toreador’un gömleğini, birinci Venüs heykelinin eteği ise Toreador’un kırmızı pelerinini oluşturmaktadır. İspanyol askerlerinin betimlendiği üst taraftaki sinekler, Toreador’un şapkasını meydana getirmiştir. Sağ taraftaki küçük noktalar da insan figürlerini anımsatmaktadır. Birden fazla özelliğin bir araya getirilmesi ile oluşturulan resimde; Toreador ve Venüs, eril - dişil bakımından ikicilik kurgusunu meydana getirmektedir (The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 2015). Paçavraların Venüs’ü Yunanca adıyla Aphrodite efsanesi daha önceki eser tanıtımında anlatılmıştır (bkz. Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs). Paçavraların Venüs’ü heykeli, İtalyan ressam, eylem ve nesne sanatçısı, sanat kuramcısı Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933- ) tarafından 1974 yılında yapılmıştır. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 288 Resim 14: Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933- ), Paçavraların Venüsü,1974 The Tate Gallery, London 212 x 340 x 110 cm, mermer ve tekstil Kaynak:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pistoletto-venus-of-the-rags-t12200 Michelangele Pistoletto (1933- ), Venüs heykelini, canlı renklerle dolu bir paçavra yığınıyla birleştirir. Eserde Venüs, arkası dönük bir şekilde, paçavralardan oluşmuş bir yığının önüne yerleştirilerek kurgulanmıştır. Bir zamanlar hayranlık uyandıran, aşk ve güzellik tanrıçası olarak bilinen Venüs’ün, Pistoletto (1933- ) tarafından paçavralar arasında betimlenmesiyle, günlük hayatta kullanılan nesneler sanat eserleri içinde yer almıştır. Paçavraların Venüs’ü eserinde; değerli olan, estetik değeri olan ve tek renkten oluşan nesne (Venüs), değersiz olan, estetik değeri olamayan ve çok renkten oluşan nesneler (paçavralar), birbirlerinin tam tersi olmaları ile ve hareketlilik - durgunluk izlenimleri ile ikiciliği oluşturmaktadır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 289 www.ulakbilge.com Pegasus’un Doğuşu Medusa güzelliği ile herkesi kıskandıran bir ölümlüdür. Kendisini tanrılara adayan Medusa, Zeus’un en sevdiği kızı olan Athena’ya ait bir tapınakta yaşardı. Denizler tanrısı Poseidon da Medusa’nın güzelliğinin farkındadır. Ona olan ilgisi tutkuya dönüşünce, gizlice girdiği Athena’nın tapınağında Medusa ile zorla birlikte olur. Bunu öğrenen Athena, Medusa’yı yılan saçlı yaratığa çevirerek cezalandırır. Siniri geçmeyen Athena, ona yine de bakmaya çalışan olursa diye, Medusa’nın gözlerine bakan herkesi taşa çevirmesini sağlar. Athena bunun ile de yetinmeyerek Yunan mitolojisindeki kahramanlardan biri olan Zeus’un oğlu Perseus’dan, Medusa’nın kafasını keserek kendisine getirmesini ister. Perseus, Athena’nın isteğini yerine getirmek için kılıcı ile Medusa’nın başını bedeninden ayırır. Medusa’nın, kafasından toprağa akan kanlardan, kanatlı at olarak bilinen Pegasus doğar (Erhat,1996:234). Kanadalı Ressam Andre Durand (1947- ), Pegasus’un Doğuşu resmini 1980 yılında yapmıştır. Resim15: Andre Durand (1947- ), Pegasus’un Doğuşu, 1980 Mucizeler ve Metomorfoz Sergisi, Edinburgh Festivali 120 x 110 cm, tuval üzerine yağlı boya Kaynak:http://www.maicar.com/GML/000PhotoArchive/Durand/slides/durand008.html Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 290 Andre Durand (1947- )’ın Pegasus’un Doğuşu tablosu, Medusa’nın başının kesilerek öldürülmesi ve akan kanlardan da Pegasus’un doğması teması üzerine kurulmuştur (resim 15).Tabloda; başı kesilen Medusa’nın bedeni, Medusa’nın kesilen başı, Pegasus ve Perseus görülmektedir. Tablodaki Medusa ve Perseus, kadın - erkek ikiciliğini oluşturmaktadır. Kafasında saç yerine yılanların dolaştığı Medusa, geleneksel insan tanımlamasına aykırı olması sebebiyle biçimsel olarak ikiciliğe vurgu yapmaktadır. Hikâye düşünüldüğünde ise; Medusa’nın öldürülmesiyle doğan Pegasus, ölüm ve doğum ikiciliğini temsil etmektedir. Uzay Venüs Yunanca adıyla Aphrodite’in, Latince adıyla Venüs’ün hikâyesi daha önceki eser tanıtımında anlatılmıştır (bkz. Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs). Uzay Venüs, Katalan sürrealist Ressam Salvador Dali (1904-1989) tarafında, 1984 yılında yapılmış bir heykeldir. Dali (1904-1989), diğer resimlerinde kullandığı figürlerini bu heykelinde tekrar kullanmıştır. Karınca, yumurta ve saat Dali (1904- 1989)’nin diğer eserlerinde yer verdiği figürlerdir. Resim16: Salvador Dali(1904-1989), Uzay Venüs, 1984 Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Fracisco, CA 65,5 x 35,5 x 35 cm, bronz döküm Kaynak:https://art.famsf.org/salvador-dali/space-venus-201066 DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 291 www.ulakbilge.com Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Uzay Venüs heykelinde, diğer eserlerinde kullandığı unsurları ekleyerek bir kadın figürü yaratmıştır (Resim 16). Güzelliğin simgesi olan tanrıça Venüs’ü temel alarak, üç unsur ile birleştirmiştir. Bu unsurlar eriyen bir saat, yumurta ve karıncalardır (THE DALI UNIVERSE, 2016). Eriyen saat ve karıncalar; Dali (1904-1989)’nin ‘Belleğin Azmi’ tablosunda yer almaktadır. Eserde, yumuşak formda akan saat, zamanın akıp gittiğini vurgulamaktadır. Aynı resim içinde bulunan, ters çevrilmiş cep saati üzerindeki karıncalar, zamanı yiyerek ölümü ve aynı zamanda da üremeyi simgelemektedir. Yumurta figürü ise, Dali (1904-1989)’nin birçok resminde (Narcissus’un Metamorfozu, Yeni İnsanın Doğuşunu İzleyen Jeopolitik Çocuk, vb.) bulunmaktadır. Ona göre yumurta önemli bir metafordur. Çünkü içinde hayat vardır ve kabuğu kırıp dışarıya çıkmak, doğmak anlamına gelir. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Uzay Venüs’ü eserinde; bu unsurları, diğer resimlerindeki anlamlarına paralel olarak kullanmıştır. Uzay Venüs heykelindeki eriyen saat figürü; zamanın ilerlemesiyle güzelliğin geçiciliğini, karınca figürü; ölümü ve aynı zamanda çoğalmayı, yumurta figürü ise; yaşamın devamını ve geleceği temsil etmektedir. Heykelde biçimsel ikicilik genel hatlarıyla görülmez. Fakat kullanılan unsurlar incelendiğinde, ölümün ve çoğalmanın betimlendiği karınca figüründe ölüm - doğum ikiciliğine vurgulama yapılmıştır. Gaia Evren yaratılmadan önce hiç bir şekil almamış Khaos, uçsuz bucaksız boşluğu ve karanlığı tanımlar. İlk olarak Khaos’dan her şeyin dayanağı olarak Gaia (yer) meydana gelir. Aynı zamanda Gaia ilk tanrısal varlıklardan biridir. Gaia, Uranos (gök)’u doğurur. Evren şekil almaya başladıktan sonra, onun üstünde yaşayacak olanları meydana getirmek gerekmektedir. Bunun içinde Gaia kendi öz oğlu Uronos ile birleşerek evrende yaşayacak canlıları meydana getirirler. Bu birleşmeden, on iki Titanlar, devler, yüz kolu ve elli başı olan değişik türde çocukları olur (Mılbourne&Stowell, 2011). Gaia ve Uranos, Yunan mitolojisinin ilk çifti olma özellikleriyle de bilinmektedir. Gaia heykeli, Mısırlı heykeltıraş William Tucker (1935- ) tarafından 1985 tarihinde yapılmıştır. Erbay Aslıtürk, G. Küçükgüney, E. (2016). 20. Yüzyıl Resim Ve Heykellerinin Yunan Mitolojisi Ve İkicilik Kavramı Açısından Değerlendirilmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma. ulakbilge, 4 (8), s.263-298. www.ulakbilge.com 292 Resim17: William Tucker (1935- ), Gaia, 1985 Sanatçının koleksiyonu 221 x 140 x 127 cm, bronz Kaynak:Norbert Lynton (2015:342), Modern Sanatın Öyküsü William Tucker’in Gaia adlı çalışmasında (Resim 17), biçimsel olarak ikicilik göze çarpmazken, hikâyesine baktığımızda ikiciliğin varlığı net olarak görülmektedir. Gaia ve Uranos, hikayedeki eril - dişil ikiciliğini vurgulayan ilk noktadır. Yer veya toprak olarak da bilinen Gaia, ilk yaratılan tanrısal varlıklardandır. Uranos’u doğurarak evrende hüküm sürecek olanların meydana gelmesini sağlamıştır. Burada yer - gök birleşmesi, aynı zamanda birlikteliğin anne - oğul ilişkisine dayanması karşımıza ikicilik olarak çıkmaktadır. DOI: 10.7816/ulakbilge-04-08-06 ulakbilge, 2016, Cilt 4, Sayı 8, Volume 4, Issue 8 293 www.ulakbilge.com Sonuç Bu çalışmada, Yunan mitolojisi içeriği taşıyan 20. yüzyıl eserleri, mitolojik hikâyeleri anlatılarak ele alınmıştır. Eserler ve hikâyeler, hem biçimsel hem de içerik olarak ikicilik açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Değerlendirmeler sonucunda eserlerdeki ve hikâyelerdeki ikiciliğin, insan yaşamı izlerini taşıdığı görülmüştür. İlk olarak görülen ikicilik; ölüm ve doğumdur. Bu ikicilik; Deniz Kabuğundaki Venüs (1931) (Resim 4), Aphrodite II (1943) (Resim 8), Uyuyan Venüs (1944) (Resim 10) ve Pegasus’un Doğuşu (1980) (Resim 15) eserlerinde karşımıza çıkmaktadır. İkinci olarak yansıyan ikicilik; iyiliğe ve kötülüğe sebep olan ateşin betimlenmesidir. Orozco (1883-1949) ateşin iyiliğini ve kötülüğünü Prometheus (1930) (Resim 3) adlı eserinde vurgulamıştır. Görülen diğer bir ikicilik ise; kadın - erkek arasındaki aşk olgusudur. De Chirico (1888-1978), Hektor ve Andromache (1966) (Resim 12) eserinde; Munch (1863-1944), Eros ve Psyche (1907) (Resim 1) tablosunda; Delvaux (1897-1994), Pgymalion (1939) (Resim 7) ve Leda (1948) (Resim 11) adlı tablolarında; Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Hera (1929) (Resim 2); Max Backmann ( 1884-1950) ise, Odysseus ve Kalypso (1943) (Resim 9) adlı eserlerinde kadın ve erkeği açıkça göstererek, aşkın varlığını hissettirmişlerdir. Sanatçıların kendi bakış açıları ve üslupları ile yaklaştıkları eserlerde, üzerinde durulan ikiciliğin; iyi - kötü, ölüm - doğum ve çoğunlukla da eril - dişil olduğu görülmektedir. Ayrıca sanatçılar, insan yaşamının başrolü olan bu kavramlar dışında; fiziksel olarak farklı olan bedenlere (Resim 5), yer - gök formuna (Resim 7-10-11), karşıtlıkları çağrıştıran siyah - beyaz renge (Resim 11), yansıma ve gerçeğe (Resim 6), güzelliğe ve güzelliğin geçiciliğine (Resim 16), değerli ve değersiz olana (Resim 14) da değinmişlerdir. 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Otherwise, click on one of the following links to continue using PMC: Search the complete PMC archive. Browse the contents of a specific journal in PMC. Find a specific article by its citation (journal, date, volume, first page, author or article title). http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/ work_7pad5lddgndwzevwoxmpx4ys74 ---- Finished and Unfinished Objects: Supporting Children's Creativity Through Materials Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 1877-0428 © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ay e Çak r lhan doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.08.231 ARTSEDU 2012 Finished and unfinished objects: supporting children’s creativity through materials Monica Guerra a *, Franca Zuccoli b a“Riccardo Massa” Human Sciences for Education Department – University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Giolli, 20126, Milano, Italy b“Riccardo Massa” Human Sciences for Education Department – University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Giolli, 20126, Milano, Italy Abstract Experimenting with materials is something that all children do both at preschool and primary school. Working with mater ials at school is even more relevant in evaluating what has been produced and go beyond this inescapable frontier, already crossed by art, even in education.This paper presents the first results of an exploratory survey that investigated the meaning and effect of working with materials at schools, based on two parallel and complementary processes: finished and unfinished objects. This survey confirmed that working with different types of materials makes it possible for children to develop their creativity t hrough different but just as important pathways. Keywords: Objects, Materials, Creativity, Children, Education. 1. Introduction Objects and materials have been part of the educational philosophy of numerous thinkers, considered a fundamental aspect in active and proactive teaching, where the construction of knowledge becomes an element that is in turn part of the more general development of knowledge. Starting from reality, this process is divided into actions, observations, questions and reflections. Some initial reflections can help us to understand the pedagogical meaning of this proposal which does not have a single direction, but offers the chance to explore diverse educational dimensions. Within didactics, concrete objects and materials are multi-faceted and multi-dimensional aspects of reality, sort of holograms of the world surrounding us. This brief and partial survey is useful for understanding the value of the proposed actions and their history in past centuries. The first reference is found in Comenius, who underlined the necessity to start from things, objects of the intellect and of discourse, before using words (Comenius, 1993). Locke underlined how contact with objects and the appreciable world were the basis of m ost of our ideas (Locke, 1690), while de Condillac stressed how touch was a fundamental medium for any form of knowing (Condillac, after 1930). Rousseau was to develop in detail how, from infancy, direct experience and teaching- learning were linked. In the second book dedicated to the development of children from 3 to 12 years old, he explained: “Since everything that penetrates human intellect comes through the senses, the first human reason is the reason of the senses; this is the basis of intellectual reason: our first philosophy teachers are feet, hands, eyes. By * Corresponding Monica Guerra. Tel.: +39-02-64484830 E-mail address: monica.guerra@unimib.it © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Dr. Ayse Cakir Ilhan Available online at www.sciencedirect.com © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ay e Çak r lhan Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ 722 Monica Guerra and Franca Zuccoli / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 substituting all this with books, we teach not to reason but to make use of others’ reasoning, to believe and not to ever know anything” (Rousseau, 1989, pp. 200-201). In considering the value of dealing with objects and materials, John Dewey cannot be left aside. His idea was that children must have experience in order to strengthen the creation of knowledge, and not as a mere exercise: “It is not enough to insist on the necessity of experience, nor on activity as part of an experience. Everything depends on the quality of experience. [...] Thus the main problem of education based on experience is to chose the type of experience the children can re-experience fruitfully and creatively in the experiences that follow” (Dewey, 1953, pp.15-16). Working with materials at school is even more relevant in evaluating what has been produced and go beyond this inescapable frontier, already crossed by art, even in education. It is not a choice dictated by idleness but it is a priority, not only from a pedagogical point of view aimed at supporting sustainability, but also for the surplus of creativity that comes from working with materials. This paper presents the first results of a theoretical and empirical survey that investigated the meaning and effect of working with materials in preschools and primary schools, based on two parallel and complementary processes: finished objects (daily or familiar objects reutilized and given new meanings, unknown objects with different meanings) and unfinished objects, using recognizable or unrecognizable materials which were either new or had been previously recycled or used (by the children or the teachers). This investigation was inspired by artists who use finished objects or parts of finished objects in their works, juxtaposing the objects or creating installations made of matter and materials. The analysis was carried out starting from a survey of existing pedagogical and artistic literature, as well as through direct experience and documenting experiences using both types of objects in both orders of schools, based on the hypothesis that both types of materials could support diverse creative processes. 2. Objects and materials in pedagogical thought The peculiarity of finished objects presented to children, meaning artistic, naturalistic, scientific and also daily objects, including waste materials, seemed like offering them a significant view of reality. By investigating the specificity of each object, we can always discover a range of possible explorations which refer to materials, colors, forms, uses, designs, thoughts, stories, people, relationships. They are pieces of the world which enter the classroom and offer new stimuli. Regarding this aspect, especially during early childhood, Fröbel talked about the objects collected by children and the relationships with these objects, which define the child’s very essence, creating the boundaries and giving the child an idea of him or herself (Fröbel, 1826). This same ideas were also pointed out by some pedagogues in the past, who confirmed the importance of concreteness and direct activity in education, and they listed which objects served to develop certain didactic proposals. Among them, Rosa Agazzi noted in detail what objects could be on show in her so-called Museum of “unpatented bric-a-brac”, a free Museum which housed “small boxes, buttons, seeds, little tubes, thread, nails, cord, cards, little bottles, corks, fabric samples, paper samples, little balls, small jars, packets, postcards; and various materials: wax, iron, tin, marble, wood, leather, glass, ... (Agazzi, 1938, p. 13). This varied collection of objects, thanks to a caring eye, can become a powerful means for enriching linguistic development, logic and reflection through manipulation, naming, dividing, creating categories, storytelling, modifications, for example. Often the items were things from the children’s pockets, which would usually be thrown away if found, together with other things collected and added by the teacher. For the purposes of research, it is useful to note the importance of the authorship of this action. The active parties can be divided into 5 categories, below we will cite just a few of the pedagogues linked with them. Those who can choose the objects are: the children themselves, spontaneously, using what they collect in a casual way; these objects are found and brought to school by the children due to their instinctive interest and only at a later time are they used with a didactic aim (Agazzi, Lodi, Malaguzzi, ...); the children themselves, intentionally, making a willing and specific choice regarding the choice of the objects brought to school, showing awareness of use and thought (Agazzi, Pizzigoni, Freinet, Lodi, ...); the children in response to the teacher’s specific request, in order to make use of these objects in a specific way in class (Agazzi, Pizzigoni, Freinet, Lodi, Malaguzzi, ...); the teachers, who bring materials to school for a specific didactic purpose (Gabelli, Agazzi, Pizzigoni, Freinet, Lodi, MCE, Malaguzzi,...); 723 Monica Guerra and Franca Zuccoli / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 pedagogues or experts, who invent and create particular tools and materials to develop learning opportunities (Fröbel, Montessori, Pizzigoni, Kerschensteiner, Freinet, ...). If in the first cases the choice of objects can have various aspects, the selection carried out by adults also can be considered from many different points of view. Given that bringing objects to school is almost a daily occurrence, what actions can be carried out with these objects and what is the debt to modern and contemporary art? In reference to Montessori and her carefully designed materials (Cives, 2004), a few fundamental characteristics can be pointed out, useful for making comparisons, singling out the similarities and differences from other experiences that involve objects. There is the esthetic aspect, so that the objects are attractive and fascinating, they catch the eye and make you want to take them in your hand; the activity proposed, so that the objects are easy to use and transportable by children and offer the possibility to be used well; error control, so that the material is designed in such a way that errors are immediately evident and allow children to correct themselves; the limits, so that the material is circumscribed, and does not present excessive stimuli, aiming at creating mental order within variety. The possibility for exploration proposed by Montessori is based on the sensorial isolation of the specific qualities of each object, offered to the children in a par ticular order. On the contrary, many recent educational experiences provide for the free exploration of objects, and develop thematic investigations only afterwards. There are diverse experimental experiences in infant-toddler center settings, like the Treasure Basket and Goldschmeid’s heuristic play, where everyday objects are offered to children for tactile investigation (Goldschmied & Jackson, 1996). In this field, the study regarding children from ECE centers and preschools entitled “Di fronte agli oggetti” (Galardini, Giovannini, Mayer, Musatti, 1995), theorized that free exploration not only leads to individual learning, but also to broader reflections which are more articulated if children are allowed free reign. Susan Isaacs Sutherland (1971) in her school for children aged 2 to 8 managed to offer seemingly opposing proposals: objects of all types, together with didactic materials from Montessori and other pedagogues, with the declared objective of stimulating active research on the part of children, rather than teaching them. Reflecting on action made possible through objects and materials with older children, David Hawkins’ thought is useful. In order to make up for lacks in learning science, he theorized a fundamental phase of free exploration when children could freely explore objects and materials: the idea was to allow simply knowing a variety of things and their relationships, before undertaking thematic study. This initial phase required a good amount of time and was the fertile basis for all future learning (Hawkins, 1979). The methodology proposed by Mongay Maite Pujol and Cunill Nùria Roca (1995) included an initial phase of spontaneous action, where children moved in an unplanned space and had contact with unstructured materials and objects, leading to greater structuring and shared intentionality. A final reflection on objects and materials was made by Dewey, who criticized Froebelian gifts and Montessori’s materials, which he felt were too defined, also regarding the actions they could be used for. “It is true that those materials control the operations of the pupil to avoid errors […] But starting from raw materials and manipulating them intentionally, pupils’ intelligence took form in finished materials (Dewey, 1984, pp.254-255)”. The introduction in preschools and elementary schools of unusual, recycled and discarded industrial materials seems to go one step further, since children can explore and generate connections, transform and reinvent, promoting creative thought (Eckhoff & Spearman, 2009), as well as express and share feelings and thoughts (Gandini, 2005). The proposals, with differences and specificities, dedicated to bringing discarded and recycled materials into schools are present throughout the world. A bastion of working with discarded industrial materials in schools is Remida, part of the Reggio Emilia Approach, deeply interested in the connections between children and their environment (Edwards, Forman & Gandini, 1993). In this approach, children are encouraged to search for knowledge and understanding of the world through immerging themselves in it (Samuelsson, Sheridan & Williams, 2006), including recycled or discarded industrial materials. Remida "collects, displays and offers alternative and reclaimed materials obtained from unsold stock and rejects or discard and scrap materials from industrial and handicraft production, with the aim of reinventing their use and meaning" (Reggio Children, 2005, p. 9). Besides Remida, there are other similar organizations like Weave Recycle, a Creative Recycling Centre and Educational Training Provider, and the House of Objects, a centre offering reclaimed, reusable and recycled materials to its users, both in the UK; Reuse Alliance, a community of like-minded individuals and organizations across the USA 724 Monica Guerra and Franca Zuccoli / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 dedicated to finding new uses for things and for waste; ArtsJunktion mb, a community-based organization committed to redistributing reusable materials. Working with recycled products, designed for specific purposes and apparently at the end of their useful life, and discarded industrial materials, which are new since they are unused due to production excess or defects, is a particularly interesting choice both in terms of sustainability, containment of waste and respect for the environment. This paper explores the use of these materials in education through their intrinsic adaptability, which is not only physical, but also from the point of view of the thought processes developed. Summarizing the various proposals made schematically, we can draw up a list of the points materials and objects used at school offer for consideration: the choice of materials, who uses them and why; the type (natural-artificial, simple-complex, structured-non structured, familiar-unknown, new-used, …); operative proposals (observation- description, structured and unstructured activities, free exploration, deconstruction, modification, transformation, ...); how the experience is elaborated (individually or in a group, re-proposal of similar materials with variables, discussions, …). 3. Objects and materials in art If we consider the aspects linked to art, it is interesting to notice how in these cases materials and objects have been able to invade this field in different ways. There are parallels to what takes place when these experiences are proposed in school settings. Looking closely at 19th century art, not necessarily in chronological order, especially at the use of objects (Francucci, 2009), we can reflect on the decontextualization first used by Marcel Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle wheel, 1913, New York, Janis Collection) and the Dadaists with ready-mades: objects extrapolated from their daily context inserted into another space appear under a new light, detached from function, with attention placed on the shapes, colors, materials, structures and all the potentials that we might otherwise have overlooked in the same way that every day objects inserted in school settings allow for new explorations, unusual thoughts that break away from the obvious and facilitate connections. Thanks to the cubist collages of Braque (Georges Braque, Still life (guitar), 1913, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art) and Picasso (Pablo Picasso, Still life with chair, 1912, Paris, Musée Picasso), pieces of reality erupt from the painting, becoming a symbol for everything, where the newspaper headline represents the newspaper itself, the theater ticket glued on as is, permitting mixtures and contaminations where real and painted objects are equal, flowing between reality and fiction. The same can be said for children’s collages and installations, where real and recreated objects are part of a constant dialogue, where nothing is out of place. Going even further, in New Dada, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg (Robert Rauschenberg, Dylaby 1962, New York, Sonnabend Collection) entire objects are used. Sometimes found in the trash, they are united in a combined work where elements of painting, two-dimensional and three-dimensional images are placed into relation with one another, in a continuous relationship with life. Another important artist is Tony Cragg (Tony Cragg, Spectrum, 1982, Private Collection): He starts from objects (discarded and not) and then re-categorizes and reinvents a new order. In this profoundly objectified art, there are many stimuli for contamination with a certain type of scholastic planning and action, aimed primarily at increasing new ways of thinking and experimenting with day-to-day life. For a child involved in experimenting with objects, this becomes concrete not only in the vision but also in playing or in constructing. Working with finished objects seems to comment on their use, with a different function with respect to the usual one, new attention develops regarding what is already familiar, stimulating questioning, proposing reflections on the single parts of the whole, moving beyond new facets and breaking with the defined. As far as regards recognizable and unrecognizable finished materials, which are the fruit of an industrial practice which leads to production surplus, accumulation and discard, there are many examples of contemporary art we can consider. Attention towards these objects becomes tangible in an artistic practice which uses trash, rubbish and discarded materials (Vergine, 2006). Waste is an integral part of art, from futurists like Kurt Schwitters or Picasso or Marcel Duchamp, leading to the invasion of art forms that are more and more advanced and disruptive. Nobody thinks of contesting the first contamination of art with elements initially considered vile (ripped paper, cords, scrap metal, tickets). Some movements including Fluxus, Visual Poetry, Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art use waste as a 725 Monica Guerra and Franca Zuccoli / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 privileged element, a sharp criticism towards consumerism. In the ’80s and ‘90s contamination meant using hobbies, plagiarism, citations, creating new images or installations starting from existing ones and discarded elements. Waste has become a metaphor, a provocation, a reflection, a global process (for example: McCarthy, “Assortment- Daddies ketchup”, 1994, Courtesy Galerie Georges-Philippe et Natalie Vallois, Parigi-Kounellis, “Senza titolo”, 1993, Courtesy Christina Stein, Milan). This passage can be used in schools where use and reflection regarding these materials necessitates adult participation placed in relation to the constant and excessive consumption of our society and the giving of value and the re-appropriation of constructive and sensorial practices which involve children from a young age. 4. First questions from exploratory experiences The experience we will briefly discuss is an example of an exploration in light of the existing literature focused on a few educational-didactic projects which included workshops on objects and materials, carried out in a few pre- school and elementary school classes. The projects were similar in that the introduction of objects or materials through direct experimentation over a lengthy timeframe in a continuous way promoted learning in many directions and allowed for a variety of experiences which were not unidirectional with indications given by or led by adults. In this way, the offering of open situations allowed for experimentation and manipulation of reality, necessary to develop creative thinking in children (Munari, 2009). If, in fact, children do not know materials and their possibilities for use, creative relationships cannot come about. Creative thought is meant as a particular cognitive process which takes shape thanks to the ability to create relationships and transformations based on the knowledge that the subjects have regarding reality and their capacity to answer the questions it poses (Munari, 2010). Starting from these open proposals, each work process focused on a specific area of research over time for each group of children. Below we will summarize the main points which emerged from the documentation, showing possible hypotheses for new and more focused areas of research. The first results from the experiences carried out in preschools and primary schools with finished objects brought up the following points and questions. Finished objects, everyday objects, became interesting after they were recognized if de-contextualized and used for other purpose (ex. A fork used to decorate a surface). Shapes and materials opened to new horizons, moving from what was known by giving value to the sensorial aspects and using one’s hands in a different way. If the objects were strongly characterized from a disciplinary point of view (in particular in primary schools, for example with mathematical didactic materials used for playing and creating artistic compositions), they were “rethought” and opened to contaminations from various disciplines. If they were parts of unknown objects, the hypotheses after their having been manipulated led to articulated thoughts, which are concretized in experimental use and in words, raising more and more detailed questions and forming hypotheses. If known but used together, they lay the basis for metaphorical thought and planning: it was a question of pretending, where single or multiple elements created new possibilities for thought and play. Projects with finished objects, if appropriately supported and developed over a long enough period of time, can lead to a reflection about the relationship between function, form, esthetics as well as the chance to design new creative or functional objects, starting from the ones observed and manipulated, as emerged in the project “Giving Form to Ideas”, conducted with the Education Section of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro for Primary and Secondary schools. Regarding experiences with unfinished materials, workshops were run within a project in the Teacher Training Faculty at the University of Milan-Bicocca, in collaboration with the center for creative recycling Remida@Muba in Milan to educate adult teachers-in-training regarding materials and where to get them. There are numerous, documented, articulated experiences to recount, all exploratory despite focusing on diverse, specific aspects. Linguistic research was observed, where children were involved in singling out appropriate words to describe materials which were not immediately identifiable or nameable. In this case the focus was on the characteristics, qualities, uses which made it possible to distinguish what was not easily recognizable, re-elaborating and enriching verbal skills. In other cases, the studies were developed more around mathematical aspects, through 726 Monica Guerra and Franca Zuccoli / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 51 ( 2012 ) 721 – 727 classifications and cataloging materials according to their characteristics which at times were scientific, considering characteristics like surface, resistance, weight, strength or balance, or constructive aspects. The materials were an invitation to share ideas and compare hypotheses and also to form relationships, since they offered a common connection between children who would not have taken part in more structured experiences. In this sense, the exploration of materials was easily structured according to not only cognitive but also emotional logic, as described through the feelings that their use evoked or recalled. In this sense, we can agree that “listening to materials makes traces of their identity emerge and brings out our experiences” (Brighenti as cited in Gandini & Kaminsky, 2005). The symbolic potential of materials is evident in other areas (Kelly & Lukaart, 2005), especially when children use them in symbolic play or when narrating stories, expressing themselves though metaphoric thought which, like creative thought, singles out imaginary relationships between elements. Last but not least, visual, or sonorous or bodily esthetic characteristics have been analyzed within the artistic dimension according to logic which is less realistic-figurative and more expressive. Exploring materials together with an adult who supports without being directive towards a particular result over an ample period of time allows children to experience different possibilities, to study and develop multiple languages and different competences in a multidisciplinary perspective which is even more global since it is favored by deconstruction and versatility. The simultaneous possibilities offered by the use of materials, more so as they present indefinite characteristics and thus are more “open”, compared to the fragmentation of knowledge which results from more directed proposals, allows to embrace several ideas at the same time. Besides this, unusual materials allow children to discover explorations over time which are more congenial to them, responding to their interests and their competences and accompanying them into their zone of proximal development in a natural way. Unusual material allow for a vast range of interpretational possibilities, which becomes especially evident regarding discarded industrial materials: since this material does not have a specific, characteristic use, it naturally lends itself to questions and attempts to find solutions. The lack of direct, univocal function makes these materials particularly fertile for children to use, since it sustains them in their questions, investigations and natural problem solving strategies. In short, working with unfinished materials, as has been shown in the Remida project, supports children in using creative thought, meaning their capacity to generate new, original connections between information, thoughts and objects. The juxtapositions and the transformations of the objects allow new, meaningful and valuable attributes to be made, encouraging new and original viewpoints regarding everyday life (Taylor, 2006), making them material pretexts which naturally support creative research, typical of childhood, able to promote corporeal, symbolic, constructive, sonorous, sensorial, linguistic, mathematic and scientific explorations. Unfinished materials, especially recycled ones and industrial discards, are extremely interesting objects thanks to the creative possibilities which they offer to children, since using them involves fewer traditional formal, structural and functional references. This in turn leads to unusual and original connections which are not pre-definable, not only in terms of the actions of children exploring them, but also in the thoughts which accompany them and inspire reflection and discussion. 5. Conclusion Working with finished objects showed that using these materials with different functions than the usual ones allowed for the development of new ideas regarding already known objects, stimulating reflection on the single components which composed the whole, creating novelty and moving away from the expected. The use of unfinished objects highlighted the indefinite qualities of unstructured materials, especially materials discarded from industrial processes, offering new opportunities also both for the teachers leading the workshops, as well as creating very specific areas of investigation for the children who experimented with several languages and thus learned on different levels, stimulating them to find creative strategies to deal with the questions that came up. 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(2006), Vie Altered Object, New York, Lark Books. work_7qkrrpxgdfevncbo2wkxsowiau ---- Fatih ARSLAN ADIYAMAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ DERGİSİ ISSN: 1308–9196 Yıl : 6 Sayı : 14 SOSYAL BİLGİLER ÖĞRETİMİ ÖZEL SAYISI 2013 ORTAÖĞRETİM ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN MİLLİYETÇİLİK VE KAHRAMANLIK ALGILARININ CİNSİYETE VE OKUL TÜRÜNE BAĞLI DEĞİŞİMİNİN SOSYOLOJİK ANALİZİ Hasan SUNGUR * Mehmet YILDIZ ** Öz Tarih dersleri ve ders kitapları toplumun değerlerini etkili ve hızlı bir şekilde şekillendiren ve gelecek kuşaklara aktaran araçlardır. Milliyetçilik ise devlet ideojisinin benimsediği resmi tarihin birincil öğelerinden biridir. Okullar bu bağlamda kahramanlık unsurlarını kullanarak milliyetçilik dahil olmak üzere çeşitli fikirlerin yayılmasına öncülük etmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı ortaöğretim öğrencilerinin milliyetçilik ve kahramanlık algılarının cinsiyetleri ve okul türlerine göre nasıl farklılıklar gösterdiğinin incelenmesidir. Bu amaçla araştırma Türkiye genelinde çeşitli liselerde öğrenim gören 628 lise öğrencisine uygulanmıştır. Veriler yapılan literatür araştırması sonucu ortaya çıkartılmış bir anket ile toplanmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda milliyetçi değerlerin erkek öğrencilerde kız öğrencilere oranla, devlet okulu öğrencilerinde ise özel okul öğrencilerine oranla daha egemen olduğu gözlemlenmiştir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Milliyetçilik, Kahramanlık, Cinsiyet, Okul Türü A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEPENDENCY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF NATIONALISM AND HEROISM ON GENDER AND SCHOOL TYPE Abstract History lessons and textbooks are the fastest and most efficient tools that shape and transmit social values. Nationalism is one of the major notions * Yrd. Doç. Dr. Tunceli Üniversitesi,Tarih Bölümü, sungur@bilkent.edu.tr ** Yale University, Lisans Öğrencisi mailto:sungur@bilkent.edu.tr Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 516 that state includes in the “official history”. Schools are the main instruments of the cultivation of nationalism through the use of heroism. This study is aimed to examine the differences among high school students’ perception of nationalism and heroism, focusing on the differences that have a meaningful correlation with gender and school type. For this purpose a test was executed to 628 students from different high schools in Turkey. Data were collected by a test which was created after researching on the issue. According to the results of the research, it is found that male students and state school students have more nationalist values than female students and private school students. Keywords: Nationalism; Heroism; Gender; School Type 1.GİRİŞ Devlet eğitiminin ulusal bütünlüğü koruyucu ve destekleyici rolü ulus-devletlerin yükselişini modern toplumların oluşumun arkasındaki tarihsel güçlere bağlayan pek çok çalışmada tekrar tekrar vurgulanmıştır (Gellner, 1983; Giddens, 1985; Green, 1990; Smith, 1998). Sosyolojik teori eğitimde vatanseverliğin rolüne sıklıkla atıfta bulunmuştur. Klasik fonksiyonalist teoriler okulların birleştirici bir kültürü korumak ve toplumdaki uyumu güvence altına almak adına vatanseverliği geliştirdiği düşüncesini korumaktadır. (Durkheim, 1956, 1961; Parsons, 1959; Dreeben, 1968; de Marrais& LeCompte, 1994). Çatışma ve direniş perspektifleri ise, diğer bir yandan, tarihin tek bir perspektifle şekillendirilmesinin içinde barındırdığı çelişkilere tekrar tekrar dikkat çekmiştir(Christou, 2007: 710)Eleştirel teorisyenler ise okulların politik mücadele alanları olduğunu, bu alanlarda vatanseverliğin sıklıkla egemen kültürün ideolojisinin etnik azınlıklar ve hak tanınmamış gruplara empoze edilmeye çalışıldığını savunmuştur (Apple, 1979; Giroux, 1987, 1997; McLaren, 1989). Okullarda öğretmenlerin anlatımları ve ders kitapları ile şekillenen dersler öğrencilerin özellikle tarihsel fikirlerinin oluşmasında önemli rol oynamaktadır. Michael H. Romanowski’ye göre “ABD vatandaşlarının pek çoğunun demokratik idealleri büyük oranda öğretilen tarihin versiyonu tarafından şekillendirilmiştir.Ve ABD tarihinin Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 517 sınıflarda okutulan versiyonu büyük oranda ABD tarihi ders kitaplarınca şekillendirilmiştir” (1995: 38). Romanowski gibi, diğer pek çok müfredat analizcisi de kullanılan ders kitaplarının öğrencilerin tarihsel ve sosyal algılarının şekillenmesinde kritik rol oynadığını yazmıştır (Anyon, 1978, 1979; Apple & Christian-Smith, 1991). Loewen’e göre (Porat 2004: 964) ders kitapları sosyal norm ve inançları değiştirme kapasitesine sahiptir. Ders kitaplarında öğrencilere aktarılan bilgi onların üstün bir ulusa ait olduğu fikrini verir. Bu ders kitaplarında uluslar ve insanlar arası eşitlik, ya da farklı kültürlerin etkileşiminden ortaya çıkan bir ulus fikirleri bulunmamaktadır(Millas 1991: 24). Milas Türkiye ve Yunanistan üzerine yaptığı araştırmasında (Milas 1991: 25) her iki devlette de böylesi bir anlayışın “resmi tarih” olarak kabul edildiğini ve pek çok tarih kitabında bulunduğunu yazmıştır. Taraflı ders kitapları tarihsel fikirlerin oluşturulmasında büyük önem taşıyor, zira eğitim tüm ulusun tarih anlayışını etkiliyor (Milas 1991: 31-32). Fakat öğrenmek elbette ders kitaplarıyla sınırlı değildir: öğretmenler ve medya da bu konuda aktif rol oynamaktadır (Milas, 1991: 23) Milas’ın çalışmaları resmi tarihin Türkiye’de milliyetçi idealleri desteklemek için kullanıldığını göstermektedir. Bir millet çoğunlukla ortak bir dile, kültüre, etnisiteye, ataya ya da tarihe sahip olan bir grup insanın oluşturduğu bir topluluktur. Aynı zamanda her ne kadar çoğunlulukla bu ortak özelliklerle beraber kullanılıyor olsa da, millet, ortak bir vatanı ya da devleti paylaşan etnik etkenlerden bağımsız bir birliği de tanımlayabilmektedir. Milliyetçilik ise, Miller’e göre (Miller 1997: 167) birinin kendi ulusuna karşı iltimasıdır ve bu iltimas politik zorlamanın ciddi kullanımlarının desteklenmesiyle yakından ilişkilidir. Bu nedenle milliyetçi duygular devletin koyduğu vergilerin ya da milli bayramların kutlanmasının desteklenmesinden azınlık grupların toplama kamplarına gönderilmesini desteklemeye kadar pek çok eyleme neden olabilir (Miller 1997: 168). Dekker de benzer bir görüşü savunur; ona göre de milliyetçilik bireyin tutumu olarak değerlendirilmelidir (Dekker, Malova ve Hoogendoorn 2003: Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 518 346). Bu tutum bireyin belli bir objeye duyduğu çekimin miktarıdır, bu da “bir bireyin objenin iltimas geçilebilirliğine dair genel hisleridir (Ajzen ve Fishbein 1980: 54). Ders kitaplarından ulusal kutlamalardaki ritüel ve seremonilere kadar uzanan geniş bir düzlemde, okullar birleşmiş bir ulusun temel ideallerinin oluşturulması ve korunmasında her zaman önemli rol oynamışlardır (Christou 2007: 709). Eğitim kuruluşlarının önemli bir işlevi bu sivil kararlığı ve farkındalığı yaratan değer yönlendirmesinin ve ahlaki gelişimin gerçekleştirilmesidir (Lutovinov ve Meshkova 2009: 16). Fakat, her ne kadar bireyin ülkesine duyduğu bağlılık doğal ve bir ölçüde adil olsa da, okullarda milliyetçiliğin desteklenmesi eğitim amaçlarına uygunluğu bir tartışma konusudur (Merry 2009: 379). Milliyetçilik konusunda Benedict Anderson, Ernest Gellner, Eric Hobsbawm, Elie Kedourie Anthony Smith, Nev Nikolayeviç Gumilev gibi pek çok yazar teorik çalışmalar yürütmüştür; bu çalışmalarda vatanseverlik, militarizm, şovenizm, etnik aidiyet, dilsel aidiyet, ulusalcılık, faşizm, militancılık, dinselcilik, otoriterlik, ırkçılık, kahramanlık, maneviyat, atalar kültü, sadakat, egemenlik, ortak irade, vatan, romantizm, anti- emperyalizm, asabiyet, hayali cemaatler, tarihsel kimlik, tarih bilinci, kamusallık, kültürellik gibi kavramlar teoriler içinde sıklıkla kullanılmaktadır. Milliyetçilikle çok yakından bağı olan bir başka kavram ise okullarda milliyetçi eğitim için sıklıkla kullanılan unsurlardan biri de olan kahramanlıktır. Kahramanlık, alışıldık ya da alışılmadık özelliklerin alışılmadık derecede görülmesidir. Bir kahraman bu özellikleri, başarılı ya da tanınmış olsun ya da olmasın, hareketlerinde gösteren kişidir. (Howerth 1935: 18) Kahramanlar her zaman onlara tapan bir kitleye sahiptirler. Tapınma ise taklidi ve öykünmeyi beraberinde getirir. İnsanlar kahramanlarına benzemeye çalışır (Howerth, 18). Dolayısıyla kahramana tapınma her zaman sosyal teşvik ve kontrol aracı işlevi görür. Bu nedenle eğitime de dahil edilir (Howerth 1935: 19). Sonuçta, kahraman fikri, hem psikolojik hem de sosyal sebeplerden dolayı, öğretmenlerce ahlaki eğitim Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 519 amacıyla etkili bir şekilde kullanılabilir, eğitimde, özellikle karakter gelişiminde kolaylıkla en güçlü faktörlerden biri haline gelebilir (Howerth 1935: 24). Dolayısıyla açıktır ki okullar devletin “resmi tarihinin” aktarılmasında ve kahramanlar aracılığıyla milliyetçiliğin desteklenmesinde önemli bir işleve sahiptirler. Okullarda aktarılan tarihin fikirsel ve betimsel yapısı binlerce öğrencinin yaşamları boyunca tarihsel bilgiyle etkileşime geçecekleri ana bakış açısını belirlemektedir (Porat 2004: 963). 2. YÖNTEM Araştırma Grubu: Türkiye genelinde farklı illerden (İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Diyarabakır, Elazığ, Mersin, Muş, Şırnak) Fen Lisesi, Anadolu Lisesi, Anadolu Meslek Lisesi, İmam Hatip Lisesi ve Özel Lise olmak üzere beş farklı okul türünde toplam 18 okulda öğrenim gören 628 öğrenci araştırma grubunu oluşturmuştur. Veri Toplama Araçları: Bu çalışmada veriler, literatür taramasının sonucunda oluşturulan, sıralama ve işaretleme türlerinde 12 sorudan oluşan bir anket ile toplanmıştır. Verilerin Analizi: Anket sorularına verilen cevaplar ile cinsiyet ve okul türü arasındaki farklar t-testi teknikleriyle çözümlenmiştir. 3.BULGULAR SORU 1: Sizce bir insanı kahraman yapan değerler aşağıdakilerden hangileridir. Aşağıdaki karakter özelliklerini önem sırasına göre 1‘den 9’a kadar numaralandırınız. (1:En önemli; 9:En az önemli)  Cesaret  Zeka Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 520  Hoşgörü  Hırs  Vatan Sevgisi  Karizma  Fedakarlık  Güç  İleri Görüşlülük Cinsiyet İlişkisi: Tablo 1 incelendiğinde, insanı kahraman yapan değerlerin karizma alt boyutunda erkekler lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 1. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle İnsanı Kahraman Yapan Değerler Değerlendirilmesi Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Değerler Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Cesaret 2,8035 1,74675 3,0638 1,93014 1,772 ,077 Zeka 3,0434 1,86061 2,9149 1,97489 -,837 ,403 Hoşgörü 5,7139 2,45934 5,8546 2,41661 ,719 ,472 Hırs 5,3006 2,29980 5,2730 2,22887 -,151 ,880 Vatan Sevgisi 4,9451 2,50446 4,7340 2,71221 -1,012 ,312 Karizma 8,2861 1,57946 7,9043 1,72114 -2,894 ,004* Fedakarlik 4,5405 2,19217 4,8688 2,14438 1,885 ,060 Güç 5,0896 2,08252 5,3191 2,28664 1,315 ,189 İleri Görüşlülük 4,9306 2,23304 4,6738 2,06305 -1,483 ,138 *p<0,05 Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 521 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 2 incelendiğinde, insanı kahraman yapan değerlerin cesaret alt boyutunda devlet okulu öğrencileri lehine, vatan sevgisi ve ileri görüşlülük alt boyutunda ise özel okul öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 2. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle İnsanı Kahraman Yapan Değerler Değerlendirmesi Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Değerler Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=439) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Cesaret 3,2381 1,92172 2,7836 1,78044 -2,864 ,004* Zeka 2,8889 1,73920 3,0273 1,98261 ,832 ,406 Hoşgörü 5,8466 2,45659 5,7472 2,43403 -,468 ,640 Hırs 5,1746 2,42684 5,3371 2,19490 ,824 ,410 Vatan Sevgisi 5,3810 2,70399 4,6219 2,52261 -3,384 ,001* Karizma 8,0000 1,75342 8,1640 1,60919 1,140 ,255 Fedakarlik 4,5661 2,26023 4,7403 2,13815 ,920 ,358 Güç 4,9577 2,11839 5,2938 2,19749 1,777 ,076 İleri Görüşlülük 4,3757 2,10158 5,0046 2,16024 3,374 ,001* *p<0,05 SORU 2: Aşağıdaki toplumsal değerleri kendi öncelik ve önem sıranıza göre 1‘den 7’ye kadar numaralandırınız. (1-en önemli; 7-en az önemli)  Din  Aile  Millet/Toplum  Kişisel Eşyalar  Devlet  Arkadaşlar  Milli Değerler Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 522 Cinsiyet İlişkisi: Tablo 3 incelendiğinde toplumsal değerlerin devlet alt boyutunda erkekler lehine, aile alt boyutunda ise kızlar lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 3. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle Toplumsal Değerler Değerlendirmesi Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Değerler Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Din 3,4942 2,31723 3,5390 2,31048 ,241 ,809 Aile 1,6965 ,97078 1,28627 3,170 ,002* 1,9823 Millet 3,8931 1,49690 4,0496 1,45062 1,322 ,187 KişiselEşyalar 5,4740 1,71630 5,5355 1,73938 ,444 ,657 Devlet 5,1821 1,47984 4,7270 1,68938 - 3,597 ,000* Arkadaşlar 3,8786 1,59428 3,9504 1,71999 ,541 ,588 Milli Değerler 4,0896 1,73140 4,1135 1,77002 ,170 ,865 *p<0,05 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 4 incelendiğinde, toplumsal değerlerin din ve devlet alt boyutlarında devlet okulu öğrencileri lehine, aile, arkadaş ve kişisel eşyalar alt boyutlarında ise özel okul öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 523 Tablo 4. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle Toplumsal Değerler Değerlendirmesi Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Değerler Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=439) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Din 5,1429 1,85819 2,8132 2,12974 -13,050 ,000* Aile 1,4021 ,76297 2,0068 1,21349 6,332 ,000* Millet 3,8201 1,45844 4,0251 1,48257 1,597 ,111 KişiselEşyalar 5,0212 1,83627 5,7084 1,63486 4,653 ,000* Devlet 5,3439 1,37347 4,8200 1,65437 -3,823 ,000* Arkadaşlar 3,2169 1,51956 4,2096 1,61664 7,184 ,000* Milli Değerler 3,8942 1,71645 4,1891 1,75517 1,944 ,052 *p<0,05 SORU 4: Aşağıdakilerden hangisi sizi duygusal olarak daha çok etkiler? Etki gücüne göre 1‘den 7’ye kadar numaralandırınız. (1-en önemli; 7-en az önemli ) • Askeri geçit ve törenler • Savaş sahneleri • Bir çocuğun ağlaması • Birinin ölümü • İstiklal Marşı • Aileden uzaklık • Türk Bayrağı Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 524 Cinsiyet İlişkisi: Tablo 5 incelendiğinde duygusal olarak etkileyen durumların İstiklal Marşı ve Türk Bayrağı’nın dalgalanması alt boyutlarında erkekler lehine, birinin ölümüve aileden uzak kalmak alt boyutlarında ise kızlar lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 5. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle Duygusal Olarak Etkileyen Durumlar Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Durumlar Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Askeri Geçit 4,8468 1,75192 4,8475 1,77812 ,005 ,996 Savaş Sahneleri 3,9855 1,76679 1,28627 3,170 ,002* 1,9823 Bir Çocuğun Ağlaması 4,5087 1,99017 4,6383 1,94507 ,820 ,412 BirininÖlümü 2,4075 1,70892 2,9433 1,97592 3,642 ,000* İstiklal Marşı 4,3468 1,72314 3,9610 1,77625 - 2,753 ,006* Aileden Uzaklık 2,8092 1,91365 3,3440 2,05584 3,368 ,001* Türk Bayrağı 4,6936 1,79817 3,8404 1,96030 - 5,679 ,000* *p<0,05 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 6 incelendiğinde, duygusal olarak etkileyen durumların bir çocuğun ağlaması ve birinin ölümü alt boyutlarında özel okulu öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 525 Tablo 6. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle Duygusal Olarak Etkileyen Durumlar Değerlendirmesi Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Durumlar Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=439) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Askeri Geçit 4,8155 1,79042 4,8155 1,79042 -,685 ,493 Savaş Sahneleri 4,1640 1,85070 4,0706 1,83498 -,584 ,560 Bir Çocuğun Ağlaması 4,2857 2,04805 4,6879 1,92452 2,356 ,019* BirininÖlümü 2,3333 1,76551 2,7836 1,87293 2,811 ,005* İstiklal Marşı 4,3069 1,76581 4,1162 1,75111 -1,249 ,212 Aileden Uzaklık 3,1905 1,96125 2,9886 2,00851 -1,163 ,245 Türk Bayrağı 4,4815 1,79714 4,2369 1,96625 -1,466 ,143 *p<0,05 SORU 8: Sizce aşağıdaki kişilerden hangileri kahraman olarak nitelenebilir? Kahraman olarak nitelediğiniz karakterlerin yanındaki kutucuğa çarpı(X) işareti koyunuz. • İsmet İnönü • Mimar Sinan • Çerkez Ethem • Thomas Edison • Fatih Sultan Mehmet • Sabiha Gökçen • Malcolm X • V. I. Lenin • Pablo Picasso Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 526 • II. Abdülhamit • Adnan Menderes • Yaşar Kemal • Adolf Hitler • Süperman • Atatürk • Kanuni Sultan Süleyman • Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi • Napoleon Bonaparte • Albert Einstein • Orhan Pamuk • Martin Luther King Jr. • Josef Stalin • Şeyh Bedrettin • Hz. Muhammed • Hiçbiri Cinsiyet İlişkisi: Tablo 7 incelendiğinde kahraman olarak nitelendirilen karakterlerin Çerkez Ethem, Malcolm, Lenin, II. Abdulhamit, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Martin Luther ve Lşeyh Bedrettin alt boyutlarında erkekler lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 527 Tablo 7. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle Kahraman Olarak Nitelendirilen Karakterler Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Karakterler Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p İsmet İnönü ,3779 ,48557 ,4291 ,49582 1,299 ,194 Mimar Sinan ,3517 ,47821 ,3440 ,47588 -,203 ,839 Çerkez Ethem ,0901 ,28677 ,1844 ,38850 3,489 ,001* Thomas Edison ,2674 ,44327 ,2199 ,41489 -1,375 ,170 Fatih Sultan Mehmet ,7471 ,43531 ,8014 ,39964 1,612 ,108 Sabiha Gökçen ,2616 ,44016 ,1986 ,39964 -1,858 ,064 Malcolm ,0673 ,25082 ,1277 ,33430 2,576 ,010* Lenin ,0610 ,23976 ,1099 ,31336 2,210 ,027* Pablo Picasso ,1105 ,31393 ,0961 ,29523 -,585 ,559 II. Abdulhamit ,1108 ,31433 ,2376 ,42636 4,274 ,000* Adnan Menderes ,1948 ,39660 ,2420 ,42905 1,427 ,154 Yaşar Kemal ,1192 ,32448 ,0922 ,28982 -1,086 ,278 Adolf Hitler ,1137 ,31791 ,2163 ,41246 3,511 ,000* Süperman ,2267 ,41934 ,2376 ,42636 ,320 ,749 Atatürk ,8663 ,34085 ,8333 ,37334 -1,153 ,250 Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ,5510 ,49812 ,6277 ,48429 1,938 ,053 Mevlana ,3023 ,45993 ,3191 ,46698 ,452 ,651 Napoleon ,0904 ,28714 ,1702 ,37649 3,006 ,003* Albert Einstein ,3169 ,46593 ,3121 ,46416 -,129 ,898 OrhanPamuk ,0875 ,28293 ,1312 ,33823 1,761 ,079 Martin Luther ,1628 ,36971 ,2695 ,44449 3,279 ,001* Josef Stalin ,0436 ,20451 ,0745 ,26300 1,651 ,099 ŞeyhBedrettin ,0349 ,18375 ,1277 ,33430 4,400 ,000* Hz. Muhammed ,6773 ,46818 ,7234 ,44811 1,249 ,212 Hiçbiri ,0000 ,00000 ,0142 ,11846 2,221 ,027* *p<0,05 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 8 incelendiğinde kahraman olarak nitelendirilen karakterlerin Mimar Sinan, Çerkez Ethem, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Adnan Menderes, Kanuni Sultan Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 528 Süleyman, Mevlana, Orhan Pamuk, Şeyh Bedrettin, Hz. Muhammedalt boyutlarında devlet okulu öğrencileri lehine, Malcolm, Lenin, Atatürk, Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther, Josef Stalin alt boyutlarında ise özel okul öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 8. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle Kahraman Olarak Nitelendirilen Karakterler Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Karakterler Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=437) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p İsmet İnönü ,3810 ,48691 ,4096 ,49233 ,671 ,503 Mimar Sinan ,2328 ,42374 ,3982 ,49008 4,032 ,000* Çerkez Ethem 189 ,0741 ,26259 ,36506 2,853 ,004* Thomas Edison ,2804 ,45040 ,2311 ,42203 -1,315 ,189 Fatih Sultan Mehmet ,6720 ,47075 ,8146 ,38903 3,946 ,000* Sabiha Gökçen ,2593 ,43939 ,2220 ,41605 -1,012 ,312 Malcolm ,1481 ,35619 ,0713 ,25756 -3,034 ,003* Lenin ,1534 ,36137 ,0526 ,22355 -4,249 ,000* Pablo Picasso ,1011 ,30222 ,1053 ,30724 ,157 ,875 II. Abdulhamit ,0265 ,16091 ,2294 ,42090 6,425 ,000* Adnan Menderes ,0904 ,28756 ,2700 ,44448 5,099 ,000* Yaşar Kemal ,0794 ,27103 ,1190 ,32415 1,473 ,141 Adolf Hitler ,2606 ,44016 ,1167 ,32144 -4,569 ,000* Süperman ,2646 ,44227 ,2174 ,41294 -1,284 ,200 Atatürk ,9048 ,29432 ,8284 ,37749 -2,475 ,014* Kanuni Sultan Süleyman ,4127 ,49363 ,6606 ,47407 5,928 ,000* Mevlana ,1799 ,38512 ,3661 ,48230 4,699 ,000* Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 529 Napoleon ,2169 ,41325 ,0872 ,28239 -4,551 ,000* Albert Einstein ,3915 ,48939 ,2815 ,45023 -2,734 ,006* OrhanPamuk ,0688 ,25376 ,1239 ,32979 2,048 ,041* Martin Luther ,4392 ,49760 ,1121 ,31589 -9,888 ,000* Josef Stalin ,0952 ,29432 ,0412 ,19896 -2,678 ,008* ŞeyhBedrettin ,0265 ,16091 ,0984 ,29819 3,125 ,002* Hz. Muhammed ,4550 ,49930 ,8032 ,39803 9,278 ,000* Hiçbiri ,0106 ,10259 ,0046 ,06757 -,865 ,387 *p<0,05 SORU 9: Aşağıdaki olaylardan hangisi/hangileri tepki göstermenize yol açar? Aşağıdaki seçenekleri 1‘den 5’e kadar numaralandırınız. (1-en çok tepki; 5-en az tepki) • Türk Bayrağı’nınYakılması • Şehit Haberleri Almak • Okuldan atılmak • Bir arkadaşınızın haksızlığa uğraması • Ailenizden birinin zarar görmesine tanık olmak Cinsiyet İlişkisi: Tablo 9 incelendiğinde öğrencilerin tepki gösterdiği olayların okuldan atılma ve aileden birinin zarar görmesi alt boyutlarında kızlar lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 530 Tablo 9. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle Tepki Gösterilen Olaylar Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Olaylar Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortala ma SD t p Türk Bayrağı’nın Yakılması 2,1982 1,30477 2,0328 1,3863 6 - 1,51 6 ,130 Şehit Haberleri Almak 3,0206 1,16514 2,8650 ,97215 - 1,76 9 ,077 Okuldan Atılmak 3,8525 1,16992 4,0474 1,0866 9 2,11 7 ,035 * BirArkadaşınızınHaksızlığaUğr aması 4,0030 1,08537 3,8942 1,0825 5 - 1,23 5 ,217 Ailenizden Birinin Zarar Görmesi 1,8024 ,95731 2,1058 1,0859 3 3,67 4 ,000 * *p<0,05 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 10 incelendiğinde, öğrencilerin tepki gösterdiği olayların Türk Bayrağı’nın yakılması ve şehit haberleri almak alt boyutlarında devlet okulu öğrencileri lehine, bir arkadaşının haksızlığa uğraması ve aileden birinin zarar görmesi alt boyutlarında ise özel okul öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 531 Tablo 10. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle Tepki Gösterilen Olaylar Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Olaylar Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=439) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Türk Bayrağı’nın Yakılması 2,5215 1,37234 1,9507 1,29430 -4,926 ,000* Şehit Haberleri Almak 3,3495 1,04049 2,7775 1,05913 -6,179 ,000* Okuldan Atılmak 3,3495 1,04049 1,21652 1,09735 1,763 ,078 BirArkadaşınızınHaksızlığaUğraması 3,7581 1,11528 4,0399 1,06088 2,976 ,003* Ailenizden Birinin Zarar Görmesi 1,5054 ,78670 2,1265 1,06278 7,160 ,000* *p<0,05 SORU 12: Çevrenizde saygı duyduğunuz kişilerin belirgin kişilik özellikleri arasında aşağıdakilerden hangisi/hangileri mevcuttur? 1‘den 7’ye kadar numaralandırınız. (1-en belirgin; 7-en az belirgin) • Bayrağına ve Ülkesine Bağlılık • Etrafındakilere Hoşgörü • Mantıkla Hareket Etme • Milletini Sevme • Yaptığı İşte Başarılı Olma • Ülkesi İçin Çalışma • İnsanları Sevme ve Sayma Cinsiyet İlişkisi:Tablo 11 incelendiğinde saygı duyulan kişilerin belirgin kişilik özelliklerinin ülkesi için çalışma alt boyutunda erkekler lehine, etrafındakiler hoşgörü, Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 532 mantıkla hareket etme ve insanları sevme sayma alt boyutlarında ise kızlar lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Diğer değerlerde anlamlı bir farka rastlanmamıştır. Tablo 11. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Cinsiyet Durumu İle Saygı Duyulan Kişilerin Belirgin Kişilik Özellikleri Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Kişilik Özellikleri Kız (N=346) Erkek (N=282) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD T p Bayrağına Ülkesine Bağlılık 3,7830 2,20823 3,4286 2,36505 - 1,927 ,054 Etrafındakilere Hoşgörü 3,6129 1,78960 3,9357 1,91658 2,166 ,031* Mantıkla Hareket Etme 3,4135 1,89636 3,7563 2,00846 2,180 ,030* Milletlerini Sevme 4,1799 1,60438 4,0358 1,73375 - 1,071 ,284 YaptığıİşteBaşarılıOlma 4,5425 1,91175 4,5000 1,91392 -,276 ,783 Ülkesi için Çalışma 5,1877 1,75398 4,6643 1,76834 - 3,687 ,000* İnsanları Sevme, Sayma 2,9589 2,01131 3,6786 2,00096 4,447 ,000* *p<0,05 Okul Türü İlişkisi: Tablo 12 incelendiğinde, saygı duyulan kişilerin belirgin kişilik özelliklerinin bayrağına ve ülkesine bağlılık, milletini sevmek ve ülkesi için çalışmak alt boyutlarında devlet okulu öğrencileri lehine, etrafındakilere hoşgörü gösterme, mantıkla hareket etme, yaptığı işte başarılı olma ve insanları sevme sayma alt boyutlarında ise özel okul öğrencileri lehine anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur. Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 533 Tablo 12. Araştırmaya Katılan Bireylerin Okul Türü Durumu İle Saygı Duyulan Kişilerin Belirgin Kişilik Özellikleri Durumu Arasındaki İlişkinin T Testi Sonuçlarının Dağılımı Kişilik Özellikleri Özel (N=189) Devlet (N=439) Değişken Ortalama SD Ortalama SD t p Bayrağına Ülkesine Bağlılık 4,2353 2,12467 3,3594 2,30369 - 4,447 ,000* Etrafındakilere Hoşgörü 3,4866 1,70502 3,8756 1,90373 2,408 ,016* Mantıkla Hareket Etme 2,9840 1,84763 3,8199 1,94600 4,983 ,000* Milletlerini Sevme 4,3262 1,69297 4,0232 1,64513 - 2,085 ,037* YaptığıİşteBaşarılıOlma 4,2834 1,88654 4,6267 1,91477 2,059 ,040* Ülkesi için Çalışma 5,4439 1,63326 4,7396 1,79785 - 4,600 ,000* İnsanları Sevme, Sayma 3,0000 1,94549 3,4055 2,06512 2,284 ,023* *p<0,05 TARTIŞMA VE SONUÇ Birinci soru örneklemin insanı kahraman yapan özelliklere bakış açısını analiz etmeye yönelik sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda karizmanın erkek öğrenciler için kız öğrenciler için olduğundan daha önemli bir kahramanlık özelliği olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu durumda karizmanın toplumsal hayatta çoğunlukla erkeklerle ilişkili olarak kullanılıyor olmasının etkisi olmuş olabilir. Araştırma sonucunda cesaretin devlet okulu öğrencileri için özel okul öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli bir kahramanlık özelliği olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Vatan sevgisi ve ileri görüşlülük özellikleri ise özel okul öğrencileri için devlet okulu öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli bir kahramanlık özelliği olmuştur. Bütün örneklemin içerisinde en önemli kahramanlık özelliklerinin zeka ve cesaret olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu iki özelliğin kahramanlık algısının temellerini oluşturduğu savunulabilir. İkinci soru örneklemin toplumsal değerlere bakış açısını analiz etmeye yönelik sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda devlet kavramının erkekler için kızlar için olduğundan daha önemli bir toplumsal değer olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Aile kavramı ise Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 534 kız öğrenciler için erkek öğrenciler için olduğundan daha önemli bir toplumsal değer olmuştur. Bu durumda erkek ve kadın için toplumsal olarak biçilmiş rollerin önemi olduğu söylenebilir. Türkiye’de kadının sosyo-ekonomik olarak aileye bağımlı görülüyor olmasının kız öğrencilerin tercihinde bir etkisi olabilir. Erkek öğrencilerin bu noktada aileden daha geniş ve güçlü bir yapı olan devlete önem veriyor olması, erkeğin hem sosyo-ekonomik hem de politik olarak aileye daha az bağımlı olmasından kaynaklanıyor olabilir. Araştırma sonucunda din ve devlet kavramlarının devlet okulu öğrencileri için özel okul öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli toplumsal değerler olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Aile, Arkadaş ve Kişisel Eşyalar kavramları ise özel okul öğrencileri için devlet okulu öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli toplumsal değerler olmuştur. Görülen net ayrım devlet okulunda okuyan öğrencilerin din ve devlet gibi toplumsal unsurlara görece daha çok önem verdiğini gösterirken özel okulda okuyan öğrencilerin aile, arkadaş ya da kişisel eşyalar gibi bireysel unsurlara görece daha fazla önem verdiğini ortaya koymaktadır. Toplumsal ve bireysel değerler arasında görülen bu dağılımın devlet okulu-özel okul ayrımından kaynaklandığını, ya da bu ayrımla ilişkili olduğu söylenebilir. Devlet okullarında milliyetçiliğin önemli elementleri olan din ve devlet unsurlarının görece daha önemli görülmesi not edilmesi gereken önemli bir bulgudur. Bütün örneklemin içerisinde en önemli toplumsal değerlerin aile ve din olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Dördüncü soru örneklemin duygusal olarak etkileyici durumlara bakış açısını analiz etmeye yönelik sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda İstiklal Marşı’nın ve Türk Bayrağı’nın erkekler için kızlar için olduğundan daha etkileyici olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Birinin ölümü ve aileden uzak kalmak ise kız öğrenciler için erkek öğrenciler için olduğundan daha etkileyici olmuştur. Erkek öğrencilerin milli marş ve milli bayrak gibi milliyetçi etmenlerden daha çok etkileniyor olması milliyetçi düşüncelerin erkek öğrencilerde daha net görüldüğünü göstermektedir. Kız öğrencilerin bireysel Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 535 meselelerden erkek öğrencilere oranla daha çok etkileniyor olması da bu düşünceyi desteklemektedir.Araştırma sonucunda bir çocuğun ağlamasının ve birinin ölümünün özel okul öğrencileri için devlet okulu öğrencileri için olduğundan daha etkileyici olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bireysel olarak algılanabilecek bu durumların özel okul öğrencileri için görece daha etkili olması daha önceki bulguları destekler niteliktedir.Bütün örneklemin içerisinde en etkileyici durumun birinin ölümü olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sekizinci soru örneklemin kimleri kahraman olarak gördüğünü analiz etmek için sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda Çerkez Ethem, Malcolm, Lenin, II. Abdulhamit, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon, Martin Luther ve Şeyh Bedrettin kimliklerinin daha çok erkek öğrencilerce kahraman olarak nitelendirildiği tespit edilmiştir.Araştırma sonucunda Mimar Sinan, Çerkez Ethem, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Adnan Menderes, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman, Mevlana, Orhan Pamuk, Şeyh Bedrettin, Hz. Muhammed kimliklerinin daha çok devlet okulu öğrencilerince kahraman olarak nitelendirildiği tespit edilmiştir. Malcolm, Lenin, Atatürk, Napoleon, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther, Josef Stalin kimlikleri ise daha çok özel okul öğrencilerince kahraman olarak nitelendirilmiştir. Bulgu analiz edildiğinde devlet okulu öğrencilerinin ulusal ya da dinsel kimlikleri görece daha çok kahramanlaştırdığı görülmüştür. Özel okul öğrencileri ise Malcolm, Lenin, Albert Einstein gibi daha uluslararası figürleri görece daha çok kahramanlaştırmışlardır. Aradaki ulusal-uluslararası ayrımı devlet okullarında dinselcilikten de beslenen milliyetçiliğin daha yaygın olduğunu göstermektedir. Atatürk, Fatih Sultan Mehmet, Hz. Muhammed, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman kimliklerinin bütün örneklemin içerisinde kahraman olarak en çok nitelendirilen kimlikler olmuşlardır. Dokuzuncu soru örneklemin tepki gösterdiği olayları analiz etmek için sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda kız öğrencilerin okuldan atılma ve aileden birinin zarar görmesi durumlarına erkek öğrencilerden daha tepkili olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Bu kız öğrencilerin erkek öğrencilere oranla bireysel durumlardan daha çok etkilendiğini Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 536 destekler nitelikte bir bulgudur. Araştırma sonucunda devlet okulu öğrencilerinin Türk Bayrağı’nın yakılması ve şehit haberleri durumlarına özel okul öğrencilerinden daha tepkili olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Özel okul öğrencileri ise bir arkadaşının haksızlığa uğraması ve aileden birinin zarar görmesi durumlarına devlet okulu öğrencilerinden daha tepkilidir. Toplumsal ve bireysel değerler arasında görülen bu dağılımın devlet okulu-özel okul ayrımından kaynaklandığını, ya da bu ayrımla ilişkili olduğu söylenebilir. Devlet okulları öğrencilerinin milliyetçi düşüncenin tepkiyle karşılayacağı Türk Bayrağı’nın yakılması ve şehit haberleri gibi durumlarına özel okul öğrencilerine oranla daha fazla tepki veriyor olması milliyetçiliğin devlet okulu öğrencileri arasında daha egemen olduğunu göstermektedir. Bütün örneklem içerisinde en çok tepki gösterilen durumların aileden birinin zarar görmesi ve Türk Bayrağı’nın yakılması olduğu tespit edilmiştir. On ikinci soru örneklemin saygı duyduğu kişilerin belirgin kişilik özelliklerinin belirlenmesi için sorulmuş bir sorudur. Cevaplar doğrultusunda ülkesi için çalışmanın erkek öğrenciler için kız öğrenciler için olduğundan daha önemli olduğu görülmüştür. Etrafındakilere hoşgörü ile yaklaşma, mantıkla hareket etme, insanları sevme ve sayma özellikleri ise kızlar için erkekler için olduğundan daha önemli olmuştur .Araştırma sonucunda bayrağına ve ülkesine bağlılık, milletini sevme ve ülkesi için çalışma özelliklerinin devlet okulu öğrencileri için özel okul öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Etrafındakilere hoşgörü gösterme, mantıkla hareket etme, yaptığı işte başarılı olma ve insanları sevip sayma özellikleri ise özel okul öğrencileri için devlet okulu öğrencileri için olduğundan daha önemli olmuştur. Doğrudan toplumsal faydaya ve milleti için çalışmaya dayanan özelliklerin devlet okulu öğrencilerince görece daha çok tercih edilmiş olması milliyetçiliğin devlet okulu öğrencilerinde daha yaygın olduğunu göstermektedir. Bireysel faydalara yönelik özelliklerin özel okul öğrencilerince görece daha yaygın bir şekilde tercih ediliyor olması da bu durumu desteklemektedir. 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Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 538 Giddens, A. (1985). A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism. Vol. 2 The Nation State and Violence. Cambridge: Polity Press. Giroux, H. A. (1987). “Citizenship, Public Philosophy, and the Retreat from Democracy in the United States.” In the Nation's Image: Civic Education in Japan, the Soviet Union, the United States, France and Britain Atlanta, Georgia State University, Centre for Crosscultural Education. Green, A. (1990). Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, France and the USA. London: MacMillan. Hobsbawm, E.J. (2006). Milletler ve Milliyetçilik. