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This article analyses two works of contemporary Australian fiction—Wayne Macauley's Caravan Story and Julie Koh's "Inquiry Regarding the Recent Goings-On in the Woods"—and places their depictions of artists under attack in the context of Australian cultural policy history. Despite the surreal hyperviolence contained in these stories, their concerns neatly align with the academic criticisms of cultural policy in their respective eras. Caravan Story, published at the end of the John Howard era, shows how a focus on economic return in lieu of artistic merit can erode the value artists place on themselves and their work. "Inquiry", published soon after Minister for the Arts George Brandis had significantly reduced available arts funding, represents the drastic effect the funding cuts had on artists and the passionate community response. The texts are further connected by their optimistic endings, contextualised here through an exploration of the artists' biographies and their struggles to push back against cultural demands of economic success. This article shows how these experimental works of fiction make the case for the intrinsic value of the arts through narratives that reject the economic imperative and in their very constitution as creative works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Textile artist Anne Wilson curated the Davis Street Drawing Room in her Evanston home, showcasing her extensive practice in fiber art. Visitors are invited to engage in slow, close looking at her meticulous textile archive, preparatory studies, and materials on display. Guests are encouraged to create responses to their experience, contributing to the Drawing Room's archive. The space offers a unique opportunity to reflect on the relationships we have with textiles and the stories they hold, inviting a deeper connection to the fabrics of life. [Extracted from the article]

Recent evidence suggests that the artwork of an experienced artist is usually more expensive than that of a beginner. Additionally, the artwork of a man is often more expensive than that of a woman, and a painting is typically more expensive than graphics. However, this research aims to contrast the influence of the author's age and sex on the price with the influence of the artwork's material and technique. This idea is based on Roland Barthes' famous philosophical doctrine about the death of the author, which appeared in 1968 and remains relevant today. In our article, this doctrine is tested for the art market. The research question posed is whether the author's influence dies in relation to their artwork after its creation or whether the artwork begins to live its own life without the author. To answer this question, a study was conducted comparing the impact on auction prices of the artist's biography and the characteristics of the artwork. The artist's biography inevitably determines their creativity and affects their art, while the characteristics of the artwork are not directly related to the personality of the author but are important from a consumption standpoint. Several dozen features were identified and divided into author and artwork characteristics. For author characteristics, demographic features such as sex and nationality were used, as well as biographical features such as education and migration. Artwork characteristics included size, material, technique, provenance, author's signature and frame, mentions in scientific literature, etc. By applying hedonic regression on a unique collected dataset of more than 15,000 artworks by the most expensive authors sold at world-famous auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's, it was determined which characteristics have the greatest influence on price and which specific features are most important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The thesis objective is to identify the key national archetypes that are crucial for a creative personality's lifelong creativity; to reveal the specifics of their explication in «Veselka», Viktor Telychko's symphonic fantasy. The research methodology is based on the complex approach and embraces a number of the following methods: biographical - by involving the key events of the master's being; culture studies - by characterizing civilizational impacts reflected in the master's conscience; semiotic - by interpreting ancient symbols implemented by the suggested artistic sample; music studies - by considering the genre and style-forming parameters of the opus; analytical - by working on the body of research related to the aforementioned problematic field; systemic - by comprehensive view on the research subject; theoretic generalization - by summarizing the thesis results. Science novelty. For the first time ever, the dominant national archetypes of a master's chronicle were identified, and their manifestation was revealed within an artistic artefact. Conclusions. An archetype is an unconscious fundamental scheme of notions, signs and symbols common for the whole humanity. For Ukrainian culture, the following ones are critical: home, Motherland, parents, land, temple, light, etc. Most of them are represented by the biographies of prominent masters. The composer's practice by Viktor Telychko broadcasts the phenomena under consideration through folklore, which is a constituent of his opuses. In «Veselka» symphony fantasy, they appear as a content element able to represent significant information about the Ukrainians' mentality and the author's ontological strategy. The dominant ancient images of the artwork are as follows: Motherland revealed through the author's connection with the native location and quoting on Zakarpattia's songs; the native land that means life, wisdom, spiritual power, appeal to the native location; father embodying peace, calmness, emotional support; the circle that represents eternity, rebirth, aspiring after self-perfection for the evolution of the native land. The manifestation, which is the structure of a music sample similar to a cyclic motion; the teacher who reveals the issue of guidance appealing to the artistic heritage of the prominent masters of the region; the main character who reflects striving for eternal ideals characteristic of Victor Telychko and is interpreted via high-hearted and persistent intonations; love that celebrates deep lyrical and poetic feelings and appears as the mental basis of Ukrainian sensuality. The masterpiece is united by the spiritual light archetype (the rainbow) that manifests hope and joy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the challenges faced by biographers in accurately portraying the life of J.R.R. Tolkien. The author highlights the restrictions imposed by the Tolkien family on accessing personal information and papers, which has resulted in shallow and incomplete biographies. They argue for a more comprehensive biography that includes unrestricted access to all of Tolkien's papers, emphasizing the importance of digitizing the collection for public access. The article raises questions about the qualifications and intentions of previous biographers and calls for a change in approach to present a more accurate portrayal of Tolkien's life and its influence on his famous works. [Extracted from the article]

