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Integrative And Disintegrative Art, Ossi Naukkarinen
Integrative And Disintegrative Art, Ossi Naukkarinen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article compares and analyzes two seemingly opposite approaches to visual arts that can be called integrative and disintegrative. They are usually seen to be contradictory, and the latter is often favored in contemporary art discourse. The article suggests, however, that the integrative approach can still be quite as favorable to art as the disintegrative one. Both views are useful for certain purposes and in the context of individual art works they are often actually intertwining. Especially from the perspective of art education, it is easy to understand the different implications of these views. This is because in that context …
Unlimited Additions To Limited Editions, Christy Mag
Unlimited Additions To Limited Editions, Christy Mag
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I target the relationship between two prints that are roughly qualitatively identical and share a causal history. Is one an artwork if and only if the other is an artwork? To answer this, I propose two competing principles. The first claims that certain intentional relations must be shared by the prints (e.g., editioned prints vs. non-editioned prints). The second appeals only to minimal print ontology, claiming that the two prints need only be what I call 'relevantly similar' to one other. In the end, I endorse the second principle. There are no trumping features over and above …
The Divine Geometry Of Chocolate: Artist's Essay, Mariángeles Soto-Díaz
The Divine Geometry Of Chocolate: Artist's Essay, Mariángeles Soto-Díaz
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The artist discusses her series of paintings, The Divine Geometry of Chocolate, using a reappraised notion of the universal in the context of contemporary Latin American abstraction.