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TL;DR: In this article, an important aspect of Siqueiros' artistic experimentation of the 1930s is examined, which was an important step along the way toward the culminating work of this period, the Electricians' Union mural (Mexico, D.F.).
Abstract: The muralistic development of Siqueiros during the 1930s has been scarcely touched by scholarly investigation.1 I wish to examine in detail an important aspect of Siqueiros' artistic experimentation of the 1930s—his New York “Experimental Workshop” of 1936, which was an important step along the way toward the culminating work of this period, the Electricians' Union mural (Mexico, D.F.) of 1939–40. In addition to the importance of the technical experimentation of Siqueiros' Workshop, my study will consider the Workshop's intense political commitment, so characteristic of the political involvement of the artist during the New Deal period.2
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TL;DR: In this article, a recent efflorescence in monastic mural paintings in the city of Chiengmai in northern Thailand was analyzed to discover the iconographic code which might reveal underlying meanings and values.
Abstract: We draw attention to the importance of visual symbols in the anthropological investigation of religion and cultural values and analyze a recent efflorescence in monastic mural paintings in the city of Chiengmai in northern Thailand in order to discover the iconographic code which might reveal underlying meanings and values. The popularity of certain Buddhist symbols found in the murals is established by means of a quantitative methodology. The results are analyzed in terms of traditional Buddhist explanations of the symbols and then compared with informants' accounts of why the murals were popular. The opinions of the artists and monks and laity involved are considered in reference to cultural changes in values taking place in a modernizing society. The murals are an assertion of certain core values expressed in ancient Buddhist symbols as a defense of the totality of the religious system against perceived threats from competing modern values. An unexpected result of the research was the discovery that the Thai religious symbolic system incorporates into a broad continuum a host of legends and symbols that are not just “folk” beliefs but are central to an adequate anthropological understanding of Theravada Buddhism itself.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the attitude of the adult population in regard to sport is bound to undergo changes too, and that in order to integrate sport activity in an organic manner with the mode of life of the people it is necessary from childhood on to turn sport and physical education into
Abstract: Due to the fact that the content and structure of human activity have undergone considerable change during the past decades specialists in physical education and sport are being faced by new tasks in our country as well. As a result of the transformation of living and working conditions, the urbanization as well as the scientific and technical revolution, the physical effort required from the human organism continued to diminish. No longer is man capable of satisfying his need for movement through work and his diverse daily occupations: the importance of sport as a leisure pursuit has grown considerably. At the same time such training of the body as spor t, tourism, excursions, walks, etc. do not figure to a sufficient extent among the leisure pursuits of wide strata of the population and the different generations. It is obvious that the attitude of the adult population in regard to sport is bound to undergo changes too. However, in order to integrate sport activity in an organic manner with the mode of life of the people it is necessary from childhood on to turn sport and physical education into
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