The A To Z Of Aesthetics

Author : Dabney Townsend
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461671695

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The A to Z of Aesthetics by Dabney Townsend Pdf

Aesthetics is not a "factual" discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for "feeling" and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemology—the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs. Aesthetics is more than just the study of beauty; it is a study of that which appeals to our senses, most often in connection with the classification, analysis, appreciation, and understanding of art. The A to Z of Aesthetics covers its history from Classical Greece to the present, including entries on non-western aesthetics. The book contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the main concepts, terminology, important persons (philosophers, critics, and artists), and the rules and criteria we apply in making judgments on art. By providing concise information on aesthetics, this dictionary is not only accessible to students, but it provides details and facts to specialists in the field.

Author : Eran Guter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780748686995

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Aesthetics A "e;Z by Eran Guter Pdf

An ideal guide to aesthetics

Author : Peggy Zeglin Brand,Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271043968

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Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics by Peggy Zeglin Brand,Carolyn Korsmeyer Pdf

Author : Michael Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199747105

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics by Michael Kelly Pdf

The second edition of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics is an unparalleled reference resource that surveys the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and nature, from classical philosophy to contemporary critical theory. The four-volume first edition, published in 1998, effected a revival of aesthetics that created a receptive context for the contemporary importance of the field. Spanning six volumes and 815 articles, the new edition of the Encyclopedia has been updated and expanded to reflect the rapidly evolving character of the discipline. Renowned contributors from diverse fields provide analyses of the major artists, movements, and theories that continue to inform scholarly research on aesthetics. The updated Encyclopedia of Aesthetics contains 250 new entries that incorporate innovative fields of inquiry, such as animal aesthetics and diaspora criticism, as well as significant new developments in art, including digital media and street art. Additionally, the second edition offers enhanced coverage of non-Western cultural areas and related issues, such as post-colonialism, globalization, and primitivism. In so doing, it extends the scope of critical aesthetics, seeking to create a more open environment for aesthetics in academia, culture, and art. With bibliographic references and images, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics is an essential work that is of use to artists, scholars, students, and all others interested in art-from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, film, and more.

Author : Michael Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:49015002843564

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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics by Michael Kelly Pdf

This major reference work surveys how philosophers, art historians, and others reflect critically on art and culture. It presents articles on the history of Western and non-Western aesthetics along with accounts of the contemporary debates.

Author : Gärard Genette
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803271104

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Essays in Aesthetics by Gärard Genette Pdf

Over the course of the past forty years, Gärard Genette?s work has profoundly influenced scholars of narratology, poetics, aesthetics, and literary and cultural criticism, and he continues to be one of France?s most influential theorists. The eighteen pieces in Essays in Aesthetics are of international interest because they are concerned either with universal aesthetic problems (the receiver?s relationship to an aesthetic object, abstract art, the role of repetition in aesthetics, genre theory, and the rapport between literature and music) or with specific moments in the work of a well-known writer or artist (such as Stendhal, Proust, Manet, Pissarro, and Canaletto).øEssays in Aesthetics contains a wealth of material related to the appreciation of beauty by one of the subtlest and most original minds working in aesthetics today. Genette knows the fine arts as well as he knows literature and as a result has innovative things to say to readers in that field as well as to philosophers and literary scholars.

Author : Donatella Della Ratta,Geert Lovink,Teresa Numerico,Peter Sarram
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030654979

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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self by Donatella Della Ratta,Geert Lovink,Teresa Numerico,Peter Sarram Pdf

This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to click, like, love and share ourselves online as if nothing was. So, how do we overcome the current online identity regime? Can we overthrow the rule of Narcissus and destroy the planetary middle class subject? In this catalogue of strategies, the reader will find stories on hacker groups, gaming platforms in the occupied territories, art objects, selfies, augmented reality, Gen Z autoethnographies, love and life. The authors of this anthology believe we cannot simply put vanity aside and a rational analysis of platform capitalism is not going to convince the youngs on TikTok nor liberate us from Zuckerbergian indentured servitude. Do we really need to wade through the subjective mud and ‘learn more’ about online aesthetics? The answer is yes. Writing by Wendy Chun, Franco Berardi “BIFO”, Julia Preisker, Katherine Behar, Rebecca Stein, Fabio Cristiano, Emilio Distretti, Natalie Bookchin, Ana Peraica, Mitra Azar, Donatella Della Ratta, Gabriella Coleman, Marco Deseriis, Alberto Micali, Daniel de Zeeuw, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, Jodi Dean.