The purpose of the article is to carry out a comprehensive analysis and generalize the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the problem of the formation and development of theatrical biography. The research methodology is based on the application of a complex of theoretical and empirical methods, in particular, analysis and synthesis, comparative-historical, structural-functional, etc., which made it possible to comprehensively consider the given problem and formulate reasonable conclusions. Important for the study is the art critic's approach to the definition of the concept of "theatrical biography". The scientific novelty of the study consists in a comprehensive art historical study of theatrical biography. On the basis of a thorough analysis and systematization of scientific work on the outlined issues, the author's vision of the phenomenon of the concept of "theatrical biography" is represented, and its criteria are determined. Conclusions. As a result of the conducted research, it was established that the scientific and methodological development of the problem of theater biography is at the initial stage and requires detailed justification and public coverage in works of various formats. The conducted substantiation of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study allowed us to determine the essence of the concept of "theatre biography". We associate this term with the process of creating biographical and illustrated material about a well-known personality, whose life became the subject of dramaturgical development within the framework of the work, or a part of the work, and which found an original embodiment within the framework of a theatrical production, performance, performative event, etc. There are no clear criteria for the formation of theatrical biography. The variability of the author's approaches to the representation of the biographical-personal and creative-life achievements of famous people, the heroes of theatrical productions leads to an imbalance of a significant mass of information in the field of theatrical art. It is concluded that in the context of theater art research, the number of works devoted to the biographies of famous Ukrainian directors, playwrights, and theater managers is very limited. The works of scientists, the subject of which were the works of Ukrainian dramatists, mostly concern the classics of domestic drama and, accordingly, well-known historical figures of Ukrainian culture and art. Most of the material about productions, performers, main characters of plays is placed in anthologies of plays, which are not popularized at a sufficient level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study, based on an exceptional source (a judicial record of 1549, published here for the first time) aims at the restitution of the biography and the distinctive character and personality of an early Renaissance painter from Transylvania, Gregorius Pictor, while making recurrent references to the artistic milieu of the sixteenth century Cluj – the town where he was mainly active. The study reveals, undoubtedly, one of the most comprehensive painters’ biographies of Transylvania in early modern times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the controversy surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's works, specifically focusing on the theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote them. The author highlights the lack of objective study and dismissal of the Oxfordian theory by mainstream scholars and psychoanalysts. They argue that critical thinking and impartial evaluation of evidence are essential in determining the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays. The article also explores the complexity and satirical elements in Shakespeare's works, particularly in relation to powerful court figures. The author suggests that unconscious factors and groupthink may influence scholars' assumptions and reluctance to consider alternative authorship theories. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the influence of phrenology on American literature and medicine in the 19th century, focusing on the experiences of Mark Twain and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The author, Stanley Finger, maps out the development of phrenology and its impact on society, highlighting its optimistic outlook and discursive possibilities. Finger examines how Twain and Holmes encountered phrenology and used satire to advocate for medical reform. While the article provides a detailed analysis of their interactions with phrenology, it lacks complexity in its portrayal of the publishing house Fowler & Wells and the potential educational and social goals of phrenology. Nonetheless, the article offers valuable insights into the intersection of literature, medicine, and phrenology in 19th-century America. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses two books, "Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma" by Claire Dederer and "Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir" by Margo Jefferson. The author explores the themes of art, feminism, and personal accountability in relation to these books. Dederer's book examines the challenge of appreciating the work of flawed artists, particularly men, while Jefferson's book delves into her own self-reflection as a critic and the conflicts she faces as a Black instructor teaching problematic material. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of self-reflection and personal growth. [Extracted from the article]

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The article discusses the ongoing debate surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's works, emphasizing the reluctance of literature scholars to examine evidence that challenges the traditional attribution of William Shakespeare as the author. The article explores the potential alternative authorship of the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, and highlights the resistance faced by scholars who question the traditional narrative.

