Augmenting Bowen Family of Origin Work: Using the Genogram and Therapeutic Art‐based Activity

This article explores the use of creative artistic activity and metaphor to augment Bowen family of origin work. It draws on the case study of a couple engaging in premarital counselling to illustrate several ways that art making can be used to enhance Bowen systemic processes. It illustrates the value of collaborative genograms and related creative products to offer a supplementary voice for salient, verbally inexpressible content while supporting clients in externalising and processing difficult emotions with reduced reactivity.     

95后艺术生思想特点与工作机制创新研究

在高校校园思想文化建设中,艺术生的艺术创作、文化活动具有相当重要的思想宣传、教育作用,积极探索高校艺术生思想状况,提高艺术生思想道德修养和理论水平,确保其作品和活动能够正确引领社会风气,传播社会主义文化的先进理念,无疑具有重要的现实意义。通过对高校艺术生的思想状况进行详细分析,对照工作实际,分别从"暖心"、"聚心"定心"等三大工程展开论述,为创新性开展艺术生思想政治教育工作做有益探索。     

Power,capital, and artistic freedom: contemporary Chinese art communities and the city

This paper offers a critical review of the proliferation of the contemporary art colony in China since the beginning of the twenty-first century in the context of China's promotion of cultural creative industries as one of the strategies for urban development and economic growth. Through analyzing cases in Beijing, Xi’an, and Sanya, cities ranging from ‘first-tier’ to ‘third-tier’ in their size and status, the paper explores the challenges and opportunities many contemporary Chinese art professionals find themselves face amid the competitive city image building campaign, a top-down movement led by local state and private investors in cities across China. It is evident that contemporary art and alternative art spaces associated with it have been drawn into the process of commodification, inadvertently recruited to play an ancillary role in the reproduction of the hegemonic collusion between political power and capitalism in a rapidly urbanizing China. Nonetheless, I argue that the inclusion of contemporary art communities as a player in the production and reproduction of the urban space has provided critical-minded artists, critics, and curators opportunities to participate in the reconfiguration of the physical and cultural landscape of Chinese cities, albeit not always with positive outcomes. As such, some art professionals are able to appropriate the process of capitalist urbanization to create their own ‘infrastructures of resonance’ [Thompson 2015. Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century. Brooklyn: Melville House], which support artistic freedom and facilitate the growth of diverse forms of cultural creation and exchange despite the coming dominance of ‘power plus capital’ [X. Wang 2003. A Manifesto for Cultural Studies. In: C. Wang, ed. One China, many paths. London: Verso, 274–291].     

Positive You: a self-advocate’s arts-based approach for building self-esteem

Positive You is an inclusive arts project supporting learning disabled people to explore self-esteem through art-making. The project was developed by self-advocate Leah Jones who observed a gap in service provision after struggling with her own confidence and self-esteem for many years. This article has been co-written by Leah and her support Jade French using a life-story approach. Leah hopes that by sharing her story, this article will not only demonstrate the value of art-making in developing self-esteem, but also that learning disabled people can develop their own employment opportunities with the right support.     

媒介难忘——电影媒介的美学分析

媒介本质论将艺术形式与艺术媒介本质地连接在一起,认为创作、欣赏与评价等活动都应该立足于媒介的特性来进行;经典电影研究自觉地继承和发扬了以上命题。以卡诺尔为代表的后来者,主张在电影研究中“忘掉媒介”,认为媒介只是工具,它不能限制艺术。但也有研究者并未放弃对艺术媒介的理论维护,例如高特,他将媒介的理论价值用三个媒介特殊论命题系统地呈现了出来,我们在认识、解释、评价和创造艺术品时,应立足于其特殊的媒介特性。而如果站在更为宽广的大众媒介的理论视野来理解电影与媒介,认识到电影作为大众艺术代表的地位,则能够合理地融汇卡诺尔与高特之间的二律背反。     

丹磨色美夸原质--楚绘画的艺术史意义

楚绘画是中国上古时期水平最高和最有时代特色的绘画之一.它涵盖了后世中国画人物、山水、花鸟分科的基本题材,基本上确立了中国画的工具材料和造型语言,并能以概括性较强的的形色语言表现对象的神韵;已初步形成了中国绘画散点透视的特点,对汉代绘画及后世中国绘画格局的形成意义至关重大.其造型、图式和色彩不仅具有形态学意义而被后世直接继承,更为重要的是,它所包含的艺术要素和艺术精神影响了整个艺术史的发展走向.     

论“合力”与声音训练

声音训练是声乐艺术学习中重要的内容,掌握科学的发声技巧是美好歌唱的技术保障,而"合力"的掌握和运用能使声音得到有效的训练。在介绍呼吸源"合力"产生及构成原理的基础上,阐述了在声音训练中运用"合力"的原因及方法,阐明了"合力"科学运用的价值:能有效掌握发声技巧,能完善提高歌唱技能,能使训练方法易掌握且操作性强、见效快。     

浅析宋代磁州窑陶瓷的装饰艺术

磁州窑是宋代北方民窑的杰出代表,文章从其的造型、装饰和原材料等方面分析了它的民族风格和地方特色。