Daily Digest for 94/06/13
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#01-13 June 94 Sender: 534785850@UCIS.VILL.EDU
Subject Airfare Information Request
#02-13 June 94 Sender: Andrew Mich (a.mich@trl.oz.au)
Subject: Information Sought on Caucausian Languages
#03-13 June 94 Sender: ACTRDC@mep-1.sprint.com
Subject: ACTR Teacher Exchange Program
#04-13 June 94 Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@isumataq.eskimo.com)
Subject: Hi
#05-13 June 94 Sender: "ALEX" (and@taros.msk.su)
Subject: Re: Mark Bates "Real Estate in Russia"
#06-13 June 94 Sender: YPPJ62A@prodigy.com (MR DON SOLIMINI)
Subject: intourist
#07-13 June 94 Sender: Tatyana Kanzaveli (71064.3220@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Forwarded request
#08-13 June 94 Sender: douglas@glas.apc.org (Charlotte Douglas)
Subject: RUSSIAN ART JOURNAL NEEDS HELP!
#09-13 June 94 Sender : Harold_J_McWHINNIE@umail.umd.edu (hm9)
Subject: call for papers
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Sender: 534785850@UCIS.VILL.EDU
Subject: Airfare Information Request
Dear Friends and Partners,
I am considering accepting a teaching position in Russia. Since I
will be paying my own transportation expenses I would greatly
appreciate knowing of any discount fares for air travel between
the U.S. and Russia (Moscow). I will be departing sometime in early
September and will be staying for six to nine months.
Thanks for any help that you are able to give.
My best regards to you all,
Brian Payne
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Sender: Andrew Mich (a.mich@trl.oz.au)
Subject: Information Sought on Caucausian Languages
Dear Friends
I am interested in learning about the history and culture of the Caucaus
region, and finding something out about the languages spoken there. In
particular, the Daghestani language. (I was told that this language
has some similarity to French.)
I have had difficulty in finding any references in English. Can anyone suggest
where I might start my reading?
I hope that this is not an inappropriate request for the Friends Forum, my
apologies if it is!
Andrew Mich
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Sender: ACTRDC@mep-1.sprint.com
Subject: ACTR Teacher Exchange Program
I would like to post a message on your Friends and Partners Funding
and Exchange Opportunities file. We received an excellent grant
from USIA for secondary school teachers from Russia and the U.S.
and we are under the gun to find three more American participants.
They will be placed in a school somewhere in the Russian Federation
and will teach in English subjects that fall under the social sciences
and humanities (not language, per se). So, for example, a history
teacher who specializes in American history would be perfect. We
would prefer that the teacher have at least remedial knowledge of Russian.
This is so that they can get around and be relatively independent.
They will receive a pretty substantial monthly stipend, as well as
a materials stipend, and a computer/modem to bring with them and
leave at the school upon the end of the school year. Did I say
this is for the 1994-1995 school year? What else - the grant
will cover domestic and international travel, visa costs, and
a full orientation in Washington, DC before departure.
I appreciate any help you can give me in getting the word out.
Any interested parties can contact me, Dana Weintraub, Program
Officer for Faculty Exchanges, ACTR, 202-833-7522, or by
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Dana Weintraub
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Sender: Greg Wickenburg (greg@isumataq.eskimo.com)
Subject: Hi
Well, I hope I did this right. I was told about this group in the Usenet.
I'm fairly new to Internet, about 5 weeks. I have been using E-mail to
write to a guy in St. Petersburg Russia. I've sent/received a few message
from/to him. It been interesting. I hope it is ok to leave a message
here. I wasn't to sure what to do after I joind the mail list.
So are there many from Russia here? Thanks, hope to hear back.
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Sender: "ALEX" (and@taros.msk.su)
Subject: Re: Mark Bates "Real Estate in Russia"
Hello everybody!
My name is Alexey Andronov, I'm 26. I work in real estate field almost since
the Russian privatization program has begun ( in 1985 ). The last 6 month I
work as sales manager in private real estate company in Moscow. We sell
any kind of appartment in the city.
I'd like to share by some thoughts about real estate market in Moscow.
The first one is - this kind of business is very criminalised here.