Author : Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780821444375

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The Madness of Vision by Christine Buci-Glucksmann Pdf

Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality. In each of the nine essays that form The Madness of Vision Buci-Glucksmann develops her theoretical argument via a study of a major painting, sculpture, or influential visual image—Arabic script, Bettini’s “The Eye of Cardinal Colonna,” Bernini’s Saint Teresa and his 1661 fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer’s self-portrait, among others—and deftly crosses historical, national, and artistic boundaries to address Gracián’s El Criticón; Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo; the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroque architecture and Anselm Kiefer’s Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque throughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque in contemporary arts.

Author : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Imperfect Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : 0981484611

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Which "aesthetics" Do You Mean? by Leonard Koren Pdf

Aesthetics, in its totality of meanings, is about where your mind goes--conceptually, analytically, imaginatively--when you engage with things designed, artistic, and the like. This book is about building a deeper understanding of this rangy mental terrain so that you can more productively think about and discuss aesthetic phenomena and experience in your life and in your work. Until now theoretical aesthetics has been a rather unwieldy and impractical subject. This lucid and easy-to-read book--rendered in a graphically engaging format--should be of genuine value to museum-goers, professional artists and designers, and students of the arts and crafts. This book should be of particular interest to those who have enjoyed Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, also by Leonard Koren. Leonard Koren trained as an artist and architect. He is the founder and publisher of WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing, one of the seminal avant-garde publications of the 1970s. Koren writes and consults about design- and aesthetics-related issues.

Author : Donna Tussing Orwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521520002

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The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy by Donna Tussing Orwin Pdf

Best known for his great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy remains one the most important nineteenth-century writers; throughout his career which spanned nearly three quarters of a century, he wrote fiction, journalistic essays and educational textbooks. The specially commissioned essays in The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy do justice to the sheer volume of Tolstoy s writing. Key dimensions of his writing and life are explored in essays focusing on his relationship to popular writing, the issue of gender and sexuality in his fiction and his aesthetics. The introduction provides a brief, unified account of the man, for whom his art was only one activity among many. The volume is well supported by supplementary material including a detailed guide to further reading and a chronology of Tolstoy s life, the most comprehensive compiled in English to date. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0877224404

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Philosophy Looks at the Arts by Joseph Margolis Pdf

The first edition of this widely used anthology offered a needed introduction to a new analytic aesthetics which has in the intervening years become even more influential. This new, revised and expanded edition has been designed by one of the leaders of the field to help define the structure of current aesthetics. Of the 24 articles included more than half are new to this edition. The new edition emphasizes opposing currents in aesthetics with contributions from the most active and influential writers in the field. It is a basic book for any library and is designed to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with a professional orientation in aesthetics. Author note: Joseph Margolis is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the author or editor of twelve other books as well as numerous articles.

Author : Andrew Light,Jonathan Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231509350

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The Aesthetics of Everyday Life by Andrew Light,Jonathan Smith Pdf

The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art. It is not limited to the study of humble objects but is rather concerned with all of the undeniably aesthetic experiences that arise when one contemplates objects or performs acts that are outside the traditional realm of aesthetics. It is concerned with the nature of the relationship between subject and object. One significant aspect of everyday aesthetics is environmental aesthetics, whether constructed, as a building, or manipulated, as a landscape. Others, also discussed in the book, include sport, weather, smell and taste, and food.

Author : Faruq Z. Bey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0982389612

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Toward a 'Ratio'nal Aesthetic by Faruq Z. Bey Pdf

Author : Thomas J. McKenna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498597661

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Bonaventure’s Aesthetics by Thomas J. McKenna Pdf

The authors of the standard approach to Bonaventure’s aesthetics established the broad themes that continue to inform the current interpretation of his philosophy, theology, and mysticism of beauty: his definition of beauty and its status as a transcendental of being, his description of the aesthetic experience, and the role of that experience in the soul’s ascent into God. Nevertheless, they also introduced a series of pointed questions that the current literature has not adequately resolved. In Bonaventure’s Aesthetics: The Delight of the Soul in Its Ascent into God, Thomas J. McKenna provides a comprehensive analysis of Bonaventure’s aesthetics, the first to appear since Balthasar’s Herrlichkeit, and argues for a resolution to these questions in the context of his principal aesthetic text, the Itinerarium mentis in Deum.

Author : Sianne Ngai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674088123

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Our Aesthetic Categories by Sianne Ngai Pdf

The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture, dominating the look of its art and commodities as well as our ways of speaking about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this study Ngai offers an aesthetic theory for the hypercommodified, mass-mediated, performance-driven world of late capitalism.