Creative Creatures : Between Art and Anthropology

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00138898" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00138898 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://ejmap.sk/wp-content/uploads/Katarina_Slobodova_Novakova_Veronika_Majdakova_Martina_Pavlikova_Ales_Smrcka-Creative_Creatures.pdf" target="_blank" >https://ejmap.sk/wp-content/uploads/Katarina_Slobodova_Novakova_Veronika_Majdakova_Martina_Pavlikova_Ales_Smrcka-Creative_Creatures.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.34135/ejmap-24-02-04" target="_blank" >10.34135/ejmap-24-02-04</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Creative Creatures : Between Art and Anthropology

Original language description

The visual capture of the world has been an integral part of the formation of ethnology and cultural anthropology since the beginning. It meant not only a source of knowledge of the local community, but especially of the time at which it was created. Sometimes photographs were taken accidentally during research trips as more or less documentary material, which were only superficially analysed and served to visually confirm the investigated state, or were a targeted photo documentation of disappearing phenomena, objects of material culture, ceremonies or genius loci of the researched area. At other times, photographs were created as a result of purposeful research and documentation of selected phenomena. The result of this is an interpretive openness and an effort to find and establish new analytical and interpretive processes that would be able to convey anthropological knowledge more effectively. Is art, or in our specific case artistic photography, usable for research or for interpretation of cultural or anthropological phenomena? We try to find an answer to this question by analysing the collection of photographs of the Creative Creatures project (subtitled Last Survivors) from Papua New Guinea, by art photographer Martin Machaj. We analyse not only its artistic rendering but also the ethnological, anthropological content and message of the work of art.

Czech name

Creative Creatures : Between Art and Anthropology

Czech description

The visual capture of the world has been an integral part of the formation of ethnology and cultural anthropology since the beginning. It meant not only a source of knowledge of the local community, but especially of the time at which it was created. Sometimes photographs were taken accidentally during research trips as more or less documentary material, which were only superficially analysed and served to visually confirm the investigated state, or were a targeted photo documentation of disappearing phenomena, objects of material culture, ceremonies or genius loci of the researched area. At other times, photographs were created as a result of purposeful research and documentation of selected phenomena. The result of this is an interpretive openness and an effort to find and establish new analytical and interpretive processes that would be able to convey anthropological knowledge more effectively. Is art, or in our specific case artistic photography, usable for research or for interpretation of cultural or anthropological phenomena? We try to find an answer to this question by analysing the collection of photographs of the Creative Creatures project (subtitled Last Survivors) from Papua New Guinea, by art photographer Martin Machaj. We analyse not only its artistic rendering but also the ethnological, anthropological content and message of the work of art.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Media, Art and Photography

ISSN

1339-4940

e-ISSN

2989-3224

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

78-91

UT code for WoS article

001384067400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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