If someone desided to sell or to bye appartment there is a huge risk to lose
solid amount of money or ones own appartment without any hope to get it back.
Of corse, one can make a deal by means of big real estate companies ( there
are about ten of them for all Moscow ) or some banks, but "reliable" real
estate agencies take from 5 to 15 % of appartment cost. It makes people to
think about "does the service worth this money ?", because everybody have
heard about sucsessful deals just between owners & byers. I don't even say
about banks help in the matter. Their percentage as high as clouds.
With all that take into account that many of them who intends to bye appartment
just sold an old one or a couple to bye a new flat. They have very limited
period of time ( 1 or 2 months, not more ) to find new flat and they have noway
to get some more money than they got after selling old appartment(s).
Now a word about credits.
If you are common man with the salary of 200 000 rbs a month ( $ 100 ) you
can forget about getting a credit for bying appartment from a bank. You'll be
said that you have nothing to pay it back. You can always get credit if you
put in pledge yor own appartment where you are actualy living in. But I know
that many people just disappeared after getting alike credit.
If you are a master of a real estate company you are supposed to have a kind
of very close relationships with bankers and gangsters at the same time.
Otherwise you will not find ( get ) credits for operations and you will not
be able to defence your interests in different disagreeable situations ( and
of corse you 'll encounter them ).
The think that the world over calls "real estate market" at least in Moscow
should has some other name, "battle field" for example...
This is my subjective view to the issue.
All comments are welcomed.
Andronov Alexey and@taros.msk.su
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Sender: YPPJ62A@prodigy.com (MR DON SOLIMINI)
Subject: intourist
Hello friends'
I have a friend who works at Intourist in Moscow. Try to keep intouch but
mail is horrendous at best. Especially packages - but now have help with those.
Does anyone know if they have e-mail address? And more importantly will
messages get through to an individual??
Thanks for any help, my last request was answered with volumes of
info/help/contacts, hope this one is too. Thanks again.
Don Solimini
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Sender: Tatyana Kanzaveli (71064.3220@CompuServe.COM)
Subject: Forwarded request
RE: Forwarded request
Hello all.
I recieved the following request and am unable to provide the information
Mr. Bowring is requesting. If anyone out there can provide him with the
information, it would be greatly appreciated by all. Thanks.
)Could you please e-mail me the list of addresses of universities in
)Russia which you hold? Thanks very much for the information on Czech
)Republic.
)With best wishes,
)Bill Bowring
)Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East London
Please reply to: W.S.B.Bowring@UEL.AC.UK
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Sender: douglas@glas.apc.org (Charlotte Douglas)
Subject: RUSSIAN ART JOURNAL NEEDS HELP!
INQUIRIES IN ART HISTORY, A RUSSIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF
ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, IS SEEKING SUBSCRIPTIONS
WORLD-WIDE FROM LIBRARIES AND INDIVIDUALS.
The collapse of the publishing industry in Russia has been
disastrous for scholarly publication. Every serious art
history journal--Panorama of Arts, Art, Decorative Art, Art
Monuments, and many others--has folded, leaving no outlet in
the country for serious research and writing.
Last year a group of historians initiated INQUIRIES IN ART
HISTORY [Voprosy iskusstvoznaniia]--a quarterly that was then
and is now the only journal in Russia for scholarly
publication in our field. The journal began with a
commercial "sponsor", but that source of funding has now gone
bankrupt, and there are no other prospects.
Four numbers for 1993 (3 issues: 1, 2/3, 4) have been
published. Number 1 (1994) is now in press. Number 2 (1994)
has been edited. Without means of support and without
subscriptions from abroad that is where the journal will end.
PLEASE BRING this worthy journal to the attention of your
colleagues and libraries. Subscriptions are $40/year
postpaid for individuals, $50./year for libraries. It is
hoped that subscribers will begin their subscriptions with
the first issue (i.e. no. 1, 1993).
