Nature in the City
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2016, Vol 21, Issue 21
Abstract
The article signed by the artist Ernö Bartha is a contemplation of the way sculptures are created out of an ephemeral and cyclic material, hay. The artist explains the way he works with hay and conceive his work. The article ends with presenting the opinions of two art critics, Alexandra Rus (Faculty of History and Philosophy, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and Pavel Șușară (Institute for the History of Art, Romanian Academy, Romania) regarding the works of Ernö Bartha.
Authors and Affiliations
Erno Bartha
Working with Contested Ethnographic Collections to Change “Old Museum” Perspectives: Mutare Museum, Eastern Zimbabwe, 2015-2017
In this article, I will examine the history of collecting ethnographic objects at Mutare Museum, moving between the colonial and postcolonial periods in order to show how these time scales structured the ways in which ex...
Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania, by Ștefan Dorondel. Berghahn, New York, Oxford, 2016, 252 p.
The reviewed volume, the result of a social anthropological research, is largely based on the PhD thesis in agricultural economics which Ştefan Dorondel defended at Humboldt University of Berlin. It examines the circumst...
Inge Daniels, What Are Exhibitions For? An Anthropological Approach, London and Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 256 p.
Inge Daniel’s book talks about the importance of everyday objects in museum displays, mul-tisensory exhibitions, theatricality, using photography not as object, but as context and as a facilitator of creating atmosphere,...
Les relations interethniques pendant la période 1945 – 1990 à Alțâna (département de Sibiu). Etude de cas
Cette étude de cas étudie minutieusement l’évolution des relations interethniques et intercommunautaires entre les Roumains et les Saxons dans le village d’Alțâna (département de Sibiu), à partir de la Deuxième Guerre Mo...
Chronic Isolation: Experiencing a Cured Disease at the Leprosarium of Tichilești
The inhabitants of the Tichilești leprosarium experienced medical isolation caused by a medically cured body; once an individual was diagnosed with leprosy, he would be confined for his whole life inside this institution...