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Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience

Author : M.M. Mitias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400943725
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience written by M.M. Mitias and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of aestheticians have focused their attention during the past three decades on the identity, or essential nature, of art: can 'art' be defined? What makes an object a work of art? Under what conditions can we characterize in a classificatory sense an object as an art work? The debate, and at times controversy, over these questions proved to be constructive, intellectually stimulating, and in many cases suggestive of new ideas. I hope this debate continues in its momentum and creative outcome. The time is, however, ripe to direct our attention to another important, yet neglected, concept - viz. , 'aesthetic experience' - which occupies a prominent place in the philosohpy of art. We do not only create art; we also enjoy, i. e. , experience, and evaluate it. How can we theorize about the nature of art in general and the art work in particular, and about what makes an object a good work of art, if we do not experience it? For example, how can we identify an object as an art work and distinguish it from other types of objects unless we first perceive it, that is in a critical, educated manner? Again, how can we judge a work as good, elegant, melodramatic, or beautiful unless we first perceive it and recognize its artistic aspect? It seems to me that experiencing art works is a necessary condition for any reasonable theory on the nature of art and artistic criticism.

Art's Emotions

Author : Damien Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131754756X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Art's Emotions written by Damien Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet’s Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar’s Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why does the painting seem to express reverie and the music, nostalgia? How do we experience the reverie and nostalgia in such works of art? Why do we find these experiences rewarding in similar ways? As our awareness of emotion in art, and our engagement with art’s emotions, can make such a special contribution to our life, it is timely for a philosopher to seek to account for the nature and significance of the experience of art’s emotions. Damien Freeman develops a new theory of emotion that is suitable for resolving key questions in aesthetics. He then reviews and evaluates three existing approaches to artistic expression, and proposes a new approach to the emotional experience of art that draws on the strengths of the existing approaches. Finally, he seeks to establish the ethical significance of this emotional experience of art for human flourishing. Freeman challenges the reader not only to consider how art engages with emotion, but how we should connect up our answers to questions concerning the nature and value of the experiences offered by works of art.

Figures of Possibility

Author : Niklaus Largier
Publisher : Cultural Memory in the Present
ISBN 13 : 9781503630437
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Figures of Possibility written by Niklaus Largier and published by Cultural Memory in the Present. This book was released on 2022 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to 19th century decadent literature, and to early 20th century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential. Arguing for a new understanding of mystical experience, Niklaus Largier foregrounds the ways in which devotion builds on experimental practices of figuration in order to shape perception, emotions, and thoughts anew. Largier illuminates how devotional practices are invested in the creation of possibilities, and this investment has been a key element in a wide range of experimental engagements in literature and art from the 17th to the 20th century, and most recently in forms of 'new materialism.' Read as a history of the senses and emotions, the book argues that mystical and devotional practices have long been invested in the modulating and reconfiguring of sensation, affects, and thoughts. Read as a book about practices of figuration, it questions ordinary protocols of interpretation in the humanities, and the priority given to a hermeneutic understanding of texts and cultural artefacts.

Sensibility and Sense

Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845402936
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Sensibility and Sense written by Arnold Berleant and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of experience. Extending the range of aesthetic experience from the stone of the earth's surface to the celestial sphere, the book focuses on the aesthetic as a dimension of social experience. The guiding idea of pervasive interconnectedness, both social and environmental, leads to an aesthetic critique of the urban environment, the environment of daily life, and of terrorism, and has profound implications for grounding social and political values. The aesthetic emerges as a powerful critical tool for appraising urban culture and political practice.

Art as Experience

Author : John Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art as Experience written by John Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aesthetic Experience

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 041537832X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Experience written by Richard Shusterman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the notion of aesthetic experience as well as its value. This title brings together major voices that have directly theorised the concept of aesthetic experience or indirectly worked on topics connected to it.

Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361928
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics written by Richard Shusterman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay collection explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. After examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience, the essays apply somaesthetic theory to the diverse fine arts and the art of living.

Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience

Author : M. M. Mitias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789400943735
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Possibility of the Aesthetic Experience written by M. M. Mitias and published by . This book was released on 1986-11-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Subject of Aesthetics

Author : Tone Roald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309012
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Subject of Aesthetics written by Tone Roald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Subject of Aesthetics Tone Roald develops a psychology of art based on people’s descriptions of their own engagement with visual art

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics

Author : Hans Maes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191509620
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Conversations on Art and Aesthetics written by Hans Maes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What is irony? How to think philosophically about architecture, dance, or sculpture? What makes something a great portrait? Is music representational or abstract? Why do we feel terrified when we watch a horror movie even though we know it to be fictional? In Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, Hans Maes discusses these and other key questions in aesthetics with ten world-leading philosophers of art: Noël Carroll, Gregory Currie, Arthur Danto, Cynthia Freeland, Paul Guyer, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer Robinson, Roger Scruton, and Kendall Walton. The exchanges are direct, open, and sharp, and give a clear account of these thinkers' core ideas and intellectual development. They also offer new insights into, and a deeper understanding of, contemporary issues in the philosophy of art.

