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Full-Text Articles in Aesthetics
"Inspired Industry.", Amanda M. Dock
"Inspired Industry.", Amanda M. Dock
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis supports the Master of Fine Arts exhibition entitled "Inspired Industry" at Johnson City Area Arts Council, Johnson City, Tennessee, from November 14 - December 22, 2005. It is the culmination of studies and research affected by the artist's own industry vis-à-vis personal inspirations, including: discussion of aesthetics and personal utilization of the techniques learned in relation to both functional and non-functional ceramic forms. This is a self-evaluation of personal preferences and how this body of ceramic work evolved.
Mixed Media November 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media November 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The November 30, 2005 issue includes articles on issues with Portfolio Cafe, whether the "RISD Bubble" still exists, an increased number of Asian students at RISD, future goals for the Illustration department, career advice from a recent RISD graduate, a faculty member's favorite things at the RISD Museum, and the Cable Car Cinema, along with the comics "Campfire Building" by Steve Weed, "My Experience with Health Services" by Melissa Meyer, "I Get These Great Ideas" by Melissa Meyer, "Damn Animation" by Ian Topple, student creative work, event notices, and other …
Pascal Was No Fideist, David J. Baggett
Pascal Was No Fideist, David J. Baggett
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Whistler’S Fog And The Aesthetics Of Place, Bruce Janz
Whistler’S Fog And The Aesthetics Of Place, Bruce Janz
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
The concept of place has usually been understood as either a phenomenological, epistemological, or ethical category. An understanding of place as aesthetic or rhetorical, on the other hand, tends to focus on the widely varied uses of the concept. First, I sketch out the wide range of uses of place, that have been drawn from writings on the concept. These uses are not definitions of place, but rather functions that the term performs. Place stands in for other ideas, and allows access to different aspects of human experience. Second, I will draw from this range of uses some ideas about …
Mixed Media March 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media March 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The March 30, 2005 issue includes articles on a dispute between South Korea and Japan over the island Dokdo/Takeshima, a faculty member's steamer trunk and experience traveling, RISD's approach to solar energy, the Korean War, all-nighters at RISD, a Mixed Media tour of the RISD President's house, The Silk Road Project residency at RISD, film reviews, and senior shows, along with the comic "Scorpio" by Andrew Kaiko, student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.
Reports Relating To The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
Reports Relating To The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting Of The Society, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Mixed Media January 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Mixed Media January 30, 2005, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
Mixed Media began as the student publication Your Name Here. The January 30, 2005 issue includes articles on a class on the art of the music video, a student trip to Boston, a manifesto of "badism," a student's accident while swimming, a student accident while sledding, restaurant reviews, film reviews, and an inerview with comic writer and illustrator Dan Clowes, along with the comic "Scorpio" by Andrew Kaiko, student creative work, event notices, and other announcements.
Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice Of Music In Plato, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich
Mousike Techne: The Philosophical Practice Of Music In Plato, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich
Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections
After retracing the breadth of the definition of music in antiquity to the end of justifying the sense in which one may speak of 'the music of philosophy' as Plato's Socrates does, this essay re-reads the Platonic distinction between philosophy as the highest kind of music and performative, as heard or played sung music as a lower form. It then turns to an exploration of Nietzsche's writing style conceived on a muscial model precisely qua aphoristic and concludes with a review of Heidegger's thought as musically composed or adumbrated.
Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland
Review: Systematic Theology: Prolegomena, James A. Borland
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy
Hints And Guesses: Discerning Value, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy
Cardinal Martini On Bernard Lonergan: Bernard Lonergan At The Service Of The Church, Richard Liddy
Department of Religion Publications
No abstract provided.
