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Aesthetics of Discomfort

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama,Herbert S. Lindenberger
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472053001

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Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900—the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya’s so-called “black” paintings, in Wagner’s Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othello. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on—especially in aesthetically challenging works—between creator, artifact, and consumer.

Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics

Author : Henry Rutgers Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:B4086087

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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism

Author : Cynthia J. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192602367

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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism by Cynthia J. Davis Pdf

The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering. Although the treatment of pain in other influential nineteenth century literary modes including sentimentalism and naturalism has attracted ample scholarly attention, this book offers the first sustained analysis of pain's importance to US literary realism as practiced by five of its most influential proponents.

Pain, Pleasure, and Æsthetics

Author : Henry Rutgers Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 1591476372

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The Aesthetics of Disturbance

Author : David Graver
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472105078

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Explores interconnections among early 20th-century visual, literary, and performance art

Dante's Aesthetics of Being

Author : Warren Ginsberg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0472109715

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Explores the domain of the aesthetic in Dante

Pain, Pleasure and Aesthetics

Author : Henry Rutgers Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404592694

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The Aesthetics of Degradation

Author : Adrian Nathan West
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781910924198

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Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and outrage. But what are the moral and psychological consequences of the mercantilization of abuse? In this studied and ruthless examination of the place of pornography in contemporary life, translator and critic Adrian Nathan West treads dangerous literary and social ground, transcending cliches about free expression and the demands of the market to look at the moral discomfort of violent pornography from the perspective of the viewer. Collapsing distinctions between novel, memoir, and essay, this book will not make for light reading. But at its core is an extraordinarily brave and honest concern for the women and men who have been hurt in the name of sexual gratification.

Art History Versus Aesthetics

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135506995

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In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are very diverse: some are informal letters and others full essays with footnotes. Some think they have the answer in hand, and others raise yet more questions. The volume ends with two synoptic essays, one by a prominent aesthetician and the other by a literary critic. This stimulating inaugural volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question; Does philosophy have anything to say to art history?

Aesthetics of Anxiety

Author : Ruth Ronen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791476673

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Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy

Author : Peter B. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351872508

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Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy by Peter B. Lewis Pdf

Although universally recognised as one of the greatest of modern philosophers, Wittgenstein's work in aesthetics has been unjustly neglected. This is the first book exclusively devoted to Wittgenstein's aesthetics, exploring the themes developed by Wittgenstein in his own writing on aesthetics as well as the implications of Wittgenstein's wider philosophical views for understanding central issues in aesthetics. Drawing together original contributions from leading international scholars, this book will be an important addition to studies of Wittgenstein's thought, but its discussion of issues in literature, music and performing art, and criticism will also be of interest to many students of literary and cultural studies. Exploring three key themes - the capacity of the arts to illuminate our lives; the nature of the particular responses involved in understanding and appreciating works of art; the role of theory and principle in artistic and critical practice - the contributors address issues raised by contemporary philosophers of art, and seek to make connections between Wittgenstein's work and that of other significant philosophies of art in the Western tradition. Displaying the best practice of modern philosophical writing - clarity, cogency, respect for but not blind obedience to common sense, argument illustrated with detailed examples, rejection of speculation and pretension - this book demonstrates how philosophy can make a valuable contribution to understanding the arts.

Disability Aesthetics

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0472071009

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Explores the rich but hidden role that disability plays in modern art and in aesthetic judgments

The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy

Author : Kate MacNeill,Barbara Bolt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429590979

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The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy by Kate MacNeill,Barbara Bolt Pdf

The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy provides a deep understanding of the nuances of ethics in the creative environment and contributes to the critical exploration of the nature of research ethics in higher education. Written by world-renown academics with a wealth of experience in this field, this volume explores ethical challenges and responses across a range of creative practices and disciplines including design, documentary film making, journalism, socially engaged arts and the visual arts. It addresses the complex negotiations that creative practice researchers in higher education undertake to ensure that the ethical compliance required does not undermine the research integrity and artistic aspirations. By presenting carefully considered challenges to accepted models of research, this book illustrates critical analysis through a variety of case studies and anecdotal examples that provide an insight into improved ethics practices and policies in higher education. This book is perfect for academics, ethics administrators, higher degree research candidates and supervisors looking to engage further in creative practice research and wanting to explore and understand its ethical oversight.

Pain, Pleasure, and Aesthetics: An Essay Concerning the Psychology of Pain and Pleasure, with Special Reference to Aesthetics

Author : Henry Rutgers Marshall
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1378636244

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Everyday Aesthetics

Author : Yuriko Saito
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191608537

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Everyday aesthetic experiences and concerns occupy a large part of our aesthetic life. However, because of their prevalence and mundane nature, we tend not to pay much attention to them, let alone examine their significance. Western aesthetic theories of the past few centuries also neglect everyday aesthetics because of their almost exclusive emphasis on art. In a ground-breaking new study, Yuriko Saito provides a detailed investigation into our everyday aesthetic experiences, and reveals how our everyday aesthetic tastes and judgments can exert a powerful influence on the state of the world and our quality of life. By analysing a wide range of examples from our aesthetic interactions with nature, the environment, everyday objects, and Japanese culture, Saito illustrates the complex nature of seemingly simple and innocuous aesthetic responses. She discusses the inadequacy of art-centered aesthetics, the aesthetic appreciation of the distinctive characters of objects or phenomena, responses to various manifestations of transience, and the aesthetic expression of moral values; and she examines the moral, political, existential, and environmental implications of these and other issues.