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The Heritage Within Aleksandar Pantić CREATIVE PRACTICE OF MOSAIC ART, THE HERITAGE WITHIN MA Thesis in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management. Central European University Budapest May 2018. CEU eTD Collection CREATIVE PRACTICE OF MOSAIC ART, THE HERITAGE WITHIN by Aleksandar Pantić (Republic of Serbia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ Chair, Examination Committee ____________________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________________ Examiner CEU eTD Collection ____________________________________________ Examiner Budapest May 2018. CREATIVE PRACTICE OF MOSAIC ART, THE HERITAGE WITHIN by Aleksandar Pantić (Republic of Serbia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ External Reader CEU eTD Collection Budapest May 2018. CREATIVE PRACTICE OF MOSAIC ART, THE HERITAGE WITHIN by Aleksandar Pantić (Republic of Serbia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. CEU eTD Collection ____________________________________________ External Supervisor Budapest May 2018. I, the undersigned, Aleksandar Pantić, candidate for the MA degree in Cultural Heritage Studies: Academic Research, Policy, Management declare herewith that the present thesis is exclusively my own work, based on my research and only such external information as properly credited in notes and bibliography. I declare that no unidentified and illegitimate use was made of the work of others, and no part of the thesis infringes on any person’s or institution’s copyright. I also declare that no part of the thesis has been submitted in this form to any other institution of higher education for an academic degree. Budapest, 21. May 2018. __________________________ Signature CEU eTD Collection Abstract The study is formed as multidisciplinary, theoretical, academic discussion about mosaic art and its` referent creative practice made from trilateral perspective. This concerns the problematics of practice of artistic creation, transfer of knowledge and, cultural and historical interpretations and evaluations of mosaic art equally. The purpose of the study is to offer the proposal for understanding and interpretation of heritage of the creative practice of mosaic art, from the standpoint of present-day mosaic creation practitioners. While two main goals of study are: • To examine and to reconcile the understandings of the heritage of mosaic art and heritage of mosaic creation practice in contexts of visual art studies, cultural heritage studies and art education. • To propose a model of heritage of mosaic creation practice, taken from the perspective of mosaic creators by realizing of how the heritage of mosaic art, and heritage of mosaic art creation practice are related to contemporary mosaic design and contemporary mosaic creation practice. Main results brought by this study are: First, the study itself is the proposal of the model of understanding and interpretation of heritage of the creative practice of mosaic art taken from the standpoint of present-day mosaic creation CEU eTD Collection practitioners. Second, there are three critical Insights about phenomenology of mosaic art and phenomenology of mosaic creation practice summarized by the study, these are: i • Mosaic artists and artisans find that the critical part of mosaic art heritage is the body of knowledge and experiences related to the mosaics creation. This knowledge is represented and embodied as the system of mosaic design, while the creative experience of each mosaic maker is individualized and unique. Both, the body of knowledge and the body of experience are mutually interconnected and culturally and historically grounded. • The existence, historical persistence, active use, and specific character of the mosaic design system combined with creative experience, allows novel artistic solutions to be created within the bounders of formal aesthetical and technical properties of the mosaic art-form. This setup defines the mosaic as distinct traditional visual art practice and as distinct visual art-discipline equally. • Transfer of the knowledge and experience of mosaic creation practice between individuals, groups, communities, and generations, makes guarantee of existence, persistence, and continuity in using of mosaic creation practice in human civilization across time, space and cultures. Concerning the methodology, the conducted research was based on, on researcher`s extensive artist-professional experience in creating mosaic artworks and in teaching mosaic art to the students as well as on theoretical and practical examination and analysis of sources and data relevant to study subject, their mutual interrelations, and their relations to their referent socio- cultural and historical contexts. CEU eTD Collection Study has its meant for being used as guidelines or as assessment to help scholars, researchers, educators and activists, in designing various educational forms and programs for teaching mosaic art, as well as in developing various programs and projects dedicated to the heritage of creative practices of visual arts in general. ii Acknowledgements Many special thanks for the help and support that I received for developing and delivering this study goes to my supervisors prof. Gerhard Jaritz and prof. Jozsef Laszlovszky; Special thanks for giving me support in being persistence at working on the study and having understanding for time-consuming process of writing of the study goes to my beloved wife Stana and to my beloved daughter Jovana. Special thanks for providing me willfully with the first-hand research material and data, and with optimal conditions for conveying the research that was necessary for delivering this study goes to my Mosaic Art course students and to my mosaic course teaching assistants from the Center for Fine Arts` Education Šumatovačka in Belgrade, Serbia. Many thanks also goes to my fellow CEU colleges, students who attended the CEU mosaic workshop and, to my fellow student colleges from Cultural Heritage Studies program, who shared with me the experience of studding the program. CEU eTD Collection iii Table of Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................................ i Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................................ iii Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... iv List of Captions ............................................................................................................................ viii INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 1 Application of the Study ............................................................................................................. 1 Research Background, Subject and Goals of the Study .............................................................. 2 The Research Questions and the Structure of the Study ............................................................. 4 CHAPTER 1 - THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CRITICAL APPARATUS OF THE STUDY ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Configuration and Limitations of the Research .......................................................................... 7 Epistemological Position of the Researcher ........................................................................... 7 CEU eTD Collection Cultural, Ideological and Political Bias .................................................................................. 8 External and Internal Development of Mosaic Cultural Expression ...................................... 9 Professional, Scholar, and Scientific Systematizations and Terminology: ........................... 11 Academic Institution, Context and Affiliation: .................................................................... 12 iv Organizational and Financial Conditions: ............................................................................ 12 Major Methodological Problems and Approach ....................................................................... 12 The Conceptual Framework of the Study ................................................................................. 14 Data Presentation ...................................................................................................................... 21 The Focus of the Research .......................................................................................................
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