Review: There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler
Review: There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible, Donald L. Fowler
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
Foucault And Habermas, David Ingram
Foucault And Habermas, David Ingram
Philosophy: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The article is a comprehensive comparison of Foucault and Habermas which focuses on their distinctive styles of critical theory. The article maintains that Foucault's virtue ethical understanding of aesthetic self-realization as a form of resistance to normalizing practices provides counterpoint to Habermas's more juridical approach to institutional justice and the critique of ideology. The article contains an extensive discussion of their respective treatments of speech action, both strategic and communicative, and concludes by addressing Foucault's understanding of parrhesia as a non-discursive form of truth-telling.
Are Video Games Art?, Aaron Smuts
Are Video Games Art?, Aaron Smuts
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I argue that by any major definition of art many modern video games should be considered art. Rather than defining art and defending video games based on a single contentious definition, I offer reasons for thinking that video games can be art according to historical, aesthetic, institutional, representational and expressive theories of art. Overall, I argue that while many video games probably should not be considered art, there are good reasons to think that some video games should be classified as art, and that the debates concerning the artistic status of chess and sports offer some insights …
Avant-Garde Or Pré-Jugé?, Sinead Murphy
Avant-Garde Or Pré-Jugé?, Sinead Murphy
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper receives its impetus from Gadamer's account of effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte) and his corresponding challenge to the 'problem of purity' that he locates in Kant's critique of aesthetic judgment and that derives from the attempt to establish universal founding principles for thought and action. This is a deep and wide-ranging issue, and so I focus on a very specific aspect of it: the division between intuition and understanding, between history as a given flux and enlightenment as a unifying synthesis, that motivates Kant's search for pure reflective grounds to reconcile them, and on the challenge posed to this division …
Does Sad Music Make One Sad? An Ethnographic Perspective, Peter Manuel
Does Sad Music Make One Sad? An Ethnographic Perspective, Peter Manuel
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
The question of the presence and role of negative emotions in the experience of music - Does sad music make one sad? - has been recognized as a key to understanding much musical experience, especially in terms of the apprehension and expressive power of specifically formal features of music. One set of scholars, sometimes loosely labeled "emotivists," has argued that negative emotional responses do play a central role in the apprehension of much music, that is, that actual sadness is a natural, intentional and essential response to sad music. Advocates of this view base their arguments in large part on …
Anchorage To The World, Ken-Ichi Sasaki
Anchorage To The World, Ken-Ichi Sasaki
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
We are anchored to the world because we are bodies. For us, the world means human society based upon nature. Nature is an essential constituent. For human being is bodily existence: social relationships are basically formed through the contact between these bodily existences, one with another, and the cultural space, that is, the city, is based on matter and surrounded by nature. Hence the possibility and the necessity of anchorage. An inanimate object is simply thrown into the sea of matter. Human bodies, on the contrary, do not only belong to this material texture in a passive way but can …
'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
'Man Has Always Danced': Forays Into The Origins Of An Art Largely Forgotten By Philosophers, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Philosophers have had comparatively little to say of the art of dance, a surprising fact given the range of people both inside and outside of dance who have claimed that 'man has always danced.' This essay attempts to substantiate this claim by an inquiry into the origins of dance, its focal attention being on the word always and any linkage to males deriving from that focal point of attention. It begins with evolutionary considerations in the form of courtship displays, behaviors finely and extensively described by Darwin, and goes on to consider displays by chimpanzees in particular. These considerations point …
Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks And Mere Real Things, Serge Grigoriev
Living Art, Defining Value: Artworks And Mere Real Things, Serge Grigoriev
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this essay I examine the conceptual difficulties generated by drawing a distinction between artworks and mere real things. I argue that the distinction is an unfortunate one, requiring for its operation an assumption of possibility of an objective value judgment with regard to aesthetic productions, which, in reality cannot be defensible on purely philosophical grounds. The distinction, in fact, may be useful in describing the interactions between the artworld, qua a cultural institution, and the socio-economic environment in which it is situated; yet, it proves misleading when introduced into discussions about the nature of artworks and the nature of …
