a r t i c l e i n f o This paper describes an approach for automatically analyzing the alterations of an original artwork during its reproduction. The overall deformation of the artwork is modelled by a piecewise linear model, where regions of the artwork that feature similar alterations are automatically inferred and assigned to the different model components. Model complexity, that is, the re...

The article examines Vasyl Stefanyk’s novellas, stories, images, sketches, psychograms from his early collections «The Blue Booklet» (1899), «A Stone Cross» (1900), Road» (1901) and «My Word» (1905). It is observed that the peculiarity of literary process at turn ХІХth – ХХth centuries close corresponding between creative work representatives several generations:the older one (I. Nechui-Levytsk...

Edouard Manet (1832-1883), the pivotal French painter in transition from Realism to Impressionism – modern-life subjects – primed a colossal deviation in the world of painting at the turning point of the 18th century to the 19th century in France. This paper will psychoanalytically explore Manet’s disturbed life and disarrayed course of development, psycho-physi...

“...[T]he sound of water escaping from mill-dams... old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brick work, I love such things.... As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight,” wrote John Constable (1776–1837), English landscape painter and source of inspiration for Constant Troyon and others, who looked for subjects not in the classical or academic...

Olive Moore, Queer Ecology, and Anthropocene Modernism David Shackleton (bio) In Moore's novel Spleen (1930), the main character Ruth encounters a "procession of unemployed" passing through Trafalgar Square: "[t]he men, it seemed, were from distressed areas North; closed steel iron works; miners Wales; dockers Clyde. They had gathered in North come down on foot with their banners massed appeal ...

although the function of neuro-vocal system of the human body was previously suggested in the second half of the 17th century by italian surgeon antonio valsalva”, but its use in speech therapy during the past 30 years. however, its role has not been considered properly for teaching the speech method in the schools of dramatic arts. the present study aims to shed some light on the extreme need ...

abstract niklas luhmann was one of the prominent thinkers in the realm of sociology and the philosophy of social sciences. his approach was a systems approach. he classified the realm of reality and its entities into four groups that consisted of: machines, organisms, psychic systems, social systems. he belonged to the second wave of systemic thought and focused on the complexity and emergence ...

The technological and industrial acceleration seen in Europe at the end of the 19th century began to change the patterns of daily life permanently. Transport and cars were prominent in this transformation. Car manufacturing started in Germany and France at this time, and the Fiat S.p.A. Company began operations in Italy in 1899. The massive technological change transformed people’s mobility and...