The objective of the article is to analyze the genesis and age transformation of the artist's biography; to distinguish the role of a creative personality's chronicle in the late 21st century; to justify its significant role implementing the anthropological concepts of the period. Research methodology: systemic - by comprehensive solution of the research issues with the involvement of science and methodological elaborations of humanitarian study; culture studies - by identifying the mutual relations between public and spiritual processes; historical - by the grasp of the specifics of the chronicle's establishment and development; comparative - by comparing the biographies of various centuries; analytical - by considering sources in accordance with the publication issue; theoretical generalization - by summarizing the research results. The article is dedicated to considering the artist's biography of the Postmodernism epoch. The Postmodernism synthesized elaborations of the preceding eras and on that basis altered the established views on the chronicle's essence. The genre obtains new functions, i.e. communicative, civilizational, synergetic, etc.; it reveals the era's controversies having occurred due to the lack of moral ideals, ethics and aesthetics canons and personified leaders. The key task of the biography is realizing the macrocosm structure through recognizing the microcosm of a nonordinary profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu is an important personality who dedicated himself to developing culture and art, created his works with this aim, and tried to make society progress in this way. His passion for art and literature, especially poetry, made him create successful works that can be studied on. It is possible to reach some information such as the artist's biography, personality, and view of life through these works. Not every artist prefers to have clue about his biography and view of life in his works. But Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu is not such an artist. He shared information about himself and revealed historical data in most of his works. Lines under his portrait paintings and poems named as self-portrait are adequate evidence. In this study, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu's thoughts about life and himself will be tried to reach through examples of mentioned poems and explanations in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Walbrook was rather late in becoming an émigré, and Downs lays out the reasons for this. Downs shows, with admirable precision, how Walbrook was able to steer away from the dangerously sexy screen persona of his German career (that was still evident in the 1940 I Gaslight i ) to the image of a passionate spokesman for pan-European liberalism. Biographies of artists, writers or political figures are determined by the sources and by the historical methodology they espouse. [Extracted from the article]

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Artists, fashion and foundations can connect in different ways. Operating and independent foundations tell biographies and legacies of artists. During their life and as for their legacy, artists can influence styles, frames, fashion being one constitutive way of life. Fashion corporations and foundations can be inspired by artists and artists can be supported by them. The aim of this article is to estimate how much accounting data of American artist-endowed foundations give evidence of their connections through art-keting with multiple stakeholders in order to support creativity, above all, fashion. Art-keting includes several and complex phenomena, from co-marketing to contaminations and hybridizations. It encompasses both relationship marketing and social media communication. The methodology includes the analysis of economic performance as for data in 990 Forms and a multiple regression analysis of 2016's accounting main lines of a sample of the biggest US artists-endowed foundations. If artist-endowed foundations connect with fashion thanks to multiple projects, their assets grow thanks to art-keting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article considers the concept of new anthropology in the works of Vasily Chekrygin in the context of the scientific and philosophical ideas of his time. Chekrygin's anthropology drew on the new concepts of life, discoveries made in biology and chemistry and new ideas of matter. A paradoxical fusion of scientific and occult thought, coupled with ideas of Christian anthropology, formed a crucial component of Chekrygin's works. The artist produced his anthropological project at the intersection of two cultural paradigms: that of Christianity, on the one hand, and science and the occult, on the other. This blend of such heterogeneous concepts was not an accidental fact of the artist's biography. It makes it possible to see certain problems and antinomies that were fundamental to the Russian culture of the 1910s through the early 1920s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Excluding women's art from public attention significantly affects the possibility of building female genealogies of creation. As such, women artists must constantly