I am now in Moscow and will be here until 29 June. For
immediate subscribers in the U.S. and Canada I will carry the
issues back to the US with me and mail them there. All
others will be airmailed from Moscow. For subscriptions or
more information please contact me at:
douglas@glas.apc.org
After 29 June 1994: douglas@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Charlotte Douglas
Department of Russian Studies
Institute of Fine Art
New York University, 19 University Place, NY, NY 10003
Tables of Contents for 1993 issues follows:
INQUIRIES IN ART HISTORY [VOPROSY ISKUSSTVOZNANIIA] A
quarterly journal of art history
(Published in Russian with English summaries)
Editor in Chief: V. T. Sheveleva
Editorial Board: N. L. Adaskina, Iu. Ia. Gerchuk, S. V.
Golynets, A. M. Kantor, I. N. Karasik, I. V. Kokkinaki, I. A.
Morozov, G. G. Pospelov, G. Iu. Sternin, D. V. Sarabianov, M.
V. Tabachnikov, V. S. Turchin, A. K. Iakimovich
NUMBER 1, 1993. 240 pp.
THE RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE
Dmitrii Sarabianov, The Russian Avant-Garde in Light of
Religious Philosophical Thought
Nataliia Adaskina, Art Theories and the Russian Avant-garde:
On Artistic Languages
Ekaterina Bobrinskaia, The Visual Form of the Text in Cubo-
Futurist Esthetics
Tatiana Goriacheva, Malevich and Metaphysical Painting
Nikolai Masalin, Kandinsky and the Russian Romantic Tradition
Marina Bessonova, Myths of the Russian Avant-Garde and
Generational Polemics: From Malevich to Kabakov
PARADIGMS OF CULTURE: LATE 19TH CENTURY
Aleksandr Iakimovich, Western Madness and the Russian
Disease--Two Cultural Paradigms
Iukhani Pallasmaa, The Limits of Architecture: Toward
Architectural Quiet
REFLECTIONS
Aleksandr Kamensky, Marc Chagall: Spirits of the Russian
Revolution
Anatolii Kantor, A Third Aspect of Niko Pirosmanashvili
THE HISTORY OF FORM AND IDEAS
Mikhail Iampolski, Cendrar and Leger: Quotation as Film Idiom
Sharif M. Shukurov, A Phenomenology of the Architectural
Image: The Temple and Templar Consciousness
TEXTS MEMOIRS COMMENTARY
Nikolai Tarabukin, The Problem of Space in Painting (A.
Dunaevo, editing and commentary)
REVIEWS
CHRONICLE OF CURRENT ART EVENTS (Symposia, Meetings, etc.)
NUMBER 2-3, 1993 304 pp.
CULTURAL DIALOGUES
Vladimir Bibler, The Birth of the Author in Twentieth Century
Art (Concerning Barthes "Death of the Author")
Evgeniia Kirichenko, Russian and Western Architecture in the
New Times [18-ea. 19th century].
Boris Bernshtein, Once More on Ivanov and Poussin
Mikhail Allenov, Vrubel and Fortuny
Natalia Nikolaeva, Far Eastern Artistic Ideas in Russian
Culture
Mariia Nashchokina, "Wagnerschule" and Moscow Architecture
1900-1910
Elena Lvova, Pavel Kuznetsov's "Still Life with Japanese
Print"
Charlotte Douglas, Abstraction and Decoration
Tatiana Goriacheva, Malevich and the Renaisance
Irina Kokkinaki, Malevich's Suprematist Architecture and its
Relation to Actual Architectural Processes
HISTORY AND PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION
Viktor Grashchenkov, Correggio and the Problem of the High
Renaissance
Iurii Zolotov, Invention in the Work of Johannes Vermeer
Mikhail German, The Lessons of Paul Klee
DOCUMENTS
Viktor Golovin, "Tutto di sua mano" The Evaluation of
Mastery in 15th Contracts of Italian Artists
Sergei Androsov, Ivan Nikitin in Italy. New Material
Valerii Turchuk, V. V. Kandinsky at Moscow University
POSTMODERNISM
Sergei Kuskov, The Palimpsest of Postmodernism: Conserving
the Traces of Tradition
A. Grevenits, "My-Faust" Nam June Paik--A Myth Made Banal?
[translated from the German]
Aleksandr Kokhav, The State of Art and Liberation of Light, A
New Age Manifesto [translated from the English]
TEXTS MEMOIRS COMMENTARY
Nikolai Tarabukin, The Problem of Space in Painting (cont.)
