Arts and Humanities Commons^™

Artification, Fine Art, And The Myth Of "The Artist", Larry Shiner

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

I begin by examining three concepts of “artification:” the decoration, transformation, and modification. I argue that the typical business argument for artification claims that since businesses must be constantly innovating and since art and artists are the principal locus of creativity in our society, businesses must be “artified.” I argue that these claims about artists and creativity are based on widely accepted conventional views about art and artists that are false. I illustrate my general argument by examining one of the best statements of the case for business artification, Austin’s and Devin’s book, Artful Making, showing that artful making is …

Artification For Well-Being: Institutional Living As A Special Case, Susann Vihma

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Millions of people live in institutional residences that differ significantly from their homes. This article looks closely into the quality of these habitations and points out some critical characteristics based on a research project called CoWell. One salient question circles around the concept of homeyness, which in many countries is the main objective to realize in institutional living. Some kind of artification is implemented and is seen as a means for achieving a homey atmosphere and of stimulating the inhabitants and the staff. However, very little research has been done on homeyness. Cleanliness, permanence, and randomness are often recognizable in …

The Collective Alphabet, Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

The Collective Alphabet was created by a class at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia in 2012 and donated to Special Collections, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Read more about the workshop.

Bread+Butter, Minali Chatani, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Food

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Travel Photographie 2006-2012, Franziska Stetter, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Theme And Permutation, Marlene Maccallum, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Cover title. "The images were printed on the Heidelberg GTO offset lithographic press at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Art by Clifton Meador with the assistance of Marlene MacCallum, Hannah King and Kate Morgan. The text was printed by Marlene on a Canon digital inkjet printer at the sillis lab in Corner Brook, NL. The book was bound by Marlene with assistance from Megan Musseau ... research team consists of Marlene MacCallum, Clifton Meador, Pierre LeBlanc and David Morrish"--Colophon. "[O]ne of …

Palpung Parkhang, Clifton Meador, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[22], 7 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map. Printed and produced at the Center for Book and Paper, Columbia College, Chicago. 1 hand sewn binding (two signatures) and 1 stapled fold (notes section); paper cover. "This collection of black and white and color photographs were taken in the Palpung Monastery in Palpung Parkhang, Tibet. Each spread consists of one numbered photograph. Each number matches a note in the back of the book which details the artist's experience while walking through the monastery: what he sees, what enlivens his senses, and more concrete facts about the people and what they …

Critical Making | Making Critical: Risd Strategic Plan 2012-2017, Office Of Integrated Planning, Risd President

Strategic Plan

No abstract provided.

Lunar Calculations, Katherine Venturelli, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 folded sheets. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. Variable edition of 5. "Three Turkish map folds. A three-dimensional celestial map intaglio printed on white Lenox print papers. Bound in black linen book cloth over boards. Embossed circle on boards. Cord loop on each board to facilitate hanging"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed November 8, 2016). "Lunar Calculations is a book which opens up into a three-dimensional celestial map. My etched imagery printed on the interiors and exteriors of the pop out pages are lunar phases and mathematical symbols which are archetypal symbols that I have utilized in …

This Is An Emergency! : A Reproductive Rights + Gender Justice Portfolio, Meredith Stern, Judy Kashoff, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 portfolio : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 47 cm. Colophon page title. This portfolio contains a hand sewn 'zine' with text by Meredith Stern and Judy Kashoff, a colophon page, and a collection of 17 prints. Horizonal and vertical red bands surround the colophon, text, and 17 prints. "Seventeen artists created a print for this project. Third Termite Press in Pittsburgh printed the colophon and Ladyfingers Letterpress printed the covers. The participants are: several members of the Justseeds Cooperative including: Melanie Cervantes, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Favianna Rodriguez, Mary Tremonte, Molly Fair, and myself (Meredith Stern). Also participating are: Ian …

The Historian : A Novel, Elizabeth Kostova, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 book object. Altered book by unknown book artist. After page [iix] the remainder of the text is cut-out. A 19.5 x 9.5 window has been carved into the text block. A text message which begins, "My dear and unfortunate sucessor: ..." is printed on various raised lines of text which read from top to bottom. Original book was published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Map on lining-paper. Gift of Jan Baker. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

Dual/Duel, François Deschamps, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits. Cover title. Portraits of Mali portrait studio photographers, with a portrait of Deschamps by the Mali photographer on the facing page. Perfect bound. Gift of Jan Baker.

Peeping Tom, Radha Pandey, Eric Gjerde, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 sheet : illustrations. Title from enclosure cover. 1 sheet (40 x 14 cm) folded twice to (14 x 14 cm) in folded paper cover. "Origami tessallation designed by Eric Gjerde ; printed, illustrated & executed by Radha Pandey, fall 2012." "To fully enjoy this act of voyeurism, push each square up from its sides and pinch in the white corners."--Colophon slip laid in. Artist's Book Fund.

