What Makes an Experience Aesthetic?
Author | : Michael H. Mitias |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789051830477 |
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Author | : Michael H. Mitias |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789051830477 |
Author | : Damien Freeman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2014-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 131754756X |
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.
Author | : Richard Shusterman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 041537832X |
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.
Author | : Michael H. Mitias |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2022-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004455620 |
Author | : John Dewey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Thomas Hilgers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2016-12-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317444884 |
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.
Author | : Bence Nanay |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199658447 |
Bence Nanay explores how many influential debates in aesthetics look very different, and may be easier to tackle, if we clarify the assumptions they make about perception and experience. He focuses on the ways in which the distinction between distributed and focused attention can help us re-evaluate various key concepts and debates in aesthetics.
Author | : M.M. Mitias |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400943725 |
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.
Author | : Arnold Berleant |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2011-11-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1845402936 |
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.
Author | : Arnold Berleant |
Publisher | : Cybereditions Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781877275258 |
Arguing that traditional answers to the question "What is art?" are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art.