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Book The Aesthetic Impulse

Download or read book The Aesthetic Impulse written by Malcolm Ross and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic Impulse discusses art as a commitment to the development of intelligent feeling. This book discusses the central value of the arts in education as aesthetic, as the qualification of sensibility. This text describes the academics and the instrumentalists as challengers for what arts education is, and allow integration into mainstream education. The arts are different and such difference is their strength. This book also defines sensibility, aesthetics, and the exploration of the vernacular principle or popular art. This text explains what is whole and holy, what a good cultural education is, and labels the educational system under the present conditions as the enemy. The book proposes an Aesthetic Education Department or faculty assigned for coordinating an aesthetic curriculum. This text assesses aesthetic development in children in terms of pragmatic attention, disinterested attention, and tacit attention. This book also explains the development of art, drama, and music into the teen-age years, and also points out that aesthetic education involves development of sensual knowledge. This book is suitable for arts teachers, child educators, school counselors, and school administrators, as well as students in the arts.

Book The Aesthetic Impulse

Download or read book The Aesthetic Impulse written by Malcolm Ross and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aesthetic Impulse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melanie H. Ross
  • Publisher : Pergamon
  • Release : 1984-05
  • ISBN : 9780080313047
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Aesthetic Impulse written by Melanie H. Ross and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1984-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aesthetic Animal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henrik Hogh-Olesen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-17
  • ISBN : 0190927933
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Aesthetic Animal written by Henrik Hogh-Olesen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to survival, reproduction, and the well-being of that species. Consequently, the aesthetic impulse must have some important biological functions. A number of observations indicate that the aesthetic impulse is an inherent part of human nature, and therefore a primary impulse in its own right with several important functions: The aesthetic impulse may guide us toward what is biologically good for us, and help us choose the right fitness enhancing items in our surroundings. It is a valid individual fitness indicator as well as a unifying social group marker, and aesthetically skilled individuals get more mating possibilities, higher status and more collaborative offers. The book is written in a lively and entertaining tone, with beautiful color illustrations. It covers a wide field of aesthetic behaviors from cave art, graffiti, tattoos, and piercings over fashion, design, music, song, and dance. It presents an original and comprehensive synthesis of the empirical field, synthesizing data from archeology, cave art, anthropology, biology, ethology, behavioral- and evolutionary psychology and neuro-aesthetics. It is a must-read for people interested in biology, psychology, anthropology, architecture, design, fashion, body culture, art, and the evolution of aesthetics.

Book The Aesthetic Experience

Download or read book The Aesthetic Experience written by Elizabeth Kemper Adams and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aesthetic Animal

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  • Author : Henrik Hogh-Olesen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-17
  • ISBN : 0190927941
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book The Aesthetic Animal written by Henrik Hogh-Olesen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to survival, reproduction, and the well-being of that species. Consequently, the aesthetic impulse must have some important biological functions. A number of observations indicate that the aesthetic impulse is an inherent part of human nature, and therefore a primary impulse in its own right with several important functions: The aesthetic impulse may guide us toward what is biologically good for us, and help us choose the right fitness enhancing items in our surroundings. It is a valid individual fitness indicator as well as a unifying social group marker, and aesthetically skilled individuals get more mating possibilities, higher status and more collaborative offers. The book is written in a lively and entertaining tone, with beautiful color illustrations. It covers a wide field of aesthetic behaviors from cave art, graffiti, tattoos, and piercings over fashion, design, music, song, and dance. It presents an original and comprehensive synthesis of the empirical field, synthesizing data from archeology, cave art, anthropology, biology, ethology, behavioral- and evolutionary psychology and neuro-aesthetics. It is a must-read for people interested in biology, psychology, anthropology, architecture, design, fashion, body culture, art, and the evolution of aesthetics.

Book A Study of Mathematical Education Including the Teaching of Arithmetic

Download or read book A Study of Mathematical Education Including the Teaching of Arithmetic written by Benchara Branford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison written by Connor, Marc C. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top scholars probes Morrison's novels and her growing body of nonfiction and critical work for the complex and potent aesthetic elements that have made her a major American novelist of the twentieth century. Through traditional aesthetic concepts such as the sublime, the beautiful, and the grotesque, through issues of form, narrative, and language, and through questions of affect and reader response, the nine essays in this volume bring into relief the dynamic and often overlooked range within Morrison's writing. Employing aesthetic ideas that range from the ancient Greeks to contemporary research in the black English oral tradition, The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison shows the potency of these ideas for interpreting Morrison's writing. This is a force Morrison herself has often suggested in her claims that Greek tragedy bears a striking similarity to "Afro-American communal structures." At the same time each essay attends to the ways in which Morrison also challenges traditional aesthetic concepts, establishing the African American and female voices that are essential to her sensibility. The result is a series of readings that simultaneously expands our understanding of Morrison's work and also provokes new thinking about an aesthetic tradition that is nearly 2,500 years old. These essays offer a rich complement to the dominant approaches in Morrison scholarship by revealing aspects of her work that purely ideological approaches have obscured or about which they have remained oddly silent. Each essay focuses particularly on the relations between the aesthetic and the ethical in Morrison's writing and between the artistic production and its role in the world at large. These relations show the rich political implications that aesthetic analysis engenders. By treating both Morrison's fiction and her nonfiction, the essays reveal a mind and imagination that have long been intimately engaged with the questions and traditions of the aesthetic domain. The result is a provocative and original contribution to Morrison scholarship, and to scholarship in American letters generally.

