Shadows Of A Dream Gender Roles In Qing Literature As Seen In Gu Taiqing's Sequel To A Dream Of Red Mansions,
2015
Louisiana State University
Shadows Of A Dream Gender Roles In Qing Literature As Seen In Gu Taiqing's Sequel To A Dream Of Red Mansions, Chee Meng Wong
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Permanent Markers The Monumental, The Mobile, And The Sustainable In Enlightened Eras,
2015
Louisiana State University
Permanent Markers The Monumental, The Mobile, And The Sustainable In Enlightened Eras, Kevin L. Cope
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews,
2015
Louisiana State University
Book Reviews
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Review Of Anthony Everett's "The Nonexistent",
2015
James Madison University
Review Of Anthony Everett's "The Nonexistent", Jeffrey C. Goodman
Faculty Scholarship
I here review Anthony Everett's monograph, The Nonexistent
Listening To Musical Performers,
2015
New College of Florida
Listening To Musical Performers, Aron Edidin
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In the philosophy of music and in musicology, aprt from ethnomusicology, there is a long tradition of focus on musical compositions as objects of inquiry. But in both disciplines, a body of recent work focuses on the place of performance in the making of music. Most of this work, however, still takes for granted that compositions, at leas in Western art music, are the primary objects of aesthetic attention. In this paper I focus on aesthetic attention to the performing activity itself. I begin by roughly characterizing what is involve in attending to the performing activity of musical performers. I …
Notices,
2015
Rhode Island School of Design
Recent Publications,
2015
Rhode Island School of Design
The Aesthetic Pulse Of The Everyday: Defending Dewey,
2015
University of Helsinki
The Aesthetic Pulse Of The Everyday: Defending Dewey, Kalle Puolakka
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In the relatively fragmented field of everyday aesthetics, some issues have gradually become the subject of increasingly heated debate. One of the primary disputes concerns aesthetic experience and how that concept should be understood. This article defends the view that the conception of aesthetic experience developed by John Dewey offers a much more promising foundation for a theory on the aesthetics of everyday life than some scholars have believed.
Epistemic Function And Ontology Of Analog And Digital Images,
2015
Academy of Art, Poland
Epistemic Function And Ontology Of Analog And Digital Images, Aleksandra Lukaszewicz Alcarez
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The important epistemic function of photographic images is their active role in construction and reconstruction of our beliefs concerning the world and human identity, since we often consider photographs as presenting reality or even the Real itself. Because photography can convince people of how different social and ethnic groups and even they themselves look, documentary projects and the dissemination of photographic practices supported the transition from disciplinary society to the present-day society of control. While both analog and digital images are formed from the same basic materia, the ways in which this matter appears are distinctive. In the case of …
Yellowism And Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis,
2015
Grand Valley State University
Yellowism And Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis, Wesley D. Cray
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
When Vladimir Umanets entered the Tate Modern on October 7, 2012 and defaced Rothko's Black on Maroon, he was operating, not as an artist or a vandal, but as a Yellowist. Yellowism is neither art nor anti-art but is instead a supposedly new cultural element that exists for its own sake and is about nothing but the color yellow. It might be tempting to write Yellowism and the Rothko defacement off as a mere prank or as pseudo-intellectual fraud, but I argue that, intentionally or not, the Yellowists have raised issues salient to those invested in both the ontology of …
Norms Of Cultivation,
2015
Rhode Island School of Design
Norms Of Cultivation, Kevin Melchionne
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I identify a new group of aesthetic norms, which I call norms of cultivation. Judgments of taste are often accompanied by forecasts or expectations about future aesthetic satisfaction. When we find something beautiful, we expect to find it beautiful in the future. Forecasting is at play in all sorts of aesthetically motivated behavior. Yet psychologists have observed an unreliability in such forecasts. As a result of forecasting error, what we take as our taste can be an unreliable guide in our aesthetic lives. Compensating for the unreliability of taste are norms of cultivation, implicit rules for engaging …
Longing For Clouds - Does Beautiful Weather Have To Be Fine?,
2015
University of Vienna
Longing For Clouds - Does Beautiful Weather Have To Be Fine?, Mădălina Diaconu
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Any attempt to outline a meteorological aesthetics centered on so-called beautiful weather has to overcome several difficulties: In everyday life, the appreciation of the weather is mostly related to practical interests or reduced to the ideal of stereotypical fine weather that is conceived according to blue-sky thinking irrespective of climate diversity. Also, an aesthetics of fine weather seems, strictly speaking, to be impossible given that such weather conditions usually allow humans to focus on aspects other than weather, which contradicts the autotelic character of beauty. The unreflective equation of beautiful weather with moderately sunny weather and a cloudless sky also …
Philosophy's Rarified Air: On Peden's Spinoza Contra Phenomenology,
2015
Baruch College, CUNY
Philosophy's Rarified Air: On Peden's Spinoza Contra Phenomenology, Steven Swarbrick
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
V.1 2015-2016,
2015
Rhode Island School of Design
V.1 2015-2016, 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 2015-2016 issue contains articles on addressing the complexities surrounding today's institutions, pedagogies, technologies, and professional expectations. This issue was not themed intentionally, yet the articles signal the problems of higher education and the precarity of the students who occupy it.
