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Defining Art, Creating the Canon

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191526207
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Defining Art, Creating the Canon written by Paul Crowther and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions these notions in a new way. It does so through a rethink of the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations. These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). The image's style serves to interpret its subject-matter. If this style is original (in comparative historical terms) it can manifest that special kind of aesthetic unity which we call art. Appreciation of this involves a heightened interaction of capacities (such as imagination and understanding) which are basic to knowledge and personal identity. By negotiating these factors, it is possible to define art and its canonic dimensions objectively, and to show that aforementioned sceptical alternatives are incomplete and self-contradictory.

Defining Art, Creating the Canon

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191705762
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Defining Art, Creating the Canon written by Paul Crowther and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and accessible read, suitable for non-philosophers, this book reinvigorates central debates in aesthetics and art theory. The book is split into three parts, Culture and Artistic Value, The Aesthetic and the Artistic, and Distinctive Modes of Imaging.

After Taste

Author : Slavko Kacunko
Publisher : via tolino media
ISBN 13 : 3752147725
Total Pages : 855 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book After Taste written by Slavko Kacunko and published by via tolino media. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Taste is an inquiry into a field of study dedicated to the reconsideration, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the concept of Taste. Taste is the category, whose systematic, historical and actual dimensions have traditionally been located in a variety of disciplines. The actuality and potential of the study is based on a variety of collected facts from readings and experiences, which materialize in the following features: One concept (figurative Taste), two thinking traditions (analytic and synthetic/continental) and three interrelated dimensions (systematic, historic and actual) are presented in three parts or volumes. As such, the study presents a salient comprehensive companion for wider readership of humanities approaching conceptions of Taste for the first time. Moreover, After Taste is intended for anyone who hopes to make a further contribution to the subject. Since its appearance and apparently short triumph some 250 years ago, the concept of non-literary Taste remained the linchpin of aesthetic theory and practice, but also a category outreaching aesthetics. Taste as the personal unity of the production, theory and criticism of art and literature, which was still largely taken as a given in the eighteenth century, has meanwhile given way to a highly-differentiated art world, in which aesthetic discourse is placed in such a way that it can seemingly no longer have a conceptual or linguistic effect on general opinion making. After Taste fills the gaps of systematic research by a comprehensive tracing of the emergence of the doctrines, discourses and disciplinary dimensions of Taste up to the peak of its systematic and historical trajectory in the eighteenth century and onwards into the present day. The guiding goal is a post-disciplinary rehabilitation of the contested category as a preparation for its productive usage in emerging academic and popular contexts. It shows how the category of Taste became the foundation, legitimation and the catalyst for the emerging division of labour, faculties and disciplines, confirming the hypothesis of the immense impact and actuality of Taste in the contemporary world.

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies

Author : Krešimir Purgar
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030718301
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies written by Krešimir Purgar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.

Video Art Historicized

Author : Malin Hedlin Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317001966
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Video Art Historicized written by Malin Hedlin Hayden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Important issues were to re-think art as a means for critical investigations and a demand for visual reconsiderations. Likewise, art history was argued to be in crisis and in need of adapting its theories and methods in order to produce interpretations and thereby establish historical sense for moving images as fine art. Yet, as this book argues, video art history has evolved into a discourse clinging to traditional concepts, ideologies, and narrative structures - manifested in an increasing body of texts. Video Art Historicized provides a novel, insightful and also challenging re-interpretation of this field by examining the discourse and its own premises. It takes a firm conceptual approach to the material, examining the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological implications that are simultaneously contested by both artists and authors, yet intertwined in both the legitimizing and the historicizing processes of video as art. By engaging art history’s most debated concepts (canon, art, and history) this study provides an in-depth investigation of the mechanisms of the historiography of video art. Scrutinizing various narratives on video art, the book emphasizes the profound and widespread hesitations towards, but also the efforts to negotiate, traditional concepts and practices. By focusing on the politics of this discourse, theoretical issues of gender, nationality, and particular themes in video art, Malin Hedlin Hayden contests the presumptions that inform video art and its history.

Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429886152
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation written by Paul Crowther and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present study establishes these claims by looking at digital art’s historical emergence from the 1960s to the start of the present century. Paul Crowther, using a philosophical approach to art history, considers the first steps towards digital graphics, their development in terms of three-dimensional abstraction and figuration, and then the complexities of their interactive formats.

Aesthetic Experience

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134182872
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Experience written by Richard Shusterman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a team of internationally respected contributors theorize the concept of aesthetic experience and its value. Exposing and expanding our restricted cultural and intellectual presuppositions of what constitutes aesthetic experience, the book aims to re-explore and affirm the place of aesthetic experience--in its evaluative, phenomenological and transformational sense--not only in relation to art and artists but to our inner and spiritual lives.

The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art

Author : Paul M.W. Hackett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319484524
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art written by Paul M.W. Hackett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-26 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and partial order mereology to model perceptual structure. It reviews the writing of philosophers such as Paul Crowther and art theorists such as Krauss to establish the need for this research. The ontological model established Paul Crowther is used to guide an interactive account of his ontology in the interpretations of the perceptual process of three-dimensional abstract art to allow the formulation of a more comprehensive philosophical account. The book uniquely combines structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to artistic perception and understanding with a conceptual structure from facet theory, which is clarified with the help of a mapping sentence and partial order mereology.

Doing Democracy

Author : Nancy S. Love
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449119
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Nancy S. Love and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future. Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorials, monuments, poetry, literature, music, theater, festivals, and parades to open political spaces, awaken critical consciousness, engage marginalized groups in political activism, and create new, more democratic societies. This volume demonstrates how ordinary people use the creative and visionary capacity of the arts and popular culture to shape alternative futures. It is unique in its insistence that democratic theorists and activists should acknowledge and employ affective as well as rational faculties in the ongoing struggle for democracy. Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern have collected a first-rate set of studies that illuminate the intersection between art and politics in the contemporary era. The text demonstrates how activist art and cultural politics can promote democratic politics and how democracy is enriched and enlivened by activist art projects. This book should interest everyone concerned with the fate of art and democracy in the contemporary era and how they can help nourish each other. Douglas Kellner, author of Media Spectacle and Insurrection, 2011: From the Arab Uprisings to Occupy Everywhere

Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804762147
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) written by Paul Crowther and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy

Author : Owen Hulatt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441132309
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy written by Owen Hulatt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of aesthetic categories. Covering examples from Philosophy, Music and Art History and drawing on continental and analytic sources, this volume clarifies the relationship between artworks and extra-aesthetic considerations, including historic, cultural or economic factors. It presents a comprehensive overview of the question of aesthetic autonomy, exploring its relevance to both philosophy and the comprehension of specific artworks themselves. By closely examining how the creation of artworks, and our judgements of these artworks, relate to society and history, Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy provides an insightful and sustained discussion of a major question in aesthetic philosophy.

Art and Time

Author : Derek Allan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443867233
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Art and Time written by Derek Allan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known feature of great works of art is their power to “live on” long after the moment of their creation – to remain vital and alive long after the culture in which they were born has passed into history. This power to transcend time is common to works as various as the plays of Shakespeare, the Victory of Samothrace, and many works from early cultures such as Egypt and Buddhist India which we often encounter today in major art museums. What is the nature of this power and how does it operate? The Renaissance decided that works of art are timeless, “immortal” – immune from historical change – and this idea has exerted a profound influence on Western thought. But do we still believe it? Does it match our experience of art today which includes so many works from the past that spent long periods in oblivion and have clearly not been immune from historical change? This book examines the seemingly miraculous power of art to transcend time – an issue widely neglected in contemporary aesthetics. Tracing the history of the question from the Renaissance onwards, and discussing thinkers as various as David Hume, Hegel, Marx, Walter Benjamin, Sartre, and Theodor Adorno, the book argues that art transcends time through a process of metamorphosis – a thesis first developed by the French art theorist, André Malraux. The implications of this idea pose major challenges for traditional thinking about the nature of art.

