Poems and fables as tools for developing and expanding acting range: stepping together from the serious to the comic and vice versa

Tetiana Hrinik Kharkiv I.P. Kotlyarevsky National University of Arts, Kharkiv ORCID ID 0000-0003-1550-4239 DOI: Keywords: poetic form, fable, acting range, acting, psychophysical switching, technical methods, stage speech, speech coordination exercise. Abstract. The article provides a theoretical substantiation and practical systematization of methodological tools for developing and expanding the acting range of theatre students through the…Continue reading Poems and fables as tools for developing and expanding acting range: stepping together from the serious to the comic and vice versa

The verbal component in the semantics of the Ukrainian iconostasis: the formation of a tradition

Svitlana Olianina Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0628-146X DOI: Keywords: iconostasis, engraving, textual insertions, Council of Trent, Catholic art, homily. Abstract. From the 1630s onwards, inscriptions began to appear on the architectural frame of the Ukrainian iconostasis, serving as textual commentaries to the images it…Continue reading The verbal component in the semantics of the Ukrainian iconostasis: the formation of a tradition

Volume 29 No 1 (2026)

Published: 2026 CONTENTS THEORY AND HISTORY OF CULTURE The phenomenon of the creative personality in contemporary cultural studies discourse: a paradigm shift (Based on Sebastian Smee’s project “The Art of Rivalry”) — Olena OnishchenkoDOI: PDF Viennese modernism: the problem of “language criticism“ — Yuri SapelkinDOI: PDF Aesthetic paradigms of interactivity and immersion in digital audiovisual…Continue reading Volume 29 No 1 (2026)

The phenomenology of Ukrainian heroes: the dead, the alive, and the unborn

Artem Bohutskyi postgraduate student at the Department of Cultural Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, KyivORCID ID 0009-0002-8983-4759 DOI: Keywords: identity, socio-cultural practices, war, commemorative practices, cultural dimension, interdisciplinarity, cultural problems, cultural sphere, historical memory, sacredness. Abstract. This article examines the Ukrainian commemorative space, in particular, it analyzes commemorative practices aimed at glorifying individuals who…Continue reading The phenomenology of Ukrainian heroes: the dead, the alive, and the unborn

The phenomenon of the creative personality in contemporary cultural studies discourse: a paradigm shift  (Based on Sebastian Smee’s project “The Art of Rivalry”)

Olena Onishchenko Institute for Cultural Research of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0000-0002-7118-3276 DOI: Keywords: art of rivalry, tandem creativity, artistic stimuli, the ugly, artistic continuity. Abstract. The article analyzes Sebastian Smee’s cultural studies project, which aims to expand strategies for investigating the phenomenon of the creative personality through an emphasis…Continue reading The phenomenon of the creative personality in contemporary cultural studies discourse: a paradigm shift  (Based on Sebastian Smee’s project “The Art of Rivalry”)