Visual Metaphors And Aesthetics

Author : Michalle Gal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350127739

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Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics by Michalle Gal Pdf

This book offers a new definition of metaphor-as an ontological and visual construction, whose roots are external visual forms, and its motivation is our attachment to forms. This definition, which Michalle Gal names “visualist,” challenges the ruling conceptualist theory of metaphors and places a new emphasis on how we experience rather than understand metaphors. In doing so, she responds to the visual turn that is taking place in literature and the media, demanding that the visual become a site of philosophical analysis. This focus on the external visual world allows Gal to employ visual theories to capture the essence of metaphor. She looks beyond conceptual or semantic mechanism, and returns to theories of Arnheim and Gombrich and the current evolution of ideas about the visual or material and embodied cognition. Proposing to see visual metaphors in their basic form, she uses a new externalist terminology of ontology, visuality, composition, affordance, construction, and emergence. Setting out a new theory that takes into account that humans are visual no less than cognitive creatures, Visual Metaphors and Aesthetics lays the foundation for a new vocabulary to talk about metaphors.

Author : Mark Staff Brandl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350073852

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A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art by Mark Staff Brandl Pdf

Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists – including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaëlle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more– he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noël Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporary art. A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art takes a neglected feature of the visual arts and shows us what a vital role it plays within them. Bridging theory and practice, and drawing upon a capacious array of examples, this book is essential reading for art historians and practitioners, as well as analytic philosophers working in aesthetics and meaning.

Author : Noël Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521786568

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Beyond Aesthetics by Noël Carroll Pdf

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

Author : Norman Kreitman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429764486

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The Roots of Metaphor by Norman Kreitman Pdf

First published in 1999, this study begins with a review of basic biological functions, stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds of information. The 'biology of information' must consider how the brain reacts to new, as contrasted with expected, inputs; these differences are discussed chiefly in relation to language. In language processing predictability is of prime importance, but to clarify what this entails it is necessary to consider just how our concepts are organized. Personal construct theory throws considerable light on this question, but is less informative about fantasy, which requires separate exploration. The main chapter focuses on the origins and interpretation of metaphor, in which quite disparate concepts are united but which we understand nevertheless. Existing theories of metaphor are unsatisfactory, but personal construct theory again helps resolve the psychological-linguistic issues. Finally, the question is raised as to why a good metaphor produces a response which is recognizably aesthetic in character, and its implications for our aesthetic responses to other art forms are explored.

Author : Jaakko Hintikka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401583152

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Aspects of Metaphor by Jaakko Hintikka Pdf

Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked but at the same time most poorly understood concepts in philosophy and literary theory. In recent years, several interesting approaches to metaphor have been presented or outlined. In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field. These authors include Robert Fogelin, Susan Haack, Jaakko Hintikka (with Gabriel Sandu), Bipin Indurkhya and Eva Kittay (with Eric Steinhart). Their stance is in the main constructive rather than critical; but frequent comparisons of different views further facilitate the reader's overview. In the other contributions, metaphor is related to the problems of visual representation (Noël Carroll), to the open class test (Avishai Margalit and Naomi Goldblum) as well as to Wittgenstein's idea of 'a way of life' (E.M. Zemach).

Author : Carl R. Hausman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521363853

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Metaphor and Art by Carl R. Hausman Pdf

Author : Réka Benczes,Veronika Szelid
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257406

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Visual Metaphors by Réka Benczes,Veronika Szelid Pdf

Whenever we think about the world – including its concrete and abstract entities – we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world. Visual metaphors, similarly to their linguistic counterparts, largely build on such images. Nevertheless, the interplay of metaphorical/metonymical text and imagery is not necessarily (and not usually) straightforward and raises complex theoretical and methodological questions. The eleven chapters in this collection address a wide range of such challenges, such as what are visual metaphors in the first place; how can they be identified; what is their relationship to linguistic metaphors; what are their most common manifestations; what knowledge structures are required for their interpretation; and how do they interact with metonymies. The studies cut across linguistics, politics, philosophy, poetry, art and history – highlighting the ubiquitous role that visual metaphor plays in everyday life and conceptualizations. Originally published as special issue of Cognitive Linguistic Studies 7:1 (2020).

Author : Berys Nigel Gaut,Dominic Lopes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0415327989

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The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics by Berys Nigel Gaut,Dominic Lopes Pdf

Containing fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars and covering all aspects of aesthetics, this fully revised second edition includes eight new entries and updated further reading.

Author : Gerald C. Cupchik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107024458

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The Aesthetics of Emotion by Gerald C. Cupchik Pdf

Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art.

Author : Berys Gaut,Dominic Lopes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136697142

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The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics by Berys Gaut,Dominic Lopes Pdf

The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics. This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including entries on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Foucault, Goodman, and Wollheim. The second part covers the central concepts and theories of aesthetics, including the definitions of art, taste, the value of art, beauty, imagination, fiction, narrative, metaphor and pictorial representation. Part three is devoted to issues and challenges in aesthetics, including art and ethics, art and religion, creativity, environmental aesthetics and feminist aesthetics. The final part addresses the individual arts, including music, photography, film, videogames, literature, theater, dance, architecture and design. With ten new entries, and revisions and updated suggestions for further reading throughout, The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is essential for anyone interested in aesthetics, art, literature, and visual studies.

Author : Asun López-Varela Azcárate
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781839699351

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Mind and Matter by Asun López-Varela Azcárate Pdf

Do brains create material reality in thinking processes or is it the other way around, with things shaping the mind? Where is the location of meaning-making? How do neural networks become established by means of multimodal pattern replications, and how are they involved in conceptualization? How are resonance textures within cellular entities extended in the body and the mind by means of mirroring processes? In which ways do they correlate to consciousness and self-consciousness? Is it possible to explain out-of-awareness unconscious processes? What holds together the relationship between experiential reality, bodily processes like memory, reason, or imagination, and sign-systems and simulation structures like metaphor and metonymy visible in human language? This volume attempts to answer some of these questions.

Author : Rafael Cano-Guervos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031508943

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Sustainability in Creative Industries by Rafael Cano-Guervos Pdf

Author : Paul A. Fishwick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9780262562379

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Aesthetic Computing by Paul A. Fishwick Pdf

The application of the theory and practice of art to computer science: how aesthetics and art can play a role in computing disciplines.

Author : Kathrin Fahlenbrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317531210

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Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games by Kathrin Fahlenbrach Pdf

In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which strategically "sell" their products by addressing their viewers’ immediate, reflexive understanding through pictures, sounds, and language. This volume applies cognitive metaphor theory (CMT) to film, television, and video games in order to analyze the embodied aesthetics and meanings of those moving images.

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351163347

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Aesthetics and Environment by Arnold Berleant Pdf

The essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment. The essays deal with the physical reality of environment such as the city, the shore, the water and the garden, but also with the virtual environment and the social one. Environmental aesthetics is a theme whose variations are as endless as the possibilities of the human performers and conditions from which it is fashioned. This enticing set of essays testifies to Berleant's special talent in moving easily between both natural and human environments and opens out the contemporary discussion beyond that of the wilderness to the cultural and social environment. Berleant argues that neither the natural nor human environment stands alone and both are best understood as distinctions that are in experience coextensive, that one can only speak of environment in relation to human experience. The theme of this book is that such experience suffuses the so-called natural world and shapes the human world. It maintains the idea that in as much as people are embedded in these worlds, relationships, including human relationships, are part of them. The melding of these two worlds leads Berleant to defend ultimately what he has termed 'social aesthetics' .