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları. Hobsbawm, E.J (2008). Kısa 20. Yüzyıl - 1914-1991 Aşırılıklar Çağı. İstanbul: Everest Yayınları. Howerth, I. W (1935). “Heroism as a Factor in Education.” The Phi Delta Kappan, Eylül: 18-24. Kegler, S. B., ve John S. S. 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Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 539 Porat, Dan A (2004). “It's Not Written Here, but This is What Happened: Student's Cultural Comprehension of Textbook Narratives on the Israeli-Arab Conflict.” American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 41, No:4: 963-996. Romanowski, M. H. (1995 ). “In Textbooks We Trust.” Executive-Educator, 17(5): 38-41. Smirnov, O., Holy A., Douglas K., ve Orbell J. (2007). “Ancestral War and the Evolutionary Origins of "Heroism".” The Journal of Politics: 927-940. Stern, P. C. (1995). “Why Do People Sacrifice for Their Nations?” Political Psychology, Haziran: 217-235. Hasan SUNGUR-Mehmet YILDIZ Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 540 EXTENDED ABSTRACT The role of public education in preserving and promoting national unity has been high- lighted repeatedly in studies that connect the rise of the nation-state to the historical forces behind the formation of modern societies (Gellner, 1983; Giddens, 1985; Green, 1990; Smith, 1998). Sociological theory has often addressed the role of patriotism in education. Classic functionalist theories maintain that schools cultivate patriotism in order to preserve a cohesive culture and safeguard harmony in society (Durkheim, 1956, 1961; Parsons, 1959; Dreeben, 1968; de Marrais&LeCompte, 1994). Conflict and resistance perspectives, on the other hand, have repeatedly pointed out the inherent contradictions in the process of molding a single perspective on history(Christou, 2007: 710). Critical theorists argue that far from securing a homogeneous viewpoint, schools are spaces of political struggle where patriotism is oftentimes the imposition of the dominant culture's ideology on ethnic minorities and disenfranchised groups (Apple, 1979; Giroux, 1987, 1997; McLaren, 1989). Michael H. Romanowski, for one, wrote that "to a great degree, the democratic ideals of the mass of U.S. citizens are shaped by the version of history taught. ... And in turn, the classroom version of U.S. history ... is shaped largely by the U.S. history textbook" (1995: 38). Many curriculum analysts view textbooks as playing a critical role in shaping students' historical and social perceptions (Anyon, 1978, 1979; Apple & Christian-Smith, 1991). Loewen implies, have the capacity to alter social norms and beliefs; however, they fail to do so. (Porat 2004: 964) The basic belief which is impressed upon students is that they belong to a superior nation. Such notions as equality among nations and peoples, or that civilization can derive from the interaction of different cultures, are not to be found in these textbooks. (Milas 1991: 24) Such understandings are accepted respectively in Greek and Turkey as the 'official view of history', and can be found in many history books (Milas 1991: 25) Biased textbooks are only one of the ways in which opinion is formed, but one of the most important, since textbooks are central to the 'education' of the whole nation (Milas 1991: 31-32). Learning is of course not only a question of textbooks: teachers, the mass media, sermons and so on all play their part as well (Milas 1991: 23). One of the major notions that is used for the cultivation of nationalism in schools is heroism. Heroism is the display of unusual human qualities, or of usual qualities in an unusual degree. A hero is one who exemplifies these qualities in action, whether he is successful and is recognized or not (Howerth 1935: 18). But always the hero has his worshipers. Worship tends to produce imitation and emulation. The people tend to grow into the likeness of their hero (Howerth 1935: 18). Hero worship, then, has Ortaöğretim Öğrencilerinin Milliyetçilik ve Kahramanlık Algılarının Cinsiyete ve Okul Türüne Bağlı Değişiminin Sosyolojik Analizi Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Yıl: 6, Sayı: 14, Sosyal Bilgiler Öğretimi Özel Sayısı, 2013 541 always been a means of social stimulation and social control. It should be employed also in education (Howerth 1935: 19). The conception of the hero, then, both for psychological and social reasons, may be employed by the teacher with great effect in moral training. It may easily be made one of the most powerful fac tors in education, particularly in character training (Howerth 1935: 24). As a result it is clear that from the writing of textbooks to the rituals and ceremonies on national celebrations, schools have always been important sites in defining and re- enacting the fundamental aspects of a unified national body. (Christou 2007: 709)"The conceptual and narrative framework of a basic textbook becomes, for thousands of students, the primary lens through which they incorporate historical knowledge for the rest of their lives"(Porat 2004: 963). In this context; nationalism and heroism becomes a subject of interest, as these are the major concepts schools cultivating in the society. The purpose of this investigation to examine the differences among high school students’ perception of nationalism and heroism, focusing on the differences that have a meaningful correlation with gender and school type. As school type is a major variable changing the education model, its aims and methods, a meaningful correlation between the nationalism and school type would support the theoretical framework presented in the case. In addition to school type comparison, an investigation on gender roles was a further supplement to this investigation which made it possible to analyze high school students’ nationalistic attitudes. For this purpose, a test was executed to 628 students from different high schools in Turkey. Data were collected by a test which was created after researching on the issue. According to the results of the research, it is found that male students and state school students have more nationalist values than female students and private school students. work_7zuvrdfg7vbbtkyhu3lttiqjjq ---- www.e-neurospine.org S17 Inside-Out and Outside-In Techniques in Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Are These Techniques Efficient Even for Pathology Irrelevant to the Intervertebral Foramen? “Inside-out (I-O)”—this simple phrase, which Yeung introduced in the 1990s, has be- come one of the standard terms used by endoscopic spine surgeons.1 Furthermore, the I-O technique has become a fundamental and popular technique in endoscopic transforaminal discectomy and decompression (ETD). The I-O technique enables better visualization of intradiscal conditions that cause pain, enabling the surgeon to perform intradiscal therapy. A comparative study2 in foraminal stenosis demonstrated that I-O had better long-term re- sults at a 5-year follow-up than the outside-in (O-I) technique. Yeung and Lewandrowski2 argued that the better outcomes of I-O were brought about by additional intradiscal thera- py during the early stage of an operation. However, the therapeutic effect of intradiscal treatment on backache when the I-O technique is used exceeds the scope of the current discussion. These techniques are mainly designated for the endoscopic management of pathology through the intervertebral foramen. There is no accessible route other than the through the foramen to approach pathology in the vertebral canal without laminectomy. Both techniques use a posterior and lateral incision from the midline of the back for skin access. The I-O technique is started by placing an endoscope in the disc, while the first step in the O-I tech- nique is localizing the foramen for foraminoplasty. In the final stage, the I-O technique leads to a widened foramen by successive decompressions.2 In contrast, the O-I technique results in free nerve roots by decompression in the last endoscopic view.3 According to these de- scriptions, I-O and O-I are surgical techniques for pathologies that are only accessible through the intervertebral foramen. I read 2 articles dealing with I-O and O-I in the management of endoscopic decompres- sion that were published in this special issue.4,5 These cases seemed to emulate Yeung’s con- cept when describing their endoscopic approach to a lesion. However, I did not find any critically different points, especially in the techniques used for the approach, between the 2 groups. They might not have a significant enough difference from each other for it to be appropriate to use different terminology. If pressed to find a difference between the tech- niques in these manuscripts, I might point out that they differ in terms of how to remove the ligamentum flavum (as a whole or piecemeal). In the article using the O-I technique,4 the author indicated that the O-I technique per- formed in their study was similar to “the over-the-top” technique.6 Using scientific termi- Neurospine 2020;17(Suppl 1):S17-19. https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2040326.163 Neurospine eISSN 2586-6591 pISSN 2586-6583 Editorial Corresponding Author Chun-Kun Park https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4705-8034 Good Doctor Tn-Tn Hospital, 775 Kyeongsu-daero, Dongan-gu, Anyanag 14041, Korea E-mail: ckpmd@catholic.ac.kr See the article “Lumbar Endoscopic Unilateral Laminotomy for Bilateral Decompression Outside-In Approach: A Proctorship Guideline With 12 Steps of Effectiveness and Safety” via https://doi. org/10.14245/ns.2040078.039. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2020 by the Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.14245/ns.2040326.163&domain=pdf&date_stamp=2020-07-31 Inside-Out and Outside-In Techniques in Degenerative Lumbar SpinePark CK Neurospine 2020;17(Suppl 1):S17-19.S18 www.e-neurospine.org nology, this technique can be referred to as unilateral laminoto- my with bilateral spinal canal decompression (ULBD), and an- other synonym in endoscopic surgery is “cross-over.” The origi- nal application of this technique was in open surgery.6 This technique, which is mainly used to decompress the contralater- al side of the canal, might have been carried out through ipsi- lateral single-incision skin access. In other words, although there are certain similarities between O-I and ULBD, O-I stands for a full series of endoscopic transforaminal techniques. There- fore a surgeon could divide the entire endoscopic procedure into several stages by time, whereas the “over-the-top” tech- nique is a specific way to handle a particular part of the entire endoscopic process.7 Consequently, It was improper to present the “over-the-top” technique as a similar procedure as the O-I technique, as each of these techniques plays a different role in the sequence of steps performed in an endoscopic procedure. In recent years, endoscopic decompression surgery has been used to treat central canal stenosis7 and other kinds of lumbar degenerative stenosis using newly designed endoscopes, with shorter and wider working channels, and surgical tools.8 The route approaching down from the skin via the lamina to the epidural space is anatomically more familiar to most spine sur- geons than the I-O technique in ETD. However, not a few en- doscopic spine surgeons, including Yeung, still place a high val- ue on I-O taking the foraminal route and insist that the ETD might be used for most lumbar spine pathologies, except for those that are unreachable. Accordingly, ETD cannot remain at the forefront in the field of endoscopic spine surgery, even if certain limited and specific pathologies may be managed better by ETD. The O-I and I-O techniques (mainly I-O), which are supposed to belong to ETD, should be appropriately applied in pathologies reachable by the transforaminal route. REFERENCES 1. Yeung AT, Tsou PM. Posterolateral endoscopic excision for lumbar disc herniation: Surgical technique, outcome, and complications in 307 consecutive cases. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2002;27:722-31 2. Yeung AT, Lewandrowski KU. Five-year clinical outcomes with endoscopic transforaminal foraminoplasty for symp- tomatic degenerative conditions of the spine: a comparative study of inside-out versus outside-in techniques J Spine Surg 2020;6(Suppl 1):S66-83. 3. Hoogland T, van den Brekel-Dijkstra K, Schubert M, et al. Endoscopic transforaminal discectomy for recurrent lumbar disc herniation: a prospective, cohort evaluation of 262 con- secutive cases. Spine 2008;33:973-8. 4. Kim HS, Wu PH, Jang IT. Lumbar endoscopic unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (LE-ULBD) out- side-in approach: a proctorship guideline with 12 steps of effectiveness and safety. Neurospine 2020;17(Suppl 1):S98- 108. 5. Lim KT, Meceda EJA, Park CK. Inside-out approach of lum- bar endoscopic unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decom- pression: a detailed technical description, rationale and out- comes. Neurospine 2020;17(Suppl 1):S87-97. 6. Ulrich NH, Burgstaller JM, Gravestock I, et al. Outcome of unilateral versus standard open midline approach for bilat- eral decompression in lumbar spinal stenosis: is “over the top” really better? A Swiss prospective multicenter cohort study. J Neurosurg Spine 2019;31:236-45. 7. Siepe CJ, Sauer D. Mayer D. Full endoscopic, bilateral over- the-top decompression for lumbar spinal stenosis. Eur Spine J 2018;27(Suppl 4):S563-5. 8. Lim KT, Nam HGW, Kim SB, et al. Therapeutic feasibility of full endoscopic decompression in one- to three-level lumbar canal stenosis via a single skin port using a new endoscopic system, percutaneous stenoscopic lumbar decompression. Asian Spine J 2019;13:272-82. Inside-Out and Outside-In Techniques in Degenerative Lumbar SpinePark CK Neurospine 2020;17(Suppl 1):S17-19. www.e-neurospine.org S19 Title: Child with a Dove Artist: Pablo Picasso Year: 1901 Child with a Dove is one of Picasso’s earliest works: he was twenty-one, or even less, but his own style is already apparent. He probably painted it in Paris during his second visit, when he was staying with Spanish friends. By that time he had seen, studied, and assimilated contemporary French painting: he had taken Toulouse-Lautrec’s way of rendering a visual impression rapidly with a few forceful lines and shrill spots of color, and made it his own. Also, he had learned from Degas how to observe a figure sharply and with detachment. In Child with a Dove, we see a new thoughtfulness, a poetic sympathy with the subject, qualities that were to dominate his work in the years that followed. More information: https://www.pablopicasso.org/child-with-a-dove.jsp © 2020 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea) work_a4abbpbgbffh7fq4yrnamnf2hm ---- Natalia Goncharova and Futurist Theater Natalia Goncharova and Futurist Theater Author(s): John E. Bowlt Source: Art Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant- Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990), pp. 44-51 Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/777179 . Accessed: 20/09/2011 17:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. College Art Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Art Journal. http://www.jstor.org http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=caa http://www.jstor.org/stable/777179?origin=JSTOR-pdf http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp Natalia Goncharova and Futurist Theater By John E. Bowlt T he name of Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962; Fig. 1), one of the foremost Russian painters and designers of the twentieth century, has been linked inextricably to that of Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964; see Fig. 2). Whether we read contemporaneous descriptions (for example, the painter Alexander Gerasimov referred to her as Larionov's "companion and shadow")1 or more current assessments of her work, the mechanical articulation- Larionov and Goncharova, Goncharova and Larionov-continues to occur. We must therefore appraise her achieve- ments in terms of her own work rather than in those of Larionov. From her first published drawings in the journal Yunost [Youth] of 1907 to her illustrations for the Festschrift dedicated to Sofia Melni- kova in Tiflis of 1919, and from her enormous one-woman exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1913 and 19142 to her stage designs for Sergei Diaghilev's Saisons Russes, Goncharova manifested an original, forceful, even abrasive personality that sets her clearly apart (see Fig. 3). The principal area in which Goncharova excelled was the theater; thus, the focus of this essay is on her contribution to the aesthetic of performance. One of the most striking innovations of the artists of the Russian avant-garde was their transcendence of the tradi- tional dividing line between "life" (the social, ritualized conventions of private and public comportment) and "art" (the creation of aesthetic objects). The paint- ings, designs, and constructions of art- ists such as the Burliuk brothers, Pavel Filonov, Goncharova, Larionov, Ka- zimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin so we cannot appreciate the exploits of the artists of the Russian avant-garde without understanding their total dedica- tion to the artistic act-i.e., their replace- ment of the calendar schedule by the boundless process of artistic creativity. In other words, if a "conventional" artist were asked whether he or she regarded activities such as walking and talking as constituent parts of his or her artistic expression, the response would probably be negative. If, however, Goncharova were asked the same question, chances are that she would answer affirmatively. Of course, the artists of the Russian avant-garde are not alone in this respect, but they seem to have established, or at least consolidated, a trend toward what the playwright Nikolai Evreinov called in 1910 the "theatricalization of life."3 Vincent van Gogh and Mikhail Vrubel Fig. 1 Natalia Goncharova, 1912, photograph. Courtesy of the late Mme Alexandra Larionova, Paris. were an integral part of their way of life; their clothes, human relationships, and even bodily movements expressed their artistic world views no less powerfully and provocatively than did their paint- ings and sculpture. The conventional formula "life and work," with its im- plied dichotomy, does not function here, for it is the inherence of art in life and life in art that makes individuals such as Goncharova so magnetic-and, for us today, so remote. Just as we cannot understand completely the resonance of contemporary rock culture without tak- ing into account the effect of narcotics, Fig. 2 Mikhail Larionov, Rayonist Portrait of Natalia Goncharova, 1913 (from M. Larionov, Luchizm, Moscow, 1913). 44 Art Journal Fig. 3 Unknown artist, Composite Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev and Natalia Goncharova, 1914, ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (30.5 x 20 cm). Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, London. The rendering of Diaghilev on the left is taken from a caricature by Pavel Shcherbov called Salzburg (1898). The rendering of Goncharova on the right is taken from her Cubo-Futurist painting Lady in a Hat (1913; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris). The text reads: "The famous Diaghilev, as drawn jokingly by P.E. Shcherbov, our famous caricaturist. This same Diaghilev has invited Mrs. Goncharova to paint the decorations for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel. Her self-portrait, drawn not jokingly, is placed above the text. Dotted lines indicate what has been added by the artists working on the production." were touched by the same madness, and, nearer our time, Jackson Pollock, Jo- seph Beuys, and perhaps Andy Warhol were also victims of this attitude, burnt up on the altars of their own art. The entire macrocosm of Goncharo- va's life should be approached, from this perspective, as a work of art-a "play of device," as the Constructivists would have called it.4 Of course, she was active as a designer for the traditional disci- plines of the performing arts as well (e.g., for Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theater in Moscow and for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris), but primary attention must be given to Goncharova's own "living theater" before an adequate assessment of her involvement in estab- lished theaters can be undertaken. xWs rhat little we know of Goncharo- va's biographical chronology, as- sociations, and tastes reveals that, from the very beginning, she was a strong- willed, energetic, and unorthodox individual.5 Her enrollment at the Mos- cow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1898 was an un- usual step for a bourgeois young woman of only seventeen. Her cohabitation with Larionov stirred the indignation of both church and public. Her slacks, her emphatic manifestos, her two enormous one-woman exhibitions, and, of course, her attachments to, and confrontations with, the Moscow Cubo-Futurists-all these elements were, surely, symptoms of a histrionic personality. Certainly, in private relations and behavior, Gon- charova enjoyed a license that only actresses and gypsies were permitted, and perhaps because of this dubious social reputation rather than as the result of any apparent innuendos in her paintings, she was said to traverse the "boundary of decency"6 and to "hurt your eyes."7 These are characteristic reactions to the event of Goncharova's life ("event" in our contemporary theat- rical sense), to her acting and posturing, her masquerading and promenading- her own "theatralization of life." The artist's desire to transform herself into a moving artifact is nowhere more obvious than in her specific interest in face- and body-painting, as practiced by the Ray- onist circle of which she was a part.8 Goncharova even made several public appearances bare-breasted, with ab- stract designs painted on her body ( Fig. 4). In 1912 and 1913 Goncharova and her friends painted their faces and walked along Kuznetskii Most and the Petrovka in Moscow, the downtown district where the fashionable art stores of Avanzo and Khudozhnik, the respect- able private art galleries (the Lemercier Gallery and the Mikhailova Salon), and the center of Moscow's haute couture operated. The encroachment of Gon- charova and her Cubo-Futurist col- leagues into this milieu was a shock to the purveyors and purchasers of good taste on several occasions. A number of group and individual photographs of Konstantin Bolshakov, David Burliuk, Goncharova, Vasilii Ka- mensky, Larionov, Mikhail Le-Dantiu, and Ilia Zdanevich taken between 1912 C. Fig. 4 Natalia Goncharova, Designfor a Woman's Breast, 1913. Present whereabouts unknown. and 1914 illustrate Larionov's and Zdanevich's manifesto of 1913 called "Why We Paint Ourselves,"9 which refers to women's makeup, tattooing, and ancient Egyptian eye shadow as analogous activities: We paint ourselves for an hour, and a change of experience calls for a change of painting, just as picture devours picture, when on the other side of a car windshield storewindows flash by running into each other.... Facial expressions don't interest us. That's because people have grown accustomed to understanding them, too timid and ugly as they are. Our faces are like the screech of the trolley warning the hurrying passers-by, like the drunken sounds of the great tango.10 The painted faces of Goncharova, Lari- onov, and their friends sport abstract, weird designs-sometimes geometric symbols or letters of the alphabet or animals such as pigs and birds (see Fig. 5). The hieroglyph, the rebus, the chance item of graffiti, the secret mes- sage, and the in-joke were important components of the Cubo-Futurists' lexi- con, especially Goncharova's. They were part of the mumbo-jumbo and the spells of rituals that accompanied their out- landish behaviour. Goncharova, in par- ticular, was fond of the secret evocation Spring 1990 45 and the magical gesture, and her body- painting and studio paintings of 1912- 13 often carry hieroglyphic sequences that baffle the profane audience. The oblique signs of pictures such as The Bicyclist, Laundry, and Rebus (Fig. 6) seem to relate to some primitive, hieratic ceremony, evoking images of the voodoo and the shaman.11 Larionov and Zdanevich commented on their face-painting in an interview that they gave to the editor of the Moscow middle-class magazine Theater in Caricatures in 1913, and as an autobiographical commentary, it is espe- cially valuable: "We have come to tell you," says Larionov, "of the latest sensation in the field of Paris fashions. We Futurists are better understood and appreciated abroad. Certain actresses have introduced the fash- ion of powdering themselves with brown powder and of circling their eyes with green pencil. The result is very nice and original...." "Downright exotic!" the editor exclaims. Indignant and annoyed, Lari- onov goes on: "Just let me explain the mean- ing of our tattooing." The prophet takes a piece of charcoal and makes an incompre- Fig. 5 Mikhail Larionov, his face decorated with Rayonist designs, 1913, photograph (from Teatr v karrikaturakh [The Theater in Caricatures], Moscow, September 21, 1913, p. 9). Fig. 6 Natalia Goncharova, Rebus (Rayonist Garden: Park), ca. 1912, oil on canvas, 553/8 x 343/8 inches (140.6 x 87.3 cm). Collection of Sam and Ayala Zachs, Jerusalem. hensible hieroglyph on the face of his interlocutor. "What's that?"-one of the office workers speaks up. "A tango," says Larionov, "get it?",12 Obviously, this statement was made tongue-in-cheek and perhaps the artists in the Rayonist circle never really imparted special meaning to their facial hieroglyphs. On the other hand, it is not fortuitous that Larionov, both in his interview with the editor and in his manifesto, would identify face-painting with the tango. Once again, we are confronted with an unconventional artis- tic gesture (face-painting) within a theatrical context, i.e., the discipline of ballroom dancing. We should remember that between 1912 and 1914 the "in" dance was the tango, and one could learn its steps in a variety of Moscow dance studios, primarily that of the caricaturist and stage designer Pavel Ivanov who used the pseudonym Mak (see Fig. 7).13 Ivanov (whose portrait Goncharova painted in 1913) and his wife were the "best pair of tango dancers in Moscow,"14 and they in turn were close to the Cubo-Futurists and to the gilded youth that accompanied the Burliuks, Goncharova; Larionov, and Vladimir Mayakovsky on their esca- pades. For example, there was Ivanov's student Antonina Privalova (see Fig. 8), a "primary follower of Futurist novelties"15 and a tango dancer who was a proponent of Rayonist face- and body-painting; her husband is identified as the Moscow businessman G. Privalov, who collected modern Russian art, in- cluding works by Goncharova. For that select few, the tango, encouraging rhyth- mical abandon and the wearing of masks, was, like the new painting, an iconoclastic emblem of sexual emancipation.'6Another photograph of a couple dancing the tango17 accompa- nied the manifesto of face-painting published in December 1913-surely an indication of the special status that the tango enjoyed among the avant-garde. The ramifications are many-from the Cubo-Futurist book of poems Tango s korovami [Tango with Cows] published by the Burliuks and Kamensky18 and the photographic fragment of a tango cou- ple in Kazimir Malevich's Woman at an Advertisement Column'9 to Alexander Rodchenko's tango photomontage for Mayakovsky's Pro eto [About It].20 Like the tango, which derives from an African drum dance, Rayonist face- painting can be regarded as a modern extension of an ancient rite, i.e., ritualis- tic face- and body-painting in primitive societies. True, there is no documentary evidence that Goncharova and Larionov Fig. 7 Pavel Ivanov and the celebrated cabaret artist Elsa Kriiger dancing the Tango of Death, 1913, photograph (from Teatr v karrikaturakh [The Theater in Caricatures], Moscow, December 25, 1913, p. 24). KrUger wore dresses designed by Goncharova. 46 Art Journal Fig. 8 The Moscow socialite Antonina Privalova, her shoulder decorated with Rayonist designs, 1913, photograph (from Teatr v karrikaturakh [The Theater in Caricatures], Moscow, September 21, 1913, p. 14). painted their faces and danced the tango with awareness of such precedents, but it is known that they were well informed about black African and American Indian body-painting, Polynesian tinc- turing, and the tattooing of the Scyth- ians. For the Rayonists, as for their primordial predecessors, these chamele- onic gestures were made for, or during, the dance; the jagged lines and cryptic letters, the animals and grid composi- tions sported by David Burliuk, Gon- charova, Larionov, and Zdanevich at this time required the complement of a theatrical environment as much as did the rhythmical convolutions of the swirl- ing witch doctor. The ancillary parapher- nalia of masks, effigies, and talismans were also of great interest to Gon- charova, as is evident from some of her theater work done in Paris in the early 1920s. Indeed, Goncharova advanced her hieroglyphic system of face-painting into real theater, too, i.e., the Pink Lantern cabaret and the Tavern of the 13, active in Moscow in 1913, where improvisational dance was a principal attraction.21 During the decade before 1917 there were many little theaters, nightclubs, and restaurants in Moscow and St. Petersburg that called themselves caba- rets. The functions and artistic levels at these institutions varied considerably. Some relied for their effect on "singers, nude dancers, choirs, circus numbers, and gypsy choruses";22 others focused on particular artistic groups such as the Cubo-Futurists; and their collected names constitute a kaleidoscope of the most exotic epithets-the Bat, Bi-Ba- Bo, the Blue Bird, the Green Lamp- shade, the Pink Lantern, the Stable of Pegasus, Petrouchka, etc. In general, the Russian (and Western) cabarets confronted artists with a set of circum- stances that forced them, uniformly, to rethink the question of design and actor-audience response. The proximity of the auditorium to the scenic action, the miniature stage, the ever-changing repertoire, the need to change sets and costumes rapidly, the extension of the decorative scheme to the walls, to the ceiling, and even to the audience itself- such conditions prompted the critic Andre Boll to observe that this kind of theater was the ultimate challenge for a designer's imagination.23 The short-lived Pink Lantern cabaret, a parody of the famous literary gather- ing place of Pushkin's time called the Green Lantern, opened in Moscow in October 1913. Contemplated as a Futur- ist theater by Goncharova, Larionov, and Zdanevich, along with the poets Bolshakov, Anton Lotov, and Maya- kovsky, the Pink Lantern was to have had a Futurist dramatic repertoire and the stage design was to have been Rayonist and zaum [alogical] with: .. . the stage mobile and moving to different parts of the auditorium. The decor moves also, following the actor ... the audience lies in the middle of the auditorium dur- ing the first act, and in a net, suspended below the ceiling, in the second. In the play VA-DA-PU the music and lighting play an impor- tant role, corresponding to free movements of the dance. In many plays the language is beyond the limits of ... ideas, being a free and invented onomatopoaeia.24 During the evenings, Goncharova and Larionov managed to paint the faces of members of the audience, although, as one correspondent noted, the result was not especially "Futurist."25 The public responded in much the same way that it did to the painted faces of circus clowns refusing or accepting the invitation to have a pig painted on a cheek or forehead, and certainly not regarding these actions as "art." One correspon- dent described such an evening: The Futurists abused the "crowd" with all the words at their disposal, and the audience tormented these "clowns of art" mercilessly ... as a result the artist Goncharova slapped a certain barrister. A disgraceful, brazen, and tal- entless can-can reigns dissolutely in the temples of art, and grimac- ing and wriggling on its altars are these shaggy young characters in their orange shirts and painted physiognomies.26 W hen the Pink Lantern closed after only a few performances, Goncharova and Larionov replaced it immediately with another "wild pantomime"27-the Tavern of the 13 in November 1913. Projected as a "purely Futurist cabaret,"28 the Tavern was to have hosted disputes by "Rayonists, Victorianians [sic], Cubists and extreme- rightist Futurists, ego-poets, and every- thingists."29 Entrance was by a ten- ruble note or by letter of recom- mendation, and the kind of poetry declaimed-by Bolshakov, Lotov, and L. Frank-was zaum, fragments of Spring 1990 47 Fig. 9 Frame from the film Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13 (from M. Calvesi, L'Arte Moderna [Milan: Fabbri, 1967], p. 314). It is assumed (perhaps falsely) that the two actors in this frame are Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. which often appeared in the artists' face-painting. Here is a typical sound poem by Frank called "In the Restaurant": Kardamash, mash, sharash, Trendi, buli Uuu Agva, kimeva Farmenzon Steno, bri tarelbi Kriuki, kriuki, kriuki Mamsi, mamsa, mamsu, Olnigidza kravdoi. Fi, fa, fu Vot!? Nashi priekhali.30 The Tavern, open for only a few weeks, survived long enough for a movie to be made of it under the title Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13, released in January 1914 with Goncharova and Larionov said to be the main characters.31 While no copy of this movie has ever surfaced in Soviet or Western repositories, a single frame survives (Fig. 9).32 According to one source, the movie was 431 meters (20 minutes) in length, was directed by Vladimir Kasianov, and "attracted full houses and ... scandals."33 This is understandable from the bizarre plot: The premises of the cabaret. The Futurists are preparing for a fes- tive party. They are painting each other's faces, while the artist Gon- charova is even decolletee. As these preparations are com- ing to an end, a title appears on the screen: "The hour 13 has struck. The Futurists are gathering for a party." One of the secondary person- ages, apparently, a poet, waves a sheet of paper that is marked all over with zig-zags and with letters that are scattered about in disor- der. This is a poem dedicated to Goncharova. While reading the poem, he keeps on turning one side, then the other, then his backside, to the audience. Then comes the turn of a very tall woman-the danseuse Elster. Dressed in a white costume slit to the waist, she dances the "Futurist tango."... Elster likewise dedi- cates her performance to Gon- charova, and, therefore, upon com- pleting her dance, she gets down on her knees before the artist and kisses her foot. Later, Goncharova herself arises and, teamed with some sort of decorated character, she dances the chechetka, quite clumsily and fussily.... After a new declamatory item on the program comes the turn of the main "sensation," which is the proper beginning of the "drama." This is the "Futuredance of death," during which one partner must kill the other. The Futurists draw lots. It falls to thefuturistka Maximov- ich. She climbs onto a table with a man whose eye-sockets are thickly smeared with black paint, and [the couple] are given crooked daggers. The Futuredance consists of [the] man tossing the woman from arm to arm, raising the dagger threat- eningly and striking her, not yet with the blade, but with the handle of the knife. The man gradually flies into a rage and finally plunges the blade into the woman's chest, killing her outright. A title appears: "A Future- funeral.". .. There exist several versions of the story and some critics maintain that Gon- charova and Larionov were the only actors in the movie, but whoever kills whom, this movie, once again, connects face-painting and the tango within a theatrical genre. It also presents Gon- charova as actress, dancer, and emanci- pated muse.35 In the light of Goncharova's antics in the Moscow cabaret scene of 1913-14 and of her public notoriety, it is not surprising to find that her one and only contribution to "straight" dramatic the- ater-Alexander Tairov's production of Carlo Goldoni's II Ventaglio of January 1915-was greeted as "clownish tricks" and "too leftist."36 Judging by the set for Goldoni's play, it is clear that Gon- charova wished to evoke associations with Russian folk art, as she had done in designs for Le Coq d'Or for Diaghilev in Paris the year before.37 Although Gon- charova was familiar with eighteenth- century Venetian culture, her percep- tion was Muscovite rather than northern Italian, and she was applying the same primitive, popular imagery that she had used, for example, in Neoprimitivist paintings such as Spring Gardening (1908).38 Tairov himself had mixed feelings about Goncharova's design, as he mentioned later in his Notes of a Director: The joyful decorations and cos- tumes of Natalia Goncharova ... were, for me, merely the ultimate compromise (a bitter truth, of Fig. 10 Natalia Goncharova, Costume for a Spanish Dancer in "Espaha" (not produced), 1916, pochoir, 191/2 x 123/4 inches (49.5 x 32.5 cm) (from Natalia Gontcharova and Mikhail Larionov, L'Art decoratif moderne [Paris: La Cible, 1919). 48 Art Journal course, that was softened by Gon- charova's enchanting talent), be- cause, for all their "leftism," they were very much a reflection of the Conventional Theater.39 Despite her training as a sculptress, Goncharova was not truly an artist of three dimensions, and she tended to use the backdrop, wings, and costumes as pictorial surfaces rather than as projec- tions into public space; thus, her stage design functioned typically as a conven- tional, illustrative vehicle, not as a volumetric architectural complex. For that reason, from 1916 onward, Tairov welcomed the three-dimensional designs of artists such as Alexandra Exter, the Stenberg brothers (Georgii and Vladimir), and Alexander Vesnin. iaghilev did not share Tairov's reservations about Goncharova's abilities, and, working with her in Lausanne and San Sebastien in 1915- 16, he encouraged her to prepare four ballets-Liturgie, Espaha (see Fig. 10), Triana, and Foire Espaghole-not one of which, unfortunately, was ever imple- mented. Goncharova's intense activity produced not only numerous designs for sets and costumes but also three portfo- lios of pochoirs-Liturgie (Lausanne, Fig. 11 Natalia Goncharova, Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev, ca. 1916, pochoir, 1 9/4 x 121/4 inches (50 x 31 cm) (from Natalia Gontcharova and Mikhail Larionov, L'Art decoratif moderne [Paris: La Cible, 1919). Fig. 12 Natalia Goncharova, cover for Clotilde et Alexandre Sakharoff, by Emile Vuillermoz (Lausanne: Editions Centrales, 1935). 1915), Album de 14 Portraits Theatraux (Paris, 1916), and L'Art Theatral Deco- ratif Moderne (Paris, 1919; see Fig. 11)-the last two being joint enterprises by Goncharova and Larionov. From 1914 Goncharova was involved directly in the activities of the Ballets Russes, a collaboration that has been documented and discussed in many recent publications.40 She also worked for other troupes and for impresarios such as Ida Rubinstein and Clotilde and Alexandre Sakharoff (see Fig. 12). Goncharova and Larionov partici- pated in less orthodox forms of theater in Paris during the 1920s, helping to organize at least four charity balls: the Grand Bal des Artistes, or Grand Bal Travesti Transmental (February 23, 1923), the Bal Banal (March 14, 1924; Fig. 13), the Bal Olympique, or Vrai Bal Sportif (July 11, 1924), and the Grand Ourse Bal (May 8, 1925). The Grand Bal des Artistes was the most ambitious, and, as the flyer proclaims, it was intended as a fair, not simply a ball.41 The program included four dance bands and two bars serving "pommes frites anglaises et cocktails," and the dancing was supplemented by all kinds of happenings: Goncharova and her boutique of masks, Delaunay and his Transat- lantic Company of pick-pockets, Larionov and his Rayonism, Leger and his orchestra decor, Cliazde Spring 1990 49 Fig. 13 Natalia Goncharova, entry ticket and publicity for the Bal Banal at the Salle Bullier, Paris, March 14, 1924, printed in brown and gray on buff paper, 12 x 61/4 inches (30.5 x 15.7 cm) (from M. Chamot, Goncharova [London: Oresko, 1979], p. 73). Fig. 15 Natalia Goncharova, marionette for Yuliia Sazonova's Theatre des Petits Comediens, Paris, 1923 or 1924. vage, and Ilia Zdanevich. In addition to costumes, Goncharova and Larionov designed much of the publicity material, including the program, the flyer, the ticket, and the large poster. They also invited Russian and French colleagues, the "greatest geniuses in the world"- including Bart, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Pablo Picasso, and Survage-to sponsor and design forty loges, which were then sold in aid of the Union. As with her publicity materials for the Bal Banal (flyer) and the Bal Olym- pique (poster, program, and ticket), Goncharova incorporated motifs from her paintings and ballet designs into the Grand Bal poster; in style and composi- tion it brings to mind a number of canvases such as Bathers (1917-23) and her several renderings of Spanish women.43 Goncharova's boutique of masks included designs reminiscent of African ceremonial masks (see Fig. 14).44 For the most part, the Grand Bal des Artistes maintained the courtly tradition of the costume ball, especially of the Viennese ballo in maschera, which made extensive use of sophisti- cated masks to conceal a person in an erotic game of hide-and-seek, rather than to superimpose a new one. But Goncharova's masks, like African ones, seem to represent other faces, and to serve as vehicles of ritualistic transformation. At the 1923 ball Goncharova also sold wooden dolls-effigies-that she had been making for Yuliia Sazonova's Theaitre des Petits Comediens, which opened in Paris in 1924 (see Fig. 15). They included marionettes intended to illustrate Rural Holiday-a pantomime by Larionov with music by Nikolai Cherepnin produced by Sazonova dur- ing the Christmas season in 1924. Once again, these images draw on a primitive tradition of lapidary figures and witch imagery from Russian mythology. They have little in common with the marionet- tic finesse of the puppet tradition ex- plored by other Russian artists of the time such as Nina Efimova-Simonovich, Exter, Nikolai Kalmakov, El Lissitzky, Liubov Popova, and Elizaveta Yakun- ina. In fact, Goncharova's figures seem Fig. 14 Natalia Goncharova, mask for her boutique at the Grand Bal des Artistes, Paris, February 23, 1923. [Ilia Zdanevich] and his 41- degree fevers....42 The Grand Bal was a philanthropic venture for the Union of Russian Art- ists, a society that brought together many Russian emigre painters and critics, such as Viktor Bart, Sonia Delaunay, Serge Romoff, Leopold Sur- Fig. 16 Natalia Goncharova, Stage Design for Scene 2 of "The Firebird," 1926, watercolor, 28 x 40 inches (71 x 101.5 cm). Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Nikita D. Lobanov-Rostovsky, London. 50 Art Journal to express the essentially fetishistic function that Sazonova associated with the puppet: Just as algebraic signs substitute certain desired quantities, so the conditional flesh of the marionette substitutes for real human flesh.... The infinite variety of the puppet repertoire [has] one basic characteristic: indifference to the prose of everyday life and to the manifestation of the eternal qualities of the human soul.45 Goncharova returned to wooden mar- ionettes and toys in her prepara- tions for a number of Parisian chamber productions in the 1930s, including the inanimate ballet Jouets of 1934. She also continued to work for the "adult" theater, including the ballet, until 1961 when, bedridden with arthritis on the rue Jacques Callot, she advised for the Royal Ballet production of The Firebird (see Fig. 16). That collaboration- which has been described as showing quintessentially "how the decor of an imaginative artist can enhance the dra- matic and emotional effect of music and dancing"46-might well be interpreted as Goncharova's last tango in Paris. Notes 1 Alexander Gerasimov, "Iz vospominanii," in Nina Moleva (ed.), Konstantin Korovin. Zhizn i tvorchestvo (Moscow, 1963), p. 39. 2 The exhibitions were held at the Art Salon and the Dobychina Art Bureau, respectively. 3 Evreinov explained his theory of the "theater in life," the "theatricalization of life," and the "conditional theater" in several publications, e.g., Teatr kak takovoi (St. Petersburg, 1912), Teatr dlia sebia, 3 vols. (Petrograd, 1915-17), and Teatralizatsiia zhizni (Moscow, 1922). For commentary see Spencer Golub, Evreinov, The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation (Ann Arbor, 1984). 4 Kornelii Zelinsky and Ilia Selvinsky (eds.), Gosplan literatury. Sbornik literaturnogo tsen- tra konstruktivistov (Moscow, 1924), p. 10. 5 See, for example, the personal reminiscences of Goncharova by critics and fellow artists in Tatiana Loguine (ed.), Gontcharova et Lari- onov (Paris, 1971). 6 Goncharova's studies and decorations dis- played at the Society of Free Aesthetics in Moscow in March 1910 were criticized as such. See Golos Moskvy (Moscow), March 25, 1910, p. 3. 7 E.N., "Na vystavke kartin Natalii Goncharovoi," Teatr v karrikaturakh (Mos- cow), no. 5 (October 6, 1913), p. 14. 8 Larionov defined Rayonism as forms created from the intersection of light rays reflected by contiguous objects. 9 Some of the photographs are in the Burliuk family archive in Hampton Bay, Long Island, New York; the manifesto of 1913 is translated in John Bowlt (ed.), Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902- 1934 (New York, 1976), pp. 80-83. 10 Ibid., p. 81. 11 The Bicyclist is reproduced in Camilla Gray, The Great Experiment (London, 1962), pl. 20; Laundry is reproduced in Mary Chamot, Goncharova (Paris, 1972), p. 51. The latter first appeared as a "Futurist painting" next to zaum poetry by Anton Lotov in Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 1 (September 8, 1913), p. 15. 12 "Poslednii krik Parizhskoi mody, Ubezhdennye grimasniki," Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 14 (December 8, 1913), p. 14. 13 Ivanov (c. 1886-c. 1960) worked as a caricatur- ist for several St. Petersburg and Moscow journals, including Satirikon and Teatr v karrikaturakh. 14 Natalia Serpinskaia, "Memuary intelligentki dvukh epokh," MS in Central State Archive of Literature and Art, Moscow, f. 1604, op. 1, ed. khr. 1248, p. 46, 1. 90. Ivanov's portrait-now lost-was listed in the catalogue of Goncharo- va's exhibitions in 1913-14 (cited in n. 2 above). 15 Privalova is described as such in Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 3 (September 21, 1913), p. 14. 16 For comments on the tango, see: Z., "E.A. Kriiger o 'tango,'" Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 16 (December 25, 1913), p. 24. 17 The photograph is published in Argus, Decem- ber 1913, p. 115. 18 Vasilii Kamensky, Tango s korovami (Mos- cow, 1914). 19 Woman at an Advertisement Column ( 1914) is reproduced in Wim Beeren et al., Malevich, exh. cat. (1988-89) for State Russian Museum (Leningrad), State Tretiakov Gallery (Mos- cow), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), pl. 48. 20 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Pro eto (Moscow- Leningrad, 1923), opp. p. 30. 21 P.K., "Rozovyi fonar," Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 6 (October 13, 1913), p. 15. 22 Evgenii Gershuni, Rassakazyvaiu ob estrade (Leningrad, 1968), p. 16. 23 Andre Boll, Du decor de theatre (Paris, 1926), p. 69. 24 "Okolo khudozhestvennogo mira. Grimasy v iskusstve. K proektu futuristicheskogo teatra v Moskve," Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 1 (September 8, 1913), p. 14. 25 See article cited in n. 21 above. 26 Anon., "Opiat futuristy (vmesto peredovoi)," Akter (Moscow), no. 4 (1913), pp. 1-2. 27 "Okolo khudozhestvennogo mira" (cited in n. 24 above). 28 "Kabak trinadtsati," Teatr v karrikaturakh (Moscow), no. 11 (November 17, 1913), p. 10. 29 Ibid. For a discussion of Everythingism, see: Mikhal Le-Dantiu, "Zhivopis vsekov," Minu- vshee (Paris), no. 5 (1988), pp. 183-204. Le-Dantiu was the defendant in a court case involving face-painting and public propriety. See: Zhizn i sud (St. Petersburg), May 9, 1913, p. 10. 30 L. Frank: "V restorane," Teatr v karrikatu- rakh (Moscow), no. 3 (1914), p. 12. The poem is meaningless except for the last two lines, which can be translated as: "Here they are!?/Our guys have arrived." 31 I am indebted to Jerry Heil for information about the movie Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13. See his article "Russian Futurism and the Cinema: Majakovskij's Film Work of 1913," Russian Literature (Amster- dam), no. 19 (1986), pp. 175-92. 32 The frame is reproduced, for example, in Maurizio Calvesi, "II Futurismo Russo," in L'Arte Moderna (Milan) 5, no. 44 (1967), p. 314. 33 Heil (cited in 31 above). 34 The translation is in ibid. The "danseuse Elster" is probably a reference to the tango dancer Elsa Kriiger, one of Mak's favorite partners. 35 For other versions of the plot, see ibid. 36 Alexander Tairov, Zapiski rezhissera. Stati. Besedy. Rechi. Pisma (Moscow, 1970), p. 103. 37 Prince Sergei Volkonsky (Otkliki teatra [Petrograd, ca. 1922], p. 57) said of Le Coq d'Or: "Mrs. Goncharova, our famous Futurist painter, has gone beyond all confines of what a child's fantasy can construct!" 38 Reproduced in Chamot (cited in n. 40 below), p. 33. 39 Tairov (cited in n. 36 above). 40 See, for example, Mary Chamot, Goncharova: Stage Designs and Paintings (London, 1979), passim. 41 "Foire de nuit" is inscribed on the flyer, a copy of which is reproduced in Loguine (cited in n. 5 above), p. 132. 42 Ibid. "Forty-one degrees" refers to an avant- garde group of poets and artists that Zdanevich and his friends founded in Tiflis in 1917. 43 The Grand Bal poster is reproduced in Loguine (cited in n. 5 above), p. 132. Bathers and portrayals of Spanish women appear in Chamot (cited in n. 40 above), pp. 69 and 71-74. 44 Natalia Goncharova, preface to the catalogue of her exhibition at the Art Salon (Moscow, 1913), p. 3. Goncharova had known about such masks since at. least 1912 or 1913, judging from a statement published here in which she maintained that the "Aztecs, Negroes, Austra- lian and Asiatic islands-the Sunda (Borneo), Japan, etc., these, generally speaking, represent the rise and flowering of art." The catalogue also includes a portrait of Goncharova with Larionov in "masquerade costume" (where- abouts unknown). 45 Yuliia Slonimskaia [Sazonova], "Marionetka," Apollon (Petrograd, 1916), no. 3, p. 30. 46 Chamot (cited in n. 40 above), p. 81. John E. Bowlt is professor of Russian language and literature and director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous articles and books on the Russian and Soviet avant-garde. Spring 1990 51 Article Contents p.44 p.45 p.46 p.47 p.48 p.49 p.50 p.51 Issue Table of Contents Art Journal, Vol. 49, No. 1, From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century (Spring, 1990), pp. 1-81 Front Matter [pp.1-80] Editors' Statement From Leningrad to Ljubljana: The Suppressed Avant-Gardes of East-Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Twentieth Century [pp.7-8] Confrontation and Accommodation in the Hungarian Avant-Garde [pp.9-20] Avant-Garde Tendencies in Yugoslavia [pp.21-27] Art between Social Crisis and Utopia: The Czech Contribution to the Development of the Avant-Garde Movement in East-Central Europe, 1910-30 [pp.28-35] The Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Prague and the Art of Jan Kulec [pp.36-43] Natalia Goncharova and Futurist Theater [pp.44-51] The Ghost of Representation, or the Masque of the Red Death [pp.52-55] The Avant-Garde in Central and Eastern European Literature [pp.56-62] Book Reviews untitled [pp.63-68] untitled [pp.69-70] Museum News untitled [pp.71-75] Books and Catalogues Received [pp.77-81] Back Matter work_aexde55a3vc75pp7mznajqeg7a ---- Frida Kahlo and her doctors 369Launer J. Postgrad Med J June 2018 Vol 94 No 1112 On reflection Frida Kahlo and her doctors John Launer The two great Mexican painters, Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera, were among the earliest media celebrities. They were so widely known in the 1930’s and 40 s that people across America and in Europe often referred to them just by their first names, and would have instantly recognised any image of them. Visually, they were a spectacular couple. Frida was small, delicate, androgynous and arrest- ingly beautiful. Diego was twenty years older, three times her weight, bulbous- eyed and impressively ugly. While pursuing their respective careers as the greatest self-portraitist and muralist of their age, they each led luridly promiscuous love lives. They set the trend for future celebri- ties by divorcing and then remarrying. They both confabulated outrageously, telling melodramatic and contradictory versions of their own or each others’ stories. Among their acquaintance they included Pablo Picasso, the billionaire John D Rockefeller, and the Russian revo- lutionary Leon Trotsky, with whom Frida had an affair while he was their house guest. Frida’s medical history was notoriously tragic. She was born in 1907 with an undi- agnosed scoliosis. At the age of six, she contracted polio (or a polio-like illness) that affected the muscles of her right leg.1 With characteristic will-power, she recov- ered well enough to run and dance, but at 18 she was a passenger in a catastrophic collision, when a bus she was travelling on was sliced in two by a tram. Frida was impaled by a severed handrail that pierced the left side of her abdomen and emerged through her pelvic outlet. She sustained multiple fractures including eleven in her weak right leg, dislocation and crush fractures of her right foot, as well as frac- tures of her lumbar spine that were only discovered some months later. The acci- dent determined the rest of her life. She gave up an ambition to study medicine, and taught herself painting instead. In the course of her life she underwent at least thirty orthopaedic and other opera- tions, although many appear to have been unnecessary or unsuccessful. For intermit- tent periods she was encased in plaster or in metal corsets, or kept in traction. She had several abortions and at least one devastating miscarriage. As well as relieving her pain and despair with alcohol, Frida eventually became addicted to morphine. She smoked constantly. She contracted probable syph- ilis. In her forties she developed gangrene, for which she needed amputation of her right foot and then the leg. In spite of all this horrendous adversity, she carried on almost to the end of her life with a youth- fulness, grace and energy that would be literally unbelievable if these had not been recorded on film and photographs.2 3 Leo eLoesser ‘my best Friend’ Frida’s experience of illness, injury, pain and suffering were often at the centre of her work. Her paintings offer a visual chronicle of this, as well as encompassing her family, marriage, relationships, dedication to communism and love for Mexican scenery, culture and costume. She saw scores of doctors over the years, but two of these had a significant pres- ence in her paintings, as they did in her treatment. Her relationship with these men was of a piece with everything else she did, bringing together expertise with intimacy, and transcending the separation of art and life. The most important of her medical atten- dants was Leo Eloesser. He was an renowned thoracic surgeon whom she first consulted in San Francisco in 1930. She came to trust his judgement so completely that she confided in him for the rest of her life, writing him long, affectionate letters asking for medical guidance and advice about her personal life.4 She addressed him as ‘Dearest Doctorcito’ and held back little or nothing from him. During her period of divorce he wrote to her about Diego: ‘He has never been, nor ever will be, monogamous, some- thing that is imbecilic and anti-biological.’ Eloesser’s life was as unconventional as his advice. He owned a sloop called ‘The Flirt’, which he would take out sailing all night in the Pacific between shifts at the hospital, and in which he often took out women friends. He was an accomplished musi- cian, and spoke at least twelve languages, including Chinese and Japanese. During the Spanish civil war, he volunteered with the loyalists against General Franco and set up a military hospital. After retirement in 1945 he worked for the United Nations Relief Organisation in China, but quietly went over to the communists, living like a peasant and teaching ‘barefoot doctors’ for 4 years before returning to America.5 Frida once painted his portrait, showing him alongside a model of his sloop.6 A far more impressive work, however, is the self-portrait she dedicated to him during the year of her divorce – one of the most striking she ever did in her career (see figure 1). Frida’s portrayal of herself in the painting is typical, with her eyebrows meeting in the middle, a faint moustache and full lips, and characteristic olive complexion. (She was Spanish Aztec on her mother’s side, and Hungarian Jewish on her father’s). She presents herself as a martyr, wearing Christ’s crown of thorns as a necklace that pierces her skin and draws blood. The extravagant bouquet in her hair and lush foliage in the back- ground are offset by long, dry, brown twigs on either side of her. A hand-shaped earring suggests emotional and phys- ical amputation. A hand-shaped brooch matches it, holding a ribbon on which she has written “I painted my portrait in the year 1940 for Dr. Eloesser, my doctor and my best friend. With all love, Frida Kahlo.’ Her expression is sad, haughty and vulner- able. It depicts both her suffering and her mastery of it. The portrait was a expres- sion of how she saw herself and wished her American doctor to see her. In the words of her biographer Hayden Herrera, ‘she turns herself into an icon that she – and Associate Editor, Postgraduate Medical Journal, London, UK Correspondence to Dr John Launer; johnlauner@ aol. com Figure 1 Self-portrait dedicated to Dr Leo Eloesser, 1940. © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS 2018. o n A p ril 5 , 2 0 2 1 b y g u e st. P ro te cte d b y co p yrig h t. h ttp ://p m j.b m j.co m / P o stg ra d M e d J: first p u b lish e d a s 1 0 .1 1 3 6 /p o stg ra d m e d j-2 0 1 8 -1 3 5 7 0 5 o n 3 1 M a y 2 0 1 8 . D o w n lo a d e d fro m http://pmj.bmj.com/ http://pmj.bmj.com/ 370 Launer J. Postgrad Med J June 2018 Vol 94 No 1112 on reflection others – can worship, thus transcending pain.’ Juan FariLL ‘the most serious’ doCtor At the time she did the portrait, Frida had also begun to consult with an orthopaedic surgeon in Mexico City called Juan Farill. He was himself a painter and, like Eloesser, became her close friend. He carried out her last seven operations, including removal of a spinal plate and insertion of a bone graft from her pelvis. Later, he was also to take charge of her amputations. She wrote to Dr Eloesser to say that she trusted Farill because he seemed the ‘most serious’ of the five local doctors she had recently seen. He certainly looks serious in a remarkable photo that he and Frida posed for in her studio with her in a wheelchair and him standing protectively behind her (see figure 2). On an easel in the back- ground there is a votive self-portrait she completed in thanks for recovering from her bone graft. It shows her sitting in front of a further easel displaying a painting of Farill.7 Each of the three nested images are rich in meaning. Farill gazes into the distance in both of his images, while Frida engages the viewer directly: somewhat contemplatively in the self-portrait, but with a little more sadness in real life, and possibly defiance. In the painted version of Farill, his eyebrows are joined together just like Frida’s, as if he had absorbed part of her identity. The poses in the photo carefully mirror those in the self-portrait. However, in the photo Frida is holding her everyday artist’s palette, while in the self-portrait it is painted over with a anatomical depiction of a heart. This looks as if it has been torn from her chest, and she seems to be offering it directly to Farill in the manner of an Aztec sacri- fice to the gods. The brushes in her other hand are like arrows or scalpels and drip with blood. The floral blouse that Frieda is wearing for the photo contrasts with the austere white one with silk tassels that she wears in the portrait. It is hard to imagine that Frida herself did not take charge of the entire composition in order to convey, as she always did, a sense of profound artistic control over the threats she faced of phys- ical and psychological disintegration. Three years after the photo was taken, Frida died at the age of only 47. She had developed bronchopneumonia and possibly suffered a pulmonary embolus. She may also have taken an intentional or accidental overdose of morphine. Leo Eloesser had moved to Mexico by this time, setting up a clinic to treat the disadvantaged, and donating his fees to charity. Dr Juan Farill pioneered contrast myelography for disc lesions, and arte- riography for bone tumours, as well as the skeletal traction Frida had used. He went on to publish a total of 87 scientific and popular works. As well as being one of the most exceptional cultural figures of the twentieth century, Frida Kahlo had chosen as her chief doctors, as confidants and companions, and as subjects for her own portraits, two quite extraordinary men. Competing interests None declared Patient consent Not required. Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed. © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. to cite Launer J. Postgrad Med J 2018;94:369–370. Received 5 March 2018 Accepted 5 March 2018 Postgrad Med J 2018;94:369–370. doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135705 RefeRences 1 Herrera H. Frida: the biography of Frida Kahlo. 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A Matter of Points of View Federico Fallavollita Introduction The starting point of the research was a lesson for chil- dren aged between 8 and 14 years under Unijunior. “Uni- que in Italy, Unijunior was born with the ambitious goal of bringing the youngest children closer to study important subjects, using simple and familiar tools to the child such as practical experience, play and entertainment. Unijunior sti- mulates the curiosity of the child by leveraging the natural instinct of exploration that spurs him to know the world, finding answers to his endless questions and fulfilling his priority needs” [1]. The occasion was an opportunity to gain some expe- riences of perspective and stereotomy. To illustrate the properties of the perspective and, at the same time, to illustrate some characteristics of the human perception of space, a plastic of polystyrene was designed, which was then realized by means of a numerical control wire cutting machine. The intent is twofold: the first, to explain to children, through the design of the room, what the drawing of ar- chitecture is and how it differs from the commonly un- derstood drawing; the second, equally important, consists in demonstrating the illusory power of perspective, which derives from the modalities of visual perception. The first part of the article, briefly describes the lesson given to the children, with some other insights on the theoretical issues addressed, which obviously could not be included in the lesson. The second part describes the design and construction of the Ames room. Abstract This article presents a study that preceded a lesson for the Department of Architecture of Bologna held to children between eight and fourteen years of age, , as part of an initiative by the University for the dissemination of science. The study presents some expe- riences of perspective and stereotomy. Among the objectives of the research is to explain to children, through playing, the illusory power of perspective and, therefore, the deceptions to which the human perception of space is subjected. For this purpose a small Ames room was built, studying its decomposition in parts, in a sort of contemporary stereotomy. In the first part of the article, the lesson given to the children is briefly presented, as well as some insights on the theoretical issues addressed, which obviously could not be included in the lesson. In the second part, of the study, design and construction of the Ames room are described. Keywords: Ames Room; Descriptive Geometry; Mirror; Perception; Stereotomy 106 2 / 2018 Synopsis of the Lecture for Children The original title of the lesson for children (The world as it is and the world as it appears) is inspired by methods of representation of architecture. As is known, these methods are used to accurately descri- be and transmit forms in space and also allow us to study the mutual relations and the properties of these forms. The graphic methods are: representation in double or- thogonal projections, axonometry and perspective. These methods have been complemented by digital representa- tions: numerical and mathematical. We will not talk about the latter, because their peculiar characteristics do not change the substance of the topics covered [2]. The first two methods, i.e. the so-called parallel projections, serve to describe the ‘world as it is’. The third method, or per- spective, serves to describe the ‘world as it appears’. In fact, the architect uses the plan, the section and the ele- vation to design and measure space. He also uses axono- metry to understand the relationship between volumes and the mechanism of relationships between shapes in space. Parallel projections serve, therefore, to control the metric and formal aspects of space in an environment that is isotropic and homogeneous as space itself. But man does not see three-dimensional forms as they are: man sees space through the filter of perspective, that is, of projection that transforms the three-dimensional world into the images collected by the eye [3]. And so it beco- mes vital to be able to describe space as it actually appears to the human eye and for this purpose the architect em- ploys perspective. To explain what a perspective is, just think of a photo- graph, and the functioning of the eye is analogous to that of a camera. However, it would be wrong to think that the phenomenon of vision is limited to these passages of optical-mechanical nature, because, as we shall see shortly, it is the brain that processes the images collected by the eye and it is in the brain that the deceptions of perspective are produced. In truth, the perspective question we have just touched is very controversial. We can say that there are two main distinct schools of thought. The first considers perspective (linear and relief) only a scientific method to produce images (static or dynamic) that have the right to exist only as a product of human ingenuity, but which are not able to evoke the perception of space. Fig. 1. Pablo Picasso, Guitar with violin, 1913. Violin by Antonio Stradivari, technical drawing. 107 2 / 2018 The second, on the other hand, considers perspective as a scientific method capable not only of describing the forms in space, but also of describing them in such a way as to evoke, in the observer, the natural vision. In other words, according to the first school, the perspecti- va naturalis, i.e. the vision, and the perspectiva artificialis, i.e. the perspective representation, are distinct and in conflict, because vision is conditioned by peculiarities, such as the curvature of the retina, that the perspectiva artificialis does not simulate (but the question would take us too far and refer to the bibliography for further study). The second school, on the other hand, affirms that the perspectiva artificialis, discovered in the Italian Renaissance and developed to this day, is one and corresponds to the natural vision of man, being perfectly able to imitate it in its many forms, also through stereoscopy and the dynamics of cinematographic images. In theory, an experiment could be carried out that would put an end to the dispute, but we are currently unable to put it into practice [4]. The experiment would consist in taking two photographs from a certain point of view. The first natural photograph should be taken by our eye and proposed in the mental processing of the observer. The second artificial one could be taken through a camera or built, geometrically, using the perspective method. The author is convinced that the overlapping of the two pho- tographs, the natural and the artificial ones, would be per- fect. Something very similar to this experiment was done by Filippo Brunelleschi in the early years of the fifteenth century [Fields 2005]. The difference between the two schools of thought is not a minor difference, as it involves a different vision of the history of representation and architecture. There is an important literature on this subject and the well-known essay Perspective as Symbolic Form of Erwin Panofsky of 1927 could be considered the progenitor of the long dispute [Panofsky 1961]. Today, the most recent studies on human visual perception affirm that man interacts with his surrounding reality throu- gh the five senses but sees reality through his own brain [5]. In other words, we never see the world as it is but we see it as our brain reconstructs it, comparing the images it receives from the eye with the models it has memorized in the evolutionary age [6]. The science that describes the methods of representation is descriptive geometry. This name is due to a French engineer and mathematician of the revolution, Gaspard Monge [7]. For years this discipline has been taught in schools and universities by engineers and then mathematicians. In the last forty years, however, especially in Italy, descriptive geometry is studied and taught only by architects and engineers. We do not want to elaborate Fig. 2. The mirror image and the ‘twin game’. 108 2 / 2018 Fig. 3. The real world where our ‘alter ego’ is and the reflected world where our ‘twin’ is. 109 2 / 2018 here the historical motivations of this change: let’s just say that mathematicians have lost interest in the drawing and power of vision, even if, in the last years, thanks to the advent of digital technology, they show curiosity, if nothing else in the evocative power of images, whether realistic or symbolic. What is the difference between the drawing of an archi- tect and the drawing commonly understood as that of an artist or a painter? To respond effectively (to children) it was decided to com- pare two representations of the same object. If we look at Pablo Picasso’s Guitar and Violin painting we might think, at first glance, that the painter was not good at drawing or did not really like musical instruments [8]. Naturally, neither of the two statements are true. Picasso was a great drawer and was a great lover of music. The other figure shows the technical drawing of a violin by Antonio Stradivari (fig.1). The difference between the two drawings, that is between that of a painter and that of an architect (or a designer), is that the former interprets the form in a subjective way and transmits this emotion to the observer for empathy, while the latter, the technical drawing, measures the form and transmits it as an objective datum, aiming to remove any margin of ambiguity. This drawing must be transmis- sible and have a bijective relationship with the reality it represents: in other words, given a plan representation and elevation, to that correspond, in reality, the object repre- sented and, vice versa, given a real object, it is possible to draw a plan and an elevation that match it. Likewise, the fundamental characteristic of architectural drawing is to incorporate the code that allows us to move from reality to model and vice versa. But can an architect use the free sketch to express his ideas as a painter? Yes, even the architect can use the drawing in a freer way, but only to follow with his mind, as with a pencil or computer, the representation of that space that can and must be measured and constructed. Therefore, when designing a house, the method of dou- ble orthogonal projections is generally used to invent and measure space. It is also possible to accompany this study with axonometric representations to well define the vo- lumes, the relationships between the parts and to better analyse the space. Furthermore, it is often advisable to construct a physical model, to check volumes and propor- tions in scale. The perspective, instead, is used to study the perception of space, or to understand how that space will be seen and experienced, even from an emotional point of view. The children seem to have appreciated the scientific part of the class in which the projective principles of drawing are described. The operations that define drawing are the projection and the section. To get a drawing, we have to imagine that the sheet of paper is the picture plane, like the screen of the cinema or the computer, and there is a projection centre out of the picture plane. The image is obtained by projecting the object through the centre and dissecting the line star that derives from the picture. There may be two Fig. 4. The size of our mirror image is always equal to the half of our real height. 