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The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic

Author : Monique Roelofs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472522249
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic written by Monique Roelofs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic desire and distaste prime everyday life in surprising ways. The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic casts much-needed light on the complex mix of meanings our aesthetic activities weave into cultural existence. Anchoring aesthetic experience in our relationships with persons, places, and things, Monique Roelofs explores aesthetic life as a multimodal, socially embedded, corporeal endeavor. Highlighting notions of relationality, address, and promising, this compelling study shows these concepts at work in visions of beauty, ugliness, detail, nation, ignorance, and cultural boundary. Unexpected aesthetic pleasures and pains crop up in sites where passion, perception, rationality, and imagination go together but also are in conflict. Bonds between aesthetics and politics are forged and reforged. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, and engaging the work of theorists and artists ranging from David Hume to Theodor W. Adorno, Frantz Fanon, Clarice Lispector, and Barbara Johnson, The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic lays open the interpretive web that gives aesthetic agency its vast reach.

Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics

Author : Genevieve Stebbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics written by Genevieve Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Advanced School of Collective Feeling

Author : Matthew Kennedy
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038601074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Advanced School of Collective Feeling written by Matthew Kennedy and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern architecture's evolution during the interwar period represents one of the most radical turns in design history. While the role of new materials and production modes in this development is beyond dispute, of equal importance was the emergence of a distinctly modern physical culture. Largely unacknowledged today, new conceptions of body and movement had a profound influence on how architects designed not only public spaces like the gymnasium or the stadium, but also domestic spaces. Hannes Meyer, Swiss modernist and director of Bauhaus in Dessau from 1928 to 1930, colorfully encapsulated this phenomenon in his 1926 essay The New World as "the advanced school of collective feeling." In their new book, Matthew Kennedy and Nile Greenberg explore the impact of physical culture during the 1920s and '30s on the thinking of some of modern architecture's most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and redrawn plans, they reconstruct an obscure constellation of domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, Franco Albini, and others. They argue that the impact of sport on modern architecture was a discursive phenomenon, best understood by going beyond a mere typological reading of the stadium or the gymnasium, to an examination of how gymnastic equipment and other trappings of physical culture were folded into domestic space. The featured houses, apartments, and exhibitions demonstrate their architects' response to, and attempt to dictate, the relationship between body, and the spaces and objects that give it shape.

Mediasphere Shanghai

Author : Alexander Des Forges
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824863569
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Mediasphere Shanghai written by Alexander Des Forges and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be? Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai’s media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms—simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess—through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city’s distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived. Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. Mediasphere Shanghai offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.

Training the Body

Author : David Torevell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032123318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Training the Body written by David Torevell and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Giving the bst of yourself' in sports : the Catholic Church's attention to sports in past and present / Dries Vanysacker -- Holy marathon : 'running religion'? : religious interpretations of body vulnerability in the context of marathons / Kristin Graff-Kallevåg and Sturla J. Stålsett -- Gaining balance in religious training : what might sports and physical culture coaches learn from this? / David Torevell -- Corporeal enhancement and sport's spiritual dimension : a virtue ethics proposal / Tracy J. Trothen -- Training the body (stretching the mind) and moulding the spirit : sport, Christian asceticism and life as self-gift / Paul Rowan -- Towards an A to Z of faith in sport / Simon Lee -- Aesthetics and symbolism in artistic gymnastics : from martial discipline to ritual practices embodied in performance / Clive Palmer -- The metaphysical framework of transformational combat in Eastern religions and martial arts : implications for sports and physical culture training / David Torevell -- On the bodies of children : the troubling messages of American youth sports / Annie Blazer -- Jewish women and physical culture training at various Jewish Ys in early twentieth-century American culture / Linda J. Borish -- Promoting western sport and PE ideas in China : lessons learned and future directions / David Grecic -- Concluding remarks : making connections -- Questions for discussion and reflection.

Aesthetics of Popular Culture

Author : Jozef Kovalčik
Publisher : Slovart Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9788089259861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Popular Culture written by Jozef Kovalčik and published by Slovart Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing popular culture is one of the keys for understanding arts and more broadly culture. This is something which seems to be shared by the scholars who have contributed to this book. Their essays on popular culture and/or the aesthetics of popular culture serve as a platform for discussing cultural, ethical and political issues. Popular culture and its philosophical reflection also help to unlock themes in law, children's literature, everyday aesthetics, high-cultural heritage, the internet, and material culture. In the Interviews section editors discuss some of the roots of these issues with two thinkers who represent the cream of the discussion. With Richard Shusterman, we delve into his theory of popular culture, and with Gianni Vattimo, the popular goes hand in hand with a discussion that more broadly touches on culture and the arts.

How Music Works

Author : Rolf Bader
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030671550
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book How Music Works written by Rolf Bader and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we understand culture and shape its future? How do we cross the bridge between culture as ideas and feelings and physical, cultural objects, all this within the endless variety and complexity of modern and traditional societies? This book proposes a Physical Culture Theory, taking culture as a self-organizing impulse pattern of electric forces. Bridging the gap to consciousness, the Physical Culture Theory proposes that consciousness content, what we think, hear, feel, or see is also just this: spatio-temporal electric fields. Music is a perfect candidate to elaborate on such a Physical Culture Theory. Music is all three, musical instrument acoustics, music psychology, and music ethnology. They emerge into living musical systems like all life is self-organization. Therefore the Physical Culture Theory knows no split between nature and nurture, hard and soft sciences, brains and musical instruments. It formulates mathematically complex systems as Physical Models rather than Artificial Intelligence. It includes ethical rules for maintaining life and finds culture and arts to be Human Rights. Enlarging these ideas and mathematical methods into all fields of culture, ecology, economy, or the like will be the task for the next decades to come.

