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Author : Faruq Z. Bey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982389614
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Toward a 'Ratio'nal Aesthetic written by Faruq Z. Bey and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Fowler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Towards a Rational Aesthetic written by Alan Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Towards a Rational Aesthetic written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Reeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Towards a Rational Aesthetic written by Ian Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994160690
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Art Against Empire written by Samuel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can 'culture jamming' contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this stimulating new book, "Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth," degrowth scholar Samuel Alexander explores these questions, both in theory and practice. He begins with a novel theoretical defence of art and aesthetic interventions as activity that is necessary to effective social and political activism, and concludes by presenting over one hundred 'culture jamming' artworks from a range of contributors that challenge the status quo and expand the horizons of what alternatives are possible.
Author : Alan Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954978396
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (783 download)
Download or read book Towards a Rational Aesthetic written by Alan Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publications accompanies the exhibition Towards a Rational Aesthetic: Constructive Art in Post-War Britain which will be opening in the gallery on Wednesday 21st November. The catalogue encompases nearly sixty works from nineteen key artists of the period, spanning over fifty years of British Avant-garde art. It comprises colour plates of all paintings, sculpture, works on paper and reliefs included in the exhibition. We are fortunate to be able to include an enlightening essay by Alan Fowler, written especially for the exhibition. This underlines his knowledge of the period and the considerable time spent in correspondence and in conversation with many of the artists themselves.
Author : Edward G. Ballard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401188432
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Art and Analysis written by Edward G. Ballard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics, fledgling of the philosophic brood, is the most suspect of that family. It is suspected of all the philosophical sins: vagueness, disorder, dogmatism, emotionalism, reductionism, compartmentalization. Sometimes its youth is thought to be a sufficient excuse for these divagations. Sometimes the very nature of its content, involving the waywardness of genius, the remoteness of feeling from intellect, the surd of inspiration in even the mildest appreciation, are believed to condemn aes thetics irrevocably to the underside of the civilized man's domain. Some philosophers have gloried in this apparently mystical and a-rational quality and have seen in it the very nature of the beautiful; others have come to regard it, rather, as evidence of the unskillfulness of our minds and have turned away from aesthetic problems to the task of sharpening the aesthetician's language and logic. The laughter of the gods is not difficult to discern through the poetry of the more mystical aesthetician or through the prose of the analysts. Meanwhile the manifold complexities and problems of aesthetic experience invite our understanding. For aesthetic experience is a present fact of human life and may, perhaps, be understood by men. Such, at least, will be the present assumption. This is the reason why the title of this book mentions art together with analysis; for if art is intelligible, the work of art and the experience of it may be analyzed into its functional parts.
Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : Les presses du réel
ISBN 13 : 2378963718
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Relational Aesthetics written by Nicolas Bourriaud and published by Les presses du réel. This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija or Félix Guattari, along with most of today's practising creative personalities.
Author : Zehou Li
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113202
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Four Essays on Aesthetics written by Zehou Li and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in Chinese Philosophy of Aesthetics for the last twenty years, Li Zehou's Four Essays on Aesthetics (Meixue-sijiang) is finally translated in English to bring philosophical insight to Western readers. Li's seminal work focuses on the widely debated philosophies in China concerning the origins, manifestations, importance, and transformative power of beauty, art, and aesthetic experiences. Drawing upon the influences of both Eastern and Western philosophers and writers, Li discusses the origination of the practices of beauty and aesthetics, and the origins of art credited to Shamanistic rituals, while rejecting the concepts of Western aesthetics and embracing the traditional Chinese purpose for art: to mold human minds. He stresses the importance of the involvement of aesthetic philosophers to advocate technology and aspects of society that will contribute to the harmony among individuals, environments, and social relationships.
Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621531112
Total Pages : 999 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Uncontrollable Beauty written by David Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 999 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.
Author : Mario Perniola
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441117792
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book 20th Century Aesthetics written by Mario Perniola and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our contemporary age aesthetics seems to crumble and no longer be reducible to a coherent image. And yet given the vast amount of works in aesthetics produced in the last hundred years, this age could be defined “the century of aesthetics”. 20th Century Aesthetics is a new account of international aesthetic thought by Mario Perniola, one of Italy's leading contemporary thinkers. Starting from four conceptual fields – life, form, knowledge, action - Perniola identifies the lines of aesthetic reflection that derive from them and elucidates them with reference to major authors: from Dilthey to Foucault (aesthetics of life), from Wölfflin to McLuhan and Lyotard (aesthetics of form), from Croce to Goodman (aesthetics and knowledge), from Dewey to Bloom (aesthetics and action). There is also a fifth one that touches on the sphere of affectivity and emotionality, and which comes to aesthetics from thinkers like Freud, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Lacan, Derrida and Deleuze. The volume concludes with an extensive sixth chapter on Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Brazilian, South Korean and South East Asian aesthetic thought and on the present decline of Western aesthetic sensibility.
Author : Victoria Rosner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198845197
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Machines for Living written by Victoria Rosner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.
Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 3956795873
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Relational Aesthetics written by Nicolas Bourriaud and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation, with a new foreword, of Nicolas Bourriaud's landmark 1998 work of art theory. First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art’s turn toward participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Now, over twenty years after its original release, this landmark work has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach to contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists’ works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the interhuman, of the encounter, of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of Relational Aesthetics is to produce the tools that enable us to understand the evolution of today’s art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Félix Guattari, along with most of today’s practicing creative personalities.
Author : Joseph Agassi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401205590
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics written by Joseph Agassi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an aesthetic aspect to anything whatsoever. They pay close attention to the social situatedness of the arts. Their aesthetics treats art as emerging from craft in the form of luxurious and playful challenge to the audience. In developing it they place emphasis on the number of questions and claims that can be settled by appeal to empirical facts; on the historical character of aesthetic judgements; and on the connection of aesthetic truth to true love and true friendship, i.e. fidelity and integrity, not to informative truth.
Author : Rodolphe Gasché
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780315
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Form written by Rodolphe Gasché and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the assumption that aesthetic form relates to a harmonious arrangement of parts into a beautiful whole, this book argues that reason is the real theme of the "Critique of Judgment" as of the two earlier "Critiques." Since aesthetic judgment of the beautiful becomes possible only when the mind is confronted with things of nature, for which no determined concepts of understanding are available, aesthetic judgment is involved in an epistemological or, rather, para-epistemological task. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation ("Darstellung") in what Kant refers to as "mere form," which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Such a notion of form reveals why the beautiful can be related to the morally good. On the basis of this reinterpreted concept of form, most major concepts and themes of the "Critique of Judgment"--such as disinterestedness, free play, the sublime, genius, and beautiful arts--are examined by the author and shown in a new light.
Author : Thomas Munro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Toward Science in Aesthetics written by Thomas Munro and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lascelles Abercrombie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Essay Towards a Theory of Art written by Lascelles Abercrombie and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