The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts

Author : Pablo P. L. Tinio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316123383
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts written by Pablo P. L. Tinio and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is dedicated to the study of our experiences of the visual arts, music, literature, film, performances, architecture and design; our experiences of beauty and ugliness; our preferences and dislikes; and our everyday perceptions of things in our world. The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts is a foundational volume presenting an overview of the key concepts and theories of the discipline where readers can learn about the questions that are being asked and become acquainted with the perspectives and methodologies used to address them. The psychology of aesthetics and the arts is one of the oldest areas of psychology but it is also one of the fastest growing and most exciting areas. This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook featuring essays from some of the most respected scholars in the field.

Feeling Beauty

Author : G. Gabrielle Starr
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019310
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Feeling Beauty written by G. Gabrielle Starr and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience. Starr, a scholar of the humanities and a researcher in the neuroscience of aesthetics, proposes that aesthetic experience relies on a distributed neural architecture—a set of brain areas involved in emotion, perception, imagery, memory, and language. More important, it emerges from networked interactions, intricately connected and coordinated brain systems that together form a flexible architecture enabling us to develop new arts and to see the world around us differently. Focusing on the "sister arts" of poetry, painting, and music, Starr builds and tests a neural model of aesthetic experience valid across all the arts. Asking why works that address different senses using different means seem to produce the same set of feelings, she examines particular works of art in a range of media, including a poem by Keats, a painting by van Gogh, a sculpture by Bernini, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Starr's innovative, interdisciplinary analysis is true to the complexities of both the physical instantiation of aesthetics and the realities of artistic representation.

Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation

Author : Alexis Kokkos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004455345
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation written by Alexis Kokkos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Art for Perspective Transformation discusses fundamental theories regarding the emancipatory learning potential involved in artworks. It also provides teachers, as well as adult and museum educators a method of exploring artworks with a view to challenge learners’ assumptions.

John Dewey and the Artful Life

Author : Scott R. Stroud
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271056878
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book John Dewey and the Artful Life written by Scott R. Stroud and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic experience has had a long and contentious history in the Western intellectual tradition. Following Kant and Hegel, a human’s interaction with nature or art frequently has been conceptualized as separate from issues of practical activity or moral value. This book examines how art can be seen as a way of moral cultivation. Scott Stroud uses the thought of the American pragmatist John Dewey to argue that art and the aesthetic have a close connection to morality. Dewey gives us a way to reconceptualize our ideas of ends, means, and experience so as to locate the moral value of aesthetic experience in the experience of absorption itself, as well as in the experience of reflective attention evoked by an art object.

Aesthetic Disinterestedness

Author : Thomas Hilgers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317444884
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Disinterestedness written by Thomas Hilgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of disinterestedness is often conceived of as antiquated or ideological. In spite of this, Hilgers argues that one cannot reject it if one wishes to understand the nature of art. He claims that an artwork typically asks a person to adopt a disinterested attitude towards what it shows, and that the effect of such an adoption is that it makes the person temporarily lose the sense of herself, while enabling her to gain a sense of the other. Due to an artwork’s particular wealth, multiperspectivity, and dialecticity, the engagement with it cannot culminate in the construction of world-views, but must initiate a process of self-critical thinking, which is a precondition of real self-determination. Ultimately, then, the aesthetic experience of art consists of a dynamic process of losing the sense of oneself, while gaining a sense of the other, and of achieving selfhood. In his book, Hilgers spells out the nature of this process by means of rethinking Kant’s and Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theories in light of more recent developments in philosophy–specifically in hermeneutics, critical theory, and analytic philosophy–and within the arts themselves–specifically within film and performance art.

The Possibility of Culture

Author : Bradley Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118950674
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Possibility of Culture written by Bradley Murray and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Possibility of Culture: Pleasure and MoralDevelopment in Kant’s Aesthetics presents an in-depthexploration and deconstruction of Kant’s depiction of theways in which aesthetic pursuits can promote personal moraldevelopment. Presents an in-depth exploration of the connection betweenKant’s aesthetics and his views on moral development Reveals the links between Kant’s aesthetics and hisanthropology and moral psychology Explores Kant’s notion of genius and his views on theconnections between the social aspects of taste and moraldevelopment Addresses aspects of Kant’s ethical theory that willinterest scholars working in ethics and moral psychology

Imagining Dewey

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438068
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Dewey written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features productive (re)interpretations of 21st century experience using the lens of Dewey’s Art as Experience, through putting an array of international philosophers, educators, and artists-researchers in transactional dialogue and on equal footing in an academic text.