During the period 1940 – 1943 Jozef Kresánek worked as an official of the Musical Section of Matica slovenská in Martin. Here he had the opportunity to make acquaintance, among other sources, with the extensive manuscript collection of Slovak folk songs by Karol Plicka. Kresánek, when processing this collection for the first time, gained knowledge which he afterwards put to use in his synthetic work Slovenská ľudová pieseň zo stanoviska hudobného (Slovak folk song from the musical standpoint) (1951, 21997). Here he used Plicka’s manuscript records of Slovak folk songs to illustrate individual styles in Slovak folk singing. Apart from adopting selected extracts, Kresánek relies in this work on the various studies by Plicka, establishing continuity and simultaneously revaluating them in the light of his own knowledge.
The article introduces the Decorative Applied Art Museum in Riga founded in 1988 (present name - The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design), describing its collection and new acquisitions that involve both Latvian professional applied arts since its beginning and contemporary works close to object art and design.
This paper is an attempt to reconstruct Walter Benjamin's notions of a collector, collecting and a collection. The reflection on collectors and their activity proves to be crucial to 'the material philosophy of the nineteenth century' that the author was trying to write. Benjamin's insight into collecting is based, among other factors, on his own experience, and there are parallels between the way he conducts his studies, the way his works are structured and compiled, and the collector's activity and the collection respectively. This study of Benjamin's understanding of collecting puts special emphasis on the relationship between the collection and the collector's individual memory, on the role of an interpreter of collective dreams that the philosopher attributed to the collector, who is capable of calling the wake-up, and on the specificity of the possession and decommoditization of objects by the collector.
Started September 28, 2011 the third guided tour at the castle settlement in Blovice is the depository, containing initially textiles, porcelain, ceramics and glass items. The depository will be open especially for professionals. It will serve also for students who will be working with ethnographic material for their Bachelor's, Master's and doctoral theses. We will enable researchers to address not only the historical documentary and visual material, but also direct three-dimensional objects that are only limited exhibited, e.g. household textiles, clothing, household utility, etc. This project enriches not only individual researchers but also the general public interested in history, especially in the region South Pilsen.
The article presents Riga Porcelain Museum founded in 2001. It took over the collection of the former Riga Porcelain Factory that had been gathered since the 1960s. Highlights of the exposition from the early 20th century up to the present are described along with the major artists' contributions to the porcelain design over the century. The article concludes with the present-day exhibition practice of the Museum.
The aim of the paper is to highlight some aspects of two artistic objects which are well known in the Slovak art-historiography and also to open the topic for further discussion. The first object is one of the oldest works of Slovak art and it belongs to a set of gilded bronze plaques from the Old-Slavonic fort of Bojná near Nitra, which dates back to the beginning of the 9th century. The second object discussed here belongs to another set of plaques which make up what is to this day known as the Monomachos Crown, dating from the 10th to the 12th century, and which were found in Ivanka near Nitra.
In the years 1964-1994 an extensive programme of wide hybridization within the Lolium-Festuca complex was carried out in Poland.Six Lolium (ryegrass) and five Festuca (fescue) species at differnt ploidy level were used for crosses.Hybrids were obtained from 72 cross combinations.This article presents a complete list of Folium-Festuca hybrids obtained in Poland in the years 1964-1994 and maintained in the collection of Institute of Plant Genetics in Poznan.The available literature concerning these hybrids is cited.
The article analyses a set of drawings in the Drawings and Graphic Art Collection of the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava by 16th century Cremona painters Camillo Boccaccino, Giulio Campi, Bernardino Gatti, Bernardino Campi and Antonio Maria Viani. The works of the last one dominate the collection and bear evidence of Viani’s meticulous preparation for the execution of the large decoration in the dome of S. Pietro al Po in Cremona, with the subject of the “Last Judgment”.
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