The Russian avant-garde painting palette: Documentary and physicochemical codification of organic colorants

In the present article an attempt is made to elucidate the organic colorants commonly encountered in the Russian avant-garde painting palette by a combined art historical, documentary and physicochemical investigation, and to examine the influence of environmental factors on the chromatic profile originally sought by the artist. The overall approach based on written sources is confirmed by measurements on relevant paintings. The documentary research deals with the influences of Orthodox iconography, folkloric art, and occidental modernist tendencies on the Russian avant-garde palette, and studies the effects of contradictory historical processes in the chromatic profile of individual paintings. In the experimental section a series of colorants are investigated concerning the effects of accelerated ageing on experimental painting tables, prepared as watercolor and gouache layers on paper ground. The resulting samples are subjected to colorimetric and spectroscopic measurements, and analogous analytical procedures are applied on samples taken from selected paintings. A systematic comparative study of all data permits evaluation of the materials used in terms of their stability towards extrinsic factors, and proposal of degradation routes in order to assist museum curators and conservators in every concrete case related to the broad spectrum of pigments examined.     

Cultural Trends of Audience Online Interaction with Vocal Talent Shows: A Comparative Study between China and the US

This study examined cultural reflections online of audience comments on social network sites regarding vocal talent shows in China and the United States. The study applied dimensions of cross culture to investigate audience comments on the official social networking sites of The Voice of China and The Voice. Findings reflect Hofstede’s dimensions as applied to social media and illustrate how individuals alter their “local” cultural norms in the new media environment. The study specifically enhances the exploration of cultural manifestations in cyberspace, which fewer cross-cultural studies have researched.     

A past that never was: historical poaching in Game of Thrones fans’ Tumblr practices

This article explores the textual and historical poaching practices by Tumblr fans of the novels A Song of Ice and Fire and the television adaption Game of Thrones, a pseudo-historical fantasy series. Fans critique both the text (novels and TV show) and other fans’ interpretations of the text, as well as parallel real-world history with the world and characters of the series. Tensions arise around the “historical accuracy” of the novels and show, along with the role that dominant narratives and cultural norms play in interpreting a past that never was through the lens of a real-world past. Fantasy and history intersect in layered ways and are used by fans to support a variety of textual points of view. Issues of violence, presentism, colonialism, gender, and “historical truths” are argued in relation to the ahistoricism or historicism of the novels/show.     

关于俄国难民事务负责人的任命等问题——与张建华教授商榷

对张建华教授关于俄国难民事务负责人的任命、南森译名的翻译等几个问题提出商榷,以为俄国难民事务负责人是由国际联盟任命的,而非国际红十字会,两战期间国际联盟在难民的救济、遣返、保护等方面发挥了主要的作用,南森及南森护照的翻译应采用规范的译名。     

多模态话语分析视阈下的日本婆媳题材影视作品浅析——以《儿媳能使鬼推磨》、《三代厨房》为例

《儿媳能使鬼推磨》、《三代厨房》等日本婆媳题材的影视作品对家庭伦理关系中最为复杂的关系——婆媳关系进行了多角度、多层面的表现,并对改善婆媳关系的渠道作了积极、有意义的探索。借用多模态话语分析理论,综合分析上述两部作品中图像、文字、音乐、色彩、情景等符号,体察到现今的日本婆媳题材影视剧已经摈弃以往只注重宣传传统美德的模式,而是立足于尊重人性,立意珍惜亲情,否定"以自我为中心"的价值观,倡导"想着他人"的价值观,引导人们实现家庭的和睦、社会的和谐。由此可见,当代日本社会重视推崇重树人文关怀的旗帜,发扬光大"和"的核心理念,努力使之成为全社会宝贵的精神财富。     

传播的游戏理论视角下 新浪微博俄罗斯世界杯传播效果分析

使用“传播的游戏理论”,对新浪微博俄罗斯世界杯传播效果进行分析,并对新媒体用户的需求进行探讨。研究认为,世界杯传播是一场盈余时代的足球“游戏”,满足用户对愉悦、趣味的需求和对游戏的需求是新媒体未来发展的一种趋势;新浪微博俄罗斯世界杯期间,体现主观、个性的“选择性会聚”让用户在“游戏”过程中促进了“自我”的发展;只为享受足球魅力的非功利性传播为用户提供了一个宽松的“游戏”环境;利用微博话题、短视频、直播等新媒体技术传播乐趣,用户从“游戏”中收获了愉悦。对于传播效果的研究立足受众的个性特征和主观心态,注重体现个体主观能动意识,对把握未来新媒体传播发展和趋势具有启示意义。     

An interview with Marie-José Mondzain: what is an image?

ABSTRACT

Marie-Jose Mondzain is one of the major philosophers writing about image, iconography, and representation today. In this interview, she discusses a few of the central ideas in her approach to and thinking about the nature of image and image-making as they bear upon the emergence of subjectivity and visibility in general. According to Mondzain, images are not visual objects we may or may not see; rather they are the site where the visible and its invisibility crisscross each other in opening the field of presence. Images, as Mondzain says in the interview, are cracks or leaks in being. They are where lights first come in and where man and beings are born to each other in their being-in-the world, that is, in their truth. Moving beyond historical and theoretical reflections, Mondzain turns to discuss things and scenes of mass media of late, addressing issues of pleasure, anxiety, desire, and the like, wherein ideologies, power, and the lure of images can be seen to intersect with our everyday life that has become irrevocably one of passive mobility. To the point at every turn, her answers to questions in this interview provide a glimpse to her forceful thinking and insights.     

Knots in the Fourth Dimension

ABSTRACT

The article analyses a debate that preoccupied the Russian press in the winter of 1878/9. Writers, journalists and scientists discussed whether mathematics could explain spiritualist séance phenomena. At its core, this was an assessment of social change and a debate about the ambiguity of modern life. While spiritualists hoped to bridge the divide between science and religion, subjectivity and objectivity, their opponents feared that séance phenomena and modern mathematics undermined a rationalist world-view that was endowed with reliability and universal truth. That no agreement could be reached indicates that the post-reform public sphere had become truly pluralist and modern.     

我国体育赛事电视转播权研究

采用文献研究法、问卷调查法等研究方法对体育赛事电视转播权的产生原因及其经济价值、我国开发体育赛事电视转播权中存在的主要问题进行了研究,对我国开发体育赛事电视转播权提出对策建议。从而对我国开发电视转播权资产、促进体育产业发展具有重要意义。     

借鉴大冬会经验多渠道培养冬季体育项目俄语人才

多渠道培养冬季体育项目俄语人才,是加强与世界冬季体育项目强国俄罗斯交流与学习的首要条件,是提高我国冰雪运动的必要措施。认为冬季运动项目的俄语人才应具备冬季运动项目专业俄语知识,具有扎实的语言基本功,丰富的冬季运动项目知识,良好的政治思想素质等。提出采用建立专门的俄语人才培养管理组织,与高校联合组建高水平体育俄语人才库,实行内部挖潜,开发培训教材,利用黑龙江体育科技信息网站开辟网络的培训模式等途径培养冬季运动项目俄语人才。