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A Christian Aesthetic For The Arts, Daniel Reynaud

Daniel Reynaud

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Quiet Catastrophe: Robert Smithson’S Spiral Jetty, Vanished, Clark Lunberry

Clark Lunberry

Maps to Nowhere: Seen from above, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty emerges dramatically from the rocky shores of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Like a swirling vortex steadied and then stilled, the earthwork begins as a straight line of stone extending far into the water, the form then curving, arching and coiling in upon itself until abruptly coming to an end. Rocks and boulders are seen in various shapes and sizes, with brown soil packed and flattened within the spiral, making a broad path that one might walk upon. The water washes upon the earthwork's shaped shores, surrounding and filling it, a …

Aesthetics In Culture, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

This article examines the role of aesthetics in art, music, non-art objects, and activities in daily life. It shows that recognition is vital to our understanding of art and art-objects and sometimes creates conflicts which ask, what does one do with art? The question becomes more confusing when we think about non-art objects and activities which concern our everyday experiences from eating, clothing, cleaning and dealing with life's natural elements. The author points out that Western cultures have a distinct artworld that is usually limited for special occasions set aside for that purpose. He suggests that aesthetics in culture is …

Art And New Media, Elizabeth K. Mix

Elizabeth K. Mix

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Variation On The Human Figure 1, Ivan De Monbrison

Ivan de Monbrison

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Exhibition Catalogue Essay And Artwork - "Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-Racial Ambiguity", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

"Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-racial Ambiguity" essay and artwork featured in Embracing Ambiguities: Faces of the Future (exhibition catalogue). Cal State Fullerton University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery, 2010.

“Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future,” features artwork by 10 multicultural artists living and working in the United States who are searching for new ways to define identity. Through painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, these artists attempt to answer the question, “What are you?”

The artists are:

Nzuji De Magalhaes, who combines African and American art forms to depict issues of stereotype, myth, ethnicity and politics.

Kip Fulbeck, artist, photographer, filmmaker and …

An Evolving Tradition: Andoa Pottery Of The Ecuadorian Amazon, Joe Molinaro

Joe Molinaro

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This Body Of Art: The Singular Plural Of The Feminine, Helen A. Fielding

Helen A Fielding

I explore the possibility that the feminine, like art, can be thought in terms of Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of the singular plural. In Les Muses, Nancy claims that art provides for the rethinking of a technë not ruled by instrumentality. Specifically, in rethinking aesthetics in terms of the debates laid out by Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, he resituates the ontological in terms of the specificity of the techniques of each particular artwork; each artwork establishes relations particular to its world or worlds. What is at stake in the singular plural is the multiplicity of relations that are lost in the …

Pottery Of The Ecuadorian Amazon, Joe Molinaro

Joe Molinaro

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