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Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown Jan 2013

Marketing The "Good Man" Sir Charles Grandison And The Clementinas, Murray L. Brown

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

No abstract provided.


Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner Jan 2013

Unorthodox Transportation And The Enlightenment, Jessika Wichner

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

No abstract provided.


Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco Jan 2013

Loyalty Oaths A Reminder From The Enlightenment, A. G. Monaco

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

No abstract provided.


Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon Jan 2013

Philosophizing The Game The Morals Of Chess In Diderot's Rameau's Nephew, Florian Vauleon

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

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The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster Jan 2013

The Paddle Wheel Boat A Technical Invention Of Late Antiquity, Dorit Engster

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

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Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner Jan 2013

Winter Travelers Captain Jones's Treatise On Skating, Jessika Wichner

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

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Burke's Target In A Vindication Of Natural Society From Bolingbroke To "This Sort Of Writers," Or An Early Burkean Defense Of Church And State, Norbert Col Jan 2013

Burke's Target In A Vindication Of Natural Society From Bolingbroke To "This Sort Of Writers," Or An Early Burkean Defense Of Church And State, Norbert Col

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

No abstract provided.


Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena Jan 2013

Cosmopolitan Friendship In James Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To Corsica, Melvin Pena

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

No abstract provided.


Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan Jan 2013

Seafaring Nuns The Journey Of Six Capuchin Sisters From Toledo To Mexico City, 1665, Frieda Koeninger, Raquel Gutierrez Estupinan

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

No abstract provided.


Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall Jan 2013

Swift And Temple, Ashley Marshall

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

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 2013

Book Reviews

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

No abstract provided.


Cumulative Index Volumes 1-20 Jan 2013

Cumulative Index Volumes 1-20

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

No abstract provided.


Review Of Peter Alward's "Empty Revelations", Jeffrey C. Goodman Jan 2013

Review Of Peter Alward's "Empty Revelations", Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

I here review Peter Alward's monograph Empty Revelations


Illusion In The Commonplace : Reinterpreting Ernst Gombrich's Concept Of Illusion, Jonathan Auyer Jan 2013

Illusion In The Commonplace : Reinterpreting Ernst Gombrich's Concept Of Illusion, Jonathan Auyer

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

In the dissertation I analyze and interpret Ernst Gombrich's book Art and Illusion, focusing on his view that illusion is involved in pictorial representation. Since Gombrich never gave a concise, systematic account of illusion, my goal will be to fill this void by using the text of Art and Illusion as well as Gombrich's subsequent writings in order to present a coherent account of how illusion might play a role in a picture's representing an object.


A Problem For Fine Individuation And Artist Essentialism, Jeffrey C. Goodman Jan 2013

A Problem For Fine Individuation And Artist Essentialism, Jeffrey C. Goodman

Faculty Scholarship

Fine Individuation says it’s impossible for distinct people who are not collaborating on a work of art to produce one and same artwork.  This is an intra-world thesis, but is necessarily true, if true at all.  Author-Essentialism says it’s impossible for someone else to produce one and the same work of art produced by some actual artist.  This is an alleged necessary truth regarding cross-world relations.  Both theses have been vigorously defended.  I here argue that both are false, but for reasons that are entirely novel.


Grasping The Wind?Aesthetic Participation, Between Cognition And Immersion, Mădălina Diaconu Jan 2013

Grasping The Wind?Aesthetic Participation, Between Cognition And Immersion, Mădălina Diaconu

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement In The City, Nathalie Blanc Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement In The City, Nathalie Blanc

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement, Ecosophy C, And Ecological Appreciation, Cheng Xiangzhan Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement, Ecosophy C, And Ecological Appreciation, Cheng Xiangzhan

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Aesthetic Engagement: Art Into Politics, Jale Erzen Jan 2013

Aesthetic Engagement: Art Into Politics, Jale Erzen

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Influence Of Global Aesthetics On Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaptation Of Moxie And The Case Of Dafen Cun, Eva Kit Wah Man Jan 2013

Influence Of Global Aesthetics On Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaptation Of Moxie And The Case Of Dafen Cun, Eva Kit Wah Man

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article examines the practice of moxie or imitation in art in Chinese aesthetics, compares it with the Platonic notion of mimesis, and explicates its original meaning. I then trace its development from traditional painting to the late Qing export paintings in which traditional Chinese aesthetics was combined with Western perspectives to satisfy Western tastes. The discussion extends to the contemporary development of moxie in China by considering the case of Dafen Cun, an art village in Shenzhen that is famous for its copycat art practices. It explores how Dafen Cun has become a major exporter of copies of Western …


Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky Jan 2013

Experiencing Photographs Qua Photographs: What's So Special About Them?, Jiri Benovsky

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


Public Aquariums And Marine Aesthetics, Nola Semczyszyn Jan 2013

Public Aquariums And Marine Aesthetics, Nola Semczyszyn

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Given the inaccessibility of the marine environment, the closest many of us come to viewing it is at public aquariums. Aquariums also provide us with rich aesthetic experiences, but it is not clear whether we appreciate the marine environment at aquariums. I present the dilemma of aquarium appreciation as an inconsistent triad: 1) we treat aquariums as places to appreciate marine environments, 2) aquariums are artifacts, not natural objects, and 3) nature and art should be appreciated differently. I argue that aquarium displays are scientific models of marine environments with aesthetic, educational, and scientific aims. My solution to the dilemma …


Atopia & Aesthetics. A Modal Perspective, Yves Millet Jan 2013

Atopia & Aesthetics. A Modal Perspective, Yves Millet

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Living in an era where global exchanges of forms and ideas are the norm raises some questions about the status of artistic practices. To explore these questions, we use Roland Barthes’ notion of atopia and the complementary yet related notion of Neutral on which Barthes commented in his later years. Atopia highlights the fact that rather than viewing current artistic activities as searches for homogenous identity, we need to view them as belonging to plural communities of practices offering modal and qualitative distinctions. We suggest that adopting this perspective sheds light on the capacity of any individual to act creatively …


Perspectives East And West, Ken-Ichi Sasaki Jan 2013

Perspectives East And West, Ken-Ichi Sasaki

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.


In Praise Of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety And Merleau-Ponty, Tiger C. Roholt Jan 2013

In Praise Of Ambiguity: Musical Subtlety And Merleau-Ponty, Tiger C. Roholt

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

When a jazz, rock, or hip-hop drummer strikes certain notes in each measure slightly late, instead of hearing the degree to which those notes are late, we typically hear the effects of those variations; namely, a groove, the "feel" of a rhythm. Slight variations of pitch function similarly. In this essay, I argue that certain analytic theorists go astray due to their preoccupation with the variations themselves. By invoking Maurice Merleau-Ponty's insights into subtle visual perceptions, and his notion of perceptual indeterminacy, I avoid an account of musical subtlety suggested by Daniel Dennett that is too coarse-grained, as well as …


The Definition Of Everyday Aesthetics, Kevin Melchionne Jan 2013

The Definition Of Everyday Aesthetics, Kevin Melchionne

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This article responds to recent controversy in the aesthetics of everyday life with a succinct definition designed to clarify the domain of study. The article is intentionally designed for brevity and accessibility in order to facilitate usage.


The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Giuseppe Patella Jan 2013

The Aesthetics Of Resistance, Giuseppe Patella

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Talking about resistance means raising the question of opposition, of denying all attempts at neutralizing opposites, which would be typical of ideological construction, either political or aesthetic. This essay investigates the meaning and the reasons of resistance according to a theoretical, aesthetic, and cultural point of view. The thesis is that resistance has to be considered as an articulation of difference, and that means following a different logic of thought, no longer rigid or monolithic but plural, like a new grammar, syntax, and practice of creativity, challenge, provocation, multiplicity, and pluralism. In this sense the aesthetics of resistance is an …


Hegel's Symbolic Stage: An Old Perspective On Contemporary Art, Laura T. Disumma-Koop Jan 2013

Hegel's Symbolic Stage: An Old Perspective On Contemporary Art, Laura T. Disumma-Koop

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

This paper proposes an evaluation of contemporary art works in light of some of the concepts embedded in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s symbolic stage. My belief is that an analysis of Hegel’s conditions for the affirmation of art opens the door to a discussion of contemporary artistic trends, a discussion that also takes distance from the (perhaps) abused question of what defines art. Art does more than question itself; art questions, and challenges, the nature of our perception.


The World Achieved: Film And The Enacted Mind, John M. Carvalho Jan 2013

The World Achieved: Film And The Enacted Mind, John M. Carvalho

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Stanley Cavell taught us that films give us a view of a world that differs from the world in which we view films only by not being that world. Films, that is, screen a world for us and screen us from a world that is not our own. Cavell’s view is based on a photographic conception of film images. A film is composed of photographic images collected on reels and put in motion at twenty-four frames per second. In “More of the World Viewed,” Cavell dares us to come up with a theory of perception that challenges the assumption that …


Recent Publications Jan 2013

Recent Publications

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

No abstract provided.