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The Kultura Journal is an international scientific journal for the theory and sociology of culture and cultural policy, which follows culture in the widest sense of the word where science, education and all human activities are taken as its integral part.
It was started in 1968 courtesy to the efforts of Stevan Majstorović, founder of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development, with the objective to encourage integrative, analytical and critical interpretations of the modern cultural phenomena.
At the time of its establishment, the Kultura Journal was unique in the domain of intellectual thought both in terms of its concept and its design. Since the first issue, i.e. over the fifty years of its existence, Kultura has been and has remained open to creative ideas from the country and the world, as seen from the texts of important foreign authors and contributions from professionals coming from the cultural centres of former Yugoslavia, as well as domestic authors who offered new ideas and approaches to culture. The recognizable design solution of the logo of the journal and its cover page were created by the artist and calligraphist Božidar Bole Miloradović, for the very first number.
As of 1971, the issues were edited thematically, which has been dominant practice to this date, with the aim of enriching certain thematic fields in our cultural and scientific community.
The first Editorial Board of the Kultura Journal consisted of eleven members, led by the Editor-in Chief Stevan Majstorović and Trivo Inđić, as conceptual instigators of the journal which heralded a new orientation in the intellectual field. Members of the Editorial Board were: Slobodan Canić, Dragutin Gostuški, Vujadin Jokić, Danica Mojsin, Mirjana Nikolić, Nebojša Popov, Bogdan Tirnanić, Milan Vojnović and Tihomir Vučković. Over the five decades of the Kultura Journal, editorial boards changed several times.
Kultura is issued every three months (four times a year) and its printing has been financed by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia since 2001. With support of the competent ministry, all numbers of this journal, from the first to the last issue, were digitalized in 2009. As a result, a DVD containing digital form of the journal, was available with the issue No. 129, titled "Electronic libraries". A few years later, in 2013, Kultura switched to the Cyrillic script, with an important note that it still published in Latin script those authors from the region who originally use Latin script(Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia). With the issue No. 140, on the occasion of marking the 45th anniversary of the Kultura Journal, a special USB was made available, with all the texts from the numbers 1-137. The web page of the Centre for Studies in Cultural Development contains all the texts ever published in any issue of the Kultura Journal over half a century of its existence.
The Department for Registration of Journals of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia, the Kultura Journal was registered in 2005 (when categorisation of scientific journals started) marked as category P53. In 2010,it was registered as category M52 in the group of journals for history, art,history, ethnology and archaeology. At the beginning of July 2012, the journal advanced to the category of national interest, by Decision of the Ministry of education, science and technological development of the Republic of Serbia (M51).
Kultura is regularly deposited with the Repository of the National Library of Serbia, and since 2010, it has been included in the Serbian Quotation Index, where the texts published in Kultura can be found in full digital form. As of 2011, the texts i.e. scientific articles, apart from the regular UDK (universal decimal classification) also carry specific DOI (Digital Object Identifier) codes, that allow for their greater visibility and international indexing under international standards. In the meantime,electronic version of the journal was started i.e. the first steps were made towards electronic edition by CEON (Service for monitoring, measuring and valorisation of scientific journals) through Aseestant electronic editing programme. This has contributed to the quality of published articles, as the editorial board now have at their disposal adequate programmes for text checking in terms of correct citation sand listings of references as well as prevention of plagiarism.
Kultura is regularly delivered to the National Library of Serbia in Belgrade, Belgrade City Library,University Library "Svetozar Marković" in Belgrade, Library of Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Library of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Library of the Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade, University Library in Niš and University Library in Kragujevac. The Kultura Journalis regularly received by numerous interested institutions of culture (libraries, theatres, museums, culture centres) as well as individuals. The Journal nurtures professional exchanges with many similar institutions and magazines in the country, region and in Europe (Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia,Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland and other countries).
In addition to respecting scientific rules and standards for publishing scientific papers, Kultura has not lost the curiosity or the freshness of an avant-garde magazine dealing with both eternal and very actual topics.
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- Humanistic ideas of Sonja Vukićević in her choreodramas
- Sonja Vukićević, an avant-garde and authentic artist of the Serbian choreodrama scene, uses her body not only to express her aesthetics but also her personal and historical truths. She understands, creates and uses the body as a fundamental symbol of humanity and the universe. With the art of dance and movement she shows her own relationship with the society, individual, war, freedom, key events of the epoch, the time she lives in and the time that has passed and left its mark on the current socio-political situation. Through dance she expresses her anti-war attitude and a rebellion against fascism. In her choreographic creations, she embodies the historical-political speech and gives an engaged commentary of the society that creates and establishes political choreodrama as a unique genre.
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- Hybrid libraries
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- I play, therefore I exist or I participate, therefore I exist
- From the syncretic art of prehistory, through the religious and political spectacle of history, to modern alienation, the human individual has not been significantly changed. At the very beginning man was directly involved in magical rites, then he lost this status becoming a passive observer of events, which has led to engaging in virtual reality today, due to the latest fast development of high technology. Through direct participation in live interactive spectacle of classical music concert contemporary man returns to his magical roots. While playing part in the live recreation of music ritual on the stage he becomes an active factor in the creation of art work, creator of his own life.
