Embodied Aesthetics

Author : Alfonsina Scarinzi
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789004281509
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied Aesthetics written by Alfonsina Scarinzi and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind. It discusses from different points of view the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making.

Author : Alfonsina Scarinzi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401793794
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy written by Alfonsina Scarinzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The project of naturalizing human consciousness/experience has made great technical strides (e.g., in mapping areas of brain activity), but has been hampered in many cases by its uncritical reliance on a dualistic “Cartesian” paradigm (though as some of the authors in the collection point out, assumptions drawn from Plato and from Kant also play a role). The present volume proposes a version of naturalism in aesthetics drawn from American pragmatism (above all from Dewey, but also from James and Peirce)—one primed from the start to see human beings not only as embodied, but as inseparable from the environment they interact with—and provides a forum for authors from diverse disciplines to address specific scientific and philosophical issues within the anti-dualistic framework considering aesthetic experience as a process of embodied meaning-making. Cross-disciplinary contributions come from leading researchers including Mark Johnson, Jim Garrison, Daniel D. Hutto, John T. Haworth, Luca F. Ticini, Beatriz Calvo-Merino. The volume covers pragmatist aesthetics, neuroaesthetics, enactive cognitive science, literary studies, psychology of aesthetics, art and design, sociology.

Author : Anna Munster
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611682940
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Materializing New Media written by Anna Munster and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies

Author : Alfonsina Scarinzi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004281517
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied Aesthetics written by Alfonsina Scarinzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures such as the brain involved in perception, on aesthetic experience and appreciation, on the role of physiological responses in experiencing the objects of the environment aesthetically, on the role of one's own body in motion in the engagement with the environment, on somatic responses and the experience of meaning, on the pre-reflective experience of the body, on the role of the interplay of different types of physical and sensory activities in the process of education to art appreciation.

Author : Matthew DeCoursey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350026727
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied Aesthetics in Drama Education written by Matthew DeCoursey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is a good thing to use drama for education, there must be something specific about drama that makes it good for the purpose. It has power of some kind: it makes things meaningful that would otherwise be meaningless, or things memorable that would otherwise be forgettable. Or perhaps it enables independent thought in an area that would otherwise become mere rote learning. Many practitioners believe that drama has the power to develop learner autonomy, or even to give learners power over their lives. In the last twenty years, a widespread view has developed that this 'something' that creates the benefit of drama is 'aesthetics'. There are many views of aesthetics, but what unites them is the special significance that art has for our lives. This book is about the relation between aesthetics and education in the use of drama. Within it, philosophy appears as the essential connecting discipline between the practice of arts-based education and our advancing knowledge of the interrelations of cognition, emotion, and embodiment. Matthew DeCoursey argues that the power of dramatic art is to be found in its bodily, emotional nature. Drawing on recent work in the aesthetics of theatre, he shows that much of the power of theatre can be attributed to a specific range of ideas and techniques, notably including double meaning-making, aesthetic focus and dramatic tension. Finally, the author relates different forms of drama education to different educational results, holding that the conventional improvised forms are neither superior nor inferior to scripted theatre, but merely serve different purposes. Among those educational results discussed are the emancipation sought both by Rancière and by many practitioners of applied theatre, but also curricular areas, including language education.

Author : Arthur Coleman Danto
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374524586
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied Meanings written by Arthur Coleman Danto and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1995-09-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199244973
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Embodiment written by Paul Crowther and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and completeness, and the concreteness and contingency of humanity's basic relation to the world, Crowther proposes an ecological definition of art.

Author : Matthew DeCoursey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350026735
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embodied Aesthetics in Drama Education written by Matthew DeCoursey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is a good thing to use drama for education, there must be something specific about drama that makes it good for the purpose. It has power of some kind: it makes things meaningful that would otherwise be meaningless, or things memorable that would otherwise be forgettable. Or perhaps it enables independent thought in an area that would otherwise become mere rote learning. Many practitioners believe that drama has the power to develop learner autonomy, or even to give learners power over their lives. In the last twenty years, a widespread view has developed that this 'something' that creates the benefit of drama is 'aesthetics'. There are many views of aesthetics, but what unites them is the special significance that art has for our lives. This book is about the relation between aesthetics and education in the use of drama. Within it, philosophy appears as the essential connecting discipline between the practice of arts-based education and our advancing knowledge of the interrelations of cognition, emotion, and embodiment. Matthew DeCoursey argues that the power of dramatic art is to be found in its bodily, emotional nature. Drawing on recent work in the aesthetics of theatre, he shows that much of the power of theatre can be attributed to a specific range of ideas and techniques, notably including double meaning-making, aesthetic focus and dramatic tension. Finally, the author relates different forms of drama education to different educational results, holding that the conventional improvised forms are neither superior nor inferior to scripted theatre, but merely serve different purposes. Among those educational results discussed are the emancipation sought both by Rancière and by many practitioners of applied theatre, but also curricular areas, including language education.

Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004361928
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( 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.

Author : Catherine Holochwost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429615302
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Embodied Imagination in Antebellum American Art and Culture written by Catherine Holochwost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imagination’s potential for inviting luxury, vice, and corruption, American audiences avidly consumed a transatlantic visual culture of touring paintings, dioramas, gift books, and theatrical performances that pictured a preindustrial—and largely imaginary—European past. By examining the visual, material, and rhetorical strategies artists like Washington Allston, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, and others used to navigate this treacherous ground, Catherine Holochwost uncovers a hidden tension in antebellum aesthetics. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, literary and cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, and media studies.