Complete Vocal Fitness

Author : Claudia Friedlander
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538105454
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Complete Vocal Fitness written by Claudia Friedlander and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Vocal Fitness: A Singer’s Guide to Physical Training, Anatomy, and Biomechanics is a primer on sport-specific training for vocal athletes. Elite athletes apply cutting-edge research in movement and physiology to customize fitness regimens that ensure peak performance. The principles of sports science that enable them to fine-tune strength, flexibility and dynamic stabilization to meet the requirements of a given sport are invaluable for preparing the body to meet the physical demands of singing. This book will teach you to: Optimize alignment by identifying and resolving postural distortions Balance strength and flexibility throughout your torso to facilitate full breathing and promote coordinated breath management Improve oxygen consumption to enhance your stamina and ability to sustain long phrases Stabilize your spine and major joints in order to continue performing with solid technique while meeting the demands of stage movement Musicians of all kinds benefit from understanding the basics of how their instruments work. This book is also a guide to how the vocal instrument functions. You will find accessible descriptions of the fundamental components of vocal anatomy – laryngeal function, articulation and resonance – explaining their movements, their interaction with one another, their integration with the anatomy of breathing and alignment, and relating them to common non-anatomical terminology often used in the voice studio.

Fast Forward

Author : Tim Harte
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299233235
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Fast Forward written by Tim Harte and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the modernist era not only moved, it sped. As automobiles, airplanes, and high-speed industrial machinery proliferated at the turn of the twentieth century, a fascination with speed influenced artists—from Moscow to Manhattan—working in a variety of media. Russian avant-garde literary, visual, and cinematic artists were among those striving to elevate the ordinary physical concept of speed into a source of inspiration and generate new possibilities for everyday existence. Although modernism arrived somewhat late in Russia, the increased tempo of life at the start of the twentieth century provided Russia’s avant-garde artists with an infusion of creative dynamism and crucial momentum for revolutionary experimentation. In Fast Forward Tim Harte presents a detailed examination of the images and concepts of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, visual arts, and cinema. His study illustrates how a wide variety of experimental artistic tendencies of the day—such as “rayism” in poetry and painting, the effort to create a “transrational” language (zaum’) in verse, and movements seemingly as divergent as neo-primitivism and constructivism—all relied on notions of speed or dynamism to create at least part of their effects. Fast Forward reveals how the Russian avant-garde’s race to establish a new artistic and social reality over a twenty-year span reflected an ambitious metaphysical vision that corresponded closely to the nation’s rapidly changing social parameters. The embrace of speed after the 1917 Revolution, however, paradoxically hastened the movement’s demise. By the late 1920s, under a variety of historical pressures, avant-garde artistic forms morphed into those more compatible with the political agenda of the Russian state. Experimentation became politically suspect and abstractionism gave way to orthodox realism, ultimately ushering in the socialist realism and aesthetic conformism of the Stalin years.

Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture

Author : Michele Mendelssohn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697543
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture written by Michele Mendelssohn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first fully sustained reading of Henry James's and Oscar Wilde's relationship, reveals why the antagonisms between both authors are symptomatic of the cultural oppositions within Aestheticism itself.

Aesthetic Physical Culture

Author : Oska Guttmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Physical Culture written by Oska Guttmann and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aesthetics, Industry & Science

Author : M. Norton Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653149X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics, Industry & Science written by M. Norton Wise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz—established leading positions in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science. How was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings succeed in seizing the future? In Aesthetics, Industry, and Science M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply from a technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader cultural view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He emphasizes in particular how rapid industrial development, military modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics of contemporary art informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period were intimately linked, and he uses these two themes for a final reappraisal of Helmholtz’s early work. Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.

Aesthetic Physical Culture. A Self-instructor for All Cultured Circles, and Especially for Oratorical and Dramatic Artists

Author : Oskar Guttmann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385329418
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Physical Culture. A Self-instructor for All Cultured Circles, and Especially for Oratorical and Dramatic Artists written by Oskar Guttmann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1884.

Fit

Author : Lon Kilgore
Publisher : Killustrated
ISBN 13 : 9780615497068
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Fit written by Lon Kilgore and published by Killustrated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fit is a book about how to get fit ... facts, practical information, and a logical approach to creating fitness from the first day of training through the day you reach your goal in fitness" -- P. 4 of cover.

Walter Pater

Author : Kate Hext
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748683585
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Walter Pater written by Kate Hext and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repositioning Walter Pater at the philosophical nexus of Aestheticism, this study presents the first discussion of how Pater redefines Romantic Individualism through his engagements with modern philosophical discourses and in the context of emerging moder

Aesthetics of Appearing

Author : Martin Seel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804743815
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Appearing written by Martin Seel and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent decades.

Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era

Author : Shannon L. Walsh
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030587666
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)

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Download or read book Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era written by Shannon L. Walsh and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s–1920s). This book focuses on physical culture – systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert – because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the “universal” ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement’s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.