110 2 / 2018 Fig. 5. Rendering of the constrained view of the Ames room digital model. cases: in the first one the projection centre is a point that has a finite distance from the picture; in the second case, the projection centre has an infinite distance from the pic- ture, i.e. it is very far : it is the direction of the projecting straight lines. In the first case the drawing is a perspective, otherwise called the central projection. In the second case, i.e. the parallel projection, the drawing can be a plan, a prospect or an axonometry. In conclusion, the former case serves to study the world as it appears and the latter serves to study the world as it is. A good architect is able to manage both situations well. However, the perspective view can be misleading, because sometimes the world is not exactly what it looks like! What is the perspective machine we use every day? The first answer that comes to mind might be the mobile phone camera. Well no, there is a perspective machine that we use every day from before the advent of mobile pho- ne; this machine is the mirror (fig. 2). The mirror recreates a parallel world beyond the glass, still three-dimensional, which is exactly symmetrical of the real world. In the mor- ning, when we wash or get dressed, we all usually mirror each other. Have you ever wondered how big your mirror image is? Well, this image is no smaller when we move away and neither is it bigger when we approach the mirror. Our reflected image is always the same size and measures a specific quantity. To understand the problem we can ima- gine to observe our alter ego in front of the mirror and reconstruct the virtual world that is created beyond the mirror (fig. 3). There are two worlds: in the real one there are us and in the virtual one there is our twin. The only difference is that if we are right-handed our twin will be left-handed or vice-versa. In other words, in the symmetry of the mirror the right and the left exchange roles. If we look at the figure, it is easy to see that the distance betwe- en us and the mirror, and between this and our twin is the same and does not change with our distance from the mirror : if we approach the mirror, even our twin will ap- proach the mirror in equal measure. If we now look at the projective triangle that forms our image, it is equally easy to see that the height of our image does not change with the change of the distance from the mirror : this height is a constant and is always half of the real one. To conclude, the measurement of our mirror image is always equal to half our height (fig. 4). To test this surprising truth, all we need to do is measure our own image on a mirror : two small si- gns are enough, above and below, to prove that this image will always be half our height whether we move away or approach the mirror. The second experience, which I want to propose, to test the illusory power of the perspective vision is Ames room. Fig. 6. Fig. 6. Projective construction of the Ames room model. 111 2 / 2018 Fig. 7. The mathematical model of the Ames room. 112 2 / 2018 Adalbert Ames Jnr. was an American ophthalmologist expert in optics. He is known for his experiments on visual perception which explained some fundamental principles of the visual perception. Demonstrations began in Hanno- ver in 1938 and were carried out with the University of Princeton. These experiments are still reproduced in many departments of psychology and museums worldwide. Among these experiments, the best known and particularly peculiar is the Ames room. The existence of this space was theorized for the first time by Fiermann von Helmholtz in 1866. He realized that objects of a multitude of different shapes and sizes can re- turn to the eye the same image , and that a distorted room, constructed to return to the eye the same image of a rectangular room, may result in the perspective view iden- tical to a regular room. The merit of Ames was to have built this distorted room and to have included two subjects in the room, studying its effects also on a group of volunteers. Observing the space of the room from the special hole, one gets the impression of being in front of a perfectly regular room. But if we put two subjects inside the room or facing the two windows at the back, we realize that so- mething is wrong (fig. 5). One seems to be much bigger than the other or, conversely, if they change place, the they also change size. We are so used to perceiving size and space in a certain way, that at first we cannot see that space is deformed and that we are not facing a regular space but a trapezoidal room. This space is specially constructed according to the projection centre which is positioned exactly in the centre of the hole. The illusion of finding ourselves in front of a perfectly regular space is disorienting; we just need to ob- serve the space on the opposite side to immediately realize the trick. But the most unusual feature of this experience is that even if the trick is known, the illusion does not lose its effecti- veness at all: we cannot see the distortion of the room and we continue to perceive the two subjects one much smaller than the other or, vice versa, one much larger than the other. Ames is convinced that there is a memory of perception that conditions human perception, that is, the habit of living in regular spaces influences our vision and our perception. There are other theories and explanations in this regard but until now a conclusive and convincing the- ory that can explain this phenomenon well has not been formulated [9]. As far as we are concerned, these two experiences tell how important it is for an architect to know how to obser- ve and represent shapes in space, both in their real form and in their appearance. Fig. 8. Images of the constrained view of the polystyrene model of the Ames room. 113 2 / 2018 The Construction of the Ames Room Compared to the many Ames room models built in mu- seums, this Room was designed in parts and made of a single material. This choice, as mentioned, was dictated by the need to test the use of polystyrene and make the mo- del safe for children. To model the Ames room, the following procedure must be followed. You design a regular room as you like, that is, a rectangular prismatic space that has all the walls perpendicular to each other. To make the illusion more effective you can design two regular openings on the front wall of the room. On the opposite side, on the anterior wall, chose the position of the optical hole and projection centre of the transfor- mation. It would be a good idea to choose the height of the projection centre at the height of a man’s point of view. In the case study examined this height was calculated at the height of a child. In order to construct the transformed prism, or Ames room, it is necessary to respect the planarity of all the faces. This geometric characteristic is respected if the four faces perpendicular to the front plane, once the prism has been transformed, belong to a pyramid which has the apex on the axis perpendicular to the front wall passing through the projection centre (fig. 6). In fact, only respecting this geometric condition the four faces will all be flat: otherwi- se, one or more of the faces will turn into hyperbolic paraboloids. Ultimately, in order to easily control the transformation, you can draw the pyramid axis first. The vertex of the pyramid can be chosen on this axis: the more the ver- tex will be close to the anterior wall, the more impor- tant the projective transformation will be and vice versa. You choose a vertical edge of the front wall to maintain a fixed position. You select an upper (or lower) vertex of the other vertical edge and project it (from the projection centre) until you meet the straight line passing through the apex of the pyramid and the upper (or lower) vertex of the anterior wall. This sets the position of the transformed vertical corner. The remaining side faces must all belong to the apex of the pyramid, or pass through that point; while the anterior and front faces are sections, always flat, of the pyramid. To construct the windows of the wall placed in front of the observer it is possible to project (from the centre of projection) on the transformed wall itself the vertices of the edges. All edges parallel to the axis of the regular prism are transformed into lines that still belong to the apex of the pyramid. The model was designed with ashlars so that it can be assembled and disassembled (like a dry-stone wall) in a short time. To construct the room, a mathematical model was first created and from this model the measurements of the in- dividual ashlars were obtained (fig. 7). The scale of the mo- del was dictated by two factors. The first was to make the children protagonists of the experience and to do so the model of the room had to be large enough. The second was dictated by reasons of external space, i.e. the model had to be small enough to easily enter inside the entrance space of the main hall of the Psychological Faculty of the University of Bologna. The final model is a room of about two meters by three, inside of which it is not possible to walk (as in the original Ames room) but it is possible to look out of the windows and observe the space directly (fig. 8). Another fundamental choice was to build the model entirely in polystyrene in order to experiment with the construction of the ashlars using a wire cutting machine; moreover, as I already said, polystyrene is a light and safe material for children [10]. Each ashlar has been designed and modelled conside- ring the projection centre: observing the space from the projection centre , the ashlars appear to divide the space in a regular way according to the conventional horizontal and vertical directions. In reality, the ashlars are all skewed and the faces that form such parts are not perpendicular to each other. Initially we tried to realize the skewed segments making only two cuts. This solution, however, was immediately dis- carded after the first attempt. In fact, to obtain this result, the machine for processing the oblique cut had to move the two motors that carry the wire independently; doing this, however, the wire stretched too much, until it breaks. Consequently, we decided to let the motors work to- gether and in parallel so as to avoid breaking or loosening the wire. To obtain this result, we had to calculate the angle betwe- en the planes that form the various individual ashlars and the exact size of the regular volume that enclose each pie- ce (fig. 9). Starting with a piece of regular polystyrene, equal to the overall volume of the single ashlar, the various cuts were made separately, each time placing a worked piece in the 114 2 / 2018 machine chamber according to the calculated angles. The cuts were also designed to fit the various dry-ashlars to- gether. The final model is dry-mounted in about twenty minutes and can be dismantled just as easily to transport it (fig. 10). The floor has been designed as a checkerboard to accen- tuate the illusion of a regular space. Conclusions Through the game and the direct experience of space, we illustrated the illusory power of perspective and experien- ced the stereometric construction of a small Ames room. The children’s response was positive, that is they seemed to have understood and appreciated the experiments on perspective. The lesson on the world as it is and the world as it appears will be repeated next year for the new edition of Unijunior 2018. In the future, the idea is to be able to design and construct other models that can stimulate the study of visual perception and space. Regarding the question of perspective and vision, there are still open questions that would be interesting to investigate. Perspective continues to be a stimulating and mysterious theme: each time it is dealt with, it reveals its elusive and profound nature that has ancient roots. Today, living in the digital age, we have the opportunity to simulate the construction of various models and can study their potential. However, the need to physically build models that allow direct experience of those deceptions is even more surprising. Perhaps one day we will be able to definitively unravel the question of perspective artificialis and naturalis. Or the case will simply remain a matter of perspective points of view. However, we cannot forget that the experiences and research described here have been realized thanks to the geometric theory of perspective. The fact that the two experiments, the twins and the Ames room, are effective seems to bring a further element in favour of the existence of a single perspective that corresponds to the human sensible vision. Fig. 9. Schematic illustration of the cutting stages for the construction of a polystyrene ashlar. Fig. 10. Building of the polystyrene model at the entrance hall of the Aula Magna of Psicology faculty, University of Bologna. 115 2 / 2018 Acknowledgments I would like to thank the architect and technical manager Davide Giaffreda and the collaborator Marika Mangano for the indispensable help in the de- sign and construction of Ames Room’s polystyrene model. The model was built entirely with the tools of the Department of Architecture; in particular, the model was realized within the Laboratory Lamo of the Department of Architecture of Cesena, scientific director Francesco Gulinello. Thanks to Fabrizio Ivan Apollonio and Riccardo Foschi for the publication of the photos. Thanks also to Valentina Orioli who has supported the initiative. Notes [1] The internet website of the Unijunior association is: (accessed 2018, February 20). [2] The digital methods are basically two: the method of mathematical re- presentation and the method of numerical representation. The mathema- tical method describes continuously and accurately the geometric shapes in space. NURBS mathematics is the most widely implemented to describe curves and surfaces in mathematical modeling programs. On the other hand, the numerical or polygonal method describes the shapes in space in a discrete and approximate way. Polygonal shapes or mesh shapes are used to describe curves and surfaces in polygon modeling programs. Of course the two methods have advantages and disadvantages that make them suitable for some purposes. Mathematical modeling is generally used in the design phase and to accurately construct and measure shapes in space. In this sense we can say that mathematical representation is the equivalent of the two parallel projections in classical methods, namely the representation in plan and elevation and axonometry. While numerical re- presentation is generally used to visualize and formally study shapes in spa- ce, ie to construct static and dynamic perspective and static and dynamic rendering. In this sense we can say that numerical representation is the equivalent of perspective in classical methods. Today we speak commonly of BIM or of the generative parametric representation (for example the use of visual programming languages like Grasshopper). The latter digital representations can be considered as digital representation techniques and not real methods. They do not change the geometric nature of the objects described; which can be mathematical, polygonal and hybrid. Furthermore, both techniques can be used to obtain accurate or approximate models. Unfortunately, at the state of the art there is no univocal consensus on the classification of digital methods at national and international level. The reason is naturally due to the novelty of these methods and techniques and the rapid development that these techniques are having over the years. [3] In this context ‘perceiving’ has the meaning proposed by Italian Dictio- nary Zinagarelli 2018, that is: ‘grasp the data of reality through the senses’. To avoid misunderstandings in this article I will use the terms ‘to see’ and ‘perceive’ strictly with the first meaning reported in the Italian language dictionary. It is natural that man is able to imagine and see space also in axonometry (and in double orthogonal projections). For some cultures such as Asian, in particular the Chinese and Japanese, the parallel projection method has been the main method of representing the surrounding world. And perhaps it is no coincidence that when man designs and analyses space, he is naturally led to use and prefer parallel projections. [4] There is an episode of a British television series, Black Mirror, released in 2011 in which a situation is described that recalls the experiment men- tioned. The third and final episode of the first season, entitled Hazardous Memories, is set in an alternative reality, where most people have a grain implanted behind the ear, which records everything that is done, seen or heard. This allows memories to be played in front of the owner’s eyes or on a screen through a process known as ‘re-do’, just like videos. It seems that this grain is implanted since newborns, but that a person can decide to have it removed. [5] Here the verb ‘to see’ is to be understood in a broader sense. [6] In this sense it is sufficient to think about how natural it is for man to imagine and read space in axonometry. Beau Lotto, in his essay [Lotto 2017], while not making any direct reference to the perspective, describes numerous examples that demonstrate how man reconstructs in his mind what he sees. In conclusion, even the latest theories of perception do not seem to help us on the question of perspective. Nevertheless, the scientific theses supporting the existence of a naturalis perspective different from the artificialis one are not conclusive [Gioseffi 1957]. [7] To deepen the notions and the history of Gaspard Monge and descrip- tive geometry refer to Cardone [Cardone 2017]. With regard to descripti- ve geometry and the ‘scuola romana’ refer to Migliari [Migliari 2010]. [8] Picasso’s painting is from 1912. While the technical drawing of the violin refers to one of the instruments construct by the well-known Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). [9] Gregory says that with the Ames room it is possible to put in place an experiment that is perhaps even more disturbing and it is able to challenge a fundamental law of physics. Simply take two objects, like two balls, and drop them. 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This paper aims to explore the functions of coupling metaphors tweets and the resulting ambient affiliation bonding. In other words, the study seeks to shed some light on the different constructions of tagging practices that help in identifying conceptual metaphors related to the target domain of PREEMIES. The analysis of metaphors in the context of hard situations and human emotions is gaining more attention recently (Black, 2016; Kovecses, 2003; Otis, 2019). Central to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) is the notion that metaphorical references give expression to people usually evaluate the situation using emotionally-laden metaphors (Hendricks et al., 2018). Scholars have investigated the ways in which metaphors have an influential role in shaping the ways through which people emotionally appraise and cope with hard situations. Hendricks et al. (2018), for instance, nce that the person can make peace with their illness. However, less attention has been given to metaphors function in invoking attitude (Liu, 2018) and the resulted affiliated bonds of their employment. This gap is the focus in this paper. Hashtags are clear examples of the alignment resources embedded in social media platforms. In this regard, the current paper aims to examine how hashtags are used to negotiate a coupling metaphorical instantiation of the values positioned in corpus of Twitter posts about preemies. The study attempts to explore how parents and families of preemies employ attitudinal couplings as * Lecturer in the College of Languages and Communication (CLC), Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Egypt. Cairo Studies in English 2020(1): https://cse.journals.ekb.eg/ Rania Magdi Fawzy 111 2018) of emotional support and hope. In doing so, the paper extends the work of Knight (2010a, 2010b, 2013) on coupling and the work of Zappavigna and Martin (2018) on communing affiliation so as to account for the negotiated affiliation and social bonding in preemie tweets. Hashtags afford interpersonal alignment, which, in turn, invokes a potential network of ambient community (Zappavigna, 2015; Zappavigna and Martin, 2018). They coordinate and emphasize the values constructed in a given Twitter post (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018). Nevertheless, hashtags carry heteroglossic (Bakhtin, 1981) realisations, positioning online communities around particular values, events and themes. Commenting on the functionality of hashtags, Zappavigna and Martin (2018) argue that hashtags facilitate the analysis of particular discourse when used as a search term for sampling posts over a specific time period from the social stream. That said, this paper considers hashtags for their interpersonal and ideational functions in expressing attitudinal stance (Zappavigna, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018). Ideational/Interpersonal functions positioned as socially alignable. Following Zappavigna and Martin (2018), the current article examines hashtags as in-text annotators which are used to enhance social affiliation around values about preemies. 2. Background Information Premature birth describes the condition when a baby is born too early, before 37 weeks of pregnancy have been completed. The earlier a baby is born, the higher the risk of death or serious disability. Babies who survive can have breathing issues, intestinal problems, and brain bleeding. Such babies also may develop long-term problems like developmental delay and lower performance in school. Premature babies are most often confined in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to catch up in growth. Babies may stay in the hospital until they reach the pregnancy due date. They may be cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). According to Zappavigna (2011, 2012, 2014), affili refers to online social bonding where individuals interact indirectly and engage in mass practices such as hashtagging so as to experiencing particular kinds of Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 112 3. Hashtags from a Linguistic Lens Hashtags can be perceived as narrative resources (Giaxoglou, 2018, p. 13). They are used as resources for sharing and story making (Androutsopoulos, 2014). Hashtags can be used to classify content into topics or areas of interest, performing both linguistic and metalinguistic functions (Giaxoglou, 2018, p. 13). Importantly, they serve as bonding affiliation for networked publics, enacting ambient community (Zappavigna, 2015, 2018). Hashtags can be identified as metalanguage markers which carry all the three metafunctions of Textual, Ideational and Interpersonal. Textually, they perform the role of punctuation and contextualising devices. Inserted and integrated into the content of a post as a prefix, infix or suffix (Tsur and Rappoport, 2012) or even as quotation marks (Heyd, 2014), hashtags classify, frame and contextualize contents (Martin and Zappavigna, 2018; Scott, 2018). Therefore, the Textual function of the hashtags relates to the organization of the post where hashtags function as a form of punctuation (Zappavigna 2015, p. 6). Furthermore, hashtags have Ideational and Interpersonal meaning relations. Ideationally, they indicate and highlight the topic of the post. Interpersonally, (Zappavigna 2015, p. 11). Significantly, due to their semiotic technological which enables online communities to be bonded by feelings of belonging and solidarity. From an Interpersonal perspective, hashtags link a given post with other posts sharing the same stance. Page (2012) calls these Ideational and - 187). Summing up and contextualizing the three metafunctions of hashtags, Wikstrom (2014, p. 130) argues that hashtags have eight social discursive functions: a. Topic tags, where the topic is determined by the hashtag: re I am awake because of stimulants, but actually b. Hashtag games, similar to topic hashtags in terms of classification function, but with the aim of participating in a social game: fake a great smile c. Meta-comments, where the hashtag makes a comment on the content of the tweet itself rather than creating an association with other tweets: Rania Magdi Fawzy 113 Yeah I order a small coffee at the daily drip but grab a large cup, so what? d. Parenthetical explanations/additions, where the hashtag adds information explaining the tweet: e. Emotive usage, where the hashtag supports emotional expression that might otherwise be realised through some form or paralinguistic cue: When I worked in offices, I felt like I was the ONLY ONE who ever made f. Emphatic usage, where the hashtag realises some form of intensification: g. Humorous and playful usage, including hashtags that support some form of joke structure, hyperbole, or self-conscious humorous self-reference, for example through excessive hashtaging: Guys my h. memes and popular culture references, where knowledge of a particular trend is needed to interpret the tag. An example of this kind of hashtaging is smploying the fail meme as a kind of humorous self-deprecation: 4. Research Questions Focusing on Twitter discourse about preemie, the study seeks to answer the following research questions and their sub-questions: 1. How do Twitter hashtags about preemies forge ambient online networks of hope and support? a. How do hashtaged couplings of Interpersonal attitudes and Ideations instantiate an ambient bond of affiliation among the preemi families? b. What are the encoded metaphoric repertoire resulted from the coupling instantiations? 2. How do preemie hashtags discharge participants from the position of sufferers and recharge them as supporters? a. How do Finessing networks converse the cognitive evaluation of the emotionally distressing situation of having a preemie? Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 114 5. Methodology and Methods 5.1. Data Collection Stories and events on Twitter tend to be centred on a hashtag. Accordingly, data for the analysis are retrieved from Twitter research engine using the analysis 25 tweets qualitatively. Data are then captured by making screen shots of the entire thread. The author then copied the tweets into Microsoft Word to code the instances and linguistic triggers of Interpersonal attitudes and Ideation appearing in the texts, e.g., [positive Judgement: capacity] and [negative Ideation: painful experience]. Coding annotation is done following Martin and White (2005). 5.2. Research Procedures To answer the research questions, the study draws on the concepts of Coupling (Knight 2010a, b) and Communing Affiliation (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018) as its theoretical basis. It deploys these concepts to decode the Conceptual Metaphor (Lakoff, and Johnson, 1980) constituting the ambient udy comprises two main stages based on the adopted framework. In the first stage, the coupled resources of Interpersonal attitudes and Ideations are identified. In stage two, the resulted cognitive conceptualisation of these couplings is highlighted to decode the cognitive features of establishing an affiliated community of sufferers. For the purpose of the analysis, the tweets under - sections provide a detailed account of the adopted framework. 5.3. Theoretical Framework The general linguistic theory this paper draws on is Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) (Halliday, 1994). Of particular relevance within the tenet of SFL is the affiliation cline which assigns the evaluative couplings of [ATTITUDE + IDEATION], constructing a community of shared values and networks of bonding affiliations (see Figure 1 below). Accordingly, metaphorical encodings of the experience of having a preemie are discussed in terms of the couplings of Interpersonal and Ideational meanings. The ATTITUDINAL resources are defined within the Appraisal System as having three discursive regions: AFFECT (expressing emotion, e.g., love, disgust, fear, etc.), JUDGEMENT (assessing behaviour, e.g., competent, ethical, Rania Magdi Fawzy 115 trustworthy, etc.) and APPRECIATION (estimating value, e.g., beautiful, valuable, noteworthy, etc) (see Marin and White, 2005). When the network of evaluation is achieved through the shared couplings of [ATTITUDE + IDEATION], it constructs potential bonds calling together communities of shared ideological positioning. A bond in this context is by which we discursively construe our communal identities by laughing at, communing around or rejecting them through discourse in the p. 42). Such bonds can reach different levels of communities, from local communities to general communities (Knight, 2010b; Liu, 2018). Figure 2 is illustrative. Zappavigna and Martin (2018) apply the model of discursive system to reveal how particular values about depression are negotiated as bondable through social tagging practices (see Figure 3 in the next seciton). Their model identifies the key ways in which fered and modulated as part of They examine the role of social tagging in aligning networks of solidarity about depression. A detailed account of the theoretical framework adopted in the current study is presented in the following subsections. Figure 1. The affiliation cline of relations (Knight, 2010b) Figure 2. Affiliated coupling (Knight, 2010b) Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 116 5.3.1. Coupling: Some Reflections on Lexical Metaphors. Coupling a 2008, p. 39). actualized as patterns of couplings of Ideation and Attitudinal resources. Knight (2010, p. involves a coupling of the I A [IDEATION: apple pie / ATTITUDE: positive Appreciation] The symbo I and infused together to instantiate a value that can be shared and negotiated by interlocutors. The following table is illustrative: Table 1 Positive evaluation of a pie party in a casual conversation (cited in Zappavigna and Martin, 2018 as adapted from Knight, 2010b). commune around a bond realised by a coupling of intensified positive appreciation of a pie party that they regularly p 2010b, p. 219). Combining Attitudinal resources with Ideation, couplings can tell about how interactants share and interpret values (Knight 2010b, p. 40). Therefore, analysing couplings enables one to come up with the aspects of identity negotiated through social networking and shared values. The concept of coupling is of a particular relevance to the current study since tweets. The type of coupling the paper focuses on is that instantiated between the Interpersonal system of discourse, particularly the Attitudinal and the Engagement resources, and the Rania Magdi Fawzy 117 Ideational system. The couplings of choices from these discourse systems, the paper argues, negotiate a metaphorical parents and families into shared community of hope. As is the case of the built in coupling, metaphors accumulation constructs affiliative bonds for writers and readers for com p. 3). 5.3.2. Bonding Affiliation. Zappavigna and affiliation identifies how values are positioned, through hashtags, as socially alignable in three ways: by being directed at particular communities (Convoking), entering into relationships with other potential value positions (Finessing) and being foregrounded interpersonally in various ways (Promoting), (see Figure 3). The values of Convoking, Finessing, and Promoting are presented as shareable through hashtags that convoke or call together potential personae or communities. Convoking marks the network of meaning concerning the ways in which a Twitter post brings together a community to bond around a coupling. According to Zappavigna and Martin (2018, p. convocation) alludes to the role that systems of address (e.g., vocatives) play for directing proposals and propositions at particular interlocutors in dialogic exchange . Tweeting, in this sense, convokes a community or, in the words of Zappavigna and oying hashtags. Within the convoke system, hashtags have both Ideational and Interpersonal functions. For example, the hashtag #depression, if viewed from an Ideational perspective, indicates that this Figure 3.. The system of communing affiliation (Zappavigna & Martin, 2018) Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 118 post is about depression. If viewed from an Interpersonal perspective, hashtag then functions as a link that relates the post with other posts sharing the same stance. Essentially, the concept of communing affiliation, as suggested by Martin and Zappavigna, enacts p. 64) which positions users of the ambient environments around aligned values. In this regard, hashtags emphasize how values are negotiated in interaction. This is related to the notion of Finessing which is concerned with how Ideation-evaluation values are modulated through heteroglossic contraction (Not) coupling: and Martin, 2018, p. 9), (see Figure 4). Hashtags also can interpersonally promote, or in other words emphasize, a coupling in a tweet, performing the same function of upscaling attitude within the resources of Graduation proposed by Martin and White (2005). 6. Analysis 6.1. Convoking Communities of SUPER PREEMIES Hashtaging the word preemie convokes a potential ambient community that has the same parental experience and use the same tag. The convoking metaphorical network is achieved in the tweets tagged #preemie through the coupling formulation of [negative Ideation: health problem/Attitude: positive Judgement(capacity) and/or positive Appreciation (valuation)]. Such a metaphorical coupling instantiates an ambient community which believes in PREEMIES AS SUPERHEROES. The following examples are illustrative: a. Your strength [positive Judgement: capacity] has taught [positive Appreciation: insightful experience] us the meaning of patience, And not to rush things that need time to grow. As we breathe in the delicate NICU air [negative Appreciation: hard experience], We are forever changed by your early arrival [negative Ideation: health problem]. [negative Ideation: health problem] [positive Appreciation: valuation] Figure 4. Invoking an opposing coupling through engagement together with a hashtag Rania Magdi Fawzy 119 b. 2 years ago we were told our 1 Ib baby [negative Ideation: physical deficieny] superhero [positive Judgement: capacity] defied the odds then and continues to do so now c. fighter [positive Judgement: capacity] Although acknowledged ideationally as being both physical deficiency and distressing parental experience, preemie babies are metaphorized positively as insightful experience, superheroes and fighters. Accordingly, tweets about preemies convoke a community that shares the view of preemies as strong human beings and sometimes superheroes that can defeat all the odds and survive. Hashtags of the previous examples act as topic tags, contextualizing the topic of the utterance. Moreover, the tweets under discussion convoke associations of SUPER POWERS by negotiating metaphorical religious references. Consider the following tweets: a. Happy Birthday to my little angel [positive Judgement: veracity] Maya. This time 4 years ago Maya weighed 940g [negative Ideation] and was fighting for her life. Thank you @WestHertsNHS Watford SCBU Team for saving my little angel s life. [positive Judegement: capacity] b. We are surrounded by miracles [positive Judgement: veracity] everyday. c. [negative Ideation]. Look how grown up he looks now :) In the words of Delmy: Miracles [positive Judgement: veracity] d. Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 120 The couplings of these examples draw on quasi-religious metaphors to forge social affiliation of believers in the religious message behind having a preemie. This metaphorical coupling of [positive Attitudinal religious values (angels and miracles) + Ideation experience of preemies] construes an ambient community of believers in the religious values. The fourth example, which is worth to be screenshot as it is, carries a metaphorical orientation to dictionaries. Such a dictionary-like simile acts as a Promotion technique, upscaling the containned religious references (heaven and miracle). Thus, the tweets carry the stance that delivering a preemie is a message from God to make people believe that miracles do happen. Significantly, p. 141), - along the entire clause of the tweet. It is worth noting that the Convoking system in these examples assumes the role of a dialogic exchange and incorporates named social interlocutors in the form of other users as exemplified in the first example with reference to the @ mention convention. In the first example, the tweet draws on the @ character to refer to Watford SCBU user account in a manner similar to face-to-face conversation (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018). However, the @ character is used to emphasize the metaphorical conceptualization in the following example: a. @BrunoMars [positive Judgement: capacity] [negative Ideation] to speak. To clarify, this dialogic exchange of @BrunoMars is not conversational in nature; rather it indicates an intertextual orientation. The preemie hashtag here intertextually mentions Bruno, a famous song writer, singer, record producer and chareographer. Interestengly, Bruno-Mars has his good reputation for doing many things at a time. For this particular characteristic, Bruno-Mars is intertextually mentioned in this tweet as a metaphor ease their sense of guilt for being unable to protect their infants from early arrivals. In the same vein, the following tweets aim at freeing moms from their sense of guilt and regret by foregrounding the metaphorical proposition of a. The fasted path [positive Appreciation: valuation (journey metaphor)] to healing is not to avoid the harsh realities, but to own them, Rania Magdi Fawzy 121 say them out loud, let them flow through you and then release the. [negative Ideation]. b. to overcome the burden of guilt and self-blame [negative Ideation: Distressing experience] you can find peace [positive Appreciation: valuation] no matter wht hurdles lie ahead. Interpersonally, the hashtags of these examples link the post to other potential users in the ambient online domain who are experiencing the same emotions of feeling guilty and suffer from negative self-assessment. However, the deployed metaphorical conceptualizations of PATH/JOURNEY and PEACE intend to mitigate such guilty feelings. Metaphorizing the experience of having a preemie as a JOURNEY is also evident in the following tweets: a. 5 years ago, our little preemie wonder was born at 28 weeks [negative Ideation] almost 12 weeks early. The road was challenging but the journey [positive Appreciation: valuation]has been so rewarding b. To honor my sweet baby girl and the journey [positive Appreciation: valuation] In the following tweets the users employ the hashtag #famouspreemies to support the metaphorical couplings regarding the SUPER MENTAL POWER of premature babies. a. Pablo Picasso, famous [positive Judgement: capacity] Spanish painter and sculptor regarded as one of the most influential artisits of the 20th century, was born premature [negative Ideation] in 1881. b. Influential scientist [positive Judgement: capacity], Sir Issac Newton, weighed onlly three pounds [negative Ideation] at birth Christmas day c. Anna Pavlova, world famous ballerina [positive Judgement: capacity], was born two months early [negative Ideation] in 1885. Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 122 In all of the examples cited above, the hashtag #preemie serves as a topical entity that links the tweet with an external community or audience. Even when accompanied by other words such as strong, fighter or so they appear as one word. , FamousPreemie as one word promots and upscales the conceptualized metaphors. Furthermore, considering the position of the sentences where these hashtags occur, it is found that they are placed as suffix. This serves to bracket and foreground the Interpersonal/Ideation coupling and the resulting metaphorical orientation. In other words, hashtags of the tweets under study act as metaphorical stance marker. They are deployed as an evaluating resource for form that marks the point in the text where the metadiscourse lies (Zappavigna, 2017, p. 445). 6.2. Finessing: Hashtags as Discharging and Recharging Devices This section revolves around the source metaphor A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, marking what may be labelled as a conversed cognitive evaluation, so to speak. A conversed cognitive evaluation of the emotionally distressing situation of having a preemie baby may help in mitigating and coping with the associated feelings. In the words of Hendricks et al. (2018, p. 268, s. The process of reappraisal allows us to change the way we feel about something Applying this notion of cognitive conversion to the ambient environment of Twitter can be related to Zappavigna Finessing. Finessing network is closely related to the Engagement resources of the Appraisal System. As explained by Martin and White (2005), Engagement resources deal with the interplay of voices within a es by which the speaker/writer negotiates relationships of alignment/disalignment vis-à-vis the various value positions referenced by the text and hence vis-à-vis the socially constituted communities of shared attitude and belief associated with those posi , p. 95). However, while Engagement accounts for the patterning of attitude, Finessing deals with how the ideation-evaluation resources are infused and modulated. Interestingly, deployment of Finessing in the tweets about preemies corresponds conversed cognitive evaluation by retelling the experience of having a preemie as an exciting and sometimes blessing one, which in turn, discharges the experience from negative Judgements and recharges it with positive Rania Magdi Fawzy 123 assessments. The Finessing resources negotiated in the tweets forge social affiliation around values of hope and support. In so doing, the Finessing network follows the coupling formulation of [Dialogic Expansion/Dialogic Contraction: Disclaim: Deny or Counter] (see Martin and White, 2005 for more on the Engagement resources). The Finessing netwrok employs Expansion resources that associate negative values with preemies and contraction systems that challenge and refute such values. Such dialogic coupling is brought together along with negative Ideation. Triple coupling is then evident. Example instantiations of hope to cite are represented in the tweets below: a. 21 years ago, my son was born as a 25wk @820g [negative Ideation]. He had a ventricular bleed, retinopathy and BPD [negative Ideation]. For all the parents in an who are sick with worry, in 4th y university now [Contraction: Counter]. Keep your hopes up. b. Our pre-term baby is seven today! [Contraction: Counter] Eternal thanks to @NHS_Lothian for everything they did that frightening night and in the bewildering days [negative Ideation] that followed c. When [Expansion: Attribute] less than a 50% chance [negative Ideation] to make it out of the NICU and are now [Contraction: Counter] healthy today [Contraction: Counter] d. My precious grandson... He [Contraction: Deny] look like what been through [Expansion: Attribute/negative Ideation] e. Today [Contraction: Counter] is my sons 6th Bday! He was born at 21wks [negative Ideation]. Under a LB when born [negative Ideation]. Part of me [Expansion: entertain] thought make it here today. and The contraction here is established between was and now and the antonyms relations between worry and hope . The dialectical tension between now and then carries a challenging tone against the negative Ideation values. A holds an opposing positive view is then convoked. The use of this particular heteroglossic contraction instantiating positive Judgement (e.g., strength) Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 124 together with the hashtag #preemie is a typical repeated pattern in the tweets under discussion. The dialectical tension that exists between positive and negative social esteem resources of capacity further reinforces the source metaphor of LIGHT AT THE END OF A TUNNEL. This notion is evident in the following example: a. After spending her first year of life visiting numerous doctors, undergoing tons of testing, and experiencing significant delays [negative Ideation] taking risks and playing BIG in life! [invoked Contraction: Counter] ignificant delay taking risks and playing BIG in life enacts a dialectical tension. Such a tension is realised by discordant evaluative couplings (Martin, 2000a) in the texts. The Finessing hashtags of the tweets under discussion discharge assessment of preemies as negative Capacity. Consider the following two tweets: a. Although [Contraction: Counter] your arrival was chaotic and shaky [negative Ideation], you are thriving now [Contraction: Counter]! We b. Happy 5th birthday to our warrior princess! Our miracle baby girl was a 1 O2, wires, feeding tubes, blood transfusions, blood gasses, and feeding clinics [negative Judgement: Capacity] were never [Contraction: Deny] stopped fighting! [positive Judgement: Capacity] and blessed to be mommy! The Finessing resources in these examples are expressed through the Disclaim values of dialogic counter and deny respectively. These resources reject the dialogic alternative of despair and losing hope, instantiating a metaphorical coupling of a community of hope. Correspondingly, the dialogic alternatives of helplessness and despair associated with the experience of having a preemie are challenged and excluded, entering the putative readers into an - and White, 2005). Significantly, Finessing network in the tweets about preemies presents the addresser as having great experience, allowing him/her to cognitively take the part. A cognitive role of supporter rather than sufferer is then established. Rania Magdi Fawzy 125 Interestingly, identifying oneself with a larger community of supporters may be of a significant importance for participants to be able to move on and coping with the hard situation. Finessing is conveyed via the deployment of conjunctions and connections such as However, the finessing resources of countering are established as well by the use of the comment adverbials and Comment adverbials carry a counter expectational aspect to their meaning. a. I allowed Mo for the best and he was eating a lot sooner! Never underestimate the 7. Conclusion This paper examined the role performed by Twitter hashtags in forging ambient online networks of hope and support about preemie - a distressing experience for the parents and the families. It investigated how hashtaging the word preemie convokes a potential ambient community that has the same parental experience and uses the same tag. The study took the concepts of Coupling (Knight 2010a,b) and Communing Affiliation (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018) as its theoretical basis. It deployed these concepts to reveal the Conceptual Met families. It was found that tweets about preemies align participants with an affiliated community of believers in hope, miracles, and superheroes. The analysis also revealed that hashtags in the context participants from the position of sufferers and recharge them as supporters and experienced persons who provide advice. The convoking metaphorical network is achieved in the tweets tagged #preemie through the coupling formulation of [negative Ideation: health problem/Attitude: positive Judgement(capacity) and/or positive Appreciation (valuation)]. This metaphorical coupling instantiates an ambient community which believes in PREEMIES AS SUPERHEROES. As for the finessing values of Disclaim (counter and denial), it is affiliative in that it invokes a community of hope that presents itself as countering and negating beliefs and claims that having a preemie is a hopeless situation. the Finessing network follows the coupling formulation of [Dialogic Expansion/Dialogic Contraction: Disclaim: Deny or Counter]. The dialectical tension resulted from the coupling of two opposing propositions construes the source metaphor of A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL, marking what may be labelled as a conversed cognitive evaluation. Hashtaged Coupling Metaphors 126 The framework of Coupling (Knight 2010a, b) and Communing Affiliation (Zappavigna and Martin, 2018) that the author used is based on SFL. As for the cognitive interpretation, it is influenced approach to Conceptual Metaphor. 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London: Bloomsbury Academic Zappavigna, Michele and Martin, James R. (2018) Discourse, Context and Media, 22, 4-1. work_ajo2gm5whvdxbjdsbxcq4nwhdy ---- When a Picasso is a “Picasso”: The entry point in the identification of visual art Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Acta Psychologica j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / a c t p s y When a Picasso is a ‘‘Picasso”: The entry point in the identification of visual art B. Belke a,*, H. Leder a, G. Harsanyi b,c, C.C. Carbon b a Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria b Department of Psychology, University of Bamberg, Markusplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg, Germany c Institute of Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 18, 12489 Berlin, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 30 December 2008 Received in revised form 10 November 2009 Accepted 13 November 2009 Available online 24 December 2009 PsycINFO classification: 2323 2340 2610 Keywords: Art perception Classification Identification Style-based recognition Aesthetic experience 0001-6918/$ - see front matter � 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.11.007 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: benno.belke@gmail.com (B. Belke) a b s t r a c t We investigated whether art is distinguished from other real world objects in human cognition, in that art allows for a special memorial representation and identification based on artists’ specific stylistic appearances. Testing art-experienced viewers, converging empirical evidence from three experiments, which have proved sensitive to addressing the question of initial object recognition, suggest that identi- fication of visual art is at the subordinate level of the producing artist. Specifically, in a free naming task it was found that art-objects as opposed to non-art-objects were most frequently named with subordinate level categories, with the artist’s name as the most frequent category (Experiment 1). In a category-ver- ification task (Experiment 2), art-objects were recognized faster than non-art-objects on the subordinate level with the artist’s name. In a conceptual priming task, subordinate primes of artists’ names facilitated matching responses to art-objects but subordinate primes did not facilitate responses to non-art-objects (Experiment 3). Collectively, these results suggest that the artist’s name has a special status in the memo- rial representation of visual art and serves as a predominant entry point in recognition in art perception. � 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction People have an astonishing ability to identify objects in a fast, automatic, and very efficient way. This behavior is an evolution- based adaptation for accessing memory representations involving the identification of objects and the corresponding demands for specific actions (Rosch, 1975). In their seminal studies, Rosch, Mer- vis, Gray, Johnson, and Boyes-Braem (1976) determined the princi- ples by which humans divide up the world the way they do. There is now a substantial body of research suggesting that most objects are initially classified at a particular level of abstraction, called the basic level (for a review, see Rosch et al., 1976). The basic level is defined as (a) the level at which most knowledge is organized and the highest level of abstraction at which a single mental image can be formed, (b) category members share a similar shape, and (c) similar motor actions are used to interact with category members (Tanaka, 2001). Rosch (1975) argued that the basic level of catego- rization provides the entry point in human classification and repre- sents the level at which objects are first recognized and proposed: ‘‘in the perceived world, information rich bundles of perceptual or functional attributes occur that form natural discontinuities, and ll rights reserved. . that [. . .] basic cuts in categorization are made at these discontinu- ities” (p. 31). The authors empirically demonstrated the special sta- tus of the basic level by interpreting participants’ naming preferences and category membership verification times as indi- cating that people first identify objects at the basic level and then access the superordinate level or subordinate level categories. According to Rosch et al. (1976), basic level categories are noted by a balance between informativeness or ‘‘cue validity” (the num- ber of attributes the concept conveys) and ‘‘cognitive economy” (a sort of summary of the important attributes that distinguish it from other categories). Informativeness is lacking at the highest le- vel because few attributes are conveyed, and economy is missing at the lowest level because too many attributes are conveyed. Later, Jolicoeur, Gluck, and Kosslyn (1984) proposed that the en- try point in recognition corresponds to the level where ‘‘contact is made first with semantic memory” (p. 272) and where the percep- tual stimulus first makes contact with its underlying memorial representation. Importantly, Jolicoeur et al. (1984) noted that the entry point often corresponds to the basic level, but in many in- stances of object identification it does not. Research on human ob- ject identification demonstrated that the entry point could be modulated by at least two factors: domain-specific expertise and typicality of an exemplar for its corresponding basic level. Con- cerning the former, expertise in a particular field is likely to shift http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.11.007 mailto:benno.belke@gmail.com http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00016918 http://www.elsevier.com/locate/actpsy 192 B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 entry level of many objects towards the subordinate level (Rosch et al., 1976). Tanaka and Taylor (1991), for example, found that a bird expert is able to recognize a picture of a sparrow as a ‘‘spar- row” as quickly as he recognizes it as a ‘‘bird”. In the domain of face perception, Tanaka (2001) suggested a general basic level shift in human perception towards subordinate classification of familiar faces. Thus, a face will more likely be identified at the unique level of identity (e.g., as ‘‘Bill Clinton” rather than as a ‘‘face” at the basic level). Similar downward shifts in recognition were found by Gau- thier and Tarr (1997) after participants were trained in the identi- fication of artificial objects. On the basis of these findings, Jolicoeur et al. (1984) concluded ‘‘for many objects (and perhaps many situ- ations) we use identification routines at levels other than the basic level” (p. 272). 1.1. Special features of art-objects What might be the entry point in the identification of visual art? Up to this point research in the domain of object recognition has been concerned with object classes such as furniture (Rosch et al., 1976), faces (e.g., Tanaka, 2001), every-day objects (Op de Beeck & Wagemans, 2001) and even artificial objects (e.g., Gauthier & Tarr, 1997) but very little is known about the representation and initial identification of visual art. For instance, what might be the first access to semantic memory when a person identifies Pablo Pi- casso’s ‘‘Dora Maar seated”? This painting might be initially recog- nized as a deformed depiction of a ‘‘woman’s head” or simply as a ‘‘human”. Alternatively, it might be identified as ‘‘Dora Maar seated”, a ‘‘Picasso”, a ‘‘Cubist painting”, or even more general, as a ‘‘work of art”. These numerous classification options reveal dif- ferent taxonomies applicable to art-objects. We propose that visual art is distinguishable from many other object classes, since it matches at least two taxonomies that may affect its identification. The first is based on depictive content (what is represented) and the second on stylistic representation (how it is represented), such as the corresponding art school or artist’s name (cf. Augustin, Le- der, Hutzler, & Carbon, 2008). In this respect, artworks are multidi- mensional stimuli that can be placed in numerous classifying contexts and therefore provide a challenge for initial recognition. The idea of multiple classification options for art-objects was proposed within a framework model of aesthetic experience, in which explicit identification is one of the cumulative stages of information processing that are involved in aesthetic experiences (Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004). The model states that, depending on the viewer’s experience, explicit classification could be based on style or representational content. For instance, in the case of René Magritte’s painting ‘‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe” it is pos- sible to identify either a depiction of a ‘‘tobacco pipe” or a painting by ‘‘René Magritte”, with both referring to a similar level of abstrac- tion. Consequently, the investigation of a possible entry point in vi- sual art must take into account at least two conceptual hierarchies, one content-related and the other art-specific, which allow for hier- archical relationships between categories (superordinate, basic, and subordinate level categorization). Moreover, in many cases of modern and contemporary art (e.g., Abstract Art, Minimalism) ex- plicit semantic references are often completely absent. In these cases, the identification has to rely on syntactic qualities (Berlyne, 1971) such as stylistic or expressive information rather than its semantic content (e.g. subject matter, represented object). Analyses of modern and contemporary art reveal that a persis- tent feature of art is stylistic variety, which refers to single artists as the main proponents (Leder et al., 2004). The stylistic diversity in art is propelled by artists’ attempts to distinguish themselves from others in the art market. In order to be successful artists’ styles have to be distinctive as well as novel or innovative. This strong individualization makes the art world special in that production structures still are very individual, but create forces that not only call for idiosyncratic objects, such as single artworks, but also encourage the establishment of individual styles – which are recognizable and attributable to single artists over different works of art (Grasskamp, 1994). This style-based appearance may be reflected in human recog- nition and presumably allows for a style-based type of processing (Leder, 2003; Leder et al., 2004; Winston & Cupchik, 1992). As a re- sult, the initial identification might yield cognitive processing that differs from other object domains (but might be comparable to the domain of architecture or design as well, see Carbon & Leder, 2005). Memory representations of artworks may be closely linked in semantic memory with the creating artist, as single works often contain elements which share ill-defined features of style that are similar throughout one artist’s style (Hartley & Homa, 1981). These artist’s specific stylistic features could serve as ‘‘basic-cuts” (Rosch et al., 1976) in categorization and provide an entry point (Tanaka, 2001) of recognition for artworks. We assumed that the impor- tance of style-based processing and stylistic diversity in the visual arts makes it likely that artworks might most efficiently be recog- nized with respect to single artists, e.g. a particular painting being considered a ‘‘Picasso”. This means that a Picasso painting might not initially be recognized as a ‘‘portrait” nor as a ‘‘Cubist painting”, but rather as a painting ‘‘by Picasso” or a ‘‘Picasso-esque” painting. Alternatively, from the way that people gather knowledge and expertise in art (see Parsons, 1987), it might be possible that art- works are initially identified on a more general level of abstraction. Art historians propose the use of art-styles to categorize artworks of the same historical period (e.g., ‘‘Expressionism”), of groups of closely related artists (e.g., ‘‘Bauhaus”), or of a common visual ap- proach to depiction (e.g., ‘‘Pointillism”). These concepts applied by art historians to categorize art might not be reflected in the initial human identification of artworks. We assume that they are of min- or relevance compared with a more specific artist-related categori- zation (Hasenfus, Martindale, & Birnbaum, 1983). 1.2. The present study We investigated whether there is a particular entry point in the identification of visual art that is different from other object classes, and if so, whether this entry point is at a medium (basic) level of abstraction as proposed for many object classes. In three experi- ments, initial identification of artworks was investigated by testing the relationship between art-related categories and art identifica- tion by relative art experts. Using tasks such as speeded naming, category verification, and visual matching, paradigms were applied that had been predominantly used in the domain of object and face identification (e.g., Rosch et al., 1976; Segui & Fraisse, 1968; Tanaka, 2001). Performances on works of art were tested against every-day objects, for which entry points are well investigated by a substan- tial body of research. According to our hypotheses about style- based representation in art, it was assumed that an entry point is based on recognition of style and shows up at a subordinate level of the creating artist with highest frequency proportion in naming (Experiment 1), with the fastest verification speed (Experiment 2), with the largest amount of priming in a visual matching task (Experiment 3). Alternatively, according to a structural definition of a basic level, artworks should be identified first at a more general level (such as artistic genre, e.g. ‘‘landscape”) and are more fre- quently named as such, are verified faster and yield higher priming gains on such basic level categories than at subordinate level cate- gories (of the artist’s name). In contrast to these two hypotheses, art — due to its complexity, ambiguity and stylistic representation — may only allow for idiosyncratic recognition, so that a general entry point as revealed for many other object domains (e.g., Rosch et al., 1976; Segui & Fraisse, 1968) may simply not exist. B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 193 For methodological reasons, the three experiments required participants to have some professional art training, as art recogni- tion relies on previous experience and knowledge. For example, a person who has never encountered a painting by Gerhard Richter and who is not familiar with his name would neither be able to classify it as such in a naming task nor to identify Richter’s name in a matching task nor respond to it in a priming task. Therefore, it was necessary to test participants with some academic back- ground in art history, as ensured by at least one year of study. 2. Experiment 1: Free Naming task A free naming task (Rosch et al., 1976; Tanaka & Taylor, 1991) was carried out as the initial experiment. Participants were asked to name each object as fast as possible with the first noun that came instantaneously to mind. In order to analyze a broad spec- trum of categories and concepts applied in the domain of art, paintings from a wide range of art-historic genres, artistic styles, and artists were used. Non-art-objects served as control stimuli. These consisted of artifacts and natural object classes, such as cars and dogs, for which effects of identification and explicit categoriza- tion are already well established and for which identification at a ‘‘basic level” was proposed and expected (e.g., Jolicoeur et al., 1984; Mervis & Rosch, 1981; Murphy & Brownell, 1985; Rosch et al., 1976; Tanaka, 2001; Tanaka & Taylor, 1991). By analyzing naming frequencies, the aim of this experiment was to reveal at which level of abstraction artworks are initially identified compared with every-day objects. Previous research has shown that participants use basic level names (e.g., ‘‘bird”, ‘‘dog”, ‘‘chair”, and ‘‘hammer”) when asked to spontaneously iden- tify pictures of common objects (e.g., Tanaka & Taylor, 1991). This finding has been used as evidence that the most accessible level of abstraction for categorizing objects is the ‘‘basic level”. For free naming frequencies it was assumed that art-objects might be iden- tified based on their corresponding artistic styles that are either at level of the individual artists or according to art-schools. Through- out the analyses we will refer to every-day objects as ‘‘non-art- objects” and to works of art as ‘‘art-objects”. Moreover, findings were taken into account that demonstrated effects of domain-specific expertise on object recognition. These studies showed that experts are more likely to classify objects in their domain of expertise at a more specific level of abstraction (e.g., Tanaka & Taylor, 1991). Therefore, each participant’s level of art expertise, as reflected by academic training in the arts, was assessed to reveal potential influences on the level of identification and nature of concepts applied to categorize art-objects. 2.1. Method 2.1.1. Participants Twenty students (17 female) studying for a MA degree in art history at the Freie Universität Berlin took part in the experiment. Mean age was 24.0 years (SD = 2.73) ranging from 21 to 33 years. Students had been enrolled between two semesters (1 year) and 12 semesters (6 years) (Mean = 6.45, SD = 3.36). Each participant was tested individually and received 5€ for participation. All partic- ipants had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. 2.1.2. Stimuli The stimuli consisted of 42 pictures, half of which were from art and half from non-art categories. Seven pictures were selected from the non-art categories ‘‘dog” (Saint Bernard, Boxer, Collie, Dalmatian, Fox terrier, Poodle, and German Shepherd Dog), ‘‘car” (Audi A8, Mercedes-Benz E Class, BMW 5 series, Volkswagen Golf, Porsche 911, MCC Smart, and Volkswagen Polo), and ‘‘home fur- nishings” (office chair, bread bin, dining table, folding chair, desk, desk lamp, and table lamp). No furnishings by well-known design- ers were used (such as Eames chairs) to prevent familiarity effects with those objects. For the same reason, the trademarks and logos of cars were erased from the pictures. The criterion for the classes of non-art-objects was that they had been used in previous studies on human object identification studies (e.g., Rosch et al., 1976). Moreover, they belong to the most common (most frequently men- tioned) categories of nouns in Germany. Exemplars of ‘‘dog” and ‘‘home furnishings” categories were among the ten most fre- quently mentioned category norms in Mannhaupt (1983) (the Ger- man equivalent of Battig & Montague, 1969) and selected car brands were among the ten most familiar brands in Germany as determined by a recent market study of AC-Nielsen (2004). Art-objects were selected from various artists in the genres ‘‘landscape” (Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Caspar-David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and John Constable), ‘‘portrait” (Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Roy Lichtenstein, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, and Gerhard Rich- ter), and ‘‘still life” (Salvador Dali, Albrecht Dürer, Gerhard Richter, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, and two paintings by René Mag- ritte). See Appendix 1 for a list of titles and artists. Four additional pictures served as practice trials (i.e. wristwatch, racing bike and painting by Edgar Degas and Lyonel Feininger), which were se- lected from other object classes that were used in the experimental trials. Each picture was standardized to 380 square centimeters with the original width-to-height ratio maintained. 2.1.3. Procedure The experiment consisted of four practice and 42 experimental trials. At the beginning of each trial, a short instruction appeared on the screen asking participants to name each of the stimuli as fast as possible with the first noun that comes to mind. After a 1000 ms interval, the written instruction was replaced with a 800 ms blank screen, which was then followed by a 2000 ms pic- ture-stimulus (either a non-art-object or art-object), which in turn was followed by another blank screen. After 1500 ms, the partici- pants were asked to start the next trial by pressing any key on the keyboard. The stimulus order was randomized. The experimenter sat behind the participant and noted down the verbal responses for each experimental trial. Instructions and stimuli were presented on a Macintosh Powerbook with a 15” monitor (resolution 1024 � 768 pixels). The procedure was con- trolled by the software PsyScope 1.2.5 (Cohen, MacWhinney, Flatt, & Provost, 1993). Viewing distance to the screen was approxi- mately 70 cm. Visual angles ranged from approximately 10.93� to 13.36�. In order to exclude the possibility that basic level categories were used due to a lack of familiarity with subordinate level cate- gories, a post-experimental questionnaire explicitly tested whether participants were able to identify each stimulus on a very specific (subordinate) level. In this paper and pencil questionnaire, participants were asked to name each object on a printed-paper version at a specific level of categorization. For example, they were asked to specify the particular kind of car (e.g. BMW or Audi). For art-objects, participants were asked to indicate the artist’s name, painting’s title, or specific artistic style. Stimuli that could not be identified correctly at a subordinate level were excluded from the main analysis for the corresponding participant. 2.2. Results and discussion 2.2.1. Data correction Before the actual analyses, all incorrect responses were elimi- nated according to three criteria. First, verbal classifications were excluded from analyses if a person could not name an object cor- Object Domain P er ce nt R es po ns es Art Non-Art 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Basic level Subordinate level Fig. 1. The results from Experiment 1 showing the percentage of basic level and subordinate level labels used to name art-objects and non-art-objects. Error bars represent within-subjects confidence intervals (Loftus & Masson, 1994). 194 B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 rectly at a subordinate level in the post-experimental question- naire. In the case of art-objects, this task required labeling of the specific painting with the artist’s name, artistic style, or title of the painting. If participants could not provide any of these informa- tion the corresponding trial was omitted (e.g., if the painting ‘‘Hampstead Heath” by Constable could not be labeled as ‘‘a Con- stable”, ‘‘Hampstead Heath”, or ‘‘English Romantic”). Second, if an object was named wrongly in the experiment, the response was considered as incorrect (e.g. a painting by ‘‘Klee” labeled with ‘‘von Stuck”). Third, verbal classifications, which were not in accor- dance with the instructions as decided by two judges, such as adjectives (e.g., ‘‘yellow” and ‘‘linear”) or free associations (e.g., ‘‘my favorite painting”) were eliminated from the data set. Given these three exclusion criteria, participants responded to 93.0% of art-objects and 95.5% of non-art-objects. Thus, participants were very familiar with the subordinate level terms of the objects. All correct responses were post hoc classified into three levels of abstraction (i.e., superordinate, basic, and subordinate levels). Re- sponses to non-art-objects were classified similar to those classi- fied by Tanaka and Taylor (1991). For example, the term ‘‘dog” was regarded as a basic level concept and ‘‘German Shepherd” as a subordinate level concept. While the level of abstraction for non-art-objects is quite clear by virtue of the level of inclusiveness and a host of empirical research (e.g., Jolicoeur et al., 1984; Mervis & Rosch, 1981; Murphy & Brownell, 1985; Rosch et al., 1976; Tana- ka, 2001; Tanaka & Taylor, 1991), the level of abstraction for art- object categories is less evident. Therefore, a special rating proce- dure was necessary in which naming responses were classified according to their level of abstraction. Five independent expert rat- ers received a non-redundant list of all categorizations in order to rate naming responses as referring to superordinate, basic, or sub- ordinate levels. A concordance criterion (degree of inter-rater agreement) was set to .8 of response-categorization. In other words, four of five raters had to agree that the given verbal re- sponse belonged to a superordinate, basic, or subordinate level. In 74.59% of post hoc response labeling, there was an inter-rater- agreement of at least 80%. The remaining naming responses were classified through expert discussion.1 2.2.2. Analysis of variance The dependent variable of interest was percentages of frequen- cies. Independent variables were object domain (i.e., art-object or non-art-object) and level of categorization (i.e., superordinate, ba- sic, or subordinate). Fig. 1 shows that participants classified non- art-objects in 54% of the trials at the basic level and 44% at the sub- ordinate level. Artworks were classified in 35% of the trials at the basic level and 65% at the subordinate level. No verbal responses were given at the superordinate level for art-objects, and only 2% of verbal classifications at superordinate level for non-art-objects. Given the lack of superordinate level re- sponses, verbal responses were analyzed by 2 � 2 analysis of vari- ance with object domain (art-object vs. non-art-object) and level of categorization (basic vs. subordinate). As expected, the effect of le- vel of categorization in this analysis was not significant, F(1, 19) < 1, p = 0.414, n.s. Critically, the object domain � level of cate- gorization was significant, F(1, 19) = 18.9, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.498. The interaction indicated that non-art-objects were more fre- quently named at the basic level than were art-objects, F(1, 1 Notably, the inter-rater agreement about response classifications for style-related categories (such as ‘‘Impressionism”) was below the consistency criteria of .8. After expert-discussion it has been decided that style-related classifications were to be regarded as subordinate level categories, since the criteria for basic level categories according to Rosch’s definition (see this article page 3) did not apply to style categories, but seemed more specific. However, it seems worth mentioning that the pattern of results in Experiment 1 did not significantly differ when artistic style was treated as a basic level category. 19) = 18.2, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.489, whereas art-objects were more frequently named at the subordinate level than non-art-objects, F(1, 19) = 17.8, p < 0.001, g2p = .4983. The interaction between level of categorization and object domain confirms previous findings, namely that the basic level (Rosch et al., 1976) is important in the identification of every-day objects. In contrast, participants cat- egorized art-objects more specifically with subordinate categories rather than applying basic level categories. In a more detailed analysis, possible influences of relative art expertise were considered as indicated by the duration of academic training in the arts. Based on the number of semesters of enroll- ment in a MA degree in art history a post-hoc median split divided participants into groups of low and high art expertise. The median for semesters of enrolment for both groups was 5.5. The resulting medians were 3.5 and 9.5 for the low expertise and high expertise group, respectively. To reveal possible differences due to art exper- tise, we ran a 2 � 2 � 2 analysis of variance with object domain (art-objects and non-art-objects) and level of categorization (basic and subordinate) as within-subjects factors and expertise (high and low) as between-subjects factors. Again, the only significant effect was the object domain � level of categorization interaction, F(1, 18) = 18.6, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.507. Neither a main effect of art expertise nor any interaction with any other factor was found (all Fs < 1.4). The lack of art expertise effects suggested that the preferred level of categorization of art-objects was not directly af- fected by differences in academic training. 2.2.3. Type of categories applied to categorize art-objects To further explore the nature of concepts participants applied in naming of art-objects, in subsequent analyses art-related classifi- cations were distinguished from content-related classifications. B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 195 These analyses of frequency were carried out independently of the level of abstraction. Art-related classifications comprised using the artist’s name, artistic genre, artistic style, or title of the painting. Content-related classifications consisted of naming referring to the depicted object of the painting (e.g., ‘‘eye”, ‘‘pipe”). In total, par- ticipants used 162 (61%) art-related and 117 (39%) content-related categories, v2 (1) = 7.3, p < 0.007. Furthermore, specific types of art-related naming were investigated. Among art-related catego- ries, the artist’s name was most frequently mentioned (135 in- stances, 83.3%), followed by the title of the work (20 instances, 12.4%), style (5 instances, 3.0%), and genre (2 instances, 1.2%). Thus, the artist’s name was the predominant art-related category, which was mentioned significantly more frequently than the works’ titles, t(19) = 5.9, p 6 .001. Titles were more frequently mentioned than artistic style, t(19) = 3.0, p = 0.007. The difference between style and genre was not significant, t(19) = 1.4, p = 0.174, n.s. In more detailed analyses, we also investigated whether relative levels of art expertise influenced the level of specificity within art- related classifications. Specifically, we tested whether free naming would shift towards the more particular level of titles with in- creased academic training in the arts. For identifying art-objects, more art-trained students used the artist’s name in 83 trials (86.5%) and applied titles in 13 trials (13.5%), while less art-trained students used the artist’s name in 52 trials (88.1%) and titles in se- ven trials (11.9%). Percentages of frequencies of naming were sub- jected to a mixed design ANOVA with type of subordinate classification (artist’s name vs. title) as within-subjects factor and art expertise (high vs. low expertise) as between-subjects factor. The analyses confirmed the above reported finding that artists’ names were significantly more often used than titles, F(1,18) = 34.1, p = 0.001, g2p = 0.654. The main effect of art expertise indi- cated that the differences of art expertise were marked by a higher frequency of art-related categories when compared to less trained participants, F(1,18) = 6.2, p = 0.023, g2p = 0.255. Critically, the interaction was not significant, F(1,18) < 1, p = 0.406, g2p = 0.039, n.s., indicating that the artist’s name was the predominant category in both expertise groups. To summarize the findings of the free naming task, it was found that speeded naming of art-objects differed from non-art-objects. As expected, non-art-objects were classified at a more general (ba- sic) level of abstraction, while art-objects were named at a more specific (subordinate) level, with the artist’s name as the predom- inant category. In respect to the kind of categories, it was found that participants used art-related categories (artist’s name, style or genre terms) more often than content-related categories. More- over, advanced academically trained students used more art-re- lated classifications compared to less academically trained students, while both groups showed equally high frequencies of identifying art-objects with their corresponding artists’ names. Re- sults are in accordance with the assumption that art-objects allow for a special kind of identification (and memory representation) based on individual artists’ styles that may serve as an entry point in recognition. In order to show that the findings of the free naming task did not simply reflect naming preferences of participants or social convention rather than initial memory access, the accessibil- ity of representations related to the artists’ names was explicitly tested in a speeded verification task (Experiment 2) and in category verification and priming facilitation tasks (Experiment 3). 2 It seems noteworthy to mention that portrait paintings differ from portrait photography, as their visual representation is more strongly shaped by a style. Therefore, findings of face recognition might not apply to recognition of portrait paintings. 3. Experiment 2: Speeded category-verification task Experiment 2 employed a speeded category-verification task similar to that used by Tanaka (2001, Experiment 2) in the domain of face recognition. Participants were presented with a superordi- nate, basic, or subordinate level category term and were subse- quently shown a picture, and were asked to indicate whether the picture was an exemplar of that category. The results were compared between two different object domains: Portraits as a representative of art-objects and cars as a sample of non-art-ob- jects. The choice of stimuli classes and selection of verbal catego- ries was oriented on the findings of Experiment 1. Portraits were selected because they are considered one of the most important genres in fine art.2 Moreover, according to a post hoc questionnaire of Experiment 1, the set of portrait paintings received the highest familiarity with the corresponding subordinate level terms which ensured that par- ticipants were familiar with the corresponding artists’ names or ti- tles (participants correctly named portraits, still life and landscape paintings at subordinate level in 84%, 77%, and 58%, respectively). Cars were selected as the appropriate contrast category because they represent a widely known class of every-day objects, for which specific familiarity data of a current survey were at hand (see AC-Nielsen, 2004). The task required participants to verify portraits and cars at the superordinate level (‘‘artwork” or ‘‘vehicle”), basic level (‘‘portrait” or ‘‘car”), and subordinate level (‘‘artist’s name” or ‘‘brand mark”). Reaction times were measured as the dependent variable. Accord- ing to a ‘‘basic-first” hypothesis (Tanaka, 2001), it could be rea- soned that portraits, like cars, should be identified at the basic level first and therefore categorized faster at a medium (basic) le- vel of abstraction than on a subordinate level. This would mirror findings obtained for many everyday object classes (cf. Rosch et al., 1976), namely that the entry point of recognition occurs at a basic level of abstraction. Alternatively, according to Experiment 1 and our hypothesis on an artist-specific recognition of art, we ex- pected participants to verify portraits faster on the subordinate le- vel (with the artist’s name) than on the basic level (as a ‘‘portrait”). 3.1. Method 3.1.1. Participants Sixteen (14 female) students of art history participated in this experiment. The mean age was 25.7 (SD = 3.94) ranging from 22 to 36 years. Participants were enrolled between three semesters (1.5 years) and 12 semesters (6 years) (mean = 6.63, SD = 2.75). Participants were tested individually and received payment for participation. None of them participated in Experiment 1. Each had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. 3.1.2. Stimuli Pictures were taken from two categories, cars and portraits. The car category consisted of eight brands: Audi, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Fiat, Ford, Peugeot, and Opel. According to AC-Nielsen (2004), these car brands are among the ten most familiar brands within the German population. Eight portraits by the artists Leo- nardo da Vinci, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Roy Lichtenstein, Anselm Feuerbach, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Vincent van Gogh represented the portraits category. It was expected that paint- ings by these artists would be familiar to students of art history. In order to reduce expectancy effects, pictures from two contrast- ing categories, ‘‘bicycles” and ‘‘still life”, were used as filler trials. The contrast categories shared the same superordinate level as the target categories (i.e., cars and bicycles are vehicles and portraits and still lifes are artworks). The bicycle pictures consisted of eight different types of bicycles: mountain, racing, trekking, BMX, collapsible, fit- ness, women’s, and children’s bicycles; as still life paintings depic- 196 B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 tions were used from Pierre Chardin, Albrecht Dürer, Jean Metzinger, René Magritte, Gerhard Richter, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol and Georges Braque (for a complete list of artists and works see Appen- dix 2). Additionally, four pictures from categories other than those used for the experimental trials were selected as practice trials. All pictures were standardized to 380 square centimeters with the ori- ginal width-to-height ratio of the paintings maintained. 3.1.3. Procedure At the beginning of the experimental session, participants re- ceived a written list of subordinate level terms for all of the 16 tar- get exemplars. Terms were presented in a random order one after the other on a monitor for 2500 ms each (after a fixation cross). Subsequently to an inter-stimulus interval of 800 ms, a fixation cross marked the beginning of each trial which remained for 1000 ms. Next, a blank screen appeared for 1000 ms, followed by a category word that remained for 2500 ms. After a 500 ms blank interval, the category name was replaced with a picture. Partici- pants were instructed to verify whether the preceding word label matched the picture (e.g., ‘‘Does the following picture show a por- trait?”) and to give their response (true or false) by pressing the corresponding ‘‘true” or ‘‘false” buttons. The picture remained on screen until participants responded. Assignments of ‘‘false” or ‘‘true” to a left or right key on the keyboard were fully balanced across participants. Trial order was fully randomized. Each of the eight portraits and eight cars was shown with two response types (true and false) and three levels of categorizations (superordinate, basic, and subordinate) resulting in 96 experimental trials. In the superordinate level and true condition, the category-word was either ‘‘artwork” or ‘‘vehicle”. In the basic level and true re- sponse condition, ‘‘portrait” or ‘‘car” and in the subordinate level and true condition the corresponding artist’s name (e.g., ‘‘Picasso” and ‘‘Van Gogh”) or the brand of the car (e.g., ‘‘VW and ‘‘Porsche”). In the false conditions category words were taken from a different exemplar of the same higher-order level category. For instance, a ‘‘Porsche” letter string and an ‘‘Audi” picture stimulus were paired, with both referring to the more inclusive level category ‘‘car”. In the basic level condition, a false word label that shared the same super- ordinate category was provided (e.g., the letter string ‘‘landscape painting” was presented with a ‘‘portrait” picture stimulus, with both referring to the superordinate category ‘‘artwork”). False trials were designed with the restrictions that each word-picture combi- nation at the subordinate level would appear only once during the experiment and each word within a level of categorization would appear with the same frequency in order to prevent response bias. In addition to the 96 experimental trials, the procedure con- tained 32 filler trials. The filler trials contained the foil categories bicycle and still life at the basic level of categorization and at two response types (true and false). True/false responses and reac- tion times were recorded. 3.2. Results The analyses were based on reaction times of correct true and (separately) correct false responses. Responses to the cars category showed that participants correctly responded ‘‘true” to 97%, 98%, and 77% of the trials for superordinate, basic, and subordinate lev- els, respectively. For false trials, participants responded correctly to 99%, 98%, and 87% of the trials for superordinate, basic and subor- dinate levels, respectively. To portraits, participants responded correctly to 99%, 83%, and 95% of the trials for superordinate level, basic level and subordinate level, respectively. For false trials, par- ticipants falsified correctly to 98%, 97% and 98% for superordinate, basic, and subordinate level categorizations, respectively. Reaction times were adjusted by setting boundaries to elimi- nate outliers. The lower boundary was set to 300 ms and the upper boundary was set to 3000 ms, which is equivalent to approxi- mately 2.5 standard deviations from the mean (MRT = 1098 ms, SDRT = 807 ms). Thus, 3.32% of correct experimental trials (in the true and false conditions) were regarded as outliers. 3.2.1. Analysis of true responses Mean adjusted RTs were analyzed as the dependent variable in a 2 x 3 repeated-measures analysis of variance with object domain (portrait and car) and level of categorization (superordinate, basic, and subordinate) as independent variables. The main effect for ob- ject domain was significant, F(1, 15) = 7.6, p = 0.015, g2p = 0.336, indi- cating that portraits were verified faster than cars. The main effect for level of categorization was also significant, F(2, 30) = 26.8, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.641, indicating slower responses for a more specific level of categorizations. Importantly, the critical domain � level interaction was also significant, F(2, 30) = 21.6, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.590. As shown in Fig. 2, the interaction indicates that cars were categorized faster at the basic level than at the subordinate level, F(1, 15) = 32.8, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.686. On the other hand, RTs for por- traits at the subordinate level (i.e., the artist’s name) and basic level did not differ significantly, F(1, 15) = 1.4, p = 0.254, g2p = 0.086, n.s. The interaction indicates that participants were faster to verify cars on the basic level than on the subordinate level, which confirms the assumption of a general basic level advantage (Rosch et al., 1976) for non-art-objects. In contrast, a different pattern was found for works of art. At the subordinate level (the artist’s name) works of art were categorized as fast as at the basic level (artistic genre). In sum, this task demonstrated that art-objects were verified differently from non-art-objects. People are just as fast to catego- rize artworks (with the artists’ names) at a level subordinate to the basic level, as they are to categorize artworks at the basic level. By contrast, verification times in the contrast category (‘‘car”) were faster at the basic level than at the subordinate level. This pattern of results is similar to findings in face perception, where verifica- tion times were as fast on the sub – as on the basic level for faces, while objects in the contrast category (‘‘dog”) were verified faster on the basic level (Tanaka, 2001). The results indicated that repre- sentations of artworks are highly accessible at a specific level of abstraction related to the artists’ names. This provides further evi- dence for an artist-specific style-based recognition of art-stimuli. 3.2.2. Analysis of false responses The results of responses in the false condition were in accordance with effects obtained in the true condition. Reaction times of correct falsification responses depending on object domain and level of cat- egorization are displayed in the lower panel of Fig. 2. The resulting mean reaction times were analyzed in a repeated-measures analysis of variance with object domain (portrait and car) and level of cate- gorization (superordinate, basic, and subordinate) as within-partic- ipant factors. The main effect of object domain was significant, F(1, 15) = 7.1, p = 0.019, g2p = 0.321, indicating that portraits were veri- fied faster than cars. The main effect of level of categorization was also significant, F(2, 30) = 11.4, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.431, indicating slower responses for more specific level of categorizations. The crit- ical object domain � level of categorization interaction was also sig- nificant, F(2, 30) = 35.6, p < 0.001, g2p = 0.704. This interaction indicates that cars were categorized faster at the basic level than at the subordinate level, F(1, 15) = 50.6, p < 0.001, g2p = .772, whereas portraits were categorized faster at the subordinate level than at the basic level, F(1, 15) = 9.8, p = 0.007, g2p = 0.393. 4. Experiment 3: Conceptual priming task The results from Experiments 1 and 2 suggested that partici- pants have detailed perceptual representations related to single Fig. 2. The results from Experiment 2 showing the mean response times collapsed by participants for categorizing portraits and cars at the superordinate, basic, and subordinate level in the true and false conditions. 3 According to biological taxonomies spiders are of course not insects but arachnids. However, it is common usage to identify spiders as insects in Germany , as documented in production norms (Mannhaupt, 1983). B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 197 artists that can be quickly accessed during initial processing. In Experiment 3, such perceptual representations of art-objects were directly examined using a conceptual priming task. Participants were presented with a word prime, a basic level prime, a subordi- nate level prime, or a neutral category prime (consisting of the letter string ‘‘blank”). Two simultaneously presented pictures followed the word primes. Participants were asked to judge whether the two pictures were identical or different. As suggested by Tanaka (2001), cross-modal priming effects were measured by the difference in reaction time between primed trials and neutral trials in the same picture conditions. According to Posner (1969) and Posner and Mitchell (1967), such an identity-priming paradigm allows for the investigation of participants’ visual repre- sentations that are activated by the word prime. The stronger the priming is, the shorter the reaction times will be. The degree of facilitation depends on the match between mental representations, as elicited by the word stimulus and its correspondence with the physical picture stimulus. Thus, ‘‘the closer the match between the mental representation and the visual percept, the faster the matching response” (Tanaka, 2001, p. 540). In comparison with Experiment 2, Experiment 3 considered a broader range of catego- ries. Art stimuli were selected from four artistic genres (portraits, landscapes, nudes, and still life paintings) and compared with four classes of every-day objects (cars, insects, furniture and dogs). Assuming that participants have developed elaborated repre- sentations related to artworks of single artists priming effects with artworks should be strongest at the subordinate level. For non-art- objects such effects were not expected. 4.1. Method 4.1.1. Participants Fourteen (12 female) students in art history from the Freie Uni- versität Berlin participated in the experiment. Mean age was 25.7 (SD = 2.02) ranging from 23 to 30 years. They were enrolled be- tween eight semesters (4 years) and 11 semesters (5.5 years) (mean = 9.92, SD = 1,20) in a MA degree in art history. None of the students participated in Experiment 1 or 2. Participants were tested individually and received allowance for participation. Each participant had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. 4.1.2. Stimuli Art stimuli were selected from four art categories, each contain- ing four paintings: nudes (Francois Boucher, Lucas Cranach the El- der, Rembrandt, and Peter Paul Rubens), landscapes (Paul Cézanne, Caspar-David Friedrich, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh), por- traits (Leonardo da Vinci, Anselm Feuerbach, Jean-Honoré Frago- nard, and Pablo Picasso) and still life paintings (Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Albrecht Dürer, René Magritte, and Andy Warhol); see Appendix 3 for a full list of artists and titles. Non-art stimuli were selected from four categories, cars (Audi, Mercedes, BMW, and Volkswagen), arthropods (ant, fly, butterfly, and spider3) furniture (bed, couch, cupboard, and table) and dogs (Collie, Dalmatian, Poo- dle, and German Shepherd). Exemplars of the categories furniture, dogs, and insects were among the ten most mentioned, as indicated in the linguistic production norms for the German population (Mannhaupt, 1983). Car stimuli were examples of the ten most men- tioned brands in a recent market analysis (AC-Nielsen, 2004). Four exemplars were selected from each category resulting in 32 picture stimuli. Stimuli were standardized to 320 square centimeters with original width-to-height ratio maintained. 4.1.3. Procedure and apparatus Participants were instructed to judge whether two simulta- neously presented stimuli were identical or different. Afterwards, they performed eight practice trials followed by 192 experimental trials. Each trial began with the presentation of a fixation cross in the center of the screen for 1000 ms, which was then replaced with a word prime for 2500 ms. Subsequently, a 300 ms blank screen interval was shown and then followed by the simultaneous appear- ance of two pictures, which remained on screen until participants pressed one of two marked buttons (indicating that paintings were Table 1 Mean reaction times in milliseconds (and standard errors of the mean) depending on prime type and object category. Object category Neutral Basic level Subordinate level Cars 857 (69) 837 (46) 934 (68) Dogs 685 (42) 653 (46) 636 (35) Furniture 687 (31) 635 (29) 621 (38) Insects 738 (65) 655 (45) 681 (43) Landscape paintings 708 (47) 745 (53) 708 (53) Nude paintings 745 (31) 707 (46) 750 (47) Portraits 744 (49) 702 (44) 690 (55) Still lifes 824 (95) 791 (70) 660 (26) Domain A m ou nt o f P rim in g (m s) Art Non-Art 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Fig. 3. The results of Experiment 3 showing the amount of facilitation for basic and subordinate level words for art-objects and non-art-objects. Error bars represent within-subjects confidence intervals (Loftus & Masson, 1994). 198 B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 either ‘‘the same” or ‘‘different”). Word primes appeared either at basic level, subordinate level, or in a neutral condition. Basic level primes for art-objects were ‘‘landscape”, ‘‘nude painting”, ‘‘por- trait”, and ‘‘still life”. Basic level primes for non-art-object were ‘‘car”, ‘‘furniture”, ‘‘dogs”, and ‘‘insects”. In the neutral word prime condition, the word ‘‘blank” was presented on the screen. The two pictures presented simultaneously in the ‘‘same” con- ditions were either two paintings or two non-art-objects. In the ‘‘different” conditions, the two pictures shared the same basic level (e.g., two different landscapes or two different cars) with the restrictions that each combination appeared only once and all stimuli appeared with equal frequency. Participants were asked to judge ‘‘as accurately and as fast as possible” whether the stimuli were the same or different by pressing one of two buttons with the right or left index finger. Assignment of ‘‘same” or ‘‘different” responses to the left or right key was balanced among participants. Key responses and reactions times were recorded by the experi- mental control software PsyScope 1.2.5 (Cohen et al., 1993), running on a Macintosh G4 with a 19” monitor (resolution 1024 � 768 pixels). Participants were tested individually. Thirty- two stimuli (art-objects and non-art-objects) combined with three levels of categorization primes (basic, subordinate, and neutral) in two response conditions (same or different) yielded a total of 192 experimental trials altogether. The visual angle was approximately 6.64� with a viewing distance of about 70 cm. 4.2. Results The following analyses were based on priming scores for correct ‘‘same” responses. Reaction times were adjusted based on data cor- rection as described in Experiment 2. Table 1 shows mean reaction times depending on prime level and object category. To measure the amount of priming effects, differences in reaction times were calculated between responses in the neutral conditions and correct the same responses in the priming conditions. To obtain individual priming scores for each object category and participant, differences in reaction times were calculated between the neutral condition and either the basic level condition or subordinate level condition. Mean priming scores for art- and non-art-objects were analyzed and compared. As carried out by Tanaka (2001, Experiment 4, p. 541) differ- ences were tested among the four art categories. Mean priming scores for category at the two levels of abstraction were subjected to a 4 (category: nude, landscape, portrait, or still life) � 2 (level of categorization: basic or subordinate) within-participants ANOVA. The main effect of level of abstraction was significant, F(1, 13) = 5.1, p = 0.042, g2p = 0.280. Neither the main effect for category, F(1, 13) < 1, p = 0.512, g2p = 0.057, n.s., nor was the interaction sig- nificant, F(3,39) = 2.1, p = 0.124, g2p = 0.136, n.s. Due to the lack of the main effect for category and interaction, the four art categories were collapsed to obtain one individual mean priming scores for the art-domain. To test differences among the four non-art-catego- ries, mean priming scores at the two levels of abstraction were submitted to a 4 (cars, dogs, furniture, insects) � 2 (basic, subordi- nate) within-participants ANOVA. Neither any main effects nor the interaction was significant (all Fs < 1.37). Consequently, non-art- object categories were collapsed to obtain individual mean prim- ing scores for the non-art domain. Priming scores (differences in RTs between neutral and treat- ment conditions) were collapsed and analyzed across participants. The amount of facilitation (based on reaction times) in the differ- ent conditions is shown in Fig. 3. A 2 � 2 repeated-measures analysis of variance was performed with object domain (art-object, non-art-objects) and level of catego- rization (basic, subordinate). This revealed a significant domain � level of categorization interaction by participants F(1, 13) = 8.3, p = 0.013 g2p = .391. No other effects were significant. The interaction indicates that additional priming effects were found at the subordi- nate level for art-objects but not for non-art-objects. Consistently, a post hoc comparison of priming effects at subordinate level and basic level primes showed a significant difference for art-objects, t(13) = 2.3, p = 0.043, g2p = 0.280. For non-art-objects the difference was not significant, t(13) = �1.1, p = 0.292, g2p = 0.085, n.s. Thus, peo- ple recognized artworks fastest with the artist’s names and were able to access elaborated artist-related visual representations when primed with a matching artist’s name. To summarize the findings of Experiment 3, subordinate prim- ing of the artist’s name facilitated a visual comparison task for the corresponding paintings by the artists, but when participants were primed with subordinate terms of non-art-objects, no such additional facilitation on recognition was observed. According to the logic of the word-picture priming task (the stronger the match between word and picture the faster the visual comparison reaction time) this result indicates that participants activated art- ist-specific visual representations triggered by the artist’s name. These primed representations could be either based on an artist’s characteristic style or alternatively, given that the selected art- works were typical examples by each of the painters, consist of ico- nic representations of individual works. Taking into account that a painter such as Picasso has produced a substantial range of well- known works, and participants could not anticipate which painting by the artist is being shown, it is reasonable to conclude that participants activated style-related representations that facilitated visual comparison. This explanation is in line with the notion that artists try to establish highly recognizable individual styles that are B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 199 also represented in the cognitive structure of the beholder (for a theoretical explanation, see Leder et al., 2004). In sum, consistent with the results of Experiments 1 and 2, the results of Experiment 3 suggest that art-objects are identified at a specific level of iden- tity and that detailed representations related to a single artist could be rapidly assessed. In order to provide additional empirical evidence, absolute priming effects for each priming condition were analyzed with four one-sample t-tests (sampled over subjects). The pattern of results confirmed the results of analysis of variance described above. Prim- ing facilitation for non-art-objects at the basic level was significant t (13) = 2.4, p < 0.001 g2p = 0.312 one-tailed, 4 whereas priming facilita- tion for non-art-objects at subordinate level was not t (13) < 1, p = .150, g2p = 0.058, n.s., one-tailed. Thus, every-day objects were identified at a basic level of abstraction. Critically, priming facilitation for art-objects at subordinate level (artist’s name) was significant t (13) = 1.9, p = 0.009, g2p = 0.199, one-tailed, whereas priming facilita- tion at basic level (artistic genre) was not, t (13) = 1.0, p = 0.124, g2p = 0.067, n.s., one-tailed. This test provided further empirical evi- dence that priming of artist’s name produces a significant amount of priming and suggested that participants possess fine-grained vi- sual representations linked to individual artists’ names. 5 The definition of an entry point as an object concept in this study is based on literature on conceptual hierarchies in the tradition of Rosch et al. 1976 (and many followers). In line with these approaches, the levels of abstraction and entry points in the categorization of objects were consistently defined and investigated as cognitive reference points. However, it seems likely, that such explicit classifications are preceded by perceptual analysis and implicit memory integration effects (see Leder et al., 2004 for a framework model of hierarchical processing stages) that may be linked to evaluations of the target stimulus (e.g., Scherer, 2003). Therefore, the early analysis of shape, form, content and style could be affectively experienced as e.g. ‘‘tender, disturbing, and fascinating”. The informational value of such affective evaluations for the recognition of artistic objects could be that they may serve as prototypical or 5. General discussion The purpose of the study was to present empirical evidence for a special art-related entry point in the identification of visual art. Converging empirical evidence from three experiments, which have proved sensitive to addressing the question of object identifi- cation suggested that initial recognition is at the level of the pro- ducing artist. In particular, the results of a speeded naming task (Experiment 1) showed that participants categorized a familiar painting with its matching artist’s name (subordinate level) more often than with any other art-related concept. In a category-verifi- cation task (Experiment 2), it was shown that works of art were processed as fast with the artist’s name (at the subordinate level) as with artistic genre (at the basic level). Verification times for ar- tists’ names were even faster compared to verification times of cat- egories at the subordinate level for non-art-objects. In a conceptual priming experiment (Experiment 3), artists’ names produced stronger RT facilitation compared to priming of artistic genre (basic level) terms. In this priming task, word-primes served as semantic cues in which visual representations specific to the subsequent stimulus had to be activated, in order to facilitate the visual match- ing response (cf. Posner, 1969; Posner & Mitchell, 1967; Tanaka, 2001). Therefore, the results suggested that participants possess of elaborate, fine-grained visual representations linked to individ- ual artists’ names. Given that each of the painters investigated in the present study has produced a substantial oeuvre of well-known single works of art, it seems implausible to assume that priming ef- fects resulted from the priming of single iconic representations of single artworks. Rather, the pattern of cross-modal priming effects is best explained by the activation of artist-specific memorial rep- resentations, which presumably consist of a kind of style-related visual prototype linked to individual artists. This interpretation is in accordance with a central assumption of a model of aesthetic experience – that processing of visual art comprises processing of style, which separates art perception from many other domains of perception (Belke & Leder, 2006; Leder et al., 2004). The idea that the identification of art is at the subordinate level of the corresponding artist is further sustained when considered in 4 One-sample t-tests were analyzed one-tailed because the priming hypothesis clearly predicts the direction of priming facilitation (decrease in RTs as compared to neutral conditions). light of a ‘‘cognitive economy” argument often made for the human cognitive system (e.g., Rosch et al., 1976). Such a classification is in between an ‘‘entry-level” of unique identity (Tanaka, 2001) such as titles (which might be too demanding, see Leder, Carbon, & Ripsas, 2006), and more inclusive art categories, such as genres and broad art schools (which might be inefficient for identifying a particular piece of art). Therefore, identification at the level of the producing artist may allow for an optimum level. Moreover, the often-high de- gree of semantic ambiguity (or even absence of any representa- tional information) often defies a clear semantic determinacy, which is why explicit classification based on artists’ specific styles might provide the most efficient in the identification of art. Given the wide range of artistic ‘strategies’ for depiction such as alien- ation, distortion and abstraction and therefore often highly stylized representations (of objects, themes or subject matters), the recogni- tion of visual art may most efficiently rely on reoccurring, salient stylistic features. These artist-specific prototypical style features might serve as ‘‘discontinuities” (Rosch et al., 1976) on which ‘‘ba- sic-cuts” in perception are made, and which provide an entry point in recognition. Due to these arguments and findings of the study, we propose that art has a special status amongst external-world ob- jects since it allows for a memorial representation based on stylistic features that are linked in semantic memory to the creating artist.5 Another contributing factor as to why the subordinate level pro- duced superior performance in the paradigms applied may be that perceptual similarity for art-objects does not increase with the level of specificity in the same way as it does for every-day object classes. For every-day objects research has shown that subordinate-level classifications require additional perceptual processing to extract features that are needed to go beyond the basic-level of processing (Op de Beeck, Béatse, Wagemans, Sunaert, & Van Hecke, 2000; Gau- thier, Anderson, Tarr, Skudlarski, & Gore, 1997). Compared to per- ceptual similarity within common object classes utilized in our study, paintings from a particular artistic genre might be generally more distinctive from each other. This increased distinctiveness might lower perceptual effort to discriminate amongst works of art and as a result favors a subordinate level of identification. Our study revealed a processing advantage on the subordinate level of the creating artist for viewers with a considerable range of academic training in the visual arts, varying from one year to six years of full-time studies. This result provides some evidence that an artist-based recognition reflects a processing characteristic that is not restricted to advanced levels of art expertise, but may be a hallmark of art perception itself. However, due to methodological reasons, performances of the free naming, category verification and visual identity task were not compared with performances by art- lay people, since these tasks required participants to possess of some declarative knowledge about artists, genres and styles. Although one could argue that viewers with only a passing famil- iarity with artists, styles or genres would show a classic basic level advantage (and identify an artwork at a medium level of abstrac- defining attributes (e.g., a painting by Mark Rothko may appear affectively ‘‘warm”, ‘‘floating” and spatially ‘‘immersive”, which might be crucial attributes for the artist’s memorial representation as a ‘‘Rothko”). If such affective and evaluative information is accessible in early processing stages, it might be possible that these affective attributes play a significant role in the identification of artistic objects. 200 B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 tion based on membership of a certain genre, broad art style or art school), we propose that the mental representation of visual art (due to the above-mentioned specificities) is generally organized around the subordinate level of the producing artist, even when art expertise is limited.6 This assumption is supported by Supplementary data which were obtained from people without formal art training and which we have not reported in this study. In a feature listing task people had to list as many attributes of given art-related categories as they could think of (see Rosch et al., 1976, for details of the method). The results indicated that art-lay people list significantly more items for the subordinate level terms of the artist’s name and spe- cific art-styles compared to basic level terms such as the artistic- genre. This result is in accordance with the assumption that art- specific declarative knowledge may be generally organized at the subordinate level of the producing artist. Clearly, future research is needed to investigate this hypothesis further. Moreover, relative levels of art expertise did not show up as a contributing factor on the finding that the artist’s name was the predominant category in naming art-objects in Experiment 1. Therefore, art expertise effects were not investigated further in Experiments 2 and 3, since they were not the primary focus of this study. However, it cannot be excluded that more advanced art expertise may modify the entry-level and provoke a downward shift in recognition (subsidiary to the artist’s name) to the level of a painting’s title, as the level of unique identity (Tanaka, 2001). The assumption of titles as an alternative (art-related) entry point was not investigated in Experiments 2 and 3, as frequencies of categorizing art-objects with their corresponding titles were rather marginal in Experiment 1, regardless of the level of partici- pant’s background in academic training in the arts. Future research may address the possible occurrence of such a downward shift more closely. The results also indicated that expert viewers were able to ac- cess artist-specific representations as fast as basic-level represen- tations of every-day objects, meaning that a painting by Picasso was identified as a ‘‘Picasso” within the same time frame as a depiction of a car was identified as a ‘‘car”. Although converging evidence of the three experiments suggested the artist’s name as a candidate for an entry point in art-recognition, we did not address the exact time-course involved, whether identification on the level of the artist precedes the identification of depictive content or vice versa. Therefore, we cannot rule out that the ini- tial contact between stimulus and semantic memory might be on the level of depictive content (Augustin et al., 2008). However, this might be possible for representational art but is less likely with Abstract, Minimal or Conceptual art, which often lack unam- biguous semantic references and often disrupt processing rou- tines that are prevalent in every-day perception, such as object recognition (Leder et al., 2004). Furthermore, art-related genre la- bels provided in Experiments 2 and 3 contained explicit refer- 6 It is important to note that exposure to art, unlike encounters with every-day objects, is a rather exclusive event and often restricted to a museum or gallery context; hence art can be regarded as an expertise domain per se. For many object categories a non-expert would still be able to name and identify an instance of such categories with an appropriate basic level and subordinate level concept. This is unlikely in the case of art, which represents a more specialised domain of knowledge. This study did not address the question how people without relevant art-specific categories and whose memorial representations have not been shaped by previous encounters with instances of a particular artist, genre or style, would identify an artwork. However, it seems likely that under these conditions, identification may more strongly rely on recognition of external-world object references (provided that representational information can be extracted from the work) and this may characterize a transfer of everyday processing strategies into the realm of art (Cupchik & Gebotys, 1988). Presumably, repeated exposure to works of art may foster the fast implicit learning of styles (Gordon & Holyoak, 1983) and the formation of style based memorial representations (Belke, Leder, & Augustin, 2006), which may evolve around single artists. ences to the paintings’ depictive content (e.g., the category ‘‘landscape painting” contained the word landscape) but were of lesser importance for identification than artists’ names. Future studies may address the exact time-course involved in content vs. style-based recognition and may reveal additional evidence (or boundary conditions) for the status of a subordinate artist- based recognition as the predominant entry point in the identifi- cation of visual art. Acknowledgements This research was supported by a Grant to Leder (SFB 626 C5) from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and by a Grant to Leder and Carbon by the FWF ‘‘Fonds zur Förderung der wissens- chaftlichen Forschung” (National Austrian Scientific Fund; P18910). We would like to thank Johan Wagemans, Slobodan Markovic and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable com- ments on an earlier version of this article. Appendix 1 List of paintings used in Experiment 1. Artist Title Style Paul Cézanne ‘‘Mont Saint-Victoire” Postimpressionism John Constable ‘‘Hampstead Heath” Realism André Derain ‘‘Landscape in southern France” Fauvism Caspar-David Friedrich ‘‘Solitary tree” Romanticism Claude Monet Detail of ‘‘Water lilies 1906” Impressionism Vincent van Gogh ‘‘Starry Night” Postimpressionism Wassily Kandinsky ‘‘Murnau” The Blue Rider Max Beckmann ‘‘Self-portrait with a cigarette” New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) Paul Klee ‘‘Senecio” Expressionism Gustav Klimt Detail of ‘‘Judith” Art Nouveau Roy Lichtenstein Detail of ‘‘That’s The Way—It Should Have Begun! But It’s Hopeless.” Pop-Art Edvard Munch ‘‘The Scream” Symbolism Pablo Picasso ‘‘Portrait de Dora Maar”1937 Synthetic Cubism Gerhard Richter ‘‘Emma” Photorealism Salvador Dali ‘‘Persistence de la Memoire” Surrealism Albrecht Dürer ‘‘The Hare” Renaissance René Magritte ‘‘Le Faux Miroir” Surrealism René Magritte ‘‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe” Surrealism Gerhard Richter ‘‘Skull 1983” Photorealism Vincent van Gogh ‘‘Sunflowers” Postimpressionism Andy Warhol ‘‘Campbell’s Soup” Pop-Art Jean-Honoré Fragonard ‘‘Diderot” Rococo Pablo Picasso ‘‘Portrait de Dora Maar” Synthetic Cubism Roy Lichtenstein Detail of ‘‘That’s The Way – It Should Have Begun! But It’s Hopeless” Pop-Art (continued on next page) B. Belke et al. / Acta Psychologica 133 (2010) 191–202 201 Appendix 1 (continued) Artist Title Style Leonardo da Vinci ‘‘De Benci” High-Renaissance Gustav Klimt ‘‘Judith” (part of it) Art Nouveau Anselm Feuerbach ‘‘Nanna” Classicism Paul Klee ‘‘Senecio” Expressionism Vincent van Gogh ‘‘Armand Roulin” Postimpressionism Appendix 2 List of paintings used in Experiment 2. Artist Title Style Jean-Honoré Fragonard ‘‘Diderot” Rococo Pablo Picasso ‘‘Portrait de Dora Maar” Synthetic Cubism Roy Lichtenstein Detail of ‘‘That’s The Way – It Should Have Begun! But It’s Hopeless.” Pop-Art Leonardo da Vinci ‘‘De Benci” High-Renaissance Gustav Klimt Cut-out of ‘‘Judith” Art Nouveau Anselm Feuerbach ‘‘Nanna” Classicism Paul Klee ‘‘Senecio” Expressionism Vincent van Gogh ‘‘Armand Roulin” Postimpressionism Appendix 3 List of paintings used in Experiment 3. Artist Title Style Francois Boucher ‘‘Reclining Girl” Rococo Lucas Cranach the Elder ‘‘Venus 1532” Early Renaissance Painting Rembrandt ‘‘Bathsheba” Baroque Peter Paul Rubens ‘‘Leda and the Swan” Baroque Paul Cézanne ‘‘Mont Saint- Victoire” Postimpressionism Caspar-David Friedrich ‘‘Solitary Tree” Romanticism Claude Monet ‘‘Water lilies 1906” Impressionism Vincent van Gogh ‘‘Starry Night” Postimpressionism Leonardo da Vinci ‘‘De Benci” High-Renaissance Anselm Feuerbach ‘‘Nanna” Classicism Fragonard ‘‘Diderot” Rococo Pablo Picasso ‘‘Portrait de Dora Maar” Synthetic Cubism J. B. S. Chardin ‘‘Silver Tumbler” Rococo Albrecht Dürer ‘‘The Hary” Renaissance René Magritte ‘‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe” Surrealism Andy Warhol ‘‘Campbell’s Soup” Pop-Art Appendix A. Supplementary data Supplementary data associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.11.007. 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When a Picasso is a “Picasso”: The entry point in the identification of visual art Introduction Special features of art-objects The present study Experiment 1: Free Naming task Method Participants Stimuli Procedure Results and discussion Data correction Analysis of variance Type of categories applied to categorize art-objects Experiment 2: Speeded category-verification task Method Participants Stimuli Procedure Results Analysis of true responses Analysis of false responses Experiment 3: Conceptual priming task Method Participants Stimuli Procedure and apparatus Results General discussion Acknowledgements Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Supplementary data References work_allww2nryncrbi5vriu4kn7upm ---- This is the author's manuscript of the article published in final edited form as: Gunderman, R. B., & Idahosa, A. O. (2018). How Art Can Educate the Radiologist’s Eye: Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase.” Academic Radiology, 25(1), 136–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2017.08.006 How Art Can Educate the Radiologist's Eye: Duchamp's “Nude Descending a Staircase” Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD, Aimebenomon O. Idahosa, BS Indiana University School of Medicine 702 North Barnhill Drive, Room 1053, Indianapolis, IN 46077 Key Words: Art, perception, Duchamp, education, radiology, radiologists Duchamp's “Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2” was dubbed one of the most famous and controversial paintings of its day (1. Along with the cubist school of which it was a part, it helped to change the way artists and the public perceived art, and its influence persists down to the present day (2. Less known but no less notable is the fact that “Nude Descending” also offers important educational insights to radiologists, particularly regarding the daily work of radiologic interpretation. The Nude Born in Normandy, France, in 1887, Marcel Duchamp grew up in a household filled with paintings by his grandfather, Emile Nicolle (3. Three of his brothers also became successful artists. As a student, Duchamp excelled in mathematics and art, and after graduation he sold cartoons that combined verbal and visual puns. After service in the military, he began exhibiting his paintings and participating in regular discussions with cubist painters. In 1912, he painted “Nude Descending.” Duchamp intended to exhibit “Nude Descending” at an art show in Paris, but it was rejected by his cubist peers. The hanging committee deemed it “ridiculous” to paint a nude descending a staircase, claiming instead that a nude should be “respected” by a more dignified pose. However, it was exhibited later in 1912 in Barcelona and the next year in New York, where it provoked harsh criticism. Teddy Roosevelt claimed that it might just as well be called, “A Well-Dressed Man Going Up a Ladder.” The painting, which measures approximately 57 × 35 inches and features mainly ochre and brown hues, depicts a figure composed of geometrical shapes that seems to be moving in a time-lapse fashion https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acra.2017.08.006 2 down some stairs (Fig 1). The figure appears in sufficiently abstract form that its gender and age are impossible to determine. At the bottom of the painting appears, in block letters, a phrase in French, “NU DESCENDANT UN ESCALIER.” Cubism “Nude Descending” both inhabits and transcends the cubist vision. The Cubists, including founders Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, abandoned the Renaissance's emphasis on perspective, which sought to capture the three-dimensionality of a figure or scene as viewed from a particular point of view (4. They also moved away from the realistic depiction of figures, instead creating images the likes of which the human eye had never beheld in the real world. Like the impressionists, the cubists seem to have been striving to portray reality in a new way that would reveal aspects of the world not directly captured by the retina. One such aspect was space, the possibility of depicting an object as seen from multiple perspectives at once. The two-dimensional surface of the canvas depicted a three-dimensional reality in a new way, as though the spectator were moving around the object, seeing it from multiple different points of view. Duchamp's “Nude Descending” extends this effect even further in space and time. The figure is no longer depicted as static but as moving, thereby combining multiplicity of perspectives in both space and time. The effect can be likened to a series of motion picture frames, except instead of unreeling over a span of time, the entire sequence is captured in a single image. All stages in the movement seem to be equally present in a single instant. Radiologic Perspectives “Nude Descending” invites a radiologist to reflect on some essential features of our daily work that have become so deeply embedded in habit that they can be difficult to recognize. One is the fact that Duchamp's figure is fragmented, a feature of essentially every radiologic image. Radiologists also see 3 patients not as wholes but as parts, whether as body regions (chest, abdomen, etc.), anatomic slices (ultrasound, computed tomography, etc.), or physical properties (density, echogenicity, etc.). Just as “Nude Descending” was rejected as an affront to the dignity of the nude, so radiologic images can fragment, partition, and undermine the integrity of a physician's perception of the whole human patient. For physicians in other fields who encounter the whole patient face to face, the danger of fragmentation may be somewhat mitigated, but for diagnostic radiologists who do not meet the patient, it takes effort to synthesize the images, the patient's story, and the patient. Some investigators and clinical sites have attempted to catalyze this synthesis by adding to radiologic image sets a photograph of the patient (5. Even where such photographs and direct patient contact are not possible, however, radiologists can still connect images to patients at least in the imaginative sense, bearing in mind that every set of radiologic images corresponds to someone's parent, spouse, sibling, child, or friend. Another radiologically notable aspect of “Nude Descending” is its depiction of the figure from multiple spatial points of view. The cubists remind us that, depending on the perspective from which a figure is viewed, different features are either revealed or obscured. And to multiple spatial perspectives, Duchamp adds multiple temporal points of view. At one point, Duchamp's figure appears to be leaning forward and at another point back. Radiologists need to remember that the patient looks different to different people at different times. For example, a cardiologist might view the patient through the lens of the cardiovascular system, whereas the pulmonologist might focus primarily on the respiratory system. Likewise, a patient viewed at the moment of an acute, life-threatening event may look quite different at a later point, when a multidisciplinary group has assembled for an unhurried discussion of the case. Another feature of “Nude Descending” of special note to radiologists is the interplay it depicts between static and dynamic reality. A sequence of movements of a body through space appears to be 4 frozen in a single instant of time. So, too, radiologic images tend to capture but a single moment in the unfolding of a disease and its treatment through space and time. In both situations, the implication is the same: at no single point in time are we able to see the whole picture. In this sense, the challenge to radiologists can be likened to that of a person listening to a symphony. To be heard, the music must unfold in time, and the whole work is never apparent at any moment. The same can be said for the health and diseases of patients: what the radiologist glimpses is like a still photograph or a series of such photographs, but the reality of the patient persists between the intervals, and the radiologist needs to be imaginatively engaged with that unfolding reality. For example, suppose frontal and lateral chest radiograph show a bullet superimposed over the right ventricle of the heart. How could a bullet be lodged in the right ventricle of a living patient? The answer of course, is that the radiographic snapshot represents a single frame of an unfolding motion picture, and the bullet traveled as an embolus from another point in the body via the systemic venous system. Again, radiologists perceive still images but must think in motion pictures. Another feature of Duchamp's painting is the fact that, when represented geometrically, a human being can become depersonalized. We cannot tell the gender or the age of the figure. We cannot discern the figure's identity, or whether it represents any particular person. We cannot make inferences about the figure's character, or how he or she might be feeling. The painting merely shows us a figure in motion. The same can be said, by extension, about the figures depicted in radiologic images. We may be able to diagnose an intracranial hemorrhage, a bronchogenic carcinoma, or appendicitis, but the image itself tells us little or nothing about the identity of the patient or the life the patient has led. Likewise, the radiologist is called upon to avoid depersonalizing or dehumanizing the patient, making sure never to see in any radiologic image just a biologic specimen and nothing more. By giving us so little in the way of personalizing features, Duchamp both shows us the inherent limitations of cubism and invites us to enter the painting, imagining for ourselves features that the 5 painting cannot supply. Peering inside the human body tells us a great deal about the biologic organism whose images we are viewing, but the radiologist needs to recollect that they correspond to a person with a biography that is still in progress. A fifth and overarching insight of “Nude Descending” is the fact that, like every piece of art, including non-representational art, it is in fact a depiction or representation of something, either real or imagined. An image is never the same as what it represents. This point is illustrated effectively in a story once told by Pablo Picasso. One day, a US serviceman complained to Picasso that his paintings seemed inaccurate, not corresponding to the reality that meets the eye (6. Picasso responded You mentioned earlier that you are engaged to be married. Do you have a photograph of your fiancée? May I see it? [Viewing the photograph, he expresses great surprise, perhaps even horror.] She's kind of small, isn't she? Although radiologists have good reason to take great pride in the many important medical insights radiology can provide, we also need to heed Duchamp's warning that images are never as important or real as the human reality they depict. Radiology is in large part a representational medical art, and we need to bear in mind that representation also necessarily simplifies and abstracts. Behind every static radiologic image is a living, breathing human being with a still-unfolding life story. 6 References 1. Duchamp M. Nude descending a staircase, No. 2. 1912. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2. Kushner, M.S. and Orcutt, K. The armory show at 100: modernism and revolution. D. Giles, London; 2013 3. Tomkins, C. Duchamp: a biography. Holt, New York; 1998 4. Golding, J. Cubism: a history and analysis. Boston Book and Art Shop, Boston; 1968 5. Krupinski, E., Chung, A., Applegate, K. et al. Impact of patient photographs on radiologists' visual search of chest radiographs. Acad Radiol. 2016; 23: 953–960 6. Solso, R. Cognition and the visual arts. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA; 1996: 236 7 Figure 1. Marcel Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. work_alm4rbnm3nbl5btsezm7k36qmi ---- 3월호.indd 1. INTRODUCTION Art and architecture had the similar cultural impact in the Old Regime. However, in the age of enlightenment and secularization, art was dissociated from political and religious influence, and more and more became the object of aesthetic desire. Art was in the hands of high culture and dissociated from the everyday life. Architecture, more or less, followed the similar track, and at the same time, was disregarded as a mere background for the arts. With the Avantgarde modernist in the European continents, the redemption of total works of art and architecture began to take various approaches such as Russian constructivists, German workers’ group, Dutch rationalists and so on. Among many approaches through Modern architecture that combine art and architecture, the envisioning case for this research’s topic is the Jose Luis Sert’s Spanish Pavilion at Paris World Fair at 1937. This paper will reinterpret the imp ortance of museums in modern architecture in the viewpoint of the unity of art and architecture and will propose a new form of museums that include current media art and installation art. A New Museum for New Forms of Art - Focused on “Museum without Walls”, and the relationship between art and architecture - Hayub Song Department of Architecture, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea Abstract To design and construct a museum of art involves the interest of artists, architects, curatorship, management, and local government. More than this direct relationship, museum obliges the public a mission of delivering genuine public experience through art and architecture. However, most of Modern and contemporary architecture has not delivered genuine public experience of integrated art and architecture. Conceptual message of art and perceptual architectural exhibition space has not been integrated easily. Picture frame canvas initiated this schism and institutionalized museum management hampered the creativity of artists. This schism was overcome through artists’ questioning of museum culture and creative works that embrace work and its environment. In contemporary culture, installation art and media art necessitates a new museum format which needs not only exhibition, but laboratory and interface space with viewers. This paper will regroup the existing museum according to its use and strategy, and reinterpret progressive museums that fosters young artists, and more than this, will introduce successfully established museums for new forms of art, which are equipped with versatile exhibition spaces, innovative interface between works and viewers, and own laboratory that can produce works of art. These examples will envision a creative method of art and architecture production that can achieve genuine public experience. Keywords : Public Experience, White Cube, Museum Without Walls, Museum as Medium of Art ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH, Vol. 13, No. 1(March 2011). pp. 3-9 ISSN 1229-6163 DOI : 10.5659/AIKAR.2011.13.1.3 Figure 1. Spanish Pavillion , Paris World Fair, 1937 Column Totem (Upper Right, Lower Right) 1 see Joseph Rykwert, The Judicious Eye, (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008) Corresponding Author: Hayub Song, Professor Department of Architecture, ChungAng University Heukseokdong, Dongjakgu, Seoul, 156-756, Korea Tel :+82 2 820 5264 e-mail: hysong@cau.ac.kr ©Copyright 2011 Architectural Institute of Korea. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/bync/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Hayub Song4 ( 1 ) P R O D U C T I V E C O M B I NAT I O N O F A RT A N D ARCHITECTURE - SPANISH PAVILION AT 1937 The Spanish Pavilion at Paris World Fair at 1937 incandescently fused architecture, painting and sculpture. It was one of the major attractions, although it was small compared to the large buildings of the Soviet Union and Germany.The pavilion was designed by Jose Luis Sert, years after the Spanish Civil War. The building is covered by photomontages that inform the effect of the war. The column-totem created by Alberto Sanchez Perez was placed next to the ramped entrance. Its inscription reads, “The Spanish people have a path, it leads to a star.” Also the poster reads, “More than half a million Spaniards are standing ready with their bayonets in the trenches, they will not be walked over.” by President Azana. These descriptions make visitors aware of Spanish Civil War status. This political conjunction brought forth well-fit artistic and architectural resp onse. Notably, Picasso’s Guernica expresses a dis astrous bombing of a Basque town by the German air force. In the ground hall of the pavilion, Guernica dominated a focus on an entire wall. It fuses the pavilion and itself into one entity of Spanish anguish over the war. Art and architecture all together, made vivid a public experience. Currently, Guernica and models of the building and the sculpture is housed in the Reina Sofia museum (designed by Jean Nouvel) in Madrid. This does not create the authentic public experience once held in the pavilion. ( 2 ) A RT A S C O N C E P T A N D A RC H I T E C T U R E A S PERCEIVED BACKGROUND A go o d work of ar t cre ates public mess age, and t hus it is conceptual. Although techniques in making a work have been changing, the primary purpose of art in modern times lies in the conceptual realm. More than aura that Walter Be njamin named for the authenticity of a work of art, the attention by art dealers and spectators and the discussion the work makes becomes the value of a work of art. The process that becomes the master work of art has considerably changed. As well, the medium of a work is not limited to conventional canvas, stone, wood, and metal. Immaterial electronic production itself became a work of art. However, still a work of art is differentiated from a mere design by that fact that a good work of art creates a new dimension of thought, concept or metaphoric public message. The difference between art and architecture persists in this dimension. While art maintains cultural attention by way of its conceptual dimension, architecture is perceptual, often unnoticed, and does not get much attention. The background quality of a building does not guarantee cultural attention from the public. Stylistic difference of modern architecture from traditional architecture did not create veritable cultural contribution to the public. In the situation where conceptual realm of art and perceptual dimension architecture is separated, it is notable to search for an integrated public experience that is provided with new form of art combined with new architectural setting. 2. ARCHITECTURE FOR THE MUSEUM OF ARTS 2.1. MUSEUM WITH FUNCTION Around 1930s when the museology becomes progressive with modernization, museum architecture was belated with old Beaux Arts planning and anachronic classical style. Issues of changes were like visitor circulation, display of works of arts, space for public education, storage, and so forth. Curators and museum professionals insisted the functional efficacy over considerations of museum styles. During the 1930s, curators opposed to palatial museum architecture. Following Le Corbusier’s notion of house as “a machine for living,” museum became an educational machine for the public. At a 1934 conference on museums in Madrid, Philip Youtz, director of the Brooklyn Museum, delivered an opening lecture criticizing the “infatuated architect” who repeats B eaux Arts planning and classical styles.2 This mood brought modernist design of neutral space, so called “white cubes” that represent modern museum in general. (1) “WHITE CUBE” MUSEUM In 1936, the Philadelphian architects Howe and Lescaze initiated the commission from the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lescaze and Howe wrote, “Every Architectural pretense should be avoided. A museum is best which is seem least, for it exists to Figure 2. Guernia, Pablo Picasso, 1937 Left : Original Exhibition at Spanish Pavillion Right: Present Installation at Reina Sofia Museum Figure 3. Museum of Modern Art, George Howe & William Lescaze, 1936 Figure 4. Museum of Modern Art, Philip Goodwin & Edward Stone 1939 2 see Andrew McClellan, The Art Museum From Boullee to Bilbao, (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008) A New Museum for New Forms of Art 5 display collections and it must not obtrude itself on them. It should focus attention on its contents by making itself least conspicuous.”3 In t he Howe and L es caze’s prop os al, t he mus eum was not configured in the manner of monument setting in the park. It was blended in the urban setting in the 53rd street in Manhattan. Wi ndow s and bl an k w a l l s w r app e d t he f a c a de w it hout any reference to classical styles, and the entry did not have a temple front. However, the commission went to the firm of Goodwin & Stone. The final design did not create much distinction in compared to t he repres entative Mo dern architecture. It did not cre ate theoretical issue among architectural circle and the public. Typical curtain walls and plain abstract composition did not propose any innovative feature of Modern architecture. From the street, it had tripartite elevation schema, the transparent show windows in the ground floor, curtain walls in the middle, and the eave in the top. The interior space was painted white and spatially neutral. Howe’s remark aimed against B eaux Arts style, and yet architectural challenge was avoided for the sake of white background quality. (2) MUSEUM AS CIVIC PROFILE Against the neutral character of “white cube”, in 1939, around the time of New York World’s Fair, Henry-Russell Hitchcock wrote, A museum’s purposes are best served, indeed can only be truly served, if it is…entertaining and appealing… The museum…belongs in the field of democratic adult education. Its public ought to be a voluntary one. Therefore, it must practice a judicious showmanship and not be ashamed to entertain in order to teach.”4 In the same vein of reasoning on the issue of character, Frank Lloyd Wright did not follow the anonymity and characterlessness of Modern architecture, and imbued a modernized emblem in Guggenheim Museum, New York (1959). Wright described it as a “temple in a park” which escalates the sense of décor next to the Central Park. The building itself caused much attention than the works of art in exhibits. Consequently, a coherent balance between works of art and architecture was not achieved. The museum houses collections of art, but does not catalyze art in its exhibition. In the opposite spectrum of architectural styles, Mies van der Rohe’s National Galler y in Berlin create similar problem with Guggenheim Museum. Mies created a black hovering roof in response to the site and the grandiose universal space for the exhibition of works of arts. However, the large space dwarfed most paintings. As well the transparent windows allow unnecessary bright light in the periphery of the museum and contrastingly dark interior in the middle. In the above two opposite styles of museum, more than the function of museum as display of arts, the buildings performs civic profile in the city. 2 . 2 . M U S E U M W I T H A R C H I T E C T U R A L P E R - FORMANCE ( 1 ) M U S E U M W I T H T E C H N O L O G I C A L P E R - FORMANCE After the social unrest in 1968, museum boom embraced popular culture that was fostered by public culture. Museums became cultural centers for high and popular arts. Especially, the Pompidou Center opened in Paris, after the international competition in 1977. The innovative design by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers focused on maximum interior space for housing the works of high and popular art, as well as a multimedia library, a performing arts space, a cinema, cafes, and gift shops. The building created an open space next to the escalators and provided monumental shape with high-tech architecture and public space for performance on the street. This building satisfies many aspects of contemporary museum; 1) its high-tech factory-like form waged controversy whether a museum can have a shape like a shed or not. Eventually, the shape was compensated for the ample space it contains. 