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Open AccessPublished: 3 September 2026

Women’s Work as a Cultural Representation: Gendered Constructions in 20th-Century Greek Song Lyrics

Michael Tsangaris

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 1-22 · 10.55121/card.v6i3.102438

This study examines the representation of female identity and its relationship to the concept of work in twentieth-century Greek popular song from a media and communication studies perspective. Although structural and legal advancements throughout the twentieth century gradually redefined women’s position in Greek society, popul

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Open AccessPublished: 20 June 2026

Representation of the European Woman as an Intercultural Agent in the Western Film Genre: Archetypal and Genre Analysis

Olga Kosachova

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 71-104 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.101915

The Western film genre has long functioned as a marker of American identity, and recent cinematic trends increasingly foreground female protagonists, particularly European women as intercultural agents within frontier narratives. This study investigates the intersection of mythology, archetypes, and Westerns, focusing on the way

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Open AccessPublished: 16 June 2026

Ink, Paper, Bodyminds and Ideas: Material Consciousness in Architectural Sketching

Otto Paans

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 43-70 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.101881

Sketching in the context of architecture has often been framed as either the intellectual development of an idea by visual means, or more recently as a heuristic instrument. In both cases, the influence of the lived body and subjective experience have been sidelined. This article investigates these material conditions of archite

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Open AccessPublished: 15 June 2026

Aura: An Elusive Concept in Art Theory and Museum Practice

Werner Schweibenz

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 25-42 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.102386

According to Tate’s online glossary Art Terms, aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques. So what happens to the aura in the age of digital reproduction? The paper describes the origin of this concept, which was introduced by the author and art critic Walter B

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Open AccessPublished: 13 June 2026

Digital Music as Artistic Research: Practice, Platforms, and Post-Digital Aesthetics

Triyono Bramantyo

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 14-24 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.102025

This article approaches digital music as a form of artistic research, examining the ways aesthetic value is produced through creative practice, platform-based infrastructures, and post-digital sonic conditions. From a practice-informed standpoint, it understands composition, curation, and technologically mediated listening as pr

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Open AccessPublished: 1 May 2026

Medieval Mystical Narratives as Pre-Modern Utopias: New Conceptualizations of the Religious Experience by Mechthild von Magdeburg and Angela da Foligno

Albrecht Classen

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 1-13 · 10.55121/card.v6i2.1150

Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or pro

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Open AccessPublished: 20 March 2026

Values as Phenomena of Truth: The Mythopoetic Aesthetics of Thought as Highest Act

Siyana Vitalievna Shchepanovskaya

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 70-86 · 10.55121/card.v6i1.1020

This theoretical-philosophical investigation proposes a synthesis of mythopoetic, phenomenological, and ethical discourses to reconceptualize value-formation. It posits that the “Other” (alterity) operates in a dual capacity: as the radical unknown challenging the Self, and as the elevated dimension within communication where th

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Open AccessPublished: 15 March 2026

How Does Palestinian Popular Culture Shape and Influence Leadership Imagery?

Raed Atef

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 59-69 · 10.55121/card.v6i1.674

This study explores how Palestinian proverbs shape leadership imagery within a sociopolitical context defined by resistance, occupation, and national struggle. Drawing on an interdisciplinary cultural studies framework, it examines proverbs not merely as linguistic expressions but as symbolic, aesthetic, and performative artifac

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Open AccessPublished: 10 March 2026

Sustainability of African Cultural Epistemology through Cultural Re-Appropriation in Selected Works of Emerging African Scholars

Nombeko Penelope Mpako

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 46-58 · 10.55121/card.v6i1.1057

This article explores indigenous cultural epistemology rooted in African culture and tradition through cultural re-appropriation presented in selected research projects by emerging African scholars. It seeks to contribute to the sustainable development of African knowledge systems and how they can be integrated into contemporary

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Open AccessPublished: 3 February 2026

Emergence: A Parameter of the Effectiveness of Artistic Creativity—A Study of Dance Improvisation

Alessandra Florentina Randazzo

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 33-45 · 10.55121/card.v6i1.878

When discussing artistic improvisation, effectiveness is generally dismissed for at least two main reasons. On the one hand, an improviser cannot anticipate the appropriate means to achieve an end that, by definition, they do not set in advance—hence the inherent risk of failure. On the other hand, an improviser does not aim to

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