Proximate Difference In Aesthetics

Author : Kevin Malcolm Richards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793624631
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proximate Difference in Aesthetics written by Kevin Malcolm Richards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proximate Difference in Aesthetics explores the interconnections of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and the artistic practices comprising Institutional Critique as a means of both providing a framework for this heterodox approach to art and examining Derrida's contributions to contemporary aesthetics.

Author : K. Malcolm Richards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781793624628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proximate Difference in Aesthetics written by K. Malcolm Richards and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proximate Difference in Aesthetics explores the interconnections of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and the artistic practices comprising Institutional Critique as a means of both providing a framework for this heterodox approach to art and examining Derrida's contributions to contemporary aesthetics.

Author : Frank Burch Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691024723
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Aesthetics written by Frank Burch Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, Brown shows how aesthetics, no less than ethics, can play a central role in the study of religion and in the practice of theology. "An important book, wide ranging, often very witty . . . showing an impressive grasp of the current state of aesthetics and possible new directions".--Nick McAdoo, British Journal of Aesthetics.

Author : Matthew Fuller
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788739086
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investigative Aesthetics written by Matthew Fuller and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new field of counterinvestigation across in human rights, art and law Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, human rights violations, environmental crimes and technological domination. At the same time, areas not usually thought of as artistic make powerful use of aesthetics. Journalists and legal professionals pore over opensource videos and satellite imagery to undertake visual investigations. This combination of diverse fields is what the authors call “investigative aesthetics”: the mobilisation of sensibilities associated with art, architecture and other such practices in order to speak truth to power. Investigative Aesthetics draws on theories of knowledge, ecology and technology; evaluates the methods of citizen counter-forensics, micro-history and art; and examines radical practices such as those of WikiLeaks, Bellingcat, and Forensic Architecture. These new practices take place in the studio and the laboratory, the courtroom and the gallery, online and in the streets, as they strive towards the construction of a new common sense. Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman have here provided an inspiring introduction to a new field that will change how we understand and confront power today. To Nour Abuzaid for your brilliance, perseverance, and unshaken belief in the liberation of Palestine.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143846343X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many written by Robert Cummings Neville and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katya Mandoki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131713849X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Aesthetics written by Katya Mandoki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katya Mandoki advances in this book the thesis that it is not only possible but crucial to open up the field of aesthetics (traditionally confined to the study of art and beauty) toward the richness and complexity of everyday life. She argues that in every process of communication, whether face to face or through the media, fashion, and political propaganda, there is always an excess beyond the informative and functional value of a message. This excess is the aesthetic. Following Huizinga's view of play as an ingredient of any social environment, Mandoki explores how various cultural practices are in fact forms of playing since, for the author, aesthetics and play are Siamese twins. One of the unique contributions of this book is the elaboration and application of a semiotic model for the simultaneous analysis of social interactions in the four registers, namely visual, auditory, verbal and body language, to detect the aesthetic strategies deployed in specific situations. She argues that since the presentation of the self is targeted towards participants' sensibilities, aesthetics plays a key role in these modes of exchange. Consequently, the author updates important debates in this field to clear the way for a socio-aesthetic inquiry through contexts such as the family, school, medical, artistic or religious traditions from which social identities emerge.

Author : Mary Francis Slattery
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636083
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Aesthetic Evaluation of Literature written by Mary Francis Slattery and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primarily theoretical work explores what literature is, and what it is not, and demonstrates how philosophical assumptions have directed literary currents. The discussion addresses value in general, aesthetic value in particular, and the major aesthetic values expressed in great literature of the past and present.

Author : Ralph Alexander Smith
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807746547
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and the Arts in Education written by Ralph Alexander Smith and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2006-01-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Ralph Smith's writings provides a comprehensive overview of his extraordinary contributions to understanding the importance of aesthetics in education. These essays record his lifelong efforts to construct a defensible rationale for the arts in general education and a workable curriculum for art education in our public schools (K-16). The topics covered range from liberal education to arts education, the relationship of art, aesthetics, and aesthetic education to teaching and curriculum, the arts and the humanities, and cultural diversity.

Author : Winfried Menninghaus
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
ISBN 13 : 1644692597
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics after Darwin written by Winfried Menninghaus and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of “art” production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book is the first to reveal that Darwin’s hypothesis, rather than amounting to a full-blown antidote to the humanist tradition, is actually strongly informed both by classical rhetoric and by English and German philosophical aesthetics, thereby Darwin’s theory far richer and more interesting for the understanding of poetry and song. The book also discusses how the three most discussed hypothetical functions of the human arts––competition for attention and (loving) acceptance, social cooperation, and self-enhancement––are not mutually exclusive, but can well be conceived of as different aspects of the same processes of producing and responding to the arts. Finally, reviewing the current state of archeological findings, the book advocates a new hypothesis on the multiple origins of the human arts, posing that they arose as new variants of human behavior, when three ancient and largely independent adaptions––sensory and sexual selection-driven biases regarding visual and auditory beauty, play behavior, and technology––joined forces with, and were transformed by, the human capacities for symbolic cognition and language.

Author : A. Fog
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401592519
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Selection written by A. Fog and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. INTRODUCTION This book describes a new interdisciplinary theory for explaining cultural change. In contrast to traditional evolutionist theories, the present theory stresses the fact that a culture can evolve in different directions depending on its life conditions. Cultural selection theory explains why certain cultures or cultural ele ments spread, possibly at the expense of other cultures or cultural elements which then disappear. Cultural elements include social structure, traditions, religion, rituals, art, norms, morals, ideologies, ideas, inventions, knowledge, technology, etc. This theory is inspired by Charles Darwin's idea of natural selection, because cultural elements are seen as analogous to genes in the sense that they may be reproduced from generation to generation and they may undergo change. A culture may evolve because certain cultural elements are more likely to spread and be reproduced than others, analogously to a species evolving because individuals possessing certain traits are more fit than others to reproduce and transmit these traits to their offspring.