Book A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education

Download or read book A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education written by Catherine Homan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between explores the ways in which both play and poetry orient us toward what surpasses us. Catherine Homan develops an original account of poetic education that builds on Friedrich Hölderlin’s idea of poetry as a teacher of humanity. Whereas aesthetic education emphasizes judgments of taste and rational autonomy, poetic education foregrounds self-formation and openness to the other. Critically engaging the works of Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Paul Celan, this book argues that poetry and play call for a particular stance in the world and with others. Open toward the infinite while simultaneously reaching toward its own finitude, the poetic work addresses us and invites our response. Poetry reveals the human condition as “in-between” and dialogical, even at the limits of language. Although many philosophers mistakenly view play as frivolous, Homan takes play seriously. Play--spontaneous and creative--resists mastery and instead requires an active attunement to the to-and-fro movement of the world, of others, and ourselves. A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education demonstrates that poetic education, as learning to listen, provides vital resources for responding to alterity in meaningful ways that resist totalization.

Book The Enemies of Literature

Download or read book The Enemies of Literature written by Walter Murdoch and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethics Through Literature

Download or read book Ethics Through Literature written by Brian Stock and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to literature in Western classical thought from Plato to Augustine. This is understood in contrast to the aesthetic appreciation of literature that finds pleasure in the reading of the text in and of itself. Examples of this long-standing tension as displayed in a literary topos, first outlined in these lectures, which describes “scenes of reading,” are found in the works of Peter Abelard, Dante, and Virginia Woolf, among others. But, as this original and often surprising work shows, the distinction between the ascetic and aesthetic impulse in reading, while necessary, is often misleading. As he writes, “All Western reading, it would appear, has an ethical component, and the value placed on this component does not change much over time.” Tracing the ascetic component of reading from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance and beyond, to Coleridge and Schopenhauer, Stock reveals the ascetic or ethical as a constant with the aesthetic serving as opposition, parallel force, and handmaiden, underscoring the historical consistency of the reading experience through the ages and across various media.

Book The Aesthetic Sentiment

Download or read book The Aesthetic Sentiment written by Helge Lundholm and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aesthetic of Play

Download or read book The Aesthetic of Play written by Brian Upton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game designer considers the experience of play, why games have rules, and the relationship of play and narrative. The impulse toward play is very ancient, not only pre-cultural but pre-human; zoologists have identified play behaviors in turtles and in chimpanzees. Games have existed since antiquity; 5,000-year-old board games have been recovered from Egyptian tombs. And yet we still lack a critical language for thinking about play. Game designers are better at answering small questions ("Why is this battle boring?") than big ones ("What does this game mean?"). In this book, the game designer Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play--how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, Upton develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help us analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail.

Book The Aesthetics of Organization

Download or read book The Aesthetics of Organization written by Stephen Linstead and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational aesthetics, both as a body of theory and a method of inquiry, is a rapidly expanding area of the organizational sciences. The Aesthetics of Organization accessibly draws key contributions delineating the emerging parameters of the field. It explains the significance of concepts devised by postmodern thinkers, through which emerge meaning and order in organizations. Methodological problems associated with investigations of the aesthetic are also highlighted so the reader can identify and understand the importance of recent ideas on vision, perspective and periphery for learning in organizations. Through the contributions of leading international theorists, organizational aesthetics is defined in greater historical and theoretical depth, with a broad conceptual and practical range which academics will find invaluable.

Book JEGP  Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Download or read book JEGP Journal of English and Germanic Philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Modern Review

Download or read book The Modern Review written by Ramananda Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

Book The American Journal of Theology

Download or read book The American Journal of Theology written by University of Chicago. Divinity School and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 2-6 include "Theological and Semitic literature for 1898- 1901, a bibliographical supplement to the American journal of theology and the American journal of Semitic languages and literatures. By W. Muss-Arnolt." (Separately paged)