Over the past 12 years, Ellen Harvey (www. ellenharvey.info/) has exhibited her art pieces around the world, from Berlin, Germany to Lahore, Pakistan. In the process, she has garnered an impressive reputation for both her intriguing uses of materials, from Polaroid™ fil...

In addressing photography's presence in South Australia's contemporary visual arts, it is important to understand the broad range of both conceptual and medium-based approaches, coupled with a plurality of voices, that constitute its make-up. In pursuit of their ideas, ...

The book documents reflections of the circus in the visual arts and literature from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, focusing on the subject as addressed in Czech art and literature and setting it within a wider context in and beyond Europe...

Mergen says that the state today does not support artists in Kalmykia. Modern Kalmyk art is in a difficult situation. Since leadership does not support art, artists leave Kalmykia where it is very difficult to make a career. Mergen says that all Kalmyks should clear the...

This paper introduces the production process on the theme of “Fusion of Japanese Traditional Cultureand its Modern Art,' in which the author has been engaged.　New paintings on “fusuma” or traditional Japanese sliding doors were produced and exhibited in September 2016 f...

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Svetlana talks about her father, the famous Kalmyk artist Garya Rokchinskiy. In 1939 my father participated in a contest of Pushkin’s drawings which he won. The prize was a bicycle, which was so rare at that time that all the boys in the vicinity ran after him. This was...

In this interview Viktor Urgadulov, a Kalmyk artist, talks about himself, art in the Soviet Union and its current state in Kalmykia. Viktor was born in the village of Pavlovskoe in Altaiskiy krai, near the city of Barnaul. His childhood was ordinary. His mother was a me...

There has been considerable interest, both in and outside Japan, in the Mingei movement which began in the 1920s. As a result, its theory and history have been studied widely. Most studies, however, have treated the movement in isolation and as one which was conceived, ...

Hauptpunkt 1 Der Kontakt zwischen Europa und Ägypten hat zwei verschiedenen Sichtweisen im Bezug auf die westlische Kultur geschaffen. Die erste Sichtweise ist eine fonkionierende sozialstrukur welsche als Idol angesehen werden kann. Dir zweite Sichtweise wie die westli...