Introduction,
2016
Goethe University Frankfurt
Introduction, Stefan Deines, Mario Wenning
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Ontology And The Aesthetics Of Cinematographic Bodies,
2016
FuJen Catholic University (Taiwan)
Ontology And The Aesthetics Of Cinematographic Bodies, Jean-Yves Heurtebise
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
If it is true, as Bergson claimed, that the universe is the sum of images (less than “objective” things but more than “subjective” representations), and if it is correct, as Deleuze said, that this hypothesis bears direct consequences for our understanding of the cinematographic art, then the analysis of cinematographic images and, especially, of the cinematographic images of the body (this living part of matter, this incarnated form of consciousness) can provide not only interesting aesthetic comments about specific directors and films, but also a philosophical understanding of the diverse modes of the sensible incarnation of human bodies. Interestingly enough, …
New Grand Narratives—The Metaphysical Worldview Of Avatar And Cloud Atlas,
2016
University of Amsterdam
New Grand Narratives—The Metaphysical Worldview Of Avatar And Cloud Atlas, Josef Früchtl
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Referring to the films Avatar (2009) and Cloud Atlas (2012), the author will demonstrate that a new era of metaphysical holism follows Postmodernism. These films celebrate a resurrection of the flesh with 3-D technology and a reincarnation of souls with the aesthetic technique of morphing. However apocalyptic their visions of the future might be, and however much they might seem to worship technical megalomania, they are also and again conveying a resounding ethical message and a taste of Utopia.
The Aesthetic Experience, Flow, And Smart Technology: Viewing Art In A Virtual Environment,
2016
Walden University
The Aesthetic Experience, Flow, And Smart Technology: Viewing Art In A Virtual Environment, Carol Ikard
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Smart technology can support art educators and museum professionals in mediating the aesthetic experience. It can also increase museum attendance, enrich the viewer's delight and engagement with artworks and art collections, and provide an avenue for extending art on a global level. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which a mobile art app with text-based narrative influences scores on an aesthetic experience questionnaire. This quantitative research measured the difference in pretest and posttest human-computer interaction scores on the Aesthetic Experience Questionnaire Form after participants used two versions of a mobile art app. Csikszentmihalyi's flow was …
Novelistic Intimacies: Reading And Writing In The Late Age Of Print,
2016
Wayne State University
Novelistic Intimacies: Reading And Writing In The Late Age Of Print, Vincent Michael Haddad
Wayne State University Dissertations
In Novelistic Intimacies, I consider the political and aesthetic structure of intimacy in a diverse set of narrative forms produced in the so-called digital age, or the late age of print—from encyclopedic and metafictional novels to graphic storytelling and Afrofuturist fantasy. As an organizing principle, intimacy forces us to consider, at once, how novelists have attempted to restore language and narrative with personal meaning after postmodernism—often termed New Sincerity or post-irony. At the same time, intimacy allows us to see how novelists have experimented on the materiality of the book and the eroticism of language to invent new, impersonal modes …
V.1 2016-2017,
2016
Rhode Island School of Design
V.1 2016-2017, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The 2016-2017 issue contains articles on Kara Walker, Women's March, "Look at Art, Get Paid" program, #pizzagate, the Mutual Encounters exhibition, and smartphones.
A Moral Problem For Difficult Art,
2016
Northern Michigan University
A Moral Problem For Difficult Art, Antony Aumann
Journal Articles
Works of art can be difficult in several ways. One important way is by making us face up to unsettling truths. Such works typically receive praise. I maintain, however, that sometimes they deserve moral censure. The crux of my argument is that, just as we have a right to know the truth in certain contexts, so too we have a right not to know it. Provided our ignorance does not harm or seriously endanger others, the decision about whether to know the truth ought to be left to us. Within this limit, therefore, difficult art is morally problematic if it …
Philosophy With A Twist: La Rivière Du Hibou,
2016
Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Philosophy With A Twist: La Rivière Du Hibou, Paisley Livingston, Trevor Ponech
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper explores the category of films known as “twist films” in relation to distinctions between different modes of epistemic access to works. With reference to the case of Robert Enrico’s short film, La rivière du hibou (1961), the philosophical significance of different sorts of twist films is explored. Twists are also discussed in relation to emotive responses, with special attention to the paradox of suspense
"Can The Audience Want?" On The Artistic Status Of Contemporary Tv-Series,
2016
Mannheim University, Germany
"Can The Audience Want?" On The Artistic Status Of Contemporary Tv-Series, Angela Keppler
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper takes up a question that Theodor W. Adorno posed in 1963 relating to television. The aim is to situate the new TV series, which are part of so-called Quality TV, against the backdrop of the tradition, and to analyze the forms in which the medium is being used. An inspection of pertinent sequences leads to the conclusion that the enjoyment we experience when watching these series stems from the very type of active-passive involvement that Adorno described as being essential only for objects of high culture.