Postcolonial Translocations

Author : Marga Munkelt
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209014
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Translocations written by Marga Munkelt and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sites from which postcolonial cultural articulations develop and the sites at which they are received have undergone profound transformations within the last decades. This book traces the accelerating emergence of cultural crossovers and overlaps in a global perspective and through a variety of disciplinary approaches. It starts from the premise that after the ‘spatial turn’ human action and cultural representations can no longer be grasped as firmly located in or clearly demarcated by territorial entities. The collection of essays investigates postcolonial articulations of various genres and media in their spatiality and locatedness while envisaging acts of location as dynamic cultural processes. It explores the ways in which critical spatial thinking can be made Productive: Testing the uses and limitations of ‘translocation’ as an open exploratory model for a critically spatialized postcolonial studies, it covers a wide range of cultural expressions from the anglophone world and beyond – literature, film, TV, photography and other forms of visual art, philosophy, historical memory, and tourism. The extensive introductory chapter charts various facets of spatial thinking from a variety of disciplines, and critically discusses their implications for postcolonial studies. The Contributors’ essays range from theoretical interventions into the critical routines of postcolonial criticism to case studies of specific cultural texts, objects, and events reflecting temporal and spatial, material and intellectual, physical and spiritual mobility. What emerges is a fascinating survey of the multiple directions postcolonial translocations can take in the future. This book is aimed at students and scholars of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, transnational studies, globalisation studies, critical space studies, urban studies, film studies, media studies, art history, philosophy, history, and anthropology. Contributors: Diana Brydon, Lars Eckstein, Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Lucia Krämer, Gesa Mackenthun, Thomas Martinek, Sandra Meyer, Therese-M. Meyer, Marga Munkelt, Lynda Ng, Claudia Perner, Katharina Rennhak, Gundo Rial y Costas, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, Silke Stroh, Kathy-Ann Tan, Petra Tournay-Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Jessica Voges, Roland Walter, Dirk Wiemann.

Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

Author : Paul M.W. Hackett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483326
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art written by Paul M.W. Hackett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.

Appreciation Post

Author : Tara Ward
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520398785
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Appreciation Post written by Tara Ward and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines features of Instagram use, including the effect of scrolling through images on a phone, the skill involved in taking an “Instagram-worthy” picture, and the desires created by following influencers, to explain how the constraints imposed by Instagram limit the selves that can be displayed on it. The proliferation of technical knowledge, especially among younger women, revitalizes on Instagram the myth of the masculine genius and a corresponding reinvigoration of a masculine audience for art. Ward prompts scholars of art history, gender studies, and media studies to attend to Instagram as a site of visual expression and social consequence. Through its insightful comparative analysis and acute close reading, Appreciation Post argues for art history’s value in understanding the contemporary world and the visual nature of identity today.

Art Matters 2nd Edition

Author : Gordon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197620647
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters 2nd Edition written by Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kantian Aesthetic

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191573760
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Kantian Aesthetic written by Paul Crowther and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, respectively, 'categories' and 'schemata'. By describing examples of aesthetic judgment, it is shown that these judgments must involve categories and fundamental schemata (even though Kant himself, and most commentators after him, have not fully appreciated the fact). It is argued, in turn, that this shows the aesthetic to be not just one kind of pleasurable experience amongst others, but one based on factors necessary to objective knowledge and personal identity, and which, indeed, itself plays a role in how these capacities develop. In order to explain how individual aesthetic judgments are justified, and the aesthetic basis of art, however, the Kantian position just outlined has to be developed further. This is done by exploring some of his other ideas concerning how critical comparisons inform our cultivation of taste, and art's relation to genius. By linking the points made earlier to a more developed account of this horizon of critical comparisons, a Kantian approach can be shown to be both a satisfying and comprehensive explanation of the cognitive basis of aesthetic experiences. It is shown also that the approach can even cover some of the kinds of avant-garde works which were thought previously to limit its relevance.