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Book Perspectives on Contemporary Aesthetics

Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Aesthetics written by Arnold Berleant and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features essays originally published in Contemporary Aesthetics, an online peer-reviewed academic journal, selected from the first eleven volumes (2003-2013). Comprised of three parts, "Issues in Contemporary Art Theory," "Arts without Borders," and "Aesthetics without Borders," the seventeen essays cover a variety of topics on aesthetics written by authors from diverse disciplines and geographical locations. Published by the Rhode Island School of Design, this book also showcases an innovative and creative design on the theme of QR code. The design highlights a rather unusual mode of going from an electronic publication to a physical book, as well as the literal QR code embedded in each article that can be used to pull up the original online format. Straddling two modes of reading encourages the reader to explore the aesthetics and experiences of reading facilitated by different media.

Book Perspectives on Contemporary Aesthetics

Download or read book Perspectives on Contemporary Aesthetics written by Arnold Berleant and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology features essays originally published in Contemporary Aesthetics, an online peer-reviewed academic journal, selected from the first eleven volumes (2003-2013). Comprised of three parts, "Issues in Contemporary Art Theory," "Arts without Borders," and "Aesthetics without Borders," the seventeen essays cover a variety of topics on aesthetics written by authors from diverse disciplines and geographical locations. Published by the Rhode Island School of Design, this book also showcases an innovative and creative design on the theme of QR code. The design highlights a rather unusual mode of going from an electronic publication to a physical book, as well as the literal QR code embedded in each article that can be used to pull up the original online format. Straddling two modes of reading encourages the reader to explore the aesthetics and experiences of reading facilitated by different media.

Book Aesthetics of Values

Download or read book Aesthetics of Values written by Claudio Rozzoni and published by Aesthetics. This book was released on 2021 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a landscape, such as the contemporary one, in which studies on the notion of the image proliferate through multiple disciplinary fields, the book Aesthetics of Values. Contemporary Perspectives proposes a path dedicated to the analysis of the status of the image, taking its relationship with the notion of value as a starting point. The project stems from the collaboration between the "Art, Critique and Aesthetic Experience" group of the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) of the University of Lisbon and the European Aesthetic Seminar on "images, emotions, values" (http: // sites.unimi.it/eu_aesthetics/). In particular, the proposed chapters intend to develop the contributions made during the international seminar "Aesthetics of Values" held in Lisbon in February 2017, during which some of the most authoritative voices of Aesthetic studies on the subject intervened. The volume should also fill a gap in the field of studies on value aesthetics, at a time when, in spite of the proliferation of works dedicated to this topic in the analytical field, the need is felt, as recently underlined by an author of the calibre of Peter Lamarque, for research that returns to investigate the theme of aesthetic value starting from the analysis of experience.

Book Aesthetics in Perspective

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathleen M. Higgins
  • Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
  • Release : 2003-08
  • ISBN : 9780534642105
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book Aesthetics in Perspective written by Kathleen M. Higgins and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued for 2003! This comprehensive anthology offers a vast collection of classic and contemporary readings in aesthetics from both western and non-western sources. It is organized topically into four parts: Art and the Nature of Beauty, Interpreting and Evaluating Art, Challenges to the Tradition and Beyond the West.

Book Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture  Politics  and Landscape

Download or read book Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture Politics and Landscape written by Elisabetta Di Stefano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the contributions explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.

Book Perspectives on Taste

Download or read book Perspectives on Taste written by Jeremy Wyatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste. It addresses a range of topics that have been at the heart of lively debates in philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. Our everyday lives are suffused with discussions about taste. We are quick to offer familiar platitudes about taste, but we struggle when facing the questions that matter—what taste is, how it is related to subjectivity, what distinguishes good from bad taste, why it is valuable to make and evaluate judgments about matters of taste, and what, exactly, we mean in speaking about these matters. The essays in this volume open up new, intersecting lines of research about these questions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. They address the notion of aesthetic taste; connections between taste and the natures of truth, disagreement, assertion, belief, retraction, linguistic context-sensitivity, and the semantics/pragmatics interface; experimental inquiry about taste; and metaphysical questions underlying ongoing discussions about taste. Perspectives on Taste will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of language, linguistics, metaphysics, and experimental philosophy.

Book Contemporary Philosophy of Art

Download or read book Contemporary Philosophy of Art written by John W. Bender and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of contemporary readings in analytic aesthetics, this reference reflects the relationships among the central aesthetic concerns of recent years. Providing a new perspective on the contemporary philosophy of art, this volume examines the challenge of Postmodernism and how it may or may not affect the future of analytic aesthetics ... offers a case study of the progress that has been made in handling the problem of expression in the arts ... reconceptualizes the concepts of the art work, its properties, and our experience and evaluation of it -- to take into account an expanding cultural, sociological contextualization, i.e., art as a culturally emergent product of social institutions and conventions ... features several readings organized around clusters of writers discussing each other's ideas and proposals, including: Beardsley, Dickie, and Blizek -- Wolterstorff, Levinson, and Bender -- Stolnitz and Dickie -- Beardsley, Margolis, and Novitz -- and Sibley and Dickie. Suitable for professionals in the art industry and anyone interested in the philosophy or aesthetics of art.

