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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Colorization Revisited, Julie C. Van Camp
Colorization Revisited, Julie C. Van Camp
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article is both philosophical and practical in its intent. It endeavours to bring into focus an idea with an Ancient Greek lineage, poiesis, and determine whether it may revitalize our thinking about the 'making' of art. The art-making considered in this paper will concentrate exclusively on Western art and its historical and contemporary manifestations. I suggest that poiesis - that which "pro-duces or leads (a thing) into being'" - may enable practitioners in the varying art forms, and aestheticians who reflect upon them, to come to a deeper sense of how artworks work: that they realize themselves inter-dependently …
The Heresy Of Paraphrase Revisited, Stefán Snaevarr
The Heresy Of Paraphrase Revisited, Stefán Snaevarr
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
I try to rejuvenate Cleanth Brooks' old thesis about the 'heresy of paraphrase.' This I do by analyzing a couple of well-known poems and by performing thought experiments of the "possible world" kind. They show that paradigmatic examples of poems are not paraphrasable. A prosaic text can be improved with the aid of a paraphrase, but a typical poem cannot. The deeper explanation for the non-rephrasability of poetry is that our understanding of it is basically tacit. In this way I hope to give Brooks' original thesis a more solid foundation.
Foucault, Enlightenment And The Aesthetics Of The Self, Anita Seppä
Foucault, Enlightenment And The Aesthetics Of The Self, Anita Seppä
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Mona Hatoum's video installation Corps étranger is an example of an artwork that critically comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the colonization of the body's interior by medical image technologies. It has indeed been interpreted in those terms by several authors from within the new academic field of Visual Culture. Here it is argued that the critical cultural impact of the installation might be more fully described when one grants art a relative autonomy within the cultural field and, moreover, draws on concepts from more traditional academic disciplines and approaches, such as aesthetics and phenomenology. Art …
How To Speak Of Nature? The Exemplary Position Of Mount Koli In Environmental Research, Yrjö Sepänmaa
How To Speak Of Nature? The Exemplary Position Of Mount Koli In Environmental Research, Yrjö Sepänmaa
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Mount Koli in Eastern Finland is a useful example for environmental aesthetics and landscape research. In case studies, an example represents a general set and the conclusion becomes a precedent. Koli provides a wealth of material: descriptions of local nature, art featuring Koli, and documents concerning the environmental debates around it. One can outline both the development of Koli into a culturally significant location and the activities and policies of the process, as well as the values and appreciations that guided them. The material we have can be used to examine an environmental institution designed to have the structure of …
Narrative Understanding And Understanding Narrative, Sarah E. Worth
Narrative Understanding And Understanding Narrative, Sarah E. Worth
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I deal with the question of how it is that we have emotional responses to things that we do not believe in the reality of, specifically things like characters and events in literature and film (the paradox of fiction). The direction in which I wish to take this query is not the traditional philosophical approach to this question, however. There has been much written on this particular approach, and because of this I think that it is becoming, in philosophical effect, stuck. What I wish to do in what follows is to approach this question from a …
Reclaiming The Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies And Confucian Aesthetics On Bodily Expression, Eva K. W. Man
Reclaiming The Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies And Confucian Aesthetics On Bodily Expression, Eva K. W. Man
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Recently there has been a cry in Western academic and artistic circles for reclaiming the body and repositioning its locus and identity. Body theories and body art have become topics of attention as well as subjects of philosophical discussion. This article looks at the issue from a comparative perspective, focusing on representative cases in Chinese and Western portrait paintings. It first discusses Francis Bacon's works of human bodies and identifies their philosophical and psychological loci. It then outlines the Confucian discourses on the body, their related metaphysical grounds, and their relations to traditional Chinese portrait paintings. Representative Chinese portraits like …
Kinetic Synesthesia: Experiencing Dance In Multimedia Scenographies, Marc Boucher
Kinetic Synesthesia: Experiencing Dance In Multimedia Scenographies, Marc Boucher
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The contrasting kinetic values between dancer and projected moving image in multimedia scenographies provide the viewer with a particular type of synaesthetic experience. It results from the interaction of kinesthesis proper to each medium, the dancing body and the moving image. The extensive use of projected moving images in performing arts is part of a cultural trend that privileges a fundamental yet little understood aspect of aesthetic experience. Kinetic synaesthesia is a transdisciplinary concept formulated in light of psychological, physiological, and phenomenological accounts of both synaesthesia and kinesthesis.
