Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning – Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi Culture between “High Art” and Socialist Labor.

In the mid-1990s at least two peculiar art exhibitions were held in Tbilisi.  One of them was called chemi tojinebi (‘My Dolls’), no one can remember what the other one was called, only that it happened 다운로드. What is peculiar about these exhibitions is that they were exhibitions of dolls, made by Georgian artists and […]

Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili – The Exotocism and Eroticism of the City: The “Kinto” and his City

At the center of the postsocialist mythological space of Old Tbilisi there are two 19th century figures, the kinto (Georgian k’int’o, the urban street peddler) and the qarachogheli (urban guild craftsman) 다운로드. Once upon a time there were part of a living cityscape; under postsocialism they exist only as isolated fragments of an exploded chronotope […]

Zaza Shatirishvili – The Montage of Tbilisi Culture

Tbilisi culture is not Georgian culture. Georgian culture is based on literature; it translates badly into prose, for its most important genre is poetry 다운로드. Tbilisi culture, on the other hand, is playful, carnavalesque, based on the montage, and cinematographic. The author reviews the works of important movie and theatre directors and describes how Tbilisi […]

Zaza Shatirishvili – “Old” Intelligentsia and “New” Intellectuals: The Georgian Experience

인터넷 주소 동영상 다운로드 Zaza Shatirishvili takes stock of the differences and similarities between two generations of Georgian intellectuals: Old nomenclatura versus the new scholars who dominate the growing non-governmental sector 도화의 저택 다운로드. Shatirishvili, Z. (2003, 06 26). “Old” Intelligentsia and “New” Intellectuals: The Georgian Experience. Eurozine 다운로드. Download