Category: Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
It Can Exist, but Not in My Backyard! Discussing the Diffusion Effect of Neighbor Nimby From the Relationship Between Community Park Green Space and Ground Floor Entrance and Exit Section
The aim of this study is to explore the impact of the Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) effect on the ground floor entrance and exit section and community park green space in urban design. Through the analysis of various community park cases, this study found that the diffusion of NIMBY effects has a significant impact …
A Case Study of Eco Criticism in the Visual Arts: The Work of Mabe Bethônico
The visual arts have always been catalysts for debates related to the society in which it was incorporated and its particular conflicts. It has always started conversations given visibility to pertinent issues and conflicts and pioneered the necessary and inevitable debates. At the current moment, when our society is beginning to look at the effects …
Negotiation of Authorized Heritage Discourse in the Short-Form Video: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Official Intangible Culture Heritage (ICH) Account
Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) refers to a hegemonic discourse constructed by power relations in cultural heritage interpretation and management, which is prevalent in traditional offline intangible cultural heritage (ICH) promotion by official institutes. The AHD has been critiqued for years due to its over-emphasis on mainstream perspectives, while neglecting others. However, China’s state media have …
Social Expectations in the Artist’s Image Construction and Art Interpretation in Ming and Qing China
Some of the renowned literati artists in Chinese art history possess distinctive images. As stated by Otto Kurz and Ernst Kris, it was society’s attitude toward the artist, consisting of the comments and views by contemporaries and posterity, that constructs the image of that artist. This is especially noticeable in the anecdotes included in artists’ …