CHRONICLE OF CURRENT ART EVENTS (Symposia, Meetings, etc.)
NUMBER 4, 1993 382 pp.
Gennadii Vdovin, The Evolution of Personality and the
Consciousness of Self in Russian Portrait Painting of the
18th and early 19th Century
Iurii Gerchuk, Bazhenov's Kremlin Project--A Grand 18th
Century Architectural Utopia
Olga Medvedkova, Bazhenov's Pseudo-Gothic Ensemble in
Tsaritsyno: An Interpretation
Gleb Pospelov, Aleksandr Ivanov's "Life Cycles"
Nikolai Masalin, Ivan Aivazovsky and the Romantic Catagory of
the Sublime
Galina Elshevskaia, Historical Space in Picture Space [18th
Century Historical Painting]
Grigorii Sternin, Between the Idea and the Grass Roots:
Russian Artistic Consciousness in the 1870's and 1880's.
Gleb Prokhorov, "Christ the Greatest Atheist": The New
Testament Cycle of Ivan Kramskoi
Gleb Prospelov, The Late Work of Nikolai Gay
Grigorii Sternin, The First Wave of the Russian Emigration:
Views on the Russian Cultural Tradition
CONTEMPORARY ART
Iurii Gerchuk, Avant-Garde Trends During "The Thaw"
Andrei Erofeev, Unofficial Art of the 1960's
Nataliia Tamruchi, Moscow Conceptualism
Lev Mochalov, On the Border of Painting and Kitsch
ICONS
Boris Raushenbakh, The Doctrine of the Trinity in Icons
Vladimir Sarabianov, The Iconographic Content of the Icons
Commissioned by Metropolitan Makary
REFLECTIONS
Tamara Semenova, Pictorial Space in Folk Art (E. Murina,
Introduction)
TEXTS, MEMOIRS, COMMENTARIES
Gerold Vzdornov, Iurii Aleksandrovich Olsufev
Nikolai Tarabukin, The Problem of Space in Painting (con't.)
REVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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)From: Harold_J_McWHINNIE@umail.umd.edu (hm9)
Subject: call for papers
SPECULATIONS AND RESEARCH ON ART EDUCATION vol 1 no 1
fall 1994
special theme
IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHER EDUCATION
1.focus on new technologies in art education
2 .implications of multi-media in art education
3.implications of computer and computer graphics
4 .success stories about teaching infusion with technology
send paper in either of two formats
a. by e-mail
b. on disk ibm word perferct only
harold mc whinnie
college of education
univesity of maryland
college park, maryland 20742
college park, maryland 20742
to subscribe send me your e-mail
free to all
will be published and mailed on oct 1 1994
Harold J. McWHINNIE
Email:Harold_J_McWHINNIE@umail.umd.edu (hm9)
Phone:53125
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 10:05 EDT
)From: Harold_J_McWHINNIE@umail.umd.edu (hm9)
Subject: information physiscs of expression
To: fract1
I have recently read an interesting paper by mark davis.
In that paper he wrote that the structural extremes of a blank canvas in
painting and purely random tonal arrangements in music are limits that have
been explored only relatively recently and only with the intent of shaocking
the art audiance into reviewing what , at center, constitutes art. a
Randonmess and pervasive order are uninformative it seem, with informative
use in the broad sense of containing little that is appealing to the human
aestheic sense although such a piece my nevetheless speak profoundaly to
us.
In representational art, the complexity of the subject matter is imbued in
the interpretation. If the subject is organic, then the representation must
possess some measure of the structural properities of the organic form.
In nonrepresentational art, certain arrangements of shapes and color
combinations are considered more appealing than others and form the basis
for a theory of grahic design. Yet the theory is unmotivated at best,
lacking little justification beyond a tautological desicption of what works
being that which works. the reliance on entities like form and balance to
justify a perception of form or balance in an observer is not much of a
theory at all.
Harold J. McWHINNIE
Email:Harold_J_McWHINNIE@umail.umd.edu (hm9)
Phone:53125
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