recreate their foremothers, because all too often history has erased them from view. Nonetheless, women creators are redressing this imbalance, by rewriting women into history. This article analyses two such contemporary examples: Marie Darrieussecq's text on Paula Modersohn-Becker [Être ici est une splendeur: Vie de Paula M. Becker (2016)], and Tatiana de Rosnay's work on Tamara de Lempicka [Tamara par Tatiana (2018)]. Paula Modersohn-Becker was an artist of many firsts, having painted the first (known) nude self-portrait by a woman, the first (known) nude pregnant self-portrait in art history (destroyed in 1943), and having the first museum in the world dedicated exclusively to the works of a woman (opened in 1927). Tatiana de Rosnay in collaboration with her daughter, Charlotte Jolly de Rosnay, unpacks the glamourous life of Tamara de Lempicka, the queen of Art Deco, highlighting the struggles and identity quests of a woman artist in the Parisian art world of the 1920s. This article comparatively examines the way Darrieussecq and de Rosnay adapt the traditional artist's biography to facilitate the emergence of female genealogies of creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A recent private donation has made publicly known (thanks to its incorporation into the devotional repertoire of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles in El Puerto de Santa María) the image of an Immaculate Conception signed by Pedro de Mena. However, given the absence of documentation that confirms such authorship, this has not been uncritically assumed, but rather its authenticity has been confirmed or refuted through a detailed iconographic, morphological and stylistic analysis of the piece and biography of the aforementioned artist. The result of this study allows us to attribute this hitherto unknown image to said sculptor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to define the key dominants of territorial topos and to reveal the specifics of their transmission to the artist’s biography. The research methodology is based on implementing the systemic approach by means of using a range of the following methods: the analytical method was used to grasp culture studies, philology, and arts studies sources in accordance with the paper issue; the philosophical method enabled considering biography within ontological discourse; the biographic method was used to characterise various domains of the artist’s being; the interdisciplinary method made it possible to comprehensively study the issue under consideration and obtain modern knowledge; the hermeneutic method was used to analyse the texts of the chronicles and to distinguish the typical features; the theoretical generalisation was used to summarise the research results. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the author has revealed the key features of regional topos conceptualized by the master’s biography. Conclusions. Topos is an important paradigm of humanitarian studies reflecting the fundamental time and spatial ideas of macro-space and its laws. Regional topos is a form of image-bearing extention of questions referring to a certain territory, detailing its multifaceted nature, manifestation of its historical, civilisation, and social heritage. It restores valuable parameters of the locus’ being that have overcome various epochs and experienced different transformations but preserved stable codes, signs, symbols, as well as ethnic and professional traditions. Within the master’s biography, the aforementioned phenomenon is introduced by a complex of constituents where the predominant categories are as follows: “home” embraces the fundamentals of establishing the master’s world outlook, explains creativity issues, behaviour patterns; “childhood” reflects the image of happiness (or the wish to achieve it), trying to renew harmony, absolute love; “Small Motherland” implements the connection with native location revealing regional archetypes and specific mentality; “nature” demonstrates the unity of a person, matter, pantheistic restoring of strength, seeking the eternal creative themes, and the ability of occurring within cyclical time; “road” symbolises the content of the personality’s life path focused on eternity and spiritual immortality. The aforementioned toposes in chronicles give a key to understanding the master’s being. They do not function separately but interact, thus producing unique colouring and the sense colouration of the master’s ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars affiliated with the INHA (Institut national d'histoire de l'art) introduce a new open access online database dedicated to collectors, travelers, military personnel, art dealers, and artists who collected Asian art from 1700–1939. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of connection between musical art and historical, cultural and political processes, which should be formed in the ideas of students, has been updated. The article contains a brief overview of works of Ukrainian and foreign academic music that touch on the dramatic events of the XX century and the current tragic Ukrainian realities by their meanings and subtexts. The article presents music for the left hand created for the pianist P. Wittgenstein (S. Bortkevych, M. Ravel), works of various genres (mainly symphonic and choral) by R. Vaughan-Williams, B. Bartok, B. Britten, A. Schoenberg, K. Penderetskyi, H. Kancheli, B. Liatoshynskyi, V. Sylvestrov. Moreover, some notable facts of the artists’ biographies explain their attitude to the war and the conception of the works. The review of works is not complete but should motivate to search. The task of determining the accents and orientations of the teacher’s artistic communication with the students regarding each work is solved. Controversal semantic issues that may arise during students’ familiarization with each specific work are highlighted in view of modern events in our history and the dramatic experience of Ukrainians. It is foreseen that despite the high artistic level of meaning and value of works even from the world’s musical treasury, they may cause certain objections. The author’s point of view is expressed that reference to such works is an essential factor in the formation of the students’ value sphere, the affirmation of their national identity, developing the need to protect one’s culture as a defence of the country. Regardless of chosen author and work for the conversation with students, during discussions, doing creative projects, etc., the attention is directed to achieving their understanding of the global nature of the problems of war at all times. In particular, the awareness of Ukrainian dramatic realities as problems of a global scale in modern history, significance Ukraine for the world in all senses – artistic, historical and political. The author offers some methodological advice for teachers how to use the specified musical works at art lessons in 8-9 grades and high level in institutions of general secondary education. However, it is assumed that teacher can use some tips at an earlier stage of learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the presence of female art historians in one of the most important publishing enterprises between the wars, the Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, founded and financed by Giovanni Treccani, directed by Giovanni Gentile and printed between 1929 and 1937. Within the grand Treccani project, women were excluded from all key roles in the enterprise, which were reserved for men, and, of the small number of female contributors, one-third contributed to the art history section, directed by Toesca. Half Italian and half foreign, they contributed entries of varying sizes, from single short entries on topics of specific expertise to long lists of biographies on artists, entries on iconography, art topography, techniques and types of objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Apart from the fact that she was indeed an artist who was imprisoned in Kraljevica and later joined the partisans, why did the Austrian Lutzer end up in Rajner's study, which after all focusses on artists of Yugoslav Jewish origin? Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, written by Mirjam Rajner Furthermore, Rajner also dares to look at the time after the Holocaust, at the period of socialist Yugoslavia and its new political and social confrontation with art produced by artists of Jewish origin (383). [Extracted from the article]

Introduction: Based on studies of the biographies of artists and on research in which modern diagnostic criteria were applied, it has been suggested that there is a relationship between bipolar disorder (BD) and creativity. Objective: To investigate the relationship between BD and creativity and whether creative capacity varies depending on mood state. Method: We conducted a systematic search of the scientific literature indexed on the PubMed, ISI Web of Science, PsycINFO, and SciELO databases using the terms "bipolar" OR "bipolar disorder" OR "mania" OR "manic" AND "creativ*". Original studies were selected that investigated samples of at least ten patients with BD using at least one psychometric instrument to assess creativity. Results: Twelve articles met the selection criteria. The results of comparisons of BD patients with control groups without BD were heterogeneous. BD was not associated with higher levels of creativity than other mental disorders. When comparing BD phases, depression was associated with worse performance on creativity tests and patients in mania (or hypomania) were not distinguished from euthymia patients. Conclusion: It was not possible to corroborate the hypothesis that individuals with BD are more creative than individuals without psychiatric diagnoses or than patients suffering from other mental disorders, which may be related to the cross-sectional rather than longitudinal designs of virtually all of the clinical studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of the biographer, artist, and recipient's synergy in the creative personality's biography construction and existence. The research methodology lies in implementing a range of approaches: analytical, i. e. via considering the references on the study issue; interdisciplinary, i. e. via obtaining new knowledge; systemic, i. e. via the complex grasp of the distinguished question; biographical, i. e. via analyzing