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The Pragmatic Picturesque: The Philosophy Of Central Park, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

New York's Central Park is one of the world's iconic works of landscape architecture. The park has achieved global recognition through its representations in film and photography, it is visited by millions every year and every sunny day sees a procession of engaged or newly married couples having their official photographs taken against the background of its picturesque scenery and monumental structures.

In the twenty-first century it may sound slightly odd to consider Central Park as a form of gardening, but the eighteenth-century founders of modern aesthetics and the philosophy of art would have called it a garden or park. …

Method In Catholic Studies, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Changing Our Minds: Bernard Lonergan And Climate Change, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's., Randall Rosenberg

Department of Religion Publications

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Catholicity And Faculty Seminars, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Ignatius, Lonergan, And The Catholic University, Richard Liddy

Department of Religion Publications

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Review- Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. By Richard M. Liddy., Michael Mcguckian

Department of Religion Publications

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Video Games As Mass Art, Grant Tavinor

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Videogames are one of the most significant developments in the mass arts of recent times. In commercial terms, they are now among the most prominent of the mass arts worldwide. This commercial and cultural success does not exhaust the interest in videogames as a mass art phenomenon because games such as Grand Theft Auto IV and Fallout 3 are structurally radically different from previous forms of mass art. In particular, the ontology of videogames, the nature and identity of their works, and how they are instanced and evaluated is a departure from the familiar mass arts of film and popular …

Taking Art Personally: Austin, Performatives And Art, David Goldblatt

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper is an attempt to apply speech act theory to aesthetics. In particular, it purports to be a contribution to reception theory by drawing attention to certain similarities between the contextual structure of performatives and the structure of the reception of art. It hopes to locate the auditor or spectator of artworks in what J. L. Austin calls “the total context” to help explain how certain aspects of artworks can be taken personally, somehow being about and seemingly directed at “me.” It is one way the so-called paradox of fiction can be by-passed by showing how the emotive aspects …

Editorial Note

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

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Disgust And Ugliness: A Kantian Perspective, Mojca Kuplen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Contemporary discussions of the problem of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetic theory have, to my knowledge, left unexplored the relation of disgust to ugliness. At most, they have explained away disgust as merely an extreme form of ugliness or displeasure, as Guyer did in his interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetic theory,[1] and by that strayed from the phenomenological and conceptual uniqueness of disgust in comparison to ugliness, while Kant, as I argue, did not. As a matter of fact, careful investigation of the concept of disgust in Kant’s writing will reveal the distinctive and multifaceted character that he ascribed …

Virtual Dance And Motion-Capture, Marc Boucher

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

A general view of various ways in which virtual dance can be understood is presented in the first part of this article. It then appraises the uses of the term “virtual” in previous studies of digital dance. A more in-depth view of virtual dance as it relates to motion-capture is offered, and key issues are discussed regarding computer animation, digital imaging, motion signature, virtual reality and interactivity. The paper proposes that some forms of virtual dance be defined in relation to both digital technologies and contemporary theories of virtuality.

The Grid And The Nomadic Line In The Art Of Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Flaudette V. May Datuin

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Inspired by Thomas Lamarre’s deployment of Deleuze and Guattari’s “nomadic line” in his analysis of Heian calligraphy, this essay hopes to demonstrate how the Thai artist, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, drawing on a deeply internalized feeling for form in Buddhist painting, moves us to go beyond sight and surface appearances by creating through gestures, sensations and inscriptions zones of disruption, disorientation, departures, and arrivals.

Introduction, Ananta Sukla

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Of Ancients And Moderns The Sociopolitical Significance Of Rousseau's Musical Caricatures, Sophie Bourgault

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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"An Answer From Horace" Ambiguity And Paradox In Pope's Imitation Of Satire 2.1, Laura Thomason Wood

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Why Did Robespierre Write An Eloge De Gresset?, Mircea Platon

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Paradise Lost As Incomplete Argument, Ryan J. Stark

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Patriotism And Its Discontents The Poetry Of Sir John Malcolm, Brijraj Singh

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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