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Art is a work of selection and arrangement. As an artistic design, poetry helps people make sense of life and the World by establishing a dialectic relationship between humans and the world. Aiming to implicate, evoke and suggest, poetry aspires to reach invisible reality based on visible reality. The reality in nature and reality in art are always different from each other. Reality in art is not what is seen, but what is fictionalized. In addition, poetry is an art form that does not tell the truth as it is. Art in general and poetry in particular are an activity that contains mediation in essence. Poetry is a game that aims at narration, but not composed of words only. In this game, poet uses "lie" or "imagery", an imaginary design, to implicate "reality". Opening the doors of association in a text to the reader, lie and imagery go beyond the boundaries of language and present a different reality. Ancient Greek philosophers argue that art consists of a fictitious World and imitates reality. For instance, Plato proposes that art is an illusion while Aristotle asserts that art has a certain value even if it is lie. In literary works, "lie" and "truth" are not opposite of each other. The message intended by poet is hidden in this dialectic relationship between lie and truth. "Lie" in poetic texts, together with imagery as an interpretation of reality, both helps the reader realize the truth, and hide the truth in itself. Serving to implicate and evoke the truth, "lie" can be implicit in imagery. This study describes the dialectic relationship between "lie and truth" in the journey "in poet's country and around poetry" in the context of Turkish poetry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, aesthetics factor that take part in "Bu Böyledir" of Mustafa Kutlu were tried to specify. Aesthetics is philosophy of discipline which consists of four components. These basic four components subjec/artist, aesthetic object/work of art, aesthetics value/the beauty of art work and aesthetic mode/provision. The concept of the aesthetics of a figure, a thought or one's general philosophy of life means the determination of the thought which belong to this four components. Concordantly, "Bu Böyledir" book was evaluated by taking into consideration of these four components. By dealing each of the separately under different subtitles, the aesthetic figure were determined in the "Bu Böyledir" and it was given with the examples that were in the book. Before these, fastening, the brief explanations about what the meaning of the concepts were done and then, these concepts were supported by the remarks of the people who made research and study on the story types of Mustafa Kutlu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our study we tried to include creation story arisen in Germanic mythology. Even though mythologic stories are developed in various societies and cultures, it is clear that they are affected by one another. Trying to give information associated with mythology that provides inspiration for art and literary works shortly, we aimed to address myth of creation in Germanic mythology which appears in every culture. In the continuation of the legend saying "There is Ginnungagap id est abyss initially." creation of titans, and then gods and goddesses were ranked and the life tree called "Yggdrasil" constituted the nine universes of Germanic myth. The sea, stone, mountain etc. were all created from every limb of Ymir's body, the first living being, giant. The study, at the same time, attempts to give information about gods and goddesses in Germanic Mythology. We also examined some signs such as Ragnarok that will be seen during the war named twilight of Gods, eschaton or domesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aleppo is so near to Iraq, Syria, Arabia, and Egypt regions, and because of its strategic location, the city had a very important place for Ottoman Empire. Aleppo and Damascus during the Ottoman governance had become the two largest cities of Syria. These Ottoman governors were always the patron's of these Ottoman complexes in Aleppo. Their pashas titles can be seen from their signatures in the inscriptions. Husrev Pasha, in a sense, as one of the governors of Aleppo had given an order for the construction of an Ottoman style building complex. Husrev Pasha's complex was completed in 1546. This construction activity should be accepted as a pioneer sample. After that every Ottoman governor patron had took this construction activity as an example. Together with the other Ottoman art patron's building complexes, the trade center of Aleppo had become two times the size after the Ottoman conquest in forty years. In our study, the process of transition from tradition to innovation which was shaped by Ottoman art patrons during the Ottoman domination in Aleppo will be examined. The information about these patrons according to the inscriptions or other historical archives will be examined. At the end the artistic environment which was established by Ottoman governor art patrons shall be exposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The artworks of Gober are artistic expression of the psychological and physiological pressure of the culture which he grew up. In his artworks, he deals with the objects and spaces where rules took place by which the person is limited as psychologically and physiologically in the age of his/her childhood. The objects and human organs are dysfunctional, deformed and ritual, thus he tried to make analysis in his artworks, the negative affect of that rules getting rituals. In this article, Gober's artworks are dealt with aspects of their psychological and sociologic and the effect of artworks of the artist who are his precursors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]