2) The building’s vivid colors enliven interests in arts as public culture, 3) the works of art it exhibits range from works of masters to innovative media arts. Jean Baudrillard mentioned that the true contents of the museum “are the masses themselves” “flowing through the transparent space.” The Pompidou Center is a catalyst to the city, as does Eiffer Tower. However, one drawback would be that the spatial quality with transparency and openness does not satisfy the exhibition of conventionally canvas framed paintings. (2) MUSEUM WITH STYLISTIC PERFORMANCE Since the success of the Pompidou Center, the idea of catalyzing the city with a museum was prevalent when museum clientele gave design commissions to world famous architects. Exhibition spaces and the style of building were equally important. In the 1980s, I.M.Pei established himself as a master of museum design. He designed Washington’s National Gallery (1978), Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (1981), and Louvre Pyramid (1989). Through these works, he created canonic modern style museums. With the famous collections, the Louvre is distinctive. Richard Meier applied his white cube style to the museum design from the 80s. High Museum (1983) in Atlanta entitled whiteness to downtown. Museum of Contemporary Art (1995) in Barcelona is a jewel in the gritty El Raval section in the city. Most prominently, Getty Center (1997) on a hill of California shows off its cultural status. World famous architects such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Santiago Calatrava designed museums that guarantee the attraction points in a city. Their buildings energize local donors and citizens. These buildings work as attraction points in the city, which are similar to Hitchcock’s comment on educationally entertaining museum. Through their collection and architectural signature, these museums’ top priority is the number of visitors. The city that has one of these museums experienced the boom of tourism, and thus curating cannot ignore the business side of exhibition schedules. The popularity of exhibitions is highly influential to the revenue of tourism in town. 2.3. MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS While the above museum types were initiated from architectural difference, the concept of ‘museum without walls’ originates from 3 William Lescaze, “A Modern Housing for a Museum,” Parnassus 6 (Nov, 1937), p.14 4 Henry-Russell Hitchcock, “Museums in the Modern World,” Architectural Review 86 (Spe, 1939), p.148 Hayub Song6 the changes of medium in art works. With the proliferation of contemporary art market, art fairs, and auctions, the division between the public and private market sectors has been blurred. Accordingly, the role of museum has changed to support the artists, not merely exhibit the works of arts. Artists are often invited to sit on exhibition committees, act as consultants on building projects and so on. Their works are commissioned by museum to exhibit temporarily in the lobby and on the site of the museum. Often the image of this setting is transmitted via the Internet and media globally. These phenomena propose the idea of a ‘museum without walls.’ This concept of museum without walls also started its beginning with Land Art in 1970s. Robert Smithson’s infamous work, Spiral Jetty in Salt Lake City was initiated from the idea of museum without walls. Smithson denied institutionalization of works of art in the system of museum and historical implication in the subject of art works. His work gradually became extinct and remain as copies of photograph. However, in contemporary culture, Smithson’s radical action against museum culture is rarely repeated. Instead, the aesthetic effect of the Land Art specific to a site is pursued and reproduced via media and presented at even bus stop and public spaces. This trend also changes the space quality of museum from neutral space to a grand scale empty box that can attract media attention and capture public imagination. Throughout the above critical survey on museum architecture, we can observe that the relationship between artworks and museum has changed even after art and architecture was separated. While the use of canvas picture frames dissociated art from architecture, ne w medium such as l and ar t, site-sp ecif ic work, electronic image, and etc, provide unimagined possibility to bring forth a participatory environment that embraces art and architecture as public experience. For this analysis, the artistic transformation about the concept and usage of museum needs to be explored. This categorization will envision the idea on a new museum for new forms of art. 3. MUSEUM AS MEDIUM OF ART As Joseph Rykwert analyzed, before enlightenment in the Western civilization, art and architecture in a combined setting had an equal cultural impact. With the beginning of picture frame presentation, the schism between conceptual realm of art and perceptual realm of architecture was initiated. This schism has been taken for granted since a work of art can travel museums while a building cannot move. The criticism of artists about the institutional authority on museums initiated a new concept of exhibition and eventually museum architecture. It is not limited to the planning aspect of museum spaces, but geared to the very existence of museum itself. This criticism on the institutionalized museum became the indirect subject of the work in the display of the work. In other words, artists questioned exhibition itself and displayed their works in an architectural way. Artists’ practices based on this criticism bring forth a renewed interest in the combined setting of art and architecture. (1) EXHIBITION SPACE AS WORK ITSELF Kurt Schwitters created rooms of sculpture and his various objects in his home at Hanover, Germany from 1920s to 1936. Schwitters used his own rooms as medium of art in order to create a composite of sculpture and his various objects. It was named as Merzbau. In Merzbau, he developed various ‘caves’ and ‘grottoes’ which is dedicated either to people or to topographical subjects. The house itself was destroyed in a raid and yet the image remains as still shots. It could be an exemplary case which excludes institutionalized museum space and yet operates as a space for the exhibition of a work. This work can be interpreted in both ways; the criticism on the notion of museum space, and the emulation of Baroque space where painting, sculpture, and architecture are depicted as one piece of a work. ( 2 ) P O R TA B L E M U S E U M A S W O R K I T S E L F : DUCHAMP’S BOITE-EN-VALISE (PORTABLE MUSEUM) Marcel Duchamp, as a representative Dada artist, challenged directly the notion of institutionalized museum with his Boite- en-valise , portable museum. Duchamp used attaché case to house miniature copies of his collection. He developed a retrospective of his works with miniature representations of paintings, graphics and Ready-mades to fit inside an attaché case. Between 1935 and 1960s, he created many variations of this box. Each box unfolds to reveal various works which are rearrangeable. Artist himself can display his own work in an ambulatory manner. This work marginalized the role of architecture. Schwitters’ work and Duchamp’s work illustrates totally opposite spectrum of the role of exhibition space. While Schwitters utilized everyday space as medium of his work, Duchamp’s attaché case is both art collections and exhibition spaces. Like his other Dada art works, Boite-en-valise leaves a question on the museum space and exhibition method. (3) SPACE & PLACE EFFECT AS MEDIUM OF ARTWORK In a typical neutral white wall exhibition space, works of art maintains a singular effect in relationship to the space around it. In the 1960s, with the rise of minimal art, this relationship was avoided by artists since the space did not create aesthetically pertinent space for the work. Against the neutral white wall museum space, Donald Judd created his own ideal museum in the small town of Marfa, Texas. Judd was critical of characterless museum space and exhibited his aluminum box works in aircraft hangars, barracks, and other former military buildings in Marfa. He purchased many buildings in town and established the Chinati Foundation and displayed works of other artists such as Dan Flavin, Figure 5. The Merzbau, Karl Schwitters, Hanover, 1933 Figure 6. Boite-en-Valise, Marcel Duchamp, 1935-41 A New Museum for New Forms of Art 7 John Chamberlain, Claes Oldenburg and Ilya Kabakov. The overall aesthetic experience is dissociated from everyday atmosphere of a town and is like a world for art, according to Kabakov.5 Work and its setting, however, became each dependent with achieving conceptual and perceptual aspects. Many of minimalists’ sculpture attempted to spatially dependent relationship between the work and the exhibition space. While minimal art works are often regarded as individual pieces, much of works are site-specific in the context that can highlight the effect of works and space simultaneously. Richard S erra’s many installation works within and outside the museum illustrate his pursuit of the effect that artworks and place creates. However, Serra’s works did not need phenomena of changing illumination, while Judd’s works are sensitive to light effect. The customization of background space worked as medium of artworks. (4) SPACE & PLACE AS SUBJECT OF ARTWORK As mentioned earlier, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty used earth as a subject of work. Michael Heizer’s Double Negative is one of the largest, 1500 ft in length, work of land art. These are against museum culture and explore alternatives to it. In recent, medium of art and space of museum are incorporated to create an atmospheric difference from ever yday life. Olafur Eliasson’s Weather Project (2003) in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern utilized museum space as a productive medium of the work itself. With the emulated sun which radiates single frequency yellow light, the air is conditioned to create a fine mist via a mixture of sugar and water. The ceiling of the hall is covered with a huge mirror, in which visitors could see themselves as small objects when they look up the above. The height of the sun, the mist and the mirror make the visitor to lie down to experience the work. This type of effect creating installation art overcomes institutionalized museum culture through blurring the boundary between museum and a work of art. ( 5 ) V I R T UA L S PA C E & P L A C E A S S U B J E C T O F ARTWORK More than this type of works that aim for the special effect, Jeffrey Shaw demonstrates a presentation method that features 3D computer-generated museum. In the Virtual Museum(1991), the viewer can control the journey through virtual five rooms i nte r a c t i ve l y t h rou g h t he s c re e n i n a re a l ro om w it h s ame appearance. The viewer faces both the real and virtual monitor screens with the realities are exactly aligned. Shaw explores the boundary between virtual and real world through his consecutive works and his website (w w w.jeffre y-shaw.net, w w w.icinema. unsw.edu.au) offers internet users works of art that do not need the physical museum. In doing so, he opened a challenge to the authority of the art museum. Artists who use the internet create works for digital production for digital collecting and archiving; through this way the works are not likely possessed by collectors or institution. The internet can convey “original” art in the medium for which it is created and possibly the viewers can alter and adopt a work of art for one’s own purpose. Communication space in the web initiated a new interface between viewers and artists. 4. MUSEUM FOR A NEW FORM OF ART, ALMOST LIKE ART PRODUCING LABORATORY In the above mentioned approaches, the schism between art and architecture is being narrowed down through the productive use of museum space as a medium of art, and, in a challenging way, through the intermingle of real and virtual spatial perception through media art. A renowned art historian, Ernst Gombrich questioned the meaning of modern art museums, “I think that a museum of modern art is a contradiction in terms. Museums used to exist to preserve the treasures of the past and to save them.”6 Gombrich’s questioning anticipates a current fashion of renouncing an archiving function of museums. While traditional museums have multiple functions of exhibiting, archiving and preserving, current proliferation of new museums and exhibitions accelerated the amount of works by artists and eventually faced the problem of storing. In order to avoid this issue, museums often use off- site storage and increase exhibition spaces, serving the purpose of museum to accommodate new forms of art such as media art, big installation and the collaboration works of art and technology. For example, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, puts forward the agenda as an arts laborator y that has no permanent collection, but a series of temporary exhibits in a large open space that looks like an installation place. The New Museum, New York, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa has no permanent collection, and its mission proposes the exhibition of young artists’ works. As well, for the digital art, there are museums that do not have permanent physical location. Their mission is to engage the public and artists in the creation, understanding and appreciation of digital art. The Austin Museum of Digital Art, Texas (www.amoda.org) Figure 7. Untitled, Donald Judd, 1982-86 Figure 9. The Virtual Museum, Jeffery Shaw, 1991 Figure 8. The Weather Project, Olafur Eliasson, 2003 5 Judd’s contribution to Marfa, Texas remains now as a foundation, http:// www.chinati.org/index.php 6 2nd quoted from, James Putnam, Art & Artifact, (London : Thames & Hudson, 2009), p.209 Hayub Song8 has no gallery or office space. Its exhibition is held in temporary location. For artists, the submission of art works is done through email and website link only. The Digital Art Museum, Ber lin(www. dam.org) is an on-line museum that exhibits digital fine art works of leading artists in this field since 1956. The Museum of Computer Art, New York (www.moca.virtual.museum) has a small permanent exhibition space of 1,200 ft2 at Brooklyn and more eminently easily uploadable web space to exhibit one’s works. It is located at an anonymous neighborhood setting where all mixed use is allowed. Eyebeam Museum in New York (www.eyebeam.org) combines art and technology through supporting fellowships and residencies. The experience of art becomes one of everyday activities. 5. EXAMPLARY NEW MUSEUMS FOR A NEW FORM OF ART In the following, new museums that foster a new form of art, the process of art making, artist-in-residence program, and the interaction between viewers and the work, will be introduced. The selection cannot encompass a whole scope of new museums but will envision a new pattern of public experience through art and architecture. (1) ZKM IN GERMANY As a cultural institution, the Center for Art and Media (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, ZKM) combines production of artworks and research, exhibitions and events, coordination and documentation. The museum is composed of 5 centers: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Media Museum, the Institute for Visual Media, the Institute for Music and Acoustics and the Institute for Media, Education, and Economics. The C enter for Art and Media in ZKM prob es ne w media i n t h e o r y a n d p r a c t i c e, t e s t s t h e i r p o t e nt i a l w it h i n h o u s e developments, presents possible uses in exemplary form. Working closely with the State Academy for Design (Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung) in Karlsruhe and other institutes, the Center for Art and Media provides a forum for science, art, and even politics. The Museum of Contemporary Art features a typical exhibition of works of contemporary arts and the works from private collections. Media Museum features interactive media art and the recording of it is stored in the Media Library. Through artist-in-residence program, Music and Acoustics, and Laboratory are maintained to experiment a new combination of art, music and science. The building itself is an experimentation through the reuse of an old building. Instead of a new site for the building, a historic monument of a former munitions factory was chosen. Architects S chweger & Partner undertook planning, reconstruction and renovation, converting the factor y structure into a building ideally suited to presenting advanced technologies and artistic experiments. In a spacious ambience, visitors can enjoy events and tours, view public exhibitions or visit the Mediathek. The Center is a platform for experimentation and discussion, with a mission to participate actively in working towards the future forms of art and engage in the ongoing debate about the use of technology. (2) ICC (INTER COMMUNICATION CENTER) IN JAPAN ICC (Inter C ommunication C enter) was t hought out by a Japanese telecommunication company, NTT in 1990 and was constructed in 1997. ICC has been actively introducing media art works which employ the newest electronic technologies such as virtual reality and interactive technology. Special exhibitions that transcend genres have also been held. Through various programs such as workshops, performances, symposiums, and publishing, ICC introduces new forms of art to Japan, and explores further possibilities of communication. Research department makes database of 20th century art and related technology, as well as works of media art in Japan. With the established database, specialists on art and general public can have an access to the data. This research works are cooperated with the research center of NTT, International Electronic Communication Research Center in Kyoto, and Kyoto City University of Arts and etc. ICC facility occupies 4th~6th floors of Tokyo Opera City Tower, which boasts of 54th floor skyscraper and has cultural complex facilities in Tokyo. Thus, ICC operates as one of components of cultural facilities in the building and architecturally is not distinctive compared to other museums. Floor Area 16,224 m2 1st Floor Museum of Contemporary Art, Media Theater, Main Hall, Lecture Room, Museum shop 2nd Floor Media Museum, Institute for Visual Media, Media Library, Institute for Music and Acoustics, Multimedia Laboratory 3rd Floor Media Museum, Media Library, Institute for Music and Acoustics, Music Studios Table 1. ZKM Space Program Table 2. ICC Space Program Figure 10. Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Schweger & Partner Floor Area 3,000 m2 approximately 4th Floor Entrance, Information, Shop, Cafe 5th Floor Galleries, Technoart Archive, Lounge 6th Floor Media Library A New Museum for New Forms of Art 9 (3) THE NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM IN ENGLAND NMM(The National Media Museum) in Bradford, England specialized its exhibition in media related works. Film, television, radio and photography are the items that are featured in the 7-story building. NMM shows the development of exhibition subjects in museum. NMM’s history shows how this museum adapted to the changing media of arts. In 1983, it opened as the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television that specialized in the art and science of images and image-making. In 1989, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of photography, Kodak Gallery was added and has its collection of more than 10,000 items. Later, a television studio was installed and became the first live broadcasting studio in a museum. This and other studio together are used to co-teach University of Bradford students who attend majors in media and television. The new building that was refurbished and extended at 1999 by English design firm, Austin-Smith: Lord. New and old parts of the building were linked by a 14m high curved glazed concourse which provides large foyer and retail spaces. Through the increase of floor space, the museum also projects its future to develop internet gallery, to have a satellite museum at London, and etc. Although this museum features media-related arts only, NMM shows a model of evolving museum over the time. Table 3. NMM Space Program Figure 11. Inter Communication Center, 1997 Figure 12. The National Media Museum, 1999 Floor Area 20,000 m2 approximately LG Floor Kodak Gallery Insight Ground Floor IMAX Cinema, Pictureville Cinema, Café, Shop, Games Lounge, Picnic Area 1st Floor Gallery 1, Cubby Brocolli Cinema, Picnic Area, Meeting Point 2nd Floor Gallery 2 3rd Floor Experience TV 4th Floor The Magic Factory 5th Floor Animation Gallery, Families on Five 6th Floor Profiles Gallery 7th Floor Conference Suite Learning Rooms 6. CONCLUSION Museum architecture has been a charming topic to architects since it challenges architectural aesthetics and techniques. “Bilbao effect”, that Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao initiated the change of small city into a tourist attraction, is being pursued by many cities and clients. In doing so, art works and museum has its own cause of production, and rarely thought out simultaneously in the beginning of museum construction. This is a modern condition that is different from Old Regime before Enlightenment period. With the above mentioned examples of art and architecture that stitches their divided status, we observed various approaches achie ved primarily by the initiatives of artists and museums alone. In these cases, architecture was merely thought as given condition or medium of arts. This approach transforms given architecture in an unthought-of way. Perhaps this might be a healthy way in contemporary condition where art and architecture is commissioned separately. More important than this issue of bridging the gap of art and architecture is museum’s acceptance of a new form of art. Art and architecture can achieve public experience only through mutual response to each with creative method of production. REFERENCES Andrew McClellan, The Art Museum From Boullee To Bilbao, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) Joseph Rykwert, The Judicious Eye, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008) James Putnam, Art & Artifact, (London : Thames & Hudson, 2009) Philip Jodidio, Architecture Now! Museums (Köln ; London : Taschen, 2010) (Date of Submission : 2010.10.12) work_asbekyygujcsbflm6xjclgg5qi ---- infe2-03 www.sochinf.cl 151 y la cultura Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Richard Strauss y Manuel de Falla, así como los pintores Pablo Picasso y Georges Braque. Su estilo se inscribía en el movimiento de vanguardia y explotaba cierto sabor exótico, con coreografías alejadas de los cánones del ballet clásico. En 1909, un joven compositor ruso, llama- do Igor Stravinsky, recibió de Diagilev el encargo de componer un ballet. Es así como nacen El pájaro de fuego y posteriormente Petruchka. Paulatinamente Stravinsky va de- rivando de los temas rusos a lo que sería la más fenomenal y violenta ruptura con los cánones musicales de la época, donde cla- ves diferentes se encuentran extrañamente yuxtapuestas y superpuestas unas sobre otras, para lograr un acre efecto politonal. Todo estaba preparado para lo inevita- ble: la noche del 29 de mayo de 1913 sube al podio del Teatro de los Campos Elíseos de París el director Pierre Monteaux para dirigir el estreno del ballet La consagración de la primavera, por los bailarines rusos con mú- sica de Stravinsky y coreografía de Nizhinski. Esta obra puede considerarse como una pie- za inicial de la música clásica del siglo XX. A partir de ella, el estilo rupturista domina el panorama musical europeo en todas sus di- La consagración de la primavera y el nacimiento de la música contemporánea europea mensiones, como la melodía, la forma y el timbre y su estreno suscitó el mayor escán- dalo de la historia, en la ejecución de una obra musical. El argumento trata del sacrificio ritual de una joven virgen, bailando hasta la muerte ante su tribu, para celebrar la llegada de la primavera, en la Rusia arcaica, pagana y pri- mitiva. La atrevida coreografía de Nizhinski, el vestuario ligero de los bailarines y los decorados modernistas de Roerich resulta- ron demasiado provocativos para la conser- vadora sociedad parisina. A medida que se desarrollaba, la música constituía una tre- menda sacudida para los oyentes. Stravinsky utiliza unos medios de expre- sión extraños y mucho más violentos que los acostumbrados en las salas de París. La melodía apenas existe y se mueve en tonali- dades extrañas: escalas orientales, modali- dades litúrgicas y acentuados cromatismos; las armonías son audaces y provocadoras; el carácter principal es rítmico, un ritmo bár- baro, fantástico y estimulante. Posteriormente, Stravinsky abandonaría la vanguardia y optaría por formas neo- clásicas, al tiempo que negros nubarrones se cernían sobre Europa preludiando el co- mienzo de la primera guerra mundial.Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Wikimedia Commons. Teatro de los Campos Elíseos, París. Wikimedia Commons. En el París de comienzos del siglo XX destacaban los ballets rusos del empresario Sergei Diagilev, quien había encargado pie- zas para la escena a los más importantes músicos de la época. Colaboraron con él El escándalo Desde el primer compás empezaron a oírse en el público expresiones de desaprobación. Las protestas aumentaron cuando se levantó el telón y apareció el decorado del pintor Nicolás Roerich. Más tarde, la orquesta fue ahogada por un furibundo griterío de protestas. Los compositores Camille Saint Saëns y Theodor Dubois expresaron su repulsa en voz bien alta y clara, llamando farsante a Stravinsky, mientras que Maurice Ravel, amigo del compositor, gritaba que era una obra genial; Claude Debussy pedía silencio para que pudiera oírse aquella música maravillosa, y Florent Schmidt llamaba cretino al embajador austríaco. Fue una batalla campal en la que participaron incluso las damas, llegan- do a concertarse varios duelos que al día siguiente se llevaron a efecto. Referencias 1.- Untermeyer L. Igor Stravinsky en Forjadores del mundo moderno: Editorial Grijalbo, 1960, México D.F. 2.- Salaberri S. Igor Stravinsky. La consagración de la primavera. http://www.tolosa 750.net/es/IgorStravinsky.pdf. (Accedido el 4 de marzo de 2009). Texto: Ernesto Payá G. Rev Chil Infect 2009; 26 (2): 151 work_atq7e2le75evrg5gshtpk5k2ay ---- UEF//eRepository DSpace https://erepo.uef.fi Artikkelit Filosofinen tiedekunta 2019 Cartographies of Paris: Everyday Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs Toivanen, Anna-Leena Intellect Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit © Ingenta All rights reserved http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00003_1 https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/7801 Downloaded from University of Eastern Finland's eRepository 1 The version record of this manuscript has been published in The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 6.1 (2019): 59-78. doi: 10.1386/jucs_00003_1 Cartographies of Paris: Everyday Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs Literary representations of postcolonial subjects’ concrete mobility practices beyond migrancy have not received much critical attention. In order to fill this void, this article analyses the representations and poetics of urban everyday mobilities in two Francophone African diasporic novels, Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps (1996) and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs (2012), through a mobility studies perspective. I focus on the protagonists’ use of urban mobility systems and the narratives’ ways of producing urban cartographies as means for inscribing the newly arrived irregular African migrants in the metropolis, and argue that the texts give articulation to a practical cosmopolitanism. The texts’ poetics of mobility – manifest in their uncanny and thrilleresque qualities – and the protagonists’ journeys to peripheral dead-ends convey the anxious aspects of their attempts to claim Paris as their city through mobility. Keywords: African diasporic literature; cosmopolitanism; everyday mobilities; Alain Mabanckou; Michèle Rakotoson; urban spaces Urban spaces play a central role in the postcolonial literary imaginary. The idea of the Global South city as a place of (post)colonial modernity is a longstanding theme in African literatures (see, e.g. Primorac 2010; Bede 2014; Williams 2016). Literary representations of European metropolises like London and Paris, on the other hand, frequently foreground the figure of the migrant as a postcolonial city-dweller, and explore the hybrid qualities of the metropolis (see, e.g. McLeod 2004; De Souza & 2 Murdoch 2013; Perfect 2014; Amine 2018). The emphasis on migrancy in studies focusing on postcolonial literary representations of Western metropolises reflects the general tendencies of postcolonial studies, which is a field that has paradigmatized the figure of the migrant. The figure of the migrant embodies such central postcolonial concerns as displacement, transculturation, and (un)belonging. These themes are also central when analyzing the postcolonial aspects of urban spaces. However, literary representations of cities also illustrate the importance of everyday mobility practices for the construction of (postcolonial) urban spaces and identities (see Jensen 2009: 140; Beck 2013: 111; Murray & Upstone 2014b: 193; Prytherch & Cidell 2015: 19-20). Until now, studies on postcolonial literary cities have not paid much attention to everyday urban mobilities. This is mainly because in postcolonial studies, the concept of mobility is understood from a migrant studies perspective. The migration studies approach tends to result in a static, nation-based view on issues such as integration, and to erase the notions of mobility and journeying that the concept of migration does actually entail (Mainwaring & Bridgen 2016: 247, 251; Cresswell 2010: 18). Indeed, it can be argued that postcolonial studies promote a restricted understanding of mobility: the term ‘mobility’ is often reductively used as a synonym for global migratory movements, or as an intangible metaphor for ‘the migrant condition’. Portrayals of concrete forms of physical mobility, in contrast, tend to go unnoticed by mainstream postcolonial literary studies.1 It is therefore not surprising that racialized/postcolonial subjects are only rarely recognized as mobile subjects or travelers beyond being migrants (Loingsigh 2009: 2- 3). In order to fill in this void, the present article demonstrates how two Francophone diasporic African novels, Michèle Rakotoson’s Elle, au printemps (1996) and Alain Mabanckou’s Tais-toi et meurs (2012), use everyday urban mobilities in their 3 constructions of the postcolonial metropolis and the metropolitan postcolonial mobile subject. In order to move beyond the migration studies-oriented approach and promote a wider understanding of postcolonial mobilities that takes ‘the actual fact of movement seriously’ (Cresswell 2010: 18) and ‘in a highly literal sense’ (Greenblatt 2010: 250), and that challenges the idea of space as a static container (Jensen 2009: 140; Murray & Upstone 2014b: 193; Sheller 2017: 628), I read Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s representations of Paris through a mobility studies lens. The novels in question feature complex portrayals of urban everyday mobility, in addition to which mobility is also pivotal for their plot development and the construction of the fictional characters. The foregrounded role of urban everyday mobilities makes these novels ideal objects of inquiry for a critical endeavor that sets out to apply a mobility studies perspective on fiction. The mobility studies paradigm is a ‘a movement-driven social science’ (Urry 2007: 18) which puts mobility at the centre of theorising (Sheller 2014: 45) by focusing on diverse, interdependent forms of actual and imagined mobilities. With its emphasis on mobilities, connections, and flows, mobility studies have also generated a new way of understanding space – urban spaces in particular (Jonas 2015: 281). From a mobility studies perspective, ‘space, subjectivity, […] and mobility are best understood as interdependent categories’ (Beck 2013: 110). While Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s texts could be read as traditional ‘migrant novels’ addressing ‘the migrant condition’, they feature portrayals of what mobility studies scholars refer to as ‘local processes of daily transportation’ (Hannam, Sheller & Urry 2006: 1) whose meanings cannot be reduced to migration. It is through a mobility studies approach that these representations of urban everyday mobilities can be fully appreciated. 4 When reading mobility from a postcolonial perspective2, one cannot ignore the fact that mobility is an unevenly distributed resource: mobilities are shaped by markers of difference such as race, nationality, gender, class, and ability (Cresswell 2006: 178; Upstone 2014: 40). Mobility studies scholars refer to the ways in which mobilities are both productive of and produced by power structures as politics of mobility (Cresswell 2010: 21) or as mobility politics (Nicholson & Sheller 2016: 5). When studying literary texts, however, it does not suffice to look at the politics but also at the poetics of mobility for the obvious reason that literary texts are products of artistic creation.3 In this respect, I find Ian C. Davidson’s (2017) concept of ‘mobilities of form’ and Chris Ewers’s (2018) study on mobility in British 18th century novel, which both explain how literary form and genre can be shaped by mobility practices, inspiring. Davidson’s and Ewers’s formulations resonate with my conception of poetics of mobility, by which I refer to the ways in which thematic treatment of mobility is reflected in the form – in this case, how the generic features of the thriller in Mabanckou’s novel and the uncanny qualities (as a sense of estranged familiarity and eerie repetition) of Rakotoson’s novel translate the mobility theme into form.4 By focusing on the representation and poetics of everyday urban mobility in African diasporic fiction, this article contributes to the topical endeavour of enhancing further dialogue between mobility studies and humanities (Merriman & Pearce 2017), and, in particular, to the relatively recent interest in applying mobility studies to the analysis of postcolonial fiction (Upstone 2014; Author 2017; Lagji 2018). Finally, the article contributes to ‘mobilizing’ literary urban studies by focusing on the representations of urban transport and mobility in the process of making meaning of the city and urban identities (see e.g. Thornbury 2014). Elle, au printemps and Tais-toi et meurs – novels that, to my knowledge, have not received critical attention until now – feature African migrants who have recently 5 arrived in Paris under irregular conditions. Rakotoson’s protagonist Sahondra, a young Madagascan woman, leaves Antananarivo in an unorganized attempt to pursue her studies in France: she travels to Paris without being enrolled to a university, relying entirely on the help her French pen friend Marie to whom her only link is their sporadic correspondence. The plot is driven by Sahondra’s search for Marie, who has promised to help her settle in France. The novel, giving articulation to the postcolonial urban uncanny (see Johnson 2010; Wolfreys 2008), foregrounds the mobility theme by depicting Sahondra’s travels in detail. Mabanckou’s thriller features a young Congolese man who goes to Paris to work in a diasporic Congolese underworld community. As typical of crime fiction and the thriller genre, the novel’s plot and imaginary rely heavily on mobility and suspense (see Rubin 1999 5; Huck 2012): being an irregular migrant and a petty criminal, the protagonist is constantly on the run. Both novels depict the protagonists’ struggles to make sense of the postcolonial metropolis. I read the protagonists’ use of mobility systems and the narratives’ production of urban cartographies as a means of inscribing their newly established migrant selves in the metropolitan space. I posit that the protagonists embody a practical cosmopolitan attitude necessary in performing successful border-crossings in a new environment (see, e.g. Beck 2006: 101-103; Mbembe 2008: 109; Werbner 2011: 110-113). This pragmatic cosmopolitanism – a grassroot version of traditional elite cosmopolitanisms (see Vertovec & Cohen 2008: 5) – is part of the process of becoming a modern postcolonial metropolitan subject,5 and it attests to the transformative power of mobility (Berensmeyer & Ehland 2013: 13). Simultaneously, the texts highlight the anxious aspects of the irregular African newcomers’ everyday mobilities, which translates into form in the texts’ uncanny and thrilleresque qualities that capture the alienating aspects of the postmodern city (see Rubin 1999: 10-11; Wolfreys 2008; Eckhard 2011; Beville 6 2013). The anxiety reaches its peak as the protagonists’ metropolitan pursuits end up in peripheral dead-ends, symbolizing the failures of the newcomers’ attempts to make Paris their city, and underlining its role in their newly established mobile subjectivities. Cartographies of Paris In what follows, I analyze the novels’ ways of producing mobile cartographies of Paris by portraying the protagonists’ travels in urban public transports. I argue that this cartographic impulse conveys the protagonists’ struggles to claim the postcolonial metropolis as theirs, and that this anxiety also finds its articulation on the formal scale. Paris has occupied a special place in the Francophone African literary imaginary since the mid-twentieth century (see, e.g. Bennetta 1998; De Souza 2012; Braddock & Eburne 2013). Typically, the Paris-centered paradigm articulates the collision between migrants’ high hopes and the harsh realities of the (post)colonial metropole (Treiber 2014). Elle, au printemps and Tais-toi et meurs rely on the Paris-centered paradigm, but also revise it by setting some events in provincial and sub-urban loci. Rakotoson’s protagonist Sahondra and Mabanckou’s Julian Makambo/José Montfort (who undergoes a change of identity when he arrives in Paris: his forged identity documents feature the name José Montfort) are somewhat conventional African migrant figures in the sense that they arrive in Paris for the first time without having realistic ideas about the city. Similar initially naïve and eventually disappointed newcomers have featured in, for instance, Ousmane Socé’s Mirages de Paris (1933) and J.R. Essomba’s Le paradis du nord (1996). Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s newcomers’ lives in Paris are represented from a pronouncedly mobile perspective; travelling in public transports in particular is portrayed minutely. By describing the protagonists’ mobilities in a detailed manner, the narratives produce literary cartographies of the postcolonial metropolis. The cartographic impulse is so foregrounded that Paris is not simply a passive stage on 7 which the events take place, but instead a space actively produced through everyday mobilities. In this sense, the novels’ cartographies are not mere re-imaginings of space (Tally 2014, 4), but attest to the way in which space itself is mobile (Murray & Upstone 2014b: 193), and highlight mobility’s role in constituting subjectivity (Prytherch & Cidell 2015: 19-20). In short, by embedding their cartographies of Paris into mobile practices, the novels ‘free […] space from static representation’ (Murray & Upstone 2014a: 5). Cartography has a history as a colonial means of control. In the postcolonial era, the practice of mapmaking has gained new meanings. As Caterina Romeo (2015: 101) notes, ‘If the necessity to impose control and surveillance over colonized countries was central in colonial Empires, at the time of postcolonial and global migrations this necessity travels together with migrants to the heart of Fortress Europe.’ Urban cartographies in postcolonial literary texts and film are frequently interpreted as ‘rewritings’ of former colonial centers as hybrid spaces (see e.g. McLeod 2004; Orlando 2014). Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s literary cartographies of Paris, however, are less motivated by the need to portray the city as ‘a subversive site […] in which processes of cultural signification [are] redefined by new cultural actors […] who claim belonging to the city’ (Romeo 2015: 110), than by the purpose of using the cartographies as allegories for the protagonists’ struggles for survival and their desire to make sense of the city. From the perspective of survival, it is noteworthy that sometimes mobility is less a matter of ‘flow’ than a task that demands efforts: ‘Using a city requires knowledge and skill’, writes Franz Buhr (2018: 339). In other words, walking in the city and travelling by different means of transportation necessitate knowledge which is acquired through practice, or what Buhr (2018: 340) calls ‘urban apprenticeship’. According to Buhr (2018), urban apprenticeship through mobility is important in 8 migrants’ integration into their new environments. As narrative strategies of urban survival, Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s cartographies of Paris rely on the underground network – a system that shapes cities’ and individuals’ conceptions of themselves as urban. Modern cities are complex spaces, and not least because of their mobile networks that urbanites have to master in order to ‘work the city’ (Buhr 2018: 340). Transit maps help city dwellers achieve this goal as they ‘mitigate that complexity [and] assure urbanites that the city is conceptually manageable’ so that they can find a ‘coherent place for [themselves] within it […] by travelling the rail network’ (Schwetman 2014: 87; 100). The cartographic impulse in Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s novels can therefore be read as an element that captures the protagonists’ attempts to manage the complexity of their mobile metropolitan lives. Tais-toi et meurs is a typical thriller in the sense that its events take place in a modern, urban setting that the narrative invests with a sense of adventure (see Rubin 1999: 14-15; see also Knight 2016). The adventurous spirit is conveyed in the narrative’s cartographic impulse, already manifest in the titles of chapters such as ‘La ligne 12’ ‘Line 12’; ‘Bienvenue à Montparnasse’ ‘Welcome to Montparnasse’; and ‘Montreuil-sur-Bamako’. The narrative does not get enough of urban Parisian itineraries: street names and districts keep recurring throughout the text. The most important role in this cartography is given to the underground. Julien Makambo’s aka José Montfort’s initiation into the Parisian railway network is facilitated by Pedro, one of the leading figures of the underground milieu, with whom he takes a RER train (Réseau Express Régional; the Paris metropolitan and regional rail system) for the first time. At the Gare du Nord station, Pedro, who ‘connaissait Paris comme sa poche’ (Mabanckou 2012: 40) ‘knew Paris inside out’6, explains to Julien/José how the system works, telling him that he should travel alone and get lost in order to better understand 9 the city. He also teaches Julien/José how to travel without paying the fare. After this initiation, the protagonist becomes a frequent métro passenger. Consequently, the cartography that the narrative produces mimics the Parisian underground map: Le parcours que j’avais à suivre était des plus compliqués depuis la station Cadet. D’abord, de Cadet, il me fallait aller jusqu’à Gare de l’Est, prendre ensuite la ligne 5 en direction de Bobigny-Pablo Picasso jusqu’à Gare du Nord, puis la ligne 4 en direction de la Porte de Clignancourt jusqu’à Marcadet- Poissonniers, et la ligne 12 en direction de Porte de la Chapelle pour arriver enfin au métro Marx Dormoy. (Mabanckou 2012: 169) The trajectory I had to follow was one of the most complicated ones from the Cadet station. First, from Cadet, I had to go to Gare de l’Est, then take line 5 in the direction of Bobigny-Pablo Picasso until Gare du Nord, then line 4 in the direction of Porte de Clignancourt until Marcadet-Poissonniers, and line 12 in the direction of Porte de la Chapelle in order to arrive, at last, to the station Marx Dormoy. The novel is full of such detailed itineraries representing urban spaces as interconnected through mobility. By locating the protagonist on the mobile map of Paris, the narrative suggests that he is actively trying to ‘handle’ the city by orienting himself in its complex mobile networks. This urgency to handle the city turns into a concrete question of survival in the aftermath of a murder for which the protagonist is framed by his community. Escaping the crime scene, he feels that the metro does not move fast enough, and questions whether he had made the right choice by taking the underground at a specific station: ‘Certes, il y avait d’autres possibilités : les stations La Chapelle, 10 Riquet, Crimée ou Porte de la Chapelle’ (Mabanckou 2012: 28) ‘Surely there were other possibilities: la Chapelle, Riquet, Crimée or Porte de la Chapelle.’ From here on, the protagonist’s mobility is shaped by his being a fugitive for whom ‘sa propre ombre devient suspecte’ (Mabanckou 2012: 28) ‘his own shadow becomes suspicious’ and who is perplexed by the question, ‘Où aller à présent ?’ Mabanckou 2012: 75) ‘Where to go now?’ The conspiracy plot adds a pronouncedly thrilleresque character to his mobility, generating a very anxiety-ridden poetics of mobility. While the narrative is particularly interested in reproducing the Parisian underground map, similarly detailed descriptions accompany the protagonist’s most banal displacements: ‘Je suis sorti de l’hȏtel et ai emprunté la rue de Paris en direction de la Porte de Montreuil pour aller chez Carrefour’ (Mabanckou 2012: 91) ‘I got out of the hotel and took the rue de Paris in the direction of Porte de Montreuil to go to Carrefour [supermarket].’ Descriptions of such simple itineraries when there is no risk of getting lost betray the protagonist’s increasing insecurity in the metropolis as he hides from the police and his community: it is as if the protagonist was constantly mapping out a potential, symbolic emergency exit. The protagonist’s being in a constant ‘cartographic mode’ is symptomatic of his fear of falling off the map and is linked to his status as an outlaw. The cartographies produced by foot are associated with the protagonist’s withdrawal from intramural Paris and convey his reduced mobility as a fugitive and failure to ‘manage’ central Paris outside the criminal community. Therefore, while the narrative speed slows down in the passages that represent the protagonist’s walks in the suburb, the suspense related to the risk of getting caught is still present: as a pedestrian, the protagonist seems to be an easier ‘prey’. In this way, different mobility practices contribute to the novel’s thrilleresque narrative rhythm. Furthermore, the constant preoccupation with street names can also be understood in the 11 light of Julien’s background; as mentioned earlier in the novel, he comes from a place where not all streets have names. The cartographic impulse, then, also articulates the epistemological shift that the process of becoming a modern postcolonial metropolitan subject entails. The cartographic impulse is equally present in Elle, au printemps. The protagonist’s arrival in Paris is defined by the unpleasant surprise of Marie not showing up at the airport, leaving the protagonist alone in the new environment. After the initial shock, she recalls that she has distant relatives in Paris, and decides to go to see them. As she sets out to take a bus, she finds herself tormented by questions as follows: ‘… mais comment prendre le bus en France ?’ (Rakotoson 1996: 36) ‘… but how to catch the bus in France?’7 and ‘comment allait-elle trouver son bus… ?’ (Rakotoson 1996: 37) ‘how was she going to find her bus?’ Taking the bus in Paris is an eerie experience: ‘Tout était étrange’ (Rakotoson 1996: 37) ‘everything was strange’, Sahondra observes as she realizes that there is no-one to tell the passengers where each bus is going. The sense of strangeness persists during the ride as the bus speeds forward with silent passengers. Sahondra’s eerie experiences of urban public transports can be read as manifestations of the urban uncanny (Wolfreys 2008; Johnson 2010). The Freudian concept of the uncanny captures the idea of ‘the destabilization of certain boundaries’ – the boundary between the familiar and the strange in particular (Eckhard 2011: 35). The uncanny entails doubt and ambiguity and a sense of a lack of orientation or of not being totally ‘at home’, as Unheimlich, the original German term, suggests (Eckhard 2011: 37, 39). The uncanny is often considered a ‘constitutive aspect of our experience of the modern’ (Collins & Jervis 2008: 2), and as Julian Wolfreys (2008: 177) posits, the uncanny is associated with urban spaces where the sense of familiarity is constantly disturbed by ‘the possibility of unfamiliarity, estrangement, and eruption.’ 12 The ‘urban uncanny’ in Rakotoson’s novel is related to the protagonist’s experiences of travel in Parisian urban mobility systems, and, more specifically, with the silence that characterizes this form of travel. The uncanniness of silence springs from the fact that Sahondra associates silence with Madagascar, a country under a repressive military rule. Erica L. Johnson’s (2010: 224) formulation of the urban uncanny builds on the idea that ‘postcolonial time is uncannily repetitive and endlessly layered.’ Consequently, distant places that are connected through their shared colonial pasts become each other’s ‘spatial and social repetitions’ (Johnson 2010: 211). The uncanny repetition not only underlines the entangled pasts and presents, but also highlights the poetics of deception (Treiber 2012) that shapes much of Francophone African literature’s representations of newcomers’ travel to Paris: in Sahondra’s words, ‘quelque chose ne collait pas’ (Rakotoson 1996: 27) ‘something was not quite right’. The novel represents Paris as an alienating environment. Sahondra’s sense of being lost is conveyed by the narrative by showing that her urban itineraries are not planned by herself, but based on advice by random by-passers: ‘Oh, mais c’est facile ça… Il vous suffit de prendre la navette, vous demandez au chauffeur de vous arrêter à Denfert et de là vous prenez le métro… La ligne est directe, vous n’aurez pas à prendre de correspondance… Tenez, la navette est à la sortie, […] vous changez pour le métro, direction Nation où vous vous arrêtez à la station Porte d’Italie, pour la correspondance… ‘ (Rakotoson 1996: 36) ‘Oh, but that is easy… You just take the shuttle, you ask the driver to stop at Denfert and you take the metro from there… It is a direct line, no need to change… You see, the shuttle is next to the exit, […] you take the metro in the direction of Nation and you stop at the Porte d’Italie station for the transfer…’ 13 While such advice is supposed to help Sahondra navigate in the urban environment and make it ‘manageable’, they generate further confusion. This sense of anxiety is conveyed by the narrative through the broken exchanges that Sahondra has with booking clerks or random by-passers. Sahondra’s lines are reduced to one-word questions and end with three dots and question marks, as in the following example at a metro ticket sales counter: - Un ticket ou un carnet ? - … - Combien de zones ? - … C’est-à-dire que… (Rakotoson 1996: 39) - A ticket or a book of tickets? - … - How many zones? - … This is to say… Such failed dialogues recur frequently in chapters depicting Sahondra’s arrival in Paris, and they show how out of place she is when it comes to urban mobility. Against the metropolitan context of hyper-mobility, these broken dialogues, Sahondra’s silences and her confused questions convey the idea of an interrupted movement. With such literary means, the narrative highlights the discrepancy between Sahondra’s interrupted mobility and the speed characteristic of the mobility systems that surround her. Practices that are evident for anyone else seem absurd to Sahondra. She is not familiar with the names of the stations – for example, she mistakes Denfert for l’Enfer (hell). She does not know what the métro looks like and is surprised to learn that is just a train. She struggles with automatic doors, the buttons she is supposed to press, telephone cards, telephone boxes and so on. In short, she has constant trouble with modern mobile 14 technologies. As ‘mobility is central to what it takes to be modern’ (Cresswell 2006: 20), it is clear that Sahondra’s struggle with mobile technologies can be equated with the struggle of becoming a modern, metropolitan postcolonial mobile subject. This is a demanding process that reflects the idea of mobility as transformative and therefore as a source of anxiety (Cresswell 2006: 17; Berensmeyer & Ehland 2013: 22; Davidson 2017: 552). Sahondra’s becoming a modern, metropolitan postcolonial mobile subject is grounded on a very fragile basis. The narrative captures this fragility in a small piece of handwritten paper that Sahondra’s cousin hands to her prior to one of her first Parisian metro journeys. The piece of paper lists the names of the stations through which Sahondra should travel to reach her destination. This piece of paper, that could so easily get lost and whose readability suffers each time it is unfolded open, is a subtle metaphor for the challenges the protagonist faces in her newly found life in Paris. Much as in Mabanckou’s novel, then, Elle, au printemps articulates the anxious aspects of migrant newcomers’ urban everyday mobilities. The thrilleresque features of Tais-toi et meurs and the urban uncanny in Rakotoson’s text translate this mobility-related anxiety into form. Débrouillardise cosmopolitanism: Survival in a new environment In this section, I focus on the ways in which Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s protagonists’ attempts to ‘manage’ Paris through everyday urban mobility gives articulation to a practical cosmopolitan attitude. Cosmopolitanism is commonly conceived as an elite mobile position and ‘world citizenship’ of those who transgress boundaries with ease thanks to their ‘badge of privilege’ (Robbins & Lemos Horta 2017: 3). Alternatively, cosmopolitanism is seen as a form of global political solidarity (Cheah 2006) or a set of (utopian) ideals generating ‘planetary consciousness’ (Gilroy 15 2005; see also Spencer 2011: 2), and shaped by an ethics that entails openness to alterity (see, e.g. Appiah 2006). It is also associated with metropolitan, multicultural settings where cosmopolitanism is supposed to ‘happen’ – an idea that has been challenged because visual diversity alone only rarely leads to openness to alterity (Papastephanou 2012: 119). Besides its elitist connotations, utopian aspirations and the too easily made topographical associations, cosmopolitanism can also be understood as ‘actually existing’ processes (Robbins 1998). According to Vered Amit and Pauline Gardiner- Barber (2015: 543), ‘cosmopolitanism requires a capacity and willingness to imagine that there may be other forms of subjectivity, sociality and engagement beyond the already familiar.’ Understood along these lines, cosmopolitanism is not so much a utopian stance or a ethical aspiration, as an active engagement and a ‘mundane practice’ (Amit & Gardiner-Barber 2015: 543). To highlight the ‘mundane’ dimension of cosmopolitanism, Ulrich Beck (2006: 101) has introduced the term cosmopolitanization by which he refers to ‘a “forced” cosmopolitanism’ generated ‘at the level of practice.’ This pragmatic interpretation of cosmopolitanism strips the concept of its elitist connotations as privileged classes’ easygoing ways of being ‘at home in the world’. By understanding cosmopolitanization as a practical process that entails an effort to cross boundaries in order to engage with ‘the world beyond one’s immediate milieu’ (Spencer 2011: 4), it is possible to use the concept to analyze how Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s protagonists orient and reinvent themselves in the new environment they have been ‘thrown into’. Beck (2006: 103) suggests that migrants often have to ‘become […] acrobats in the manipulation of boundaries’ in order to survive: this is exactly what Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s protagonists’ practical cosmopolitanisms are about. The key aspect in the novels’ conceptualizations of practical cosmopolitanism as a means of survival is débrouillardise, which is a French term that refers to 16 resourcefulness in situations that may set severe limits to one’s agency. The term débrouillardise keeps recurring in both texts, although in a slightly different sense. In Mabanckou’s thriller, it is tied to the operations of the delinquent milieu. Julien Makambo’s arrival in Paris has been organized by the members of the underworld community; he owes his diasporic existence to Pedro, who ‘[l]’avait aidé à [s]e débrouiller dans Paris’ (Mabanckou 2012: 34) ‘had helped him manage in Paris.’ It is Pedro who tells Julien/José to immerse himself in the city that he himself handles perfectly. When Pedro sends Julien/José on a mission to test his loyalty and capacities, he says, ‘Cette mission, c’est donc un test pour toi, je veux voir comment tu te débrouilles’ (Mabanckou 2012: 67) ‘This mission is a test for you, I want to see how you manage.’ Débrouillardise here refers to one’s capacities to manage the city’s mobile network while being in an irregular condition as a delinquent and an undocumented migrant. It entails taking the metro without buying a ticket – and without getting caught. Travelling without a ticket comes with specific risks for someone who lives outside the official society. Indeed, the protagonist acknowledges that some stations are riskier than others in this respect – including Montparnasse Bienvenüe where many ‘compatriotes […] avaient été arrêtés […] et expulsés du jour au lendemain au pays’ (Mabanckou 2012: 67) ‘compatriotes had been arrested and deported overnight.’ Indeed, the test that Pedro wants Julien/José to pass exposes the fragility of the latter’s sense of being at home in Paris and shows him that he does not ‘manage’ the city as well as he thinks; this tension between control and vulnerability constitutes a key dialectic of the thriller form (Rubin 1999: 7). The control/vulnerability nexus culminates in a passage in which the protagonist is spotted and chased by inspectors in the labyrinth of an underground station. He tries to escape, but only encounters metro carriage doors closing in his face and ‘No Exit’ signs. That he wears a pair of slippery 17 luxury brand shoes – the hallmark of his sapeur8 identity – does not facilitate his task. His flight takes thrilleresque tones: J’ai emprunté le premier sens interdit que j’ai vu à ma droite. Encore un couloir ! Un long couloir ! Plus je courais, plus le couloir se rétrécissait et s’assombrissait. Le pas du [contrôleur] résonnait derrière moi comme dans un film d’horreur. (Mabanckou 2012: 70) I took the first « Prohibited Direction » exit that I saw on my right. Again a corridor! A long corridor! The more I run, the narrower and darker the corridor became. The sound of the inspector’s footsteps behind me echoed as in a horror movie. In the end, the protagonist finds himself in a cul-de-sac, with a gleeful black inspector – for whom the pursuit becomes a personal battle against fraudulent African metro users who, according to him, ruin the reputation of all black urbanites – exclaiming, ‘Fils de bâtard, tu croyais connaître cette station mieux que moi, hein ?’ (Mabanckou 2012: 70) ‘Son of a bitch, did you really think you knew this station better than I do, did you?’ This passage captures the limits of the protagonist’s practical cosmopolitanism. As a member of a parallel society, he is in no position to claim the city and its mobile networks as his own. According to John D. Schwetman (2014: 96-97), ‘to travel on the grade-separated transit system is to leave the plane of the actual city and enter the alternative universe’; the underground is, in other words, ‘another world detached from the real life of the city.’ This quotation draws attention to the way in which Mabanckou’s text uses the Parisian métro as a metaphor for the underworld society. The protagonist’s failure to handle the ‘alternative universe’ of the underground is, therefore, a metaphor for his failure to handle Paris as a subordinate member of a parallel society. 18 In Elle, au printemps, the débrouillardise dimension of everyday mobility is even more pronounced as the protagonist is left alone to ‘handle’ Paris. The verb se débrouiller (‘manage’) keeps recurring in the text. Sahondra’s arrival at Orly airport marks her loss of all her points of reference. Despite the shock caused by Marie’s absence, Sahondra acknowledges that she does not have any other solution but to manage: ‘T’as voulu aller à Paris, tu y es, débrouille-toi…’ (Rakotoson 1996: 34) ‘You wanted to go to Paris, you’re there, you will have to manage…’ Sahondra lacks the privilege of accustomed world travelers who transgress cultural, national, and linguistic boundaries with ease. Already at Antananarivo airport, she does not quite identify with the nonchalant elite. On the airplane, she feels that she is being looked down at by the airhostesses and fellow passengers because of her cheap clothes and her lack of ‘high society’ manners. Her way of being out of place among frequent ‘world class travellers’ creates certain expectations with regard to her capabilities of ‘handling’ the metropolitan space, and the warnings by a fellow passenger about what could happen to a young woman travelling alone without money further add to these expectations. Rakotoson’s novel, however, defies clichéd plots: the narrative refers to the protagonist’s mobile pursuit as ‘l’aventure […] avec une valise’ (Rakotoson 1996: 9; 18) ‘adventure with one suitcase’, and portrays Sahondra as anything but a helpless young woman losing herself in the city while facing its ‘dangers’. The narrative not only conveys Sahondra’s frustration with urban mobile networks, but also her perseverance in learning to ‘work’ Paris. Her urban apprenticeship (Buhr 2018) entails moments of desperation: ‘Elle va pleurer, elle va pleurer…’ (Rakotoson 1996: 55) ‘She is going to cry, she is going to cry…’, and ‘elle va se perdre à Paris, elle va mourir dans Paris, elle va…’ (Rakotoson 1996: 59) ‘she is going to get lost in Paris, she is going to die in Paris, she is going to…’ While others 19 give credit to her débrouillardise, she is less convinced of how it is even possible to manage the alienating universe of urban mobility networks: Tu te débrouilles bien, tu te débrouilles bien, facile à dire, trois niveaux, plusieurs lignes, RER… comment « se débrouillait-on bien » dans ce labyrinthe ? Vie sous terre, lumière glauque, odeur de l’huile de moteur chaude et de sueur, et foule qui ne regarde nulle part. (Rakotoson 1996: 82) You are doing well, you are doing well, it is easy to say, three levels, several lines, RER… how does one ‘manage well’ in this labyrinth? Underground life, dim light, a smell of hot motor oil and sweat, and a crowd that does not look anywhere. Simultaneously, she is equally determined to manage the city on her own, and, indeed, after hours of drifting, she ‘resort [...] saine et sauve du métro’ (Rakotoson 1996: 55) ‘exits the underground safe and sound.’ There is a certain defiance in her declaration of not being an accustomed traveler or urbanite: ‘Paysanne ! Oui, et alors ?’ (Rakotoson 1996: 38) ‘A peasant girl ! Yes, so what?’ Such bursts of self-confidence, represented as the protagonist’s internal monologues and often accompanied by exclamation marks, convey her determination. Sahondra’s débrouillardise in the urban space is the result of her determined effort to ‘dompter la peur […] et s’habituer à Paris’ (Rakotoson 1996: 60) ‘tame her fear and get used to Paris.’ At one point, she fiercely declares that ‘Paris n’a presque plus de secrets pour elle’ (Rakotoson 1996: 56) ‘Paris has almost no secrets left for her’. This marks the turning point in the mobility-driven narrative, as the protagonist decides to travel from Paris towards peripheral, provincial spaces in an attempt to find Marie. Just as Mabanckou’s novel, Elle, au printemps revisits the notion of cosmopolitanism by conceiving it as a practical survival strategy that migrant newcomers adopt in their new urban environments. 20 Peripheral dead ends Now I move on to analyzing Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s portrayals of peripheral journeys, which I argue are symptomatic of the protagonists’ failures to handle Paris perfectly. Interestingly enough, these journeys also highlight the central role that Paris plays in the texts: while the protagonists leave intramural Paris because they have no other option, it simultaneously seems that the metropolis has a hold on them as it constitutes such an elementary part of their newly established mobile subjectivities. While the concept of the periphery can be valued positively or negatively, depending on the context and the purposes it is used to serve, Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s texts invest marginalized loci with negative meanings such as neglect and lack of vitality – features that are commonly associated with peripheral spaces (see Peeren, Stuit & van Weyenberg 2016: 3-4). While I read the protagonists’ partly forced displacements from the metropolitan space to the periphery as the anxious culmination of their mobilities as irregular migrants in France, these peripheral mobilities also reveal that metropolitan Paris is itself shaped by what Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch and Markku Salmela (2015: 6) refer to as ‘urban peripherality’. This concept conveys the idea that peripheries are present in places that are considered central. In Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s novels, the idea of urban peripherality is manifest in the irregular migrants’ marginalized presence in the metropolis. Peripheries, in these novels, are therefore both topographical and conceptual/symbolic. Sahondra travels to the provincial town of Valenciennes in order to find Marie, whom the narrative conceives as the prime mover of Sahondra’s metropolitan pursuit. From Gare du Nord, Sahondra takes a train that ‘l’emmènait vers Dieu sait où’ (Rakotoson 1996: 84) ‘took her God knows where.’ As Paris has become slightly more manageable for her, the idea of travelling ‘God knows where’ indicates her being, yet 21 again, out of her comfort zone. In this sense, the trip to Valenciennes resembles her departure for Paris. As the train runs through the countryside, ‘Un peu de brume voilait tout le paysage’ (Rakotoson 1996: 89) ‘Some mist veiled the entire landscape’, which suggests that the trip makes Sahondra lose the fragile points of reference that she has acquired with difficulty in Paris. The peripheral town is an Elsewhere that Sahondra has to face and that frightens her. Through the train window, the landscape looks monotonous; it stands in contrast to Paris and its complex world of mobile networks. The train trip itself is an awkward experience. Sahondra is the only black person on the wagon, and she feels the other passengers’ eyes on her. Again, the uncanny finds its manifestation in the silence of public transports: nobody speaks and even the train seems to move without making any noise. This time, Sahondra does not care about the uncanny feeling generated by the realization of how ‘voyager était vraiment différent en France’ (Rakotoson 1996: 81) ‘travelling was really different in France.’ She breaks the silence by talking to a fellow passenger about her home in Madagascar in a strange, loud voice. Her awkward monologue in the otherwise silent wagon further intensifies the eerie, unreal feeling as it immerses Sahondra in vivid memories, evoking her home country in the grey and monotonous rural landscape in a way that draws parallels between two distant locations. Valenciennes is a place of uncanny silence and as such, reminiscent of the protagonist’s home town. Upon her arrival, Sahondra observes that the streets are empty and quiet, the railway station is grey, and ‘seul un bruit de moteur symbolisait la vie’ (Rakotoson 1996: 93) ‘only the sound of an engine signified life.’ This eerie impression resonates with the narrative’s portrayal of the Madagascan ‘atmosphère de répression’ (Rakotoson 1996: 20) ‘atmosphere of repression’ and the overwhelming greyness that Sahondra associates with everything she dislikes in the country. In this way, the 22 narrative underlines a ‘spatial sameness’ that is generated as former colonial and metropolitan spaces ‘overlap and repeat one another in a mutual confrontation of unexpected, eerie sameness’ (Johnson 2010: 221, 223). In Sahondra’s mind, Valenciennes is like ‘une ville morte […] dans un de ces moment de couvre-feu’ (Rakotoson 1996: 106) ‘a dead city […] under one of those moments of curfew’. The allusion to curfew creates an explicit parallel between the protagonist’s Madagascan home town and the former mining town of Valenciennes. The parallels between these two locations are further underlined by narrative as it mentions their distance from Paris, their histories as sites of exploitation and/or colonization, as well as their presents as peripheries ‘oubliés par le développement’ (Rakotoson 1996: 111) ‘forgotten by the development’. Through repetition, the postcolonial uncanny highlights how the similarities between peripheries located on both sides of the former colonial divide become exposed as a subject from a postcolonial periphery travels to a periphery located in the assumed center. Making the journey represents a personal victory for Sahondra: ‘Si elle était restée si longtemps à Paris sans bouger réellement, c’était pour se protéger, pour ne pas avoir à affronter un avenir en forme de cauchemar ou au moins d’interrogation’ (Rakotoson 1996: 92). ‘If she had stayed in Paris for such a long time without really moving, it was to protect herself, not to have to face a future in the form of a nightmare or at least full of questions.’ As this quotation suggests, Paris, despite all its challenges, has slowly started to become a place that the protagonist can – at least to a very limited extent – handle. The journey to Valenciennes advances the plot by forcing the protagonist to face her uncertain future in France. By stating that her urban mobility was not really about movement at all, the narrative suggests that the real challenge of her migrant journey is still to be addressed: how to be able to settle in France so as to 23 pursue her studies, find a job, and a place to live. As Marie seems to be the key to finding answers to these questions, the stakes of the journey to the periphery are high. It turns out that Marie no longer lives in the address she mentioned in her letters. Consequently, the trip to the periphery represents a dead end that leaves Sahondra’s future in France suspended in a state of ambiguity. At this point, the reader starts to have doubts about whether Marie even exists. Marie is the reason for Sahondra’s being in France, and Sahondra’s failure to find her and the consequent lack of closure that characterize Sahondra’s peripheral journey underline the uncertainty informing her aspirations to settle in France. Sahondra’s peripheral journey exposes the fragile premises of her belonging in Paris, and, in this way, draws attention to how the Paris she inhabits as an irregular migrant has been, from the very beginning, a conceptual margin or a periphery itself (see Ameel, Finch & Salmela 2015: 6). Before returning to Paris the next day, Sahondra goes for a late-night walk. This solitary nocturnal walk in the peripheral town that reminds Sahondra of her home town in Madagascar is a gesture of claiming public space as a female mobile subject; back home, walking alone during the night was considered too dangerous for women. Interestingly enough, this time the narrative does not depict the details of Sahondra’s walk; only her departure from and her return to her host’s place are mentioned. This is where the novel’s portrayal of the protagonist’s walk differs from Mabanckou’s novel in which the cartographic impulse prevails, to a certain degree, even during the protagonist’s walks in the peripheral space. Clearly, walking in the peripheral space has an empowering effect on Sahondra. In contrast to her travels in public transports – and contrary to Mabanckou’s protagonist – there is no anxious aspect in walking. Through her nocturnal walk in Valenciennes, Sahondra symbolically reclaims her native Antananarivo. The fact that this walk escapes the cartographic impulse differentiates it from her Parisian displacements which 24 are framed as her survival strategy in the metropolis. In so doing, the narrative underlines Sahondra’s mastery instead of portraying her as a lost newcomer struggling to not to fall off the map. On her return, it is already morning, and her host tells her that she should not have gone for a night walk on her own. Sahondra does not care about his reproach, and later, when she tells him that she will return to Paris right away, she rejects his offer to give her a lift to the station by saying that she needs to walk. This suggests that while the novel’s ending remains open when it comes to Sahondra’s future and while the anxiety informing her mobile position does not therefore loosen its grip, she has learned how to handle the uncertainties that being a not entirely regular migrant in France entails. In this sense, the trip to the periphery, while being a dead end in the sense of not finding Marie, seems to have had an empowering effect on Sahondra’s mobility. In Tais-toi et meurs, the protagonist’s becoming subject of conspiracy forces him to escape Paris and hide in a cheap hotel in Montreuil, an Eastern Parisian banlieue – a locus which resonates with stereotypical images of French suburbs as socially deprived environments of ‘banishment and exclusion’ (Horvath 2011: 93) inhabited principally by North and Sub-Saharan African migrants. As in Rakotoson’s novel, Mabanckou’s protagonist’s relegation in the periphery underlines the fact that ‘his Paris’, the criminal underworld milieu, was already an urban periphery – certainly related to the center while not entirely part of it (see Ameel, Finch & Salmela 2015: 6). The protagonist’s banishment from the center – albeit from a symbolically peripheral one – is an ironic turn of the plot in the sense that a subject from a postcolonial periphery, who has dreamed of reaching the center, ends up relegated to a metropolitan periphery. The chapters narrating his life at the peripheral hotel rely on the generic conventions of the thriller by representing the protagonist as a solitary individual who is 25 ‘cut from his previously secure bearings of community’ (Rubin 1999: 11). By referring to the hotel as a ‘trou’ (Mabanckou 2012: 81) ‘hole’, the narrative represents the displacement as a form of downgrading, and also, so to speak, a return to square one, as suggested by the fact that the protagonist checks in the hotel under his own name, not the one given to him by the community. The use of his own name conveys the idea that he is no longer under the protection of the community that ‘created’ him. The defeat of being relegated to the periphery is further conveyed in how the protagonist, previously a ‘real Parisian’ dandy wearing expensive luxury suits and shoes, starts to wear track suits, grows a beard and wears long hair. The change of style is yet another step in his mobility-related transformation process: the protagonist turns form a sapeur into a banlieusard. The narrative invests the banlieue setting with negative meanings so that it becomes the ultimate manifestation of the protagonist’s failure to handle Paris – that is, the peripheral, underworld version of Paris that the criminal community has created. The protagonist’s relegation to the margins of the metropolis affects his mobility. The chapters depicting his stay in the hotel no longer feature travel in urban public transports: Julien Makambo’s displacements are restricted to his immediate suburban milieu during his daily errands on foot. Still, as a matter of routine, the narrative keeps recording his simple itineraries in the vicinity, which conveys the protagonist’s increased sense of insecurity due to his banishment from the community and intramural Paris. From the perspective of this insecurity, it is significant that the protagonist hides in a hotel. The hotel, as Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2006: 213; 219) posit, can be seen as a transfer point and a ‘place[…] of intermittent movement.’ Hotels are spaces of in-between-ness not only as ‘gateways’ between the public and the private (Davidson 2006: 169), but also because motels and budget hotels ‘collect[..] deviancy’ (Treadwell 2005: 215). In Tais-toi et meurs, the hotel is a space of deviancy as a refuge 26 for a fugitive whose current compromised mobility can be summarized in the question, ‘Où irais-je puisque je ne connaissais personne en France en dehors de mon milieu ?’ (Mabanckou 2012: 90) ‘Where would I go as I knew no-one in France outside my milieu?’ While the protagonist refers to his room as a ‘refuge’, he cannot entirely feel at home in that space either. In terms of narrative speed, the hotel passages are characterized by slowness and relative immobility, which stand in contrast to the thrilleresque hyper-mobility of the protagonist’s previous intra-Parisian itineraries. The narrative underlines this contrast with a meta-literary commentary by alluding to a receptionist reading Marcel Proust’s narratively slow, multivolume novel À la recherche du temps perdu. Yet, there is a constant tension in this immobility: while at one moment, the protagonist claims that the longer he stays at the hotel, the more secure he feels, in the next instance he is convinced that he should leave the place immediately. The instability and in-between- ness of the hotel both as a refuge and an impasse gives articulation to this insecurity and the suspense it generates. In his current situation, the hotel, as a transitory space between dwelling and movement, is the only possible way for the protagonist to remain at least partially mobile. The hotel also marks a certain rupture in the narrative’s mostly (intramural) cartographic impulse, which has now become reduced to the protagonist’s walks in the vicinity. This reflects his eventually arrested mobility outside the criminal community. As the story proceeds, the protagonist no longer feels safe in the hotel and decides to leave. Yet, the question of where to go persists. Julian Makambo’s desperate situation gains its full meaning with his impulsive decision to leave for Nantes. He has never been to Nantes and does not know anyone from there, so the destination is entirely haphazard. In the ambiguous refuge/impasse of the hotel room, the provincial 27 town of Nantes represents his last hope for reinventing himself. Ultimately, this plan to travel to Nantes fails as the protagonist is arrested not far from the hotel. That his movement is literally arrested by the police underlines the constant risks of interruption that, from the very beginning, have shaped his metropolitan mobile position outside the official society. Due to his detention – the culmination of his arrested mobility – the speed of the narrative rhythm slows down drastically. Nantes, a destination he never reaches and of which he knows nothing, becomes the symbol for his impossible wish to exist on his own outside the criminal community that has created him. This highlights the elementary role of Paris in the construction of his postcolonial metropolitan subjectivity. Conclusion My analysis of Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s representations and poetics of everyday mobilities demonstrates how applying a mobility studies perspective to postcolonial literary texts that could easily be defined as ‘migration novels’ allows for a reading that recognizes African migrants as urban mobile subjects who actively engage in concrete everyday urban mobility practices. The characters are mobile not only in the sense of being part of transnational migration movements, but as urban travelers in the metropolitan space. Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s texts’ ways of producing mobile urban cartographies and portraying newly arrived African migrants as practical cosmopolitans trying to survive in the metropolis and to make sense of it through mobility widen the scope of how the concept of mobility can be understood in postcolonial contexts. The plot twists with peripheral journeys/dwelling in both texts attest to the importance of Paris for the protagonists’ mobile subjectivities. 28 I have used the notion of poetics of mobility to refer to the ways in which the mobility theme translates into form. While the notion of poetics of mobility can be applied to different literary texts, its manifestations inevitably vary according to the literary means employed by specific literary texts. By paying attention to literary features, my analysis points out that poetics of mobility essentially contribute to the texts’ representations of mobility. Becoming a modern, metropolitan postcolonial mobile subject is a process of transformation – a profoundly anxiety-generating one. In Elle, au printemps, the anxious aspects of this transformation translate into form through a mobility-related urban uncanny which is generated through the protagonist’s eerie, strangely familiar experiences. The postcolonial urban uncanny in Rakotoson’s novel establishes links between France and Madagascar by highlighting their shared colonial past. Poetics of mobility in Rakotoson’s novel are also manifest in how the narrative adopts different means (broken dialogues, silence, and unanswered questions) for conveying the anxious aspects of protagonist’s attempts to ‘manage’ Paris through urban mobility. In Tais-toi et meurs, poetics of mobility pertain to the use of the generic features of the thriller form: the narrative structure and the plot development reflect the protagonist’s urban (im)mobilities, generating a sense of suspense. It can be concluded that Rakotoson’s and Mabanckou’s protagonists’ struggles in the urban space, its mobile networks, and their peripheral journeys show how central a role mobility plays in the process of becoming a postcolonial metropolitan mobile subject and in the attempt of trying to claim the postcolonial metropolis as one’s own. Funding acknowledgement This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skɫodowska-Curie grant agreement No 701238. 29 Author bio Dr. Anna-Leena Toivanen is a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and a former Marie Skɫodowska-Curie Fellow (MSCA-IF) at CEREP (Centre d’Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes Postcoloniales), University of Liège, Belgium. Her research focuses on mobilities and cosmopolitanisms in contemporary Franco- and Anglophone diasporic African literatures. Her recent work has been published in Studies in Travel Writing, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Research in African Literatures, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and Matatu. Her chapter on mobility and labour in contemporary African diasporic fiction features in The Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019). Address: Anna-Leena Toivanen University of Eastern Finland School of Humanities, Agora 233 P.O. 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Wolfeys, Julian (2008), ‘The urban uncanny: The city, the subject, and ghostly modernity’, in Jo Collins and John Jervis (eds), Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 168-180. 1 Besides the paradigmatization of the migrant figure in the field of postcolonial literary studies, the scarcity of critical attention given to literary representations of concrete forms of mobility results also from the fact that mobility is such an integral part of modern life that it easily goes unnoticed as a literary theme. 2 Adopting a postcolonial lens for mobility studies is useful in exploring how race, ethnicity, and the aftermath of colonialism shape (im)mobilities (see, e.g. Upstone 2014; Carpio 2019). Enhancing dialogue between mobility studies and postcolonial studies is important because not much work has been done on the intersections between mobility and race (Nicholson & Sheller 2016: 5). 37 3 Mobility studies are associated with social sciences and ‘real life’ mobilities, whereas literary texts produce representations of mobility. Arts and literature have the capacity to render mobility – which is often considered to escape representation – ‘representable’ (Cresswell 2006: 47; Murray & Upstone 2014a: 2-3). However, fictional texts do not merely replicate social realities, but actively produce meanings and in so doing, ‘shape […] and facilitate […] the image and understanding of a mobilised world’ (Berensmeyer & Ehland 2013: 22). 4 My formulation of poetics of mobility here is grounded on my reading of two specific literary texts, in which the mobility theme is translated into form through the thriller form and the uncanny. This obviously does not mean that poetics of mobility would be limited to particular genres or styles, or texts discussing urban mobilities in (post)colonial metropolises. Poetics of mobility can take a variety of forms, and my analysis is only one possible way of defining what poetics of mobility could be. My aim is not to produce a pattern that could be applied to all literary texts (which would, of course, be impossible), since literary texts are unique and follow their own logics. Any attempt to outline a poetics of mobility has to spring from the uniqueness of the literary text in question. 5 My use of the notion of ‘modern postcolonial metropolitan subject’ is not to imply that non-metropolitan, postcolonial mobile subjectivities would be somehow automatically ‘premodern’ or ‘traditional’. Rather, there is a variety of different, co-existing modernities that transform each other (see Ashcroft 2009). 6 All translations of Mabanckou’s novel are mine. 7 All translations from Rakotoson’s novel are mine. 8 La Sape (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes; ‘Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People’) is a form of Congolese dandyism which entails 38 wearing luxury brand clothing and accessories. Sapeur figures feature throughout Mabanckou’s production. work_atyd6nwgdjf6ja4fsan6pzkt2u ---- Hedonic Eating: How the Pleasure of Food Affects our Brains and Behaviour | Semantic Scholar Skip to search formSkip to main content> Semantic Scholar's Logo Search Sign InCreate Free Account You are currently offline. Some features of the site may not work correctly. 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Learn More → Resources DatasetsSupp.aiAPIOpen Corpus Organization About UsResearchPublishing PartnersData Partners   FAQContact Proudly built by AI2 with the help of our Collaborators Terms of Service•Privacy Policy The Allen Institute for AI By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Dataset License ACCEPT & CONTINUE work_azsquoo4ybddhh7wob4bwhhqhy ---- Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 www.sosyalarastirmalar.com Issn: 1307-9581 Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 www.sosyalarastirmalar.com Issn: 1307-9581 Doi Number: http://dx.doi.org/10.17719/jisr.2019.3599 MODERN SANAT SÜRECİNDE KADIN İMGESİNİN RESİMSEL VE TOPLUMSAL AÇIDAN İNCELENMESİ THE PICTURE AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF WOMAN IMAGE IN MODERN ART PROCESS Kader AYDIN** Ayşegül KARAKELLE*** Öz Modern sanat sürecinde kadın imgesinin resimsel ve toplumsal açıdan incelenmesi olarak adlandırılan bu araştırmada, kadın imgesinin modern sanat sürecinde gerçekleşen sanatsal ve toplumsal değişimi göz önünde bulundurularak başlıca sanatçılar ve e serleri üzerinden etkileri incelenmiştir. Modern sanat sürecinde gerçekleşen sosyo-ekonomik gelişmeler, Fransız Devrimi ve sanayi devrimi ile değişmeye başlayan yeni dünya anlayışı beraberinde pek çok toplumsal yeniliklere kapı açmıştır. Özellikle batıda başlayan v e tüm dünyaya yayılmaya başlayan bu yeni oluşum sanat, edebiyat, bilim, teknoloji gibi olguları da beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu yeni oluşum ışığında sanatsal anlamda pek çok yenilik meydana gelmiştir. Sanatçılar yeni arayışlar içerisinde bireyselliğe yönelm işlerdir. Sanatçıların özgün tarzda resmettikleri bu eserleri, içinde bulundukları toplumun dönem özellikleri ile doğru orantılı olmuşt ur. Bu yeni oluşumlar içerisinde sanatçılarda biricik imge olma özelliği taşıyan kadın imgesi de yadsınamaz bir yere gelmiştir. Bir toplumdaki gelişmişlik seviyesinin ispatı olan kültürel gelişmeler ışığında modern sanat içerisinde önemli bir yere sahip olan kadın img esinin resimsel ve toplumsal açıdan değerlendirilmesi gerektiği düşünülmektedir. Bu bağlamda elde edilen mevcut kaynaklar taranarak modern sanat sürecinde kadın imgesi konusunda yoğun çalışmalar sergileyen sanatçıların başlıca eserleri ışığında dönemin sana t anlayışı ve gerçekleşen toplumsal gelişmelerin etkisi irdelenmeye çalışılmıştır. Anahtar Kelimeler: Modern Sanat, Kadın İmgesi, Toplum. Abstract In this study, which is called as the examination of the image of woman in the modern art process from a pictorial and socia l perspective, the effects of the image of woman on the main artists and their works are examined considering the artistic and social change taking place in the process of modern art. The socio-economic developments taking place in the process of modern art, the new world understanding that has started to change with the French Revolution and the industrial revolution have opened the door to many social innovations. This new formation, which started especially in the west and started to spread all over the world, brough t about phenomena such as art, literature, science and technology. In the light of this new formation, many artistic innovations have taken place. The artists have turned to individuality in their new quests. These works, which artists paint in original style, are directly proportional to the period features of the society in which they live. Within these new formations, the image of woman, which is the unique image of the artists, has come to an undeniable place. In the light of cultural developments that are proof of the lev el of development in a society, it is thought that the image of woman, which has an important place in modern art, should be evaluated from a pictorial and social perspective. In this context, the existing sources obtained were searched and the effect of the social understanding and art developments of the period was tried to be examined in the light of the main works of the artists who exhibited intense studies on the image of woman in the modern art process. Keywords: Modern Art, Woman Image, Society.  Bu makale, Kader Aydın’ın Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü, Resim Anasanat Dalı, Modern Sanatta Kadın İmgesi adlı yüksek lisans tezinden üretilmiştir. ** Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar ve Tasarım Fakültesi, Sanat ve Tasarım Sanatta Yeterlilik Öğrencisi, e-posta: kaderaydin1783@hotmail.com *** Doç. Dr., Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, Güzel Sanatlar Eğitimi Bölümü, Resim-İş Öğretmenliği Anasanat Dalı, e-posta: burtugakademi25@gmail.com Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 476 - 1.GİRİŞ Gelişen ve değişen dünya görüşü ile birlikte sanatın boyutu da onunla doğru orantılı bir ivme kazanmıştır. Eskinin kuralcı oranları, rengi, bakışları yerini daha etkili ve kışkırtıcı imgelere bırakmıştır. iBunların en bariz örneklerini sanatın içine giren kolaj-montaj, afiş, gazete gibi ürünlerde görmek mümkün olmuştur. Yine bunun temelinde yatan sebep elbette fotoğraf makinasının icadı ve beraberinde getirdiği kolaylıklar olmuştur. Toplumsal ve kültürel değerler zamanla evrilmeye ve hızlı tükenir hale gelmeye başlamıştır. Sanayileşme ile ortaya çıkan bu hızlı tüketim furyası en çok reklam afiş gibi görsel objelerle kendini ilerletebilmiştir. Üst ya da alt tabaka fark etmeksizin modern ve popüler olan ne ise ona sahip olma arzusu sanatsal boyutun da tüketim kültürü içerisine kaymasını sağlamıştır. Sanat da artık tüketim kültürünün bir parçası olmuştur. Kadın, sanatsal, görsel ve bedensel anlamda tüketilen şeyler arasında kendine önemli bir pay edinmiştir elbette. Gelişen ve değişen her şey ile doğru orantılı olarak değişmeye başlamıştır. İmgeleşen kadın kimine göre değerine değer katarak kimine göre ise sıradanlaşarak metalaşmaya başlamıştır. Reklam, afiş, poster, video gibi olgularla eskinin kutsal imajından soyutlanan kadın artık göze hitap eden bir meta haline bürünmüştür. Kısaca modernleşmenin getirdiği tüketim kültürü ile payına düşen değişimi yaşamıştır ve yaşamaya devam etmektedir. 2.YÖNTEM 2.1. Amacı Bu araştırmanın amacı modern sanat akımları içerisinde kadın imgesinin resimsel ve toplumsal açıdan gelişim ve değişimini belirlemektir. Bu bağlamda modern sanat kapsamında önemli yere sahip olan başlıca sanatçılar ve eserleri üzerinde değerlendirmeler, irdelemeler ve yorumlamalar yaparak kadın imgesinin değişimine ilişkin bir sonuca varılmaya çalışılmıştır. 2.2. Önemi Modern sanatta ön plana çıkan kadın imgesinin, nasıl güçlü ve etkili bir kültürel imaj haline geldiğinin anlatılmaya çalışılmasının resim sanatı açısından önemli olduğu düşünülmektedir. 2.3. Konusu Modern sanatın gelişim ve değişim döneminde ele alınan önemli konulardan biri imge arayışı olmuştur. Pek çok sanatçı için önemli bir kaygı ve arayış sebebi olan imge kavramının en etkili imajı konumundaki kadın imgesi temsil ilişkisi bağlamında değerlendirilirken dönemin önemli sanatçılarının başlıca eserleri üzerinden araştırılması bu çalışmanın konusu olmuştur. 2.4. Yöntemi Bu araştırmanın yöntemi tarama modelidir. Araştırmada, bir kavram olarak imge ve temsil ilişkisi bağlamında mevcut kaynaklar taranarak, modern sanatta imge, kadın imgesi gibi başlıklar, sanatçılar ve eserleri ışığında incelenerek elde edilen veriler araştırmanın amacı doğrultusunda yorumlanarak sonuca varılmaya çalışılmıştır. 3. BULGULAR VE YORUM 3.1. Kavram Olarak İmge Modern sanat ve kadın imgesi konusuna değinmeden önce imge kavramının terimsel olarak incelenmesi yararlı olacaktır. Aslında imgeler nispeten toplumların ve kültürlerin gelişiminin göstergeleridir. Bu bağlamda imgeleri özümlemek için öncelikle bu değişimleri anlamak gerekmektedir. Bu sebeple ilk önce imgeyi en basit haliyle tanımlamak gerekmektedir. Türk Dil Kurumu’nun sözlüğünde (2012) imge; 1. Zihinde tasarlanan ve gerçekleşmesi özlenen şey, hayal, hülya. 2. Genel görünüş, izlenim, imaj. 3. Duyu organlarının dıştan algıladığı bir nesnenin bilince yansıyan benzeri, hayal, imaj. 4. Duyularla algılanan, bir uyaran söz konusu olmaksızın bilinçte beliren nesne ve olaylar, hayal, imaj. İmge, birçok sanat ve bilim alanı içerisine dahil edilmekte, ve içlerinde yer almakta olup anlamca çok zengin bir kavram olma özelliği taşır. Terim olarak tanımlanması zor bir kavramdır. Bu tanımlardan bazıları şunlardır: Eğitim terimleri sözlüğüne göre; Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 477 - “Ortada açık bir uyaran olmadan, eski bir duygusal-algısal yaşantının zihinde yeniden canlanan biçimi” olarak ifade edilmektedir Edebiyat ve söz sanatları sözlüğüne göre; “Bir şeyi daha canlı ve daha duygulu bir halde anlatmak için onu başka şeylerin çizgileri ve şekilleri içinde tasarlayış” olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Yazın terimleri sözlüğüne göre; “Var olan ya da varmış gibi tasarlanan nesnelerin zihinde canlandırılışı” olarak ifade edilmektedir. Felsefe terimleri sözlüğüne göre ise; “Bir nesneyi doğrudan doğruya yeniden tanıtmaya yarayacak bir biçimde göz önüne seren şey, duyu organları ile algılanmış olan şeyin somut ya da düşünsel kopyası” olarak tanımlanmaktadır” (Dolaş, 2010, 16, 17). Ele alınan sözlüklerin imge tanımları incelendiğinde gerçek dünyada var olsun ya da olmasın bir imgenin zihinde canlandırılması ve somut ya da düşsel kopyası olması özelliklerinin ortak olduğu söylenebilir. İmge farklı sanat ve bilim alanına hizmet eden bir kavram olma özelliğine sahip olmaktadır. Nitekim imge kavramını bu düşünsel ya da görüntüsel anlamlarından arındırıp salt bir anlam yüklemek olası bir tutumdur. Sonuç olarak zihinde canlanan şey ya da şeylerin imgesi bir görüntü düzlemine yansıtılmaktadır. Bu gerek yazınsal gerekse resimsel boyutta olsun. Sonuç itibariyle gözle görünür bir imge gerçeği söz konusudur. 3.2. Temsil İlişkisi Bağlamında İmge Temsil kısaca yeniden yapılandırma ve sunma biçimidir. Temsil edilen imge, görüşsel ya da duyuşsal yollarla oluşan ilişkilerin sistemli bir şekilde kendini sanatta ifade etme biçimidir. Bu bağlamda sanat imgesinin değişim ve gelişim sürecinin insanın gelişim ve değişim sürecine bağlı olduğunu söyleyebiliriz. İnsanda meydana gelen tarihsel değişimler onun algılayış biçimindeki değişimle doğru orantılıdır. Sanatsal sürecin ilk dönemlerinden beri üzerinde durulan konu sanat öğesinin gerçek görüntüye sadık kalınarak üretilen yansıtma oluşudur. Sanatta temsil ilişkisi tamamen bulunduğu döneme bağlıdır. İçinde bulunduğu dönemin gerçeklik anlayışı ile şekillenir. Yansıttığı gerçeklik, imgenin ortaya çıkmasına ve onun ne olduğunu neyi yansıtması gerektiğini belirleyen niteliğe sahiptir (Özşen, 2013, 10). Bu durumu Richard Leppert kitabında şöyle ifade eder: “İmgeler bize asıl dünyayı değil, dünyalardan bir dünya gösterir. Gösterilen şeyler değil, bunların temsilleridir imgeler: Temsil, yani yeniden- sunum. Hakikaten, imgelerin temsil ettiği şeyler “gerçeklik”te olmayabilir; sadece muhayyile, kuruntu, arzu, rüya ya da fantezi dünyasında var olabilir. Fakat tabii, öte yandan, dünyaya şu ya da bu şekilde dahil olan bir nesne olarak vardır her imge. İster fotoğraf, ister film ya da video, isterse de resim olsun, imgelere baktığımızda gördüğümüz şey insan bilincinin ürünüdür. İnsan bilinci ise kültür ve tarihin ayrılmaz bir parçasıdır. Burada şu sonuç çıkıyor: İmgeler, maden cevheri gibi kazılıp çıkarılan şeyler değil, belli bir sosyal- kültürel ortam içerisinde belli bir işlev görmesi için inşa edilen şeylerdir” ( Leppert, 2002, 14) “Sanatsal imge, doğayı temsil ettiği için el işçiliğinden farklıdır; doğayı temsil edeceğine doğal bir beceriye dayanan imgeyse zenaattır” (Sayın, 2003, 47). Temsil ile görünene ait olmayan ve olması istenilen görüntüleri sağlama durumu ve temsilin gerçeklikle olan ilişkisi imgenin çok anlamlılığını destekler (Özşen, 2013, 12). Jacques Ranciere imge ve görüntünün iki farklı şeyi ifade ettiğini savunur: “… sanat ve gerçeklik arasında, sanatsal imgeyi ve görüntüyü farklı kılan ilişkilerden birinin orijinalin benzerini üreten basit ilişki, bu benzerin illaki orijinalin sadık kopyası değil, ama onun yerini tutabilecek bir şey olduğu şeklindedir; diğerinin ise sanat dediğimiz şeyi üreten işlemlerin oyunudur: ki örneğin, tam da bir benzerliğin başkalaşıma uğratılması” (Ranciere, 2008, 15). Jacques Ranciere’nin vurguladığı şey başkalaşıma uğrayan bu sanatsal imge sanatçının duygu ve düşüncelerinin etkilendiği bellekte oluşmasıdır. Sanatçının belirtmek istediği şey ise ifade edilen şeyin gerçeklikle olan ilişkisinin bir yanılsaması olarak temsil edilmesidir (Özşen, 2013, 12). 4.1. Kadın İmgesi Nedir? İmge arayışına giren sanatçı için elinin altında dolaşan kadın en ulaşılabilir imgedir. Annedir, eştir, hizmetlidir, gönül verilen genç kızdır. Erkek egemen toplumun en ulaşılası imgesidir. Bu yüzdendir ki Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 478 - sanatçı ister sosyal yaşam olsun isterse cinsel dürtülerini ya da kadın sorunsalını yansıtıp eleştirmek anlamında olsun başvurduğu tek imge konumundadır kadın. Çoğu eserde görüldüğü üzere çalışan kadın, anne olan kadın, güzel-soylu kadın vs. vs. Kadın hep vardır ve hep var olacaktır sonsuz doğasıyla. Kadının varlığı sanat tarihi boyunca şiddetli bir gerçeklikle göze çapmaktadır. Asırlar boyunca kadının güzelliği, sevgisi, şefkati, anneliği, kutsallığı, iç dünyası, kısaca özü sanatsal uğraşların temel imgesi olmuştur. Kadın sanatçılara sessiz bir model olurken erkek ise ondan ilham alan ve dış dünyaya sesini duyuran olmuştur. Kadın imgesini betimleme birçok ressam için aranılan konu olmuştur. Sanat tarihi sürecini incelediğimizde bunun ne kadar etki alanına sahip olduğunu görürüz. Her dönemin sahip olduğu özel bir kadın imgesi vardır. Bu imaj o dönemin toplumsal yapısının kadına biçtiği rolle doğru orantılıdır. Her dönem kendi içerisinde ideal olan kadın imajını arar. Bunu daha iyi anlayabilmek için tarihsel süreçlere ve onların barındırdığı ideal kadın kavramlarına şöyle bir göz atmakta fayda vardır. Sanat tarihi boyunca ideal kadın kriterleri sürekli değişim göstermiştir. Bunun altında ise o dönemin güzele biçtiği değer yatmaktadır. Tarih öncesi dönemde ideal kadını sağlamlık, güç ve dayanıklılık temsil ederken, Mısır döneminde ise uzun boylu güzel tanrıçalar ideal kadını temsil ediyordu. Eski Yunan’da ise erkeksi vücut yapısına sahip ancak onurlu ve cesur kadın imajı ideal kadın kimliğini temsil ediyordu. Orta çağ sürecinde ideal kadını duruluğu, saflığı, bedensel arılığı temsil ediyordu. Bekaret ve masumiyet ideal kadında aranan yegane unsur olmuştur. Klasik dönemde zarafetiyle tanınan ideal kadın aydınlanma döneminde özüne dönmüş ve doğallıktan yana olmaya çalışmıştır. Fransız devrimine kadar olan süreçte ise abartılı makyaj, peruk, vücudu sıkan korseler güzellik unsuru olarak öne çıkmaya başlamıştır. Bu dönemde sanatçılar kadın figürlerini çıplak resmetmekten çekinmemekle birlikte onların dişiliğini öne çıkarma çabasına düşmüşlerdir. Devrim sonrası kadında abartı olan unsurlar kalmamıştır. Empresyonizmle birlikte ise bunun yerini sağlıklı kadın imgesi almıştır. Kadın daha sağlıklı ve daha mutludur artık. İkinci dünya savaşından sonra ise kadının etine dolgun olması tercih edilmiştir. Yuvarlak hatlara sahip kadın sağlığı ve güzelliği temsil etmiştir bu dönemde. İlerleyen yıllarda ise ideal kadın imajını daha çok sinema ve reklamlarda görülen özgür kadın temsil etmiştir. Bu yeni imaj daha özgür, daha dolgun ve güzel vücutlu, eskinin aksine bronzlaşmış tene sahip olan kadın almıştır. Burjuva kadınlarının yerine mini etek giyen kadın daha asil kabul edilmiştir. Günümüzde ise bu durumlar tamamen değişim göstermiştir, kadın halen sanatın önemli bir konusuyken sanatın kendisi daha çok ön plana çıkarılmaya çalışılmaktadır. Özellikle 20.yy’da çokça resmedilen kadın imgesi hemen hemen tüm sanatçıların temel imgesi durumuna gelmiştir. Sanatçılar kendi tarzlarına paralel olarak kendi kadın imgelerini yaratmışlar ve çeşitlemeler yaparak farklı yaklaşımlar elde etmişlerdir. Bu farklı üslup ve düşünce tarzına sahip yeni yaklaşımlar, sanatçıların form anlayışı ile kendilerine ait üslupla özdeşleşmiştir. 4.2. Kadın İmgesi ile İlgili Örnek Çalışmalar 4.2.1. Gustave Klimt (1862-1918) 1862 yılında Viyana’da dünyaya gelen sembolist ressam, Viyana Uygulamalı Sanat Okulu’ da eğitim görmüştür. İlk resimlerinde neoklasik tarzda çalışan sanatçı daha sonra empresyonist akımın etkisinde kalmıştır. Sanatçı yaşadığı dönemin sosyo-kültürel, ekonomik, siyasi yapısından etkilenmiş ve bu etkiler altında eserler oluşturmuştur. Kadın imgesi hemen her dönem resim sanatına konu olmuştur. Kadın vücudunun estetik ve çekici görüntüsü birçok sanatçının ilgisini çekmiştir. Gustave Klimt de diğer sanatçılar gibi kadın imgesinin etkisinde kalmıştır. Dönemin tutucu dünya görüşü, sanatçının özgün imge üretimini olumsuz yönde etkilemiştir ve çoğunlukla kadın imgesi üzerine çalışan sanatçı toplumun estetikten uzak bu yoz yargıları ile sınırlandırılmaya çalışılmıştır. “Klimt’in resimlerinde ‘kadın’ her şeyden önce estetik bir imgedir, ressamın görme biçimidir ve resim yoluyla izleyiciye gönderme yapmaktadır” (Uz, 2012, 58). ‘Kadın İmgesi’ sanatçının gözde konuları arasında yer alırken aynı zamanda onun görme şekli ve kendini ifade biçimidir. Dönemin kadına bakış açısını derinden sarsan sanatçı kadın imgesini tuallerinde hiçbir sansüre boyun eğmeden özgürce kullanmıştır. Bu imgelerin en önemlilerinden biri olan Danae ise tarihinde bu tarz yapılan çalışmalara önemli bir örnek oluşturmuştur. Çalışma üçgen bir kompozisyondan oluşmaktadır. duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve çocuksuluk göze çarpar. sol göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen genç kadın, yaşadığı acıları rüyalar omuzlarından dökülmesi sıkıntılı geçmişini ifade ederken hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken sahip olduğu karamsar ve derin düşüncel Klimt 1907 portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli Resim Çalışma üçgen bir kompozisyondan oluşmaktadır. duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve çocuksuluk göze çarpar. l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen kadın, yaşadığı acıları rüyalar omuzlarından dökülmesi sıkıntılı geçmişini ifade ederken hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken uğu karamsar ve derin düşüncel Resim 2: Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, Kaynak: Erden, E. Osman (2016). Klimt 1907 yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 Resim 1: Klimt, Danae Çalışma üçgen bir kompozisyondan oluşmaktadır. duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve çocuksuluk göze çarpar. İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen kadın, yaşadığı acıları rüyalar omuzlarından dökülmesi sıkıntılı geçmişini ifade ederken hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken uğu karamsar ve derin düşüncel Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, Kaynak: Erden, E. Osman (2016). yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 Klimt, Danae, 1907. TÜYB. Kaynak: Çalışma üçgen bir kompozisyondan oluşmaktadır. duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen kadın, yaşadığı acıları rüyalar aleminde yaşamaya devam etmektedir. omuzlarından dökülmesi sıkıntılı geçmişini ifade ederken hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken uğu karamsar ve derin düşünceleri ifade eder. Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, Kaynak: Erden, E. Osman (2016). Modern Sanatın Kısa Tarihi, yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 TÜYB. 77x83 cm. Galerie Wurthle, Viyana, Avusturya Kaynak: http://commons.wikimedia.org Çalışma üçgen bir kompozisyondan oluşmaktadır. duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen aleminde yaşamaya devam etmektedir. omuzlarından dökülmesi sıkıntılı geçmişini ifade ederken sahi hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken eri ifade eder. Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, Modern Sanatın Kısa Tarihi, yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 77x83 cm. Galerie Wurthle, Viyana, Avusturya http://commons.wikimedia.org Bu kompozisyon, hayatın zorluklarına rağmen duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen aleminde yaşamaya devam etmektedir. sahip olduğu yüz ifadesi hem rüyada hem gerçek hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, Modern Sanatın Kısa Tarihi, İstanbul: Hayalperest Yayınevi, s: 115 yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzü Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 77x83 cm. Galerie Wurthle, Viyana, Avusturya http://commons.wikimedia.org Bu kompozisyon, hayatın zorluklarına rağmen duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen aleminde yaşamaya devam etmektedir. p olduğu yüz ifadesi hem rüyada hem gerçek hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden yaşanan olumsuzluklara rağmen hala umut dolu olduğunu gösterirken koyu kahve tonlarındaki bölüm ise Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, İstanbul: Hayalperest Yayınevi, s: 115 yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda tamamlayabilmiştir. Kare şeklindeki esere bakıldığında göze çarpan hüzünlü, zarif ve asil bir kadındır. Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 77x83 cm. Galerie Wurthle, Viyana, Avusturya Bu kompozisyon, hayatın zorluklarına rağmen duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen aleminde yaşamaya devam etmektedir. Saçlarının dağılarak p olduğu yüz ifadesi hem rüyada hem gerçek hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden koyu kahve tonlarındaki bölüm ise Klimt, “Adele Bloch Bauer’in Portresi”, 1907, TÜYB. 138X138 cm. Neue Galerie, New York İstanbul: Hayalperest Yayınevi, s: 115 yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda nlü, zarif ve asil bir kadındır. Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli - 479 - Bu kompozisyon, hayatın zorluklarına rağmen duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen nın dağılarak p olduğu yüz ifadesi hem rüyada hem gerçek hayatta içinde bulunduğu karmaşık dünyayı ifade etmektedir. resimdeki beyaz ve yeşil lekelerden ise tüm koyu kahve tonlarındaki bölüm ise yılında yakın arkadaşı Ferdinand Bloch’un ricası üzerine Bloch’un eşi Adele’nin portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda nlü, zarif ve asil bir kadındır. Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli - Bu kompozisyon, hayatın zorluklarına rağmen duygusal kalmayı temsil etmektedir. Esere adını veren Danae’nin yüzünde kaybolmayan bir masumiyet ve İçindeki acıları parçalayarak atmak istercesine sağ elini kalbine götürmüştür. Yine l göğsünün açık olması ise masumiyetini ifade etmektedir. Cenin pozisyonunda uyuyor halde resmedilen nın dağılarak p olduğu yüz ifadesi hem rüyada hem gerçek ise tüm koyu kahve tonlarındaki bölüm ise ’nin portresini yapmıştır. O yıl içerisinde taslaklar hazırlamaya başlayan sanatçı eseri ancak üç yıl sonunda nlü, zarif ve asil bir kadındır. Klimt’in bu eserde gerçek altın kullanmıştır. Arka fonu ve resimde yer alan model hemen hemen aynı renk tonlarıyla yansıtılmıştır. Öyle ki figürle zemin bütünlük sağlamıştır. Kadın imgesi üzerindeki göz desenli Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 480 - kumaş parçası ise kendisine bakan seyirciye karşılık verir niteliktedir. Bir kadının çıplak olmadan da zarafetini yansıttığı nadir eserlerden biridir Adele Bloch Bauer. Çoğunlukla imgesi kadın olan sanatçı, eserlerinde kadının masalsı iç dünyasını bir ışıltı içerisinde vermeye çalışır. Onun kadınları narin, hassas ve duygusaldır. Bu duygusal ve narin varlıklar onun eserlerinde her zaman başkarakter olma rolünü üstlenmişlerdir. Sanatçı, kadınlarını gerek form anlayışı, gerekse renk kullanışı olarak estetik bir üslupla resmetmiştir. Sanatçının kadına yüklediği ince ve güzel anlam onun hayali ve bir o kadar görkemli iç dünyasının birer göstergesi olmuştur. Kadınların iç dünyalarına bu kadar hassas bir şekilde dokunan sanatçı, tuvallerindeki renk seçimi ile de kadınlarının yüreğindeki çocuksu sıcaklığı yansıtmaya çalışmıştır. Çoğunlukla sıcak tonlar kullanan sanatçı, bu renklerle adeta onları koruyarak kucaklamıştır. 4.2.2. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Birinci dünya savaşına kadar olan süreçte özellikle Avrupa başta olmak üzere dünyanın birçok yerinde herhangi olağanüstü bir durumdan söz edilemez. 1914’te Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın başlaması ile tüm dengeleri alt üst edecek sosyal ve siyasi gelişmeler söz konusuydu fakat değişimler bunlarla sınırlı değildi. Yeni icatlar, keşifler, kültürel ve ekonomik bazı yenilikler cereyan etmeye başlamıştı. “Einstein’ın teorileri dünya hakkında bilgilerimizin dayandığı ana ilkelere meydan okumaktaydı. Motorlu uçuşun, sinemanın, kablosuz iletişimin (telsiz) ve daha birçok buluşun ortaya çıkışı, 20. yüzyılın ilk on yılında yaşayanların akıllarının alamayacağı kadar büyük bir etki bırakacaktı. 1907’de Pablo Picasso resim sanatının son 500 yıldaki tüm kurallarına karşı gelen bir resim yapmıştı. Avignon’lu Genç Bayanlar tablosu dönemin buluşları kadar önemli bir etkiye sahip olacaktı” (Spence, 2001, 2). Resim 3: Picasso, “Avignonlu Kızlar”, 1907, Tual üzerine yağlıboya, 243.9x233.7 cm. Modern Sanatlar Müzesi, Newyork Kaynak: David Spence, (2001).Picasso, İstanbul: Alkım Yayınevi s: 25 İşte bu kadar büyük etki uyandıran Avignonlu Kızlar ( Avignon’lu Genç Bayanlar) adlı bu çalışma dönemin en önemli buluşları arasında idi. Onu bu kadar özel kılan şey ise kübizmin ve bağlantılı olarak modern sanatın doğuşunu simgelemesiydi. Bu eserdeki beş kadın normal beden ölçülerinin dışındaydı, resme bakan kişiye gözlerini dikerek insanlarda büyük etkiler uyandırıyordu. Sanatçı Afrikan masklarından çok etkilenmiş ve bunun üzerinde çok yoğun çalışmalar yapmıştı. Sanat dilini özgün bir biçimde kullanan sanatçı bu resim üzerinde de aylarca çalışıp 800 civarı taslak meydana getirmişti. Başlangıçta Avignon Genelevi olarak adlandırdığı bu eserde, bir denizci ve bir öğrenci yer almaktaydı. Daha sonra eser Avignonlu Kızlar adını alarak, içinde beş kadının bulunduğu bir hal almıştı. Rönesans geleneğine tepki olan Avignonlu Kızlar, kübizm akımın başlangıç noktası olmuştur. Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 481 - Resim 4: Picasso, “Ağlayan Kadın”, 1937 Tual üzerine yağlıboğa, 60x49 cm. Tate Gallery, Liverpool Kaynak: Turan, Adnan (2010). Dünya Sanat Tarihi. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi, s: 591 26 nisan 1937’de nazi Almanyası’na ait 28 bombardıman uçağı İspanya’nın Guernica kasabasında 1000 kişinin ölümüne neden olan bir hava saldırısı gerçekleştirdi. Picasso bu duruma tepkisiz kalamadı ve sanatıyla bu kıyıma karşı bir sanat anıtı gerçekleştirdi. Bu eserin adı Guernica idi. Sanatçı bu eserin üzerinde çalışmalar yapmaya başladı. Bu çalışmalar arasında üzerinde çalıştığı bir ‘ağlayan kadın imgesi’ vardı. 1937’nin mayıs ve ekim ayları arasında 36 tane ağlayan kadın imgesi resmetti. Picasso’nun renkli yaşamına pek çok kadın girmiştir. Belki de bu yüzden sanatçının o yıllarda resimlerinin hemen hemen hepsi kadınlar üzerinedir. O dönem resimleri içerisinde en bilineni ‘ağlayan kadın’ eseridir. Pek çok kaynakta ağlayan bu kadının ünlü fotoğrafçı Dora Maar olduğundan bahsedilmektedir. Sanatçının hayat arkadaşı konumuna gelen Dora, onun hayatındaki tek kadın olamamaktan yakınmakta ve üzüntü yaşamaktadır. Sanatçı, Guernica tablosunu resmederken pek çok resmini çektiği Dora’nın gözlerindeki yaşı olduğu gibi yansıtmıştır. Gerçek göz yaşlarını tüm çıplaklığıyla Sanatçı Guernica isimli tablosuna ön hazırlık olan bu eserinde, kadının duyduğu derin acıyı şiddetli fırça darbeleri ve sert renkler kullanarak yansıtmıştır. Eserde dikkati çeken unsurlardan biri ağız çevresinde oluşturduğu mavi ve beyaz soğuk etkiler ile yer değiştirmiş olan alın ve gözlerdir. Bu kadın imgesinin böylesine parçalanarak resmedilmesi Picasso için olağan bir şeydir. 1937 yılına ait ağlayan bir kadını betimleyen bu yağlıboya tablo, yalnızca İspanya İç Savaşı’nı değil aynı zamanda zulmün evrensel tanımını yansıtmaktadır. 4.2.3. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) Fransız izlenimci ressamı Gauguin, Fransa’daki maddi kaygılarını taşımayacağı Tahiti’ye göç ederek hayatını orada sürdürmeye başlamıştır. Buradaki doğal yaşamın etkisiyle sanatçının ilkel sanata duyduğu ilgi kendisini İzlenimcilikten uzaklaştırmıştır ve üslubunda yeni yaklaşımlar geliştirmesine vesile olmuştur. Yeni hayatı ve ilkel resim tarzıyla sanatçının kadınlara duyduğu ilginin de etkisiyle Tahiti’deki çoğu eserinde kadın imgesine rastlanmaktadır. Aralarında çocuk yaşta denecek metresler edindiği genç kadınlar sanatçının gözde modelleri olmuştur. (Spence, 2001, 25). Resim 5 : Paul Gauguin, Yelpazeli Genç Kız, 1902, Tual Üzerine Yağlıboya, 91x73 cm., Museum Folkwang, Essen Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 482 - Kaynak: David Spence, (2001).Gauguin, Cennete Kaçış. İstanbul: Alkım Yayınevi s: 25 Tohotaua adlı Markiz Adaları yerlisi olan bu genç kız, sanatçının birçok resmine modellik etmiştir. “Yelpazeli Genç Kız” diye adlandırdığı bu resmini sanatçı, kendi evinde çektiği bir fotoğraftan yapmıştır. Sanatçı burada orijinal fotoğrafa sadık kalmayarak bazı değişiklikler yapmıştır. Modelin gözleri seyirciye değil de boşluğa odaklandırılırken üzerindeki örtü sıyrılarak göğüsleri ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Aynı zamanda elinde tuttuğu yelpaze ile çıplaklığı kısmen örtülerek kadına gizemli bir çekicilik verilmeye çalışılmıştır. Bu resim tamamıyla Gauguin’e ait bir kadın imgesiyken günümüzde Güney Denizi Adaları’nın sembolu haline gelmiştir (Spence, 2001, 25). Primitif insanların doğal yaşamlarını saf ve yalın bir üslupla yansıtabileceğine inanan sanatçının eserleri incelendiğinde bu konuda haklı olduğu görülmektedir. Resim 6: Paul Gauguin, Cavalı Annah, 1894, Tual Üzerine Yağlıboya, 116x81 cm. Kaynak: David Spence, (2001).Gauguin, Cennete Kaçış. İstanbul: Alkım Yayınevi s: 25 Sanatçının "Cavalı Anna" adlı resmi ise, Tahiti'nin doğallığını yansıtan Anna’nın nü resmidir. Sanatçı bu eserinde doğal çıplaklık duygusunu yakalamaya çalışmıştır, nitekim başarılı olamamıştır. Doğanın saflığına bürünmüş bu kadın, sanki soyunmamış ama erkek toplumunun açgözlü bakışlarıyla 'soyulmuş' gibi görünmektedir. Buna rağmen Anna'nın vücudu resme egzotik bir hava katmakmıştır. Ayak ucunda duran maymun ise doğal yaşamın ve Anna’nın şahsına özgü bir durum olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Gauguin’in eserlerindeki kadın imgesi kullanımı şu şekilde açıklanabilir; ilkel hayatın rahatlığını ve özgünlüğünü, kendi doğasında varolmuşçasına hisseden sanatçı Tahiti Adası’nda pek çok genç kadın imgesi resmetmiştir.Onun kadınları doğallığın, temizliğin, arılığın ve masumiyetin birer simgesi haline gelmiştir. Kadın imgesine farklı bir bakış açısı getiren sanatçı onları her ne kadar doğal yaşam örüntüleri içinde resmetmeye çalışsa da eserlerindeki kadınlar narinlikten yoksundur. Kullanılan renk, biçim açısından cazip gelmeyen kadınlar form olarak da erkeksi vücut hatlarına sahiptirler. Picasso’nun “Avignonlu Kızlar” adlı eserinde olduğu gibi Gauguin’in kadınlarında da erkeksi bir üslup göze çarpmaktadır. 4.2.4. Wilhelm de Kooning (1904-1997) Sanatçıya özgür düşünme ve dile getirme olanağı sunan 20. yüzyıl sanat akımlarından Kübizm, Dışavurumculuk ve Soyut Sanatın özelliklerini bir arada kullanan sanatçılardan biri olan Wilhelm De Kooning, figüratif ve soyut sanatın aynı düzlemde kullanılmasını sağlayan örnek sanatçılardan biridir. Sanatçı kadınları konu alan resimlerini 1940’lı yıllarda yapmaya başlamıştır. Aralıklı olsa da kadın konusuna değinmeye devam etmiştir. 1940’lı yıllardaki kadınlar daha çok görgü kurallarına uygun bir şekilde oturmaktadırlar. Sanatçının kadın figürleri zamanla Picasso’nun 1929 dönemindeki yırtıcı kadınları gibi gittikçe ateşli ve heyecanlı hale gelmeye başlamıştır. Sanatçı bu dönemde elleri ve omuzları oluşturmakta kararsızdır ve bu da resimlerine eksik ve kısa çizgiler atmasına neden olmuştur. Düzensiz saçlar ve deformasyona uğramış vücutlar dikkat çekmektedir (Lynton, 2009, 235). Sanatçının 1940 yılında yaptığı ‘Oturan Kadın’ adlı eseri diğer tüm eserlerinde olduğu gibi bitmemişlik hissi vererek sanatçının üslubunu yansıtmaktadır. Bu eserde de sanatçının soyut figüratif tarzı göze çarpmaktadır. Renkleri canlı ve yoğun kullanmıştır. Kolları belli belirsiz olarak betimlenen kadın figürünün elleri yoktur, resimde dikkat çeken resmin tam ortasına denk gelen taşmış haldeki kadın göğüsleridir (Fineberg, 2014, 80). Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 483 - Resim 7: Wilhelm de Kooning “Oturan Kadın”, 1940, masonit üzerine karakalem ile yağlı boya, 137.8x91.4 cm. Phiadelphia Museum of Art Kaynak: Fineberg, Jonathan (2014). 1940’tan Günümüze Sanat, İzmir: Karakalem Kitabevi Yayınları s: 80. Kooning resim yüzeyinde yeni arayışlar içerisine girmeye başlamıştır, ezici, korkunç ve etkileyici kadınlar yapmaya başlamıştır. Kooning’in kadınlarında dikkati çeken unsur parçalara ayırdığı cinsellik unsuru değil, kadınlarındaki ölüm temasıdır. Kadınlarındaki ölüm olgusu cinsellikten daha üstündür. Cinselliği ikinci plana atan sanatçı bize çoğunlukla kadın vücudu üzerinden ölümü hatırlatmaktadır. Resim 8: Wilhelm de Kooning, Kadın ve Bisiklet, 1952-53, 194x124 cm. Tuval Üzerine Yağlıboya, Whitney Museum of Amerikan Art, New York Kaynak: Jonathan Fineberg (2014) 1940’tan Günümüze Sanat İzmir: Karakalem Kitabevi Yayınları s: 78. Resmin geneline bakıldığı zaman resmin üst orta düzlemindeki iri kadın göğüsleri dikkat çekmektedir. Resmin geneline hakim olan bu görüntü tualden fışkıracakmış hissi vermektedir. Pembe tonlarda resmedilen göğüslerin hemen üzerinde iki adet ağız dikkat çekmektedir. İkisi de birbirinin aynı olan ağız yapısı açık ve dişler görünecek şekilde resmedilmiştir. Anatomik farklılıklar gösteren resmin üst orta kısmında ise dikkat çeken bir çift göz yer almaktadır. Resmin alt orta kısmında ise siyah konturlerle dış Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 484 - hatları belirginleştirilmiş bacaklar dikkat çekmektedir. Resmin üst yarısında bulunan bu kadın figürü sanatçının diğer tipik kadın figürleri gibidir. Alt yarısı ise renk seçimi ve uygulayış biçimi olarak sanatçının ‘Oturan Kadın’ eserini andırmaktadır. Kooning’in eserlerindeki kadın imgesi kullanımı şu şekilde belirtilebilir; kadınları oldukça kaba ve hoyrat bir ifadeyle resmetmektedir. Yoğun renk ve zemin arayışlarının içinde yer yer kaybolmuşluk etkisi yaratan kadınlarının göğüs, kalça, ağız, bacak göz gibi unsurları daha belirgin bir ifade ile dikkat çekmektedir. Kooning’in kadınları onun hayata bakışının ve arayışlarının izlerini taşımaktadır. Döneminin sanatsal beklentilerini karşılama kaygısı gütmemiştir. Arayış içinde olduğunun en belirgin özelliklerinden biri ise aynı yüzey üzerine onlarca katman uygulayışı olmuştur. Ayrıca tüm resimlerinde bitmemişlik etkisi göze çarpmaktadır. Bu bitmemişlik etkisi aslında sanatçının eserlerinin güncel oluşunu ve üslubunun devamlılığını sağlamıştır. Kooning’i günümüzün önemli sanatçıları içerisinde görmemizin asıl sebebi olabilir. Soyut sanat dönemi sanatçılarından olan Kooning, yoğun yüzey araştırmaları ile birleştirdiği figüratif resimleriyle döneminin en öne çıkan ismi olmuştur. Kaba bir üslupla tasvir edilen kadınları, cinsellik gibi çekici unsurlar sergilemenin aksine ölüm ve yok oluş gibi olguları yansıttığı için olumsuz ama bir o kadar dikkat çekici imgeler olmuşlardır. 4.2.5. Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) Frida Kahlo Meksikalıdır. Hem feminist, hem komünist hem de sanatçı bir kimliğe sahiptir. Meksika yerli kültürüyle gerçekçi, sembolist ve sürrealist üslubu birleştirmiştir. Çocukken geçirdiği çocuk felci yüzünden tek bacağı gelişmemiştir. Üniversite yıllarında geçirdiği trafik kazası ise dinmeyecek yeni acıların başlangıcı olmuştur. Onlarca kez ameliyat olan sanatçı, uzun yıllar yatağa mahkum yaşamak zorunda kalmıştır. Hasta yatağında yattığı bir gün annesinin kendisi için tavana büyük boylu bir ayna taktırması sonucu kendi portrelerini yapmaya başlamıştır. Yatağının tavanındaki aynaya bakan Kahlo için parçalanmış bedeni ile yüzleşmek kolay olmamıştır fakat bu duruma zamanla alışmaya çalışmıştır. Bu dönemde resim yapmaya başlayan Kahlo, ilk tablosunu o dönem aşık olduğu adam Alejandro için yapmıştır. Resim 9: Frida Kahlo, Kadife Elbiseli Kadın. 1926, 79x60 cm. TÜYB. Özel Koleksiyon Kaynak: https://www.drozdogan.com/frida-kahlo-kimdir-hayati-resimleri-kaza/ Kendisini kırmızı kadife elbise içerisinde resmeden Kahlo, geçirdiği korkunç kazadan geriye kalan enkaza rağmen dimdik ayağa kalkacağını belli ispatlamaya çalışmıştır adeta. Van Gogh’un gökyüzüne benzeyen arka fondaki kasvetli girdaplar iç dünyasının acılarını ve çektiği zorlukları gösterme konusunda ipuçları verirken fazlaca ön planda tutulan ve olduğundan büyük resmedilen sağ eli ise sevdiği tarafından tutularak teselli edilmek hatta güven duyulmak istemektedir. Modigliani’nin kadınlarını andıran ince ve narin boynu ise hala zarafetinden ve alımlı bir kadın oluşundan hiçbir şey kaybetmediğini ispatlar niteliktedir. Tüm bu çabalara rağmen sevgilisi ailesinin etkisiyle Meksika dışına çıkmış ve Kahlo’nun aşkına cevap vermemiştir. Bu durum hali hazırda acı çeken sanatçının acılarına yeni bir acı daha eklemiştir. Özellikle kendi portrelerinde, çektiği fiziksel acıları simgesel bir üslupla tuvale yansıtmada eşsiz bir ressam olduğu kabul edilir. Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 485 - Resim 10: Frida Kahlo: Diken Kolye ve Sinek Kuşları ile Otoportresi. 1940, 47x61 cm. University of Austin, Texas. Kaynak: Farthing, Stephen (2017). Sanatın Tüm Öyküsü, Çin: Hayalperest Yayınevi, s: 442 “Devrimin ardından bir kimlik inşa etme sürecine girilen Meksika’da aktif siyasi roller üstlendi. Yarı Avrupalı yarı Kızılderili kökeni yüzünden Kahlo kendini melez Meksika’lı anlamına gelen mestiza olarak tanımlıyordu. Kolomb öncesi halk sanatına ve Hristiyan imgelerine ilgi duyan ressam, Dikenli Kolye, Otoportre ve Sinekkuşu adlı bu resimde kendini İsa ile bir Aztek tanrıçasının karışımı şeklinde betimleyerek hem kurban hem de her şeye gücü yeten bir kadın olduğunu vurguluyordu” (Farthing, 2017, 442). Oldukça cesur bir kadın imajı çizen sanatçı bunu hem siyasi duruşu hem de toplumsal olaylara karşı güçlü duruşuyla her zaman göstermiştir. Feminist hareket içerisinde de önemli bir yere sahip olan sanatçı dönemin güçlü kadın öncülerinden biri olmuştur. Diego ile evli olduğu süre zarfında üç defa anne olma şansını kaybeden sanatçı duygusunun kendinde açtığı yaralarla birlikte kadınlık ve annelik temalı pek çok resim yapmıştır. Onun çalışmalarında salt gerçeklik ve çekilen acıları tüm yalınlığı ile görmek mümkündür. Üretken bir kadın olan sanatçı kendi iç dünyasının yanı sıra yaşamsal deneyimlerini her zaman bitmez tükenmez birer kaynak olarak kullanmayı bilmiştir. 4.2.6. Kate Kollwitz Kate Kollwitz, barışseverliği ve hümanistliği ile tanınmış bir sanatçı olmakla birlikte feminist yönüyle de tanınmış bir sanatçıdır. Dönemini ve sonraki dönemleri aydınlatmıştır. İşçi sınıfı mücadelelerini eserlerine yansıtmıştır. Kate Kollwitz’in eserleri, o dönemde yaşadığı toplumsal olayların bir uzantısıdır. Çünkü yaşamı boyunca bu toplumsal tarihin en engebeli yıllarını yaşamış ve bu durum sanatçıda fazlasıyla etki bırakmıştır. Sanatçı gençlik yıllarında yaşadığı toplumdan ötürü birey olma bilincini tam anlamıyla yaşayamamakla beraber uzunca bir sürede bu durumun etkisinde kalmıştır. Çünkü yaşadığı dönemde cinsel ayrımcılık boy göstermiştir. Örneğin dönemin anlayışı, özellikle de eğitim sisteminde cinsel ayrımı gerektirmiştir. Örneğin kızlar ve erkeklerin ayrı şartlarda eğitim görmesiyle birlikte erkeklerin eğitim şartlarından daha fazla yararlanması ve aydınlık seviyesinin daha üst düzeye taşınmasının hedef olarak alınması gibi (…) Neyse ki Kollwitz’in babası dönemin anlayışının gerektirdiğinden daha ileri görüşlü olmuştur ve sanatçı bu sorunu atlatabilmiştir. Ancak yine de ilerdeki evlilik unsurlarının onu sanatından alıkoyacağını, anneliğin sanat hayatına engel olacağını düşünmüştür. Bu dönemle ilk eserleri de bu durumu açıklar nitelikte olmuştur. (Ayan, 2008, 3) Evliliğinden sonra sanatçı sanatsal yaratıcılığını ve edebi öğeleri geliştirme çabasına girmiştir. Eşi doktor olan sanatçı toplumsal olaylara daha yakından şahit olmak zorunda kalmıştır ve buna bağlı olarak Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 486 - sanatın toplum için olması gerektiğini savunmuştur. Sanatçı, hayatı boyunca kadınların yaşadıklarını ve ezilişlerini eserlerinde vurgulamıştır. Sanatçının küçük oğlu Birinci Dünya Savaşı’na gönüllü olarak katılmış ve orada vefat etmiştir. Bu durumdan derin yara alan sanatçı, eserlerinde daha çok savaşa duyduğu nefrete ve ölüm temalarına yer vermiştir. Resim 11: Kate Kollwitz, “ Ölü Çocuk ve Annesi ” Desen, 1903, 39x48 cm. ARS Art Resource, New York Kaynak: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kathe-kollwitz-woman-with-dead-child “Kollwitz ‘in toplumsal içerikli çalışmalarının ilk örneklerinden olan “ölmüş çocukla kadın ’’ adlı eseri, dönemin annelik ve kürtaj sorunlarına dair en iyi dile getirilmiş bir çalışmasıdır. Eserde çocuğunu kaybeden kadının her şeye rağmen vahşi görünümüyle güçlü olduğu vurgulanmaktadır. Elleri yaşlı ve buruşuk, ama kolları ve bacakları adaleli olarak tasvir edilen eserde ışık oyunuyla ifade daha da çarpıcı hale getirilmiştir. Gölgede kalan kadının elindeki çubuğun yüzü yukarı doğru ve ışığa yönlendirilerek masumiyeti öne çıkarmıştır” (Ayan,2008, 7) . Sanatçı, yalnızca toplumsal sorunları ele almamıştır aynı zamanda barışsever tutumlarıyla da bu düşünceyi topluma aktarmaya çalışmıştır. Bu tür toplumsal gerçeklik kökenli eserleri ele almasının tek nedeni toplumsal sorunları göz önünde tutmak olmamıştır, gözler önüne serdiği sorunlara kendi imkanlarıyla çözüm bulmaya da çalışmıştır. 1890’dan 1914’e kadar olan sürede ve özellikle Weimar döneminde politik, cinsellik ve annelik konularına karşı sürekli duyarlı olmuştur. Dönemin kadınlarının pasif ve seks objesi olarak görülmesine tahammül edemeyip karşı duran ilk kadın sanatçısı olması, Kollwitz’in ününü daha da arttırmış ve onu 20.yüzyılın dışavurumcu sanatçısı tarihe yazdırmıştır (Ayan, 2008, 14). Sosyal adaletsizliğe ve sınıf ayrımcılığına karşı radikal kişiliği ile adından çokça söz ettirmiştir. Sürekli anneliği, kadın haklarını ve ezilen insanları da beraberinde konu alması sanatçının adalet anlayışını da yansıtmaktadır. Birçok yapıtında anne-çocuk konusunu ele almıştır. “1933’te yapıtları Naziler tarafından YOZ SANAT ilan edilerek akademideki görevine son verilmiştir. İkinci dünya savaşının acılarını da yaşayan ve 1943’ te evi ile atölyesinin bombalanması sonucu, yapıtlarının çoğunu yitiren Kollwitz, bütün sanatsal gücünü yaşamın sonuna değin açlık, yoksulluk, savaş ve faşizmle mücadeleye adamıştır” (E.S.A, 1997, 1035). Almanya I. Dünya savaşının etkilerini çok derinden hissetmiştir. Birçok felakete sahne olan bu ülke toplumsal olarak ta çok büyük yaralar almıştır. Toplumsal farkın daha derin olmasına neden olan kapitalizm ve onun getirdiği eşitsizlik toplum içinde çalışan, fakir, hasta pek çok insan manzaralarına sebep olmuştur. Soylu bir aileden gelen ve refah bir hayat süren Kollwitz’in hem sanatçı hem de kadın olması, eserlerindeki kadın imgelerinin ön plana çıkmasının asıl sebebidir. Onun kadınları hayatın tek düze kadın manzaralarından farklıdır. Çalışan ve anne olma özelliğini taşıyan kadın imgeleri hayatın yoruculuğunun, ezilmişliğinin verdiği etkiyle daha karamsar bir şekilde tasvir edilmiştir. Kollwitz’in resimlerinde renkli ve cıvıltılı bir yaşam manazarası görmek mümkün değildir. Genelde acıyı simgeleyen kömür, karakalem ve gravür baskı tekniklerini kullanmıştır. Sanatçının bu teknikleri kullanmasının sebepleri arasında alt tabakadaki insanlara ulaşması kaygısı da yatmaktadır. Birçok eserine konu olan çalışan ve sefalet çeken anne Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi Cilt: 12 Sayı: 66 Ekim 2019 The Journal of International Social Research Volume: 12 Issue: 66 October 2019 - 487 - figürü, sanatçının bu dönemdeki eserlerinin ana konusudur. Kadınların sıcacık evlerinden iş sahasına akışlarını, soğuk ve çetin hayat şartlarını onun resimlerinde görmek ve dahası hissetmek mümkündür. Sanatçının kadınlarında endüstri devrimiyle birlikte bazı değişimler göze çarpmaktadır. Başta eğitimsiz ve işçi hakları konusunda yeterli bilgiye sahip olmayan bu fakir kesim toplumun üyeleri endüstri devriminin etkisiyle bilinçlenmeye başlamıştır. Kapitalizmin şartları zamanla değişmiş, halk yavaş yavaş bilinçlenmeye başlamış ve sınıf mücadeleleri başlamıştır. Bu mücadelelerin arasında en dikkat çekici olan tabi ki batı toplumlarında tohumu atılan kadın hareketleri olmuştur. çalışan kadınlar erkeklerle aynı şartlarda çalışmalarına rağmen ikinci sınıf muamele görmenin etkisiyle bir baş kaldırış göstermişlerdir. Feminizm olarak adlandırılan bu hareket birçok çalışan kadının haklarını savunmasına ve öz güven kazanmasına sebep olmuştur. Bu süreçten sonra ise sanatçının kadınlarında kapitalizme karşı gelen, devrimci, yenilikçi, feminist hatta liderlik heyecanıyla dolup taşan kadınlara rastlanmaktadır. Eserlerindeki çaresiz, zavallı kadınlar artık yerini savaşçı, azimli, devrimci ruhlu kadınlara bırakmıştır. SONUÇ İlk insanla birlikte ortaya çıkan ihtiyaçlar ve gereklilikler neticesinde var olan sanat, zaman içerisinde çok değişim göstermiştir. Meydana gelen bu değişimler arasında ise dikkat çeken en önemli süreç modern sanat süreci olmuştur. Bilimsel, düşünsel, mekanik ve otomatik alanda gerçekleşen bu değişimler sanat alanında da kendisini göstermiştir. Sanatın her alanına yansıyan bu değişimler dönemin önemli unsurlarından biri olan resim sanatında başlı başına yeni bir sürecin başlangıcı olmuştur. 19. yüzyılda başlayan bu süreç tüketim kültürü ve onun getirisi olan tüketim toplumunun etkisiyle resim sanatında yepyeni bir boyut kazanmıştır ve etkileri 20. yüzyılda daha belirgin bir şekilde görülmüştür. 20. yüzyılda gerçekleşen değişim tarihin hiçbir döneminde gerçekleşmemiştir. Hayatın her alanında gerçekleşen bu değişimler dünyanın çehresini değiştirmiştir ve bu bağlamda sanat da bu değişimden payına düşeni almıştır. 20. yüzyıl içerisinde pek çok olay ve olgu cereyan etmiştir; teknolojik gelişmeler, ekonomik ve kapitalist düzen, savaşların getirdikleri-götürdükleri ve toplumsal olaylar örgüsü içerisinde cinsellik kavramı da bu yüzyılda ön plana çıkan unsurlar arasında yerini almıştır. Toplumların sahip olduğu ahlaki değerleri zedeleyen bu yüzyıl yerini tamamen özgür bir dünya görüşüne bırakmıştır. Bu da sınırsız üretim ve tüketim nesnelerinin oluşmasına neden olmuştur. Bu çalışmanın ana konusunu oluşturan ‘sanatta kadın imgesi’ 19. ve 20. yy. modern sanatı içerisinde kadında çıplaklık ve teşhir nesnesi olması özellikleri ile genel anlam çerçevesinden çıkıp sanatta bir üslup haline gelmiştir. Tüm bunlar göz önünde bulundurulduğunda 20. yüzyıl modern sanatında onlarca imge arasından bariz bir yere sahip olan ‘kadın imgesi’ de bir değişim sürecine girmiştir. 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Wang2 1Southern California Orthopedic Institute, Van Nuys, CA, USA 2University of Southern California Spine Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA In December of 2019, a novel coronavirus, referred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 or coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was discovered in Wuhan, People’s Republic of China and has since been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Or- ganization. As of April 17th, 2020, there have been more than 2 million confirmed worldwide cases with more than 150,000 deaths due to this novel pandemic.1 In the past few months, the world has radically changed in response to this global out- break. Schools have been closed, public gatherings limited, worldwide travel severely re- stricted, families driven apart, businesses closed, and significant shifts in medical care have occurred. Hospitals, outpatient clinics, and medical delivery systems have all devoted near full force into combatting this new epidemic. Elective surgeries for nonurgent/emergent conditions have been curtailed throughout the world. In the modern era, the scale and se- verity of the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented for both society and health care deliv- ery systems. During this crisis, spine surgeons have a duty and obligation as physicians to focus care dedicated to protecting and advancing human health on both individual as well as systemic and global scales. During a time where health care resources are limited and being depleted at exponential rates, cautious and judicious utilization of these resources is critical. Spine surgeons have a crucial role to play whereby they still treat patients with urgent and emer- gent spinal pathology while maximizing patient and provider safety and minimizing health- care resource utilization. This is particularly important as many spine patients (older age with medical comorbidities) may be at increased risk of progressing to a severe and poten- tially lethal stage of COVID-19. With regards to healthcare utilization, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise throughout the world, there is growing concern that health-care systems may reach surge capacity and be unable to care for patients with moderate to severe symptomatology, particularly patients requiring mechanical ventilation. By delaying elective procedures, spine surgeons can help to preserve several hospital resources which are expected to be limited for the foreseeable future including healthcare providers who would otherwise be in the operating room (OR), inpatient beds, intensive care unit ventilators, blood bank reserves, and personal protective equipment (PPE) that would otherwise be consumed during sur- gery. Furthermore, delaying elective surgery avoids potential prolonged postoperative inpa- tient stays, decreases the risk of nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 and avoids having to treat postoperative complications in a setting where healthcare resources are already lim- ited. Neurospine 2020;17(2):331-333. https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2040202.101 Neurospine eISSN 2586-6591 pISSN 2586-6583 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2020 by the Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society Editorial Corresponding Author Jeffrey C. Wang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6297-7410 University of Southern California Spine Center, 1450 San Pablo Street, Suite 5400, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA E-mail: Jeffrey.Wang@med.usc.edu http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.14245/ns.2040202.101&domain=pdf&date_stamp=2020-06-30 COVID-19 and the Role of Spine SurgeonsJain NS, et al. https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2040202.101332 www.e-neurospine.org The identification and triaging of patients with spinal pathol- ogy that need emergent or urgent surgery versus those who can be delayed several months is a gray zone without clear consen- sus. Spine surgery triage has its own unique set of challenges and the acuity of cases may be higher than many other surgical specialties. However, the North American Spine Society has published guidelines on triaging spine case priority during this pandemic and should serve as a general guideline for most spine practitioners for judicious case selection.2 Recent publications have also suggested that the rates of as- ymptomatic carriers of COVID-19 can be up to 20%–41% of total patients and COVID-19 positive patients undergoing elec- tive surgical procedures can have disastrous outcomes with po- tentially up to 20% mortality.3-5 However, it is almost certain that treatment delays will increase morbidity among those with severe or debilitating degenerative spine pathology. This trade- off is at the heart of the matter and emphasizes the critical role spine surgeon decision making plays during this global pan- demic. We encourage surgeons to continue to provide direct patient care via telemedicine and outpatient management of painful and debilitating conditions to avoid hospital and clinic visits while limiting patient morbidity. When surgery is required, spine surgeons should take an ac- tive role taking the viral threat seriously and encourage appro- priate perioperative and intraoperative precautions. Special con- sideration should be given to OR setup, negative pressure rooms, limiting OR personnel, preoperative testing, minimizing blood loss, minimally invasive techniques, appropriate PPE use, and intubation and extubation precautions. As we become more aware of the disproportionate morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 among healthcare workers, new challenges will arise. As frontline treating physicians succumb to COVID-19 or are forced to self-quarantine due to exposures, hospitals will face increased needs for physicians. As spine sur- geons, being available and trained for redeployment into medi- cal or COVID wards can help offset the burden of hospitalists, internists and intensivist physicians. Spine surgeons can, in ad- dition to urgent and emergent spine care, potentially aid in doc- umentation, follow-up medical care, screening, and maximiz- ing time for these critical frontline physicians. During these difficult times, it is important that we all take a few minutes for self-care as well. Making time for family, con- necting with colleagues and friends, and getting some form of physical activity can be effective stress mitigation strategies and should not be forgotten while societal limitations are in place. Academic productivity is another potential use of newfound time during the pandemic. As the number of COVID-19 cases plateaus, a slow return to elective spine surgery will be both necessary and feasible. 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Estimation of the asymptomatic ratio of novel coronavirus infections (COV- ID-19). Int J Infect Dis 2020;94:154-5. 5. Lei S, Jiang F, Su W, et al. Clinical characteristics and out- comes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incuba- tion period of COVID-19 infection. EClinicalMedicine 2020:100331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100331. [Epub]. COVID-19 and the Role of Spine SurgeonsJain NS, et al. https://doi.org/10.14245/ns.2040202.101 www.e-neurospine.org 333 Title: The Old Guitarist Artist: Pablo Picasso Year: 1903-1904 The Old Guitarist was painted in 1903, just after the suicide death of Picasso's close friend, Casagemas. During this time, the artist was sympathetic to the plight of the downtrodden and painted many canvases depicting the miseries of the poor, the ill, and those cast out of society. He too knew what it was like to be impoverished, having been nearly penniless during all of 1902. This work was created in Madrid, and the distorted style (note that the upper torso of the guitarist seems to be reclining, while the bottom half appears to be sitting cross-legged) is reminiscent of the works of El Greco More information: https://www.pablopicasso.org/old-guitarist.jsp © 2020 - Succession Pablo Picasso - SACK (Korea) work_b4nytp5k35gqrjthqmywcrrctm ---- Braque and Kokoschka: Brain Tissue Injury and Preservation of Artistic Skill behavioral sciences Article Braque and Kokoschka: Brain Tissue Injury and Preservation of Artistic Skill D. W. Zaidel Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; dahliaz@g.ucla.edu Received: 29 June 2017; Accepted: 17 August 2017; Published: 19 August 2017 Abstract: The neural underpinning of art creation can be gleaned following brain injury in professional artists. Any alteration to their artistic productivity, creativity, skills, talent, and genre can help understand the neural underpinning of art expression. Here, two world-renown and influential artists who sustained brain injury in World War I are the focus, namely the French artist Georges Braque and the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. Braque is particularly associated with Cubism, and Kokoschka with Expressionism. Before enlisting, they were already well-known and highly regarded. Both were wounded in the battlefield where they lost consciousness and treated in European hospitals. Braque’s injury was in the left hemisphere while Kokoschka’s was in the right hemisphere. After the injury, Braque did not paint again for nearly a whole year while Kokoschka commenced his artistic works when still undergoing hospital treatment. Their post-injury art retained the same genre as their pre-injury period, and their artistic skills, talent, creativity, and productivity remained unchanged. The quality of their post-injury artworks remained highly regarded and influential. These neurological cases suggest widely distributed and diffuse neural control by the brain in the creation of art. Keywords: brain and art; neuropsychology and art; brain damage; artists 1. Background The recent decade has seen a remarkable expansion in the understanding of the neural underpinning of the arts. This can largely be attributed to a major conceptual breakthrough in which the aesthetic reaction of viewers (aesthetic experience) to art was determined to be separate from the art creation/production process. The techniques for measuring these two aspects of art apply different scientific strategies. Functional neuroimaging of healthy viewers reacting to artwork provides inroads into the neural underpinning of aesthetic evaluation [1–5]. The general consensus from these studies is that multiple brain regions and pathways are involved in aesthetic evaluation. This suggests that layers of our concepts of art aesthetics need to be peeled in order to understand how each active brain region contributes to the aesthetic experience. In this special issue, “Neuropsychology of Art,” three papers emphasize the viewers’ aesthetic reactions through the examination of neuroimaging empirical data [6], the examination of neuroimaging literature [7], and the examination of the reactions in light of mirror neurons and psychoanalytic considerations [8]. For the creation of the art itself, observations of established artists with acquired brain injury provide the insights necessary to explore the nature of the neural underpinning of the production aspect. The questions pursued concern whether or not single or multiple neural circuitries are involved, the hemispheric specialization role [9], as well as any post-injury alterations in the artist regarding skill, talent, personal oeuvre, and creativity [10–12]. The focus in the present paper is on the creation aspect of art through a discussion of world-renown artists, Braque and Kokoschka, both of whom sustained penetrating head injuries in World War I (WWI). Behav. Sci. 2017, 7, 56; doi:10.3390/bs7030056 www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci http://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci http://www.mdpi.com http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs7030056 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/behavsci Behav. Sci. 2017, 7, 56 2 of 7 Inferring cognitive functions of the mind from patients with brain lesions has been a widely accepted method in brain research. The same strategy applies to art. An early assumption, not founded on empirical studies, was that the right hemisphere specializes in producing and aesthetically reacting to art. Unfortunately, the assumption became prevalent, and eventually was challenged [13]. Indeed, close examination of the artworks of artists with brain injury revealed otherwise [10,14–17]. What was unraveled from such artists suggests that unilateral injury in the right hemisphere does not abolish the ability to produce art, something one would expect if the right hemisphere specialized in this function, and that damage in either hemisphere does not lead to deficits in the artistic ability, talent, skill, or creativity of established professional artists [10]. The current emerging view is that artworks tap functions specialized in both hemispheres and involve widely distributed neural pathways that contribute to its production. The effects of brain injury on artists continue to fascinate and provide insights. In the cases described below, the main interests lie in any alteration of their pre-injury genre, their artistic skills, and their creativity. The neurological cases of Braque and Kokoschka have not been discussed in detail previously. They are important because both were highly accomplished and influential artists, both before and after their brain injury. 