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The article analyzes the photographic series "The Doll" (1934-1935) by German photographer Hans Bellmer in the context of representation of an artificial body. Hinged dolls of Bellmer can be easily dismantled or cut into pieces, they are objects that represent new meanings of erotic content. The artist himself called them "articulating objects" and anagrams, the visual translatability of which was marked with tools deconstruction. The doll becomes for the artist an alter ego of a kind, a part of a fetishist's univ...

The paper is aimed at studying festivals of urban culture as a form of participation of urban communities in the life of a metropolitan city. It is the residents, their experience, competences, creativity that determine the growth and development of any metropolitan city. This is why the urban environment and its quality are today tools which modern cities use in their struggle for human resources. A modern city should provide the development of a variety of functional content which meets the cultural, educational...

The article is devoted to the history of the mineralogical collection which played a special role in the history of museums of Russian universities. Assembled in Saxony by a chemist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Henckel and then bought by the owner of several steel factories Akinfy Nikitich Demidov, it was later presented to the Moscow university and then served as the basis of the first Russian university museum. This article reviews the history of the mineral collection before it was sold and explores newly ...

The article studies the festive culture of Latin America, analyzes its shaping under the influence of Spanish festive traditions which were spread to this region. The article shows how the urban environment was changing to correspond with ideas and goals of certain holidays and considers cultural and semantic aspects of Latin American processions similar to European "Entries", both secular and religious. During holidays, local artists depicted the features of urban space, landscape elements, local architecture and...