Forum: Science In Aesthetics?, Editorial Office
Forum: Science In Aesthetics?, Editorial Office
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This inaugurates a new feature of Contemporary Aesthetics, a forum in which specific issues or themes in aesthetics can be discussed, debated, and developed. The first of these, "Science in Aesthetics?," comes from an interest that emerged at the XVIth International Congress of Aesthetics held in Rio de Janeiro during July 2004.
Animal Aesthetics, Wolfgang Welsch
Animal Aesthetics, Wolfgang Welsch
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
No abstract provided.
Symposium: The Body (Continued In Vol. 3)
Symposium: The Body (Continued In Vol. 3)
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Call for submissions that discuss the aesthetic significance of the body in art.
Ethical Autonomism: The Work Of Art As A Moral Agent, Rob Van Gerwen
Ethical Autonomism: The Work Of Art As A Moral Agent, Rob Van Gerwen
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Much contemporary art seems morally out of control. Yet, philosophers seem to have trouble finding the right way to morally evaluate works of art. The debate between autonomists and moralists, I argue, has turned into a stalemate due to two mistaken assumptions. Against these assumptions, I argue that the moral nature of a work's contents does not transfer to the work and that, if we are to morally evaluate works we should try to conceive of them as moral agents. Ethical autonomism holds that art's autonomy consists in its demand that art appreciators take up an artistic attitude. A work's …
Talk To The Animals: A Short Comment On Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics", Stefán Snaevarr
Talk To The Animals: A Short Comment On Wolfgang Welsch's "Animal Aesthetics", Stefán Snaevarr
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
I voice some concern about Wolfgang Welsch's defense of the theory that animals can feel aesthetic pleasure. My first concern is epistemological: it is hard to see how we can find out whether they actually feel such pleasures. My second concern is conceptual: aesthetic pleasures have intentional objects and are woven into fallible judgments. It is hard to see that animals have such objects and can perform such judgments.
Mixed Media November 22, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media November 22, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 22, 2003 issue includes articles on Student Alliance updates, negative opinions of the RISD Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the perspective of a recent RISD graduate who is unemployed, RISD's laptop program, art supply stores in Providence, performances at AS220, and film reviews, along with the comics "Traumatizing Event" by Cathy Sherwod and "Untitled" by Andrew Kaiko, student creative work, an advice column, event notices, and other announcements.
Blend Fall 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Blend Fall 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Blend-ACombinationofElements was a student magazine started by RISD student Dusty Brickman in 2003. The Fall 2003 issue is "The Passion Issue," and features articles on an exhibition with a custom installation by Sol LeWitt at the RISD Museum, the history of various buildings on the RISD campus, street graphics and urban art in Providence, luxury knitwear brand Lutz & Patmos, photographer Timothy White, deceased alum Jeffrey Michael Weiss, and the RISD Artist Ball.
Mixed Media October 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media October 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The October 2, 2003 issue includes articles on the new editorial team at Mixed Media, RISD news updates, RISD Works, musician Richard Thompson, a Digtial Media lecture series, RISD Laptop Initiative Programs and other technology matters, a girl's perspective on sex at RISD, Jean Cocteau, a proposed list of speakers for graduation, student involvement at RISD, roommate differences, Comic Sans font, Public Safety, a Mission of Burma concert review, film reviews, and Providence eateries, along with the comic "Untitled" by Andrew Kaiko, student art and creative writing, event notices, and …
Mixed Media May 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media May 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The May 2, 2003 issue includes articles on the City of Providence wanting to tax RISD property, automated paper towel machines on campus, RISD Task Forces, and film and music reviews, along with the comics "Attack of the Paper Towel Mummy" by Adam Sacks, "Mixed Media" by Joe Tesauro, "Punt," "bird" by Erin, "Marvin's Monkey Moments" by Wessy, "Atlas and the Beast from Time Forgotten," "When Fish Spawn" by Adam Sacks, "Smack Down" by Joe Quinones, "Swimming" by Maris Wicks, "Stuff of Dreams" by Andrew Kaiko, and other comics, event …
Blackletter Spring 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Blackletter Spring 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Blackletter was a literary journal established by RISD students in Wintersession of 2003 as a forum for artistic expression through writing. The Spring 2003 issue features poetry, creative writing, and visual art.