Specimens, Lauren Faulkenberry, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 drop spine box, four interior parts. Numbered edition of 50. Each of the four parts unfold to 15 x 30.5 cm. Each printed on one side with color illustrations and printed text. Housed in a cloth-covered drop-spine box (16.5 x 9 cm.) with two compartments, one section holds the folded texts, the other houses an origami butterfly which is pinned to the box.

Variations On Artification, Ossi Naukkarinen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the most important aspects of the concept of artification. I will proceed through five main questions: (1) What does artification mean? (2) What can become artified? (3) Why does artification take place? (4) How can it manifest itself? (5) What kinds of things are accentuated in artification processes? The answers to these questions have a direct influence on how we understand artification’s real effects and those desired but not necessarily actual on both the things that become artified and on art itself. At the end of the article, I …

Artification In Natural History Museums, Kaisa Mäki-Petäjä

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Natural history exhibitions have changed considerably over recent decades concurring with a rise of a general movement of aestheticization in the Western culture. This usually results from an attempt to make the exhibitions more appealing to provide the public numerous ways of enjoying themselves, but they are also used to communicate information, especially of an ethical and affective kind. In this paper I will consider the effects of a particular kind of aestheticization, namely artification, of these kinds of exhibitions. Artification, i.e, the process of regarding non-art objects as art, appears to be in conflict with the science-based purposes of …

Artification And The Drawing Of Distinctions: An Analysis Of Categories And Their Uses, Kari Korolainen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The aim of the article is to examine how we distinguish between art, decoration, and furnishing within a research interview. The interview specimens here are examined by adapting the ethnomethodologically oriented method of Membership Categorization Analysis. The results indicate that the speakers rely, for example, on the context of the interview situation and also use flexible logical means, such as conditioning and comparison, to make the discussed issues more comprehensive. The results of the analysis are interpreted in the context of artification, emphasizing in particular the notion of the situated process of categorical resiliency.

Notices

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.

Defending Everyday Aesthetics And The Concept Of 'Pretty', Thomas Leddy

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The paper defends everyday aesthetics against critiques inspired by Kant’s distinction between the agreeable and the beautiful, such as that of Christopher Dowling. It does this by focusing on analysis of the concept of the pretty. Following Carolyn Korsmeyer and A. C. Bradley, I posit a continuum for the aesthetic, from the pretty to the beautiful and finally to the sublime. After giving a history of the concept of 'pretty,' I consider its largely gendered nature and the feminist issues this raises. I conclude by arguing that limiting aesthetics to art or to art plus nature ignores the continuity between …

2012 Yearbook, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Seven Seas Without, Ambereen Siddiqui

Masters Theses

In my work I explore dislocation within a diasporic experience. I use personal and familial accounts of migration, assimilation and reverse culture shock to examine and add to the collective narratives that underlie national as well as individual identities. In reconciling my own sense of loss in having moved away from Pakistan, I appropriate histories, recreate memories and envision futures to mould the present. Investigations of personal experiences inform an analysis of the larger social, political and historical contexts. In my practice I use video, animation and new media technologies to “re-view” archives. My sources include audio and text from …

2011 Program Booklet, Rhode Island School Of Design

Collection (annual runway show) 2007-2017

Official Collection 2011 Program distributed at the event.

Pink Jacket 2011, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Pink Jacket was a single issue student publication published in 2011 in both print and online formats. It features MFA student musings, artwork, and creative writing.

Annual Report Of The Risd Fleet Library 2010-2011, Fleet Library, Carol Terry

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Best In Show, Amanda Sim, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Animals

This book was created for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Risd Fact Book 2011, Institutional Research

RISD Fact Books

The Office of Institutional Research is pleased to present the 2011 Rhode Island School of Design Fact Book; a paperless, accessible, consistent source of information about the RISD community, its resources, and its operations. It is a summary of institutional data gathered from many areas of the College, compiled to capture the 2010‐2011 Fiscal and Academic Year. Where appropriate, multiple years of data are provided for historical perspective. While not all‐encompassing, the Fact Book does provide pertinent facts and figures and is made available as reference to administrators, faculty, staff, and students.

Visionaire 61: Larger Than Life Standard Edition, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Greg Foley

Visionaire

18 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations Limited edition of 250 copies. Contributor list: Lady Gaga, Inez & Vinoodh, Ridley Scott, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marina Abramovic, Martin Schoeller, Josephine Meckseper, Richard Phillips, Steven Klein, Ryan McGinley, Karl Lagerfeld, Massimo Vitali, Steven Meisel, Ed Ruscha, Marilyn Minter, Rob Pruitt, Bruce Weber, Sam Taylor-Wood, Guido Mocafico, Mario Sorrenti, Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Doug Aitken, Tom Sachs.

"Visionaire broke the Guinness World Record for the largest magazine ... with a Deluxe Edition at 57.48 x 79 inches ... In this history-making issue, Visionaire gives iconic artists and image-makers the forum to take their visions …

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 …

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.