2. Georges Braque Georges Braque (1882–1963) was an innovative, world-renown, and highly influential French artist linked mainly with the school of Cubism. He was a painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and engraver whose early interest in Cubism reflected the influence of artist Paul Cezanne [18]. “Braque found in Cezanne a fragmented plane, straddling nature and painting that was to become the principles governing his own oeuvre” [18] (p. 25). In his own Cubist art, Braque expressed the idea of object fragmentation combined with emphasis on geometrical forms. Through his personal and professional relationship with Pablo Picasso, for over six years Cubist characteristics were enriched and developed [19]. The volume of Cubist artworks produced by these two artists was prolific, innovative, and influential [20,21]. Then, in 1914, WWI broke out, and in August of that year Braque enlisted in the French army [22]. On 11 May 2015, in one of the battles in France, he sustained a head wound from a piece of shrapnel in a section of the battlefield that lay outside the trench. When he lost consciousness as a result of the shrapnel, he was thought to have died. Only a day later, a search party found and rescued him. The medical treatment in the hospital consisted of drilling a hole into his skull (a procedure known as trepanation), which resulted in Braque experiencing temporary blindness and a two-day coma from which he recovered only around 13 May [22]. His physical recovery lasted nearly a year, and during that time reportedly he did not paint. A formal neurological report of his hospital treatment has not been published, but details of his medical and physical condition are known from descriptions offered by himself, several of his friends, and his wife [19,21,23,24]. Importantly, further critical clues can be deduced from a single photograph: At one point in 1915, when Braque was convalescing in Sorgues, a photograph of a seated Braque was taken at Henri Lauren’s studio in the same town [21]. We can see a rather thick absorbent gauze pad over a circumscribed area in the left side of his head, suggesting that it covered the wound. The gauze was held in place by a large bandage wrapped around his head. Assuming that the published photograph was not mirror-reversed, the wound was in the left side of the head. The gauzed region appears to correspond roughly to the left parietal lobe and possibly the superior temporal lobe. It does not appear to cover the left temple behind which Broca’s area lies, nor is it positioned so far back in the head to include the occipital lobe. Indeed, there has not been any mention by his friends and associates of aphasia or any other language disturbances, and similarly no reports of right hand or leg paralysis. Those are symptoms we would expect from damage to the left hemisphere. There has also been no mention of right spatial hemi-neglect, prosopagnosia, spatial agnosia, or left hand and leg paralysis, all symptoms we would expect if the right hemisphere were damaged. Whatever the localization of the damage in the left hemisphere, Braque did not paint for nearly a year afterwards. Behav. Sci. 2017, 7, 56 3 of 7 Some comments on the medical practice of trepanation and head wounds in WWI are worthwhile. The practice then was applied to alleviate pressure caused by blood clots, to remove shell fragments, bullets, hair, abscesses, or to drain built-up liquid forming under the skull bone [25]. After burring, sometimes surgeons used their own fingers to remove foreign bodies, but if not done gently enough, this could cause injury to the brain tissue. Magnets were also used to remove metallic pieces. It is not known for certain how many holes were actually burred in his skull, but since with trepanation the goal was not to injure cerebral tissue, we should assume that no substantial tissue damage was inflicted in Braque’s case. When he did resume painting, which was around the summer of 1917 [26], he picked up artistically where he left off at the start of the war, namely, his characteristic oeuvre of Cubism, and more particularly what is known as synthetic Cubism [18,22]. Not only were the geometric forms produced again, straight lines made with a ruler, objects overlapping each other, both animate and inanimate, but the pre-war technique of papier collé was applied as well [19]. “For although the picture space [in Cubism] had become independent of external reality, the subject matter had lost none of its rights. Quite the opposite—it had a greater function than ever, it was simply that the subject matter no longer had any meaning outside the picture. That was the fundamental principle that governed Braque’s work from 1914 until the end. The interruption caused by the First World War did not affect his development in any way, as has often been said” [18] (p. 124). Significantly for the present discussion, after the war he did not produce an entirely new artistic genre, nor did he return to his pre-Cubist genres (i.e., Fauvism, Neo-Impressionism). Indeed, he proceeded to develop and expand his artistic expression within the Cubist tradition for many years. One can reasonably argue that his brain injury did not produce extensive tissue damage to have inflicted major deficits on his artistic cognition. With the absence of detailed medical reports of his case, the extent of the damage cannot be ascertained with certainty. However, from available non-medical behavioral descriptions made around the time of his injury, it is clear that he was unable to create art. This suggests that neural damage was present. Upon neural recovery, he returned to his art seemingly unscathed. 3. Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980) was a well-known Austrian artist who painted in the Expressionist tradition. He was also a poet and a playwright. In WWI, he fought on the side of Austria and suffered a head wound. On 29 August 1915, a bullet penetrated his skull during a Russian ambush on his troops in Sikiryczy, Ukraine. This wound, together with a bayonet lance into his lung, rendered him unconscious long enough to have been thought dead by others on his side of the battle. The bullet was not lodged in his brain, but had exited. In his autobiography [27], he describes the events that transpired during that battle: his left hand became paralyzed, presumably as a result of the head wound to the right hemisphere (he does not actually report the head side). Following his rescue, he reported that he had difficulties in walking and seeing. Both his balance and vision were affected by the head wound, and for the rest of his life he suffered from bouts of vertigo. After a few months in the hospital, and despite all of his symptoms, he was considered fit to return to the battlefield, this time on Hungarian territory fighting against Italian troops. There, shells exploding near his position rendered him shell-shocked. Hungarian orderlies transported him to a hospital in Vienna where lesions in his cerebellum were inferred from X-rays. Normal gait balance is maintained by the cerebellum. To restore his balance, he underwent countless sessions of therapy consisting of induced painful spasms, which he found hard to endure to such an extent that thoughts of suicide formed in his mind [27]. In the fall of 1917, he was again subjected to painful experiments, this time in the Swedish laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Robert Barany. He reports that he stayed in Sweden for that purpose for a period of six to eight weeks, and during that time he continued to paint new works, still in the style of Expressionism. Behav. Sci. 2017, 7, 56 4 of 7 To the best of my knowledge, the exact point of bullet penetration and its path of destruction in his brain have not been reported. The left hand paralysis he experienced on the battlefield was reversible. No mention of neuropsychological right hemisphere symptoms appears in the writings about him by others or in his own observations of himself. Whatever the nature of brain tissue damage caused by the bullet, it did not hamper his artistic talent and skills. Unlike Braque, who did not paint for a whole year following his injury, Kokoschka never ceased to paint and write, even while receiving medical treatments and convalescing from his wound. In hospitals in Vienna and Dresden he wrote plays and painted paintings, and similarly while in the hospital in Sweden he continued to paint. Important to the main argument here is that, despite damage to brain tissue, he continued with the same genre he had practiced prior to the war. He did not create new genres or new styles, and his motivation to create and innovate did not wane. 4. Other Established Artists As with Braque and Kokoschka, numerous other professional prolific artists with damage to brain tissue continued to create art without loss of talent or skill [11]. One of these was a French artist P.A. from Marseilles. His case was described by Vigouroux et al. [28]. At the age of 66 years, he had a right hemisphere stroke that resulted in paralysis in the left side of his body as well as in a left hemi-neglect of space. The effects of the neglect were reflected in not painting in the spaces positioned to the left side of the canvas. Neurological patients with right hemisphere damage, especially if the parietal lobe is involved, commonly suffer from this condition; they attend only to the right half of their space, including their imaginary space formed in their mind’s eye [29,30]. There are classic examples of this phenomenon: Patients draw only the right half of a clock, flower, house, face, and other objects. They also fail to orient in the direction of a speaker who stands in their left side. In most such cases, the hemi-neglect is relatively short-lived, and this seems to have been the case with P.A. Prior to the cerebral stroke, P.A. created paintings and drawings depicting scenery, everyday interactions of people, as well as nude women; some were painted with bright colors while some were in pale shades or as line drawings. In his post-injury artistic life, there was no alteration in these choices nor in his genre [28]. This case, too, shows that artistic talent and skill are not mediated by neural pathways specialized unilaterally in one hemisphere and that, instead, they are diffusely controlled by neural pathways in the brain. 5. General Discussion Despite serious brain injury, the established and highly regarded visual artists described here resumed making their art without noticeable alterations in their personal oeuvre, talent, skill, or creativity—all elements that define the artistic endeavor. The genre represents the principle artistic choice of expression through the themes, concepts, ideas, design structure, organization, appearance, colors, and many more elements. The genre of choice communicates what is in the mind of the artist. At the cultural historical times of their work, their artworks continued to be highly regarded and influential. Braque, in particular, was a major figure in the art world at that time and his stature continued unabated. Previously, Boller reported preserved artistic abilities following a stroke in a French artist [15] and Vigouroux [28], reporting on artist P.A., remarked that his artistic interests and skills were not altered post-injury. Similarly, a review of many other post-injury artists revealed lack of alterations whether in the visual, musical, or literary arts, and regardless of etiology [10]. Importantly, the hemispheric laterality of the damage has not been found to cause detrimental effects on artistic abilities [11,13,31]. Ultimately, subjecting paintings and other visual artworks of artists with brain injury to microscopic computer digital analysis has the potential for revealing details in the artists’ pre- compared to post-injury methods. This has not yet been applied in the artists under discussion here. Future studies of digital analyses (e.g., [32,33]), might unravel additional interesting information. Behav. Sci. 2017, 7, 56 5 of 7 Motoric hand use problems may arise as a result of the hemispheric side of the damage. With left hemisphere damage leading to right hand paralysis, right-handed artists switch to the use of the non-dominant hand (e.g., [31,34,35]). In such cases, the artistic cognition per se is not altered; the left hand lacks the same steady control and muscle strength exhibited pre-damage by the right hand, and the consequences of the switch to the non-dominant hand is reflected in brush pressure, stroke thickness, line curvature, or clay consistency (by sculptors), as well as in other features. Accommodation to the control of the hand itself is incorporated into the final appearance of the artwork. In such cases, the effect on the art, if any, is not central to the principle artistic cognition, which drives the artwork; peripheral motoric issues can be observed in manual activities in non-artists with similar brain injury as well. In any case, there was no switch of handedness as a result of the brain injury with Braque, Kokoschka, or P.A. Similarly, brain injury can lead to specific perceptual deficits that are not unique to art or to artists. An example of this is hemi-neglect for the left half of space following right hemisphere injury. Visual artists with this type of injury typically do not paint in the left half of the canvas [11,14,16,31]. However, these cannot be considered to be art-related effects since the neglect symptoms are present in non-artists as well, and in many such cases the phenomenon is not permanent. Consequently, eventually, with the passage of post-injury time, artists fill in the left half of their canvas. Furthermore, artists’ production abilities appear unaffected by this type of brain injury. There is no loss of artistic talent and expressive abilities. This outcome suggests that the artistic cognitive endeavor, which includes the units listed above, can be controlled by undamaged regions and pathways and are likely to be neurally distributed in the brain. In the great majority of cases, artists go on producing their works despite their brain injury [10]. What is it about the neural underpinning of the creation aspect of art that spares it from serious brain injury, unlike the brain localized effects on language, for example? A critical feature of the human brain is that it supports cognitive symbolic and abstract thinking as well as referential communicative abilities more than any other animal [36–38]. This is the underpinning of humans’ sophisticated language. Vocabulary and syntax together allow humans to make an infinite number of combinations that together convey a wide range of meaningful utterances. Furthermore, abstract and symbolic thinking is also the bases for art creation and appreciation. This can explain partly why only humans make art; it does not fully explain why brain injury largely spares the production of it. The answer may lie in what role art has come to play in human society. We need to take a broader perspective through the exploration of the evolutionary pressures on the human brain. The evolutionary trajectory that led to the eventual emergence of Homo sapiens [39,40] involved overcoming survival hurdles in which social groups with emphasis on unity-for-survival played a major role [41,42]. Of all the hominins, Homo sapiens seem to be the only ones to make art [39]. For socially-oriented early human groups language became a highly efficient method of communication, and its evolution has deep roots going back to non-human primates tens of millions of years. Art, too, is a communicative system, but its roots cannot simply be traced to other primates; they do not produce art. Art supplements language by facilitating the sharing of emotions, experiences, ideas, thoughts, and symbols of social identity, and for these probable reasons it promoted bonding among the early group’s members in efforts to survive harsh environmental conditions with limited food sources. These could be some of the underlying reasons for how art became a form of communication that supplements language. Unlike language, where neural control in the brain is highly localized (mainly in the left hemisphere), the advantage of art’s communicative format is that humans have increased their ability to express their inner and external life’s experiences through widely distributed systems in the brain. It explains in part why brain injury of the kind described here does not lead to significant alterations in art expression. Acknowledgments: I thank the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful input and useful comments on the earlier version of the manuscript. Behav. 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Background Georges Braque Oskar Kokoschka Other Established Artists General Discussion work_bdgouxk4a5fqve3cmyifkucwra ---- Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes EDITOR LETTER Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes Luciano Floridi1,2 Published online: 1 August 2018 # Springer Nature B.V. 2018 The art world is full of reproductions. Some are plain replicas, for example the Mona Lisa. Others are fakes or forgeries, like the BVermeers^ painted by Han van Meegeren that sold for $60 million (Kreuger and van Meegeren 2010). The distinction between a replica and a fake is based on the concept of authenticity. Is this artefact what it claims to be?1 The answer seems simple but, in reality, things are complicated. Today, the paintings of the forger John Myatt are so famous that they are valued at up to $40,000 each, as Bgenuine fakes^ (Furlong 1986). They are not what they say they are, but they are authentically painted by him and not by another forger. And they are beautiful. A bit as if one were to utter a beautiful lie, not any ordinary lie. And an artist like Magritte seems to have painted not only false Picassos and Renoirs during the Nazi occupation of Belgium (Mariën 1983), but also faked his own work, so to speak, in the famous case of the two copies of the painting BThe Flavour of Tears^ (1948), both by Magritte, but one of which he passed off as false—partly as a surrealist act and partly to make money. In this mess, and as if things were not confusing enough, digital technologies further reshuffle what is possible and our understanding of it. Thanks to digital technologies, today it is much easier to establish the authenticity of a work. There are databases where you can check authors’ signatures, and millions of images that can be viewed with a few clicks. Selling a fake is more difficult. Figure 1 shows a reproduction of the BLodge on Lake Como^ by Carl Frederik Peder Aagaard (1833–1895), a Danish landscape painter and decorative artist. It was on sale in 2016 on eBay. The painting is very popular on the web, and there are plenty of good replicas. Nothing wrong with them. However, if you check Fig. 1 carefully, you will notice that this is sold as an unsigned Boriginal^, which is misleading to say the least. Both the quality of the painting and the price are suspicious, and a Google image search quickly Philos. Technol. (2018) 31:317–321 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0325-3 1I have discussed the nature of questions and epistemic relevance in (Floridi 2008). * Luciano Floridi luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk 1 Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS, UK 2 The Alan Turing Institute, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s13347-018-0325-3&domain=pdf mailto:luciano.floridi@oii.ox.ac.uk reveals that this is a mere replica. At the time of writing, the painting was no longer available and the seller did not seem to be active on eBay anymore. Of course, fakes are not always reproductions; they can also be Bnew works^ by a famous artist, like Pollock or Van Gogh. In this case, sophisticated scientific techniques to establish authenticity include tests run using AI. A research paper, published last November by Ahmed Elgammal, Yan Kang and Milko Den Leeuw (Elgammal et al. 2017) proposed Ba computational approach for analysis of strokes in line drawings by artists^, based on neural networks. The training collection consisted of a dataset of 300 digitised drawings with over 80,000 strokes, by Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse and Egon Schiele, and a few works by other artists. By segmenting individual strokes, the system learned to quantify the characteristics of individual strokes in drawings, thus identifying the unique properties for each artist. The software managed to classify Bindividual strokes with accuracy 70%-90%, and aggregate over drawings with accu- racy above 80%, while being robust to be deceived by fakes (with accuracy 100% for detecting fakes in most settings)^. It turns out that the way in which individuals draw lines is as unique as their fingerprints or their gait, and AI can help one to discover it, as if it were a microscope. But AI is not just for identifying fakes. Let us stay in the Netherlands, a very interesting project2 by Microsoft, in collaboration with the Rembrandt House Museum, has led to the creation of a portrait of a gentleman, which both is and is not a Rembrandt (see Fig. 2). Figure 1 A fake, the original is BLodge on Lake Como^ by Carl Frederik Peder Aagaard (1833–1895) 2 See https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/next-rembrandt/ 318 L. Floridi https://news.microsoft.com/europe/features/next-rembrandt/ Analysing the known works of Rembrandt, an algorithm identified the most com- mon subject (a portrait of a Caucasian man, 30–40 years old), the most common traits (facial hair, facing to the right, wearing a hat, a collar and dark clothing, etc.), the most suitable style to reproduce these characterising properties, the brushstrokes, in short, all the information needed to produce a new painting by Rembrandt. Having created it, it was reproduced using a 3D printer, to ensure that the depth and layering of the colour would be as close as possible to Rembrandt’s style and way of painting. The result is a masterpiece. A Rembrandt that Rembrandt never painted, but which challenges our concepts of Bauthenticity^ and Boriginality ,̂ given the painting’s strong link with Rembrandt himself. I do not know the value of the painting. My bet is that it would be quite expensive if it were auctioned as reliably authenticated as that unique Microsoft’s Rembrandt. We do not have a word to define an artefact such as Microsoft’s Rembrandt. So let me suggest ectype. The word comes from Greek and it has a subtle meaning that is quite useful here: an ectype is a copy, yet not any copy, but rather a copy that has a special relation with its source (the origin of its creation), the archetype. In particular, an ectype is the impression left by a seal. It is not the real thing, but it is clearly linked in a significant, authentic way with the real thing itself. Locke used Bectypes^ to refer to ideas or impressions that correspond, although somewhat inadequately, to some exter- nal realities (the archetypes) to which they refer (Locke 2008). Digital technologies are able to separate the archetypal source—what was in the mind of the artist, for example—from the process (style, method, procedure) that leads from the source to the artefact (Floridi 2017). Once this link is severed, one can have ectypes that are Bauthentic^ in style and content, but not Boriginal^, in terms of archetypal source, like Microsoft’s Rembrandt. But one can also have ectypes that are Boriginal^ in terms of archetypal source (they do come from where they purport to come) yet not Bauthentic^ in terms of production, performance, or method (they are not the ones used by the source to deliver the artefact). In other words, ectypes can be authentic but unoriginal artefacts, like Microsoft’s Rembrandt, or inauthentic but original artefacts. A great example of an inauthentic original ectype was provided in March by an audio recording of John F. Kennedy’s last speech. Despite being an ordinary speech from a decades-old campaign trail, it suddenly made headline news. Because it was the Dallas Trade Mart Fig. 2 The Rembrandt that is not a Rembrandt. Microsoft Project with the Rembrandt House Museum Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes 319 speech of 22 November 1963, the text that JFK would have read, had he not been assassinated mere moments before, on his way to deliver it. The text is original: it comes from the source. But the voice that recites is inauthentic, because it was synthesised by software that analysed 831 recordings of Kennedy’s speeches and interviews, in order to Blearn^ how to speak like him. The software finally gave voice to JFK’s last speech 55 years late. So here is a Kennedy who is and is not a Kennedy, similar and yet different from the Rembrandt that is and is not a Rembrandt. They are both ectypes (see Table 1). We saw that the production of ectypes does not stop at the work of art, but involves any artefact, from texts to photos, from audio recordings to videos. It is well known that the history of manuscripts, printing, photography, cinema and television is paved with fakes. Expect more ectypes too. In particular, artists love to break boundaries and it is easy to imagine that, like Magritte faking his own painting, they will start producing their own ectypes. Imagine a painter using the software developed by Microsoft to produce her own new works. It would still be an ectype, and this would explain why (with qualifications) the process would capture some authenticity. The reproduction of the work of art by mechanical means will have acquired a new meaning (Benjamin 2008). With ectypes, we usually know where things stand. But someone could cheat. Last May, Google presented Google Duplex, a version of its AI assistant that simulates being human to help users with simple interactive tasks, like booking a restaurant table. The company was quick to state that it will not intentionally mislead anyone, and that it will make sure always to clarify when a user is interacting with an artificial agent. But someone else could use these technologies for criminal or evil purposes. This is what happens with Deepfake, a set of techniques used to synthesise new visual products, for example by replacing faces in the originals. The typical cases involve porn movies in which the faces of famous actresses like Gal Gadot or Scarlett Johansson (this is regularly about women’s faces) are used to replace the original faces. In this case too, large databases are needed to instruct the software (which is available for free, and there is also an app), so if you are not a public figure the risks are lower. Deepfake also concerns politicians, like President Obama, for example. What is the future ahead of us? Digital technologies seem to undermine our confidence in the original, genuine, authentic nature of what we see and hear. But what the digital breaks it can also repair, not unlike the endless struggle between software virus and antivirus. In our case, in addition to educating people, acquiring new sensitivities and having the right legal framework, there are at least a couple of interesting digital strategies. For artefacts that are already available, it is easy to imagine Table 1 Archetype, fake and ectypes Original source Authentic production Leonardo’s Mona Lisa Yes Yes Han van Meegeren’s forged Vermeers No No Microsoft’s Rembrandt No (Qualified) Yes JFK’s Trade Mart speech Yes No 320 L. Floridi AI systems that give us a hand. It would be interesting to analyse Microsoft’s Rembrandt and Kennedy’s speech with an artificial system to see whether it discovered them to be ectypes. Research is already available on methods to expose Deepfake videos generated with neural networks (Li et al. 2018). In short, let us remember the software developed to analyse drawings: there are plenty of sophisticated tools for detection of image forgery. And more are likely to be developed as the demand for them increases. Next, as regards new artefacts, because originality and authenticity are also a matter of provable historical continuity from the source to the product through the process of production, the much-vaunted blockchain, or a similar solution, could make a big difference. Blockchain is like a register that stores transactions in an accruable, safe, transparent and traceable way. As a secure and distributed register of transactions, blockchain is being explored as a means of reliably certifying the origins and history of particular products: whether in terms of securing food supply chains, or in recording the many linked acts of creation and ownership that define the provenance of an artwork. In the future, we may adopt the same solution wherever there is a need to ensure (or establish) the originality and authenticity of some artefact, be it a written document, a photo, a video or a painting. And of course, a future artist may want to ensure, through a blockchain, that her work of art as an ectype is really what it says it is. At that point we shall have travelled full circle, for we shall have Bgenuine ectypes^, like the Microsoft’s Rembrandt, or Kennedy’s speech. References Benjamin, W. (2008). The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. London: Penguin. Elgammal, A., Kang, Y., & Den Leeuw, M. (2017). Picasso, matisse, or a fake? 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Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes 321 Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes References work_bewbmanmg5exlod3rtc3ecmohq ---- energies Article Stochastic Evaluation of Landscapes Transformed by Renewable Energy Installations and Civil Works G.-Fivos Sargentis * , Panayiotis Dimitriadis , Romanos Ioannidis, Theano Iliopoulou and Demetris Koutsoyiannis School of Civil Engineering, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Resources Development, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechneiou 9, Zographou 157 80, Greece * Correspondence: fivos@itia.ntua.gr Received: 11 June 2019; Accepted: 14 July 2019; Published: 22 July 2019 ���������� ������� Abstract: Renewable energy (RE) installations and civil works are beneficial in terms of sustainability, but a considerable amount of space in the landscape is required in order to harness this energy. In contemporary environmental theory the landscape is considered an environmental parameter and the transformation of the landscape by RE works has received increasing attention by the scientific community and affected societies. This research develops a novel computational stochastic tool the 2D Climacogram (2D-C) that allows the analysis and comparison of images of landscapes, both original and transformed by RE works. This is achieved by a variability characterization of the grayscale intensity of 2D images. A benchmark analysis is performed for art paintings in order to evaluate the properties of the 2D-C for image analysis, and the change in variability among images. Extensive applications are performed for landscapes transformed by RE works. Results show that the 2D-C is able to quantify the changes in variability of the image features, which may prove useful in the landscape impact assessment of large-scale engineering works. Keywords: renewable energy; stochastic analysis of images; landscapes transformation; landscape visual impact assessment; optimizing landscape architecture 1. Introduction Globally, the scale of the transformation caused to landscapes from renewable energy (RE) developments is larger than ever. Indicatively, in countries with high wind energy utilization rates, the percentage of land area in which wind turbines are clearly visible is 18% in Spain [1], 21% the Netherlands [2], and 46% in Scotland [3]. Regarding solar parks, the percentage is 4.8%, in the only national-scale study, to date, with data from Spain. These studies demonstrate the scale of the visual intrusion of wind and solar energy into landscapes and justify why strong opposition on visual-impact grounds has emerged against RE projects [4,5]. This friction, between RE and landscape has consistently been the cause of delays in the development of RE projects and has raised the issue of landscape management in Europe [6] and globally. It is important to note that 40% of the citizens in Greece think that RE infrastructure causes significant visual disturbance in the landscape [7] and the prospect of installing RE infrastructures in Greece has led to the formation of many opposing activist groups, e.g., in south Aegean islands [8], Crete [9], Pindos [10], Pilio [11], and Samothraki [12]. Some basic contributors to the generation of significant visual impact from RE projects are the large requirements of land use, more evident in the case of solar energy [13,14], as well as the great dispersion of facilities and equipment that is characteristic of wind energy [15]. However, these characteristics are also present, to an extent, in hydroelectric projects, which in contrast to wind and solar developments have not been opposed significantly from a landscape-impact perspective, even though hydroelectricity is the type of RE with the highest installed capacity globally [16]. One important aesthetic difference Energies 2019, 12, 2817; doi:10.3390/en12142817 www.mdpi.com/journal/energies http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies http://www.mdpi.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0555-4021 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4956-8820 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7053-4348 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6226-0241 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en12142817 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/14/2817?type=check_update&version=2 Energies 2019, 12, 2817 2 of 13 between solar and wind developments on the one hand and hydroelectric developments on the other hand, is that hydroelectricity produces a new landscape which is to a great degree seemingly natural. The hydroelectric landscape mainly consists of an artificial lake—a reservoir, in contrast to wind and solar developments, in which the new landscapes developed, are dominated, visually, by human-made industrial machines. Thus, wind and solar energy projects have been significantly critiqued on industrializing landscapes. To mitigate this industrial intrusion and facilitate the expansion of RE, several different objective methods have been developed to quantify and evaluate visual impact from RE, ranging from photomontage and digital representation to GIS viewshed analyses [17]. These methods can be divided into two broad categories, those focusing mainly on the quantitative aspect of landscape impact and those that focus on qualitative. Qualitative methods commonly focus on the identification and explanation of the aesthetic elements of renewable energy landscapes. They include several different approaches, such as the evaluation of the psychometric effect of transformations of landscapes [18], visualization techniques [19], and multicriteria analysis that include both qualitative and quantitative analysis [20,21]. Quantitative methods are usually based in visibility analyses using GIS, to calculate the extents of the area affected [22,23]. In these methods the basic parameters that are considered determinant of this impact are: viewing distance, atmospheric clarity, and color contrast with background [24,25]. They are used mostly to optimize the sitting of a new RE project or to evaluate its landscape impact in the form of an environmental impact analysis. Other methods to evaluate the landscape and visual impact assessment [26–31] rely on an appreciation of the existing landscape, a holistic understanding of the developed proposals considering the original landscape character, the magnitude of change, the sensitivity to change and the potential to mitigate impacts. The proposed method of image analysis, aims to analyze the landscape transformation caused by the installation of RE infrastructures and other civil works in the natural landscape, through stochastic analysis. Based on this methodology, we examine the impact of RE works in a given landscape by visualizing and analyzing edited versions of original landscapes. This transformation of images is not uncommon as it is typical to create 3D or 2D images in architecture and landscape design of future works prior to construction in order to evaluate their landscape integration. Here however, we provide an additional tool that may aid in the characterization of the degree of the integration. 2. Methodology 2.1. Stochastic Analysis in 2d Image processing typically involves filtering or enhancing an image using various types of functions in addition to other techniques to extract information from the images [32]. Image segmentation is one of the basic problems in image analysis. The importance and utility of image segmentation has resulted in extensive research and numerous proposed approaches based on intensity, color, texture, etc., which are both automatic and interactive [33]. A variety of techniques have been proposed for the quantitative evaluation of segmentation methods [34–41]. This analysis for image processing is based on stochastic tool based in climacogram (variability vs. scale). Stochastic calculus helps in developing a unified perception of natural phenomena and expel dichotomies like random vs. deterministic. It seems that rather both randomness and predictability coexist and are intrinsic to natural systems which can be deterministic and random at the same time, depending on the prediction horizon and the time scale [42,43]. A variety of processes exhibit Long-Term Persistence (LTP) behaviour [43] such as temperature, humidity, surface wind, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, river discharges etc. [44]. Particularly, all these processes are characterized by high unpredictability due to the clustering of events. The behavior of some processes to exhibit high unpredictability due to the clustering of events was first identified in Energies 2019, 12, 2817 3 of 13 nature by H.E. Hurst in 1951 while working at the River Nile, although its mathematical description is attributed to A. N. Kolmogorov who developed it while studying turbulence in 1940. Koutsoyiannis [42] named this behavior as Hurst-Kolmogorov dynamics (HK), to give credit to both contributing scientists. The proposed methodology for image processing, the 2D-Climacogram (2D-C), has been developed within the context of LTP and has been successfully applied to images for the analysis of geophysical properties of rocks and geological formations [45] and Earth topography [46] but it is the first time that this methodology has been employed to analyze the transformation of the landscape, whether this transformation significantly alters the natural variability. For this purpose, each image is digitized in 2d based on grayscale color intensity and the climacogram is calculated based on the geometric scales of adjacent pixels. Assuming that our sample is an area n∆ × n∆, where n is the number of intervals (e.g., pixels) along each spatial direction and ∆ is the discretization unit (determined by the image resolution, e.g., pixel length), the empirical classical estimator of the climacogram for a 2d process can be expressed as: γ̂(κ) = 1 n2/κ2 − 1 n/κ∑ i=1 n/κ∑ j=1 ( x(κ)i, j − x )2 (1) where the “ˆ” over γ denotes estimate, κ is the the dimensionless spatial scale, x(κ)i, j = 1 κ2 ∑κj ψ = κ(j−1)+1 ∑κi ξ = κ(i−1) + 1 xξ,ψ is the sample average of the space-averaged process at scale κ, and x = ∑n i, j=1 xi, j/n 2 is the sample average. Note that the maximum available scale for this estimator is n/2. The LTP or HK behaviour can be summarized by the Hurst parameter as follows. The isotropic HK process with an arbitrary marginal distribution (e.g., for the Gaussian one, this results to the well-known fractional-Gaussian-noise, Mandelbrot and van Ness, [47]), i.e., the power-law decay of variance as a function of scale, is defined for a 1d or 2d process as: γ(k) = λ (k/∆)2d(1−H) (2) where λ is the variance at scale k = κ∆, d is the dimension of the process/field (i.e., for a 1d process d = 1, for a 2d field d = 2, etc.), and H is the Hurst parameter (0 < H < 1). For 0 < H < 0.5 the HK process exhibits an anti-persistent behaviour, H = 0.5 corresponds to the white noise process, and for 0.5 < H < 1 the process exhibits LTP. The algorithm developed by Dimitriadis [45] processes in MATLAB rectangular images. In particular, for the current analysis, the images are cropped in 400 × 400 pixels, 14.11 × 14.11 cm, in 72 dpi. 2.2. Illustration of Stochastic Analysis in 2d The pixels analyzed are actually represented by numbers based on their grayscale color intensity. Figure 1 present the steps of analysis, Figure 1a shows an example of pixels in 2d picture, Figure 1b shows grouped pixels at scale k = 2 and Figure 1c shows grouped pixels at scale k = 5 used to calculate the climacogram. An example of climacograms generated by data sets with different statistical characteristics is presented in Figure 2a,c. Typical examples of the results related to data are presented in Figure 2b,d. Figure 2a,c show a random time series in red and time series partly shifted in blue showing clustering behavior which mimic LTP. The presence of clustering in the blue series is demonstrated by the climacogram behavior which shows a marked difference for the random series (in red). Specifically the variance of the standardized series is notably higher than that of the random series at all scales, indicating a greater degree of variability of the process (Figure 2b,d in blue). Likewise between the two Energies 2019, 12, 2817 4 of 13 shifted series (Figure 2a,c in blue) the one with the more pronounced clustering behavior (Figure 2a, in blue) is also characterized by a greater degree of variability (Figure 2b in blue).Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 4 of 14 (a) (b) (c) Figure 1. Steps of image analysis. (a) Example of pixels in 2d picture; (b) grouped pixels at scale k = 2; (c) grouped pixels at scale k = 5 used to calculate the climacogram. (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 2. (a,c) Examples of data series with different statistical characteristics in one dimension; Colum (b,d) Standardize climacograms of data series of (a,c). 3. Benchmark Application in the Analysis of Art Paintings The following evaluation of art paintings is intended as a benchmark for the study of the variability behavior of landscape images. In order to assess the algorithm’s performance, we use as a basis the results from analysis of well-known art paintings arising from different artistic movements, whose characteristics are well understood [48]. This analysis examines six important painters based in chronological order: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452–1519) Figure 3 and Figure S3, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) Figure S4, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606– Figure 1. Steps of image analysis. (a) Example of pixels in 2d picture; (b) grouped pixels at scale k = 2; (c) grouped pixels at scale k = 5 used to calculate the climacogram. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 4 of 14 (a) (b) (c) Figure 1. Steps of image analysis. (a) Example of pixels in 2d picture; (b) grouped pixels at scale k = 2; (c) grouped pixels at scale k = 5 used to calculate the climacogram. (a) (b) (c) (d) Figure 2. (a,c) Examples of data series with different statistical characteristics in one dimension; Colum (b,d) Standardize climacograms of data series of (a,c). 3. Benchmark Application in the Analysis of Art Paintings The following evaluation of art paintings is intended as a benchmark for the study of the variability behavior of landscape images. In order to assess the algorithm’s performance, we use as a basis the results from analysis of well-known art paintings arising from different artistic movements, whose characteristics are well understood [48]. This analysis examines six important painters based in chronological order: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452–1519) Figure 3 and Figure S3, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) Figure S4, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606– Figure 2. (a,c) Examples of data series with different statistical characteristics in one dimension; Colum (b,d) Standardize climacograms of data series of (a,c). 3. Benchmark Application in the Analysis of Art Paintings The following evaluation of art paintings is intended as a benchmark for the study of the variability behavior of landscape images. In order to assess the algorithm’s performance, we use as a basis the results from analysis of well-known art paintings arising from different artistic movements, Energies 2019, 12, 2817 5 of 13 whose characteristics are well understood [48]. This analysis examines six important painters based in chronological order: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452–1519) Figure 3 and Figure S3, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) Figure S4, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) Figure S5, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Figure S6, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Figure 4 and Figure S7, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Figure S8. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 5 of 14 1669) Figure S5, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Figure S6, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Figure 4 and (a) (b) Figure 3. (a) Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. (a) (b) Figure 4. (a) Paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Picasso. Averages of the climacograms of the examined artworks of the painters are presented in Figure 5. It appears that the works by Leonardo da Vinci and Kandinski, even if they have totally different content, exhibit stochastic similarity (Figures S3 and S8). Instead, Picasso’s artworks (in stochastic view) display a wide range of fluctuations (Figure 4). Patterns can be observed in terms of the dependence structure among the different artistic movements as well, with Renaissance and Baroque painters having a strong persistence structure (average H ≈ 0.89), and modern works by Van Gong, 0.1 1 1 10 100 γ( k) k White noise 0.1 1 1 10 100 γ( k) k White noise Figure 3. (a) Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 5 of 14 1669) Figure S5, Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Figure S6, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Figure 4 and Figure S7, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Figure S8. (a) (b) Figure 3. (a) Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Leonardo da Vinci. (a) (b) Figure 4. (a) Paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Picasso. Averages of the climacograms of the examined artworks of the painters are presented in Figure 5. It appears that the works by Leonardo da Vinci and Kandinski, even if they have totally different content, exhibit stochastic similarity (Figures S3 and S8). Instead, Picasso’s artworks (in stochastic view) display a wide range of fluctuations (Figure 4). Patterns can be observed in terms of the dependence structure among the different artistic movements as well, with Renaissance and Baroque painters having a strong persistence structure (average H ≈ 0.89), and modern works by Van Gong, 0.1 1 1 10 100 γ( k) k White noise 0.1 1 1 10 100 γ( k) k White noise Figure 4. (a) Paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Picasso. Averages of the climacograms of the examined artworks of the painters are presented in Figure 5. It appears that the works by Leonardo da Vinci and Kandinski, even if they have totally different Energies 2019, 12, 2817 6 of 13 content, exhibit stochastic similarity (Figures S3 and S8). Instead, Picasso’s artworks (in stochastic view) display a wide range of fluctuations (Figure 4). Patterns can be observed in terms of the dependence structure among the different artistic movements as well, with Renaissance and Baroque painters having a strong persistence structure (average H ≈ 0.89), and modern works by Van Gong, Picasso and Kandinski corresponding to a weaker (but still HK-type) structure (average H ≈ 0.85). Although we see many different stochastic structures of the examined paintings which are generally accepted as great artworks (Figure 5), therefore a general stochastic structure of beauty is not revealed by 2D-C. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 6 of 14 Picasso and Kandinski corresponding to a weaker (but still HK-type) structure (average H ≈ 0.85). Although we see many different stochastic structures of the examined paintings which are generally accepted as great artworks (Figure 5), therefore a general stochastic structure of beauty is not revealed by 2D-C. (a) (b) Figure 5. (a) Averages of the climacograms of the artworks; (b) Averages of the standardized climacograms of the artworks. Thus, we can see that evaluating the image with climacograms provide us with insights in to the stochastic properties of artworks and justifies the further analysis of a more practical problem as the transformation caused to landscapes from RE installations. 4. Application in Analysis of the Transformation of Landscape by RE Installations and Civil Works In order to analyze the transformation produced by RE technologies to landscapes, images of natural landscape are used. The selected landscapes are suitable for the installation of RE projects, and we add RE installations of civil works to transform them. Climacograms of the transformed landscape describe some aspects of the landscape transformation. Figures S10–S24 in supplementary material of the paper show the variation of the climacograms corresponding to different RE installations and civil works. Figures S12–S16, S18 and S19 show that when the natural landscape is replaced by either the city landscape or RE installations the variability of the original image is decreased at scale κ = 1 as expected. Instead, if the RE installation has a “smooth” landscape background as wind turbines in the sky (Figures S23 and S24) solar panels in fields (Figures S21 and S22) or solar panels in the desert (Figure S20), the variability of the original image is increasing. We also notice that the results are related to the shape and the nature of the landscape but a general rule cannot be obtained by these case studies. For example, there is a different stochastic behavior in solar panels. Standardized climacograms of solar panels show stronger dependence structure (Figures S17 and S20–S22) compared to the natural landscape, and weaker in Figures S15, S18 and S19. Οn the contrary, standardized climacograms of wind turbines in the landscape show weaker dependence structure compared to the original landscape, i.e., clustering behavior (Figures S14, S18, S19, S23 and S24). 4.1. Evaluating Future Scenarios of Landscape Transformations by Civil Works 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 γ( κ) κ 0.1 1 1 10 100 γ( k) k Caravagio Da Vinci Rebrand Van Gong Kadinski Picaso White noise Figure 5. (a) Averages of the climacograms of the artworks; (b) Averages of the standardized climacograms of the artworks. Thus, we can see that evaluating the image with climacograms provide us with insights in to the stochastic properties of artworks and justifies the further analysis of a more practical problem as the transformation caused to landscapes from RE installations. 4. Application in Analysis of the Transformation of Landscape by RE Installations and Civil Works In order to analyze the transformation produced by RE technologies to landscapes, images of natural landscape are used. The selected landscapes are suitable for the installation of RE projects, and we add RE installations of civil works to transform them. Climacograms of the transformed landscape describe some aspects of the landscape transformation. Figures S10–S24 in supplementary material of the paper show the variation of the climacograms corresponding to different RE installations and civil works. Figures S12–S16, S18 and S19 show that when the natural landscape is replaced by either the city landscape or RE installations the variability of the original image is decreased at scale κ = 1 as expected. Instead, if the RE installation has a “smooth” landscape background as wind turbines in the sky (Figures S23 and S24) solar panels in fields (Figures S21 and S22) or solar panels in the desert (Figure S20), the variability of the original image is increasing. We also notice that the results are related to the shape and the nature of the landscape but a general rule cannot be obtained by these case studies. For example, there is a different stochastic behavior in solar panels. Standardized climacograms of solar panels show stronger dependence structure (Figures S17 and S20–S22) compared to the natural landscape, and weaker in Figures S15, S18 and S19. On the contrary, standardized climacograms of wind turbines in the landscape show weaker dependence Energies 2019, 12, 2817 7 of 13 structure compared to the original landscape, i.e., clustering behavior (Figures S14, S18, S19, S23 and S24). 4.1. Evaluating Future Scenarios of Landscape Transformations by Civil Works In the first application of the methodology, we examine the impact of RE works in a given landscape by considering edited versions of the original landscape [49]. Thus, in the original landscape Figure 6 and Figure S11–S24 we transform using Photoshop CS5 software and we evaluate them according 2D-C. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 7 of 14 In the first application of the methodology, we examine the impact of RE works in a given landscape by considering edited versions of the original landscape [49]. Thus, in the original landscape Figure 6 and Figure S11–S24 we transform using Photoshop CS5 software and we evaluate them according 2D-C. 1 2 3 4 5 (a) (b) (c) Figure 6. (a1–a4) Transformed landscape (a5) Original landscape (b) climacograms of images (a1–a5) (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a5). Figure 6b shows that replacing this natural landscape by either the city landscape or RE installations, the variability of the original image is decreased at scale κ = 1, as expected. Furthermore, in order to make a fair comparison of the depended structure associated with each transformation, we evaluate the standardized climacograms of Figure 6c. It can be seen that the city landscape shows the weaker dependence structure, i.e., clustering behavior, compared to the natural landscape, whereas the RE installations exhibit a weaker dependence than that of the natural landscape yet as stronger one compared to a highly urbanized landscape. 4.2. Landscape Analysis, the Case of Plastiras Lake The Plastiras Lake is an artificial lake in central Greece constructed in 1959. The concept of the specific dam construction was the production of electricity and the irrigation of the Thessalic Plain. The water levels of the lake showed many fluctuations due to water abstractions for hydroelectricity and irrigation proposes. Consequently, not long after its construction, the aesthetic degradation occurring when the water level drops and the dead zone is revealed, became part of different studies concerning the lake [50–53]. The Plastiras Lake landscape can be generally separated in two parts, the northern and southern, which have a totally different morphology. The northern part resembles a natural lake Figure 7a (in which when the level of the lake is decreased the observer sees a subnormal dead zone) and the south 0.01 0.1 1 10 100 γ( κ) κ 1. City 2. Wind turbine 3. Lake 4. Solar panels 5. Landscape 0.3 1 10 100 γ( k) k 1. City 2. Wind turbine 3. Lake 4. Solar panels 5. Landscape White noise 1 Figure 6. (a1–a4) Transformed landscape (a5) Original landscape (b) climacograms of images (a1–a5) (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a5). Figure 6b shows that replacing this natural landscape by either the city landscape or RE installations, the variability of the original image is decreased at scale κ = 1, as expected. Furthermore, in order to make a fair comparison of the depended structure associated with each transformation, we evaluate the standardized climacograms of Figure 6c. It can be seen that the city landscape shows the weaker dependence structure, i.e., clustering behavior, compared to the natural landscape, whereas the RE installations exhibit a weaker dependence than that of the natural landscape yet as stronger one compared to a highly urbanized landscape. 4.2. Landscape Analysis, the Case of Plastiras Lake The Plastiras Lake is an artificial lake in central Greece constructed in 1959. The concept of the specific dam construction was the production of electricity and the irrigation of the Thessalic Plain. The water levels of the lake showed many fluctuations due to water abstractions for hydroelectricity Energies 2019, 12, 2817 8 of 13 and irrigation proposes. Consequently, not long after its construction, the aesthetic degradation occurring when the water level drops and the dead zone is revealed, became part of different studies concerning the lake [50–53]. The Plastiras Lake landscape can be generally separated in two parts, the northern and southern, which have a totally different morphology. The northern part resembles a natural lake Figure 7a (in which when the level of the lake is decreased the observer sees a subnormal dead zone) and the south part of the landscape which is closer to that of an artificial lake Figure 8a (in which when the level of the lake is decreased the observer sees a normal dead zone) [54]. Through the attempt to evaluate the differences in the landscape, and due to the change of the water level, the southern part of the lake was considered more interesting than the northern part in terms of landscape quality. The above phenomenon was discussed and interpreted in related papers [55,56]. Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 8 of 14 part of the landscape which is closer to that of an artificial lake Figure 8a (in which when the level of the lake is decreased the observer sees a normal dead zone) [54]. Through the attempt to evaluate the differences in the landscape, and due to the change of the water level, the southern part of the lake was considered more interesting than the northern part in terms of landscape quality. The above phenomenon was discussed and interpreted in related papers [55,56]. 1 2 3 (a) (b) (c) Figure 7. (a1–a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the fluctuation of the lake water elevation in the area of subnormal dead zone; (b) climacograms and (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a3). 1 2 3 (a) 0.02 1 10 100 γ( κ) κ 1 2 3 0.05 0.5 1 10 100 γ( k) k 1 2 3 White noise 1 Figure 7. (a1–a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the fluctuation of the lake water elevation in the area of subnormal dead zone; (b) climacograms and (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a3). Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 8 of 14 part of the landscape which is closer to that of an artificial lake Figure 8a (in which when the level of the lake is decreased the observer sees a normal dead zone) [54]. Through the attempt to evaluate the differences in the landscape, and due to the change of the water level, the southern part of the lake was considered more interesting than the northern part in terms of landscape quality. The above phenomenon was discussed and interpreted in related papers [55,56]. 1 2 3 (a) (b) (c) Figure 7. (a1–a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the fluctuation of the lake water elevation in the area of subnormal dead zone; (b) climacograms and (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a3). 1 2 3 (a) 0.02 1 10 100 γ( κ) κ 1 2 3 0.05 0.5 1 10 100 γ( k) k 1 2 3 White noise 1 Figure 8. Cont. Energies 2019, 12, 2817 9 of 13 Energies 2019, 12, x FOR PEER REVIEW 9 of 14 (b) (c) Figure 8. (a1–a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the fluctuation of the lake water elevation in the area of normal dead zone; (b) climacograms and (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a3). According to the analysis made based on the physical properties, the appearance of the landscape and the questionnaires of the observers, the result was that between normal dead zone and subnormal dead zone, the transformation of the latter zone when the level of the lake decreased was a problem for the aesthetic value of the landscape [57]. Applying 2D-C in transformed images of the Plastiras landscape, a change of the landscape due to the appearance of the subnormal dead zone is noticed despite being small (Figure 7). On the contrary, the climacograms of the lake without dead zone and of the lake with normal dead zone are almost identical (Figure 8). 5. Discussion and Conclusions The meaning of beauty is linked to the evolution of human civilization. Since the beginning of civilization, human minds have been embodying their creativity in different forms of art or architecture in the search for beauty, from prehistoric cave paintings to the various forms of contemporary art. These works of art create feelings and disseminate ideas and messages, underlying or upfront, through their communication with the intellect. In different stages of history, the meaning of beauty has even been in the frontline of the struggle of human civilizations for progress, expressing social and political ideas that were far from being implemented in the societies of those times [48]. But what does it mean that something is more beautiful than something else and how more beautiful is it? If this concept has to do with nature, the problem is unresolved because (according to Kant) nature is the pinnacle of beauty [58]. Moreover, Kant noted that “no objective rules of taste can be given which would determine what is beautiful through concepts” [59]. Nonetheless, our work aims at comparative analysis of transformations of natural landscapes that are considered of high aesthetic value, and not to draw universal aesthetic conclusions. Thus, this paper examines the transformation of the landscape and not the beauty of the landscape per se. In landscape analysis, the transformation of the landscape is against the concept of sustainability as “there is an additional focus on the present generations’ responsibility to regenerate, maintain and improve planetary resources for use by future generations.” [60]. In modern environmental analysis, the natural landscape is also considered an environmental resource. Therefore, the transformation of the landscape with RE installations, needs to be taken into account as a parameter of the multicriteria design of the RE projects. This paper introduces a new computational tool (2D-C), as opposed to subjective evaluation, in comparative landscape analysis. 2D-C is a tool capable of characterizing the degree of variability in images using stochastic analysis, and thus, the change in variability vs. scale, among images. As a benchmark, the 2D-C was tested in images of art paintings and subsequently, it was applied to landscapes transformed by new RE installations of civil works in order to quantitatively characterize 0.02 1 10 100 γ( κ) κ 1 2 3 0.05 0.5 1 10 100 γ( k) k 1 2 3 White noise 1 Figure 8. (a1–a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the fluctuation of the lake water elevation in the area of normal dead zone; (b) climacograms and (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1–a3). According to the analysis made based on the physical properties, the appearance of the landscape and the questionnaires of the observers, the result was that between normal dead zone and subnormal dead zone, the transformation of the latter zone when the level of the lake decreased was a problem for the aesthetic value of the landscape [57]. Applying 2D-C in transformed images of the Plastiras landscape, a change of the landscape due to the appearance of the subnormal dead zone is noticed despite being small (Figure 7). On the contrary, the climacograms of the lake without dead zone and of the lake with normal dead zone are almost identical (Figure 8). 5. Discussion and Conclusions The meaning of beauty is linked to the evolution of human civilization. Since the beginning of civilization, human minds have been embodying their creativity in different forms of art or architecture in the search for beauty, from prehistoric cave paintings to the various forms of contemporary art. These works of art create feelings and disseminate ideas and messages, underlying or upfront, through their communication with the intellect. In different stages of history, the meaning of beauty has even been in the frontline of the struggle of human civilizations for progress, expressing social and political ideas that were far from being implemented in the societies of those times [48]. But what does it mean that something is more beautiful than something else and how more beautiful is it? If this concept has to do with nature, the problem is unresolved because (according to Kant) nature is the pinnacle of beauty [58]. Moreover, Kant noted that “no objective rules of taste can be given which would determine what is beautiful through concepts” [59]. Nonetheless, our work aims at comparative analysis of transformations of natural landscapes that are considered of high aesthetic value, and not to draw universal aesthetic conclusions. Thus, this paper examines the transformation of the landscape and not the beauty of the landscape per se. In landscape analysis, the transformation of the landscape is against the concept of sustainability as “there is an additional focus on the present generations’ responsibility to regenerate, maintain and improve planetary resources for use by future generations.” [60]. In modern environmental analysis, the natural landscape is also considered an environmental resource. Therefore, the transformation of the landscape with RE installations, needs to be taken into account as a parameter of the multicriteria design of the RE projects. This paper introduces a new computational tool (2D-C), as opposed to subjective evaluation, in comparative landscape analysis. 2D-C is a tool capable of characterizing the degree of variability in images using stochastic analysis, and thus, the change in variability vs. scale, among images. As a benchmark, the 2D-C was tested in images of art paintings and subsequently, it was applied to Energies 2019, 12, 2817 10 of 13 landscapes transformed by new RE installations of civil works in order to quantitatively characterize the degree of visual change by each intervention, with respect to the natural variability of the original landscape. This methodology can be applied in image processing comparing RE installations and civil works in order to quantitatively evaluate the transformation in variability vs. scale of the landscape. The analysis allows for the following observations. 1. The evaluation of images with 2D-C can be useful in landscape aesthetics problems as the quantitative analysis can serve as a basis for objectivity in the evaluation of landscape changes. 2. 2D-C can evaluate one image of the landscape by a specific view point in a specific time. Thus, we cannot have a holistic approach of the landscape. However, as methods of the landscape analysis seek a global approach identifying landscape with multicriteria analysis, 2D-C could serve as a new quantitative criterion. 3. 2D-C provides only a relative score among the transformed images, while sources of uncertainty relating to objective segmentation of images need also to be further studied. Nevertheless, 2D-C can serve as a robust stochastic tool for comparisons, with promising results regarding the possible generalized application to image analysis. At present this paper provides a methodological contribution which is novel. Therefore, conclusions mainly relate to the insights we gain from specific case studies. A big data analysis would be required in order to move from the methodological contribution to factual information on the impact of RE installations. More data and studies are necessary to examine whether these results are positively correlated with aesthetical parameters. Supplementary Materials: This supplementary material contains image analysis climacograms of art paintings and landscapes transformed by renewable energy installations and civil works. The following are available online at http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/14/2817/s1. Figure S1: Landscapes. withought renwable energy instalations, Figure S2: Transformation of the landscape of Plastiras lake, Figure S3: (a) Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Leonardo da Vinci; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Figure S4: (a) Paintings of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610); (b) Standardized climacograms of the art paintings of Caravaggio; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Caravaggio, Figure S5: (a) Paintings of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669); (b) Standardized climacogram of the art paintings of Rembrandt; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Rembrandt, Figure S6: (a) Paintings of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890); (b) Standardized climacogram of the art paintings of Vincent van Gogh; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Vincent van Gogh, Figure S7: (a) Paintings of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973); (b) Standardized climacogram of the art paintings of Picasso; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Picasso, Figure S8: (a) Paintings of Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944); (b) Standardized climacogram of the art paintings of Kandinsky; (c) climacograms of the art paintings of Kandinsky, Figure S9: (a) Averages of the examinee paintings by different artists; (b) Standardized climacogram of the art paintings; (c) climacograms of the art paintings, Figure S10: (a1) Shape of the landscape; (a2) Landscape withought sky; (a3) original landscape (b); (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a3); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3), Figure S11: (a1) (a2 (a3) Landscape with different sky; (b) (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a3); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3), Figure S12: (a1) City above the horizon; (a2) City below the horizon; (a3) original landscape; (b) standardized climacogram of images (a1)–(a3); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3), Figure S13, (a1)–(a4) Cities in the landscape (a1) Original landscape; (b), (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a5); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a5), Figure S14: (a1)–(a4) Wind turbines in the landscape; (a5) Original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a5); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a5), Figure S15: (a1) Solar panels in the landscape; (a2) Original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S16: (a1) Lake in the landscape; (a2) Original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S17: (a1) Lake in the landscape; (a2) Solar panels in the landscape (3); Original landscape (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3), Figure S18: (a1) Wind turbine in the landscape; (a2) Lake in the landscape; (a3) Solar panels in the landscape; (a4) original landscape; (b), (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a4); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a4), Figure S19: (a1) Lake in the landscape; (a2) Solar panels in the landscape; (a3) Wind turbine in the landscape; (a4) original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a4); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a4), Figure S20: (a1) Solar panels in the landscape; (a2) original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S21: (a1) Solar panels in the landscape; (a2) original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S22: (a1) Solar panels in the landscape; (a2) original landscape; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S23: (a1) Wind park in the landscape; (a2) landscape without renewable energy installations; http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/14/2817/s1 Energies 2019, 12, 2817 11 of 13 (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S24: (a1) Wind park in the landscape; (a2) landscape without renewable energy installations; (b) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a2); (c) climacogram of images (a1)–(a2), Figure S25: (a1)–(a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the balance of the lake in the area of subnormal dead zone; (b) (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a3); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3), Figure S26: (a1)–(a3) Transformation of landscape of Plastiras caused by the balance of the lake in the area of normal dead zone; (b) (c) standardized climacograms of images (a1)–(a3); (d) climacogram of images (a1)–(a3). 