Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs

Author : Michael Stephan,Trevor Pateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : 50,5 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 : 42,6 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 : 44,7 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 : 46,9 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 : Yuzer, T. Volkan,Kurubacak, Gulsun
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615209866

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Transformative Learning and Online Education: Aesthetics, Dimensions and Concepts by Yuzer, T. Volkan,Kurubacak, Gulsun Pdf

"This book brings together online distance education, transformative online learning, and the aesthetics concepts discussing innovation, creativity, inclusion, society, culture, mobility, usability, discourse, feminism, ecology and spirituality"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317199540

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Routledge Library Editions: Aesthetics by Various Authors Pdf

This set reissues 6 books on aesthetics originally published between 1933 and 1991. The volumes provide a clear introduction to classic philosophical accounts of art and beauty, as well as exploring the significance of aesthetics in more recent developments in philosophy.

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004361928

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Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman Pdf

This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.

Author : John Clammer,Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Reina Van der Wiel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137311016

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Literary Aesthetics of Trauma by Reina Van der Wiel Pdf

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness.

Author : Richard Shusterman,Adele Tomlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Peter Baofu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443807494

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The Future of Aesthetic Experience by Peter Baofu Pdf

Contrary to the conventional wisdom held by many, Dr. Peter Baofu argues that the current popularity of postmodernism in the humanities (especially though not exclusively in relation to the arts) will not last, as it constitutes an aesthetic fad in this day and age of postmodernity. This thesis has important implications for understanding beauty, ugliness, and other aesthetic categories, be the era in the past, present, or future, to the extent that the current theoretical debate on aesthetic experience is as much misleading as obsolete. The current debate also obscures something more tremendous in the long run, in relation to the emergence of what Dr. Baofu originally proposes as the great transformations of aesthetic experience in the coming future that humans have never known, both here on Earth and later in deep space, in accordance to the five theses of his “transformative theory of aesthetic experience.” To understand this, the book is organized into four major parts (i.e., in relation to nature, the mind, culture, and society).

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134047499

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The Transformative Power of Performance by Erika Fischer-Lichte Pdf

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes. With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.

Author : Dan Nesher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780761872962

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On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality by Dan Nesher Pdf

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics, which are the three different modes of representing reality. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and the created artworks are judged beautiful when proven as an aesthetic true representation of reality. Artists aim to represent reality truly, and hence, beautifully, in order to enhance our knowledge of it and to afford us insights on how to better conduct our life in society.

Author : Alexis Kokkos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 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.