Recent Publications,
2016
Rhode Island School of Design
Recent Publications, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Absolute Pitch And Tone Identification,
2016
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Absolute Pitch And Tone Identification, Gilead Bar-Elli
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Absolute pitch (AP), besides the psychological and neurological interests it has, raises some conceptual difficulties that can teach us about the richness of our notion of musical tone and various aspects of its identification. It is argued that when AP is conceived under a slim notion of identifying the pitch of a crude sound, it is hardly meaningful and has no significance in music comprehension. The rich notion, which is the meaningful and important one, involves knowing the position of a tone in a tone-space and its relations. This is presented as experiential: hearing and identifying tones under concepts and …
Human Nature And Aesthetic Ecosystem Services: Nature In The Service Of Humankind And Humankind In The Service Of Nature,
2016
University of Eastern Finland
Human Nature And Aesthetic Ecosystem Services: Nature In The Service Of Humankind And Humankind In The Service Of Nature, Yrjö Sepänmaa
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The term “ecosystem services” refers to the material and spiritual benefits and goods that we receive from nature, or, in a broad sense, from all kinds of environment. The various forms of such benefits have begun to be called services. Nature serves people by producing the material and spiritual (intangible, non-material) prerequisites for life. This is also the foundation of our aesthetic well-being. Does humankind reciprocally serve nature, or only itself through nature, with the intention of exploiting it? We see when nature suffers or flourishes, and we also observe our own effect on its state. As much as our …
Symposium On The Cultural Promise Of The Aesthetic By Monique Roelofs: Introduction,
2016
Rhode Island School of Design
Symposium On The Cultural Promise Of The Aesthetic By Monique Roelofs: Introduction, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Positioning And Discernment: A Comment On Monique Roelofs's The Cultural Promise Of The Aesthetic,
2016
University of Texas, Austin
Positioning And Discernment: A Comment On Monique Roelofs's The Cultural Promise Of The Aesthetic, Kathleen M. Higgins
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This essay offers replies to the critical commentaries on The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic presented by Kathleen M. Higgins, Carolyn Korsmeyer, and Mariana Ortega. The essay shows how the probing questions and criticisms that the three commentators raise bring out details in the framework of relationality, address, and promises through which the book theorizes the aesthetic.
The Difference That Art Makes,
2016
John Carroll University
The Difference That Art Makes, Mariana Ortega
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In the following essay I discuss Monique Roelofs’s The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic. I show that Roelofs’s rich and complex notion of the aesthetic, informed by promises, modes of address, and aesthetic relationality, offers an important and novel way of understanding the aesthetic within a context attuned to questions of difference. I point out that Roelofs’s analysis may be enhanced by notions theorized by Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldúa, and María Lugones. Moreover, I raise a question regarding the intricate link between Roelofs’s notion of the aesthetic and morality
The Groundwork For Food Criticism: How Normative Aesthetic Judgments Are Possible With Regards To Tastes,
2016
The College of Wooster
The Groundwork For Food Criticism: How Normative Aesthetic Judgments Are Possible With Regards To Tastes, Jacob Caldwell
Senior Independent Study Theses
Issues of tastes and smells are often relegated to an ancillary or minor rank of importance in the domain of aesthetics, if recognized at all as legitimate objects of aesthetic inquiry and experience. This essay aims, firstly, to carve out a space of legitimacy for the aesthetics of tastes, and secondly, to clarify what aesthetic inquiry with regards to tastes must look like. In order for the above to be decisively established, the following positions will be argued for: (1) tastes are real, (2) our ordinary or scientific conception of what tastes are, upon which our reasons for doubting the …
Catching All Passions In His Craft Of Will: Portraits And Pater In Oscar Wilde’S “The Portrait Of Mr. W. H.”,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
Catching All Passions In His Craft Of Will: Portraits And Pater In Oscar Wilde’S “The Portrait Of Mr. W. H.”, Rebecca E. Jones
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines Oscar Wilde’s “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” as the product of Wilde’s long interest in critic Walter Pater’s literature and scholarship. From its first iteration published in 1889, through Wilde’s ongoing revision and expansion into the version commonly anthologized today, “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” is an evolving work that mirrors Wilde’s enduring relationship with the art and ideas of his former teacher. This relationship is explored in three contexts: Pater’s contribution to Wilde’s understanding of the Renaissance period; the steady influence of Pater’s ideas and persona on Wilde’s other major works from the period …
Antithetical Commentaries On X, Y And The Disruption Of Being,
2016
Virginia Commonwealth University
Antithetical Commentaries On X, Y And The Disruption Of Being, Eva Rocha
Theses and Dissertations
Through discursive essays and poetic narrative, Antithetical Commentaries on X, Y and the Disruption of Being explores the tenuous relationship between modes of measurement and the struggle for human relevance in the post-contemporary digital age. In the introductory essay, “Not the Feather, but the Bird”, I give an overview of the inherent problems of object-oriented ontology, and how it relates to aesthetics and social issues of our times. In the Developmental Overview, I detail how I developed my installation approach and techniques, particularly with regard to the three-way dynamic of the artist:work:viewer relationship and how it can encourage …
Turn, Turn, Turn: Civic Instrumentalisation And The Promotion Of Autonomy In Contemporary Arts Funding,
2015
Technological University Dublin
Turn, Turn, Turn: Civic Instrumentalisation And The Promotion Of Autonomy In Contemporary Arts Funding, Connell Vaughan, Michael O'Hara, Elizabeth Matthews, Colm Desmond, Jeanette Doyle, Catherine O'Carroll
Conference papers
Over the past twenty-five years aesthetic practice, theory and Arts policy in Europe and North America has been subject to three different yet interrelated and international “turns”: creative, social and ethical this has been exemplified by Arts funding policy in Ireland. Combined, these three turns produce a tone of cultural production that is pitched toward a more measurable and overtly instrumental direction. This paper explores the trends regarding the critical terms of instrumentality and autonomy and their relevance to arguments relating to criteria employed in current Irish Arts funding policy. We argue that that existing Arts funding criteria relegates the …
Course Syllabus (Fa15) Coli 211 Literature & Psychology: "Material Aesthetics",
2015
Binghamton University--SUNY
Course Syllabus (Fa15) Coli 211 Literature & Psychology: "Material Aesthetics", Christopher Southward
Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship
An examination of questions concerning aesthetic experience from the standpoint of the structural and functional logics of the capitalist mode of production
