A Transformation Theory Of Aesthetics

Author : Michael Stephan,Trevor Pateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136107245

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Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs by Michael Stephan,Trevor Pateman Pdf

First Published in 1990. How we perceive and respond to the visual image has been a traditional concern of psychologists, philosophers and art historians. Today, where the visual image increasingly permeates our everyday life and consciousness, the question becomes ever more relevant. How do we, for instance, instinctively ‘know’ what it is that a picture represents without having to be taught? How is it that we experience (aesthetic) pleasure in looking at certain pictures? How is it that we often want to talk about the pictures we look at? Such questions are currently asked by a wide range of disciplines, including: semiotics, psychoanalysis, anthropology, neuropsychology, and in general, contemporary critical analysis of the visual arts. In A Transformational Theory of Aesthetics, Michael Stephan breaks new ground by linking the findings of these areas. Drawing on their common area of knowledge, he has developed a radically new theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations. This is because the left and right hemispheres of the brain do not always work in harmony, hence the wide-ranging nature of aesthetic response to distinct art forms. A Transformational Theory of Aesthetics is essential reading to those seriously involved in linking the arts and cognitive sciences.

Author : Michael Stephan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415041961

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A Transformational Theory of Aesthetics by Michael Stephan Pdf

Author : Michael Stephan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000113440

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A Transformation Theory of Aesthetics by Michael Stephan Pdf

This book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental changes, or transformations. It is essential reading to those seriously involved in linking the arts and cognitive sciences.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351675772

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Transformative Aesthetics by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz Pdf

Aesthetic theory in the West has, until now, been dominated by ideas of effect, autonomy, and reception. Transformative Aesthetics uncovers these theories’ mutual concern with the transformation of those involved. From artists to spectators, readers, listeners, or audiences, the idea of transformation is one familiar to cultures across the globe. Transformation of the individual is only one part of this aesthetic phenomenon, as contemporary artists are increasingly called upon to have a transformative, sustainable impact on society at large. To this end, Erika Fischer Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz present a series of fresh perspectives on the discussion of aesthetics, uniting Western theory with that of India, China, Australia, and beyond. Each chapter of Transformative Aesthetics focuses on a different approach to transformation, from the foundations of aesthetics to contemporary theories, breaking new ground to establish a network of thought that spans theatre, performance, art history, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845402938

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Sensibility and Sense by Arnold Berleant Pdf

Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth's surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.

Author : Queirós, António dos Santos
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781799836384

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Examining a New Paradigm of Heritage With Philosophy, Economy, and Education by Queirós, António dos Santos Pdf

OECD, UNESCO, the European Union, and the United Nations acknowledge that formal educational systems alone cannot respond to rapid and constant technological, social, and economic change in society and that they should be reinforced by non-formal educational practices. Examining a New Paradigm of Heritage With Philosophy, Economy, and Education is a critical scholarly publication that provides comprehensive research on the sustainability of identity and cultural heritage. The book establishes uniform and consistent conceptual criteria to identify and distinguish the different typological categories of heritage and discusses the concept of “cultural landscape” and environmental ethics. Moreover, connections between cultural heritage and natural heritage and the economy of heritage are explored. Finally, the book discusses cultural landscape as an educational resource with reading and interpretation of the cultural landscape as a basis for learning with a methodology of experimental science and its first metamorphosis of value. Featuring a range of topics such as curriculum design, ethics, and environmental tourism, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, biologists, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Author : John Clammer,Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349952489

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The Aesthetics of Development by John Clammer,Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) and development, creating both a bridge between them that is rarely explored and filling in concrete ways the content of the “culture” part of the equation “culture and development”. It includes manifestations of culture and the ways in which they relate to development, and in turn contribute to such pressing issues as poverty alleviation, concern for the environment, health, empowerment, and identity formation. It shows how the arts are an essential part of the concrete understanding of culture, and as such a significant part of development thinking - including the development of culture, and not only of culture as an instrumental means to promote other development goals.

Author : Alexis Kokkos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004455344

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Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation by Alexis Kokkos Pdf

Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation discusses fundamental theories regarding the emancipatory learning potential involved in artworks. It also provides teachers, as well as adult and museum educators a method of exploring artworks with a view to challenge learners’ assumptions.

Author : Anthony Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Composition (Art)
ISBN : UCAL:B4446222

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Data: Directions in Art, Theory, and Aesthetics by Anthony Hill Pdf

Author : Angela Hobart,Bruce Kapferer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782382041

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Aesthetics in Performance by Angela Hobart,Bruce Kapferer Pdf

In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the “logic” of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.

Author : Samir Gandesha,Johan F. Hartle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350024236

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Aesthetic Marx by Samir Gandesha,Johan F. Hartle Pdf

The whole of Marx's project confronts the narrow concerns of political philosophy by embedding it in social philosophy and a certain understanding of the aesthetic. From those of aesthetic production to the "poetry of the future" (as Marx writes in the Eighteenth Brumaire), from the radical modernism of bourgeois development to the very idea of association (which defined one of the main lines of tradition in the history of aesthetics), steady references to Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, and the idea that bourgeois politics is nothing but a theatrical stage: the aesthetic has a prominent place in the constellation of Marx's thought. This book offers an original and challenging study of both Marx in the aesthetic, and the aesthetic in Marx. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory as it understands the works of Marx themselves as contributions to thinking the aesthetic. This is an engagement with Marx's aesthetic that takes into account Marx's broader sense of the aesthetic, as identified by Eagleton and Buck-Morss – as a question of sense perception and the body. It explores this through questions of style and substance in Marx and extends it into contemporary questions of how this legacy can be perceived or directed analytically in the present. By situating Marx in contemporary art debates this volume speaks directly to lively interest today in the function of the aesthetic in accounts of emancipatory politics and is essential reading for researchers and academics across the fields of political philosophy, art theory, and Marxist scholarship.

Author : Richard Shusterman,Adele Tomlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134182879

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Aesthetic Experience by Richard Shusterman,Adele Tomlin Pdf

In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives.

Author : Christie McDonald,Gary Wihl
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271040202

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Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory by Christie McDonald,Gary Wihl Pdf

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Art as Experience by John Dewey Pdf

Author : Reinhard Heil,Andreas Kaminski,Marcus Stippak,Alexander Unger
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3899425189

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Tensions and Convergences by Reinhard Heil,Andreas Kaminski,Marcus Stippak,Alexander Unger Pdf

This book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and technological dimensions within the formation of contemporary society. The contributions discuss the production of time and space, self and nature, individual and society in the image of technology. They focus on the productive tensions and convergences between aesthetic and technological concepts when implemented in everyday life. The volume contains - among others - texts about technologies of visualisation, the aesthetics of warfare and the design of technological lifeworlds.