The Sovereignty of Things: Nationalism and Its Materials in Mexican Photography (1920s–1940s)

The ubiquity of the artefact in Mexican photography needs to be understood as the locus of key originary concepts and as a point of purchase for metaphotographic reflexivity and not merely as an emblematic prop or decorative marginalia. The article discusses the way in which strategies of focus, composition and visualisation, along with the selection or ‘find’ of particular objects and materials, made palpable the abstractions of self‐hood and cultural singularity through the disclosure of form, light and texture. It considers how the practice of the close‐up itself became a cultural trope and how, paradoxically, the pursuit of sovereign objects and autochthonous production in modernist photography elicited a response that infringed visibility in favour of proximity.     

关于企业形象设计与导入的拓展性研究

国际大型企业的CI发展，现已达到阶段性巅峰状态，因曲高和寡而出现发展瓶颈。国企CI战略要想优于竞争对手，跻身世界一流行列，就须对CI设计与导入进行深入的拓展性思考。     

Honey

In performance artist Linda Montano's deceptively simple 1981 video Anorexia nervosa, five women are interviewed about their experiences with self-starvation. In the video's interplay between image and speech, Montano creates a correlation between internalized hunger and the perceivable body, placing notions of spirituality and physical hunger at the core of the video. This reflection considers Anorexia nervosa as a meditation on ascetic discipline and talk therapy, both of which are, for Montano, strategic modes of art production.     

浅谈传统美学对现代招贴广告设计的应用

将中国传统美学融入现代艺术感强烈的招贴广告中,逐渐成为我国招贴广告设计行业、甚至是全球招贴广告行业的一种时尚和趋势。传统美学中对美的追求影响着现代招贴广告的设计,反过来,现代广告招贴又影响着传统美学的传承和发展。     

Mass Media and Politics

Although Howard Becker defines art worlds as networks of cooperating people and a broad range of studies has applied this idea of the network to art markets, research on fairs remains a neglected issue. This article aims to advance the idea of the network and the art fair with regard to the art fair boom, the differentiation of art fairs and their interlinking, and the role of networks with regard to the participating galleries and their interlinking within art fairs. Quantitative and qualitative data are brought forward to shed some light on these issues, including statistical information, along with interviews.     

论建构低碳数字艺术文本的必要性与可能性

当下数字艺术德性整体呈现负值,主要因为高碳数字艺术文本的盛行对接受者的身心健康造成了严重危害.大力建构低碳数字艺术文本,带给接受者更多强烈而健康的自由情感是遏制高碳数字艺术文本侵蚀、促进人类幸福事业的不二法门.而自然生活的改变阻碍了创作者精神层次的提高和灵感的产生,但如果创作者用心倾听,依然可以从广阔的社会生活中获得素材,抚慰人的创伤,表达人性关怀,构建低碳数字艺术文本.     

S.O.S. or Subsidy for Our Screen and An Examination of Subsidy Abroad

Discourse about the impact of art has been prominent in academic and arts industry discourse over the past two decades. Contention in the discourse has led to the call for new research frameworks that place the experience of the individual as central to understanding the impact of art. The authors present the background of this discourse and outline narrative inquiry as a research method that elicits individual experiences. The authors present the findings of a narrative inquiry and establish that the way individuals experience art and its impact is far broader in scope than previous research suggests.     

统战工作艺术研究综述

统战工作艺术是统战工作方法的巧妙运用和统战工作经验的理性升华。从党和国家领导人到普通统战理论工作者都十分重视统战工作艺术的运用和研究。毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平等老一辈无产阶级革命家在中国革命和建设的伟大实践中巧妙运用统战工作艺术 ,充分发挥了统一战线在革命和建设中的法宝作用。他们的统战艺术是统战艺术宝库的奇葩 ,鲜艳夺目。广大统战理论工作者 ,在统一战线实践中 ,不断探索 ,不断创新 ,使统战工作艺术更加丰富多彩。概括起来有八大艺术 :即善断的艺术 ;主动的艺术 ;应变的艺术 ;兼顾的艺术 ;创新的艺术 ;协调的艺术 ;求同的艺术 ;交友的艺术。     

“Socialist in content,national in form:” the making of Soviet national art and the case of Buryatia

This article examines the fine art of the Soviet national republics and its discourse in the Soviet Union, which were considerably shaped under the influence of socialist realism and Soviet nationality policy. While examining the central categories of Soviet artistic discourse such as the “national form,” “national distinctness,” and “tradition,” as well as cultural and scientific institutions responsible for the image of art of non-Russian nationalities, the author reveals the existence of a number of colonial features and discursive and institutional practices that foster a cultural divide between Russian and non-Russian culture and contribute to the marginalization of art. Special attention is paid to the implications of this discursive shaping for the local artistic scene in Buryatia.     

Ethnicity and labour in Mauritius: assessing a cinematic account

We assess the sole substantial film documenting the history of socio-economic relations in Mauritius, a history stamped by long experiences of slavery and bonded labour. We argue that it represents an important crystallisation of a triumphalist ethnic interpretation of Mauritian history. We show the filmic devices used to underline the ethnic narrative and the marginalisation of slave descendants’ voices. We demonstrate that the film ignores the early and strong development of values of equity across racial groups. It obscures the linked creation of a significant labour movement and its contribution to Mauritian society in securing the degree of equitable success which the film makers celebrate.