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Transparent Cubical Glass Building in Madrid Mick Eekhout Chair of Product Development, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Octatube International bv, Delft, The Netherlands, m.eekhout@octatube.nl, www.mickeekhout.nl, www.octatube.nl Luis Weber Octatube International bv, Delft, The Netherlands, l.weber@octatube.nl, www.octatube.nl An ultimately transparent glass building in almost cubical form of 30x30x21 m, to function as the future entrance building of the Santander Bancopolis complex southwest of Madrid. Conceptual design by architect Alfonso Millanes and structural design by Octatube. The structure is composed of ultra slender cable stayed tubular columns and trusses placed in a grid of 5m and cladded with insulated glass made from fully tempered outer panels and heat strengthened laminated inner panels. Size of all glass panels is 2.5 x 2.5 m². The insulated glass ensures additional stabilisation of the overall enveloping structure. The roof panels are partly twisted to obtain a fluent slope for drainage. The roof gutters are positioned at 2.5 m from the roof edge, thus creating a free glass edge. The side walls of the gutters are made of insulated glass panels. The glass type chosen is ‘extra-white’, emphasizing the glass cube as a sparkling crystal in the landscape. Keywords: Quattro nodes, insulated glass, Tensile structural systems 1. Introduction This paper describes the gradual and steady development in different areas of expertise in two decades, which has lead to the current state of the art building fabrication techniques for glass structures.. 1.1. History of design of different glass cubes In the history of the design & build company Octatube of Delft NL we have designed, co-designed and engineered, produced and built a number of cubical glass volumes. The cube is a prime and basic symbol if geometry in architecture, very recognizable ,but difficult to make in glass, especially in the larger volumes as construction (the way you put things together) and structure (the way loadings are forwarded from the glass panels to mother earth). We have designed these glass cubes as architects, structural engineers and industrial designers integrally in one. The prehistory of the Galss Cube Entrance in Madrid started 2 decades before. The use of cubes in art and architecture refers back one century to one of the first ‘Cubist’ paintings by Pablo Picasso: Les demoiselles d’Avignon’ (1907). It shows a primary geometrical influence of the work of Paul Cézanne, who defended in his life compositions made entirely of simple geometrical forms, like cubes, cylinders, cones. It was Picasso, who took up this inspiration and Challenging Glass 2 used them for around a decade in a style which was called by art-critics as ‘Cubism’. Around that time he started to paint elevations combined with side elevations in detail. A front body and a side head, trying to make the 2D painting 3-dimensional. It took up to the 1980s before architects took up that idea in the so-called ‘De-constructivism’, in which buildings seem to have been formed from exploded parts of recognizable building segments, put together in a non-logical way. Coop Himmelb(l)au realized one of their first roof top office buildings in the Flackestrasse in Vienna in 1983 and in 1993 the Groninger museum. Currently their design for the Musée des Confluences in s under construction, an architectonic variation on the Cubist style of Picasso and Georges Bracque one century before. Cubes can go form simple cubes to complex assemblies of cubes and cubical segments. As a structure and a construction the lessons have to start form the simple cube, leaving the more complicated cubical arrangements for the higher classes of enlightenment. Figure 1: Design proposal for the European Business School in Wiesbaden by structural designer Mick Eekhout and sculptor Marijke de Goey as a composition of tumbling cubes. 2. Glass cube in Goor The smallest cube measures 600x600x600 mm and is composed of 6 mm thick fully tempered glass panels, where the vertical corners are held together by glued stainless steel rods 6x6mm2. The upper panel is just glued on top of the wall panels. This cube houses a piece of art, in this case a neon sculpture designed by artist Marijke de Goey. This prototype was part of a series in glass cubes with different neon glass sculptures in the town hall of the Dutch town of Goor. The beauty was in the corner detail. The stainless steel rod was strengthening the cube against vandalism (fig.1). Figure 2: Glass cube in Goor. Transparent Cubical Glass Building in Madrid 3. Glass cube proposal for the Centraal Museum in Utrecht and the Flower shop in Rotterdam In 1988 cubical glass pavilions were designed by architect Wiek Röling and structural Mick Eekhout as pavilions for a Dutch Museum in Utrecht. The project was not realised. Just before we had that developed a method in which we could joint 3 x 3 panels into one big glass panel. Our target at the time was a stable glass plane of 6 x 6 m2, structurally bonded together by connectors, cables and compression rods. The fist step was not even prototyped properly when the idea came up to make a 3D cubical pavilion. However, we did not know how to do it. From the drawings one could analyse that the corners, where the roof plane would lay upon the wall elements and the corner between two vertical walls were not solved. How to introduce larger forces from one plane into another? We did not know, 20 years ago (fig.2). Hardly one year later architect Kas Oosterhuis came to Octatube and together we conceived a glass flower shop on the famous Lijnbaan, where the problem of the connection between roof plane on the wall plane and the wall-to-wall connection was neatly solved as a separate cubical tubular structure was safely introduced. The cube measured 12x12x6m in height and was subdivided into units we knew of 6x6m2, weach composed of 3x4 or 4x4 panels. The design drawing indicated that the roof panels were 1.5x1.5m2, smaller that the maximum panels available form the industry of 2.14x2.14m2. We were not sure structurally. But the ambition, the dream was on the table. This structure was conceived in single glass panels, fully tempered. Also this structure was not realised, but their publication in a book as the starting point of Dutch Glass structures [Ref.1: Stressed Glass, Zappi or Product Development for the Nai.] served its purpose (fig.3). Figure 3: Glass cube proposal for the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. Figure 4: Flower shop on the famous Lijnbaan in Rotterdam. 4. Glass Music Hall in the Exchange of Berlage, Amsterdam In 1989 Mick Eekhout designed the structural scheme for an all-glass envelope for architect Pieter Zaanen to house the concert and rehearsal hall for the Chamber Music Orchestra of the NedPhO, the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra. Pieter came to Mick after a modest publication of the study model of Rik Grashoff, one of Mick’s early students at Civil Engineering. The model was built for a Boosting publication [Ref.2: Tussen traditie en experiment].(fig.4). Challenging Glass 2 Figure 5 Experimental model of glass. Structural glass panels 1989. This hall had to measure 10x22m in plan and around 10 m in height. Architectonically, built inside of the famous exchange building of dr.H.P.Berlage from 1903, it had to be a built volume completely independent of the existing building. Also maximum transparency was required. Built on separate piles driven through the cellar floor, the concrete floor structure would enable a completely independent glass box, a reversed giant glass battery box. During a number of design brainstorms with Pieter Zaanen, the idea came up to have one of the two walls not parallel, to improve the acoustics as flutter would be minimised. The structural system of tiny cables or tensile rods and short compression studs was designed pre-stressed between the roof and concrete floor structure. Figure 6 Model of Glass music hall, Amsterdam. It was not the floor, but the roof structure that gave the greatest worries. Parallel to the Glass flower shop in Rotterdam, the first idea was to make a tubular structure in the ribs, but the fire brigade officer did not allow for a structural glass roof, without abundant experiences or self-confidence proven or engineered. They were right, one could add later. So the roof structure was taken as an ordinary space frame structure, stiff, supported on six columns only, stabilised with wind bracings and covered with laminated glass panels. Opened in 1990, it was the first structural glass building in the Netherlands. All glass panels were suspended vertically form one another. So the highest glass panels, 8 mm thin and fully tempered, carried the dead weight of the lower panels and the vertical trusses of 8 mm rods stabilised the facades horizontally, against leaning architects, as there was not much wind to be analysed, apart form the overpressure of the air-conditioning. That was the invention. It was a giant step forward. A book was written about this adventure [Ref.3: Product Development in Glass Structures]. Transparent Cubical Glass Building in Madrid Figure 7: Glass music hall, Amsterdam. Figure 8: Interior view. 5. Glass Roof on Brick Cubes in Hulst NL However, the roof, built as a conventional space frame, was a source of annoyance. A few months after the design was approved by the fire brigade a young Belgian / Dutch architect, Walter Lockefeer came to Octatube to co-design a glass roof in a double cubical pavilion with dimensions, derived from the golden rule: 6.870 x 6.870 x 6.870m. The walls, in his architectural philosophy, were overruling and the roof was unimportant. So the roof had to be invisible and made of glass, preferably without any steel. So he stimulated the development of the first glass panel roof, stabilised as a bicycle wheel with vertical compression studs and tensile cables underneath the glass panels. The first Dutch tensile stabilised roof had been realised. The roof was composed of double glass panels with laminated lower panes. All glass plates were fully tempered. The stainless steel connectors on the lower side of the roof panels were glued between roof panel and connector. In this case the deadweight was more than the eventual uplift, so even a glued connector without glue would have worked, as the panels were fixed horizontally between the roof edges. This experiment gave us enough confidence that a tensile under-spanned structure would work, even if a surrounding steel tubular steel frame balanced the tensile cables. The second profit was the glued experiment. It was just a project invention, nothing more. The pavilion was published in colour and attracted much interests [Ref.3]. The roof leaked for a number of years, but the cause was in the surrounding brickwork. The silicone sealant worked quite satisfactorily for a roof with a pitch of only one single degree (fig.8,9). Figure 9 and 10: Flower shop in Hulst. Challenging Glass 2 6. Prinsenhof Glass Museum Hall in Delft The next step was, of course, to make a completely chemically bonded system. The glued connection was developed initially for roofs, where the tangential loads were restricted and uplift could be avoided by choosing thicker and heavier glass panels, the first one in a Court of Justice in Maastricht, 1995. (Fig.12) Figure 11: Court of Justice in Maastricht. Figure 12: Prinsenhof Glass Museum hall in Delft The first frameless façade was built in the Prinsenhof Glass Museum hall in Delft one year later, in 1996. The extra problems structurally for the glued connections were the vertical deadweight of the glass panels and the quite large distances between the panels and the Quattro nodes. In first instance the distance were too large, causing large bending moments in the connection bolts. A number of panels broke during the initial installation. Soon enough it was discovered that the cause of breakage was mainly in the diagonally stressed wind bracings, as a result of which the Quattro nodes were not accurately positioned. It was mid winter, her majesty the Queen came for the inauguration and the installation was too hastily done. For security reason the deadweight of the glass saddles, fixed on the Quattro nodes, carried the panels. In other vertical facades, the distance s between the glass panels ant the Quattro nodes were held as short as possible. Glass panels in their glued connections can take as large an amount of compression as (roughly) as tension and shear, but glass panels are only capable of carrying 10% of these forces in bending (fig.13). 7. Glass Cube of Museon in Tel Aviv In this short history of incremental product development successively the material glass, single panels and laminated and double panels, the Quattro nodes, welded and later stainless steel, the tensile trusses form 8 mm in Amsterdam to a heavily typhoon loaded project in Hongkong 2x 30mm, the glued connections and the architectural detailing were developed to the current level of design perfection. The entrance cube of the Museum of Modern Art of Tel Aviv offered the opportunity to make single span cube with only the tubular compression frame elements in the corners. The size is roughly 12x12x12m3. The system worked, be it here in single laminated glazing and a little building physical problem with the abundant solar radiation coming into the building part, in the Israeli desert climate. (fig.14,15). Transparent Cubical Glass Building in Madrid Figure 13 and 14: Entrance cube of the Museum of Modern Art of Tel Aviv 8. Glass Cube Hall of the Synagoge, The Hague NL The synagogue of the Liberal Jewish Community in The Hague was built in the midst of the 18th century and is regarded as a monument. The synagogue complex needed an extension between the street front ‘gracht’house and the hidden synagogue with a glass hall for social gatherings and festivities. Mick Eekhout was invited as the architect and he designed a cubical glass construction with an apex almost as high as the existing synagogue monument. The structure is a tubular structure, covered with a glass roof and 4 glass façades. The 4 legs stand alone in the ground floor level, connected to the walls and of the premises by an acoustically perforated flat metal roof. The glass cube embraces, as it were, the front part of the synagoge monument. The new technology embracing the classical building with respect. Figure 15: Interior of the Glass Cubical Hall for the synagogue in The Hague 9. The Santander Glass Cube of Madrid The apotheosis of this contribution, and its main subject is the cubical glass building serving as the entrance building for the Santander ‘Bancopolis’ in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid. The Bank town has been designed by 85 years old Kevin Roche from New York, Pritzker Architectural Award winner 1982. In 2003 a 30 m diameter circular glass roof was deigned by his office and detailed and realised by Octatube. The structure was post-stressed 36 pieces of bicycle wheel principle with multiple compression studs and stainless steel tensile rods of 30 mm diameter. It opened the eye of the client for lightweight tender structures. Some years later he issued an order for a cubical glass building as the entrance cathedral for the bang premises as a maximally glass building. Challenging Glass 2 Madrid architect Alfonso Millanes was the architect who developed the cube, much in the line of the above-described know-how with the engineering office of Typsa and Octatube. The predominant features of this building are: overall size 30x30m floor plan, 21,4m height; large insulation glass units (IGU), 2,5x2,5m2; large custom designed Quattro® nodes 350x350mm; compression tube grid of 5x5m; integrated wind braces- glass supporting structure; mechanical connection of glass to nodes through the inner plate of each IGU; twisted roof panels; insulated glass roof gutter; integrated water drainage system. Figure 16 and 17: Design of the Glass Cube by architect Millanes and engineers Typsa and Octatube. Integration of several functions into the components comprising the structure of this particular cube was imperative to reach the accomplished transparency level. For instance, the wind bracings of the main structure not only serve to stabilize the structure against horizontal external forces, but are also designed to support the glass panels of the façade. Figure 18: Installation of the Glass Cube The roof has also a unique feature: a completely flat roof can only exist in theory; when put into practice, rainwater needs to be drained to prevent stains on the glass, or even worse, excessive accumulation of water on the surface of the roof. The roof is designed to drain water to the gutter running on all four sides, thus raising the central point. The glass panels of the roof are twisted to avoid the use of triangular glass panels. The glass gutter is positioned directly above one of the compression tubes of the main steel structure. This not only disguises the gutter, but also leaves the corner of the roof-façade connection to be very transparent as well; no structure other than a mechanical glass-on- Transparent Cubical Glass Building in Madrid glass connection is used to support this corner. The vertical corners of the cube are designed in a similar fashion; the main difference being a vertical corner profile is used to support the weight of the glass panels (another example of integration of functions). Although here the profile has a different function, it can be compared with the corner profile of the 600x600x600mm glass cubes in Goor described earlier. Figure 19: Inside view Figure 20: Glass Cube Santander Bank, Madrid In true Octatube style, the structure is prefabricated to the maximum possible extent in the factory in Holland. This, together with the just-in-time arrival of components on the building site leads to a short and effective assembly. This also applies to the glass panels; freights of glass are called to arrive on site with little advance to minimize the risks of damage during storage on the building site. This approach results is the total assembly of all glass panels (516 in total) without any damage. Figure 21-24: Details of the Glass Cube. Challenging Glass 2 10. Conclusion The Santander Glass Cube in Madrid is an example of high tech know-how on different levels that has been obtained grossly on a project-to-project base. This careful incremental approach took place on different scale levels: • Glass and glass panels • Connections glass to Quattro nodes • Tensile structural systems • Refinement of constructions • Industrialisation/prefab components. At the engineering department there is a general feeling that the resulting glass cube structure is the about lightest possible. Next step could be to use glass panels also to function as shear force holders in the plane of the façade and the roof and or to have the glass panels provided with internal tubes so that vertical pre-stressed cables could be inserted through the panes to stabilize the façade against wind pressures. It is yet a few steps from the ideals that are put by the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and the contemporary translations of painters’ Cubism into architects’ Cubism like Coop Himmelb(l)au. But ambitions show the direction to be followed. 11. References [1] Eekhout, M., ‘Stressed Glass, Zappi or Product Development for the Nai’, NAi Publishers, 1990. ISBN:90- 72469-78-x. [2] Westra, J.(eds.),’Tussen traditie en experiment’, 010 Publisher, Rotterdam, 1990. ISBN:90-6450-096-7. [3] Eekhout, M., ‘Product Development in Glass Structures’, 010 Publisher, Rotterdam, 1989. ISBN:90- 6450-111-4. work_bq4wh2vkuza6jlxtghx5b45sry ---- SÖZ VARLIĞI Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 İKİNCİ YENİ ŞİİRİ ve RESİM Alâattin KARACA* ÖZET İkinci Yeni, 1950’li yılların ikinci yarısında ortaya çıkmış bir şiir hareketidir. İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Turgut Uyar, Ece Ayhan ve Sezai Kara- koç, bu şiir hareketinin önde gelen şairleridir. Söz ko- nusu şairler, şiir yanında müzik, sinema, resim, tiyatro gibi diğer sanatlarla da ilgilenmişler ve şiirde bu sanat- ların olanaklarından yararlanmaya çalışmışlardır. Sa- yılan sanatlardan resmin, İkinci Yeni şiiri üzerindeki etkisi göz ardı edilemeyecek ölçüde önemlidir. Bu yazıda İkinci Yeni şairlerinin resme bakışı, 1950’li yıllarda resmin poetikasında yaşanan değişimin İkinci Yeni poetikasıyla benzerliği, şiir-resim ilişkisi gibi konular üzerinde durulacak ve İkinci Yeni şiirinde resmin poetik ve pratik etkisi irdelenecektir. Anahtar Kelimeler: İkinci Yeni, resim, İlhan Berk, Ece Ayhan, Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Paul Klee. THE SECOND NEW POETRY AND PAINTING ABSTRACT The Second New is a poetical movement which came out in the second half of 1950s. The leading figures of the movement are İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Turgut Uyar, Ece Ayhan and Sezai Karakoç. These poets have also concerned themselves with music, cinema, painting, drama and other fields of art and literature. In some cases they have benefited from these * Doç. Dr., Yüzüncü Yıl Üniveristesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, vankaraca@hotmail.com. 282 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 arts in their poems. Particularly painting has had a great influence in their woks. In this article the view(s) of The Second New, the reflection of the changes in painting in 1950s in their poetry, the relation of poetry and painting, the poetic and practice effect of painting were examined. Key Words: The Second New Poetry, painting, İlhan Berk, Ece Ayhan, Cemal Süreya, edip Cansever, Paul Klee. İkinci Yeni, 1950’lerde filiz vermeye başlayan bir şiirsel devinim. İlk örnekleri de Yeditepe, Yenilik, A, Şiir Sanatı, Kaynak gibi dergilerde yayımlanmış. Öncüleri İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya, Ece Ayhan, Turgut Uyar, Edip Cansever ve Sezai Karakoç. Ancak asıl toplanma ve poetik oluşum Pazar Postası adlı haftalık gazetede 1956’dan sonra gerçekleşiyor. İkinci Yeni şiiriyle beraber Türk şiirinin poetik ve pratik anlamda büyük bir değişim yaşadığı kesin. İkinci Yeni her şeyden önce, alışılmış, egemen poetikadan ve felsefeden kopuştur. Şöyle ki, Türk şiiri Tanzimat’tan sonra Ahmet Haşim’e değin genelde ‘yansıtmacı poetika’nın izindedir; kısacası doğa veya toplum gerçeğine bağlıdır. Ahmet Haşim, bir ölçüde bu doğal ve toplumsal gerçeği yansıtma amaçlı poetikadan kopar; deyim yerindeyse doğa onda yalnızca gözle algılanan bir görüntü değildir; araya bir ‘iç göz’ girmiştir ve bu iç göz, doğayı deforme ederek imgesel bir gerçek yaratır. Ancak asıl ve köklü kopuş, kuşkusuz 1950’li yıllarda İkinci Yeni ile olmuştur. İkinci Yeni şairleri, her şeyden önce Türk şiirine Tanzimat’tan sonra egemen olan bu ‘yansıtmacı’ poetikayı kökten sarsarlar. Amaçları, beş duyuya bağlı bir gerçekliği yansıtmak değildir. Bunu Sezai Karakoç, ‚Ben bu şiire ‘Yeni Gerçekçi şiir’ diyorum. Orhan Veli şiiri, şiirimizin gerçekçi (realist) akımıydı; bu akım ise yeni gerçekçi (neo realist) akım.‛1 tümceleriyle net biçimde saptamıştır. Nitekim İlhan Berk de; ‚Ozan, bir şiirin iyi ya da kötü bir şiir olduğunu doğayla karşılaştırarak, onunla benzerlik ölçüleri kurarak, yaşadığına, yaşanana bakarak ölçüler kuramaz.‛2 diyerek ‘yansıtmacı poetika’ya karşı olduğunu belirtmektedir. İşte gerçeklik anlayışındaki bu kopuş nedeniyle İkinci Yeni şairlerinin çoğu, ilkin şiiri us ve mantığın güdümünden kurtarmayı amaçlamışlardır. Bu konuda en uçtaki şair ise, İlhan Berk’tir. Amacı usun egemenliğini ortadan http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote1sym#sdfootnote1sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote2sym#sdfootnote2sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 283 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 kaldırmak, usu allak bullak etmektir. Berk, buna bağlı olarak da anlam, konu ve öyküyü şiirin asıl öğeleri saymaz. Çünkü ona göre şiiri us yürütmez, usun girdiği yerde şiirin varlığı kuşkuludur. Bu poetik anlayışa koşut biçimde, İkinci Yeni şairleri, alışılmış algılama tarzına ters gelen şiirler yazarlar. Zaten amaç da Ece Ayhan’ın ısrarla vurguladığı üzere alışılmış algılama tarzını yıkmak, var olan şeylere tersten bakmak ya da ayna tutmaktır. Karşılarında kökleşmiş bir geleneksel, egemen poetik iktidar vardır. Bu poetik iktidar, yansıtmacıdır; şairi yalnızca edilgen bir yansıtıcı nesne olarak görür, doğanın, us ve mantığın güdümündedir; doğallıkla buna uygun mimetik bir dil kullanır. İşte İkinci Yeni, bu poetik iktidara saldırır ve sonuçta Roland Barthes’in dediğiyle uyumlu bir şekilde, önce bu poetik iktidarın dilini yıkmayı amaçlar. Böylece, alışılmış şiir dili değişir; öncekilere göre ‘ters bir dil’dir bu. Alışılmamış bağdaştırmalar, alışılmamış imgeler, alışılmamış ton, şaşırtmaca, sıçrama, birden yol değiştirme, türetilmiş yeni sözcükler< Sonuçta İkinci Yeni, 1956’dan sonra –her yenide olduğu gibi- çoğunlukça yadırganır, yadsınır hatta. Ortak tepki şudur: Bu şiir anlamsızdır, saçmadır, toplumdan, yaşamdan kopuktur vs. Şimdi birkaç örnekle ortak tepkiyi özetlemek istiyorum. Daha 1956 yılının sonlarında; yani İkinci Yeni’yle ilgili tartışma- ların henüz alevlenmeye başladığı yıllarda, zaman zaman Pazar Postası’nda yazıları çıkan Orhan Duru, özellikle Ece Ayhan’ın şiirlerinin bir şey söylemediğini ileri sürer. Bunu, o yıllarda âdeta İkinci Yeni’nin savunuculuğunu üstlenen Muzaffer Erdost’un şu sözlerinden çıkarıyoruz: ‚Geçen akşam Orhan Duru ile konuşuyorduk. Bize ‘Ece Ayhan’ın şiirlerini basacağınıza, Ümit Oğuzcan’ın daha başkalarının şiirlerini basın’ dedi, bunu biraz da eğlenerek söyledi. Çünkü Ece Ayhan’ın şiirleri bir şey söylemiyormuş, ortaçağ şiirine gidiyormuş.‛3 Orhan Kutlugil’in Pazar Postası’nda yayımlanan İkinci Yeni şiirlerine ilişkin sözleri de, o yılların ortak tepkisini yansıt- masını bakımından ilginç. Şöyle diyor Kutlugil, Pazar Postası gazetesinin Sanat-Edebiyat sayfasını yönetenlere seslenerek: http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote3sym#sdfootnote3sym 284 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 ‚Pazar Postası’nın birçok sayfaları ise, kâğıt üzerinde şaircilik oynayan bir koloninin yani ‘İkinci Yeni’cilerin şiir ve hikâyeleri ile dolup taşıyor.‛4 Benzer bir tepkiyi Necati Cumalı, Yeditepe dergisinin 1960’ta ‚İkinci Yeni ve Eleştirmeciler‛ başlığı altında açtığı so- ruşturmaya verdiği yanıtta gösteriyor: ‚Bunların her sözü bir dizi içinde başlayıp bitiyor. Şiirlerindeki her dizinin kendinden önce, kendinden sonra gelen öbür dizilerle hiçbir ilişiği, hiçbir bağlantısı yok. Hayatı, konuşma dilini bıraktılar. Şiir dilinden dem vuruyorlar. Söyledikleri anlaşılmaz, kuş dili cinsinden bir şey.‛5 Aynı soruşturmaya yanıt veren Hikmet Dizdaroğlu da üç aşağı beş yukarı aynı tepkiyi şu tümcelerle ifade ediyor: ‚İkinci Yeni yarım doğmuş bir çocuktu. Ona gerçekten bağlı olanlar bulunduğu gibi, güç- süzlüklerini anlamsızlık perdesi arkasına sak- layarak, saçmaları cevher gibi sunmak isteyenler de vardı.‛6 Bu örnekleri çoğaltmak mümkün; ancak gerek yok. İkinci Yeni’ye gösterilen tepki belli: Dilin bozulması, anlamsızlık, zor anlaşılırlık, toplumdan ve yaşamdan kopukluk vs. Bu tepkiler, aslında bir gerçeği ortaya koyuyor: İkinci Yeni alışılmış bir şiir değil; dili, gerçek anlayışı, imge kuruşu farklı. Tepkiler de bundan dolayı. ‘Yansıtmacı poetika’ya alışmış okur ve eleştirmen, şiirde öncelikle bir anlam, bir öykü, bir konu; resmin diliyle söylersek; figür arıyor ve tabii ki doğa gerçeğine uygun bir kurgu ve bütünlük bulmak istiyor. Oysa İkinci Yeni’de bunlar yok. Sonuç: Şok, yadırgama ve yadsıma. Şimdi iki örnek şiir üzerinde, İkinci Yeni ile kendinden önceki ‘yansıtmacı poetika’ arasındaki farkı görelim. İlk şiir Yahya Kemal’den; http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote4sym#sdfootnote4sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote5sym#sdfootnote5sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote6sym#sdfootnote6sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 285 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Mehlika Sultan Mehlika Sultan’a âşık yedi genç Gece şehrin kapısından çıktı: Mehlika Sultan’a âşık yedi genç Kara sevdalı birer âşıktı. Bir hayalet gibi dünya güzeli Girdiğinden beri rü’yâlarına: Hepsi meshûr, o muamma güzeli Gittiler görmeğe Kaf dağlarına. Hepsi, sırtında abâ, günlerce Gittiler içleri hicranla dolu: Her günün ufkunu sardıkça gece Dediler: ‘Belki son akşamdır bu.’7 << Şiir, aynı alışılmış dil ve ritimle devam ediyor. Bu ne- denle hepsini almaya gerek yok. Ancak yukarıdaki dörtlüklerde bile, şiirin apaçık, duru bir dille yazıldığı, bir anlamı, konusu ve öyküsü olduğu belli. Usu allak bullak etmiyor, şiirde düzenli bir ritim var ve bu ritim üzere yürüyorsunuz; ton dışılık, şaşırtma, yol değiştirme yok; hatta şiirde klasik şiir anlayışından kaynaklanan bir sözcük hiyerarşisi var. Kısacası figüratif bütünlük, doğaya uygunluk, açık konu, anlaşılır ve rafine bir dil ve tamamlanmış bir biçim, bu şiirin başlıca özellikleri. Bu nedenle klasik şiir anlayışına sahip okuru şok etmiyor; bu tür eleştirmenler ya da okurlarca yadırganmıyor. Ayrıca bu şiirin resmi yapılabilir; çünkü figürleri belli, açık ve tam: Uçta, ulaşılmak istenen klasik bir sevgili tipi, diğer yanda ona ulaşmak isteyen âşık yedi genç ve aralarında aşmaları gereken uzun ve belirsiz bir yol ya da dipsiz bir kuyu< Şiiri okuyunca, gözümüzün önünde halk hikâyesi kitaplarının kapaklarındaki gibi bir resim canlanıveriyor hemen. Şimdi İkinci Yeni’den; Ece Ayhan’dan bir şiir alalım: Kınar Hanımın Denizleri Bir çakıl taşları gülümseyişi ağlarmış karafaki rakısıyla şimdi dipsiz kuyulara su olan kınar hanım’dan http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote7sym#sdfootnote7sym 286 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 düz saçlarıyla ne yapsın şehzadebaşı tiyatrolarında şapkalarını tüketemezmiş hiç İşte kel hasan bu kel hasan karanlığı süpürürmüş ters yakılmış güldürmemek için serkldoryan sigaralarıyla işte masallara da girermiş bir polis o zamanlardan beri sürme kirpiklerini aralayarak insanları çocukların Ve içinde birikmiş ut çalan kadın elleri olurmuş hep gibi bir üzünç sökün edermiş akşamları ağlarken kuyulara kınar hanım’ın denizlerinden8 Bu şiirde ise, her şeyden önce alışılmış şiir dili yok; söz- dizimi parçalanmış, dizeler arasında gramatikal ve anlamsal bağ kurmak zor. O nedenle okuru zorluyor, şaşırtıyor ve şok ediyor kimi zaman. Yahya Kemal’in şiiri bütünlük taşıyan bir figüratif tablo, Ece Ayhan’ın şiiri ise, non-figüratif ve parça parça; alışılmış bütünlükten yoksun; dolayısıyla anlam ve konu bakımından net değil. ‚Mehlika Sultan‛da alışılmış bir ton var, okur, baştan bir ritme sokuluyor ve şiirin sonuna değin bu ritim üzere, bildik bir yolda, hiç yoldan çıkmadan, bildik bir ritimle devam ediyor yoluna. Rahat; çünkü nerede yavaşlayacağını, nerede duracağını, nereye gideceğini biliyor. Oysa Ece Ayhan’ın şiiri ton dışı; atonal müzik gibi, belli bir yolu izlemiyor, aniden yol değiştiriyor, sıç- ramalarla rahatsız oluyorsunuz, baş ve son yok, biçim bakımından da sonlandırılmamış. Ayrıca Ayhan’ın şiirini resmetmek zor; ilkin şiiri çerçeveye almak zor, resmedilse dahi bu resimden apaçık bir anlam, bir öykü çıkaramazsınız. O nedenle sınırları belirsiz, ucu açık ve kaotik bir şiirdir İkinci Yeni. Yahya Kemal’in şiirinde ‘kaos’ yok; her şey yerli yerinde; nesneler, varlıklar, imgeler usa ve mantığa uygun konumdalar, figürler net, şiir alışılmış bir ‘âhenk’ ve biçim üzere yürüyor ve belli bir sona ulaşıyor. Doğaya uygunluk, bütünlük, âhenk ve düzen, altın denge, bu şiirin temel nitelikleri. İşte budur İkinci Yeni ile kendinden önceki şiirler arasın- daki fark. Şimdi resimle ilgi kurmak bakımından Suut Kemal Yetkin’in şu tümcelerini alıntılayalım: http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote8sym#sdfootnote8sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 287 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 ‚< bugünün anlamsız şiiri, II. Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra Avrupa’da dahi baş göstermiş ve büyük ölçüde non-figüratif resimden etkilenmiştir. Mademki demişler, bir ressam hiçbir konuyu almadan, alışmış olduğumuz biçimi tuvali üzerine koymadan, yalnız renklerin birbirine girişi, birbirini tamamlayışı ile eser veriyor, o hâlde şair bunu niçin yapmasın. (<) Non-figüratif resimde ise, unsurlar dışarıdan alınmış değildir, hepsi kendilerinindir. Bunun için de yüzde yüz kendinden çıkmıştır ve onun için dümdüz renklerden ibaret düşündüğümüz. İşte buna dayanarak ben diyorum ki, bugünkü anlamsız şiir non-figüratif resmin ta kendisidir.‛9 Burada Yetkin’in asıl amacı İkinci Yeni şiirini eleştirmek; ancak İkinci Yeni ile çağdaş resim arasında kurduğu koşutluk önemli. Konumuz bakımından, Yetkin’in tümcelerinin altı çizil- meli. 1950’li Yıllar: Şiir ve Resimde Görülen Benzer Poetik Değişim Buraya değin, kısaca İkinci Yeni’yi poetik ve pratik açı- dan tanımlamak ve betimlemekti amacım. Kendinden önceki egemen poetika ile karşılaştırarak da, Türk şiirinin İkinci Yeni ile beraber nereden koptuğunu; daha doğrusu bu büyük kırılmayı saptamak istedim. Ama asıl niyetim bu saptamayla beraber sözü resme getirmek, İkinci Yeni şiiri ile o yıllardaki resim poetikası arasındaki koşutluğa dikkati çekmek. Evet, 1950’li yıllarda şiirde bu büyük kırılma ve kopuş yaşanırken, resimde; hatta müzik ve öyküde aynı doğrultuda bir değişimin ortaya çıktığı göze çarpıyor. Nitekim Ahmet Oktay’ın şu tümceleri buna işaret ediyor: ‚Değişim/dönüşüm elbette sadece popüler kültür alanına özgü değildi.Caz müziğinin yanı sıra Atonal müzik de sınırları aştı. 1948’de Adnan Çoker ve Lütfü Günay ilk soyut sergiyi açtılar. Sait Faik yarı gerçeküstücü, yarı fantastik sayılabilecek ve yürürlükteki anlatım tekniklerini dışlayan http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote9sym#sdfootnote9sym 288 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 öykülerini bir araya getiren Son Kuşlar’ı 1952’de, Alemdağı’nda Var Bir Yılan’ı 1954’te yayım- lamıştı.‛10 Sezer Tansuğ ise, Türk Resminde Yeni Dönem adlı yapı- tında, 1950’li yıllarda resimdeki değişimle Türk şiirindeki değişim arasındaki koşutluğa şu satırlarıyla dikkati çekiyor: ‚Resim sanatımızın 1950’li yıllardan bu yana gelişmesi, diğer sanat ve edebiyat alanlarında görülen tavır ve yaklaşım farklılıklarıyla da paralellik gösterir. Garip ve özellikle ikinci yeni hareketleri, şiir sanatı alanında bu paralel değişimin çarpıcı bir örneğini oluşturur.‛11 Kuşkusuz bunlar, genel yargılar. Resim ve şiirdeki koşut değişimi daha somut ve açık biçimde saptamak için, o yıllarda yayımlanan, resmin poetikasına ilişkin yazılara göz atmak gerek. İkinci Yeni’nin oluşumunda önemli bir işleve sahip Pazar Postası, bu konuda da önemli ipuçları içeren yazılara kaynaklık ediyor. Bu nedenle resim ve şiir poetikasındaki koşutluk Pazar Postası’ndan izlenebilir. Örneğin Metin Eloğlu’nun ilk sergisi dolayısıyla yaptığı konuşmada söylediği şu sözler, resimde de İkinci Yeni şiirindekine benzer bir değişimin yaşandığını göstermekte: ‚Ziyaretçilerin bir kısmı fazla soyut resimlerin izahını istiyorlar. İlle de bir öykü arıyorlar onlarda. Bildikleri, ezberledikleri bir anlatım düzeni bulamayınca yadırgıyorlar.‛12 Pazar Postası’nda resimle ilgili en kapsamlı değerlendir- meleri yapan yazarlardan biri ise Mete Şar. Resimde, 1956’dan sonra göze çarpan bu poetik değişmeyi, onun yazılarından izle- mek mümkün. Şar’ın ‚Yenilik Resim Üzerine Konuşular 1‛ başlıklı yazısındaki şu tümceler, Eloğlu’nunkilerle aşağı yukarı aynı ve resimdeki değişimi bir başka açıdan yansıtması nedeniyle önemli: ‚Oysa yenilik yapıtlarda yalnızca gözle görü- lebilecek biçimlerin kaybolması sonucu, resim sanatına karşı apaçık bir dudak büküş ortaya çıktı. Alıştığı biçimleri bulamayan gözlemci neye güzel diyecekti. Gözlemcilerin bunu bir türlü http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote10sym#sdfootnote10sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote11sym#sdfootnote11sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote12sym#sdfootnote12sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 289 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 çözememesi sonucu, yenilik resim ancak mutlu azınlıkça kanıksamadan ilginçlikle gözlendi. Büyük gözlemci toplumu, yenilik yapıtların tümünü sevmedi. Yerdi. Resimde, doğadakinin aynı; bir ağaç, bir kuş, bir ev bulamayan gözlemci, onu saçma buluyordu. (<) Resimde biçimler, hiçbir konuya bir hikâyeymişçesine bağlanmadan, salt çizgiyle renk olarak çıktığında, yaşanılan gerçeğe en yakın durumdadır. (<) ‚Eleştirmecilerin pek çoğu, resim sanatının bu ferdiyetçilik sonucu bir soysuzlaşmaya gittiğini söylüyorlardı. Salt kendi iç dünyasını veren sanatçı, toplumun malı değildir diyorlardı. Oysa yenilik resmin yıllardır hızını kaybetmeden gelişmesi bu sözleri yanıltıyor.‛13 Şar, bu tümcelerinde, modern resmin, doğaya, nesneye, konuya, anlama ve bir öyküye bağlı klasik resim algılamasına bağlı izleyicilerce yadırgandığını, kısacası, soyut ve non-figüratif resmin onlarca ‘saçma’ bulunduğunu ileri sürüyor. Çünkü onlar, resimdeki figürlerin doğadaki gerçeğe uygun olmasını istiyorlar. Oysa Şar, modern resmin doğru yolda olduğunu; çünkü hiçbir konuya bağlanmadan, salt çizgi ve renk olarak çıktığında gerçeğe en yakın durumda bulunduğunu savunuyor. Şimdi İkinci Yeni’nin de, bu tür ‘saçma’, ‘toplumdan kopuk’, ‘bireyci’, ‘konusuz’, ‘anlamsız’ gibi suçlamalarla karşı karşıya kaldığını anımsayalım. Mete Şar, yalnız bu yazıyla kalmıyor; Pazar Postası’nda kaleme aldığı ‚Yenilik Resim Üzerine Konuşular 2: Yenilik Re- simde Konu‛14, ‚Yenilik Resim Üzerine Konuşular 3: Yenilik Akımlarının Evrensel Görüşü‛15, ‚Yenilik Resmin Dili‛16, ‚Gerçek Resmin Evrimi 1‛17, ‚Gerçek Resmin Evrimi 2‛18, ‚Gerçek Resmin Evrimi 3‛19 başlıklı yazılarında da modern resmin doğal gerçekten, koptuğunu, konu ve öykünün arka plâna atıldığını; dolayısıyla resimde de ‘gerçek’ anlayışının değiştiğini ve buna bağlı olarak, resmin dilinin (renk ve biçim) de değiştiğini belirtiyor. Mete Şar’ın yazılarının yanı sıra, Pazar Postası’nda isimsiz olarak yayımlanan ‚Soyut Sanat‛ başlıklı yazı da resimdeki de- http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote13sym#sdfootnote13sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote14sym#sdfootnote14sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote15sym#sdfootnote15sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote16sym#sdfootnote16sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote17sym#sdfootnote17sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote18sym#sdfootnote18sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote19sym#sdfootnote19sym 290 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 ğişimi yansıtması bakımından önemli. O nedenle şu tümcelerin altını çiziyorum: ‚Gerçekten de bugün resimlerin yarısı soyut sanat resimleridir. Ressamların yarısı, resim meraklılarının manzara, kişi, natürmort, deniz, mitolojik, dini, işçi veya askeri gibi şimdiye kadar bizzat resim yapmanın doğrulaması olan figüratif unsurların hiçbirini bulamadıkları eserleri meydana getirmektedirler. Soyut sanatı geleneksel sanattan ayıran temel özellik şudur: Soyut sanat, tuval üzerinde ‘hayatımızın doğal çevresini meydana getiren nesnel gerçek’in herhangi bir unsurunu tanımamıza imkân verecek her şeyden kaçınır.‛20 O dönemde Pazar Postası’nda, sergilere ilişkin yazılanlar da, resimdeki değişimi yansıtması bakımından dikkate değer olabilir. Örneğin Nuri Abaç’ın 22 Mayıs 1957’de açtığı sergi üze- rine Orhan Çetinkaya’nın kaleme aldığı ‚Abaç’ın Sergisi‛ başlıklı yazıda, Abaç’ın hazırladığı broşürden söz edilir. Bu broşür, Abaç’ın resim anlayışını vermesi bakımından önemlidir. Şöyle diyor Abaç broşürde; ‚Biz, resim sanatında maddeciliği, eğilmez bi- çimciliği artık bıraktık. (<) Maddenin çizgilerini tuvale geçirirken kenarlarından canhıraş feryatlar sızıyor. Dimağımızın şuuraltı refleksleri çalışmaya başlayınca boya selleri tuvale akmaya başlar, birbirini takip eden bu selleri tabiatın yerçekimi yasası yoluna koyuyor<. Ressam, şairin dimağında beliren, şuuraltında yeşeren kelime yığınlarına karşılık, renk yığınlarına imgeler ve bu saf renk kümelerinden derlediği salkımları o andaki reflekslerine ve yerçekimi yasalarına biçimler ve tuvaline yerleştirir< En güç iş başarılmıştır. Çünkü sanatçı, ancak yogileşme diyebileceğimiz (şuurlu şuursuzluk), şuur altına inme esnasında, konsantrasyon derecesine göre, en bakir anlamını yaşayacaktır.‛21 http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote20sym#sdfootnote20sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote21sym#sdfootnote21sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 291 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Yine aynı tarihlerde Pazar Postası’nda, F. Güden’in Ali Helvacı’nın sergisi dolayısıyla kaleme aldığı yazı da Türk res- mindeki değişimi yansıtması nedeniyle ilginç. Güden’in ‚Ali Büyükhelvacı’nın Resimleri ya da Paul Klee’ye Selâm‛22 adlı yazısı ilkin başlığıyla bize Türk ressamlarının etkilendiği resim anlayışını vermesi bakımından önemli. Başlıktan da anlaşıldığı üzere Ali Büyükhelvacı Paul Klee’den etkilenmiş bir ressam. Bu önemli; çünkü Paul Klee, İkinci Yeni’yi de etkilemiş bir sanatçı. Güden, Klee’nin resimleri için şu saptamaları yapıyor yazısında: ‚Klee dünyasını elma, ayvanın dış görünüşüyle, çıplak insan suretleriyle kurmuyordu. Simgelerinde, düzeninde aklı allak bullak eden bir yön vardı.‛23 Usun allak bullak edilmesi, başta İlhan Berk olmak üzere, çoğu İkinci Yeni şairince benimsenmiş bir poetik anlayış. Güden aynı tavrı, Helvacıoğlu’nun resimlerinde de görmekte. Nitekim şöyle diyor Helvacıoğlu’nun resimleri için: ‚Bakın Çiçek Bahçesi’ne, Paul Klee’nin portresine, kolay yenilikçi resimleri görmeye alışmış gözler onlarda hiçbir şey göremeyecek.. (<) Ağaç suretlerinden kasımpatının sarısından, papatyanın beyazından kaçıyor o. Biliyor ki bütün bunların renklerini değiştirmekle boylarını kısaltıp genişletmekle yani bir ‘deformation’la herkesin anlayabileceği resimlerden kaçıyor.‛24 Türk resminde, 1950’li yıllardaki değişimi göstermek için seçtiğim son örnek yazı, Cemil Eren’in Türk-Amerikan Der- neği’nde açtığı kişisel sergi dolayısıyla Kaya Özsezgin tarafından kaleme alınmış. Özsezgin yazısında ressam Cemil Eren’in gö- rüşlerine de yer vermiş. Cemil Eren, soyut resmin, çağın bir gereği olduğu inancında ve çağdaş resmin en büyük sorununun renk, biçim ve kişilik olduğunu belirtiyor25. İkinci Yeni şiirinde de dil ve kişiliğin çok önemli olduğunu anımsarsak, o yıllarda resim ile şiirin ortak bir poetik alanda buluştuğunu rahatlıkla söyleyebiliriz. Mete Şar’ın resimde doğal gerçek ve konuya ilişkin olarak söylediği; ‚İlkin sanatçının, daha doğrusu dünkü sanatçının; kendine hareket noktası olarak doğa biçimlerinin dış görünüşünü seçmesi, halk http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote22sym#sdfootnote22sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote23sym#sdfootnote23sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote24sym#sdfootnote24sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote25sym#sdfootnote25sym 292 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 arasında resimde konunun her şeyin başı olduğu sanısını uyandırdı. Oysa sanatçı için konu, yapıtında bir fırça, bir palet gibi, bir araçtan farksızdı. İşte dünkü sanatçının bu yolda ilerlemesi, konunun halka daha ilginç olmasını, dolayısı ile yanlış bir resim diline ulaşmasını sağladı.‛26 biçimindeki tümceler, modern resimde konunun başat öğe olmaktan çıktığını gösteriyor. İlhan Berk de aşağıdaki tümcelerinde, şiir için aynı düşünceleri ileri sürüyor: ‚Gerçek şiir aslını ararsak, konuda değildir bir kere. (<) Beş altı yıl önce şiiri şiir yapanın konu olduğunu ben de buz gibi söylerdim. Bugün iyi şiirin, gerçek şiirin konuyla ilgisi olmadığını söylüyorum.‛27 Bütün bunlar, 1950’li yıllarda ortaya çıkan değişik resim ve şiirlerin ‘anlamsız, konusuz, us ve mantığa aykırı, alışılmış algılama tarzına ters’ gibi nitelemelerle, ortak bir tepkiye maruz kaldıklarını göstermektedir. Aslında yalnızca bu tepkiler bile, 1950’li yıllarda şiir ve resmin ortak bir poetik alanda buluştuğunu kanıtlar. Kısaca söylemek gerekirse, o yıllarda Türk resmi ve Türk şiiri, ‘doğaya bağlı, doğaya uygun gerçeklik’ anlayışını hızla aşındırmaya, yıkmaya başlamış; dili ve algılama tarzını değiştirmiştir. Bu ise, temelde ‘yansıtmacı poetika’dan kopuşun göstergesidir. İkinci Yeni Şairlerinin Resme İlgisi Buraya değin, 1950’li yıllarda resim ile İkinci Yeni şiirinin benzer bir değişim içinde olduklarını ve bu nedenle genel anlamda ortak bir poetik alanda buluştuklarını ifade etmeye çalıştım. Şimdi daha somut olarak, İkinci Yeni şairlerinin resim ilgisi üzerinde durmak istiyorum. Ancak burada örneğin İlhan Berk’in resimlerini ya da Cemal Süreya’nın desenlerini söz konusu edecek değilim. Amacım, aslında; ‚İkinci Yeni şiiriyle resim sanatı arasında bir etkileşim olmuş mu? Bir etkileşim varsa, -en azından şiir açısından bir etkilenme söz konusuysa- bunun somut örnekleri neler? İşte bu sorulara yanıt bulmaya çalışmak. Söz konusu soruların yanıtlarını bir ölçüde, Cemal Süreya’nın günlüğündeki şu satırlarda bulabiliyoruz. Süreya, bize İkinci Yeni şairlerinin kimilerinin resim sanatıyla olan ilgileri hakkında şu bilgileri veriyor: http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote26sym#sdfootnote26sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote27sym#sdfootnote27sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 293 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 ‚Birkaçımızda büyük resim tutkusu vardı. Boyuna albümleri karıştırırdık. Sözgelimi, Edip Cansever’le ben. Sezai Karakoç, resme başka bir açıdan bakardı, ama bakardı. (Mülkiye Dergisi’nde onun Mona Roza’larını ben desenlemiştim, takma adım da Charles Suarez, yani C:S.) Ece’nin resme önem verdiğini biliyordum. Metin Eloğlu, zaten ressamdı. Karıştırırdık albümleri (ne albümler ama): Chagall ne yapmış? Yüksel Arslan? Arkadaşımızdı Yüksel Arslan. Edgü de arkadaşımız< Edip’le resmin sorunları üzeride çok konuştuk. Onun Kapalıçarşı’da, Sandal Bedesteni’ndeki dükkânının üst katındaki masasının bir bölümünde resim albümleri Himalayalar gibi yükselirdi. Çoğu da İngilizce. (<) Soyuta da vakit ayırmışızdır. Yine de Edip’le figürsüze pek yanaşmadığımız kalmış aklımda (yanaşamıyorduk belki de). Öyle bir kültürümüz oluşmamıştı. (<) 1957’de miydi? Michel Seuphor’un Soyut Resim Sözlüğü’nü (Dictionnaire de La Peinture Abstraite) almıştım. Kitabın gerçekten çok önemli (benim için bugün daha önemli) önsözünü Edip’e çevirerek okumuştum. Unutamam o önsözü önemli bulmuştuk da, sözlükteki resim örneklerinin üzerinde fazlaca durmamıştık. Yine de figürü tam anlamıyla yitirmemiş sanatçılar (Kandinsky vb.) ilgimizi çekiyordu. Bir de, her şeyin ötesinde, Klee. Çok başkaydı, hayatımızda bizim Klee. Klee’yi an- layabiliyorduk.‛28 Bu sözler şunu gösteriyor: 1950’li yıllarda Cemal Süreya, Edip Cansever, Sezai Karakoç, resim sanatına ilgi gösteriyorlar. Hatta Süreya desenler dahi yapıyor, resmin sorunlarıyla kuramsal düzeyde ilgileniyor da. Paul Klee, Marc Chagall ve Kandinsky, ilgilerini çeken başlıca ressamlar. Ancak İkinci Yeni şairleri içinde resim sanatıyla –şiirle ilişki kurmak veya pratik anlamda- en çok ilgilenen şair, İlhan Berk’tir kuşkusuz. Abidin Dino’nun verdiği http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote28sym#sdfootnote28sym 294 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 bilgiye göre, şairin resim tutkusu 1939’da başlıyor. Şöyle anlatıyor Dino, Berk’teki resim tutkusunun başlangıcını: ‚1939 senesi idi İlhan Berk İstanbul’a geldiğinde, güleç bir dikey olarak Komando Han’daki atölyemin demirbaşları arasında karıştı. Galata Kulesi çizgisinde, en üst katta bulunan iş yerim, eşgüdümlü bir resim ve şiir üretme fabrikası olmuştu çabucak. (<) Korkarım ki İlhan Berk’in kaderi, -hele ressam olarak- her duvarı ayrı bir renge boyanmış Komando Han’da ‘bağlandı’. Orada tutuldu resim denen ince hastalığa.‛29 Bu ince hastalık, Berk’te daha sonra da yıllarca sürüp gi- decektir< Ancak bu bir yana, şairin resmin olanaklarını şiire taşıma çabası dikkat çekicidir. Nitekim o, ‚Bir şiir yazacağım zaman, şiirin konusuyla ilgili resimlere bakmaya bayılırım.‛30 diyerek bu çabasını açıklar. Örneğin bir gün Max Ernst’in Le Chevalier Polonais adlı tablosunu keser, ona uzun uzun bakar, resimdeki belirsizliktir, usu hiçe saymadır Berk’i çeken, onda ayrıca bir şiir bulur31. Bir başka gün Carpaccio’nun Kötü Kadınlar resmidir ilgi- sini çeken32, kimi zaman Picasso’ya vurulur; Leda’yı yazabilmek için, onun çıplak resimlerine33 bakar, Delvaux’nun Leda’sına bulur34. Io’nun öyküsünü yazmak için de Le Correge’in Io resmini ele geçirip ona bakar günlerce35, Io’nun desenini çizer. Ardından Cranash’ın Diane Endormie adlı tablosunu inceler, ondan etkilenir, Cranash’a baka baka bir desen çizer36. Bütün bunlar Berk’in, yazacağı şiirin konusuyla ilgili resimleri incelediğini, resimler aracılığıyla şiirin evrenine girmeyi denediğini gösteriyor. Dolayısıyla resim, onun için şiir yazmada bir esin kaynağı olabiliyor. İşte bu nedenle önemlidir resim İlhan Berk’te. Kuşkusuz Berk, şiirde resmin olanaklarından yararlanma konusunda İkinci Yeni’nin en uçtaki şairi ve bizi ilgilendiren de asıl bu yönüdür. 1950’lerde Türk resmine olduğu gibi, Berk’in şiirine somut olarak etkiyen ressamlardan biri de, kuşkusuz Paul Klee. Klee, Berk için önemli bir ressam. Şair, Klee’ye olan hay- ranlığını düzyazılarında da sık sık dile getirmiştir. Örneğin El Yazılarına Vuruyor Güneş’te şunları söylüyor onun için: http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote29sym#sdfootnote29sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote30sym#sdfootnote30sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote31sym#sdfootnote31sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote32sym#sdfootnote32sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote33sym#sdfootnote33sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote34sym#sdfootnote34sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote35sym#sdfootnote35sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote36sym#sdfootnote36sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 295 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 ‚İşte o günlerin birinde Paul Klee’nin resimlerini gördüm. Bu arada Salvador Dali de var, var ya onu eskiden biliyordum. Klee, galiba şimdilerde adı en çok geçen ressamlardan. Adı, daha 1944’te öldüğü hâlde, şimdi duyuldu diyeceğim neredeyse. Bunu biraz da suretsiz resmin yayılmasına borçluyuz belki. (<) Klee soyut resmin bir bakıma Picasso’dan sonra biricik büyük ustası galiba. Picasso gibi bir ressam yaşarken onu hâlâ soyut resmin ustalarından biri gibi görmek belki güç bir şey, ama Klee’nin böyle bir yönü var işte. Klee, o köylünün dediğini yapıyor: Olmayanı. Sarı kuşlu manzarası böyle bir resim. Sonra Ad Marginem, Garip Bahçe, Vahşi Adam. Öteki resimleri tüm bilmediğimiz biçimlerin resimleri hep. Ad Marginem’in bir baskısını aldım. Bir on beş gündür de hep ona bakıyorum. Bakmaya doyamıyorum.‛37 Bu satırlarda, Berk’in Klee’ye olan ilgisi açık. Ancak şair yalnızca izleyici olarak bakmıyor onun resimlerine; şiirlerine de etkiyor, esin kaynağı oluyor Klee’nin resimleri. Örneğin ‚Paul Klee’de Uyanmak‛ adlı şiirinin esin kaynağı, Klee’nin Ad Marginem adlı tablosu. Berk, bunu bir yazısında şöyle açıklıyor: ‚Resimlerden yıllardır duygulanırım. Şimdi Klee’nin bana yaptığı bir bakıma bu. Bir haftadır Klee beni coşturuyor. Duvardaki o resmi büyük bir şiire doğru götürüyor beni. Adını buldum bile: Klee’de Uyanmak. Belki de son mısraı şöyle olacak: A’lar U’lar, V’lerle olmak, Paul Klee’de uyanmak.‛38 Tablo ile şiir yan yana konunca, Klee’nin tablosundaki renk, ışık ve görüntünün; ama daha da önemlisi düşsel atmosferin, Berk’in şiirine ne denli yansıdığı daha açık biçimde fark ediliyor. Şiir şöyle: Paul Klee’de Uyanmak Uyandım çiçek gibi dayanılmaz kızlar Ad Marginem’den asma köprüler kurmuşlar İstanbul’a Nehirler, aylar çevirmişler o Ayla’lar, Münibe’ler http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote37sym#sdfootnote37sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote38sym#sdfootnote38sym 296 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Tümü bir uzak denizde A’lar, V’ler, U’larla Gece sarı bir evde bir iki yaprak evlerinin önünde Açtı açacaklar dünyamızı açtı açacaklar Bu denizi Ayla ayaklarını soksun diye getirdim Bu dünyaları onun için açtım bu balıkları tuttum Bir sabah çıkmak güneşler, aylar bir sabah çıkmak Bir ağacı bu evleri sarı ters bir kuşu düzeltmek Edibe bu sokağı al götür görmek istemiyorum Edibe bu evleri Edibe bu göğü bu güneşleri Edibe A’lar V’ler U’larla olmak Paul Klee’de uyanmak39 Resim 1: Paul Klee, Ad Marginem Şimdi, bir de Ad Marginem’e bakalım. Ad Marginem, Paul Klee’nin saf psikolojik doğaçlama (emprevizyon) değerlerine bağlı kalarak, bilinçaltı bunalımlarını dile getirdiği lirik bir yapıt. Schönberg’in besteleriyle benzerlikler gösteren Klee resimleri, minyatür anlayışında yapılandırılmıştır. Resimde kullanılan harfler, birer değer simgesidir. Bu simgeler, insanın kendisini var ettiği yaşamın ve edimin simgeleri. Mısır resim yazısında kullanılan kuş, düşünceden özgürleştirilerek, doğadaki varlığına kavuşturulurken, uzaklardaki erişilmez güneş, yaşamın ortasında http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote39sym#sdfootnote39sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 297 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 masum bir duygulanım simgesine dönüşmüştür. Resmin her yanına serpiştirilmiş gözler, ürkek modern insanın korkularını taşır. Paul Klee, bu tabloda sanki Buda’nın; ne özdekte ne de ruhta hiçbir şey sürekli değildir, ne biçim ne de öz sürekli değildir. Her şey gelip geçicidir. Evrende ancak olaylar vardır. Bunlar da geçici olarak bir araya gelip, yalan ve boş bir ben’ le, yalan ve boş bir dünya yaratırlar, deyişini resmetmiştir. Tabloda, biçimler aracılığıyla kurulan, geçici olarak bir araya gelmiş, yalan ve boş bir ‘ben’le, yalan ve boş bir dünya, geçici/düşsel bir atmosfer hemen göze çarpmaktadır. Şimdi, Berk’in, Paul Klee’nin resimlerine neden ilgi duy- duğu sorusu akla gelebilir. Bana kalırsa Klee ile Berk, sanat anla- yışı bakımından akraba. Paul Klee’nin resimleri de usa, mantığa bağlı değil, usu allak bullak eden cinsten. Doğaya bağlı, yansıtmacı klasik figüratif anlayış yok Klee’de, figürler doğadan koparılmış, yerlerinden oynatılmış, belli bir konu veya öyküye dayanmıyor; zengin çağrışımlarla yüklü soyut bir evren var onun resimlerinde. Kısacası Klee, görüneni değil görünmeyeni göstermek peşinde. Burada söylediklerimizi daha anlaşılır kılmak için bir ressam ile bir köylü arasında geçen şu konuşmaları aktarmalıyım: Ormanda ağaç resmi yapan bir ressama, köylü sorar: - Ne yapıyorsunuz? Ressam - Şu gördüğün ağacı, der. Köylü karşılık verir: - O, zaten var. Klee, ‚zaten var‛ olanın peşinde değildir resimde. Berk’in deyişiyle; ‚Klee, o köylünün dediğini yapıyor: olmayanı.‛ Nitekim ‚Sanat görüneni kopya etmek değil, görünmeyeni gösterebilmektir.‛ diyor ressam. İlhan Berk’in şiirleri de öyle; alışılmamış, us dışı ve özgür imgelerle soyut bir dünyaya, ‘var olmayan’a, ‘düşsel evren’e açılıyor. Hatta bunu; yani var olandan kopup var olmayana ulaşma ve onu dile getirme isteğini, ‚Paul Klee’de Uyanmak‛ başlıklı şiirinde; ‚Edibe bu sokağı al götür görmek istemiyorum/Edibe bu evleri Edibe bu göğü bu güneşleri Edibe‛ dizelerinde dile getiriyor 298 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 da. İşte Berk, bundan dolayı Klee’ye yakın. Nitekim kendisi de Klee’ye olan ilgisinin nedenini şu tümcelerinde açıklıyor: ‚Her gün biraz daha düşsever bir ozan olmaya doğru gidiyorum: Usu hor görüyorum. Klee’yi, Max Ernst’i, Miro’u sevişimi böyle açıklıyorum. Figüratif resime bakamaz oldum.40 Berk’i Klee’yle aynı düzlemde buluşturan bir başka yön; biçim anlayışları. Klee, biçime ilişkin düşüncesini; ‚Hiçbir zaman ve hiçbir yerde eksiksiz sonuç, eksiksiz bitirme, eksiksiz son de- ğildir. Biçimi oluş olarak (tekevvün) devinim olarak düşünmek gerekir.‛ tümceleriyle özetliyor. Belli ki o, geleneksel sanatın tamamlanmış biçim savının olanaksızlığına inanıyor; Bergson’ un 1910 yılında yayımlanan ‚Yaratıcı Evrim- Evolution Creative‛ adlı yapıtından esinlenen kavramlarla devinim olgusunu anlamlandırma çabasında. Buradan yola çıkarak Klee’nin resimlerine, sonuçtan çok sürecin önem kazandığı biçim anlayı- şının egemen olduğu söylenebilir. Sonuçta bu süreç, bitmemiş biçim, onun resimlerine eylem (action) ve mekanik olmayan or- ganik bir devinim olarak yansımaktadır. Aynı şeyleri Berk’in şiirleri için de söyleyebiliriz. Onun şiirlerinde de sonuç değil, süreç vardır, tamamlanmamış, dağınık, geçici olarak var olmuş, hatta raslantısal informal bir devinim. Ayrıca Klee, Berk’te harf sevgisi uyandırmıştır. Gerçekten de o, kimi resimlerinde, harfleri bir çağrışım uyandıracak biçimde kullanmıştır. Bu tarz, ondan Berk’e de geçer. İlhan Berk, şiirlerinde harfleri, biçimlerinden yola çıkarak bir çağrışım aracı olarak kullanır. Şair, Klee’nin bu etkisini; ‚Bana harf sevgisini düşünüyorum da, Klee verdi diyorum. 6 yıldır Klee’nin Ad Marginem’i karşımda durur; bakmaya doyamamışımdır. İlk o, galiba V’de, U’da, r’de, L’de plastik bir güzellik olduğunu bulmuş; onları tablosuna saçmış. Ben harflere resimden başka bir gözle bakamam oldum bittim. Alfabelere doyamam. (<) Latin alfabesinde, en sevdiğim harfler: A, f, M, U, r, C, e. Bu harfler resimden başka bir şey düşündürmez bana.‛41 sözleriyle belirtiyor. ‚A’lar V’ler U’larla olmak Paul Klee’de uyanmak‛42, ‚E sesinde yüzlerce trenler yürürdü Galile’de‛43, ‚Böyle bütün gece konuştu bütün gece f bütün gece bindi on/bindi yüz bindi baktık‛44, ‚Sonra büyük bir T çizdi ne güzel çizdi büyük bir T büyük/kuşlar geçiyordu‛45, ‚A harfinden bir http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote40sym#sdfootnote40sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote41sym#sdfootnote41sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote42sym#sdfootnote42sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote43sym#sdfootnote43sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote44sym#sdfootnote44sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote45sym#sdfootnote45sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 299 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 çarşı güneşi yüzünüzde‛, ‚Bir f’ydinizi Önasya’larda o şey evlerde‛, ‚Şimdi h şimdi M sesi ilk nasıl karanlık‛46 gibi dizeler, Klee resimlerinin Berk’teki etkisini gösteren örnekler. Resim 2: Paul Klee Resim 3: Paul Klee Berk ayrıca Paul Klee’nin resimlerinin adlarından da et- kilenmiş. Siyah Hâlâ Yerinde, Artık Gün Üstüne Natürmort, Sonbahar Elçisi gibi tablo adlarında bir şiir buluyor şair. Hatta Klee’nin resimlerini bir şiir olarak değerlendiriyor. Onun tablolarının usu yıktığını, dağıttığını, parçaladığını söylüyor47. Berk, bunların dışında çeşitli sergiler üzerine de yazılar kaleme almış. Örneğin ‚‚Orhan Peker‛48, ‚Turan Erol Resmi‛49, ‚Türemen’in Resimleri Üzerine‛50, ‚Sessiz Tenha Bir Çekirdek‛51, ‚Yves Klein/ Orhan Peker‛52 başlıklı yazıları bu türden. Kuşkusuz söz konusu yazılar da İlhan Berk’in resim ilgi- sinin bir başka kanıtı. Tabii bu tür yazılar bir ilginin göstergesi ama; başta da söylediğimiz gibi, biz asıl resmin şiire yansımaları üzerinde duruyoruz. Yukarıda söylendiği gibi, İlhan Berk’in ‚Paul Klee’de Uyanmak‛ başlıklı şiiri, bunun en somut örneği. Ancak başka şiirler de var. Örneğin ‚Pablo Picasso‛. Şiirin ‚Nu au fauteuil noir‛ başlıklı bölümünde, Picasso’nun aynı adlı tab- losunun etkisi hemen göze çarpıyor: Pablo Picasso < Nu au fauteuil noir http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote46sym#sdfootnote46sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote47sym#sdfootnote47sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote48sym#sdfootnote48sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote49sym#sdfootnote49sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote50sym#sdfootnote50sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote51sym#sdfootnote51sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote52sym#sdfootnote52sym 300 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Bir ağaç gördüğü pencerenin Çiçeğe durdu duracak Koltuğunki eller saçlar gözler Eller saçlar gözler bir başına Kadın bir gökyüzüne bakıyor Kadın hiç kımıldamıyor hiç konuşmuyor bakıyor Bakıyor bakmakla bitecek gibi değil gökyüzü diyor Pencere bir daha böyle durmam diyor Ne maviler ne karalar bilin ki bir daha böyle durmayız diyorlar Binde bir bu dünyada beklediğimiz o binde bir söylediği şairlerin bu işte Böyle duracağız diyor eller Bizi hiç kimse bir daha yerimizden oynatayım demeyecek Saçlar böyle kalacağız diyor İlk bu mutluluk her şeyi ilk görüyoruz diyorlar Odada ne varsa soba, ayna ve daha ne varsa bunun gibi bunun gibi bir kıyıda duran Bunu diyor. Hepsi bir şey söylüyor Hepsi bir şeye bakıyor Picasso yalnız onlara. <<<<<<<<..53 Resim 4: Paul Klee, Nu Au Fauteuil Noir Picasso’nun ‚Nu au fauteuil noire‛ adlı resmi ile bu şiir yan yana getirildiğinde, Berk’in söz konusu tabloyu şiirleştirdiği, bu tablonun, ruhunda uyandırdığı duyguları dile getirdiği açık http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote53sym#sdfootnote53sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 301 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 biçimde görülecektir. Türkçeye ‚Siyah Koltuktaki Çıplak Kadın‛ diye çevirebileceğimiz tabloda, Berk’in şiirinde betimlediği gibi, pencerenin gördüğü, çiçeğe durdu duracak bir ağaç ve siyah koltukta gökyüzüne hiç kımıldamadan, konuşmadan bakan bir kadın vardır. Bu tablo, Berk’in şiirine esin kaynağı olmuştur. Şair, Picasso’dan ‚Guernica‛ adlı şiirinde de söz ediyor. Bilindiği üzere ‚Guernica‛, Picasso’nun, Alman ordularının Guernica kasabasını bombalamasını betimleyen en ünlü yapıtla- rından biri. 1937’de yapılmış. Picasso, bir sergisi sırasında kendi- sine, ‘Bu resmi siz mi yaptınız?’ diye soran bir Alman generaline, ‘Hayır, siz yaptınız!’ diye yanıt verdiği rivayet olunur. Berk, bu şiirinde de Picasso’nun ‚Guernica‛54 adlı tablo- suna bakarak, savaşı, boğazlaşmayı, insanların birbirlerini katle- dişini anlatıyor. Önce resimdeki ‘ampul’ ve onun uyandırdığı tehlike ve korkunun şiire yansıması: ‚Yüz mumluk lamba bir yandı bir söndü Öldü dirildi Guernica‛ Ve resimdeki boğa figürüyle birlikte, savaşın dehşet ve karmaşası şiire şu sözcüklerle yansıyor: ‚Daha sabah Ağaç kararmamıştı Boğayı gördüm Boğayla beraber yüzlerce adamı gördüm ilk defa Guernica ana baba günüydü‛ http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote54sym#sdfootnote54sym 302 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Resim 5: Picasso, Guernica Resim bir saldırıyı, katliamı betimliyor. Bu karmaşa, saldırı ve katliam, Berk’te şiirsel imgelere şöyle dönüşüyor: ‚Su gerisingeriye akıyor Kuş gerisingeriye uçuyor Ağaç gerisingeriye Bir fırtına bir yangın Öyle bir şey Göz gözü görmüyor göz tabaktaki uskumruyu boyun boyuna biberi domatesi görmüyor Belli savaş Belli ölüm‛ Tabloda elinde lâmbayla bir kadın figürü var. Berk, bu figürü şiir diliyle şöyle betimlemiş: ‚Daha sabah Ananın uykusu var Elinde bir lamba dolaşıyor habire dolaşıyor Kırmızılar sarılar siyahlar konuşuyor‛ Sonuçta, İlhan Berk’in bu şiiri, insanların birbirlerini nasıl acımasızca katlettiğini, savaşın dehşetini, acısını, diğer yanda kimi insanların vahşi duygularını anlatıyor. Ancak şairin bu duyguları, Picasso’nun ‚Guernica‛ adlı tablosundan hareketle vermesi İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 303 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 önemli. Dolayısıyla bu örnek bize, bir resmin Berk’in şiirine nasıl esin kaynağı olduğunu, şiir diliyle nasıl betimlendiğini gösteriyor. Berk’in Galile Denizi adlı yapıtında, kimi şiirlerinde adı geçen ressamlardan biri de İvi Stangali. Sezer Tansuğ’un verdiği bilgilere göre, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu’nun atölyesinde yetişmiş bir Rum ressam. Kent atmosferine masal duyarlığıyla yaklaşmış bir sanatçı55. Ece Ayhan ve Nevin Çokay’dan öğrendiğimize göre, 1963-64’te yurt dışına çıkarılmış56, Yunanistan’a göç etmek zorunda kalmış ve orada ölmüş. Berk, ilkin ‚İvi Stangali‛57 başlıklı şiirinde söz ediyor ondan: ‚Her şeyimiz alınmış bir dünyadaydık Umutsuzduk, yitiktik. <<. Baksak nereden Ufuk yıkık, ütüktü Birden İvi Stangali’nin resimleri çıktı geldi Yalnız değildik artık Gittik ağaçlarla sularla namuslu bir yerde durduk İlk kez mutlu.‛ Şiirdeki dizelerden anlaşıldığına göre, Stangali’nin re- simleri aydınlık ve umut yüklü, insana umut aşılıyor. Şairin İvi’den söz ettiği ikinci şiir, ‚İvi Sabahı‛58. Bu şiirde de büyük olasılıkla Stangali’nin resimlerinin kendi üzerinde uyandırdığı duyguları dile getiriyor Berk. Aşağıdaki dizelerden İvi’nin resimlerinin aydınlık, umut dolu, mutluluk saçan yapıtlar olduğu anlaşılıyor: İvi Sabahı İvi uyandı Bıçak pencere onunla uyandı İlk gök yüzü geçti önünden İvi güldü Çingene kızları denizi dört ucundan tutup getirdiler Dürüp bıraktılar Sarı erikler geldi odayı sarıya boyadı İvi gökyüzünü alıp İstanbul’a indi Bir sevinç İvi’yi gören İstanbul’da http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote55sym#sdfootnote55sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote56sym#sdfootnote56sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote57sym#sdfootnote57sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote58sym#sdfootnote58sym 304 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Baktığı her şey beni çiz diyor İvi’ye Bir yüz para çiz diyor Bir rüzgâr Galata Kulesi’ne çarpıp geçiyor İvi ışıyor. Berk’in İvi Stangali’den söz ettiği bir başka şiir ‚İvi Işığı‛59 başlığını taşıyor. Şiirin esin kaynağı, belli ki yine Stangali’nin resimleri. Şu dizeler, İvi Stangali’nin resimlerini özetlemekte: İvi Işığı <<< İvi yaptığı resimleri düşündü Karaları aklara çevirdiği resimleri düşündü Bir başına bir karayı bir akı nereye getirip koyduysa Para etmiyordu Gördü yalnızlık Nereye konursa neresinden tutulursa nereye götürülürse Bir sokağa çıkarılsın bir pencereye konsun denize çıkarılsın ister Gidecek şey değildi insana. Kuleyi anladı İvi Denizi tutup ayağına getirdi. <<<.. İvi insanları aldı Yaşamaya çalışmaya yolladı.‛ Bu örnekler Berk’in bir esin kaynağı olarak ya da yaza- cağı şiir üzerinde yoğunlaşmak için, resimden yararlandığını gösteriyor. Bir anlamda kimi resimler onun şiirine yansıyor, şiirle dile geliyor. Berk’in yanı sıra resimle ilgilenen; hatta şiirlerinde resmin olanaklarından yararlanan bir başka şair Cemal Süreya. Onun daha Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi’ndeyken Charles Suarez takma adıyla desenler çizdiğini biliyoruz. Sezai Karakoç’un Mülkiye dergisinde çıkan ‚Mona Roza‛larını desenleyen Süreya. Berk’i etkileyen ressamlardan Paul Klee ve Marc Chagall, Cemal Süreya’nın da en çok ilgisini çeken sanatçılar. Bu ilgiyi; ‚Daha sonra Klee’nin albümünü karıştırdım. Bir zamanlar Edip Cansever’le ne çok bakardık Klee’ye! Chagall’dan sonra ona yönelmiştik.(<) Yemek http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote59sym#sdfootnote59sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 305 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 masasının üzerine sarkan yeni abajurun camına suluboya ile Klee’nin iki deseninin kopyasını yaptım. Biri Donkişot’un atı Rosinante.‛ 60 sözleriyle açıklıyor şair. Chagall içinse şunları söylüyor: ‚Kaç zamandır Chagall’dayım. Az bir şair değil o. ‘Yazmam daha aşk şiiri’ adlı şiirimi onun etkisinde yazdım. Ressamlar kadar şairlerin de çok öğreneceği şey var ondan. Ben kendi payıma, kimsedeki Chagall’daki kadar adamı çarpan, bozan, alıp götüren şiirsel çağrışımlar görmedim. (<) Yeni şiir, yeni şiirin birçok olanakları var onda. (<) < şiir için Chagall çok iyi ve güzel. Chagall.‛61 Bu satırlarda dikkati çeken bir bilgi daha var. Cemal Süreya’nın da bir resimden etkilenerek şiir yazdığı. Şairin verdiği bilgiye göre ‚Yazmam Daha Aşk Şiiri‛ adlı şiirini Marc Chagall’ın bir resminden esinlenerek yazmış. Şu iki dizesindeyse yine aynı ressam karşımıza çıkıyor: Sığınacak yer kalmadı Chagall’daki eşeğin gözünden başka62 Bu beytin esin kaynağı ise, Chagall’ın ‚I and the village‛ adlı tablosu. Resim 6: Cahagall, I and The Village Cemal Süreya’nın şiirlerinde, az da olsa kimi ressamlara rastlamak olası. Örneğin ‚Dalga‛63 şiirinde; ‚İki gemiciynen Van Gogh’dan aşırılmış/ Bir kadının yüzü ha ha ha.‛ dizelerinde Van Gogh http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote60sym#sdfootnote60sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote61sym#sdfootnote61sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote62sym#sdfootnote62sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote63sym#sdfootnote63sym 306 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 karşımıza çıkıyor, ‚Aslan Heykelleri‛64nde ise, nüleriyle tanınan Amadeo Modigliani’nin adı; üstelik nülerini çağrıştıracak bir biçimde kullanıyor bu adı Süreya: ‚Bir senin gözlerin var zaten daha yok Ya bu başını alıp gidiş boynundaki Modiglianı oğlu Modigliani‛ Resim 7: Amadeo Modigliani Cemal Süreya’nın şiirlerinde erotizmin geniş bir yer tut- tuğu anımsanırsa, neden Amadeo Modigliani’ye ilgi duyduğu açığa kavuşur sanırım. Süreya’nın yanı sıra şiirle resim arasında ilgi kuran şair- lerden biri de Edip Cansever. Bu ilgide sanırım, 18 yaşındayken ilk şiirlerini gösterdiği Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın önerilerinin payı var. Çünkü Tanpınar, ilk şiir denemelerini okuduktan sonra Cansever’in önüne birçok resim yayar ve ona resme nasıl bakıl- ması gerektiğini anlatır. Şair de bu öneriye uyarak bir sürü resim alır65. Bunun dışında kızı Nuran Birol’un aktardığına göre, ressam Orhan Peker’e hayrandır66. Ancak İlhan Berk, Cemal Süreya gibi Cansever’in de en çok ilgi duyduğu ressamlardan birinin Marc Chagall olduğunun altı çizilmelidir. Bu ilgi, Cansever’in ‚Chagall‛67 adlı şiirine doğrudan yansımıştır: http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote64sym#sdfootnote64sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote65sym#sdfootnote65sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote66sym#sdfootnote66sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote67sym#sdfootnote67sym İkinci Yeni Şiiri ve Resim 307 Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Chagall Bir testi bir tabak Şinana Chagall Üstünde balık içinde balık Şinana Chagall Altında yanında tatlı kuruluk Şinana Chagall Şu kasap dediğin ne kötü mahluk Şinana Chagall Bir bitki yürümüş gitmiş Şinana Chagall Atlardan uzunca böcekten küçük Şinana Chagall Burası ne dünyada bir yer Şinana Chagall Asım Bezirci ise, şairin ‚Kesin‛, ‚Aaaa‛, ‚Horozla Mer- diven‛, ‚Var Var‛, ‚Uyanınca Çocuk Olmak‛ adlı şiirlerinde resme özgü teknikleri kullandığını ileri sürer; hatta Marc Chagall’ın ‚Femme Enceint‛ adlı tablosuyla ‚Var Var‛ şiiri ve Miro’nun ‚peintüre‛ü ile de ‚Uyanınca Çocuk Olmak‛ adlı şiirleri arasında benzerlikler bulur. İkinci Yeni’nin bir başka şairi Ece Ayhan’a gelince< Ay- han, başta müzik olmak üzere sinema ve resim sanatıyla da ilgili çok yönlü bir şair. Kuşkusuz onda daha çok müzik sanatının; özellikle de atonal müziğin etkisi fazla. Ancak şair, resimle de ilgili. Çeşitli ressamlarla, bu sanat üzerine söyleşileri dikkat çekici. Cihat Burak, Ömer Uluç, Mehmet Güleryüz, Komet, Cihat Özegemen, Neşe Erdok, Orhan Taylan ve Aydın Ülken bunlardan bazıları.. Onun en çok sevdiği ve ilgilendiği ressamların başındaysa, Kandinsky, Miro ve Klee geliyor; Hatta Ayhan’a göre İkinci Yeni aynı zamanda ‚Kandinsky, Miro ve Klee’dir‛68. Chagall da ilgi duyduğu bir ressam. Örneğin Chagall hakkında, bir sergi dolayısıyla şunları yazmış: ‚Ve Chagall’lar. Tabii başka bir salonda. Öyle bir gürültü var ki solda dışarıda. Chagall’ları yine de ezemedi, ezemiyor bu korkunç gürültü. Enfes renkler, şiirler havada dolaşıyor!‛69 http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote68sym#sdfootnote68sym http://docs.google.com/RawDocContents?docID=ddmn6wjg_33ffm9mxdh&justBody=false&revision=_latest×tamp=1205934285265&editMode=true&strip=true#sdfootnote69sym#sdfootnote69sym 308 Alâattin KARACA Turkish Studies International Periodical For the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 5/2 Spring 2010 Türkiye’den ise, Cihat Burak, Aktedron Fikret (Andoğlu), Fikret Ürgüp, Ömer Uluç sık sık sözünü ettiği ressamlar. Çünkü onları marjinal buluyor. Bu bakımdan o, resme de şiir gibi bakıyor; yani marjinal, sıkı ve sivil bir resim peşinde. Kandinsky’yi, Chagall’ı, Klee’yi sevmesi, resimde alışılmışı yıkmaları ve marjinal oluşlarından. Onun için; ‚