multiple domains of the master's existence; cultural studies, i. e. via realizing the links between social and mental phenomena; hermeneutic, i. e. via interpreting the chronicles content; theoretic generalization, i. e. via suggesting the research results, and some others. The scientific novelty refers to the fact that for the first time ever in the national humanitarian study the master's biography is being revealed as the interaction of an author, main character, and addressee. Conclusions. The artist's biography is a unique phenomenon demonstrating the individual history, progress, and civilization role of an outstanding personality. Its construction is a complex mechanism requiring the involvement of a considerable framework of references and factual materials, various views, humanitarian strategies for explications, and presenting an objective image of the master. The chronicle creation demands the synergy of the researcher, main character, and recipient, their mission being equivalent. Monologues, dialogues, and polylogues are being built in accordance with the author and addressee's genre paradigm. There occur productive subject relations between them leading up to the grasp of the existence, as well as the creative personality's socio-cultural mission. Each stage of this process is autonomous; nevertheless, the outstanding one among the equals is the scholar arranging the selection and the way of supplying the master's data, renewing the accounting, and accomplishing the text presentation. The chronicles' character is the most consistent category of the aforementioned system. It exists within the timeless continuum and interacts with the public through personal opuses; however, its practical comprehension is possible only by ontological interpretation means being implemented by the scholar and recipient. The latter decodes a large layer of data in accordance with individual outlook and activates the master's heritage within the domain of nowadays. Due to the productive mutual interaction of the abovementioned trinity, biography transfers a great volume of mental information, restores the master's profile, and contributes to communication with the talented connoisseurs of various epochs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biography of a work of art is always strogly connected to the biography of its creator. This statement is already well-known and it doesn't need further explanation. In the musical analysis tradition, we are more inclined to treat the matter of a work by beginning with the context in which it was created by the composer, but we sometimes tend to neglect the fact that the given work has a biography of its own which, from a counter perspective, speaks of the creator's social and psycholoigal context by itself. In the following article we selected two chamber music pieces by each composer in order to trace through them the causality realtionships that connect the works to the creators and their (inner and outer) world and see how the musical material of The Soldier's Tale and the Piano Trio in E minor, respectively, can birng us to a better understanding of the immanent meanings which they posess. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Stepan Fedorovich Sokolovskii (pen name Coré) served as the primary caricaturist for the prominent St. Petersburg newspaper Novoe vremia (New Times, 1868–1917) in the late 1890s and early 1900s. While his vibrant style and prolific output have led his cartoons to appear frequently in scholarship, few studies examine his work specifically. Interestingly, his illustrations for Novoe vremia focus almost exclusively on international politics, and thus, prominently engage in national and ethnic stereotypes. These caricatures not only offered eye-catching and amusing visual depictions of foreign relations, they also showed Russia's imperial rivals as buffoonish back-stabbers that represented the worst excesses of imperialist exploitation. In this way, Sokolovskii's works offer an intriguing snapshot of popular attitudes towards Russia's allies and enemies. This essay surveys the broad themes of Sokolovskii's work and examines the ways his drawings encapsulated complex international conflicts and offered pithy visual representations of Novoe vremia 's loyalist and nationalistic take on foreign affairs. Further, it fills a gap in the scholarship by shedding light on the biography of this prolific artist and examining his views on political caricature as a medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespread usage on web platforms and the huge volume of visual content on Wikipedia, little is known about the importance of images in the context of free knowledge environments. To bridge this gap, we collect data about English Wikipedia reader interactions with images during one month and perform the first large-scale analysis of how interactions with images happen on Wikipedia. First, we quantify the overall engagement with images, finding that one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article content. Second, we study what factors associate with image engagement and observe that clicks on images occur more often in shorter articles and articles about visual