Mixed Media March 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media March 2, 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 2, 2003 issue includes articles on the lack of underclassmen working on Mixed Media, RISD's ignorance of the Black community, water consumption at RISD, abortion, a student visit to Cappadocia in Turkey, RISD-Brown Hillel activities, the passing of RISD janitor Mel Bruins, student opinions on life at RISD, film and music reviews, and the Chace Center construction project, along with the comics "Juan Two Three" by Juan Diaz, "Atlas and the Beast from Time Forgotten," "The Incredible Tales of Roger: Deep Space Janitor" by Browne, [David Bowie comic] …
Blend Spring 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Blend Spring 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Blend-ACombinationofElements was a student magazine started by RISD student Dusty Brickman in 2003. The Spring 2003 issue is Blend's first and features articles on RISD's 125th anniversary, fashion designer Nicole Miller, complaints about the Graphic Design department, the redevelopment of Carr House, a graffitti show at the Red Eye Gallery, the RISD Balls, and the sorry state of contemporary music.
Chalkboard 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Chalkboard 2001, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Chalkboard was a student creative journal established in 2001. The March 2001 issue features poetry from RISD students, staff, and faculty, along with interviews of RISD poetry instructors Rick Benjamin and Michael Magee.
Blackletter Wintersession 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Blackletter Wintersession 2003, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
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Blackletter was a literary journal established by RISD students in Wintersession of 2003 as a forum for artistic expression through writing. The Wintersession 2003 issue is the debut issue and features poetry, creative writing, and visual art.
Ariadne At The Movies, John Dilworth
Ariadne At The Movies, John Dilworth
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Films are usually assumed to be types, with their templates or performances being tokens of those types. However, I give a counter-example in which two different films are simultaneously made by different directors, with the outcome of this process being a single template length of film which, I claim, embodies both of those films. But no two types could thus have a token in common, and hence type views of films must be incorrect. I further explain and defend the legitimacy of the example, and conclude by offering an alternative, representational view of the nature of films that can also …
Reflecting The Pacific, Wolfgang Welsch
Reflecting The Pacific, Wolfgang Welsch
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The title of my article has a double meaning: on the one hand, I intend to reflect the Pacific Ocean in the sense of mirroring it; and on the other, of course, also to think about this mirroring, to reflect on it.
Poiesis And Art-Making: A Way Of Letting-Be, Derek H. Whitehead Ph.D.
Poiesis And Art-Making: A Way Of Letting-Be, Derek H. Whitehead Ph.D.
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This article is both philosophical and practical in its intent. It endeavors to bring into focus an idea with an Ancient Greek lineage, poiesis, and determine whether it may revitalize our thinking about the 'making' of art. The art-making considered in this paper will concentrate exclusively on Western art and its historical and contemporary manifestations. I suggest that poiesis - that which "pro-duces or leads (a thing) into being'" - may enable practitioners in the varying art forms, and aestheticians who reflect upon them, to come to a deeper sense of how artworks work: that they realize themselves inter-dependently …
Between Battlefield And Play: Art And Aesthetics In Visual Culture, Renée Van De Vall
Between Battlefield And Play: Art And Aesthetics In Visual Culture, Renée Van De Vall
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Mona Hatoum's video installation Corps étranger is an example of an artwork that critically comments on particular aspects of contemporary visual culture, such as the colonization of the body's interior by medical image technologies. It has indeed been interpreted in those terms by several authors from within the new academic field of Visual Culture. Here it is argued that the critical cultural impact of the installation might be more fully described when one grants art a relative autonomy within the cultural field and, moreover, draws on concepts from more traditional academic disciplines and approaches, such as aesthetics and phenomenology. Art …