Carrying The Jade Tablet: A Consideration Of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis
Carrying The Jade Tablet: A Consideration Of Confucian Artistry, Eric C. Mullis
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In this paper I discuss the aesthetic dimension of ritual action. In order to demonstrate how the rites render action aesthetically expressive, I draw on the notion of an "art of context" and further detail the Confucian understanding of artistic practice as an essential component for moral cultivation. In turn, I use John Dewey's account of aesthetic form in order to support and further demonstrate the ability of the rituals and arts to organize action and to thereby render it aesthetically significant. However, Dewey's account entails that we question either conceptual or institutional limitations of aesthetic form as such limitations …
The Evolution And Revolutions Of The Networked Art Aesthetic, Jeanne Marie Kusina
The Evolution And Revolutions Of The Networked Art Aesthetic, Jeanne Marie Kusina
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Mail art, artist books, artist amps, assemblings, experimental and visual poetry, Email art, video, and performance art have all, at various times, been considered members of the loosely configured classification known as "Networked art". Yet the common thread associating these diverse media is not the manner of their production, but rather the dynamic way in which they are distributed throughout artist networks. Emphasizing communication and generosity, Networked artists attempt to subvert conventional systems of exchange while also maintaining an intimacy of expression. I will discuss these qualities and how they often evolve from subtle attempts to undermine an allegedly flawed …
Art And Embodiment: Biological And Phenomenological Contributions To Understanding Beauty And The Aesthetic, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Art And Embodiment: Biological And Phenomenological Contributions To Understanding Beauty And The Aesthetic, Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Increasing awareness of the crucial and complex role of the body in making and experiencing art has led to a diverse range of biological and phenomenological philosophies of art. The shared emphasis on the role of the body re-connects these contemporary theories of art to aesthetics' pre-Kantian origin as a science of sense-perception (aesthesis) and feeling. Tracing some of the current positions in such diverse thinkers as Dissanayake, Langer, and Merleau-Ponty, this paper will examine their shared interest in art as a pre-reflective, non-discursive mode of knowing, symbolizing, and being-in-the-world. This paper argues that while some biologically based theories have …
Mobility: The Fourth Dimension In The Fine Arts And Architecture, Gerd-Helge Vogel
Mobility: The Fourth Dimension In The Fine Arts And Architecture, Gerd-Helge Vogel
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
Mobility is a basic behavioural pattern of human beings that has been accelerating in the course of its social development. Especially since the beginnings of the industrial revolution, mobility has caused a fundamental change in human relationships that continues today. This becomes visible when we look at the aesthetic and spiritual impact on architecture and the fine arts. It is my intention to present significant examples in order to give an idea of the different stages of its development today.
Front Matter
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Steering Toward Sanity The Compass Points Of Madness In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Allan Ingram
Steering Toward Sanity The Compass Points Of Madness In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Allan Ingram
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Forgery As Performance Art The Strange Case Of George Psalmanazar, Jack Lynch
Forgery As Performance Art The Strange Case Of George Psalmanazar, Jack Lynch
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Some Aspects Of Jonathan Swift's Perspective On Language, W. K. Percival
Some Aspects Of Jonathan Swift's Perspective On Language, W. K. Percival
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Architecture And Nature The Theory Of Imitation In Etienne-Louis Boullee's Essai Sur L'Art, Louis Cellauro
Architecture And Nature The Theory Of Imitation In Etienne-Louis Boullee's Essai Sur L'Art, Louis Cellauro
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
"Rakes, Male And Female, In The Literatures Of The Long Eighteenth Century", Barbel Czennia
"Rakes, Male And Female, In The Literatures Of The Long Eighteenth Century", Barbel Czennia
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
The French Abolitionist Treatise In The Late Enlightenment Examples Of A Hybrid Genre, David Williams
The French Abolitionist Treatise In The Late Enlightenment Examples Of A Hybrid Genre, David Williams
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.