arts or transports and biographies of less well-known people. Third, we look at interactions with Wikipedia article previews and find that images help support reader information need when navigating through the site, especially for more popular pages. The findings in this study deepen our understanding of the role of images for free knowledge and provide a guide for Wikipedia editors and web user communities to enrich the world's largest source of encyclopedic knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article looks into the cultural and artistic relations of the artists of Kyiv and Lviv based on the letters of Borys Lyatoshynskyi. The role of Borys Liatoshinsky in preserving the cultural significance of these artists despite Soviet cultural narratives is studied. The situation in arts was especially tragic after the 1948 decree “On the opera “Great Friendship” by Vano Muradeli”. The characters of Ukrainian artists of the Galytska school of composers — Vasyl Barvinskyi, Adam Soltys, Roman Simovych, Jozef Koffler, and Tadeusz Siegfried Kassern — have been reconstructed based on the correspondence. The epistolary legacy of B. Liatoshynsky testifies that Lviv runs through his creative path as a red thread, bringing into the orbit of our attention both personal relationships with the city (his visits, social life of artistic elite), and some collisions (often dramatic), which relate to the works of the artist. No city in Ukraine attracted the artist as much as Lviv: there he presented his works to a thoughtful listener and communicated with kindred spirits. The tragic pages of rejection and persecution of B. Liatoshynskyi’s largest works — the Second and Third symphonies — have been described and introduced into scientific circulation. The fate of the former appears to be the most tragic one in the history of Ukrainian musical culture during the Soviet times. Having considered the correspondence of the B. Liatoshinsky, we conclude that Lviv musicians always supported the artist in difficult years, appreciating his extraordinary talent. The feeling was mutual — B. Liatoshinsky felt sincere, tender love for Lviv, its profound intellectual atmosphere, its people, and the ability to maintain the true friendship of spiritually kindred hearts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán in south of Mexico City in 1907. The artist suffered from physical and psychological pains throughout her life - at least, in her paintings, she tried to relieve the unfavourable conditions she experienced. Kahlo had poliomyelitis at the age of six and her right leg became permanently disabled. On 17th September, 1925, she got severely injured in a bus accident and she was bedridden for a long time. The artist who got over in the later of 1927 started to become famous in artistic and politic environments. Frida Kahlo, who met Diego Rivera, one of the prominent artists in Mexico, thanks to her friend Tina Modotti, married him on 21st August, 1929. The artist, who was not able to give a birth because of her health problems and could not stand her husband's unfaithfulness anymore, divorced Diego Rivera in 1939. However, she married Diego Rivera a year later again and lived in La Casa Azul (the Blue House), which she spent her childhood, till the end of her life. Kahlo painted in order to banish the anguished moments she experienced that time - full steam ahead she went, and held some exhibitions in the USA and France. Frida Kahlo reflecting her unhappiness and misfortune in life into her paintings became one of the significant artists in the 20th century. In her works, she illustrated the pain as a reflection of her emotions and thoughts. Even if Kahlo's works were described as surrealist, she contradicted it and expressed that she transferred the realities she faced with into her paintings. The artist questioned about herself and her life in her paintings. Kahlo reflected the traditions and customs of Mexican culture into her works rather than modern art perception. In her works, she created her own art perception by combining imagination with reality. The artist always expressed that the only thing which increased her stamina and helped her improve her psychological well-being was painting. The aim of the study is to find out the aspects of Frida Kahlo's living death being reflected into her paintings. Moreover, the study examines the therapeutic aspect of art by taking as an example of the artist's biography and reinforces the artist's paintings which she revealed the realities. As a result of the study, it was observed that psychological and physiological disorders do not prevent dealing with art, on the contrary, using it as a therapy accelerates the healing. Kahlo showed a strong resistance in the struggle for life and conveyed her feelings and thoughts to audiences with a symbolic language she used in her paintings. In the research, Frida Kahlo's paintings were prioritised. For this reason, the analyses were made by taking samples from the artist's works. The limitations of the study was determined as Frida Kahlo's short biography and the selections from her works. A literature search was conducted in the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]