Book Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Download or read book Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art written by Prabha Shankar Dwivedi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the finest research on aesthetics and the philosophy of art by stalwart critics and leading scholars in the field. It discusses various themes, such as the idea of aesthetic perception, the nature of aesthetic experience, attitude theory, the relation of art to morality, representation in art, and the association of aesthetics with language studies in the Indian tradition. It deliberates over the theories and views of Aristotle, Freud, Plato, Immanuel Kant, T. S. Eliot, George Dickie, Leo Tolstoy, R. G. Collingwood, Michael H. Mitias, Monroe C. Beardsley, and Abhinavagupta, among others. The book offers a comparative perspective on Indian and Western approaches to the study of art and aesthetics and enables readers to appreciate the similarities and differences between the conceptions of aesthetics and philosophy of art on a comparative scale detailing various aspects of both. The first of its kind, this key text will be useful for scholars and researchers of arts and aesthetics, philosophy of art, cultural studies, comparative literature, and philosophy in general. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the philosophy of art.

Book The Sublime in Modern Philosophy

Download or read book The Sublime in Modern Philosophy written by Emily Brady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sublime in Modern Philosophy: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Nature, Emily Brady takes a fresh look at the sublime and shows why it endures as a meaningful concept in contemporary philosophy. In a reassessment of historical approaches, the first part of the book identifies the scope and value of the sublime in eighteenth-century philosophy (with a focus on Kant), nineteenth-century philosophy and Romanticism, and early wilderness aesthetics. The second part examines the sublime's contemporary significance through its relationship to the arts; its position with respect to other aesthetic categories involving mixed or negative emotions, such as tragedy; and its place in environmental aesthetics and ethics. Far from being an outmoded concept, Brady argues that the sublime is a distinctive aesthetic category which reveals an important, if sometimes challenging, aesthetic-moral relationship with the natural world.

Book Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty

Download or read book Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty written by Larissa Berger and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conception of disinterested pleasure is not only central to Kant’s theory of beauty but also highly influential in contemporary philosophical discourse about beauty. However, it remains unclear, what exactly disinterested pleasure is and what role it plays in experiences of beauty. This volume sheds new light on the conception of disinterested pleasure from the perspectives of both Kant scholarship and contemporary aesthetics. In the first part, the focus is on Kant’s theory of beauty as grounded on the conception of disinterested pleasure. In the second part, disinterested pleasure is investigated in the light of contemporary debates on beauty. The volume clarifies the meaning, role, and implications of one of the most influential conceptions in traditional as well as contemporary approaches to beauty.

Book Aesthetic Justice

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  • Author : Zoe Beloff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 9789078088868
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Aesthetic Justice written by Zoe Beloff and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world ruled by seemingly continuous and increasingly complex conflicts, questions about justice, about 'the right' course of action, are at the forefront of artistic investigation. In Aesthetic Justice sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers to reflect on new futures for the notion and practice of justice. Launching the proposition of 'aesthetic justice', the book offers thought-provoking views on how works of art can confront, and potentially redirect social and political imaginaries. Using analyses of contemporary art works that challenge the social, political, or economic status quo, as well as theoretical reflections and interviews with artists, this book imagines alternatives for a more just future.

Book Aesthetics and Art

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  • Author : Jianping Gao
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-05-12
  • ISBN : 3662567016
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Aesthetics and Art written by Jianping Gao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of aesthetics throughout history, as well as the changes and improvements in Chinese aesthetics in the context of globalization.

Book Art  Law  Power

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  • Author : Lucy Finchett-Maddock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-28
  • ISBN : 9781910761076
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Art Law Power written by Lucy Finchett-Maddock and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary snapshot of intellectual and practical engagements with legal and artistic practices in countering power.

Book Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics

Download or read book Perspectives on Musical Aesthetics written by John Rahn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 30 lively and diverse essays brought together in this volume--all drawn from the journal PERSPECTIVE OF NEW MUSIC--suggest possible answers to the age-old question: Why does music affect us so strongly? The writers include many of the most prominent names in both modern music and aesthetic theory, including Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Eric Gans, Michel Foucault, and Delmore Schwartz.

Book Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art

Download or read book Reclaiming the Spiritual in Art written by Dawn Perlmutter and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-05-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of the sacred in art and makes a compelling case for its continued contemporary relevance.

Book Aesthetics and Politics

Download or read book Aesthetics and Politics written by Federica Buongiorno and published by Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spatial Aesthetics

Download or read book Spatial Aesthetics written by Nikos Papastergiadias and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: