Visual and Performing Arts

Edited by Stephen Andrew Arbury and Aikaterini Georgoulia

ISBN: 978-960-9549-65-3, 424 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 60€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

 

Table of Contents

1.

Visual and Performing Arts: An Introduction

Stephen Andrew Arbury and Aikaterini Georgoulia

1

 

Part A: General Art Historical Issues

2.

When Aegeans ‘Met’ American Indians: Iconography of the Landscapes of Power

Mary Jo Watson and Rozmeri Basic

11

3.

Erotic Art?  Sex and the Talisman in Greek Vase Painting

Braden K. Frieder

23

4.

The New Acropolis Museum: Towards a New Greek Museology; Interpreting Past, Educating Present

Aikaterini Georgoulia

51

5.

Poetic Constructs And Practice in Tagasode-Zu

Lisa Morrisette

65

6.

Geometry, Proportion and Interval – The Art of Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964)

Richard Dargavel

75

7.

Loukia Nicolaidou: Artistic Strategies Employed by a Cypriot Woman during British Colonial Rule

Maria Photiou

87

8.

On the Verge of Constructivism and Surrealism: Polish Modernist Photography and Photomontage

Irena Kossowska

95

9.

The New Wave of Photography: The Role of Documentary Photography in Latvian Art Scene during Glasnost Era

Alise Tifentale

121

Part B: Performing the Arts

10.

Good Manners: Object and User Performance in Rituals

Adriana Ionascu

131

11.

Merging Diversities: Multiculturalism in Flamenco

José García-León

139

12.

The New Way of the New Way: New Trends in Bossa Nova

Constantine Theodosion

145

13.

The First Romanian Actresses Performing in the 19th Century: Their Influences and their Image in the Romanian Drama

Ioana-Florina Mitea

151

14.

E. T. A. Hoffmann and Animation

Tsvetomira Nikolova

161

15.

Myths and Modalities: Filmic Universals in Alice’s Adventures

Greg Bowers

171

16.

An American Soldier’s Tale: Stravinsky, Vonnegut and the Eddie Slovik Story

John M. Laverty and David A. Waybright

185

17.

Stroke and Voice Therapy: One Singer-Conductor’s Own Journey and Recovery

Donald Callen Freed

195

18.

Lynch’s Postmodern Universe: Post Surrealism or Neo-Noir?

Rita M. Csapó-Sweet, Alice Hall and Ildiko Kaposi

205

Part C: Current Issues in Art and Education

19.

Review of Traditional Chinese Symbolic Elements as Applied to Modern Hotel Design 

Yansen Che, David Hartwell and Rebecca Graff

225

20.

Development of Extended Logic, Self-Confidence and Learning Art History through Visual Arts Education in Singapore: A Desired Creative Skill for the Creative Economy in Singapore

Kay Kok Chung Oi

231

21.

Communicating Movement Through Drawing for Animation

Sharon White

245

22.

Interpreting Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” Through the Visual and Performing Arts

Patricia Burns Zumhagen

257

23.

The Democratic Body: Aerial Dance in the University Classroom

Jenefer Davies

263

Part D:  Digital Culture

24.

Teaching Art History Online: Challenges and Instructional Strategies

Anahit Ter-Stepanian

273

25.

Bona Fide: The Notion of Authenticity of Printmaking in Digital Culture

Mary Hood

285

26.

Kitsch Expressions: A New Visual Language in Website Design

Kyeong-Won Youn

295

27.

A Virtual Fashion Design Research Tool

Kathi Martin and Hyeong - Seok Ko

309

28.

Digital Music and the Music Business: The Impact of the Internet on Compositional Creativity and New Business Models

 

Mark Konewko

321

29.

Visualisation of Dance Performance using 3 – Dimensional Motion tracking and Muscle modelling Techniques

Barbara May and James Shippen

329

30.

New Technologies of Ceramic Product Design – 3D Softwares (computer aided programs) Integrated into Design Practices in the Field of Ceramic Art Education 

Ezgi Hakan

343

31.

The Pantheon, an Artistic Resurrection

Philippe Campays and Stephanie Liddicoat

355

Part E: Can Art Change the World – or Vice Versa?

32.

Slice and Dice: The Citizen Artist and the Fight for Public Space

Denitsa Petrova

369

33.

Jason Salavon in Post-Pop

Christopher B. Smith

383

34.

Performing Nature’s Footprint

Gabriella Giannachi, Rachel Jacobs and Steve Benford

393

35.

Culture and Nature Symbiosis- Ecological Art in Education

Magdalena Worłowska

405

36.

9/11 Impressions by NYC Metropolitan-Area Latino Artists

Sara Estrella Gil-Ramos

415