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Open AccessPublished: 26 October 2025

Slow Looking at Artworks in the Museum Context—Exploration of the Viewers’ Observations with Reflexive Thematic Analysis

Kristina Timonen

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 145-166 · 10.55121/card.v5i2.680

Art can serve as a contextual element and promote wellbeing. Meanings derived from artworks are related to, for instance, cultural backgrounds, languages, mood and viewing technique. This study focused on art viewers’ experiences, and the participants were picked with different cultural backgrounds, mood settings and spoken lang

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Article

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: 9 August 2024

Contextualization of IsiXhosa Language Speech Acts Through Art Practice

Nombeko P Mpako

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 80-87 · 10.55121/card.v2i2.48

This article represents an iconographic analysis of a selection of artworks from the author’s recent solo exhibition entitled Obu bubomi bam 8 out of 8: I teach Art, 2021. The selected artworks were titled using isiXhosa language speech acts which complement their visual narratives and expand their iconographic meanings. IsiXhos

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Open AccessPublished: 1 November 2022

The New Incorporation of Video Art and Video Poetry during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Matter of Myth or Existing Reality

Diego Bernaschina

Cultural Arts Research and Development · 96-104 · 10.55121/card.v2i2.51

This paper corresponds to an interdisciplinary investigation based on literature, art and new media to involve own experiences of video work and study of the health crisis between 2020 and 2021 in Spain. The main goal is to investigate the sample of the three videos produced on the coronavirus pandemic, creating a social dialogu

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