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- Idea of exploitation in comic books
- Since their appearance, comic books have been victims of misuse by media concerns. Generic plotlines were preconditions for large printings, which - alongside commercialization and the Comics Code Authority (CCA) - without a doubt did the most damage to comic books and hindered transition of the once humorous newspaper addition into a genuine art form. Though the corporate model was well known and derided even during the 1970s, it has persisted to this day. This paper examines comic book industrialization and exploitation of original ideas. The analysis centers on the evolution of Marvel's Punisher series. Following the decrease in quality of writing and drawing, as well as the changes made to the character of Punisher himself, the paper exposes the methods with which franchises are created from otherwise artificially maintained properties. Saga o f Frank Castle is not the longest run in mass-produced comic book publishing history, but it is still a potent example of cultural trends and the divergence of comic books from their artistic principles.
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- Identity in a virtual world
- Personal identity is a concept that can be determined through the consciousness of the experience continuity in the dimension of time. Personal identity is not substantial, but formal relation that articulates its contents in different ways, which are socially conditioned (gender, professional, national etc. identity). Similarly, collective identity is established as consciousness of the shared experiences and traditions. The basic thesis of this article is that the personal and collective identity in a virtual world set up in the same way as in 'real' world, as well as that the identity in a virtual world is less stable than the identity in 'real' world.
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- Ideological types of interpretation and actualization of Ivo Andrić's literary opus in the postYugoslav context
- This paper interprets the ideological models of the nationally marked reception of Andrić's literary works since the last decade of the 20th century in the Bosnian and Serbian intellectual circles, and it explores the genesis of a negative attitude towards this writer and his opus. Also, it points out to the causes and the extent to which the examinations of Andrić's literature have been displaced from the primary aesthetic framework.
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- Image and passion
- The relationship between image and passion is a privileged subject of Christian ascetic literature and Byzantine philosophy. This paper explores the consequences of such a relationship between image and passion on the issues of the film and the film image, from the perspective of the film theory, philosophy and the Christian theology, with an emphasis on the concepts of personality and communication.
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- Images of an impossible event
- The text puts into focus the changing nature, dramatic actuality and expanded (bio-ethical) meaning of the suicidal phenomenon as a global cultural and media symptom of the first decade of the 21st century. Starting from radical examples of a suicidal protest as a political deathritual (the nature of which is here conceived by victims' struggle for freedom, respect of human rights and emancipation of the oppressed working-class people), the analysis is supported by theoretical backgrounds among which the most remarkable place has been reserved for a study about the history of self-immolation by the British sociologist Michael Biggs. The text attempts to open up new fields of interpretation bordering the phenomenon of the image, on the one hand, and the phenomenon of suicide, on the other, in the context of contemporary everyday life and media culture under the globalization regime. One of the main goals, towards which this re-articulation of suicide as an ultimate cultural symptom of our times has developed, resides in the need to re-examine the complicity between the iconography of death (as a consequence of the radical self-destructive ritual) and the new imaginary of the 'political'.
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- Imaginary protagonists in idiomatic expressions of the contemporary Italian language
- The aim of this paper is to present imaginary personalities from oral and written literature who have found their place in Italian fixed expressions due to their character, specific circumstances, events or the things they have done or said. Most of the analysed characters in this paper are fictional, while some are associated with the most diverse stories and legends, mostly of unclear origin. If the analysed characters have been taken from a literary work, their creator is an individual and therefore a known subject. The creator of these characters can also be a collective author, and therefore an unknown subject. The characteristics of the protagonists in folk fiction and folklore have been created for a long time and they have been constantly attributed new meanings and language varieties. Although the subject of research in this paper are phrases of the contemporary Italian language, when it comes to these language forms, we cannot talk about contemporaneity in a narrower sense. Namely, due to their stability, these expressions represent a kind of antiquity, passed down from generation to generation through time and space. We will consider as contemporary those idioms which are recognizable in form and meaning in the language and speech of the XX and XXI century, and we will extract them from general and phraseological dictionaries and collections.
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- Impact of initial education on the professional competeneces of teachersartists and artists-teachers in teaching arts
- Starting from different curriculums of art faculties and teaching colleges, as well as the competences future teachers gain in their study programs, the impact of various factors is analysed, like the impact of initial education on the level of creativity of teaching and divergent creative thinking or artistic/form-related aspects seen in drawings etc. Established facts are then correlated to the competences of teachers/artists (artists who teach art in schools) and teachers/ non-artists (teachers of other subjects) for the realization of teaching and educational objectives, tasks and contents of arts as a primary school subject, as well as to the possible consequences on the creative development of pupils. Research was carried out on a sample of three hundred and thirty-two (332) teachers from thirteen (13) Serbian cities. Characteristics of creative, divergent thinking were monitored based on indicators taken from a standardized research instrument called Modified Creative Williams Test (Tunik 2005), while for the monitoring of artistic and form-related aspects of drawings, a special instrument was created. Based on differences which appear in characteristics of the artistic expression and depending on the initial art education i.e. art pedagogy, statistically significant differences were identified between these two populations, pointing to the need to establish new hypothesis, especially by further researching competences of teaching staff in fulfilling primary objectives of Arts as a teaching subject, and especially researching their impact on creative development of primary school pupils as well as initial education and gaining competences for teaching specific subjects like art.