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Aesthetics Into The Twenty-First Century, Curtis Carter
Aesthetics Into The Twenty-First Century, Curtis Carter
Curtis Carter
The new concerns facing aestheticians in the twenty-first century require serious attention if the discipline is to maintain continued viability as an intellectual discipline. Just as art changes as cultures develop, so must aesthetics. In support of this view is a personal account of evolving engagement with aesthetics and the factors that led to embracing change and a plurality of practices as essential to the health of aesthetic today. A brief examination of the state of aesthetics as it has evolved in the American Society for Aesthetics since its inception in the 1940s will follow. These two lines of development, …
Somaesthetics And Aesthetic Transactions: Art And Phenomenology Today, Monique Boutin
Somaesthetics And Aesthetic Transactions: Art And Phenomenology Today, Monique Boutin
Honors College
This thesis inquires into the application of Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics with respect to contemporary art, through an analysis of the work of Yann Toma and Tatiana Trouvé included in the exhibition Aesthetic Transactions, 2012. In exploring somaesthetics in relation to art, this thesis addresses John Dewey’s aesthetics and idea of the consummatory experience, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology with respect to art and experience as parts of the foundation of Shusterman’s ideas of somaesthetics. In today’s decentralized, global art world, can somaesthetics offer a means of understanding and maintaining art’s vitality for viewers and/or artists? In this thesis, I argue for …
Critical Experiential Learning And Rhetorical Interventions In New Media Ecologies, Jennifer Niester-Mika
Critical Experiential Learning And Rhetorical Interventions In New Media Ecologies, Jennifer Niester-Mika
Wayne State University Dissertations
This dissertation puts into conversation new media and network theories with the philosophical writings of John Dewey to reconstruct a more relevant and current approach to critical pedagogy that takes into account the shift in socioeconomic power as we move into a control society comprised of immaterial labor. My chapters tackle three different critical pedagogy dilemmas: the neglect of affect, agency in late-capitalism, and critical literacy in new media ecologies. Each chapter defines the dilemma, offers a theoretical response, and details a possible pedagogical application for the composition classroom.
John Dewey And Art, Michael Schreyach
John Dewey And Art, Michael Schreyach
Art and Art History Faculty Research
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