Landscapes Of Human Experience,
2015
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
Landscapes Of Human Experience, Martin Seel
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Landscapes of Human Experience, PDF download. This essay begins with some observations concerning the interaction between nature and art. Relying on these reflections, in the second part experience of landscape will be interpreted as a model for the human stance within the natural as well as the historical world. In the third part some consequences for an ethics and politics of saving the conditions for individual as well as social well-being will be drawn.
The Cacaio Project: Education For Environmental, Aesthetic And Moral Development,
2015
Institute of Economics, Brazil
The Cacaio Project: Education For Environmental, Aesthetic And Moral Development, Atila T. Calvente
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Economic inequalities, institutional awkwardness, cultural underdevelopment, social exclusion, a fast rate of environmental, ecological, and biodiversity degradation have all been at the root of historic social injustice and structural poverty in Brazil for centuries. Human development and emancipation in this context should be approached as a set of non-formal educational practices to promote better learning and dignity. These would become potent means for reducing material poverty and selfish individual behavior, and for improving holistic modes of education and culture. Non-traditional educational practices can have an important influence in state-run schools, as well as in private schools, by enhancing resilience and …
Annunciations - Figuring The Feminine In Renaissance Art,
2015
Villanova University
Annunciations - Figuring The Feminine In Renaissance Art, John M. Carvalho
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Viewers of Renaissance representations of the Annunciation miss an important irony. Where Mary is figured as unimpressed by Gabriel's proposal, she is upholding a masculinist ideal of female virtue. Where she is figured as delighted by the news, she represents an alternative feminine ideal that continues to be attractive to women and feminists, today. Inspired by the writings of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, I figure Mary in Renaissance representations of the Annunciation as contesting an ideal of feminine virtue that would deny her sexual difference and deny her pleasure in fulfilling her role as the bride and mother of …
One Song, Many Works: A Pluralist Ontology Of Rock,
2015
Rice University
One Song, Many Works: A Pluralist Ontology Of Rock, Dan Burkett
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
A number of attempts have been made to construct a plausible ontology of rock music. Each of these ontologies identifies a single type of ontological entity as the “work” in rock music. Yet, all the suggestions advanced to date fail to capture some important considerations about how we engage with music of this tradition. This prompted Lee Brown to advocate a healthy skepticism of higher-order musical ontologies. I argue here that we should instead embrace a pluralist ontology of rock, an ontology that recognizes more than one kind of entity as “the work” in rock music. I contend that this …
Shusterman’S Thinking Through The Body And Everyday Aesthetics,
2015
San Jose State University
Shusterman’S Thinking Through The Body And Everyday Aesthetics, Tom Leddy
Faculty Publications
How does Richard Shusterman’s Thinking Through the Bodyapply to the issues of everyday aesthetics? As it turns out, many chapters contribute significantly to everyday aesthetics, in particular the work on architecture, self-styling, the body as background, lovemaking, and the process of making a photographic portrait. Shusterman’s concentration on the art of living has special importance to everyday aesthetics. Current debates within the field of everyday aesthetics also raise problems for somaesthetics. I also question the limits of somaesthetics and Shusterman’s rejection of defamiliarization in making the ordinary extraordinary.
Armed With An Easel: Understanding Artistic Political Praxis Through The Works Of Theodor Adorno And Chantal Mouffe,
2015
The College of Wooster
Armed With An Easel: Understanding Artistic Political Praxis Through The Works Of Theodor Adorno And Chantal Mouffe, Evelyn Yu Yu Swe
Senior Independent Study Theses
This Independent Study is divided into four chapters. The first chapter examines the role of capitalism in the formation of our culture. The argument presented here is that culture plays an important role in reinforcing modern neoliberal capitalism and that neoliberal capitalism has massive control over the dissemination of culture and the arts. The chapter concludes that it is necessary to utilize socio-cultural means in combating the influence of capitalism, and there does indeed exist emancipatory potential in artistic political praxis.
The second chapter focuses on Theodor Adorno’s aesthetic theory in articulating his conception of the emancipatory potential of art. …
